Sowhere on the Bottom Level of the Cave
Vyxylor rubs the two crystals located in her main den with loving affection while muttering, Dont worry, pretties, I wont let anyone take you from .
The large tricidic beetle stands at three ters in height and has a large shell on their back as they stand in a bipedal position, letting their other legs wave about their sides. But after hearing skittering coming in a rush from the entrance to her main den, her head jerks around to look, an expression of pure hatred appearing on it.
Stay out! she shouts, a hoarse tone entering her voice the mont she sees one of her spawn entering the cavern, feeling like the very act of sothing entering the den threatens her precious crystals and everything else in her collection.
The tricidic beetle spawn at the entrance skitters in place for a mont, seemingly unsure of what to do before it just stays outside and relays the information it ca to relay to its mother. And imdiately, Vyxylors eyes widen in absolute rage as she shouts, An intruder?! Co here to steal from ?!
Vyxylor lets go of her crystals while rushing to the entrance and grabbing the spawn by the head, her otherwise green eyes taking on a pale white color as she looks through its mories. But the sight she gets is not what she was expecting, and she ends up stumbling backwards, a conflicted look on her face. One of fear, awe, hatred, and greed all wrapped up in one expression.
The giant beetle plops down onto the ground, her legs making cracking sounds as they shift back to her monstrous form out of her bipedal one, and she imdiately begins skittering around her den back and forth, occasionally rubbing up against so of the items in her collection to calm herself down.
The Princess. But my treasure but the Princess but treasure
Conflicting thoughts fill the simple creatures head as she rushes back and forth, but after several laps around her den, the creatures eyes begin to flash with a green light as greed fills them. Then a horrific word echoes in her head repeating the word mine over and over and over again until she eventually stops at the entrance and screams a scream that would cause humans on Earth to have nightmares, MIIIIINEEEEE!!!!
As soon as her Demonic Curse of Greed takes over her mind, making her collection her absolute priority over any sort of intellectual thought, she rushes out of her den, slaughtering her own spawn for being too close to it in the first place. Then she continues through the nest while ntally giving out a single order to each and every one of her spawn.
KILL!!!
Scarlet
With my current set of skills, it doesnt actually take very long to get through the upper levels of the cave. And all of the demons in the cave arent much of a problem either.
At least, not until I reach the lower levels of it where I end up finding demons averaging about thirty to forty levels above . But even then, the creatures are all unintelligent, so they dont put up too much of a fight. And thanks to my rather vast set of legendary and epic skills, I take care of the things just like the other demons.
Im starting to wonder where the challenge is in this, I mutter to myself, Tar having vanished at so point during my travels.
I continue to make my way through the cave for a while until things start to get a little odd. All of the demon beetles here begin acting rather berserk. As if sothing riled them all up into a frenzy.
Guess sothing doesnt like being here.
These things arent a demon I recognize though, so I dont know what Sin they are bound to. And Tar didnt recognize them either when he was here.
I still dont recognize them, Tar suddenly comnts, appearing again out of nowhere.
Welco back.
Thank you, he says with a nod, only to vanish from sight when more beetles begin to appear charging down the tunnels of the cave. Im guessing you havent found the crystals yet. Considering how youre still searching the caves.
Unfortunately. If I had to guess, theyre probably located sowhere closer to the bottom of the nest.
Wouldnt be surprised if the evolved demon leading the nest is the one with the crystals.
They probably are, Tar agrees as I begin tearing through the beetles with the martial arts Gramps has been teaching . Sothing that is made increasingly easier by just how stupid these things seem to be. Theyre also the perfect level above for Predator V to work at full capacity without them being any higher than that.
I continue tearing the creatures apart until I finish off the last of the bunch, briefly feeling a slight amount of sadness at the thought that all of the life force from this nest wont be given to . Since you dont get EXP while capped in level.
A rather annoying aspect of reality.
I wish the System made things easier on us. Why couldnt it just let us stockpile the life force, or rather, EXP we take from other creatures when were level capped and just use it up all at once after ascending?
Because a mortals body isnt capable of holding life force without actually absorbing it, Tar comnts, making frown as I continue walking through the tunnels of the cave. So the excess life force just goes straight to the System itself instead, powering it."
Well thats just annoying. It also makes this feel like a waste of a hunt when Im not getting anything from these things. Except for training, that is.
And from what Gramps has said over the ti Ive been here, a wasteful hunt is not one blood lycans should go on. There always should be a goal to a hunt, whether that be to feed the blood lycan with what they hunted, gathering EXP, training, or finding sothing.
Well, bla the universe, not the System for that, Tar comnts, making pause for a mont. After all, the System isnt whats making you grow stronger or ascend. All its doing is guiding you.
I blink at that.
What?
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