Chapter 216

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Chapter 216: The Great Battle (Part 1)
This time, Zhang Mu could confirm it was Sharira because he didn’t just hear about it, he actually witnessed Sharira’s emergence. It happened when he was involved in a significant trade of mutated beast cores and got caught in a huge turmoil.
That was the largest war in Zhang Mu’s memory, truly unprecedented.
It was already the sixth year after the apocalypse, and Zhang Mu remembered every detail vividly. At that time, the peak mutated beasts and zombies had reached the fifth rank, unable to progress further, just like humans.
The sixth rank began explosively appearing in the ninth year of the apocalypse, representing the peak rank recognized among humans, mutated beasts, and zombies back then. The emergence of the power of rules gave them hope, but by the fifth year of the apocalypse, all consensus, including the information revealed by the Era Merchant, was that the sixth rank was their limit.
However, by the later stages, humans had completely lost their innate advantages, and the only massive advantage they had at the beginning disappeared once zombies and mutated beasts gained intelligence.
So, they went crazy searching for something on Earth that could elevate them to that level, as the feeling of stagnant power was unbearable. Mutated beasts and smart zombies with highly awakened intelligence then focused on the opposing camp.
At first, the zombies were only interested in the precious treasures guarded by the mutant beasts. However, during this process, a king of the zombie horde, who had advanced smoothly with the help of Sharira, was unexpectedly hunted and killed by the mutant beasts. This king of the zombie horde would not have died if it hadn’t been overconfident due to its increased power. When Sharira was extracted from the body of the zombie king by the mutant beasts, its power was amplified many times over.
Coincidentally, the place where the smart zombie died had a herb cultivated by a fifth-level mutant beast. When Sharira left the body of the zombie, the herb reacted and showed great desire. The intelligent mutant beasts then discovered something extremely exciting when they placed the rare Sharira next to the precious treasures they had carefully nurtured – the Sharira could ripen their herbs.
Yes, it’s the ripening effect; Sharira is only effective on high-level precious treasures, which are the ultimate reliance for mutant beasts to advance. Therefore, all mutant beasts became restless.
Most fifth-level mutant beasts have some precious treasures, but they are mostly immature. Even if they are nourished daily with human or zombie flesh, the effect is minimal.
However, the appearance of Sharira completely disrupted this balance because no matter how strong or weak the current fifth-level beings were, whoever advanced to the sixth level first would be idolized by the mutant beast community.
And with the scent of Sharira, there were a total of seventeen in the zombie horde, including one that had already been killed, making up the number of eighteen figures, vaguely coinciding with some unknown patterns of fate.
Consequently, a war between mutant beasts and zombies broke out. The mutant beasts coveted the Sharira within the eleven zombies, but the zombie horde could not afford to sit back and wait. They mobilized and protected these eleven leaders with all their might.
One reason was to preserve the strength of their peak warriors, and the other was to prevent their strongest competitors, the mutant beasts, from growing stronger. If the mutant beasts flourished at their expense, the zombie clan would surely perish in history as they did not have an Era Store like humans to protect their last bloodline.
If they lose this battle, it will mean the end of their clan!
So, the big war that was about the survival of the races began when the mutant beasts lost their minds completely. All the mutant beasts launched their own Beast Tide to fight for the throne and the chance to advance to the sixth rank. They kept attacking their opponents, who were shrinking their defenses, over and over again.
The zombies, on the other hand, guarded the eleven kings at the most central position, defending like iron barrels.