【The Rise of the Ugly Monster】 The Champion of the Plateau of Behemoths
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"BOAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!"
A roar, pregnant with fierce anger, echoed far and wide.
The source of the voice was the land whale.
The largest, strongest, and longest-lived being on this Plateau of Behemoths, the apex of the ecological pyramid.
Dead at its feet... though not as large as the land whale, was a giant rhinoceros.
Imagine a school gymnasium.
To describe it as having a body larger than that... though not precise, would you at least be able to understand that it was giant?
The Plateau of Behemoths is not all forest; to the north, grasslands spread, and this rhino acted as the lord of that grassland.
He possessed not only a giant body, but also skin more durable than steel armor, a horn sharper than a sword, and a cruel intellect.
Since birth, he had never known defeat.
Therefore, he had been mistaken.
...To the untouchable giant creature that sometimes set foot in his territory, the grasslands.
A monster like a calamity.
To the land whale.
...He thought he could win.
To state the conclusion, it was great overconfidence... and he was no match for the land whale.
But even so, he was unlucky.
The land whale would normally swallow an enemy that recklessly challenged it in a single gulp.
With that, the battle would end.
The adversary would end its life without suffering, dissolved by a powerful digestive fluid.
However, at present... the land whale was in a bad mood.
Therefore, he was tortured to death.
His limbs were twisted, his thick skin was miserably torn, and he was covered in blood.
His head barely retains its shape, but from the neck down is a mangled mess, a gruesome sight.
"BOAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!"
Even after being tormented to such an extent.
Even though the rhino was already dead.
The land whale's anger had not subsided.
ZUDON, ZUDON, ZUDON!!
The land whale, roaring in anger, stomped on the rhino's corpse with its giant feet many times over.
Over and over... and over!
The rhino's flesh and blood were stretched thin, and soon mixed with the soil, turning into a dirty, reddish-black stain on the plateau.
...Why was this land whale in such a bad mood?
The answer is simple.
It must have been since around last winter.
Because there was a stranger...
Secretly... laying waste to his territory.
In other words, the Plateau of Behemoths.
The Plateau of Behemoths is his domain.
The forests, the water, the soil, the air, and all living things in it.
Everything is his.
All living things on this plateau live there because he generously permits them to survive.
To reap their lives is his right.
And yet.
That stranger... is infringing on his rights!
To an extent that even he, the generous one, cannot tolerate!
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The land whale, by the nature of its species, was a strong being from birth.
After all, he was large... boasting a body length of over 7 meters at the time of his birth into this world, he had the basic ability to completely disregard the attacks of a motley crew of attackers.
Underestimating the opponent as a baby, and then the mountain of tattered corpses of the monsters who were defeated in return.
That is his original landscape.
He devoured the monsters he had killed, before he even drank his mother's milk.
To display his own power and devour the enemy.
It was an ineffable pleasure.
That experience determined his way of life thereafter.
Despite being a baby, he killed, killed, killed, and devoured, devoured, devoured any monster that caught his eye.
For the land whales, who originally have a gentle disposition, his way of being was nothing short of abnormal.
Therefore, he was soon exiled from the pod.
However, that was of no consequence to him.
The bonds with his parents, siblings, and comrades?
He lacked the sensitivity to appreciate such things.
Instead, he was blessed with a large body and soul, an inexhaustible fighting spirit and desire for dominance, and good fortune.
He fought day and night, ate meat, and grew larger than any other land whale.
Then, when the time came, the land whales who had exiled him... especially the female whales, began to approach him.
Seeking a talented leader for the pod.
And seeking his talented genes.
He, to those land whales.
...slaughtered and devoured them all.
It wasn't that he held a grudge for being exiled in the past.
It was simply that he had no need for family, comrades, or descendants.
The survival of the species?
Complete rubbish.
To him, the survival of the species was synonymous with his own survival.
Because if he, the strongest of all, continued to win and survive forever, the species would continue to exist.
At that time... about a thousand years after he was born, he had already deviated from the category of a general living creature and had reached the level of a demigod.
He had been liberated from the yoke of a lifespan.
He naturally thought in such a way.
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After eradicating his own kind, his struggle continued.
At that time, his body was not as large as it is now, and there were other strong beings on the Plateau of Behemoths besides him.
There were also many invaders from the outside.
<<<I am the Thunder Yellow Emperor Dragon, Piriribichi Ragi Ubagire! From today, this plateau is my territory, GYAAAAAAAH!?>>>
There was a time when a noisy, flying lizard with a long, snake-like body and countless arms, legs, and wings attacked him.
But when he swallowed it whole, it fell silent.
In any case, he continued to fight, continued to kill, and continued to eat.
In this vast... but for his body, slightly cramped, miniature garden, he continued his insatiable struggle...
And finally, he became the undisputed champion of the Plateau of Behemoths.
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"BOAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!"
...The land whale, remembering the death cry of the noisy, flying lizard, laughed at its comicality.
That put him in a slightly better mood, so he stopped taking his frustration out on what was once a rhino.
"............"
And the land whale, while causing the ground to tremble, slowly turned back to the forest.
Right now, the intruder is probably in the forest.
He said 'probably', but that intruder usually hides the presence of a strong being.
It releases its presence only at the moment of battle, and hides it when it's over.
That's how it seems to be.
Well, that's to be expected.
If it were constantly leaking a powerful presence, prey wouldn't come near.
To exert only the necessary amount of power at the necessary time is a rational way of life.
However, because it normally hides its presence, the land whale cannot clearly perceive the whereabouts of the intruder.
That's why the land whale, although he wants to eliminate the intruder who is unnecessarily ravaging his territory immediately, cannot do so.
Because he doesn't know where it is.
Even if he can sense the intruder's presence, he loses it immediately.
The intruder is a coward.
A coward!
ZUSHIN, ZUSHIN, ZUSHIN......!!
The land whale began to walk towards the forest, his growing anger riding on his footsteps.
When he finds the intruder, how should he kill it?
Thinking only of that.
His eyes were terribly clouded with anger and murderous intent.
【Noisy, flying lizard】
The Thunder Yellow Emperor Dragon, Piriribichi Ragi Ubagire, a large dragon.
Probably, a very strong dragon that manipulates lightning, and was one of the Dragon Kings...
Note: In Chapter 658, there was a description of this whale, but that expression has been changed.
Before the change, the setting was 'Gauugabu can defeat it'... Gauugabu cannot win against it...
TL Note: In my translation, the above mentioned change was already made.
the whale ate his possible harem lmao. What anime MC can eat their anime girl harem members xd. Peak!