"Its... Its complicated." Bark and Jake said synonymously.
Dark and Clark nodded their heads together as if they knew what's the reason. Anyway, this is not the time to think such useless stuff. They need to solve the crisis that Bark is currently in and how to deal the other 30 Rank A Soldiers.
The Rank A Soldiers summoned their Magic Orbs. Scary presences covered the whole cave. Some of the Monsters in the cave fled immediately as they sensed the powerful Magic of the humans.
But not all Monsters fled, There are still strong monsters chose to stay and fight for the resources of the cave. These were the Monster Bosses of the Cave.
There are 6 Monster Bosses in the Cave. A Shadow Serpent, A Ferocious Stone Spider, Mossy Centipede, Cave Tyrant, Eight-legged Tiger Fish and Poison Flame Bat.
These Monsters power were comparable to the strongest of those Rank A Magic Orb Users.
They are the masters and rulers of the Cave of Unknown Forest.
The Shadow Serpent was a Snake with Black scales and its size is about 30 feet long. Its eyes were red and its mouth is spouting dark fog. It also has a sharp and axe-like tail.
The Ferocious Stone Spider is a very scary creature. With its eight, shiny, long, blade-like legs that could skewer heads and bodies of low-level creatures, made the onlookers shivered. On its back were pointy rocks and stalagmites.
The Mossy Centipede looks like segmented rocks with hundred pairs of legs. Its color is grey but on top of its carapace was covered with green moss. Its size is as long as the Shadow Serpent.
The Eight-legged Tiger Fish is a fish with the reminiscence of a tiger. It has eight Tiger-looking paws that enables the Creature to walk on land. Its body is long and plump. It has Orange color with black stripes too just like a Tiger has. It also have long and sharp whiskers near its mouth. Inside its mouth are deadly fangs of death.
The Cave Tyrant and Poison Flame Bat were look like Bats. The Cave Tyrant has long and large body while the Poison Flame Bat is short and thin, just like an ordinary Bat in the past.
The Cave Tyrant has bulging muscles in its arm and legs. It also has sharp claws and huge Bat ears.
The Poison Flame Bat is Red in color and its body is shrouded with purple flames.
These scary creatures stood before the 30 Rank A Soldiers and wanted to fight. Each one releases an attack.
The Shadow Serpent whipped its tail at a Rank A Soldier and the Soldier jumped and easily avoided the attack.
The Poison Flame Bat spat out Purple Flame out of its mouth trying to burn the Soldiers alive.
One of the Soldier used Water Element Magic Orb and countered the attack.
The Water attack meets the Purple Flame and created an explosion. The explosion resulted into thick purple smoke.
Dark looked grim looking at the purple smoke.
"Avoid inhaling the smoke, its poisonous. The Fire that the Poison Flame Bat releases has poison on it and when it was in contact with water and turned into smoke, the poison attached on the air particles too, making the smoke poisonous." Dark explained immediately.
Clark and Jake looked pale. They don't want to get poisoned.
Jake felt a breeze on its back. He saw a glow on a crack. It was pinkish and light. He went to have a look at it. To his surprise, it was a Magic Orb with a Wind Element ability.
He reached his hand inside the crack and when he touched the Orb, whyit became a Pink light and went inside Jake's forehead.
[Grade C: Wind Element Magic Orb was obtained.
Ability: Warding Wind]
Jake's eyes dazzled. He passed between the Two Sergeants beside him and went to the front.
The poisonous smoke started to fled near Jake.
The two Sergeant's heart started to panic as they thought Jake is acting rashly.
"Jake! What are you-" Before Dark could finish his sentence Jake said something amazing.
"Warding Wind!"
Dark and Clark looked confused.
Jake's hand released a strong and pink gust of wind. The smoke was ward away and flew back to the Poison Flame Bat.
Dark and Clark's mouth was left ajar. They didn't think that Jake could use Magic. Well, they thought he's just a positive, weak boy. They didn't know that he could fight and use magic!
The Cave Tyrant roared and flapped its wings. The smoke was blown back to Jake. Jake looked shock. "I thought I could blew it all away completely. That Cave Tyrant has a Powerful wings that could make powerful gust of wind. That is scary!" Jake thought and continued to used its obtained ability.
"Warding Wind!" The Wind blown the smoke away. The smoke didn't even get to get close to those monsters when the Cave Tyrant made another powerful gust of wind.
Jake stepped backward. The smoke was approaching fast now!
Three of the Rank A Soldiers released their attacks.
"Cyclone!" All three said together. Three powerful cyclones sucked the poisonous smoke away. The Cyclones turned purple indicating the poison is inside of them now.
The Three Wind-type Magic Users used and controlled their Cyclones to attack the Monsters.
The three Poisonous Cyclones hit all six monsters.
The Five of the monster bosses except for The Poison Flame Bat were poisoned.
"Attack the Monsters first!" The man in a white lab coat ordered the Rank A Soldiers. Half of the number of the Rank A Soldiers collapsed. Their skin were purple. They are poisoned.
Two healing Rank A Soldiers healed the first two person that were poisoned. After they healed them, the thirteen others started to wriggle and foam were coming out from their mouth.
They convulsed and after sometime, they died.
Jake dropped on the ground. Scared. Now he knew how scary the monsters inside the cave are.
The Shadow Serpent spat out black smoke around its body and appeared behind Jake in an instant.
Shadow Element!
The Shadow Serpent teleported using its shadow element ability. The Snake swung its tail and tried to cut Jake's head off but Dark appeared in between them and casted a defensive shadow ability.
"Shadow Shield!"
The Shadow Serpent's tail hit the Black shield that appeared beside Jake and Dark.
The Shadow Serpent's tail retreated and hissed angrily.
A Lightning appeared and hit the Serpent's head. It was Jake's Lightning Bullet. Dark widened his eyes.
"You... you can use magic without summoning a magic orb and then you can use two elements?! Impossible!" Dark couldn't believe what he saw. He thinks this was just a dream to him and he might just have fell asleep while in battle.
He was in dazed.
Hisssss!
The Shadow Serpent hissed again. The sound of its hissing was really painful in the eardrums and really loud.
Dark woke up from his dazed. He looked at the Shadow Serpent and gritted his teeth in annoyance. He teleported on top of the head of the Shadow Serpent sneakily.
"Shadow Blade! Shadows come forth!"
This ability is the strongest ability that Dark have. It fuses all shadows and darkness within the area of a kilometer radius to increase the damage of his next attack.
Because its a cave, darkness and shadow were rich. The shadow and darkness of the cave moved. Even the shadows of the monsters moved towards to Dark's Dagger. The Dagger began to get enshrouded with black fog.
Dark's presence began to get noticeable. The Shadow Serpent noticed the scary presence on its head. Before it could react, Dark immediately stabbed the Monster's head.
"Yes!" Jake and Clark exclaimed happily thinking that Dark killed the Shadow Serpent.
After that, their faces turned into confusion. Dark's face looked dark and angry. That's when they noticed that there's no blood coming out on the area of the head that Dark stabbed.
The Shadow Serpent became a black fog and turned into a shadow.
It fled and went back to the group of monsters and fused with the real Shadow Serpent.
"A c-clone?" Jake asked. They looked aghast.
"That monster has a scary power!" One of the Rank A Soldier that saw the fight screamed.
The Ferocious Stone Spider dug its eight legs on the ground and the stalactites above them loosened.
3 Rank A Soldiers had their heads got pierced by three large Stalactites. The Other Rank A Soldiers were almost panicking. But they are professional Soldiers, they will not panic or do such stupid thing that will speed them up to their doom.
There are 14 Rank A Soldiers left.
All of them had these faces of despair and fear. And they kept fighting it and putting it aside. They don't want to be a coward of death.
Cowardice have no room in their Job.
All 14 Rank A Soldiers looked at one another. One Soldier with a Brown hair summoned his Purple Magic Orb.
As if they had discussed something, they nodded at one another.
"What are you doing? Go kill those monsters!" The Man in a White Lab coat shouted angrily.
"I'm sorry, sir. We will not take any orders from you anymore. I, Gilbert Amberstone, will resign." Gilbert presented a paper with a contract and burned it with a Lighter.
"No!" Dr. Heros screamed.
The Other Soldiers picked their contracts and burned them. They resigned.
They are not really Soldiers but members of an Organization. An Organization that hunts and steals Magic Orbs from others and from other legal and illegal mines.
These Organizations were called Black Organization. The Organization that Gilbert was in was called Treasure Hunt. The Treasure Hunt is a Black Organization that steals resources sneakily from the Government.
They're the one's that are responsible for robbery in the mines in these past few years. The Gravitas Clan hired these Organization to hunt for a powerful Magic Orb.
In order to hired them, they need a special contract. A special contract that could only be broken when the Treasure Hunt members resign.
Sounds unfair since they could just do it and might kill the Employer after that to steal what the Employer gets but that is the point of it.
That is how dark and evil the Treasure Hunt. Plus, they have powerful people. The least powerful among them were Rank B's.
They are that powerful!
This time, they didn't plan such an evil move since they are being hired by one of the most powerful family in the World. The Gravitas Clan.
The Gravitas Clan gave off Billions of money to hire 30 men in these operation. Once the operation is done, failure or success, they could have the money.
But if they resign in the middle of the operation, they will not have the money.
"You traitors!" George angrily shouted inside the Gravity Arena.
He was so angry and wanted to kill them but he was stuck inside the Gravity Arena that he made. He can't control it to get deactivated.
"Sh*t! I think I have to kill you first. Its almost unbelievable that you can still endure my attacks. You are truly special. Really, really special. Strong Mind, Strong Body and Very powerful magic. You are really special!" George couldn't help but complimented Bark.
He also envied him so much that he wished he was Bark.