Volume 3, Chapter 36 – Remember, These Things Are Not Edible~

“ROAAAAR!! GROOOWL!!”

The terrifying creatures, resembling a fusion of fish and ferocious beasts, roared to the heavens.

Their frightening howls completely shattered the night’s tranquility.

Eerie pupils flickered with bloodthirsty light against the backdrop of purple-black curse power. Their fangs were coldly exposed in twisted mouths, their enormous bodies dragging putrid tentacles, sweeping out in all directions like a tsunami.

The appearance of each Corrupted Beast was accompanied by trembling air and tearing space. In an instant, this terrifying flood rushed out from the ruins of the Presidential Residence, sweeping through the surrounding streets and buildings.

They would follow the Abyssal Lord’s orders to tear every living being nearby to shreds.

“Corrupted Beasts!! Open fire! Don’t let them break through!”

Facing the aggressive Corrupted Beasts, the military surrounding the Presidential Residence quickly reacted after a moment of terror. Armored vehicles turned their cannons, guns spewed intense flames, bullets and energy cannon light interweaving into a dense net of firepower, attempting to intercept these monsters.

In an instant, countless Corrupted Beasts were blasted to pieces.

Clearly, compared to the Vassals of Earth and Vassals of Sky, these fish monsters weren’t particularly powerful. Human weapons could easily kill them.

However, there were just… too many of them.

After a period of full firepower and unrestrained spiritual power release, with heavy weapons depleted and spiritual energy exhausted, the defensive troops’ combat power rapidly declined.

“SLASH—!”

Just as some soldiers were reloading, a huge Corrupted Beast resembling a hybrid of shark and octopus suddenly leaped up, its sharp fangs fiercely biting an armored vehicle, effortlessly tearing it in half. Debris flew in all directions, and the driver’s screams abruptly stopped.

Another Corrupted Beast pounced on an entire infantry squad, purple tentacles whistling past, enveloping them and instantly compressing them into a mist of blood.

In the brief moments after weapons and medicinal pills were depleted, the once neatly arrayed troops collapsed under this nightmarish attack. The soldiers’ wails and gunfire intertwined, eventually turning into powerless echoes.

The defensive perimeter was thus breached by the horde of Corrupted Beasts.

Next, these blood-reddened Corrupted Beasts roared and continued to spread to more distant places, crushing streets, rushing into buildings, and tearing apart one group after another of people who couldn’t escape in time or lacked sufficient strength.

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Rolling smoke rose, fear spreading rapidly like a plague.

With the Presidential Residence as the center, this once prosperous city, under the rampage of Corrupted Beasts, was gradually becoming a hell of death…

“What’s happening?! First explosions, now Corrupted Beasts?!”

“Why are there Corrupted Beasts?! Help, someone help!!”

“Where’s the army?! Where are the Celestial Augur Knights? Where is the Divine-Graced Maiden? Come save us!”

“Daddy, waaaah, no, don’t eat my daddy, waaaah…”

“Run!!”

Wails and screams rose one after another, in endless succession.

At another location outside the Presidential Residence.

That is, where Alice had earlier asked the Special Inspection Bureau personnel to stand by.

Since everyone in the Special Inspection Bureau possessed relatively powerful spiritual energy signatures, after the defensive line was breached by the Corrupted Beasts, countless fish-shaped Corrupted Beasts swarmed over, directly engaging in battle with the Special Inspection Bureau experts.

At this moment, Zorak, who had already recovered much of his strength, led from the front, unleashing his Divine Martial Realm power without reservation. After blasting apart more than a dozen Corrupted Beasts in one go, Zorak leaped up, his dual guns spinning in his palms, intense gunfire tearing through the air, precisely penetrating one giant Corrupted Beast after another as they pounced.

The next moment, black blood splattered everywhere as this fourth-tier Corrupted Beast was torn to pieces.

And the flaming guns that had penetrated its body went on to reduce dozens more Corrupted Beasts behind it to nothingness.

However, after defeating so many Corrupted Beasts at once, cold sweat seeped from Zorak’s forehead, and the unease in his eyes didn’t diminish at all.

The reason was simple.

Even after eliminating over a hundred Corrupted Beasts that had rushed over first, the momentum of the surrounding wave of Corrupted Beasts remained fierce. Endless Corrupted Beasts poured in from all directions, completely surrounding their team.

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“Dammit…!”

Zorak gritted his teeth and muttered, the energy of his shoulder cannon nearly depleted.

The spearhead of his lance also showed significant wear, and if they fought two more waves… even though he was a Divine Martial Realm expert, he probably couldn’t hold out much longer.

Glancing behind him, after taking in the tired and terrified faces of his dozens of colleagues, Zorak bitterly bit his lip.

Obviously, after opening fire at full power and withstanding two waves of Corrupted Beast attacks, his comrades had already consumed most of their energy, their combat effectiveness plummeting.

In contrast?

The surrounding Corrupted Beasts continued to surround them one after another, their ferocious fangs and blood-red eyes flickering in the darkness, their eerie curse power pressing like waves, one after another howling toward Zorak and his team.

Although these Corrupted Beasts weren’t individually very powerful, with none even reaching the Crimson Hex Tier, their sheer numbers were overwhelming.

Once their energy was completely exhausted, all that awaited them was the fate of being torn to pieces.

Damn it, he hadn’t even found his wife yet… how could he die so pathetically here?!

Looking around at the bloodthirsty Corrupted Beasts, Zorak gripped his weapon unwillingly. But no matter how unwilling he was, they had no retreat now. Surrounded by the horde of Corrupted Beasts, they had only one path—to fight to the death.

Seemingly realizing this, everyone from the Special Inspection Bureau, including Zorak, simultaneously showed expressions of despair.

Thus, under everyone’s desperate and uneasy gaze, these grotesque monsters, emanating violent curse power, approached them step by step, obviously impatient to tear them apart.

Faced with this scene, Zorak could only snort coldly, then mobilized his remaining spiritual power and assumed a fighting stance.

Well, it’s come to this…

“Brothers! Kill one more! Count one more! That way, we’ll have more grilled fish to eat on our journey to the underworld!!”

Mobilizing his spiritual power, Zorak let out a final roar. Hearing this roar, the Special Inspection Bureau members also put aside their fear, revealing resolute expressions ready to fight to the death.

For a moment, everyone’s spiritual power erupted.

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They charged fearlessly into the curse power that enveloped heaven and earth.

However, just as Zorak and his team were about to fight their desperate battle, the approaching horde of Corrupted Beasts inexplicably stopped advancing at that instant.

?!

Huh?

“Why did these monsters suddenly…?”

Faced with such abnormal behavior, Zorak gravely questioned.

At the same time, Zorak’s peripheral vision noticed something to the side. He saw that the elven girl with handcuffed wrists, who had been kept in the car by them earlier… had somehow torn open the armored vehicle and was now expressionlessly… walking step by step toward the horde of Corrupted Beasts?

“Hey! What are you doing!”

Zorak shouted.

Hearing this, the elven girl briefly paused, looking at Zorak with a serious and earnest face.

“Do you know?”

“What, what? Know what?”

“Those guys don’t taste good.”

Pointing toward the Corrupted Beast horde ahead, the elven girl emphasized with a straight face.

“The meat is tough and hard, and it stinks, with a strange aftertaste. It’s not suitable for grilled fish.”

Apparently, the girl wanted to correct Zorak’s earlier statement based on her own experience.

“Forget about grilled fish, it’s not suitable for other types of cuisine either. Those things—maybe only their eyes are edible.”

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“Huh? What are you talking about?”

Zorak’s eyebrows twitched slightly, seemingly not quite understanding the situation.

Meanwhile, after giving her advice, the elven girl no longer paid attention to Zorak and walked directly toward the Corrupted Beast horde.

“Hey! You!”

Instinctively, Zorak wanted to stop her.

But with what happened next, Zorak’s hand, just raised, froze in place. Then, strong shock overflowed from this young agent’s pupils.

“This, what’s going on?”

The next moment, under the dumbfounded gaze of Zorak and the Special Inspection Bureau agents, the seemingly harmless elven girl approached the Corrupted Beast horde.

They had thought these monsters of the Vassals of Sea would, like before, frantically pounce forward, directly tearing apart and devouring the elven girl.

Unexpectedly, these monsters remained motionless in place.

The elven girl was just one person, neither drawing a weapon nor releasing spiritual power.

But when she walked forward and swept her extremely cold gaze over the Corrupted Beast horde, those monsters that had been rampaging violently seemed as if their throats were being firmly gripped by some invisible force, all freezing in place.

Their fangs trembled slightly, their blood-colored pupils suddenly contracted, staring fearfully at the white-clothed girl before them, their scales shaking all over, as if they had seen something they deeply feared.

As the elven girl approached, these Corrupted Beasts even instinctively began to back away.

“This, this is, what’s happening?”

Watching this scene before him, Zorak uttered trembling sounds of disbelief.

Translator Note

This is aura farming