Chapter 38 Discovering the Magical Beast Layer
Author: M_W Cancer
Grammar Checker: M_W Nomral
Leo wasn't able to notice the hole before when he was killing all the Sewer Rat, since it was chaotic and a lot of bodies were blocking the hole. But now that he had finished cleaning up the place, the hole has now clearly appeared in his sight.
Leo quietly beca excited looking at the hole, he was already expecting that this hole would lead him to another Magical Beast nest. If that would be the case, then he would be earning a lot of points today.
Putting the net bag aside, Leo slowly and carefully moved inside the hole while the Earth Elental was standing still on his shoulder. The Earth Elental was in a form of a small toy soldier at this mont, hence it could do such a thing.
The reason for this was because Leo had thought of a plan where he doesn't have to unsummoned his Earth Elental anymore every ti he doesn't need it. It was already a known fact that every ti he unsummoned his Earth Elental it wouldn't go back to his consciousness, and would instead just vanished forever. That was really a troubleso situation since he needed to look for a place with rich Earth Mana again in order for him to form another Earth Elental in his consciousness. However, such a place wouldn't always be nearby or accessible to him. Hence, he needed to think of looking for a way to solve such a problem.
And the way that Leo had found was just simply to reduce the Earth Elental's size into as little as a toy soldier. In that way, he could easily carry the Earth Elental around, whether in his pocket, bag, or even just allow it to stand on his shoulder, while not bothering about summoning or unsummoning.
Anyway, the Earth Elental doesn't have any ti limit for its summon. So such a plan was possible.
At this mont, Leo was having a slight bit of a hard ti moving inside the hole. It was so tight and small. Sotis he even needed to crawl just to continue moving forward.
Finally, after a few minutes of walking and crawling inside the hole, Leo had finally arrived at a giant open area.
Unexpectedly, it was actually a giant cave leading deeper underground.
Looking around, Leo could vaguely see stalagmites and stalactites around in front of him. To be honest, he could actually only see a little in front of him due to the lack of any source of light. Actually, there were sources of light, but they were just from the Light stones, a common kind of magic ore that can provide light.
The Light stones were also small in size, hence it was insufficient to brightly lit up the giant cave.
"What if..." Leo suddenly thought of an idea. Although the Light stones were embedded into the rock, it wasn't a problem for him with his Earth Elental around.
Making the Earth Elental big again, Leo quickly ordered it to carefully remove the Light stones embedded into so of the nearby rocks. After removing the Light stones, he then attached the ores in the Earth Elental's body.
Just like what Leo had expected, the Light stones were easily rged into the Earth Elentals' chest, which has then turned the Earth Elental into sothing like a lamp.
Leo was really amused by how convenient was the Earth Elental to mining. Not only could it mine minerals easily, but it could also beco a lamp after rging so Light stones into its body.
After finishing with his Earth Elental lamp, Leo then cautiously began moving deeper into the cave.
Along the way, Leo had spotted a few tiny bits of Mana stones. So tiny that no one would even likely think of mining them. He was different though since he was poor and every amount of resources was useful for him.
Hence, Leo ordered the Earth Elental to mine all the tiny bits of Mana stones. Good thing he had bought a backpack with him, which contained his cleaning tools. Before, he had really thought that he was literally going to clean the sewer since the mission had the cleaning word in it. But, since the 'cleaning' was actually 'killing' the Magical Beast in the west sewer, then the cleaning tools don't have any use anymore for him, and so he quickly began removing everything. After removing the cleaning tools inside his bag, he then easily has himself a bag to pack the Mana stone.
Along the way, Leo has also killed so Magical beasts, snakes, rats, scorpions, bats, and other underground/cave-dwelling creatures that he doesn't know the na of. Though they were just too weak to even be called as Magical Beast. In fact, they were even weaker than those Sewer Rats he had first et.
Leo finally realized sothing, too. "This giant cave is actually the dwelling place of all the Magical Beast hiding in the west sewer." With the amount of Magical Beast dwelling around the cave, it's an obvious fact that the cave was the Magical Beast layer."
Naturally, Leo didn't forget to cut all the heads every ti he had killed a Magical Beast since it was the most important thing to do to earn his points, and putting it inside a net bag soon after before leaving it sowhere safe.
Leo was planning to leave the net bags sowhere safe for the anti, since it would hinder him if he really carries all of them with him while moving deeper underground.
The cave was unexpectedly bigger than Leo had thought. Even after traveling a few ters deep, he wasn't still able to see any signs of its end.
Leo continued moving deeper, but he quickly noticed sothing unusual. The deeper he goes, the less Magical Beast had actually appeared in his path. He didn't mind it at first, since maybe the Magical Beast was just hiding around waiting for an opportunity to ambush him. But he soon found out that, as he keeps on walking deeper, the more unusual the Magical Beast behavior beca.
While walking, Leo can't help but thought, "The cave is indeed surprisingly a large cave, but why were there only a few Magical Beast around, the deeper I went?" It was simply impossible that there won't be more Magical Beast along the way. What is more important too, would the Magical Beast really just stay near the entrance and not go any deeper underground?
Even Leo was tempted to go deeper since he could harvest more Mana stones the deeper underground he goes. However, the Magical Beast around doesn't actually dare to go deeper. They are all Magical beast, and one thing important for all the Magical Beast was their instincts that constantly tell them to beco strong.
"With more Mana stone around, even though they were just re bits, it was still a chance for them to beco a Tier 1 Magical Beast. So, why was there only a few Magical Beast around, the deeper I go...?"
Unless.....
Leo suddenly rembered the sa situation that had happened before when he was hunting in the forest nearby Heart city.
"If the place is silent, then sothing strong is around the area!"
Quickly, Leo beca vigilant after thinking of such a thought. He started moving slowly. And he also doesn't dare to kill more Magical Beast. The Magical Beast wasn't strong anyway, so he could just scare them with his Earth Elental.
"If what I had guessed is indeed right, then those Magical Beast didn't dare to go deeper in the cave because sothing more powerful is keeping them away."
Leo can't help but inwardly laugh to himself, "I can't believe that I had really thought before that those Magical Beast nearby the entrance were really stupid since they didn't dare go deeper underground, but it turns out that it was actually who was stupid..."
Unexpectedly, Leo had entered a lion's den.
Leo wanted to return as soon as possible, but sothing was telling him to go deeper underground.
Surprisingly though, Leo had found out soon that it was actually the Earth Elental telling him telepathically to go deeper. Although it wasn't talking in words, it was still sothing he could understand.
The Earth Elental was seemingly making Leo feel that he should go deeper underground, and as if so kind of treasure was waiting over that place.
Since it was from Earth Elental, a product of the Red Cube that was said to protect Leo from any harm, then surely it wouldn't bring him to any harm, right?
Hence, Leo chooses to believe the Earth Elental once as he then keeps on walking deeper underground.
Along the way, Leo can't help but feel surprised as he realized another ability of his Elentals. At first, he had thought that they could only be used in fighting. But now, it seems like that the Elentals could also be used at mining, too.
Leo thought inwardly, "Maybe every different Elental have this unique hidden ability like the Earth Elental!"
Thinking about that, Leo can't help but feel really excited at his discovery. Too bad though that he was currently busy trying to keep away from trouble and to find the treasure hidden deeper into the cave that the Earth Elental was telling him to.
However, Leo swore to himself that he will try this idea after getting out of this giant cave.
After hours of a long walk, Leo finally arrived in an open space. But he didn't dare go any deeper inside as he quickly saw that there was actually a Magical Beast Lizard sleeping in the center.
Leo imdiately realized that it was surely this Lizard that was keeping all those Magical Beast at the entrance away from this place.
Looking at the Lizard, Leo finally discovered sothing really shocking.
Along the way, Leo can't help becoming curious as to why the Lizard, which was keeping all those other Magical Beast outside, didn't actually dare to attack him despite entering inside its territory. But now, he could finally see the reason why.
"The Magical Beast was seriously injured!"
Blood was flowing from the Lizard's stomach. A small pond made out entirely of blood was already ford at its side, and even a part of its intestine was showing out from its body. A lot of wounds could also be seen around its body, and blood continues to ooze out from the wounds, too.
"This Lizard would die sooner or later!"
Since the Lizard was already going to die, Leo took out his bow as he decided to just end its suffering as soon as possible. With a sling from his bow, two arrows were released, flying straight towards the Lizard's eyes.
With how strong the Lizard looked like, Leo was sure that his arrow won't be able to do that much of damage if he targeted its body. Moreover, he wanted to kill it as soon as possible to avoid any possible trouble, too. So, he specifically chooses to shoot at its eyes, since it would surely kill it that way. Though it was currently closed, he was sure that its eyelid won't be able to block his arrow.
*Whoosh! *Whoosh!
*Pluck! *Pluck!
*Phzziii *Phzziii
Just like what Leo had expected, his arrows were easily able to go through the Lizard's eyelids.
Soon after, the Lizard let out a silent sound before it finally stopped moving.
Of course, Leo still didn't feel assured and safe just because the Lizard had stopped moving. He cautiously ordered his Earth Elental to move closer to the Lizard to check whether it was really dead or not.
After the Earth Elental touches the Lizard's body multiple tis and still didn't get any response, Leo quickly ordered the Earth Elental to stab the Lizard's neck to surely kill it.. And after multiple stabs from the Earth Elental, he finally breathed in relief, knowing that the Lizard had surely died already due to those lethal stabs.
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