This monster quickly realized it could not hold on any longer. It actually spat out a small lizard from its mouth, then scurried away in a flash.
The little lizard it spat out was only Black Iron Rank Level Seven. It was no match for these students and was soon killed on the spot.
After dealing with the monster, the upperclassmen immediately came over and dissected the lizard.
Inside its body, they found a mass of viscous material with an extremely high level of Pollution.
"Just as the teacher said, creatures in the forest have suffered more severe Pollution recently. And this Pollution has a short-term effect—it rapidly inflates their strength, but also shortens their lifespan by more than fifty percent."
The boy with the most leader-like bearing in the middle put down his fruit knife, took out a rope from his waist, and tied up the lizard's corpse.
After finishing all that, he took out a tiny firecracker, lit it, and tossed it into the sky.
With a bang, the firecracker exploded into the shape of a small flower in the air.
Before long, the airship arrived above them and lowered a rope.
An operations-level teacher in a suit jumped down from above and landed on the ground.
"You did very well."
An uncomfortable smile hung on the teacher's pale face. "But unfortunately, that Mithril Rank one escaped. The one you killed was its son."
"Teacher, are you saying that monster abandoned its own son to save itself and ran away?"
"What do you think?"
The pale-skinned teacher walked to the side and casually tossed down a black sphere.
The sphere exploded, and a new mimic flame creature emerged from within.
"I'll give you another mimic creature. Some little bugs trying to interfere with us may have slipped into