Chapter 856 Just Kids

Emery saw the five creatures were playing with dirt. Each of them was busy doing different things. Chika created multiple dirt balls and threw them around, while Chiki turned the dirt around him into a wall to block. Chiku just stood there like a statue, letting himself be pelted by the dirt balls, while Chike dug a hole in the ground to hide. Chiko, on the other hand, actually ignored them all while building a form of itself using dirt.

"Ku ku... ku."

Twik was amused with the sight and actually voiced out a little chuckle when he saw the Chizpur brothers were having fun with the dirt. However, it appeared Twiks did not just want to enjoy the fun by looking at them from Emery's shoulder. Soon after, the little wood creature wished to join and play.

Realizing the tiny wooden creature expressed an interest in joining the fun, Emery immediately grabbed Twiks and put him on the ground. He went on to say,

"It's your turn now! Are you ready?"

"Ku... kuangg!" Twik responded, as if he understood what to do.

Emery sat in front of the little creature. Seconds later, he poured in the [Metamorph Potion] onto it and channeled the [Photosynthesis] spell once more.

This time, it took him almost 6 hours before he showed any results. Apparently, this [Flora Colossi] was more difficult to be upgraded than the [Chizpur Fang] as it took about the same accumulation of spirit force of the five Chizpur brothers to help the little wood creature to break into the next stage.

[Flora Colossi upgraded to stage 5]

[Exponential increase in Battle Power]

[Received Innate Ability]

Following the same pattern as what happened with the 5 little creatures when he finished casting the [Photosynthesis] spell to them, Emery instantly received a deep insight into the element when he witnessed the changes in the creature's cell.

[Spirit Force increase]

It notified an additional 3 points of spirit force had increased. Even though it was not too much, such an amount was still very welcomed and rewarding, since this tiny wooden creature was quite difficult to upgrade.

Afterward, Emery immediately went to check on Twik. Despite the energy pebble inside him having doubled in strength, the little creature did not seem to have changed much in terms of his physical appearance.

[Flora Colossi - Stage 5]

[Legendary Creature Level 30]

[Battle Power - 95]

[Spirit Energy - Plant, Earth, Water]

[Innate Ability]

[Plant Mastery]

As expected, this one was a special one. Twik was labeled as a legendary creature, which was a classification higher than the five Chizpur brothers, who were magical creatures. The fact he had such formidable battle power for such a small creature was also quite extraordinary.

"Plant mastery… what kind of skill is this, Twik?"

"Kuang… kuang."

Unfortunately, even after reaching stage 5, the communication between them was still unclear. For the time being, he was only able to sense the emotion of the creature and had not yet heard him speak actual words.

Either way, Emery was very satisfied with himself for having successfully created such a lifeform from a mere seed. He then shifted his attention to look at the five chubby creatures once again and wondered what else he could do with them, or else maybe it's time for him to continue on his own preparation for the mid-test. It should be less than a week away.

Emery was about to check the detail on the bracelet, when he realized something was amiss. To be more specific, one of the chubby creatures was gone. He recounted the Chizpur brothers to ensure their number and it turned out that one of them was indeed not in his line of sight.

"Where is Chiku?" Emery quickly asked, his voice tinged with panic.

When the question was thrown, all of the little creatures stopped what they were doing and looked at him innocently. Just by looking at their reactions, Emery realized there was no point in asking these little rascals.

There was no doubt that one little guy had gone missing, as Emery could not sense his presence in his spirit cave. This meant there could only be one possible explanation, Chiku just burrowed itself out of the cave.

"Seriously…." Emery heaved a sigh as he instantly got a headache. He never thought he would find himself facing such a situation.

"They really are kids!"

He quickly concentrated on his spirit reading to sense his surroundings. Lucky for him, his cultivation upgrade had also increased the range of his spirit reading ability, making it easier for him to locate the missing chubby creature.

Previously Emery's spirit reading range was about 50 miles, and now that he has reached a breakthrough to rank 9, he was able to scan as far as 70 to 80 miles.

His spirit cave was located on a peak of a stone hill, about 20 miles above the island, while the flying island itself was just about 200 miles wide. The question was, how far would such a little creature have gone? He should have been able to sense him right away.

Surprisingly, he couldn't.

It appeared that sensing a little plant was not the same as sensing a powerful magus. After a while, he came to the realization this wasn't an easy job, especially when he had to track down the one that burrows to the ground.

Emery could only heave a sigh and decided to search for the missing little creature immediately. Nevertheless, right before he was about to go, he looked toward the other chubby yellow creatures and said,

"I can trust all of you boys to stay here, right? You won't go anywhere?"

The four that were left did not give any response other than showing some innocent-looking face. This only made Emery anxious, losing his trust in any of them, especially given the fact there were several burrowed holes in the place.

Since he could not leave them by themselves, for their own safety and for Emery's peace of mind, he swiftly made a little circle in the air with his finger and opened up his spatial space, which he realized also had an upgrade in its size. It was almost half the size of his cave by this point.

"Come in all," he asked the four Chizpur creatures to get into his spatial space.

Even though it's probably not the best place for them, it was definitely the safest place he could think of at the moment. Emery also needed to check whether or not there would be some side effects of leaving them inside his spatial space.

All of the four Chizpurs jumped in the circle one by one to get into his spatial space. Twik, on the other hand, still attached himself tightly to his shoulder unwilling to enter the space.

"Alright, as long as you promise to be a good boy," he said, while looking at the tiny wooden creature.

Emery then walked out of his spirit cave and used the [Orbitor] to first fly around the stone hill and focused on his spirit reading to scan any plant life forms that may exist. Unfortunately, the whole place was brimming with a plant lifeform.

"I really need to find a way to track you guys, if I'm ever going to let you wander free again," he uttered to himself.

Given the difficulty in locating the little creature among the other life forms in this place, Emery flew all the way from the top of the stone hill and down to the island. He had no idea how powerful the little creature's burrowing skill was.

When he arrived at the island, however, instead of finding Chiku's energy signature he had been looking for, he found multiple figures approaching at high speed from a distance towards the island.

As soon as he became aware of this, Emery was quickly alarmed and prepared himself for what was about to happen. If he was to meet a dangerous situation, he would casted [Blink] or [Spatial Gate] as soon as possible, but for the time being, he was curious about what this was all about.

As the figure started to get closer, he realized there were seven figures on their way to him. All of them were the privileged acolytes, and to his surprise, Emery recognized five of them as well.

"Hahahah, what a stroke of luck! The fool out of the cave!" Energy heard a voice from the distance.

The voice came from the now familiar Bradley Raven, the same privileged acolyte who challenged and bothered him just a few hours ago. Surprisingly, there were also three Nephilim acolytes with Armand Nephilim among them. Following them, there was also one particular half man half machine, the one who gave him much trouble at the last arena fight: Atlas III.

He was certain these people came looking for trouble.

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Written and Directed by Avans, Published by W.e.b.n.o.v.e.l,