The sniper stared at Rono in terror. He had only aimed at Sairona for a moment, yet this monster had appeared right in front of him.
"AAAAAAAH!" His will to survive drove him to aim his Sniper Rifle at Rono. "Bam, bam, bam..." "Click, click." The sniper fired so fast that his rifle blurred, emptying a whole clip before it clicked uselessly. Rono looked down at the gaping hole in his abdomen, a bloodthirsty smile spreading across his face. He pinned the sniper underfoot, trapped him between his arms—or perhaps they were more like blades—and opened a maw no ordinary person could stretch wide enough, lined with sharp fangs. "Crunch." The sniper stopped struggling, the light fading from his eyes. Most of his neck had been bitten off.
"Gulp." Rono actually swallowed the flesh. Gelu stood beside Axia, head lowered and body trembling nonstop. Axia covered her mouth, unable to believe what she was seeing. Dazhiki fared even worse—she threw up on the spot.
"ROAR!" Gelu, who had kept his head down, raised it and bellowed at the sky. His body began to grow, the fiery red hair on his head waving as if it were burning. Three meters, four meters, eight meters, nine meters. The little fellow, who had been only fifty centimeters tall, became a giant more than nine meters high. Just like Rono, the clear eyes he once had were now filled with bloodshot veins. "Crash—" Tree Giant Gelu kicked down a row of buildings, reducing them to rubble. Gelu didn't stop there; he continued his wanton destruction. Rono flashed to his side and roared at the sky. He had entered a berserk state: perfectly lucid, killing madly until the last bit of his stamina was gone. But Rono had Super Regeneration, so running out of stamina