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.

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

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

Rui thought ecstatically as he watched the beast consume a gazelle in seconds, as its acidic saliva decomposed the deer's flesh into a gooey sap which was sucked

gazelle was reduced to a skeletal carcass in less

clutched the standard-issue tracking device and leapt towards the beast with Apprentice-level techniques. The beast in turn froze as it detected powerful

BOOM

grinning in ecstasy and flinching in disgust

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

beast in front of him.

nascent instinctual sixth sense, if it could be called that, as a result

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

hand, the gazelles had already fled away and its meal had been interrupted, evoking its primal rage and unsated hunger, on the other, fighting someone as strong as Rui in its current hungered state was even more

rational than I expected.') Rui noted. The beast had simple stared at him

beast retreated, as

rational.') Rui cursed, he'd hoped the beast would

Rui had anticipated this, and prepared a

using its saliva to break down the resistance in order to speed up

was even

he had obtained

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

guide the beast into coming here, but there were a set

were placed ten meters deeps outside

was triggered, the