139: Chapter 139 The Great Battle Begins

"But it isn't attacking me now. What if it attacks me when I'm fighting an enemy later?" Charlie swung the water weeds with his hands. Thinking of the pain when the water weeds stripped the scales from his body, he felt a chill in his heart.

"Hahahaha, didn't I tell you? It lives by relying on the mad corpse divine scale. Since the mad corpse divine scale now recognizes you as its master, it recognizes you as its master too! In the future, when you face an enemy, you'll have one more divine weapon at your disposal!" The old man rode the Golden Rainbow Flame Divine Beast toward the wooden house.

"Alright, now that you have the mad corpse divine scale, it's time for you to go do what you need to do. Don't come and disturb me again in the future, remember that!" The old man's voice grew more and more distant.

"Yes, I will remember, senior!" Charlie looked in the direction the old man had left and shouted respectfully.

"Hahahaha, Wei He, I'm coming! This time I will make you wish you were dead!" Charlie laughed wildly. As he waved his arms, the green scales shone brilliantly, and his entire body leaped into the air at an extremely fast speed.

In Laiseluo City, Emperor Alexander looked at the four people before him, overjoyed. The smile on his lips never ceased: "Good, you have performed a great service by assassinating Wei He this time. You are all promoted three ranks. In addition, each person will receive one hundred taels of gold and one hundred Magic Crystals!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty. This successful assassination of Wei He is all due to Your Majesty's strategic planning and proper command. We all just followed Your Majesty's orders and were fortunate enough to receive this honor. This is all Your Majesty's credit!" The White-bearded Old Man looked at Emperor Alexander with a flattering expression, his white beard trembling as he spoke.

"That's right, that's right, it's all Your Majesty's credit!" the other three people echoed.

"Hahahaha, Wei He is dead, so I can rest easy. Quickly issue an edict ordering the officials at all levels of the Southern Province to surrender immediately and return to the rule of the Magic Empire. Otherwise, they will be executed, and their entire clans will be wiped out!" Emperor Alexander said with a smile.

"Yes, Your Majesty is wise!" the officials in the imperial court said in unison.

"Hahahaha!" A hearty laugh spread to every corner of the Sacred Hall.

Austin, who was behind the Sacred Hall, listened to the voices inside with a look of confusion. Wei He had died just like that; he always felt there was something suspicious about the matter.

Inside Ande Valley, a troop was walking slowly. Leading them was a tall, handsome man, 1.85 meters tall, with a high nose bridge, fair skin, and a small mouth. He was wearing an expensive gold-threaded magic robe and riding a tall horse with a smug look on his face.

"I know you are hiding in the dark right now. Your leader, Wei He, is already dead. Emperor Alexander has already spoken: if you surrender your weapons now, your past actions will be forgiven. If you want to resist to the end, there is only a dead end, hahahaha!" The youth wearing the golden magic robe shouted triumphantly.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!" From the depths of the forest, the sound of Sniper rifles rang out, and the servants following behind the youth fell to the ground one by one.

"Hmph!" The youth let out a muffled grunt, reached out, and caught the incoming bullet. With a flick of his hand, the bullet hit the Sniper hiding in the dark. A finger-sized bloody hole appeared between the Sniper's eyebrows, and he was dead beyond a doubt.

"Hahahaha, Wei He's troops are nothing special; they only know how to shoot from the shadows, hmph!" Just as the youth finished this sentence, he saw two behemoths rushing out of the forest; they were the grizzly tanks.

"If you're so good at catching things, try catching their shells!" Tanya stood on top of a grizzly tank, looking down at the youth with a condescending posture.

"Hmph, I can catch any hidden weapon. I am the best among the younger generation of the Magic Empire in practicing both magic and martial arts!" The youth's eyes were full of confidence; he didn't take Tanya's words to heart at all.

"Good, as long as you can catch them!" Tanya clapped her hands repeatedly and pointed at the youth, saying, "Blast this arrogant idiot to death for me!"

"Boom! Boom!" The muzzles of the two grizzly tanks simultaneously spewed scorching flames, and two shells attacked the youth at an extremely fast speed.

"Hahahaha, I told you I could catch them!" The youth caught the shells with great difficulty, gritting his teeth and grimacing. The high temperature of the shells almost cooked his palms.

Just as he finished speaking, the two shells exploded in his hands. When the smoke cleared, there was only a blood-stained skeleton on the ground, with smoking pieces of flesh scattered around.

"Ah, run! The imperial envoy is dead! The imperial envoy in charge of persuading surrender has been killed by Wei He's subordinates!" The remaining people ran desperately toward Laiseluo City, everyone's face filled with terror, their feet moving faster than wheels, wishing only that their parents had given them two more legs.

Three days later, all the magicians of the Magic Empire arrived at Ande Valley. At the same time, Emperor Alexander's voice echoed in their minds: "Refusing a toast only to be forced to drink a forfeit, you actually dared to kill my imperial envoy! Flatten Ande Valley for me, and bring those traitors from the Southern Province to the capital. I want to judge them personally. Whether it's poison, assassination, or Forbidden Spell, as long as you can eliminate the enemy, anything is acceptable!"

At the front of the army, magicians wearing magic robes of different colors—purple, cyan, blue, and red—formed four Magic Arrays. Holy light of four colors shot out toward the surrounding forest. The holy light swept left and right through the forest, constantly cutting down hundred-year and thousand-year-old giant trees. Soon, a clearing a kilometer wide was cleared, with countless logs lying on the ground.

Several magicians wearing fiery red magic robes flew into the air, and streams of fiery red fireballs attacked the trees on the ground like scattered flowers. The fire quickly spread throughout the entire forest. Soldiers from the Southern Province who were originally hiding in the woods were engulfed in flames, running and screaming, dashing about everywhere. On the ground, there were also corpses of soldiers who had just been cut in half by the holy light.

"Hmph, Emperor Alexander has ordered us to advance quickly. Without Wei He as their Commander, those strange Puppet Beasts can't think for themselves at all. Kill them for me! Those soldiers who have betrayed the Magic Empire should also be killed, kill!" A White-Robed Magician, holding a dark green magic staff with a green Magic Crystal embedded in it, was shouting loudly with his mouth wide open.

"Yes!" A group of magic soldiers lined up, each with a circular Magic Array condensed in front of them. Various magic elements and various Ability Users were all among these soldiers, advancing rapidly.

Tanya had just rushed out of the dense forest nearby and taken down two magicians with two shots when she was hit by the concentrated fire of the other magicians. Various elements like ice, fire, lightning, and others struck her body. Her corpse was not only shattered into many pieces but also charred black, completely unrecognizable as a person.

Rows of grizzly tanks had just rushed out when they were blown up by this group of magicians. The turrets flew to the rear into the positions of the Bozi Youning, directly crushing a whole area of soldiers.

"Ah, help me! Aaaah!" A group of Southern Province soldiers, having just arrived on the battlefield, were treated like barbecue by the fire-element magicians and burned beyond recognition. The remaining people were then frozen into popsicles by ice-element magicians. These people wailed and screamed, which gave the White-Robed Magician a sense of satisfaction.

"Hahahaha, this is the fate of opposing the Magic Empire. Hahahaha, wow, this wafting aroma of meat, I really can't stand it!" The White-Robed Magician sniffed hard, looking intoxicated as he spoke.