The foul, poisonous mist suddenly burst open, and the screech of scales scraping against the cave walls tore through the silence.
Purple-black venom dripped from the Pukei-Pukei's beak, each glob of mucus scorching the rocky ground and sending up green smoke.
The collapsed Jagras had already developed bloody blisters where the venom had touched it.
The Pukei-Pukei, over ten meters long and nearly five meters tall, ignored the Jagras's screams.
It first swallowed the sack filled with mushrooms and rotten meat.
Then it slowly waddled toward the Jagras.
Just as it lowered its head to enjoy its fresh meal of blood and flesh—
Krieg suddenly threw out a red-and-white Poké Ball and shouted, "Move!"
[Bang----]
The Poké Ball opened in midair, shooting out a scarlet beam.
A spider-like monster appeared, six meters long, with eight blue eyes and a body covered in white armor.
Beneath it stretched a pair of forelimbs and two pairs of feelers.
A Shadow Spider!
A chelicerae species from Teigu World that preferred to dwell in dark, damp caves or dense forests.
Its chelicerae were normally tucked beneath its head, but could spread open like serrated scissors when needed.
Their inner edges were razor-sharp, while their hollow tips connected to venom glands containing highly concentrated hemorrhagic toxins.
Its tail also had a venomous stinger. Prey struck by it would fall unconscious within a short time.
Krieg had originally tamed a Juvenile Shadow Spider, an immature one, solely so it would fully recognize him as its master.
It had finally grown into a Shadow Spider last month.
But because it had only matured recently, it was not especially large among its kind, nor was it covered in Pukei-Pukei hide.
But it would be soon.
The Pukei-Pukei turned and fled deeper into the cave the moment it saw