Published: March 12, 2025
Chapter 599: Ice Beast
When Zhao Hai heard Cai'er say this, he was slightly taken aback, and then his expression changed drastically. The otherworldly creature sensed Zhao Hai's thoughts and suddenly leaped onto the city wall, which startled the king kong ape tribe members on the wall.
Zhao Hai emerged from the otherworldly creature and immediately said to Thais, who was speaking, "Clan leader, there are ice beasts coming, many of them. Everyone needs to prepare quickly."
Thais was stunned for a moment upon hearing Zhao Hai's words, but he knew that Zhao Hai was a mage. He had also heard about Zhao Hai's various miraculous feats from Ares and others, so he didn't doubt Zhao Hai at all. He quickly replied, "Alright, I'll give the order right away."
Thais then turned and shouted towards the city, "Prepare for battle!"
With just those two words, not a single extra word, after shouting them, he turned his gaze outside the city with a cold glint in his eyes.
Meanwhile, Zhao Hai looked inside the city. With Thais's shout, the entire Mountain City immediately started to move. Countless people rushed out of their homes, while many others quickly returned inside. Soon, some young members of the king kong ape tribe, dressed in leather armor and wielding weapons, climbed onto the city wall, while the elderly and women prepared below, leaving only the children locked inside their homes.
These people's actions were incredibly swift. From the moment Thais shouted to when they were ready, the entire city took less than ten minutes, which was truly astonishing.
Zhao Hai watched the king kong ape tribe members in shock. He believed that even the sharpest troops on the continent would find it nearly impossible to achieve this level of efficiency, yet the king kong ape tribe had done it, as if they had practiced it thousands of times.
Zhao Hai glanced at Thais, who stood like a mountain on the city wall. Although he was no longer young, at this moment, his imposing presence resembled that of a towering mountain, giving a feeling of reverence.
The king kong apes on the wall, who had been dozing off or squinting, all stood up, their expressions fierce.
Zhao Hai noticed that the aura of those giant apes had completely changed. When they were lying there, there was no feeling of threat at all, but now that they were standing, they suddenly transformed into powerful warriors.
Most importantly, Zhao Hai discovered that these giant apes were now in perfect harmony with their masters—their beast kin, the king kong ape tribe warriors— and their strength had reached level eight.
Even though Zhao Hai currently had many level nine undead beings at his disposal, he knew that those were all thanks to the space, while these king kong ape tribe members relied solely on their own strength.
Now Zhao Hai understood why the king kong ape tribe could dominate the orc tribes for so many years; their talent was truly terrifying.
Even the tiger tribe members could not reach level eight after maturity, yet the young warriors of the king kong ape tribe were almost all level eight strong. Even among the elderly and women standing below the city wall, many were also level eight strong; such power was indeed frightening.
Zhao Hai let out a breath. After witnessing the strength of the king kong ape tribe, he finally understood why they had come this far. Although they only had five thousand members left, they had almost reached the deepest part of the Extreme North Icefield.
This was not a random assertion from Zhao Hai; upon arriving at the Extreme North Icefield, he hadn't been idle. He deployed his staff and thoroughly mapped the areas they had traveled through, collecting the entire map of the Extreme North Icefield south of the volcano into the space.
Since there was no need to collect corpses anymore, the speed of the staff had significantly increased. In fact, there wasn't much to see in the Extreme North Icefield; the terrain had remained almost unchanged for millennia. So Zhao Hai routinely instructed Cai'er to collect the maps into the space, not paying too much attention to them. Although he hadn't ventured into the Extreme North Icefield north of the volcano yet, he was almost certain that the volcano was indeed the innermost part of the Extreme North Icefield; he had that feeling.