In the council hall, Xiao Ding and the others were chatting and laughing, while Queen Medusa sat quietly to one side. The atmosphere was not particularly tense.
"Hehe, everyone arrived quite early." Xiao Shuang chuckled. As soon as he sat down, a maid placed a cup of hot tea before him.
"When do we leave?" Queen Medusa leaned back in her seat, idly playing with her slender fingers as she lowered her head and asked.
"We leave in the afternoon and make our move tonight." Xiao Shuang picked up the hot tea before him, blew on it gently, then drank it as he answered.
There were still quite a few people assigned to provide support, but they were all stationed in a small forest not far outside the city occupied by the Allied Forces of the three nations.
There were also several experts from the Allied Forces of the three nations in this small forest. They were all Dou Wang-level, perhaps resting or... slacking off? Each of them lay atop a thick tree branch, looking utterly at ease...
When those Dou Wang experts saw Xiao Shuang and the others, they sprang up from the branches in shock. Just as they were about to send a signal, their entire bodies were enveloped by a mass of seven-colored energy.
Within that dazzling seven-colored energy, those Dou Wang experts struggled like drowning men, flailing their limbs, yet unable to make the slightest sound. In the end, their bodies actually began to melt in a bizarre manner.
After clearing out everyone in the forest, the experts of the Xiao Alliance and the Snake People Race scattered apart and concealed themselves throughout the forest.
"The defenses are fairly tight." Xiao Shuang stood atop a tree, gazing into the distance at the city.
The forest