The Martial Unity

Five hundred meters.

Two hundred meters.

One hundred meters.

Fifty meters.

Ten meters.

Just when it was ten meters away from the herd, Rui was already in crouched tensed position, waiting for the right moment to use Balanced Direction, Parallel Walk and Outer Convergence to leap towards it.

And there it was.

The ground trembled, and a meter away from herd, a huge bump emerged.

Five meters in length, five pairs of limbs, scales covering its entire body. But that was not the most eye-drawing part of the beast.

It had a single big eye, and a circular mouth that expanded immensely to reveal jagged razor-sharp teeth within as multiple tentacle-like tongues protruded out.

It looked like a monster created by a character design department of a horror film that were allocated far too much time and money to make the monster look as grotesque and terrifying as possible.

It was the first time that Rui had seen such a grotesque creature in either of his lives.

was strapped onto his

to consume, at the very least, one beast. He wanted to document its consumption to verify that this beast was in fact the beast responsible for the mass-hunting of the herbivorous population of the Shaia

he watched the beast consume a gazelle in seconds, as its acidic saliva decomposed

reduced to a skeletal

when Rui decided to jump in. He clutched the standard-issue tracking device and leapt towards the beast with Apprentice-level techniques. The beast in turn froze as it detected

BOOM

meters away from it, grinning in ecstasy and flinching in disgust at

pleased, if it was capable of making expressions in the first place. It was an apex predator as well, even if it avoided other predators, that was to minimize risk, not because it was incapable of winning. There were very few predators in the

Martial Apprentice, and was entirely focused on the beast in front of him. The weight of his mind pushed

being had a nascent instinctual sixth sense, if it could be called that, as a result of evolution. This sixth sense was a result of subconscious analysis and evaluation of the risk

it that as tiny as the little pup of a creature Rui was, it

meal had been interrupted, evoking its primal rage and unsated hunger, on the other, fighting someone as strong as Rui in its

The beast had simple stared

the beast retreated, as it faced

run away? That is incredibly rational.') Rui cursed, he'd hoped

Rui had anticipated this, and prepared a

at an immense speed, using its saliva to break

was even

device he had obtained with

explosives he had obtained from

the beast into coming here, but there were a set of explosives Rui had

were placed ten meters deeps

detonator was triggered,