Chapter 572: Surprisingly Easy, Incomprehensible Demihumans (2/2)
The demihumans opened their eyes wide.
Boom!
In the next moment, Stingham jumped in fright as the demihumans desperately ran towards Ayrin.
These demihumans look much stronger than normal arcane masters, yet they just surrendered like that?
“No wonder everybody despises the demihumans since the Era of the War with Dragons...... They are really dumb......” Rinloran could not help but shake his head.
“Will these cowardly bugs be useful as an army?” Belo snorted.
“If we think about how to use them effectively, there will be a way.”
Ayrin was elated after seeing the demihumans rushing to him and calling him Leader or Boss. He turned to look at Belo, “Even Stingham has become powerful now. Although these demihumans are cowards, they aren’t lazy. They must be useful.”
“Hearing you say it like that, we believe it’s more credible.” Rinloran and Belo glanced at Stingham and snorted.
“Haha, Ayrin, don’t say I’m powerful. I will feel proud if you praise me like that.” Stingham laughed and proudly swung his Green Dragon Spear.
Rinloran and the others almost puked blood.
You take that comparison as praise?
What is the brain of that idiot made out of?
“Leader! What should we do next?”
Seeing Ayrin and the others not attacking them, the demihumans stopped being afraid. They became eager to work on their next assignment.
“Good fighting spirit. You’re all hardworking fellows!”
Ayrin laughed, “Next, we must expand our army. The bigger the army, the less likely others will bully you. Where are the other demihumans?”
“They are inside the Metallurgy Forest!”
“Leader! We will bring you there!”
The demihumans rowdily shouted and happily led the way as if they had been Ayrin’s retainers for a long time already.
A group of at least two to three thousand demihumans noisily led the way.
Soon, they crossed the muddy thorny forest. A camp radiating heat and flames appeared in their view.
Within the camp, there were wood and ores brought from other places piled up everywhere. Simple furnaces were built randomly throughout the camp.
A large crowd of demihumans were busy at work. Many of them were smithing on large rocks, some even rolling on top of the slag that had yet to cool.
The dense and humid thorn forest isolated the noise and heat. From a glance, it was evident at least ten thousand demihumans had gathered here.
“Single-eye Man-eating Troll?”
“He didn’t die in the battlefield and survived?”
In the buzzy camp, an especially tall figure attracted the attention of Ayrin and the others immediately.
It was the Troll who was mentally damaged by Ayrin.
“These guys...... really have the nature of fearing the strong and bullying the weak......”
What made Ayrin speechless was that the demihumans were extremely scared of the Troll. They were forced to death and yet did not dare to disobey him. Yet now that the Troll was mentally damaged and became an idiot, the demihumans swung their whips and drove him to work.
Ayrin’s arrival immediately caused chaos.
After seeing Ayrin’s face, the camp where over ten thousand demihumans gathered immediately exploded. All demihumans scattered and began escaping.
“Don’t run!”
“Be obedient and stay!”
“He’s our Leader now! He’s here to recruit all of you!”
“We will follow Leader from now on and work for him!”
What left Ayrin and the others speechless was that before they thought of doing anything, the demihumans who led the way shouted proudly. They even took the initiative to spread out and surround the escaping demihumans that numbered over ten thousand.
“Quick, be obedient!”
“Don’t dawdle! Leader wants to organize a larger army!”
The ten thousand demihumans were actually controlled by the two to three thousand demihumans. They brought the ten thousand demihumans before Ayrin and the others.
The group of demihumans who surrendered earlier actually became bossy around the other demihumans.
Even Stingham was dumbfounded.
What was even more surprising was that one shivering demihuman was chosen as representative to be a negotiator of sorts.
“Are you really going to be our Leader? You aren’t going to execute us?” The demihuman who was chosen seemed so scared his legs could give way at any moment.
Ayrin slapped his own chest confidently and promised, “Of course, not! We want to make a huge army! I will be your Leader!”
“Really?”
The camp instantly started cheering in the next second.
“Leader, what weapon do you want?”
“Leader, have you eaten breakfast?”
The demihumans excitedly started flattering Ayrin.
Some demihumans even brought a few pots of some unknown bone and meat soup to Ayrin.
“Is Ayrin really going to eat it?” Moss and Stingham looked at Ayrin and seemed worried.
“That’s not delicious. Prepare yourselves, I will bring you to eat delicious monsters later!”
“After eating monster meat, maybe you’ll become stronger!”
They felt relieved as Ayrin seemed uninterested in the ‘food’ from those pots.
“Monsters?”
The demihumans trembled.
A few demihumans were so scared they spilled the stuff in the pot and scalded their feet.
“Relax. Are you worried you can’t beat monsters even after following me? Are you afraid you can’t eat monster meat?”
Ayrin looked passionate, “We will catch monsters. Those who surrender will be your mounts and monster companions. Those who won’t surrender will be eaten!”
“Yeah, why should we be afraid of monsters if we follow Leader!? Even the Bone Emperor is no match for him!”
“I haven’t tried monster meat before!”
“We can eat monster meat if we follow Leader!”
“Let’s go, we will catch monsters!”
The demihumans immediately became enthusiastic. They put on their crude equipment and began preparing for battle.