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

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

grew alarmed. Why was it going underground? At this point, Rui had hurt it so much that it shouldn't be

activated Seismic Mapping and prepared his maneuvering Apprentice-level techniques to

sensed next made him sweat

was not running

was moving straight towards

grew pale as he understood what the creature was doing. Travelling

was, was even worse! It was

death. Escaping was out of question. But what if it didn't need to travel

it could use sub-terranean travel to reach him and reduce his

was a resourceful plan on its end. It had already resolved to kill him using everything it had,

allowed him to force the

for a rough fight as Seismic Mapping sensed a huge

LEAP

BOOM

careful with his timing! If he dodged too early by jumping away, then the beast would simply reach his landing location before he did, being faster,

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