Chapter 484: Special Exam [2] - Zeraphage, The Predator

Adrian strode silently through the barren landscape of the Earth Elemental Territory, his footsteps crunching against the coarse sand beneath him.

His figure, cloaked in the guise of a fearsome earth elemental monster, blended seamlessly into the desert's rugged terrain. The disguise was both masterful and terrifying: a creature with skin like cracked stone, ridged with jagged, mossy veins that glowed faintly green.

His face was a nightmare—a hollow mask of rock with gleaming, crystalline "eyes" that shimmered like shards of emerald, and his limbs, though humanoid in structure, were grotesquely elongated, with clawed, talon-like fingers. This was the guise of the Zeraphage, a rare and infamous earth elemental said to haunt everything in many ruins.

The brown, earthen robes draped over his shoulders shifted with the hot desert breeze, and his slow, deliberate movements made the cracks in his "skin" emit faint, unnatural groans.