But…can we really retreat?
Clack, clack, clack!
In the very next second, a pale purple Crystal Wall suddenly rose up in the tunnel behind the Blue Crow Mercenary Group!
It completely blocked off the route everyone wanted to use to fall back!
“This…”
The last sliver of hope in everyone’s hearts was instantly extinguished.
If they’d still been holding onto some wishful thinking before, thinking maybe it was just some trick these little monsters were playing—
Now, it was basically confirmed…
There was definitely a superhuman among the Cave-Dwellers!
“What do we do…What do we do?!”
“Captain, we…we need to think of something!”
“If this keeps up, we’ll die…All of us will die here!”
The team fell into chaos once more, and before Blue Crow could even organize everyone to break through the wall, the Cave-Dwellers had already stopped their worship and prayers.
Countless pairs of eyes, glowing green in the dim cave, stared at the noisy Blue Crow Mercenary Group.
At this moment…the roles of attacker and defender had truly reversed.
“Damn it.”
Blue Crow, looking thoroughly disheveled from the recent chaos, was on the verge of collapse inside.
The victory he’d imagined never came…
Instead, the reality of the battlefield and his teammates’ stupidity delivered a double blow, plunging this once-confident commander into a brief blankness.
He couldn’t understand why his seemingly perfect plan kept going off track.
First, that hateful woman suddenly rose up, then came the attack from the bandit gang, and then these useless teammates who refused to cooperate…
And now…a Cave Dweller Shaman had suddenly appeared.
All of it seemed to be mocking his plans, rubbing Blue Crow’s pride as a strategist into the dirt, humiliating him over and over.
“Blue Crow Captain… we—”
A Noble Youth, clearly terrified by the current situation, edged closer to Blue Crow, about to ask something.
But his question was the spark that ignited the fuse in Blue Crow’s heart!
“Get lost! Shut your mouths! You useless trash, you piles of crap, you stupid pigs!! Why…why can’t you just follow my orders?! Why are you all scurrying around like frightened rats?!”
Bang!
“Ah!”
He kicked the Noble Youth to the ground, venting all the humiliation and rage of his failure on this guy!
Or rather, his words at this moment were aimed at everyone!
“Young Master!”
“You bastard…you really think you’re somebody, huh?!”
Seeing their master beaten and scolded right to his face, the Young Master’s bodyguard immediately stepped forward in fury, wanting to cut down this self-important guy…
“Wait! Calm down! Everyone, calm down!”
Loki rushed to get between the two sides and mediate, while Nolan grabbed hold of Blue Crow, who looked ready to draw his sword.
Now was not the time for infighting!
Escaping was the top priority…
“Blue Crow! Blue Crow, don’t be like this!”
“Get lost! You’re useless too! Always dragging us down and acting like some soft-hearted fool! If your father weren’t a Viscount, you’d be nothing! Pah!!”
At this moment, Blue Crow seemed to have snapped, barking like a mad dog!
“KR…”
Ugh…
Nolan was stung by his brother’s words, but…he also realized something was off.
Blue Crow sometimes lost control of his emotions, but…this was clearly too much.
Could it be…he was affected by the Cave Dweller Shaman’s Ability to Influence Emotions earlier?
“Damn it…you call yourself Captain, and you really think you’re hot stuff?!”
The Noble Youth who’d been kicked got up, rubbing his chest, eyes full of hatred and rage…
He shoved Loki aside and swung his fist straight at Blue Crow’s still-yammering face!
No, wait!
Not just Blue Crow—this guy’s emotions were off too!
At a time like this…for their intelligence to be led around by their emotions, this shouldn’t happen to any clear-minded person, let alone these scheming Noble Ladies and Young Masters!
“Calm down!! Everyone, calm down!! This is that guy’s trick…it can influence our emotions! Calm down!!”
Nolan tried to restrain the Noble Youth, who still wanted to keep pounding Blue Crow, shouting loudly!
But now…countless complaints and suppressed sobs were already echoing through the group.
“I…I said we shouldn’t have come…Why…why do I have to go through this…”
“Damn it…If we’re going to die, let’s all die together! No one gets out alive!!”
“It’s all you…all your fault! If it weren’t for you, we wouldn’t be facing this death trap! You’re sinners! Sinners!!”
Everyone’s emotions seemed to have exploded at this moment, venting all their grievances with no regard for the battle or their situation…
It was as if all the darkness suppressed in their hearts was erupting all at once!
The scene…was now completely out of control!
“Coach! I want to learn that move~”
Hearing Amisa’s “frontline report,” Lady Ireya’s eyes sparkled with little stars as she subconsciously muttered to herself.
“Eh? Who’s Coach? Is that someone Lady knows?”
Amisa blinked in confusion, totally lost as to what her Lady was talking about.
“Ah? Ah…ahem! And then?”
Ireya coughed twice and continued asking.
“Some of the completely unhinged bodyguards were killed by the Cave-Dwellers, and those nobles and the bodyguards who didn’t resist were all taken back to their tribe.”
Amisa reported truthfully.
“If I went any further, I might have been discovered, so I did as Lady ordered and, um…”
“Pulled back at the right time~”
“Ah, right~ Pulled back at the right time.”
Amisa nodded, hoping that Lady would punish her harshly for not bringing back more intel by not going further!
But…
Ireya didn’t [kick her to the ground and then step on her face with her little foot, asking if she knew where she went wrong]…
Instead, she gently patted her shoulder, as if to say,
“You did well.”
Ugh…
Why!?
Why wasn’t she rough with me…like that time?
I really want…
Lady to scold me~
I want her to punish me like this…and like that~
QAO
Drool.
Of course, Ireya had no idea what Amisa was thinking right now.
She just stretched lazily and stepped forward…
Tap, tap, tap…
As she moved forward, a commotion of footsteps sounded behind her.
“Ugh…these things…they’re on the move again.”
A few resting Noble Youths and their bodyguards instinctively shrank back.
They wanted to get as far away as possible from these…“things.”
“Hey, do you think this Miss Dingzhen is a superhuman too?”
One Noble, looking at the scene ahead, subconsciously swallowed and asked.
“Hah? Isn’t it obvious…If you don’t need your eyes, you should donate them to someone who does…”
Another Noble Youth replied offhandedly as he watched the moving corpses ahead.
That’s right…moving corpses—the Cave-Dweller warriors and human bodyguards who’d fallen on the Battlefield Ruins they’d just passed.
They were stone cold dead, yet now…they were all standing up again, eyes empty, following behind Ireya.
Like a bunch of stiff Corpse Puppets.