If the number of Mutant Creatures on land had not decreased, Sacred Cherry Blossom: Ming would not have proposed going to Australia.
In the end, he did not care about the rewards Australia offered to its supporters, nor the egg that was a God-Given Item. All he wanted were the endless Mutant Creatures within that surging Beast Tide.
Recently, because the number of land-based Mutant Creatures had declined and he had been hunting Shuten-doji, his rate of killing had gradually slowed, and his strength was improving far more slowly than before.
Sacred Cherry Blossom: Ming was not Luoshui Sanxian, nor was he Ling. He did not possess First Sequence-level talent. The most important reason everyone mistook him for a First Sequence was the aid of the Cursed Blade Murasame.
By relying on Slaughter to Plunder the blood of his victims and seize the abilities within their bodies as nourishment to raise his own strength, he could improve rapidly.
That was precisely why he could still possess strength no weaker than Luoshui Sanxian's or Ling's.
The gap between the First Sequence and other Espers, even those of the Second Sequence, was enormous. The difference between them was nearly impossible to cross.
To catch up to the two of them despite his innate disadvantage while possessing the same Awakened Superpower, one could imagine how many Mutant Creatures Sacred Cherry Blossom: Ming had slain.
After all, the Cursed Blade Murasame's feedback to its host was merely a portion of the bodies it absorbed. It did not, like Devourer or Plunder Superpowers, convert all the energy contained in a Mutant Creature's corpse and feed it back to its user.
The decrease in land-based Mutant Creatures was good news for Japan, but it was far from friendly to him.
Even though Japan still had countless