Across the boundless Far North Ice Plains, tens of thousands of soul beasts thundered through the Extreme Ice Valley and emerged in a vast procession at the Sun Moon Empire's Northern Border.
A small town on the Sun Moon Empire's Northern Border.
Ice Fortress.
"What is that?"
A drunken mercenary rubbed his bleary eyes. Vast swathes of wind and snow gathered together, drawing closer like a sandstorm.
The earth rumbled. As the storm approached, Mu Sen caught sight of the enormous soul beasts within it. The giant ape standing seventy or eighty meters tall was especially terrifying.
"S-soul beasts! They're soul beasts from the Far North! This is bad! The soul beasts of the Far North are invading! Light the beacon tower, quick!" Mu Sen sobered up in an instant. Just how many soul beasts were there? He immediately shouted the warning.
Hearing Mu Sen's voice, the townspeople looked toward the onrushing beast tide and scrambled to light the beacon tower.
A beast tide. How long had it been since they last experienced one?
No, beast tides had practically become legends to them!
A divine bird appeared before them, and a voice like rolling thunder rang out from its back. "I am Jiang Hai, Director of the Civilization Research Institute. A great calamity is about to descend upon Douluo. Today, I have come expressly to lead the Far North's army south to support the Sun Moon Empire. We will not disturb your towns in the slightest. There is no need to panic!"
The thunderous voice rang out again and again as the vast army of soul beasts skirted Ice Fortress and continued south.
Inside Ice Fortress, the soul masters and soul engineers who had already summoned their martial souls and taken up their soul tools stood dumbfounded, hearing Jiang Hai's