If someone was a bit less alert, this monster could eat random things that just landed on it, thinking it was a simple hill. Who’d be able to guess that there were an endless number of teeth underneath its rocky exterior?
Garan knew that this level of monster couldn’t be easy to deal with.
SLASH!
He summoned a large metallic whip in the shape of a flexible tube. He controlled it like how Althea controlled her vines, but with less control, which was why Garan rarely used it.
Althea could control her vine well because it wasn’t conjured out of nothing. It was grown from an actual thing with its own fiber lines and strength.
In contrast, his metal was manifested from scratch, and each bit needed his control, so he naturally couldn’t make it as flexible or react as quickly as Althea’s vine.
For now, however, it’d have to do.
The momentum wrapped around the head of a monster that managed to climb up to him. He pulled himself up and, using his own momentum, kicked the level 20 monster down into the serrated mouth.
This mouth closed very quickly, and for a moment, people would wonder whether the giant mouth was just an illusion. However, it was only for a moment.
CRUNCH!
Garan watched as the level 20 monster was crushed as if it were a persimmon, splattering ’juice’ all over.
CRUNCH!
One could hear the monster inside being crushed into pieces, which easily gave rise to goosebumps.
KKKKRRRRHHH!
The giant beast didn’t seem particularly satisfied with eating the monster, targeting him specifically, even if the monster was a few times bigger than him if one looked at meat.
This was consistent with what they knew. These monsters universally yearned for the ’clean’ aether in the bodies of intelligent beings, so he would always be a target.
This was nothing new; it was just that the mob was far more troublesome than he was used to.
KRRRRHHHHKKK!
It did not help that he avoided its mouth once. He quickly realized that its mouth seemed to be able to appear anywhere!
For example, this serrated mouth, even if the body itself was still (and it wasn’t), could appear in any part of its body. Because the rocky surface was stable, it was difficult to determine where the mouth would appear next.
This made it difficult for him to make focused shots. He wondered if it had many mouths underneath this rocky shell, or could the mouth move underneath it?
But considering there was a few-second delay between each attack, he leaned more towards the latter.
ROAAARRR!
At this moment, another monster jumped over, appearing in his blind side.
His eyes sharpened. He jumped up just in time, body rotating mid-air, and he landed on top of the monster. It was another level 20 monster, but stronger than the one before.
While holding on to the beast shaking around, trying to shake him off, Garan was watching the surface of the rock giant.
Sure enough, something shifted on the ground below, and Garan immediately jumped up.
The giant monster once again opened its serrated mouth to eat the meat beast. As he jumped in the air, he took out one of the bombs from his space and dropped it into the mouth, just before it closed.
Boom!
KKKHRHRHRHHRRKK!!!
It successfully exploded inside the monster’s mouth, angering it even more. He could tell because the serrated mouth widened and the teeth looked sharper than before, before it abruptly closed again.

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