Chapter 47 Crab hidden boss

While Muzin and Shuzan busying themselves setting up more powerful array, they suddenly smell something delicious that make them go hungry despite being supplement by world energy.

Both of them turn their head and look at Lucis humming by himself as he stir the pot and adding some seasoning into it.

"so you feel hungry?" Shuzan asked Muzin.

"strange, we are Cultivator, how did we get hungry?" Muzin wipe the saliva at the corner of his mouth.

They both turn their head again and look at Lucis. indeed, the smell come from the pot.

"fellas, the crab is ready. Come, come, it's the taste of the century." Lucis said as he take out 3 big bowl and pour some soup and crab legs into it.

Muzin and Shuzan hesitate a bit but succumb to the hunger when the sound of the soup hit the bowl. Both of them gulp unconsciously.

Muzin sit in front of the table that magically appear out of nowhere. The smell of the soup that has been soak by crab and other Herb's specially powerful and before he know it, his stomach is grumbling and his mouth is drooling. The color of the crab shell is glistering red like some sort of magical item.

"gulp, is this... this thing can be eaten right?" Shuzan look at Lucis and gulping his saliva. He hesitate to eat the crab leg but the soup and the vegetables in it is no problem. In fact he almost eat it as soon as he sit down.

"please." Lucis smile and shake his head in sympathetic manner. 'what a sad life they have been living. Seafood is one of the world delicacy.' he thought.

"look here noobs, watch and learn." Lucis take the crab leg and crack it open with his bare hand, then he slowly pull out the shiny gold and red crab meat that as big as his thumb.

The crab meat swaying gently as it left it shell like a jelly making one want to take a bite at it as soon as they see it. The aroma it exude making all 3 if them salivating unconsciously.

"that.. that.." Muzin stutter when he saw the crab meat. His face is full of disbelief. He just remember something but forgot as quickly by his hunger.

Lucis ignore them and take a bite at the crab meat. Muzin and Shuzan gulping down their saliva furiously as their eyes fixed on Lucis.

"ermmm..." Lucis look down and push his index finger on his lips like he's calculation something with serious expression.

"4.7.... I give it 4.6 star." apparently he's using play store rating system. The reason for the taste not full star mostly because of the unfamiliar he is with the combination of the ingredients he use.

"o my heaven. This thing is delicious!" Shuzan shout as he crunch the meat in his mouth with close eyes like a professional eater. Muzin look at him with a big surprise. Before he know it, Shuzan already bite down some crab.

"i.. I have been living in the dark all this time." Shuzan turn his head down and close his eyes and clenching his right fist. "i didn't know spider meat can be this delicious." he gently shake his head with regret.

'wow, this dude is exaggerating!' Lucis look at Shuzan feel like he's being over the roll for praising the crab meat.

Muzin suddenly feel like he's too coward for still hesitating. He cleaned his hand and bite the crab and try to gulp it down as quickly as he can but oh boy.. He's stunned and stop moving for half a minute savoring the crab meat in his mouth. The meat feel like it's melting when it enter his mouth and the flavor is too beautiful for his rough cultivator life.

'oh boi, are we in an acting talent show now? Is there any camera nearby?" Lucis almost loss appetite looking at the drama in front of him. It's like the ads between the tv show.

"this meat look similar to the golden prawn from the celestial river." Shuzan examine the elastic meat in his hand as he pull it out from the leg shell.

Lucia turn his head at the superhuman speed when heard the word 'prawn' from Shuzan. The air around his head vibrating as he glare at Shuzan.

"did you say prawn?" Lucis asked with urgent voice. It's one of his favorite food back on earth.

Shuzan froze when Lucis look at him with ferocious glare that he almost jump back a couple meter away.

"where can we get this prawn? Buy, where can I buy it?" Lucis nostalgic sense tingling and his interest is extremely picked.

"i.. I.." Shuzan truly frightened by Lucis that he doesn't know what to say anymore. Lucis energy wave surrounding him making him feel like he's about to get crushed by the pressure.

When Lucis realize that Muzin and Shuzan look at him with frightened expression, he quickly let out a small cough and sit down calmly embarrassed.

"excuse me." Lucis said then he take a sip of the crab soup.

"thats okay brother, it's totally understandable." Muzin smile. Shuzan nod and smile bitterly.

"golden prawn is a luxury item. Who doesn't want it." Muzin added and take another crab leg from the pot.

Lucis put the topic on hold and enjoy the crab meat with his gang as they chat about their life experience. Shuzan especially loud mouth as he brandishing his hundred years of life experience.

After they finish the whole pot, Lucis gave them a few low grade magic stone and medicine and went back to his cave.

He quickly make thorough check on the array and noticed some small crack start appearing. He spend a couple hour patching up the array again and return to the previous empty room where he take out the crab.

He wave his hand and the crab, the one he first caught, Diner, appear on his palm. it's especially energetic as it trying to clamp Lucis with it's claw.

"hello Diner." Lucis said with provoking tone. Diner waving and clamping it's claw furiously but Lucis position his hand just right where it can't reach.

"lets see if you can dig through this stone ground." Lucis smile mischievously. He completely renovated the room after his last visit with the crab he just ate. Lucis dug the floor 6 meter deep and cover the entire floor with black iron including the wall and ceiling, then fill the whole 6 meter deep he just dug with water and mud from the swamp.

Lucis throw Diner toward the center of the room and retreat back near the door. The room is not really wide but it's extremely long after Lucis renovated it, It's almost 100 meters long.

Lucis plan to breed his own crab since it is so hard to get his hand on this creature.

When Diner landed on the mud, the first thing it wants to do is jumping back and attacking Lucis. The mud just received light tap and the crab propelled itself towards Lucis like he is it's greatest enemy.

"Oh crab! calm down!" Lucis swing his Solidus sword in a hurry blocking the incoming crab. The crab reaction is more faster and aggressive than the previous one completely catch him off guard.

The clashing between Diner and Solidus sword sparking like an iron meet iron and the sound is vibrating in the whole room.

"damn! It's too fast. Relax, Diner calm down!" Lucis take a huge step back in panicked. The crab attack is heavier than it's supposed to be clearly it included energy in it.

As soon as Dinner touch the ground again it quickly disappeared from Lucis eyes and another spark flew from Diner and Solidus clashing.

"God damn!" Lucis shocked. the attack is heavier than the previous one.

*n that split second after the clash, Lucis saw that Dinner most vulnerable moment is when it's mid air after it's attack.

Lucis quickly swing his sword before Diner reach the floor. He use his full strength to crack open the crab shell.

It's sparking a bit and Diner's thrown far away at the back of the room spinning like a baseball ball.

"damnit!" Lucis check his sword worried that the clash just now damaging his sword badly. this is the first time he ever smack something that hard with Solidus sword.

"ah, light scratch." Lucis sigh. Solidus sword is the only weapon he have at the moment that can be use as a shield with it's wide blade.

With that, the fight continue for whole days.

Lucis realize that after some time he slowly getting use to the crab speed, he use it to train himself instead. The crab is like having an endless energy keep coming back again and again after getting blasted away by Lucis every time.

After Lucis start getting use to the crab speed, he no longer use the Solidus sword. He switched to katana and the fight turn epic between crab and human. Spark can be seen almost every second between the entrance of the cave to the end of the cave like an electricity sparking around.

After tiring himself, Lucis escape the room and rest for the day and come back tomorrow.

"dinner, your speed and shell is the only thing that's good for you!" Lucis wipe the sweat on his forehead.

"but it's no longer works on me, your movement is predictable." Lucis smile and took out a second sword with double blade.

Not sure if Dinner is adapting or it's just been holding back this whole time, the second day fight is getting more serious. Dinner began using a different set of movement confusing Lucis completely.

"what the! Are you the crab final boss or something?" the fight no longer within something that Lucis can handle.

The crab didn't jump up, instead it's jump side way and always keeping the ground within it's reach.

Just when Lucis about to bring out his Solidus sword, the crab suddenly jump and spinning extremely fast and hit Lucis on his chest.

There's no iron clashing sounds, the only sounds that can be heard is Lucis shrieking in pain as he's thrown to the mud. Thankfully, he's the only human here or it would be embarrassing.