Chapter 260 Crocs

"Not yet," Wolf whispers as he watches a giant crocodile that was coming out of a river in the IronBark Woods, together with the crocodile were many more of his brethren that neared a carcass of a giant steel bear that Reign and the others had killed.

The crocodiles emerge from the water and finally get to the bear, immediately start devouring the body, the normal crocodiles had some difficulty biting through the incredibly thick skin of the bear and would roll around in an attempt to destroy the body part and eat it while the gigantic elite crocodile was munching the bear as its incredibly sharp teeth had no problem biting through the tough fur and skin.

[ Lvl 45 Elite Rock Crocodile ]

The crocodiles were gray in color and when they stopped near rocks, they were almost impossible to spot, the incredible camouflaging ability they possessed made them incredibly deadly hunters as most enemies would find themselves caught in the death trap that is their jaws before they even understood what had happened.

Not only did the crocodile's skin allow it to camouflage itself, however, but it gave the monsters incredible defense as well. Reign and the others found the crocodiles by accident, they were simply walking through the forest when they heard shrieks coming from the direction of the river, upon arriving they found a monster, well pieces of a monster being devoured by the crocodile.

Upon seeing that there were more that joined it they wanted to try and get them outside of the river and hunt them. First, they needed some bait as it would be too dangerous to fight the monsters without drawing them all at one place, even with Reign's mana sensitivity it was possible to miss a couple of them during battle which could prove fatal.

They were lucky as they had managed to find a lvl 46 Dire Bear. The monster was 2.5 meters tall and 6 meters long, a variant that usually lived alone. It was immensely powerful and most creatures would stay away from it, but underneath the joined attacks of Reign and the others, it simply stood no chance. Upon killing it they simply threw its carcass a couple of meters from the river, the smell of blood spread through the area and the crocodiles quickly reacted.

​ "I guess it's a good thing that we took the valuable materials from the bear before doing this." Shadow gulped as he watched the crocodiles mercilessly rip apart the bear's body, pieces of flesh and blood flew around as the cold-hearted monsters destroyed the giant carcass in front of them.

The elite crocodile was the only one that they needed to look out for, being 1.5 meters tall and an incredible 10 meters long the giant monster was definitely going to be a tough opponent.

"Now." Wolf suddenly says and they all spring into action. Laura immediately used her demonic energy and sent missiles created from it toward the crocodiles while Beast used his explosive arrows and launched 6 of them at once.

Reign created a huge lightning spear and sent it towards the elite crocodile after merging it with the Shiverspine while Wolf launched a fireball that was 5m in diameter at the monsters. Shadow used his shadow manipulation and created tens of shadow spikes beneath the crocodiles. Tank and Greenie didn't have any long-range AOE attacks so they simply used what they had, Tank used his [ Shield Rocket ] skill while Greenie used his [ Crescent Kick ].

The quick salvo of attacks caught the crocodiles by surprise and many of them perished thanks to that. The giant elite crocodile had a spear stabbed into his back as lightning flickered around him, it was obvious that even though the attack did manage to injure him, it wasn't a very serious injury while the lightning was unable to shock the enormous monster.

Reign and the others immediately close the distance and engage in a close-quarters fight with the crocodiles, Tank, and Greenie were taking on the elite while the others were killing off the smaller crocodiles, there were originally over 30 crocodiles near the river but now there were less than 20 of them.

Beast unleashed his tamed beasts that immediately went after the crocodiles, each of them was a variant and their strength was above the crocodiles, only the elite one was a danger to them. There was one addition in the ranks of the beasts as Beast had managed to tame another one. A small figure could be seen slithering towards the unsuspecting crocodiles before lunging towards one.

A 1.5m long snake had suddenly bitten through the crocodile's thick skin and poisoned it, quickly the snake let go and moved toward a new prey as the crocodile started convulsing in pain. The seemingly small and insignificant snake was the new beast that he had tamed, its small size and relatively harmful appearance was a trap that most players and monsters would fall for. The small snake had managed to almost trick Reign and the others the first time they came upon it, the small snake was simply hanging from a tree, judging from its size there was nothing that Reign and the others could see that would threaten them.

That was a giant mistake as the snake had quickly lunged at them the moment they turned around, thanks to its small size it was able to move lightning-fast, its fangs were incredibly sharp while its poison was something else entirely. The powerful poison worked similar to how Shadow's daggers did, not only was it deadly and acted fast, but it had corrosive properties and could destroy wood, metal, rocks, and more.

Not only was the snake hard to hit but it was fast, each time the team thought they had it, it would manage to escape from them, charging at them when they least expected it or retreating when it was in a seemingly good position and had a slight advantage.

In the end, it was Reign together with Shadow that caught the snake. Shadow used his shadow manipulation and made the area around the snake covered in shadow bindings, no matter where the snake tried to escape it would be attacked by the bindings while Reign unleashed his white and black lightning and caught up to it immediately. Even with such a boost to his speed, Reign still had to struggle to overtake the snake.

The monster was hard to deal with but after being caught by Shadow's bindings however it became very docile, even when Reign grabbed it by the head it didn't try to escape or attack him, merely wrapping its body around his arm gently while staring at his eyes. Everyone was intrigued by the small monster and Beast tried taming it, only to be shocked after succeeding immediately, the snake offered no resistance to his taming attempt and he was able to gain a new beast that day.

During his training with the beautiful elf trainer and by conversing with the other elves however he was able to get a better understanding of his ability and was able to tame monsters more easily.

Now the little creature was one of their greatest advantages, not only was it incredibly fast, but its movement was silent and most would never even notice it before it was too late. Its gray scales gave it good camouflage in the seemingly dead inner depths of the IronBark Woods and it was a scary opponent to face.

The crocodiles quickly start dying after being attacked, by Reign and the others they were defenseless as their thick skin was broken and cut apart by the party. Greenie's hammer worked incredibly well against the elite crocodile, its hard skin protected it immensely against blades, but the blunt impact of the hammer was able to hurt its insides and the monster tried multiple times to attack him.

Unfortunately for it, Tank was always there to block every single attack it made, with him blocking the beast Greenie was able to deliver attack after attack, at one point he saw the spear that was halfway in the monster and had a nasty smirk on his face.

Greenie jumped high in the air before coming down and attacking the beast with his hammer, no, to be more exact he wasn't aiming at the crocodile but the spear that was stabbed in its back. With great power he smashes the hammer down and hits the end of the spear, forcing it to enter even deeper into the crocodile's body.

The giant monster suddenly started flailing around in pain as its long tail whipped towards Tank who barely managed to block it, the attack, however, managed to push him back and the crocodile immediately used the opportunity to attack Greenie who had just landed on the ground.

Seeing the giant jaws coming at him Greenie immediately activated his [ Vajra Might ] and grabbed the jaws of the monster. Being about 4m tall Greenie was able to contend against the monster in strength, soon the crocodile tried spinning around but Greenie simply let it go before jumping on its back and grabbing the neck with both hands.

The two wrestled for a while as the others cleaned up the other crocodiles while Tank was merely watching Greenie, he wasn't jumping in as he could see that the ogre was currently having fun. As long as the crocodile doesn't get too close to the river then it would ok.