"Let's go take a look," Mo Yuan said softly.
Everyone nodded in agreement and carefully made their way forward, following the tremors and the beasts' roars.
After they had traveled a little over a hundred meters, the clamor of battle, the sharp sounds of claws and snapping jaws, and the Soul Beasts' roars grew increasingly clear.
Everyone quickly stopped and slowed their movements, creeping closer beneath the cover of towering ancient trees. At last, they halted behind a thick tree trunk and peeked out toward the forest clearing ahead.
A fierce battle of encirclement and slaughter was unfolding in the spacious clearing.
A pack of Soul Beasts resembling crocodiles occupied every part of the clearing. Their bodies were covered in hard armor plates, their limbs were thick, and their fangs were sharp. They were Scale Armor Beasts, a common sight in the Sunset Forest.
There were more than a dozen of them. They surrounded a huge fox Soul Beast in layer upon layer, trapping it in the middle of the clearing and attacking in turns. Their relentless assault gave their opponent no chance to catch its breath.
The leader of this pack of Scale Armor Beasts was particularly conspicuous, with striking differences from ordinary members of its kind.
It was far larger than its kin, its body massive and heavily built. Thick, hard black plate armor covered its body, with fine golden markings faintly winding across the cold, rigid surface. They reflected a dim gleam in the shadowy forest. Its presence far surpassed that of an ordinary Scale Armor Beast, radiating menace.
Lin Chen's gaze immediately locked onto this mutated Four-Eyed Scale Armor Beast. His eyes shifted slightly as he began examining it closely.
He vaguely remembered that, in the original story, the Four-Eyed Scale Armor Beast that supplied Ning