The Great Worm Lich

Chapter 224: The Imminence of War

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

It was already near dusk this time. The sun that was about to set, cast its last afterglow onto the valley and caused the Tudenan tribe to be shrouded in a faint golden glow.

When Zhang Lisheng was carrying out the ceremony, Tugra and Tumu were waiting outside the treehouse. The two people seemed unmoved by the screams resonating from the room from time to time. They did not communicate with each other but merely stood outside the room with a blank expression.

When they saw the young man walk out of the bark house surrounded by the Menger tribesmen, Tugra’s eyes lit up right away. Tumu, on the other hand, narrowed his eyes with horror, before concealing it by lowering his head and be the first to bow to salute. “Remodeler...”

However, when the chief warrior of Tudenan only managed to speak one word, the headman took his sentence right away. “Remodeler! You’ve managed to tame these Menger tribesmen! T-This is incredible! Only a living faith who walks on the ground like you can do this! Without the need to push down any totem pole nor snatching the tribal book of history, you can make these Menger huntsmen...”

“Tugra, nobody can do these things you said. Otherwise, the Hellfire people would have already long built a powerful unified dynasty or even perished already.”

“T-Then, they’re...” Upon hearing Zhang Lisheng’s answer, Tugra stared at the tamed Menger tribesmen dumbstruck. He finally realized that there seemed to be a faint strange smell from these fellows who were still walking normally just now. Not only that, their complexion looked dull and had a kind of sinister aura.

“The beast tide from the jungle is about to appear soon, right?” Zhang Lisheng raised his head to look at the sky and suddenly asked.

“Yes, Remodeler. We’ve already prepared for dinner tonight. after we’ve filled our stomachs and kneeled down for prayers, the beast tide will appear soon.”

“Very good!” Zhang Lisheng nodded before commanding the black beetle who had been quietly staying by the side of the totem pole for a long time to extend its long legs. Under the surprised exclamation of the aborigines, it walked up to him. “Tumu, go find a scout who is familiar with the terrain. Ah, and he should also be brave enough. I want to bring him for a stroll in Menger.”

“Yes, Remodeler!” Raising his head to quietly look at the giant insect crouching beside him, and the corpses that climbed up to the giant beetle one after another stiffly with both hands, Tumu answered and gradually retreated.

When he left far away from Zhang Lisheng, his face turned grave right away. “It’s apparent that this is a power of commanding the deceased! Those Meager tribesmen are corpses! How can a sea spiritual monster possess such power? C-Could it be that... No! Wait a minute! It must be me who has been thinking too much! The spiritual monsters have a power that is mysterious and perhaps, perhaps Remodeler really possesses an ability that other ordinary sea spiritual monsters don’t have...”

When the Tudenan’s chief warrior was hoodwinking himself, Zhang Lisheng was giving out his order to the tribe’s headman. “If everything goes smoothly, I’ll conquer the Menger tonight. Dig a blood pool early and prepare to convert the captives to become Tudenan tribesmen. Even though this valley is not huge, it can accommodate two to three times more of the current population. Take apart the Menger tribe and move them here to live at the valley...”

“Yes... Yes... Yes...” It seemed as though Tugra could only answer the word ‘yes’ in the face of the Remodeler’s order. Finally, he lowered his voice and answered politely, “Remodeler, after the Menger tribesmen enter Tudenan, will their chief warrior remain in the same position as the previous example?”

“Tugra, the reason the destroyed Luami tribal chief warrior maintained his position was that Tudenan was already extinct at that time. The situation this time is different.” Zhang Lisheng saw Tumu bring an aborigine with long limbs who appeared to be bright and quick-witted among the other aborigines walking towards them. Then, without warning, he jumped high onto the back of Beetlecar. “After the Menger tribesmen have entered Tudenan, you’ll have 50% power to select the warrior leaders while the other 50% will go to Tumu and the rest of Tudenan’s current warrior leaders to pick. That’s it.”

In fact, in a Hellfire tribe that barely had a population of 10,000 like Tudenan, other than those who were weak to the point that they would just become food for the beasts, when they entered the jungle, the rests of the adult men are all warriors or hunters.

For this reason, the position of Tugra’s headman who was basically standing at the opposite side of the tribal warrior leaders was just a name.

Now that he had obtained half of the right to appoint and dismiss the leaders after the Menger tribesmen had converted to become Tudenan tribesmen, despite the fact that it was merely just a yet-to-be-cashed promise right now, it was still enough to make him kneel on the ground beside himself with joy, praising the grace of the Remodeler in succession.

Tumu, on the other hand, only heard of the last part of Zhang Lisheng’s statement from far away about how half of the right to appoint and dismiss the converted Menger warrior leaders was given to the current Tudenan tribal warrior leaders. He, who walked near to the giant insect, could also only kneel on the ground beside Tugra and chanted, “Great Remodeler, thank you for your magnanimity...”

“Enough, it’s not the time to celebrate the division of shares right now!” Looking down condescendingly at the small indigenous figures on the mud, Zhang Lisheng frowned and pointed at the young aborigine behind Tumu. “Tumu, is this your scout?”

“Yes, Remodeler! Duba is the best scout in the tribe, with a brave and determined heart.”

The moment the Tudenan’s chief warrior finished his sentence, the young aborigine kneeled and kissed Zhang Lisheng’s footprint on the mud before saying in a slightly trembling voice. “Great Remodeler! Tudenan’s living faith! Your devout servant, Duba, is here to serve you.”

“Very good! Come up to the back of the Beetlecar and we’ll depart.”

“Yes!” Duba crept up from the ground and agilely crept up on the wizard gu’s back.

He originally wanted to maintain his body balance, but after riding on Beetlecar that suddenly propped up its six slender limbs to walk in a swaying manner out of the valley, he realized he had already been firmly absorbed by the giant insect’s shell.

Right now, there was no longer any light in the dense jungle outside of the Tudenan tribe. Only the howling of the beasts that were getting rapidly faster and louder echoing within it.

“Duba, come here and give me the direction. We’ll go to Menger Swamp.” Zhang Lisheng commanded the wizard gu to climb up on the jungle’s big tree before moving towards the east using the tree canopy.

“Yes, Remodeler!” Duba, who had never ridden on a gigantic strange insect that horrifyingly traveled on the dense forest canopy, stood up on the back of the insect in fear, before passing by the few Corpse Puppets lying on the wizard gu’s shell whose entire bodies were entirely sucked firmly in a flash. He then came to sit beside Zhang Lisheng by the time he reached him.

After sitting down, he relied on the little rising stars in the sky to point out the direction where the Menger tribe lied. Right at this moment, the beast tide erupted as countless wild beasts began to run amok for no reason.

Zhang Lisheng commanded Beetlecar to use its six long limbs that were full of suckers to dodge the slamming of the herd of beasts like an acrobat. “It’s finally here!” He said as he continued to look around.

At the top, thousands of beasts swept past the young man. In the end, one giant rhinoceros who slammed hard all the way, crashing down several dozen trees along the way, by just relying on its thick armor and profound strength, that stamped many small animals into piles of meat, finally caught his eyes.

“It’s this fellow then! It’s big enough and it’s strong enough! It looks wild enough too...” Zhang Lisheng nodded as he muttered to himself. Then, a small ugly strange wasp flew up from him and soared against the night wind that was blowing intensely. Very soon, it chased up to the giant rhinoceros running. Fiercely, it stabbed its long stinger at its back that was nearly one meter long into the rhinoceros’ body.

The tough green armor of the giant rhinoceros was penetrated through right away like a paper paste. The agonizing pain made this wild beast go berserk. “Hroom Hroom...” It howled as it turned around, before slamming its body towards the strange wasp that attacked it with all its might and made it fall to the ground.

Unfortunately, while it was stepping onto the wings of the strange wasp that was struggling on the forest ground and had just opened its mouth trying to give a fatal bite to its enemy, its body froze right away. The hard skin of its body began to protrude and moved like ripples before it exploded with a ‘bang’ into pieces.

After seeing hundreds of wasps the size of a volleyball with a thick body, short and thin stingers, and four pairs of thick wings tear open the giant rhinoceros till only a layer of thick skin was left behind, and agilely hovered in the air, Zhang Lisheng breathed a long sigh of relief.

“It’s a success!” He muttered before he commanded Kyuuko that had been heavily injured after the animal herd trampled it when it fell to the ground to lead its paratroopers back to his side.

Now that he had done his preparations, Zhang Lisheng no longer retained his speed anymore. He commanded the wizard gu to continue advancing at the direction Duba showed him. Not long after, they came to a vast swamp overflowing with mud.

When he entered the swamp from the pristine jungle, the height of the plants shortened and they were mainly made up of vine plants.

Looking from the top of the tree, the entire swamp was like a huge mud pit covered by wooden tents. There was also a large group of animals running away rapidly, but it was apparent that the size of this group was much smaller than the jungle outside.

“The Menger tribe is right there, Remodeler.” Cuba, who witnessed Zhang Lisheng command the wizard gu to transform the powerful adult tigerceros into hundreds of giant wasps in a rather baffling manner, pointed at the lights at the deep swamp and said in a more docile tone. “Right now, all of their tribesmen must have started kneeling and worshipping already. The power of the guards should be at their minimum right now.”

“Alright.” Zhang Lisheng nodded before commanding Beetlecar to carefully dodge the impact of the herd and slowly approach the place where the fire burned.

As expected, when the wizard gu was close enough to the Menger tribe, the herd seemed to encounter an invisible wall and took a detour around them.

When Zhang Lisheng saw the running herds disappearing away, he commanded Beetlecar to crouch on the ground with a thought in his mind and further commanded the Corpse Puppets on the giant insect to rise up and walk to the swamp soundlessly.

After that, Zhang Lisheng stood up as well. “Duba, stay on Beetlecar’s back and wait for my news.” He expanded his body to more than two meters high and gently jumped onto a big tree that countless vines entangled.

After he left, Beetlecar turned around and brought the young Tudenan scout who had a face full of disappointment far into the depths of the swamp woodland.