25: Chapter 25 Rapid Reproduction! Nearly Ten Thousand Commanders!
After shouting, the man's legs suddenly gave way, and he collapsed within the teleportation formation.
A crowd quickly gathered around, all of them seeing the Professional who had just teleported out of the secret realm.
"What happened? Speak slowly!" someone said, helping him up.
After a nearby healer-class Professional cast a couple of Healing Spells, the man finally caught his breath, his voice as faint as a mosquito's buzz:
"The demonic beasts in the secret realm have gone mad for some reason, and their combat power has spiked..."
Demonic beasts going mad, combat power spiking!
Hearing this news, Chu Ran felt it shared many similarities with the beast tide outside Lin Feng City yesterday.
Could it be...
That this is also related to the men in black?
"Then let's close the secret realm's teleportation formation first; don't let any more Professionals in," someone suggested.
"Save... save them. There are others who went in with me. They held back the demonic beasts so I could come out and report. Save them, please, I beg you..." the man pleaded, slumped on the ground.
In border cities like Shanyuan City and Lin Feng City, friction with demonic beasts was common, so everyone was exceptionally united when facing them.
Several Professionals from the Alliance Rescue Team soon arrived, led by the Deputy Garrison Envoy, Wang Hao.
With a serious expression, he comforted the man after learning the details: "Don't worry, we will do our best to rescue them."
"Close the other secret realm teleportation formations first; don't let anyone else enter," Wang Hao said to the staff.
Before the staff could nod, several more people appeared in the teleportation formation, all covered in blood, seemingly having just escaped from a secret realm.
"The Corrosive Swamp! The demonic beasts in the Corrosive Swamp have suddenly gone mad, their combat power spiking!"
Immediately after, light after light flashed at the teleportation formation as Professionals barely managed to escape from various secret realms.
"Boulder Cave..."
"Frost Forest..."
Wang Hao's brow furrowed; the situation was looking very grim!
Black Mountain Canyon, Corrosive Swamp—these secret realms were all Level 5 realms located very close to the Desolate Realm!
If the demonic beasts in these secret realms entered a berserk state simultaneously, it likely meant that the Level 6 secret realms further out had already fallen!
If these demonic beasts gathered, they would soon break through the inner secret realms and pour directly into Shanyuan City!
At that point, even if the Garrison Teams and Professional Alliances from all the surrounding cities came, they wouldn't be able to withstand such a surging beast tide!
"Initiate a Level 1 Alert! All Professionals of the Fourth Turn and above, stand by and await orders from your respective organizations!" Wang Hao declared.
"Keep the teleportation formations open! Treat the wounded as soon as anyone teleports back!"
"Yes!"
Wang Hao picked up his longsword and walked toward the teleportation formation.
"Deputy Envoy, you can't leave! The City Protection Array must be centered on you!" the Garrison Team captain said.
Wang Hao was the only Sixth Turn peak martial artist in the Garrison Team; the City Protection Array could only achieve its maximum defense if it was activated with him at its center!
"Damn it!" Wang Hao roared.
But he also stepped off the teleportation formation. As a battle-hardened soldier, he naturally knew how to weigh the pros and cons.
It wasn't that he feared death, but he knew that if he died, the probability of the city being destroyed would increase significantly. He couldn't go...
"Deputy Envoy, don't worry. We've already contacted President Shen Jingfeng of the Tianhe Guild and Elder Lu Nian of the Fengming Guild. They've agreed to go and rescue the people," a Garrison Team member said.
Hearing this, Wang Hao's expression softened slightly.
Then, he saw white mist rising from the teleportation formation and asked in surprise:
"Who just teleported away?"
...
"They were too fast, I didn't see clearly..."
Everyone was bewildered; they had only seen a dark shadow flash past in an instant.
...
Seeing the white mist rising before him, Chu Ran finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Good thing I made it in time.
If the teleportation formation had closed, who would make up for the experience points he'd miss out on?
He picked up his phone and checked the map.
He found that the secret realms entered by the lost Professional teams were basically all very close to each other.
He soon reached the incident area. Chu Ran could already see a dense, black mass of various demonic beasts ahead...
"This works out perfectly; saves me the trouble of looking for them one by one."
"Mosquito Emperor, save the people."
"Thunder Flood Dragon, kill the beasts."
"Dragon Sparrow... stay close and protect me."
...
Frost Forest.
This was a Level 4 secret realm located behind the Corrosive Swamp.
A dark tide of beasts could be seen advancing toward this location.
On a massive stone platform, twenty to thirty scarred Professionals were gathered.
They had rushed out from different secret realms, and simply gathering here had exhausted all their energy. Some had even lost limbs in their flight for survival.
Watching the approaching beast tide, their hearts were like cold ashes and their eyes hollow; the atmosphere was filled with deathly silence.
Suddenly, an inexplicable pressure swept through the area.
A terrifying, blood-colored Mosquito Beast instantly appeared before them!
In that instant, they felt their hearts skip a beat!
What grade of demonic beast was this?
Many among them had entered Level 6 secret realms and seen the bosses there, but they had never felt such a terrifying aura from any boss...
"It's over..."
Someone slumped to the ground.
Facing such a terrifying demonic beast, they didn't stand a chance of survival...
Curiously, however, the demonic beast made no move to attack. Instead, it slowly turned its head toward the nearby beast tide...
Thunder suddenly erupted in the distance as a colossal creature wreaked havoc within the beast tide!
"I've seen that Thunder Flood Dragon!"
"That's the beast of that Beast Taming Master from Lin Feng City!"
"Holy crap, is he here to save us?"
"Charging into the beast tide alone..."
...
In an instant, everyone recognized the Thunder Flood Dragon that was bombarding the group of demonic beasts.
Chu Ran also quickly found this place through the Mosquito Emperor's shared vision.
A blazing red vortex flew toward the Frost Forest; even the eternal ice melted slightly under the Dragon Sparrow's scorching fiery feathers.
"Master, did you come specifically to save us?" someone asked, their face full of admiration as tears of excitement flowed.
Seeing his excited expression, Chu Ran forced himself to swallow the word "No" and said instead, "It was on the way."
He then jumped down. With the Dragon Sparrow's protection, this place was temporarily safe.
Due to the beast-taming contract, he could feel the anticipation in the Mosquito Beast's heart.
It hungered for blood!
Chu Ran said to the Mosquito Emperor, "Go."
Upon hearing this, the Mosquito Emperor shot out instantly.
It finally stopped above the beast tide.
It didn't charge in and start bombarding like the Thunder Flood Dragon.
Instead, it hovered there, and its abdomen began to swell.
Swelling!
Then, dense swarms of blood-red Mosquito Beasts emerged from its abdomen!
In an instant, they dyed a large portion of the sky red.
[Blood Shadow Mosquito Beast]
[Grade: commander grade]
[Level: Lv.1]
[Combat Power: 1100]
...
Chu Ran was dumbfounded.
"Nearly ten thousand... commander grade?"
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