Chapter 509

The Hellblood Vine Flower clearly was dissatisfied with this answer.

But even if she was dissatisfied, what could she do?

"Alright, let's begin!"

"Then I'll go first!"

"Mm!"

"Ding~ Your pet Hellblood Vine Flower's Rare-level talent Root Profusion has upgraded to Legendary-level!"

The Hellblood Vine Flower's roots were strengthened, and the benefits were substantial.

This time, when the Hellblood Vine Flower controlled the Dragon Frost Spider, it didn't uproot the spider!

"Ding~ Your pet Ice Moon Sprite's Legendary-level Freeze talent has upgraded to Mythic-level talent—Frost Enveloping the World!"

"Ding~ Your pet Ice Moon Sprite's talent has improved; its growth potential has risen from Sovereign-Rank High-Grade to Sovereign-Rank Top-Grade!"

Frost Enveloping the World: Greatly enhances this pet's ice-based skills' freezing capability, greatly reduces energy consumption when freezing enemies, and drastically reduces the movement speed of any enemy even after escaping the freeze.

Su Yang smiled when he saw the Ice Moon Sprite's Mythic-level Frost Enveloping the World talent.

Now, the Ice Moon Sprite's crowd control ability had been greatly enhanced!

Once he further improved the Ice Moon Sprite's ice crystal strength, its control ability would surely make the ferocious beasts understand what despair meant!

The Ice Moon Sprite extended its hand, and ice-blue crystals appeared in its palm.

It could clearly feel that the ice crystals in its hand were different from before.

It extended its snow-white wrist, exhaled a frosty breath, and the ice crystals rapidly spread over a thousand meters across the corpse of the spider ferocious beast.

"This…"

The Ice Moon Sprite's eyes were filled with delight!

Su Yang whispered to it: "Your growth potential has now risen to Sovereign-Rank Top-Grade!"

"Thank you… Master Su!"

"You should still call me Lieutenant Colonel!"

The Ice Moon Sprite whispered softly: "Since Mengyun isn't here, I can call you Master!"

The Hellblood Vine Flower, hearing the Ice Moon Sprite's words, slowly grew cold: "Just Sovereign-Rank? Do you need to be this excited? My growth potential is already Divine-level—I'll become a true Divine-level pet!"

The Hellblood Vine Flower always felt the Ice Moon Sprite posed some threat to it.

Su Yang had many pets, but until now, only it could take human form!

Yet偏偏, he had bonded another humanoid pet!

The Ice Moon Sprite looked at Su Yang, who encouraged: "It's fine—you can still improve further!"

The Ice Moon Sprite grabbed Su Yang's other hand and hid behind him.

"You two must get along well, understood?"

The Ice Moon Sprite whispered in Su Yang's ear: "I'll listen to my Master!"

Su Yang turned to the silent Hellblood Vine Flower.

The Hellblood Vine Flower had no choice but to answer: "I understand!"

Before Su Yang, both proud ferocious beasts could not remain proud.

Once a pet of Su Yang's, none wished to leave.

Only Su Yang could alter their predetermined commands, change their talents, and elevate them into a higher form of life!

"Good, return to your places!"

Early the next morning, Su Yang and Liu Mengyun sat atop the Black Tiger Hawk, flying toward Zhangcheng.

On the ground, several Gray-Tooth Mice dug holes on a small mound.

Soon, they dragged out a human corpse.

Su Yang noticed the corpse had white hair—it must have been an elderly man.

They had seen this situation before, not for the first time.

Along the way, the most corpses were elderly; their aged, weakened bodies struggled to endure long journeys.

Being buried was already a good fate.

From Wanyang City to Zhangcheng, Su Yang needed less than two or three days.

But civilians needed at least a month to cross this distance.

Even then, only with beastmaster escorts.

Without beastmaster protection, ordinary people traveling through the wilderness were no different from suicide.

Su Yang knew there were still people left behind in the abandoned Wanyang City.

But that was their choice.

That afternoon, as the sun slanted westward, golden afterglow bathed the land.

Su Yang and Liu Mengyun saw a dense crowd of people.

Tens of thousands of civilians marched across the desolate land; at the edges of the column, scattered beastmasters were positioned.

Some beastmasters rode their pets, others rode flying beasts.

They summoned nearly all their pets to protect the civilians along the way.

Yet among tens of thousands of civilians, beastmasters remained extremely few!

Since its founding, one of the core principles passed down by the Ministry of Military Affairs of the Chinese Federation has been to protect civilians.

After the Great Catastrophe, beastmasters' status rose dramatically, yet the Ministry still firmly held power, barely maintaining stability.

Any beastmaster wishing to join the military must abide by the military's somewhat strict regulations.

Do all beastmasters in the Wanyang City Military Department truly wish to protect civilians like this?

Of course it's not possible?

But they are soldiers!

If you apply for discharge with sufficient reason and firm determination, the Military Department generally won't force you to stay!

They will only, depending on the situation, revoke some of your benefits.

Deserting in the face of battle? That's punishable by execution!

Su Yang's Fourteenth Emergency Team had missions to hunt down deserters.

But so far, no deserters have needed him to pursue personally.

Zhu Xiaoshuang, captain of the Seventh Team and Su Yang's former superior, once received such a mission.

She hunted down a city governor who had abandoned his city!

Yu Hao and Tan Shulong, upon seeing Su Yang and Liu Mengyun, immediately rode their pet beasts over.

"Captain Su, you're back?" Yu Hao said happily, "That's great—we were a little worried about you. Captain Hao just said he wanted to go back and check!"

"Where's Captain Hao?"

"He's on patrol!"

"Hmm!" Su Yang nodded. "Another wave of beast floods came later, but Liu, my deputy officer, and I repelled them. We waited several days and found no more ferocious beasts attacking, so we returned."

Maybe it was an illusion.

Yu Hao thought he saw disappointment on Su Yang's face.

It must've been an illusion!

Who in this day and age would want to encounter a beast flood?

Soon, Yu Hao noticed something more critical: "You and Deputy Officer Liu repelled the beast flood—just the two of you?"

"Mm!" Su Yang didn't hide it. "Any problem with that?"

"No! No! No problem!"

Captain Yu replied quickly.

If any other Platinum-rank Beast Tamer claimed to have repelled a beast flood, Yu Hao would've assumed they were boasting.

But Su Yang was different!

Yu Hao had fought alongside Su Yang and knew his combat power!

Especially that Hellblood Vine Flower—its ability to instantly turn the tide of battle was simply unbelievable!

Su Yang asked: "Have you encountered any dangers these past few days?"

"Actually, it's been fine. We didn't go far from Wanyang City, and the ferocious beasts we met recently weren't strong. But further ahead, who knows?" Yu Hao replied with a smile. "Still, now that Captain Su is back, our pressure has dropped a lot."