"Roar!!!"
A furious bestial roar, thick with warning, suddenly erupted. Its high, ringing volume almost formed a blurred wave of sound in the air, shaking the branches and leaves of the surrounding shrubs.
A massive body nearly three meters tall reared up on its hind legs. The twisted shadow it cast on the ground alone was enough to engulf an adult human.
It was like a mountain draped in fur. Its thick brown pelt, stained with hardened pine resin and scraps of dead leaves, was stretched taut by the dense muscle and heavy fat beneath. Beneath the rich, pungent body odor was a wild scent of earth, beast, and pure power.
The muscles over its shoulders bulged high, and one could clearly see them writhing and swelling beneath the skin, storing up a majestic strength powerful enough to snap steel.
They were like a set of Shoulder Armor made of flesh and fur. Its muzzle jutted forward, its nose broad, wet, and black as leather, while yellowed fangs reflected a deadly dark gleam amid the roar surging from deep in its throat.
This was an adult Woodland Brown Bear!
After hundreds of millions of years of natural evolution, its carnivore structure, with everything serving survival, had made it the top predator among ordinary creatures in the forest.
In an ordinary world without supernatural power, one could even say this creature had no natural enemies at all. Once it reached adulthood, if it were to die of anything other than old age, it would have to be some rare natural disaster like a forest fire or flood, or else an accident such as illness or a fall.
Every other living creature was on its "menu."
Even on the Aifala Continent, this large creature, grown under the catalysis of Magic Particles in