55 Prepare for war (1/2)

I slowly advanced forward. The area around me was far different than I had left it. There was not a single Rosethorn Constrictor to be seen. The creature had once been the Apex predator of the area, and yet now it was simply gone.

The thought sent chills down my spine as I vaguely remembered the various events when I left the forest. Due to my discovery of how to activate the were-rabbits latent Gene's, the lycan god Fenfir had taken away his once failed creations.

The rabbits had been the main source of food for the Rosethorn Constrictors. They had also fed another creature, the Velocinids. These creatures were actually the reason I was here, they would make great prey for Hylia. The main reason was not the easy experience she could get, rather that as a bug they belonged to that filthy bug God.

An ominous feeling welled up in my heart as I recalled the events of the past. I silently cast my new spell, [Bone and Poison Short Sword], keeping it in my main hand as I crept forward.

I eventually approached my original home, but had yet to see a single Velocinid. The absence of the pack hunting beast caused me to feel extremely unnerved. The cave was different than when I had left it. It had only been around a month, and yet it had already been taken back by the Dark Forest. Small sprouting trees could be seen growing in what had once been a clearing.

They had most definitely not been there before, and Hylia told me that such growth was not natural, but all too common in the Dark Forest. I slowly crept past the trees and entered the cave that had once been my home.

The inside of the cave had changed even more than the outside world. The once earthen walls were now riddled with the familiar vines of the Rosethorn. As we traveled in more of the vines appeared. Finally we approached the room in the very back of the cave. The room that had the stream running through it. The room had been almost completely blocked off by vines, but I was just barely able to crawl through.

Inside I was greeted by hundred of Velocinids. They stood perfectly still, but they seemed to be randomly dispersed, none of them pointing in any particular direction. Upon closer inspection I could see that each of the Velocinids was covered in small versions of themselves.

I had walked into a massive breeding ground for the beasts. Horror filled my heart as I stared at the scene before me. The amount of Velocinids thst were being bread here was enough for an army. The closest source of food around would be Slagstone City.

I silently crept around the room, as I got further back the horror that had filled my heart upgraded to complete terror. There beings were located at the back of the cave, all of them kneeled before a statue. A vague holy aura could be felt from the statue. Closer inspection showed that it was the figure of a male arachne. The bug god Ishra had again made a move.

The three figures before the statue were all completely different. One was a gigantic Velocinid. It was around five times larger than the previous Alpha I had seen. Next to it was a Rosethorn Constrictor. The normal purple flower of the beast was blood red.