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Chapter 2743 A Huge Mess
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Welcome back, Black Vane, the absolute neutral one. You are about to be enshrined in the realm of innocence. Goodnight.

……

In the Blood Barbarian region, at Skolk Stronghold, in front of Luna's alchemy workshop, in a blind spot under the shade of a tree.

"Well."

Mo Tan rubbed his head, which had been throbbing slightly since morning, let out a deep sigh, and then inexplicably began counting in his mind—

One, two, three, four, five, six...

"senior!"

Immediately after, just six seconds after Mo Tan officially completed his login, accompanied by a soft exclamation, his guardian knight, Yi Zou Jerete, swiftly dashed from afar in a soft light to the sighing priest, shouting, "Something's wrong! Romeo's situation is urgent..."

"Yes, I understand there are special circumstances that need to be reported."

With a forced smile, Mo Tan interrupted his anxious junior and said softly to the tall, delicate-looking half-dragon female knight, "The rest is up to Romeo. I've already replied to him."

"Black Brahma!"

No sooner had he finished speaking than Romeo, the usually composed leader of the [Ye Yin Clan] and owner of the [Crimson Constellation Club], arrived from the direction of the lobby, panting, as he and Pig Overnight came running. "You saw the message I sent you! South...south..."

"I know something happened in the south."

Mo Tan sighed and pointed to the tree stump in front of him, saying, "Catch your breath, sit down and rest for a while. Is anyone else coming? Let's talk to them all when everyone's here."

"Uh, I've already notified Elgar and Sharia urgently, they should be here soon."

Romeo plopped down in front of Mo Tan, pulled out a bottle of soda to quench his thirst and calm his nerves, and asked Mo Tan with a somewhat puzzled expression, "Speaking of which, how come you're not flustered at all?"

Mo Tan rubbed his temples expressionlessly and said calmly, "Because panicking won't solve anything, especially when all of you are panicking, I can't afford to panic either."

"I'll just say it~"

Accompanied by her signature husky, melodious voice, Jenny Liberl, Mo Tan's private occult advisor, a protégé of the late Grand Astrologer Danmas Remedop, and the chief astrologer of the Dunbua City Army and the Skolke Resistance Army, namely the Black Van Independent Army, slowly emerged from behind the tree and said calmly, "You don't need to rush at all."

"Jenny?"

Yi Zou stared wide-eyed in surprise, turning to look at the astrologer who had been chatting with her on the other side of the village just half a minute ago, and asked in astonishment, "How did you get here faster than me?"

“Obviously, I didn’t get here as fast as you, Jellette.”

As Jenny lit a cigarette, she said casually, "But as Black Vane's occult consultant, I have to have some 'secret tricks' to live up to this title."

Immediately following, accompanied by a soft but slightly hurried sound of footsteps descending the stairs, Luna Lynch, the chief alchemist of Motan and highly respected by the Skolker resistance members, also sleepily pushed open the door and walked out of the workshop. Then, as if in a daze, she slowly walked up to Motan and asked in her light and ethereal voice, "Trouble?"

"Ah...you could say that."

Mo Tan smiled weakly and shrugged, saying, "Not too big, not too small."

"Not too big, not too small!?"

Romeo, staring wide-eyed at the pig, struggled to control the urge to grab Mo Tan's shoulders and shake him violently, and shouted, "Did you even read the message I sent you properly?!"

Mo Tan nodded and said weakly, "I saw it. What I mean is, just in terms of the word 'trouble,' it's neither too big nor too small."

Romeo: "Well... what you said might have some merit."

"Pastor Black Van!"

Just then, Elgar, the leader of Skorc, arrived and said solemnly, "I heard from the Romeo brothers that to the south..."

“A being from another world named ‘Morning Glory’ has come from the south. Its nature is the same as ours.”

Mo Tan took the coffee Yi Zou thoughtfully handed him, took a half-sip with a haggard expression, and sighed deeply: "Then, although we don't know exactly what he did, the result is that this guy successfully incited four settlements in the southern part of the Steelmane Tribe Kingdom in just half a night. As of now, he has recruited more than five thousand boar people to officially join the [Skolk Rebellion]. And our [Leaf Shadow Clan] has already used all their resources just to appease those guys who have completely fallen into a frenzy and are crazy enough to fight the Blood Barbarians to the death, right?"

Romeo looked at Mo Tan, who had turned to him, with an innocent expression, and said with a wry smile, "Yes, that's the gist of it."

"Five thousand boar-men..."

Although he had already received the news, Elgar, who only learned the specific number now, swallowed hard and said in a dry voice, "We don't even have five thousand boarmen in the entire Skolsk."

“As the leader of Skork, you could have done much better, Elgar.”

Sharia glanced at the burly lizardman next to her, whose physique was at least five sizes larger than hers, and said indifferently, "You should be very clear about the boarmen's reproductive capacity and average quality. Although five thousand people don't sound like a small number, considering their appetite and combat strength, the cost-effectiveness is really not that high. To put it bluntly, those Gray Lizard Hunters from Broken Cliff could probably slaughter all five thousand boarmen with just one squadron."

Elgar shook his head, his expression serious. "I haven't considered the cost-effectiveness issue, Ms. Sharia. What I care more about is that so many people are willing to join us in Skork and dedicate themselves to the cause of resisting [Headless Cliff]. Most importantly, the Boarmen are notoriously cowardly and timid, yet under these circumstances, there are still five thousand of them..."

At this point, this seemingly naive modern-day Skork stopped talking, took a deep breath, and tears welled up in his eyes.

"Um……"

Luna tilted her head and thought for a moment, then looked at Mo Tan curiously: "Is it a good thing?"

"Overall, it is indeed a good thing, after all, our initial goal was to unite as many people as possible who were wavering, at the bottom, or had opinions about the Blood Barbarian's way of doing things."

Mo Tan rubbed his temples, looking quite tired, and said, "But the problem is, this is somewhat different from my initial plan..."

Luna blinked: "Some discrepancies?"

"Ok."

Mo Tan sighed again, saying with a look of utter despair, "It's a huge, huge, huge difference."

Jenny, who was smoking with her arms crossed next to her, smiled slightly and asked with a smile, "How big is the difference exactly?"

"It's probably the result that I originally planned to achieve within half a month, which was taken care of by that spoiler... the big morning glory in one night."

Mo Tan almost gritted her teeth as she said this, clenching her fists tightly: "Why is he so annoying!"

"Uh, isn't this a good thing?"

Elgar looked at Mo Tan, who was practically fuming with anger, with some confusion, and asked, "Wouldn't achieving your strategic goals ahead of schedule be beneficial to your plans?"

Mo Tan took another sip of coffee, let out a long sigh for what seemed like the umpteenth time, and said with a stiff expression, "I can only say that the so-called 'benefit' is actually a very ambiguous concept. For example, what happened last night... Although that guy made me complete the established goal at least half a month ahead of schedule, it added a lot of extra burden to the scouts of [Ye Yin Clan]. Not only that, because this 'wind' that should have been gradual was fanned into flames too early, if not handled properly, it will only give the other side the opportunity to detect it in advance and defeat them one by one."

"This……"

Having been Skolsk's leader for so many years, Elgar was no fool. After hearing Mo Tan's words, he immediately realized the problem. "The chain reaction caused by uneven progress, huh?"

Sharia, who also immediately understood Mo Tan's thinking, clicked her tongue and said with a slight smile, "In that case, those flames that we originally lit ourselves might burn us alive before they even engulf the enemy."

Romeo, one of the first to realize the seriousness of the situation and who had been overwhelmed with work all day and hadn't even finished his job, looked at Sharia with a troubled expression: "So why are you still able to laugh?"

"Because this guy didn't panic."

Xia Liya smiled and gestured with her chin towards Mo Tan, saying with a smile, "Although it's clear that he's very angry, annoyed, and furious, our Lord Black Brahma hasn't panicked or lost his composure. In other words, he should already have a way to resolve this matter, so I can totally smile."

First, he was overjoyed by the appearance of the 'Morning Glory', then he was overwhelmed by the other party's crazy behavior for half the night, and finally he was anxious all day because he couldn't contact Hei Fan. Boss Luo suddenly turned to look at Mo Tan: "Really?"

"Ugh……"

Because he knew himself too well, Mo Tan had already anticipated the consequences when he committed the crime. He covered his head and said helplessly, "Probably, probably."

"Headache?"

Luna frowned slightly, then with a speed completely out of character, added a little something to the coffee in Mo Tan's hand, and said succinctly, "Take a sip."

Mo Tan: "...Eh?"

Luna: "Hmm, I'll take a sip."

"..."

After a few seconds of silence, Mo Tan took a deep breath under the calm yet mysteriously oppressive gaze of the beautiful alchemist, pinched his nose, and drank the spiked coffee in his hand.

The next second—

"Eh?"

Mo Tan paused for a moment, looked down at the inexplicably delicious cup of coffee in her hand, and, quite disbelievingly, downed it in one gulp. Then she exclaimed, "It tastes better now!"

Then her eyes rolled back and she fainted.

Of course, he didn't actually faint; he was simply in a coma and his vision went completely black. At the same time, he lost the ability to control and perceive his own body.

After that, Mo Tan sent Romeo two simple messages explaining the situation, then patiently waited for a full ten minutes, sorting out his thoughts in the darkness, and finally opened his eyes again after the debuff ended.

"How are you feeling?"

Luna watched as Mo Tan fled from the half-dragon female knight's lap as if electrocuted, and asked a question indifferently.

"To be honest, it's much better."

Irrelevant to the two buffs in the status bar, 'Intelligence +3%' and 'Mana Recovery Speed ​​+5%', Mo Tan smiled, his condition (and mood) greatly improved after a good ten-minute rest and calming down: "This thing... is quite powerful."

Luna nodded slightly and said in her usual ethereal voice, "I can tell you need to calm down."

【Eh? 】

Mo Tan, who couldn't associate 'Intelligence +3%' and 'Mana Recovery Speed ​​+5%' with the word 'calm', was first taken aback, and then her expression suddenly became somewhat subtle.

Although it was just a guess, he suddenly felt that what Luna wanted was not the two buffs that lasted for about 30 minutes, but the side effect of 'coma'.

Before Mo Tan could say anything more, Romeo, who hadn't had a good day, came over and asked with a similar look of exhaustion, "So, can you handle this?"

"can."

Not wanting Boss Luo to continue to be anxious, Mo Tan nodded, stood up with Yi Zou's help, looked firmly at everyone including Romeo, and said seriously: "It's better to guide than to block. We must find something for those whose emotions have been stirred up to do."

Romeo stroked the stubble on his chin: "What kind of work are you looking for?"

"Please inform the members of the [Ye Yin Clan] who are currently appeasing the former Boarmen, and have them split into two groups. One group should take young, strong, and physically fit people to the surrounding areas that have not yet been incited by the Big Flower Morning Glory to spread the word and get more people to accept Skork."

Mo Tan revealed the plan he had devised during the day, and instructed with a serious expression: "As for the other half, stay behind to guide the others in preparing for the long journey and protracted battle ahead. Of course, the most important thing is to have them try their best to conceal the fact that some of their compatriots have left."

"That'll be fine?"

"That'll be fine."

"Okay, I believe you, but if you could explain in more detail, I would feel more at ease."

"The best persuaders are never the people of Skolsk or the Holy Alliance, but those who share similar positions, circumstances, and ideas with the person being persuaded."

“…That makes sense.”

"In addition, when everyone has a very clear goal that cannot be put into practice for the time being, both suppression and indulgence will cause extreme consequences. After all, morale and enthusiasm, once depleted or out of control, will backfire."

"really."

"So the way to maintain this mindset in the long run is to make them clearly aware that they are working hard towards their goal, even if the effort doesn't yield immediate results. As long as there are enough like-minded people around them, the chain reaction can help maintain their mindset."

"Black Brahma."

"how?"

"Are you interested in...?"

"No."

"Uh, I didn't mean anything by it, it's just..."

"No."

"Okay, one last question."

"Morning glories?"

"Yes, this guy is really something else. I'm worried that if things continue like this..."

"Don't worry, I'll handle him."

click
"Can it be done?"

"...barely passable."

Chapter 2734: The End