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Sam followed Alexia into the cave, keeping his shotgun at the ready. Just as the insect that attacked Alexia was speared and silenced, another tried to jump Sam from the ground. Just as it's head emerged however, he pressed the tip of the barrel against its head and pulled the trigger, the metal making the head of the insect explode apart before the projectiles buried themselves inside it's main body, silencing it. He then heard another gun shot, this time not from his own gun. He looked over and saw that there were three crusaders remaining, one holding up the source of the sound. Sam couldn't help but laugh at the poor choice of targets. Of all the people she could've shot, it was the least patient out of them.

After watching Ravyn subdue one of them, he put a stasis field on the remaining two, any magic they had on them not protecting them from his ability. With them frozen still, he pulled out some rope and bound their arms and legs together. "Given that they made the poor decision of coming here in the first place, I feel like I shouldn't be surprised they tried to shoot you out of us four." Sam said. He shifted them so they were on their knees and their hands were tied to their ankles before he released them from stasis. "I'll keep watch outside the cave." he stated before walking to the entrance, shifting his eye sight to see large life forces once again. He watched carefully, as there were some predators in the distance that, while only somewhat larger, had a highly intense life force. It was something that determined how powerful something was typically, at least in raw power.

"Alexia wasn't kidding." he muttered to himself, pulling out a bar of chocolate and munched down on it. "I've been in some nasty jungles before, but this one...no wonder the crusaders have a hard time with it." By now he started hearing the pleas from inside the cave. "Looks like they finally realized who they shot at..." he muttered. He noticed one animal lurking in the foliage above, though their skin made excellent camouflage, his sight made it useless. It was clearly weighing its options, but from what Sam could hear, it was starving. He took a sniff as he kept an eye on it. "Ah.... very young, doesn't know how to hunt quite yet." he guessed. He assumed it tried to make it in time to feast on the leftovers of the crusaders, but it was stripped clean by the time they had gotten there. Sam chuckled a bit and reached into one of his bags and pulled out something the beast would enjoy. As soon as the scent hit the beast's nose, it couldn't restrain itself any longer. It hurled itself down at him, but Sam stopped it mid air with his power, the beast shrieking and struggling, trying to get away.

"Easy there big guy, took guts and hunger to attack me like that... I understand the pain of hunger, so here's your reward." he said, setting down the creature. It looked up at Sam as he tossed the hunk of dragon meat at him. The small beast chomped down on it with ferocity, the taste and texture unlike any it had before. Sam noticed the beast's shape and features changed somewhat, it's muscles became more defined, the claws grew sharper and it's eyes grew more focused, it even grew a healthy set of wings. The beast looked up at Sam for a brief moment before dashing off into the jungle and out of site. "Intriguing... it absorbed the small bit of power held in the flesh... what sort of creature was that?"