Saiyan stowaways on the Ark

Perhaps that's the origin of the legend.

Perhaps it has already devoured and mimicked the real behemoth, the Hydra.

Because its scales have a luster closer to that of fish scales, it has obvious gills on its head, and its tail has become a huge soft-bodied tentacle.

Regardless, the overwhelming presence it exudes and its arrogant attitude of regarding the Evil Sea as a shallow pool demonstrate its strength.

Nine heads stood tall, and eighteen blood-red eyes, like blood diamonds, gazed through the sea fog.

It roared with its head raised, and the sound waves emanating from its nine enormous mouths were visible to the naked eye.

The seawater was shaken to the point of violent fluctuations, as if it were boiling. The mist was blown away as if by a gale. Towering waves swept across the land again and again, shattering the high cliffs and pushing the coastline back once more.

In the center of that clear sky, untouched by dark clouds, lies the place pointed to by the great, nascent will.

It broke free from its original form, with huge wings tens of kilometers long growing from its back. With a gentle flap, it stirred up storms that could expose the seabed. The giant body took off, exceeding several times the speed of sound from the start, creating even greater explosions and turbulence.

If it were that, it would probably reach the last city built by Kal'tsit much faster than Tomat had anticipated.

And that is indeed the case.

The reason for this is that Tomat was on his way to meet him.

This colossal sea creature was not only enormous in size, but also possessed remarkably refined senses.

Even a Tomat, which is smaller than a speck of dust to it, can be spotted by it early on.

However, even setting aside its keen eyesight, there is another aspect of Tomat that it cannot ignore.

That is a "sense of presence" that is much larger than oneself.

Judging from the speed and size of this colossal sea monster, this land is not very vast, and all things in the world are incredibly small.

A mountain is just a mound of earth shorter than itself, and the ocean is just a swimming pool where one can dive or rise after a few splashes.

Needless to say, the living creatures are even more vulnerable.

But now, it is experiencing a feeling it has never had since it was born into this world.

The dust-like creature before him, the male individual who was told at birth that he must not give up a single cell, seemed to be tightly "grasping" himself with his even smaller hand.

Even though there was nothing around me, it felt as if I were in a sealed cage, and this cage was even shrinking.

Having never experienced death, Hai Si suddenly felt a "sharp" pressure coming from all around him.

Every single Haisi cell is thinking about the same thing—what does that feel like?

But in the next moment, it became certain that it was the prelude to death.

Its nine heads opened their mouths simultaneously.

An earth-shattering energy is about to erupt from it.

But an even greater surge of light and heat engulfed it in the next moment.

As the light faded, only the colossal body, towering even above mountains, lay on the ground, causing a terrifying tremor that shook the earth's crust.

"It's so big, we definitely can't finish it. I wonder if we can take it back with us?"

The person who accomplished all of this only felt troubled afterward.

Meanwhile, Amiya and the others were still waiting in the city, considering whether or not to take Tomat's request seriously.

After the protective shield was removed, normal sunlight provided additional energy, the nearby land became an explorable area, and the raw materials for the production line were replenished. In less than half a day, the losses in energy and materials were replenished, and there was indeed enough capacity to manufacture some additional items, including the seasonings that Tomat mentioned.

However, the problem now is not the seasonings or anything like that, but rather their unease about another thing that Tomat mentioned but glossed over.

The dinosaurs are about to launch their final assault.

But he planned to hold a banquet to celebrate.

They had witnessed the terror of the dinosaurs and the power of the Tomat.

But before they actually saw a direct battle, no one knew whether the other side could win as easily as they claimed.

"brush."

Suddenly it got dark.

A sudden dark shadow covered the entire city. A huge, towering, and undulating object blocked the sunlight, and its shadow easily obscured everyone, as if the night itself were the judge.

Something so enormous that it was impossible to see its entirety, and could even induce megalophobia, quietly appeared next to the city.

"What...what is this?!"

Many people gasped in panic, and when some suddenly realized that the enormous object was actually a motionless creature, even greater panic ensued.

No one had ever seen such a terrifying creature in the world. Its unusual number of heads, claws that seemed capable of tearing the earth apart, scales like city walls, and eerie tail tentacles all made people realize that the ferocious creature in front of them was actually a giant dinosaur.

However, when a gust of wind blew by, the mysterious burnt aroma that filled the air temporarily calmed many people down.

"It smells so good! What's that smell?"

Only then did people notice that the appearance of this dinosaur seemed somewhat strange.

Most dinosaurs are white and dark blue, while some are dark red.

But this one has a charred black color with a hint of pink, like a perfectly roasted steak.

Upon closer inspection, it became clear that many of its scales had been peeled off, as if it had been injured by some extremely severe attack.

Ultimately, it was lifeless, as if it were already dead.

"Oh, sorry, sorry, isn't it blocking the light a bit here? Shall I move it to another spot?"

Tomat appeared out of thin air in front of Amiya and the others, squinted at the giant beast Hai Si that blocked the sun, and then disappeared again.

A few seconds later, the giant beast disappeared again and then reappeared at a slightly farther location.

"It shouldn't block the sun this time, right?"

Tomat, who reappeared before the crowd, pointed to the giant beast in the distance and then said to Amiya:

"Is everything ready? Time for a big meal!"

[Event] Fool's Past: The Taste of Seventeen Things

"Really... do you want to eat its meat?"

Although the colossal creature before her no longer resembled a fish, Amiya, who had traveled from the city to this place by means of transport, still looked up at its back, which seemed to disappear into the sky, and continued to view it as a monstrous fish.

It's not a question of whether it tastes good or not, but whether it's edible at all.

Of course, this question didn't need to be answered by Thomas himself; Elena, who had come with him to observe the giant beast, explained it based on her own experience.

"When we were in Iberia, he also treated us to tarantula, saying that it was processed with gas and was very delicious, and we didn't feel any discomfort."

But after speaking, Elena still looked at the "cave" in front of her with some worry.

"However, such a huge thing..."

It is four or five meters high and six or seven meters wide.

It's a fairly spacious "cave," no doubt.

There is no problem for people to freely enter nature; people can even drive transport vehicles in.

But the road ahead was not a cave, but a wound that Tomat had made on the giant beast.

Compared to the excavated body, it is merely a tiny pit, like a pore.

Scattered on the ground around the wound were large and small, extremely hard fragments, which were the scales of the giant beast Hai Si that Tomat had dug off. They were so thick that people had to walk dozens of meters before they could see the muscle tissue underneath.

People who came from the city, trembling with fear, began to cut the outer layer of the tarantula flesh under the lights.

Of course, they dared to do this not only because Tomat promised them "no danger," but more importantly, because someone confirmed that the meat was no longer dangerous.

"Although we don't know the actual methods and principles, it's really incredible. The testing equipment shows that the body tissue of this dinosaur, apart from the outer scales that resemble a hardened keratin layer, has turned into completely uncontaminated meat protein and animal fat, which is completely edible."

Almost everyone present, except for Tomat, put on protective suits at Kal'tsit's suggestion, but Kal'tsit looked at the numbers on the test report with surprise.

"From a compositional analysis perspective, it also has high nutritional value... It seems to combine the meat of completely different creatures such as ungulates, feathered beasts, and scaled animals, and some of it even has plant-like characteristics, but all of them are harmless..."

The monitoring equipment used in the shelter can even detect extremely small amounts of tarantula cells in rainwater, but now, such a huge tarantula is so widely detecting the walls around it that are entirely made of tarantula flesh, yet it has not triggered any alarms on the equipment.

So Kal'tsit made a bold decision—she removed the mask from her protective suit and sniffed the surroundings.

It didn't have the fishy smell she had imagined; in fact, it smelled very fresh, like freshly caught fish or high-quality meat that had just been slaughtered. Although the meat in front of her didn't look very distinct, she could indeed smell the complex aroma of various meats.

"Dinosaurs and sea bream, in the process of evolution, absorb the genetic characteristics and biological features of different species. In other words, their flesh naturally combines the characteristics of various organisms?"

Even though Kal'tsit is known as omniscient—and she herself claims so—her "appreciation of fish meat" is beyond that, because even she would not consider it as food to sustain life.

Now, however, the harmless dinosaur has given her the opportunity to peek into its secrets.

As Kal'tsit made her own deductions, she stepped forward and used the searchlight in her hand to illuminate the fleshy wall directly in front of her.

"Ah, Dr. Kal'tsit, is everything alright? If we just remove the mask..."

Amiya watched Kal'tsit's actions in surprise, but Kal'tsit nodded to indicate that there was no need to worry about her.

She took out her knife, made a cut on the wall of flesh in front of her, and sliced ​​off a thin piece of red meat.

Under the spotlight, it seemed to gleam with a ruby-like luster, while also being translucent, with perfectly distributed oily patterns, reminiscent of the tenderloin of a high-grade hoofed beast once bred in the Eastern Kingdom. Upon closer inspection, it also appeared to have horizontal stripes similar to the red meat of fish.

Even through the gloves, Kal'tsit felt her body heat would melt the fat inside, and before she put it in her mouth with some determination, she smelled a mellow fragrance, the aroma of myoglobin with a rich flavor, similar to the grassland fragrance of fresh hoofed beast meat from Sargon, with a faint hint of fresh sea breeze.

Under everyone's watchful eyes, Kal'tsit put it into her mouth, chewed it gently, and used her tongue and palate to savor the taste and texture.

After a perfectly chewy texture, the small piece of meat was easily crushed by the force of her mouth, and then a wonderful dissolving reaction occurred. In an instant, it was as if the most elegant and pure-flavored stew broth filled Kal'tsit's mouth with a just-right saltiness. Before she even realized that the meat had dissolved, it slid down her throat without any hindrance, filling her whole body with satisfaction. The aftertaste in her mouth did not dissipate for a long time, and continued to stimulate her facial nerves with its mellow fragrance—Kal'tsit's lips unconsciously turned up.

The glycosides of animal fats from the meat of four-legged herbivores such as camels and ungulates.

The chewiness and wild flavor of toothed mammals.

The delicate and soft texture of the white flesh of scaly creatures.

The refreshing fragrance of natural plants.

This feeling was like being treated to the highest level of hospitality by the entire natural world, savoring the essence of nature and history, which made her recall the bitterness and sweetness of the past ten thousand years.

At this moment, Kal'tsit, who used freeze-dried food for every meal, was actually feeling joy from eating.

"Doctor? Doctor Kal'tsit!? Are you alright?"

Of course, this was an extremely bizarre scene in Amiya's eyes. She hurriedly stepped forward and shook Kal'tsit's body. Only then did the latter come to her senses, shake her head to quickly wipe the smile off her face, and then said: