Chapter 1972 Further Deductions

Chapter 1972 Further Deductions

In the following days, the two of them followed through with their investigation.

Or rather, Kane merrily joined along for the ride while Rui did most of the data-gathering. He was quite content hanging out with his best friend in a cool new world. He experienced deep anxiety and stress when he got absorbed into the new world and spent three days by himself and the Divine Doctor.

However, the moment Rui entered, he felt quite secure and confident. Over the many years that he had known him, he learned a simple truth. Rui Quarrier Silas Kandria could overcome anything. With the power of adaptive evolution, man could handle anything that the world threw at him and eventually overcome it.

Admittedly, Kane had grown overreliant on him to a certain degree, but it was difficult not to. How could one avoid doing so when the person in question was extremely reliable such that he could fix every problem?

Still, he did his best to contribute with everything he had.

POW POW POW!

He devastated three quasi-Squire-level crocottas with a blow each, crushing their skulls effortlessly. The dog-wolf monsters died on the spot.

"Ok, done with this species," Rui remarked stoically. "Let's go."

In the past week, they had run into many species since they began investigating the dungeon, and it hadn't taken Rui too long to make a belated realization.

"These species..." Rui narrowed his eyes. "These aren't in the inheritance I got from the Elder Tree. Yet, they are still a part of the Tree of Life of Gaia."

"...Area." Rui's tone was confident. "There's too little area for more than a single Master-level creature. If you recall the Master-level creatures that we faced in that Master-level region in the North of the Beast Domain, they occupied an enormous amount of territory divided between the six of them."

Rui knew that these creatures were extremely territorial. Each of them possessed the power to dominate an enormous amount of territory. Thus, he highly doubted that so many could live together, trance or otherwise. Their instincts would fundamentally cause them to fight against each other.

"A single Master-level beast..." Kane's voice trailed off.

He was certainly more hopeful, yet it was still unfathomably difficult to believe. Master-level beasts were Master-level because they absolutely could not be beaten by Martial Seniors, according to the Panamic Martial Federation. And as Martial Seniors, they had absolutely no chance of beating a creature that required Martial Masters to fell them. Yet, when Kane thinks of Rui, he feels as though he cannot put Rui in the same category as himself. Regardless, even if he could not handle the beast like last time, Kane was confident that Rui would find some way to deal with the creature, or at the very least, that he would be able to get them out of there alive.

"...It's certainly more manageable than the six Master-level beasts that we faced that one time. However, it won't be easy," Rui's expression grew severe. "However, a Master-level beast in a trance..."

He had many thoughts about that, yet he had no idea what kind of strategy would work under a creature that was put under a trance.

It also mattered who or what exactly was putting the creature under a trance. Of course, it was the dungeon or the source of the manifold, but depending on what kind of living being it was, he might have had to change his approach quite differently.

"RRROOOOOAAAAAARRRR!"

A powerful roar drew his attention as he felt a higher level of pressure from the dungeon than before.

They had run into their first Senior-level creature.

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