Thor's idea gave Cara a great idea. If she made it to Overlord, and then forced an evolution to a form one Rank higher, wouldn't she be an instant Totem? She would win everything all at once.
[You know that getting that far ahead would be problematic for everyone. I am just entering Overlord Rank, we can't have soone shooting ahead to Totem Rank right away.
Not only that, but there are material costs to Evolution, and I don't know what they are yet. We might have to go hunt for treasures.] Karl reminded her.
That sounded pretty good to Cara. There were bound to be new things to see and test now that she was on a new continent.
She still wanted to be a Totem, though. She never did get to boop the Totem Dragon.
While the beasts were contemplating their next advancent, a massive recovery effort was being launched to bring the slain whales to land. Demons with water and gravity magic were working together to pull corpses in.
But Rae had a better thod. She simply grabbed a dozen of the Monarch Ranked beasts into her space, and then directly dumped them on the dock, shocking the workers who had gathered in preparation for the work of cleaning and portioning such a massive amount of at.
Karl landed along the shore near the dock master's warehouse where they had set up the grill during the last attack, and looked for soone with answers.
"Does this happen often?" He asked, with a gesture towards the shore.
The dockworker laughed. "Thankfully, no. Most of the ti we lose at least one or two Overlords and dozens of Monarchs whose bodies can't be recovered.
This ti we got off easily, and they didn't try to bombard the city before leaving.
Normally, the Sky Whales get super aggressive during mating season, so anything that happens to be nearby, whether it's a city or an unfortunate rchant caravan, gets pumlled into submission.
This pod was much smaller than the one we encountered last year. The Lord had to intervene himself to chase them off when they showed up with a Mythic Rank bull."
One of the other workers gestured to the whales Rae had dumped on shore. "These are in great shape this year too. We're going to have at to export for months, even after the warehouses are filled. We're unfortunately short on cold storage in the city, as Demons don't really specialize in Ice Elent magic, even the ones that can use water magic."
Karl nodded in understanding. "I have a spatial elent treasure that will allow at to be stored for so ti without spoiling. If you don't mind, I would like to collect so of the bodies. The Lord, or whoever is in charge, can get them back from when it's ti to sell them."
The dockworker winked at him. "Do you honestly think anyone is keeping count? If you dive and grab one of the bodies that sunk, you can likely keep it for yourself, unless it's a Totem. Those ones they will care about."
That was good enough for Hawk, and he coated himself in a [Wind Barrier] to keep his flas dry as he plumted down from the sky to scour the bottom for bodies he knew would be down there.
Even one or two more of these massive beasts would be more than enough to make an entire seafood departnt in his space.
Fortunately for him, there were more than one or two at the bottom, where they would be nearly impossible for the Demons to recover before other sea monsters got to them.
So, Hawk grabbed them all and set the first few Overlord Rank ones to the side, then paused as he grabbed another one in his claws, checking it for unwanted passengers.
He wasn't making that mistake again.
That's when he noticed it. An egg within the belly of the creature. He had almost been hoodwinked by the insidious oval orbs of infancy again.
Instead of falling for that trick again, he double-checked the corpse for more eggs, and then moved on with the lone egg in his claws. It felt like powerful magic, and he didn't want to leave it behind.
The Monarch Ranked bodies at the bottom of the ocean were quickly gathered, as Hawk already knew where they should be, and he deposited them on the dock next to Sister Rae's offerings.
"How did they get them back here so fast?" One of the workers grumbled. He was still in the middle of a smoke break, not expecting an eight hundred tonne beast to be hauled to shore so fast.
Honestly, even for Hawk and Rae's space, this had been pushing it. There didn't appear to be a weight limit, but the spaces were not unlimited in size, and even a few of these behemoths nearly filled them.
That posed an interesting question in Karl's mind. If he obtained such a massive beast, would the space expand to be more comfortable for it? Or would its growth be stunted by its environnt? If you kept fish in a small bowl, they never grew as large as ones in the wild or in a pond.
Hawk examined the trio of Overlord Ranked bodies in his space, then made an important realization.
[I didn't need to go down there. Remi is a water creature, and she can swim.]
Remi laughed at her brother. [True, but I'm all the way over here. Though as slow as you are in the water, I might have made it down to the bodies faster.]
Annoyed, Hawk tossed the enormous egg he was carrying at her, and Remi deftly caught it in all four arms.
{This is a fascinating egg. Is it one of theirs? It slls tasty, and magical.} She asked.
Hawk circled overhead and examined it. [It's magic, but not alive. I don't know what it is.]
Karl also examined it with Soul Sight, and found that it was not an egg at all. It was egg shaped, but not an egg.
Karl felt a powerful person appear behind him, and found that the six District Overseers, the Totem Ranked leaders under the City Governor, had arrived.
"Did you find that in one of the corpses?" One of the Demons asked.
Karl shook his head. "It was on the sea floor when my beast went down to recover bodies. I'm not sure what it is, though."
"That, my young friend, is a Heart of the Ocean, an extrely rare Water Elent treasure."
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