As soon as she said this, the residents who had just barely calmed down immediately panicked again:
"Monsters... monsters... there are still monsters!!!"
"Run, let's get the hell out of here!"
"..."
Seeing the residents' frantic state, Timira felt pleased.
She was just messing with them—she'd already swept all the monsters in the entire city clean.
Just then, a voice suddenly rang out from the sky:
"Everyone, what year is it in the Sea Demon Calendar?"
Timira's powerful whale tail instantly became alert. She looked up at the sky, her eyes confused:
"I can't sense even a trace of monster aura!"
"Incredible—could this be a new type of monster?"
Timira's perception abilities were amazing—she could pick up the corrupted aura of monsters like a bloodhound.
Even monsters with extremely strong concealment abilities couldn't escape her senses.
"These two monsters..."
Two humanoid monsters were hovering in the sky.
One was extremely handsome with a pair of huge crimson-gold bone wings behind him—elegant and noble, almost impossible to look away from.
His non-human pointed ears showed he was a non-human existence. Newest update provided by novelꜰire.net
The other was completely covered in strange bone armor, estimated to be at least three meters tall, with a pair of fierce Blood Wings behind him—looked even less human.
Timira's pupils turned blue, but she still couldn't catch even a trace of corrupted aura.
The corners of her mouth curved up slightly.
Ever since she survived the Whale Fort experiments, she'd never run into monsters this mysterious.
Interesting, really damn interesting.
In midair, Carlos looked down from above, casually scanning the people below.
Fish-headed, human-bodied limbs were scattered everywhere, three large monsters' headless corpses lay on the ground, blood pooled together, and everyone looked at the woman in the blood pool with eyes full of fear.
"Whale Scale Hunter from the Whale Fort experiments, Sequence 0 Timira?"
Carlos looked at the woman's appearance and pulled up information from his memory.
Whale Fort was the force that had luckily gotten their hands on the Eternal Cube.
According to background information, during the lost years, the Eternal Cube was accidentally swallowed by a whale.
The constantly radiating energy caused that whale to go through amazing transformation, rampaging through the mysterious seas and once being viewed as a natural disaster by humans in the mysterious sea area.
Later, for unknown reasons, the magic whale nearly died. After drifting for a long time, it finally washed up on Saint Marr Island and got snagged by a group of people.
That group was the founders of Whale Fort. They constantly studied the dying magic whale, trying to steal its power.
Through long experiments, they developed whale scale transplant surgery.
They transplanted whale scales containing strange power into human bodies, eventually creating monsters that could adapt to whale scale power while keeping normal sanity—the Whale Scale Hunters.
And Timira was the most outstanding masterpiece among all current Whale Scale Hunters at Whale Fort.
No... not just current—she should be the best of all generations.
In Carlos's perception, Timira had decent energy lurking in her body—no less than high-tier.
According to the original timeline, before long, having grown up at Whale Fort since childhood, she would gradually discover Whale Fort's evil side and decide to bail.
But Whale Fort would never allow any Whale Scale Hunter to break free from control. They'd rather destroy their most outstanding work than let it go rogue.
In the end, Timira bit it—killed by a hunting squad Whale Fort specifically sent out...
Originally, with her strength, she could have wiped out the hunting squad sent to surround her.
But Whale Fort cunningly sent out one of her few good friends. In a moment of soft-heartedness, she got ambushed.
Her body was brought back and destroyed, and the scale inside her was transplanted into a new human body.
Because of this, later Whale Scale Hunters who kept awakening self-consciousness deeply realized that only by overthrowing Whale Fort could they be free.
This sparked life-and-death battles across Saint Marr Island between the awakening Whale Scale Hunters, Whale Fort, and monsters.
Carlos's mind flashed through memories.
Back then, a player who had wandered to this place specifically called friends to fight several major battles alongside those self-aware Whale Scale Hunters against Whale Fort.
Unfortunately, Whale Fort had more than one stronghold, and in the end they took the dying magic whale and vanished without a trace.
When the Eternal Cube appeared again, it was already in the Lost Chapters...
...
The Crimson-gold Feathered Serpent Wings fluttered slightly as Carlos landed in front of the residents. His godlike perfect appearance made these ordinary people almost forget their fear of the different, bowing their heads and not daring to look directly, afraid of being disrespectful.
"How stupid! This monster just looks a bit better, and you forget the bloody cruelty of monsters—absolutely moronic!"
Although Timira was also attracted, fortunately her cold monster-hunting heart reminded her, and she immediately snapped out of it.
She stared at this good-looking monster, wondering if it was her imagination—she always felt like this monster seemed to know her.
Timira's words woke up the residents, especially the women, their expressions incredulous:
"Mon... monster..."
"Impossible, how could there be such a... such a gorgeous monster..."
Some women looked at Carlos with infatuated eyes, murmuring:
"Monster or not... I'd be willing even if you ate me..."
"Ugh, look at your ugly face—if anyone's getting eaten, it should be me first!"
"..."
There are always some people, especially women, willing to give their lives for beauty.
Hearing these words made Timira's eyelids twitch with anger.
What was wrong with these people?
So easily bewitched by a monster!
Her heart sank.
Oh crap, it's a charm-type monster!
The mouth at the end of her whale tail suddenly opened, making a piercing sound.
"What's that noise!"
It hurt the residents' ears, making them cover them and look at Timira with even more fear.
The monster... the monster was pissed!
Even though they learned that Timira wasn't a monster but a hunter who specialized in killing monsters, looking at that fierce giant tail, they couldn't hide their fear.
"..."
Timira had a headache—these people were hopeless.
They weren't afraid of the monster in front of them but were scared shitless and wary of her instead. She had an urge to just walk away.
Just then, Carlos spoke:
"Timira, born from Whale Fort's forty-ninth experiment, ranked Sequence 0."
His voice was gentle but had a kind of noble indifference, as if talking about something trivial.
Timira stopped her urge to act. Her eyes, now turned deep blue, stared at the 'monster' in front of her and said coldly:
"Are you a Fallen One?"
The Whale Scale Hunters created by transplanting magic whale scales—the more frequently they used whale scale power, the more easily their bodies got corrupted by the magic whale's power.
When reason could no longer resist, a Whale Scale Hunter's flesh would undergo mutations, their strength would increase dramatically, and their entire mind would fall into darkness.
Though they still had memories from the past, they became bloodthirsty and brutal, taking pleasure in torture and killing—extremely dangerous.