Chapter 76: Departure! Returning to Blue Well Cunzi, the Warriors Fighting Over Monsters

As the morning light faintly appeared, the earth was completely silent.

After a night of heat dissipation, the morning in Celebration Cunzi was exceptionally comfortable; the temperature was not as scorching as during the day, nor was there the pitch-black darkness of the night.

This was the perfect time to lead the troops out!

At this moment in Celebration Cunzi, there was a clamor of voices; many of the village's people were voluntarily helping the departing Warriors pack up tents and supplies. Wooden barrels filled with water were carried onto carriages by several young men, and in basket after basket, freshly baked Bread was still steaming—these were the military rations baked non-stop in the village's ovens throughout the night, and each loaf, the size of a face, could provide a young man with enough energy for an entire day.

Most people had already risen and eaten before dawn, and were now gathering, counting heads, and preparing to form up and depart.

Because Jier's team had been moving between various villages for these past days, everyone's movements were very nimble; even the Caravan guards and shop thugs who had joined temporarily had adapted to the high efficiency of Jier's team during these days.

Everyone threw their respective belongings onto the carriages, then lined up in neat rows to be inspected by Jier, who was on horseback.

"Ha, the bounty promised to you last night has already been distributed; you've all collected your money, right? Do you want to earn more?" Jier asked the crowd with a smile.

The Warriors responded happily: "Of course, my lord. No one would complain about having too much money."

Jier waved toward the mountain Forest not far to the north: "Then follow me as we march toward the Monsters' nest! There are surely many Monsters there, as well as Monsters with valuable blooming heads. Let me think, besides me, which Warriors in our team already have a record of defeating blooming Monsters? Report yourselves!"

Aoni immediately raised his right hand and said proudly: "I have cooperated with others three times to defeat blooming Monsters. I also once pursued a fleeing Monster, cut off its leg, and assisted you, Lord Jier, in killing it."

"Not bad, each blooming Monster is worth several Gold Coins in bounty; based on the Sasi Family's bounty, with your track record, you've earned at least three or four Gold Coins. What about the others?"

Jier commented.

Weier, Bawei, and Sipulu—Warriors who had some skills—each reported their battle records, and the Tusi Brothers also had a record of killing a blooming Monster alone using their Large Bows. Even among the Caravan guards who had joined the team temporarily, there were highly capable guards who had cooperated in pairs to kill a blooming Monster.

"Very good! I can guarantee that you will surely create new records and get more bounty in these two days! Haha, but don't envy me; although I have killed the most blooming Monsters, if you say: 'Knight Jier, give me a chance, I want to take on a blooming Monster with my partner!' then I will give it to you. As long as you can handle it!"

The Warriors all expressed that they wanted such an opportunity.

"There is enough for everyone! A blooming Monster is worth several Gold Coins in bounty, even if there are five?"

"Yes, yes, you are right, my lord!" the Warriors responded excitedly.

Jier drew his Long Spear and waved it to the north: "Then let's go, get on the carriages, first head to Blue Well Cunzi in the northwest, then reach the edge of the mountain Forest, and we will charge into the Forest and destroy their nest!"

"Destroy it! Destroy it!"

The Warriors shouted, jumping onto the carriages one after another, and the drivers also excitedly waved their horse whips, driving the Pack Horses to start moving.

Jier walked at the very front and saw Bell also mounting a horse and looking over from not far away; he raised the Long Spear in his hand and signaled from afar.

The other party also tapped his chest armor with his right hand, signaling from a distance.

Unlike the nimble departure of the elite Warriors on Jier's side, the youths from Knight Families under Bell were naturally elite; not only were they fully equipped, but they each brought two or three attendants who were equally capable of fighting. Most of the Priests were still performing their morning Prayer and would catch up with the various groups on horseback later.

As for the Town Guards and the two or three hundred Armed Civilians, they were the most numerous, and their movements were chaotic.

Many people had only just woken up after dawn, either queuing to fetch water to wash up, or looking anxious while queuing to relieve themselves. More people were crowded at the cooking area, holding Wooden Bowls and waiting to eat.

Whenever a Cook by a campfire announced that breakfast was ready, a large group of guards and Armed Civilians would gather around, pushing and shoving each other to demand breakfast from the Cook, creating a scene of chaos.

This chaos was a stark contrast to the orderly way the Warriors on Jier's side woke up, washed, ate, and formed up to depart.

"Looking at it this way, Knight Jier is quite capable of managing a team. Compared to him, it's too chaotic over here."

Bell sighed; he also wanted to manage the current chaos, but every time he spoke, everyone would quiet down for a moment, but after he finished speaking, these people would continue to push and shove just as they had before. Even when he asked everyone to queue up in an orderly fashion and be a bit neater, only a few veteran Town Guards could maintain order for a while, but it would soon become chaotic again.

A young woman on horseback beside Bell curled her lip and mentioned news she had heard: "I heard last night that Jier doesn't actually interfere much with the management of his team; he just directly controls every Warrior under him, personally training everyone, teaching them how to fight, practicing martial arts, how to march, how to set up camp, and so on. Therefore, when the Warriors who make up the majority of his team appear efficient, even those who join temporarily naturally imitate the others in the team and become equally efficient."

Nade-Angdelika, who was of the same status nearby, added: "Bell, look closely; compared to the temporarily conscripted Armed Civilians, the Town Guards still have some order. And among the Town Guards, those conscripted and trained this year are not as good as the veteran Town Guards stationed in the town."

Bell stroked his chin with his hand; a thin layer of stubble had grown on his chin: "Do you think I should break up the team and have the Town Guards who can follow orders intersperse among the Armed Civilians, using people to influence people, and make the whole team more efficient? Whether in daily life or in battle?"

"Absolutely not!" these youths from Knight Families said in unison.

After saying this, they smiled at each other, and Bell also laughed, withdrawing his plan, because he knew he had said something foolish. If there were many Town Guards and few Armed Civilians, it might be possible to do this, and perhaps after two or three days, the whole team would become efficient.

But the reality was that the number of Town Guards was less than the Armed Civilians, and if they were mixed like this, the Town Guards who were originally efficient and obedient would be completely influenced by the more numerous Armed Civilians.

His control over the entire team would instead be reduced even further, and it was even possible that he would have no control at all.

"Then let's leave it at that; everyone, don't wait around me, go down and help maintain order," Bell finally said.

Jier's carriage convoy departed from the north gate of Celebration Cunzi, followed the dirt road straight to the main trade route, and then turned toward Blue Well Cunzi, not far to the northwest.

Blue Well Cunzi—Jier had previously led people to live in this village for a period of time.

But unlike before, not only had the weather become increasingly hot during these days, but the number of Monsters had also increased significantly. Therefore, although there were not many Monsters in the village when he first arrived in Sasi County, now they had all moved from the Forest and fields into the village, valuing the water wells in the village.

Monsters also need to 'drink water', after all.

As before, Jier's carriage convoy headed straight from the dilapidated village gate to the center of Blue Well Cunzi, moving quickly to avoid the Parasitic Vine Monsters that had just reacted.

And when the convoy stopped in a circle in the open space at the center of the village, the Warriors jumped off the carriages, howling; they each set their sights on the few blooming Monsters in the village, instead asking Jier to lead some of the less skilled new Warriors to deal with the more numerous ordinary Monsters.

"Ha, then suit yourselves! But don't fight over them; when your skill isn't enough, don't be stingy about letting others help. Getting injured is fine, but don't die!" Jier shouted, riding his Tianxuecao and jogging in circles around the open space. The Radiant Weapon on the tip of the Long Spear he held in his hand could tear open any ordinary Monster it struck at will, causing it to burn fiercely from within its body.

With the help of this Battle Divine Art that he could release himself, Jier did not need to accurately hit the Core Human Face inside the torso of an ordinary Monster; he only needed to pierce the Monster's body with one spear strike, and the large amount of vines shrinking and coiling inside the opponent's body would become the best fuel for the Sun God Divine Power to burn.

The Warriors in the team who considered themselves capable, whether they were Jier's subordinates or the temporarily joined Caravan guards and shop thugs, more than twenty of them surrounded the four blooming Monsters. The problem now was not how to deal with these powerful Monsters, but who would deal with them?

"I'll do it!" Bawei carried his axe, his full suit of plate armor looking majestic and extraordinary.

"Just leave one blooming Monster for us; we won't fight over it, just leave one for us!" a Caravan guard with some skill pointed a finger to the sky and shouted loudly.

The blooming Monsters charged left and right, but surrounded by Human Warriors whose strength and numbers were several times their own, they became trapped beasts. Just like large fish struggling out of water at a fish stall, they looked like they were twisting and turning, but in reality, how they would be eaten had already been decided in advance by the onlookers.

The Warriors were still arguing about who would deal with the blooming Monsters and take this bounty, when unexpectedly, the Tusi Brothers silently took out their Large Bows, stood at a high point in the carriage bed, and relying on the high-ground advantage, shot over the heads of the surrounding people. They fired both Large Bows simultaneously, aiming at the head of a blooming Monster, and accurately hit the Monster's skull, shattering the hard wooden skull and incidentally destroying the pitch-black, kidney-like core inside the head.

"Ha! We, the Tusi Brothers, take today's first bounty!" Xiao Tusi shouted loudly.

Zhongtusi shrugged at the Warriors who were glaring back at them and whispered: "It wasn't said that we couldn't do this, right? Whoever strikes first gets it, right?"

The crowd thought about it and realized it was true, so they swarmed up and directly submerged the remaining three blooming Monsters.

The two Yemei Town officials sitting in the driver's seats of the carriages suddenly didn't know how to record what was happening with the ink pens in their hands.

They discussed it for a moment, and then wrote on the paper: 【The Tusi Brothers used their skilled Large Bows to kill a blooming Monster first. Subsequently, the remaining three blooming Monsters were submerged by the angry Warriors; all of them participated in the attack.】

With this, the other Warriors who had not participated in dealing with the blooming Monsters also received a small share of the blooming Monster bounty, which was something they hadn't expected.

Before long, with Jier's relaxed circling and fighting, and the assistance of other Warriors, the more numerous ordinary Parasitic Vine Monsters were all dealt with.

The Warriors went about looting the village, and those using Daggers to dissect the dead Monsters and pull out the vines inside them also finished quickly.

When the accompanying messenger rode off to Celebration Cunzi to report the news, the sun today had only just climbed above the horizon.

"Rest a moment, drink some water, we are going to hit the road next. We'll run in one breath to the edge of the mountain forest to establish a supply Jiedian. Everyone has one of the logging axes and Iron Shovel we asked the Merchant Guild for yesterday, right?"

Jier confirmed.

The accompanying attendant Bell immediately jumped down from the carriage and counted once more the logging axes and Iron Shovel hanging on both sides of the carriage.

"Knight Jier, because the situation is urgent, it is impossible for everyone to have one. I am sorry, we could only temporarily prepare twenty axes and twenty shovels. They are all firmly fixed to the outside of the carriage."

This attendant reported; because he was responsible for contacting the Merchant Guild that provided the supplies, this Sasi Family attendant, who usually watched more and spoke less, was busy running back and forth at this time.

"That's fine. When we reach a suitable place, we can handle the logging and clearing the ground for the Yingdi together." Jier was basically satisfied with this. In any case, the combat personnel under his command at this time were less than fifty people, even adding the drivers, the Mao Mao in the boxes, and the Priests who hadn't followed yet and were still doing their morning Prayer, the whole team was only seventy-something people.

After waiting for a while, the messenger who went to deliver the news rode back. It was already this time, yet Bell's team still hadn't departed from Celebration Cunzi. Jier could only shrug at this, offering no comment.

"Lord Jier, Young Master Bell already knows about us taking Blue Well Cunzi. He publicly praised you and the various Warrior who fought hard, and severely criticized the Town Guard and Armed Civilian who were still organizing their ranks."

The messenger's expression was rather difficult to hold, but this was also within Jier's expectations.

"He didn't say anything else regarding the counterattack plan?" Jier asked.

"No, my lord. Young Master Bell didn't say anything." The messenger said immediately.

Thereupon, Jier waved his hand, jumped onto Tianxuecao, and said to the crowd resting in the shadows of the buildings and trees: "Everyone get on the carriages, let's go! Strive to arrive at the place by noon, establish the forward supply Yingdi before dark, and scout the situation in the mountain forest."

The crowd climbed onto the carriages that had been scorched by the sun, and the drivers also led the Pack Horse out from the shade, quickly putting the Jiansheng, bits, and other things on the horses, and set off quickly.

With a rumble, Jier's convoy went out from the north gate of Blue Well Cunzi. The north gate was originally still closed; Jier threw the Yueshui Skull Two-Handed Axe, and with one blow, he smashed open the tightly shut gate.

And it was only until this moment that Bell led his five hundred-plus men in a chaotic manner out of Celebration Cunzi, and proceeded in the Xīběi direction along the main commercial Shanglu. They would not go to Blue Well Cunzi, but rather Bell would send a small Refining Qi team to check on the village that Jier had quickly taken, and subsequently station twenty Town Guard there, waiting for Yemei Town to also send the villagers of Blue Well Cunzi over for resettlement today.

The Priests were all riding horses. They had actually finished their morning Prayer very early in Celebration Cunzi, but they gathered together, and although they belonged to different divine churches, they also temporarily held a short meeting for manpower allocation.

The specific content was unknown to outsiders; it was just that the Priests originally accompanying the team had been reallocated. The Priests following Jier changed from the original five Agricultural God Church Priests and five Sun God Church Priests to two Agricultural God Church Priests, two Sun God Church Priests, two Church of the God of Wealth Priests, and even one Priest from the Church of the God of the Dead who had rushed over.

It wasn't that the Agricultural God Church and the Sun God Church didn't want to send more manpower to Jier's side; clearly, following Jier on this journey was easy and relaxed, as the fighting was all borne by Jier and his men.

But due to the pressure from Bell and the protests from the Church of the God of Wealth, the two churches had to place more manpower on the larger scale Bell's route. After all, with more people, the visible casualties in battle would also be greater, and relying solely on the Priests of the Church of the God of Wealth would not be enough.

Therefore, when the seven Priests from four different churches caught up to his convoy, Jier was a bit confused at first, but then he understood.

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