"Of course! I hate getting my ass kicked and running away without having a punch or two back," Ibra laughed, while waving his glaive again in the air.
"Then you are going to have your chance… In running, more than you ever did before," and when Ibra thought William was going to agree on his words, that dude smirked and said such weird words.
"What do you mean by that?!"
"We aren't going to really fight," William turned his eyes towards the distance, where that shimmering shield his team created was, "we are just going to bring those weaklings together, set a feast for that bastard, and hope it'll fall into the trap."
"This… Tsk! Why does everything you do always be done in a troublesome way? Why not do things direct and simple? Using pure might to win battles? Trying this once won't harm, won't bite you in the head or something!"
"Stop whining," William rolled his eyes, "if you have any complaints, it's not too late to return back now."
"Tsk! No way!"
"That reminds me…" And when they got closer to the array, William stopped, took out his pass scroll and looked at Ibra in a meaningful way, "you were watching attentively back then, didn't you?"
"Tsk! I didn't trust you to leave my name behind or something."
"Next time I will!"
"I dare you to do it, and you'll find my glaive giving your neck a proper massage!"
William laughed on his words, as he purposefully angered Ibra. "Let's put that anger into proper use then… no matter what type of monster we face, I'll just keep it busy, and you give it a good pat with your glaive. Make it count! Then start running as fast as you can after me. Don't slack behind, old man. I won't even bother saving you."
"I told you not to call me this…"
"Come on! Pour all this rage over them, not on me," William laughed again, adding more fuel to Ibra's rage while running fast towards the nearby array.
And without any moment of hesitation, Ibra ran after him while waving his glaive in the air like a mad man!
William already got used to Ibra and his temper. This dude looked uncaring about many things, but few little things could push this youth over the edge.
And William knew how hard it was going to be out there. The nine other monsters weren't a pushover. And the team didn't roam all the regions around successfully. The possibility of finding new monsters was still present.
"Get ready!" William passed through the array, didn't stop and started running towards the trees. He kept recalling the information he got about the nine gold grade monsters the team faced, and soon enough he spotted one of these.
"The Dark Scaled Lizard is up ahead. Let me make the first hit then you follow."
"Got it!"
William didn't need to exert much effort here. He simply activated his lightning technique once getting less than fifty metres from that monster.
The monster was a true lizard, a giant one, that looked like a dinosaur and not a lizard.
It got a very unique sizzling sound coming from the free moving scales all over its body. The moment William activated his attack, he got stopped abruptly by something that came for his head.
"Tsk! What a troublesome dude it is! Aiming directly for your head… Does it want a kiss or what?"
"Stop wasting time and just hit it!" William knew Ibra got it slightly wrong this time. The lizard released its long tongue that extended fast and came like a lightning bolt, aiming fiercely towards his head.
But it didn't want to hit his head, or just as Ibra joked about. It wanted to hit him in the eyes, as this was the standard opening move of this monster when getting attacked by any foe.
William was ready for it, moved his sword slightly to intercept and stop this tongue. And the next moment, a loud banging noise came from front, as Ibra finally acted and hit that lizard with his glaive.
"Let's make a run for our lives," William didn't even dream about following this attack with another. Instead, he used his technique again, dashing away from that monster.
And Ibra followed suit.
"This dude looked quite easy to handle… Why not stay behind and kill it?... Holy sh*t! What the heck is that?!!"
"Just run and don't even think about it!" William didn't need to turn around and see what happened behind. He knew what made this monster a headache to anyone trying to fight it head on.
This monster got its body covered up by scales, but these scales were different from what you could imagine. They weren't fixed on its body like a layer of armour, nor were they fixed by knuckles like that worm monster.
These scales were just attached by hooks to the body of that lizard. And the moment that lizard decided to act aggressive, it would release a barrage of attacks, sending tons of these scales flying fast, covering up a distance of one hundred metres around it in mere seconds.
These scales would look like flying razors, deadly sharp, and quite hard to defend against.
When the team fought against this lizard, it seemed they didn't manage to stir its anger like how these two did. And this time, the lizard didn't just watch them escape away like it did before with the team.
"Screw me! It's running damn fast with such a huge body!!"
"Just forget about it for now," William kept running forward, using this chance to replenish his lost spirit power by absorbing a few of his bronze cores.
He noticed before that even if these cores didn't greatly help in adding any spirit point to his power, they could replenish a small part of the lost spirit power. And that made them useful in such situations.
"Make sure to not come closer than one hundred metres from it, or else you'll end up in a very tight spot."
Updat𝒆d fr𝒐m freew𝒆bnov𝒆l.c(o)m