Chapter 2359 Secretive Enemies

The cold eyed woman stood with a still expression for a few seconds, as she gazed at the remains of the dead Cyclopean Chimeric Beast. There wasn't much left other than a few bones, but the crater told them a lot about what had happened.

"Your majesty, looks like our initial suspicion of someone being here weren't unwarranted." A man dressed in a black robe spoke while kneeling.

His face was covered just like all the other black robed individuals. All that could be seen was his dark brown eyes along with a small fin shaped motif that was woven into the chest. The other black robed people didn't have this fin motif, instead they all had fish scale headbands that they wore over their headgear.

Those that had been present at the Tournament of the Four Guardian beasts would quickly recognize them to all be members of the Black Fin Island. "How many people do we have left here?" The cold eyed woman questioned.

"Among the Black Fin Island members we have roughly four hundred people, and those that were recruited later number six hundred." The man with the fin motif answered.

"How many have died so far?" The woman asked next.

"About a quarter of the people we originally came with have died. Though the second batch is doing better and only ten percent of them have died." The man replied quickly as if he had already practiced all these answers.

"A thousand" The cold eyed woman muttered to herself as the look in her eyes changed. From the still look, they suddenly became full of emotion. But the emotion in them was drastically different; it was that of panic and fear!

This look didn't last long though, as just a couple seconds later the still look in the woman's eyes returned, as if what had happened before was just an illusion.

None of the individuals present around her were looking at her, thus they didn't notice the change in her expression. But if they had, they would be quite stunned as they had never seen their mistress with that look. "How many 'experiments' are still being nurtured?" the cold eyed woman asked, this time looking at the man.

"We have fifty eight 'experiments' still running and among them one had successfully reached a stable state. We reckon it would be ready to be used in a month's time." The man answered. "Only one?" The woman raised her brows. "Weren't there two close to finis.h.i.+ng?" she asked coldly.

This made the man tremble, but he still answered faithfully.

"The second experiment had to be abandoned due to the attack of the Chimeric Beasts, but it was still being nurtured without our interference. But a short while ago when we went to check on it, all we saw was a scene of destruction and no sign of the experiment left." The black robed man said before showing the image of the location.

The cold eyed woman looked at it for a few seconds, observing every inch of it before a frown appeared. "It's them again" She said seeing the similar level of destruction. "Looks like we'll have to get rid of these people." She stated.

"The rest of our members are searching for them as we speak mistress." The man answered.

"Good No one interferes in my plan No one can wrong me, Yao Changying." She said, venom dripping from her every word.

"Of course! Her Majesty's words are absolute!" The man said loudly.

"Her Majesty's words are absolute!" The others repeated. "Her Majesty's will shall be done!" they proclaimed.

Yao Changying looked at her people for a second before turning around and pointing at the air.

~SHUA~SHUA~SHUA~

Three grey wisps were released from her finger and they drilled into the air.

~HUALA~

A few moments later, a triangular gate appeared with each hole as the vertex. Yao Changying stepped into the gate and paused for a moment before speaking, "continue nurturing the experiment and gather the credits. We'll be able to know what we need soon." With those parting words, Yao Changying fully entered the gate, and it closed behind her, leaving no trace of anything.

Lin Mu and the others had no idea that they had targets painted on their backs and that there were already people searching for them. All they knew was that they needed to get rid of the other party and the first clue for that was to reach the Second Offering Hall.

Having already explored this area, their journey back was relatively smooth. They had already recorded most of the Death Qi boundaries in the area and had also cleared out all the Chimeric Beasts they had come across.

Thus, on the way back, they didn't get to harvest that many credits, but it was still a decent number such that they were going to be able to buy the bloodlines and other items they wished for soon.

It took them about a month's time to reach the base with Little Shrubby's speed, where they rested for a day before continuing onwards to the second offering hall.

This time the time needed was just a few days and upon reaching there, they quickly entered the hall to buy things.

"Finally" Crown Prince Feng Shun said with great excitement as he spent all his credits to obtain the Thundering Hurricane Falcon Bloodline.

The bloodline essence crystal was larger than most, being about the size of an apple. Within the bloodline crystal, one could faintly make out the image of a bird surrounded by wind and lightning.

It didn't take much for one to confirm that this was indeed the Thundering Hurricane Falcon Bloodline.

"I can't wait to get a bloodline too." Qiao De said with slight envy. "I'm still short a few million credits, though." He looked at his number that was hovering at the two hundred and ninety five million mark.

"You'll reach there in no time." Lin Mu replied. "Though I suppose we should start searching for traces of our foes."