All of this success grew the morale of the troops vigorously. Only the soldiers of the border defense army looked at all of these with speechless expressions on their faces. As they are very puzzled about the antics of the soldiers from the capital. Even though they are proud to be able to defend, and sacrifice in case of emergency for the kingdom, they are very serious about it.
But the soldiers from the capital seemed abnormal compared to themselves with their maniacal attitudes toward hunting the largest animal in the land.
The border defense soldiers didn't say anything and did their obligations as usual. As they were not the ones who were gonna go with the capital soldiers when they crossed the river. City administrator Joe Vika already ordered them to wait at this river shore. So they just patrolled, cooked, and accomplished their tasks.
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Meanwhile, John waited patiently for the arrival of the animal with an immortal trait in the forest beside the river. He would move only when he hunted for food and other activities.
Just as John continued his daily routine of observing the surroundings and concentrating on the river shore. He suddenly heard a light noise that made him drop what he was doing and concentrate on the river shore. As there are not many land animals around this area of the river.
Just as John guessed, he found a six to seven-meter-long lizard-like creature with a huge head and black-colored scales on the river bank and basking in the sunlight. After basking in the sun, it moved toward a large tree near the shore and dug a tank-sized pit.
The creature spit out a vicious thick liquid in the pit evenly, which covered the mud and created a resistant material with an elastic texture. Then the creature looked around with an alert expression on his face.
John looked at all of this, as he moved near it. He didn't hunt the creature then and there, because he was also curious about the actions of the creature.
The creature spit out dozens of black objects from its mouth into the pit, after confirming there was no threatening animal around it with its senses, it continued its actions.
John neared the animal very patiently in a camouflaged state without alerting the creature. The creature spit out the last of the eggs and rested on the shore with a tired expression.
John successfully circled the creature in its weakened phase, he didn't hunt the creature, as he waited to see if the creature would do anything else. The creature stood up, after taking a rest for a few minutes. There are other predators that would kill it specifically, and if it waited any more time, it may become an unfortunate victim.
Seeing that the creature was trying to get to the river, John didn't waste any time as he dispersed poisonous fog into the surroundings of the creature. But to his astonishment, the creature continued to move toward the river with poisoned symptoms.
John was surprised that this creature had higher poison resistance than any other poisonous animal he knew. He neared the struggling creature slowly and carried it away with his tail to an unknown destination. A few hours later, John stopped before a small pond beside a rotten tree.
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He threw the creature into the pond and cut off its leg. The injured creature's leg healed at a very rapid pace, so he continued to cut every part of the creature and provided it with enough food. After a few experiments, John found that the creature successfully healed even sensitive parts like eyes and internal organs.
This creature appeared to be the pinnacle of the animals with a regenerative ability. At last, he even cut out a part of the brain of the creature, and surprisingly. The creature's brain regrew without any difference from the previous state successfully. John looked at the creature with glowing eyes, as he already decided to use this creature as the next race.
He then proceeded to test the extent of its healing ability by cutting the creature in half. Surprisingly, the creature healed by eating the other half of its body. John decided to call this creature an undead lizard, at the same time he lamented that this creature didn't have overpowering attack ability. Otherwise, these creatures would have occupied most of the river.
As he thought about this, John remembered about the eels and understood that even if these undead lizards had super regeneration. They would die, if they faced the monstrous electric eels that can kill the cell activity of any living being.
John concluded that eels were almost a natural enemy of these undead lizards. If the eels are not there, the lizards will surely outgrow and dominate this region. He swallowed the undead lizard in one bite, as he was not in any emergency to be born again this soon with his remaining lifespan. John departed from there and entered the deep forest.
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As John was spending his time leisurely. There was a group of people who didn't want him to experience any type of peaceful environment. They are the High Humans from the capital who were all very eager to get a piece of him.
Major Kevin rubbed his forehead with a distressed expression. As there was still no sign of support troops from the capital, the support troop was already late considering their skills and capabilities. He was already having headaches with how things were going. If anything happened to the support troop the consequence would be disastrous.
Even though the chance of such a thing happening to the support troop was almost close to nil. He couldn't stop worrying considering the current situation.
~Knock~ ~Knock~
He heard the knocking sound, so he organized himself and said in a majestic tone “Come in.”
A soldier from Kevin’s troop entered and said with an not well-hidden excitement on his face while trying to maintain a solemn expression “Major, there's something in the sky flying towards our camp at a very fast speed.”
Kevin couldn't help but reminisce about his days as a soldier under his team captain seeing the young soldier in front of him. After a short reminiscent, he said to the soldier in a serious tone “Go on and inform all the teams to assemble in an open area in a combat formation.”
The young soldier nodded his head solemnly and departed from there to inform the other teams to assemble. There's still time for that, as he found the incoming air attack only with the large telescope invented recently, by the kingdom. Kevin looked at the young soldier's antics with a smile, as he knew who was coming.
He couldn't help but show a funny expression on his face, upon thinking about the solemnness showed on the young soldier’s face.
A few minutes later, everyone from Kevin’s troop gathered in the open space wearing their full armor and weapons. Kevin also came wearing a full set of armor with well-groomed hair and clothes. The soldiers showed doubtful expressions on their faces, as they had not seen their Major like this before.
But the team captains and some veteran soldiers showed a knowing expression on their faces. Kevin pretended not to notice their expressions, he appeared serious and ordered his troops “Soldiers! Defense formation.”
The soldiers formed a defense formation with their shields in front of them with their teammates making it harder for anything to attack from the sky. All of them looked at the black dots that were nearing them with serious expressions. Their expression changed as the black dots came near little by little.
Some of the young soldiers looked at the Major with doubtful expressions on their faces. Seeing this, Kevin ordered timely “Soldiers! Stand straight.”
Even though they all have doubts about the reason for the previous order. They still followed Kevin's order solemnly, as that is the first and foremost important rule in the army. They all still looked at Kevin with scrutinizing eyes, unable to stand this atmosphere even with this thick skin.
Kevin looked at them and questioned with a serious expression “What were you all looking at? It's a training exercise to see your reactions. You all did good and didn't disappoint me.”
Hearing this young recruits showed proud expressions on their face, even if they were somewhat suspicious about this. Kevin heaved a sigh of relief seeing that soldiers turned their attention away from him and looked at the figures that reached his camp and flew above him.
They were a group of people Kevin was waiting for. This group of people are all High Humans who were sent as a backup troop for Kevin’s request. This troop was famous for their fast traveling ability and they were known as the fierce eagle troop.
Kevin’s eye landed on the leading large eagle of this group, the leading eagle carried the Major of this elite troop. The leading eagle was five meters long and ten meters wide with metal-like feathers that shone under the sun. The Major of the fierce eagle troop jumped from the eagle’s back from twenty meters above the ground and stood before Kevin encircled by the sand dust.