Cosmic Peak

Aren left with full speed towards the town while Heigan looked at them constantly moving cocoon as if something would come out from it anytime.

"My duty...I have to stop this thing as long as I can," Heigan muttered as he wiped the sweat from his face as five minutes passed tensely.

*Chriiiiiii....*

A slash appeared in the cocoon before a tentacle with a blady tip came out.

After that, several more tentacles came out as the entire cocoon was shredded to pieces and devoured by the strange creature.

The creature had a single giant eye on its messy and bloody unnatural round body while there were approximately twenty tentacles with blady tips exuding from its body.

The entire creature's length was ten meters in size, excluding its tentacles which seemed to reach fifteen meters in length.

Its eye was blood red with a dark pattern, and right after coming out, its eye locked on to Heigan.

*crackle!*

Two light brown lightning spears appeared in Heigan's hands as he floated in the sky.

A pair of wings also appeared behind his back while his eyes were shining golden sparks.

*Shuaa....*

The Blood Hexa entity attacked Heigan with its blady tentacles as a high-speed battle between the two started.

<Wrath of Gaia Lightning>

Several lightning marks appear on the Blood Hexa Entity, and each time Heigan swings his spears to parry the tentacles, lightning bolts strike the Blood Hexa Entity out of nowhere.

*screeeeeee....*

A strange cry was released from the Blood Hexa Entity even though it didn't have any mouth. A dark red aura released from its body as all lightning marks disappeared.

Its eyes started glowing before it released a dark-red laser beam towards Heigan.

Heigan tried to dodge, but in doing that, one of the tentacles hit him in the left side of his abdomen.

Seeing that his injuries were strange and it seemed to be corrupting his blood, he hurridly used <Primbole Flower Dew> ability which had the power of purification and healing.

However, another tentacle hit right at that spot when he used the ability.

Heigan's face turned grave because one more hit at his left side of the abdomen would seriously injure him. However, when the tentacle came into contact with emerald energy of that ability releasing from the ethereal flower, It retreated.

He hurriedly waved his spears to parry other tentacles as he felt that the intensity of the attack increased, 'However, what was that?'

He decided to stay fully defensive to survive as long as he could and expand more on the reaction of the tentacle that he noticed.

...

On the other hand, Aren was flying at full speed towards the town, 'That Blood Hexa Entity is only 43% strong of its full strength if I'm not wrong, and it's still so powerful. If it was 100%...'

Aren shook his head as he didn't want to think about it and muttered, "Let's hope he survives until the reinforcement arrives."

The quest mentioned that he must contribute towards defeating the Blood Hexa Entity and he believed that if the duke Heigan managed to survive until the end, his contribution would be better, and he would get better rewards.

After arriving at the town, Aren hurridly informs Jeralt about everything and the trouble of duke.

"Thank you, young man. I will immediately contact kingdom," Jeralt thanked Aren with a serious face before he turned around and went inside the palace.

"Wait," Aren called out as Jeralt stopped and turned around to look at Aren.

"There's another trouble of a giant Orc lord. It's currently heading towards the town near Blood Spring Valley. That giant seems to be attracted to blood and flesh lifeforce. If no one stopped him, that giant would bring considerable destruction," Aren said with a grave expression.

"Which one is more dangerous?" Jeralt asked with doubt.

"The one that duke Heigan is stopping. I don't know the kind of power it has, but it's definitely way more powerful than that giant," Aren said with a serious expression. From the information, Blood Hexa Entity was nightmarish compared to that giant. The only fortunate thing was that it was only at its 43% of full strength.

Aren suddenly had an idea, but he decided to wait and said, "first, you should inform the kingdom about the situation here so they can send reinforcement fast and save the life of duke Heigan."

"Alright," Jeralt nodded, "you wait here. I'll be back in a minute."

Jeralt went inside and contacted the kingdom with some magical device before returning in two minutes.

After Jeralt arrived outside, Aren hurridly asked, "Do you have anything that contains a high amount of lifeforce? or any item that exudes a high amount of lifeforce? That life force should be similar to one coming from our blood and flesh."

"Lifeforce...," Jeralt frowned for a moment before he went inside and came out with an adult's arm-length jade box that was twenty centimeters in width.

The jade case looked exquisite. Jeralt opened it and revealed a blood-red plant with a small flower on it.

"This spirit plant is known as Carvhous Lily. It can even heal serious wounds of epic lifeform stage beings with its power. Go take it and lead that giant away," Jeralt said as he closed the jade case and handed it over to Aren before patting his shoulder, "you asked because you wanted to help, right? I saw your flying speed which is really fast compared to your current lifeform stage and general strength."

Aren took the jade case before speaking straightforwardly with an indifferent face, "I will try, but my safety is my top priority. If that giant had long-range attacks and is capable of hitting me, I will put this plant in my inventory and run back here."

"You will not steal it?" Jeralt questioned with a raised eyebrow.

Aren smiled and said, "If I was stronger than this kingdom, then I would've stolen it. I don't know if you have any means to track this plant or me, so I wouldn't take a risk like that."

Jeralt nodded with a smile, "good thinking because I have already put something on you that can let me track you. Anyway, you go now and try to lead that monster away.

"If possible, lead it back to the Blood Spring Valley where the duke is after thirty minutes because the reinforcement will arrive at Blood Spring valley after thirty minutes. The kingdom is sending three epic lifeform stage powerhouses, and they will be able to easily deal with the situation here."

Hearing that, Aren frowned and thought, 'wait, I actually got crucial information through this quest: a neighbor kingdom has plotted this to attack this kingdom.'

"What are you thinking?" Jeralt asked seeing Aren falling into thought, "you should hurry up now."

Aren nodded and left as he flew with his full speed towards the town where the giant was heading.

'I probably shouldn't reveal this information. First, there's a question of how I got it, and second, the kingdom would obviously prioritize its own capital town's safety instead of stopping this Blood Hexa Entity if they learned of this information.'

'Anyway, the quest I got is about contributing to stopping and killing this Blood Hexa Entity and not about saving this kingdom,' Aren thought while flying, 'Hmm, well, I have an idea to reveal this information, but I will act on it after they take care of this Blood Hexa Entity so I can finish my quest.'

Aren nodded internally after planning everything out.