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A crescent moon hung in the sky, its hazy moonlight pouring down, flowing over this vast land.
It was as if the earth was covered with a thin layer of light gauze.
Illumi had simply made himself a tent, a simple triangular tent constructed from leaves and branches. Leaves and green grass served as a bed, branches as the roof, covered with a layer of soil and some green grass for warmth.
The night passed without incident.
In the morning, the sun rose, hanging high in thesky, and warm sunlight sprinkled towards the earth.
"Boom!"
A loud bang resounded throughout the entire valley floor, and monstrous waves surged up.
Illumi opened his heavy eyelids. There were many mosquitoes at night, making it impossible to sleep properly; he had forced himself to close his eyes and rest. At this moment, hearing the loud noise, he came out of his simple tent.
"What's wrong?"
He saw King Bradley lying prone beside the tent. Illumi asked, puzzled.
"Giant Sub-Jungle Brown Bear."
King Bradley's eyes were fixed on the direction of the river pool as he spoke softly.
"Brown Bear?"
Illumi crawled out of the tent. Due to his height, he needed to squat down to see the situation in the river pool.
"Boom boom boom..."
In the river pool, a brown bear over ten meters tall was vigorously slapping the water surface. From time to time, a strange fish would rush to the surface, only to be slapped down by the brown bear's paw, knocked unconscious, and float on the water.
Many strange fish swarmed up, biting at the brown bear's fur with their sharp teeth, yet they couldn't penetrate its fur and skin.
"Roar!"
But it still pained the brown bear enough to let out a roar. It grabbed the strange fish biting it and frantically swept and slapped the water surface, knocking out a large pile of strange fish.
A moment later, with more than ten strange fish floating in the river pool, the giant brown bear finally stopped its actions. It casually dragged three strange fish towards the riverbank; these were its food.
And the direction it came from was precisely the direction where Illumi and the other had camped.
"Uh..."
One large and one small person and a brown bear stared at each other. Illumi's small mouth was slightly agape.
"Roar!"
The giant brown bear dropped the strange fish in its paws and let out a deafening roar towards Illumi and the other, saliva flying.
"Run!"
Illumi grabbed the backpack beside him and immediately sprinted downstream along the Monte River, with King Bradley following closely behind.
"Bang bang bang..."
The ground trembled. Illumi looked back. The giant brown bear was actually chasing after them. Due to its size, its speed was surprisingly no less than that of Illumi and his companion.
"Boom!"
With a loud bang, a huge shadow covered the two of them from above.
Illumi looked up, his face shocked. The brown bear chasing them had actually leaped up from the ground, its massive body blocking the light above their heads.
At the same time, the brown bear's thick arms swiped towards the position where Illumi and his companion were.
Illumi's face turned ugly. The two of them pushed off the ground with one foot each, darting out to the left and right respectively, escaping the attack range of the brown bear's paw.
"Boom!"
The giant paw swept past, and the rocky riverbank was instantly gouged out into a huge pit. A boulder was smashed to pieces by its paw, and a large amount of rubble scattered in all directions.
"Swish swish swish..."
A dense sound of air being torn apart approached.
Illumi looked at the rubble shooting towards him, covered his palms with Nen, and his hands turned into afterimages, shattering piece after piece of rubble that whizzed past him.
"Scree~!"
A long cry, startling the sky and stopping the clouds.
With a long cry that shook the heavens, a huge black shadow appeared in the sky above the canyon. The black shadow spread its wings, an
at least fifteen-meter wingspan.
"Boom!"
With a beat of its wings, it arrived in an instant.
"Pfft!"
Illumi only heard the sound of flesh being pierced. A massive amount of blood spurted from above his head, raining down like blood.
"Roar!!!"
Immediately after, a roar, close at hand, shook the heavens.
Illumi covered his ears with both hands, his expression pained. He felt as if his eardrums had been ruptured. His eyes narrowed, and enduring the pain, he sprinted forward frantically. King Bradley ran out after him.
"Scree~"
The huge black shadow let out another long cry, its voice echoing in the bottom of the vast canyon.
Illumi, fleeing for his life, looked up. A giant eagle with pure black feathers descended from the sky, swooping past the brown bear's head, and blood spurted.
The giant brown bear roared incessantly. Three exaggerated bloody gashes appeared on its head, blood flowing ceaselessly, and one could see its white skull.
"Scree~"
The giant eagle let out a long cry in the sky and dived down again, while the giant brown bear opened its arms towards it.
"Bang!"
The moment the giant eagle's talons pierced the brown bear's flesh, the brown bear grabbed its claws with a "bang." Due to the tremendous inertia, the brown bear was dragged forward by the giant eagle for over a hundred meters.
At this moment, Illumi and his companion took advantage of the clash between these two behemoths to quickly move away from the battle zone.
"Boom!"
The two, who were running frantically, only felt a black shadow flash past them. Sand and stones flew, followed by a gust of wind that swept them into the air.
"Thump! Thump!"
Illumi and King Bradley fell from over ten meters in the air, crashing onto a small tree, breaking its branches one by one, and finally landing with a "thump" on the rubble-strewn ground.
"Cough..."
Illumi coughed up a trickle of blood, raised his arm to wipe it, and looked forward.
A deep trench appeared before their eyes. This trench hadn't existed just moments ago. Their gaze followed the direction of the trench.
"Scree!"
"Roar!"
A hundred meters ahead, the two behemoths were locked in a struggle. The giant black eagle was frantically attacking the giant brown bear with its sharp talons and beak.
For a moment, new wounds were constantly added to the giant brown bear's body, and one could faintly see its white bones.
The brown bear, however, paid no heed, enduring the intense pain and not letting go. Its paws pressed down on the giant eagle's wings, preventing it from taking flight.
"Roar!"
Suddenly, the brown bear threw its head back and let out a heaven-shaking roar. It lifted the giant eagle's body, spread its arms wide, and with a loud "bang," wrapped its arms around the giant eagle's body.
"Kekeke~~~"
The giant eagle's body was embraced by the brown bear, squeezed by immense force. Its talons couldn't move, its giant beak opened, letting out a series of frightened "keke" sounds. Its eyes turned red as it struggled ceaselessly.
The brown bear's face was covered in blood, revealing a ferocious expression. It held the giant eagle's body and fell backward.
"Boom!"
With a loud crash, the brown bear performed a back suplex, driving the giant eagle's head into the ground. The giant eagle's body stopped struggling and slumped softly to the ground with a "thump," no longer moving.
"Are you kidding me, this forest."
Illumi watched the two massive figures finally decide a victor, his eyelids twitching non-stop.
"One after another, is there no end to it?"
This was the primeval forest of the Hunter world, where various ferocious birds and beasts gathered, and the cruel competition never ceased.
And for ordinary people in this world, they might never enter such an area in their entire lives, let alone have any contact with or understanding of these ferocious beasts.
"Waoh~"
At this moment, at the top of the Vasily Grand Canyon, a group of six figures stood on the edge of the cliff. A woman with long, curly pink hair, holding binoculars, let out a sound of amazement.