"Why? I'm clearly Gold Tier!"
No one paid any attention to Mary I's voice.
Yu Yuan, Hogg, and Xiao Xi were all engrossed in their fierce battle against a Gold Tier opponent.
Yu Yuan handled crowd control, Xiao Xi applied corruption, and Hogg tore her apart.
The three worked seamlessly together.
—[Congratulations! Successfully corrupted the Corrupted Abyssal Octopus · Parasitic Host (Gold Tier). Permanently acquired talent: Deep Sea Touch.]
The sudden notification made Xiao Xi's eyes light up.
Xiao Xi stopped moving.
She spread her hands, paused briefly, then clenched them tight.
The next moment, an astonishing sight unfolded.
The dozens upon dozens of enormous tentacles on the sea's surface had lost their controller when Yu Yuan immobilized Mary I.
Now they connected with Xiao Xi and moved under her control, lashing at Mary I, who had just broken free.
Every tentacle was over a hundred meters long. The sight of them all striking at once was easy to imagine.
They blotted out the sky.
Mary I lacked both Xiao Xi's nimble footwork and her small body.
"How could..."
Barely had she spoken before Yu Yuan locked her down again.
Smack! Smack! Smack!
The thick tentacles lashed Mary I one after another.
Her eighty-meter-plus body toppled over.
Yet the tentacles rose again, then whipped through the air to unleash another mass lashing.
Every attack avoided Mary I's head, each strike aimed at her body.
Hogg had already burrowed inside her and begun performing brain surgery on her.
The battle's outcome was now beyond doubt.
Yu Yuan moved above the dying Mary I, and the Loser's Cube lit up.
Her enormous body began shrinking as the Loser's Cube took her inside.
As the first Gold Tier creature Yu Yuan had captured, her fate would involve far more than death.