Chapter 568: The Ashen Ark Was Going to Crash
Run!!!
Every Thunder Beast still conscious at that moment had the same thought. Whether injured in the explosion or not, they all retreated with the surging tide. By this point, aside from companions right beside them, none spared any attention for the others' injuries.
Under cover of the flood and natural disasters following the explosion, the Thunder Beasts fled without stopping, like beaten dogs. Yet even at a time like this, they remembered to protect their specimens. Some even seized the opportunity to grab demons that were not quite dead, or simply fish out a corpse.
Claw Number 1 and Claw Number 16 led the retreat. It felt like surviving their first surgery in the Demon Cave, filling them with relief at having escaped death.
That final battle had actually been brutal, even more so than the plan imposed on the flying Thunder Beasts earlier. The losses were greater, too.
Yet the two "commanders" felt surprisingly at ease. This had been their order, not a compulsory self-destruct command from the Demon Cave, and it had given them a taste of "power."
Though they were Thunder Beasts themselves, Numbers 1 and 16, as officers, now truly held the lives of other Thunder Beasts in their hands, even if only on a tactical rather than strategic level.
The wariness and anger they had once felt toward the Demon Cave for sacrificing low-level Thunder Beasts as cannon fodder had, amid the subtle emotional changes of becoming soldiers, given rise to an inexplicable sense of superiority.
Inside Earth's "Demon Cave," a large group of researchers breathed sighs of relief.
"Whew, good, good! Half of them are still alive. Better than we expected!!"
An elderly man sighed in relief, tapping away on the tablet in his