This Derivative Beast resembled a saber-toothed tiger.
A war machine born of the brutal aesthetics of the Blood-Derived, it had been expected to easily cripple Lina Ya'an after she escaped its grasp with a devastating ambush. Instead, disbelief and horror filled its eyes. The Derivative Beast had not only evaded its surprise attack with astonishing speed and skill, but had also opened its jaws and spat out a stream of ink-like liquid.
Before the liquid even reached her, its foul stench made her head throb and her stomach churn.
More terrifying still, after spitting out the poisonous ink, the saber-toothed tiger-like Derivative Beast continued its charge without slowing, closing in on her.
"The Blood-Derived tribe's war-machine technology may have already surpassed Fladick's!"
In an instant, Lina Ya'an had formed this judgment about the Derivative Beast.
Although this saber-toothed tiger Derivative Beast was still no match for Fladick's S-rank weapon, the War King, its reaction speed and aggressiveness had probably already surpassed those of the Academic World's A-rank war machines.
It seemed that in the years since the cataclysm, while the Academic World had concentrated its limited resources on Law Power disaster weapons, Curvature Spacetime technology, Energy Source research, and large-scale war platforms, the Blood Demons had continued building on their past technological breakthroughs, making progress in conventional war-machine technology.
Unfortunately,
the clash of war machines was merely a mode of warfare between low-level civilizations, like ants.
The times had changed.
As Lina Ya'an pondered, the three scholars fleeing behind her sped past, doing everything in their power to attack the saber-toothed tiger blocking their way.
They clearly understood that if the Blood-Derived chasing them from the cave caught up, they would almost certainly die.
The three were a mysterious young male scholar from X Academy wielding a golden Holy Light