Chapter 1661: Bear
Sam is still within the first area of the forest.
Even though he killed a bunch of people here, they didn"t cover the whole first part of it. They covered a large part of it, but there is still some area left for him to explore.
And he went to the right. Even though he didn"t know what is awaiting him there, occupying that area will make it easier for the base camp or whatever he is building.
Only after he went there did he understand that it might not be one of his smartest decisions. Because there are a bunch of monkeys awaiting his arrival.
As soon as he appeared within their zone, they jumped off of their hiding places within the trees and started attacking him.
Their teeth and claws became sharper and harder to the point that one of the monkeys"s caught the reaper"s sword with its mouth and he was slashing at that time.
He didn"t understand how these creatures are this strong. He wondered what would happen if he let them grow and unleashed them into the world. With enough time, they might change the hierarchy of power within the wilderness of the realms.
And he is sure of it not just because of the teeth and the claws, there is something else that baffled him.
As he slashed his sword to cut down a monkey, it was blocked by its bare flesh.
*CLANG*
That"s the sound he heard when he landed a proper slash on the monkey. There is some sort of exoskeleton that is covered with the fur on these monkeys. It is so strong that Sam almost wanted to tear open the skin of the monkey to see what exactly is underneath it.
But of course, he cannot do that yet. He has to kill them first.
Sam activated metal energy fusion and once again threw a slash at the nearest monkey. The sword finally penetrated through the exoskeleton.
Of course, he didn"t manage to reach the innards of the creature, but he did slash open a skeleton and the monkey started bleeding.
Once he got the opening, he didn"t even waste a second taking advantage of that. He finished that off with three more slashes on the same spot. Finally, the monkey fell down.
By that time, three more monkeys already reached him from the back. He had to disappear from the spot and attack them.
After a grueling twenty minutes, he managed to deal with these monkeys with a lot of effort. He examined their armors for a while before he moved on. The next creatures are even weirder. They are deers.
They have a weird glow going on in their antlers. They managed to shoot energy beams from them. These energy beams are almost similar to the energy beams Sam usually uses.
When he tried to defeat these deers from long range, they always managed to shoot whatever attack is coming with the help of those energy beams.
They are fast, agile, and extremely precise. No matter what he threw at them, they are taking it pretty neatly.
He had a similar problem with the Crossbow squad. They are good with defending long-range. No matter whatever they come across they would be able to deal with them easily. Even in the past life, he had to narrow them down to a single place before making a move after reducing the distance.
Even now he did the same, using the s.p.a.ce element to blink from one spot to another. The same thing went for the deer.
He blinked and slashed the deer one by one bit by bit. Of course, it is impossible for him to kill them instantly. As soon as he blinked and appeared near a deer, another one in the herd started attacking him.
With the precision they had, they managed to almost hit him in every attempt.
If the spatial blink is not fast enough, he would have been severely injured. So, Sam started to focus on wearing the deer down bit by bit. Instead of going to vitals, he was content enough to hit some normal spot.
He focused on c.u.mulative damage instead of one-shot kills.
Sam"s black silhouette was the only thing visible to the deer that gathered into a large group in the patch of the forests.
As his figure appeared at random spots within the herd with energy beams flying around everywhere, one deer after another collapsed due to the excessive bleeding, cut tendons, severed limbs, etc.
Soon, the whole area appeared gory with the blood dying on all the gra.s.s in the surroundings and lifeless deer corpses all over the place.
He went on to examine their bodies. Then he noticed something. All the deer are not the same. Over a couple of dozen of them belonged to normal deer kind from the earth, but the remaining are slightly off.
He has a feeling that they are normal deer, but their body structure is quite different from regular ones.
He just stored a couple of corpses to examine them later on and focused on moving forward. Now there is only one small area left before he completely cleared the first part of the map.
The place would then be his base. The base he would be using to deal with all the creatures that are present in the remaining three parts of the map.
He went to that last remaining area and met with a bunch of different snakes. Snakes of different lengths, abilities, and species.
Almost all of them are stronger than the snake Sam initially caught when he entered the second floor. He collected the poisonous snakes and started consuming their poison as well, as he improved his a.r.s.enal.
He collected all the secreted poison into different containers.
After a while, the first area of the map is completely under his control. He hovered around for a while, examining the terrain and the trees. After that, he started setting up his next plan.
First, he made a few changes to the terrain. The trees, rocks, the earth. He created a largely empty field in the middle. He then placed a bunch of formations in different areas.
He made preparations for an entire day. But it was still not over. It was just the foundation for the next step of the plan.
But before that, he has to go and visit the remaining three parts of the map.
He went to the one on the left. The second part of the map.
This area has a lot more vines and the density of trees is a lot lesser when compared to the first part of the map.
As Sam walked in further, he came across a bear.
A bear walked towards him while growling. There is a large scar on its face and it looked extra menacing.
Sam recognized the bear instantly. It is one of the creatures he was forced to fight when he was a teen. It was a cage match and only one of them could get out. Of course, it is not an ordinary cage match. The cage is as big as a mansion and there are a lot of things he could use at that time.
The match was a grueling one. In fact, the bear gave some of the most menacing scars Sam had on his body in the past life. He almost died that day.
He thought that he would come across this bear once again after he finished the first floor, but he didn"t expect that it would be this soon.
Sam carefully stood on the spot as he observed the bear.
The fangs and claws are obviously strengthened. Apart from that, the fur of the bear looked extra l.u.s.trous. It is almost glowing which also caught his attention.
He looked for any other possible changes with energy vision. But there is nothing he could see. He took out the reaper sword and got ready to make a move.
As if sensing the intention, the bear lunged forward. It jumped straight at him with all the strength it had.
*ROAR*
It roared and swung its front claws at Sam"s chest.
Sam took a step back and moved to the side. He got ready to slash the bear from the side.
But as the sword landed on the fur, not only was he unable to pierce through the flesh, the blade even slipped away. Even before he could digest the surprise, the bear turned to the side and attack Sam.
He had to use the energy barrier and took the brunt force of the attack. The barrier broke and he was sent flying a bit.
Sam used the shadow element to disappear in a puff of black smoke and reappeared in Bear"s shadow.
The bear didn"t act surprised. It just turned to bite Sam, which he was barely able to block with his sword.
The sword perfectly lodged itself in between the teeth of the upper jaw as he tried to push the bear back and he noticed the claw coming from the side.