As Cylius watched in vigilance, he suddenly felt a huge tremor in the direction of the weird buzzing. It felt like some prehistoric beast was awakening from slumber. As soon as he felt the tremor, he knew that a horrifying creature had awoken.
A few days ago, before he fought with the strangling tree, he was traveling within the first tier area. That day he had taken aback his incredible perception as it was tiring to maintain it all the time. But even when it wasn't on his perception could be said to be abnormal.
Perhaps only the perception of second tiers could equal his normal condition. But even with that he had made almost fallen into a huge pit that day.
That day he encountered the only abnormal existence within this region.
Just as he was sitting on a hill, relaxed he felt a faint beating of a heart. It was unimaginable as this was impossible, in this area where lifeforce was lusted by every creature, the existence of a living creature was impossible. Maybe in a second, demons and undeads would gather all over and feast on it.
Despite his reasoning, he activated his perception only to realize that the faint and slow beating had become very loud and vivid. The beating was very clear within his ear, perhaps even from a mile, he could hear it loud and clear.
The beating was slow and steady. Even though it was slow every beat of it was like the ringing of a bell, loud and powerful. Just the sound of it could make someone have anxiety. And to his horror he sensed an abnormal amount of energy within the hill he was sitting on.
Then, he realized that the hill he was sitting on was a giant creature in itself. Even in slumber energy rushed into its body, creating a place very dense in spiritual energy.
He was also thinking about this earlier, and was thinking about living here actually when he knew the source of it. Without any hesitation he chose to get away from the place in case something unexpected happened.
From the hill, he sensed great amount of energy and fluctuation of a powerful aura. The hill was some kind of gigantic creature that was in the second tier!
Eliminating all the guesses that didn't match the situation he came to one conclusion. That is... that the entire vast area he had explored was the private property of a powerful hegemon.
The hill giant was the hegemon, the ruler of everything within the area and why the beasts of second tier or higher didn't enter it was because the area already had an owner.
So he decided to name the monster a 'Hill Giant' its stats was much more than his, a tier difference was a large on after all. Without a pearless talent it is impossible to overcome, and he wasn't one.
To become a second tier genetician, one would have to know the origin of the ability they has to advance. In other words comprehend even if its 1% you can be called a second tier genetician. And that little difference of comprehension was the bottleneck that made many people helpless, forever being unable to advance.
If by this logic where the Hill Giant is a second tier monster, then the reason why the Hill Giant had awoken maybe because of the weird buzzing he heard. There are now only three ending to this. First, the owner of the buzzing would come in a friendly manner, in other words for peace treaty.
Second, it would come to fight for hegemony, and the last would be because its going under an order. Like an order from a higher existence or the invitation to join a certain activity, group etc.
Either way this was a good thing. Although with the second outcome the result would be disastrous, he could observe the so called power of runes, even if its only a part. And from the buzzing as well, it seemed like a a large group, is guess is that the most possible outcome will be the second since a large group isn't suitable for the invitation and showing hospitality is also unlikely, its fine to only send in a minor character.
The group seems to be powerful composed of a Maturity stage monster at the very least.
Hiding his aura deliberately he advanced at great speed since it was far away. His way was smooth and without any obstacles, the strong beasts would be wary of him while the beasts who had no intelligence would be weak and wouldn't be able to deter him.
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'BOOM' the sound of something gigantic hitting the ground came out as then several rocks falling sound emerged right after.
On the scene, a giant with rock skin fiercely hammered its fists onto the ground making the ground tremble. The sound reverberated through the place, scaring many demons who hadn't left to run with their lives on the line.
A towering structure stood up from the ground as soon as the fists fell to the ground. The structure stopped a large group of mosquitoes, red in color with long proboscises that looked menacing and deadly to the touch. Each mosquito was the size of a thumb and they all radiated a fearsome aura materialization stage.
That meant that this large group was composed of elites, among them peak stages aren't uncommon either. In the core of the group there was a large mosquito,the size of a fist with marble like eyes looking directly at the giant rock before it. It was also clearly an existence similar to the Hill Giant, a second tier!
Chaos ensued within the demons as any demon didn't care about anything other than themselves as the strong didn't even bother to kill the demons who were full of lifeforce.
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Above on the mountain peak, a place not close and also not far away from the battle that is taking place, a human in a dark suit appeared looking at the battle from far away.
'The blood mosquitoes should be weaker in strength but has the advantage in number. In fact with the large amount of mosquitoes and a leader leading them, they should be very powerful. If this battle were to continue, then the Hill Giant would definitely lose!'