Chapter 703: Young Man – Leadership Ability Up ↑
If Hun Tong was next to the dragonman youngster, focusing his eyes and attention on the latter, he would feel omniscient pressure, he wouldn’t be able to think or be in an analytical mindset.
But if he was free to roam Snow Bird Harbor, during leisure time, he naturally would think more. The more he thought, the more he would hesitate and choose.
His hesitations and choices would constantly sway his loyalty, especially when he saw Tan Mo moving about right before his eyes.
Hun Tong was just a gold level and had reached the limits of his bloodline, his potential was exhausted!
He wanted to return to the empire and explain himself; he wanted to deal with Tan Mo and Tan Mo’s connections.
He didn’t have a good relationship between him and the clan behind him - the Duo Mu Clan.
But by genuinely relying on the dragonman youngster, he could have access to a bishop level higher-up and could even enjoy the super-benefit that was the Resurrection spell!
What would he choose?
The dragonman youngster looked forward to Hun Tong’s choice.
The dragonman youngster’s final arrangement was for Tripleblade.
He brought Tripleblade over for a private conversation, clearly informing him, “There are reasons why I left Snow Bird Harbor City Lord and Tan Mo injured but not dead.”
“First, they are both important members of the Imperial Secret Spy Agency. One is an irreplaceable arrangement in the Ice Sculpture Kingdom, and the other is an investigator. Killing them is bound to provoke needless attention and attract the spy agency’s powerful investigations and responses.”
“We don’t need to unnecessarily antagonize people, at least not ahead of time. Resisting all kinds of investigative magics and divine spells will intensify the depletion of Pearl Bubbles.”
“Second, Snow Bird Harbor City Lord has someone above him. His code name is [Emancipator] and his superior is code named [Usurper]. We must find out who [Usurper] is and uncover what the intention of the Imperial Secret Spy Agency is within the Ice Sculpture Kingdom.”
Snow Bird Harbor City Lord wanted to unmask the arm merchant behind the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps, and so too did the dragonman youngster want to investigate who [Usurper] was.
The dragonman youngster continued to tell Tripleblade, “Therefore, you will go back and look for Snow Bird Harbor City Lord.”
“Make clear that I have learned of the bitter battle in Snow Bird Harbor and that I express my sympathies to him.”
Tripleblade couldn’t help but raise his brows, taking a new measure of his commander.
Tripleblade seemed to feel that the young commander had returned changed beyond recognition. In the past, the dragonman youngster would have never said that, let alone saying it without batting an eyelid.
The dragonman youngster added on, “If expressing sympathies is not enough, you will tell Snow Bird Harbor City Lord this: back then, the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps received his help, and we jointly worked together to root out the Bayonet Gang, we have always remembered this camaraderie.”
“And this time, we wish to lend a hand to help the city lord out of his own crisis.”
“Our greatest sincerity is our capital.”
“Thanks to our magic medicine business, my corps currently has plenty of money and can give the city lord a large loan in order to rebuild Snow Bird Harbor’s defenses, and especially the core defense, the magician tower!”
“I know that in this battle, Snow Bird Harbor City Lord’s greatest breach of responsibility is losing the magician tower. He is sure to be held accountable strongly by the kingdom’s high class.”
“If he shoulders the task of rebuilding the magician tower of his own accord, then this blame will be alleviated a lot. This will have immense benefits for Snow Bird Harbor City Lord’s political future.”
Tripleblade summed it up internally: we blew up the magician tower and robbed the city palace. Now, we are going back to help Snow Bird Harbor City Lord with a loan to him to help him rebuild the magician tower.
The goblin couldn’t help but be secretly speechless, he took another look and marveled at the young commander before him, shocked that he had changed so much after just one trip away from them.
“That said, I support this change.” Tripleblade was looking forward to how Snow Bird Harbor City Lord would react when he came knocking.
Seeing Tripleblade departing, the dragonman youngster’s gaze became deeply serene.
He knew what Tripleblade’s bloodline was and also had the Bloodline Purification formation, but he didn’t immediately purify Tripleblade’s bloodline.
If it were before, perhaps he would have done that.
After all, he was one of the survivors, a most trusted person.
But now, he had more notions and misgivings, so he decided to wait for a more mature opportunity.
The young man’s plans were immediately carried out, and he was soon alone in the divine domain.
But his plans weren’t finished yet.
He continued to use divine spells to secretly connect to the resurrected mercenaries, mainly the silver level ones.
He secretly gave these mercenaries a mission, empowered them with divine spells, changed their identities, and ordered them to lie low in various parts of Snow Bird Harbor.
After these mercenaries received the order, they trembled with excitement and accepted it without hesitation.
“Thus, the mercenary corps is divided into three parts.”
“The first is the main force in the Ice Sculpture Kingdom Capital, it will have me, Zi Di, Zong Ge, Dao Hen, Cong Mang, and the others.”
“The second part will have Da Dou, Xiao Guai, Hong Zhu, and the important resurrected mercenaries, and the tentatively controlled Vegetable Pirates remnants.”
“The third part is the Snow Bird Harbor branch. It will still have Tripleblade as the core, with Men Shi and Chi Lai as its backbone. They will shoulder some magic medicine production assignments, but will mainly be focused on deepening their connection with Snow Bird Harbor City Lord, and if possible, openly contacting Tan Mo. If they can build a relationship with the Imperial Secret Spy Agency, then that would be for the best.”
“If there was a fourth part, then it would be Cang Xu, but I don’t know where he followed Teacher Si Ling to.”
The dragonman youngster was unaware that Cang Xu and Jian Gui had been brought to Ice Sculpture Island by Teacher Si Ling.
“Furthermore, there is also Lan Zao. He is currently trapped in the Tranquil Hill Divine Domain.”
Previously, the dragonman youngster wanted to rescue Lan Zao, but now that he had a new goal of seizing the Dueling Godhead, he found Lan Zao’s position to be quite ingenious. He was a saboteur that had taken root in the Dueling God Divine Domain and perhaps in the future, he could be empowered!
The Ice Sculpture National Ceremony, the Warm Snow Cup, the Wisteria Cache, the pirate invasion, the Dueling Divine Domain, the Imperial Secret Spy Agency…the situation was still considerably complex.
As the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps’ paramount leader, the dragonman youngster had to shoulder and rise to his duty, steer their ship well, charge through the wind and waves, evade hidden reefs, and eventually make his way into the expansive seas.
These were things he, as their leader, needed to do!
He could never shirk them and had to exhaust his capabilities to carry these responsibilities.
The returned dragonman youngster was far more mature and outstanding than his past self.
The divine blessings had given experience in not only transcendent powers, but also mixed in experiences in administration, communication, and other fields.
The dragonman youngster’s vision had become farther.
He was no longer limited to a single battle.
In the Snow Bird Harbor battle, he used stratagems, borrowed power to attack, and even though he finished the job himself, the performance was composed of many real battles.
He successfully attained his multiple objectives.
First, he retaliated against Snow Bird Harbor City Lord and Tan Mo, damaging their strength and cutting down their greed.
Second, he intimidated Cong Mang and took him captive, then incorporated the Vegetable Pirates into his forces as bedcover for the Wisteria Cache.
Third, he left Snow Bird Harbor City Lord and Tan Mo alive for future relations, goodwill, false deference, and other bridges that could be built.
He didn’t hesitate to vigorously spend to conduct a public communal resurrection and evangelization, which had its own gains.
The first was that although his communal conversion didn’t have many results, it had achieved its main goal, which was to awe and entice everyone. The biggest thing was that he reinforced his own authority and united everyone together.
The second thing was that he had Charming Blue believers put into each of the three forces, making it convenient for him to teleport to each and maximize his control.
The third thing is that he started to experiment with divine spells, and the resurrected mercenaries became his observation targets.
Why did he choose Mist?
This had been pondered over by the dragonman youngster and came after careful deliberations.
Firstly, he could not take in faith personally, and it was easy to expose himself.
Secondly, he could not use Charming Blue Goddess’ name. That name would make known that the dragonman youngster was an expert at deception divine spells, which would involuntarily produce doubts, impact trust, and increase the dragonman youngster’s leadership expenditures.
Finally, the God Mist was one of Charming Blue Goddess’ visages and was not something the dragonman youngster came up with. Preaching with that name could still mold Charming Blue believers. These believers were valuable spatial coordinates. Divine Domain Descent made many matters easier for the dragonman youngster to deal with, and he had room to maneuver henceforth!
The dragonman youngster’s arrangements in the Snow Bird Harbor battle could not be looked at in isolation. One should treat the Snow Bird Harbor battle and the public sermon afterwards as an integrated whole.
Stratagems became an important skill of the dragonman youngster, for his leadership abilities had immensely improved.
Like Tripleblade realized, he had changed beyond recognition!
Snow Bird Harbor City Lord was nearly covered completely in bandages.
His injuries weren’t heavy, but he decided to appear severely wounded.
He was hard pressed and under pressure.
This was the truest portrayal of his current state.
“How did I become like this?”
“Why did the Vegetable Pirates suddenly appear? They controlled high level stealth techniques!”
“Most pivotally, who was that fishman expert who appeared at the end?”
“Why did the grand Imperial Secret Spy Agency’s information base not have a trace of him?”
“According to common sense, such an expert cannot be nameless, there will inevitably be some clues. But in reality, he seemed to appear from nowhere!”
“He defeated me and Tan Mo but didn’t kill us. On the contrary, he captured Cong Mang alive, then swaggered off. From this, I can see that he seemed to have come for Cong Mang in particular.”
“In that case, was the mysterious fishman part of the group who blew up the magician tower and the city palace?”
All kinds of misgivings entrenched themselves in Snow Bird Harbor City Lord’s mind and continued to press down on him.
His current concern was not these suspicions, but how to deal with Snow Bird Harbor’s perilous situation.