Chapter 270: Banyan Expanse
Sam was done being passive, now he is going to be in the active role.
Now that he has a layout of the whole island in his hands, he can afford to be a little more aggressive and he is going to use this to his maximum advantage.
After dealing with the Gorilla, his next plan is to deal with the rock panther. This time, he needs the help of Jack and Hawk.
These Rock panthers have a high affinity with the earth element and but they also know how to detect the enemies within a certain range based on the vibrations of the earth.
The main problem is they are extremely cautious and they don't like to take risks at all.
Unless they are confirmed that the prey is completely weaker than them and they are confident that they can certainly win.
They are cunning and intelligent, they can blend in the environment easily and attack the prey. Their only drawback is their character of greed. They eat a lot. In fact, a little too much for a beast of their size and level.
So, Sam is going to use this situation to his advantage.
The four of them appeared at the territory of the Panther and they stayed put without moving. All of them are in the same spot and without doing anything and retreated their aura to the point of appearing week.
Sam took out some blood and applied it all over the three of them.
"It would be quite dangerous if you are like this, so reduce your activity as much as possible. Wait for my signal."
Sam then disappeared into the woods.
At this moment, the panther smelled the blood and moved towards them. Like any other beast, that didn't move and jump on them crazily.
It slowly started moving towards them, so much that it didn't even have them in its vision it is only moving based on the smell.
After a few seconds, Sam used the communication token and said.
"Move."
Suddenly the three of them moved a few feet backward. The panther stopped in its tracks. It felt something a miss but the smell of blood was still there, so it moved cautiously and it saw some bloody trails.
It is as if some injured people are moving with the blood dripping all over them.
So, its suspicions were reduced a bit and moved.
After a few of these movements, the panther finally spotted them laying weakly fainted on the ground.
It looked around and sniffed for some time and just like that, it leaped at them at this exact moment, Sam made his move. One kick. He kicked the panther on top of the head and crashed it on the ground.
The head crashed into it and the swamp opened.
Again, the swamp swallower.
But this time, the panther struggled a lot. Its body shined and it activated the earth elemental fusion and tried to move.
In fact, it almost came out. But Sam didn't let it come out. He took out the reaper and slashed it on the back of the panther. The blood started to gush out and the swamp swallowed the whole beast.
Another beast was taken care of.
Now, Sam didn't do much about Philp who was in an inheritance, he would be safely delivered to the tower, so their duty is clearing the beasts one by one.
The next target is a flying beast.
A Golden-Winged eagle.
This thing rules the sky in a specific location, but near the territory of that beast, there is another creature that rules everything there.
So, now it is Sam's turn to be the bait and lure the beast there and the remaining three are going to stay at a safe distance apart so that they could make move at the right moment without any delay.
Sam directly went to the nest of the beast and plucked a feather off of it.
He then turned the tail and ran.
Well, he actually hovered over on harbinger and the eagle followed. The massive eagle can carry at least four people on its back and they can even lay down and sleep.
The beast and a man are in a chase and soon Sam saw an expanse of a banyan tree.
The banyan tree has vines hanging on over and every vine will have roots at the ends. When they grow long enough, the roots touch the ground a new tree will form from that place.
In his previous life, he knew how large a banyan tree expanse can be. In West Bengal a state of India there is a large banyan tree expanse there was a banyan tree expanse that expanded for kilometers.
But this one expanded for only a few hundred meters and stopped.
Sam dived into the banyan tree expanse and the harbinger was completely full of wind elemental energy and fire elemental energy.
At the same moment, the remaining three people threw some attacks at the trees.
Suddenly, all the vines on the banyan tree reacted, at that exact moment the eagle also dived into the expanse following Sam.
But what it met is a bombardment of vines.
The vines started coiling over the bird and its wings are soon affected. It is losing its ability to fly.
At the same moment, the vines moved towards Sam too, but the combination of wind and flame element combined with his extremely high speed, he managed to ditch the vines in a nick of time.
How is that possible, because they are aversive to fire and Sam also didn't dive too deep. He made sure that he can escape.
After coming out, he floated over the expanse and looked at the eagle that was dragged down and soon became a dead body.
But before long, the eyes of the eagle opened and a pink colored glow was emitting through it.
The eagle slowly stood up and looked at Sam, it opened its wings and flew into the air. But this time, the vines didn't stop it.
Sam just hovered higher and higher, soon the eagle halted and didn't fly higher.
It looked at Sam for a while and went back down into the expanse the dense vines and leaves completely hid the beast.
Sam went back and met with the rest.
They flew towards the tower to have some rest and then they would come back.
Sam is using this method to obtain what he wants.
Out of all traps in his territory, these two traps are the best and he can use them to his full potential.
The first one the swamp swallower, increase its strength based on the consumption of the number of living things it devoured.
The more it takes, the wider it becomes and it will occupy a larger area.
He is now using the Level-4 beasts to feed them.
That is the reason he is not killing the beasts directly. After all, no matter how powerful the beasts here are, he has a myriad of ways to escape. Even thunder prison can be used for defending.
But what he needs is a way in which he can deal with the Level -5 beasts and also keep their bodies. At least the skeletons.
After all, there are all treasures hidden inside them and Sam doesn't want the treasures to go to waste.
As for, the bodies of the beasts he just sacrificed? Who said they are going to be waste?
That is the reason, he employed the two traps for his own purpose. The swamp swallower and the banyan expanse.
Actually, the banyan expanse itself is not a threat. The threat is something that has been living inside the banyan expanse. It is a parasite.
It uses the bodies of plants as host and uses the parts of those plants to attack everything that enters its territory. Apart from that, it can also temporarily zombify the beasts and other living fleshly creatures
As for the time limit, it can do so until all the muscles and the flesh are naturally decomposed.
How long can the body of a beast at that level last? Many days and months even in some cases.
But the only drawback is that the zombified beasts cannot leave the area of influence and also cannot use the elemental techniques and the bloodline skills of the beast.
He is using these two traps for his own purposes and he is going to do so.
This is the fifth day on the island and he is already on a major move. Two inheritances are already out, one of them is even completed.
When they reached the tower, the hawk didn't eat and seemed to be hesitating about saying something.
Sam asked him directly.
"Is everything okay?"
"Well, it is about the inheritance."
"What happened?"
"I got the inheritance, but I only got half of it." With that, he took out half of the scroll.
"This is the most important part of the inheritance and a person from the thunder-god temple and me are tied.
So, the scroll was divided. The inheritance will only be obtained once the two scrolls are united. I have to meet that guy."
Sam immediately understood and said.
"Let us go tomorrow then. Why waste time? The stronger you are the better."
Hawk was actually, having a hard time asking for help.
He has only a small friendship with Sam. He had received help a few times, but now he didn't dare to ask for help. Both of their statuses are very far apart. His father lost his power, but Sam can have a meeting with Emperor on a whim.
He was relieved when Sam agreed that easily.