34 Pterodactyls defeated! 68,000 Exp gained!

34 Zombie Pterodactyls defeated! 17,000 Exp gained!

Once I am done dealing with all the pterodactyls I go back and smash the eggs in all of the nests. There is no point in me killing off the current beasts if I let a new generation be born. While I doubt the maker would be patient enough to let them grow, I don't want to take that chance.

While I doubt that I can kill every single flying beast as long as I kill most of them it will work. Even if she gets a few flying undead, if it is not enough to move her army it should work. From what I saw with the gate, the maker will not move to the main continent until her army does.

She seems cautious and unwilling to take a risk by exposing herself to danger. This is the main advantage I have in controlling her and delaying her movement. Just the fact that I am able to steal energy is probably making her more cautious.

Now that my soul is healed I really want to get some more energy to experiment with. There are bound to be a ton more things that I can do with it and I want to find out what they are. I also want to do everything I can to weaken the maker and prolong the fight with the humans.

However, one thing at a time, and right now I need to hunt down the flying beasts. The next beast I find actually finds me first, a two-headed wyvern tries to eat me. It was hiding in some trees and I didn't notice it at all, even my mana didn't detect it.

Luckily, I see it right before it tries to bite me and manage to dodge the first bite. Unfortunately, I don't react fast enough to dodge the second bite from the other head. The mouth of the second head closes down around the lower half of my body, just missing my wings.

Its teeth penetrate my hide but don't sink in too far, it hurts but I can still function. The second head holds me in place as the first head tries to bite my head off. Seeing that big open mouth full of teeth coming right at me makes me freak out.

Then my instincts kick in and suddenly I turn my head towards the mouth. What happens next feels really strange, it feels like sneezing, burping, and spitting all at once. However, what comes out of my mouth looks like a fireball wrapped in lightning.

With the wyvern's mouth being so close it has no chance at all to dodge. So the fireball directly flies into its mouth and then with a pop its head disappears. The second head releases its grip on me as it roars in pain, anger, or maybe both.

Either way I suddenly find myself free and have to quickly resume flapping my wings. I easily make some distance from the wyvern, it is having trouble flying. Probably because it is not used to trying to control the entire body with just one head.

However, I am far more interested in the fact that I appear to have a breath weapon. As I circle around the crippled wyvern I try to figure out how to use it myself. In the end, I do figure out how to use it, but it still feels really weird.

The first time I get it to work I completely miss the wyvern, but I keep trying. In doing so I learn that I can only use it about once a minute and each time all I get is a single ball. No matter how I try I can't breathe out a stream of fire, which is a little disappointing.

I also have a lot of trouble actually hitting the wyvern, but that is partly because it is flying erratically. When I finally do hit it, the fireball hits the main body and blows a hole clean through it. The wyvern dies and then quickly becomes a zombie, but it falls from the sky.

1 Two-Headed Wyvern defeated! 10,000 Exp gained!

It looks like the zombie isn't capable of flying, as it falls its wings are barely flapping. Somehow it manages to survive the crash, but most of its bones are broken. It kind of just lays there flopping around, like a fish out of water, so I end its misery.

1 Zombie Two-Headed Wyvern defeated! 2,500 Exp gained!

As soon as it is dead the body starts rotting away quickly, which is regrettable. Although, it does make me wonder, if I had blown both heads off would it have still turned? The next one I find I will try it out and see if it is still edible after it dies.

That is if I can find one, I really wish I knew how this one snuck up on me. Then again, the big one at the sacred spring looked like a bunch of rocks until it moved. So, these things are big, strong, poisonous, and they have stealth abilities?

While that strikes me as completely unfair, it also makes me wonder what kind of evolutionary path they followed. As I return to flying around looking for more beasts to kill, I also try to watch for ambushes. As I am flying I come across a strange valley full of boulders with no vegetation.

It is only as I am halfway across the valley that the boulders start moving. Just like in the sacred spring, the boulders are actually two-headed wyverns. There are eleven of them, but they are smaller than the one that I just killed.

The odd thing is that I had already scanned the valley with my mana and didn't detect anything. Now that they have moved I can detect them just fine, meaning their camouflage ability blocks my mana. This means that I have no way at all of detecting them when they are hiding.

For now, I focus on fighting against the eleven of them and try to kill them by removing the heads. It might mean missing out on the extra exp for killing the undead, but it is worth it. Not only are the wyverns fairly delicious, but the hides and scales make excellent armor.

Trying to only target the heads makes the fight more complicated, but it is not as hard as I expected. These wyverns seem much less experienced in combat than the other one was. From that and the smaller size I am guessing that these are young wyverns.

Despite there being eleven of them, they don't fight together well which makes it easier on me. As I found out before, once they lose one head they are basically crippled. Thanks to them not working together I am able to pick them off one by one.

11 Young Two-Headed Wyverns defeated! 55,000 Exp gained!

Just as I was hoping, by taking out both heads to kill them it prevents them from becoming zombies. This also prevents the bodies from rotting, so I start gathering materials and meat. For some reason the smell of the raw meat makes me extremely hungry.