Area Eight of the Primeval Forest.
The place closest to Sky, yet the climate was extremely unstable.
Dark clouds hung overhead year-round, thunder rumbled without end, and Tornado howled.
Here, one could see countless dragon skeletons as large as mountains.
Their spinal columns loomed overhead, overlapping one another.
To this day, the Hunter's Guild was still unsure what kind of monster they had belonged to.
Its body had clearly been even larger than a Lao-Shan Lung or Zorah Magdaros.
Yet judging by the shape of the teeth within its skull, it did not appear to have been a carnivorous creature.
[Rumble!]
A thunderclap far louder than usual exploded, and lightning instantly dyed the entire area white.
When the light returned to normal,
hundreds of silver lightning bolts descended from the storm clouds, crackling as they struck every corner of Area Eight.
At the same time,
an elegant yet vigorous figure silently appeared atop the highest spinal column, resembling both a horse and a deer.
Crimson eyes, a long spiraling horn, and a snow-white mane like a lion's.
Pale blue patterns ran across its skin, while lightning flickered around its body from time to time.
It was actually an Elder Dragon classified as a "phantom beast" in this world.
Kirin!
According to the Hunter's Guild records, there were individuals of different attributes.
Blue was Songhu, red was Flame Colt, white was Suoming, black was Jiaoduan, and yellow was Kirin.
So the one before them should have been called Suoming, though that was merely professional hunter terminology.
Most people still simply called it a Kirin.
"Roar!!!"
The Golden Lion, which had charged all the way from Area Five to Area Eight, let out an excited roar the instant it saw it.
The roar was so loud that it nearly formed a shockwave,