8:51am.
After more than a dozen minutes since he drove off from the battlefield and as he closed in on the boundary leading to the fringe of the Wastes, Leon suddenly noticed that he could no longer hear footsteps behind him.
The mutated Neon Beast Tiger was no longer pursuing him.
Stunned, he looked at the side mirror of the Karaki CT-3X and that was when he saw the mutated beast lying on the ground in the distance.
Its massive frame was already beginning to be obscured by the dust.
The D Rank Neon Beast was dead!
Leon was stunned. 'It's dead? Just like that?'
'Is it because of the injuries? But that's not possible'. His eyes narrowed in thought. 'If an E Rank Gene Augur could be that tenacious, a D Rank Gene Augur definitely has to be even more terrifying'.
His brain whirred. 'Then is it because of the Artifact, Rose Bishop?'
