Published: February 8, 2025
The battlefield was eerily silent.
It was truly silent.
At this moment, both humans and sea beasts had stopped fighting simultaneously. Those vicious, bloody, and savage mutated sea creatures receded like the tide, just as they had surged in.
Even at the sections of the city walls that had nearly been breached, where the sea beasts had completely pushed the humans back into the city, the same retreat occurred.
The deaths of two sea giants seemed to signal a temporary withdrawal of the beast tide.
It was only temporary; after retreating a thousand meters, they stopped there.
Cloud Port was still surrounded by sea beasts.
Ye Zhongming's racing heart finally began to calm down.
Just now, when the deep cold ray shot out from the dying sea giant, it had truly frightened him into a cold sweat.
If it had struck the team at Cloud Summit Villa, the consequences... Ye Zhongming really didn't dare to imagine.
Fortunately, it had missed.
“Ayang, take your team and guard those two pillars. Xiao Min, gather their blood.”
Since they had killed the sea giants, Ye Zhongming naturally would not let go of the rewards earned. He immediately ordered the battlefield to be cleaned up while using the communication capability of the Merit Medal to have Little Tiger bring his team over from the other side of the Inner City.
Ye Zhongming approached the first sea giant that had been killed and began to handle its Four Symbols Horn.
Having never dealt with such things before, he was extremely careful, fearing that he might damage something valuable. He activated his extraction skills to try to get the four elemental horns in their best condition.
Meanwhile, Ayang was struggling to gather the two Drilling Sea Gold pieces together, their astonishing weight leaving him and his companions in trepidation.
If it hadn’t been for Brother Ye and Shengyuan blocking this thing just now, if it had really crashed down on them, even wearing white-grade defensive equipment, they wouldn’t have died but would certainly have been severely injured.
Xiao Min and others took out or found containers to begin collecting the blood of the sea giant.
“Zhongming, someone is coming.”
After treating Shengyuan, Park Soo-young was assisting Ye Zhongming and, upon hearing footsteps, quietly alerted him.
Ye Zhongming glanced up while still engaged in extracting the Four Symbols Horn, having already processed three of them from this sea giant.
“Uh, Ye Villa Master.”
Upon hearing this title, many people from the villa couldn't help but chuckle, but they still maintained their vigilance.
The dark barrels of magic crystal weapons were aimed at those emerging figures, well aware of the deterrent effect these weapons had after the previous battle.
“Is there something you want?”
A cold smile appeared at the corner of Ye Zhongming's mouth; he could guess what these people intended with just a thought.
Meng Xiangjiang was cursing Guangyao in his heart; how could he be the one to deliver such a potentially offensive message?
“It’s like this, although these two big guys ultimately fell by the hands of the warriors of Cloud Summit Villa, um, cough, after all, others also contributed. You see...”
Ye Zhongming remained expressionless, but inwardly sighed; indeed, wealth could sway hearts.
Even if they didn’t know what the sea giants were, everyone knew that every part of a high-level evolved lifeform's body was very valuable, especially since these two seventh-grade fellows were the highest evolved beings humans could currently acquire.
Not to mention, just those two seventh-grade magic crystals could easily provoke conflicts among many factions.
Under such temptation, even though Cloud Summit had demonstrated their capability to kill the two sea giants just now, these people were still blinded by profit and, relying on their numerical advantage, sought to benefit from the situation.
After processing the last horn, Ye Zhongming carefully pulled out the Four Symbols Horn with a bone base from the sea giant's massive head.