However… He and Ibra underestimated the drawing skills of John!
"Dammit kid! Are you a professional artist or what?!" Ibra couldn't help but ask in shock while the drawings John did use his sword over the ground were least to be described as masterpieces!
William didn't find it hard at all to find out which monsters these drawings belonged to. Even he, the one who considered himself good at drawing, would fail to do something close to what John just did.
"This is indeed quite troublesome!" And amidst everyone's shock and surprise, William couldn't help but mutter in deep frown.
"Yes, we got a spirit master who can make a living by drawing! That's indeed quite troublesome and pretty damn annoying!" Ibra didn't get what William truly meant. And John couldn't help but take all this as a credit for himself, feeling more embarrassed.
"I just got good hands and memory, that's all," he said, trying to give a reason for his insane ability to draw.
"Don't live like a normal spirit master from now on," Ibra felt like he found a gem hidden in the depths of the ground, covered in dirt, "if I were you, I'd go and polish my drawing skills. A single piece of worthy drawing can be sold at thousands of spirit crystals! That's a shitload of wealth dude!"
"This…"
"Just stop it you two," William's face didn't even ease for a single moment since seeing these drawings, "we got a huge problem to deal with."
"Problem? What problem?" Lang asked, feeling that William wouldn't frown like this until things were quite bad.
Even in the face of that worm, William never showed any anxious look on his face.
"We got… A monster that's equal to facing dark gold monsters here," William took his sword, pointed towards one drawing in particular using its tip, "this dude… It's really a nightmare."
"What's about it?" Sara looked towards the drawing William pointed towards like anyone else, "we already fought it. It's indeed quite tricky and hard to deal with, but not that hard actually to kill."
"Yes, I remember that dude," Peter chimed in, "it was fast moving, hard to stop or target with any attack. But if we cooperated and you told us what to do, then we can take it easily. It doesn't look like an unbeatable foe, in my opinion."
"Yes, I agree. We can kill it, just like we did with that worm," Ibra nodded, "and that rock thing as well."
"Tell us, what shall we do?" Berry finally got away from his embrace, using the few moments of distraction that John thankfully bought her. She looked at William directly, but when the two met with their eyes, she hurriedly shifted her gaze away in shyness.
"We have to run," William's answer was something none of them ever expected. William could inwardly sigh before adding, explaining everything they didn't know:
"This… This is truly a nightmare, and so it's called the Black Nightmare. It's one of the most cunning, most troublesome monsters to deal with in the entire gold grade category. Don't let it fool you, this dude is just tricking you to believe you can beat it. Take it from me, it's impossible for any of us, all of us to even bring considerable damage to it! We got to run! And we got to do it fast!"
"This…"
"Are you sure?"
"Is there no other choice but that?"
"Tsk! And here I thought I was going to hunt more gold grade monsters…"
Many exclaimed in regret and doubt, as if they lost something precious. Just from the gold grade monster they killed together, they saw how immense the gains the team acquired.
And as they'd get ten percent of all the loot, they wanted to get more of these.
During the search for William, Ibra led them towards the area he and William fought at before, the place where William left tons of monster materials behind.
The team worked their best and collected everything. And they were quite sure their gains were much more than what they imagined getting in the entire journey when they first stepped outside their academy doorsteps.
"Listen up, the thing you met isn't the real monster," William didn't want them to feel they lost something by deciding to run away. He knew the other nine monsters were quite easy to handle, but wasting time on killing them wasn't worth the risk.
"What do you mean?"
"Is there another hidden part of it?"
"Is it like that giant rock we fought before?"
William listened to all their comments, and calmly asked, "Tell me first, did you gather up all the materials from the monster we killed before?"
"We gathered everything," Berry took the lead to answer him, "even the ones you and Ibra killed when we were asleep. However…"
"However… what?"
"We didn't find that LadyBug corpse anywhere!" Berry moved her eyes around, and everyone nodded in agreement.
"This… That damn bug! It didn't die in the end!" William felt little regretful here, to soon feel quite blessed that he used that concealment array from before.
As he expected, the area inside the array wasn't that safe.
"Let's forget about it then," despite feeling bitter about losing one gold grade core, one he thought he already secured, he decided to drop this issue right now.
They got no time for doing a huge search and hunt operation. And that bug must have gotten pretty bad wounded, needed time to heal and recuperate.
That meant it was going to find somewhere not seen or found by anyone and hide there until its wounds would get healed.
"But…"
"Let's just forget about it. We are running away anyway."
"Ok…"
"Great!" William gave her, he gave everyone a firm nod, declaring that they got to run away as fast as they could, without even caring about a deeply hurt and entrapped monster nearby.
"Wait," just before William would add anymore, Peter had to interrupt him, "we didn't collect that brown blood down there. We didn't get enough bottles to gather it up."
This 𝓬ontent is taken from fre𝒆webnove(l).𝐜𝐨𝗺