CHAPTER 18 - 18: GREED 1

"Did this I idiot get himself killed by F-beasts" Raz spoke a he looked at a burned body

"Rez you can't speak that way about another hunter" Lilith spoke defending the dead hunter

"Lil he was a peak D-Rank but got killed by F-Rank monster that's the peak of stupidity" Raz smiled amazed by his humor.

"Old man that was a bad pun joke" a man who seemed to be in his twenties shock his head as he spoke

"I'm middle aged brat, Lil what's the next monster?" Raz turned to Lilith

"After the wolves, it's the snake it's a D-Rank like wolves leader" Lilith replied

"Ok let's go" Raz walked toward the snake habitat

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Core rigion

Vice has been climbing the for 3 day and the experience has been interesting once in a while the eagle's would come down and kill any animal climbing the tree.

"Where are these damn birds" he was now hiding on a branch waiting for a eagles to come down, the few days he spent here he understood it would be impossible for him to climb the tree.

"Finally" Vice looked at the birds descending with their bodies parallel to the tree

[Shadow vail] he activated his skill, ran and jump off the tree the birds were behind him as they slowly passed him he held on to a birds feather, the bird didn't feel a thing.

'Thanks to shadow vail increase in rank it now make my body light but the skill is only active for five minutes so if they don't go up soon I going gouge out their eyes' Vice thought as he held tight to the birds feather

"Why does leader want us to monitor the tree?" An eagles spoke

"Dex my boi you see when the humans come to the forest its always chaos the outer animals move to the middle region those from the middle move to core and the core have to stay where they are" the eagle replied "but sometimes the the core tries to move to our place like those gorillas."

"Then who defends their region if they move?" Dex spoke

"The strong always stay behind to fight only the weak flee" the eagle answered

'What humans are they talking about?' Vice listen to every word that came out of the eagles mouth.

"What do the humans want? Jo" Dex flew closer Jo

"The stone of life that the leader has in his nest, let return home" Jo replied as they were turned back.

'What is the stone of life? What does it do? Can I borrow it?' Vice was interested in finding out about the stone of life and borrowing it.

At the top of the tree the were multiple nest all had a cocoon shape.

The eagles entered the biggest nest among them

'Holy fuck I'm dead' Vice realised that he had gambled with his life as he looked at the birds surrounding him

'Why did I listen to that stupid gorilla?' Vice jumped off the eagle before his shadow vail deactivated then he hid between the giant twigs that were part of the nest.

"My flock those human have come for the stone of life!" A white eagle shouted as it pointed to a purple crystal that was at the top of the nest.

'That's a dungeon core' Vice paused as he looked at the purple stone 'that mean I'm in a dungeon'

"My flock go out their and prepare for war!" the eagle shouted

All the eagles in the nest left only the boss monster remained

'This is a bad idea' Vice thought as he looked at the boss monster then step out of his hiding spot

"It seems you have chosen to come out child" the boss spoke as it moved closer to Vice

'Who's the child I'm a grown man bitch' Vice kept these thoughts to himself

"My lord I have come to offer my assistant with the humans" Vice spoke with his usual act of flattery

"What can a little snack like you do to the human" the boss spoke as it licked it beak

'Why is everything in this damned forest treat me like a snack' Vice looked at the approaching eagle with narrowed eyes.

"My lord the human have those strange tools that help them fight I can take them away from the human" Vice spoke as his muscles tightened

"Those things are called sword/scroll and potions young one, how can you take them away" the eagle spoke as it pulled it's self back from eating Vice.

"Do you want me show my lord?" as Vice spoke the eagle eyes light up.

"Yes show me child?" The eagle moved closer so it can see Vice's trick.

"But my lord there's nothing here to take...wait what about that stone up there" Vice pointed to the dungeon core.

"Child your quit brave to come here to steal my treasure with your sweet words" the eagle spoke releasing kill intent

'Maybe I went too far....no I can't act like coward, if I can't face this beast how am going to get my revenge?' Vice felt the kill intent and stayed calm he had faced worse so this was nothing

"My lord I would never do such a thing I'm only a Rat and your a C-Rank beast if tried to steal from you where would I go" when he said this the kill intent eased, he smiled.

"I only want to show you my skills if you are not pleased you can eat me" when Vice was done speaking the eagle flew to the core and brought it to Vice.

"If I'm not pleased you know the outcome" the eagle placed the dungeon core on the nest near Vice, the core was 80cm high and 60 cm wide.

'Damn I need to update my shadow space it wont fit' Vice looked at the core, it wouldn't fit in his shadow space.

[Shadow space(F)] the ability to store anything into your shadow

space: 50cm high and 50 cm wide

can store living thing (locked)

time suspension(locked)

Physical entry(locked)

'Status'