Chapter 72

'A thin body covered by a pitch-black shell, four blood-red eyes, and four sinister scythe-like arms. There is no mistaking it, that monster is part of the mantis-type species… More than that, based on its level and abilities, it is highly likely that it is the same monster that the Lightning Wolf is looking for.' I concluded as gazed in the direction wherein the monster had disappeared.

Now that the identity of the mysterious alpha-class monster was revealed, I couldn’t help but suspect that the Underclaw was just the evolved Hackclaw that I met before. Because no matter how much I think about it, every clue and evidence was pointing towards that particular possibility. That path, that we collapsed, the traces of sudden evolution and the supposed timeline of its first appearance in this area, all of it lined up.