Global Lords: My Territory Heart Is a World Tree

Chapter 291: Chapter 168: End of the Second Phase (2)

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As for Xiong Liang, after spending the better part of the day searching, his raiding parties had paid a visit to every territory in the basin whose lord had joined the Northern Expedition Legion and left with their army.

He had shattered the Territory Core of every domain whose Lord’s Mansion his forces could breach.

Finally, he was satisfied to see a distinct blue marker appear over his territory’s location on the map.

On this final day, through his own hard work, he had successfully made the rankings and advanced to the third stage.

The reason he had gone on this raiding spree across the basin on the final day was all thanks to a marker on the map.

Several days prior, with the help of an unnamed lord’s subordinate, he had successfully purged the Eye Demon that was controlling a parasitized hero in his territory.

Since then, he had harbored doubts about Mei Yuan. He wanted to destroy his Territory Core but worried that Mei Yuan might merely be using an Eye Demon’s power to control his legion, rather than being parasitized himself.

He himself was a member of the Cuiwei Lord Corps. Despite its low profile, the Cuiwei Lord Corps was actually immensely powerful and influential, filled with many Extraordinary Beings—lords who had withdrawn from the competition but retained their Extraordinary powers.

If Mei Yuan’s allegiance hadn’t changed, destroying his Territory Core without provocation would be a violation of the corps’ discipline, and Xiong Liang would face dire consequences later.

Fellow members of the Cuiwei Lord Corps were permitted to engage in personal disputes, but destroying another member’s Territory Core was strictly forbidden.

As for Mei Yuan having destroyed the Territory Cores of several lords along his path—that was his own affair. He would be the one to face punishment for it upon his return.

In short, destroying the Territory Core of an ally would trigger the deployment of the corps’ specialized Extraordinary enforcement squad.

While the Cuiwei Star Government had no authority to intervene in the competition, it could still obtain information on major incidents, such as the details of large-scale battles or the full story behind a lord’s Territory Core being shattered.

Plagued by this uncertainty, Xiong Liang had merely ordered his subordinates to scout out the locations of all the lords in the basin who had joined the Northern Expedition Legion and subsequently departed, leaving their territories completely empty.

But then, today, he saw a red marker appear on the map—right over Mei Yuan’s territory.

A red marker meant that Mei Yuan was no longer of the same alignment.

Recalling the rumors that some lords within the Northern Expedition Legion were being controlled by parasitic Eye Demons, he confirmed that Mei Yuan must have been compromised and had completely defected from the Cuiwei Star Race. Only then did he resolve to attack the abandoned territories of the other lords in the basin.

As the saying goes, opportunity favors the prepared. The intelligence Xiong Liang had gathered earlier proved invaluable; the teams he dispatched precisely located the territories, breached one Lord’s Mansion after another, and shattered the Territory Cores within.

Destroying the Territory Cores of these lords from a different alignment earned him a massive amount of Combat Points, vaulting his score into the rankings and securing his advancement.

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On the battlefields of the Western Plains, the lords of the Northern Expedition Legion had departed. Without commanders, and with soldiers sporadically turning into neutral refugees, the remaining troops gradually gave up the fight. None dared to flee, for an even more terrifying deathly miasma lurked in the mountain forests behind them.

After capturing the remaining soldiers of the Northern Expedition Legion, the Sniper Corps began to clear the battlefield.

The Death Devourers also entered the fray. Millions of lives had been lost in this narrow, gourd-shaped pass, and if left unattended, the site would inevitably become a terrifying Land of the Dead.

They began to consume the aura of death that saturated the battlefield, conveniently gaining "a little" experience for themselves in the process.

At the rear of the battlefield, by the ruins of a Teleportation Array, a large group including Lin Kong, Meiying, Li Hua, and Xiong Da were inspecting the conspicuously abnormal site.

"Sir, we couldn’t find the lords of the Northern Expedition Legion!" one of Xiong Da’s cavalrymen reported.

"Never mind, stop looking," Lin Kong said. He was already in sync with the World Tree and could now understand the remnants of the array on the ground.

"This was a Teleportation Array. The lords must have used it to escape."

"Tch, what a shame! To think we let those Eye Demons who parasitized our Human Race get away," Xiong Da lamented from the side.

"It’s all right. We know their methods now, so we can be prepared for them next time. When that time comes, we’ll just have to crush them."

"Let’s go. This Teleportation Array is completely destroyed. Someone already dismantled it for materials, so it can’t be restored. There’s nothing of value left here."

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In the aftermath of this great battle, several lords from the Sniper Corps successfully advanced, including the two Zhao Family brothers from the fortress pass.

These lords, who had made the rankings through combat, were all grinning from ear to ear. Their soldiers had charged fast, died in droves, and killed just as many, earning them a huge number of Combat Points.

Meanwhile, the lords who heard about their advancement were beating their chests and stamping their feet, absolutely sick with regret.

During the battle, they hadn’t fought with their full strength, instead ordering their soldiers to hang back and simply try to leech some points. They had gotten what they wanted—a few points—but had also lost their chance to advance.

Unfortunately, the battle was over now, and there were no more enemies left for them to slay.

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