“Hou Yong, Zuo Linling, you two leave the city immediately and wait for me at the designated place for three days!”
After walking out of the inn, Wu Ming directly ordered the two following him.
“This…”
Hou Yong and Zuo Linling exchanged glances, then looked at the bustling and festive city, suddenly feeling a chill in their hearts.
They naturally trusted Wu Ming’s judgment, and knew well that he wasn’t the type to shoot arrows without aim. That meant the Giant Tree City had already become an enormous danger zone?
Wu Ming himself wasn’t feeling much sadness.
After dismissing the two, he strolled casually around Giant Tree City.
There were many Forest Kin here, mostly handsome men and beautiful women, quite pleasing to the eye. The streets were decorated with festive banners from various shops, making the city appear exceptionally lively.
However, the local Forest Kin, those resembling elves, couldn’t completely hide the hint of arrogance in their eyes when they looked at outsiders like them.
Clang! Clang!
Suddenly, a neat set of footsteps echoed.
Countless spectators lined both sides of Golden Broom Avenue, the grandest thoroughfare in Giant Tree City, as they watched the parade formations march into the city.
As cheers rose higher and higher, screens emerged throughout the city.
These were giant screens formed by strange illusions, functioning like live broadcasts, displaying the situation at the main plaza.
“This seems to be arranged by the Righteous Wanderers’ Guild, right?”
Looking at the illusion tamers wearing the guild’s insignia working busily under the screens, Wu Ming sneered inwardly, “I remember the guild leader is also a sly old fox who benefited greatly during the decline of the Forest Kin Alliance…”
“Dear citizens of the Forest Kin Alliance, residents of Giant Tree City, and guests from foreign lands…”
On the screen, the upper body of a middle-aged man clearly appeared.
His face was firm and resolute, with slightly graying temples and additional wrinkles on his forehead, clearly signs of mental strain: “The new year is approaching… In the past year, our alliance has achieved unimaginable accomplishments, breaking the barriers of illusion tamers, popularizing education, allowing more and more commoner illusion tamers to rise. I can proudly tell you all that our alliance is the best!”
“Long live the alliance!”
“Long live the alliance!”
…
Below, many Forest Kin had already begun cheering, but some wore gloomy expressions, muttering something under their breath.
Wu Ming noticed that their clothing was extremely luxurious, some even with golden edges.
“Now… I am delighted to be able to welcome the new year together with all of you…”
On the screen, the governor’s speech continued.
Wu Ming looked up. The dim sky was illuminated by numerous lights formed by luminous fairies. Amidst the fireworks, snowflakes continuously fell.
“An idealist!”
Looking at the person on the screen and the newly begun chime, Wu Ming couldn’t help but comment inwardly.
Dong! Dong!! Dong!!!
In the central plaza, the midnight bell began to toll. Numerous long-prepared salutes were fired simultaneously, and the atmosphere instantly reached its peak!
“It has begun…”
Wu Ming murmured, his figure gradually disappearing around a street corner.
“Xuanming, what are you looking at?”
Atop another luxurious palace, the second uncle of the Jun family curiously looked at the young man holding a cup and gazing at the sky.
“I am giving this alliance my final farewell…”
Jun Xuanming drank the cup in one go, then suddenly flung it away.
Crash!
The cup fell to the ground, shattering into several pieces.
“Kill!”
At the same time, within the parade formation, chaos immediately emerged.
Numerous soldiers with cold expressions silently took out black armbands and put them on, then mercilessly attacked their former comrades with weapons.
Bang! Bang!!!
From the direction of the four city gates, huge explosions and flames erupted. Amidst the fireworks display, they blended in but were still noticeable.
“A mutiny!”
“A coup!”
Almost instantly, the governor’s two personal illusion tamer guards rushed over.
“No… no! I cannot leave here, leave the people of the alliance!”
The governor struggled, suddenly froze, looking at the bloodied blade protruding from his chest, his face full of disbelief as he looked at another senior alliance official: “Lu… why have you betrayed me?”
“It’s not I who betrayed you, honorable Governor, but you who betrayed your own class!”
The speaker was another high-ranking official dressed in luxurious attire, his golden noble robe gleaming, and a white wig on his head.
“Your Excellency!”
The two illusion tamers looked terrified, watching the other colleagues surrounding them, despair evident on their faces.
“Well then… I’ll leave it to you now!”
The senior official just now smiled and elegantly bowed to another illusion tamer who had appeared at the scene.
“It should be so!”
The newly arrived illusion tamer wore a black robe, had thick eyebrows and big eyes, seemed to be around forty or fifty years old, his face full of scars and a worm-like knife wound, but his eyes were filled with unmatched momentum.
With just one glance, the previously emerged illusions all shrank back, lowering their heads as if to show submission.
King-level!
Undoubtedly, this was a King-level illusion tamer!
The rebel army commander – King of Chaos!!!
“I have some unfortunate news to share with everyone… The days of peace are gone forever. What follows will be a world of war… “
In front of the camera, King of Chaos grinned, revealing a smile that was definitely not gentle: “Survive… strive to survive! Whether you are an ordinary person or a Forest Kin, only in the face of death is there true equality…”
Clang! Clang!
The gates of Giant Tree City were blown open, and a large number of troops bearing unfamiliar banners surged in.
“Rebel army… the Banner of Chaos… indeed… very familiar indeed…”
Wu Ming silently watched this scene, as well as the entire city crying out in pain under the rebel army’s attack, and sighed again: “King of Chaos… he has always been a madman, and now his only purpose for living is revenge! In this regard, it must be said that those behind-the-scenes masterminds have indeed found a great weapon!”
“King of Chaos! Stop now!”
In the central plaza, the situation suddenly changed again.
A graceful figure enveloped in green light appeared, emitting a soft sigh.
“Emerald King! The true behind-the-scenes controller of the entire Forest Kin Alliance, you have finally appeared!”
King of Chaos licked his lips, his eyes filled with madness, suddenly bursting into laughter: “You ask me to stop? Then why didn’t the alliance army stop when they swept through my hometown?”
He roared with laughter, and summoning light emerged from his body, a tall figure standing before him.
This figure revealed its full appearance, a handsome human youth, wearing a crimson ceremonial robe, and even quite gentlemanly bowing to the Emerald King upon appearing, resembling a full-fledged human rather than an illusion!
“King of Crimson Flame?”
But the Emerald King called out warily.
This was a true Gold Kin! A King-level illusion, whose intelligence was almost on par with ordinary humans, perhaps even surpassing them!
Terrifying power, combined with great wisdom, the effect was definitely more than just the sum of its parts.
“King of Crimson Flame, unleash your wrath to the fullest!”
King of Chaos laughed heartily.
“Chirp!”
The crimson-haired King of Crimson Flame let out an extremely sharp scream, suddenly soaring into the sky.
Whoosh!
Flames surged!
In the fire, a King-level fairy emerged, its massive body enveloped in intense flames. With a roar, a large amount of flames, like meteors, suddenly exploded, spreading towards Giant Tree City.
With one move from King of Chaos, he was clearly aiming to destroy the entire Giant Tree City!
“Wisdom Ancient Tree! Protect!”
Emerald King was greatly alarmed, a huge ancient tree towering and made entirely of jade appeared behind him.
On the trunk, two eyes and a mouth were displayed, forming an old man’s face.
It sighed softly, and its thick canopy spread out like a giant umbrella, covering the entire Giant Tree City.
Boom! Boom!
The King-level flames rained down, even if a Warlord-level illusion tamer encountered them, they might be instantly killed with one hit. The flames struck the canopy, causing it to tremble violently, but couldn’t do any real damage.
“Good!”
King of Chaos’ eyes lit up: “It is said that the Gold Kin Wisdom Ancient Tree in your hands, Emerald King, is originally a sapling of the former King-level illusion of Giant Tree City. I would like to see now just how powerful it really is…”
His laughter ceased, and he had already floated into the air. In front of him, the Crimson Flame King, in its elemental form, roared and transformed its entire body into what resembled a massive bow.
“Take this Fire Sulfur Cannon!”
King of Chaos laughed loudly, and a meteorite tens of times larger than before immediately shot down like an apocalypse.
Creak!
The Wisdom Ancient Tree emitted a mournful sound of being overwhelmed. A portion of the green branches on its canopy snapped instantly, and amidst the flames, large areas of blackened scorches appeared.
“Heaven as the lid, earth as the cage, ultimate technique, Giant Wood Formation!”
Faced with the attack, Emerald King naturally couldn’t just stand still. With a slight motion of his finger, the Wisdom Ancient Tree behind him roared, its roots spreading, seemingly piercing into the massive tree stump of its original body, continuously drawing power.
Bang! Bang!
A large number of emerald green vines broke through the ground, forming a dense cage, sealing the sky and locking the earth, like a giant beast opening its mouth, swallowing King of Chaos’ figure entirely.
The battle between the King-level illusion tamers erupted!
“Kill!”
“Set the fire!”
Although most of the meteors were blocked by the Wisdom Ancient Tree, some still fell into Giant Tree City, immediately causing a terrible fire—if it were ordinary flames, naturally they couldn’t harm the body of the former King-level illusion, but King of Chaos had come prepared, making things different!
In an instant, as the rebel army stormed into the city, the entire metropolis was shrouded in the haze of war, with flames erupting everywhere, plunging into a state of extreme suffering and chaos.
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