Unexpected

Smith looked at the dead people around him 'Hahahhaha finally killing humans again.' 'it more fun when they struggle tho.'

'well who cares' Smith than looked at the women who had landed against the tree. 'I still feel that weird power radiating from her'.

Smith headed closer and felt a sudden urge to eat her, to drink her blood. So Smith did exactly that.

A weird sensation ran trough his body.

[new stat unlocked, (Mana)]

[congrats, you're the first Sand crawler with mana]

'what the hell is mana?'

[mana is used by almost every animal, human, ect.. On this planet, with this partical you can create spells and other things.]

'oh that seems cool but is still don't really understand it.'

Smith then saw some red light blinking from one of the people who he had killed.

He headed closer to the body and inspected the red light. 'what does -'

than it dawned on him, 'isn't this a transmitter.' 'this damn human transmitted his location'.

Smith immediately ran into the dessert. He didn't want to linger around anymore, he quickly reached a speed of around 100 km/h.

After running for around a half an hour he felt a strong presences in front of him so he immediately dug underground.

He dug for around 10 meters deep and there he started to make a ball like base. He also made tunnels heading in every direction. When he was digging a tunnel to the presences he felt 2 minutes earlier, he broke trough some hardend wall.

And then he saw one of the biggest caves he had ever seen in his entire life.

And than he saw ants, thousands of ants , and they weren't that small like the other ones. The smallest one he spotted was around 2 meters in length. 'what the f*ck'.

---- 35 minutes ago.

An alarm went of in the adventures guild.

"RESCUE TEAM MOVE OUT TOWARDS THE ANT HILL ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE CITY!"

A 10 man team made out of 5 ruby knights, 1 gold knight, 1 believer and 3 low mages immediately moved out, "hopefully it's not another fake call like last time."

"probably not and even if it's a fake call we'll all get paid 50 gold coins so there is nothing to worry about."

After only half an hour of running they all arrived at the small ant hill. "damn wtf happened here?" one of the ruby knights said.

Charles the gold rank knight started speaking. " one of them had there chest caved in, another his brain was pierced trough his eye socket and the other 3's head got smashed in."

"Narni could I have saved them if a ran at full speed here?" Charles asked the healer.

"No they're already dead for around 30 minutes."

"damn" Charles started to speak again. "Beth cast a tracking spell on what ever did this." "okay" she answerd

Beth started chanting her spell and 5 seconds later it was finished. They all saw tracks of the thing that killed these people light up with a tint of green and red.

"huh aren't those the tracks of a Sand Crawler?" one of the other ruby knight exclaimed. "how do you know?", "well they taste good that's why I hunt them often."

"but how did a sand crawler kill 5 people that's unheared of, the only grave incident that has ever happened with a sand crawler was someone breaking one of their legs."

"I don't know how, but let's follow it." Charles said.

The team headed after the tracks. After another half an hour of running they stopped.

"wait!" Charles said. Everyone stopped. "What's wrong?"

"RUN BACK!" Charles screamed out.

Everyone started to sprint back as they felt vibrations running through the whole ground.

"what the fuck is happening?"

"ants" Charles said.

And then they saw it thousands of ants crawling out of the sand. Some of the ants even reached a length of 8 meters. Some of the smaller 3 meters ants started to sprint after the team.

"damn they've send out runners."

Charles stopped running and pulled out his sword. some blue and white light started to mix around his sword.

"Wraaaaghhh!!!" Charles pulled his sword back and slashed sideways.

A big arc of blue and white sliced the runner ants in a hundred meter raduis in two.

Charles quickly turned around and started to sprint to his teammates.

The ants stopped following them and brought there dead comrades back to their base.

"nice sword slash Charles" one of the ruby knights said.

"thx, let's first head back to the bodies and take them with us to the city."

"okay" the others answered in union.

---

After some time they were back in the city. Some people who we're on the street looked at them with different kind of emotions.

Some even cried out as they saw the bodies.

The group eventually arrived at the adventurers guild building. They headed inside with the bodies.

Everyone who was laughing and chatting a few seconds ago abruptly stopped. And than the aura of a gold knight exploded.

"WHAT THE F*CK HAPPEND TO MY BROTHER!?" a gold knight called Steve immediately stood in front of Charles who was holding his brothers body.

Steve was fuming , "WHY DID YOU NOT SAVE MY BROTHER!? ".

Charles stayed calm and answered "they were already dead before we arrived, they were all lying at the edge of the forest even if I moved at my fastest speed I would still have arrived too late."

Steve calmed down after he heard what Charles said. "I'm sorry for bursting out" he said.

"it's nothing I get were you're coming from" Charles answerd.

Steve started to get mad again. " Do you know what killed my brother?"

Charles gnashed his teeth and spoke in a soft tone, but it was loud enough for everyone in the guild to hear it. "A sand crawler."

Disbelief, and a variety of other emotions were plastered on the faces of everyone pressent.