Chapter 0297: The Trip Was Not in Vain

Not only Side Blade Peak but also other peaks in the Dragon Mountain Range soon learned of the deaths of Hamidun, KunKunNier -> Kun Nier, and Markohin.
Beyond shock, these peaks, just like Side Blade Peak, grew fierce and immediately gathered their followers to pounce on the wealthy Iron Blood Peaks.
In no time, storms were brewing over the Iron Blood Peaks.
As the Yellow Dragon continued to approach them, it was ultimately Elviro of Side Blade Peak who reached the Iron Blood Peaks first.
“Leader Elviro, what does this mean?!” Rodney, the only mid-tier god remaining at the Iron Blood Peaks, shouted fiercely along with his subordinates.
He was the sole mid-tier god at the Iron Blood Peaks. At this point, he still had no idea that KunKunNier -> Kun Nier and the others, who had set out to reap benefits from the Black Iron Peaks, were all dead, nor did he know that the Iron Blood Peaks had become prey in the eyes of all other peaks in the Dragon Mountain Range.
“What do you mean?” Elviro laughed loudly, his expression arrogant.
Rodney frowned.
In the Dragon Mountain Range, Ice Jade Peak was the strongest and led all others, followed by the Iron Blood Peaks and the Goddess Peaks. These two peaks had always worked together closely. Even Hebrael, the leader of Ice Jade Peak, would show respect to their leader KunKunNier -> Kun Nier. Side Blade Peak, in comparison, was far inferior to the Iron Blood Peaks.
Now, Elviro was leading his followers to the Iron Blood Peaks with such aggression that Rodney had a badpremonition.
What exactly had happened?
Could it be…? As this thought crossed Rodney’s mind, Elviro spoke up, “It’s fine to tell you—those idiots KunKunNier -> Kun Nier and Markohin are dead!” He paused briefly, then added with a cruel expression, “I’m here now to give you two choices: submit the Iron Blood Peaks to my Side Blade Peak, or die!”
Behind Elviro, over a thousand god-tier warriors from Side Blade Peak drew their divine weapons, radiating murderous intent, waiting for his command to launch a brutal massacre.
For bandits, blood meant slaughter!
Slaughter made their blood boil.
Rodney felt his mind explode.
The god-tier warriors of the Iron Blood Peaks, who were facing Side Blade Peak, were also in shock.
“The leaders are dead?!”
“That can’t be! The leaders and Markohin went to the Black Iron Peaks—how could they die?!”
“But if they’re not dead, how dare Side Blade Peak come here so arrogantly?!”
Amazement, doubt, disbelief.
Yet most people believed Elviro’s words. Otherwise, Side Blade Peak wouldn’t have dared to act like this.

Elviro coldly watched the reactions of the people from Iron Blood Peak. After a while, he shouted, “Quiet down! Stop chattering here and annoying me. I’ll wipe you out now!” Instantly, Iron Blood Peak fell silent. Nearly a thousand god-tier warriors there were uneasy. With their leader KunKunNier -> Kun Nier dead, what would become of them? Seeing this, Elviro nodded in satisfaction. He gave Rodney, whose expression kept changing, a cold glance before turning back and saying, “I give you fifteen minutes to decide—whether to join my Side Knife Peak or choose death!” He then scanned the crowd at Iron Blood Peak and laughed sneerily, “Don’t blame me for not telling you in advance. After fifteen minutes, even if you try to join my Side Knife Peak, your fate will still be death!” With that, Elviro stood motionless in the air, arms crossed, looking down at them from above. Iron Blood Peak still had nearly a thousand god-tier warriors left—a formidable force. If a real battle broke out, even if Side Knife Peak had the upper hand, it would have to pay a heavy price, which Elviro didn’t want to see. It would be perfect if he could make them submit without bloodshed! Elviro wasn’t worried that they wouldn’t submit. With KunKunNier -> Kun Nier dead and Iron Blood Peak leaderless, their morale was low. Bandits lived in violence and bloodshed and knew better than to waste their lives. Sure enough, after his words fell, after the crowd at Iron Blood Peak whispered among themselves, gradually some began to step forward: “I’m willing to join Side Knife Peak!” Elviro smiled! The first person joined, then a second, a third—more and more stepped forward to declare their allegiance. Gradually, the number reached dozens. After dozens, more people stepped forward each time, in small groups of dozens. Elviro beamed with joy, waving his hands to show his generous acceptance of those who pledged allegiance to Side Knife Peak. He said kindly, “Very good. I cherish my subordinates the most. As long as you follow me from now on, you’ll enjoy all the good things and share hardships together!” The god-tier warriors from Side Knife Peak behind him felt disgusted inwardly. What good things? Bah! It was always us who went ahead in raids. When things went wrong, we’d shout to retreat, and the first to flee would be you! Of course, the god-tier warriors from Side Knife Peak could only spit in secret. Rodney watched as more of his men stepped forward to join Side Knife Peak and wanted to stop them, but he retracted his words at the last moment, hesitating. Gradually, the number of those who pledged allegiance to Side Knife Peak reached three or four hundred—nearly half.

Elviro calculated the time and thought it was about right. Looking at Rodney, who still stood there, he sneered inwardly, a fierce glint in his eyes as he shouted, “Now, I’ll count down ten times. After ten counts, kill everyone standing across from Side Blade Peak!”
As soon as Elviro spoke, another four or five hundred people from Iron Blood Peak, who had been standing there just as puzzled as Rodney, stepped forward.
Rodney frowned.
By the time Elviro reached three, only a sparse hundred or two hundred people remained on Iron Blood Peak’s side!
“Two!”
Elviro sneered.
“One!”
With murderous intent in his eyes, he was about to wave his hand to order the people from Side Blade Peak to advance when suddenly, shouts came from afar: “Elviro, stop talking nonsense! The Great Leader isn’t dead at all! Everyone, don’t fall for his trick!” Then, six figures rushed over at high speed from afar.
In the blink of an eye, they arrived in front of everyone.
“It’s Lord Victor!”
“Lord Valk!”
“Lord Wendel!”
The six who appeared were the six mid-tier gods of Iron Blood Peak who had already submitted to Yellow Dragon.
At their arrival, the people of Iron Blood Peak cheered in delight.
Rodney was even more pleased.
“Victor, is it true?!” Rodney rushed forward and asked one of them.
“Of course it’s true! The Great Leader and Leader Markohin are on their way back. They heard that Side Blade Peak intended to harm Iron Blood Peak, so they sent us here first. In a moment, the Great Leader and Leader Markohin will arrive!” The mid-tier god said confidently.
Hearing this, the people of Iron Blood Peak were overjoyed. Those who had previously defected to Side Blade Peak flew back to Iron Blood Peak’s side, glaring at Elviro with hatred.
Previously, they hadn’t fully believed Elviro’s words and had been skeptical. They had only defected to Side Blade Peak to save their lives. Now that Lord Victor had confirmed the Great Leader wasn’t dead, they naturally couldn’t stay in Side Blade Peak’s camp anymore. They preferred to believe Lord Victor.
Elviro hadn’t expected things to turn out this way. Pointing at the middle-aged man Victor, he shouted angrily, “Victor, stop lying and scaring people! He was clearly killed by that mid-tier soul master!”
Victor sneered, “Mid-tier soul master? Which mid-tier soul master?”
Elviro was stunned and said coldly, “His name is Yellow Dragon. Do you think I don’t know?”

Victor burst into laughter instead. “Yellow Dragon? A mid-tier Soul Master? Elviro, I have to say you’re quite good at fabricating stories.” With that, he turned to the people of Iron Blood Peak and shouted, “Elviro has gone too far! To seize Iron Blood Peak, he took advantage of our great leader’s absence to spout such lies shamelessly, trying to divide us. What do you all think? Should he die?!”
“Die!”
“Die!”
The people of Iron Blood Peak roared in anger, especially those who had been “deceived” earlier, filled with rage and wishing to rush over and kill him on the spot.
After a while, Victor raised his hand to calm them down and said to the people of Side Blade Peak, “Our great leader and Leader Markohin have already returned halfway. They will arrive in at most two or three hours. How dare you believe your own leader’s nonsense and come to invade Iron Blood Peak!” His expression grew even more fierce as he spoke.
Although Elviro and the three mid-tier gods of Side Blade Peak knew Victor was lying and were filled with rage, many of their subordinates seemed to have believed Victor’s words, their faces showing panic.
“Of course, if you join Iron Blood Peak now, I can intercede for you when our great leader returns!” Victor added.
Elviro was furious—Victor was actually trying to persuade the people of Side Blade Peak to join Iron Blood Peak!
Previously, when Victor’s six men returned, they were quite strong, and Elviro had hesitated. But now he couldn’t afford to worry about that anymore. If Victor continued speaking like this, some people from Side Blade Peak might indeed switch sides.
“Kill them! Kill one, get a thousand Divine Stones!” Elviro shouted, pointing at the opposite side. One of his men flew forward, slashing at Victor with a sword.
He wanted nothing more than to tear Victor to pieces.
The people of Side Blade Peak hesitated for a moment before charging at Iron Blood Peak, leading to a chaotic battle.
However, due to Victor’s earlier words, they were distracted and lacked strength. Although they outnumbered Iron Blood Peak’s members, after a fierce struggle, the battle reached a stalemate, with neither side able to gain the upper hand. Seeing this, Elviro grew even angrier and attacked Victor frantically.
The appearance of Victor’s six men and this entire scenario were all part of Yellow Dragon’s plan.
Victor and the others successfully incited the people of Iron Blood Peak to fight against Side Blade Peak, holding off Elviro’s group. Meanwhile, Yellow Dragon used the EarthEarthEarth Style technique -> Earth Style technique technique to reach the underground treasure vault of Iron Blood Peak.
“This is the wealth that Iron Blood Peak has accumulated over millions of years!” Yellow Dragon exclaimed in slight amazement at the piles of metal and ores before him.

Sure enough, the trip wasn’t in vain!