As we drew closer, the vicious beast's voice gradually weakened instead. Blue Stone breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I was wondering what dangerous beast I'd run into. Turns out it was only the dying beast's wails. Looks like it's about to die now, too?"
"No! It must be my mother!" Chu Ruo said hurriedly before rushing into the graveyard of even more beast bones and hide armor!
Sure enough, the girl's guess had been right. When we reached the area where the sound had come from, more and more scattered bones had been swept apart or trampled beneath brute force. Something huge must have been fighting for its life here. Then, as the shadow of a giant beast appeared in our sight, we saw clearly that this vicious beast—roughly forty or fifty meters long and more than twenty meters tall—was desperately resisting the hunt.
Although the vicious beast looked like a gigantic dinosaur and had already entered old age, its ferocity remained nothing to scoff at. Any vicious beast that managed to live to old age had most likely dominated its territory in its prime. Thus, even in old age, it would not be much weaker than an ordinary beast of its kind in its youth. Hunting one required extraordinary skill—something brute force often could not accomplish.
Just as I had thought, this old beast was ferocious even on the verge of death, and it was wounded besides. That was why it had been rampaging and trampling everything around it. Its enormous tail and four claws were all aimed at a single black shadow, attacking without the slightest hesitation. Blue Stone was left completely dumbfounded.
The black shadow wore a close-fitting suit of purple armor, yet held a slender, crimson greatsword. The blade was a full two meters