Kujonin Chapter 29

Kujonin
Author: Hanakuroko
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"What do you think?"
"It doesn't matter what I think, it's weird as f.u.c.k!!"1

Ayl yelled and sent the head of an extra-large wild bear flying.
Extra-large. In other words, 4 times larger than a normal wild bear.
The normally 2, 3 meter wild bear is about 12 meters.
It's a height you have to look up at.
It's not just the wild bear.
The lizard monster, kodomo dragon, is also far bigger.
It's not a kodomo, it's size is completely like a dragon.
For a field boar, I had thought that a mountain was moving.

What we had arrived at was a deserted island without a name.
Pretty much all of the monsters are extra-large; it's a place where the field boar preys on the green tiger monsters.

"The balance between predator and prey is completely different from other places, na."

The monster scholar, Velsa, said.

"Even so, they're way too big."
"Umu, it requires an investigation. The acc.u.mulation of mana sources, or most likely the abundance of prey, I presume. Look, that huge back has moss growing on it."

Velsa said as she pointed at a haze turtle, a swamp-dwelling tortoise monster.
It's already a big monster normally, but the one we're looking at now is about 20 meters.
Certainly the haze turtle's sh.e.l.l has moss acc.u.mulating on it, with small flowers blooming.
So that means that this particular one has lived on this island for numerous years.

"In other words, in order to maintain that giant body there should be some sort of food or mana source on this island."
"Is it something they eat among the plants in this jungle?"

The island is covered with this dense jungle; if we're looking for something like that, it feels like we won't find it no matter how long we look.

"Even though it's a jungle, the vegetation they're capable of eating is actually rather limited. When you think of the amount necessary to eat to get enough calories to support that huge size, as well as the sheer number of extra-large monsters … no matter how I think about it, it's strange that there's not some hill eaten bare on this island."

There were more large monsters then you could handle with both hands just bygoing 20 meters into the jungle.
In truth, although I don't know how big this island is yet, certainly, if there's no suitable feeding ground then there's no way they'd get this big.
With so many extra-large monsters a.s.sembled, there is most likely something they eat that causes them to become extra-large.
Regarding the vegetation, there seems to be a lot of old trees, but they're normal sized.

"It might not be a normal mana acc.u.mulation."

Velsa tapped her chin in a troubled manner, thinking.
Even a mana source can become food for monsters.
That said, even if there's a normal mana source formation, it's rare even in the history books for large monsters to appear because of it.

While she dismantles the wild bear corpse, Ayl is cautious of our surroundings.
I draw magic circles and freeze the large monsters that come attacking me.

As I'm doing so, from within the island a thundering sound resounded.

"The h.e.l.l is that!!?"

Ayl absentmindedly muttered.
A herd of monsters that completely fills up my Search Skill is coming this way.