Until now, there seemed to be nothing there but now he noticed something moving, it was like a creature that was invisible until now and even deceived his Life Sense has finally shown itself. Kale's heart skipped a beat, he observed the outline of the creature and realized that it was similar to that of a lizard.
The lizard has just opened its eyes and mouth that revealed it, or else its body almost looked transparent, unlike normal ones, this lizard had a sharp row of teeth as for the tongue…
…Swooshh…
Kale reacted at his fastest speed the second he noticed the creature, but his body wasn't at a level that it could compete with his mental reaction speed. He reached out his left hand to hold his knife but the tongue of the lizard moved at lightning speed, it swirled around his body and pulled him up.
He failed to hold the knife as his left hand was bind with his waist by the sticky tongue, but Kale didn't panic, it hadn't even been a second but countless thoughts had already appeared and disappeared in his head, his left hand was bound but his right hand was still free, though he couldn't reach out to his knife using it.
'Vanishing Lizard? Dammit, there wasn't any information of it, its hide is strong as rocks, without «Fallen Sakura» I cannot pierce it, attacking its eyes with ‹Wooden Thorn› won't kill it instantly but agitate it instead which can result in the lizard slamming me into the rocks. If I activate the wrist band then I will get disqualified, can I only use that? But I haven't tested it practically in this life..., All or nothing, if it doesn't work then I will activate the bracelet…' Kale thought, these thoughts appeared in his head as the lizard pulled him closer towards its wide-open mouth.
Kale urged and a huge amount of Psychonic Energy gushed out from his Origin Charm, the fingers bones in his right hand started to transform, long sharp-pointed nails grew out from his fingertips, the nails were sharp-edged like a knife and long as a dagger. He raised his hand and struck it at the lizard, his target wasn't the tongue but its wide-open mouth.
The strike didn't use any martial technique but it gave the lizard a fearsome feeling, the attack was making the use of Asura's Rage Knife Intent.
The five long nails were like five long knives, Kale executed knife intent with his five knives at the same time. In a way, he wasn't doing it for the first time, although he didn't have his ‹Bone Manipulation› mutant trait in his last life, he made the Blacksmith craft a pair of gloves with hidden knives mechanism embedded in them to act like a claw.
The lizard felt a threat but its current actions had long become its subconscious actions, it couldn't stop in the middle when pulling a target using the tongue.
Kale reached out and struck with his right hand like a spear, he pushed his hand deep into the lizard's mouth, intending to enter its throat then grabbed onto its soft inner flesh using his knife-like nails.
Under the effects of Psychonic Energy and Knife Intent, Kale dug his bone nails deep into the lizard's body.
The pain made the lizard scream, it retracted its tongue releasing Kale and closing its jaw, digging its short but sharp teeth into his shoulder in the process.
The pain it gave him wasn't enough to make Kale let go of it, as soon as his left hand was freed, he held the «Fallen Sakura» in his other hand, he bit his tongue and spurt out some blood at the knife before slashing it at the lizard.
The knife had a gloomy aura around it when he slashed it at the lizard's head, expectedly it only left a bloody scratch under the resistance of the tough hide of the lizard.
But then its eyes got widened, the lizard opened its mouth and screamed in agony, it acted like what got cut wasn't its flesh but its soul, when its eyes were wide open, Kale stabbed it with the «Fallen Sakura».
Blood gushed out from its left eyes, the lizard was blinded in one strike but how could Kale stop at this? He stabbed again, then again… He kept stabbing without any mercy, each stab dug deeper compared to the previous ones.
The lizard's scream increased becoming so high-pitched that the body and girl that were shocked by the sight closed their ears in an instant.
At one point, the lizard stopped screaming and lost its grip on the rocks at the ceiling falling into the pond.
When they were in midair, Kale pulled the lizard downwards and got on top of it, the lizard was heavier compared to him so it was easy to do that, as for why he did that? It was to reduce the impact of falling.
He wasn't a Martial Venerable anymore, who could jump from a six-story building and land on the ground without breaking any bones.
…Splashh….
The Vanishing Lizard fell into the water with him, although he was on the top, Kale was still hit hard. Nevertheless, he ignored the pain and stood up. He looked at his bleeding hand and found out that two of his bone nails broke inside the mouth of the lizard, he retracted the rest of the bone nails into his body. Fortunately, even after two nails were lost, the number and infrastructure of bones in his body remained the same, he felt a slight sense of weakness but chose to ignore it for now.
He then checked his injuries and realized that he was bleeding from his right shoulder, he quickly removed his shirt then took out a white spray bottle from his leather pouch and sprayed it all over the blood-covered wounds.
The liquid made a sizzling sound when it fell on his blood. Anyone could guess that it must have itched and hurt, but kale was like an emotionless puppet, after making sure the bleeding stopped he took out a lot of cotton and stuck it on the ripped skin then used a sealing tap to tightly paste it there.
The boy and the girl standing on the other side of the pond stared at him without uttering a single word but their expression was weird.
They had the same thought in their mind.
What the hell is he doing?
The girl finally couldn't take it more "What are you doing? Quickly use a Health Potion,"
Kale looked at her, he wore back his clothes and started pulling the Vanishing Lizard out of the pond, he said "There is no need to use it for such a small wound,"
The boy and the girl looked at each other.
They were speechless.
If it was a small wound then what do you consider a big wound? Your head falling off your shoulders or something?
Kale ignored them, he was intending to drag the lizard's corpse back to the academy, normally everyone only took out their cores because carrying the whole beast is a pain but when it comes to Enlightened Mortal-Rank Rare-Grade beasts their whole body is a treasure. Its body can also be used as a contribution when handling it.
It means killing Vanishing Lizard and handing in its body was both different types of contribution, the latter depends on the condition of the dead body when handing it in, if the lizard was alive then its value would be several times more compared to its dead state.
Aqua Fox and Vanishing Lizard both were at the same level, the former was an expert of offense while the latter excelled at sneak attacks.
Aqua Fox was a magic beast while Vanishing Lizard was a mutant beast with the ability to hide its presence and reach a pseudo invisible state.
Kale guessed that whether it was Aqua Fox or Vanishing Lizard, they both were aiming for the white lotuses, which showed their preciousness.
When Kale arrived at the shore he saw the boy and the girl staring at him. The girl took the lead and spoke.
"You took care of the Vanishing Lizard so we will acknowledge your efforts but we also put in efforts in clearing the foxes here, so the loot needs to be divided," She said while pointed at his leather bag where he stored the lotuses.
Kale first looked at his injury, he knew that he had lost some blood, Vanishing Lizard doesn't have poison but the saliva can still cause injection if it is not treated properly in time. He decided to compromise "Hmm… Let's divide it into 2:1, how?"
The girl's eyes shined, her favorability of Kale rose.
The boy just slightly nodded, he was silently observing him trying to figure out his identity.
The girl smiled and said "Deal, you are a smart one, so I will let you choose your part,"
Kale nodded, he immediately opened his bag, took out one packed lotus, and handed it to her "Okay then, you can take this one and we are done,"
"…" Two people.
The girl looked at the lotus in her hand then back at Kale, when he had said 2:1 she was sure that they will be the ones to get two lotuses and he would get one but contrary to her expectations Kale did the opposite.
The muscles on her face twitched, her favorability of Kale dropped to the rock bottom, she reacted.
She lost her temper and shouted in an angry tone "Are you playing with me?"
Kale was surprised by her not-so-elegant tone but he still shook his head and replied "I'm not into children,"
"You!!!" The girl flared up, she was truly pissed off, it seemed like Kale touched her sour spot.
She almost leaped at him to hit his face with her wand but the boy held her back trying to stop her "Sis calm down, he was just joking, you just looked slightly young nothing else,"
'Slightly young?' Kale raised his eyebrow, from his words he guessed that the girl was older than she looks but this was not of his concern, he wanted to leave this place as soon as possible and treat his wound, hence he spoke "You indeed killed all the foxes here alone, but because of that you got high contribution points, the loot like these lotuses are not counted as your loot until you submit them.
Furthermore, you two also got all the cores from the foxes you hunted, as for the Vanishing Lizard matter, both of you were at your limits, if I wasn't here then you could have even lost your lives or get disqualified at the very least. These aside, did you forget about the matter where you almost used me as bait? I wonder what would happen to your reputation if the news of you using others as baits gets out? How many would want to form a team with you by then? Giving a part of my loot is my bottom line, do you think I can't fight anymore? I'm pretty sure I could take you down even if I have to get disqualified in the process,"
His words do no good to the girl, she didn't seem like she even cared about the reasoning anymore. Unlike her, the boy just nodded, indicating that he agreed.
Kale ignored the screaming girl and headed out of the cave while dragging the lizard's corpse behind him.
"Brother leave me, that bastard called me child! I will rip him apart. How dare he see call me a child? He is blind, his whole family is blind… No, actually his whole lineage is blind. You hear me bastard, you cheap stake, you scoundrelly, you evil being, I will find you and I will turn you into a child… A damn child!!!" She shouted at the leaving silhouette of Kale.
The boy had a headache, he sighed deeply "Sis, calm down you are smart so don't act like a child- young girl, it's not wise to be angery for such reasons,"
"Humph, I just hate lies," She said with fuming rage in her eyes.