Chapter 1322: Power of the Spirit Sea (1/2)

How was the current situation different from hostility?

William glanced at Qianye and seemed to have guessed his thoughts. “You’re too optimistic. The Wolf Sovereign isn’t afraid that they’ll bully us. He’s afraid that they’ll bully us so badly that we’ll have no choice but to counterattack. You understand?”

So it was fine to slap as long as they didn’t slap too hard?

Qianye found it difficult to understand. How could the werewolves be so cowardly?

William wasn’t willing to talk about it anymore. “This is something for the higher-ups to worry about, nothing to do with small people like us. They don’t want us to get involved, either.”

“What are your plans? Looks like you won’t be able to return before the expansion in the new world ends.”

William nodded. “I gave it a lot of thought, I guess I can only hang out with you now.”

“You’re welcome to stay, of course, but I’m currently fighting against the Moorland werewolves. Won’t you feel a bit awkward?”

“Awkward?” William sneered. “All the compromise was because the Wolf Ancestor made repeated concessions and even turned around to suppress the Wolf Sovereign. That old thing is getting more and more fearful of death with each passing year. Our werewolf race wouldn’t have fallen to this state if it wasn’t for him.”

“What kind of compromise?” Qianye was most concerned about this.

The humans had managed to grow through the gaps between the Evernight races to reach their current strength. Qianye was now trying to find a neutral foothold between the two factions, so any kind of compromise or alliance between major powers could mean danger for him. He needed to treat them rather seriously.

William said, “The werewolves will stop expanding in the new world and only maintain their current territory. All holy tree sap will be handed to the Evernight Council. We must muster an army of five hundred thousand, including experts at various levels, and place them under the council’s command in the new world. They also gave us a list of tactical resources that we’ll need to fulfill.”

“And what will you get in return?”

”After the expansion succeeds, we will be given a territory befitting of our status.”

“Such an empty promise?”

“It’s quite practical, is it not? What status do we have, if any at all?” William laughed self-deprecatingly.

“Then let’s talk about the present, what do you plan to do?”

“No problem.” Qianye possessed both land and population. He was only lacking experts.

William said, “I won’t take it for free. I’ll repay you with military contributions as we go along. Also, I haven’t been to the new world after all this time. Take me along if you need help with your expansion.”

Qianye was delighted.

A genius like William was far superior to an ordinary duke. Even against Qianye, he might not be weaker if both parties refrained from using their ultimate moves.

Qianye possessed both blood energy and daybreak origin power, but William was still one rank higher. Rank wasn’t equal to fighting power, but the gap would still affect things in a contest between geniuses. However, William wouldn’t be a match once Qianye accumulated enough blood energy to ascend to the duke rank.

In addition to accumulating enough blood energy, Qianye would need to modify his body as well. Only after his entire skeleton had been modified would he be able to advance to the next rank. He was currently just one-third of the way there.

With William’s help, not only would he be able to suppress the Flame Duke and obtain yet another piece of territory, but he would also gain tens of millions more werewolf subjects. William would also serve to suppress the Moorland werewolves in the new world. After all, he held a certain status among the werewolves and few would want to go up against him.

The two were once again tipsy at this point. A drinking competition ensued, and it went on until Qianye had to drag William back to the duke’s residence like a dead dog.

The werewolf slept for an entire day and night before waking up. He immediately went to see Qianye and started making plans for his territory. How miserable was it that the successor of the great Summit of Peaks was now interested in a place like Fort Continent?

Qianye didn’t look down on him because of that. Instead, he brought out the territorial map and began discussing the matter in earnest.

Qianye wanted to give him land around the door and Cerulean Wave City at first, but William was eager to break new ground.

At this point, the expansion process in the new world had become a routine matter. Qianye was almost invisible after obtaining the goodwill of the holy trees, so bringing William along would actually make things less convenient. It just so happened that the great werewolf army here had completed their training but couldn’t obtain enough holy tree sap medicine to enter the new world. Since they were going to be idle anyway, Qianye lent a hundred thousand soldiers to William and assigned him the Flame Duke’s territory.

William was going by the Empire’s methods where the major clans would capture their own territory. William agreed to hand over two-thirds of the captured territory and keep a third for himself. Of course, Qianye had no objections to this.

Qianye didn’t want to give William any pushback when he was so proactive about this territorial game.