Wow! The item-dropping rate is really high!

Bai E deftly stood up, staring directly at the somewhat oddly shaped, unfamiliar behemoth.

Its tank-sized eyes reflected a dull yellow glow in the dark night, while two rows of even smaller eyes seemed to surround its main eyes, scanning in every direction.

And now, the myriad eyes as cunning as human eyes, all focused on Bai E, the target with a peculiar aura.

For a terrestrial beast to grow to such a gigantic size, simply being tough-skinned and hard-fleshed was not enough.

Ferocious claws and a Plasma Cannon it could spit from its mouth were just the behemoth's standard means of attack. Its all-round monitoring of the environment made it so that it would not miss any important piece of information—

The vibration in the air, the evaporation of bodily fluids, even the exploration of the entire light spectrum, left no place for an opponent to hide.

Fortunately, Bai E had no intention of hiding.

The transparent text floating above the behemoth's head clearly displayed the rewards it could bring to Bai E—

[Kennado Behemoth (Beast) (Leader)—"Lucky Strike" kill drops: Guaranteed (Fresh Meat*200000, Plant Tissue*50000, Combat Experience 5000 points).]

It seemed that, due to the significant racial difference, the behemoth could not bring Bai E any benefit in terms of attributes.

But just the massive amount of resources was enough to justify its demise.

Bai E reached out his hand and pulled out his longbow from the storage space.

After becoming a military marshal and securing that position, Bai E had also undergone an upgrade.

The compound bow, previously made of monometal, could no longer keep up with Bai E's level. A longbow made from variant isotropic alloys of the octometal used in Mecha construction became Bai E's new equipment.

The arrows, also made from octometal, were pitch black in the night. Their matte coating, even in the darkness, would not reflect a speck of light.

Bai E drew his longbow, and Spiritual Energy surged wildly into it.

The boost in basic damage of ten to twenty points brought about by the equipment innovation became terrifyingly effective under the endless multiplier of skills.

"Whoosh!"

An arrow that almost destroyed the heavens and the earth, bringing with it a fiery tornado, pierced through the multiple eyes' shadows of the behemoth, leaving only a fiery line tearing through the air.

"Pfft!"

Flesh flew in all directions.

[You caused 500 points of piercing damage to the target!]

[Based on your attack effects, you obtain the following information—]

[Kennado Behemoth (Beast): Health 199500/200000; Defensive Power: 500; Attack Power (Type: Blunt) 400~???; Traits: Behemoth Template, Trait: Plasma Spit; Trait: Symbiotic Flora and Fauna; Trait: Extraordinary Regeneration; Mobility: 60%…]

"Hiss!"

The behemoth's pained hiss almost resounded through the skies.

The Kennado Behemoth had managed to roam the wilderness not because it was truly invincible but simply because it was far enough from those real sources of danger.

Whether it was a city or an insect, to take down this behemoth was not something a small troop could achieve.

And even if the behemoth were to be killed, the amount of resources expended in a large-scale operation would likely far exceed what the behemoth could provide.

Even the orcs found little joy in clashing with such a tough, wild creature, and that was the core of its dominance over its territory.

And now... it had caught Bai E's attention.

The behemoth, which Bai E had shot right through its massive body and created a "small hole," did not care about the power of this one arrow.

Such a minor injury was negligible to something of its immense size.

Moreover, as soon as the fiery tornado brought up by the arrow passed, the tissues around the wound were visibly and rapidly regenerating.

Every cell within the behemoth's body was like an energy tank with its own nuclear reaction, where the massive amount of energy stored on a regular basis could become a source of self-repair at critical moments.

But this storage had its limits!

As he watched the behemoth's body return to its original state in the blink of an eye, there wasn't the slightest ripple in Bai E's gaze.

He simply set up his compound bow from a distance, and fired another powerful arrow!

"Whiz!"

The arrow effortlessly tore through flesh and blood, and the beast's counterattack had just begun.

Innumerable tendrils, resembling both fleshy tentacles and thorny plant vines with barbs, plummeted down from the sky, and on the ground, numerous fiery tendrils like burning snakes attacked Bai E from all directions.

Behind these whips, which usually hid within the behemoth and struck only at critical moments, there were even more sinister vines, hung with countless bone daggers, that swept towards Bai E mixed with the barbed tendrils.

Bai E drew a longsword with two sharp edges from the void with a backhand motion, and the fierce sword light instantly shattered all that attacked him.

Holding the longsword, he could enter the "flow state" at any moment, which as a normal state of continuous combat power explosion, was his strongest form for now.

"Whiz, whiz, whiz, whiz!"

The snowy sword light bloomed wildly in the night, and the mountains trembled beneath the clash of the two titans.

However, the beast's recovery ability ultimately couldn't withstand Bai E's output of Spiritual Energy, and as the first light of dawn spread across the sky, the beast finally awoke from its endless rage, clearly realizing that it was no match for the terrifying human before it.

"Run!"

The somewhat intelligent beast had only this thought spinning in its mind, but the next moment, it discovered a biting sword light that seemed to split time itself, leaving nothing but a streak of sword light separating light from dark.

"Pfft!"

[Dealt 3000 points of slashing damage to the target!]

The behemoth, covered in wounds, no longer had the strength to recover.

Even escaping seemed so feeble.

[Activated "Lucky Strike."]

With the final slash of sword light, the behemoth that resembled a falling mountain range finally lay dormant upon the earth under the newborn sun.

[Acquired loot: Fresh Meat*200,000, Plant Tissue*50,000, 5000 Battle Experience points.]

The vast amount of loot nearly engulfed the perspective of Bai E, who was immersed in the Burst Rate Space, and only upon seeing the meat mountain he truly breathed a sigh of relief.

Return to the city!

...

Within just a few days, Bai E received a reply from Gilder—

"The bait is ready!"

"Good!"

The Bai E who was in the Mecha hangar assisting Helen in researching the alloy sword suddenly dropped what he was doing.

"Assemble!"

Watching Bai E march out of the camp with a small squadron, a distant commanding officer sneered with disdain, "Inferiors will be inferiors. What level does he think he is, still wanting to lead a team into battle himself?"

"Isn't that just perfect? He, a mere homunculus, should just stick to being an enforcer, but he wants to meddle in the city's affairs, seeking death!"

"But he claims he went out for the biomass needed for the production of those ten thousand homunculi. He couldn't have actually found enough resources, could he?"

The first speaking officer looked back derisively at his companion, "Ten thousand! Do you have any idea how much material is needed for ten thousand homunculi? Even killing fifty Kennado Behemoths might not be enough to gather such a number! Do you think there are so many Kennado Behemoths lined up for him to kill, or is it more realistic that such resources just drop from the sky?"

"Indeed..." The other officer chuckled abashedly, feeling he might have been overestimating that individual who had climbed his way up from a homunculus.

"Just wait and see! When he gets back, I want to ask him just how much material he managed to find!" said the leading officer with a malicious smirk, turning to leave.

...

A casual command from Bai E, who led a small team of twenty, to the soldier responsible for driving: "Head north."

Although he had determined the location of the "bait," one couldn't just head straight there from the start.

He had purposefully taken some unfamiliar regular soldiers with him so that, through their mouths, he could convey certain things to the officers in the military camp—things he wanted them to hear...