About half an hour after the Chimera Beast died, the rift that had torn across half the sky finally healed and vanished. This Wave had ended safely, but the mess it left behind would still take time to deal with.
The army of magic beasts that had poured out of the rift was a particular concern. If they were not dealt with promptly and reached other towns, they would inevitably cause massive casualties.
Their party of heroes and adventurers, numbering fewer than twenty, clearly could not deal with the tens of thousands of magic beasts that had already escaped. However, they were standing right at the center of where the Wave had vanished, the point from which all the beasts had spread in every direction. Taking the approach of tackling the problem at its source, the heroes and their companions worked together to contain and eliminate the beasts there, cutting off the final and strongest batch to emerge.
As for the beasts charging off in different directions, they could only hope that the soldiers and adventurers across the country would join forces to destroy them.
After all, Melromarc was a large nation, and it certainly had no shortage of soldiers and adventurers. Surely they could handle a few tens of thousands of magic beasts?
None of them received any so-called victor's reward for overcoming this Wave. Apart from the mountain of magic beast corpses, which might have some value, there was nothing. Collecting, processing, and transporting the monster materials would all take considerable time and effort, and the other heroes and their companions had little interest in earning money through such troublesome work. They merely picked out corpses of beasts they had yet to collect and used them to upgrade their respective Holy Weapons.
Naturally, Chuan Wenwu also received a