While the group was working hard to gather all the eggs next to the huge corpse of the Shol, Lennox idly sat on the corpses' head watching them mindlessly.
And when they were just about to finish, Sandro, who disappeared since a while, returned dragging a large black scorpion-like pedipalp.
" which hell did you get that from?" Lennox asked.
Sandros' face has already turned pale green from the horrible smell that surrounded them, he did not want to open his mouth, but also could not ignore Lennox. He said struggling:" I found it under the ruins of that mansion, and thought to bring it since we are burning them all".
Strangely, as Lennox remembers, the corpse he is sitting on did not have any missing limbs.
Then where did this one come from?
Sensing that something was wrong, Everly tossed aside the egg in her hands and walked to Lennox, the moment she stood next to him, her face stiffened and her eyes suddenly began twitching.
Alarmed, Lennox asked: "what's wrong ".
Hesitantly Everly answered:" um, a.... this one is ...actually male".
Both Lennox and Sandro fell in deep silence.
No one checked if the beast is actually dead or not!!!
It could not be helped, there was that unbearable smell of rotten flesh, how could they suspect it to be alive. Females mostly die after laying the eggs, but this one is a male, what are the odds of it being alive?
They were still processing that, when a loud crack sound came from behind. Slowly turning their heads, the group was faced with Kai firmly holding his left hand and blowing on his palm.
He exclaimed:" it suddenly heated up, I can't even touch it".
Hearing that, Lennox instantly called to Everly:" hey!!! They are not hatching, are they?!!".
She was yet to answer when the head Lennox was sitting on suddenly began raising.
Lennox:"....."
Sandro: "HOLY SHIT, YOUR HIGHNESS, JUMP!! ".
He did not have to tell him, even before Sandros' voice disappeared, Lennox was already standing next to him. The three quickly dashed away from the giant monster, but they couldn't sigh in relief yet, the eggs started shaking and cracking.
Kai:" your highness!!!! I think those things are really hatching ".
Irritated, Lennox shouted:" WHAT KIND OF FUCKING EGGS THAT HATCH IN TWO DAYS".
Everly said with a troubled face:" they are not hatching because they matured. The pregnancy failed, what is coming out of the eggs are parasites".
Sandro:" what type of parasites exactly?".
Everly frowned:" ....I don't know ".
' damn it, the worst situation, we might be crushed by that big ass Shol before these parasites devour our corpses. This body doesn't have much of mana, and I didn't bring my sword either'
While Lennox was drowned in his thoughts, Everly advanced instantly to the monsters' spider-like legs, striking it's joint with a destructive strength until it was barely sticking together with the other half, then hopped to the next one to do the same.
' she is trying to immobilize it first, then nail it down. Seems like she is not dumb when it comes to killing '
Lennox immediately grabbed a card from the small bag on his belt, instantly after pouring magical energy into the card, a thick white chain popped out of it launching towards the Shol and warped around its long neck.
Lennox firmly commanded:" Sandro!! Hold this, pin him down. Kai, go help Everly, I have to create a magical circle, if these eggs hatched we are so fucked up ".
His body right now was still immature, thus he is not able to circulate the mana properly, leaving him with a simple amount of it, not to forget that Ishanil magic originally consumes magical energy to a great extent.
Which means that Lennox needs to use the humans' magical circles by consuming the surrounding mana to create fire strong enough to wipe the parasite and the Shol clean.
The moment he arrived at a perfect spot he immediately and carefully began spreading a white powder on the ground in a certain pattern.
The beast roared and heavily slammed the ground every time Everlys' sword or Kais' arrows pierced through his thick layers and flesh, if it was not for Sandro pinning it down, Everly would have been long since blown off somewhere.
In the middle of the loud roars, sharp cries pierced Lennoxs' ears, and when he raised his head he found few of the eggs hatched and the parasites were heading towards him.
' great, first we got the worm-spider massive bastard, and now these giant mosquitos? Did I hit a black cat today or something? Why is everything goes from bad to worse?!!!!'
Lennox quickly pulled another card from his bag, holding it in one hand to generate fire blasts burning the parasites to ashes, while the other hand never stopped drowing the circle.
Finally, Everly and Kai managed to break all of the Shols' limbs. Seeing that he is no more necessary there, Sandro immediately tossed the chain and hurried to aid Lennox who was still being attacked by the giant mosquitos.
Without a minute to rethink, Everly dashed from the back of the beast while randomly stabbing it on her way up to its neck. Avoiding the round mouth filled with sharp teeth, Everly clung on the Shols' head, facing its large golden eye.
Hurriedly yet carefully, Everly pierced the corner of the beasts' eye, following the edge without damaging it, and plunged out the basketball-sized eyeball perfectly.
"Mister Kai, hit it where its eyes were!!" she said this then jumped in the wide mouth of the Shol.
" milady!!!!".
Hearing Kai calling for her desperately, Lennox turned his head searching for Everly but it was fruitless, instead, he could see something round sliding in the beasts' throat. Frustrated, Lennox shouted in rage:" DUMBASS EVERLY!!! I SWEAR IF YOU DIE I WILL SLAUGHTER EVERYONE OF YOUR BLOODLINE 'TILL THE NINTH GENERATION!!!! ".
He turned his head to the magical circle that he just finished, murmuring:" that's if Rachel kept me alive.....".