#61 - Chapter 61 Strange Message

When Gu Changqing finally mustered the courage to lead his alliance's army back into the Dwarf Kingdom, he immediately felt like he had been a complete idiot.

Because.

“Damn it, I should have come sooner!”

The eldest son of the Gu family said with extreme frustration as he looked at the town he had just occupied.

Just a few minutes ago, he was still commanding his soldiers to attack the outskirts of this town alongside other lords.

But after eliminating only a few hundred old, weak, sick, and slow-to-retreat Lesser Demons, this small town named Anvil Town changed hands.

Everything inside, including the nearby dwarven mines, now belonged to the alliance under Gu Changqing.

Although the town's interior had been ravaged by the demons and resembled a garbage dump, even in this state, there were still many valuable items among the ruins.

However, despite the presence of valuable items within the ruins of Anvil Town, none of the warriors dared to approach them.

Because before Wu Wei's army withdrew, an extremely terrifying massacre had taken place here.

Countless demons had carried out inhumane extermination operations against their demon slave laborers.

Their actions resembled some indescribable heretical sacrifice, filled with despair, cruelty, and violence everywhere.

Although Wu Wei's order to the demon overseers was simply “recycle,” the demon overseers had clearly misinterpreted Wu Wei's meaning.

While it was indeed recycling, these demons didn't mind adding a few small touches during the process to “reward” themselves.

So, when they “recycled” these dwarves, their methods far exceeded the understanding of many creatures.

When the soldiers under the various lords entered the cities left behind by Wu Wei, the scenes they encountered were almost incomprehensible.

Corpses hung on the walls, dismembered limbs, and bodies gnawed down to skeletons....

The blasphemous gifts left by the demons filled all the soldiers with sincere terror.

However, these scenes were of no concern to the other lords.

After all, they wanted profit, territory, not a group of dwarven refugees.

The dwarven slave laborers may have suffered a tragic fate, but what did that have to do with them?

Some lords even secretly thanked Wu Wei for what he had done.

They were grateful that Wu Wei had cleared out the useless dwarves before leaving.

Otherwise, these dwarven refugees would have been an invisible burden to them.

If they got sick, they would have to be treated; if they were hungry, they would have to be provided with expensive food.

More importantly, they were currently occupying what used to be the dwarves' homeland, so if they made any demands...

But no matter what, if they were really asked to drive these dwarves out of their territory and watch them die, then whether it was these lords themselves, or the heroes, generals, or soldiers under them, they would feel pity.

So, they were actually very grateful to Wu Wei, the demon, for taking care of this problem for them.

But then again, the ruins left by Wu Wei after this “recycling” were, in a sense, a very troublesome thing.

Because within these ruins, due to the countless corpses left behind by that inhumane massacre, a large number of plague flies had occupied the area, turning it into a breeding ground for their kind.

And these plague flies were very dangerous to ordinary creatures.

So, when Gu Changqing entered Anvil Town, the first thing he did was not to send troops to clear the rubble, but to use the mages and engineers in the alliance to burn the ruins to prevent the spread of the plague.

The next step was for him and his alliance to move civilian units to the various resource locations.

But this was just the first town.

After making only preliminary defense plans, Gu Changqing immediately led the second batch of arriving troops to join the first batch and head to the second dwarven kingdom town.

There, another almost unguarded town was waiting for him to occupy.

Sure enough, the second town also fell into the hands of Gu Changqing and others.

The ease with which these two towns were occupied completely exceeded the expectations of Gu Changqing and others.

Then came the third and fourth towns.

In just half a day, Gu Changqing's alliance controlled four towns and one-fifth of the kingdom's passageways within the Dwarf Kingdom.

This speed of expansion made the Gu Changqing alliance extremely happy.

But this joy lasted for only a few hours.

But don't get me wrong.

Wu Wei did not start a counterattack.

He did abandon the towns in the Dwarf Kingdom except for the dwarven capital and was launching a fierce attack towards the Bitter Sea Desert.

What really made Gu Changqing and others' joy disappear were the other lords who were also eyeing the wealth of the Dwarf Kingdom!

Seeing Gu Changqing and others expand so quickly, these lords also joined in the process of dividing up the Dwarf Kingdom.

They also set their sights on the territory left behind by Wu Wei.

And their preparations were more thorough than Gu Changqing's, who had hesitated at the start.

When Gu Changqing and others began to attack the fifth town, in a nearby tunnel.

A lord led his army, driving gnome war machines purchased from Li Qi, and directly ambushed these unprepared warriors from behind.

This despicable act directly angered the alliance to which Gu Changqing and others belonged.

The two forces directly engaged in a fierce battle within the kingdom passageway, and for a time, the already silent passageway was once again stained red with blood.

Moreover, this was just the beginning.

As time passed, more and more lords or alliances of lords entered the kingdom passageway and participated in this feast of division.

Even many natives of the Trial Continent discovered this opportunity and wanted to get a piece of the pie.

The environment within the kingdom passageway became chaotic once again.

Moreover, just as the alliance of Gu Changqing and others was overwhelmed by the new war, they received new messages.

These messages were very chaotic, but they all had one thing in common.

That is....

“In the Bitter Sea Desert, a black sun has risen.”

Black sun? What is that?

Bitter Sea Desert? Isn't that Wu Wei's area of attack?

While Gu Changqing and others in the underground kingdom did not know what this sentence meant or what was happening outside.

The entire Trial Continent was actually silent.

Because no matter where they were, they all simultaneously saw that round of... mentioned in the message.

The black sun!