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.

fulfilled the first objective of the mission. The eco-survey device was strapped onto his body, a feature that made it convenient to carry around and use immediately when needed, allowing it to witness everything

to verify that this beast was in fact the beast responsible for the mass-hunting of

nailed it.') Rui thought ecstatically as he watched the beast consume a gazelle in seconds, as its acidic saliva decomposed the deer's

living gazelle was reduced to a skeletal carcass

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

BOOM

meters away from it, grinning in ecstasy and

the other hand, did not look 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

in front of

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

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

on 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

beast had simple stared at him with

the beast retreated, as it faced

rational.') Rui cursed, he'd hoped

had anticipated this, and prepared

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

Rui was

device he had obtained with the explosives from the Ministry of Ecology

that detonated all the explosives he had obtained from the Ministry of Ecology and

had obtained had long been detonated before to guide the beast into coming here, but there were a set of explosives Rui had not

deeps outside

triggered,