WEIRD PHENOMENON

The next day the team had gotten used to a few things on the planet. First of they had found a way to tell which weather was coming up. They also realized that no matter what the atmospheric weather conditions were the planet still kept it's ice coating. Today there was an explanation plan set up for the team. They would move in pairs. It became a competition between boys and girls where Mia and Cora were one pair and Monk and John were another team. Speedy was left at base to use the trackers and body cams to keep track of which team was winning. The plan was set and both pairs went in opposite directions north and south. There was a countdown and once it was over the two teams dashed in their respective directions. Team John going north and team Mia going south.

After a few minutes of running Cora and Mia stopped and started walking. They explored a few location and made sure they were scanning everything they came across. A few more minutes of walking a red dot appeared on the scanner. It was heading in their direction at a very insane speed. Mia spread out her energy in a huge area to see if she could identify what it was. Then before she could see it, a giant beast jumped out of a bush in front of them. The beast was half the size of a human and looked like a hybrid of a cheater and a rat. It was truly ugly. It speed towards the girls and appeared beside Cora at a speed she could not react to and sent out a claw swipe at her. By this time Mia had cought onto the energy signature of the beast and had seen what it would do before it did it so before it moved she had fired of a purple beam in the direction it would stop at. She nailed the beast before it was able to hit Cora. Then multiple beeping sounds could be heard from the scanner. Cora checked it and her heart dropped. When Mia checked the scanner she could see 19 more red dots moving in their direction at insane speeds. Cora immediately lifted both her arms and started gathering a golden energy in them. She kept expanding the energy until it looked like a small star was floating above her head. Then the beasts popped out and the star reacted. Every beast that tried to get close to the girls would immediately be struck down by a golden beam from the star. The beasts moved fast but ultimately lost as none of them was faster than light but with every light beam that was shot the star would get smaller. After killing the 19 other beasts the thing was only half it's size. The one more beep was heard from the scanner. A red dot that was two times bigger than the rest was moving towards them and it was a lot faster than the rest. As soon as it revealed itself a light beam was shot at it. Unlike the others it was able to dodge the beam and it was a lot bigger than the rest as well. It was the leader of the beasts. It ran forward dodging all light beams fired and it and was about to attack Cora when an energy beam was shot by Mia. It reacted in time and was able to dodge it. It then ran out of range of the star and started assessing the situation. "This one seems smarter than the rest Cora, look sharp" Mia said. The beast then raised it's claws and slammed it into the ground kicking up dust. Then in the next second Cora was sent flying backwards and in the location she was just standing was the beast but it had a red aura surrounding it. Just as quickly as it appeared it disappeared and reappeared near Mia but she saw it coming and tried multiple times to blast it but the beast was too fast for her. She jumped back and before she could land the beast was there. She made a quick flip and fired more energy beams at it but it didn't land. When she landed she continued to fired beams at it but that's when a light beam went flying past her in a completely different direction and had hit the beast. What Mia was trying to hit was an afterimage. Cora quickly ran to Mia's side. The beast was injured and Mia could see it. "Hey I thought you said your light could only do soul damage?" Mia asked "when I first got my domain it could not do physical damage but nowadays my skills have started consuming more energy and started dealing physical damage". Cora replied. The conversation was cut short when the beast started multiplying until there were 5 of it. "Be careful, only one of it is real." Mia warned. "I have a skill for this situation, can you distract the beast for a while while I charge it up?" Cora asked. "This beast seems to be a lot more powerful than the ones we fought yesterday. I can try but you need to hurry." "I will" "Ok". With that Cora closed her eyes and started gathering energy within her and Mia went to do what she had been doing this whole time. A few seconds of Mia firing energy beams, teleporting around and oddly some martial arts skills Cora was ready. When Cora was ready she opened her eyes and they were glowing yellow. She then started floating high above the ground and crossed her hands whilst making a sign with her fingers that looked like she was holding something with her index and thumb. Then when she activated the skill one golden orbs appeared in the gap between the index and thumb and it started producing small light bullets in huge amounts. The whole area was destroyed and before the skill activated Mia teleported beside her in the sky. When the light rain was over the beast was severely injured but could still move although nowhere near as fast as before. Mia finished it of with an energy bomb that vaporized the body. In all they got 20 Rank F origin crystals and 1 rank D origin crystal for their trouble. The girls decided to rest and continue exploring later.

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After a few minutes of running John and Monk decided to walk. They were doing a better job of exploration than the girls as they paid attention to a lot more detail than the girls. At least Monk paid attention to a lot more detail than the girls. After walking for a while Monk spotted a black bear like beast with pure black spikes running across it's back. From the top of it's head in a straight line to the tip of the tail. But the tail was covered in the spikes and they seem to make a pattern that surrounded the tail in a way that left the tip looking like a spike itself. The bear was quietly climbing a giant tree and at the top of the tree was a giant nest to go with it's size. "Hey man do you think we should do something about this?" John asked. "Probably." Monk replied. "Well how should we handle this?" John asked "Don't worry I'll handle it" Monk replied. With that Monk made a sign with his hand. The sign depicted a heart but only the middle finger made the shape of a heart while the other fingers remained straight leaving a gap between his palms. A golden orb appeared in that gap and at the same time a golden circular symbol appeared beside him and a man made of pure golden energy appeared out of the symbol. The man immediately moved at such a speed it looked like he teleported near the bear and kicked it. As soon as his leg touched the beast a golden explosion occurred on the tree and the bear was sent flying. The explosion caused the young chicks in the tree to go into a frenzy and start making noise which attracted the parent of the birds. A giant eagle that was three times the size of a human being appeared with it's silver wings shimmering in the sun. It's wings looked like they were made from a metalic substance but was actually all organic. It gave a loud cry before looking at Monk and at the same time rocks and trees alike started being flung at Monk from all sides. John seeing this activated shambles and started deflecting all the physical objects that were being flung at Monk and decided to provoke the bird so Monk can deal with the bear peacefully. He started flinging random physical objects at the bird while deflecting everything it would control. The bird seemed to have a very high level telekinesis ability. It was possibly a rank C beast. He kept deflecting while flinging random things and the bird also kept deflecting but now it's full attention was on John and slowly they started getting further and further away from Monk and the bear till they were a safe distance away. "Alright bird. We try to help you and you attack us. Then I won't hold back any more". Back with Monk he had tried to go and help John but when he took a single step a green beam was shot in front of him missing his face by a few inches. He turned around and a giant golden palm appeared in front of him blocking a green beam much bigger than the first one. "Hey bear. My friend is in trouble and I will not let anything stop me from helping him. Even you. Don't expect me to hold back." Monk said as he got in a sertain stance that started exuding a huge amount of aura. It seems John and Monk were not going to go easy on these beasts.