The Martial Unity

Obsidian wyverns.

The apex predators of the Forest of Fear.

They possessed minds that were nigh devoid of fear. So much so that despite the fear of the Forest of Fear afflicting them every moment of their lives, they were still fearless. They were the most fearless in the entirety of the forest that they stood at the pinnacle of.

They had nothing to fear.

There was nothing that could invoke fear.

Or so they thought.

Everything changed when he arrived.

He reeked of fear.

He might as well as have been drenched in it.

As fear-sensitive creatures, they could smell him from a country away.

It was almost offensive.

How dare such a fearful creature enter the Forest of Fear?

Instantly, the entirety of the nest of the Forest of Fear erupted into flight, soaring in the direction of the newcomer oozing more fear than they had ever smelled.

He was human at first glance.

Physically, at least.

they gazed into his eyes,

than even they were. The fear that

No.

It was theirs.

FSSSSSSSSS!

canisters of gas exploded from underground, spreading across the entire region. In just a moment, the obsidian wyverns were intoxicated, entering a trance-like state.

one

it. First, he trained them in a Pavlovian manner similar to how he trained the catoblepas. Their

realized. 'He knew he would need it against the obsidian lesser dragons. That was why he was so dissatisfied with it, even though it worked perfectly against

that was effective enough to deter the powerful biosphere of

had been his goal from the very start. Perhaps he only ever stopped at the

was the case, then all his actions up until

all of this, everything up until now, was just a preparation to go deeper into

of the Divine Doctor's plans to survive the depths of the Beast Domain stunned Rui. He had thought of himself as prepared with all the things that he had brought along for basically any and all plausibilities. Yet, in comparison to the Divine Doctor, who had caused mass disruptions in the Valley of Prisms in preparation for

the man. He had accomplished more in the Beast Domain than Rui would have had Rui

scanning, reading everything that the

awareness of everything that had happened while it had been under the influence

gotten access to memories that weren't broken. The biggest frustration when dealing with

the Divine Doctor extremely difficult. If the catoblepas had forgotten the memory of the time that he had commented about how his fear-hallucinogen was inadequate, Rui would have never inferred

this close to never finding the Divine

with the obsidian wyvern whose memories he was scanning. Memories that,

The Divine Doctor's smile remained unchanged. "Bring me

so as not to hurt their new master, setting out to uproot