‡Chapter 5|Gray Crab Marsh
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Following back again at the border of the Crimson Ground, the three of them crawled on the ground silently as the time moved.
Time passed and the group of three finally encountered something.
Charizard frown looking in front of him.
What in front of him is a Marsh and Groves.
Trees from big to small scattered around showing their numerous large roots.
Black and brown mud and sludge are everywhere while there are some creatures moving at the muds.
Marsh are known for it's dangerous poisonous and venomous creatures.
Charizard know this, he also know that there's a probability that those mud will pull them down.
They don't know how deep that mud ground so it's best to avoid it.
But....
Charizard can see something from the small hole at a height that the tree leaves had no influence in.
Although the light from the sun make it hard to spot it, he can see that there's a mountain at the distance.
"A mountain" One of the recruit mumbled.
Waving his hand, Charizard planned to leave and circled the marsh when he saw what creature is on the mud.
"Crabs?"
Baffled, Charizard scrutinized his eyes and saw a tip of a crab with a color gray in the muds.
You might thought it was a stone if you are not careful.
But they are easy to notice since the stone looking top of the crab are constantly moving.
The two Recruit also look at it and one immediately reported what he saw.
"My Lord, they look like small rocks from the distance but... I think those Crabs are huge"
Charizard nodded agreeing, although they can see there that it was small..... What they saw is the top of the crab.
"Do you think we can kite them?" He asked unsure.
He wanted to synthesize the crabs but he didn't want any casualties.
The two looked at each other before one spoked.
"Let's try first"
Nodding, the other Recruit grabbed a stone and he shortly throw it hitting the gray crabs.
Charizard watched from the sidelines, bored, decide to name the marsh and the crab.
"For now I will call this.... The Gray Crab Marsh!"
"And that crab will be called Gray Mud Crab"
As Charizard named the monster, the two Recruit smiled bitterly at their master naming sense even though they know they can't thought of some cool name themselves.
Pak! Pak! Pak! Pak! Pak! Pak!
The rocks kept on raining at the Gray Mud Crabs as the crabs scattered around.
Some even showed their pincer that made the three of them shudder.
"Shit that crab had large pincers!" Charizard exclaimed excitedly.
The two soldier look at their master then they continued their onslaught of rocks while the monsters didn't dare to leave it's abode.
Charizard seeing this soon pulled his bow and approached the marsh while looking around.
The two Recruit paled and they simultaneously guarded at his two sides.
Knowing that there might be danger when he get close at the mud, Charizard distanced himself 10 meters away and he pointed his bow to a cluster of rock like tip at the distance.
Then he released the string as the bow went another way but it luckily struck a crab.
Charizard seeing that his arrow only made a crack at the shell frowned.
"This crabs might be a good material but we don't know if they had poison on their body"
As he said that they notice a movement from the corner of their eyes.
'A Treant!'
A moving tree silently strode forward not knowing he is noticed already.
Not only that, one Gray Mud Crab finally came out of the mud.
Seeing this, they immediately backed away 5 meters.
Then with mouth agape they stared at the humungous crab sizing up to 4 meter in length and 2 meter in height!
Note that human adult normal standard height is 1.5 to 1.7 meter!
The crab had gray skin and kept clattering his pincer.
"My Lord the crab is bigger than we expected"
"Yeah" Charizard nodded as they immediately stepped back while the Crab is pursuing them.
"Go climb a tree and wait for the moment to attack"
The two notice that their Lord didn't want to leave as two of them immediately carried a large rock.
One recruit quickly climb a suitable tree as the other recruit handed him the large rocks.
While they were passing their rocks, the crab finally caught up with them prompting the recruit on the ground to hide.
Charizard on the other hand is already atop a large branch watching the crab and the moving tree in the distance!
Click Cluck CrkCrk
The Large Gray Mud Crab halted as it's eye stared at the human on top of it.
The recruit atop of it grinned and he immediately throw a rock at it's eyes!
Bam!
Shrieking in pain, the crab planned to escape only to receive another rock on his feet!
Bam!
The recruit didn't stop there as it immediately thow the last two rock heavily at the top of it's head.
Bam!
Bam!
The whole shell shaken but it didn't deal any good damage as the shell only had scratch on it.
One of the recruit hiding at a tree nearby hastily dashed forward strucking the crab on its side but his face suddenly paled.
Crack
Shatter
The spear he used shattered leaving the Recruit defenseless.
Seeing this, Charizard quickly jump off the tree.
He only need to get close to had a chance to hit it's eye.
"Get out of there!"
The Crab notice the Recruit at it's side and it rapidly turn around.
The Recruit jumped away into the bush prompting the Crab to halt.
"Hey"
Charizard finally got close at the Crab.
Hearing the voice the Crab turn it's body again only to find nothing there.
Charizard grin at it's back.
The back was its blind spot!
With how slow the Crab can turn around you can actually just follow it and attack from behind!
But....
It's shell is so thick that you can't take advantage of it's blind spot.
The two Recruit notice this as the Recruit at the branch immediately dashed at the Crab blindspot.
While the recruit hiding in the bush can only watch in bitter seeing his Lord and his comrade battling it.
The Crab turn around hearing sound again only to be confused again.
Pak! Pak!
The crab felt its back was being striked and it turned around expecting the humans only to be utterly confused.
Pak! Pak!
Now the Crab is angry, it can't find it's enemy yet it can feel that something is attacking him from behind.
Seeing the crab being confused, Charizard chuckled in amusement while releasing his bow string.
Trrrrnng
Pak!
The Recruit is indifferent and merely just continue on his onslaught.
Crack!
Shriek!
The Crab feeling that something broke its shell shriek madly, as it immediately move it's feet planning to escape.
Charizard eyes widened and he instantly pulled the bow shooting the crack.
Puchi!
Shriek!
The recruit furthermore added the pain as it pulled its spear forward sticking the flesh.
Shriek!
Swoosh.
Like a leopard at speed the Crab escaped crazily while the Recruit was dragged stumbling on the ground.
Charizard pupils contracted as he immediately pursued it.
Shshshshshsh
The sound of bush being pushed away resounded as a man was pursuing a large crab.
Swoosh.
Charizard felt that something will kill him and he immediately ducked.
Boom!
The Crab in front of him unexpectedly died as it's shell cracked and it's flesh splattered everywhere.
Shocked, Charizard saw that what killed it is a large brown root!
'The Treant!'
Jumping away, he found out that the Treant didn't pursue them as it leaved dragging away the crab.
Charizard back is drenched in cold sweat.
The first monster is the bird that murdered his two Recruit..... Now this?
"Seriously?"
Shaking his head with a sigh, Charizard felt that he can now only cast two more safeguard.
"My Lord it's best if we immediately leave this place" The Recruit with no weapon said.
The other Recruit nodded agreeing and he suddenly pointed at the marshland.
"Look" He said solemnly.
Charizard notice numerous trees moving and he immediately dashed to his right planning to leave.
The Recruit look at each other then they shrugged.
"We will stay at our Lord's side forever" They thought.
Charizard look at them then turn his head away, he know that he was the one wrong here but he is not a perfect person where everything will go the way he want.
Just like a novel protagonists where battling something like earlier will make them come out of it and also winning against it, Charizard know that he isn't one.
So he know he had flaws and that was normal for humans.
"Sigh! Let's rush up it's going to be dusk soon"
Not crawling anymore, the three advanced even though it's risky.
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Map
Crimson
Ground
.→→ Gray Crab M
↑ ↓ Marsh >>
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Shaded ↑
Ground ↑
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... M = means Mountain