An hour passed, and Theo sat under the shadow of a tree.
There was a long, square white cloth under him, which looked much like a picnic mat.
The mantis was the sa as before, in a small greyish-green cocoon that hadn't moved even an inch for the past hour.
The eyes of the boar had not moved from the cocoon ever since, and the pup had tried going to sniff it multiple tis, only to be stopped by Clara every ti.
"I should have started this process in the terrarium room… hahhhh~" Theo sighed and closed his eyes and laid his back against the bark of the big tree.
It seed like he was really on a picnic and not in a dangerous sli bio.
"Was the decision in your hands, young master?" Clara asked with curiosity. Although her questions had reduced in the past hour, there were still so from ti to ti.
"Partially," Theo spoke and finally got up from his rest. It had been an hour since he sat down and if not anything, it had made him lazy. He went toward the cocoon again and looked at it from close.
It was still the sa as ever. Theo crouched and moved his hand closer until it was only inches away from it. Clara's eyes widened and she was ready to pull him back anyti.
'Is it even okay at this point?' A thought ca to his mind. The mantis had been inside the covering for so long now.
'It's rough…' Theo's finger touched the coating of the oval cocoon. It was rough to the touch.
Just when his finger ca in contact with the surface of the cocoon, a sudden jerk ca from it.
Theo instinctively flinched his hand back. Clara ca running toward Theo and got him a few steps back for safety. The movent of the cocoon had not left anybody's eyes.
Grrr…
The pup growled toward the cocoon as if intimidated by it.
"Young master, the energy in that thing just increased… this will attract nearby monsters toward us. We need to go," Clara explained, making Theo frown.
"What? We can't leave this place without the mantis. We may have chosen the wrong place for this to happen, but we have to see it through and protect it."
"As you wish…" Clara still didn't seem to think of this as a good idea, yet the command of the heir was absolute.
Theo looked at the cocoon that was still moving slightly. It felt like the mantis inside it had started to move around.
He wanted to go help the covering off it, yet Theo knew Clara wouldn't let him do that.
'If this doesn't go on quickly, she will take away even if it ans by force… Can I pick this cocoon up?'
The pup was still looking warily at the cocoon, its growls coming out every few seconds.
Suddenly, its eyes darted to the side, and that was when Clara realized it too.
"Incoming beasts from the left, young master."
Theo looked toward the place the pup was looking at with surprise. Why were there beasts coming all of a sudden?
Suddenly, from the dense bushes ca out a greenish moss sli, and Theo sighed in relief. If it was just the sli, then things could be easy.
Theo's relief was short-lived as he saw another, and then another, and then another enter the clearing at a rather fast pace.
Soon, around 10 slis were in the clearing, and Clara took a few steps forward.
"Just slis…" Theo muttered, although there was not much conviction in his voice.
"Young master, always rember... even slis can be dangerous in numbers," Clara warned, her tone firm.
"Stay behind , please."
The pup ca and clung onto Theo's leg, while the Ironback Boar went toward the group of monsters with a snort.
Looking at the slis, Theo felt a little weird. Although the boar was coming in front of them, their trajectory seed to still be toward the oval structure the mantis was in.
The cocoon was still moving left and right, as if the mantis was trying to co out.
The first sli lunged forward by making its body elongate further toward the mantis's location.
Yet the boar, that was already near it, moved its foreleg up and smashed the sli right under the hoof.
The sli's body exploded everywhere, and the core shattered on the spot. Theo felt relieved as the boar seed strong enough to take care of them all.
Yet, on the other hand, Clara was frowning, and the reason showed right away.
The slis were now simultaneously moving toward the boar, who snorted in anger, and a small squeak ca from its mouth.
It smashed yet another sli, but almost every other had already reached its legs.
The sli that was closest ca in contact with the leg and quickly started moving around it until the whole hoof was inside the sli.
SQUEAK!
The boar seed to shout in anger and pain, and that was when it thrashed its legs up and down in a hurry. Yet the core moved everywhere inside the sli without getting damaged, and bubbles started forming inside the sli.
Just when the boar was struggling to get the sli that had attached itself, the other slis were not waiting around. They attached themselves to the other legs, and so went for the sa one.
Theo's face went pale. This was a situation where he couldn't tell what was going to happen. The legs of the boar seed to deteriorate with ti, and that was when Theo saw panic on Clara's face too.
"Go help him," Clara spoke, which made the pup leave Theo's side almost instantly. Clara went to Theo on behalf of the pup and went on guard.
The pup was very fast in moving, and it reached the slis almost a second later. Its small paws speedily went inside one of the slis, and without getting stuck too, the paw seamlessly went and scratched the core, which damaged it in the process.
The sli fell apart almost instantly, yet whenever the pup tried going for the ones that were attached to the boar's legs, the boar thrashed its body, which made the pup flinch back instinctively.
"Sigh… I guess we are doing this…" Clara spoke with a smile, yet there was this coldness in her voice and eyes.
Theo knew that look of hers, and he couldn't help but think that sothing was going to happen soon.
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