Chapter 4: For beasts polluted by Pollution Claw, the lower their HP, the higher their pollution level. Those that “died and revived” all had pollution at the max value of 100.

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Besides these four points, Suyou had a bold new theory—the “beasts” with the “Dark” prefix could no longer be called beasts.

Because they were already dead.

What was moving now was just their bodies, being manipulated at will... by dark creatures.

Suyou hadn’t expected the synergy between dark creatures and the beast tide to play out like this. But regardless, even knowing the outcome, she would still have made the same choice, because she noticed something else while checking the information—the Dark Bear’s pollution level had dropped.

Before using Pollution Claw, the Dark Bear’s pollution level was 54—Suyou had made a point to record the number.

But after she saw the skill unleashed, it had dropped from 54 to 43.

This discovery confirmed Suyou’s suspicion:

The trigger for Pollution Claw is the number of living creatures around the Dark Bear. When the number reaches a certain threshold, the Dark Bear unleashes the skill."