"We would've burnt everything but that won't work because the lord will loot them."
"We'll evaporate the entire lake water."
Looking down at the lake below while sitting atop Nezario 20m in the air, Aegon said.
Roar!
[The lord will like that.]
Nezario communicated with Aegon, agreeing with his plan.
"I know. Let's go."
Diving down with Aegon, Nezario flapped his massive wings at set intervals as smoke and lava emerged from the side of his maws.
"Dracarys!"
Arriving at a suitable height, Aegon uttered.
Releasing his flames, Nezario achieved proper control of his dragon breathe with Aegon's help.
Burning the surface of the lake, he continued going deeper while giving time for the water demons to swim deeper.
After 3 minutes of non-stop flames, a huge water demon burst out of the lake with its razor-sharp teeth lounging at Nezario.
"What a fool."
In sync with Nezario, Aegon watched as he directed his flames towards the approaching 10m huge water demon.
Having 3 times the size of the water demon, Nezario wasn't the least cautious in his aim.
Shriekk!!!!
A loud cry rocked the lake and its surrounding as Nezario's breathe flickered for an instant before stabilizing and even growing larger and stronger.
"Using its subordinate as a decoy while using a consciousness attack."
"How sinister."
Aegon said as his and Nezario's energy were rapidly used up after activating one of his divine skills- berserk dragon!
Having protruding scales and red-hot magma emerging from his body, Nezario exuded a terrifying aura that stilled the water demon lake.
Leaving the tail of the fat fish unburnt, he revealed uncanny control of his flames despite being in a berserk state.
Sensing the frightened gazes of four creatures worth their time, Aegon and Nezario responded with gazes of authority and control.
Their gazes revealed the power they had over the life and death of the water demons.
Slowly descending towards the lake, Nezario and Aegon never took their sight away from the four water demons, and neither did they.
Stopping just meters away from the water surface where Anp Sil's face and those of its strongest fighters could be seen, the dragon and his knight didn't experience any attack despite the close range.
"You do know fear. That's good."
Aegon said with his gaze on Anp Sil, the scarlet lord of the water demons.
Unable to quantify the horror exuded by the opponents before them, the water demons dared not look away or move a muscle.
They knew death was coming, but the will to give up everything and rebel was frozen still by the horrifying aura exuding from the colossal dragon and its rider.
"Dracarys!"
Aegon uttered and death descended.
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Stomping his foot one more time on the desert sand, Zhou Zhou completed the 200m deep hole needed to hold the corpses retrieved from the spatial rings of his subjects for a second or two.
"If the local lords progress as we competing lords do, I doubt the state of the war in High Continent would be at such a level."
"To force the competing lords to grow through killings or get killed and not the local lords, the Supreme Will is in a rush but not yet in a dire state."
"I have no idea what I said, but I just know that's good for me."
Muttering to himself, he felt promotion energy entering his body and the phantom cage storage.
"It's been a while I got promotion energy from my subjects, how nostalgic."
He sighed as he felt the minute changes brought by the 10% promotion energy acquired by Aegon and Nezario.
Not much time later, the desert sand around became turbulent as a 30m huge dragon descended in front of the 100m deep hole with a rider on its back.
"My lord."
Aegon leaped down from Nezario's back before bowing in front of Zhou Zhou.
"We didn't fail you."
He said while piling the corpses of the water demons, territory spoils and the territory token into the hole beside him.
"You both did amazingly; your efforts will certainly be rewarded."
Zhou Zhou's eyes sparkled at the heap of corpses and spoils emerging out of the 200m hole.
"Thank you, my lord."
"Roar!"
Aegon and Nezario replied excitedly before leaving to go pick up the other teams.
Pulling the entire three thousand corpses of the water demons into his spatial ring, Zhou Zhou spent the next 180 seconds looting them.
Observing his loots, he counted with a smile.
11,588 mist cores! (8,912 Black iron-tier, 2,676 Green bronze-tier)
30 White silver-tier mist cores!
188,360kg of water bags!
271,762 units of meat! (Black iron-tier, Green bronze-tier, White silver-tier)
3,230 books of deep water stealth! (Black iron-tier, Green bronze-tier, White silver-tier)
3,230 deep water heal! (Black iron-tier, Green bronze-tier, White silver-tier)
852 copies of shrieking howl! (Green bronze-tier, White silver-tier)
1 martial art manual - dark water mystic technique! (White silver-tier advance grade)
5 origin crystals!
8 lord talent crystal fragments! (Black iron-tier)
Anp Sil's corpse was what gave the last three loots.
"I will have Aegon and Nezario take care of the last water demon they left behind for the monster ranch."
"Nothing too special in their loots."
Zhou Zhou muttered with smiles all over his face.
The excitement of looting so many resources at once couldn't be easily quantified.
Focusing on the information on the looted skills and manual, he started with the deep water stealth skill.
[Skill Name: Deep Water Stealth]
[Skill Quality: White silver-tier advance grade]
[Skill Description: User can freely wander underwater. Life forms below the White silver-tier advance grade are unable to discover user's existence.]
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[Skill Name: Deep Water Heal]
[Skill Quality: White silver-tier advance grade]
[Skill Description: Recovers injuries when the user dives underwater. Injuries above the skill quality will be extended.]
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[Skill Name: Shrieking Howl]
[Skill Quality: White silver-tier advance grade]
[Skill Description: Attacks the opponent's consciousness with a howl. Result depends on the strength of the opponent's consciousness.]
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[Martial Arts Manual: Dark Water Mystic Technique]
[Manual Quality: White silver-tier advance grade]
[Cultivation Effect One: Dark water breathing technique— user can use it underwater to greatly extend their survival time in the water. Time duration: 2 hours.]
[Cultivation Effect Two: Dark water cultivation technique— user can cultivate martial arts underwater and absorb the water elemental energy in the water, turning it into promotion energy to increase their strength realm.]
[Cultivation Effect Three: Dark water martial artist— user can fight freely underwater. Combat strength bonuses: agility +200%, strength +200%, stamina recovery speed +200%, energy recovery speed +200%.]
[Note: When user breaks through to the Yellow gold-tier, the dark water martial artist's combat strength enhancement effect decreases.]
...
"A martial art that specializes in fighting underwater? It can serve to either create a new type of soldier or enhance other soldiers."
"If it wasn't for its enhancement and cultivation effects, the effects of the skills were better together."
Zhou Zhou muttered while thinking whether to use it on an active soldier or create a special soldier type.
After a while, he came to a decision.
"The same way I restricted promotion energy to a few rather to many, I should restrict the number of path a soldier should walk ."
"Focusing on so many paths at a time would reduce one's growth and might even cause errors on their journey."
"My take on the promotion energy was right, I'm certain this is also right."
And so, he made plans to give the martial art manual to a non-professional subject tomorrow.
"Having all your subjects as professionals can also be a problem."
He chuckled as he made use of an elementary grade white silver-tier deep water stealth skill and deep water heal skill.
As for shrieking howl, it can't be compared to mental manipulation.
"Qin We and Sun Can will finally have a large area attacking skill."
"Qin We can finally stop complaining."
Zhou Zhou chuckled before checking out the number of spoils gotten from the water demon's warehouse.
Done within a minute, he counted 30,000 units of stone, 20,000 units of wood, 15,000 units of metal, 10,000 units of fine sand, 3,526 Black iron-tier mist cores, 557 Green bronze-tier mist cores, 24 White silver-tier mist cores and an intermediate grade green bronze-tier territory token.
"Conquering is indeed the fastest way of obtaining useful resources."
He muttered with a smile.
Not having to wait for long, he watched as the dragon descended with his soldiers.
"My lord!"
Bai Yung and Lu Chong said as they arrived in front of Zhou Zhou.
"You all did well."
Zhou Zhou said to his soldiers as the two leaders took out of their spoils of war.
"Thank you, my lord!"
The soldiers echoed in response.
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