Assuming his most instinctive defensive posture, Green summoned the Extreme Abyss Magic Staff that had fused into his body.
However, according to Green's senses, this lifeform was not particularly powerful. Judging by the traces of its life fluctuations, it was in an extremely weakened state, roughly at the level of a Rank 5 creature.
Boom, boom, boom, boom...
"Roar!"
It seemed exceptionally familiar with this Metal Forest. As it swiftly shifted closer to Green, it did not trigger a single invisible time fault. Amid its savage howls and roars, within the black-and-white world of points, lines, and Truth structures perceived through Green's Face of Truth, a gaunt, wild golden lion leaped from the Metal Forest and pounced.
Its body was over ten meters long, its joints grotesquely swollen. Skin clung tightly to its bones; starved to the point of emaciation, it was little more than skin and bone. Its sunken eye sockets revealed a mind already half-mad, its pupils bloodshot. At the sight of Green, it seemed to go utterly insane, throwing everything to the winds. Every tooth in its gaping maw was as sharp as a dagger.
"Hmph. So weak, yet you still dare take the initiative to attack? You truly have gone mad with hunger, to the point that you do not even care about your life."
Compared with elemental wizards like Green, passively evolved creatures consumed an enormous amount of food and required a fixed food supply. There was no question about that.
After confirming his opponent's condition, Green relaxed inwardly and sneered. At the tip of the Extreme Abyss Magic Staff in his hand, amid the spilling chill, a black flame silently ignited. In an instant, unsettling tremors gathered, twisting the surrounding light and darkness from every direction. Under the laws of the Elemental Garment, crackling