Arc 10The Beast-Driving Campaign

Players turned the devastation on Companion Star S-1 into a scavenging and beast-driving campaign against the Dark Spirit Race, while Hannibal and Bi Ren Liang Mou advanced their flesh-and-bone creations. The campaign ended with players luring a contaminated Star Beast Cub and an underground predator into a clash, then weighing whether to retreat or pursue the rewards.

  • Ci Beili, Great Love Heavenly Venerable, and scholars from both civilizations established a joint laboratory, while Mind Storm learned to unleash a destructive Chaos Impact at great personal cost.
  • Donnie visited Capital, saw Dragon Kingdom’s advanced soldiers and technology, and left jealous after its officials declined his offer of cooperation.
  • Professor Gu and researchers advanced psionic medicine and biological computing before astronomers discovered a colossal humanoid figure millions of light-years away.
  • Tier Four Starry Sky Behemoths attacked Shadow City and wiped out its million-player army, but the Earth Dragon and native beasts counterattacked as players rushed to loot the battlefield.
  • Hannibal and Bi Ren Liang Mou organized dangerous salvage missions, recovered the Feathered Serpent’s tail, and developed stronger flesh-and-bone machinery from high-tier remains.
  • Tian Ce proposed a Beast Driving Plan to lead native beasts toward Dark Spirit Race outposts, while Great Wall No. 1 established protected areas to preserve vulnerable populations.
  • Lin Ziye’s squad used Shadow Cores and a Wolf-Lizard to draw a beast tide into the Dark Spirit Race’s defenses, and other players joined missions that brought a wounded Star Beast Cub into contact with a raid team.
  • Mind Storm and the raid survivors used bait and Shadow Cores to lure the cub and an underground predator toward a hollow, where an unseen clash shook the forest as players debated pursuing the fight.
Chapters 226–250 Vol. 3 Read

Ch. 226Chaos Impact

Players and Star Spirit Race scholars combined their knowledge, while four players tested ways to wield Chaos Psionic Energy. Their simple release technique produced Chaos Impact, a devastating attack that erased part of a powerful target but left its user severely weakened.

  • Led by Ci Beili and Great Love Heavenly Venerable, scholars from both civilizations established a joint laboratory and helped develop ideas such as a starlight telescope and a more efficient Spirit Gathering Array.
  • A Tier Five Star Spirit Elder guided Bro Don't and the other players as they struggled to channel Chaos Psionic Energy, which repeatedly damaged their bodies.
  • Bro Don't proposed abandoning complex spell models and imitating the basic Psionic Impact technique, and the elder demonstrated a simple release circuit.
  • Mind Storm gathered Chaos Psionic Energy and fired it at a reinforced target, erasing a half-meter-wide circle from the monument.
  • Mind Storm collapsed from exhaustion after the attack, and the elder warned that Chaos Impact's apparent power to erase matter made it a terrifying killing move despite its enormous cost.

Ch. 227State Visit

Eagle Kingdom President Donnie visited Dragon Kingdom after learning of its enormous lead in Titan: Genesis and witnessed its superhuman forces and advanced technology. Dragon Kingdom rebuffed his proposals to share intelligence and research, leaving Donnie to return home frustrated and turn his attention toward Wall Street.

  • Donnie learned that Eagle Kingdom had only 327 players above Level 30, compared with nearly 100,000 in Dragon Kingdom, and ordered a state visit to Capital.
  • Donnie's reception staff discussed reaching Level 32, and Dragon Kingdom officials took him to a military base where Great Wall Watch soldiers trained and Longyuan-series Mecha units were maintained.
  • Donnie posted that Dragon Kingdom's soldiers and technology represented a future that was not Eagle Kingdom's, admitting he was jealous.
  • Donnie offered trade, chip, and military-base concessions in exchange for cooperation on supernatural affairs, in-game intelligence, and Psionic Technology, but Dragon Kingdom's representatives deflected his proposal.
  • Donnie left the visit recognizing that Dragon Kingdom had moved beyond Blue Star's old geopolitical rivalry, then clenched his fist and said, "Wall Street..."

Ch. 228The Milky Way Was No Longer Mysterious

Dragon Kingdom’s fusion of magic and science transformed medicine, computing, and astronomy, enabling humanity to observe planetary surfaces across hundreds of light-years. The astronomers discovered a vast, unknown Psychic Power source millions of light-years away, but could not determine what it was.

  • Professor Gu reviewed advances at the Psionic Research Institute, where researchers used Poison Magic and Psychic Power to target glioma cells with minimal damage to surrounding tissue.
  • Great Warlock Yan reported that a Biological Computer made from Flesh Psionics cultivation tanks had vastly increased computing power and could support Precision Psionics.
  • Astronomers used the Magic-Modified Sky Eye to observe planetary surface features hundreds of light-years away and extend their view across tens of thousands of light-years.
  • A researcher spotted a conspicuous black spot in deep space, and the team found that it contained an extraordinarily dense, unknown Psychic Power source.
  • Great Love Heavenly Venerable failed to calculate the anomaly’s scale, while the astronomers could make out only its immense, blurry outline.

Ch. 229Behemoth Descends from the Heavens

Astronomers reconstructed a distant, light-years-wide humanoid entity and concluded that psionic observation showed its real-time state. Meanwhile, the players’ assault on Shadow City was crushed when dozens of Tier Four Starry Sky Behemoths descended, leaving the Dark Spirit defenders victorious and the army wiped out.

  • Astronomers processed the blurry image and discovered it showed a colossal humanoid figure millions of light-years from Blue Star.
  • Great Love Heavenly Venerable questioned how they could measure the figure’s distance, and Ci Beili explained that Stellar Psionic Energy allowed real-time observation across space.
  • The Fourth Calamity battered Shadow City’s gates while Thunder Messenger and the Star Spirit Elders suppressed its defenders.
  • Dozens of Tier Four Starry Sky Behemoths burst through a Void rift and appeared above Shadow City.
  • Thunder Messenger and the Star Spirit Elders teleported away, leaving the players without their powerful allies.
  • The behemoths unleashed Shadow Meteors and Void Storms, annihilating the million-player army outside Shadow City.

Ch. 230All-Out Brawl? All-You-Can-Eat Buffet!

The Starry Sky Behemoths’ invasion awakened Companion Star S-1’s native overlords, turning the planet into a chaotic battle among beasts, races, and players. After respawning, the players rushed into the conflict to loot its riches, while the Flesh Ascension Guild built a booming arms trade from the heaps of monster materials.

  • The Earth Dragon awakened, mistook the invading Starry Sky Behemoths for intruders, and attacked them as other native beasts joined the battle.
  • The Earth Dragon killed a Tier-Four jellyfish behemoth, while players scavenged the battlefield amid fighting among the planet’s factions and beasts.
  • The million players wiped out in Shadow City respawned in Outer Star City, spotted the riches scattered across the nearby battlefield, and charged out to loot them.
  • Hannibal and Bi Ren Liang Mou led the Bone Artisans in harvesting high-level materials, expanding the Flesh Ascension Guild’s production and selling flesh machines to other Guilds.
  • Hannibal and Bi Ren Liang Mou drove their upgraded Bone Leviathan: Wild Type through the battle, searching for valuable parts to loot.

Ch. 231All-Out Scavenging Operation

The players were overwhelmed by the high-tier Starry Sky Behemoths attacking Shadow City, but reports of fallen monster parts quickly turned their despair into excitement. [Tian Ce] and [Data Maniac] organized a coordinated scavenging operation as the players prepared to rush into the dangerous battlefield.

  • Starry Sky Behemoths tore through the sky and devastated the armies and players around Shadow City, while the [Earth Dragon] attacked anything on its turf.
  • [Dragon Fighting in the Wild], [Brute Force Yields Miracles], and [Vanguard Across the Realm] respawned after the shockwaves killed them and destroyed their gear.
  • Players learned that Tier Four behemoth parts had fallen near Shadow City, and the plaza erupted with plans to collect valuable materials.
  • [Tian Ce] abandoned his casualty report and warned the players not to charge recklessly into the high-tier battle.
  • [Data Maniac] proposed a coordinated scavenging plan, and [Vanguard Across the Realm] and [Brute Force Yields Miracles] rallied the players to join it.

Ch. 232Carnival of the Undying

The Flesh Ascension Guild prepared to scavenge the battlefield beyond Star City, treating the planetwide catastrophe as a chance to gather rare materials. Elder Twilight Star watched the players depart and recognized their undying bodies as the reason Father God had sent them to save the Star Spirit Race.

  • Hannibal rallied the Flesh Ascension Guild, declaring that the chaos across S-1 offered a chance to collect valuable materials.
  • Bi Ren Liang Mou assigned players to scavenging, scouting, dissection, and suicide-bait teams, and a Divine Guard player volunteered for the suicide squad.
  • The players equipped themselves with salvage tools and finished modifying the Bone Leviathan: Wild Type with towing chains, walking legs, and flashing lights.
  • Elder Twilight Star watched the players set out and explained to his adjutant that Father God's blessing kept them from truly dying.
  • Elder Twilight Star concluded that the players' strange view of catastrophe as opportunity was why Father God had sent them to save the Star Spirit Race.

Ch. 233A Disaster Caused by a Single Scale

The [Flesh Ascension] Corpse-Dragging Scavenger Squad tried to salvage a huge scale from a battlefield outside Shadow City, unaware that the nearby Tier Four Starry Sky Behemoth was still alive. The squad was nearly wiped out, but its last surviving scout marked the creature’s location before dying.

  • A [Ghost Blade] player led the Corpse-Dragging Scavenger Squad to a giant scale embedded in a mountainside and reported that no nearby life signs had been detected.
  • The players cut pieces from the scale and tried to haul the remaining section out of the combat zone.
  • The scale’s attached flesh twitched, and the ground shook as the supposedly dead Tier Four Starry Sky Behemoth stirred.
  • The behemoth opened its eyes and attacked the squad, while the [Steel Bastions] tried to shield the others and the haulers struggled to free the scale.
  • The behemoth’s roar killed many players, and the [Ghost Blade] scout was shredded after marking the creature’s coordinates in the Party Channel.

Ch. 234Regrouping

After a corpse-hauling team was wiped out by a supposedly dead Tier Four Starry Sky Behemoth, Hannibal and Bi Ren Liang Mou rebuilt Bone Leviathan: Wild Type with salvaged materials and dangerous Shadow Hearts. They led a better-organized second expedition into the battlefield, where players began scavenging amid deadly Psionic currents.

  • The first corpse-hauling team returned from resurrection, and its death recording revealed that the Tier Four Starry Sky Behemoth had played dead after being badly injured.
  • Hannibal and Bi Ren Liang Mou decided to reinforce Bone Leviathan: Wild Type and gathered players and materials to rebuild it.
  • The Flesh Ascension Guild fitted the vehicle with Shadow bone plates, Starry Sky Behemoth bone fragments, Earth Dragon Rock Armor, living flesh, and three Shadow Hearts despite warnings about instability and mutations.
  • Bone Leviathan: Wild Type stood up with a chaotic new body, and Hannibal drove it out to begin the second corpse-hauling operation.
  • The players organized into scouting, guarding, salvaging, healing, and support roles as they advanced through dangerous Psionic currents and tried to recover cargo.

Ch. 235Feathered Serpent Tails Can Be Touched

[Flesh Ascension]’s guild presidents led a group of players in a daring attempt to steal a severed tail from the Feathered Serpent while it fought a Rock Armor Beetle. Their crippled Bone Leviathan dragged the tail away through a collapsing tunnel, leaving the players amazed that they had pulled off the heist.

  • [Hannibal] and [Bi Ren Liang Mou] spotted the Feathered Serpent’s severed tail near the battlefield and decided to haul it away with the [Bone Leviathan: Wild Type].
  • [Hannibal] called for Bruce, and the chariot’s jaws bit into the tail as hooked chains secured it.
  • The Feathered Serpent sensed the theft, marked the players, and turned its attention toward them.
  • The Rock Armor Beetle struck the Feathered Serpent, interrupting its attack while the players dragged the tail into their tunnel.
  • The battle’s shockwave collapsed much of the tunnel and badly damaged the chariot, but [Bi Ren Liang Mou] ordered the guild members to power it onward.
  • The players dragged the Feathered Serpent’s tail out of the tunnel and celebrated their success.

Ch. 236Flesh-Tech's Dynamic Duo

[Hannibal] and [Bi Ren Liang Mou] returned to New Black Rock City with the intact Tier Four Feathered Serpent Tail, but researchers could not process its overwhelming psionic energy. A Star Spirit Race mage pointed to the Dark Spirit Race’s forbidden flesh magic as a possible solution, and [Hannibal] proposed capturing its priests.

  • [Hannibal] and [Bi Ren Liang Mou] returned in their battered Skeleton Leviathan with the Feathered Serpent Tail, having sacrificed their other teammates to power the engine.
  • The main force brought the enormous tail to New Black Rock City, where players and researchers gathered to examine it.
  • [Ci Beili] tested the tail with a psionic detector, which overloaded and broke because the tail’s energy exceeded the equipment’s limits.
  • [Ci Beili] and the researchers concluded they needed higher-tier Flesh Magic to process the material, and a Star Spirit Race mage suggested seeking knowledge from the Dark Spirit Race.
  • [Hannibal] proposed forming a kidnapping squad to capture Dark Spirit Race priests, while [Bi Ren Liang Mou] and [Hannibal] anticipated their future advancements.

Ch. 237Exchange

Players established a chaotic Exchange outside New Black Rock City, trading dangerous materials and asking Star Spirit Race mages how to turn them into equipment, weapons, or explosives. Appraisals revealed valuable properties in the collected materials and gave Blue Star new inspiration for creating artificial Psionic Circuits.

  • Players rapidly set up stalls outside New Black Rock City and traded rare weapons, behemoth materials, and anti-mutation potions.
  • Players sold Earth Dragon rock armor fragments and Starry Sky Behemoth bone fragments, while [Hannibal] recognized one seller as an expendable member of his organization.
  • Players asked Star Spirit Race mages how to use contaminated Dark Spirit Race organs and armor, suggesting mental weapons, bombs, shields, and Mecha armor.
  • [Ci Beili], Star Spirit Race archmages, and the Blue Star Scientific Research Team appraised the materials and recorded their properties.
  • The appraisal found that Starry Sky Behemoth materials carried Shadow Blessings, native overlord materials held varied psionic energy, and Dark Spirit Race circuits offered ideas for artificial Psionic Circuits.

Ch. 238Humus Creator!

Hannibal reached level 40 and unlocked the hidden Second Advancement class Humus Creator, gaining abilities that could assimilate and repurpose flesh. After demonstrating his new powers, he urged Bi Ren Liang Mou to advance so he could help complete their creations.

  • Hannibal reached level 40 and unlocked the Aberration Stitcher and Flesh Modifier advancement paths.
  • Meeting hidden conditions, Hannibal unlocked the Humus Creator class, compatible with abilities from both paths.
  • Hannibal used detached assimilation to suppress and modify a piece of Tier Four behemoth flesh, then absorbed a small piece to gain a temporary boost.
  • Bi Ren Liang Mou saw that he was close to level 40 and grew frustrated that he had fallen behind the Bone Leviathan: Wild Type.
  • Hannibal urged Bi Ren Liang Mou to advance, explaining that his creations needed skeletons to complement the life functions Hannibal could provide.

Ch. 239Come at Me Together!

[Hannibal] used [Flesh Assimilation] to turn rare materials into living equipment, sparking a rush of investment and trade. Meanwhile, the Tier Five Earth Dragon unleashed a devastating attack on the Starry Sky Behemoths, leaving a wounded Tier Five opponent pinned and near defeat.

  • Players flocked to trade for high-tier materials after [Hannibal] proved that scraps could be crafted into powerful equipment.
  • [Great Wall No. 1] tested a living [Tail Needle], which turned its enormous eyeball toward him, while [Hannibal] secured guild investment for his workshop.
  • The Earth Dragon’s [Tier Five Magic Vein Rupture] shook the land around Black Rock City and sent forests, rivers, and hills collapsing.
  • Players livestreamed as the Earth Dragon crushed a Tier Four Starry Sky Behemoth and slaughtered other lower-ranked creatures.
  • The Earth Dragon faced a badly injured Tier Five Starry Sky Behemoth beneath the broken heavens, with earth-element energy tearing through its body.

Ch. 240Bone Dominator

After the Tier Five Starry Sky Behemoth retreated, the players began rebuilding New Black Rock City and harvesting the battlefield’s remains. [Bi Ren Liang Mou] unlocked the Bone Dominator advancement and brought Bone Leviathan: Wild Type to life, then joined [Hannibal] in planning flesh-and-bone troops.

  • The Tier Five Starry Sky Behemoth retreated from the Earth Dragon, while Tier Four behemoths remained across Companion Star S-1.
  • Players started rebuilding New Black Rock City and gathering high-tier remains despite the continuing danger.
  • [Bi Ren Liang Mou] unlocked the Bone Engineer class and the hidden Bone Dominator advancement.
  • [Bi Ren Liang Mou] used his new powers to make Bone Leviathan: Wild Type’s grafted skeleton adjust itself and move with basic intelligence.
  • [Hannibal] proposed combining the Humus Creator’s regenerative flesh with the Bone Dominator’s intelligent skeletons to produce troops, and [Bi Ren Liang Mou] agreed on the condition that he controlled their appearance.

Ch. 241Advance by Retreating

Hannibal and Bi Ren Liang Mou used their new abilities together to transform their wrecked vehicle into a living war chariot as the fighting on Companion Star S-1 settled into a chaotic stalemate. With battlefield scavenging too dangerous for many players, high-level players began returning to the Titan Divine Body’s Lobar Bronchus region to level.

  • Hannibal and Bi Ren Liang Mou combined their powers to rebuild the junk vehicle with flesh and bone, bringing it eerily to life.
  • The Earth Dragon drove off a wounded Tier Five Starry Sky Behemoth, and both Tier Five combatants withdrew rather than risk destroying Companion Star S-1.
  • Tier Four behemoths continued fighting local creatures, the remnants of the Dark Spirit Race, Star Spirit Race scouts, and player scavengers across the planet.
  • Players turned battlefield scavenging into a crowded business, trading materials and selling supposedly safe routes near the front lines.
  • As Companion Star S-1 proved too dangerous for steady leveling, top players returned to the Lobar Bronchus region, where monsters were plentiful and straightforward to kill.
  • After losing his gear to a Shadow Storm on the battlefield, one player returned to the Lung Leaf and urged his teammates to follow.

Ch. 242Companion Star Ecological Management Plan: Driving Tigers to Devour Wolves

After Shadow City fell, Tian Ce proposed using native high-tier beasts to pressure the Dark Spirit Race while protecting key ecological zones. The Star Spirit Race leaders remained wary, but the Beast Driving Plan began recruiting player squads.

  • Tian Ce and the player command group warned that the Tier Four beasts and remaining Dark Spirit Race forces made a direct advance impractical.
  • Tian Ce proposed luring native beasts toward the Dark Spirit Race heartland, prompting the Star Spirit Race officers to warn that the plan could unleash a dangerous beast tide.
  • Tian Ce outlined the Beast Driving Plan and a Protected Area Plan that barred players from attacking pregnant beasts, young beasts, and stable populations in designated zones.
  • Elder Twilight Star recognized that the players wanted to turn the crisis into sustainable wartime pressure, and Tian Ce said they would make Tier Four beasts fight each other.
  • The players began recruiting suicide squads for the Beast Driving Plan, attracting applicants with its high rewards and danger.

Ch. 243Diverting Disaster Eastward

The players used Shadow Cores as bait to drive powerful ferocious beasts toward Dark Spirit Race outposts. The first beast tide destroyed its target, while Star Spirit mages watched in disbelief.

  • Ci Beili and the Scientific Research Team fitted Shadow Cores with casings that allowed their Shadow Psionic Energy to leak out on demand.
  • Players recruited suicide squads and Hunters to carry the cores into ferocious-beast habitats and lure the beasts east toward Dark Spirit Race outposts.
  • A Hunter carrying a Shadow Core attracted a Rock-Spiked Deer and a massive tide of beasts, then dropped the core beside an outpost's defensive gate before respawning.
  • The beast tide smashed through the outpost's shield and destroyed the base.
  • Great mages in Star Spirit City observed the destruction and envied Father God's Kin for their ability to die and return.

Ch. 244Legendary Courier

Lin Ziye led the Fried Chicken and Beer Squad out of New Black Rock City to lure the beast tide toward the Dark Spirit Race's second sentry line. The squad headed east through the trenches, using Wind Beacons and Shadow Cores as they prepared to avoid direct fights and disrupt any Dark Spirit Race mages they encountered.

  • Lin Ziye assigned roles: Redemption would silence enemy mages, Shadow would attack their backliners, Life in the World would draw monster aggro, and Happy Fat Otaku would provide shields and slows.
  • The five squad members left New Black Rock City by its flank and moved east through player-dug trenches.
  • Lin Ziye dropped Wind Beacons to speed up his teammates, while Happy Fat Otaku's Fat Shield protected the squad from wind pressure and flying rocks.
  • Shadow scouted ahead and left safety markers as Redemption watched for unusual spiritual-energy fluctuations.
  • Life in the World joked that the squad looked like food couriers, and Happy Fat Otaku quipped that delivery workers were usually not consumables.

Ch. 245Wolf-Lizard

Lin Ziye’s squad lured a powerful Wolf-Lizard toward a Dark Spirit Race outpost and used the beast to break through its defenses. A shadow-tainted bait drew nearby beasts into a horde that was headed for the second sentry line.

  • Lin Ziye buried a Shadow Core beneath a tree and opened a slit in it, drawing a powerful Wolf-Lizard out of the forest.
  • The squad fled toward an eastern canyon as Lin Ziye led the beast, Happy Fat Otaku slowed it with fat sludge, and Life in the World used taunts to redirect it.
  • Redemption spotted a Dark Spirit Race scout squad blocking the canyon, while Shadow ambushed and killed its mage and Redemption suppressed the mage’s Shadow Scream.
  • Life in the World engaged the scouts as the Wolf-Lizard charged into their formation, and Lin Ziye planted a second Shadow Core among the rocks.
  • The Wolf-Lizard’s howl and the shadow aura drew nearby beast packs into a horde, which the system reported would hit the Dark Spirit Race’s second sentry line in seven minutes.

Ch. 246Beast Tide

Lin Ziye’s squad successfully drove a beast tide into the Dark Spirit Race’s second defensive outpost, while Great Wall No. 1 prepared safeguards to protect Star Spirit territory and local wildlife. With wild high-level beasts stirring across the region, Lin Ziye led his team toward another nest.

  • Lin Ziye’s five-man squad collapsed after guiding a raging beast tide toward the Dark Spirit Race, and Shadow teased Happy Fat Otaku about his weight.
  • Great Wall No. 1 confirmed the first route had succeeded and ordered the players to prepare the second.
  • Great Wall No. 1 announced protected areas and rules against hunting vulnerable or regenerating beast populations or leading a tide toward a Star Spirit city.
  • The beast tide struck the Dark Spirit Race’s second defensive outpost, battering its shield as high-level beasts caused chaos nearby.
  • Lin Ziye told his eager companions it was too early to celebrate and led them toward the next nest.

Ch. 247Pollution Woodland

Dorm 119’s four Chaos Oddities joined a Beast Drive team to lure contaminated beasts toward a Dark Spirit Race outpost. As the team began its mission at the Starry Sky Pollution Woodland, a faint cry from deep inside left the magic-class players terrified.

  • Players flocked to Beast Drive missions, where dying while luring beast hordes could still earn valuable rewards.
  • The four members of Dorm 119 joined a large Beast Drive team despite warnings that the mission was dangerous.
  • Wolf in Water volunteered to take the front line, and the raid leader accepted him as a potential punching bag.
  • The team reached the contaminated woodland, confirmed the outpost’s location, and decided to avoid the dangerous central area.
  • A faint cry came from deep within the fog, and every magic-class player in the team turned pale.

Ch. 248The Dying Cub

A two-hundred-player raid encountered a critically injured but powerful Star Beast Cub, whose attacks overwhelmed the squad. Wolf in Water discovered that surviving its blows increased his resistances, and Bro Don't pulled him out of danger as the battle continued.

  • Mind Storm detected a high-tier entity, and a wounded, contaminated Star Beast Cub emerged from the woods and targeted the players.
  • The Cub's sonic attack incapacitated the raid, while the players' mental, physical, and elemental attacks barely affected its scales.
  • The Cub charged the frontline and crushed more than a dozen Divine Guards, breaking the players' formation.
  • Wolf in Water charged the Cub's claw and survived the blow, gaining small increases to several resistances.
  • Bro Don't transformed into a Flesh Giant and used Flesh Projection to pull the badly injured Wolf in Water out of the Cub's path.

Ch. 249One More Hit and You'll Really Die

The raid team retreated from the Polluted Star Beast Juvenile, using chained taunts, [Mind Storm]’s Low-Bandwidth Mind Network, and [Light in the Night]’s poison to slow its pursuit. As the injured players reached the western rocky slope, an approaching lifeform made the cub recoil and disrupted [Mind Storm]’s perception network.

  • [Bro Don't] pulled [Wolf in Water] away from the cub’s claw, while Life Sages began treating his severe injuries.
  • The raid leader ordered the players to retreat west as Divine Guards sacrificed themselves to distract the cub.
  • [Wolf in Water] identified that the cub’s contamination worsened whenever it exerted itself, and [Mind Storm] organized the retreat with a Low-Bandwidth Mind Network.
  • [Light in the Night] fired poison-tipped bolts into the cub’s abdominal wound, delaying its recovery and giving the players time to reach the rocky slope.
  • The cub pursued the survivors, then stopped and retreated when a deep roar came from the forest, while [Mind Storm] sensed an approaching lifeform overwhelming his perception.

Ch. 250Hunting Plan

The players used blood, toxins, and Shadow Cores to lure a Polluted Star Beast Juvenile and an approaching underground predator toward the southern hollow, allowing the wounded squad to retreat west. The predators clashed out of sight, and some players turned back to seek the juvenile and its materials while the retreat continued.

  • Mind Storm planned to lure the juvenile and the underground predator together, while Light in the Night prepared blood-and-toxin bait in a flesh pouch made by Bro Don't.
  • The squad leader sent Ghost Blade players south with Shadow Cores and bait, and Light in the Night's crossbow shot drew the juvenile away from the wounded players.
  • As the bait carriers relayed the cores toward the hollow, the underground predator emerged as a black-armored tentacle and followed the trail south.
  • Light in the Night detonated the remaining bait pouches, and the juvenile pursued the scent into the hollow before an unseen clash sent a shockwave across the forest.
  • The squad retreated west as the Combat Guild and Joint Research Group posted competing offers about the juvenile, and some players turned back to pursue the fight and its rewards.
Arc 10 of 17
Arc 10 of 17