Hokkaido, west.
Endless lightning crashed down from the sky. Thunder roared across the heavens, sending waves of sound rolling into the distance.
Blinding flashes lit up the gloomy valley, revealing countless charred Monster corpses sprawled across the hillsides on either side.
Li Yu hovered in the air on a cloud, bathed in lightning like a thunder god descending upon the world.
Every bolt struck the same spot, blasting a huge crater into the ground.
At the bottom, a Monster's outline could just barely be made out. It had a long body, four limbs, a tail, and wings.
Once she was sure the Monster below was well and truly dead, Li Yu yawned and canceled her Thunder Method, revealing a giant lizard at the bottom of the crater, roasted until it was nothing but charcoal.
It looked like a Western dragon, but it wasn't one. It was a Drake, a dragon beast.
A monster resembling a giant python, with four legs and a pair of small wings. It had no dragon blood and couldn't fly, only glide.
The Drake had been hiding in the valley, waiting to ambush Li Yu as she passed by.
Then it had turned into a roasted giant lizard.
There was no Proof on its body. She had no idea whether another Monster had taken it or if it had never had one to begin with.
Li Yu had no interest in going down to search the corpse. She turned and left.
She now had five Proofs, all from Monsters foolish enough to come looking for trouble.
After a friendly spar, they had entrusted their Proofs to her, then departed for the bliss of the afterlife.
But that wasn't what Li Yu wanted. She still hadn't found the target she was looking for, even though Hokkaido wasn't