When Sasha, Ellison, and Flynn arrived at the docks, they were greeted by a scene of chaos left behind by a great battle.
Blood of crimson and fluorescent blue was mixed together and splashed across the dark brown surface of the Water Ironwood platform like paint.
The corpses of the Shahua Mermen, each dead in a different manner and piled together, were assigned to their respective owners before dock laborers hauled them beneath the ships of the adventurer squads that had killed them. The dead adventurers had already been collected by their comrades. Nearly all the survivors were injured, and even those in relatively good condition were stained with blood.
The most eye-catching sight was a completely dead monster corpse in the open space at the center of the harbor.
It had a sturdy, hulking build. From a distance, it looked like a gray-blue mountain of flesh. Even lying on its side, its naturally arched back reached the shoulders of an ordinary person.
It resembled a humanoid shark. Its broad head, shaped like a rounded inverted triangle, occupied nearly a third of its entire body. Its half-open maw revealed rows of densely packed sharp teeth.
Its humanoid limbs and torso were filled with muscle. Though it was now completely dead and could no longer exert any strength, the clear, swollen contours beneath its rough skin still displayed the explosive power it had once possessed.
There was no need to consider whether it possessed any additional special abilities. Its exaggerated, savage appearance alone was enough to reveal a terrifying combat ability far beyond that of ordinary humans or even low-level Professional Adventurers.
Yet now, this Shark Beast monster had become a corpse that could never be revived.
Several deep, overlapping saber wounds could be seen in the center of its chest,