In Terra, she is a hunter and a bad woman.

"Just resting?"

"Well, the Custodians said they were just resting."

"I understand."

After getting Zuo Zheng's answer, Maria thought for a few moments and shook her head slightly.

She didn't think that Liu Ying had given up.

In fact, from the first time they met, Maria realized that she was a very scheming girl.

Giving up nowadays is at most a helplessness and compromise to the situation.

She couldn't really give up...

"What's wrong?"

Zuo Zheng didn't know why Maria was silent at this moment. She just tilted her head, showing some confusion.

But Maria shook her head and sighed.

"nothing."

"Go tell the team not to celebrate today. Let's hold the celebration banquet after we escort the prisoners to Baizao."

"Yes."

At this time, Zuo Zheng was becoming more and more adept at assisting Maria. He nodded, turned around and left.

Maria, however, just lowered her eyes and sat quietly in the room...

……

The power of Shanhaizhong cannot be eliminated so easily.

In fact, the so-called mountain and sea people are essentially individuals condensed by human beings' admiration and fear of the unknown.

Even if humans can completely drive away the behemoth, this fear will not disappear from people's hearts.

As long as one is human, there must be soil suitable for the breeding of fear...

What Maria is doing now is just temporarily eliminating the more obvious enemies.

As for what the future holds...

No one can tell.

Without wasting too much time, Maria soon returned to Baizao again.

Without the invasion of internal enemies, the entire Dayan returned to normal.

A month later.

A natural disaster rarely seen in decades occurred in Dahuang City.

The ground cracked and dust swept up.

For a time, not only did the grain harvest in Dahuang City fail, but there were also heavy casualties among the people.

Even worse, there are direct rumors that this was a punishment from the giant beast after the emperor attacked the giant beast.

For a time, countless people of Dayan were in panic.

As a last resort, the emperor had to ask Maria to go out again and lead the team to patrol some restless areas and suppress the dissenting voices.

As for the Dahuang City which suffered heavy losses.

Because of the preparations in advance, the emperor immediately sent people to allocate funds for assistance as soon as the famine broke out. Finally, after the national treasury was exhausted, the emperor ordered Zuo Zheng and others to investigate the remnants of the Shanhai people. After confiscating the property of some key merchants and personnel related to them, he also allocated the wealth they obtained to Dahuang City.

In the end, we managed to get through the most dangerous period and stabilize people's hearts.

And three more months passed.

At this time, the Ursus Empire on the northern border finally took action.

As a country founded purely on war, decades of peace have not made it more prosperous.

On the contrary, peace has led to the emergence of many social problems.

To solve this problem, the current Emperor of Ursus did not choose a painful reform, but instead chose a temporary solution that did not address the root cause...

He declared war on Dayan.

The current Emperor of Great Yan was obviously prepared for this choice.

One of the important reasons why he does not have many soldiers and horses available in Yan Kingdom now is that he has long been aware of the conspiracy of the Ursus Empire in the north.

And now the famine has become their best opportunity.

In their imagination, they and others should be trapped in the food problem now.

But obviously, they underestimated the emperor who had been on the throne for less than three years.

Soon, the war with Ursus began.

The war did not last long.

In fact, even if the current Emperor of Great Yan has made sufficient preparations, the facts cannot be changed because of his ideas.

The Ursus Empire had long had plans, and Dayan had experienced the Shanhai Baizao Rebellion and the Dahuang City Disaster, and an extremely strong sense of emptiness appeared within.

Originally, he could still rely on his dispatch to make people temporarily ignore this emptiness, thus buying time to slowly fill it up.

However, the outbreak of the Ursus War caused this emptiness to appear before everyone and expand rapidly.

After the border guards held out for three months, some areas of the border fell.

For a time, people in Dayan were in panic.

But it was also at this point in time that the first batch of artillery, warriors, and imperial guards that could actually go to the battlefield from the Bailian Division finally appeared.

These people and technologies were originally built with the purpose of defeating the behemoths.

Its strength is simply terrifying.

After they joined the war, it took them only one month to recover the lost territory and start counterattacking the opposite side.

This caused some unrest in the Ursus region.

After two months of stalemate, Yan State finally did not expand too much and began peace talks with the Ursus Empire.

The Yan State tacitly did not declare that this was a war conspiracy planned by Ursus, but deliberately regarded it as a normal border friction between major powers. Ursus was also very sensible and did not say that it would take back the original territory.

Both sides are hiding something and waiting for something.

And no one knows what consequences this strange situation will have.

Another thing began to brew within Yan State.

To be more precise, it began to brew in the inner core area.

The first group of warriors who borrowed the power of the behemoth appeared.

Thanks to the efforts of the Heavenly Master of Da Yan, they finally got a glimpse of the unique relationship between the Originium and the behemoth.

Although they did not understand the specific meaning, they successfully grafted these connections onto humans.

The first half-blood warrior appeared.

The strength of each of them has undergone earth-shaking changes.

They are stronger, more resilient, and even their Originium skills have improved several times... Although they are already the elite among the Imperial Guards, now they can suppress an entire Imperial Guard squad without taking any damage.

Even if Wei Sanzheng led the troops personally, he could only barely achieve an exchange ratio of about three to one.

This is just in the practice phase.

If it is a life-and-death fight, the ratio may be even higher.

It may even reach seven to one or eight to one!

Such strength is simply horrifying!

But Maria seemed uninterested in the news.

As soon as she learned of the appearance of these soldiers, she went over to check and observe.

And the fact is just as she expected.

These warriors all exuded an aura of disgust that was extremely familiar to her.

but……

What she couldn't understand was that among these warriors, there were indeed some who did not disgust her.

And according to Sui, this is a warrior she developed.

In a sense, these people can be regarded as her alternative incarnations... or perhaps pseudo-family members?

Maria didn't know what this was.

But none of that matters anymore.

The appearance of such a group of warriors also means that the man's plan has begun to get on track...

Another year has passed.

Accompanied by the crazy research of countless heavenly masters.

Finally, the third generation of Imperial Guards, who could finally be called upon to fight on the battlefield, appeared before them.

With the addition of those special technological armors to the team, these soldiers soon gave their own answers.

Three thousand imperial guards, three hundred specially made top-grade cannons, and countless masters of the Bailian Division spent a lot of manpower, material resources and financial resources to tailor weapons and armor for each of them, plus an unknown amount of tactical preparation and training.

finally……

They returned with a thousand men, almost all their artillery pieces destroyed, and a huge pile of scrap metal...

With their return... came the corpse of a giant beast...

They...really managed to hunt giant beasts with their mortal bodies!

Such an effective result, even a man could not change his original expression, and he might even be in such a good mood that he would grant amnesty to the world!

This made the other people a little confused.

After all, for them, hunting giant beasts is something to be thankful for, but... hasn't it already happened?

Even if we want to celebrate, shouldn't we have celebrated twice before?

Why is there a general amnesty only now?

But it doesn't matter anymore.

They didn't know the details, and naturally didn't know that for them, this was the first time humans had truly defeated a giant beast...

But after the joy passed, more stringent tax policies followed.

The Emperor of Great Yan began to purge corrupt officials and evildoers on a large scale and began to expand the development team on a large scale.

Its harsh policies also made the entire Yan Kingdom groan...

But even so, the emperor of Dayan was still not satisfied.

He began to plunder wealth from various places using various methods, and even directly sold the territories that originally belonged to Ursus back to Ursus in exchange for an astronomical figure.

After almost squeezing out the potential of Yan Country for the next three or four years.

After investing what can almost be called an astronomical amount of wealth.

Ten years after the first giant beast hunt, Da Yan finally assembled a 30,000-man combat force...

Equipped with weapons that had gone through countless iterations, they launched an unprecedented operation.

【Slay Demons】

……

"It's really hard to imagine..."

Zuo Zheng slowly walked out of the army, looking around with a subtle expression.

She exhaled, her voice filled with disbelief.

Today, she no longer has the gentleness she once had, and what she has now is only determination.

Today, she is also an "old woman" in her thirties.