191: Chapter 207 The Nightmare Dragon Crocodile Descends!
Two hours later.
The once-dense giant forest had long since been reduced to ruins in the wake of this great battle.
Surrounding the snapped giant trees were monster carcasses and congealed blood scattered across the ground.
Just looking at this scene, which resembled Hell itself, was enough to realize how brutal the battle here had been.
At that moment, Lin Yuan "woke up" from his previous state.
He spoke with a look of confusion, "Why aren't any more monsters coming?"
"What else could it be? You've slaughtered them all."
At this moment, the look in Wang Jinze's eyes as he watched Lin Yuan even held a hint of fear.
While it was true that Lin Yuan had said he would lead them to break through the encirclement...
...Wang Jinze never expected that Lin Yuan would choose to directly massacre every single monster in the entire area!
Especially towards the end, Lin Yuan had fought to a near-manic state, standing his ground and allowing the endless stream of monsters to pounce on him from all directions, as if he were enjoying the process of slaughter!
However, no matter how crazed Lin Yuan appeared, they couldn't just stand by and watch; they could only grit their teeth and continue fighting.
Fortunately, Lin Yuan had shouldered the vast majority of the pressure for them.
After nearly two hours of fierce fighting, they had finally dealt with all the monsters in this area.
Just then, Wang Jinze suddenly asked, "Lin Yuan, do you know how many monsters you killed in total?"
Upon hearing this, Lin Yuan couldn't help but be slightly taken aback, then he silently shook his head.
To be honest, he really didn't remember.
In that "flow" state just now, it was as if only the desire for slaughter and the instinct for battle remained.
Meanwhile, Wang Jinze pulled a sack directly from his storage badge and poured all the monster crystal cores inside onto the ground.
A whole sack, entirely filled with monster crystal cores!
Poured out on the ground, they were like a small mountain!
It had to be said that Wang Jinze's understanding of his own role was quite accurate.
Since he didn't have much combat ability anyway, rather than being a mascot wandering around the battlefield, he might as well do something useful.
Thus, while everyone else was fighting for their lives, Wang Jinze was collecting monster crystal cores from all over the battlefield.
Whenever a monster targeted him, he would immediately turn into an egg and cry out for help.
Wang Jinze's beast soul might not be good for much else, but its defensive power was undeniably solid.
Unless a monster with Lord Level strength attacked, they could forget about breaking his eggshell.
Seeing the mountain of monster crystal cores before him, even Lin Yuan's eyes showed a hint of surprise, and he immediately began counting them with his fingers.
"Alright, no need to count."
Wang Jinze waved his hand and said, "I've already counted them for you. There are a total of one hundred and forty-three beast king level crystal cores, plus two lord grade crystal cores."
Hearing this number, even Lin Yuan found it somewhat hard to believe.
Had they really hunted over a hundred Beast King level monsters in just half an hour?
Moreover, more than half of it was thanks to Lin Yuan, including those two Lord Level monster crystal cores.
Lin Yuan took the two lord grade crystal cores and said, "The remaining beast king level crystal cores will be split equally among everyone. No objections, I assume?"
Naturally, no one had any objections; if distributed based on contribution, it would be reasonable even if Lin Yuan took half.
Furthermore, if not for Lin Yuan, they wouldn't have been able to escape the encirclement of the beast tide at all.
From that perspective, even if all the monster crystal cores went to Lin Yuan, they wouldn't have had any complaints.
Two lord grade crystal cores, each worth ten million!
And while these beast king level crystal cores varied in quality, their average price was at least two million!
One hundred and forty-three Beast King Level crystal cores—that was 286 million!
After mentally calculating the value of these monster crystal cores, even Lin Yuan himself was startled.
Without even realizing it, his assets were now being counted in the hundreds of millions?
However, Lin Yuan was no miser; to him, if he couldn't improve his own strength, no amount of money in his hands would have any meaning.
Lin Yuan casually picked up a lord grade crystal core and tossed it to the Little Black Dragon nearby like he was playing with a dog, as a reward.
The lord grade crystal core worth ten million was swallowed whole by Little Black.
To Lin Yuan's regret, after killing those hundred-plus monsters, no more monsters continued to approach them.
Otherwise, he could have remained immersed in that state for even longer.
It would have also been a greater help in comprehending his own [Dao].
Just then, even Song Lan spoke up, "Something seems a bit off."
"Given the scale of this beast tide, there should be far more than just these hundred-plus monsters."
Wang Jinze didn't feel anything was wrong and said with a grin, "Maybe it's because we killed them too fast and cleared out all the monsters in this area."
"Or maybe Lin Yuan is just too strong and scared them off."
"Impossible."
Song Lan said decisively, "Once a beast tide breaks out, they view human Beast Soul Masters as mortal enemies. Like flies drawn to a trash pile, they will keep swarming in endlessly until they are completely wiped out!"
Wang Jinze said nonchalantly, "Song Lan, I know you're always cautious, but isn't this a bit much?"
"So what if more monsters keep surrounding us?"
"As long as Lin Yuan is here, can't we kill as many as we want? If you ask me, these monsters are practically delivering money to us!"
However, just as the words left Wang Jinze's mouth, at the end of the boundless black mist, two crimson blood-suns seemed to suddenly rise!
For a moment, everyone was slightly stunned.
How could there be blood-red suns within this black mist?
But in the next second, Lin Yuan's pupils shrank, and a sense of crisis instantly flooded his heart!
No, that's not right. Those aren't blood-suns at all—they're the eyes of a monster!!
It was only because the black mist was so thick and these two eyes were so massive that they had mistaken them for two crimson blood-suns!!
Damn it, just what level of monster could be so massive?!
As everyone stared, the two "blood-suns" suddenly moved, rapidly closing in on their position with terrifying speed, like a crashing thunderbolt!!
As the monster charged at high speed, a massive silhouette as large as a mountain peak emerged before them!!