Chapter 197: Clearing the West, South, and East! (Grand finale Part-b) (1/2)
Elliot offered to exchange contact details. Arthur put aside his personal feelings like a true professional and gave him his contact details. He was getting paid, so the other things didn't matter much. Not to mention, Elliot was using his silver tongue to butter him up. He was an idiot and took his sweet praise-filled worth for their face value. Hackers like him usually worked behind the scenes, and their contributions didn't matter much. So gaining recognition from a person younger but far powerful than himself made him happy and swayed his heart.
”Another fish that had fallen for the bait!” Lucy inwardly exclaimed, her eyes widened in shock. She was awed and horrified by Elliot's power of forming social connections, although unstable, in a matter of days.
”We're here!” Grace said after they reached the place that connected the center to the south. She wasn't flying and intentionally slithering across the land so that the army of the beast would be able to keep up with her.
They were in a snowy field with overgrown trees, a contrast between the desolate landscape of the center and the overflowing with vitality landscape of the south.
Still under the thickets of the southern trees that provided them a great deal of camouflage, Elliot raised his head and saw seven tents outside the trees, spread across the edges of the cliff.
'Watchmen!'
It didn't need one to be a war strategist to understand that. Elliot raised his hands, manifesting dozens of swords and inwardly ordering them to silence the watchmen in an instant. There were several people standing guard outside the tents, and when they felt something approaching them from the trees, they attentively turned their heads towards that direction.
However, a golden light flashed, and something sharp penetrated their thin necks, ripping them off their shoulders! They died so fast that their eyes remained wide open and filled with attentiveness, meaning they were still looking forward to seeing what was causing the rustling in the trees.
Beneath the small cliff, there were hundreds of tens, each with seven or so serpentine devils resting in them. Several of them were on night duty and standing guard around the tent and the entrance points. They hadn't realized that Elliot and several beasts had already breached one side of their fortress.
”Kill them all!”
With the watchmen dead, Elliot immediately ordered the beasts to descend from the cliff and raze them to the ground.