Rest And Rewards

 

 

 

But even then, there was surely something to do for players who could no longer fight on the Azure-Drake Forest, right? Well indeed, and that was when the Unions became the 'quest givers' so as to say, with their leaders having already come to a consensus among each other and had even gotten an agreement with the Main Kingdom Vanguard; though mainly thanks to the Guiding Voices.

While Yun Beishang and his people, which he so endearingly from having more than 2 deaths flawlessly each day on the battlefield from which they would sometimes take a day or two as a break, the rest of the playerbase were all out and around on Main Kingdom. Getting resources once more as they collected items left and right to produce more 'stuff' for the Main Kingdom Vanguard army.

Some other Associations made sure to use some of those resources to allow any player to get their hands on broken but still valuable equipment, which was all thrown to these Unions due to the same agreement with the Main Kingdom Vanguard council and the Guiding Voices, as they were entrusted with the fixing of such equipment.

Some were armor, that was in the lots though, a few others were any weapon imaginable. From the most primitive ones at melee, to guns and even rocket launchers, some were even flamethrowers! But there were lots of 'siege' weapons; not quite so since they were obviously not the slow and rusty kind, since this was naturally a magical world.

Some were cannons that could very well destroy even a Founding Clan's walls in just one single shot and even then to still go ahead and penetrate deeply into the territory itself to do more tons of damage. Let alone now that Demons weren't even using anything similar and were only using their bare bodies to give themselves a hard time surviving, though it wasn't as fast and effective as Journeyers' though, it was still explosive and similarly effective but slow.

As such, just as Yun Beishang and his people were having 'fun' inside the bloody, disgusting and meat, fresh meat and organ-smelling battlefield turned from a clear sky on the ground to a look of hell in the realm of the mortals.

At first, it wouldn't seem that impacting, the fact that an entire forest was fully fledged blood red all over and where some dismembered limbs were still fresh and whole—since their dismembering—along with that brain, other organs and even some other 'living' matter. But with the fact that the camera angle with the global view became a sight of many ants moving towards the big, never ending-like powerful light azure was now with some spots here and there of trees having fell down and with every single centimeter inside the Azure-Drake Forest where the Main Kingdom Vanguard army passed by and conquered...

That was what did it, and even though the 'good side' was now winning, it felt way too much cruel to see such unsightliness, uprooting and butchering when it was supposed to be them the ones trying to survive. But nor Journeyers nor inhabitants of Main Kingdom can forget back then on how they were suddenly invaded by an immensely astronomical amount.

One where Journeyers were petrified, and because of them, millions lost their lives for each side of each Sub-Divisional City and their Cities got their walls or even some of their sectors completely turned into rubble among the flesh and corpses of civilians. Nobody could ever forget that, besides, there was a lot of strong Demons here that not even the upgraded armies of Main Kingdom could deal with alone.

There weren't any weakling, sure, there would be some really young warriors with some of them even looking like 10 year old boys or girls. And among so much dying, killing and bloodying, there was also bound to be evil thoughts. But the heavenly lightning wasn't vacant anywhere, and it even seemed really angry anytime that that happened on the battlefield... from the Main Kingdom Vanguard's part, that is; since it never really happened from the Demon Race's part.

As for the river that had to be done midway so as to let the soldiers and mages of Main Kingdom Vanguard walk through the Azure-Drake Forest, it had already been not enough even as there were already 2 extremely long rivers that went from high up at the frontlines to all the way back even before the perimeter of the Azure-Drake Forest, which even then, there was another huge pit that would store some tons more of that bloody river of flesh and whatnot.

There was, however, an extensive and still huge amount of blood that could travel between the two rivers up front and that even shared some blood that mixed and stayed in the middle. Because, indeed, the entire place where both Demons and Main Kingdom Vanguard fought had a 6 inches tall pool of extremely extended out pool.

It wouldn't only just be a bothersome for any person as they marched on such land, but they would even have to splash around enormously, since the blood that could remain as viscous and bright red even after so many days and a few weeks of exposure was of no simple composition. But, whatever it was, it would splash upwards so strongly and in great amounts that it made it hard for the shorter side of the Main Kingdom Vanguard to endure whilst battling.

On the other hand, Demons were so tall that only a few of them that were of 'ordinary' height were barely affected, if none at all. But after a whole 10 days of such a condition, vastly different compared to the second week since the start of this battle, even Main Kingdom Vanguard managed to get adapted to it, with the Human Race being the very first ones to do so.

And, right now, with Yun Beishang standing a top a huge tower that was about only 1 square meter big but with a height of an actual stupid amount of 170 meters tall, he could barely be above most of the trees in the Azure-Drake Forest. There was still a long amount of terrain to cover if they wanted to also 'bloody' the rest of the Azure-Drake Forest region, but with Yun Beishang's Mental Power, he could actually finally see some changes far up ahead.

There was a change in the color of the trees, no longer of a light, bright but powerful azure color that was prominent on all over the entire forest. Instead, it turned much more normal, and it even seemed like a hill as the trees gradually became shorter and shorter. As for the azure grass that was already long gone from his side thanks to the pool of blood, it was also gone all the way to the front.

Rumble, rumble, rubmle~!!...

"Hmm..." Hearing the echoing rumbling sensations from far away on the ground to the 'tower' he was on, passing time alone as he willed it, Yun Beishang hummed as he closed his eyes and turned his head down below after only a little while. 'Guess it's time to finish this part, eh?'

Swish, tackla! Tururrturuturururtuururutu!

As soon as Yun Beishang had such a thought, he made a silly hop on top of the tower that was basically made of ordinary stone, and made only for the sake of passing time like this. To which the tower under him then proceeded to crumble to pieces from up top to down below, at the same time, Yun Beishang fell down from high up in the sky as if he was hovering on top of a flying board, fashionably landing on the ground after a few seconds.

Whistle~~whistle!

Splash...

Just as Yun Beishang flawlessly and noiselessly landed on the bloody pool with only the watery pool making a single but combined splash noise, a teasing and pretty loud whistle sounded right behind him, to which he then saw Zyv with her fingers in both sides of her cheeks and doing her damn best to look abnormal with her lips making a pluck.

"Heeh, Big Brother, having fun up there? Why don't you bring us, you smelly lone wolf? Lone wolf, lone wolf, grrrr~~~!" Zyv then adopted a 'bestial' pose with her arms throw behind herself and with her body bending over to him, her fangs showing as she widely opened her mouth to Yun Beishang in a dumb manner.

Tap-splashsplash-tap, tap.

"Dummy," tapping her forehead with his right index finger, Zyv acted as if she was a puppy and whined coyly at him, she then looked at him with her big sky-blue iris and pupils glowing white as she looked at him longingly and expectantly in silence. "Are you ready yet, then? Want some encouragement, my little wolf cub?"

"Eheheee, mm, I'm ready." Zyv had her left cheek held and cupped by the same hand from which she got her forehead tapped just now, and as Yun Beishang spoke tenderly to her up close with his nose nuzzling against her own, she rubbed his right palm so full of devotion and lost in infatuation that she looked so extremely cute and adorable as well.

"Though it is, mwah-oh, thanks. Though it is fun and enjoyable, it is also very tiring after so long, I'm not used to it, I've lost my touch~. Mmm-mwah, mmm, delicious." As Zyv talked softly with her heart out and her lips moving, they looked to irresistible for Yun Beishang as he invaded them once and twice and thrice while she kept on speaking.

"Also, my Sister, mwah, also says that she's too tired of seeing this sight after so long. It was beautiful and a delight to see every day before, but it is now the same old blood red around on the trees, bushes, animals, carcasses, corpses and even grass. It's also like a bloody cage with some meat and other stuff here and there, she definitely doesn't like that as well-mmm💓."

Yun Beishang never stopped ceasing his light tapping of his lips on hers, as well as dragging her lips fully out and with how small they were but meaty and expertly at following him and much more at that, he felt intoxicated as he addictively kept on kissing her endearingly and endlessly. By the time her last few words were spoken, he stopped as a dazed and lovey dovey gazed Zyv set her maturing eyes on her man.

"Okay then, go ahead and leave it to me. It's okay now, it should be the last day, afterwards... Well, I'm sure that we'll have to enter that area encircled by those weird trees you like scratching off so much. Also, tell Cang Qing that she mustn't shy away from meeting my children as well, since she is a bit old for ordinary people, I don't want her having insecurities, show her the might of my precious babies, alright?"

"Hehe. Big Brother Wolfy, mwwwwwwah! Okay then, take care and kill as many as you please! Hehe. I'll be leaving first, mwah mwah mwah." First, using her small but lithe and delicate hands with immortal-like skin to embrace his neck with her hands behind his nape as she kissed him so lovingly lost, Zyv then kissed him three pecks in quick succession before turning around and making splashing noises before finally leaving with the rest of The Order.

"..." Yun Beishang gazed at where she disappeared from his eyesight and then 'gazed' at where they were once everyone logged off. They wouldn't have to worry about weird stuff functioning bad since they would go back to the base of operations as soon as they re-logged back in. But his gaze, oh man, he no longer looked like what even a young man would have, nor an adult or an actual wise old man.

Though he did not look impressive, righteous—the good kind—, respectful, venerated and so on; he instead looked so... free.

Step-splash-step-splash-step-splash.

Trlck, tlck, tlck, tlck, tlck, tlck, tlck, tlck, tlck, tlck, tlck...

"Sigh~..." Letting out a long breath out in order to sigh his own thoughts out, Yun Beishang took out his Mind-Sensory and quickly transformed it into a Compact Bow. This one had mechanized and flesh-mecha mixture as its structure, and even its bowstring looked to be either a vein or an insanely thin tendon, but also fleshy and meaty.

'The Second Form... hm, I can already imagine you, hmph~.' Letting out an inadvertent, cheery snort from his nostrils, Yun Beishang had no much more time to sight furthermore as he was then met with tons of Main Kingdom Vanguard soldiers and some generals as well who came up to him at once and questioned him, the old and bulky man wasn't among them.

"Tongqiu, what's up with your people? Where the hell did they go to?! Don't you, don't they all know that without them, our casualties could even go up to the remaining few tens of billion we can barely hold on to?!" Yun Beishang, saying nothing in return and with a deadpan expression, looked with his eyes clearly not trying to hide the hostility and willing to brutalize among them at the group in front.

"After this, what will happen?" Yun Beishang asked after blinking once, when his eyelids went back up, his eyes turned rather 'normal' and calm, he even turned a bit 'heroic' as well as dignified.

"Hmph! You still dare to ask it?! Of course it will be so many of us dying, possible all of the entire army, what the hell were you thinking?!? We now need to do much more now, what can we do but die in that situation?!" The same general that dared to speak to Yun Beishang in the same tone as before blurted out once again, his back bending over as his words were exaggeratedly grievous and his left index finger pointing at Yun Beishang's sternum and then to where the Main Kingdom Vanguard army was; what was left of it.

"General, please tell me! I have my reasons, furthermore, didn't you said it to us all? If we so will it, we can take a rest. After all, fighting for so many days without a stop and not even being killed off 'enough times' is much more tiring than the poor soldiers who have turned to accompany the rest of the felled ones at the rivers of blood. I assure you, I can make amends for this, I can answer for my people!"

Seeing Yun Beishang acting so valiant, the general softened, he also knew he was a jerk just now. Without allowing any of the other generals to do so, he did it first by speaking again but this time in an understanding and probing tone. "After this, if we successfully take out the remaining outer forces from inside the Demon Race's headquarters right inside that ring surrounded by the strange trees, then... we will take a break of a couple of weeks to get everything we have back up at our full disposal and use of. Now, tell me, what can you do?"

Though the generals have heard a lot of Tongqiu from other inhabitants and even heard their own king speak of him in a bit of terror, they never saw him 'go at it'. As such, they could only hope that Tongqiu kept on being as strong as he seemed and that his Order wouldn't leave them too. At the same time, they gave up thinking that Tongqiu was really something else, and that he relied instead on his Journeyer Association.

"Mm! Then, generals! Allow me to use all in my disposal to get rid of the rest of the Demons. Only..." Yun Beishang puffed out his chest valiantly as he spoke, he had a very concerned face right after though, as he brought his right index finger to his chin to tap it and then continued after glancing a the blood beneath at their feet with melancholy. "...please order the rest to stand behind, there must be a ton of people who think I can't damage them even if I were indeed to accidentally reach them with my attacks. But that is not the case, not this time, at the very least.

"..." The generals were silent, but it was only that, for a few seconds later, they turned to look at Yun Beishang in sternness before silently allowing the general that has been previously speaking to Yun Beishang to be the one to rely their thoughts. "I, we, will trust you. Tongqiu, please show us what the so-called 'monster' of the Human Race Journeyers can do, we implore you!"

"Hmph." With a content snort, Yun Beishang immediately showed a wide smile filled with confidence and whose appearance made his entire being grow an aura of MC-of heroism. Before long, both the generals' group and Yun Beishang walked back to the army of Main Kingdom Vanguard, what was left of it.

And right after, as the rumbling noises turned incredibly deafening and as the army was beginning to grow restless and hopeless due to the sudden disappearance of the beloved League of The Order, Tongqiu showed himself to stand right at the utmost front of the frontlines with his strong back being encompassed by his Great Petals of Destruction Suit Armor Set with black and purple and roots here and there as they were yet not able to hide his muscles and durability.

This sight, somehow gave the soldiers that were growing panicky and hopeless, a sense of reliance instead. Soon after, orders came and all billions of the remaining army of the Main Kingdom Vanguard retreated a few tens of kilometers after having unwillingly looked back at that back of Tongqiu while retreating, wishing they could fight by his side.

"..." On the other hand, just as Yun Beishang was so ready to use all of his Omnipresent Cosmo Epsilon Shot along with Total Combustion like a maniac, as he gazed at the blood below at his feet... he felt, as if with the thought of exterminating the rest of these few Demons outside their 'HQ' would be also taking away something from himself. Something... that seemed to belong to him, as in a sense of duty.

Craaaaaaaaack~.

Without any other thought getting into his head, Yun Beishang closed up Renaissance Crown's Great Petal Helm, hiding his mouth and jaw as his Mind-Sensory Compact Bow had 3 arrows nocked onto its meaty but extremely thin bowstring. Shadows and shadows began appearing around him as he slowly and softly let go of his arrows with his right handed fingertips feeling empty.

Swish, swish, swish... swishswishswishswishswishswishswish...!!

SHCK-BBPAM SHCK-BBPAM SHCK-BBPAM SHCK-BBPAM SHCK-BBPAM SHCK-BBPAM SHCK-BBPAM SHCK-BBPAM...!!

-807,690, -807,690, -807,690, -807,690, -807,690, -807,690, -807,690, -807,690, -807,690, -807,690, -807,690, -807,690, -807,690, -807,690, -807,690, -807,690, -807,690, -807,690, -807,690, -807,690, -807,690, -807,690, -807,690, -807,690, -807,690...

*PING*...you've successfully killed a LV...

*PING*...you've successfully killed a...

*PING*...you've successfully...

*PING*...you've...

*PING*...you've...

And so, was the end of the first step in the Warmonger Expansion; The Battle of the Bloodied-Azure Sea.

 

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