novelhk Chapter 486 Annihilation of the Wolf Bandits
Chapter 486 Annihilation of the Wolf Bandits
Chapter 486 Annihilation of the Wolf Bandits
Accompanying Ye Qifeng to the Kingdom of Hagen were not only the first team, but also Ling Yuan Douluo and Nihuang.
Nihuang was specially sent by Bibi Dong, firstly to protect Ye Qifeng's safety, and secondly to represent the Pope of the Spirit Hall in contacting the Hagen Kingdom, hoping to secretly win over and bind the Hagen Kingdom to the Spirit Hall's cause.
The Kingdom of Hagen is located on the western border of the Heavenly Dou Empire. To the Heavenly Dou Empire, it is a remote and lawless place and is not highly regarded.
However, the Kingdom of Hagen is also a coastal kingdom with abundant marine resources.
However, the ocean is the territory of sea spirit beasts, and with rampant sea pirates, coastal areas are frequently visited and plundered by pirates, so most of the territory of the Kingdom of Hagen is a chaotic and lawless place.
Investing here often results in nothing; before you can even develop your business and accumulate wealth, pirates will raid and plunder everything.
Only a few major cities heavily guarded by troops were spared and able to maintain stability and peace. As for the other coastal areas, they were almost all living in dire straits.
In this era, the Heaven Dou Empire paid more attention to the inland areas, especially the regions near the three major wild soul beast gathering places, as the soul master resources there were what they valued most.
Although the ocean is also rich in Soul Master resources, those resources are almost all related to sea Soul Masters, while the Heaven Dou Empire is still dominated by land Soul Masters, and the number of sea Soul Masters is ultimately only a minority.
Therefore, the Heaven Dou Empire did not value the Soul Master resources in the ocean very much.
In this light, it becomes understandable why the Kingdom of Hagen was not valued by the Heavenly Dou Empire.
But the Spirit Hall doesn't think that way.
From the perspective of the Spirit Hall, the Kingdom of Hagen has an extremely advantageous geographical location and great strategic significance. It is an important maritime trade and transportation hub, as well as an important naval fleet base.
The Spirit Hall once possessed a massive naval fleet of spirit masters, which was stationed in the Kingdom of Hagen. However, it was completely destroyed in a battle against Seagod Island decades ago due to its defeat.
In that battle, the Spirit Hall dispatched two thousand spirit masters to sea, intending to recruit the sea spirit masters on Seagod Island. However, they were defeated by Poseidon, the invincible level 99 Limit Douluo, who led the seven sacred pillars including the sea dragon and seahorse. In the end, they returned in defeat, with less than a hundred people able to return alive. They even lost two titled Douluo there.
Because of that war, the Spirit Hall suffered heavy losses, and its naval spirit master fleet was completely wiped out, thus exiting the stage of history.
Otherwise, if the Spirit Hall's Soul Master fleet were still intact, how could those pirates be allowed to be so arrogant and rampant, and how could they be allowed to run rampant and wreak havoc at sea and along the coast?
Bibi Dong, who was a young saintess at the time, also participated in that war. The failure to conquer Poseidon Island also haunted her, as she almost died there.
Bibi Dong harbored some hatred towards Poseidon Island, and given the chance, she would not hesitate to destroy it.
However, before that, we must first have a powerful naval soul master fleet.
If the Spirit Hall wants to rebuild its naval fleet of spirit masters, then the Kingdom of Hagen is an important piece of land that it must acquire, especially its port city, Hanhai City.
Hanhai City, built along the sea, is the only port city on the western coast of the Tiandou Empire, and also the largest city on the western border of the Tiandou Empire. Moreover, it is the largest coastal city on the Douluo Continent.
Hanhai City is not only rich in Sea Soul Masters, but also has a developed shipbuilding industry. It is also the only sea outlet to the west, leading to Seagod Island, and is the closest sea outlet.
Whether it's rebuilding the naval soul master fleet, recruiting sea soul masters, building ships, or serving as a strategic foothold for the future destruction of Seagod Island, Hanhai City is the best choice.
The current request from the Spirit Hall for the Hagen Kingdom to send a team of spirit masters to eliminate the wolf bandits presents a crucial opportunity to win over and control the Hagen Kingdom.
However, it is not advisable to be too blatant at the moment. The Spirit Hall still needs to keep a low profile. Whether it is to win over the Hagen Kingdom or to infiltrate and control the Hagen Kingdom, everything must be done secretly and slowly, so as not to let the Heaven Dou Empire and Seagod Island discover the Spirit Hall's strategic intentions.
The arrangements for the Kingdom of Hagen were discussed and planned by Bibi Dong and Ye Qifeng while lying in bed, and absolutely no deviations or mistakes were allowed.
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Nihuang did not participate in the extermination of the wolf bandits; she was currently overseeing the operation at the Martial Soul Temple in the capital of the Hagen Kingdom.
This serves as a deterrent to certain individuals and forces within the Kingdom of Hagen who harbor hostility towards the Spirit Hall. Simultaneously, it involves secretly eliminating die-hard elements within the Kingdom of Hagen who are loyal to the Heaven Dou Empire, such as the royalists.
Then, they would replace them with their own people, seize power from them, and simultaneously conduct a more thorough infiltration of the Kingdom of Hagen, thus securing even stronger control over the Kingdom of Hagen within the hands of the Spirit Hall.
The Spirit Hall's infiltration of the Heaven Dou Empire had already begun long ago, and the Kingdom of Hagen was no exception. Years of infiltration had left the Kingdom of Hagen riddled with holes.
Because of the foundation laid earlier, Nihuang handled things smoothly without encountering any significant obstacles. She didn't even need to take action herself to easily turn the Hagen Kingdom into land controlled by the Spirit Hall.
Of course, these are all methods used covertly.
On the surface, the Kingdom of Hagen is still controlled by the Hagen royal family, and it remains a vassal kingdom of the Heaven Dou Empire, only its core has taken the form of the Spirit Hall.
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At this moment.
On the chaotic battlefield, the largest wolf bandit force roaming within the Kingdom of Hagen had disintegrated and scattered under the siege of the Martial Soul Special Forces led by Ye Qifeng.
With a casual slash, Ye Qifeng killed an ordinary gray wolf bandit who was rushing towards him in a panic. He then surveyed the battlefield.
Seeing that the seven members of the first team—Raymond, Fengxian, Yelan, Jin Yue'er, Zhu Zhuqing, Bai Chenxiang, and Xiao Mingyue—were all safe.
The seven members of the second squad—Hu Liena, Xie Yue, Yan, Zhang Ping, Sun Chuantao, Li Kai, and Xu Yu—are all safe and sound and are working hard to pursue and eliminate the wolf bandits.
Ye Qifeng felt a little relieved.
The Martial Soul Special Forces had already dispersed into small teams to pursue the fleeing wolf bandits, while the largest group of wolf bandits, led by their leader, was being personally pursued by his first and second teams.
At this moment, Riven, dressed in a unique female knight outfit and wielding a greatsword that shimmered with rune light, suddenly charged forward and launched a surprise attack.
With two sharp slashes, Raven swiftly passed between the two gray wolf bandits, who were cut in two before they could even utter a sound.
Riven, having unleashed the Broken Wings Dance, continued her momentum. After two slashes, she leaped high into the air, tracing a perfect arc across more than ten meters, and landed in front of the two gray wolf bandits, slamming her greatsword into the ground.
The ground immediately cracked and collapsed, and a violent shock wave was suddenly generated and spread from the point of impact.
Before the two gray wolf bandits could react, a powerful shockwave slammed into them with overwhelming force.
With a mouthful of blood mixed with fragments of internal organs spitting out from the ferocious wolf's mouth, the two gray wolf bandits flew backward like kites with broken strings, crashing heavily to the ground with a thud, utterly dead.
On the other side, Bong-seon, with her long, flowing chestnut-brown hair tied into a high ponytail with a tall crown, was equally stunning.
She wielded the halberd with unparalleled skill, each swing a horizontal slash that instantly claimed the life of a gray wolf bandit.
Dressed in a blue and silver gown, Ye Lan, with a gentle and graceful demeanor, waved her jade-like hand, and countless blue and silver vines covered with gold, black, and white patterns surged from the ground, entangled the wolf bandits, and kept them immobilized.
Whenever this happens, Jin Yue'er, who transforms into a humanoid crocodile woman, immediately rushes forward and smashes their dog heads, uh, wolf heads, with a punch, a kick, or a claw.
Zhu Zhuqing, who has transformed into a humanoid spirit cat, is like a ghost in the night, appearing and disappearing unpredictably on the battlefield. With each attack, the dark golden claws extending from her right hand take the life of a wolf bandit.
In the sky, a flash of golden light appeared, and Bai Chenxiang, transformed into a golden-winged roc, rode the wind and soared upwards. While conducting reconnaissance and providing intelligence for her teammates, she would also occasionally swoop down to reap the lives of the wolf bandits together with her teammates.
The current Bai Chenxiang is no longer the bird that can only fly at high speed without any attack power. She has evolved from a pure agility-type soul master into an attack-type soul master who combines strong attack and agility attack.
With each dive, she would unleash a rain of swords formed from her wings, and countless wolf bandits perished beneath it.
As a support-type Soul Master, Xiao Mingyue stood quietly beside Ye Lan. The teddy bear she often held in her arms was no longer there. It was now lying quietly on the ground, its body burning with red flames, forming a huge, invisible circular field.
All the teammates in this arena had a red flame ignited beneath their feet.
This is Xiao Mingyue's support soul skill, born from the little witch's passionate love. It increases teammates' movement speed, attack speed, and skill casting speed, commonly known as "burning feet".
The red flames will not harm teammates; on the contrary, the heat will damage enemies.
The second squad here is relentlessly pursuing and reaping the lives of the wolf bandits.
The first squad on the other side was equally impressive.
Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan, being the youngest recipients of the Purple Record Medal from the Spirit Hall's Death Training Camp, were truly adept at taming evil creatures like wolf bandits.
The three of them alone killed enough wolf bandits to be comparable to the seven members of the second squad who rarely shed blood.
The wolf bandits that the group was chasing numbered as many as three hundred. By the end of the chase and hunt, nearly a third of these three hundred wolf bandits had died at the hands of Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan.
Another third were killed by a combined effort of seven people, including Raven from the second squad, and four people, including Zhang Ping, Sun Chuantao, Li Kai, and Xu Yu, from the first squad.
As for the last third, they died at the hands of Ye Qifeng alone.
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After beheading another wolf bandit, Ye Qifeng lightly leaped to Xie Yue and Yan's side and asked:
"Where are Xie Yue, Yan, and Nana?"
I had been keeping an eye on Raven and the others in the second squad, and I relaxed my attention a little to the first squad. But when I turned around, Hu Liena was nowhere to be seen.
Hearing Ye Qifeng's somewhat nervous question, Xie Yue looked at him but smiled without saying a word, while Yan beside him answered casually:
"You're looking for Nana? She's gone to hunt down the leader of that wolf bandit gang."
Seeing the relaxed expressions on their faces, as if they weren't worried about Hu Liena being in danger at all, Ye Qifeng frowned, a trace of worry rising in his heart.
Hu Liena is now a high-level Soul King with a Soul Power of Level 58. Although she has not yet reached the Soul Emperor realm, her true strength is already enough to rival a low-level Soul Emperor who has just entered the Soul Emperor realm.
However, the leader of this band of wolf bandits is a blue wolf bandit with a cultivation level comparable to a human Soul Emperor. It would probably be difficult for Hu Liena to take it down by herself alone.
And there's another problem here.
It's unclear whether this group of wolf bandits is the same group that the Shrek Seven Devils were destined to encounter on their way to Seagod Island.
If so, then among them, there is a high probability that there is a soul bone, a right leg of the Bloodthirsty Berserker Hurricane, which is over 30,000 years old.
The most likely source for this bloodthirsty, berserk right leg is the blue wolf bandit leader.
If this is true, then Hu Liena may be in danger.
Thinking of this, Ye Qifeng, who was filled with hidden worries, immediately had a thought and his powerful spiritual energy emanated from his body to carefully sense Hu Liena's soul power aura.
After all, they were childhood sweethearts who had spent the most time together. Ye Qifeng was extremely familiar with and sensitive to Hu Liena's soul power aura, and quickly sensed her location.
At the same time, I also sensed a bloodthirsty and corrupt evil aura, which should be the aura emanating from that blue wolf bandit.
"Xie Yue, Yan, you two lead the group to continue hunting down the remaining wolf bandits. I'm going to check on Nana."
Before Xie Yue and Yan could reply, Ye Qifeng vanished in the blink of an eye, leaving only a faint afterimage behind him.
This scene left Xie Yue and Yan speechless.
After Ye Qifeng left, Yan walked to Xie Yue's side, reached out his large hand, and patted him heavily on the shoulder:
"Shouldn't we follow her? What if Nana really gets into danger?"
Xie Yue's eye twitched slightly. She glanced at him speechlessly, raised her hand to slap away the latter's stinky hand that was on her shoulder, and said irritably:
"Why should we follow them? Xiao Feng is enough."
"I finally created a chance for Nana to be alone with Xiaofeng, so don't you dare mess it up, or I'll never forgive you."
Yan was speechless for a moment, then became defiant again:
"Uh, look at what you're saying. I also deserve some credit for creating this opportunity for Nana, okay?"
"I'm just worried about Nana's safety. I have a feeling something's off about that blue wolf bandit."
Xie Yue frowned slightly upon hearing this.
Upon closer reflection, that blue wolf bandit was indeed somewhat unusual, seemingly stronger than the blue wolf bandits that had been wiped out before.
Thinking of this, Xie Yue couldn't help but worry about her younger sister's safety.
At this point, Yan offered him a few words of comfort:
"Alright, stop frowning."
"The storm has passed, Nana will be fine."
"If you're in a hurry, hurry up and clean up the rest of this trash, then we'll go over there together and take a look."
"Hmm, let's go peek," Yan added in his mind.
(End of this chapter)