Smash-
Crack-
Shatter-
Absorb-
Feeling the energy entering her body and the glowing tree becoming shorter-
20m
18m
15m
11m
7m
5m
3m
Up to this point, it took nearly 2hrs. And then 1.5m...Boooom!
The light particles scatter, return and then form the shape of a small metallic yet wood interwoven sphere the size of a golf ball and disappears.
"Level 1: Completion 100%
Item acquired: 1
Red sphere shards acquired: 18
Red Spheres: 1
Martial Credit: 1.8
User status: 100% Healthy
User Level: 1 100%
Transporting user to level 2..."
"User location: Level 2
Level 2 Progress: 0%
User Level: Level 2 0%
Updating information...
User Martial State: Red Sphere Origins 2
Updating User access...
...
User acquired Appraisal
Appraisal of items : 1
Description of item: Wood-metal ball
Usability: Capable of shapeshifting between two states when active
Evolutionary requirements not met-
Upgrading error..."
The transportation light fades and what comes into view is rather scenic, to say the least.
An oasis- palm trees, waterfall, sparkling flowing stream from east to the west. Fish swimming and shiny pebbles could be seen in the water.
Sometime later, behind the waterfall is an entrance to a cave. Walking 100m into the cave, Sonika notices that against the wall and on the roof- is some kind of moss glowing green and red, adding light to the passage. Advancing straight ahead, holes in the roof and on the sides seem to be tunnelled.
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Rustle-rustle (sfx)
Hearing the commotion, she edges forward slowly. 20m ahead is a big dark hole in the ceiling, and protruding out of the big hole are two slimy, robust, synthetic and transparent skin hugging fat 3m long and 0.9m wide worms eating the moss and radiating heat, giving rise to the temperature in the area.
Hand covering her mouth, "So much for scenic.", transforming the wood-metal ball into a wooden hammer, half a metre long with a crude wooden block at the end.
Taking a few steps quietly forward and with both hands swinging the hammer through the air. The moment it slams into the sidewall, a silvery glow emits from the crude block and handle-
WEEEeeeeeeeeNgggG!!! (sfx)
The two fat worms smash into the ground screeching. Elongating their bodies, beady eyes sucked into the flesh of their heads, 15 legs on each side, respectfully, protrude out from the separations of transparent skin and having eyelids on every leg, which slowly opens up, revealing eyes that only hold contempt- deep, dark and demonic, spinning while calculating the source and the light.
All the eyes lock onto Sonika and with a screech, the worms, that now look like giant centipedes with legs almost as long as her hammer, gather the heat inside their bodies, opening their mouths and compressing the air in front of it, causing the space to sound like its grinding and with a spark, spitting two red fireball towards her.
Reverting the hammer back to a ball, she runs full speed for 10m, seemingly placing a wrong footing against the ground, "Monkey loses balance-", barely missing the fireball which is now below her, with momentum, flipping through the air, throwing the wood-metal ball at the worm to the right side of the other worm.
Right above the worm on the left, Sonika descends with her right foot, "Ostrich in the garden", with a smacking sound, the ball which has just transformed into the hammer, smashes the head of the one worm and at the same time a squashed head of a worm could be seen under her sandal-