#70 - Chapter 70: Turning the Gun
These events occurred a few minutes before Su Yingxue's conversation with Li Sinuo.
The Bitter Sea Desert.
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Thump!
Sak Blackblade's mangled body was dragged and thrown to the ground by the Imp Matriarch.
This pitiful chieftain of the Blackblade clan, like his son, had been devoured alive by the Imp Matriarch, reduced to a bloody stump, lying in the desert.
Though this was cruel, it was not cruel enough.
Because the cruelest part of what the Imp Matriarch did was that the Orcs' robust physique ensured they would bleed for a long time before dying.
“Lord, it is finished.”
The Imp Matriarch Caroline came before Wu Wei and said respectfully.
Wu Wei opened his eyes, withdrawing his War Sight from the distant battlefields, and looked down.
“Your war has no honor…” Sak Blackblade stared intently at the Abyss Lord before him with his eyes.
The latter returned his gaze without wavering.
“I'm too lazy to repeat myself, war is war, nothing more.”
Wu Wei glanced at the Orc chieftain, dismissing him as if he were roadside trash.
“Caroline…”
At Wu Wei's words, the Imp Matriarch became even more respectful, prostrating herself almost horizontally before Wu Wei.
“Have your children stop devouring the remaining Orc warriors, especially those still alive!”
At this moment, while Wu Wei was speaking, countless Imps were frantically slaughtering the Orc warriors who had been driven to mental collapse by the Black Sun.
Many of these pitiful Orc warriors could no longer distinguish between reality and illusion.
Some believed the Imps before them were merely phantasms in a hallucination, resisting futilely in terror.
Others had simply broken down, unable to recover from the previous illusion.
Looking at these Orc warriors, Wu Wei said indifferently.
“Spare them, they still have a use.”
Hearing her lord's command, the Imp Matriarch immediately opened her mouth and roared like a mad dragon, then quickly ran towards the Imps.
The Imps, who had been gleefully devouring Orcs, scattered in all directions as if they had encountered a natural enemy.
Not only the Imps, but also the Winding Demons, Lesser Demons, and Laurent Demons in the army ran away.
Although none of the Imps were willing to give up the delicious food before them, under the Imp Matriarch's might, they maintained a rare consistency among demons.
Oh no, still inconsistent.
Two Imps, seeing the Imp Matriarch Caroline running over, still chose to continue devouring the food before them.
And their last bite truly became their last.
The Imp Matriarch angrily grabbed the two Imps, swallowed the uglier one whole, and stuffed the other, even uglier one into the cage on her chest, allowing the venomous mist spewed from the tumors on her body to turn them into monsters forever in a state of frenzy.
Now, no Imp dared to approach the Orcs who had surrendered.
The Imp Matriarch's suppressive power was a new “rule” that Wu Wei had discovered from countless battles.
Compared to his forced commands, many times, weaker demons were actually suppressed by demons far stronger than themselves.
This suppression, stemming from bloodline or strength, was often more effective than Wu Wei's forced commands through the Abyss Heart.
At least the Imp Matriarch's ordinary roar was much easier than Wu Wei locking it in the Heavenly Dao System.
Demons were such a peculiar species, chaotic and unpredictable.
But within this endless chaos, certain rules, though not exactly laws, could still be found to operate.
Just as Wu Wei began to direct his remaining demon slave laborers to bind and transport the Orcs, the chieftain of the Blackblade clan, now a stump but still breathing, suddenly laughed.
This eerie laughter surprised Wu Wei.
Sensing Wu Wei's surprise, the Blackblade chieftain stubbornly propped his head up from the ground, turned over, and looked at Wu Wei.
“Haha, it's useless, evil lord.”
“Even if you capture these warriors, it's no use!”
“Because you only used dark, corrupting magic to temporarily break our minds, but under the protection of the Orc Ancestor, no Orc who regains consciousness can submit to you!”
“So, you can only get corpses from us, nothing else!”
The Blackblade chieftain, who originally wanted to die quickly and return to the embrace of the Orc Ancestor, stared intently at Wu Wei.
“Do you understand? We Orcs will never yield to you!”
“…”
Wu Wei was silent for a moment, his snake-like scarlet vertical pupils blinked twice.
“Oh.”
After saying 'oh,' Wu Wei continued to order the demon slave laborers.
The Orc warriors would be divided into two categories: those still alive would be taken away.
The rest would be given to his demon subordinates as food to replenish their strength and heal their injuries.
“Hey, you damned bastard, did you hear what I said!”
“We Orcs can never submit to you!”
The Blackblade chieftain shouted, exasperated.
“Of course I heard, I'm not deaf.”
Wu Wei turned his head and smiled.
For some reason, after Wu Wei smiled, the Blackblade chieftain suddenly felt a chill down his spine.
Because the last time he saw this unspeakably evil lord smile was when the Black Sun shone.
“You seem to have misunderstood.”
“I never said that keeping the living Orcs was useful to me on the premise that you submit to me.”
Wu Wei stood before him and slowly squatted down.
Then, Wu Wei touched the other's head and said with a smile.
“I keep you alive just to keep your bodies fresher.”
“Fresh?!”
Hearing this, an extremely ominous premonition arose in Sak Blackblade's heart.
“What are you talking about?”
Wu Wei shook his head, behind him, an Abyss Teleportation Gate built with newly acquired resources was slowly rising.
On the other side of the teleportation gate was the Endless Abyss.
Wu Wei planned to use the Bitter Sea Desert as a node to transport Orcs, half-Orcs, and the slaves they kept.
Although this would consume his already scarce resources, it was a necessary thing.
Because Wu Wei needed to use this teleportation gate to send the half-Orcs and half-Orc slaves into the Endless Abyss, turning them into [Abyss-Influenced Creatures] to be sacrificed to the [Abyss Seed] in its incubation stage.
Moreover, in the process, Wu Wei could conveniently send the living, or rather, fresh Orc warriors to the [Parasitic Demons] who were already hungry!
Although this was not very convenient, in a sense, it was the most labor-saving method.
Because the other way was to build several [Blasphemous Torches] in the Bitter Sea Desert and turn it into the territory of the Abyss.
This would consume far more resources than a teleportation gate, and more importantly.
Wu Wei did not intend to truly regard the Bitter Sea Desert as his territory!
In his strategy, although the Bitter Sea Desert was easy to defend, purely defending was definitely not his philosophy.
Nor did it conform to the philosophy of the Abyss.
This desert was too barren, although it was indeed suitable for the Abyss Seed to defend itself, it was not conducive to the development of the Abyss.
Especially Wu Wei's war-forging strategy.
So Wu Wei planned to abandon most of the Bitter Sea Desert area, using most of the area as a buffer zone, leaving only a certain amount of troops stationed near the Abyss Seed to guard against sneak attacks from other lords and forces.
Next was Wu Wei's next goal.
Return to the Dwarf Kingdom!
Wu Wei looked at the system map and smiled.
“Gu Changqing, I wonder how you and your allies have built my mines on the land I left behind.”
“I wonder how many civilian units you left in them, waiting for my arrival!”
Finally, Wu Wei's evil purpose was achieved.
He successfully used his transfer to lure Gu Changqing and others into the battlefield he had reserved for them, which was the entire Dwarf Kingdom and even the kingdom通道.
Then, Wu Wei used the fact that the other party would definitely not pursue him deeply after seeing so many resource-producing areas in the original Dwarf Kingdom, and placed most of his superior forces on conquering the Bitter Sea Desert.
This step of the plan was also successful.
Wu Wei not only obtained a large amount of resources originally belonging to the Orc clans, but also gained control of the entire Bitter Sea Desert.
Most importantly, Wu Wei's losses this time were, in a sense, not many!
Because his current army originally came from the Dwarf miners who had no ability to resist.
It was their corpses and dedication that made up this army.
And although this army suffered a lot of losses in the battle of the Bitter Sea Desert, the problem was.
The number of demons still alive far exceeded the number Wu Wei had in the Dwarf Kingdom, even nearly doubling it!
More importantly, Wu Wei also believed in a result that would not go wrong.
That is, although several days had passed, Gu Changqing and his alliance still had no way to control the entire Dwarf Kingdom.
Because the territory Wu Wei left behind was too large.
And he left too quickly, so there was definitely more than one force involved in the competition for the entire area.
Countless forces had probably already extended their tentacles into this area, along with a large number of civilian units.
So, Wu Wei now needed to turn his guns around.
He needed to use this huge army to regain his territory.
Because there, the Abyss Torches that had not completely collapsed were eagerly calling for his return as an Abyss Lord!
Along with calling for Wu Wei's return were the Plague Twins who had been holding on in the Dwarf King City for several days…
This pair of siblings had never given up the nest, or rather…
Homeland, that their lord had bestowed upon them.
