Scarecrows.

"Hm" Zephyr was currently deep in thought, it couldn't quite figure something out.

"Something wrong?" Dell asked. If something was wrong with Zephyr, who was apart of Dell, that could be a problem for him.

"I can't quite figure out what allows the beast to shoot flames, it doesn't have any organ that allows it to do so"

Dell began to walk down the path. "Pretty odd how the farm didn't set ablaze too. Maybe another rule unique to Zelith."

As the pair thought on the scarecrow they shortly fount themselves face to face with another. It stood on the path blocking the way, its twisted smile widening as it approached.

"I hate this place" Dell dashed towards the beast. It lacked a weapon so he didn't see it as much of a threat, besides its iron like claws and fire breath. Using his gauntlets he would throw out punch after punch, taking a low stance and out maneuvering the beast. Each swing it would take Dell managed to get around it, eventually ending up behind it.

Before Dell could send his attack from behind, it would twist its back so it was facing Dell. This caused him to hesitate for a second, that second cost him. Throwing a nasty punch to Dell's face, knocking him to the ground and twisting back into place. Dell scrambled to get up, but was met with a kick to the face knocking him into the crops.

"Shit!"

His eyes would widen as he felt arms grabbing him from behind and lifting him up. Turning his head he would notice arms of another scarecrow, however its arms were unnaturally buff compared to the rest of its body and other scarecrows so far.

Struggling to get out of its grip Dell would receive punch after punch from the initial beast. Calming down Dell would lift his leg up and smash it down into the beast that was holding him, causing it to fall to one knee and the other beast to miss its punch. Elbowing it in the head relentlessly Dell managed to loosen its grip and get out.

He instantly turnt around and sidekicked it in the face, barely ducking the others incoming attack, then grabbing its arm and shirt and throwing it over his back and slamming it into the ground. Finishing it by stamping on its head with all of his might.

WHACK!

Dell's head throbbed in pain as his vision went blurry for a few seconds. He instinctively rose his arms to gaurd himself until his vision came back to normal, blocking the incoming set of punches.

Once it had he would send out a jab at the beast, firmly landing in its stomach. Though he couldn't pull it out, it was like the goo and hay had wrapped around Dell's hand and held him in place. What was worse was that he could feel the temperature dropping rapidly where his hand was.

In a panic Dell would slash at the beasts neck, and after goo poured from its neck it would slump to the ground and fall on its side allowing Dell to free his hand.

"What the fuck are these things?"

Dell let Zephyr feast once again, knowing ut would help him recover along with getting stronger. The noise of crunching on the eerie path wasn't pleasant.

"They don't hit too hard, but fuck they can be difficult to deal with"

"Well" Zephyr began "I believe I've figured out what makes them such a pain"

"Oh?"

"Well, something allows them to manipulate their body freely. Raise its temperature, lower it, move abnormally. Even increase its strength in certain areas for awhile"

"Where was the free info guide prior to this?"

"All the monsters before these were quite straight forward. They didn't need am explanation on how they are trying to kill you"

"Welp" Dell continued to walk down the path. "The more you know about a monster the less likely you'll get killed because it suprised you. Keep that up"

As he got further down the path he saw the large farm house that was in the middle of this area. Getting past the wheat field showed the large building and the open area around it. The odd scarecrow could be seen around.

Step step step...

Dell quickly turned around and dashed back in order to see whatever was coming from behind him and create some distance.

"Hold up edgelord its only me" The voice of Jack said.

"The fuck are you doing here?" Dell asked.

"I'm here to collect some supplies from the building. Each week a crate of food appears and I've been sent to get it"

"Alone?"

"Yes"

"As in, just you?"

"That,,, is what I said"

"With no back up?"

"Yea" Jack said with a sigh.

"Do you just make everyone hate you?"

"Listen here dip shit. You may of beat me before, but I got an awakening so don't get any ideas-"

"Oh same" Dell said, that being his lie for how he suddenly got so strong.

"Aw cmon! What are the chances of that. Lucky asshole"

"Gonna go bully some more divisions with the new strength?"

"I learnt my lesson edgelord. I'm just tryna get stronger so I survive this hell hole"

"Well I'm just trying to get past this area, so don't count on me helping you-"

"Yea yea I get it" Jack would smack Dell on his shoulder.

"These scarecrows aren't pushovers" Jack continued. "How about we stop being children and help eachother out. Clear out the main building together, I grab the crate you take whatever else?"

It sounded like a fair deal to Dell. He didn't peticularly need the food. And getting a hand on clearing the building so he could rest for the night sounded good.

"Sure, but lets be clear, I don't like you"

"Thats fine, all I care about is getting the job done. As long as you hunt well we don't need to like eachother"