Chapter 1126: Redspark Forest II
The ape-centipede thing, which the weaker guide had called a ‘black hunter’, screeched as Leon summoned silver-blue lightning and struck it repeatedly. Befitting a creature that called the Redspark Forest home, his lightning wasn’t as effective as Leon had hoped, but it still blasted the creature out of the branches.
As it fell, Anna moved next, drawing a glass tube filled with some glowing red-orange substance, and whipping it before her. The substance was ejected from the tube and ignited in the air, covering the black hunter in it as it hit the ground. Now covering the black hunter’s chitinous form, it burned with extra ferocity, and the monster screeched in fear and pain.
From its aura, Leon judged it to be equivalent to a ninth-tier mage, though it didn’t display much of the intelligence that such power might’ve implied in another creature. Instead, it flailed as Anna’s substance burned on its body, its dreadfully long tail whipping around with Davin still impaled upon its stinger.
Leon wasted no time in blasting it with additional bolts of lightning. The rest of his party responded as well, with Valeria and Maia in particular tearing it apart with blades of ice and a water dragon, respectively.
The whole ‘fight’ lasted a matter of seconds, and the black hunter was left little more than bloody pieces. However, glinting through the bloody remains was a soft, reddish glow.
“See to Sir Mauris,” Leon ordered Alix, pointing to the giant whose body hadn’t fared well after being covered in the creature’s acidic spit, and his former squire jumped to fulfill his command.
Meanwhile, Anna and two other Tempest Knights were already seeing to Davin, who barely clung to life with the creature’s stinger run through his chest.
Not wanting to get in the way, Leon turned his attention to the glow coming from the black hunter’s corpse. He could sense a significant amount of power coming from it, and his heart beat with excitement at what he guessed it to be.
With his elementless magic, he easily ripped through the gore to find a marble-sized bead of glass-like substance, shedding red light from within.