101: Chapter 101 Beast Tide? It couldn't have been me who caused it, could it?

Looking at the swaying black line, everyone froze for a moment before staring intently.

"What the hell?" Jiang Chen narrowed his eyes and whispered to himself.

Tang Ningfei reacted quickly, immediately raising her hands to cast a Reconnaissance Spell.

Transparent light ripples emanated from her palms, spreading into the distance like ripples on water.

But just as the spell was cast and the fluctuations were still traveling through the air...

...they could already see the true face of that "black line" within their field of vision.

The black line surged forward, rapidly transforming into a pitch-black tide.

It was countless magical beasts of various forms, merging into a chaotic and violent torrent, like a thick wall of grayish-yellow mist pressing down along with the herd.

The scene almost completely covered their entire range of vision.

The moment they saw it clearly, everyone was dumbfounded, their minds going blank as if they couldn't comprehend the image before them.

Jiang Chen snapped his head toward Tang Ningfei, his eyes filled with disbelief, wanting to confirm if this was an illusion.

Tang Ningfei also snapped out of it, her face pale as she spoke rapidly:

"A beast tide... the C-rank magical beasts charging at the very front number no less than a hundred... I can't see the ones behind clearly yet, but the numbers... will only be greater."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone's breath hitched.

Immediately after, Jiang Chen practically roared:

"Run!"

Everyone jolted, instantly turning around and fleeing with all their might in the direction they had come from.

With a beast tide of this scale, once caught inside, there wouldn't be the slightest strength left to resist; they wouldn't even know how they died. Other than running, there was no second choice.

Even running might not be enough to escape; their speed might not be able to keep up with the magical beasts behind them...

As Tang Ningfei ran, she couldn't help but look back again.

The beast tide was getting closer and closer, the surging blackness seemingly about to swallow the entire plain.

Her gaze swept over the four team members beside her, and she immediately shouted, "Drop your things! Increase your speed!"

She didn't know if they had lost their minds or what, but they were actually still carrying the loot from the giant lizard on their backs.

At a moment like this, life was the most important thing. Even if those items weren't too heavy, every bit lighter helped.

The four team members froze for a second, then unhesitatingly tore off their packs and material bags, tossing them onto the ground. Their pace noticeably quickened.

Jiang Chen was charging at the very front, but before he had run far, he noticed the footsteps behind him were somewhat scattered.

Looking back, although Tang Ningfei and the four team members were running with all their might, their speed clearly couldn't keep up with his.

He paused his steps and, without hesitation, immediately doubled back to Tang Ningfei's side, maintaining a speed parallel to hers.

"What's going on with this beast tide?" Jiang Chen asked rapidly. "Is it recorded in the manual? Is it a periodic phenomenon of this plain?"

Tang Ningfei's brows were tightly furrowed, her eyes flickering rapidly as she searched her memory.

Soon, she shook her head decisively, her voice somewhat hurried: "No... No! All the gathered intelligence, including that manual, never mentioned a beast tide of this scale!"

If there were such a beast tide, they certainly wouldn't have ventured so deep.

Jiang Chen pursed his lips and looked back once more; the black torrent of the beast tide was already closing in...

Suddenly.

All of them tripped at the same time, as if caught by an invisible rope. Their bodies lost balance, and they all tumbled forward!

Jiang Chen rolled on the ground a few times and immediately stood up. After cursing under his breath, he was about to continue moving, but the moment he raised his foot, he found his legs were inexplicably heavier, and his movements instantly became sluggish.

"What's happening?" He was startled.

"Curse Magic!" Beside him, Tang Ningfei also scrambled up miserably, her face deathly pale. "We've been hit with a debuff! This beast tide is being controlled by someone; they want us to die here..."

These words caused everyone's expressions to instantly turn from astonishment to complete panic.

They instinctively looked back; the churning black beast tide was already right in front of them, and they could even smell the rank stench wafting from the herd.

It's over.

...

Watching the beast tide surging toward him, Gu Changming tilted his head while resting his chin on his hand.

As his body fell from mid-air, he tapped the ground with his toes. Using Psychokinesis, he leaped back dozens of meters, his figure retreating lightly, maintaining a fixed distance from the galloping beast tide.

"Beast tide?" he whispered to himself. "It couldn't have been caused by me, right?"

But he had only mentioned it casually at the time.

Gu Changming was quite sure he shouldn't have that kind of strange talent like 'Words Becoming Reality' or anything involving the 'Side of Fate'.

Just as he was secretly speculating...

Suddenly, he felt his body grow heavy, and his originally smooth-flowing Psychokinesis seemed to be bogged down by something. He immediately began to drop from mid-air!

But before he fell far, Gu Changming's eyes narrowed, and even stronger Psychokinesis erupted instantly, catching his falling body.

At the same time, he reached out and made a sudden grasping motion toward the void to the right of his body!

His Mental Power, like invisible tentacles, pierced into the invisible force wrapping around him.

Following that, a crisp 'crack' sound, like glass shattering, came from his body.

The sudden sense of heaviness and sluggishness vanished instantly.

Gu Changming's toes tapped the ground again, his Psychokinesis gushing out as his figure rose once more, leaping into the air.

At this moment, a bit more understanding appeared in his eyes.

"Curse Magic... Well then, it seems someone is stirring up trouble."

Gu Changming turned his head and glanced in the general direction of the secret realm's exit.

"Better head out first," he said to himself.

Trouble of this scale should, by right, be handled by the current person in charge of the camp.

This wasn't an Assessment; at most, he would lend a hand at a critical moment to prevent too many people from dying.

As for making him carry everything alone and solve the problem by himself, that was completely unnecessary.

With his mind made up, he turned around, putting his back to the rolling herd of beasts.

Just as he was about to exert force to increase the distance of each backward leap to hundreds of meters and shake off this mess directly...

Suddenly.

Gu Changming's figure paused slightly, stopping in mid-air.

Then, he tilted his head to one side, casting his gaze toward the direction caught by his peripheral vision.

There, about a thousand meters away, several figures were being brushed by the edge of the beast tide.

It was exactly Tang Ningfei's group of six. At this moment, they were fighting hard, trying to struggle out of the frantically surging torrent of magical beasts and flee toward the secret realm's exit.

The moment he saw clearly, Gu Changming also froze for a second.

However, his gaze did not fall on Tang Ningfei.

Instead, it landed on a figure holding a chokuto, moving sharply as they slashed through a magical beast pouncing on their team.

Gu Changming narrowed his eyes, and the moment he saw the other person's face clearly...

...a trace of a smile appeared at the corners of his mouth.

"Jiang Chen?"

Why is this guy in here too?

And he's even being hunted by a beast tide. How tragic.