Liam was visited by the guild leader in the late hours of the afternoon when evening was almost approaching, he came with other alchemist who have a good impression on Liam, they saw him as a senior professional even though his rank and age was lower than that.
During the short visit, Liam felt that something was wrong as he could feel one of his spirit beast struggling to get his attention, the only spirit beast he has sent out was no other than the wind devouring tiger and it was to protect Gabriel.
He had to make the visit short so that he could use the sensory share immediately, he was able to send them off saying that he wanted to read a new book about alchemist, there are more than one thousand pills in each alchemy grade, some are getting discovered everyday and they even have more uses, like recently an alchemy king in the empire alchemist division has been able to discover some ingredients and method to forge them into pill, once it's done this pill is able to return one's virginity.
They nodded and waved farewell, after they left, he sighed wishing that he did not let them know of his place.
Of course, he had to give his address as the one representing them so that they will be able to make contact with him and share important information since they didn't have the right to easy communication in their possession.
Liam then asked his guard to shot the door and make sure no one comes inside.
Liam quickly did the sensory link so that he was able to see what the wind devouring tiger was seeing and OMG, he was so fuckin shocked when he saw the gigantic creature in pursuit of his spirit beast and the hunters on it's body.
It was so fuckin gigantic, that Liam thought it was a combination of pythons carrying out a ritual.
'So huge' He let out as his eyes witnessed it, he tried searching for the main body that controls all these tentacles but unfortunately he could not do that because the main body was hidden in between the numerous tentacles.
Something so big was able to move this fast and was even catching up to the wind devouring tiger known as one of the fastest beast.
Liam use telepathy to tell the wind devouring tiger to move faster, he took the monarch instrument and played the song of spirit beast, immediately sending out other spirit beast to go on and be of help to the wind devouring tiger in the grained earth forest.
The sand python bore into the ground easily as it was still in it's intangible state, thus it could move through anything easily as water could permeate into the soil.
The other spirit beast flew at their peak speed, he shared his sensory link with two of his beast at the same time, one was with the wind devouring tiger and the other was on the flying dolphin.
The wind tiger was still fleeing while the serpent queen chased after it, nevertheless at that moment the flying shark turned into a dark blue and white glowing form of it's normal self and used it's pointed body part to act as a sword as he flew towards the body of the serpent queen, it was a little lucky as it was able to hit the tentacles and started piercing through all the ones behind it, it was like needle getting stabbed into the middle of small piece of clothes overlapping each other.
With this distraction, the Savage phoenix grabbed the wind devouring tiger and took off with a very high speed.
With this distraction and the plan, the hunters were able to survive this predicament but unfortunately Liam had to risk the flying dolphin which was one of his best mount.
But he still has hope because the beast get healed faster inside the domain of spirit beast.
Liam sighed as he has finally been able to save Gabriel from his predicament, thus he won't have to show up in black at his funeral, attending funerals of any close one is the least of the things he'd ever think of.
The savage phoenix landed at the back of his place which was extremely spacious and cautiously let go of the wind devouring tiger.
Everything that happened inside the forest was so sudden that it became really hard for one to understand what happened, the speedy race and the unexpected flight almost caused the hunters to die of heart attack.
Two of them including Gabriel and Cletus fainted while the other one still has his eye balls rolling, Liam used a simple pill to put the dude to sleep.
He instructed his guards to take the hunters inside one of the room in the house that no one was using and lay them on mats in there.
Liam still has that dreadful feeling in his heart because of the sight of the serpent queen, the serpent evolved beast looked more like a demon from hell that was coming to torment the world.
Also they said it was at the peak of the mortal stage, but back then he had a feeling that he was being chased by hundred peak mortal stage martial artist causing him to wonder if the intuition of the monsters were real or they were just capping to ease or put fear in the heart of the masses.
Liam let out a sigh, he then proceeded with his next course of action which was taking the spirit beast back into the domain of spirit beast.
Meanwhile, in the hunter guild, grained earth kingdom headquarter, the head and vice head received the photos that Gabriel managed to take before falling.
Seeing the devilish monster that was so big it could cover three streets, they started panicking.
They immediately sent the picture to the empire, with shiver body hoping that the calamity of the serpent queen should never visit their kingdom.
Meanwhile, three hours later, Liam was in a meditative state when Elfina came to inform him that two of them have woken up, Gabriel and Cletus.
He sighed, he was the one who asked them to inform him in the first place if any of them rose from their slumber so he went to meet with them in the room.
He saw Gabriel and Cletus looking around the room with a startled look on their faces, they felt something was wrong because they were in a room they could not recognize.
However their little fear disappeared the moment they saw Liam walking in.
Gabriel started recalling everything that happened back then when he was saved by a wind devouring tiger.
"Don't worry you are safe now." Liam said with a smile that calmed their nerves.
Levina brought a chair for him to sit on as he sat facing the two of them, he wanted to inquire more about the serpent queen for such a monster to appear so powerful and the hunter guild knows about it means that it's a possible threat and they have done many researches about it.
He wanted to know what they have discovered about it.
Gabriel explained the few he knew to Liam, Liam was getting petrified all this while.
"I saw it back then, and I felt like I was in the midst of powerhouses, I don't know if I'm right or wrong but I think the tentacles have their own life and their own powers by the way they moved and the powers that differ from one tentacle and another."
"Yeah, I suspected something like that' Liam let out a sigh.
"Anyway, you two can stay here till the morning." After saying that Liam left the room, and went back to mediation.
The next morning came, Liam was still in a moment of mediation as thick crimson energy wrapped around his body.
Elfina and Levina took care of his breakfast, since he was still meditating they took the Chance to serve the other men in his house.
Charles woke up in the middle of the night, he the one who gets scared easily, he started screaming for help after he woke up thinking that he was in the place of serpent queen, who was keeping him for her meal later in the day.
Thanks to Cletus and Charles he calmed down a bit and slept with his eyes refusing to shut for one hour straight.
Nevertheless, he was the first to grab the breakfast and start eating after seeing two beautiful ladies coming inside to serve them.
The serpent queen cannot be this beautiful, and she won't even bother to give food to her prey unless they are thin and she just want to add up to her meal a little.
The noise caused by h.i.m chewing his food really fast caused the other two to be Disturbed and they had to stand up to see what was happening.
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