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“Roaarr!”
“Shaaah!”
“Gruooh!”
The roars of a pack of over thirty Velociraptors echoed behind a group of Hunters running for their lives. After having been hunting low-rank monsters, they were suddenly attacked by these strange, gigantic versions of Velociraptors, eae being as tall as six meters. A lethal bination of a Velociraptor’s ing intelligence, pack-hunting abilities, and the size and strength of a Tyrannosaurus.
After having already killed two of the Hunters running away, the st four kept running; however, the dinosaurs were ing, quickly beginning to circle the hunters. Before they could get any closer to the city, six more of these giant dinosaurs, whose dark green scaled bodies were decorated with colorful yet intimidatihers, appeared before the hunters.
“SHAAH!”
With a furious hissing, the creatures stepped forward. The Hunters had already depleted their Mana, and they couldn’t use most of their Skills as well. The Hunters began to realize that it wasn’t just their own weakness.
The System felt fwed!
It asked for Mana for literally everything; without Mana, aside from their stats, they were as good as dead. Mana was everything; there was barely any Skill that required no Mana!
Passive Skills were extremely rare among hunters; usually, they would get mostly active skills reted to ons and magid if they’re lucky, one or two very me passive skills.
It was as if the System was iionally only giving Mana-intensive skills to Pyers, while limiting passive effects so they wouldn’t have to rely too mu their bodies, despite the stats enhang their physical abilities.
And the problem of “always not having enough Mana” was ongst all Hunters!
The only ohey had seen that was not affected by such a fw was Bing Xue, the savior of Earth and the stro World-Css Hunter.
Even other World-Css Hunters have pihat they never have enough Mana…
Yet Bing Xue could do literally anything, and she seemed to have an endless and boundless source of energy.
They realized that she wasn’t bound by any System.
Bing Xue had cultivated her own irength, a power that came from the very depths of her own being and of her owence.
And this, from the stroo the weakest of Hunters, made them all feel incredibly frustrated with themselves.
“If only we could have more damn Mana…”
“If only... we could be like her!”
“This fug system, it’s a damn scam!”
“Graaah!”
The hunters screamed, full of frustration, as they tried to fight until the very st moment. The Velociraptors seemed to enjoy their struggle, bringing out younger and smaller ones and teag them how to hunt.
They let the smaller ones slowly bite, chase, ahe hunters alive; their screams of horror only sted briefly; however, a giant man whose skin itch bd with a metallic glow suddenly desded from the skies like a onball.
BAAAM!
His gigantic body crushed the Velociraptor pups and shredded them into pieces, leaving piles of flesh and bones where they were. He quickly brought with him two more hunters, the stro members of his party: a blonde girl wearing white armor and a young man with red hair and a blue wizard cap.
“I-Is that…? Chairman Nichos?!”
The Hunters couldn’t believe their eyes as help finally arrived as healing waves of light healed their mauled bodies. The two Hunters Nichht were for both the healing and transportation of victims.
“They’re too wounded; it’ll take a while to heal them!” The blonde girl cried.
“I’m already juring the bubble!” The magi said.
“Okay, I’ll buy you enough time!” Nichos roared, his eyes gring with golden light. His Level had increased a lot sihe st Raid. Although he wasn’t as fident as before after his humiliatioill wao save as many people as possible, even other fellow hunters.
As he said those words, the Velociraptors broke out into a berserk attack, over ten of them rushing towards Nichos at once as he smashed the ground, his Mana spreading everywhere.
BAAAM!
Dozens of bck steel pilrs surged from the ground, impaling the Velociraptor's much frailer bodies despite being gigantic; several of them were hit in their legs or thighs, immobilizing them temporarily, although none died.
“These things are not only gigantic, but they’re also tougher than I imagined!”
Nianiputed the pilrs of bck steel and created a dome, proteg the wounded and his party members, before leaping into the skies, c his body with more yers of metal.
The only thing he had on his mind as he was about to fight these monstrous S-Rank creatures were his daughters; he was simply praying for their safety. Anything else, even his own safety, didn’t matter!
“RAAAH!”
“SHAAH!”
The scream of a modern man against a monstrous primal and a prehistoric fiend echoed, both g against one ahe sharp fangs of the velociraptors attempted to bite through his body, only for the fangs to break before his incredibly tough metallic body.
“I did well on iing in my passive enha skills!” Nichos thought.
Uhe younger hunters, Nichos had already learned how biased and unfair the System was and had purposely ied all his time in passive skills above all else.
Yeah, it made him ck a lot of abilities and usable powers, but it also secured his life the most. Something that he had realized the System somehow didn’t want to do.
It was a strahing; he khe System wao “help” and granted amazing abilities, but most of them were all mana-intensive, and more often than not, physical enha powers that needed no mana were incredibly rare.
The system urposely limiting what it gave to humanity—to keep them all weak and squishy so other monsters could kill them easily.
It was all rigged, and Nichos k.
“Hmph!”
With a furious uppercut, he dislocated the jaw of one of the dinosaurs, then grabbed it and tore it apart from the neck. Before lifting the entire gigantic being up into the air and using it as a on, he spun into the ground, hitting every dinosaur that got closer with the dead body of their pack member.
“RAAAH!”
Then, while still carrying the corpse, he jumped up high and desded rapidly, smashing the corpse into pieces alongside the three other velociraptors below, who died immediately.
CRASH!
As he did so, five more velociraptors opeheir maws, biting his arms, head, and legs, and pulled as hard as they could. Nichos gritted his teeth as his reinforced, metallic skin yers began breaking oer another.
“BASTARDS!”
With a mighty howl, the metalliposition of his body ged. As growths of bck steel ore surged from his hands, head, and legs, like sharp bck spears, they pierced the throats of the dinosaurs, making them reflectively pull out their jaws, vomiting blood and then falling into the ground, slowly dying.
“Hahhh… Fuck! I used most of my Mana already?” Nichos groaned.
To jure his mai, metal, he had to use Mana, naturally. After all, there was no passive skill that provided him with the ability to endlessly produce metal out of his body.
The rest of the velociraptors had grown wary of the metalli; his body seemed invincible. Yet... these dinosaurs were only the weakest of the bunch, as something else began to approaething bigger and deadlier, with rger cws.
“GRRHHH…”
Nimediately noticed who this dinosaur was, which came apanied by four more of its kind. He also noticed cavemen riding them.
“Therizinosaurus?!”
One of the deadliest dinosaurs ever discovered, with incredibly long, sharp cws and rge bodies. The tallest of them are capable of even going toe to toe with Tyrannosaurus rexes. After having been mutated with Primal Power, their body sizes were now over thirty meters, h above all like mighty wingless dragons.
“Unga! BUNGA!”
The cavemen ordered the dinosaurs, something Nichos also noticed. He quickly realized that the way all these dinosaurs behaved was strange! Despite being of different species, they all cooperated, helped one another, and didn’t attack each other either.
It was rather obvious what was happening here. The cavemen, which he assumed would be either Neahal or Australopithecus or a strange, chimeric breed of both, had somehow tamed dinosaurs and were anding them as if they were their loyal dogs.
“How is it possible for those prehistoric humans to and these gigantiosaurs?!” Nichos thought. “And didn’t humans appear millions of years after the dinosaurs weinct?!”
Many things made no sehe more he thought about them, but Nichos didn’t really have any time to thiher, as a barrage of cw attacks ing from the Therizinosaurus began rushing down.
CLASH!
He didn’t evade the attacks, relying on his amazing defeo take os head-on. A terrible strategy, the cws of these dinosaurs couldn’t pare to anything he had battled against before, sharper thahe swords the four horsemen wielded.
The result was obvious: his skin was torn apart, leaving terrible wounds on his own body. Nichos vomited blood as he felt his stomach being pierced. Relying on his defenses against monsters he had not battled before was a terrible decision!
“Ugh..! AGH…!”
He quickly ran away from the cws, drinking a healing elixir and a mana elixir from his ste ring to quickly recover while juring spears of bck teel to stop the dinosaurs.
However, as he attempted to aim at their legs, the dinosaurs sharply responded with their cws again. Using them, they sshed apart the pilrs of steel Nichos jured, pletely ing his offensive magi even toug them.
“You have to be fug kidding me…!”
Nichos gritted his teeth. He had no time to fight these ridiculous beings. He had already been humiliated and ridiculed after he tried fighting the four horsemen. He had e to rescue people, not to sacrifice his life trying to fight monstrous beings.
He jumped towards the dome, hearing that his party members were dohe metallie ged shape as he repurposed the metal, posing it and creating a dozen giant spears of bck steel, firing them at the nearby Velociraptors that were still trying to kill them.
“Nichos, the bubble is dohe wizard said, juring a barrier sphere that floated in midair.
Nichos jumped over the barrier a juring magic as he pushed the dinosaur away from the bubble, which carried the barely alive huhey rescued and also included the corpses of those that couldn’t be healed in time. Bing Xue existed, and as long as the corpses were brought with them, Nichos knew she could revive them ter.
“Hurry! I’ll distract them; go back to the city!” Nichos said.
“O-On it!” The wizard nodded, as he was drinking a mana potion stantly while wielding the bubble of magic carrying everyone.
“UNGA!”
The caveman gave a and as the Therizinosaurus roared back, jumping towards the sphere and pointing their giant, sharp cws towards the sphere. Nichos quickly reacted in time, juring a huge metallic shield from the ground.
K!
The giant cws ended up hitting the shield, which resisted only three hits from those sharp and iructible cws before it was torn apart.
“HURRY!”
Nichos screamed as the sphere reached the skies above, managing to evade the ining attacks from the Therizinosaurus in time! Their bodies and cws were big, but they were so heavy that they were uo jump high enough to reach them.
Nichos had also realized these dinosaurs and cavemen had no magic whatsoever, w pletely using their strange energies to reinforce their bodies' strength, stamina, and resilience.
It could be said they were the plete opposite of the hunters, who relied on a system and mana to use spells and skills.
These beings only relied on their immense physical capabilities and nothing else!
“For now, we should be fine. Quickly, back to the city, and- AH!”
“CRAAAH!”
However, that’s where he was wrong.
Although these dinosaurs and cavemen could not fly, that didn’t mean there couldn’t be those that could.
BAAAM!
Giant beaks started biting and tearing through the barrier, and within seds of them setting into the skies, a huge flock of enormous flying dinosaurs appeared, attag them.
“What?! Quetzalcoatlus?!” Nichos gasped as he saw the enormous group of flying dinosaurs.
Most of them also had cavemen riding their backs.
And this time, they carried ons.
A rain of bone-made arrows desded from the skies, hitting the barrier and rapidly pierg through it.
Cracks started to spread.
“You have to be fug kidding me…!”
Nichos roared as he kept trying to fight the flying monstrosities. Already as big as giraffes inally, they were now ten times as rge, easily surpassing thirty meters i.
It was as if he were fighting a flock of S-Rank Wyverns all on his own—no, even deadlier than that!
Crack…!
Crack, crack!
“FUCK!”
As Nichos screamed in fury and frustration over his own weakness and his faulty overrelian a rigged system, a fsh ht light emerged from above.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The Quetzalcoatlus were all pierced by giant swords made of blue and gold metal, exploding with ic bck fmes. Their burning bodies fell from the sky like flies after being sprayed with iicide.
“Oh, thank god…”
Nichos sighed in relief.
It was alright now.
She was here.
The guardian of Earth.
“Bing Xue…”
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