Mantis Stalks The Cicada, Unaware of The Pup Behind

After Mikhail finished his wailing and cursing, he sits on the floor and began to rack his brains again. The clue is the grimoire said three origin cores. It didn't say to slay three origin beast and take their origin cores. So he could get the origin cores in another way such as stealing or robbing it. Mikhail grinning evilly and then he started frowned.

The main question is how he could find someone that owned three origin beast?

Wait a minute... It's not necessarily must be someone. He could steal it from the origin beast as well. That giant werewolf from before could walk around freely on the daylight without being caution. That means that it must be at the top of the food chain and it must have some origin cores stocked at its lair.

Mikhail sighed, danger will always coexist with benefit and the coward that afraid of pain and danger will never gain anything. Mikhail began devising his stealing plan, according to his experience as an expert gamer.

The first thing to do is to find out its schedule when it going out of its lair when it goes back to its lair, the route that it usually take, and how many giant werewolves live in its lair. Also, that giant werewolf sense of smell is so acute, he could fool it once but not sure if it works for twice or more.

"That giant werewolf sense of smell is the most annoying hurdle." Mikhail rubs his chin while thinking.

"Well... Just do the worst then... Every day from now on I will scatter something with the sharp odor like gasoline, milk, perfume, or whatever it is along the street to confuse its sense of smell..." Mikhail sighed.

This is a strategy he learned in the game too called scattered the grass to hide as a grass. If your camouflage as the grass in the middle of the city, everyone will find you out no matter how skilled you are. But it will be different if you plant the grass all over the city and then camouflage as grass.

Mikhail began to search the item with the sharp odor, along with his necessity to infiltrate giant werewolf lair like a backpack to store the grimoire and the origin cores later, flashlight, rope, first-aid kit, a lighter, etc.

The next morning he woke up early at 04.00 AM to scattered some gasoline and perfume around the street along the way and spray some perfume to his body. Then he goes to the bookstore yesterday to wait for the giant werewolf to pass.

After waited until evening finally the giant werewolf walked pass the bookstore and Mikhail tailed him cautiously.

He then finds out that the giant werewolf's lair is a cathedral at the central of city. Then Mikhail keeps tracking its schedules and its traveling route. The giant werewolf usually traveled into deep forest or the sewer to hunt and bring back some origin beast core to its lair but Mikhail didn't enter it because it would bad if he met another monster in the way. It usually went hunt from the morning at 05.00 AM until midday at 02.00 - 03.00 PM.

After making sure The giant werewolf schedules is fixed for a few days Mikhail tailed giant werewolf again and again. Mikhail then waiting far away from the Cathedral until 06.00 AM and slip into the Cathedral.

The Cathedral is dark and smelly so Mikhail turned on the flashlight then began searching around but the surrounding sight makes Mikhail almost throw up.

Bones...

Human bones everywhere...

Mountain of human bones...

The sharp smell of the corpses...

Mikhail closed his eyes and gulped his saliva when he opened his eyes again his gaze turned resolute and serious.

"Someday... If I have the power... I promise I will avenge you all." Mikhail claps his hands and continues to search for the origin cores.

Then in the deep of Cathedral at the Ambulatory, there are many origin cores numbered in thirty to forty. Origin core is like marble but at the size of a baseball if you look carefully there are numerous tiny glow like a star moving in the cores makes it look magical and mystic.

Mikhail grinned widely and quickly put in all the origin cores to his bag pack and his plastic bag but when he turned around want to run away, Mikhail finds a wolf puppy sitting peacefully and gazing at him.

"Sh*t... How could I not sense it at all? Now, what to do? If I run away, did it will tell its parent that I am the one stealing the Origin cores?" Mikhail cold sweat thinking about it.

Then the puppy begins to barking at Mikhail making him panicked even more. Is this the code to calling its parent? Mikhail quickly hugged the puppy and covered its mouth with the other hand then run away as fast as he could from the Cathedral.