Chapter 448
by fanqienovelChapter 448: Can’t You Hunt? Let Me Step In!
"Hah—hiss—!"
"Roar!"
The Giant Spirit Gods closed in step by step.
The color of the "magic deterrent" on their backs grew increasingly vibrant.
The little magic left within their divine bodies surged through the magic circuits, brightening their sails.
The bullies and robbers roaming the "Primal Wilderness" hoped to distract Lady Xidi this way; meanwhile, Lady Xidi used her remaining magic to add a "filter" to her divine eyes, allowing her to focus better on the enemies before her.
This was what they called "habit."
Deities accustomed to magical battles often exhausted their enemies with magic tricks before striking; even the Giant Spirit Gods, used to confronting the Vast Dragon Clan, couldn’t shake this practice.
Though surrounded and nearly out of magic, they clung to their mage instincts.
Thus, a strange standoff dragged on.
To deities and mortals alike, this seemed normal.
But to Trilobite…
"Can this Baryonyx even hunt?!"
"If not, let me step in!"
…
Trilobite had crept closer through the downpour.
He’d waited patiently, fearing the "Baryonyx" might single-handedly kill all the "Arizona dinosaurs."
Leaving no meat for him.
Now though…
"Seems I worried for nothing."
"I’d thought victory was certain for the Baryonyx."
"Turns out my customer’s a cowardly fool."
The size gap between Baryonyx and Arizona dinosaur mirrored lion versus hyena—or tiger against wolf.
"A lion facing hyenas!"
"A tiger facing wolves!"
"Why cower?!"
Creatures’ combat strength isn’t just about weight. When predators clash, the larger holds crushing dominance—especially with triple the size and superior physical attributes.
A lioness only doubles a hyena’s weight.
So three hyenas overwhelm her.
Yet a male lion triples a hyena’s weight. Often, he’d charge into their pack and unleash mass slaughter.
"Boom—Boom—Boom—"
Lions as formidable as "Silver Thai Dunmela," capable of seizing the hyena queen’s head amidst thousands of troops, were far from rare.
As for tigers versus wolves…
The disparity grew even starker.
In habitats where tigers roamed, wolves were either driven out or wiped out locally. Across Northeast Asia and Siberia, wolf territories almost entirely avoided overlapping with tigers.
In certain copyright-obsessed animations and films, tigers somehow shared territory with wolves…
That was utterly impossible.
The weight and physical differences between Baryonyx and Arizona dinosaurs mirrored those between tigers and wolves.
A charging Baryonyx—weighing a ton or even a ton and a half—could barrel into its target and shred any three-to-four-hundred-kilogram Arizona dinosaur with its gaping jaws. Numbers meant nothing.
Yet who could’ve predicted?
The Baryonyx faltered, while the Arizona dinosaur grew reckless—refusing to flee, holding its ground instead.
“Ah, this…”
“Just like the donkey at its wits’ end.”
“They weren’t even from the same era. The Baryonyx knew nothing of Arizona dinosaurs, nor vice versa. Misjudgments were inevitable.”
“But I won’t make that mistake!”
“And, Baryonyx lady, you’ve done me a massive favor!”
"Boom—Boom—Boom—!"
Trilobite lumbered closer, his steps heavy.
The earth shuddered faintly; puddles rippled with each tremor.
But torrential rain hammered the water’s surface, fracturing the ripples. Endless splashing drowned out his footsteps and all traces of his presence.
Locked in a tense standoff with the mightier beast, they remained oblivious.
Soon…
“Here! This one!”
Trilobite crept within a body’s length of the rearmost Arizona dinosaur—yet the prey still hadn’t stirred.
This straggler was his chosen target.
Simple reasons: largest of the pack, recently floored by a Baryonyx headbutt, slow to rise.
Even standing, it wobbled unsteadily.
Trilobite guessed serious internal injuries had left it weakened.
Preying on the frail while shunning the strong? A predator’s oldest tradition.
“Now—!”
“Thud! Thud! Thud!”
Footsteps exploded into urgency—too loud for even rain to mask.
But it hardly mattered.
Because…
"Ah!?"
In just two seconds and three steps, the shadows of three giant jaws had already loomed over the Arizona dinosaur’s head!
"Ah—oooh—!"
The giant jaws gaped wide!
—-
"Splash—!"
When the massive skull thrust through the ether rain curtain, suddenly overshadowing the Pan-Spirit Deity Leader, he snapped out of his daze.
"What’s this!?"
"When did it come!?"
The terrifying deities appeared way too suddenly. The Pan-Spirit Deity, still groggy after Xidi’s headbutt, was so startled by the Large Head that he couldn’t form a complete thought.
Not that thinking mattered anymore.
He wouldn’t need it soon.
"Ah—oooh—!"
The blood-red jaws twisted slightly, long saber teeth piercing the Leader’s neck from the side.
"Pshhh—!"
Divine blood sprayed across the dark void and dense ether rain curtain, staining the Ether Pool crimson before subsequent ether streams washed it away.
"Uh…"
The Pan-Spirit Deity Leader choked out a brief cry.
His legs kicked wildly, arms clawing at nothing as if fighting off doom.
But…
"Riiip—!"
The deity’s gaping maw tore sideways!
"Thud—!"
The Leader’s Divine Body slammed onto the ground, splashing murky water.
His severed head now dangled from the jaws of the deity that materialized from the rain!
A clean decapitation!
All over in twenty seconds!
The headless corpse convulsed like electrocuted prey, twitching and writhing.
"Thud!"
The head was soon thrown onto the body.
"Pfft!"
The terrifying Giant God stomped on the prey’s corpse, stepping over it.
"Thud… thud… thud…"
After slaughtering its first victim, it charged without pause toward the stunned, leaderless Giant Spirit Gods.
Meanwhile…
"Roaaar—!"
Behind these Giant Spirit Gods, the male Chaos Demon God bellowed furiously, lunging at the nearest target!