"Woah, look at that tall beauty." One boy said looking at vora who walked in front of her squad.
She's not all that, I've seen better another boy said. Ha, yea your belief of better is some out of shape no having any type of ass kinda girl." A third boy chimes in saying making everyone that heard him burst out in laughter.
"Whatever, I like what I like." The boy responded back. Everyone laughed even harder.
Damon and his squad heard everything but continued to just ignore and walk forward.
Damon did catch a few eyes on him and one of them were from the red haired girl named Cali.
While she watched him, he acted as if he had no clue while walking.
They were soon out of the inn and we're on the street going east when Damon suggested they take a carriage as far as they could out of the city and in the direction they needed to go.
There were multiple carriage drivers all around waiting for people to ask for a ride like a cab or taxi. Vora agreed with his idea and they all decided to stop a few carriages.
Damon only thought of this because once he exited the inn Abot was standing across the street waving him down.
Everyone hopped into a carriage riding in pairs except for Damon hopping in with Abot after greeting him and telling him to follow a particular carriage that vora and Tara was in.
A little green haired girl turned around from the front seat with a wide smile on her face.
"Damon, I'm so happy to see you. Thank you very much for the gifts. she said twisting her shoulders showing him she was wearing one of the shirts he purchased for her.
"Can Javalin come out to sit with me she asked in a cute manner. Of course."
Javalin was happy to lay in milli's lap as they rode. Damon and Abot talked about earlier this morning and Damon also told him what happened after they went their separate ways.
Abot didn't show up to the inn for work but rather cause milli wanted to thank Damon personally. He knew Damon was taking off and wanted her to get a chance to tell him thank you and goodbye.
They navigated through the streets for about forty to fifty minutes before coming to the edge of the same forest the exit of the underground market place was in.
Damon said his farewell to them both as Javalin wrapped around him like a belt and got in one of her favorite spots.
Mili gave him a hug jumping into his arms. This caught him by surprise but he welcomed it with a smile.
"I'll see you again right Mr. Damon. Of course and how about next time we go out for lunch or if you know a fun place to go we can do that instead." Milli smiled while hugging him again.
Abot gave Damon a couple pats on his shoulder and ended it with a handshake and nod.
Everyone in his squadron didn't miss any of this as they all had gotten out grouping up to continue on.
"Didn't take you for the type to like kids." blane said with a smile as Damon walked up to them.
"Ha, heck I didn't think I would myself." Damon responded with a chuckle. Ahhhh I think that's sweet. Tara chimed in saying.
Milli stood there waving goodbye as they all soon disappeared into the forest.
Walking in the forest during the day Damon could see the tree trunks themselves were reddish brown while the leaves were yellow.
The interesting thing about them was they had a citrus smell to them. Something he didn't smell when he was there when it was dark.
"Oversee"
[Citron tree. A common tree that grows in bunches. During the day the give off a citrus smell due to the rays of the sun. ]
"Nothing too special but it's still pretty cool I guess." He thought.
The squad traveled for hours and was now walking across a large plain. There was nothing in sight but miles and miles of high grassy land.
The grass was much different then anything they had seen before. The blades of grass was over sixty feet high and as thick as a actual tree.
Luckily the tall really thick blades of grass weren't close together and it was still like walking in a forest but instead of trees it was the tall grass.
They were thick but moved a lot with the simplest of wind. It almost looked as if they were in a large scale cornfield.
"You guys hear that. kimbo asked. Yea. Something is coming this way. As a matter of fact it's more than one of them whatever it is." Glee responded.
Everyone got into formation watching all sides. The blades of grass began moving in their direction as many footsteps and screeching were heard.
Damon eyes turned blue while vora's turned silver and a pair of thick wolf ears sprouted up. Damon was using oculus while vora used her mongrel nature to to see and hear more.
Shoop! Shoop!
Shoop!
Multiple sounds of someone or something shooting by was heard. One minute a few blurs was seen and the next they were gone.
"They're using the blades of grass for cover and for hiding. Stay on guard. " vora shouted.
Damon pulled out his soul dagger and added electricity to it. The dagger lit up blue as static sparked from it.
Javalin was still on his shoulder. The direction she was looking was the same direction Damon was paying attention to as he knew her senses were much better than his.
Eeeeeek! Ahhhh! Boom!
Multiple sounds were heard as they all turned behind them. Garren had a beast the size of a car door. Its body was covered in green fur. The exact color of the grass.
It nashed it's fangs at garren trying to bite his arm as he had it pinned to the ground. It's little fingers scratched and clawed at his arm squirming trying to break free.
Its head was small and circular with big brown eyes. The front of its face was yellow while the most of its fur was green except it's face and the end of its tail. It resembled a monkey of some kind.
Garren lifted it off the ground holding it in the air as it thrashed around. Garrens arm had transformed. Black hair formed as his arm got bigger and his palms turned grey. He squeezed tightly crushing the beast shoulders and neck. The squirming stopped as it let out a final little scream.
"Oversee."
[Low matured beasts]
[Grass lemur~ A agile and speedy monkey type beast that eats insects. Primarily lives in high thick grass and tropical forests. Aggressive when agitated or feel threatened by another anthropoid of another kind. Usually harmless but will attack anything moving once threatened.]
Damon processed the information and seeing garrens arm the way it was and remembering his strength before when going up against the arachnid pups. He realized garren resembled some kind of ape.
Garren threw the little beast to the ground as blood spilled from its mouth. He then wiped his hand as it returned to normal.
Suddenly the blades of grass began waving all around as little figures could be seen jumping from grass blade to grass blade around them.
Every few seconds a few would stop and look showing their sharp teeth. Out of everyone it seems their focus was mainly on garren which made Damon think his previous thoughts were correct after reading the grass lemurs information.
"Garren, what exactly do you transform into. My inner beast is a primate with the power of shockwaves and vibration. Why do you ask."
He responded to Damon as they all looked up around them watching more and more grass lemurs appear.
Their Numbers increased so quickly it was hard to believe.
"Well, I asked because out of all of us I think you are their main target." Damon said.
Just before a couple of them was about to ask why and how he knew they were mainly targeting garren.
Twenty or so grass lemurs leaped from the blades of grass. Twelve of them went for garren while the others attacked the rest everyone else.
With a slash of his soul dagger Damon released a curving form of lightning before anyone could do anything.
The few grass lemurs leaping towards the others were burnt and sliced in half easily.
Garren was swinging wildly as seven out of the twelve lemurs latched on to him.
Climbing up his body trying to bite and dig their claws into him.
Raaaaah! A green vibration left garrens body releasing a wave as he flexed his arms outward like he was breaking a chain that was confining him.
The wave crashed into the lemurs and also everyone else knocking them back and throwing them to the ground.
When the wave hit the lemurs their little bodies shook for a second, their arms, legs and body folded inward like they had been crushed.
A area of high blade grass was destroyed as well leaving them within a circle of destruction.
Everyone got back to their feet with agitated and uncomfortable face expressions.
"Damn Garren, you think you could have held back a little. Tara said holding her forehead.
" Yea dude, a little warning next time wouldn't hurt. Blane said, and agreeing with him was glee.
Vora stood up and gave garren a hard stare making him drop his head a little. "Sorry squad leader."
"That was awesome, ha. Garren I knew you were strong after seeing what you did against the arachnid pups, but man that was great. Shit, it did hurt though." Damon said casually yanking his shoulder back in place.
He was the closest to garren and got hit the hardest. He did manage to soul retract Javalin. Even though she would have been fine, his reflexes made him do it as a precaution.
Everyone looked at Damon crazy. " Damon how can you say that while just popping your shoulder back in place like it's nothing. Heck ya shoulder could have been your neck. Garrens power is a bit unpredictable." Tara said.
"It's cool. I know he didn't mean to. Just before Damon could finish his sentence.
A number of grass lemurs were launching at them again and they were quickly dealt with. More and more flung themselves at them and everyone defended themselves. It took a couple of minutes but it looked as they got rid of them all.
"Ha, such easy work. Those things aren't special in the slightest. Blane said after blowing a hole in the last one.
Vora stood on a purple orb as it began rising. Floating up above the forest of grass blades she squinted her eyes to see far into the distance. She then held out her hand downward creating another.
"Damon, come up here now." Stepping on the ball he was a little hesitant but did so anyway. The ball floated up next to vora and they both stood there looking.
"How many can you see. Looking out Damon could see a pool of grass lemurs jumping in their direction. It was like watching a swarm of fleas.
"Unless you wanna level this entire area I suggest we get the hell out of here."
They could see hundreds of grass lemurs but that wasn't all. Using the oversee skill Damon could tell many of them were far stronger than the low level ones.
[Leaf blade lemur~ mid mature evolution of the grass lemur. Lemurs that have sharp blades in the shape and form of a leaf that protrudes out of their arms and legs. The leaf blade lemur is usually harmless but can be dangerous when threatened. It's leaf blades limbs are sharp and can cut through the toughest trees.]
Further in the back were even higher tier lemurs
[Gliding leaf blade lemurs~ a high matured evolution of the leaf blade lemur. A very dominant aggressive lemur with the ability to either harden or soften it's leaf blades to glide. ]
Damon could see the gliding ones as they looked different from the others. Their tails were thin and looked like a long leaf.
They had the same leaf blades coming out their arms but they were much larger and all of them were gliding from grass blade to grass blade instead of jumping.
"Everyone, ruuuuun." vora shouted at the top of her lungs as the sea of lemurs increased in numbers again and they were now a few hundred meters away.
Before her and Damon returned to the ground she sent out three spiraling balls of energy. Explosions were seen and heard.
Many of the huge grass blades way out in front were destroyed along with a good number of the lemurs. However hundreds more poured in on top of the dead ones still jumping and gliding in their direction.
Everyone bolted in one direction. "Why are we running. We can just take them on." Their weak right glee shouted.
"You idiot, if vora says run then it's for a good reason. Tara yelled back at glee.
Damon followed suit and blasted forward. He understood why vora decided not to engage.
They were currently not too far from their first objective and even though the lemurs could be dealt with he knew with their high numbers all of them would probably use a good bit of energy eliminating all of them and it's no telling how fresh they would need to be to get the real task done.
"She's strong and pretty smart with decisions. This is why she made it to be the captain." He thought to himself.
Suddenly the huge grass blades in front of them began waving and moving. Yelling was heard as well as many footsteps.
"Hey it looks like we got people in front of us.Damon yelled behind him.
"People are coming this way and fast a person yelled to others.
"I suggest you all run. We got a little trouble following us." Damon said to the group in front of him.