"His heart is true. I will keep my word." The snake thought as it disappeared in the darkness.
Damon sat their for a while looking around, thinking and contemplating while activating recovery mist.
A light misty rain swept through the room immediately starting to heal his injuries.
"Am I a magnet for high level beasts or something. A superior prime beast in a place like this. The lowly prime beast I ran into by the river. The hyencalue, or embryo. Just what in the hell man." He thought to himself.
"I thought all prime beasts were harder to run into. I don't know why I thought that. Maybe it was someone at school or something but from my experience so far prime beasts are not so rare."
" Their fucking everywhere." He thought also thinking about the arachnid shell wolves they ran into in those valleys before they got to coast city.
"Now I see why their are squadrons. team work is key in this world unless you're on a whole other level. One hit was all it took for me to understand I had no chance." He thought.
After 15 minutes he gathered himself and began to walk with Javalin on his shoulders.
Stopping at many of the tunnels trying to decide which one his squad went through. He slapped himself on the forehead thinking he could have asked the shadow snake before it disappeared.
So instead he used his nose. It was very faint but one tunnel smelled different from the others and so he went with that one.
Just before making his decision Javalin was still having a brief conversation with the beast. Damon didn't know it but the beast never left the room instead it was actually very close to him. So close it was like his own shadow.
"A Demon and another one of a kind serpent like myself. I must admit. This opportunity is too intriguing to pass up. It's been a while since I've tagged along with someone."
" I wonder how much has changed on the outside. Probably not much, it's only been twelve years or longer since the last person I haunted. Oh well. Let's see what type of future this Demon is walking into." Shadow haunt" The shadow king snake whispered.
A gust of wind came out of nowhere hitting Damons back. It was cold and errie sending shivers down his spine. This made him scurry on through the tunnel without looking back in a hurry.
Shield on the other hand felt everything and so did the system.
Ding! Attempting to stop integration
Ding! Attempt failed. A presence has merged with you. You are now haunted.
Damon stopped for second in confusion.
"The hell is this. Did that snake do something to me. Haunted! What do you mean I'm haunted....like a ghost.
"Wait,Maybe it's something that will inform her if I go back on my word. If so it would make sense why she believed me so easily."
"I mean I was telling the truth but if that damn snake used some type of tracker ability on me then it could find me anywhere. Shield what do I do how can I stop this." He asked worriedly.
"The system itself isn't designed to stop such things. In fact I've never seen such a beast before. She said she was the only one of her kind when speaking with Javalin so that's probably why I haven't seen or heard of such a beast."
" I'm sure whatever she did has nothing to do with you directly. If so the system would have been successful in stopping it like for instance if someone had an ability to get inside your head, it wouldn't work on you because of the system."
"Just like the man called hammer that tried copying the make up of your energy, but whatever she did had nothing to do with you and your physical body. My suggestion is to just go along with it. I'm sure things will unravel either way."
Damon wasn't surprised shield could listen in on the two beasts conversation but what did surprise him was the fact shield didn't think it was an issue to be so called haunted.
Thinking about it that way he just accepted it rather quickly knowing if it was a serious issue shield would have had a different take on the situation.
While Damon traveled, the thought of him being haunted and other things did cross his mind and he just had to ask.
" if you never heard or seen such a beast how was the system able to provide information on what it was called." He asked shield.
"My system pulls information from your eyes constantly. It's like an autopilot in many ways. Using oversee analyzes objects, people or other living matters."
"It generates people or a beast level by special patterns of energy around them through your eyes. It also does a solar system search which is once you're looking at a particular object and use oversee."
It pulls whatever information it can find on that object or living thing from sources throughout the solar system. The fact she said she had been hunted time and time again means their is some knowledge of her."
" If you remember it said origin unknown so you can see that it wasn't much the system could find on the beast." Shield responded.
Damon couldn't get the beast out of his head. It's strength and power. The fact that it could speak. He had heard when beasts achieve prime levels some could produce speech but it wasn't a common thing.
The only beasts recorded in their history of speaking were beasts that evolved into a more humanoid way reaching lesser prime or higher. However this was way before his time and had became simple stories around the world.
Damon decided to pick up the pace as he began running through the tunnel. Along the way their were many dead worms scattered throughout.
This told him, he's either on the right track or other beasts besides the worms were living down there. With the beast he ran into earlier Damon thought it could be either one.
His running came to stop as something small that ran on two feet crossed his path. He took out his soul dagger stabbing it in its chest. The blade dug into its chest a few inches and stopped.
The beast clawed at his face but was met with a bite to its arm as Javalin neck stretched out from Damons shoulder.
Electricity sparked fiercely in Damon's fist as he pulled back striking its head. He then kicked the beast in the chest making it fly back into the tunnel wall.
It made a weird laugh that sounded like it was mix with a growl showing small sharp teeth. A glowing fluid could be seen pouring out of its arm from two small holes that Damon guessed was its blood.
The beast face and green eyes started to swell as Javalin poison worked quickly. Within a few seconds it couldn't move and looked to be in incredible pain.
"Damn thang came out of nowhere. Are all beasts down here hard to see even with oculus active. He thought to himself while scanning the little bugger.
[Black gremlin~ a creature that lives in caves and many forest areas. It's elastic skin is good defensively against sharp and blunt objects. Often hunt in groups and are naturally intelligent to a degree even at a low maturity level. Power level 400 Maturity level lowly.
As soon as Damon finished reading the information the same kind of sound, laugh or growl the now dead creature made was heard again and then many light footsteps coming from further up in the tunnel.
The gremlins couldn't be seen just yet but he knew they were coming.
Two cloudy balls formed in his hands as electricity surfed from his shoulder to the ball of clouds.
Throwing them far ahead. Javalin fired two obsidian flames right behind them and soon the sound of dying gremlins were in their ears.
[Black gremlin ×4 killed 68 exp gained.
Damon walked slowly until he seen multiple dead burnt ugly creatures laid out on the tunnel floor. It was around ten of them. Most of them died to javalins attack.
"Isn't it shops that buy dead beasts." He thought. He was sure he had seen one in coast city while riding with Abbot.
After all many clothes and other things were created by certain parts of many beasts. Thinking about this Damon decided he would get more clean kills if the opportunity presented itself and store the bodies.
He took all ten gremlins they had just killed in case they still were worth something even though they were pretty damaged.
Running up ahead Damon could feel small vibrations here and there. The further down the tunnel he moved the more vibrations he felt and the stronger they became.
He soon realized it was fighting going on and so he picked up speed. Eventually he entered another spacious area but this time it was different from the other two areas he came to after the tunnels.
There were streams of water running from somewhere above entering in a large pond.
"Raaaa, boom! Boom !
Looking to his right he could see a white chalky bulky golem with a fat pale boy behind it as it attacked multiple dark skin sharp teeth creatures that ran on two feet.
"Kimbo." Damon called out.