My Summons Are Mythical Beasts

Chapter 33 - 33: Vinecrawler Caterpillar

The Vinecrawler Caterpillar was an Unranked and Starless beast.

They had no combat power, and even a normal person would be able to kill them with some effort.

In truth, this was the same for all Unranked-Starless creatures. After all, the difference between an Unranked-Starless creature and normal animals before the cataclysm was that the former had a skill, while the latter didn't.

Previously, his Gentle Dog also belonged to this category, a beast that can be killed even by mortals with some effort.

However, ever since it ranked up to Iron Star 2 and obtained the Hellhound Manifestation skill, it had long abandoned that category and became something even Lucas could not properly explain, and perhaps no one would, except for the system and the grimoire, of course.

Crouching right beside a Soulshade Leaf that was a mixture of light and dark purple in color, Lucas stared intently at Ethan, who was now seriously inspecting every nook and cranny of the wide magical leaf.

His brows were raised, his eyes were squinted, as he turned over the leaf carefully, checking if any Vinecrawler Caterpillar was hiding beneath it.

From what he read before, Vinecrawler Caterpillars have a peculiar way of eating magical plant leaves.

Instead of devouring all the leaf they passed through, they wound instead just eat the one underneath, leaving enough above to make it seem as if the leaf was still whole and undamaged.

In scientific terms, they would just consume the lower epidermis and the parts below it, leaving the top section of the leaf untouched.

This way, it would seem as if there was no creature lurking beneath and that the magical leaf was untouched and in a pristine condition. However, after a week later, the leaf would slowly wither and die.

But at that time, everything would already be too late, as the Vinecrawler Caterpillars would have long transformed into a cocoon and evolved into the Greenthorn Locust that would spread even more Vinecrawler Caterpillars to wreak havoc on the surrounding magical plants.

Killing the Vinecrawler Caterpillar was an easy task. What was hard was how to spot them.

Their camouflage ability caused headaches to those who do not have

'Well, this is good. With his greed, he should be able to hunt as many Vinecrawler Caterpillars as possible, right?'

Thinking of that, his smile turned bright once again but turned dark at the next moment as he thought of something.

'With his greed, it's possible that he would take some leaves with him…'

"I hope not," with his heart growing cautious toward the honest youngster, Ethan left the Soulshade Leaf garden with a mixture of ever-changing emotion.

…

Back inside the garden, Lucas smiled happily, thinking about the promised compensation.

Reeling his emotion in, Lucas took a deep breath and finally observed the garden and the Soulshade Leaves once more.

With the net cast over the garden acting as a dome, it made him wonder how a Greenthorn Locust or even a Vinecrawler Caterpillar was able to sneak and propagate inside.

However, such matters were not something he should be thinking of.

His job today was to kill as many Vinecrawler Caterpillars as possible, not investigate how they got inside.

Clearing his mind, Lucas took the basket and the knife, crouched down toward the nearest Soulshade leaf, and began seriously inspecting underneath.

Following Ethan's example, Lucas finally saw his first Vinecrawler Caterpillar camouflaging as the vein of the Soulshade leaf five minutes later.

With a start, Lucas immediately went into action.

"Attack!"