"I had a feeling something like that would happen. In other words he's so strong that even my skill needs to upgrade just to see more. " Damon mumbled to himself.
Cane glanced at Damon the second he used oversee and then started to begin.
"The matter I would like for you all to solve is dealing with a sickness called weathering erosion. It's a very troublesome one that can and only affect my people in general.
You see it breaks down rock and stone dissolving it from the inside. If you do not know we are not exactly like you all."
"I would spare the details but it goes in hand with our circumstances. We are bijou, a race of humans that have certain genetics that allows us to shape, recolor stone or rocks and change its texture."
"We use are ability to create structures such as these and many others. Our bodies are similar in a sense as we can chisel and form our bodies just like we can with any type of stone by sharpening our ability alone."
"Our bodies also has certain minerals and kinship to stone or anything that goes through the process of lithification and this is were our problem lies."
"Like I said earlier this sickness can attack our bodies from the inside. Usually our bodies are very difficult and challenging to damage but this thing we refer to as weather erosion can harm us over time."
"We have figured out that it's contagious to our kind. We know how to get rid of it but the problem is we can not get close to the source without catching the disease."
"These men here with me are my son's and nephew's. I have one more son that is currently very sick."
"He went hunting and came across a beast. The beast is known for its errosive ability towards stones and rocks. It's called."
"The blow souse" kimbo said cutting Cain words off.
Cain looked at him giving him a nod.
"That is indeed correct. It is a very large worm beast with the power of water,rock and wind."
"It lives in drafty wet cave like areas because through it is how many caves are made. By using it's natural ability to create large holes or tunnels through mountain sides or rocky places." Cain said.
"It's skill to accelerate it's ability is the reason you all can't handle it yourself correct." Kimbo added.
Once again Cain looked at kimbo with confirmation while asking how did he know. Damon, vora and the entire squad was equally interested in how he knew of such a beast.
"Well my ability is a mixture of rock, soil and water. I can make it so my rocks are chalky or in a manner of clay or mud, but it's still considered a earth ability mainly using rocks."
" I take it upon myself to know which beasts my ability is greatly affected by and the blow souse worm is number six. when it comes to people who use the power of lithification like you all and myself."
" But on another note my power is also a great opposing power to the blow souse because of the clay I can make. Depending on its maturity level." Kimbo responded.
Everyone looked at kimbo with understanding as he explained.
"Hmph, looks like fat ass can actually be helpful." Damon thought.
Seer sat next to Damon and didn't say much and continued to just listen. She didn't plan any of this all she really wanted was for Damon to agree to be her rival and until he did she would follow him.
She thought about leaving it alone but she was the type of person to do any and everything for something she wanted.
Cane explained a few more things as to where the beast could be located and that one of his son and nephews will accompany them as well.
The task was to kill the beast. Their was a certain organ they needed from the beast as antivenom.
There were more ingredients but those had already been obtained by them and the last one was the most difficult one.
They went over a few more things before exiting the room. They were now back outside and a man named hart and valor introduced themselves. Hart was Cane's nephew and valor was one of his son's.
They both were incredibly in shape and looked to be around the same age as it was difficult to tell.
Hart was bigger but valor was more chiseled when comparing their bodies. Valor eyes were green while his hair was black and long stopping in the middle of his back.
Hart was balled with red eyes and tattoos on his head. Their cloth wrappings were different colors. Valor's were dark blue while hart's was mustard yellow. These two men were set to join them as guides and to help with what they could help with.
They were soon off leaving Rock village.
"So vora, I understand you're the captain and leader of this squad. I want you to know we are to show you and your squad the ultimate respect and so no matter of our age and power we will listen to your commands at all times. Hart said while walking.
In which vora showed her appreciation with a nod. They soon conversed on the matter at hand.
They were just entering what looked like a scattered Forrest. The trees were growing far from eachother and very short.
Large Rocks and boulders could be seen scattered as well. The land looked more rocky than anything. This area was on the opposite side of their village and from a different entry point in which they had entered rock village.
" I can tell you two are far stronger than us, if it wasn't for this beast having such a negative effect on your people. You could handle it yourselves correct." Damon asked valor who was walking not too far away from him.
Yes that's correct. Not to be or act high and mighty but our people are pretty strong and we don't usually rely on others. However despite our appearance we are not fighters. We are creators, but we can and will fight. " Valor responded.
"Unlike the people of this world we cannot produce what we specialize in but just mold and manipulate what's already there. An example is this." Valor said.
He looked at a small rock and within a second it was in his hands. Damon didn't see it move. One second the rock was on the ground and the next twirling in his hand.
Seer saw this as well and was looking very hard to see how it just happened.
Valor twirled the rock and it suddenly glowed green and the next second he was handing Damon the rock that wasn't a simple rock anymore.
Instead it was a replica of Damon. A perfect match to be exact. Same clothes and everything. Not a single thing was missing. It was like he was holding a small action figure of himself.
"Woah." Damon exclaimed.
"Ha, pretty neat huh. Valor responded. Even though I've manipulated it I haven't changed it's strength or anything. We can not make stones stronger than what they are naturally.
"But we can add or energy around it to make it seem strong. So we work on our energy a ton. it makes up for our fighting skills in that regard."
"Luckily all rocks and stones have different strengths to them. Our homes are made from sly stone which is very very strong. So as you can see our power is mainly used for manipulation and isn't much use for fighting. Not in normal conditions anyway. "
"We do have something that can and have made my race very formidable. As long as we have that and apply natural fighting skills we will continue to be a not so easy race to deal with when it comes to fighting."
"If the mission is a success. I'll share with you what I am referring to. Deal" valor said. Deal." Damon responded as he shoved the little sculpture of himself in his pocket.
A hour past and the land turned completely into rocky hills and deep rocky trenches with shear drops everywhere.
Everyone had to maneuver and jump over and between long spaces like ledge's while being careful because many rocks were sharp and oddly shaped.
Hart and valor had begun manipulating the rocks with steep falls until vora stopped them telling them to save there energy for more pressing matters.
They were confronted by a few beasts as well which hart and valor took care of very quickly.
Just like vora informing them to save their energy when it came to manipulating rocks for safer passage in certain areas they too wanted everyone else to save their energy for the main fight and so they took care of any and everything else that came their way.
"Wait." valor said outloud making everyone but mainly Tara who was in front at the moment stop in their tracks.
With a wave of his hand a weird shape rock the size of a large bed began to move and suddenly a large figure could be seen moving along with it unwrapping itself from around the solid rock.
Damon immediately scanned it with oversee.
[Great stone viper~ A snake beast that primarily lives and hunts in rocky areas using it's rock textured skin and patterns to blend in with its environment. Very difficult to detect around rock as its body can hide all vital signs including body heat naturally in rocky places.] High matured beast. Power lvl 1100
"It's a freaking huge snake. " shouted Tara as she darted backwards with a few back steps.