Shane was already feeling weak and had little energy left. And now, when he was on the verge of completing his mission, the elemental crystal cave he was about to venture deeper in, was going to be demolished by some roars?
Wasn't that a bad joke? But Shane had a much bigger problem at the moment. The two roars he had heard seemed to come from a powerful lizard and another beast from a different race, which Shane presumed to be a powerful wolf.
He wasn't exactly sure about the kind of beasts or their ranks, but the roars alone could tell him that they were nothing Shane could handle. He was definitely glad to be on the upper layers.
Right now his spatial ring was once again filled with elemental crystals and there seemed to be over 1600 of them.
Shane felt distracted by the two powerful beings that continued to voice out their roars and shook the cave violently. But he forced himself to calm down in addition to [Hunter's Mind], as he sent 8 parcels with 1600 elemental crystals to the Elus merchant.
His estimation told him that the average price range of the elemental crystal parcels was between 28 and 35 gold coins. Thus, the [Mythic] mission progression bar would break into the last segment with a requirement of less than 100 gold.
With slightly less than 19 hours left, Shane was confident in dealing with the last phase of his mission. However, curiosity overwhelmed him and he inched closer to the tunnels to get a good look at the two hostile beasts that were deeper in the cave.
Were they fighting? If that's the case, why exactly were they fighting each other within the cave? Was it a territorial fight to claim the rights of this cave or is there some other reason?
But more important was a question that formed in Shane's mind.
'Was there more than one entrance to the cave and how large did this cave have to be for two powerful existences within the basic Primordial Dimensions to fight against each other?'
The ground below him shook, loosening some stones and crystals which fell from the ceiling as Shane looked around carefully.
But before he could leave the safety of the cave's highest layer in order to satisfy his curiosity, Shane had to ensure that his mission would be accomplished without any problem.
Gulping down the liquid of a few aqueous scales, Shane noticed that the effect had lessened by a noticeable degree.
In the end, his stingy heart overwhelmed his other senses and he disregarded the opportunity to purchase vitality potions. For the moment, he had to be satisfied with the aqueous scale liquid.
A whole hour of uncertainty had passed and a consistent number of wild stage lizards kept rushing out of the tunnels in order to flee from the elemental crystal cave which astonished Shane greatly.
Fortunately, they didn't pay any heed to his concealed existence due to the distinct fear that overcame them, otherwise, Shane would have been in a tough situation.
Once he had farmed 600 elemental crystals, Shane immediately sent them to the Elus merchant, before he took a glance at his finances and mission progression.
While his finances had reached a whopping number of 856 gold coins, the progression bar had reached [912/1000] and the last three parcels that he had sent out had to be enough for now.
If there were a few gold coins amiss, Shane would just sell a few magic crystals he had mined or corpses from the scaled lizards he had hunted.
Even though Shane felt exhausted beyond his limit, he was still curious to know what kind of beast was trying to annex the territory of habitant lizards here.
With around 18 hours left, Shane took a glance down at the widest tunnel, before he docked a few items at his belt to feel more secure.
Before Shane went outside the DeepMountain shelter, he purchased a few goods. It included an empty grenade with a terrifying stench skunk dissolved scent gland within, in addition to a few smoke grenades and prismarine-luminous crystals.
In the worst-case situation, Shane was still confident in being able to flee, even if he would reek in a disgusting stench for a few days once again.
And it was only because he bought these items, that he was confident in venturing down in the direction where the terrifying existences most likely fought each other.
Shane had never seen a territorial fight and was excited to know what could happen, as he noticed something far ahead of him at the second-highest cavern layer.
Immediately below the highest layer, Shane had mined the mana and elemental crystals for the last several hours, where hundreds of wild stage scaled lizards in addition to their stronger brethren, which were most likely their evolutions
At the second layer, Shane saw a few dozen elite stages, scaled lizards with a height of almost one meter in addition to a length of more than four meters, shocking him.
Due to his recently increased knowledge about evolutions, he knew there were multiple evolution paths for all kinds of beasts according to the quality they attained.
However, based on the number of large-scaled lizards in front of him, Shane could only conclude that this evolution path was the one provided at the common quality, which was shocking.
The scaled lizards' length increased by more than four meters while their height almost tripled and Shane looked at Umbra doubtfully.
`What should I do with Umbra if his size increases like that?` Until now he hadn't really wasted any time thinking about Umbra's possible size after he evolved. But, his face darkened when he recalled that he could evolve into a colossus darkness python.
`Ugh…` He was unsure what to think or do about that, but he had to figure out a way later.
Now, he had more important things to do. Shane not only noticed wild and elite stage lizards at this cave's layer but also purple furred wolf packs charging out of the tunnel. The purple furred wolves pounced on the scaled lizards, turning the second layer into a battlefield.
Based on the looks of the purple furred wolf packs, he estimated their strength to be at the peak wild stage at the worst, while they had more than a dozen more elite stage wolves.
This caused the scaled lizards to be at a numerical disadvantage for each stage, but this did not mean the disadvantage was too bothersome.
They were not physically stronger and fewer in number, but there was something in particular that they excelled in... their strengthened elemental affinity!
Shooting out lightning strikes, The purple furred wolves seemed to have a weak lightning affinity and were able to shock the scaled lizards for a short moment with their lightning strikes. The lizards retaliated with devastating, one-meter-long wind blades, thick spiked earth walls, fireballs, and water jets shooting towards the purple-furred wolves.
From the looks of it, the wolves were at an advantage both in numbers and their ranks. However, the elemental affinity of the beasts played a huge role in calculating the combat prowess of beasts.
This was the first thing Shane noticed as he studied the two beasts and tried to assess their might. The lightning strikes seemed to barely shatter the large wind blades and water jets, while the wild stage elemental attacks were destroyed rather easily.
Nevertheless, the lightning strikes weren't able to hit many scaled lizards. The only thing the weakened lightning strikes could do was paralyze their opponent for a quarter of a second.
Hundreds of purple-furred wolves charged at the scaled lizards with their high speed, evading earth spikes, fireballs, and other elemental attacks with as little movement as possible. The wolves had now entered in close proximity to their enemies in order to fight with their physical strength instead of elemental attacks.
Shane was shocked to see the battlefield in front of him and it made him wonder which group would win the small skirmish. The ground shook more violently once again, indicating that the lower layer battles were even more devastating.
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