*Swhivsss*
In an instant they could see a worm like beast in their front, it was moving like a snake. The beast body is green and smooth, shining brightly, before any of them could move the beast had dived towards them like an arrow.
[Elasticity green worm>> Level 2]
[Defeat for 5 exp]
Timi was the first to charge as he saw those messages, he bounces off the ground landing straight besides the beast.
"Incredible." The others said as the leafs on the flow had blew up.
Wasting no time Timi threw a fist towards the beast and as it hit, his fist was bounced back, it didn't make any sound like the beast body was tough but it was just as if Timi had punch a rubber punching bag, he was surprised and the same could be said for the others behind him, before he knew it the worm had wrap its tail around his leg before throwing him back.
As the others saw Timi's punch bouncing back upon making contact with the beast, Idan knew his punch won't also do anything for the beast.
Thinking fast enough, he snatched Gary's level 3 sword from him before charging forward. Before the beast could retract its tail, Idan was already behind it and swinging the sword down, it had cut through the tail, then moving forward he sliced the beast's head off.
"That was close." Timi said as he stood up.
"Next time don't charge forward like that, leave the work for your elders to do." Idan said as he drags the beast's body towards the group.
"They're much and they're coming at us." Timi said as he sensed more than ten energy coming at them, the same as the one Idan just killed.
"Huh? What do you mean." Diana said as they couldn't see anything.
"I can't see anyt- "Temmy was about to say, before they could see multiple of the same beasts coming out of the dwarf trees running towards them.
"They are here." Diana said. "Gary, stay away from this, Temmy will be with you, Timi take this." She said as she threw one of her blades to where Timi was standing but she threw it to nothing and only to see Timi behind Temmy who was at the other side, black blood could be seen dripping from Timi's hand and his hand was positioned like a claw with his nails pointing out.
"They're coming out of the bushy area, stay away." Timi said as he just killed one of them who was behind temmy. He looks at his system and smile.
[5 exp received]
[5 mana point granted]
'Huh? 5 mana point.' Timi was surprised seeing 5 mana but the next thing he saw was….
[You have been hit by the worm poison]
He felt a burning sensation on his left hand and looking at it, he could see a green like substance on his hand, he didn't know something had hit him, it was only when he saw the system message that he started feeling it, but the feeling had gone away within some seconds.
Now he knew why the system had granted him five mana points for the first one he killed because the beast is a magical beast.
They've have been thought about this type of beast that they also possess mana and can also perform magic like any other mage, the more mana they possess, the stronger their attack.
He looked up and could see that all the worms were spitting out the green substance.
"Be careful of their goo, it's poisonous." Timi shouted before charging forward.
Running forward they all charge towards the beast, Timi don't need any weapon as he was using his hand in claw manner.
Temmy wasn't babysitting Gary again as she also charged forward with her twin chain, they make sure Gary stay behind them and didn't get close to the bushy area.
The worms were proving difficult for them as they need to avoid their goo and to do that and attacking at the same time wasn't an easy work for them. Gary was already extracting the core of the beasts they've killed but he makes sure not to get close to the bushy area and also avoid the goo.
After killing fifteen of them, more were still coming out and the beasts had outnumbered them, there were about 30 of them now, not that they couldn't handle them but the beasts' attack was frustrating them, and as they couldn't handle it anymore, they were getting hit by the goo which will make them feel itchy for some seconds before going away, their stamina was waning by the seconds and they were getting exhausted.
"These ugly snakes aren't backing down, what do we do." Idan shouted as he was getting frustrated.
"We keep fighting them, we must continue fighting so we can get out of here." Diana replied as she sliced two of the snakes.
Even Timi was getting frustrated, although he wasn't feeling tired but he was getting hit by the goo every minutes, he had killed 6 of them making him have 30 mana points now, plus the ones he gained before, he had 31.5 mana point.
He looked at his left hand which was getting redder by the seconds because he was blocking with his left hand and attacking with his right, his right hand was full of black blood but he was also thinking of another thing.
'I'm getting closer to leveling up.' He thought, he had killed 6 total of these worms, he had also killed some level 2 beasts before these worms, and he gained 5 exp for killing one, so he should have at least 45 exp points. Bringing out his system screen, he quickly checks his data.
[User: Timi Snout]
[Age: 15]
[Sex: Male]
[Race: Lyndworm]
[Level: 9]
[Exp: 75/100]
The last time he leveled up to 9, the number of exp he needs to level up had increased, he had been completing his daily quest for the past week so for six days he had 30 exp and plus this now he had 75.
All of a sudden, the beasts were retracting, they were running back with a great speed, running out of the area completely.
"What's happening." Temmy asked.
"I have no idea." Diana replied.
"Isn't it a good thing, they ran so we won't kill them all." Idan said as he walks backward towards Diana and Temmy.
"No, it's not a good thing, something higher than them is coming. Let's get out of here now." Timi said and after finishing his words, they see the trees shaking, some of the dwarf trees were breaking, and appearing in their sight was a giant beast, the same feature as the green worm but this was a lot bigger than them and its body was very smooth and shining, it's as large as the combination of two adult men.
"This is bad, this is not the energy I sensed before, something bigger than this is coming." Timi shouted.
"Huh? What do you mean." They all asked with a confused look on their face.
With his dragon sleuth skill, he saw a bigger energy radiating from his left side and he thought that's the reason the worms were running but another creature had come out and its energy is also big but not as big as the one coming from his left side.
[Level 5 green worm detected]
[New quest received]
[Run and survive]
[Quest reward: ???]
Timi was standing opposite the worm, he knew he couldn't defeat it and seeing the system message, it had confirmed it for him. Turning his head back to his group.
"Run!!!" He shouted as he took his pace but before he could take two steps forward, the beast had used its tail to whack him to the left, where the bigger energy was radiating from.
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Extracting the beasts' core was a little difficult for Blake and his group because digging the beasts' body to bring out the core and repeating the process again for more than hundred beasts was not an easy job, even Blake had gotten involved in extracting the core and after thirty minutes they were done but they were all exhausted.
"Extracting their core was more difficult than fighting them." Blake said as they all sat down drinking water around the bag full of beasts' core.
"Should we continue hunting or we go back." Jake asked.
"I think we should go back from here." Blake said and the other students were happy after hearing this, because it's what he says they mustbdo. "We already had enough beast core, I bet none of the other groups will be lucky enough to have this much, even that damn short guy and his group." Blake said as he stood up and others did the same.