After the fall of city lord Quentin there wasn't any decent resistance against the beast rampage .The beast tide tore through the city defense forces just as a hot knife passes through butter.
The drones recording the battle up from the sky flew in close to the center of the battlefield where Quentin fought two monarch level beasts to get a clear image .
Aaron paid close attention as the TV displayed the central battlefield that was now in ruins . The entire area was razed to the ground as if it got hit by a raging tornado . Buildings were collapsed and were in ruins , ground was cracked apart . From a distance the cracks seems to be in the shape of a large claw .
This apocalyptic scene made aaron to take a sharp breath . Although it had been nearly 16 years since he traveled through this world , this was the first time he witnessed the top combat power of this world .
"To think that the beast masters possess such power that can change a normal landscape to such a devastated look and this is still not the top power , this is just the result of a clash between a diamond level beast master and monarch level beasts ". Aaron sighed as he thought .
"I've seriously underestimated the top powers of this world ."
Although he indeed have watched several combat clips of beast masters and have also watched the exclusively bought clip of beast master fighting in the void arena , but those were battles of low level beast masters . It wasn't enough to show off the true power they possess . It took such a catastrophic battle to open his eyes .
As the drone flew through the dust raised during the previous battle it finally witnessed a something other than ruins .
City lord Quentin's corpse was lying on the center of the battlefield . His chest seemed to be pierced through by something sharp leaving behind a big hole oozing out blood. few meters to his right side laid a giant golden lion with nearly a size of 5 meters .
Aaron recognized the beast , it was the main contract beast of Quentin . It was a metal attribute beast , golden maned savage lion .
Aaron didn't knew the bloodline level of the golden maned savage lion but he knew the cultivation level of Quentin .
Most of the major known powerhouses have their strength level listed in the powerscaler officially under the void hall .So Aaron knew Quentin was at diamond level . So his contract beast is atleast an upper rank of commander level .It's bloodline potential could be even higher . As only a higher bloodline concentration can allow it to possess such strength at such a young age . Afterall even city lord Quentin is only around his fifties .
The golden maned savage lion was lying in the ruins in an embarrassed state devoid of any kingly demeanor it should have possessed . It's shiny golden fur was now covered in dust and blood . A large claw shaped scar was extending from his left shoulder across it's abdomen nearly spilling it's entrails leaving it in a half dead state .
two other giant beasts were standing before it. One was a fierce looking wolf with jet black fur . spiky hair extended from the back of it's head down to it's tail. it's claws seemed extremely sharp with a black shiny glow flashing through it occasionally .
The other one was a giant snake with a length of atleast 40 meters . yellow-green scales with lavender edges seemed to have covered it's body as a whole .
"It's 'shadow brine wolf' and 'mist fang snake '" Armin exclaimed .
After working as a mercenary for a few years he is pretty familiar with these famous beasts . Although these beasts can't be regarded as the top overlords of the wild they are still pretty famous in north american region as small-time local overlords of the forest .
Their territories are pretty close to the San diego base . But for many years humans and beasts have been maintaining a balance . Neither will take the initiative to attack the other in a large scale manner so as to avoid large scale conflict with both sides .
It's been so long since a base has been attacked by the beasts . It's been over 50 years since such a top powerhouse from human side died in front of the public . That's another reason why Aaron never seen a high end battle before because It's been so long since such a powerful beast master had fought before the eyes of the public .
Maybe they still fight deep in the woods or in the wilderness but not before the public .That's why this beast tide and the death of a diamond level beast master caused such a sensation around the world .
The shadow brine wolf was slowly walking towards the nearly dead golden mane savage lion . As if he felt the approaching danger the golden mane lion tried to stand up once again but to no avail .
But this attempt of the golden mane lion seemed to have stimulated the nerve of the shadow brine wolf , it literally turned into a blurry shadow vanishing on the spot . In the very same moment aaron saw the golden mane savage lion getting blown away smashing the crumbled walls that were still standing . The shadow brine wolf was seen standing at the same spot were the golden mane lion was .
"Even the pure speed of a monarch level beast is beyond the comprehension of a mortal like him." Aaron sighed .
Although he has been learning all kinds of knowledge about the extraordinary in this life but aaron still haven't stepped into the world of beast masters yet . His mindset is still the same as that of the previous world . In his previous world which was ordinary , he always yearned for the extraordinary powers . after the rebirth he now have the hope of attaining such powers but still he haven't managed to completely adapt to this world . This world can still bring him many surprises .
The corpse of the golden mane savage lion become visible as the dust settled down . four claw shaped scars emitting a ink black light was prominent among it's already scarred body .
The drone that was capturing the visual flew downwards to get a closeup . As the drone flew closer , the mist fang snake that was crawling quietly suddenly launched an attack .
It's tail lunged towards the drone at an extremely fast speed tearing through the air just like a spear thrown by a master . It pierced through the drone in an instant . The metal parts were flying around leaving a gaping hole through the center , exactly the same as the one on the chest of city lord Quentin .
The live broadcast that aaron and armin were watching suddenly came to an end . The last shot froze on the tv screen for a moment showing a tail with yellow green scales filling the screen . The screen switched in a few seconds showing the lady host of the news channel .
"Sorry for the disturbance , dear viewers ."
"The last clip we seen was the largest beast tide against a city base in the last 50 years .
If taking the history of humanity after the dawn of the dimensional cracks such beast tides are not rare . but after the formation of the ' FOG ' , the void hall and the tireless efforts of countless beast masters beast tides have been rare for the last 50 years . Not to mention a beast tide against a base city .
Such an organised vicious attack launched by the beasts are a provocation against the struggles of humanity . The official reply from 'FOG' and the void hall regarding this incident haven't been declared yet . But many other popular persona and organisations including the mercenary guild , starshine group , nadar family , qin family , etc . have denounced the attack of beasts against the city base .
Our reporter is now at the headquarters of void hall waiting for the response . tell me alvin , what is the c....."
As the host was raging on the tv armin turned to look at aaron and asked .
"What do you think Aaron ? what stand will the void hall take ?"
Armin can't be blamed for having such doubts , because for the last few years whether it's the officials in FOG or the beast masters in the void hall were getting more and more tolerant of the void beasts unlike they were in the past . Unless the beasts don't take the initiative to attack they won't bother with the beasts either reaching a strange state of balance between the void beasts and humans .
This balance was only applicable for the void beasts and beast masters at mid and high realm . Those beasts and beast masters with low realm still fight each other to death in the wilderness . Afterall every society have a class difference .
"If I guess correct , then the void hall will definitely send people to clean up this mess . Afterall this incident was so sudden , usually when something like this happen the void hall would have send some support immediately . "
"Even they wouldn't have expected the San diego base to completely collapse in a such a short time . But what surprises me is that the city defense shield that can defend even the attacks of those high level void beasts didn't play any role . Atleast it should have given a buffer time for the reinforcements from void hall to arrive . how did those beasts managed to breakthrough the city defense shield in such short notice ? "