Two and a half hours passed since I had stepped into this unknown ruin and already avoided seven monsters.
Three were in a group and had got quite close to . I thought they will discover , but thankfully they did not.
It seed like the minor changes I had made to my stealth thod were working much better than I had imagined them to be. Still, most credit goes to Nero, as his warning gave a chance to hide.
Currently, I am hiding behind a tree, while thirty-four of my strings harvest the blue-white flowers.
There is a large flowerbed, and these flowers are precious. The number is not sothing I could harvest within a second. So, I found myself a good hiding spot and harvesting the resources safely through it.
At my core, one of my clones is studying everything I am seeing; finding things where I could go, and, most importantly, an exit.
It might seem too early seeing not even a day had passed, but I like to find an exit as soon as possible.
It is not a common ruin, where the exit is in a specific spot or region. Here we need to find it and I like to find one that did not lead to the organization. Even with all the things they have promised; I like to get far away from them as possible.
A few minutes later, I finished collecting the resources.
A smile couldn't help but appear on my face seeing that. These are basa ord flowers, a very expensive resource of the healing elent.
They are very good at dealing with injuries of the earth elent. One of my clones had already started to process a few of them. Who knew when I will co across an earth elental that I would need to fight?
Seeing how dangerous the ruin is; I need to be ready to face, every kind of danger.
Hun!
A little more than an hour passed, when I suddenly stopped. As Nero had seen sothing, a person finally.
In a minute, he got close enough I could clearly see the Rhino Beastman. A Sovereign and he is fighting against a Fox monster; at first glance, the battle looked normal enough, before I started to notice things.
Or rather my clones. They are watching the battle through the reduced speed.
The fox monster, who is also an Initial Sovereign, had a strong defense. Many of the Beastman's attacks couldn't harm it; it might be right to say it is impervious to the energy attacks from Beastman.
It had even stopped dodging them and only dodge the attacks from his thick ax.
The energy here is extrely dangerous, and it is harmful to most sovereigns without their armors. So, it is not surprising that monsters here have developed a strong defense against energy attacks.
The defense is not the only quality the fox monster has; It was also quick and had extrely sharp claws.
Thankfully, the Rhinoman is a good fighter. He was able to defend against all the fox's attacks. Still seeing the way, he is fighting, he should retreat; the other monsters have started to gather.
He may be a good fighter, but truly an idiot person. I don't know how he had been able to reach this high.
If he had been wise, he would have retreated already. He should understand, in an environnt like this, you should finish the monster quickly as possible. If you can't, then retreat.
Like a dumb idiot, he is continuing to fight the monster.
Another minute passed, and I am still cursing the dumb idiot when the inevitable happened. Not the exact way I had expected, but about the sa.
Two more foxes jumped from behind. They appeared suddenly and attacked with the sa intensity as the fox Beastman is fighting.
I thought one of the matching monsters would attack, but the foxes that were hidden had attacked.
For the first ti since I saw the dumb Sovereign; fear appeared on his face and he finally retreat, but it is already late. The foxes are dumb beasts, but they are still smart.
They have estimated his power and are now attacking him furiously.
One he could defend, two he could manage, but three are too much for him. He started getting injured from the first second and within ten seconds, his whole body beco bloodied.
Now, he had burst out with everything he has and running madly, without care for the direction.
He was only able to run away for six seconds, before finally, the claws of the second fox pierced into his head.
Killing him instantly and the thing that happened next was quite surprising but natural. I have seen it too many tis.
The watching monster leaped toward the Beastman, while the three foxes begin to eat him. Their speed of eating is incredible, and their little mouths break the parts efficiently before swallowing it all.
They were not even spitting bones.
Though they were smart enough to avoid artifacts. They did not swallow, even a single one of them.
By the ti the rest of the monsters approached them; they had eaten 80% of the beastman and ran away with 10% in their mouths, leaving only 10% to the other monsters, who fought with each other for that.
A minute later, everything cleared. Aside from the torn, bloodied clothes and the artifacts, there is not a single piece of flesh or bone remaining there.
I did not move from my spot. Though Nero moved, he went there and brought the things I want, including his artifact and two storages. Which I imdiately sent to my core.
A few seconds later, disappointnt couldn't help but flash on my face.
There are things there, a lot of it, but not much as I had expected him to have. The Sovereign had great power. He should have more things than present in his storage.
Not only he has fewer things, but the things he would have been also average.
A minute later, I understood the reason behind that. He had made a breakthrough into the Sovereign not a long ti ago.
Testing the blood on the artifacts, my clone was able to find out, it had only leveled up to Sovereign a year ago. Which is not a long ti to gather the resources.
The organizations provide resources for the breakthroughs, but how much depends upon standing.
There are tiers in the organizations, the higher one is, the greater access to the resources one will have. There are also family connections, teachers, and other factors.
Still, despite that one still needs to fund so resources for their breakthrough.
This Rhinoman had used quite a lot during his breakthrough and likely co to the ruin to get more for future practice. As what he has wouldn't have been enough for him to move forward on his level.
Well, the resources might be below my expectations; it is a huge number, and I will graciously accept, especially when I got it without anything.
I also beco a lot more cautious. I have seen what happened to him and if I am not careful, the sa things will happen to .
I do not want that. I cannot die until I find my family.
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