The Record of Unusual Creatures
chapter-190

Chapter 190: Can We Solve Problems the Normal Way?

The rock monster ran clumsily towards Lily, the earth trembling like an earthquake with every step it made. The werewolf maiden was waiting for the clumsy monster with full composure. Lily swiftly evaded the assault when the monster’s rock arm crashed down on her. She leapt onto the monster’s arm and climbed to the back of it, jumping like a nimble squirrel on a tree. She was as fast as a faint, white shadow, circling the upper body of the monster. Her movements were accompanied by a series of cutting sounds and chips of stone falling off the monster like snowflakes. However, that did not cause much damage to the monster. The monster was twisting its body, trying to shake Lily off. Lily was having a hard time hanging onto the monster as she could have been shaken off at anytime. However, she hung on anyway.

Chop, chop, chop, chop, chop, chop—

Lily was still leaping back and forth on the rock monster. Wielding her fire and ice claws, she cut her enemy and shouted in frustration. “It’s futile!”

The rock monster was not made out of any ordinary rock—she learned soon enough. It was extraordinarily hard and could regenerate itself. The cracks on its body caused by the blast from Vivian’s Lightning Strike had healed.

By then, the rock monster knew it was going to be difficult to shake off the “little bug”. It was enraged as if capable of thought. Lily planted one of her claws in the monster’s head to stabilise herself while she used another to hack it. The monster suddenly wheeled and it was about to crash its back against the nearest cliff face.

“Watch your back!” While he was engaged with another monster alongside Vivian, Hao Ren saw Lily in danger. He shouted and lunged towards the monster. With his limited strength, he knew what he could do was minimal before the monster. He just crouched on the ground with his shield in the rock monster’s way. The rock monster did not try to avoid it, thinking that it could easily crush the tiny human. As the monster stamped its foot on Hao Ren, it almost lost its balance. Lily pulled her claw out from the monster’s head and jumped down onto the ground. “Thank you, Landlord…”

Hao Ren was buried halfway into the ground. But, he kept his head high and roared at the rock monster. ” Eat me!”

Boom!

There was another explosion on the other side. Y’zaks was alone in taking on the third rock monster. The cramped space was rather inconvenient for the great demon. Being in human form was also limiting his fighting style. However, he could not have cared care less. Y’zaks exchanged punches and kicks with the rock monster; his style was no-frills, simple but brutal with every punch smashing a chunk of rock off the enemy.

Yet another loud boom followed as Y’zaks raised his leg and kicked the enemy. The five-metre rock monster was sent flying. Y’zaks then strode forward, stepped on the monster’s shoulder, grabbed its head with both hands and pulled it off.

“It’s not working.” Y’zaks crushed the head into pieces and looked on as the headless rock monster got to its feet again like nothing happened. As though driven by some strange force, the gravel floated up in the air and quickly condensed, forming the monster’s new head.

You could break off its limbs and head, chop its body into two, or even crush it into smaller pieces; no matter what the tactic used against these rock monsters, they would not bleed. They had no sense of pain, and could regenerate using natural ingredients from their surroundings. For a moment, Y’zaks was at a lost of what to do next.

He was thinking if he should fight in his original form, or toss these monsters somewhere else and summon a meteorite to crush them—he was thinking as a demon and he was seriously considering these measures.

Vivan and Becky were together, keeping another rock monster busy. Although the dazzling moves of Becky’s enchanted sword were powerful, they were useless against the rock monsters during close quarter combat. Her half-past-six magical powers did not help either. These rock monsters were only slowed down by Vivian’s frigid cold and some magic curses. Becky raised her voice and asked the injured mercenaries, “How did you guys kill it?”

They were rescued by Hao Ren earlier but had not regained their strength. Some of them were still fighting while others were pulling the injured away. When they heard Becky, a middle-aged man, who looked like the leader among them limped as moved on his feet and said, “We have no idea. One of them just broke like that while the fight was going on.”

“This is not the way to go.” Vivian was using extremely cold ice to freeze the rock monster in front of her. But, in just a few seconds, the layer of ice started to crack. “Can’t you lot recall what you did?”

The mercenary leader was as anxious as Vivian was but, he could not recall what had happened because the situation was pretty chaotic at that time. Just when everyone seemed unable to find a solution, Y’zaks suddenly shouted happily. “I know their weakness!”

Hao Ren turned his head and saw Y’zaks in a standoff with a rock monster. He was in a rather bizarre position: he first broke the rock monster’s limbs off, and while the monster had not regenerated its limbs yet, Y’zaks raised its body above his head, three-metres above the ground. As the monster was limbless, very much like a stick man, no matter how hard it struggled it was not going to touch the ground. Then came the incredible moment: a layer of black matter slowly covered the monster’s body. The monster’s struggling became weaker and weaker until there was a loud crack, then it broke into pieces.

“Let them leave land!”

The mercenary leader finally recalled the moment when the first rock monster was killed: a senior druid in his team trapped the rock using poison ivy and dragged it up mid air.

However, the druid was lying dead nearby so, no one thought about him earlier.

Finally, there was a way to deal with these rock monsters. Lily was the most elated. She rushed towards the monster she had fought with earlier, grabbed its leg and swung it in the air in a terrifying way.

The rock monster struggling grievously as its body began to disintegrate at an alarming speed after it left the ground, before being yanked to the other side of the mountain several hundred metres way from them. It then broke into thousands of pieces.

But, it stood up again: Lily did not toss it at the right angle, and the rock monster did not exhaust its magic while it was still in the air. It reformed after it came into contact with the ground.

Lily was dumbfounded. As the rock monster marched towards her again, the werewolf felt her pride as a warrior was seriously being insulted. She first stopped Y’zaks from intervening. Before the rock monster arrived, she squatted and wrote something on the ground using a pebble. Once she was finished, she threw the pebble away, rolled up her sleeves and lunged towards the monster. With a loud cry, she heaved her enemy up and out!

This time, she had carefully calculated the angle. The rock monster stayed up in the air a tad longer, and before it landed, it had exhausted every single bit of its magical power. It was totally dead in front of everyone.

Lily’s tail almost stood upright. She ran towards the wreckage and waved her fist. “My physics teacher will now rest in peace, you idiot!”

Knowledge is power, my friends!

At last, the third rock monster was dealt with by Vivian: she split into a swarm of bats, wrapped around her enemy and lifted it half-a-metre up in the air. The vampire maiden was white-eyed as she returned back to human form. She sat on the ground disregarding her posture. “It was too heavy. I should’ve brought a set of pulleys…”

Everything was breathtaking from the beginning to the end for Hao Ren. He could not utter a word as his mind was jammed: what kind of team is this? Why could they never be normal when it came to solving problems?