Chapter 2015

"Holy shit!"

Aoki Yoshiya hurriedly imitated his posture and lay prone on the ground.

The werewolves' screams came from everywhere.

But soon, with one clank of a weapon after another, the screams quickly faded.

What followed was the sound of footsteps.

A large number of footsteps swept past them, and only one set of footsteps stopped.

Shirakawa Yuya felt a slight tremor in front of him.

He saw only the tip of an enormous high heel.

"Are you the lord?"

A woman's voice, rich and magnetic.

"Yes! I am the lord, Shirakawa Yuya."

Shirakawa Yuya still held up the wolf claw, his body pressed flat on the ground, not raising his head.

"I… I am the lord's aide, Aoki Yoshi!"

Aoki Yoshi blurted out in a panic.

"Mm… you two, change back into human form!"

"Yes! Yes!"

Shirakawa Yuya's body immediately shifted; a coat of wolf fur receded into his body, and a suit of foreign armor appeared on him.

Aoki Yoshi also swiftly changed back just as quickly.

Puff puff puff!

Suddenly, the two felt their bodies wrapped by something—without thinking, it had to be those threads.

"Whoa! No good, she's still going to kill us!" Aoki Yoshi panicked.

"Shut your mouth, you idiot!" Shirakawa Yuya regretted it to death.

He wanted to curse Aoki Yoshi out, but he didn't dare curse loudly in front of this woman, so he could only curse his eighteen generations of ancestors in his heart.

Gu Qing said, "You two are very lucky—you're the only two who get to live."

"Thank you, my lord Zhao, for your mercy!"

Shirakawa Yuya shouted his thanks loudly, while feeling those threads… they seemed to be ordinary threads.

"The only two who get to live? Then are you going to kill all 8000 warriors in our county too? You can't do this! They'll all surrender!" Aoki Yoshi couldn't move at all, but he still shouted loudly.

Gu Qing's silver brows furrowed: "Oh, sorry, I might have misspoken just now. Only the lord gets to live—you have to die too."

"Wh…at?" Aoki Yoshi didn't understand.

But in an instant, the foreign armor on his body suddenly began to smoke, and the threads pressed against his skin let out a sizzling sound.

"Ah? Aaaaaah!!"

Aoki Yoshi suddenly screamed at the top of his lungs.

"Uwaaaaaah! What are you doing? I've already surrendered, you can't… aah, spare me! Spare me! I'm a noble, how could you! Aaah! Aaah…!"

Soon, Aoki Yoshi went silent.

Shirakawa Yuya was drenched in sweat.

He stealthily turned his head to look.

Aoki Yoshi was already nowhere to be seen; beside him was only a clump of viscous threads, along with some armor fragments and chunks of flesh and blood being constantly corroded.

"Behave, or you'll die too."

"Yes! Yes!"

Shirakawa Yuya kowtowed repeatedly.

Gu Qing gave a light snort and charged into the county.

Shirakawa Yuya let out a breath of relief.

After all, he had survived.

That was enough.

Let the others die if they must.

He glared resentfully at Aoki Yoshi's remains, and actually felt that it was truly wonderful that he could die.

Good riddance!

Should have died long ago!

Almost got me killed because of you…

Zhao Chi had originally wanted to spare not a single one.

But Gu Qing suggested, 【my lord, we are currently at a great disadvantage. He is, after all, a county-level lord, so his status should be around squad leader or platoon leader level. If we keep him alive, it might give the World-Breaking Army some leverage for later negotiations—even just a little would be good.】

Zhao Chi: 【Makes sense. Keep him alive. Kill all the other werewolves.】

The werewolves inside the county panicked.

Some of them, seeing the female soldiers charge in, fled in all directions.

Others bared their fangs, ready to fight back.

They had also received the order to surrender, but they likewise saw that the enemy was giving no chance to surrender at all, so some ran, and some chose to fight.

But their main fighting force had all been killed head-on—what could these ordinary werewolves do?

At the final moment of the Silver Moon transformation, every last werewolf was annihilated.

Including those who had fled—they were all chased down.

These werewolf craftsmen were basically all wearing leather armor, or just cloth garments.

One strike and they're instantly killed.

Zhao Chi, inside Qi Yue's body, watched her slaughter dozens of werewolves per second without the slightest psychological burden.

Every one of these werewolves was stained with blood.

Whether the werewolf soldiers in front or these werewolf craftsmen, not a single one was innocent.

Even if these craftsmen never took the initiative to attack, they had eaten plenty of humans.

All died as they deserved.

Silver Moon's transformation is a genetic ability with a fixed duration of only 10 minutes.

So this battle lasted only 10 minutes as well.

Adding the initial travel time, it was barely over 10 minutes.

Therefore…

It can be inferred that werewolves with 80,000 combat power are nothing but a plate of vegetables before Zhao Chi.

And what pleased Zhao Chi was that this time he also incidentally eliminated a Fujita Seisuke with 90,000 combat power.

Too bad his territory didn't connect over.

A territory that loses its lord will lose its connection point, become a wandering territory, and drift through the Sea of Worlds.

In a sense, the werewolves in Fujita Seisuke's territory are now free.

If they develop well, they can keep developing indefinitely.

If they're a bit unlucky, they'll be wiped out by a magical beast invasion — and that probability is high.

For example, the Shi Laimu nest Zhao Chi took down earlier, one could see the remains of human buildings there.

That Shi Laimu nest was probably originally a wandering territory, then invaded by Shi Laimu, who killed the original residents living there.

Until that territory connected near Snowfield City and was destroyed by Zhao Chi.

This battle is already over.

There are quite a few weapons the werewolves dropped on the battlefield — we'll talk about that later.

There's still plenty of resources and supplies in the county town, but there's no time to carefully scavenge right now.

Leave them for now; we'll move them slowly after the battle is completely over.

Now…

Still have to keep striking!

Actually, this battle consumed quite a bit too.

Gu Qing's entire spiritual energy is depleted and is now slowly recovering; she won't be able to use Giant Art in the next battle.

It's not that it can't be used — Zhao Chi can use it inside Zhuang Ya's body, and he can use it himself too — it's just that the quantity can't be as large as this time, and the giant effect can't be this good either.

Zhuang Ya's Blazing Body consumed quite a bit of stamina; she's somewhat tired and probably won't be able to use fire so frantically in the next battle.