Chapter 858: I Just Have to Fire the First Sho (1/2)

The battle was short and fierce. By the time Frost Wolf had slaughtered his opponent, the battles in the periphery had started to die down.

He came limping back before Qianye while clutching his left shoulder. “Sire, mission accomplished.”

Qianye replied with an indifferent smile, “Completed? No, it hasn’t been completed. There’s a caravan behind.”

Frost Wolf laughed wryly. “Those goods belong to merchants. If we do that, the enmity between us and the Wolf King will be irreconcilable.”

Qianye glanced at him. “Don’t tell me it’s still reconcilable now?”

Frost Wolf knew this fact fairly well. Bracing himself mentally, he turned back and shouted, “Those who can still fight, come with me!”

In the blink of an eye, he jumped onto a still-operable transport vehicle and whizzed away. Only at this point did Frost Wolf reveal a bit of valor and ruthlessness. Before this, he was always a bit cowardly despite his tall stature and even looked a bit constrained while fighting against the werewolf viscount. He wouldn’t have suffered so many injuries, otherwise.

Now that there was no going back, he finally let loose and began to look a bit more imposing.

Qianye stood in place on the roof of the car, merely ordering the men to sweep the battlefield.

His eyes lit up all of a sudden as he turned toward the distant horizon. There was nothing else there apart from a dense patch of low-lying clouds, but Qianye could see a slowly revolving ring of origin power. It was clear that there was someone hiding inside the clouds and spying on the action. The origin power was a fairly chaotic mixture of daybreak and darkness origin power, but it was definitely a human expert.

This person’s identity wasn’t hard to guess—there weren’t a lot of human experts in the area, much less those paying so much attention to the Wolf King’s men. Qianye, however, didn’t want to waste time guessing his intentions. He only pointed at the man from far away and performed a cutthroat gesture.

Qianye’s message was clear. If this person dared to interfere, he would be killed along with the group.

Then, he turned away and continued observing the battlefield in silence, paying no more attention to the hiding human expert. The merchants also came to help because the entire place was a mess.

An old man’s figure flickered within the distant clouds, merging almost perfectly with the clouds around him. His face was ashen, and he was so angry that his beard was trembling. As an important character who had gained fame for dozens of years, he had never experienced such disdain. He stared fixedly at Qianye with equal measures of resentment and doubt, not knowing what gave Qianye the gall to provoke him.

Surging with killing intent, he was of a mind to rush over and teach Qianye a lesson, but caution got the better of him in the end. Up until this point, he still had no idea how Qianye had discovered him.

Far in the distance, Qianye was focused on the cleanup progress, literally not giving him a second glance. This was even more offensive than a direct provocation, and it almost caused him to blackout from anger.

In the end, he could no longer bear this kind of invisible humiliation. His robes rose up slightly as he waved his sleeve and left, revealing a small insignia hidden underneath—it was the emblem of Zhang Buzhou.

At this point, Frost Wolf had just driven back after conducting the battle. There were dozens of cargo trucks behind him, while the merchant managers were all in his car.

Frost Wolf arrived before Qianye. “Sire, the mission has been completed. All of the cargo trucks have been brought back.”

Qianye revealed a favorable smile. “Not bad, this time.”

Frost Wolf felt a bit of helplessness, but it was already too late for regrets. He did have a question he always wanted to ask. “Sire, why did you order us to fire before the enemy was within firing distance?”

“The other party would’ve opened fire if they were within range.”

“That’s not wrong, but it’s not too late to attack after confirming the other party’s hostility. Besides, we’ll have the advantage in retaliation.”

Qianye’s laugh interrupted the man’s words. “I just have to fire the first shot.”

“What?”

“I just have to fire the first shot,” Qianye repeated.

Frost Wolf was shaken and speechless.

Now that was the definition of tyrannical.

At this moment, a couple of merchants walked over unsteadily and began offering words of greeting and friendship.

Qianye waved his hand impatiently. “Leave the trucks and seek compensation from the Wolf King.”

The managers’ expressions changed drastically. Merchants had to pay a steep price to hire mercenary escorts, but the corps would compensate them if the convoy was robbed—this rule applied to all mercenaries, as well as the Wolf King’s men. All these years, the Wolf King’s men had rarely, if ever, slipped up on their job. Hence, most merchants were willing to hire the Wolf King’s soldiers as escort despite their price tag.