Ethereal Life, Chapter 61: Fighting The Grasshair Monster!

With a pull, the dark grass was uprooted. The man's relaxed face immediately crunched up as what he saw nearly caused his soul to fly away.

"AHHHHHHH—!! DAMN THING!?!" 

A grotesque dark-mudded monster with two white blurry eyes appeared in his eyes and seemed to fill up every corner of his vision.

Even his heart, which has already stopped beating, felt as though it were being gripped by some bark-like hands.

He almost died from suffocation, although he isn't breathing. Without any other thoughts, he subconsciously raised his right foot in a quick sweep towards the grotesque, mud-like monster.

Plop!

It was a clean sweep like no others he had felt before. "Man! "Does this monster only care about appearance?t 

His foot passes through the monster's body, cutting it in half. The monster seems to be stunned. Its big white eyes looked at the strange being lifting it up by its hair grass, then to its other body part on the ground.

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK—! 

"Ah!!! Throw it away! Hurry!" Argar's shouts immediately woke him up as he pulled his hands gripping the monster's hair back away.

He had just pulled some distance from the grass monster when its muddy body suddenly formed into three tentacles that whipped out towards him.

"Ahhh! I won't try and touch these things around this place again!" The man let out a sorrowful cry before he rolled his body to the side. "How could I have known it was a monster? Ahh~" 

"Bador, how can we kill it?" Argar positions himself as the center of his legion. Bador had already taken on the rocks as he started throwing them towards the grass monster's body.

"For now, throw some stones on it. It might hit on something inside its muddy body." Bador calmly ran around with his legion as they started throwing a barrage of stones at it.

It's a hail storm for the grass monster. However, the grass monster's tentacles increased before it formed into something like an umbrella, which stopped the stones from hitting it.

Within that time frame, it was blocking the thrown rocks and had merged back into its cut body part. "It can do that too? This might be dangerous. How about we run? I doubt we can kill it."

The man let out a cowardly shout at the back, as it also helped out in gathering rocks to throw at the monster. Although it was scary, his anger also fueled him to take revenge. "Take this grass-hair monster! This is for scaring the hell out of me!"

"Think! If we retreat, there will surely be another one of these things around this place. If you leave now, then you will always be running away from now on. So why not take this chance to find its weakness and kill it instead?" Bador calmly spoke on the field.

His hands never stopped moving to throw various sizes of stones around the monsters. Argar was observing from a distance while his legion helped him do the work.

"It's slow, so there's no need to worry too much. The only thing that should be paid attention to is its body, which can grow vine-like limbs. It will be over once it gets hold of us." Argar pointed at the ground.

There's a dip pit about a foot deep on it. It's what was left after the monsters smashed into the man's direction back then. The man seeing this shivered and said, "I really should stop being reckless from now on."

Suddenly, the bowl-like muddy shield around the grass monster's body opened a small opening. "Watch out!" 

Bador immediately threw a stone inside it, powered by his current strength.

I should be four times stronger than my past self! This throw can surely hit its target!

Throw!

A tentacle comes out, wanting to attack the nearby throwers, but it suddenly turns around midway as a stone, targeting the opening coming its way.

Bang! 

Mud splashes everywhere. However, Bador was a bit disappointed to see the stone hadn't reached the opening for even a bit. At the same time, he wasn't discouraged.

Instead, he threw more in that opening's direction. Tentacles keep coming out of it, as if it wanted to attack them like a turtle hiding on its shell.

Unfortunately, it couldn't even completely get out before a stone smashed its tentacles into pieces of mud. Irritated perhaps, it suddenly withdrawn its umbrella-like mud shield around.

"Here it comes! Prepare yourself!" Bador shouted as he took a few steps back. "Hit the eyes!"

Woosh! Woosh! Woosh!

Splash! Splash! Splash! 

The thrown stones and tentacles met midair, causing fireworks in the sole color of black mud to bloom, bathing the ground rather unsightly.

EEEEEEEEEK—! 

"It's angry! Come on! We can kill it!" Bador was full of fighting spirit as he lifted up a fraction of a meter of big stone from the side before he started running forward.

Argar's expression changed to anger, "Bador! Don't be reckless!" Can't you just continue to throw rocks at it? Why must you do that?"

He immediately mobilized his legion, which also dashed forward to assist him. "No! I can do this!"

Argar was getting angry hearing that. Respect is respect; in an important event like this, it should be used and not protected! "Protecting the dead?! FOOL!" 

"Go!" With a wave of his hand, the legion under Bador immediately moved forward in a dash! Wanting to swarm the grass monster by numbers.

Bador's face turned black, but he must not be distracted at this point! "So be it! Come!" 

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Fifty stones zoomed out of Bador's vision before they all landed at the opening, which blasted out all the tentacles coming out of it.

At the same time, five skinless members of the legion arrived before Bador, helping him remove the blockades. "Get ready!" Argar shouted from behind.

Bador took a deep breath slowly while running forward with a big stone in hand. He nodded and released all the remaining strength he could muster in his legs.

Bang! 

Another barrage of stone rain blasted out the tentacles forming in the hole. At this point, the grass monster seems to have grown too irritated from its continuous failure.

Within seconds, the bowl-shaped barrier around it was suddenly withdrawn. It wanted to move forward to kill, not thinking about defense at all.

However, such a stupid mistake has cost it its life. At first, it deflected the incoming rain of stones. But all of its tentacles were also blasted away. It seems to get weaker after that.

It seems the cost of forming a tentacle from its body consumes too much of its strength. That might also be the reason it had withdrawn its shield: it cost too much energy to maintain.

Without any protection, Bador reached not far from him, spinning with the big rock in both hands. It seems he was already preparing it before all of this happened.

The grass monster's eyes were full of murderous intent; however, what greeted its eyes was a big stone that smashed it flat.

Bang! 

Spurt! 

A small liquid like jelly rolled out from the smashed body of the grass monster before it turned into a puff of smoke, leaving behind only the dark grass.

The man from behind asked, "Did he do it?".

After throwing that big stone at the monster, Bador suddenly felt his strength leaving him; he couldn't even stand properly.

Two skinless people immediately moved forward to support him. He turned around and nodded at Argar.

Argar nodded, and he motioned for the skinless to check on the monster. In the end, all the monster left was its mud-splattered body and its grass, which should be its hair.

"I think we got him." Argar sounded unsure, however, based on the evidence found. The monster has indeed been killed.

"How are you?" Bador sat on the ground, feeling weak. "It's just a moment of weakness. Don't worry." 

"Hmm." Afterwards, the trio saw that things had returned to normal. Then they go and check the body themselves.

"The mud is like ordinary mud. But with this grass, I felt some kind of enticement from it. What should we do?" Bador asked as he handed the grass to the two.

Argar tried to sniff it, then he was stunned: "This? It's a scent I haven't smelled before."

"What do you think?" Bador asked calmly, playing with the mud.

The other man received the grass and checked on it. Argar thought for a while before he said, "This seems to be something our current body wants. Maybe food for us?"

"Who would try it?" Bador and Argar had just thought of this and blurted it out of their minds.

Gulp.

When suddenly, they heard a sound of munching and gulping from the side,

"What?" Then the man stopped, as he had just realized what he had done. The remaining grass in his hand, which has some leaves missing from it, suddenly slipped out of his grasp in his daze.

"Oh no, I'm done for."