New Discovery (A Bonus Chapter for Alliance Leader H Aquarius)

After the enemy chief died, these captives were clearly following Da Shi's lead.

Seeing Da Shi pledge his allegiance, they also swore loyalty one after another.

Zhou Xu didn't particularly care about this.

The two sides had just finished a battle. Did they expect these people to wholeheartedly follow him right away? That was unrealistic.

For these people, Zhou Xu's current requirement was simple: they just needed to work for him honestly, and he wouldn't ask for anything more.

"Is the camp over there far from here?"

"Not far."

If the distance between the two tribes was too great, the other side wouldn't have been able to meet them in the morning and then immediately gather their forces to attack by noon.

In fact, their movement efficiency was slow. After all, they had to cooperate with the original chief's tactical thinking. Each of them had to carry a shield and skeleton remains, a proper weighted march.

Receiving this answer, Zhou Xu turned directly to Fei Que.

"Fei Que, take a team and get them settled. Dashan, bring those skeletons and come with me to that camp."

With a simple sentence, Fei Que immediately understood. "Settling them" was actually just keeping an eye on the captives to prevent any trouble.

Under this premise, the ten-person team led by Dashan quickly assembled. Without any delay, they brought Da Shi and set off.

There should be some defensive forces at the enemy camp. Under normal circumstances, bringing only ten people wouldn't guarantee their advantage, but Zhou Xu wasn't afraid at all.

His confidence at this moment came from two aspects. One was his own strength. After obtaining the True Word power of 'Skeleton Control,' he alone could raise over a dozen skeletons to fight for him.

His combat power was by no means comparable to ordinary individual units.

The other aspect was Dashan.

Dashan's actual combat power at this stage had been fully demonstrated in the previous battle.

To be honest, it was completely beyond his expectations.

According to his initial idea, although Dashan's 'Valor' had a growth cap of four stars, it was currently only two stars. Even with talent bonuses, he would only be slightly stronger than some ordinary two-star members.

Now, the facts proved he was naive.

Dashan's performance in the previous battle clearly told him that even with the same two-star rating, the gap in actual combat power could be very large.

This made Zhou Xu have to re-evaluate this star rating.

The upper limit of two stars should be the limit that ordinary people could reach through their own efforts without any exceptional talent.

But in reality, the vast majority of ordinary people in this world could not even touch this limit. They merely maintained an average level and lived their lives in mediocrity.

Dashan, however, was undoubtedly above this average, and even surpassed it by more than a little!

Unless the opponent also had combat power like Dashan, with Dashan leading ten tribe warriors, plus his 'Skeleton Control,' they could completely fight even if the opponent had twenty or thirty people!

It was worth mentioning here that the 'Skeleton Control' True Word obtained from the other side was not what he had initially imagined.

According to Zhou Xu's imagination at the time, after casting the True Word, skeletons should have crawled out of the ground, or a magic array should have opened, and they would come out of it.

This was his concept of a skeleton summoning spell.

But the facts proved otherwise. The other side did not possess 'Skeleton Summoning' but 'Skeleton Control.'

These were two completely different concepts.

'Skeleton Control' required the existence of skeletons to implement 'control.'

This was the main reason why the other side had to carry skeletons when they attacked. Otherwise, his True Word would not be able to function.

Of course, even so, it could not conceal the value of this True Word.

Skeleton Soldiers that feared no death, even if they were smashed to pieces, could be reassembled through the power of the True Word and put back into battle.

Even if it couldn't summon them out of thin air, its value on the battlefield was undeniable.

On the way to the destination, Zhou Xu was naturally not idle. He continuously gathered intelligence about this tribe from Da Shi.

"Were you the original chief of this tribe?"

"Yes."

From the reactions of those captives at the time, it was not difficult to see Da Shi's original status in the tribe.

"Then why did you choose to summon the God Chosen?"

"Our tribe was in conflict with a neighboring tribe at the time, and we couldn't defeat them…"

The rest was basically self-explanatory. The summoned God Chosen helped them reverse the situation and achieve victory.

At the same time, the other party, by virtue of being a God Chosen, naturally became their new chief.

"Then why did you gather your forces and come to us?"

"The scouts we sent out discovered a strange forest, so they reported back. The original chief possessed the True Word power of controlling skeletons. For us, sending skeletons to explore directly was the safest option."

Zhou Xu agreed with this line of thought.

If he had these skeletons, he would also prioritize sending skeletons to perform such potentially risky tasks, saving his own manpower and resource consumption.

However…

"Just looking at this 'exploration' mission, isn't your setup a bit excessive?"

Zhou Xu, who said this, couldn't help but inject a bit of sarcasm into his tone.

This left Da Shi somewhat at a loss for words.

He couldn't possibly say their chief was a coward, could he?

Although Da Shi had his reservations about some of their chief's methods, their chief had ultimately helped them overcome a crisis and brought them a better life.

Now that the chief was dead, he certainly wouldn't gossip about it here.

Seeing Da Shi's reaction, Zhou Xu didn't dwell on it. After all, it didn't matter anymore. What he was more concerned about now were the following questions.

"Is that True Word something your tribe possesses?"

"No."

Da Shi shook his head.

"The former chief found it himself on the grasslands."

This answer was beyond Zhou Xu's expectations.

He had initially thought that every tribe had a True Word as a 'perk' for the God Chosen, but it seemed that wasn't entirely the case.

From this simple exchange, Zhou Xu captured a new piece of information that was enough to make his Spirit soar.

"Grasslands? Are there grasslands near your camp?"

"Yes, there's a stretch of grassland near our tribe camp."

Upon hearing this news, the smile on Zhou Xu's face was now impossible to hide.

He had previously been troubled by the environment of the Black Forest, and coupled with the limitations of manpower, their exploration efficiency couldn't be improved, leaving him unsure where to relocate the tribe camp.

Now, it was great. An area with a clearly better environment was gradually unfolding before him!

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