"Yea, I just i hate spiders."
"You can say that again. Damn things are creepy" Calvus said while shaking his shoulders and waist shivering.
They caught Damon up to speed, he had been out cold for a whole day and half. His body was incredibly sore like he had been in a wrestling match with a bear. Standing up Damon tried summoning his clouds but nothing happened.
He dropped his head back in aggravation while thinking about how unfair the system was being. He was unconscious and it wasn't nothing he could do about it. Yet the system still penalized him for not completing his daily task.
Looking at his daily task two had trippled and their was an added task as well.
[Daily tasks.]
Weight training in any form. Must lift 400 hundred pounds 10 times.
Run 6 kilometers
Practice cloud shaping/control for four hours.[imagery.]
Practice rain control for two hours. [Imagery]
Craft one new item a day.
"How the hell am I supposed to practice cloud shaping and rain control when I can't even use them."
Looking back at the tasks the word imagery was beside cloud shaping and rain control. He figured he had to just imagine doing both. Thinking about it further, he thought maybe it would give him som new ideas when shaping his clouds.
Damon informed them he needed to
start on his daily training. They offered him food but he declined while getting himself in a comfortable position.
Fang and Calvus didn't completely understand it. He had just woken up from complete exhaustion and yet he wanted to train.
"He's shown that he works very hard, but I think his soul core is a little loose up there if ya know what I mean." Calvus whispered.
"I think you're right."
"I can hear you guys." Damon said opening one eye.
They left him alone while doing their own thing and after he was done. He contacted them through his coms device following their instructions to meet up.
Damon was in awe walking through the area after leaving the shelter of the tree cavity. He couldn't help but to touch and grab things and as he did. Notifications came into his sight.
[By product of a Dormant Beast- Grand prime Maturity.]
Damon blinked and stepped away from the small glowing bush he was touching.
"By product...grand prime beast." he whispered with a shakey voice fearing the worse, uniform he read it again.
"Dormant..... that means inactive, could a grand prime died here. Maybe, these herbs and trees are growing because of its death, being used as a super fertilizer or something he thought.
Touching another, he received a notification.
[Red Beast fern-(super rare )- craftable.]
His eyes widened...he then rushed around touching many different trees, herbs and even the bugs. Everything was apart of the so called Dormant beast and all of it was craftable.
"Did the system choose to unlock the craft skill because of the place I was in or was it luck."
The system had also made a new daily task which was to craft one new item daily. Thinking about it Damon felt it was a bit of luck and the system doing. He thought about the spiders and knew killing them was all luck as well.
Strolling to his stats his luck was the highest at 30. Thinking back further, It always had been from the time he received the system. He was starting to think luck was on his side from the very beginning, even after being captured he was the one that got away, although many of the situations he had been in were negative, somehow it would benefit him in some way.
He had 4 attribute points and threw them all on luck raising it to 34. He knew it was an impulsive move but felt it was right. For so long he felt he was down on his luck and now it was beginning to change at a rapid pace.
"Hey Damon, you ok, what's the hold up." Asked Calvus through the coms device.
"Ugh, nothing I'm just site seeing, I'll meet up later back at the tree. I still have a few things to do anyway."
"Suit yourself, this stream is really refreshing."
Damon looked all around,He didn't know where to start. It was practically a gold mine of super rare herbs and bugs. He started with the field of red ferns that glowed like a small flame.
In no time he had cleared the field, he gathered herbs and even strange fruit whisping everything away in his storage, more than an hour passed and he was still at it.
He wasn't sure if was going to share his little Information with fang and Calvus. He thought of them as friends for now, but didn't know if they would treat him the same if they ever got back home. With those thoughts in mind he chose to be selfish.
"They've probably took a few things from this place as well. It's no way they wouldn't." He thought.
He stopped for a moment as he was beginning to re-think, Dormant didn't mean Dead, it meant sleep in a sense.
"What if it awaken, why was all of these things apart of it, what type of beast was it. "
His mind began spinning with questions he didn't know the answer to. Looking back at where the ferns were and the blooming tree he was standing beside he looked at the base of it.
It was weeds everywhere and even they were considered super rare and craftable. Getting on his knees he began to dig. The soil was soft and had a nice smell releasing an aroma that made him feel relaxed.
[Wasp roots]
[Frog weed]
[Soil blossom]
[Star fruit]
[Husk branch]
[Blue circadians]
[Chick larva]
[Dusk worm]
[Poppy worm]
[White moth]
[Red moth]
These were some of the craftable Ingredients he stored away, from roots to small insects in which he killed first in order to store. Fruits and many other strange craftable items.
As he dug he started putting the soil in his storage as well after discovering the dirt was called soil blossom. 15 minutes later he had dug a five foot hole using just his hands. The soil kept caving in because it was so soft, so he widened it out to almost six foot. As he got deeper he heard footsteps. Looking up, two confused faces were looking at him inside a seven foot hole.
"So ahhhh, your workout involves digging now ?." Calvus asked.
"I suppose that's a good workout for the arms." Fang added.
"This place doesn't seem off a little? " Damon asked ignoring their smart comments.
"Well hell yea dude, from the moment we stepped on this damn planet we've been in danger. It's been beasts no matter where we go, but this place has none, not a single one. The way this place looks, you would think differently."
"Yes, we feel it's suspicious as well, It's like the small forest and vegetation is alive somehow, I can't put my finger on it." Fang added.
Damon dug and pushed back more soil when he suddenly slung his hands up in pain screaming.
"Ahhhhh."
Fang and Calvus both screamed from Damons reaction thinking the worse.
Lifting his hands up, all of his fingernails were gone like they had been ripped off. His knuckles and the top of his hands had deep cuts.
In a slight panic and confusion, they helped him out of the hole. As they looked inside, a white marble like stone with a scale pattern was seen.
[White Diamond back Caiman- Grand prime Maturity. A giant, beautiful Crocodile beast that blooms the world's most rarest trees and herbs on its back, while in a Dormant state it attracts super rare insects and bugs.]
[During its dormant state it releases it's will that mainly affects predator type beasts. The caiman's will, which is a type of soul energy keep beasts of many kinds from entering its domain except for others with a maturity level that rivals its own.]
[Not aggressive unless provoked and usually stays to itself.]
[Strengths- it's skin can cut with the slightest touch, while also being a almost impenetrable armour.]
[Weakness - while in a Dormant state it's soul beast core is separated from its body.]
"What the hell is that, and how did it do that to your hands. You literally hit it scooping out dirt and they look like they went through a shredder, you better heal that quickly." Said Calvus.
"I can't, I need the sky to use my rain to heal."
"Really, oh dude that's a terrible drawback with your ability."
Fang slapped Calvus upside the head while gesturing for him to shut up.
Damon took out the the red berry with green stripes that fang gave to them back in the cave. His wounds slowly healed while they spoke a little more about the matter.
Fang just looked at it in thought while activating his coms device.
"It's called a white diamond back caiman, It's supposedly extinct. Apparently their are only three types, a black, white and red one. Each one has different abilities and are believed to be born at a high maturity."
"They all have a dormant state and only 5 has ever been seen, while one has been recorded down as conquered. Which was a very long time ago by Nicholas mundane." Fang said reading the information from the coms device.
"Nicholas mundane, He's the one who created the first coms devices and a ton of more technology. His family is one of the richest in the world due to technology besides Mr. Bell."
"I saw his picture and story in the history books, but nothing ever said anything about him capturing a beast of that nature."
Damon listened carefully as he activated the coms device Gavin gave to him and the tablet comms as well. The information was exactly the same as fangs, Damon had thought fang skipped some details, but that wasn't the case.
It didn't mention anything about their dormant state, or abilities. If their are three kinds it would make sense that all of their dormant abilities were different as well.
He then scanned the area with the coms device and got nothing.
"The coms devices we have are just prototypes remember?. They can't input information such as trees and herbs. The newer version are set to be released to the public in a year I believe, those things can do it all." Calvus said to Damon seeing his actions.
Damon smiled inwardly as he was kind of happy, he also felt a little bad as well because he had information they didn't have.
"So do you know any of these herbs and trees." Damon questioned.
"Nope, but now that I know it's literally growing on top of a beast, that's believed to be extinct. I'm sure they could be worth something." Calvus said with sparkling eyes while rubbing his hands together. Fang agreed to his statement, but kept his excitement underwraps.
"Wait, what if messing with this stuff wakes it up, I mean you said it had a dormant state, well it has to be in it right now. Otherwise we'd be dead already." Damon said just as Calvus was about to pluck a purple and pink colored fruit from a tree.