Chapter 284: Chapter 284: Would they spare my Blackwood family?
"Grandfather, I want to leave for two days, to take Jenna and the kids back home."
Jeffrey and his numerous wives and children were crying. His branch of the family was the largest, and they usually bickered over everyday matters. But at this moment, there were no more hidden conflicts among them.
In this mausoleum, there were cenotaphs for Jeffrey's wife and two children. They fought for Cloudview County, and they should be commemorated here, forever watching over their homeland from Azure Cloud Border town.
Nathan sighed deeply. As the graves were covered with dust and sand, everyone at the mausoleum looked up.
"Ah!"
A flock of geese returning home at the end of winter sliced through the sky, heading towards Cloudview County, just like the fallen warriors of Azure Cloud, returning home to rest forever in Azure Cloud.
"Perhaps this is what it means for us to go home and fight for Azure Cloud."
Luna wrapped her arm around Nathan's, her eyes dazzled, "Let's go, my dear. For Cloudview County, we still have many battles to fight. War is like this, starting suddenly, but always hard to end as one wishes."
...
Yet, not in Cloudview County, people in Blackwood are still fighting for Cloudview County!
Ethan looked at the continuous tombstones, sighed deeply, and switched the view to the Endless Forest!
[Harris]
A great fire engulfed Harris's base, reddening the sky and melting the snow. The strong of Harris have returned.
On a high mountain, Olivia stood at the summit, with William by her side! They quietly watched as one master after another flew back to Harris. The elderly, women, and children of the Druids did not die but knelt outside the fire, wailing and crying.
Olivia's voice was soft, "They invaded our homeland, yet lost their own homes. But they are fortunate, the Endless Forest is vast, they have many places to retreat to. It's different for us people of Cloudview County; we are still on our homeland, yet we have no way out."
The last time Olivia fought for fortune in Blackwood, she began to look like a charming older woman, now even more aged, her hair streaked with gray.
"Great-aunt, you should have let me kill all their elderly, women, and children. Wouldn't the masters of Harris have been desperate when they returned?" Continue reading at m|v-l'e m,p| y- r
William clasped his hands behind his head, chewing on a blade of grass, unable to bear Olivia's moralizing, "Have you been too peaceful for too long, read too many books, and actually believed those saintly nonsense? Just setting a fire and spreading rumors through the agents you once placed among the Druids is really boring."
Hearing this.
Olivia still had a kind expression, smiling gently, "Killing cannot solve everything, this is what I've realized over the past hundred years. Think about it, if we had killed them all, would they still come back?"
This actually made William pause, "No, they'd probably be desperate and fight to the death in Border town."
"If we really did that, could you and I escape from the Druids?"
"Probably not, then even the Basic Mastery stage would come out."
"Would they spare my Blackwood family?"
"Even a fool would guess it was our doing."
William scratched his head naively, "Great-aunt, you've thought this through. But now, although our family has won, they might attack at any time, even with Basic Mastery stage masters... What do we do?
Grandfather's abilities have been exposed, and so have the abilities of the second great-aunt, both are beings of the ninety-ninth thunder tribulation, Grandfather even managed to fight Apostle Mike to a standstill, they must be eager to eradicate our Blackwood family."
Facing the masters from all sides is not a dead end, this is!
And this time, Olivia had no other choice, she just smiled faintly, "We've already borrowed a lot of fortune, how to undergo the tribulation will depend on fate. The Primordial blood tree has also transformed, it can guide our clan members, as for us, there's still much to do. To truly get through this calamity, the endless battles on the battlefield cannot solve the problem."
"This should have been the war of the Emerald Empire, so let their war continue, I want to see how many people they can abandon for this."
She looked towards the depths of the Endless Forest. The twelve Druid tribes, twelve totems, not just the Bird Totem!
And there it was...
"Moon Dragon Totem!" William's eyes lit up, "Great Aunt is about to..."
They moved through the shadows, unseen on the battlefield, unknown for their deeds, yet still tirelessly working and fighting for their clan!
[Your descendants Olivia and William, rush to the location of the Moon Dragon Totem among the twelve Druids.]
[Your descendant William emerges from the grand natural magic formation, his undercover plan having failed, leaving him despondent for six whole months. Now, on a secret mission with Great Aunt, he finally feels the joy of being alive, earning the trait: Great Aunt's Shadow]
[Unconditionally following Great Aunt's orders, his wisdom increases by 20%]
...
The Druids were retreating, but soon they began to station themselves outside the Endless Forest, continuously gathering more Druids from all around the Endless Forest.
In the starry night.
Mike was still severely injured, and with such wounds, even with a plethora of herbs, it might take two to three years to fully recover, to cleanse the deathly aura imbued by the Death Coffin. At that moment, he was kneeling before the bonfire, with many Druids' High Priests and priests behind him, surrounded by the tribe's totems.
As the crowd chanted spells, the flickering flames gradually formed the pattern of a phoenix, lifelike as it soared into the night sky, circling above before forming a pattern in the air.
"Reporting to the elder."
Mike knelt on one knee, his head bowed in guilt, "In the battle of Azure Cloud, they were defeated. They underestimated Cloudview County, underestimated Azure Cloud Blackwood, they..."
Before he could finish.
A flash of fire from the pattern above shot towards Mike, and he dared not resist; dust rose from his chest as he spat out blood again, now it would take at least four to five years to heal.
Mike, disregarding his injuries, struggled to his feet, the surrounding High Priests and priests trembling with fear, he knelt and said, "Elder, they need support, Azure Cloud Blackwood is extraordinary, they have a woman, Amelia, a Pinnacle Apprentice about to break through the ninety-ninth thunder tribulation.
Blackwood's ancestor, newly entered into Competent Force, named Nathan, practices the path of death energy, commanding Zombies and spirits, also a rare talent among those who reach the Pinnacle Apprentice level."
This time, the pattern did not inflict punishment, Mike's expression solemn, "These two are exceptionally talented, if they achieve Basic Mastery, they will one day be a great threat to our Bird Totem. Now, Cloudview County is our Druids' land, it will not provoke the mighty ones from Emerald Empire, please elder, send the elders to eliminate them!"
After a moment.
Mike stood atop an ancient tree, gazing at the Morning Star over the vast sea, he sighed, "Elder is so cautious about Blackwood, to deal with such a small clan, three people were sent?"
"Mr. Nathan, I respect heroes, but you never heed advice. Forgive me for being underhanded once, I can no longer afford a fair fight with you."