The three-hour beast-taming performance—Depths of the Cave—officially came to an end,
The circus mobilized all its service staff, including the regular receptionists and the Poker Faces numbered 1 through 10 who had no performances scheduled, sending them to the venue for cleanup and tidying,
The reason was simple,
The venue had been left in an absolute mess by the appearance of the Primal Beast and the predation game. If the degree of "filth and disorder" were ranked, it would place among the top three in the circus's history of performances.
The zoo system Zoke had spent years painstakingly building had been utterly destroyed by him at this moment,
The beasts he had nurtured with his blood and cultivated with care had all been slaughtered,
Even the Madman Mask he had always worn had been "handed over" to someone else,
However, all of this seemed to have been Zoke's groundwork. Every preparation had been for the Primal Beast born today.
The eight hundred spectators at the scene sat rigidly upright. They had even reduced their blinking frequency to half or a third of normal, their bodies covered in bloodied skin, Rotting Flesh, severed intestines, and bone fragments left behind by the white beast.
Even the luckiest spectators had gotten a little blood on them. After all, many of the beasts had been enormous, existing at a size capable of inducing a fear of giants.
The entire predation process had spread throughout the audience area,
More often than not, the Primal Beast had fed right beside the spectators, above their heads, or even on top of them. They had felt the heat of saliva and internal organs while observing the Primal Beast's feeding methods from zero distance, terrifying some spectators into releasing vast amounts of Fear Value extract, nearly reaching their limits.