As the massive diamond wall came down and the legendary grade beast Marcus and Roxene were fighting was revealed, they both stared out in disbelief.
‘It’s a mouse.’
Looking down at this beast that had been giving them a decent amount of trouble, Marcus had never expected it to be a mouse.
And it was some supersized mouse the size of a house, it was maybe just barely bigger than your average mouse.
Of course, it had plenty of distinct features like glistening fur that appeared to be made out of diamond, and eyes that were a deep blood red and looked like cut gems.
Along with that it did give off a powerful aura as expected of a legendary grade beast.
‘Level fifty-two. The same as me. At least now this explains why we could not find it. We were looking for something that was at least as big as a bolder, while this thing is tiny. As long as it was actively hiding there was no way we were going to find it in the forest.’.
Still this mouse’s hiding spots had been blown away by Marcus’ and Roxene’s dual attack, and now it was out in the open for them to see.
‘Roxene circle around it and cut off its escape route. I will attack from the front, and we can pincer it.’
Nodding her head, Roxene shot off making a wide arc to get around the mouse that was now in the middle of a wide-open area.
At the same time Marcus cast his voltaic bombardment spell and rained bolts of lightning down around the diamond mouse to prevent it from moving around.
Unfortunately, the crafty little beast created a ceiling of diamond above its head and shot past the rain of lighting as it scurried back towards the woods.
‘You are not getting away. Luminous prison.’
Casting one of his tier five light magic spell, Marcus shot out multiple beams of light that began to form around the fleeing mouse and captured it in a tight cage.
Yet it barely even slowed down the mouse, and it manipulated multiple prisms of diamond which flew towards the light magic spell and reflected its energy which created an opening in the bars.
Seeing this Marcus could not believe how stupidly powerful this thing’s ability to manipulate diamonds was, as it had counted some of his strongest spells.
Nevertheless, he had slowed it down just enough, and Roxene managed to cut it off and get in front of it.
She was now at her full size having activated her supreme skill in order to massively boost all of her stats.
Catching up from behind Marcus and Roxene had the diamond mouse caught in between them and left it no opportunity to escape any longer.
“Okay I will give you one last chance as you are an intelligent beast. Surrender and we will not kill you.” Marcus said, wanting to talk to this mouse.
He was hoping that it might be able to explain why all of the monsters and beasts that normally lived further north were fleeing down south.
But the mouse responded, ‘I will not yield. I know what your kind does to mine. Anyway, it is the two of you who are trapped. Not me.’
After it said this, twelve large pillars of diamond shot up two hundred feet into air as they rose up out of the ground and quickly began closing in around them.
The mouse planned to crush the two of them in between these pillars of diamond.
‘Embodiment of Eclipse, Dark Form.’
With no other option but to resort to force, Marcus active his own supreme skill and channeled all of his power into his scythe, causing its blade to grow much larger.
‘Eclipse Reaper.’
Slashing out with his empowered scythe, he sliced through all of the pillars of diamond and blew them back in an overwhelming show of force.
In this instant the diamond mouse stared out in bewilderment, as it watched one of its strongest attacks get completely overwhelmed.
However, in this moment of shock it let its guard down, and Roxene moved in swiftly and snapped her jaws around this mouse.
Quickly her fangs pierced into its flesh, shredding through even its diamond fur that gave it impeccable defense.
Screeching out in pain, this mouse had not been injured once since it evolved into a legendary grade beast, and it had almost forgotten what pain felt like.
At the very least it was lucky to not lose its life, as Roxene knew Marcus wanted to interrogate this beast and ask it some questions about what was going on.
‘Go ahead and kill me. I do not wish to end up a slave as you are.’ The diamond mouse said to Roxene.
Chuckling as she heard this, she found it funny that this mouse thought that she could ever be anyone’s slave.
‘That is funny. Me a slave. There is no one that could ever bind me to them. Anyone who tries would end up dead.’
Confusion on its face, this diamond mouse figured that Roxene was a beast companion that had been forced to work for Marcus.
‘Explain. You follow that human’s orders. Are you not his slave companion?’
Though before Roxene answered this diamond mouse, Marcus approached and looked the legendary grade beast in the eyes, and said, “So are you willing to cooperate with me or are we going to have to get rough.”
Hearing this, the mouse even while trapped in Roxene’s mouth turned its head up at Marcus, and said, ‘I will not submit to you human. I would rather die than become your slave.’
Sighing, he could see that this mouse misunderstood him, and said, “That is fine. I am not trying to force you to become my companion anyways. I just want some information from you about what is causing the mass migration of beasts and monsters from the north. As a legendary grade beast, I assume you know what is going on.”
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