Kyle jumped back immediately.
BANG!
A long and scaly object shot past him and entered the lake.
Kyle saw the object originating from behind one of the huge stalactites while flying back.
The next moment, the object shot out of the water again, chasing after Kyle.
From Kyle's perspective, it looked like a spear.
Instead of evading to the side, Kyle held the head of his hammer in front of him and stepped on it.
BANG!
The spear hit the hammer with a ton of force.
CRK!
Small cracks appeared on the hammer, and Kyle's eyes widened for just a moment.
Then, an incredible force pushed Kyle back.
Since he was essentially standing on the hammer, Kyle only felt like he had landed after jumping from a height of 50 to 100 meters.
The force pushed him away from the lake's surface.
BANG!
Kyle's right arm and leg hit the wall, which collapsed inward a bit.
He wasn't injured since his landing had been controlled.
During this entire time, he didn't let the spear leave his vision, and he saw how the spear retracted.
The spear straightened and pulled back until it went around the corner of the stalactite.
At this moment, there were around 70 meters between Kyle and the stalactite.
Kyle's instincts had calmed down a bit. The danger was still present, but it wasn't as strong anymore.
That was when he saw something crawling around the stalactite.
It was something that looked like a mix between a lizard and a chameleon.
Its tail wasn't as curly as the tail of a chameleon, but its eyes were definitely ones that a chameleon would have.
Its round and bulging eyes quickly darted around the entire cave, but at least one of them was always looking at Kyle.
For several seconds, the two of them just looked at each other from a distance.
Then, the strange beast crawled down the stalactite and looked at the lake.
BANG!
Its mouth opened, and the spear from earlier shot out.
It was its tongue!
Kyle could see the back of its tongue chaotically moving around.
He couldn't see the end, but it was clear that the beast was searching for something in the water.
After some seconds, its tongue moved back, and Kyle could see a skewered Arrowana at its end.
He had just seen it for a moment before it was pulled back into the chameleon's mouth.
The next moment, the chameleon moved around the stalactite again, vanishing from Kyle's vision.
He took a deep breath.
"Well, at least we know what happened to the Arrowanas and why they are so careful," Kyle commented.
"That's a Peak Ferocious Beast," Theodor said.
"I thought as much," Kyle answered, glancing at the cracks in his hammer.
Kyle's hammer could take a lot of punishment, but this was too much for it.
Its core was at the peak of the Second Realm, which meant that it should be able to withstand any kind of attack anyone in the Second Realm could launch, including powerful Spells.
However, the material it was made of was not as hard.
After all, if Kyle upgraded it, the hammer would become even heavier, making it harder to swing.
This thing was dangerous.
Its physical power alone was four times higher than Kyle's, and the force it could unleash was 16 times higher due to how the growth of force worked.
The tongue had moved at speeds approaching the speed of sound on Earth.
This tongue was almost three times as fast as Kyle could sprint.
If he hadn't been warned by his instincts, and if the chameleon hadn't needed to shoot its tongue around a bend, he wouldn't have been able to react in time.
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