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Boom!

The explosive gravity crushed the earth, smashing a massive fissure into the ground out of thin air, but the wolf that should have been there had vanished without a trace. The sheep-headed beast ran wildly on all fours, fleeing for its life.

Even having lost its reason and consciousness, with nothing left but muddled instinct, it was still unbelievably fast. Like a Black Shadow racing past, it had already broken through the encirclement.

Then, without any warning, it abruptly changed direction... and actually charged back into the encirclement?

"It really is a wolf."

An Ning murmured softly, flipping over the anime-style round badge she had grown tired of playing with. In that instant, just as she had been about to throw the badge in her hand, it had somehow sensed it already?

No matter how clumsy and unsightly its original nature had been, it now possessed a wolf's senses and evasive instincts, even its speed and reactions.

Whenever she merely made as though to throw, it sensed it at once.

The skill of pitch-pot throwing was ultimately only fundamentals. To deal with something like this, she needed Flying Light shots that moved before intent arose—shots that arrived the moment they were fired, or even before they were fired.

But she couldn't use that right now.

Killing it would be easy. But first, they had to find out exactly what was going on. They had to take it alive!

Even Embers cared about freshness when collecting materials—kill it on the spot, then use it. A living specimen this precious had to be carefully dissected to figure out what was happening. If it died and turned to ash, what the hell was there left to study?

At that moment, whether it was Celestial Origin or White Deer, the Security Bureau or