Chapter 94: Pathetic Ice‑Armored Crocodile

This kind of great power has already exceeded Luanka's imagination!

Immediately she saw, several hundred meters away, a gigantic ice lion three stories tall slowly walking toward the city center.

All the ice locusts within a hundred‑meter radius were ground into powder by some invisible force, forming an absolute domain! The ice storm just now must have been its doing! "Is this… the Ice Lion King!?"

Luanka recalled the photo of the Ice Lion King attached to that post.

The Ice Lion King in the photo was as majestic and powerful as the massive lion before her, as if a divine beast from antiquity.

But seeing it with her own eyes, the visual impact of the Ice Lion King was far more intense than the photo.

That power, crushing everything, was simply unimaginable! The battle lasted less than a quarter of an hour before it completely ended.

When the Ice Locust King died, the remaining ice locusts scattered like headless flies.

But the Ice Lion Army had gone berserk, continuously unleashing various large‑area abilities to cleanse the locust swarm.

Out of the billions of locusts, fewer than ten thousand managed to escape.

The city, and the snowfields beyond, were covered with a thick layer of insect corpses.

Looking at the ruined city and the corpses everywhere, Kalam's gaze was slightly sorrowful.

In a city seized by the ice locust army, only a few humans could possibly survive.

"Roar!"

Chen Mo calmly let out a low growl, ordering the units to clean the battlefield and conduct search‑and‑rescue.

Frost hounds, snow leopards and other extraordinary beings flaunted the ice locust corpses on the ground while gathering ice layers to collect them.

These ice locusts were also extraordinary beings; though their internal ice spirit energy was minimal, they made a highly nutritious and tasty feast for some low‑rank dependents.

Chicken flavor, crunchy snap! The human kitchen crew sprang into action, more than twenty of them starting pots or setting up grills.

A few fire‑type awakeners and fire‑type extraordinary beings from Eastern Summer used their abilities to help start the fire.

Soon, the kitchen soldiers skewered the ice locusts and placed them on the grill.

Some extraordinary beings curiously came over to taste.

The result was obvious: most extraordinary beings' eyes lit up after tasting, falling in love with the sensation! Who knew human‑cooked food could be so delicious!

Skewer‑licking, bliss!

"Team One, Team Two, follow me to search the city for survivors."

Kalam and Wang Long led human squads into the city to look for survivors.

Many extraordinary beings also entered the city, beginning rescue and recruitment efforts.

For each qualified extraordinary being or human they recruited, they earned a decent contribution‑point reward.

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Inside the underground shelter.

Seeing the Ice Lion King eradicate all the ice locusts, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

"Can our city become like that small town?"

Luanka couldn't help but feel hopeful.

Then, through the observation mirror, she saw human squads and extraordinary‑being units emerging one by one from behind the Ice Lion King, pouring into the city.

These units turned over the ruins.

Seemingly searching for survivors!?

At the same time, on each military vehicle, horns blared continuously, and faint voices could be heard—

"This city has been seized by the Ice Lion King, becoming part of Ice Lion Nation's territory. All survivors, you are now safe!"

"The night has passed, dawn approaches! Anyone who passes the test can join the Ice Lion Kingdom, becoming subjects protected by the Lion King; labor yields food!"

"Of course, if you refuse to join the Ice Lion Kingdom, you may leave on your own."

"We are saved! Everyone, let's go out!" Luanka said excitedly to the crowd, tears of joy welling in her eyes.

In the sewers, basements, and shelters, humans continued to emerge.

Places like underground shelters are numerous throughout the city.

However, survivors wishing to join the Ice Lion Kingdom must pass the illusion test of the Snow‑Fox tribe.

Its main purpose is to filter out humans or extraordinary beings who might later affect the city's reconstruction or Ice Lion Kingdom's rule.

Of course, not every "survivor camp" can be as harmonious as the underground shelter where Luanka is.

Human warmth exists, as does human darkness.

Many people crossed the human moral line during the apocalypse.

Using their power to claim land, they oppressed, coerced others, even turned on each other and cannibalized.

Awakeners are especially numerous among them.

These people are unstable factors.

Under the Snow‑Fox's illusion, these unstable factors are detected early, removed, exiled, or even killed outright.

Finally, according to statistics, the newly named Ice Butterfly City incorporated 876 human survivors and 132 extraordinary beings.

After clearing the insect tide, they will rebuild civilization.

The city was half‑devoured by ice locusts, yet many infrastructures remain intact.

Such as houses, factories, power plants, and so on.

All hold great value.

Chen Mo plans to establish farms and pastures around the city as well, to sustain the city and continuously transport food and spirit plants to the Great Snow Mountain.

Just like the former Sunset Town.

The next day, after leaving about one‑twentieth of the extraordinary beings to help build the city and farms, Chen Mo led the Ice Lion Army toward the next city.

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In the coming days, similar scenes occurred among the cities of Tanzanira and Kennira.

The southward expansion war did not affect the Fishing Lion's self-discipline challenge progress.

Chen Mo put his Ice Bucket and Spirit Fish onto a truck, and when free, he could place his tail in the Ice Bucket to brush up time.

Three days later.

Fishing Lion Day 6.

Above Lake Victoria.

An Ice Sparrow with gorgeous blue wings hovered in midair; as its wings flapped, gusts of freezing air blew down toward the ice lake below.

At the center of the endless freezing air, a high-level supernatural Ice-Armored Crocodile was struggling to hold on.

Its scale armor had already frosted over, and its limbs and body were made extremely stiff by the freezing wind.

Although it too was an ice-system supernatural being, its strength was far inferior to that of the Ice Sparrow, and it could not withstand these freezing winds that seemed to freeze the spirit.

At this moment, the Ice-Armored Crocodile's mind was utterly bewildered.

Since the resurgence of spiritual energy, awakened supernatural creatures have each claimed their own territories.

Normally, supernatural beings of comparable strength rarely invade each other's territories.

As one of the rulers of Lake Victoria, it had merely slept, and upon waking and seeking food, this dead bird that had somehow emerged kept blowing cold wind at its head.

Moreover, this dead bird was incredibly strong.

It immediately froze all the surrounding waters, making it impossible for him to even dive into the lake to escape.

(End of chapter)