"382, not bad. Much stronger than the Death Spot's attack in Grimgar." Looking at the materialized mana, Takeru showed a slight smile.
However, noticing Takeru's gaze, the black bear seemed to feel greatly provoked and angrily swatted again, but just like before, it caused no harm to Takeru.
Seeing this, the black bear changed from swiping to charging, but Takeru easily blocked it again. Instead, the bear itself seemed to have crashed into a steel wall, its head feeling dizzy.
"Big guy, I quite like you. Want to be my pet?" Looking at the somewhat foolish-looking black bear, Takeru showed a smile and spoke.
"Roar!"
However, looking at Takeru's grinning face, the black bear grew even angrier. It suddenly swung both paws at Takeru with force, trying to crush him.
Seeing this, Takeru extended both hands towards the converging paws, again effortlessly blocking the bear's attack.
"Not willing to submit? What a shame." Seeing the bear's attitude, Takeru's Aura erupted instantly, causing the bear's consciousness to pause for a moment. Then Takeru snapped his fingers, and the bear's eyes became dazed.
Next, Takeru leaped lightly, easily landing on the bear's head about four meters high. Then, materializing a few Nen Needles in his hand, Takeru inserted them into the bear's head, directly gaining control over its body.
"Alright, let's go now. This way." After checking the direction briefly, Takeru directed the black bear to start sprinting in one direction.
After special evolution, the bear's body had become very tough, and its strength was formidable. So, along the way, trees posed no obstacle and were simply crushed as the bear ran over them.
Because the bear caused quite a commotion, it disturbed many mutated animals. However, most mutated animals, sensing the bear's terror, chose to flee.
Naturally, there were also fearless ones that charged at the bear. Yet, facing these monsters, Takeru didn't need to lift a finger and they were easily slapped dead by the bear he was riding.
After killing these reckless monsters, Takeru had the bear continue towards the destination. About thirty minutes later, Takeru saw a swamp.
A group of crocodiles inhabited this place, and one with a powerful life force reaction came from among them… Takeru's second target.
Arriving here, Takeru directly used a taunt skill on the crocodiles. Then, this group of crocodiles quickly surrounded the black bear and Takeru. Takeru finally saw the strongest mutated crocodile… clearly the leader of this crocodile group.
With a roar from the giant mutated crocodile leader, the ordinary crocodiles and mutated crocodiles opened their bloody mouths wide at the black bear.
Seeing this, Takeru had the bear begin the slaughter. As for Takeru, he leaped directly onto a giant tree, activated Zetsu, evaded the crocodiles' senses, and simply watched the bear-crocodiles war from the tree.
The black bear first slapped an ordinary crocodile, sending it flying. The immense force killed the ordinary crocodile on the spot.
However, at that moment, other crocodiles' attacks also hit the bear. Ordinary crocodiles were manageable, as although their bite force was astonishing, compared to the mutated bear, they only caused superficial wounds.
But some ordinary mutated ones caused significant damage to the bear. Injured, the bear continued instinctively slapping the mutated crocodiles.
Simultaneously, Takeru released his control over the bear, allowing it to regain its own consciousness. But as soon as it regained consciousness, it found itself in an unfamiliar place and, most importantly, besieged by crocodiles. This enraged the bear.
Previously, the bear and the giant crocodile here had encountered each other, but both sensed the other was not to be trifled with and hadn't clashed.
But now, seeing these crocodiles dare to attack it, the bear roared furiously and attacked mercilessly.
Compared to the bear's confusion, the giant crocodile leader felt the most wronged. Clearly, you, the bear, provoked first, and now you're blaming others...
Thus, under Takeru's manipulation, the bear and the crocodile group engaged in fierce combat. For a while, sounds of biting and slapping continuously reached Takeru's ears.
However, after watching for a bit, Takeru found it somewhat boring because both sides' attacks were very simplistic.
Although mutated, their attack methods weren't much different from before mutation, just greatly enhanced.
But now, under the crocodile group's siege, the bear also appeared very disheveled. As the saying goes, two fists are no match for four hands, and the bear's two paws were no match for over twenty huge mouths...
"Hmm, dying like this would be too boring. Healing!" Watching the heavily bleeding bear, Takeru in the shadows shook his head, directly channeling magic power. A green light soon appeared in his hand, then Takeru cast it towards the bear's location.
As soon as the healing magic made contact, the bear's wounds visibly healed at a rapid pace, and the bleeding quickly stopped.
Sensing the change in itself, although the bear didn't understand what exactly happened, its spirits lifted. Its previously slow movements became agile again. It even fiercely slapped away the mutated crocodile leader trying to sneak attack.
Suddenly slapped away, the crocodile leader was stunned. With its low intelligence, it couldn't comprehend what just happened… why the bear, on the verge of death moments ago, suddenly recovered. If it could speak human language, it might want to report the bear for cheating!
Seeing only five or six ordinary mutated crocodiles left around it, and the bear becoming lively again, the crocodile leader now felt like retreating.
Then, after letting out a loud cry, the ordinary mutated crocodiles still attacking quickly released their bites on the bear and swiftly fled into the swamp, submerging their bodies into it.
This process happened too suddenly. The bear only managed to grab the tail of one escaping crocodile, lift it, slam it a few times, thoroughly killing it before throwing it away.
Looking at the swamp of unknown depth, the bear, now conscious, didn't dare to venture in lightly.
Watching this from the tree, Takeru couldn't help but admire the crocodile leader's decisiveness. If it were just the bear, this decision would be very wise. But with Takeru as a variable, escape was destined to be impossible.
Then, Takeru directly leaped towards the still-observing crocodile leader, landing on its head. Before it could react, Takeru's raised fist came down.
Boom!
With a splash of swamp water, a crater appeared on the crocodile leader's head. Under Takeru's single strike, the crocodile leader was completely annihilated. Takeru's appearance was too sudden, leaving the bear and crocodiles present utterly unable to react.
The crocodile leader was just the beginning. Then, without pause, Takeru shifted positions, arriving above another crocodile that had narrowly escaped, and again a fist came down...
Boom! Boom!
Five consecutive loud explosions sounded… all mutated crocodiles were thoroughly eliminated by Takeru...
Then, Takeru gently jumped, leisurely landing in front of the bear, looking at it with a light smile.
Having witnessed the previous scene, and recalling its own attacks, the bear's evolved brain instantly realized it was absolutely no match for the Takeru before it.
After a brief internal struggle, the bear quickly recognized the situation and lowered its proud head to Takeru, submitting.
"Hmm, I didn't expect your brain to be quite good." Seeing the bear's action, Takeru showed surprise.
Seeing this, Takeru directly jumped onto its head.
"Big guy, head that way!" After sitting down, Takeru patted the bear's head and pointed in a direction.
"Roar!" Hearing Takeru's voice, the bear roared directly.
However, as soon as it roared, Takeru slapped its head. The immense pain made it show a wronged expression, looking at Takeru bewildered.