Nile then picked up the frequency catcher, and as its 2 antennas faced the cave which was meters away a static started forming on its screen. Nile then slowly walked towards the cave and the signals on the screen kept getting wavier.
"Darren how many monsters are in there ?" Nile said while pointing towards the cave.
Darren closed his eyes and spoke after a few seconds- "Around a dozen snake monsters, the strongest is at Warrior-6 and the rest are at initial warrior ranks."
'This is troublesome, even a single Warrior-6 monster is enough to keep Darren engaged. How am I supposed to keep up with ten's of warrior ranked monsters.' Nile thought, with a deep furrow on his forehead.
After it had been minutes Darren spoke breaking his chain of thoughts-"Nile let's bury the dead bodies or else monsters will come looking for it."
Hearing Darren a smile appeared on Nile face and he spoke-"Darren, you are a genius! Why didn't I think of this earlier."
"Huhhhh.. what do you mean ?" Darren asked while scratching his head. He had no idea he had unknowingly given the solution to the problem.
Nile then calmly explained how they would lure the snakes out of the cave with the help of the dead bodies of the masked cultivators.
"Darren place the headless body at the entrance and the other body there." Nile said pointing forty meters away from the entrance. Nile was cautious in his approach, he did not wanted the monsters to retreat back into the cave.
Darren did exactly as Nile had asked him to. They both then hid behind a tree near Eight's dead body, Darren perfectly concealed his presence while Nile used the dead cicada.
"They are coming fiv.. no seven of them all initial warrior ranks." Darren whispered.
It had not been even ten minutes yet, and seven snake monsters each around eight meters long and a foot in diameter with yellow eyes came out of the mouth of the huge cave, hissing.
"Wait not yet, let them approach the second body." Nile whispered and held Darren's arm who had already drawn out his axe.
The seven snakes pulled and tore up the body violently, each trying to have a larger part for themselves. For monsters, human meat was the most appetizing flesh, they were addicted to it.
It did not even take ten seconds for the monster snakes to devour the body. When they were done one of the monsters dashed towards the second body followed by two more snakes.
"Attack" Nile whispered, once the snake was just a meter away from their position.
Getting the signal, Darren rushed towards the closest snake , holding an axe on his right hand and clenching his other fist.
'BAMMMMMMMM' Darren punched the snake right on his face. The impact was so powerful, that the eight-meter monster was sent flying with a bloodied face.
Nile hastily raised his hand and using his skill created an ice spear sticking out of a tree.
'KAAAAAAACHHHHHHH' the ice spear pierced the scales of the snake, and the long spear came through the other side of its body. The snake fluttered in pain just like a flame of the candle flutters before extinguishing. Within a few seconds, the lifeless body of the snake hung loosely latched to the tree.
In the meantime, Darren had killed the two snakes that followed. These initial warrior-ranked snake monsters were no match to Darren, the real enemy was inside the cave coiled around the energy stone.
After killing three out of the seven monsters Darren pounced at the remaining enemies. Nile aided Darren to the best of his abilities, he was not strong enough to fight a warrior-ranked monster head-on so he relied on his strategies and wits to fight the enemy.
"Here goes the last one." Nile said shoving his dagger on the head of the last snake who was struggling to move after Darren's attack.
"Let's go in, I am eager to see an energy stone." Darren said with a smiling face while wiping blood off his axe.
"So am I Darren-" Both of them had just heard of it, and knew it was used to raise one's cultivation level. Nile then further added while sitting on the ground "-but let's rest for a while and replenish our energy first, the next battle won't be as easy as the one we just had." inside the cave there was still three initial warrior ranked monster and a rank 6-warrior monster.
Darren agreed to Nile, and sat down to fill his energy pool.
Once they had filled up their energy pool, Darren entered the dark cave followed by Nile. Even though the cave was dark but it was not hinder both of them due to their cultivation levels. After walking for a whole minute they reached a cavern, where a snake monster was coiled up on a stone that was sticking out off the ground. The surface of the stone was not visible as the huge body of the Snake hid it perfectly. Just a few meters away from the coiled-up snake were laid three initial warrior ranked monster snakes.
As soon as they both entered the cavern, the three snakes lifted their head and hissed at the two intruders while the king snake ignored their presence. The three of them rushed simultaneously at Darren who was a few feet ahead of Nile. Darren took out one of his battle-axes among many and effortlessly warded off the blow. The snakes recovered and one of them dashed again toward Darren, but just as he was a few meters away a wall emerged from the ground. Due to its high speed the snake could not dodge the wall that had just taken shape and collided into the wall.
'BOOOOOOOOMMM' a loud noise rang inside the cave and after the dust had settled, the monster could be seen struggling to get out off the debris of the walls. Nile threw his dagger that hit the struggling monster right between its eyes, instantly killing it.
Seeing their ally die, the other two snakes were filled with rage they both rushed towards Nile at great speed, but Darren jumped in their path and swung his battle axe in mid-air severing the head of one of the monster while kicking the other. Nile then cleanly confirmed the kill of the last monster shoving an icicle in his head whom Darren had kicked.