"Hfffft... Pfffffff!" His mask sounded as he took a deep breath while gazing at the other teams marching in the plain, to the forest. He did not immediately follow their march and waited a couple of minutes whilst trying to observe the nature of the said magical planet.
"The information given during the briefing identified the beasts on this planet to be related to electricity or the element of lightning." He said as he knelt down to the ground and grabbed a handful of soil with his right hand.
Then, he moved his left arm above it--ensuring that the device attached near his left wrist was directly above the soil on his right hand, and said, "Devi, Scan! Check for the soil's saturation level!"
Almost instantly, a light emitted from the device that shone above the soil on his right hand as a female robotic voice sounded--indicating the process to be made by the device.
[Commencing Scan!]
[Scan Complete!]
[Checking Saturation Level!]
[Checking Complete!]
[Report: Saturation Level of the soil is 40.92310239 Percent!]
The data that he gathered regarding the saturation level of the soil made him frown in response and ponder whilst glancing around checking everything even the clouds above him.
Seeing nothing but the clear sky and the black rubbery-looking plants and trees, Corvus frowned and asked himself, saying, "The ground is saturated by a liquid. Forty Percent on top of that! Whether it could conduct electricity or not, I still need to be careful. Because... I am sure that it has, at the least, something to do with the nature of the beasts."
He threw the soil that he had on his hands and dusted it by doing several claps. Doing so, he noticed a few sparks that occurred between his hands as he was clearing off the remaining soil in his hands. He can't help but frown and curse, "What the Fock?"
Like a scientist who had just made a groundbreaking discovery, Corvus hurriedly grabbed a handful of soil on each hand and clasped them together. For some reason, a stronger version of the sparks, similar to earlier, was created just from the weak collision of the handful of soils in each of his hands.
"The soil is electrically charged?" He blurted in bewilderment as he glanced towards his palm, where the sparks had slowly dissipated. Consequently, this made him took a step back out of fear and worry as his gaze was shifted to everyone else and the forest that was filled with black rubbery trees ahead of them.
"Not good!" He said as his mind started to panic--scrambling the pieces of information and ideas on his head. He thought of the factors in which the electrically charged soil could affect them and their equipment.
At the same time, assumptions arose on his head on how the electrically charged soil could strengthen or 'work with' the electric related magic abilities of the beasts that the explorer bots were able to encounter.
'Should I inform them about it?' He thought. But when he glanced at the other teams, some of them had already entered the forest.
Not wanting to disrupt the other team's focus, he chose not to do so. After all, the moment they entered the forest of black rubbery trees, there was already a high chance or possibility that any of the teams might encounter one of the beasts projected during the briefing stage.
As pressure towards him was already high, the pressure increased even further as the spaceship behind him levitate off the ground. Hopeless, he could only watch the spaceship flew to the sky until its figure vanished.
"There's no going back now!" He murmured.
He took a sudden deep breath and was followed by strong taps on his chest--seemingly wanting to reduce the nervousness and fear on his chest. After doing so, he started to take steps forward whilst tapping, lightly, on the breathing mask that was covering his cheeks and saying, "I can do this!"
He took out one of his Hunter's Blade as he approached on a nearby rubber-looking grass. He grabbed its free end with his left hand and used Hunter's Blade on his right hand to slice the grass into half.
The Hunter's Blade had cut straight through the black grass just like a paper. That said, it was only possible thanks to the sharpness of the blade.
Corvus sheathed back his Hunter's Blade and tried to tear the black grass into two with his bare hands--the part of the grass that was cut of from the rest of its parts that was attached in the ground, including its roots.
Unfortunately, it did not split into two parts. Instead, the grass stretched a couple of millimeters and was only spotted by Corvus with the help of "Devi", the device on his left arm.
This had confirmed the assumptions made by Corvus that the black plants and trees, somehow, had the elastic property of rubber. With this in mind, curiosity entered Corvus' mind as to whether the plants and trees could be considered as insulators.
That said, he started moving forward--towards his assigned path into the forest, and he did not conduct another test involving the black grass to answer his curiosity. His face weaves a smile deep inside his breathing mask as his gaze was fixated towards the nearest tree that he would encounter along his path.
"Why test the grass, when you can check the trees!" He chuckled.
It took him a couple of minutes to arrive at the border of the plains and the forest. And when he was just several meters away from his target, the black tree, he took a deep breath and launched a horizontal strike towards it--aiming to split the said tree into two in the middle of its trunk.
"Yaaaaaah!" He shouted as his Hunter's blade--that was held by his two hands, sliced through the trunk of the black tree.
Unfortunately, his supposed 'perfectly' horizontal strike had sliced the trunk of the black tree diagonally upward. This, consequently, made the black tree slid downward due to the pull of gravity.
Corvus frowned and flicked his tongue in response as he gazes towards the remaining part of the black tree--the part that was attached to the roots and was deeply embedded into the ground. Then, he complained to himself, saying, "Still not good enough!"