Pretending To Be A Boss

Chapter 22: Chapter 15: Cataclysmic Creatures and the Lying Woman

Nine-tailed fox.A catastrophic-level boss creature.

In the few hundred years since humanity began entering the mining areas, up to the present, there had only been a two-digit number of calamity-level bosses killed.

There had only been one instance of a catastrophic-level boss creature killed, and even then, they had taken advantage of a severely weakened Titan Beast.

The Soul Crystals from a catastrophic-level boss could sustain an entire Pyramid fortress for thirty years' worth of electricity consumption—equivalent to the power of nineteen nuclear explosions.

But even with such vast amounts of energy, the increasingly powerful human hunters, with their growing talent, still couldn't oppose a catastrophic-level creature.

When Dong Ran heard about the nine-tailed fox, she instinctively shook her head, thinking that Tang had gone a bit too far this time.

Merely on the basis of a seven-leaved flower, they were to deduce that a catastrophic-level creature had emerged in the yellow zone?

If that were the case, she would need to return to the real world immediately, inform the military, remake the world map of the mining area, and mark the forest area as red.

But clearly, Dong Ran didn't quite believe it.

"Tang... this is a bit too much... The nine-tailed fox is a catastrophic-level boss, how could it possibly appear here?"

Tang Xian had stopped believing that this foolish woman would ever see reason.

"You need to understand the logic, it's not that areas marked red have catastrophic-level creatures, but that areas with catastrophic-level creatures get marked red. Such regression in exploration isn't unprecedented in history."

"Regression in exploration? It can't be that coincidental, right?" Dong Ran, looking at Tang Xian's expression, finally realized that he wasn't just trying to scare her.

Humans once thought they could advance triumphantly into the mining areas, marking countless forests and grasslands as blue because they hadn't seen any powerful creatures there.

But later, those areas were all reclassified as red and yellow.

Every construction that humans had left in those regions had been destroyed. That was the regression of exploration.

In fact, before humans could truly defeat catastrophic-level creatures, Tang Xian didn't believe such exploration could progress beyond twenty percent.

Tang Xian's nose twitched, he urged, "Hurry up and go, if you don't leave now, you won't be able to."

It wasn't an excuse to leave her behind.

This time, even Dong Ran felt a terrifying presence approaching.

How long had it been?

In just a few minutes, it seemed a terrible force was spreading rapidly from a distance.

The only advantage humans had over creatures in the mining area was the ability to return to the real world before the fight began, via a portable teleportation fissure.

Mining area creatures wouldn't possess such technology.

"If I go, what will you do?" Dong Ran was somewhat reluctant to leave.

Tang Xian's expression also began to calm down.

He had been somewhat agitated just a moment ago.

Now that he thought about it, what had happened couldn't be changed.

He could utilize the knowledge he had to hunt perfect-level and even perfect-level boss creatures, but calamity-level and catastrophic-level were still too much for Tang Xian.

He needed his own team.

To formulate a long-term plan effective for at least a quarter.

And a lot of advanced equipment before he could confidently hunt calamity-level creatures.

As for the catastrophic-level...

They were apexes of the ecological hierarchy, and Tang Xian believed that unless one day he could become the supreme commander at the peak of the Pyramid, it would be difficult to hunt catastrophic-level creatures with just a squad's resources.

But, inspired by those sages, Tang Xian, driven by the spirit of re