"The easiest to deal with are common-type Ranked Creatures, such as snakes, rats, bears, tigers, fish, crabs, and so on. These are creatures that mutate into Ranked Creatures purely by rare chance, and they are usually not too difficult to handle. Next are insect-type Ranked Creatures. I've read about them in ancient texts: under the same body size, insect-type creatures tend to be the most powerful. While I don't entirely agree with that absolute statement, I certainly can't deny the terrifying nature of insect-type Ranked Creatures—both their physical strength and reaction speed far surpass those of common-type Ranked Creatures."
"After those come primitive-type Ranked Creatures, terrifying existences that surpass even insect-type Ranked Creatures. Their original forms are often extremely unremarkable, and the probability of them becoming Ranked Creatures is infinitesimally small. But once they do, this category of Ranked Creatures can easily crush other Ranked Creatures of the same tier, and even humans... like earthworms, seaweed, or ferns. Of course, I've never actually seen one; I've only read about them in ancient texts. I really hope to witness one someday, haha..."
"However, when it comes to the absolute strongest, they are still phantom beast-type Ranked Creatures. Such creatures are usually found only in legends; their ordinary forms have never once been discovered in reality—or perhaps one could assume that ordinary forms simply do not exist for them at all. Eve…
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