After a few hours, more than hundred soldiers were ready to depart at any moment, fully equipped with all kinds of weapons and equipments, accompanied with helicopters in the sky.
With the commander's order they matched out.
It didn't take long before earthshaking roars resounded throughout the forest as another horde of mutated animals encountered the army, it was the biggest one they had witnessed. The weapons were quickly set up in a formation to defend.
The serial support showed is worth the moment the battle started, preventing the soldiers from being overwhelmed. Still the mutated animals that had no regard for their lives were extremely dangerous. The sound of continuous gunshots and dreadly roars continued for more than three hours before the army emerged victorious.
There were heaps of dead bodies around, most of which were the beasts but the mutilated bodies of soldiers could be seen among them. It took them some more time before they cleared up the dead bodies.
For the next five days the army advanced towards the centre. Their speed was extremely slow due to frequent battles. The animals that were adapted to the forest had became more dangerous after mutation.
On the fourth day they had to cross a large river, which was even harder due to strong waterflow and dangerous beasts dwelling inside.
Finally they had come very close to their destination, With just a few hundred metres more to cross. Though in front of them,once again stood a huge horde of mutated beasts though the biggest problem was not the horde itself but the tiger and the elephant which were standing behind, closest to the space crack.
Both extremely ferocious beasts were like generals of the army.
with a roar from them the horde frantically started running towards the army.
Having already set up their weapons and machinery the soldiers were prepared for them. With a loud shout from the commander, sounds of guns masked the roars from the horde. Animals were falling like leaves during autumn, but the other didn't care at all and continued their charge trampling upon their fallen ones to death.
In the air all kinds of mutated birds were also being shot down by the helicopters, it was the scene of complete disaster and chaos. Furthermore not long after the tiger and elephant joined in the fun, shaking the ground even more with their advancement. With their involvement the situation became even more chaotic.
On the side, seeing both the beasts running to the battlefield a bird quietly approached the space crack from behind.
[ Proceed to close the space crack using chaos qi? ]
The panel appeared in front of Rahen as he landed near the space crack. When he finally reached 'nourishment stage' he rushed towards the space crack only to see both sides getting ready for the battle. He quietly watched and waited for the perfect time to come complete his quest.
[ Remaining time 1:29:59 ]
A countdown appeared in from of him as the system started repairing the crack. As the countdown began Rahen felt something being extracted from his body. Since he had to stay near the space crack during the countdown, He sat below it and opened his status to check for changes.
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Rahen
Lvl:10 ( 200/800)
HP: 590
Stamina: 54
Credit: 4200
STATS
Strength: 37~42
Stamina: 23~27
Agility: 9~15
Vitality: 31~59
Defence: 11~25
ABILITIES
Inventory, Chaos qi body cultivation art (Stage 1)
SKILLS
Active: Inspect (lvl 4), Haste (lvl 3), Energy leech (lvl 3), Flight (lvl 3), Talon attack (lvl 2)
Passive: Chaos body (incomplete), Night eye (lvl 1)
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Two new entries on the system interface confirmed that he had step into the first stage of the cultivation art. The chaos body was the result for reaching the stage and it bought a huge increase in his stats especially in vitality. What really surprised rahen was that the skill was still incomplete.
"wothy of being the strongest art." Rahen was glad with the new increase in strength.
The battle continued with bodies falling every second as Rahen watched them. The army was holding well but the two strongest breasts were quite a handful, they were really hard to deal with and were causing lot of damage.
The elephant with its huge trunk didn't discriminate between friend and foe, many other beasts fell to its friendly fire. The soldiers were trying their best but there were unable to deal any critical injury to its think hide.
The tiger on the other hand was even more dangerous. With its speed it was extremely difficult to hit and it's claws were deadly weapons ripping everyone to shreads. Being more precise than the elephant it's danger level were even higher.
Rahen silently observed as the battle continued. With time it was slowly but surely tilting towards the army. After taking care of the enemy in air the helicopters were now focused on the two beasts. Their continued harrassment from air controlled them to a great extent.
Their bodies were continuously being riddled with bullet wounds. Though they were still fighting furiously it didn't take too long for them to weaken due to continuous blood loss. They were on their last legs surrounded by soldiers on all sides, standing in the dead bodies from both sides.
*Thud
The tiger fell first with a loud thud, soon followed by the elephant. The soldiers relaxed as the battle finally ended in a victory.
As the last beast fell rahen took a look at the space crack above him that had shrink to the size of a few inches, there were five minutes till it completely closes.
The army commander sighed seeing the battlefield laden with bodies. A soldier hurriedly came to him, " Sir, you should see this." he passed a binoculars to him and pointed towards the direction of the space crack.
The confused commander took the binoculars and looked towards the direction pointed by the soldier. What he saw was a bird sitting there and above it was a pitch black crack, few inches floating in the air.
"Tell roni to bring a team of soldiers and investigate it with the researchers, and take care of that bird with a sniper."
"Yes sir!"
Rahen was nervously looking at the countdown with two minutes remaining when he heard a gunshot. The bullet arrived in front of his head in a split second. At the last moment the space around trembled, the bullet suddenly curved and grazed past his left wing.
Amidst his painful cry the space crack rippled and Rahen felt a strong pull from the space crack. The pull sucked everything around the space crack into it including Rahen.
In a split second he was engulfed by the space crack.