"I heard that a branch of the Xue Na Family resides in Lost City. I would like City Lord Demir to dispatch the city guard and expel the members of the Xue Na Family branch from the city."
Bert spoke directly.
The Xue Na Family's provocation of the Four Divine Beast Family was an unforgivable crime.
The destruction of the Xue Na Family was certain. Mr. Mel, Mr. Spark, Kede, Komo, and the other clan elders were handling the main branch, so there would be no problems there.
The other elders' task was to split up and wipe out the Xue Na Family bloodline throughout the rest of Red Maple Prefecture.
He was responsible for Lost City.
As far as he was concerned, being assigned here was rather fortunate. Lewan possessed a trace of Azure Dragon Clan bloodline, so he could be considered somewhat connected to the Four Divine Beast Family. Through him, they had quickly confirmed information about the Xue Na Family branch.
Especially since Lewan had revealed that this branch seemed to be an important one. Otherwise, it would not have been qualified to guard Ice Snow Mountain.
Hearing Bert's words, Demir frowned deeply. "Elder Bert, forgive me, but I cannot agree to this. Since I am the City Lord of Lost City, I must naturally abide by the Overgod's rules. Even as City Lord, I cannot act recklessly."
City Lords had the authority to expel or even kill guys who violated the city's rules, but doing so without cause would not benefit them. Moreover, he did not wish to have anything to do with the Four Divine Beast Family. Even if he could help, he wanted to avoid this trouble.
Bert was not surprised by Demir's response in the slightest. He gave a disdainful smile. "Fine. Then I'll trouble the City Lord to notify the Xue Na Family members. Tell them that I, Bert, will remain on Ice Snow Mountain for three days. If no one appears after three days, I will raze the entire mountain to the ground."
After saying that, Bert looked at the High God subordinates behind him. "Half of you stay behind. The other half, follow me to Ice Snow Mountain!"
Then Bert looked at Lewan. "You stay too."
"Yes, my lord."
Lewan did not dare refuse. Although he feared Demir, Bert had left behind nearly half of the High God experts, which gave him some confidence.
Bert then led the remaining group and flew out of the lake.
As the surrounding High Gods scattered outside the city of Lost City, Demir's expression revealed neither joy nor anger.
"City Lord."
Lille spoke softly.
"Let's go back to the city."
There was anger in Demir's voice as well, but he said nothing more.
"My lord, should I go deal with Bert?"
Kakqi stood beside Lota and spoke cautiously.
He said this not because he wanted to help the Xue Na Family. Rather, Ice Snow Mountain was the next place Lota planned to visit. It was said that the snowy mountain was also a volcano, trapped year-round between extremes of ice and fire.
Thus, Lota had planned to explore it.
Yet before he had even begun his journey, Bert wanted to flatten Ice Snow Mountain?
In Kakqi's eyes, Bert was provoking the Dominator. Even if Bert himself did not know it, that was irrelevant. This world had never recognized ignorance as innocence.
No change could be seen on Lota's face. He looked in the direction Bert's group had flown, seemingly lost in thought.
A moment later, Lota's voice remained calm. "Kill him."
Lota had risen from an ordinary person to the position of Dominator, and the lives he had killed were already beyond count. It was only after becoming an Overgod that he had rarely acted personally. But that did not mean he had never acted.
It was simply that, most of the time, Morit acted in his place.
Although he wanted to rely on "Linley" to obtain system rewards after awakening the system, that did not mean he would do nothing himself.
He only wanted to act as he pleased.
If the matters between Leiding and the others did not involve him, he would not intervene to change anything and was willing to wait for Linley to grow.
But if something truly provoked him during that time, he would not mind changing the future.
Just as he had previously had Morit give Leilin some guidance.
To him, even if his actions prevented "Linley" from being born and changed his future Earth Memory, it would not affect him much. After all, he already stood at the peak of this world and had a hometown in the Material Plane. Whether he broke through or transcended or not did not matter to him.
Thus, killing a Four Divine Beast Family elder who might affect him was nothing more than a single sentence to Lota.
It was not that Lota looked down on the four of Leiding. Their combined strength might be considered formidable, but the true rulers of this world were still the eleven High-level Overlords.
Only they could truly be called Dominators!
Lost City, within the City Lord's Mansion.
"Bert."
There was anger in Demir's eyes as well. Bert's words had not been overtly coercive, but anyone could see that Bert did not regard him, the City Lord, as important at all.
"City Lord."
Seeing Demir's displeased expression, Lille spoke far more cautiously. "What should we do next?"
Although some experts had already caught wind of the Four Divine Beast Family's actions against the Xue Na Family, the news had not fully spread. Lille was only a Six-star Devil, so naturally he did not know about it yet.
But even without knowing, he could tell from Bert's words that the Four Divine Beast Family might be about to deal with the Xue Na Family.
To him, both sides were colossal forces.
Demir snorted, then said directly, "Make a trip and tell Hilla what Bert said."
After a pause, Demir continued, "Remember, do not let their conflict involve Lost City."
Although he was somewhat dissatisfied with Bert, Demir did not dare truly incite the Four Divine Beast Family because of it. The Four Divine Beast Family's strength had been proven over countless years.
He might be the City Lord, but if he truly enraged the experts of the Four Divine Beast Family, they had ten thousand ways to kill him.
He could not oppose the Four Divine Beast Family for the sake of Hilla and the others. If anyone was to blame, it could only be the Xue Na Family for provoking the Four Divine Beast Family.
Hearing Demir's words, Lille sighed faintly to himself. However, he said nothing more, merely acknowledged the order before heading out of the City Lord's Mansion.
Ice Snow Mountain was an extremely famous place within Red Maple Prefecture. Aside from its special environment of perpetual ice and fire, the most important reason was that
a super strong person who had shaken Hell had once been born there—Xena!
Any Asura who ventured through the planes would be enough to become famous throughout a plane, even gaining tremendous renown in other planes.
It was precisely because Xena, a powerful Asura level expert, had been born there that the native residents of Ice Snow Mountain were so proud. Many even claimed to possess the bloodline of the Xue Na Family.
Although Xena had long since left Ice Snow Mountain, the place still remained under the Xue Na Family's control.
For countless years, no one had ever dared to fight or fly over Ice Snow Mountain.
Many houses built of ice and snow stood atop Ice Snow Mountain, making it resemble a small urban district.
However, such a small city existed entirely because of the experts on Ice Snow Mountain and was not protected by the Overgod. Even if it were destroyed, no one would care.
Even so, living here was still safer than living outside.
After all, no one dared cause trouble here. Even bandits avoided the area around Ice Snow Mountain when they appeared.
Suddenly, Spiritual Sense swept directly across Ice Snow Mountain. Many of the High Gods on Ice Snow Mountain immediately became alert and began checking the situation.
Although Spiritual Sense occasionally swept past, this Spiritual Sense continued to envelop Ice Snow Mountain without dispersing. It was clearly not merely passing by.
"Who goes there?!"
A white-haired old man from Ice Snow Mountain shot into the air.
Soon afterward, more than a dozen High God experts flew out one after another behind him.
However, the expressions of those dozen people soon turned grave, because their Spiritual Sense detected hundreds of High God experts flying toward Ice Snow Mountain.
Even facing so many High Gods, several people were not worried. The other side might have many people, but they did not believe any High God would dare cause trouble on Ice Snow Mountain. Even the City Lord of Lost City, a powerful Seven-star Devil expert, treated them with great respect.
"There are only this many guys?"
Bert did not respond to the old man. After sweeping Ice Snow Mountain with his Spiritual Sense, he could not help frowning. "It seems Lewan was right. Most of the Xue Na Family members live within Lost City."
"Elder, should we kill these guys first?"
A High God behind Bert spoke directly.
Bert looked at Ice Snow Mountain and gave a light laugh. "No rush. Capture these guys first. If the guys in Lost City refuse to come out, then execute these people."
"Yes."
That High God did not dare argue with Bert's order.
"If anyone resists, kill them."
Bert added another sentence.
"Yes!"
Having received the order, the High God immediately led the High Gods behind him in a charge toward Ice Snow Mountain.
When the dozen or so High Gods on Ice Snow Mountain saw that these High Gods ignored them and flew toward Ice Snow Mountain at even greater speed, their expressions changed drastically. The leading old man immediately sent a Voice Transmission. "Who are you? Do you know this is the Xue Na Family's territory?"
"Hahaha, the Xue Na Family?"
The leading High God burst into laughter, his tone filled with contempt. "You're exactly who we came for! Attack! Whoever dares resist, kill without mercy!"
After receiving the High God's order, the others scattered around Ice Snow Mountain, going to capture the other lives residing there.
To them, exterminating the Xue Na Family did not merely mean killing the Xue Na Family's experts. It meant completely severing the Xue Na Family bloodline. Whether some of those people were not actually members of the Xue Na Family was unimportant.
The dozen or so High Gods all turned pale. They wanted to resist, but had no strength to fight back at all.
The strongest among them was only a Five-star Fiend, yet every one of the hundreds of High Gods who had descended this time seemed stronger than a Five-star Fiend.
To them, this was simply unimaginable.
What kind of enormous force could gather hundreds of experts stronger than Five-star Fiends?!
As for the other lives on Ice Snow Mountain, under the High Gods' God's Domain, they could not even summon the will to resist.
Even some talented Middle Gods who could barely withstand the God's Domain were still easily captured or slaughtered.
In only a short time, the entire Ice Snow Mountain was controlled by the High Gods Bert had brought. Not a single God level being escaped. As for the Saint Domain beings on Ice Snow Mountain, they all died beneath the High Gods' unrestrained domains.
To Bert, the only trouble in this mission was how to kill the Xue Na Family members hiding inside Lost City and refusing to come out.
If they still did not appear after seeing him destroy Ice Snow Mountain, he could only challenge Demir for the position of City Lord. Once he replaced Demir as City Lord, he could easily deal with the guys hiding in the city.
But to him, that method was a bit too time-consuming.
Just as Bert was silently pondering, a red light ray suddenly streaked across the horizon at an incomparably terrifying speed. Even Bert did not react in time.
By the time Bert reacted, the light ray had already formed into a figure before him.
The newcomer was Kakqi's Life Divine Clone.
"Get out of Red Maple Prefecture. You are forbidden from entering for one hundred thousand years!"
Kakqi did not attack directly. Instead, he spoke coldly.
One hundred thousand years was enough for the Dominator to travel across Ice Snow Mountain.
Although he believed killing Bert would not be a problem, if the other party could retreat on his own, it would save some trouble.
"Who are you?! How dare you interfere in the affairs of the Four Divine Beast Family?!"
When Bert saw Kakqi appear and speak like that without even identifying himself, anger appeared on his face. However, due to Kakqi's "terrifying" speed earlier, he did not attack immediately.
Bert could not help wondering whether this might also be an expert of the Xue Na Family.
Seeing that Bert did not retreat at once, Kakqi said no more. A Long Whip appeared in his hand. "Since you refuse to leave, then die."
Before becoming the Overlord's Emissary, he might not have feared the Four Divine Beast Family, but he would not have treated one of their elders this way. But now, things were different.
Kakqi did not conceal his strength. As the Long Whip in his hand swung, it actually lashed cracks directly into space.
Then, the Long Whip in Kakqi's hand lengthened with the wind and lashed directly toward Bert.
Bert instantly felt a powerful spatial binding force. With his current strength, he was actually unable to break free for the moment!
Bert had not expected Kakqi to attack so suddenly. Especially after sensing the binding force surrounding him, his expression changed immediately!
What powerful restraining force!
Shocked, Bert did not dare hesitate and immediately activated the Sovereign's Might within his body!
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