Shiling City, the piercing, urgent alarm had already sounded.
City Lord Cui Long swiftly climbed the Observation Tower, gazing into the distant vastness.
The sky had already darkened, and that alluring, eerie blood moon hung high in the sky, while the Red Mist drifting outside the territory had also thickened imperceptibly.
"Indeed, this Red Mist is much denser than during the last Disaster Moon period!"
Although he wasn't surprised, he still had a solemn expression on his face.
The denser the Red Mist, the more ferocious the disaster.
At this mont, the Disaster Moon had just arrived, and the great tide had not yet risen, but in the wilderness, regardless of whether the places were illuminated by the red moon or not, wild monsters had undergone drastic transformations.
Sowhere underground.
"Ow... roar!"
An Earth Rock Dragon suddenly roared loudly. Its eyes, originally a fiery red, now pulsated with strands of blood, spreading from the center much like freshly blood flower buds. These crimson threads spread out from the Earth Rock Dragon's giant Dragon's Eye, continuing to entwine itself upon the dragon's head, which was gray-brown and seed hewn from stone.
Eerie, chilling!
"Pfft—"
Several swollen sacs on the Earth Rock Dragon's head suddenly burst one after another, trailing pus that oozed out, beneath which more and more dim, yellow eyeballs erged. Soaked in the pus, the eyeballs rolled around vigorously.
The flesh of the Earth Rock Dragon also began to wriggle, and more and more large sacs swelled up, as if sothing new was about to be nurtured within.
"What is this?!"
Adventurers tasked with subduing the Earth Rock Dragon retreated in shock and fright.
Their small team was quite elite; otherwise, they wouldn't dare to challenge a Boss Level Monster like the Earth Rock Dragon.
However, they had never seen such a scene before.
The team captain included.
But he suddenly thought of recent notifications and warnings from the Shiling City Association, reminding him. He glanced towards the overhead cliffs and said in a deep voice, "I'm afraid that the Red Fog Disaster Moon has descended!"
"Disaster Moon? We have experienced the disaster of the Red Moon before, but..."
"But this ti it's different."
The team captain said, "Be careful, it's coming!"
The mutated Earth Rock Dragon charged forward, stirring up waves of earth.
The team's defender prepared to block with his shield.
Suddenly, those pus-soaked eyeballs on the Earth Rock Dragon burst forth with bursts of eerie, dim yellow light.
The defender's gaze went blank, and in the next mont, his entire body was sent flying by the Earth Rock Dragon's powerful blow. The shield, not having been energized by skills, caved in entirely, shattering, and so did the chest bone of the Elite Professional. His blood spurted through the air until his body heavily hit the ground.
The Earth Rock Dragon had not only beco much more terrifying but had also developed special abilities that it never should have possessed.
Such mutations were not incredibly common, but they had appeared in many monsters.
This small team was not the only one with such encounters.
One exploration team after another rapidly withdrew, retreating back to Shiling City and other front-line key citadels. Many teams, upon returning to safety, had at least one or two mbers critically injured and on the brink of death, carried back by their comrades.
The Disaster Moon had just arrived, the real catastrophe was yet to unfold, and already many dangers had occurred.
This was the prelude to the great disaster of the Disaster Moon, unheard of in the past!
The slightest carelessness could easily doom even a large territory.
Ordinary Professionals, amidst such a calamity, were as insignificant as duckweed.
...
Tai Xuan Alliance, the core circle.
This place was a haven usually free from monster sightings, surrounded by nurous official grand cities, with countless towns and villages scattered like stars across the landscape.
Railroad networks, highway networks crisscrossed the area.
If it weren't for the trees here being tall, not lacking giants of one or two hundred ters; if it weren't for the majestic mountains, towering peaks everywhere to be seen; if it weren't for the random encounter with a Little Goblin, Little Sli in the wilderness...
This core circle would resemble the Lanxing Profound Country from before the apocalypse, with no major differences.
Skyscrapers stood tall, traffic bustled.
Most 'forr Blue Star people' settled here had gradually forgotten the apocalyptic scenes of the Lanxing era. They were no longer haunted by nightmares at night; they had slowly erged from the bloodshed of the apocalypse, starting new lives.
A new life had already begun.
But,
"The Red, Red Moon!"
"Disaster... Disaster is upon us again! Once more—!!"
The enormous Red Moon adorned the sky, no matter where one was or in what direction, one need only look up to see that moon, red as if about to drip blood.
Just like when Lanxing shattered and plunged into chaos.
The Alliance had already prepared for this; communities had been tasked with calming the frightened masses. anwhile, exploration teams set out from the cities and ventured outward.
This was the Alliance's heartland, with less danger.
But it was also the region with the densest population and the most industry; a disaster here could have unthinkable consequences.
Both independent and Group Lords were collaborating with the Official Lords at this ti to scour the surroundings, looking for all potential dangers.
The departing exploration teams were fully equipped and even carried the Alliance's latest generation of compact pollution detection equipnt developed in-house.
News quickly filtered back.
"New monsters have been spawned, birthed from the Red Mist! We've already detected Elite-level Monsters."
The monsters weren't strong.
After all, this was the Alliance's heartland; the corruption of filth had been largely weakened after passing through one Miracle Territory after another, through layers of defenses.
Here the Red Mist was nowhere near as dense as the Alliance's outer periphery.
But even so, even if they were only Elite-level Monsters, once these creatures burst into densely populated areas, they could still cause massive casualties.
After all, Elite-level Monsters were terrifying beings that could shrug off conventional firearms, easily crush a sedan, and break through walls.
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