Chapter 59: Triggering the Challenge Quest

"Beast Tide?"

No emotion could be heard in Yasuo's voice.

The middle-aged man nodded heavily, his face full of bad luck.

"Isn't that right, what bloody bad luck!"

He spat.

"Just as I came out of the city looking for some work, I ran into this kind of mess."

He glanced at the pitch-black jungle in the distance with lingering fear.

"This year's Beast Tide is coming way too often."

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

Zhou Huai understood.

He roughly understood why these people gathered here.

The dungeon entrance was indeed an excellent shelter.

Once the Beast Tide truly approached, everyone could hide inside the dungeon.

Wait for the storm to pass before coming out.

This also explained why the people from the Sword of Azure Sky hadn't appeared yet.

Presumably they had also received the news and didn't dare to run over to exact revenge at such a time while risking being affected by the Beast Tide.

Just at this moment, another team of figures hurried over on the forest path in the distance.

Every single one of them had a panicked expression, their clothes stained with mud and grass debris.

The leading man ran close and shouted out of breath:

"Hurry! Hurry into the dungeon!"

"The Beast Tide is less than two kilometers away from here!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the previously calm crowd instantly became restless.

Everyone stood up from the ground, their faces full of tension, and swarmed towards the dungeon entrance.

"Everyone don't panic! One by one!"

An elderly man with gray hair and a rather prestigious appearance stepped forward, loudly maintaining order.

"The dungeon entrance is only this big, crowding is useless!"

Although the crowd was congested, under the elderly man's command, it was still considered orderly.

Figures turned into white light one after another, disappearing into the vortex of the dungeon entrance.

At this time, the earth in the distance had already begun to transmit slight vibrations.

In the air, one could also faintly hear the dull, thunder-like roars of countless exotic beasts gathered together.

"Hurry up! They are coming over!"

The elderly man urged anxiously.

The remaining thirty-plus people who had not yet entered the dungeon looked increasingly panicked, and their movements sped up a bit.

Fortunately, before the Beast Tide truly arrived, everyone successfully entered the dungeon.

On the open space, only Yasuo and Gandalf were left.

Zhou Huai controlled Yasuo, and was also prepared to bring Gandalf into the dungeon once again.

Just right, he could continue to farm the blueprints for that Star-Moon Set.

However, at the exact moment he was about to choose 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: In this Beast Tide, kill 10,000 exotic beasts.]

[Quest Reward: Class Orb Draw Chance X1!]

Yasuo's movements also paused accordingly.

A challenge quest was actually triggered?

Zhou Huai's heart beat faster uncooperatively.

He could not refuse this reward.

But the difficulty of the quest could also be called Hell-grade.

Ten thousand exotic beasts.

With Yasuo's and Gandalf's current Rank, wanting to complete it would probably carry extremely high risks.

Amidst the Beast Tide, Advanced exotic beasts were countless, and with the slightest carelessness, they would be instantly crushed into meat paste.

However, since it had been triggered,

then they must try it out.

Every chance to acquire a new Clone was extremely precious and must never be missed.

Before entering the dungeon, that elderly man looked back and found that Yasuo and Gandalf were still standing in place.

He couldn't help but get anxious.

"Why aren't the two of you coming in yet?!"

"Do you want to die?!"

Zhou Huai controlled Yasuo, slowly shaking his head.

"We are not going in."

His tone was as calm as water.

"We're preparing to go witness what this Beast Tide is actually like."

Hearing this, the elderly man's eyes were almost popping out.

He pointed at Yasuo, his hands trembling with anger.

"Y-You guys are crazy?!"

"Witness the Beast Tide? Do you know how many exotic beasts are in the Beast Tide? Tens of thousands!"

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

"By then, you guys will be directly trampled into a pool of meat paste by the endless horde of beasts!"

Zhou Huai controlled Yasuo, slightly nodding towards the elderly man.

"Thanks for the reminder."

"We're just going to take a look, rest assured."

Feeling the increasingly violent vibrations under his feet, the elderly man knew he couldn't wait any longer.

He stomped his foot fiercely and dropped a sentence.

"Heed not the elders' words, and suffering is right before your eyes! I couldn't care less about whether you live or die!"

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

In front of the entire dungeon entrance, it completely quieted down.

Zhou Huai manipulated Yasuo, turned around, and easily hoisted Gandalf beside him onto his back.

To want to complete this challenge, the main output had to be the Archmage.

Yasuo's task was to act as his mount to ensure he wouldn't be directly overwhelmed by the Beast Tide.

Thunderlight exploded underfoot.

Carrying Gandalf, Yasuo's figure was as lithe as the wind, and in a few leaps, he jumped up onto a small hill with an extremely high terrain.

He raised his eyes to look.

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

The scene before him was enough to make anyone tremble because of it.

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

That was an endless number of exotic beasts. The galloping beast horde converged into a black wave that tore apart the earth, and wherever it passed, trees toppled and rocks shattered.

In the sky, flying exotic beasts whose wingspans blocked the moonlight hovered into a dark cloud, emitting piercing screeches.

Within that black torrent, a few giant beasts the size of mountains moved with heavy paces, and every step they took caused the high slope under Zhou Huai's feet to vibrate violently.

The roars and howls of ten thousand galloping beasts converged into a destructive sound wave that made people's eardrums ache with pain.

Just as the elderly man said, the quantity of this Beast Tide was probably a full fifty to sixty thousand.

Looking at the direction they were advancing in, their target was unexpectedly Donghai City.

It was also Zhou Huai's first time experiencing a Beast Tide at such close range.

That world-destroying oppressive feeling made him feel a wave of palpitations.

He quickly steadied his mind, a flash of resolution flickering in his eyes.

Gandalf slowly raised the staff in his hand.

Ancient and profound syllables were clearly chanted out amidst the roaring of ten thousand beasts.

"Forbidden Spell: Meteor Fire Rain!"

Rumble!

The space directly above his head was torn open, and a burning portal reappeared.

But this time, what fell from the portal was no longer crimson-red meteors.

Instead, they were apocalyptic stars burning with eerie green flames!

That green flame was precisely the Soul-Devouring Nether Flame Gandalf had just absorbed!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

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

The violent shockwave instantly tore dozens of exotic beasts into fragments.

However, this was merely the beginning.

The green flames produced by the explosion, like splashed venom, contaminated even more surrounding exotic beasts.

"Awoo——!"

An incomparably miserable wailing sound instantly resounded across the battlefield.

That flame seemed to possess life, and the contaminated exotic beasts rolled frantically, attempting to extinguish the flames on their bodies, but to no avail.

The green nether flames were like bone-gnawing maggots, ignoring fur and scales, directly scorching their flesh and Soul.

One exotic beast after another, amidst painful struggles, was burned alive into charred skeletons, and then turned into flying ash.

That scene was akin to the descent of Hell.

[Killed Jungle Wolf LV12, gained 120 Experience Points!]

[Killed Armored Savage Bull LV15, gained 250 Experience Points!]

…

One wave of Meteor Fire Rain killed a full hundred-plus exotic beasts.

The System prompts in Zhou Huai's mind frantically spammed the screen.

This scene immediately caused quite a bit of commotion within the galloping Beast Tide.

"Screech——!"

In the sky, a giant falcon with a wingspan exceeding twenty meters locked its sharp eyes onto Yasuo and Gandalf on the hillside for the very first time.

It emitted a sky-piercing and rock-shattering cry.

Instantly, a dozen flying exotic beasts of various sizes broke away from the main force, reversed their directions, and dove downwards towards the location of the two people like arrows shot from a bow!

A fishy wind hit their faces, and Killing Intent was biting!

Seeing this, Yasuo did not dare to delay in the slightest.

"Thunder Armor!"

Crackle, snap!

Dazzling thunderlight exploded on the surface of his body, condensing into an awe-inspiring blue armor.

His legs exerted sudden force, carrying Gandalf on his back, and he sprinted wildly toward the other side of the dense forest like a blue lightning bolt released from a bowstring!