?71: Chapter 71: Joining the War 71: Chapter 71: Joining the War “Beast King, what do you mean by this?

    Although we, the monster teams, are the ones currently threatened, you are also in the Novice Area.

    If we lose, you will not fare any better either.

    In the face of a common enemy, you should contribute.

    Yet, you demand such excessive conditions from us.

    Are you planning to take advantage of our misfortune?”

    “When I was in trouble and asked for your help, didn’t you insist on having lands allocated to you before you would assist?

    Now, when you run into trouble and want my help, shouldn’t I be entitled to some benefits too?

    Don’t do unto others what you wouldn’t want done to you.

    All I want is to regain the territories that I gave you, and I’m not asking for more. Sёarch* The NovelFire.net* website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

    Isn’t it fair?

    Or do you really want to see how I take advantage of a crisis?” At this, Zhou Tian looked at them and sneered coldly.

    “Well…” Even though Zhou Tian was obviously taking advantage of their misfortune, those monsters who were not good at arguing couldn’t refute him.

    After a few moments of thought, they even started to think that Zhou Tian was making some sense.

    Although they acknowledged Zhou Tian’s argument in their hearts, due to their low rank, they were unable to make the decision.

    Therefore, they could only assure Zhou Tian, “We don’t have the authority to allocate territories.

    Our leaders have to make that decision.

    Please wait a few days, Beast King.” After saying this, the monster envoys hurried back.

    Regardless of how the final negotiations between these bosses played out, Zhou Tian received several messages about the monsters allocating him land on the second day after the envoys returned.

    Having successfully squeezed out substantial benefits from these monsters, Zhou Tian still showed no intention of stopping.

    Upon receiving those messages, Zhou Tian started to find fault with the land allocated to him by the monster bosses.

    Zhou Tian complained about the location of some territories, and the environment of others.

    Even though they had all agreed to allocate territories, he continued to create issues.

    His actions indicated that he wasn’t particularly keen on sending his troops to aid the monsters.

    The more Zhou Tian behaved like this, the more anxious the bosses became.

    Although the situation improved significantly after the Puppet House joined the fight, there were still only so many monsters that the Puppet House could take on.

    There were thousands of undead monsters, and they could form armies at a moment’s notice.

    Therefore, the contribution of Puppet House was not enough to change the monsters’ predicament.

    So no matter how angry these monsters were with Zhou Tian’s behavior, they still had to request his assistance to alleviate their pressure.

    Even though it was impossible for them to allocate more territories to Zhou Tian, they successfully convinced the Puppet Maker to speak on their behalf.

    And it turned out that those bosses had chosen the right person.

    If there was anyone in the Novice Area who Zhou Tian feared, it was the Puppet Maker.

    Whether in terms of strength or ability, the Puppet Maker had Zhou Tian completely outmatched.

    Zhou Tian might not be willing to give face to others, but upon the Puppet Maker’s intervention, he put away his schemes without a second word.

    “Such a pity that the time was too short, otherwise the losses of those guys could have been even greater.” Under the threat of the Puppet Maker, Zhou Tian was reluctant but eventually had no choice but to lead his Beastman warriors to the frontline.

    This time, Zhou Tian did not mention the matter of allocating territories again.

    Zhou Tian didn’t want this hot potato, and the bosses were too busy to plot against Zhou Tian.

    When Zhou Tian sent his troops, all the monsters in the passing territories chose to let them pass, so in a very short time, Zhou Tian arrived at the frontline where the monsters were battling the undead monsters.

    Although Zhou Tian had known on his way there that the monsters were struggling to hold off the undead, it wasn’t until he arrived at the frontline that he realized the situation was far worse than he had thought.

    If it hadn’t been for the help of the Puppet House, the monsters’ defense line might have already been broken by the undead.

    “I miscalculated, the intelligence of those undead monsters is much higher than I expected!” Not until he got to the frontline did Zhou Tian realize there was a significant flaw in his original plan.

    If he hadn’t followed the advice of the puppet maker to go to the frontline and continued as planned, he wouldn’t dare say that he could scare off those undead monsters from the Novice Area.

    There wasn’t much obviously wrong with Zhou Tian’s plan, his mistake, however, stemmed from underestimating the IQ of those undead monsters.

    Not to mention low intelligence in general among monsters, among monsters of the same level, the undead had always been lowest in intelligence.

    Thus, Zhou Tian had only been plotting against the monsters in the newbie area, and he never predicted that the undead minions, which he regarded merely as tools, would act in a way that wasn’t written in his script.

    The passage connecting the Skeleton Cave to the lair of the undead monsters was quite narrow, too narrow for some of the taller undead monsters to pass through.

    For this reason, the Beastman Clan, despite their lack of power, had still been able to keep them on the other side of the passage.

    When Zhou Tian was plotting against the monsters in the Novice Area, he judged the strength of the undead monsters based on those who could pass through the passage.

    But what he didn’t expect was that those undead monsters, while not particularly intelligent, surprisingly widened the passage.

    Among the undead monsters now rushing out to fight them, aside from the small-sized ones that Zhou Tian had expected, even some medium-sized undead had joined the battlefield.

    The performance of the undead monsters far exceeded Zhou Tian’s expectations, hence the monsters tasked with stopping them were under much greater pressure than Zhou Tian had anticipated.

    The situation he had envisaged, where they should be able to barely hold off the undead monsters, did not exist.

    The frontline was practically a one-sided massacre between the monsters in the Novice Area and the undead creatures.

    If it were not for the puppets who were still capable of fighting, by the time Zhou Tian arrived at the frontline, all the other monsters would probably have been annihilated by the undead.

    Upon seeing the state of the battle, Zhou Tian was shocked at first, but then immediately jumped into the fray without a second thought.

    “Release!” Following Zhou Tian’s command, his Beastman Archers all let loose their bowstrings at once.

    For a moment, it looked like a classic scene from a heroic saga, as countless arrow shafts rained down from mid-air.

    The group of undead creatures preparing to charge at them faced an abrupt hail of arrows.

    Although the disparity in levels and the augmentation of physical attack defense by the undead attributes meant that the destructive power of Zhou Tian’s Beastman Archers could not be fully exhibited.

    But with the continuous rain of arrows, each wave of attack caused those undead monsters to endure several, even more than a dozen hits.

    The damage inflicted by Zhou Tian’s Beastman Archers was still quite considerable.

    After several waves of attacks, when Zhou Tian’s Beastman Archers stopped their assault, a huge hole had appeared in the center of the undead monster team that had previously been putting enormous pressure on the Novice Area monsters.

    “Well done!” Upon witnessing the performance of Zhou Tian’s Beastman Archers, the monster bosses couldn’t help but praise their performance.

    By leveraging the opportunity created by Zhou Tian’s Beastman Archers, they not only withstood the undead monsters’ onslaught but even launched a counterattack, recapturing a portion of their lost territory.

    Unfortunately, not long after the archers ceased their attack, the situation almost returned to its prior state.

    Without the pressure of long-range attacks, the strength of the undead monsters still held the advantage.

    They not only successfully halted the counterattack of the Novice Area monsters but continued their previous actions, launching attacks on them constantly.

    Feeling the pressure of the undead monsters, the monster bosses turned their eyes towards Zhou Tian one after another, hoping that Zhou Tian would once again get the Beastman Archers to suppress the attack of the undead creatures.