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.

effectively fulfilled the first objective of the mission. The eco-survey device was strapped onto his body,

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

gazelle in seconds, as its acidic saliva decomposed the deer's flesh into a gooey sap which was sucked

was reduced to a skeletal carcass in less than a

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 powerful seismic radiation from very close by. It tilted its head in the

BOOM

in ecstasy and flinching

even if it avoided other predators, that was to minimize risk, not because it was incapable of

front of him. The weight of his mind pushed on the beast's

a nascent instinctual sixth sense, if it could be called that, as a result of evolution. This sixth sense was

were warning it that as tiny as the little pup of

had been interrupted, evoking its primal rage and unsated

noted. The beast had simple stared

beast retreated, as it

rational.') Rui

Rui had anticipated this, and

beast dug mud at an immense speed, using its saliva to break down the resistance in order to speed up

Rui was even

device he had obtained

a detonator that detonated all the explosives he had obtained from the

before to guide the

deeps outside the grazing

detonator was triggered,