Chapter 148

However, their most prized creation was killed without any ability to resist when faced with Li Yue.

"Excuse me, is there anyone else who wants to challenge me?"

Li Yue pushed up his glasses and smiled as he addressed the elders, but his gaze was not on them, but rather on Babel behind him.

This future mistress left a very deep impression on Li Yue.

Those black stockings, those thighs, that... no, I misspoke, it was the ruthless schemes and tricks they used to gain power, the constant purging of their own tribes—they were truly ruthless to the extreme.

Unfortunately, Babel did not step forward in the face of Li Yue's provocation. Instead, he stood behind her with his arms crossed and smiled at Li Yue.

"It seems that you all do not intend to continue fighting. In that case, according to the rules we just discussed, your tribes shall now submit to my tribe."

"What a joke! How could such a thing be allowed? We are the tribe of the God of Flowers, and you tribes of the King Deshret are not worthy of... Ugh!!"

Before he could finish speaking, all the elders of the two tribes fell to the ground, and everyone in the Tanit tribe, including Babel of Koufang, was also pressed to the ground.

Behind Li Yue, the numerous mercenaries who followed him all revealed expressions of certainty.

As expected, Lord Aizen uses this trick on every tribe. Although I don't know exactly how it works, no desert tribe submits so easily. So Li Yue always makes all the tribe members lie on the ground and ravages them before they obediently surrender.

Even the Camus tribe at the beginning went through the same thing. It can be said that everyone standing behind Li Yue now has gone through the same thing. Seeing that the Tanit tribe has had the same experience as them, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart. Even a large clan is still the same in front of Lord Aizen.

"It seems you are unwilling to submit. In that case, I have no choice but to..."

"We surrender!"

Babel immediately prostrated himself on the ground and shouted in submission.

"Oh? Is that so? Are you really willing to submit?"

"It's true, we are willing to submit!"

Babel quickly emphasized that she felt she would really die if she didn't speak up.

"I believe in your sincerity, and I hope you will not let me down."

Li Yue withdrew her left hand from pressing down, and everyone in the Tanit tribe immediately got up, panting heavily. Babel, like the others, got up and sat on the ground, panting heavily, his chest heaving violently, making quite a racket.

Unfortunately, Li Yue didn't look at her again.

"As expected, the Tanit tribe is no match for Lord Aizen."

Behind Li Yue, the tribal mercenaries cheered with joy upon seeing the Tanit tribe surrender. Although they too had been pinned to the ground by Aizen's hand, they were now Lord Aizen's followers. Seeing others surrender under Aizen's oppression filled them with pride, for it was their Lord Aizen!

With the surrender of the Tanit tribe, Li Yue officially began his path of annexing large tribes. The Tanit tribe was the largest tribe at the time, but it was still annexed. This news spread quickly throughout the desert as the smaller tribes that followed and watched spread the word.

Aizen, who can control everything!

Such a title began to spread in the desert, referring to someone who could suppress an entire tribe with just one hand, making the entire tribe unable to hold their heads up, truly a case of one hand covering the sky.

However, along with the spread of Aizen's absolute Aizen, another legend also emerged: the desert was about to welcome their savior!

The Aizen of Aizen, who could control everything, was circulated among the desert tribes that had not yet been conquered by Li Yue, while the legend of the savior of the desert was circulated among the tribes that had already been conquered by Li Yue.

Why was Lord Aizen able to suppress a tribe so easily and make everyone submit? It's because Lord Aizen was destined by heaven to unify the desert. He will become a new god in the desert and lead it back to glory, just like the King Deshret a thousand years ago!

With such momentum, Li Yue led his tribal mercenaries across the desert within a week, annexing all the tribes surrounding the Tomb of King Deshret. Excluding the remaining tribes that worshipped the God of Flowers, all the tribes in the desert were now under Li Yue's control.

Li Yue has already completed the initial unification of the desert.

Throughout the entire process, Alhaitham was a witness. He saw Li Yue suppress the entire tribe countless times by raising his hand, but despite his self-proclaimed keen observation skills, he simply couldn't understand how Li Yue did it; it had nothing to do with Elemental Power.

He even briefly considered the possibility that Li Yue might actually be a god, but he later dismissed the idea because he couldn't see any Elemental Power in Li Yue. Even the strongest god would use Elemental Power, right?

A week later, Cyno, who had ventured deep into the desert in search of Alhaitham, finally caught up with Li Yue. After Li Yue had completed the initial unification of the desert tribes, this Grand Disciplinary Officer finally found Li Yue's tribe.

However, Cyno, who had originally planned to take on Li Yue's tribe alone, decisively chose to give up after seeing the terrifying number of tens of thousands of people in front of him.

Sorry, even as the Grand Disciplinary Officer, he, Cyno, could not single-handedly take on tens of thousands of people—a terrifying number.

So, Cyno chose to go into hiding!

He changed into the clothes of a desert mercenary, perfectly disguising himself as one, and joined the mercenary legion of tens of thousands of people.

248. Aizen: The Listener

Grand Disciplinary Officer Cyno never imagined that the desert tribes would one day be unified. As the Grand Disciplinary Officer, he had been to the desert countless times when he was arresting people, and he was quite familiar with the situation there. However, this was the first time he had ever seen a large number of tribes united together to form a huge tribe of tens of thousands of people.

Tens of thousands of people! Not a few hundred, not a few thousand, but tens of thousands!

How exactly did Aizen manage to do it? Cyno, who hadn't witnessed the entire annexation process, was very curious about how the legendary Lord Aizen managed to rule the desert tribes all by himself.

After infiltrating this massive tribe disguised as a desert mercenary, he began to learn about the tribe's situation, especially the situation of Alhaitham and Lord Aizen.

The unification of the desert tribes gave them a completely different feeling.

That is, they had their own gods.

Indeed, in their eyes, Aizen Sousuke suddenly appeared, was their new god. Although the process by which this god conquered them was somewhat brutal, in the eyes of the desert mercenaries, if there really was a god who could unify them and allow them to live a life free from the constant danger of living on the edge, then worshipping this new god was not unreasonable.

In particular, for them, at least this new god was not the Dendro Archon they despised.

What convinced them that Lord Aizen a god was that after he had essentially unified the desert tribes, he built a massive city right next to a desert oasis.

A vast city built entirely of rock, with massive roofs that completely block out the scorching sun. Yet, beneath these enormous domes, the city is filled with light, making it indistinguishable from the outside world, without the scorching heat of the sun.

With a mere gesture, he created a massive rock city—a feat that only a god could accomplish!

Especially after creating this rock city with the power of rocks, Lord Aizen clapped his hands, causing countless trees to grow from the desert and spread throughout the city, transforming it into a vast oasis city!

For desert people, this is simply the happiest thing.

Because within such a vast city, there are oases providing water, sunlight providing light, and shelter from sandstorms, poisonous insects, and Scarab Beast! This is simply a dream life in the desert!

Whether it was a tribe that worshipped the King Deshret or a tribe that worshipped the God of Flowers, they were all convinced by this move.

The Tanit tribe Tanit tribe, in particular, worships the God of Flowers. According to the legend of the God of Flowers, the place where the God of Flowers sleeps is the Eternal Oasis, which possesses the magical power to turn deserts into oases. Babel had been sending people to search for the Eternal Oasis for a long time.

Now, there's no need to search for the God of Flowers's retinue of spirits, nor for the Eternal Oasis, because the deity who can turn the desert into an oasis is right before our eyes!

Inside the vast city, Cyno looked up at the bright ceiling. Although he knew it was made by Aizen unified the desert, he couldn't understand how it was done.

Is this Lord Aizen really a god? At least he was certain that even if he had ten thousand years, he probably wouldn't be able to build such a massive and magnificent canopy city.

If the other party is truly a god, then my previous idea of capturing this person who wanted to start a war between the desert and the rainforest was utter nonsense.

But if we don't stop them, they really have the ability to wage war against the rainforest. At that time, the rainforest, without the Dendro Archon, is no match for the desert, even with the leadership of the Akademiya.

Therefore, he had to find out what was going on with this Lord Aizen seemed to be a god.

Excuse me.

Cyno walked to one of the mercenary gathering places in the city and patted the mercenary on the outermost edge.

"What's going on here? Why is everyone gathered here?"

"Hmm? Kid, this is a place to listen to stories."

Cyno's relatively short stature caused the mercenaries opposite him to underestimate him, but he still explained why the mercenaries were gathered there.

"Want to hear a story?"

Cyno was puzzled. What story?

"You must have joined our clan later, you don't even know the story of Lord Aizen."

Seeing Cyno's puzzled look, the mercenary figured that this was probably a child from one of the tribes that had joined later, so he began to explain.

"When our god Lord Aizen came to the desert, the first tribe he came into contact with was the Camus tribe in the south, who worshipped the King Deshret. You should have heard of this, right?"

"Um."

Cyno knows about this.

"The Camus tribe was the first clan to follow Lord Aizen, and their clan leader Camus was naturally the first clan leader to follow Lord Aizen. Every time the clan went to war, it was Clan Leader Camus who spoke to the Lord Aizen. Therefore, Clan Leader Camus was also the first clan Captain Aizen."

The mercenary pointed to the high platform in the very center of the crowd, where a burly man was sitting cross-legged.

"That's Chief Camus."

"So, Chief Camus is preparing to tell a story?"

"That's right. Patriarch Camus was the first patriarch to follow Lord Aizen. No one understands Lord Aizen better than him!"

The mercenary spoke excitedly, as if he were Chief Camus himself.

"So what story is he going to tell?"

"Our city has just been built, but because so many tribes have joined later, many people have never seen Lord Aizen. So Chief Camus led his people to tell stories about Lord Aizen in the city, so that those of us who joined later would know what a great god Lord Aizen is."

So that's how it is. Is it a story about Aizen? That's perfect. Cyno also needs to investigate Aizen, so he can come and listen in!

"Hey kid, you're short, squeeze forward a bit, you won't hear anything from the back."

Although he was annoyed that the mercenary said he was short, Cyno nodded to him on the surface and then squeezed into the crowd. The mercenaries wanted to get angry when they were pushed, but after seeing how short Cyno was, they didn't say anything. They were still a little more polite to the child.

As Cyno pushed his way to the front, Camus began his narration on the platform.

Camus stood up and slowly waved his right hand at the crowd.

"In the thousand years since the King Deshret left, the desert has been in constant turmoil. To the east, the rainforest people have been invading, and to the north, the Scarab Beast have been lurking."

"Lord Aizen has summoned our Camus tribe, preparing to restore peace and order to the desert!"

"And before Lord Aizen set off, he said something like this."

"Though I have no intention of vying for power, I know the suffering of the common people. I only wish to cleanse the world and protect this corner of the floating world."

249. Do you understand Lord Aizen, or do I?

"Lord Aizen wanted to unify the desert so that the people of the desert could live happily and no longer be ravaged by war!"

"That's right, Lord Aizen is a god who loves people! He unified the desert all for our sake!"

"Hmph, of course. If it weren't for Lord Aizen, would you be qualified to sit with me?"

"Heh, this is the power of Lord Aizen. Don't talk like you're the one who benefited."

"Alright, stop arguing. What's there to argue about? We may have been enemies before, but now we're all Lord Aizen's subjects!"

"That's right. Lord Aizen also used his power to build such a huge castle for us, so that we can see the light without worrying about being burned by the sun. At this rate, I'm starting to worry that I'll turn white, hahaha."

Camus has finished telling Aizen's story. Basically, it's about Aizen leading his Camus tribe to conquer the entire desert. The mercenaries here mostly know this, but what they don't know is that the reason their Lord Aizen conquered the desert was for the sake of their desert people. So after Camus's story, they were all deeply moved.

These moved mercenaries did not leave; instead, they continued to gather together and began to praise their Lord Aizen.

"That's not all. Do you remember how Lord Aizen conquered us?"

"Of course I remember. Let the strongest warriors in our tribe come out to challenge him. No matter how many there are, he is just one person... no, one god to face us."

"Hahaha, we were so naive back then, we thought Lord Aizen was just a weak mortal, but we all fell at Lord Aizen's hands."

"Hmph, Lord Aizen loves us mortals. Although we were defeated by Lord Aizen, he did not kill any of us. He only left us severely injured and on the ground. After receiving treatment, we were able to save our lives and stand up again."

At this point, a mercenary with bandages wrapped around his body stood up, patted the bandages on his chest, and shouted loudly.

"That's right, I was personally cut down by Lord Aizen. You lot don't deserve that kind of treatment!"

"Tch, so what if he was lucky enough to have fought Lord Aizen? Anyone could do that. If I hadn't been stopped by the clan leader, I would have rushed up and let Lord Aizen chop me down."

The injured mercenary's words aroused the dissatisfaction of the surrounding mercenaries, who began to berate him.

When Lord Aizen was conquering the various tribes, it was easy for him to kill Lord Aizen. You could just go and offer yourself up. It had nothing to do with your abilities, because no matter how skilled you were, in front of Lord Aizen, it was just a matter of one slash.

But the wounded mercenary refused to give up.

"Heh, you think you'll get cut down by Lord Aizen if you rush in? Lord Aizen doesn't just cut down anyone. For example, most of you were directly crushed to the ground by Lord Aizen's power. That's a completely different story from a hero like me who gets personally cut down by Lord Aizen!"

"What do you know? It's because Lord Aizen doesn't want us to suffer useless casualties!"

"Heh~~ Do you understand Lord Aizen I do? If Lord Aizen didn't want to take action, he could have just suppressed all of us from the start. Why did he need to do it personally?"

The wounded mercenary crossed his arms, brimming with pride.

"All of this is because we have gained Lord Aizen's approval!"

"You!"

Just as another argument was about to break out, someone stepped in to act as a peacemaker.

"Alright, alright, stop arguing! We're all one tribe now. Under Lord Aizen's great power, our desert is about to return to the unity it was a thousand years ago. Lord Aizen will lead us back to the era when gods, humans, and the desert coexisted!"

"That's right, not just the desert, Lord Aizen will also lead us to conquer the rainforest!"

Chief Camus joined the discussion.

"We desert people have long endured the oppression of the rainforest people because they possess the Greater Lord Rukkhadevata as a deity. But now the Greater Lord Rukkhadevata has been dead for five hundred years, and the Lesser Kusanali that the rainforest people talk about does not exist at all!"