Chapter 28: Apex Predator
Hunters arrived after a day and a half but they weren't a team. Each one believed in their strength.
But some of them recognise others were stronger, especially one denizen that was only 4 feet tall. He carried no weapon and only wore a loincloth.
His eyes were extremely disdainful toward them. The four of them stared at him, their heart pounding in strange emotions of fear.
"I will sit around. You can go ahead!" He said while he touched a wall and chair moulded from it. He immediately formed a core, and it floated, and he sat down.
It would hurt his pride if he was hunting the same thing as them.
They felt at ease and looked among themselves. Without saying anything they need to decide among them.
Either kill each other, and the winner gets the lion, or they work together.
"We shall work together!" The weakest of them said. He was the strongest in his metropolis, but here he was below everyone.
"No. You go ahead. It's shameful for a 4 single name scion to go against a single beast!" The second strongest said.
"Don't be too arrogant. This lion is strong, he has caused enough damage to be underestimated with arrogance!" Spono the weakest, said.
Choco's blade flashed to cleave Spono, but the two other denizens used their blade to protect the weakest.
"I will slaughter you all if you disrespect me!" Choco warned.
The three stared at him before they ignored him and began preparing and went inside the dead-end corridor.
The first thing they heard was a growling of pain.
The three denizens felt they had entered a different atmosphere that was suffocating. The lion was resting his head on his two limbs.
His breath was low, and one could see the pain on his face. There was also some saliva coming from his mouth.
It wasn't a drool of sleep but of pain, as if the jaw of the lion had been dislocated and couldn't control it.
The lion's eyes open. It was golden and they saw their reflection.
Not only the three but even the Silent Treader, who was part of the lion, felt apprehensive. This is an Apex Predator awakening.
Spono, Spolo and Dololo held their weapons. Each one of them was the strongest of their metropolis and each one of them has hunted more than ten lions.
"We move as one!" Dololo said and they nodded before they dashed toward the lion.
The lion cub growled and moved, his fangs and jaws were stinging with hammering pain. He almost regretted awakening this nature but it was a necessity.
Raging Blood pulses in his veins, and his eyes become red; his speed surpasses Sonic but in silence.
Choco was standing waiting outside when he sensed only a silent wind whoosh outside. He no longer senses the three that entered.
Soon there was a shadow at the entrance.
The shadow was 7 feet long with golden eyes staring at him. Then the shadow moved.
"Strong!" He said with a smile as his hand moved his shield forward and ready his single-edge blade.
Not only that, his leg became hazy, and so he flashed, becoming a streak of blue as he avoided the lion attack and struck with his sword.
His blade extended in seconds and became extremely sharp and it came down. The power of the strength was comparable to the headless Axe Father's last strike.
Harmonizing Tail.
What Choco was aiming at was a mere mirage, and as the blade cut, a shadow was above him. His body was crushed to dust in an instant.
[You have devoured Choco]
The lion was 7 feet tall, his coat was grey with a stream of shadow around due to the silent treader in his body.
His muscles were robust and packed with power, his neck was thick, and the muscles were tensile as they supported the powerful jaws.
Due to the Crushing and the Horns, the head bones were extremely hard and dense. It was causing great pain to the lion.
The lion's claws are beyond razor sharp; it was easily cut through the floor, and powerful limbs were developed for burst speed and power.
The tail has long hair but not as long as the Chimera Treader but it was more potent than before.
The lion cub doesn't have a mane, but it was exhibiting regal presence, his movements and growl striking awe at an onlooker.
The small denizen observed the lion before he stood and vanished in an instant as a crushing maw came down at him.
"You are weaker than me. However, I won't fight you because I can't see past the illusion"
The boy said.
"I will hunt you when I can!"
"Klion is my name!"
He left those words and he vanished completely. The lion slumped down as the awakening hadn't ended yet.
He continued to whimper for a longer time before other strong denizens came, but they all fell and died at the lion's hand.
Days passed like that until a fateful day when a no-name arrogantly was lured by the lion's strong scent.
The lion was annoyed and so he ate it before it could even know what happened.
Certainly, a Father came crashing down to revive his child. This denizen doesn't have any weapon but a mere glove around his hand.
The moment he arrived, his aura blasted around the whole location. It would have bent most beasts and monsters, but the lion figure that was by the corridor flickered and disappeared.
The lion cub was not stupid; despite the power-up, he knew he was no match with someone who could use Aura.
What he did was force enough Life Force in a weave of black hair of Harmonizing Tail and leave it in place while he ran away through the corridor.
The aura of the Father crushed that with ease and the Father ran after the lion's direction.
But one thing the lion did was use Silent Treader capabilities to mask its scent and sound.
That way, it can escape most hunters, and with ease, as his body digested the newborn, the father can't track it anymore.
The brute fist master stopped moving and looked around, there was an evident anger in his face. It tried many times to sense the location of its essence inside the newborn but failed.
He got tired and turned around, and suddenly, he was faced with a gain maw coming at his face.
Aura and force blasted from his body before jumped back. The image vanished, unfortunately for the denizen; his head found itself inside the maw from behind.
Crushing Nature.
The nature crushed the head of the denizens despite the aura pushing everything away.
The headless body didn't become confused, it turned with force and sent powerful punches but met with a violent push as if something was ramming at it.
Battering Ram Force Nature
The two adversaries were blasted away at the same time, but the lion, as he was heavier, moved a few feet while the body by a few meters.
It was now that the lion's maw stopped the stinging pain of awakening the Crushing Nature. So also, his head was beginning to stop aching due to the tiny snub of the horns.
Immediately, the father moulded a face on his chest and attacked, the lion didn't shy away as he also attacked.
Only through battle could he learn to use this nature properly.
Before they clashed, a hole opened, and they were sucked into Birth Battle Ground. They were to fuck it out there.