Plan

"..." Silence hung over the place.

Nobody said anything, only the sound of water, some fish swimming in the lake, and the wind could be heard.

"What is it???!!!!" One of the youths screamed in fear. Some went to the young man lying in the water and helped him up and covered the bleeding.

Lighter leg wounds can heal quickly, but the severed arm needs a healing spell to regenerate or he would have to level up a level.

Whenever someone levels up, all wounds are healed immediately.

"Looks like the rumors are true." One of the youths in the group commented.

"What rumors? Song Tai, what are you talking about?" Another young man asked.

Not everyone knew about this information because few people explored the forest to get precious items.

Most of the adults in the village had higher levels and came from other locations. So it didn't make sense for them to explore the forest because it was a low-level location.

Only a few did this out of the habit of being an adventurer.

Liu Yang's father was one of those people.

To get food, firewood, and a little money, he would look for some things in the forest. His level was much higher than any creature in the place, so he could survive in all kinds of situations.

"I heard some adults say that in the lakes and rivers inside the forest there were some level 4 or 5 hidden creatures, but I didn't imagine that the hidden creature was this dangerous and sneaky thing." He replied with a serious tone.

The item was something coveted by test participants because it was one of the items used as a tiebreaker.

Any participant with a rare item would be considered to have passed the first phase of the test.

"Song Tai, what are we going to do now? Is it necessary to call the other participants? Or are we going to do it?" Another young man asked. He didn't dare to attack the creature after the frightening scene he saw.

A creature that hides in the rocks and waits for prey to come close is very dangerous.

"We'll go back and level. After that, we'll come back here to defeat this creature and get the item. But before that, we'll head to the Trade Camp, there should be some test items being sold."

"What about that other group that fought with us? What are we going to do about them?" One of the youths who fought Zi Long and Sun Bai asked.

"They must be watching us. If they saw what happened just now, they might be a little hesitant about dealing with the creature." The group left after seeing that they would have no chance of dealing with the creature.

The young man missing one of his arms was carried by his companions.

…

Liu Yang and the three group members watched it all without blinking. They had to admit that it was very unexpected for the creature to have any ability to glue the hands of its prey to the item inside its mouth.

"The situation got a little complicated. What are we going to do now? The other side is going to the Trade Camp, should we go there too?" Lin Hai asked curious about the location.

Teachers and adults have already told them about this place, but they have never been there.

"It's a good opportunity for us to go there, but before that. We'll get to an interesting thing first. Fatty, is your hammer ready?" Liu Yang would attack the creature hiding in the water.

"Yea. I will break that thing." Lin Hai was very excited to try to defeat the hidden creature because it was a great opportunity for him to level directly to level 5.

Instead of defeating several dozen Devouring Mushrooms, he only had to deal with one level 5 creature.

"Are you two crazy? Even at levels 3 and 4, you will have a hard time dealing with that thing. If anything happens, you might even lose an arm like that other guy"

Zi Long and Sun Bai were both startled and shocked to hear their idea. That was a very insane and dangerous thing to do.

"No" The two replied at the same time.

"Liu Yang, will you use this same strategy?" Lin Hai thought for a while and thought this was the best thing to do.

"Yea. Let's wait a few minutes for that group to move away and not be able to hear the sound of us doing something."

A few minutes later…

No other group appeared, so Liu Yang and Lin Hai walked to the bright spot.

The sword with the slightly rusty blade was placed in the middle of two stones on the ground, in the place where the young man lost his arm before, the sharp wooden sword was placed two meters in front. Liu Yang would use the stones to keep both swords upright.

Two tall trees were cut down and cleaned down to just one trunk. This would be used as a jumping platform.

Lin Hai was at the top of the log holding his heavy mallet and staring at the sword. Liu Yang was in the front one, but he was holding a heavy stone the size of a soccer ball.

In their minds, they hoped the plan would be a success.

According to the images they had seen before, the sword was placed in the spot where they thought the head of the hidden creature was. The two logs were placed about two meters away from the swords because they would jump and attack with all their strength each of the swords.

Zi Long and Sun Bai thought this idea was pretty crazy, but it could work because they wouldn't alert the creature by touching the glowing thing. That was a big advantage for them.

"Fatty, are you ready?" Liu Yang lifted the stone to the height of his head.

"Yea." Lin Hai also raised the sledgehammer with all his might.

The two had only one chance.

"3...2...1... NOW!!!" Liu Yang shouted.

The two jumped out at the same time.