Flora Sullivan, walking ahead, suddenly stopped. She lowered her voice in warning, her gaze fixed warily on a particularly dense thicket of bushes to their right.
Seraphina immediately raised her sniper rifle, following Flora’s line of sight.
Behind the bushes, a huge, five-meter-tall black shadow had its back to them. It seemed to be gnawing on something, making sickening sounds of chewing and crunching bones.
The black shadow’s muscles were gnarled, covered in thick, long fur. Its back alone radiated a sense of immense power and a menacing presence.
As if sensing the Aura of unfamiliar creatures, the black shadow paused its meal and slowly turned its massive body around.
Seraphina finally got a clear look at it.
It was a black bear-type monster!
Or rather, it retained the general silhouette of a black bear.
But this "black bear monster" was several times larger, with tusks like daggers jutting out, curved claws that glinted coldly, eyes as crimson as blood, and an Aura of Frenzy emanating from its entire body!
Fresh blood and bits of flesh dripped from its mouth. At its feet lay the disemboweled and mangled form of... a tiger.
Or what was once the king of the forest!
The black bear monster spotted Seraphina’s group of three, and a greedy, savage light instantly erupted in its crimson beastly eyes.
’Fresh meat!’
It let out a low roar, foul-smelling drool dripping from its maw. Its massive body suddenly shot forward like an out-of-control semi-truck, charging toward the three of them with the momentum to crush everything in its path!
The ground trembled slightly under its heavy footfalls!
"Courting death!" Seraphina’s eyes were icy, showing not a trace of panic.
Against such a thick-hided and immensely powerful target, long-range sniping was the best option.
With a single thought, her [Universal Sniper Rifle] instantly materialized and charged.
She didn’t bother with any fancy Skill conversions this time. Instead, she concentrated the purest, most penetrating Skill-bullet—the [Space Bullet].
She raised the muzzle slightly, locking onto a spot just above the brow of the charging black bear monster.
She squeezed the trigger!
The Hundred Shots Hundred Hits Skill activated.
WHOOSH—!
A faint shriek, like the sound of Space itself being torn, rang out.
A nearly invisible beam of transparent Energy instantly sliced through the air!
The black bear monster’s forward momentum came to a sudden halt. A perfectly round, fist-sized hole silently appeared on its massive, savage head, running clean through from front to back!
The frenzied kinetic energy and the attached Space Tear Effect completely destroyed and annihilated the brain tissue inside the instant it pierced the skull!
CRASH!
Its massive body, now devoid of all life, stumbled forward a few more steps from inertia before crashing heavily to the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust.
A clean, single-shot kill.
The danger was eliminated in an instant.
Seraphina put away her sniper rifle without a second glance at the corpse.
"Let’s go. Keep moving. We need to get out of this forest as soon as possible."
Flora let out a sigh of relief. Carrying Sharon Lynn on her back, she hurried after Seraphina, and they quickly passed through the area.
The three of them traveled swiftly for a while longer. Ahead, the trees began to thin, and they could faintly make out a heavily damaged, weed-choked asphalt road that was still recognizably man-made.

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