Temporal Pearls

Chapter 90: Monkey Head Monster!

Seth with a smile stood under Gawee's Continent pressure that was pressing on him. He wasn't bent to the ground and neither was the air burning his lungs. His skin too was fine.

The Green Hood has done its job!

He took a step forward, and he felt the pressure increase and the further he was from the forest the more pressure weighed on him. Then he kept walking.

When he was 8400 meters away, he felt the connection he had with the forest was reduced and the pressure now was the most intense.

Thankfully, the improvement of his cloak was good enough to keep him moving.

The place was a dead land, as far as he can see. The ground was somehow flat but full of crevices with inner dark inside.

"Aura Sight!"

Seth saw hazy smoke coming out of the crevice and in some crevices there were movements. So, he swerved around any crevice that has too much smoke and also, especially the ones with movement.

As for the ground, it was grey in his Aura sight. The stones, some were black while some were deep brown.

Seth moved forward making sure he avoids anything that seemed dangerous until he can't keep his Aura Sight on.

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He had trained with it every time he was in the game but never did it ever stay on for more than 7 minutes at the very least, now, however, it lasted 11 minutes for him before he allowed it to rest.

Seth didn't move forward but bent down and touch a black stone. Immediately his hand began to weaken, he quickly moved his hand away and it came back to normal. He touched the grey sand but nothing happened.

Seth was excited and also afraid.

Three minutes later he activated Aura Sight, and that was when he saw the black stone pulsing with red as if it was alive. Seth grabbed one of the containers and scooped it inside for later observation.

With Activated Aura Sight, he moved forward, the wind was now scorching hot, the sun above was blazing and the further he moved the more the crevices of smoke became thicker in his Aura sight.

Suddenly from a distant place, he noticed a movement, a scorpion tail coming out. Seth bend down and waited.

The tail swerved back and struck forth before the ground was shaken. Seth was less than fifty meters away but he can see clearly as he switches from regular sight and Aura sight.

The seemingly Scorpion dead body was thrown out of the crevice, it had lost the battle.

After looking closely, Seth confirmed it wasn't a scorpion but something like a monkey with rabbit legs and a human hand. The mishmash creature has smooth and transparent skin. One can see its inner body.

Aura sight views a living organism as Red but the body of this creature was grey. Only one part of the body is actually red and that was at the centre where the heart should be.

More minutes passed and Seth felt the need to go back to the Living Roots but his eyes told him the thing was still alive. The next moment, another creature came out from a faraway crevice.

Large cat head, crocodile body and tail of a snake. It forearms like a bear. It smacked its snake tail at the Monkey head creature but it played dead.

The Cat-crocodile-snake body creature moved fast and bit off the monkey's head completely. Suddenly, the scorpion tail moved fast and stabbed the back of the cat-head creature due to its transparency. Seth was able to see something being injected into the Cat-head creature.

The monster thrashed its crocodile-snake body in protest and its bear hands smashed at the scorpion tail body, but it didn't do any damage before it began to lose its strength and it fell down dead.

The body melted from the inside, making the body expand like a balloon.

Monkey head creature was still lying motionless but the Scorpion tail stabbed again and began to absorb the liquid inside its kill. At the same time, the monkey head began to regenerate.

In another minute, the monkey creature was sitting on his rabbit hind legs and its body seemed to be more like a monkey.

The monkey then dragged the remaining creature to the crevice he was thrown out from.

"It is smart!"

The monkey wasn't fighting with anyone. It was all feint. It behaved as if it was dead to attract prey that would attack it.

"This is truly the high-level area!"

Seth checked the time, he only has about 9 minutes. So he stood and ran toward the forest. Since he wasn't making any discretion, he woke up a lot of mishmash creatures on the way but the more they came out and realized he was going toward the forest they left him be.

When there were only 2 minutes left, suddenly something that resembled a giraffe appeared.

"Damn! Abomination!" Seth cursed at the ugly life form.

Though If he was truthful to himself, among the creatures he met this one has a semblance of normalcy because from head to its hooves it was a Giraffe the only difference was that, its head split from the centre, Inbetween was a zigzag of sharp teeth.

"Aura Sight!" Seth activated as he ran then he shortened the staff ready to fight. The split-headed Giraffe galloped forward too and a long slimy tongue came out from its enormous head mouth, dripping with corrosive liquid, salivating for seeing tender flesh.

In Seth's eyes, he can see that the creature's red dot was moving, from its abdomen to its leg and even to its tail, so aiming for it was impossible.

So, he just aimed at the main body, "Shoot!"

The blade elongate fast, toward the creature's torso, right before it touched the creature's body, the creature spilt completely into two. The two halves ran on their own avoiding the blade but the next moment, the creature's body convulsed and fell.

"Ahhhhhh!" Seth shouted.

As his Aura Sight was on, he saw that the moment the extended blade reached the creature, it shone with a blind light.

Seth's eyes began to bleed as he became blind, he forcefully turned off Aura Sigh and dropped to his knees, panting.

"You got to be kidding me!" Seth reviled, "Is that the remnants of the six-wing strike of his blade?"

Seth still can only see white. After some moment, he regained his sight and then approached the giraffe creature that had now merged but couldn't move.

He made sure his short sword was normal, not emitting light, he then activated Aura Sight with a stinging head to pinpoint the red spot and then stabbed the sword.

Ding!

[You have Killed Abhorrent Giraffe level 8]

[You have level up]

Seth stared at the body of the giraffe that was quickly decaying until there was only a pulsing red stone that deemed and became a black stone similar to the one he carried.

Seth thought of touching it but then shook his head and used something to carry it before he ran forward.

Checking the time his face became bleak.

[00:45]

Only seconds remain and he still has more than 500 meters before reaching the forest. Seth then stood and placed his staff in a crevice and then then, "Size Reschedule!"

The staff expanded and shot him forward toward the forest fast. However, even that was not enough as time ticked down and the crevice keeping the staff began to lose.

[00:01]

"AHHHHHHHH!' Seth screamed as the brunt of the pressure hit him before he entered the forest protection. His broken body rolled and his staff shrunk.

[Health Status: Good>Pain>Broken>Lethal]

Seth's mangled body was in a twisted position but thankfully Green Hood Cloak and his attunement to the forest helped him to recover faster. Ten minutes later he was fully healed and Seth called status as he looked if anything changed apart from his level. Nothing did.

He sighed and walked back to his mansions.

As someone who can negate gravity, he was able to run as fast as an athlete without having his exertion point reduced. Not only that, anything he grabbed will have a bit of that trait too. He took advantage of that and began to renovate his village houses and took the sculptures to their respective house.

He didn't start painting until he reached a milestone where Village Point was awarded to him. He tried to upgrade the Cloak but it refused until he upgraded some key points of the village.

So he went to his cottage.

"Improve!"

[Would you like to Merge the Cottage with the Chief House?]

"Yes!"

[Provide the following Items]

"You gotta be kidding me!"

1~1000 Pieces of Stones

2~1000 Pieces of Woods

3~10 Kg of Coarse Sand

4~20 Kg of Green Clay

[The cottage will merge with the Shabby Mansion you made and become an important part of it]

[Only through the cottage can you upgrade the Mansion further]

Seth just began to paint, leaving any other thing till tomorrow.

And today there was an improvement, he was able to paint 12 copies before he blanked out.