The Area around the Free City in which Conan and others currently were had a very odd environment. There were some places full of trees while the rest of the land was barren.
' Is it like this because of the Monster?' Conan thought to himself, he had gathered all the information he can about the various monster sightings near the free city.
Currently, he was in an area with uneven land which was mostly rocky, walking toward a ditch which was supposed to be a river in the past. A source of water for the people of the free city.
He spotted a danger sign board, it was one of the places where the first monster was found.
' Let's try this.' Conan changed his weapon into a sword once again, the red gem over the hilt of the blade shined as Conan used his Aura.
He stabbed his sword at the ground and a large crater appeared on the ground and a surge of red aura floated on the ground. ' Using this much Aura at once is disadvantageous but it will be worth it if the monster shows up.'
Conan had already tried this on two other places but no reaction came from the monster. Whether it was clever or a coward, Conan sighed and started to walk away.
" Let's just go somewhere else." Reaching the bike he sat and was ready to move but suddenly he heard the ground shaking. " Woah, so you finally showed up."
The Bike hovered forward in the air with a great speed, where it was standing earlier a large maw of the beast came out of the ground but it got nothing but dust in his mouth.
It sensed its prey getting away and roared in anger, it was about to go back inside the ground from the hole where it came from. However suddenly arrows started to rain over his body, they pushed the beast back but were not able to pierce it.
" Damnit, it has become too dull. I need that special grade for it to sharpen. I can't even confirm whether or not it is a spirit beast." He could see the creature running toward him in anger and had given up on going underground.
Conan moved on his bike at a great speed in circles within the area. The beast was getting annoyed and so was Conan, he didn't want the bike to get damaged in the process, which was also the reason why he had parked it very far away to fight without worrying about it.
The beast was like a lizard but it had no eyes and on its face had slits like a shark. The maw of the beast was large enough to swallow Conan in one bite.
" Damn it, of all the possible things, you had to be a frigging lizard. I hate your kind so much." Conan shouted.
Suddenly the beast did something which Conan should have anticipated, it threw the tongue out of his mouth which stretched very far away, hitting the bike and making Conan lose the balance.
Conan jumped from the bike and ran far away from where the bike has crashed, it was surely damaged but he still tried to avoid it getting more damaged.
" Allow me to give you a proper fight," Conan said, the sword in his hand started to change shape and converted into a gauntlet.
Conan avoided the first two strikes from the tongue attacks, the attack shattered the ground. On the third attack, Conan sidestepped and Cut the tongue of the beast.
He ran past the incoming attacks and reached the neck of the beast and then attacked to cut the throat in one slice. However, the sword went right through the neck, not hitting anything.
' Shit! Shit! Shit!' Conan braced for the impact, suddenly out of nowhere an attack came sending Conan flying high in the sky.
Just when he was in the sky the beast grabbed Conan with his tongue and slammed him down to the ground.
" Cheating bastard, no wonder you were able to hide for so long, That's illusion ability."
Conan rolled backwards and avoided the next throw of the tongue. This time however he stood at one place waiting for the attack to happen when the tongue and his blade touched.
" There you are," He said loudly, at the last moment Conan pierced his sword in the tongue instead of cutting it. The beast pulled his tongue and hence gave the direction of his location, Conan ran towards the beast's actual body and sliced what looked like an open space.
The attacks were real but the body wasn't so somehow this idea worked and the illusion was finally broken. The lizard hissed and clanked his large maw to intimidate Conan from approaching him.
Just when Conan was approaching the beast, it let out a roar, and the ground started to shake again as several low levels and mid-level threat monsters appeared.