Master Of None

Chapter 2342: 2342. Protected Species

Even when Walker looked at the brilliant mantis, he could tell that it was barely able to hold on. It did not have the right amount of poison resistance to be able to handle the brutality of the devil centipedes’ venom. Let alone the poisons covering its body from moving around all through the poison jungle dungeon.

This left Walker with a bad feeling in the depths of his stomach. The brilliant mantis had been fine with him and his group passing. Even when they had been prepared to attack, it did not react and just watched.

Besides this, he felt some slight connection. A slight agreement that it would fight with them when he had glanced at it. Call it a feeling in the heat of the movement or call it natural intuition. Whatever it was, they had fought besides one another and defeated an apex predator of the poison jungle dungeon.

Leaving things like this would make everything Walker cared about and valued feel pointless.

With a step, he saw that the brilliant mantis flinched. It felt that there was a greater threat from Walker than the devil centipede. It had felt the pressure from the mana that Walker used. It could tell that it was unable to fight against his speed. That wasn’t even focusing on the facts that he had created an environment of ice which it had never seen or felt. All it could tell was that the feeling was bad.

As much as Walker wanted to portray that he did not mean harm, he couldn’t do that. He was sure that this monster might die and leave the eggs within its nest alone to die as well. And that was not what an ally should feel. He also knew that bringing this monster out of the poison jungle dungeon would be impossible.

Not just the rules of the dungeon stopping them from doing so, but the simple fact that the outside environment might kill it. Not because of the injuries that the brilliant mantis currently possessed but for the fact that it was not what it was used to. This monster was an adult, fully adapted to living here.

It lived within the dueling flowers and never left its home. It hunted as an ambush predator there. It survived there. It was safe there. So taking it away would be the same as asking it to die feeling unsafe and without any support. Instead, Walker allowed the eternal codex to change form again.

”Just hold on a moment.” Walker began to channel the life mana he could sense deep beneath his feet. He also pulled in light mana.

The two manas are the best for purification and for healing. Normally, the life mana would be used to naturally heal wounds by using the body’s nutrients. Everyone had nutrients stored within them to heal and grow, this monster was all the same. The light mana could be used to purify and help the healing process. Walker’s strength could be focused on getting rid of the poisons and the venoms of the devil centipede.

With the eternal codex taking the form of a healing staff similar to the one that Alice carried, Walker felt the enhancement and ease that came with it. He rarely focused purely on healing with the eternal codex, it was enlightening for him. As such, he saw that the light mana bathing the brilliant mantis became denser.

It had been terrified because it felt the strength of the mana all of the sudden. It also knew that it could not strike out to defeat Walker. Yet, it suddenly ceased feeling a threat the moment that the light touched its body.

Instead, there was a flow of pure warmth that began to pull away the intensive burning of venom and foreign poisons flowing throughout. The brilliant mantis soon found that another flow of energy came in to it. One that made its inner body feel younger and brighter. That was all part of the healing while using the life mana.

As this monster was attached to the poison jungle dungeon, it had always been somewhat in tune with the life mana of the dungeon. Now, Walker was facilitating the flow of that mana. He was enhancing the smoothness and ability to accept that mana that the brilliant mantis needed to throw off the injuries while even growing stronger.

The surrounding soldiers with Walker all felt the intense purifying and life mana healing them as well. The poisons around them had been cast away while they also felt that the strain on their bodies before was gone. Even with their defensive equipment, they had gained a decent amount of damage from the poisons in the air along with the fact that they had exerted a lot of mana and force from their bodies in this last fight.

This was also just an example of the magic that Walker could perform. Magic that could call forth light to cleanse more than just each other or himself. It could even cleanse a monster and a surrounding area. Then the life mana which was very tough to use for anyone. He was using that to help heal a monster which should perish. Astounding to them.

As the brilliant mantis appeared to have healed, its body also looked to have grown a luster on it. Maybe that was some youth returned to it or just many injuries over its lifetime fighting within this poison jungle dungeon being healed properly for the first time.

Whatever it was, the brilliant mantis lowered its arms and looked at Walker for some time before retreating back in to the dueling flowers. A simple look if anyone else were to try to explain it. Yet, to Walker, he had felt a true bond of thanks.

”In the future, it is against the rules to kill the brilliant mantis within this dungeon. If they attack you first, that is fine. But everyone who brings them out will be put on examination by those who can tell if someone is lying.” Walker stated this with utmost seriousness. He was not going to play a game here. He wanted to keep the trust he had just earned.

”That will be put as a priority.” The soldiers all responded one after another. They would also enforce this. Especially the elves who now knew that they could have allies within this poison jungle dungeon, the very same that they had within their own villages and homes’ natural wilderness.

”We will collect all the materials that came from this encounter. We will also take the small dueling flower plants outside for the alchemists and herbalists. Otherwise, we will look for more information about this place.” They had gained a lot and learned a lot just now. Walker knew there was even more though. He had to push a little more even if he did not want to leave behind the moment he had just shared.

A distant howling made him look toward the treetops. He knew very well that this was the howler wolf yet again. But this time, there were more. They had found themselves some prey and Walker had the feeling he should go look rather than let it be.

”What is that howling? Wolves?” Gil was also surprised to hear the same sound. He had taken some small detours after finding a little stream and gathering many herbs and water growing mushrooms. He had also noticed that even the leeches were a unique species of leech called an eternal slumber leech. One that would add a poison making their prey sleep eternal in a coma. But aside from that, they had reached an odd standstill. No new materials or plants, or even monsters just yet. Now, they heard the howl of what they believed to be wolves. Something that had a very large variety of species. So, Gil knew that tracking this species of wolf monster would be useful to everyone.

”We have odd tracks to follow in the direction of those sounds.” one of the elves and reported after hearing the sound and also doing a check in the nearby area. He had managed to spot some tracks of odd paws. ”They appear to have multiple legs and not just four. Also, their paws are more flexible and long to move in a unique environment. We believe these are

the monsters howling.”

”Very good. We will follow them and try to see what they are howling about. I would prefer that we do not fight any dangerous monsters, but it is better to keep track of these things.” They all knew that the information could be invaluable to the future explorers of the poison jungle dungeon. So, they were taking the risk now to make it better for them later. It was their duty.

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