Bestiary Volume I

## **Stone Worm**

A large worm the length of a foot and the thickness of an adult’s thumb. They looked like earthworms, yet much larger in size. The larger a stone worm grows, the deeper it would bury underground, so there were only small ones left amongst the surface. Stone worms tasted rather bad and many people would suffer from severe diarrhea after eating them, so no one from the tribe would keep stone worms on their menu. A worm cut into two parts could still heal its wound and grow into a complete one after some period of time. Stone worms were much quicker than earthworms, one would only return empty handed if they could not catch them immediately upon seeing them.

## **Black Swamp Worm**

A soft to touch worm and was as big as a person's palm with a flat oval shape. It had many thin and long feet, and it was as black as the swamp. Shao Xuan discovered that the worm spread out large quantities of black bubbles from its mouth and the bubbles covered the worm as a whole. The black bubbles will gather and finally make as large as a football with the worm in its center. The black sphere was pretty light in weight, and it required some strength to crush. The black sphere-half floated on the surface of the water and could be used for fishing.

## **Piranha Fish**

It had a giant mouth filled with numerous tiny sharp teeth. The fish was born to bite and kill since it possessed a mouthful of teeth in such a scale.

## **Night Swallow**

It was a swallow-like bird. It was quick when flying and only came out at night. It’s a meat-eating creature. They were far more ferocious than bats and they were also highly gregarious, so they lived and moved in swarms. That was also the reason why few people in the tribe would go out at night without a torch. They may easily get attacked by Night Swallows. Normally a Night Swallow’s voice could not be heard, but it’s told in the tribe that powerful warriors could hear its cry. It was said to be a cacophony but it was only a tale told by people, and most of them haven’t heard it in person.

## **Tree Civet**

It was not much larger than an adult’s palm, and among its grey fur there were some brown lines mixed in. On its round hairy head, there were two big black eyes, and it seemed particularly innocent when it stared at people with those eyes. The ears on both sides were slightly droopy. The little thing is not good to eat. It's sound is also creepy.

## **Four-fanged Wild Boar**

Normally, male wild boars would have a pair of upward turning fangs, while the ten-meter mountain-like giant boar had four pairs of them. Aside from the huge fangs revealed from its mouth like normal boars, the other three pairs were on its face. The most upfront pair was located on its forehead, and a little shorter than the other three pairs. The four pairs of fangs turned to the same direction and almost formed a shield, which could easily crush down a tree.

## **Giant-antlered Deer**

Among the herd of the giant-antlered deer, there were a lot of male deer with big antlers, some of which had really unique antlers. Unlike other deer, their antlers were not like branches that stretched out, but forked out backwards several times covering their whole bodies. Those were extremely difficult to deal with.

## **Eyeless Spider**

Their eyes had degenerated because they had been living in dark caves for many generations. The body of the spider was not large, but they did have pretty long legs, which could cover the entrance of the stone worm caves.

## **Pincer Insect**

An insect that lived in the stone worm caves. The insect’s feeler had hook-like serrations. This serrations can even create crackling sounds as they rubbed against each other.

## **Giant Dragonflies**

The small ones had wingspans of at least three meters, while most of them had wingspans of five meters. Some of them were even bigger. A giant dragonfly aircraft fleet used to go down the mountain. The giant dragonflies were gentle in temper, or else they would not allow the warriors in the advance group to take a ride on their backs. They also had vague memories about the people who rode them. The dragonflies do not mind taking the others for a free ride, as long as you do not actively irritate or attack them on purpose.