The Ring: Sell Dung Beetles in Junction

Chapter 469

"No."

When he heard Wuming wanted him to give up his mission, Messermo blurted out subconsciously.

"You want to end the holy war, right?" Wuming asked.

"I don't want to cleanse the filth anymore," Messermo said, "but I can't break the seal... I can't give up my mission."

"Isn't holy war also your mission? Why do you stop here?" Wuming asked.

Messermo was a little confused:
"Once the Horned People possess the Tower of God, they will rise up immediately. Then they will counterattack the border area. The war will not end."

Patch smiled: "I see. You have to pin the other party down until they can no longer resist before you are qualified to receive mercy. Only by maintaining a pitiful attitude will you want to end the holy war. If you want to have mercy on the weak, you must make sure that the weak will always be weak, right? Otherwise, how can you show your kindness?"

Wuming covered Patch's mouth and said to Messermo:

"But you should also know that the war will not end unless the Horned Man's tower is returned. They will not give up."

"The difference is that one war is confined to the Shadowlands, while the other will spread to the Borderlands," said Messermo. "I would rather carry the Sorrow and lock the Horned Man in the Shadowlands."

Wuming propped up his chin and said, "Back then at the border, during the Dianhuo incident, everyone thought the same thing. They only think about problems from the perspective that is most beneficial to themselves, and as a result, the problems become bigger and bigger. Don't just think about gains and losses when thinking about problems. You, you have to learn to love."

Calling for love on the battlefield, Messermo felt that Wuming's brain was not working well, but he was too embarrassed to say it out loud.

"I will take care of matters such as interests." Wuming continued, patting his chest.

"You just want to benefit yourself, right?" Messermo couldn't help it.

Wuming chuckled, "You have to try everything. What you are worried about is that the Horned Man will counterattack, right? As long as you can ensure that the Horned Man does not counterattack, are you willing to unlock the seal?"

Messermo hesitated:
"Can you really guarantee that? This is my mother's order..."

"Your mother has changed her mind." Wuming said, "Forget about your mother for now."

"Then how can you ensure that the Horned Man will not retaliate?" Messermo asked.

Wuming hugged his shoulders and remained silent for a moment, then he sighed solemnly and seriously: "It seems that it is time for me to lower my status and appear in person."

"Are you going to sell your face again?" said Messermo.

"How much is face worth?" Wuming felt a little distressed. "Of course it depends on benefits. As long as the benefits you give up are enough, the people in the corners will understand your sincerity."

Wuming said: "It will be beneficial for you to bring the corner man to the negotiation table. After all, you can make more concessions."

"Can this make the Horned People eliminate their hatred?" Messiah didn't believe it.

"We'll take it one step at a time. The details will depend on the situation." Wuming said, "You come to assist me, and I'll take full responsibility for this matter - call some of your Horned People scholars over here, I need to know more about the Horned People."

Wuming's request was not excessive, so Messermo called the Horned Scholar and ordered the Flame Knight to help Wuming, and then he went to rest. He was seriously injured and still needed to rest.

Kud helped Messermo into the dark room to rest.

After Messermo fell asleep, Kud quietly walked out of the dark room and saw Mulitiel coming over with Lailana on her back.

Lailana's injuries were more serious and she was still unconscious, being carried on Mulitiel's shoulders.

The two chief knights looked at each other and understood each other. Kud opened the door again and asked Mulitiel to move Lailana into the dark room.

Then both knights stepped out and stood guard at the door.

In the vault, Wuming and Patch are discussing something.

"How about a hammer?" Patch said.

Wuming shook his head: "If the blunt force of a hammer hits the wrong spot, it will still be fatal. And even if it doesn't hit a vital part, it will still damage the bones and internal organs, which will require treatment. We don't have enough healers."

Wuming said, "How is your spider silk?"

"It's too sharp, and it's hard to control the damage," Patch said. "If you want it to be thicker, it's too hard, and it's impossible to pull it that long, and it won't be effective if it's thicker."

Lance Shanks came over curiously:

"What are you discussing?"

"A way to deal with the Horned Man." Wuming said.

"Aren't you ready to negotiate?" Lance Shanks said, "Why are we dealing with the Horned Man again?"

"You have to deal with the horn man first before you don't have to deal with the horn man," said Patch.

"So we're looking for non-lethal methods." Wuming said.

"Oh~" Lance Shanks nodded, "I don't understand."

Lance Shanks went back to play with Laya. In front of Laya, she felt like an older sister.

Patch continued to think and asked Wuming:

"How about your peaceful ambling?"

"The scope is not large enough, and being too peaceful is not good either." Wuming said, "They won't be able to appreciate our sincerity."

"How about poison and anesthetic?" Patch said.

"It doesn't work." Wuming said, "The horned people are too strong, it's hard to find a suitable toxin."

"When facing a group, the scene should be grand, but it can't be too lethal..." Patch thought.

"Got it." Wuming remembered, "Gravity magic."

"Will your half-baked gravity magic work?" Patch expressed doubt, "The Broken Star is not here."

"Suixing is not here, but his senior brother Suixing is here." Wuming said, and immediately stood up and went to find Gaius.

Gaius listened to Wuming's request and thought for a moment:
"It's not that there is no way. I can use my rocks and the power of gravity to knock them off their feet. But I have to rush into the formation. I'm afraid I won't have the chance to use it."

"I'll take care of the defense." Wuming said.

"I trust your shield." Gaius smiled.

After solving the problem of the horn man, Wuming walked out of the vault. As soon as he went out, he saw a black knight being knocked back to the city wall.

You can see a horned warrior wearing a mythical beast helmet, leaping higher than the city wall, waving his sword, stirring up a storm, and driving the black knight back to the city wall.

The Horned Man warriors are far more powerful than the Black Knights, but the Black Knights rely on numbers and group combat, constantly exchanging blood with the Horned Man.

The two sides were evenly matched, forming a meat grinder in front of the battlefield, with blood constantly spilling.

But soon, the situation on the battlefield was about to change.

The Horned People appeared directly in front of the city, and they relied on teleportation to bypass the terrifying Furnace Golem.

And Andros has already sent people to activate the golem and dispatch it back.

With the Furnace Golem attacking the Horned People from behind, their formation will be disrupted. Being attacked from both sides, the Horned People will surely be defeated.

The golem appeared behind the Horned Man, and the sculptured image of the fiery evil god on the golem brought great fear and confusion to the Horned Man.

Just as Andros predicted.

He then prepared to command the Black Knights to take advantage of the situation to launch a counterattack and defeat the Horned People.

Wuming rushed past the black knight guards, ran up to him and interrupted his command.

"What do you want, Lightless One?" Andros asked in a bad tone, not understanding why Wuming broke in at this time.

From a standpoint, they should be considered enemies, but at this time, Andros didn't want to cause trouble. He had seen Wuming standing on the wall and shouting, and knew that he was on Messermo's side, and he also knew that Wuming must be very powerful. Otherwise, he wouldn't stand on the wall and take the crossbow.

Wuming said, "I need you to bring your soldiers back from the battlefield."

Andros raised an eyebrow: "You think I will listen to you? What's the reason?"

"My people will take over the battlefield," Wuming said. "Our fighters have gained an advantage, and you want to reap the benefits?" Andros said.

"Is there any advantage?" Wuming looked at the sand table in front of Andros.

"The Furnace Golem has intercepted the Horned People in the rear." Andros said, "Our knights' charge can break up their formation."

"The Burning Furnace Golem..." Wuming pondered and didn't say much, but he didn't leave either.

A moment later, a black knight came over to report:
"The Burning Furnace Golem was dismantled by the Horned Warrior."

"What? How is it possible?" Andros was shocked. "The Horned People dare to attack the Burning Furnace Golem? They can attack the Burning Furnace Golem? Aren't they afraid of fire?"

The Black Knight said: "The action mode of the Furnace Golem has changed. It no longer uses fire. It seems that the Furnace Flame has disappeared. It can only punch and kick. The Horned People adapted to it and dismantled the golem piece by piece."

Andros was furious:
"Who changed the core of the Furnace Golem?!"

"Yeah, who is it?" Wuming's eyes wandered, and he said quickly, "Hey, look, the Burning Furnace Golem is gone, the Horned Man is in high spirits, but your morale is declining. Why don't you retreat first?"

Andros glanced at Wuming, ran to the top of the wall himself, observed the battlefield, and finally sounded the call for the troops to retreat.

"Whatever you have in mind, just use it." Andros said to Wuming.

Messermo's men were ready to fight, and he was happy to see it happen. To him, both sides were filthy, and whoever got hurt would be to his advantage.

Seeing that Andros had given in, Wuming left Shadow City through the main gate with a row of Fire Knights.

The gate of Shadow City opened, the Black Knights retreated, and the Fire Knights took over. Then all the Fire Knights prayed at the same time, and a golden ball of light blasted out, knocking out the Horned Man who was chasing the Black Knight and preparing to rush into the city.

The originally uneven Horned Man was blasted to approximately the same level. Gaius came around from the side, rode the wild boar high up, and crashed in front of the Horned Man.

The surging gravity magic spread out, overturning the earth and the horned man.

After sending the Horned Man flying, Gaius's boar tapped the ground lightly, flew up into the sky again, turned around, and did it again.

The wild boar, with its two huge horns, pushed the hornmen's line back like a plow.

The horned warrior saw the opportunity, rushed to Gaius, and chopped at the boar's head with his sword.

A golden light enveloped Gaius's whole body. The mighty sword could not stop the wild boar at all, and the horned warrior was also knocked out by the wild boar.

Even the extremely powerful beast warriors could only resist the charge of the wild boar for a moment before being defeated. Gaius rushed among the horned men without getting hurt, and his gravity magic kept pushing the horned men away. Occasionally, there were some that slipped through the net, and the Flame Knight would take action, and the Fury from afar would beat back the missed horned men.

Gaius, one man and one pig, forced the horned men back hundreds of meters.

The horned man seemed to be stunned and finally stopped his attack and temporarily retreated a distance.

Seeing such a powerful general, the black knights watching the battle on the city wall were also quite excited and praised Gaius.

However, when Gaius returned to the city in triumph, the Black Knight fell silent again when he saw Gaius' helmet and armor.

"Do they know you?" Wuming asked Gaius.

"Somewhat," Gaius said, "but mainly because my helmet is not very attractive."

"Isn't it beautiful?" Wuming looked at Gaius's helmet.

"It's the shape of a seed," Gaius said. "The people of the Golden Tree don't like seeds. They think it's a hint that the Golden Tree will decline."

"This is too sensitive." Wuming said.

"No, I am insinuating it." Gaius said, "This is the prophecy of the two fingers, and it is also the consensus of the seers, the Falling Leaf School and other schools."

"This..." Wuming didn't know what to say.

Gaius said, "Because it was a two-fingered prophecy, the people of the Golden Tree can't say anything. But they will definitely be unhappy."

"Then why are you provoking them?" Wuming said.

"Brother, I am a son of platinum." Gaius said, "Do you think they will let me go if I remain silent? See my armor? They even made me a pair of leg armor."

"Don't you have no legs?" Wuming said.

"So guess what you meant by making leg armor for me?" Gaius spread his hands. "I'm still helping them defend the city now, just for Messermo's sake."

"Thank you for your hard work." Wuming patted Gaius's butt, "It's our turn next."

The Flame Knight did not return immediately, but instead rushed forward when the Horned Man retreated.

They did not go in pursuit, but instead cut off all the large spears that were pierced with burning corpses along the edge of Shadow City and gathered them together.

From a distance it looks like a skewer.

Wuming also turned back, came to the batch of skewers, stretched out his hand, and absorbed all the flames on the corpses.

The Flame Knight then took action, pulling the corpse from the spear, and following the instructions of the Horned Scholar, gathered the corpse according to the Horned Funeral Ritual, and finally pushed it far away, placing it in a place that was out of reach of the crossbows in the city.

After doing all this, without the backdrop of corpse torches, the horror atmosphere around Shadow City was reduced by more than half.

No scouts inside or outside the city could quite understand what Wuming and his Flame Knight had done.

The people in the city were angry that Wuming had ruined their military achievements, and the people in the distance were wondering if this was an ambush.

But no matter what both sides thought, Wuming had already swaggered back to the city with the Flame Knight.

Some soldiers wanted to find Wuming to argue with him, but they felt dizzy and let Wuming go for some unknown reason.

At the beginning, the conflict was not too big, and Andros did not have much objection to cutting off the spears outside the city.

But when Wuming made the next move, Andros could no longer bear it.

"Have you shut down all the Furnace Golems in various places?" When Andros saw the information reported by his men, he cursed Wuming and was furious.

The Burning Golem can be said to be the most powerful weapon of the Golden Tree. Each Burning Golem is equivalent to an army. With the Burning Golem, an army of Horned People can be easily defeated like a tornado.

Shadow City is an unshakable castle, and the Furnace Golem is an unshakable mobile castle that can deal a double blow to the Horned Man both physically and mentally.

With the Furnace Golem, Andros is so confident of his victory.

The defeat of the golem in front of the city was also one of the reasons why Andros called back his troops. He sent people to retrieve the other furnace golems around the city that same day.

As a result, his subordinates reported that all the furnace golems were broken and could not be activated or repaired.

They saw Wuming's sneaky figure next to the golem.

"Did you destroy the golem?" Andros asked him.

"It's me." Wuming admitted frankly.

"Why?" Andros was furious. "You are also from Messermo's side, right? Don't you know that the Furnace Golem is the strongest weapon of the Messermo Crusade?"

"Isn't that a flame? I cleaned up the flame for the golden tree. You should thank me." Wuming said.

Andros could no longer hold back the hammer in his hand.

"I know you're anxious, but don't be anxious yet." Wuming said, "You haven't heard my reasons yet."

"What's the reason?" Andros suppressed his anger.

Wuming raised his index finger, revealing a wise look:

"Hey, I want to get everyone together to have a peaceful discussion. To do this, we need to make the resentment between the two sides less intense."

"Kill him!" Andros' resentment soared to the sky, and he picked up the hammer and rushed towards Wuming.

"Look, you're in a hurry again." Wuming blocked Andros' hammer with his shield, and floated back to distance himself from the other black knights. "You haven't heard the conditions I offered yet."

"No matter what conditions you set, I will kill you, the traitor," said Andros.

"Oh?" Wuming raised his head, "What if the condition is that you can go home?"

(End of this chapter)