Chapter 296 - Beast Tide Research.

Just arriving at the library, Blake didn't waste to activate the locator skill. "Concise explanation of what happens during the beast tide."

He followed the cold and hot senses of the locator skill and came to the history section of the 3rd floor and picked up a black leather cover book and proceeded to take a seat.

After 10 minutes of reading, Blake had to pause because the information he had taken in so far was too shocking.

"Are you saying the beast tide is no different from how humans siege cities?" Blake still couldn't believe what he was reading.

[It is what it is.] The system said.

From all the stories he had heard of the beast tide, Blake had always visualized it as hordes of beasts rushing towards the city walls in a frenzied manner and trying to break through, but the info from the book said otherwise.

It explained how armies of beasts led by knight, king, and emperor rank beasts marched to the city walls and engaged with ranged beasts going for the cannons and magic towers, thereby reducing the fire on the close quarter beasts that were scaling the walls.

"From what I am seeing, as long as we are on the wall there is no safe area." Blake began realizing how much shit they were into by reading the types of beasts that attacked the walls.

The most troublesome type of beasts were the aerial ones and those that had awakened elements. The worst was a combination of both. The elemental beasts had the power and surprisingly the intelligence to conjure structures that helped them in scaling the walls, removing most of the advantage the humans had.

After checking how the beasts were ranked based on their danger to the walls, Blake realized something.

"If high-ranking beasts go on a frenzy during the beast tide, why are the normal beasts that haven't become magical beasts not affected?" Blake couldn't help but wonder.

If the thing causing the beast tide affected the mind, then the normal beasts were meant to be the ones in a frenzy since they had less mental fortitude than the magical beasts, but the reverse was the case.

[From what you just read, it isn't appropriate to say they are in a frenzy during the beast tide, because the plans and mode of execution of the attacks on the city isn't something frenzied beasts are capable of.

What I think is that something is mind-controlling the beasts, I remember coming in contact with mind control effects like these but the memory isn't clear. For the fact that it could affect even emperor-level beasts, it shows that the cause of the beast tide is on a very high level.] The system said.

"Is it possible for an artifact to be so powerful that it could affect the entire world?" Blake asked with a pondering look on his face.

[Yes, legendary and mythical artifacts have the power to do so.] The system answered.

"So what if the cause of the beast tide in all of the empires is being caused by a legendary or Mythical artifact?" Blake asked.

The beast tide wasn't only affecting the Synder Empire, in fact, it was even worse in the Tigeria and Kaldron Empire.

In terms of how dangerous the beats tide was, the Synder Empire came in last, while the Kaldron came in 2nd and Tigeria Empire in first.

The beast attacks on the Kaldron Empire were very dangerous because of the sandy and mountainous region that housed very deadly beasts, coupled with the fact that they were very close to the Malock desert.

As for the Tigeria Empire, the reason the beast attacks in the region were the most dangerous was because of the presence of the largest ocean, Tribirus. On every plant, the ocean always housed the largest number of lifeforms, and on a planet like infinite realm, ocean Tribirus was in no way close to being safe.

For one to be able to transverse the vast body of the gigantic blue beast, they had to be nothing below the peak level of the demigod realm, but even at that, they had very low chances of survival unless they were from the water or wind pathways.

During the beast tide season, even as a peak demigod, traveling the Tribirus ocean was more dangerous than polish roulette. On the open ocean, the beast would attack anything on sight, while those close to the continent would begin entering the inland water channels and attacking the cities.

(AN: Polish roulette is the inverse of Russian roulette.)

Apart from the almost unending sea creatures attacking their cities, the Tigeria Empire still had to protect themselves from land beasts, making them the most affected by the beast tide. 

[Hmmm… You have a point there.] Blake's question made a lot of sense because it answered the question of why the beast tide was periodical. If the cause was an artifact, then it having to recharge the energy it used to turn the beast against the humans would explain why the beast tide came at a particular time of the year.

[That would have most likely been the answer, in fact, it might even be the conclusion all the Empires have come to, but I know how artifacts of these levels work. The chances of I being false are very high.] The system stated. [Mythical or legendary artifacts possess a consciousness of their own, they would never expend energy on such a large scale when it wouldn't benefit them.]

"What if they have been trapped in a place for millenniums and since they are sentient beings, the loneliness is driving them insane. So as they try to call out to someone, it is causing the beast tide on all of the world." Having read a lot of webnovels, Blake had seen a lot of scenarios like this and thought something similar could be happening here.

[…] The system was stunned by Blake's mode of thinking. [The consciousness of an artifact isn't the same as complex as that of humans, but there are chances that this might be the case here..] The system said in a pondering tone.