One Underwater City warrior after another fell, along with one Sea Monster Clan warrior after another. Madam Kaiya gasped for breath as she finally pulled a military bayonet from the chest of a Nightmare Sea Monster.
The battle ended at that moment.
Madam Kaiya looked around. Although the Sea Monster Clan warriors had all been wiped out, almost none of the Underwater City warriors who had come along remained... Apart from her, only five wounded warriors were barely still standing.
"Damn it, that old Jin Kailun tricked us!" the warrior leader, covered in wounds, said bitterly. "Madam Kaiya, what do we do now?"
"Restock our ammunition as quickly as possible. Professor Jin Kailun must be found." A cold light gleamed in Madam Kaiya's eyes. "The thing His Majesty wants is even more important!"
At that moment, an Underwater City warrior who was frantically stabbing the corpses of the Sea Monster Clan warriors with his bayonet to make sure they were dead suddenly shouted, "Madam Kaiya, we haven't found the body of that Sea Monster Royal! It's gone!"
"That cowardly piece of trash must have escaped during the chaos!"
"Bah! I've fought for so many years, but I've never seen such a shameless member of the Sea Monster Clan. And he's even royalty!"
"Enough! Catching Professor Jin Kailun is the priority. Everyone, follow me! We'll have to leave our comrades' corpses here for now and come back for them later!"
At Madam Kaiya's order, the remaining people hurried after the direction in which Professor Jin Kailun had fled.
Don't be fooled by Professor Jin Kailun's appearance as a decrepit old man. Once he revealed his combat abilities, his movements were hardly inferior to those of the elite warriors.
He carried Longgang on his back and ran for a full