Chapter 46: The late one

Kritos and Sanju were silently moving throughout the bushes. The density of monsters in this area is exceptionally high, and the drop of blood could be seen everywhere. 

Blood painted the trees in messy strokes, the feathered splatter of arterial spray. It dripped down the trees, pooling darkly into the soil. As they approached the scene, the ground made a damp squelch noise, like water being pressed from a wet sponge, and viscous crimson liquid welled up warmly between Kritos toes, staining the skin.

Both were quite shocked; they were away for a few minutes, and the scenes dramatically changed. The harmony between monsters didn't last for a second after that creepy demonic frog flew. 

The creepy smell of the blood kept disturbing them. Kritos made a plan to snatch the remaining crystal through the use of skill.

Kritos was somewhat afraid after seeing the large number of monsters. Afraid of stealing the crystal behind their nose. Worried about the situation which will be created after the sudden disappearance of Crystal. 

At the depth of the pit, ten crystals are peacefully lying there. Monsters don't dare to spoil the holy place, so they were fighting outside the void. 

Most of the stronger monsters effortlessly got their hands on each crystal through dominance. But after that, low intelligence monsters started the massacre between them for the few crystals.

Kritos glanced at the holy place; a disgusted look appeared on his face," Really, the crystals are a byproduct of that ugly frog waste."

It was not easy to find the fruit in the midst of the violent battle. Sanju was certainly convinced that the fruit must be eaten by a monster. However, he just wanted to search for his satisfaction. 

"Kritos, I don't think it's a good idea to search now. I can't protect you while scanning the area from my qi wave." Sanju whispered

Kritos was just waiting for this moment, " Looks like I have to stay here, elder brother, you go, search for it. I will wait for you here." Kritos dejectedly said.

Sanju thought for a brief second and said," Ok, but if you notice any danger, don't hesitate to use the allure leaf."

Allure leaf is a leaf of a plant that produces two types of leaves. One is reddish-blue, and the other looks reddish-brown. Both of them exist in pairs. If anyone of them is broken from the middle part, the other one will fade away through particles. Regardless of anything, the distance between them must not be higher than 150 meters approx. 

Before coming to the nameless forests, most of the affluent travelers kept it for safety purposes.

Allure leaf is a common thing in the three great clans of Rewa city as each of them had a farm for the allure plant.

Kritos nodded his head in confirmation. 

***

'I can't make a mistake if high-rank monsters notice a human stealing their sacred crystal. They will pursue me to the end of the world.' Kritos thought before activating the shadow form.

It was the moment when Sanju left Kritos in search of the magical fruit in a particular direction.

<The unnoticeable Shadow form>

All the monsters across the zone saw a distortion a few distances away from them. Some of them arrived at a distance to know the reason for the disturbance.

Unexpectedly there was nothing; confusedly, they decided to continue their unfinished business.

While the monsters were in shock due to the commotion, Kritos was on his way.

He passes through the monster horde. After a second, he silently approaches the holy place of monsters.

At the edge of the pit, Kritos has a sigh of relief. He was lucky enough that all high-rank monsters left this place after obtaining the spiritual crystal. For the transformation, they need a secular place where no one will disturb them.

Without generating much noise through the steps, Kritos walked down to the bottom of the void. 

Kritos don't know that if the monsters were not fighting with each other. They would have certainly heard the noise of his footsteps. 

'Finally, I can unite with all of you.' Kritos smirked 

He doesn't waste any time and puts all of them in his storage function of the System.

'Only 10 seconds before they notice something unusual.' Kritos thought

They could have noticed it earlier, but as they were busy doing their stuff. It may take a few seconds.

In these ten seconds, Kritos has to leave the surrounding area. 

'Fast!'

Kritos crazily flew from the spot. However, his analysis was a bit miscalculated.

Roar!!...

Within 3 seconds after the disappearance of the Spiritual crystal. A monster growled and informed the missing of their spoil of war.

'Fuck! Aren't you fighting? Why did you not concentrate on your stuff?' Kritos cursed at the particular lion-shaped monster.

Kritos ran as fast he could; he knew within a few seconds all monsters would go crazy.

After running 50 meters away from the pit, Kritos tore the reddish-brown leaf from his hand. The mission was complete, and his plan was successful. Now, they just have to escape from here.

Roar!! Grrr!!! Crrr!!!!...

All monsters cried out in pain and started ramping all around the forest in search of the thief.

At this moment, Sanju heard the cries of the monsters and saw the disappearance of a reddish-blue leaf from his left hand.

'Now, what have you done, brother.' Sanju murmurs and runs in the direction of Kritos.

Kritos was hiding in the bushes of a tall tree, 80 meters away from the monster's horde. He has deactivated his Shadow form so that Sanju can sense his presence from this distance.

Unbeknownst to him, even some monsters have also sensed his presence due to his negligence.

Sanju instantly detects Kritos presence and moves in his direction.

"Shit!"

Kritos saw some monsters approaching in his direction.

He quickly activated Scrounger Assassin art: Scently proboscis to check the position of his elder brother.

Soon, Kritos saw a figure who was rushing in his direction.

Kritos jumped down on the ground and began running as fast he could. He knows Sanju was more than enough to stop a few rank zero monsters. 

***

"What have you done? They are crazily pursuing us for an hour," Sanju asked.

Till now, one hour has passed, both Kritos and Sanju keep fleeing from the monster's horde. 

This Monster horde is only made of low-rank monsters. So, they just have to hide from them for almost an hour. Soon, they will segregate from the horde as there is no leader among them.

Kritos tossed a fruit from his pocket towards Sanju while sitting on the branch of a dense tree.

"T-This!"

Sanju observed the fruit for a second before unrecognizing it.

"Brother, you must have mistaken this fruit as a magical fruit. It must be a type of poison fruit." Sanju sadly said.

Sanju nearly knows most of the look of the magical fruits, even some legendary magic fruits. But he never saw a fruit that had a black spot on its bottom.

A confused look appears on Kritos face, " Brother, are you sure? You never saw this magical fruit."

"No, never. Let's keep it with us. We will further ask about it from grandfather." Sanju said.

Kritos had faith in the System. Till now, it never lies. Kritos thought that this fruit must be some unknown magical fruit that is not known to the ordinary public, and asking about it from his maternal grandfather is useless. Moreover, it will create a massive problem if people of other clans know about this news.

"Brother, do you believe in me?" Kritos suddenly asked

Not knowing what Kritos wanted to ask, Sanju simply replied with a word," Of course, brother."

Kritos hesitated for a second, but he unconditionally trusted his elder brother after the life and death experience.

"I think I'm a late awakener, the late one," Kritos said

As Sanju heard, a stunning expression appeared on his face. 

The late ones are mostly a group of cultivators who started cultivation at a late age compared to the normal cultivator. Due to losing the most promising time of cultivation, they have a hard chance to further advance into the cultivation world. But they weren't known for this. Most of them had unknown high ranked soul beasts into their body. They were known for their battle powers. It was unpredictably hard for any same rank cultivator to defeat them.

The late one hasn't appeared since the last great continental war. Almost 2 thousand years ago.

However, one thing is common between each of them, A unique innate trait. Almost all of them had broken the laws of normality. 

"Really?" Sanju once again asked for the confirmation 

He can't believe his brother is one of the anomalies. Who was known as the late one?

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