The monster was so big that he couldn't see its head, but it stood on two feet and had scales for skin.
The monster was just walking by and yet all the creatures in the surrounding didn't dare come out. All of them trembled as the being slowly walked away.
One of the big trees that didn't manage to shrink itself to a small enough size was eaten by the being. When the being used its hand to grab the tree, he could count five fingers.
The being brought its head down and bit the tree. Blood spluttered everywhere. In fact, the blood actually came from the tree. Blood flowed like a fountain.
When the being brought the tree to eat it, all the creatures shivered in great fear. Michael finally saw the head of the being.
The being was covered in green scales. It had a human structure but was completely hairless. The being ate the tree and blood was on its mouth.
'What a scary creature.' Michael thought and stroked the head of little white who had long since passed out.
The pressure from such a being even though not directed at them was enough to make the faint hearted rabbit go unconscious.
'System, where are we?' He asked but the system surprisingly answered.
{Host is now in a distorted realm.}
Michael eyebrow was raised in surprise. 'What is a distorted realm?'
{Since host is now in a distorted realm, information has been unlocked and is now granted access.}
{A distorted realm is a realm that has failed to ascend to a higher rank. And the consequences for failure is to sink into a fallen state. All the creatures are in the fallen rank. The state of the creatures and the former rank of the realm before its failure will determine its current strength.}
{Kill a creature of the fallen realm to get corrupted beast souls and beast shard.}
{System mission: Kill any creature of the distorted realm.}
{Time limit: Twenty- four hours}
{Reward: Random}
{Punishment: Random}
'Wait system.' But the system ignored Michael and kept silent. It was clear it would not speak again until he completed the mission.
"What does the system mean by system mission. This is the first time it has said something like this. And how am I even supposed to kill any of these creatures. They are all stronger than me by a lot".
Michael was deep in thought until he suddenly remembered the tree still spouting blood. The tree was not yet dead.
"Will it count as a creature?" Michael asked no one in particular before summoning his armor and two daggers.
Despite the tree on the verge of death, no creature made any move on it. They were all avoiding the tree and the blood that flowed.
He stealthily went towards the tree but the other creatures simply ignored him. "It seems they don't really care about the tree". When he reached the tree, he avoided the blood from touching him and stabbed the dagger into the side of the tree.
The dagger met some resistance before going in but as it did, he heard a sizzling sound. The dagger was melting because the blood from the tree was acidic. 'No wonder why no one made a move on it, the blood the acidic. But the giant being still ate it with ease and didn't feel uncomfortable. Then how strong must it be?'
When Michael pulled the dagger out, it was nearly melted off and he kept it back in the system. He summoned the second dagger and the wolf king talisman to give both his weapon and armor a buff.
A blue aura surrounded the dagger and the white armor and he plunged the dagger back into the tree. More blood spluttered out and a drop of blood fell on his armor.
It emitted a sizzling sound but just a tiny drop of blood was not enough to melt a hole in the armor it seemed. But there was a large area that looked scarred and would break if attacked.
However, the small dagger had almost no effect on the big tree. But a second later, the tree stopped spurting blood and Michael heard the system announcement in his ears.
{Fallen Dystopian Blood tree killed. Beast soul of fallen entity gained. Beast shard entity unavailable. Blood shard obtained}
This came as a surprise to Michael. 'It seems every time I steal a kill I always manage to get a beast soul.' He nodded in satisfaction and went back to little white. He picked up the rabbit in his hands and planned to move.
{System mission: Completed}
{Reward: Random}
{Would you like to claim reward now?}
The system said.' Can you tell me about this random reward?' Michael asked because he didn't really want to claim it now. He already had some good beast souls with him right now so he did not need the reward.
{Any reward that the universal system wishes to bestow unto the user, both harmful or beneficial}
'Then am not interested right now, I will keep the reward for later'. Michael just kept it one side for now and just left the area with little White in his arms.
If they could not find their way back they had to find a safe place where they could stay at least and figure out how to leave the distorted dimension. At night, they climbed unto a tree that seemed normal and slept there for the night.