Cast Out (Book 1 Done; Book 2 In-Progress)

Chapter 7

CURRENTLY:

Managed to survive a battle with opponents that were over 60 levels above Zhang and his crew in the 2nd layer of the Boundary Forest. They have now somehow ended up in front of a Dragon the size of a mountain, which the MC's ability confirms, "It is either a Dragon, or a REALLY, REALLY big lizard with wings."

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No matter what my ability said, it was OBVIOUSLY a dragon.

This is what I get, I suppose, when I don't switch my ability to Active.

Unsurprisingly, we were in another clearing. I was starting to get the idea that this forest wanted all of our major encounters to be in a clearing.

The only difference between the ones we were in before and the ones that we were in now, was the size.

The dragon itself was beyond huge. If you could see it from far away, you might mistake it for a mountain. THAT'S how big it is.

Its scales were a pattern of light and dark green; you wouldn't be able to tell the difference between the tree canopy and its body if you saw it from above. Most likely you wouldn't ever get a chance to see it from above though, since I doubt that there were people that could fly higher than a Dragon.

Obviously since the dragon was as big as a mountain, the clearing had to be bigger to surround it. It looked like miles and miles of an open environment, with nothing but grass and the sky.

There was nowhere to run, and nowhere to hide.

I didn't need my ability to tell me that there was no way we could fight THAT and walk out alive.

Which was when I heard Zhang say,

"Alright, everybody back up as slowly and as quietly as you can."

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My armor suddenly seemed to weigh down on me ten times more as I looked up at the mountain that was a dragon. I'd already made up my mind about what to do. This time, I didn't even need my [Observe] skill to tell me that there we would all get absolutely destroyed if we even tried to fight it.

Right now, the dragon's head was near the ground, and its colossal eyes were closed.

'God I hope that thing stays asleep.'

As if to warn me to stay away from the huge monstrosity, a blue box was floating right beside it.

NAME: &@$&*#----

Not even mentioning the fact that the name was hidden, the thing had freaking SKULLS for levels!

I am ZHANG!! It shouldn't have to be like this! My face burned with shame as I felt my lips form the next words that were going to come from my mouth.

"Alright, everybody back up as slowly and as quietly as you can."

Almost immediately after, the head which had been lying down on its forelegs facing us, suddenly let out a snort...

In a split second with a ROAR like thunder, emerald flames came out of its nose and flew just above our heads.

I slowly turned my head to look behind us....

And there was nothing.

We must have covered 4-5 miles walking in the forest between the last clearing, and this one now.