Chapter 61 Transformation
The beast that was exposed looked like a huge scaly lizard, at least 10 metres in length. It looked like a prehistoric crocodile!
Mud and water were sent flying in all directions as the lengthy beastnded on the roots and dirt and snatched the meat away.
"An E rank beast!" Alex abandoned his stealthy approach and shouted across to Mira.
''This looks even stronger than the bear Rowan and I took down!''
Alex wasn''t sure he could even kill this scaly beast. Its skin looked much tougher than that of the bear, and with only some normalbat knives at their disposal, it would be even tougher to pierce through.
But they didn''t want to let go of the opportunity they had created for themselves.
"You nk left, I''ll nk right." Mira called out to him and started moving to the side of the beast.
Alex listened to hermand and did the same.
There was no leader in this duo. They would follow each other''s lead when one thought they had a better idea than the other.
And Alex was stumped on how they''d deal with this crocodile beast.
Taking up his position to the left, he looked for Mira to see what she would do next.
Taking herbat knife, Mira plunged out of the water onto a nearby root, and with her speed and strength no longer hindered by the swamp, sheunched herself towards the spine of the beast, utilising her full speed.
''Incredible!''
Alex eximed in his mind when he saw her move. Her usage ofbining her strength and speed tounch herself like a spring was ingenious.
He didn''t have an urate measurement, but he was sure that in that instant, she moved at speeds past 95 m/s.
That''s near the limit of E+ rank!
In a matter of milliseconds, Mira reached the back of the crocodile and shed her knife across the spine of the beast.
Ssh!
Shended on the other side of the beast, next to Alex, and observed the damage she had done to the beast.
Just a shallow wound!
That''s what her attack did.
The beast had barely even noticed it had been attacked yet — it was still too busy munching on the fox meat Alexid as bait.
"Tsk, this is going to be tougher than I thought." Mira looked vexed. She put her full strength behind that attack and yet she still failed to draw blood.
"Let me try."
On the side, Alex put away his knife and moved his hands in front of him.
His face nearly went purple as he held his breath, intensely concentrating on the attack he was conjuring.
A secondter, a fireball the size of his fist appeared in front of his hands.
"I can''t control it anymore!" He could barely hold the power of the fireball under his control for another second before he had tounch it.
If he held it any longer, it would explode right in front of him and Mira.
Fwoosh!
Sizzle!
The fireball flew a couple dozen metres and reached the crocodile beast, which had finally taken the fight seriously enough to stop its feast.
Hisss! Roarrr!
Its reaction wasn''t fast enough to dodge the fireball.
The fireball hit its tail, causing an explosion affecting a radius of over 10 metres around the beast.
When the smoke and debris cleared from the air, Alex could see that the beast''s tail was no longer there and a burned stub was left in its ce.
''Tsk, I missed.''
In reality, Alex was aiming for its head, not its tail.
But he couldn''t do much when hecked control over the attack.
Luckily, it seemed the explosion had sent fire all over the rest of the beast''s body and it was struggling and rolling all over the dirt, trying to put out the mes covering the various ces on its body.
Ssh!
Suddenly, the beast re-entered the swamp and the mes were put out instantly.
"Fuck, don''t let it get away!" Alex shouted to Mira as he realised the major w in his n.
They were surrounded by water! How were his mes supposed to bepared to a whole ocean of swamp water?
The only good thing that came out of this was that it couldn''t get too far away from them.
Its fin-like tail was gone so it couldn''t swim properly.
And to prove this point, the croc beast surfaces a couple hundred metres away at the base of another tree.
"Over there!"
Alex and Miraunched off the roots andnded in the water 50 metres away from the beast.
"What can we do now, our knives aren''t strong enough to pierce through its flesh and my mes are useless when we''re surrounded by water?" Alex asked Mira for any idea, as he was all out of them.
One had to remember that they were only as strong as an untrained E+ rank human. Beasts had much stronger and tougher bodies than humans of the same level.
"Let me try something." Mira spoke and then moved away from Alex and closed her eyes.
The air started vibrating as Mira''s shoulder length ck and grey hair started growing all of a sudden and her hair started turning a golden blonde.
''Golden Presence!''
Alex knew what she was doing immediately.
She was activating her talent! N?v(el)B\\jnn
In less than a second, the transformation was over and Mira opened her eyes.
She looked like a whole new person, she was much more beautiful as her redeeming features were enhanced even more.
Her muscles looked more defined, and her clothes wrapped around her even tighter, expressing her more ''petite'' features for Alex to ogle.
But Alex wasn''t interested in anything like that at the moment.
He was more focused on what she was going to do next. She turned to Alex, and spoke.
"Give me your knife." Not expecting this, it took him a second to react but he did as she said and took hisbat knife and threw it at her.
She caught it, and immediately threw it at the crocodile beast 50 metres away.
Shing!
Completely different to her previous attack, it actually prated through its skin!
The knife stabbed through the croc''s front leg and pinned it to the root.
Roarr!
Mira rushed over to the beast.
The real battle began.