The Scrap Tamer - Chapter 129

Chapter 129: Versus The Second Creature
Clara watched in shock as Marcus continued pummeling the creature until it stopped resisting.

One had to remember that this was the same creature that they couldn’t even previously touch, heck, even Marcus had died to it but now he was taking it on without even resummoning his forged beasts.

“Marcus?” she hesitantly called out, unsure of whether he was in control of himself or not.

But it seemed that he still was because he turned to Clara as soon as she called out to him.

She noted how scary his red sclera looked but somehow, they assured her that Marcus was still in control which caused her to sigh in relief.

The creature lay on the ground beside him, twitching. It seemed to have completely lost it’s ability to regenerate, in fact, it seemed to be unable to use any of its abilities anymore.

“Are you okay?” Clara asked, concern evident in her voice.

“Yeah, don’t worry” Marcus said.

As soon as those words left his mouth, his world seemed to have flipped. One moment he was looking at Clara, the next, the sky was in his view.

“Huh?” Was the last thing he said before unconsciousness took him.

Clara watched in alarm as Marcus’ body plummeted toward the ground. She quickly rushed to his side, only to find him still breathing—just completely unconscious.

She then turned to the creature that was barely holding its human form together.

Black goo was being released from its body instead of blood and it didn’t seem to have any in tact bone in its body.

“Now, what should I do with you?” Clara said as she slowly approached the creature.

Her falcon kept an eye out for any approaching danger so she didn’t need to worry about being ambushed from any direction.

“P-please….no…more…” It could barely talk properly, which wasn’t surprising considering the state it was in.

“Then I have a few questions for you” Clara asked as she crouched down, looking directly into its sickly yellow irises.

“Yes…yes…I’ll… answer” it stuttered out in relief. It would do anything to avoid the pain it went through in the hands of Marcus.

“Good, then let’s start simple” Clara said “what are you guys?”

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While Clara interrogated the creature, Lisa and Ethan found themselves in a similar predicament.

“Where are we?” Lisa asked.

Unlike Marcus and Clara, Ethan and Lisa were currently surrounded by trees, indicating that they were deeper into the forest.

“I have no idea,” Ethan replied “but I might be able to locate the others.”

He pulled out a small tablet from his inventory, proceeded to tap on the screen and got to work.

“I should be able to track their watches.”

“While you do that, I’ll go high and scout the area” Lisa replied and hopped on her wyvern that immediately took to the skies.

Ethan just nodded and continued tapping on the tablet in his hand.

“This is exactly why some form of communication would’ve been necessary” she muttered as he wyvern continued floating above the trees “even an earpiece would’ve been a lot better in this situation.”

For several minutes, she saw nothing but an endless expanse of trees below, everything appearing perfectly ordinary.

But her instincts suddenly screamed at her to move out of the way, which she instantly followed.

She dodged in time to avoid a dark, fast moving projectile.

“What the hell?” Lisa muttered.

If not for her instincts, that thing would’ve pierced right through her. The thing stopped mid-air and turned to face her, revealing its form.

“Wow, you actually dodged that” the attacker said “but that’s good, after all, I’d like to have fun with you first.”

The attacker looked almost human but Lisa knew better. Especially considering the fact that no human she knew of had black tar like wing.

Also, the attacker had black veins running across their pale skin, coupled with their black sclera and sickly yellow irises, features that made them anything but human.

There was also the fact that Lisa also recognized the creature—or at least the original owner of the body. She had been part of the team sent to clear out this area before they all went missing.

“Is there any chance you could willingly hand your body over?” The creature spoke again.

But it’s facial expression showed that it was hoping for any answer but yes.

Lisa narrowed her eyes, summoned her weapon from her inventory and tightened her hold on the wyvern.

“You want my body?” she scoffed “Sorry, but I’m kind of attached to it.”

The creature let out an excited chuckle. “I was hoping you’d say that,” it said, its wings twitching in what seemed like excitement “the struggle is always the best part.”

Without warning, it lunged at her, black tendrils forming mid-air and shooting toward her at alarming speed.

Lisa’s wyvern immediately reacted, twisting to avoid the attack. The tendrils missed by inches but left behind a strange sizzling mist as they dissolved into the air.

‘Corrosive?’ she realized instantly.

‘Great, that just makes things even more fun’ she sarcastically thought to herself.

With a command from Lisa, her wyvern released streams of lightning upon their attacker.

The attack seemed to fast for the creature to react, and it blasted the creature out of the skies and into the forest.

“That should do it” but it seems she spoke too soon, because with a loud boom, the creature launched itself towards her.

The lightning that struck it was still coursing through its body, but it seems to have done little damage, if any at all.

It snatched Lisa from the wyvern’s back by her neck.

“You really think an attack that pitiful would be enough to take me down?” The creature said with a smirk on her lips.

“Honestly, yes” Lisa replied, but there was no panic in his voice “but I hope this does.”

“What are you—” The creature barely had time to process Lisa’s words before a torrent of searing flames—no plasma, engulfed its face.

Her plasma salamander in its smaller form on her shoulders was the one that released the creature.

Lisa had summoned it alongside the wyvern but it had chosen to stay hidden inside the shoulders of her uniform, until now.

The creature let out an unearthly screech as the plasma seared through its face, melting flesh and bone alike. It thrashed violently, releasing Lisa as it clawed at its burning head.

Lisa wasted no time—she twisted midair, landing back on her wyvern’s back with practiced ease.

“Did that do it?” she muttered, watching the creature plummet toward the forest below.

But before it could crash, the thing stopped abruptly, its wings spreading wide despite their charred, tattered state.

Black sludge dripped from its melted face, its sickly yellow irises now glowing with an eerie intensity.

Lisa clicked her tongue in annoyance. “Persistent.”

The creature’s smile was gone now, replaced with a look of pure rage.

“THAT REALLY F*CKING HURT,” it screamed, its voice guttural and distorted.

Its entire face was charred making its expression even more terrifying.

“I’LL MAKE YOU F*CKING PAY FOR THAT” the creature raged.

Lisa’s grip tightened on her sword as she and both her forged beasts readied themselves for the creature to attack.

The creature didn’t waste a second. It launched itself toward Lisa with a deafening screech, its wings propelling it forward like a bullet.

Lisa’s wyvern quickly dodged to the side, narrowly avoiding the charge. At the same time, her plasma salamander fired another stream of superheated plasma, but the creature reacted instantly this time.

Black tendrils sprouted from its body, forming a thick barrier that absorbed the attack without even a scorch.

“Tch,” Lisa clicked her tongue her tongue in annoyance.

She didn’t have time to think further as the creature’s tendrils headed toward her.

The wyvern dodged most of them, but one wrapped around her left arm, the corrosive sludge instantly eating through the fabric of her uniform.

Lisa winced in pain, but quickly reacted. Moving the sword to her other hand, she easily cut off the tendril wrapped around her arm.

You’re really pissing me off,” Lisa muttered, shaking off the pain.

The creature growled, its mutilated face twisting into something even more grotesque. “I WAS GOING TO PLAY WITH YOU, BUT NOW—”

A boom cut it off mid-sentence.

A blast of energy surged from below, slamming into the creature and sending it spiraling through the air.

Lisa’s eyes darted down to see Ethan standing in the clearing, his cyber slime coiled around his arm like a gauntlet.

It used [Form manipulation] to achieve the gauntlet like form.

“Are you just going to let it monologue all day?” Ethan called out, his voice dry.

“It seemed to have something important to say” Lisa muttered with a chuckle.

Ethan just shook his head and showed her the tab in his hand before saying “I’ve got good news and bad news.”

“Good news is, I located the others” he continued “bad news is, we’re all separated and thrown really far from each other.”

“Then we’ll have to start heading—” Lisa started, but was interrupted by a loud screech.

“You really are persistent” Lisa muttered as she looked in the direction of the roar.

The creature now held no resemblance to human as its form was completely twisted and horrifying. It seemed more like a mix of multiple primals forced together as one.

“YOU TWO WILL DIE SCREAMING,” it screeched, its distorted voice dripping with rage and malice.