In the distance, a slender young man sat on the trunk of an old tree that stood alone on a small patch of level ground, watching the Monster Hunting Squad at work.
"What on earth are they doing? This is so boring... haaah..."
Seeing the Hunting Mages huddle together, Zhang Xiaohou couldn't help yawning, though he forced himself to stay alert.
Just as he was beginning to feel sleepy, a roar powerful enough to shake the entire valley suddenly erupted from the swamp!
"What the hell?!"
The roar instantly swept away Zhang Xiaohou's drowsiness, replacing it with panic. He hurriedly looked ahead.
The next second, an enormous dark silhouette gradually emerged, completely overshadowing the area where he sat!
Following the roar, the patch of level ground in the middle of the swamp lake suddenly rose into the air!
Muddy water sprayed everywhere as a black body towered into the dim night. Hazy moonlight fell upon the creature that had abruptly appeared, making the portion of its body exposed above the swamp all the more visually overwhelming!
Faced with such a terrifying behemoth, the Hunting Mages had no chance to fight back. In a mere instant, they all ended up in its mouth.
As the gigantic creature sank back into the swamp and resumed its disguise as a patch of land, peace returned to the area, as though nothing had happened!
In the distance, Zhang Xiaohou clamped both hands over his mouth, not daring to make the slightest sound.
His small eyes were wider than they had ever been as he stared in utter disbelief at the place in the center of the swamp lake where that scene had just unfolded.
Trembling all over, his teeth beginning to chatter, he stared at that large patch of level ground in the middle