The array extended for a long distance in the heart of the forest, surrounded by lots of big trees and bushes. So, there were tons of hiding places for the monsters to hide at.
Yet in front of Ibra's ability to scan the area around, finding those monsters wasn't a problem at all.
This was part of the reasons why William asked him to come with him. At gold grade, spirit masters would awaken their spirit sense, gaining the ability to scan the area around, sense any presence of anyone.
Be it monsters or spirit masters, none would escape their scan unless he was a bit stronger than the spirit master himself. And that would mean bad news indeed.
"There," Just after walking around for half an hour, Ibra stopped William as he pointed towards the depths of the forest. There was a large group of dense bushes, seemingly around what appeared like a stream of water.
"Are you sure?" William had his own experience and knowledge to see through any hiding place of many monsters. So, he felt quite puzzled when Ibra pointed in that direction.
"It's an aquatic beast," Ibra rolled his eyes, "I can feel it swimming in that stream in the middle of bushes. And I'm telling you, this dude smells trouble."
"Hmm… Can you give me more details? Like what it looks like for example?"
"Well… Unlike the normal appearance of aquatic monsters, this dude looks a bit weird."
"In what way?" William brought Ibra to give him such valuable intel. Without the need to go out. Once William got enough data about the appearance of any monster, he was quite confident to recognise it on the spot.
And once recognised, William would recall all the data he knew about it, including its deadliest attacks, and most vulnerable and weakest point.
"It's different… Its body doesn't look as symmetrical and elongated like the other aquatic monsters I heard about."
"Hmm…" William couldn't make anything out of this weird description, "can you draw it out for me?"
"It looks like that," And when William thought Ibra's ability to describe things was bad, he had to admit that his drawing talent was much worse!
Ibra drew a monster that looked like a balloon, with few irregular lines here and there. Ibra ended his masterpiece while placing two dots to resemble the location of the eyes.
"Does it have its eyes in the middle of its back?!" William couldn't tell anything from such a weird drawing and had to ask about the weirdest thing he saw in it.
"No, they aren't eyes, dude! Don't you see? They are holes, two big holes, the size of one's head!" Ibra tried to magnify the size of these holes, moving his hand around, making William more puzzled.
"Does it have anything special? Like a tail, a fin, a needle, or something like that?" When words and drawing failed, William tried to get a better idea about this monster using this crude method.
And weirdly enough, this method that William never placed any hope on worked like magic!
"Yes! It got such a whip-like thing! It's right there," Ibra pointed towards his lousy drawing again, pointing at one weird shaped line of the few he drew as he added, "it got five of these whip-like tentacles."
"Tentacles? Did you say tentacles?" William almost jumped off the ground when he heard that. And Ibra slowly nodded.
"I told you, it's an aquatic beast. So, it's normal for it to have tentacles," Ibra tried to defend himself under the heavy blaming looks of William.
And the latter couldn't help but inwardly sigh.
"We got a big fish this time," William turned his head towards that hidden stream under the bushes, "we can easily kill it if we got it out of water."
"For real? Do you know what it even is?!!" Even Ibra got shocked by William's ability to deduct anything from all he said.
"It's the Bulgatoras," William slowly said, "one of the most ferocious and cunning bastards in the gold grade category of monsters."
"This… And do you expect me to feel any better by saying this?!" Ibra got scared on the spot when he heard what William said.
"I told you dude, it's the end for it if it comes out of water," William paused before pointing towards the direction of the bushes as he added, "and you are wrong! The thing you saw isn't its body, these bushes are."
"..."
Ibra looked at William before looking again at the bushes. "Are you sure?" he couldn't help but ask in doubt, "these bushes… They are huge! And I can't find anything linking that dude with these bushes!"
"That's because you are looking in the wrong direction," William paused, "the entire piece of ground, including that stream you saw, is part of the monster."
"This… Then where is the water you mentioned?!"
"It's the stream," William rolled his eyes, "it runs in the middle of his body. To kill it, we need first to cut that stream out," William moved his eyes, pointed towards a direction before adding, "where is the stream coming from?"
"From there!" Ibra pointed towards one direction and William nodded.
"Let's head towards there, bury the stream first."
"Will this be enough?!" Ibra didn't trust the crazy plan of William, "won't it move and reach the stream beyond what we buried?"
"That's why we'll keep moving along the stream, killing it under mud and rocks."
"..."
Ibra felt this wasn't a plan at all! It was a crazy and idiotic idea. Yet William didn't wait for his opinion and started to continue moving forward, planning to cut the stream at a further away point from here.
"Tell me, is that stream going through there or what?" after walking for five minutes, William asked. And he kept asking Ibra every single minute about this as the stream got masked from his vision thanks to many trees and rocks.
"It's running through here indeed, but will we keep following it like this? And will the two of us be enough to do it?"
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