[Sixth sense Elixer - increase natural awareness for 24 hours. Warning side effects can cause lack of sleep and anxiety.]
He made 3 bottles of it and completed his daily tasks. [210 exp gained. 350/3000.]
Damon fell asleep not long after and woke up because he heard deep growling. Opening his eyes he had received notifications.
Ding!
[You can now use your rain and cloud abilities . Let this be a lesson to take your daily tasks seriously. The next penalty will be more severe.]
Twisting his lips up in annoyance he noticed the system was getting more talkative and did more explaining lately. Hearing another growl he swiped everything away to find his cloud beast standing at the entrance looking out at something.
"I doubt I'll ever get a full night rest on this damn planet." he thought.
Walking up behind his beast. He noticed the hair on its back was standing straight up. Following it's eyes he couldn't see anything as it was dark, but knew if his beast could then it was definitely something out there.
Now that his powers were back and he was up, he decided to get ahead on his daily routine. The first thing he did was craft another new item.
[ Tempo exlier- an exlier that doubles your speed. Duration - five minutes, can't be stacked.]
He only had enough ingredients to make five of them. Afterwards he searched for the habitat of the blue circada. That would be his first destination to collect more craft materials.
He laid out a plan of all the material he could get his hands on without going too far out the way from his primary destination. His cloud beast had relaxed and laid back down , but remained near the entrance.
Whatever it was left from the area or got out of its sight. Damon periodically looked at the beast still in disbelief that he could create such a thing.
He worked out for a few hours and went back to sleep. The next morning they were off heading to an area where vanilla scented trees grew. He ran most of the time and his cloud beast stayed at his side.
Every hour he contacted Calvus and fang or they would contact him. Eventually he came to a grove of trees around five foot high, following the instructions he went to each tree digging at its base. Some had one to two blue circadas while others had five to eight.
It wasn't long before his cloud beast understood what he was doing and began doing the same. In no time they had collected hundreds of them and where off to the next area.
[Horned blood worms - can be found resting on blood rocks or blood trees.]
"Hmmm"
[ Blood rock- a rock that bleeds a grey or white liquid.]
He noted the information and moved on, they moved throughout more small plains and rocky terrains soon coming to another forest with large yellow trees. He stuck out like a sore thumb and was just thinking how they needed to get to a much denser area of the forest as the part they were in now did not provide great cover when a chilling sound vibrated through the air.
Awhooooo!
Multiple howls ripped through the air, Damon could tell whatever it was, wasn't too far away as the next moment his cloud beast was face to face with a small red colored wolf. It had two overlapping jaws and it's eyes were sunken with a purple misty aura slowly coming from it like steam.
[Infected red wolf low matured beast- no other Information can be found. Full awakening is required.]
He immediately could tell the wolf was dangerous and out of its mind. With it being a low matured beast, It seemed not to care that his beast was a higher maturity.
Roaar!
The cloud beast roared while digging its claws in the ground circling the wolf, The wolf pounced from side to side jumping up with open jaws. The clouds beast claws ejected out further glowing red and with one swipe sliced off one of its jaws.
It flung into a tree, but was up again releasing a purple energy that shot out. A wall of clouds moved into its path, but was shattered turning it into a cloudy dust.
Damons eyebrows furrowed for a moment before multiple cloud daggers twisted together in the air and shot down. A purple haze covered the wolf and the daggers disappeared one at a time as if it went straight through it.
The cloud beast raised up on two feet, four red claw strikes surged forward cutting through all of its legs which weren't protected by the haze.
Another wolf came out of nowhere jumping on its back along with four more that came from other directions. Clouds twisted and formed in Damons hand as he braced himself briefly before throwing a cloud spear. he knocked the wolf off and his beast turned around stepping on the wolf digging its claws inside its body.
Purple and green blood shot up and the wolf howled in pain. Opening its jaws the cloud beast snapped down crushing its head, the veins and muscles from the neck of the dead wolf popped and ripped as it was pulled from its body.
Damon threw more cloud spears as heavy rain crashed down while simultaneously activating recovery mist. Side stepping and thrusting a spear forward, half of the spear vanished as it came in contact with the purple haze.
The cloud beast faced two more wolves swiping and pinning them down, It opened its mouth wide conjuring a gold burning light that escaped burning the beasts fur, then it's skin. Shortly after it penetrated through the meat and bones leaving a huge hole in they're chests.
Turning around it saw Damon was struggling as most of his cloud attacks weren't getting through the haze for some reason. It made him frustrated as he knew he could defeat a low matured beast without much trouble.
"Whatever these things are being infected by is helping them. I can't get pass that damn purple energy for some reason, Im not sure, but I think the purple energy is the main culprit here."
Damons beast ran forward knocking one back and grabbing the other slinging it up. With a flick of his hand a cloud sword flew up stabbing through the bottom of the wolf. By the time the wolf hit the ground his cloud beast was finishing off the one he knocked out the way.
Damon jumped up as another cloud sword emerged In his hand, with a tightened grip, he stabbed the sword down, digging into the wolf just as the purple haze had begun to form around its torso.
Breathing heavily, he looked around at all the dead wolves, but before he could get his mind together two more wolves stepped out. Their bodies suddenly began shifting and growing, Purple and red spikes shot out their shoulders and along their backs. Their heads twisted and cracked as a second head was formed.
[Infected red alpha wolves. High maturity.]
"Shit, you gotta be kidding me."
Damon stepped back in fear, If he had so much trouble with a low matured infected beast, he knew he didn't have a chance against a high matured one. The fact that their were two of them made it worse.
Damons cloud beast shot out the same burning gold light and the two red alpha wolves howled creating rings of purple and red energy that leveled all the trees around them, knocking him and his beast back several meters.
Damons body felt heavy as he staggered to his feet. He took out a bottle and chugged it down fast. The aura around him changed as false will was doing its thing.
The wolves immediately backed up with low growls looking at eachother in confusion. They snarled and snapped in the air constantly, it went on for a few seconds before one of them slung and shook its heads violently like it was trying to shake something off and stepped forward strong.
The second wolf did the same and they both began to trot towards them, which gradually turned into a run.
"You've gotta be kidding, it's Not working."
He thought, his breathing froze as his eyes widened in fear.
His beast tossed him up with its head and Damon landed on its back as it began running.
" I see you're smart enough to know when to cut tail and run, or were you just reacting to me wanting to run away." He said to his beast.
Damon merged clouds together creating the Trident. All of his clouds no matter what he shaped them into were the same strength, He chose the Trident to give him a little more length.
The wolves snapped at him as they closed in running beside them. Damon thrusted the Trident trying to keep them at bay and managed to make them slow down to readjust. A purple ball formed from one of the heads and a red one from the other.
The cloud beast shot gold energy all around them hitting trees making them fall in the path of the wolves. It caused their attacks to miss but the impact of the blasts blew Damon off like trash flying out a car.
He rolled many times as he hit the ground and by the sixth roll, he used the momentum to flip up by pushing off with his hands landing on his feet. He quickly created another trident and braced himself holding it out with both hands as one of the alphas clamped down on it while tackling him to the ground.
Cracks immediately formed in the trident as he Gritted his teeth trying to push up. The second head of the wolf grabbed his shoulder yanking it, snatching a chunk of meat off swallowing it whole like it was ripping through soft bread instead of raw flesh and moved back in for another bite.
The cloud beast rammed it flipping it over and itself as they both went tumbling fighting for the upper hand.
Damon gritted his teeth in pain, but with his adrenaline pumping so much, the wound felt numb and recovery mist had already begun healing him. Multiple cloud swords shot down breaking on impact as it hit the second wolf.
The second wolf turned looking at Damon with its heads low and drool hanging from its mouths. Snapping and growling, it shot off after him.
He summoned more and more clouds, creating walls, swords, spears and daggers. He tried everything he could think of but the alpha ran through it like it was childs play.
Time seemed to slow down as the wolf got closer. He could see his beast fighting in the background as blood seeped from his torn shoulder. Holding up the Trident, more clouds twisted together making the Trident larger to the point he could barely hold it steady.
Using his mind instead, the Trident raised up and began to twist like a drill sucking in the air around it. Damon figured he had one shot and needed to wait at the exact moment.
His rain was still coming down hard, with downpour reaching level two and gaining a effect to slowly drain stamina he thought it would be of great use, but the wolves showed no signs of fatigue.
Clinching his fists he raised his hand and pulled back signalling for the Trident to shoot off. It surfed through the air like a bullet and the wolf jumped up going over it.
"Gotcha."
The Trident turned up shooting back heading for the underbelly of the wolf. Damon saw they could only cover their back and sides with the purple haze.
"It may not kill you, but it'll damn sure make me feel better." He thought while creating another one.
The Trident spun hitting the wolf and soon pieces went flying. The Trident had broken and dispersed like all the rest of his attacks. Damon didn't understand it until he saw all the spikes going down its legs and shoulders pulsating a deep purple.
The wolf was still mid air with its jaws stretched open. Damons breathing was calm and his eyes were steady, as if he accepted his fate.
"So much for my stretch of good luck." He thought when a loud sound of wind humming suddenly entered his ears.
Boom!
The wolfs body was split into right before it got to Damon by somekind of long object that appeared in the blink of an eye.