"Aim for its eyes and mouth!" Blake alerted his teammates. 'Time to secure a thousand points.'
Once the armored hippo had moved quite some distance into the forest, Blake jumped down the treetop at full speed with Ebony and Ivory in both hands.
GROWL!
The armored hippo growled as it sensed the human trying to sneak up on it. With only thought, it shot out the thick spikes all over its body in all directions.
'Didn't know it could do that!' Blake was surprised for a moment, but he kept his cool as he simultaneously cast 4 flame bursts that helped him maneuver out of the way and made his way to its right side.
"Gotcha!" Like a knife through butter, Ivory through its thick armor and into its flesh, but before it could sink deeper, the armored hippo had quickly moved out of the way.
GROWL!
Immediately the hippo had separated from Blake, fire and lightning spells aimed at its eyes rained down from the treetops, but before they were 5 meters away the armored hippo had already sensed it.
It turned its head away and tanked the spells while its damaged armor began healing instantly.
'Wow!' The system had informed him about its healing capabilities but he didn't think it would be this quick.
Immediately its armor was healed and thick spikes immerged from the blue stripes. It faced its open mouth in the direction of the tree Beyoni and Kade were on.
BOOM!
A strong jet of water launched out of its mouth and instantly cut right through part of the tree's stem, making it lose its balance.
Seeing the tree fall, Beyoni conjured a water whip and latched onto a nearby tree while Kade had simply jumped out and floated to another tree.
"Holy fuck!" Blake was shocked by the power of the jet stream as he watched the tree which was more than 400 meters tall, fall to the ground.
'We need to end this quickly!' Blake had a feeling that if the battle drew out a mistake might lead to a bad ending for one of his teammates. But it wasn't only him that thought so.
Damon who was previously one of the treetops with Ansgar had appeared on the ground and had begun casting night mist.
Dark gaseous mists began coming out of him and filling the area around, blocking the vision of the armored hippo.
His was almost twice as potent as that of Castiel and in a matter of seconds, the vitality of the energetic hippo had dropped at a visible rate.
Blake saw this as a chance to end its life but that was when they heard an ear-piercing grunt from the armored hippo and in a matter of seconds, the ground began quaking.
BOOM!
BOOM!
Blake took a look at the armored hippo right in front of him but it didn't seem to be moving that was when thought to his mind 'OH MY!'
BOOM!
Before he could react a strong jet of water passed some meter right in front of him.
"Run!!" Blake shouted as he activated lightning reinforcement and began dashing away from the area.
"Shit!" Seeing the 2 unwanted guests, Damon knew there was no chance for them winning, he cast his stealth spell and left the area.
By the time Blake and Damon were gone, night mist had cleared up more armored hippos could be seen coming out of the lake.
"Holy fuck! That was a close one." Blake said as he regrouped with the team on a treetop.
"We can't continue to hunt here, it is too risky." Damon said as they watched the number of armored hippos on the ground reach 7.
They were currently looking at 7000 points, but everyone in the team, including Ansgar, had to agree to Damon's words.
Even if they waited to try it again, the same thing might happen and that would leave them far behind in the leaderboards.
"It is agreed. Since there is nothing here that is worth our time, I suggest we keep moving while searching for a place to sleep." No one opposed the suggestion so Sach began leading them to the most dangerous area of the map.
Due to their failure in killing the armored hippo, their team had gone down to 4th place in the leaderboards and Sach felt that in order to catch up it called for drastic measures.
The team kept on moving and killing their way through the forest. Unluckily for them, they were coming in contact with mostly insect-type magical beasts.
Not only were they more difficult to deal with, but for some reason, the mother-stream decided to make all insect creatures poisonous.
After close to 4 hours they finally reached the most dangerous area on the map.
"Is it only that has noticed that for the past 10 minutes we haven't been attacked by any godforsaken insect?" Beyoni who had been poisoned twice pointed out.
"Yeah, it's true." Kade nodded in confirmation, but this made Blake and Damon deeply frown.
If there was one thing Blake had understood from his stay in Infinite realm, it was that everything was prey.
So for the fact that there were none in the area meant 2 things, either the one meant to be here were killed or they had been driven away by something stronger.
Sach would have loved to explain to tell them that they were currently in the most dangerous location on the map, but that would bring about more complications. So, he decided to play along with the script he had planned.
'Scan the area.' Blake gave a command to the system.
[Oh no!] The system scanned the environment and was shocked by its own discovery.
[You are walking on an ant hive!] The system warned Blake.
'Fuck me sideways!' Blake greatly cursed his bad luck.
The main problem now was that his team were walking deeper into great danger but he had no idea how to warn them!