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.

the ground. It was comprised of clayey-mud with

six-legged deer. But what surprised him was that

of this open field without leaving any footprints on the

of this open field where every step left a footprint, even

as he

made with the intelligence provided by the Ministry of Environment and Ecology

exiting open plain mean that either they were never there, or they had been

Furthermore, even if it erased its own tracks, how

didn't it erase its footprints from when it

head; it was far too unlikely in the face of

option was that the tracks had never been made

first option was that it had the ability to

light, and thus did not create a trail

home of the animal and the deer had unwittingly stumbled upon it, which seemed to be the most

did set footprints after entering? Rui wondered about this as he stared at a stange footprint he had seen among the hoof-prints of the

common in the animal kingdom, after all. But none of the eye-witness accounts mentioned any