Chapter 6:

Chapter 06 The Behemoth and the First Victims

Content of the Magic Box


While Jacob was talking, Dixson felt his wheeler shaking from time to time and noticed sounds coming from the bushes close to the tree. The shaking got bigger and bigger as the noise got louder and louder, very quickly. In those couple of seconds, while Jacob finished talking, Dixson got the feeling that something very heavy was running towards them. At that moment, Jacob crouched down and touched the ground to scan the area around them, but it didn't even take a second when Jacob started shouting and tried to build a wall on one side of the wheeler where Dixson was riding.

"Dixson! Get out of the wheeler! The behemoth is charging! Jump now! Get out of there!"

The moment Jacob started to shout to Dixson, it was already too late. A behemoth came crashing through the bushes, breaking Jacob's incomplete wall. Like a wagon full of rocks coming down a hill, it slammed into the four-wheeler, sending it flying in pieces and scraps. Dixson and the navigator's bodies were thrown off, colliding with trees on the other side of the road, turning them into a bloody mess.

After colliding with the wheeler, the behemoth stumbled and fell to the ground but quickly got back up. This gave Jacob the opportunity to launch his attack. With a swift palm thrust forward, he sent a large rock spike flying, impaling the behemoth through its chest. The monster let out a roar of pain as it fell to the ground. Despite being injured, the behemoth attempted to remove the spike and throw it at Jacob, but it was too late.

Jacob impaled the Behemoth with two more spikes, one from each side, piercing its rib cage. The monster dropped the spike it was holding in its hand and grabbed the two spikes that had impaled it. With a strong grip, it broke them both, but Jacob had already prepared another spell. He lifted both arms to chest height, creating four walls that surrounded the Behemoth. After trapping it, Jacob clapped his fists together, causing spikes to emerge from the walls, and repeatedly stab the Behemoth, covering it in scratches, cuts, and stab wounds.

Fueled by intense rage stemming from immense pain, the behemoth tore down Jacob's walls. However, it took all the strength the beast had left and it collapsed to its knees. Jacob didn't give the beast time to recover, and with one final move, he created a spike from the ground and impaled the behemoth's head, killing it instantly. Jacob was filled with anger and, after the beast's death, he dug a hole under its body. After the corpse fell in, Jacob slowly closed the hole, crushing the behemoth's body into a bloody paste by burying it underground.

The fight was over quickly, lasting only a minute. While Jacob was busy with the Behemoth, the other four adventurers fought off a pack of Gobliman who tried to ambush them while everyone was distracted by the behemoth. After the fight, Jacob sat down on the ground and scanned the area to check if anyone else was hiding in the ambush. A few minutes into his search, Jacob was convinced that it was safe and no one posed a threat.

"Listen! All of you! It's safe for now! But don't let your guard down!"

After coming to his senses from what just happened Derrick starts to panic. "What in the world just happen?! Oh my god! Did... did just... our navigator... oh no! No! No! We need to check if the map is safe! Don't just stand there go look for it!"

Jacob stood up, walked to Derrick as he was listening to him shouting at everyone, and slapped him. That calmed down Derrick really fast.

"Oh for god's sake, shut up for a minute, Derrick! The monster is dead! Two good men just got killed and all you care about is some dumb map! Shit like this happens sometimes, it's nothing new! Just shut up! We still got this! Okay?!"

As they argued, Suzuka quietly slipped out of the wheeler trunk. She walked past Jacob and Derrick in silence, heading towards the second-wheeler to speak with the adventurers.

"Hey, guys! Can anyone tell me what happens now? I'm scared and Jacob doesn't help by shouting like that."

One of the adventurers tells another. "Damn it! Hey! Alex! You talk with her and try to calm her down. You're better with kids than me."

Alex answers the adventurer with a grin on his face. "Yeah! Sure, Kane! No problem, I got this."

Alex leans towards Suzuka placing his hands on his knees and asks her, "Hey little girl! What's your name?"

"My name? Did Jacob not tell you what my name is?"

"Oh, come on! You know we talking about Jacob here. He probably doesn't know your name either, hahaha!"

Jacob finished dealing with Derrick and turned to check on Suzuka but she wasn't in the MPFW's trunk. Thinking she run away while they weren't looking he starts to shout again.

"Oh for fuck sake, man! Are you serious? That little shit runs away?! You!...Gotta!...Be!...Kidding me! Derrick ma man! You had one JOB! To keep a check on her... and you blew it! Only four hours on the road and shit already hit the grill so hard, I can't even smell Orc shit anymore! Come on!"

Alex and Suzuka's conversation gets interrupted by Jacob's shouting but when he has done shouting Alex calls out to Jacob, "Hey! Hey! Boss! It's all green, we have the kid here! Derrick wet his pants so we guarded her."

Suzuka gets behind Alex trying to hide from Jacobs's gaze and tells him with a scared, cracking voice, "I'm here!... Jacob... please don't hurt me... I didn't try to run. Sir."

After hearing Suzuka say that Alex tells Jacob, "Ah! Come on boss! Look what you did! And here I was doing a good job, calming her down."

When Alex tells him that she's here Jacob's anger goes down a notch and he's all calm again. He takes a few deep breaths, rubs his face with his hands, takes a good look around him, and starts talking, "Well! Dam! Sorry about that! Losing my cool like that, that's not like me at all. Yeah, sorry about that, but anyway, hey! Alex, Kane, go check on Dixson! And while you're at it, salvage anything still useful from the magic-powered four-wheeler... or what's left of it! Suzuka, get your tight little butt cheers back in the wheeler's trunk and cover yourself with a blanket. You an easy target for arrows, so hide."

Suzuka comes to Jacob and asks him, "But wouldn't it be safer if I was close to you?"

"Hum! Yeah, well, you got a point there! Okay! Stay close to me."

Without a word, Alex and Kane left to investigate the crash site. Alex began searching through the broken pieces of the MPFW to see if there was anything still usable. While Jacob waited for an update from Kane and Alex, Suzuka asked Jacob, "Hey Jacob! Can you tell me about the monsters who attacked us just now?"

Jacob didn't look thrilled after hearing that question from her, "Look now, kid! I am not in the mood for a chat and if you are bored, here, take my Monsterpedia. It has all monsters listed till rookie rank five, so it's about two hundred monster profiles to read, here, have a blast reading!"

Suzuka takes a book from Jacob and was about to ask something else but Jacob told her, "Oh, and don't speak with me for a while. I need some time to think things through. Need to stay on my guard, need to stay sharp. Get my shit together, know what I mean?"

"But I need to take a pee."

"Oh! Fine! Look, there are some bushes, go do your business there, okay?! I make you a restroom from rock walls."

"Okay, I won't take long."