The Grim Scene

Kangqiao realized he had truly overestimated the Dinosaur People.

He also had to admire the way these fellows' minds worked.

"So they really misunderstood what I meant! But what were they planning to do this time?"

At dawn the next day, Kangqiao saw large numbers of youngsters from the Four Races gathering within the city. Once they marched out in orderly lines with all manner of spears in hand, he understood.

His gestures toward the Dinosaur People priests the night before had been directly misunderstood as some kind of call to war.

When had he last seen a scene like this?

Hmm?

When the Dinosaur People had marched out while he was coughing? When the Dinosaur People army had set out against the Serpent People?

In any case, by the time Kangqiao came back to himself, the warriors of the Four Races around him had already finished all their preparations.

The Dinosaur People were farthest from Kangqiao, lined up neatly on the plains stretching downstream along the Great River.

The Serpent People were the same.

Only the Shark People were half-submerged in the water.

As for the Mosquito People, every last one of them formed an orderly ring in the sky around him, at roughly shoulder height.

When all these little fellows stared at him, Kangqiao knew that they clearly wanted him to follow them somewhere.

Momentarily speechless, Kangqiao was also rather curious.

He had looked over the Four Races in the city the previous night. They were obviously far more prosperous than before.

Could there really be a threat they could not handle in their current state?

And where were the other three big fellows?

Though somewhat doubtful, Kangqiao could only step toward the land-based warriors of the Four Races with mild curiosity.

The moment he took that step, the Four Races immediately sounded what seemed like horns of departure.

They were the howls blown through giant conch shells by the commanding priests of the Four Races, ordering the warriors to march out alongside their god.

Under a cloudless sky, the entire world had originally been tranquil.

But as one earthshaking blast after another rang out in the distance, countless small animals on land began fleeing in panic.

In the direction those sounds came from, terrifying phenomena constantly erupted, flinging sand and stones into the air amid clouds of dust.

Thick smoke spread continuously, obscuring vast stretches of land.

Before that billowing smoke, countless Dinosaur People and Serpent People marched at a brisk, heavy-footed jog.

They marched downstream alongside the Great River, while countless Shark People repeatedly surfaced and dove beneath the river.

The Mosquito People constantly flew above the dust and smoke in the sky.

They circled Kangqiao as they flew, secretly glancing at his terrifying, awe-inspiring form.

Half of the terrifying Giant Beast's body was concealed by smoke and dust, yet his upper body had already reached the clouds high in the morning sky.

With such a fearsome Giant Beast and the armies of the Four Races, the sheer spectacle of that march was imaginable.

With sea, land, and air forces all at his side, Kangqiao felt that he had once again become a bona fide super boss!

Faced with the scene he had created, Kangqiao found himself getting into it, and it actually felt pretty good.

He just did not know what kind of monster the Four Races were taking him to deal with this time.

Before long, however, after nearly eight sunrises and sunsets, Kangqiao finally noticed something was amiss.

Kangqiao and the Four Races arrived at the land bordering the Near Sea.

At that moment, enormous waves were constantly surging through the Near Sea beside this stretch of land.

The massive waves came raging from the distant horizon.

Far off at the horizon, Kangqiao could even faintly make out thick storm clouds.

Lightning flashed and thunder roared amid those clouds, creating a scene like the end of the world at sea.

The skies over the Near Sea were also dark and gloomy, heavy with the damp, fishy smell of the ocean.

"The sea?"

A trace of wistfulness appeared on Kangqiao's face.

When he had first descended into this world, had he not been in the sea?

Only, the sea back then had been murky, with underwater volcanoes erupting everywhere.

Compared to the current skies, where black clouds pressed down as though they would crush the city, that time had been nothing more than a minor affair.

At first, Kangqiao thought the towering waves were merely an ordinary ocean storm.

But when he carefully examined the area where the Near Sea waves washed ashore, he saw countless tiny corpses on the beach!

At that moment, Kangqiao's pupils contracted.

He saw clearly that most of the corpses belonged to a kind of fish people he had never seen before.

They were merely exceptionally ugly fish people with huge eyes protruding from their sockets.

Besides the vast number of Frog-Fish People corpses washed onto the shore by the waves, Kangqiao also saw many dead sea beasts and fish.

Had that been all, it would have been one thing.

But as Kangqiao surveyed the area, he soon spotted familiar figures.

Among the many Frog-Fish People corpses were scattered a small number of bodies from the Four Races.

There were bloated Serpent People corpses, Dinosaur People corpses covered in bite marks, Shark People corpses, and even the corpse of a Mosquito Person.

After witnessing that horrifying scene, Kangqiao's expression immediately changed. His sightseeing mood vanished, replaced by solemnity.

"Something has clearly gone wrong in the deep sea!"

"From the looks of it, the Water Lizard's territory must have run into trouble, and he called on the other three races for help."

While Kangqiao analyzed the situation, the newly arrived warriors of the Four Races began searching through the bodies along the coastline for the corpses and remains of their kin.

As the warriors of the Four Races continuously cleared their own people's bodies from the shore, the atmosphere of the entire world seemed to grow inexplicably heavy.

Looking at the thunderstorm where sea and sky met, then at the giant waves still surging across the sea and battering the land, Kangqiao did not roar. Instead, he told the little fellows of the Four Races through his actions that he would handle this.

As Kangqiao sighed, his gaze turning serious as he stepped onto the beach, and as half his body began sinking into the sea, the warriors of the Four Races gave up gathering their clansmen's corpses.

Their faces, once filled with grief, were now covered in resolute hatred!

The Dinosaur People, Shark People, and Serpent People warriors all followed Kangqiao into the water.

In the sky, unafraid of the dark clouds and violent winds, the Mosquito People also flew in a certain direction under the guidance of the three races' scouts on the sea.

This time, fewer than thirty thousand warriors of the Four Races had accompanied Kangqiao.

This was Black Stone City's last remaining defensive force. Though their numbers were somewhat low, they were full of confidence and fearless fighting spirit.

What gave them such confidence and fearlessness was the awakening of the great God of Lava!

Beneath the sea, Kangqiao had been fine before diving underwater. But once he did, he discovered that the cruel sight along the coastline had merely been the tip of the iceberg.

For the seabed was already scattered with an ocean of corpses that seemed to stretch beyond sight.

Though nearly all those corpses belonged to the ugly Frog-Fish People, the scattered bodies of the Four Races made it easy to imagine how intense the battle somewhere in the ocean had been.

I hope things have not yet reached the point of no return!

Feeling somewhat grave and serious, Kangqiao could only sigh inwardly.

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