Chapter 16
Tom came forward with the help of skill he just casted and now took Alex in his arms and got them little far away from that beast.
"My element is purely movement based. If you have any attack then cast it now or we may need to find some method to stall this beast for time until other team members came, only then we could take earth type beast." Tom suggested.
"I will stall him for some time and try your spell to distract him at times as well."Alex was still calm even though it was his first time coming in front of a beast.
This conversation between Alex and Tom took place in very little time but in that time, worm beast was already on his way to make attack on these two.
Alex quickly casted his skill to summon the third clone there to distract the beast.
His casting was completed in 5 seconds unlike the Shiro who is still begin his training in casting the skill.
A new Alex was summoned there who started to try and get the aggro from the beast.
"You wanted the smoke right but you are scared of fire. So, don't try or you will be burned alive with the failed efforts." Clone said this while teasing it with childish actions.
Real Alex moved quick and changed his place from there and walked toward the Tom.
In Arc's home
"I am feeling a little sleepy after all the training but I wanted to visit the library to get one book." Alex said after pretending he didn't to eat the food. This was very sudden which brought attention of everyone on him.
"But, I am a librarian there. So, I can bring you the book tomorrow, in charge librarian now is a moody man." Arc said as he also wanted one book himself to learn.
"No, I will come back in fast because I am facing this problem in my element so I need to know some things to try and solve my problem." Alex said.
"Okay, Arc that's enough. He is already big enough enough so no need to stop him at every single thing." Arc's father took the side of Alex and supported his reasoning.
"You get you hands washed up, and then you can leave." He said.
Alex followed those thing and washed his hands with Ben though he does not need it.
On the other side, fight was getting quite busy because beast have already destroyed the clone of Alex multiple time as he kept summoning it back by casting the skill many times.
Alex walked out of the Arc's house in distance in dark place before he evaporated like he wasn't standing there just a moment ago.
"He finally came when he is needed, it is not late but he should have came more earlier." Alex in that fighting moment of beast sighed in relief as he casted the skill this time again but summoned the summoned two Alex clone in same appearance to him.
"Did you said something? And what sort of skill are these? How are you doing it all?" Tom asked when he saw the Alex summon two people. He already wanted to ask this before but he could not stop himself from asking this question anymore.
"No, nothing and I will explain it to you sometime later. Now is not the right time to do all this. Check if the team is own it's way because holding it with just movement or support element is not possible." Alex said while checking the battle of this beast.
"They will be arriving in two minutes, until then we will have to hold it off, because we could not let it escape to…" Tom tried saying this.
"I already know that much, remember you told me. Can't you focus on what sort of problem we are in?" Alex was frustrated because he seem be caught lacking in the battle after his intense planning for every situation.
'Wing element skill must be unlocked quickly and I also need to increase my attacking means.' Alex was now faced with his shortcomings had this thought in his mind.
Both clones of Alex quickly went in opposite directions to increase the time they can stall for. Psychic beast could not distinguish between the clone and real Alex.
"Not bad, you defended well against the beast. I will take it from here on out." Captain who just came said while casting the fire element's level three apprentice skill.
"Fire Arrow: Explosive"
A fire shot from the direction of captain which hit the beast who was still chasing after one of the clones.
"Explode" Captain shouted this command which made the fire arrow that struck the beast to explode. This explosion's impact threw the beast meters away.
It's all done now, let's go and claim the reward from the hunter tower and police will clean this mess by themselves.
[ Reminder: Ding! Monster material can be used in equipment creation. ]
Alex hearing this notification summoned back the clones and told the team to go on their own as he want to inspect about the beast.
With the lies he had told to captain, his this excuse worked with much of trying.
[ Ding! You have successfully triggered a feature of 'Material collection'. ]
A way of using this new feature of his system appeared in his mind.
'So, I can just collect material of beast after touching it. But it only work on those beasts which I have contributed to kill.'
[ Ding! Do you want to collect the material from this beast by using 'Material Collection' feature. ]
[ Yes ] [ No ]
Alwd made the Yes command in his mind as he was touching the dead and disgusting worm beast.
[ Ding! Your collected material have been placed in storage space of System. ]
[ Ding! Congratulations on acquiring the material 'Worm teeth'.
[ Ding! Congratulations on … ]
This notifications appeared three time giving him the information about what he had acquired out of this batte.