With the Fire Seed's help, Meng Chao felt that he could withstand the negative effects of the Totem Armor and would never become a puppet of slaughter.
At the very least, he believed he could hold out until he completely changed the future.
As for whether he would suffer backlash from Totem Power after changing the future—
That did not matter.
Five minutes later.
Meng Chao appeared in the southeastern sector of Blood Skull Arena.
This was where Kasava Bloodhoof kept his Totem Beasts.
The artificially raised Totem Beasts could help Gladiators temper their combat skills in the arena.
After they were slaughtered, the Totem Power and Control Cores within their bodies could also be extracted.
They were extremely important strategic resources of the Turan Civilization.
Kasava had painstakingly operated Blood Skull Arena for more than a decade, capturing vast numbers of vicious Totem Beasts alive from deep mountains and dense forests, and imprisoning them all here.
To prevent the Totem Beasts from escaping, copper walls and iron ramparts stood all around and beneath this area, interwoven with countless mazes and traps.
However, during the chain explosions of swamp gas that had swept through the entire city, even the copper walls and iron ramparts had been shaken open with countless cracks from deep within their foundations.
Some Totem Beasts had been buried beneath collapsed walls and roofs.
Others, luckier ones, had smashed through their twisted, warped cages.
The surroundings were a complete mess, littered with Totem Beast carcasses—some had been crushed to death, but more had been bitten, rammed, and gored to death by their own kind, with more than half their flesh devoured. The sight was too ghastly to bear.
Meng Chao stepped over seven or eight carcasses and dropped to one knee atop the ruins.
Whoosh!
The faceguard