A slightly curled sheet of white paper lay flat on the floor at the top of the tower. Printed on it was a simple table headed "Dangerous Creature Evaluation List."
After setting aside the "disasters" that did not need their attention for now, the "Dangerous Creature Evaluation List" retained only "Undead Disease" and "Plant Weapon" for comparison.
The former was the target of their current mission, while the latter was something they had actually encountered, making it a practical point of reference. Their overall ratings were both B+, putting them on the same level.
To be precise, the "Dangerous Creature Evaluation List" did not reflect the overall or individual combat strength of a species.
It covered all kinds of factors, including "aggressiveness," "population," "reproductive capacity," and "destructive power." In other words, it showed the average for that species.
That meant that even if a dangerous creature had an aggressiveness rating of B, it would not be unusual—in fact, it would be perfectly normal—for an individual to have an actual aggressiveness rating between B+ and A-.
The "Dangerous Creature Evaluation List" served as a reference, helping humans learn about a dangerous species' habits before they had actually encountered and studied it.
However, rigidly sticking to the figures on paper instead of taking the actual situation into account was dangerous.
The former "V5 Exploration Team" might well have been doomed by that mistake. Otherwise, they would not have sent a huge, unwieldy force of over a thousand people into the Man-Raising Beast's territory.
Managing a team of over a thousand people was already a major problem. And that was before they even tried to survive in a place like the Dark Continent, where they still had to face the threat of the Man-Raising Beast.
The fact that seven people made it back