Chapter 762

He Yao shouted loudly: "Retreat! A mega-tsunami is coming! Everyone retreat!"

The city guard's beastmasters, hearing He Yao's words, panicked and fled toward the coastline.

The beastmasters belonging to Mount Dajiao understood better than Liu Mengyun what a mega-tsunami meant.

But as they retreated, countless sea beasts surged out from the receding tide before the tsunami arrived.

The first to burst from the tide were the sea beasts most commonly hunted by Mount Dajiao's city guard and mercenaries, dwelling in shallow waters.

These sea beasts included the Iron-Spined Black Sea Crocodile, the Four-Legged Golden-Threaded Fish, the Qianyuan Crab, the Black Electric Demon Eel…

They rushed out of the tide as if fleeing for their lives.

Some fleeing beastmasters, seeing so many sea beasts "chasing" them from behind, immediately reacted by attacking.

Seeing this, He Yao shouted loudly:

"Run! Don't bother with them! Mount your flight-type beast companions and fly as high as possible… Gold-Rank beastmasters, take the lower-rank ones with you—don't leave anyone behind!"

Saying this, He Yao summoned all his beast companions to buy time for his subordinates.

He dared not attack those fleeing sea beasts.

There were too many of them, and under these circumstances, saving lives was paramount!

As long as they didn't attack these sea beasts, the sea beasts wouldn't strike back at Mount Dajiao's city guard!

Before natural disasters, humans and ferocious beasts were equal.

Liu Mengyun gazed toward the horizon, where the towering tsunami loomed ever higher; she faintly sensed fluctuations in water-element energy.

Recalling the earlier screams, Liu Mengyun knew this tsunami was likely not caused by an earthquake!

It was caused by ferocious beasts!

If this was a skill… then Mount Dajiao's troubles were immense!

Mount Dajiao City was not built entirely atop the mountain peak.

It was built clinging to the mountain's slope!

Part of the city lay below the mountain's midsection.

Even buildings constructed from solid rock might not withstand the tsunami's impact!

Especially if this tsunami was truly a skill—no one could say how much destructive power it contained!

It might even wipe Mount Dajiao Mountain clean off the map!

"You cover their retreat—I'll sound the alarm!"

Liu Mengyun dropped these words, flapped her Ice-Wings, and flew frantically toward Mount Dajiao City.

Compared to the city guard's beastmasters, the forty thousand civilians of Mount Dajiao mattered more.

Moreover, beastmasters stood a far better chance of survival in a mega-tsunami than civilians.

Mounted on flight-type beast companions, if they flew high enough, they could escape!

But those civilians…

Two minutes later, Mount Dajiao City's piercing alarm blared.

At ten p. m., nearly all of Mount Dajiao's civilians were asleep.

At this hour, only the wealthy still had lamps lit in their homes.

Less than half of the civilians had woken from the earlier tremors.

The piercing alarm jolted the rest awake.

"Tsunami!"

Many leapt straight out of bed.

"The tsunami's coming!"

"Run!"

"Take your son!"

"Forget your clothes—save your life!"

"…"

Countless civilians, still half-dressed, dragged their families out of their homes and rushed toward bomb shelters.

Amid the alarm, the announcer shouted through the loudspeakers: "Tsunami incoming! Tsunami arriving soon! All civilians of Mount Dajiao, evacuate to bomb shelters immediately! If possible, head to the Xicheng bomb shelters—seal every entrance completely… Tsunami incoming! Tsunami…"

Liu Mengyun stood midair above the mayor's mansion of Mount Dajiao City.

Most of the beastmasters stationed at the coastline by He Yao had fled into the sky; a few military beastmasters and mercenaries were swallowed whole by the sea beasts surging from the ocean.

Mount Dajiao's city guard units were quickly mobilized.

Several Star-Rank battalion commanders and Deputy Lord Feng Yuanjie appeared beside Liu Mengyun.

Tong Junhao shouted: "Deputy Officer Liu, the city guard units are all assembled!"

Liu Mengyun smiled bitterly: "At this point, the city guard units won't be needed."

They followed Liu Mengyun's gaze toward the moonlit horizon—the colossal, mountain-crushing, awe-inspiring tsunami, rising ever higher.

Everyone felt a deep, crushing pressure.

It made it hard to breathe.

Fortunately, those gathered around Liu Mengyun were all battle-hardened veterans.

Ordinary people seeing this tsunami would likely turn pale, tremble uncontrollably, and just want to turn and flee!

This scale of tsunami rendered the city guard useless.

Even if every single city guard unit gathered, they couldn't stop this tsunami!

This was… a natural disaster!

Standing midair, Liu Mengyun could see civilians frantically fleeing toward bomb shelters.

They were like ants inside an ant nest!

Tong Junhao's face darkened: "Lieutenant Liu, look at those sea beasts—they're about to charge!"

This is truly misfortune piling upon misfortune!

The distant tsunami had not yet arrived.

But the fleeing sea beasts were almost here.

These panicked sea beasts, heedless of everything, surged onto land and scattered in all directions.

The coastline near Mount Dajiao was extremely easy to land on, and the greatest number of sea beasts charged ashore there.

Some sea beasts charged directly toward Mount Dajiao.

Ordinary low-level sea beasts were no great threat—they couldn't even break through Mount Dajiao's walls.

But among them were also Platinum-grade and Starlight-grade sea beasts!

Such as Iron-Spined Black Sea Crocodiles and Black Lightning Demon Eels…?

Sea beasts of this power level already had the strength to destroy the districts of Mount Dajiao!

If they broke into Mount Dajiao and caused destruction… the coming tsunami might inflict even worse damage on the city.

But what could be done about such a thing?

Send out the City Guard to defend?

Perhaps before they could drive the sea beasts away… the tsunami would arrive!

At that point, the City Guard might be wiped out along with the city!

"`~ What's that?"

Liu Mengyun pointed to four massive, ferocious beasts appearing along the shoreline.

Liu Mengyun sensed that those four sea beasts were all Sovereign-grade!

Three of them fled toward other directions.

One sea beast, of all things, charged straight toward Mount Dajiao.

That sea beast had countless black tentacles and suckers.

Even as it crouched on the ground, not standing upright, it stood over a hundred meters tall.

It crawled frantically using those black tentacles.

With every step it took, Mount Dajiao trembled slightly.

"Deepsea Leviathan… the legendary Imperial-grade ferocious beast—it's running this way!" Feng Yuanjie stared at Liu Mengyun in terror. "Lieutenant Liu, what do we do?"

Several Starlight-grade Beast Tamer officers began to panic!

Sovereign-grade sea beasts wouldn't make them panic.

But the problem was, behind those Sovereign-grade sea beasts came the tsunami!