The Martial Unity

Chapter 160

Quite some time had passed since the hunt had begun. The creature had finally come to realize that its life was truly at stake this time. Whoever this predator was, it was determined to hunt and eat it. Previously, its encounters with other predators had been brief, and it was able to disengage and escape. But not this time, this time it was truly in danger.

It abandoned all hope for outrunning and escaping its opponent on land, the human boy was too fast, and its flesh was too damaged and exposed to dig underground. It threw itself at the boy, hoping to take its life.

Rui on the other hand, felt much more pressured once this happened. It was much scarier to fight a beast that used every ounce of its mind and body dedicated solely killing you than it was to running away and fighting back in self-defense.

The two scenarios were on two different levels of difficulty, even if the latter was easy to handle, the former wasn't.

('That's if I choose to fight it head on.') Rui thought as he leaped back.

There was a very simple strategy Rui was employing in response.

Just stay away.

The creature was slower than Rui was, and was already damaged and bleeding. Being faster, Rui could easily ensure the beast was always too far from him to damage him.

Chase him with all its might it did, and yet it fell short of Rui.

Such was the brutality of nature, of survival of the fittest. It wasn't even able to go down fighting, it would go down struggling to even lay a claw on Rui.

Or so Rui thought, atleast.

SCRUNCH

all odds, the creature began digging once more. It dug and swallowed mud, excreting it speedily

underground? At this point, Rui had hurt it so much that

full-fledgedly activated Seismic Mapping and prepared his maneuvering Apprentice-level techniques to track and chase after

he sensed next made him

creature was

moving straight towards

what the creature was doing. Travelling underground in its current state was

fighting the boy as it was, was even worse! It was

far underground without bleeding to death. Escaping was out of

use sub-terranean travel to reach him and reduce his flesh to goo, then maybe it would be able to survive in the long

was a resourceful plan on its end. It had already resolved to kill him using everything it had, not it was willing to sacrifice everything it

Rui had lost his biggest advantage; his superior speed. This was an advantage that allowed him to force the creature to fight on his terms, he could choose

a rough fight as Seismic Mapping sensed a huge mass of angry sub-terranean flesh rushing

LEAP

BOOM

out of the way just barely in time as the beast erupted from the ground. The beast could attack him underground and that meant he needed to be extremely careful with his timing! If he dodged too early by

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