The Martial Unity

Generally, predators were too hungry to bother in doing anything else asides from consuming their meal once they hunted their prey. These beasts were already entirely lacking in any significant self-awareness and self-restraint to be able to resist their hedonistic urges. In a state of heightened hunger, it was almost certain that consuming their prey to satiate their hunger would be their priority.

Apparently, the target of his mission disagreed. He knew the carcasses were likely the remnant of the target of his mission. They did match the intelligence provided to him.

The intelligence provided by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment stated clearly that the target devoured almost every ounce of flesh of the carcasses of its prey. The pictures provided by them matched the sight of the carcasses he saw.

Rui sniffed the air. There was a faint acidic odour in the air, this also matched the traces of a corrosive acid detected on the carcass and the soil beneath. The Ministry of Ecology and Environment had concluded that the beast target of the mission likely had an acidic saliva that it used to aid in the digestion of the carcasses of its prey.

If that was the case, then Rui had genuinely begun to give more credibility to his first conjecture that the beast was able to consume the carcasses of its prey at an incredibly rapid speed. Acidic substances were able to degenerate and decompose organic matter incredibly fast and thoroughly.

Still, there were many more oddities at the scene.

Rui looked around the environment and the corpses, frowning.

There were several things of note.

First, this was a section of the Shaia plains with very few trees and only short grass. Meaning it was an open part of the plains. It was basically impossible to hide.

was the ground. It was comprised of clayey-mud with high-silt saturation, the type

surprised him was

of this open field without leaving any footprints on the

the deer in the middle of this open field where every step left a footprint, even moreso when you're moving

eyes as he

were several straightforward conjectures to be made with the intelligence provided by the Ministry of Environment and Ecology as

and exiting open plain

if it erased its own tracks, how did un-crush the

why didn't it erase its footprints from when it rested

was far too unlikely in the face of the

other option was that the tracks had never been

with two of the least absurd options; The first option was that it had the ability to fly, glide or float, to some

and thus did not create a trail of trampled

the deer had unwittingly stumbled upon it, which seemed to be the most plausible and

entering? Rui wondered about this as he stared at a

wasn't inherently weird as a possibility, wings were extremely common in the animal kingdom, after all. But none of the eye-witness accounts mentioned any wings. Furthermore, the beast was immensely elusive to ordinary forest surveyors of the Ministry of Ecology and