Still, Xiaojiu knew how important the information they held was. Every moment of delay put Monte City in greater danger, but only he understood the misery of being left behind. No, Starry probably understood too.
Watching Xiao Bu's figure rapidly disappear into the distance, Starry blinked those big eyes and gave Xiaojiu a deeply aggrieved look.
Just as Xiao Bu approached Monte City with Ye Chuqi and Ye Qinglan on its back, and Ye Qinglan seized the chance to contact Bai Fenghua through the Crystal Ball, disaster struck.
Ye Chuqi had already suspected something like this might happen, but she had never expected it to come so soon. Big Black Fish had even brought them back using Spatial Teleportation the whole way. Aside from the brief delay to "exchange a few words" with the people from the Kabu Continent, they had wasted no time. That meant the Demon Beast had followed right on their heels without a moment's delay.
It had even appeared in Monte City before they did.
The sky had yet to brighten, and the sun had not risen. It was the darkest hour before dawn, yet Monte City lay shrouded in an even more terrifying darkness.
The dark vortex that had suddenly appeared above Monte City dropped countless Demon Beasts into the city like dumplings into a pot. Even the weakest were mid-rank magic beasts, to say nothing of the high-rank magic beasts that made everyone tremble with fear.
The scene Ye Chuqi feared most had finally come to pass, and in a form that left people utterly hopeless.
Worse still, countless mid-rank magic beasts appeared at the edge of the Lost Forest with the first light of dawn, charging madly toward Monte City.
"Enemy attack!!"
"Beast tide!!"
Shrill alarm bells instantly rang throughout Monte City. Only