Chapter 261: Thistle Walkers (1)
...Yep. I said it.
Hundreds of them. Remember what I said earlier about Thistle Walkers travelling in groups? Yeah...I meant large groups. They tended to band together in groups of a hundred or more, moving simultaneously, patiently waiting for their prey to arrive. Apparently, they were omnivores - meaning they could sustain themselves perfectly fine from the environment itself, just like normal plants, but...well, every living being has their preferences. Thistle Walkers just happened to prefer meat. More particularly, human flesh.
Apparently, according to the background info provided for this quest, this forest was originally a tourist attraction for visitors of Jilin City. Its hiking trail used to be extremely popular, until a few death incidents occurred fairly recently. At first, people just thought the hikers had been careless, and died from an accident. Things like that weren't uncommon during hikes, after all.
CREATORS' THOUGHTS 
Cyclxne
Cyclxne Heya everyone. Cyclxne here.
Monsters! The first time they have ever appeared in this series. They are counted as one out of the sixteen races that inhabit the planet of Xenith, as seen in Auxiliary Chapter II (which you should check out if you haven't already!)
For reference, Monsters and Magic Beasts have a simple ranking:
Rank 1 - Strength equivalent to that of a Novice Mage.
Rank 2- Strength equivalent ot that of an Intermediate Mage.
Rank 3 - Advanced Mage.
Rank 4 - Ancestral Mage.
Rank 5 - Golden Monarch.
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You get the idea. This has already been explained in a previous chapter (I forgot the exact chapter number though because I'm smart like that), so I will just leave things there.
If you are wondering about Rank 8 Monsters/Magic Beasts, which according to this pattern are equivalent in strength to that of a Divine God, then you should also go read that 'previous chapter' I mentioned, since it talks about this as well.
Edit: I just checked, the explanations can be found in Chapter 192, The Avast Mountains.
Anyway, that's all from me for now.
And as always, I'll talk to you all in the next chapter~
- Cyclxne <2
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