Chapter 691

Chapter 691: Clean Sweep

“Let’s wait a bit longer; we might truly have the opportunity to catch them all in one fell swoop!”

Yi Chen agreed with the Shadow King’s guess.

The two did not rush to take action but instead slowly lurked among the Tree-Dwelling Tribe’s ranks, observing the excitement.

As they expected, the tense atmosphere was escalating.

The root of the issue lay in the complaints of a strong fighter.

The sixth batch of Tree-Dwelling Tribe members in this star cluster was led by Bunier and Blake, both two hundred and twenty level strong fighters.

Although Bunier was the one taking charge, he was of a higher rank than Blake, rendering the distinction between primary and secondary leaders negligible.

The five two hundred and ten level strong fighters, twenty two hundred level strong fighters, and two thousand high-end combatants they brought along were all subordinates to the two.

Each group accounted for roughly half of the total.

The trouble began when a two hundred level strong fighter under Blake, feeling frustrated, couldn’t hold back his complaints. He said that Bunier’s command and arrangements were poor, which led to the assassination of three Tree-Dwelling Tribe members skilled in tracking and searching. Now, they had lost another two hundred level strong fighter and a small team.

This remark immediately drew widespread agreement and grievances from Blake’s subordinates.

After all, they were in a star cluster outside their main region, where anyone who came would end up unlucky.

All the Tree-Dwelling Tribe members wanted to finish their mission and leave quickly, but the current situation trapped them, making it impossible to complete their tasks in the short term and return to the Tree Star Cluster.

They all felt full of frustration and complaints.

In fact, Bunier’s strong subordinates and high-end fighters also had their opinions about this.

However, Bunier was their direct superior, even the superior of a superior.

They didn’t dare to express their thoughts openly, each keeping their grievances bottled up inside.

The frustrations of the strong fighters and high-end combatants under Blake provided an outlet for release.

While they couldn’t vent their frustrations through complaints, they could engage in arguments with Blake’s subordinates to express their discontent.

Along the way, they could also show their loyalty.

As a result, both sides, deprived of luck and harboring pent-up resentment, ended up escalating the conflict the more they argued.

At this moment, if any one of the strong fighters or high-end combatants had been rational enough to contact a two hundred and ten level strong fighter, and if that fighter had used a communication stone to intervene, things would have calmed down gradually.

But none of the strong fighters or high-end combatants took such action.

The arguments grew fiercer.

After more than half an hour of escalation, it finally reached a breaking point when a one hundred eighty level Tree-Dwelling Tribe member under Bunier provoked and insulted a two hundred level strong fighter under Blake. The two hundred level fighter, feeling his dignity attacked and unable to win the verbal battle, exploded and sent his opponent flying with a swing of his branch.

Both teams began to engage in a fierce fight.

Cries of anguish and wails filled the air.

It was not until both sides suffered heavy casualties and Blake’s strong fighters and high-end combatants realized they were at a disadvantage that they came to their senses.

But the realization came too late and in the wrong direction.

As they resisted, they contacted the two hundred and ten level strong fighters under Blake to request help.

Upon learning about the outbreak of internal conflict and the heavy casualties on both sides, the two hundred and ten level strong fighters maintained their composure and dared not rush in to assist. Instead, they immediately notified Bunier and Blake.

Bunier and Blake then reached out to four other two hundred and ten level strong fighters, urging them to order both teams to cease fighting.

The two promptly set aside what they were doing and rushed to the star field where the Main Group was located to suppress the internal turmoil.

“We can act now!”

Seeing that the intense internal struggle was about to calm down, Yi Chen notified Boses in the Map of Mountains and Rivers and then sent a message to the Shadow King.

“Got it!”

The Shadow King immediately brought Yi Chen close to a two hundred level strong fighter who was the least injured.

Yi Chen then activated the Map of Mountains and Rivers.

With a powerful suction combined with an unexpected move, he instantly drew the two hundred level strong fighter into the Map of Mountains and Rivers.

“Shadow, Shadow King…”

The two hundred level Tree-Dwelling Tribe member suddenly found himself in an unfamiliar space and quickly understood what had happened.

However, realizing the situation was already meaningless.

Boses appeared before him and smashed his defensive shield with a single punch, heavily injuring him.

With another punch, he killed him outright.

As soon as he had dealt with the two hundred level Tree-Dwelling Tribe member, Yi Chen brought in another two hundred level strong fighter.

Then he continued with the third, fourth, fifth…

One after another, starting with the least injured Tree-Dwelling Tribe members.

“It’s the Shadow King! It’s the Shadow King!”

“Damn it, the Shadow King was lurking right beside us all along.”

The remaining Tree-Dwelling Tribe members and high-end combatants were in a panic, completely at a loss.

They were all injured.

Some had sustained serious injuries, leaving their bodies in pieces and unable to resist.

They could not locate the elusive Shadow King, nor could they stop the strong fighters from disappearing one by one.

From the moment the Shadow King struck until nineteen two hundred level Tree-Dwelling Tribe members were thrown into the Map of Mountains and Rivers, only half a minute passed.

After that, the speed increased even more.

In front of the Map of Mountains and Rivers, those two hundred level strong fighters, if prepared, might have been able to counter some unexpected situations.

However, the one hundred eighty level or one hundred ninety level Tree-Dwelling Tribe high-end combatants, even if they were unhurt, stood no chance against the Map of Mountains and Rivers at such close range.

The high-end combatants from the Tree-Dwelling Tribe began to scatter in desperation, but it was all in vain.

They had already suffered significant losses from the internal struggle, their numbers severely diminished, and each of them was injured, heavily impacting their speed.

Moreover, they reacted slowly and failed to scatter immediately. By the time they started to escape, it was already too late to evade the Shadow King’s rapid pursuit.

In just a moment, all the high-end combatants of the Tree-Dwelling Tribe were drawn into the space of Yi Chen’s Map of Mountains and Rivers.

Then, Boses crushed them one by one with his fists, killing them all.

“We can go now!”

Yi Chen, feeling satisfied, notified the Shadow King to return home.

This operation proved to be highly rewarding.

They relieved the pressure on various tribes, dealt with all the two hundred level and below Tree-Dwelling Tribe members, and importantly, harvested a good amount of fortune over the four or five days.

…

Twenty minutes later, while Yi Chen and the Shadow King were on their way to the teleportation array, Bunier and Blake finally arrived at the gathering spot of the Tree-Dwelling Tribe’s Main Group.

What they saw was an endless amount of broken branches and withered leaves.

They had received a distress message after the internal struggle ended, notifying them of the Shadow King’s sudden appearance.

They rushed over at full speed.

But there was no doubt they had come too late.

In their desperate rush, not only did they fail to find the Shadow King, but they couldn’t even locate a single survivor.

They could only determine through the violent and chaotic energy fluctuations that the two teams had sustained heavy casualties even before the Shadow King intervened.

A wave of helplessness surged in their hearts.

They really couldn’t stay in this star cluster any longer.

Two hundred level fighters were doomed to perish regardless of who came.

Even though they could have united to withstand the Shadow King’s attack, they had suffered heavy losses due to bickering and internal strife.

What frustrated them even more was that the Shadow King had been lurking here, waiting for the perfect opportunity.

He had truly seized a chance to catch them all.

Both Bunier and Blake were left speechless with anger.

Looking at the devastation in the star field, their greatest thought was not how to eliminate the Shadow King but how to quickly leave this star cluster and return to the super star cluster.

Unfortunately, with the mission unfulfilled and news of a Large Battleship being attacked near the foreign affairs department headquarters, they found that leaving the star cluster was not as simple as they had hoped.

They couldn’t even return to the super star cluster like Morris did, nor could they simply wait outside the star cluster.