The next day.
Early morning.
Ten hours had passed since the appearance of the "Abyssal Fall" and its spread outward from the depths of Claw Forest.
The sentries dispatched by Chiyan Town had brought back news.
After only one night, they had already spotted large numbers of Corrupted Creatures moving around the outskirts of the forest.
Even more alarming was the fact that the number of these corpse-like monsters was steadily increasing, while their range of activity was gradually expanding.
Claw Forest could no longer contain them.
The villages surrounding the forest would be the next to suffer, followed by... Chiyan Town.
Fortunately, after Vivian and the players led by Wolf Cub had helped the villagers yesterday, most of them had successfully evacuated. The villages that remained were nothing more than empty shells.
Moreover, although these Corrupted Creatures bit anyone they saw and contaminated and assimilated every living thing within their sight, they seemed to possess no independent consciousness, merely wandering about instinctively and unconsciously.
Therefore, for the time being, it would still take at least two or three days before they could threaten Chiyan Town.
Mayor Thorin still breathed a sigh of relief after reaching this conclusion.
Two or three days would be enough for them to wait for reinforcements from Huodian City—and they would even have time to spare.
By then, once the elite Mage Corps arrived and launched a widespread bombardment with Ranged Magic, Thorin believed that eliminating these mindless monsters would be easy.
Unfortunately.
The idea was beautiful, but Liao Zixuan knew that reality was far less optimistic.
As someone extremely familiar with the "Abyssal Fall," he knew that although the Corrupted Creatures currently appeared to lack any independent consciousness and merely wandered outward on instinct,
that was actually because the source of this "Abyssal Fall"