Raka's laughter exploded. His voice was hoarse, clashing with the rustle of the wind sweeping through the mutant leaves in the swamp. The man in the crocodile-skin cloak clutched his still-bruised stomach, as if Elian's last words were the funniest joke he had ever heard in his life. "Monkeys?! You're counting on those wild apes?!" Raka pointed towards the dark jungle canopy, his laughter turning into a savage sneer. "City people are truly stupid! The apes in this jungle hate you just as much as they hate us! They bow to no one but their own savage instincts!" Raka raised his hand high. The dozens of Crocodile Clan members surrounding the wire net immediately got ready. They lifted their glass tubes filled with lizard stomach acid, while others pulled the triggers on crossbows whose arrows had been coated with deadly poison. "Pour it on them! Burn their skin until it peels from their bones!" Raka screamed, his eyes bulgi

The pitch-black lake water exploded upwards, creating a pillar of filthy water dozens of meters high. The stench of sulfur and rotting flesh, buried for centuries at the bottom of the mud, immediately invaded their lungs. Elian, Vara, and Agus stood frozen at the edge of the swamp. Before them, from behind a curtain of toxic, muddy rain, the figure revealed its true form. It wasn't just a mutant crocodile. The System in Elian's retinas flashed rapidly, scanning the giant entity that had just torn through the lake's surface. [WARNING: APEX ENTITY DETECTED][SPECIES: BLACK CAIMAN (MUTATED)][ARMOR TYPE: CORRUPTED MANA QUARTZ] "A caiman?" Elian cursed under his breath, wiping the dirty water from his eyes. "Aren't those Amazon alligators that top out at like, six feet? Why is this one bigger than a cargo barge?!" The monster was truly beyond reason