Chapter 988 - Lèse-majesté (2/2)
“Leader Balcon, because of Sagain, I’ve forgiven your mistakes multiple times. But right here, right now! I’m the commander-in-chief! Also, Sagain isn’t here to save your ass. I’m surprised that you dare reply me so defiantly, especially when all my bodyguards are here…” Ye Cang grabbed Balcon’s fingers and started bending it with a wicked smile on his face. This was one of his favourite ways of torturing the enemy but not killing them. He cracked his ten fingers, healed him and repeated the same thing. The cycle was never-ending.
Shalun and Baluto did not dare utter anything from their mouths as they were afraid of both sides. Or to be precise, they could only stand on Ye Cang’s side. When they saw Youdiss smiling gracefully, it refreshed their understanding of Ye Cang. So, the Dark Shrine and Goddess Association were close. HundredFlame Martials Arts Saint sighed, “Lord Commander-in-chief PaleSnow, I hope you can forgive Balcon’s lèse-majesté since we are still in a war.”
“Since HundredFlame Martial Arts Saint helped you to beg for forgiveness, I’ll forgive you. But first, I need your apology…” Ye Cang twisted his finger as hard as he could. Balcon dripped hot and cold sweat due to the pain and saw the Saintess nodded, “Commander-in-chief, it’s my mistake of offending you. I hope you can forgive me…”
Ye Cang signaled Verali to let him go while he returned to his seat casually as if nothing had happened. “Alright, where were we just now? Let’s continue…”
The leaders of the tiger and lion tribes were stunned by Ye Cang’s actions. Not because of him twisting Balcon’s fingers as it was an ordinary punishment among the beastmen, but it was due to the fact that he dared to punish one of the leaders of the Holy Church who was part of the three big knights army and that was in front of the Saintess. He was as if trying to announce to the public that he has no respect for the Holy Church.
The Saintess from Holy Church, Fenna stared at Ye Cang with a blank face. She was pissed when she saw Youdiss’ despised look and yet she could not do anything.
Throughout the meeting, Balcon remained silent and everyone came to an agreement to launch an attack at the enemy base but on the condition that they must wait for the arrival of Ryance and Fandair. Their reason was there were a number of legendary heroes on the enemy’s side. Fortunately enough, Agaloss was here. He blocked all interruptions that tried to peak the situation in Tiar with his pulse wave. Not only did it block away any information from Tiar that could reach the enemies, they could not cast any surveillance or prying magic. Once such magic was casted, they would be deflected by a curse from Agaloss’ Eye of Arcane. This curse was extremely scary. Once a person was cursed, the individual could be severely injured in a minor case or kill himself or herself if it was a serious case.
Every day, Shalun, Fansiss and Baluto were busy explaining real information and the true situation about the Great Wasteland to the people. This was because the leader of Iskafanda’s Royal Mages – Fansiss was the eldest among everyone and he had the most understanding about the land. He told them that the changes regarding the oasis started a few hundred years ago. In the beginning, there were only a few undead spirits so no one bothered. However, the oases started to disappear one after another. Back then, there were a few hundreds of permanent oases but there were only dozens of them to date. The others would dry up periodically and reappear at other places. With the increasing number of undead spirits, Iskafanda had reached its limits and that put an end to many lives due to dehydration. It was almost the end of the world.
“Wait, so that means the Natural Disaster had prepared this for a few hundred years…” Makarlo realized. No wonder their preparation was this good.
“Most importantly, the Ring of Sun has also been conquered…” Everyone was shocked at Fansiss’ words. They were frightened of the heat in the Ring of Sun.
“The Star of Broken Sky – WarFist, Ring of Sun, Natural Disaster…” Agaloss had a bad feeling about this but he was not sure.
Through Disaster, Ye Cang had gotten the information that the believers of God of Evil camped at the west of the desert. It was near the rift where the Abalachia tribe was located. He asked Youdiss to inform Minox about the plan by going through Liasy. He asked them to build a fortress there so he could officially hide the floating ship path from Sand Sea Village. He would ask a bunch of special forces to standby and ambush the enemy from the side when it was necessary.
After knowing Ye Cang’s rough plan, Youdiss was amazed at the importance of the coast. I will ask the guards of the twins from the Dark Shrine to head over. I bet the Holy Church will also send their trump card, the Holy War Knights. The others will send some elites to sneak over too. If we can use these special forces effectively, we can clear the entire west, south and north. Our chances of winning will be greater too..