The Fire Origin Beast liked to devour fire-attribute treasures. Therefore, Lucas prepared a pile of Blazing Nine Leaf Grass.
He carefully buried these items at the center of the trap, with some scattered across several locations. Moreover, he concealed them with extreme precision to prevent the Fire Origin Beast from consuming all the bait in one go, ensuring there would still be time to act if needed.
Everything was ready. The only thing left was for the Fire Origin Beast to come and take the bait.
The two of them climbed a tall tree and lay down on the treetop. They hid their auras completely as well and started waiting.
Night soon fell. A curtain of darkness enveloped the entire forest. The bait had been set up. The two of them were hiding on the treetops and were waiting. Everything was calm as usual.
After four more hours, there was still no movement. At this time, Aiden had already relaxed to the point of falling asleep.
"Sizzle! Sizzle!"
Lucas's eyes were also closed, but suddenly his ears twitched as if he had sensed something. In an instant, he opened his eyes and looked down, his body remaining completely still.
What he saw was a massive fiery-red python with white stripes streaking across its scarlet skin. The serpent flicked its tongue as it slithered gracefully through the forest.
The sound of its movement snapped Aiden out of his daze, and he carefully peered down.
It wasn't a Fire Origin Beast!
Instinctively, he glanced at Lucas, who was perched on the tree opposite him. Their eyes met in silent understanding.
Lucas stretched out a finger and waved it at Aiden, signaling him not to act rashly.
The red and white-striped python steadily moved closer to the center of the trap, eventually slithering inside.
Once there, it used its strong head to push aside the grass and soil Lucas and Aiden had carefully layered. It dug through the ground until it unearthed a fire-attributed herb. The python's blood-red eyes gleamed with excitement as it opened its mouth wide, revealing rows of sharp fangs, and swallowed the Blazing Nine Leaf Grass in one swift gulp.
Immediately after, the python's body began to radiate a reddish glow. Its temperature rose sharply. Its long body coiled tightly, and before long, it became completely motionless.
After that, this python began to evolve. Its bones started transforming. Transformation takes time and thus minutes after minutes started passing. Soon, hours passed.
Lucas and Aiden stayed on top of the tree patiently. They silently observed without acting.
After half a day of effort, the python broke through and became a Level 9 Second-tier Star Beast.
Aiden frowned when he saw this. This did not seem to be going according to their plan.
What about the Fire Origin Beast?
Just as Aiden was filled with concern, Lucas suddenly raised his hand, signaling that it was time to act.
In the distance, a ball of fire could be seen bouncing closer and closer. As it approached, they realized it wasn't just a ball of fire, it was a massive four-legged Star Beast. Its skin appeared to be made of fire itself, with flames constantly flickering and swirling around its entire body.
Aiden instinctively held his breath as a single thought flashed in his mind: "The Fire Origin Beast has arrived!"
Wherever the Fire Origin Beast stepped, the grass beneath its hooves was instantly reduced to ashes. It was powerful and fearless. It advanced steadily and entered the trap step by step.
"Whoosh!"
The python seemed to have sensed the arrival of a great enemy. It immediately extended its body. Then it opened its mouth wide, flicked its tongue, and raised its head. Its pair of beast eyes coldly stared at the Fire Origin Beast as it issued a warning.
The Fire Origin Beast ignored its warning, and it immediately charged forward, colliding with the python at lightning speed!
"Bang!"
The python's body was struck aside and it immediately turned around agilely, dashing towards the Fire Origin Beast's body, wrapping it up tightly.
"BOOM!"
The Fire Origin Beast was a First-tier Star Beast. How could it allow a mere Second-tier Star Beast to be so impudent?
Streams of fiery red light shot out from its body that suddenly surged outwards, and in an instant, the Python's body was burnt to the point of bursting.
The difference between them was simply too great. It isn't something that can be filled with a small amount of strength.
When the Fire Origin Beast entered the trap, the python had just gone through a transformation. It evolved from a Third-tier Beast to a Second-tier Beast. It felt the boost in its strength and became overconfident.
Thus, even when facing the Fire Origin Beast, it didn't think of retreating.
Of course, a huge reason why it decided not to retreat was because a large number of medicinal properties of the Blazing Nine Leaf Herb were still inside its body. There were also two more Blazing Nine Leaf Grasses that it had yet to devour.
In the end, its present situation was due to overconfidence and reckless action.
The Fire Origin Beast disregarded the situation and rushed toward the middle of the trap. It stomped on the ground and sent out a streak of light from within the pit, causing another Blazing Nine Leaf Grass to emerge.
It began to unrestrainedly charge and swallow the Blazing Nine Leaf Grass. Its huge eyes burst with an incomparably excited light.
"Charge!"
Lucas jumped up from the tree branch and shouted loudly. In an instant, he pulled up a rope and six golden light nets flew out from six different directions, wrapping themselves around the Fire Origin Beast, causing it to be unable to move.
The golden threads that had turned into a huge net began to shrink and tighten. The golden light was also getting more and more intense.
"Roar!"
The Fire Origin Beast struggled intensely. With a loud roar, it wanted to rush out from here.
Aiden's hands were nimble. He coordinated well, and in a moment, he also pulled down another rope. Thousands of wooden thorns suddenly flashed with a red glow and shot out with a killing intent!
"Swish! Swish! Swish!"
The sound produced by the wooden thorns was like a strong gale. The wooden thorns attacked from all directions like a torrential rain. They stabbed the Fire Origin Beast's body one after another.
The Fire Origin Beast struggled and roared with all its might, but its shoulder and back were covered with wooden thorns, and fresh blood flowed out of them. The more it struggled, the weaker its strength became.
Finally, after a fierce struggle, it completely lost all its strength, lying on the ground helplessly. Its body kept twitching gently continuously. The Fire Origin Beast could only let out sounds of despair and sorrow.
After a while, it could no longer move.
It died completely.
Its body was covered with bamboo sticks and thorns.
Lucas let out an excited breath and immediately jumped down. Aiden also jumped down. The two of them slowly walked towards the corpse of the Fire Origin Beast.
"I didn't expect it to be so simple," Aiden sighed. At the same time, his eyes lit up as he stared at the corpse of the Fire Origin Beast.
This was the first time he has witnessed such a scene after all. Not to mention he also helped Lucas in this little action. Thus, he felt a kind of accomplishment in his heart.
"Hehe! With my perfect plan, how could it not be simple to hunt a mere First-tier Star Beast?"
"Don't forget the painstaking effort I've put in just the Golden Iron Silk alone." Lucas was naturally excited; he anxiously took out a sharp weapon from his waist and quickly walked to the corpse of the Fire Origin Beast and cut open the rope. After that, he began dissecting the corpse of the Fire Origin Beast.
Aiden earnestly watched Lucas's movements and observed the corpse of the Fire Origin Beast.
In the center of the trap, there were broken wooden spikes everywhere. It was obvious that they had been broken by the body of the Fire Origin Beast and many of them even pierced into its body. The Fire Origin Beast's body was covered in wooden spikes. Among the spikes that pierced into its body, some had cracks on them while some spikes' tips only pierced into the star beast's body.
It was as if they could not pierce through into Fire Origin Beast's body at all. Only one-fourth of the wooden spikes that pierced into the Fire Origin Beast's body were used, the remaining three-fourths were wasted.
All of these wooden thorns had been strengthened by runes that Lucas meticulously carved before.
He again swept his gaze across the Python's thick body on the ground. The wooden spike pierced through its body and stabbed it into the ground.
Through the comparison of the degree of injury, one could see that the body of the Fire Origin Beast was indeed much tougher than that of a normal Star Beast.