Terror of Another Beast

Chapter – 44 Terror of Another Beast

[ You have killed a Rare Beast 22 Exp. gained.]

[Rare-tier crystal gained you can use this to convert them into Exp.]

Finishing off the beast Max took out the crystal from its body and moved on to find another beast. The sky was slowly turning into night time but Max was still not planning to stop he wanted to hunt one more beast before heading back. He will be close to leveling up after killing one more Rare-tier beast. "Sometimes it is easy to find these beasts but sometimes it's so hard that irritates me." Max had spent nearly an hour now, after fighting the last beast and he still wasn't able to find another one.

Max was circling in the area where he had found the last beast but there was still no progress and he was thinking about whether he should stay or leave the forest, "It's getting darker and if I stayed any longer there's a chance that the other beasts might surround me. I have no choice then, I'll just come back tomorrow to hunt." Max decided and started to head back towards the exit of the forest. Even when he was heading back, he didn't even see a Basic-tier beast on his way, like all of them were hiding from him.

"What's wrong with these beasts today? Did something happen while I was on that rocky mountain?" Max said to himself as he was finding it weird to not see any single beast. Not giving too much thought to it Max decided to ignore that and head back. While Max was not aware of the actual reason for this unusual behavior of the beasts, there was going to be some trouble in the future because of this strange thing.

It was close to midnight when Max gets back to the inn, surprisingly Donny and Ron were not waiting for him or worried about him, both of them had gone somewhere and still hadn't come back.

"Hey, kid! Your advance payment has been used up, if you and the other guys with you want to live here for longer then you have to pay for it." The owner called out for Max when he was going to his room. "Oh! I'm sorry, I didn't know that our advance is over. We will be staying here for some more days, are ten gold coins going to be enough for three of us?" Max asked as he didn't know the actual rate of the rooms, so he just randomly said that. "Yeah, it would be enough, for now, you guys can stay here then." The owner said and took ten gold coins from Max, he still had roughly around two hundred gold coins left on him.

He was not too worried about the money as Lucas had told him that there was also an option to exchange beast crystals for coins, but Max didn't want to use that method because he was told that there were some places that only take beast crystals as payment for their service, so Max would be using that method as last resort to earn money if he needed to.

"Now, I need to find a blacksmith who can craft me a weapon out of this Crystal. If Jack would be here, he would have helped me out but unfortunately, he is not here." Max said to himself as he was holding the King-tier crystal in his hands while looking at it curiously. It's the same size as the other tier crystal so how was it possible to create so much difference in the strength between the other tiers? Max was not able to understand the concept behind the beast crystal because of it, maybe in the future, he will find out the reason behind it.

The next day Max woke up and headed outside in the city but what he noticed was different compared to the last times when he was in the city, today everyone had a scared expression on their faces, and not a lot of people were traveling on the streets, it was around thirty percent of the usual crowd Max estimated. "Why is this place like this? In the forest, beasts were acting strange and here the people are behaving strangely now. Is something wrong with everyone or has something big happened?" Max wondered how he was feeling something suspicious from last night because of all these strange behaviors around him.

"Mister, did something happen here why are there fewer people today?" Max asked a passerby, "Yeah, I guess you were not aware of it. Someone killed a King-tier Beast in the forest last night and that beast was a pair, so now the other one is going on the rampage inside the forest and there's also a chance that it can come to attack the city." hearing that Max realized that he was talking about the King-tier beast that he saw yesterday which was killed by that strange group of hunters.

"I guess that was also the reason behind the strange behavior of all the beasts yesterday, they were hiding from that King-tier beast." Max thought, "So, don't we have city guards that can take care of that beast?" Max questioned the stranger. "No, they can handle Rare-tier beasts but a king-tier is out of their league. We have sent a request for help to the queen, in some time the queen will send someone who can take care of that beast, until then we just have to hide or not go to the forest." The stranger said that and walked away.

While Max was left standing there thinking about something, now he was thinking that what should he be doing today because there was nothing else to do today, he was planning to hunt again to fill up his Exp. bar to level up but now he won't be able to that because of that King-tier beast who wreaking havoc in the forest. "Now I have to wait until someone kills that beast, if I go there now in the forest there's a huge chance that I'll get killed. Staying inside the city is going to be the best option for now then." Max thought as he thought to head somewhere else.

"Hey, kid. is the bracelet being useful to you?" Max heard a familiar voice before he could even move from his place, turning he saw that the old man from the Weapon shop was coming toward him. "Yeah, it is pretty good and really handy," Max said as the bracelet was really helpful to him yesterday. If not for that extra agility he would have found himself in a lot of trouble.

"Good to hear, are you planning to go hunt today? I would advise you to stay in the city with your capabilities, you won't even last five seconds against the beast." The old man said as if he was just being honest with Max. He knew Max was a beginner hunter and he won't have enough experience fighting the beasts, also he won't have enough strength. These things were the reason why the old man said that won't last even a couple of seconds. "No, I'm not going to hunt today. I know if go today and encountered the beast I'll be dead in no time. I'll go hunting after the beast is killed." Max said as truly was not planning to go for a hunt today because of the beast.

"Are you still not going to make a weapon or an item like this bracelet for me?" Max was hoping that the old man would change his mind.

"No, I told you I can't do that anymore." The old man was stubborn about it just like the last time.

"Even if it's a higher-tier crystal?" Max tried to tempt that old man but he didn't know that the old man had seen a lot of higher-tier crystals in his prime.

"Kid, even if you bring me the highest tier crystal possible, I won't be making anything for anyone." The old man again refused Max's offer. "What does this kid think of me, as I have never seen crystals of the higher tier? Hmph, if not for a condition I would have shown him how great my work was." The old man thought and praised himself thinking about the old time.

"Fine, I won't ask anymore. I'll find someone else who can make the things for me." Max said and was going to leave when he saw, someone walking towards him. The person coming towards him was none other than Bob. "Hey, Max. How have you been? Grandpa, I have delivered the item to the place you told me to." Bob said as he found it surprising that he will meet his grandpa and Max here at the same time.

On the other hand, Max and the old man had a different reactions. "This old man is your grandpa, Bob?" Max said in shock. "You know this kid, Bob? And who do you think you are calling an old man?" the old man was also a bit shocked cause he knew that Bob had no friends or anyone close other than him. And now he was surprised to find out that this kid knew Bob and is an acquaintance of his.

"When did you meet him, Bob? And how did you get close to him?" the old man had a lot of questions going on in his mind and he wanted to know the answer to all of them.