"Beast tide?"

Yasuo's voice betrayed no emotion.

The middle-aged man nodded heavily, his face filled with bad luck.

"Isn't that right? What damned bad luck!"

He spat.

"Just left the city, looking for some work, and ran into this mess."

He glanced at the dark jungle in the distance, still feeling lingering fear.

"This year's beast tide has come too frequently."

"Just in the first half of the year, our Donghai City area has had no less than three outbreaks!"

Zhou Huai understood.

He probably understood why these people were gathered here.

The Dungeon entrance was indeed an excellent shelter.

Once the beast tide truly approached, everyone could hide inside the Dungeon.

And come out again when the danger passed.

This also explained why the people from Sword of Azure Sky had not appeared yet.

Presumably, they had also received the news and dared not risk being affected by the beast tide to seek revenge at such a time.

Just then, another group of figures rushed along the forest path in the distance.

They all looked flustered, their clothes stained with dirt and grass clippings.

The leading man, as soon as he ran closer, gasped and shouted:

"Hurry! Get into the Dungeon!"

"The beast tide is less than two kilometers from here!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the originally somewhat calm crowd instantly stirred.

Everyone stood up from the ground, their faces filled with tension, and they all surged towards the Dungeon entrance.

"Don't panic, everyone! One by one!"

A white-haired old man, who looked quite authoritative, stepped forward and loudly maintained order.

"The Dungeon entrance is only so big; squeezing won't help!"

Although the crowd was dense, under the old man's command, it was still orderly.

Figures transformed into white light one after another, disappearing into the vortex of the Dungeon entrance.

By this time, a slight tremor was already coming from the ground in the distance.

In the air, the muffled, thunder-like roars of countless Strange Beast gathered together could vaguely be heard.

"Hurry up, everyone! They're coming!"

The old man urged anxiously.

The more than thirty people who had not yet entered the Dungeon became even more flustered, and their movements quickened.

Fortunately, everyone successfully entered the Dungeon before the beast tide truly arrived.

In the clearing, only Yasuo and Gandalf remained.

Zhou Huai controlled Yasuo, also preparing to take Gandalf back into the Dungeon.

It was a good opportunity to continue farming for the 【star moon set】 blueprints.

However, just as he was about to select the Dungeon difficulty.

A cold System prompt sounded in his mind without warning.

"Ding! System challenge quest triggered!"

"Quest Name: Beast Tide Hunter"

"Quest Objective: Kill 10,000 Strange Beast during this beast tide."

"Quest Reward: Professional Clone Draw Chance X1!"

Yasuo's movements also paused.

A challenge quest was triggered?

Zhou Huai's Heart-Nature involuntarily accelerated.

He couldn't refuse this reward.

But the difficulty of the quest was Hell-level.

Ten thousand Strange Beast.

Given Yasuo and Gandalf's current Rank, completing it would likely be extremely risky.

Within the beast tide, there were countless Advanced Strange Beast, and a slight carelessness would result in being instantly crushed into minced meat.

But, since it was triggered.

Then he had to try.

Every opportunity to obtain a new Clone was extremely precious and must not be missed.

Before entering the Dungeon, the old man looked back and saw that Yasuo and Gandalf were still standing there.

He couldn't help but get anxious.

"Why aren't you two coming in?!"

"Do you want to die?!"

Zhou Huai controlled Yasuo, slowly shaking his head.

"We're not going in."

His tone was as calm as water.

"We're going to see what this beast tide is really like."

Upon hearing this, the old man's eyes nearly popped out.

He pointed at Yasuo, his hands trembling with anger.

"You... are you two crazy?!"

"See the beast tide? Do you know how many Strange Beast are in the beast tide? Tens of thousands!"

"By the time you see them with your own eyes, it'll be too late to run!"

"Then you'll be directly trampled into a puddle of minced meat by the endless beast horde!"

Zhou Huai controlled Yasuo, nodding slightly to the old man.

"Thank you for the warning."

"We're just going to look, don't worry."

Feeling the increasingly violent tremor beneath his feet, the old man knew he couldn't wait any longer.

He stomped his foot hard and left with a final remark.

"If you don't listen to an old man's words, you'll suffer the consequences! I don't care about your lives!"

As his voice faded, his figure also turned into a white light and disappeared.

The entire area in front of the Dungeon entrance became completely silent.

Zhou Huai controlled Yasuo, turned, and easily carried Gandalf onto his back.

To complete this challenge, the main damage output would still have to be the Forbidden Spell Mage.

Yasuo's task was to act as his mount, ensuring he wouldn't be directly swept away by the beast tide.

Lightning exploded under his feet.

Yasuo, carrying Gandalf, moved with the agility of wind, and in a few leaps, he ascended a high hill.

He looked up.

The next second, even with Zhou Huai's steady Heart-Nature, he couldn't help but gasp.

The scene before him was enough to make anyone tremble.

At the end of his vision, a black torrent was sweeping in.

It was an endless horde of Strange Beast, the galloping beast group forming a black tide that tore through the earth, felling trees and crumbling rocks in its wake.

In the sky, flying Strange Beast with wingspans that obscured the moonlight circled into a dark cloud, emitting piercing shrieks.

Within that black torrent, several giant beasts, as massive as mountains, moved with heavy steps; each step they took made the high slope beneath Zhou Huai's feet tremble violently.

The roars and bellows of ten thousand beasts converging into a destructive sound wave, making one's eardrums ache.

Just as the old man said, the number of this beast tide was probably as many as fifty or sixty thousand.

Looking at their direction of advance, their target was clearly Donghai City.

This was also the first time Zhou Huai had experienced a beast tide so closely.

That world-destroying sense of oppression made his Heart-Nature tremble.

He quickly composed himself, a look of determination flashing in his eyes.

Gandalf slowly raised the staff in his hand.

Ancient syllables were clearly chanted amidst the roars of the myriad beasts.

"【Forbidden Spell - Meteor Shower】!"

Boom!

The space above his head tore open, and the burning portal reappeared.

But this time, what fell from the door were no longer crimson meteors.

But rather, stars of doom burning with eerie green flames!

Those green flames were precisely the Soul-Devouring Underworld Flame that Gandalf had just absorbed!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The eerie green meteors accurately smashed into the densest part of the beast horde below.

The violent shockwave instantly tore dozens of Strange Beast to shreds.

But, this was only the beginning.

The green flames produced by the explosion, like spilled venom, spread to even more Strange Beast around them.

"Awooo—!"

Incomparably mournful howls instantly resounded across the battlefield.

The flames seemed to possess life; the affected Strange Beast rolled frantically, trying to extinguish the flames on their bodies, but to no avail.

The green Nether Flame, like a maggot in the bone, ignored fur and scales, directly burning their flesh and Soul.

One by one, the Strange Beast, in their painful struggles, were burned alive into charred skeletons, and then turned to ~Nоvеl𝕚ght~ ashes.

The scene was like Hell descending.

"Killed Jungle Dire Wolf LV12, gained 120 experience points!"

"Killed Iron-Armored Brute Cow LV15, gained 250 experience points!"

...

One wave of Meteor Fire Rain killed hundreds of Strange Beast.

The System prompts in Zhou Huai's mind furiously scrolled.

This scene immediately caused a considerable commotion within the galloping beast tide.

"Screech—!"

In the sky, a giant eagle with a wingspan of over twenty meters, its sharp eyes, immediately locked onto Yasuo and Gandalf on the hillside.

It let out a cry that pierced the clouds and split rocks.

Instantly, more than a dozen flying Strange Beast of various sizes broke away from the main group, changed direction, and, like arrows released from a bow, swooped down towards the two's location!

A A fishy wind, Killing Intent was chilling!

Seeing this, Yasuo dared not delay in the slightest.

"【Thunder Armor】!"

Crackling!

Dazzling lightning exploded on his body, condensing into a majestic blue armor.

He stomped his legs hard, carrying Gandalf, and like a blue lightning bolt released from a bowstring, he sprinted towards the other side of the dense forest!