Big Brain Little Brain Part 4

As the rock worm charged forward Krug turned completely towards the three mages who suddenly showed up and insulted him with a look of detest in his eye.

"You can not call Krug dumb Krug have big brain. Your eyes can not see, that makes you blind and dumb".

Ferrise didn't take pay attention to Krughe didn't even care about killing Krug his focus was solely on obtaining the rock worm.

"Linda me and you will take down the rock worm. Jasper kill that stupid orc we need ever bit of money possible".

Linda and Jasper gave Ferrise a simple nod once they received their tasks, but Ferrise's words words angered Krug.

"You try to steal bestie. Krug wont let you, bestie Krug's not yours".

Krug's words fell on deaf ears Ferrise and his group didn't care their attention was mostly on the rock worm that caught up with Krug. The ground rumbled and softened beneath Krug's feet the rock worm's pressence turned the ground into a death trap. Krug fumble around a bit as the shifting ground kept him off balance while Ferrise and the other mages charged forward.

Ferrise and Linda ran past Krug towards the rock worm while Jasper collided with Krug. Wanted to stop Ferrise and Linda, but Jasper had his feet tied down with roots that suddenly popped up out of the ground.

Krug pulled his legs up with all his might breaking the roots that were holding him in place, but as that was happening another root burst out of the ground and drilled a hole into Krug's stomach. The gut wrenching pain was dulled by the rot leaf, but it still hurt Krug immensely. Krug seeing that his enemy was going to be tricky to fight Krug stopped holding back.

Krug grabbed the root that was rammed into his gut and ripped it out of the ground. Black blood spilled out like a river at first then slowed to a trickle. The rot leaf kept Krug from bleeding excessively allowing him to keep fighting in top condition. He then took a stance, balled up his fist while directing his energy to it, then punched forward while shouting the name of the technique.

"Fist crush rock [Rock crushing fist]"

Rock crushing fist is a basic technique, but it was also one Krug polished to perfection. Krug's fist turned a dark red from all the energy he put into it. When he punched out wards towards Jasper his fist turned into a blur that was followed by the sound of claping thunder. Krug's punch parted the ground leaving a clear pathway that lead directly towards Jasper.

Krug's attack was, so fast Jasper had no way of dodging. He was able to set up 3 layers of defense in time, but even those no match for Krug's punch. The root walls in front of Jasper crashed down weakly when Jasper looked down at himself in disbelief he saw a large gaping hole in his chest.

The sound of Krug's attack made Ferrise glance over.

"Don't bother focusing on whats going on over there Jasper's got it handle". Said Linda as she bent down and pressed her hands on the floor gently.Linda was focusing her magic to counter the rock worm vortex giving Ferrise solid ground to stand on while he fought the rock worm.

Ferrise had already released his crows they swarmed the rock worm constantly. By using the birds tough iron like wings Ferrise could chip away at the rock worm's armor more efficiently than Krug. When the rock worm tried to burrow under ground Ferrise swiched out with Linda. She continuously fought the rock worm below ground until it was forced back up.

As Ferrise and Linda slowly beat the rock worm to death Jasper took the opportunity were Krug was paying attention to his falling body and struck. Another root aimed at Krug's heart shot out of the ground. Krug's senced the sudden attack he bent down and rolled away dodging it. When Krug arrived at his new position he felt two hands firmly clasped around his ankles.

When Krug bent down he saw half of Jasper's body sticking out of the ground looking at him with a smug grin on his face as he took in a deep breath and blew releasing a small cloud of spores from his mouth. The spores covered Krug's body and entered his exposed wounds. Krug ignored the spores for the moment and only focused on slaming his fist into Jasper's face. Since Krug struck at a downward angle Krug's fist smashed Jasper's skull, spine and rib cage. As Krug looked at the gory mess bellow his feet it all changed into a bundle of plants just like the first fake Krug took down.

The real Jasper was hiding safely nearby he wouldn't dare risking his life for minor gains like today. As Krug lamented over another false kill another Jasper appeared in Krug's vision.

But Krug did fight that one he instead said, "soft skin you think Krug like rock worm, but Krug not Krug chase shadow no longer".

After Krug said that he began running towards Ferrise and Linda, but after the fist couple of steps Krug was on his knees. Thorns started to sprout out of Krug's body they grew under his skin and kept spreading. They wrapped around his legs and were starting to wrap around his organs, but the more the vines grew the darker and more sickly they became till all the vines died. The rot leaf Krug ate filled Krug's body with the element of darkness. Which is a natural counter to plants killing them off quickly.

[Note: Author is not the kind of person that would have the rot leaf be the only way Krug could have solved the problem. That is far to much of a coincidence but coincidences do happen, so it passes].

Krug looked at Jasper fiercely while Jasper wondered how Krug killed his plants. Krug shared no further words with Jasper he simply used [Rock Crushing Fist] to destroy Jasper's puppet and continued towards Ferrise and Linda.

Krug knew that he couldn't beat Jasper since he couldn't find him, so he focused all of his rage on the other two. Krug came running at Ferrise like a ball of furry. Krug's rage filled scream that sounded very close made Ferrise turn around.

"Damb it Jasper you had one job".

Ferrise sent part of his flock towards the enraged Krug. Krug took the swarm of crows coming at him seriously became he knew how dangerous those crows were. Watcher crows were known as death crows they had an innate curse ability that their all born with. Their curse is tied to their eyes making it, so that what ever they look at suffers from the curse of weakness. When one crow does it the effect is as weak as if a beginner apprentice mage cast the curse. But if hundreds of crows look at one person then the victim would continue to get weak till it kills them.

The only reason Ferrise never used the crow's weakness curse on the rock worm was because it was to big making the effect meaningless. Krug knowing what he was up against used a risky move to not stay in the crows vision to long.

"[Blood Burn]"

[Blood Burn] is a risky technique that lets the user exceed their limits at the cost of inflicting damage onto themselves. The risk is further enhanced because of the rot leaf Krug consumed. [Blood Burn] will increase the user's heart rate which in turn increase the speed at which Krug's body rots away.

Krug's Grey body quickly turned darker till his body was an obsidian black and his eyes turned blood shot. By the time Krug's body fully charged he vanished from everyone's sight. Jasper created another puppet and wasn't sure were Krug was till he heard Ferrise's being slammed to the floor.

Krug moved far faster then he ever did before to not stay in the crows line of sight he had to take a risk. Crows surrounded Krug on all sides, but Krug blasted threw them as he made his way toward Ferrise.Ferrise wasn't expecting such a massive suden increase in speed from Krug. It caught him off guard allowing Krug to grab his head and slam him to the ground.

After he slammed Ferrise to the ground he didn't stay there. He sped over to words Linda who was now soloing the rockworm and stepped on the back of her head pushingher face into the ground. As he used her head as a spring boards Krug burst up into the air like a rocket pushing Linda's head down further and upper cutted the rockworm.

"Rockworm Krug's kill, filthy soft skins find own. You to weak to steal Krug's kill". Krug's words spread far for all to hear.

As the rockworm recoiled backwards from Krug's punch and Krug flew high into the air over shadowing everyone else with his glorious form. Everything that happened made Linda feel embarrassed and Ferrise furious. While Jasper was secretly laughing in his hidey hole.