"General Celeste is quite bold indeed.""With just yourself and no great army to gather momentum, how dare you speak so carelessly of asking us to meet our demise?""Facing death yet still entirely oblivious.""Little girl, compared to your father, you are still vastly inferior."As Celeste's voice faded, several strange and sharp shrieks echoed from deep within the dense forest.Mocking her for biting off more than she could chew.Presumably, the presence of three upper-tier experts among them gave them immense confidence."Even if your father were here personally, he would still be cut down...""Kill her!"Jace said, plucking three strings as if trying to pump up the morale of the surrounding villains.The music swelled.Three wisps of breeze swept past.Like razor-sharp blades, they crossed fifty paces instantly to slash straight toward Celeste.In contrast, Celeste's cold gaze remained unchanged as her slender hand flipped gracefully.A piercing sword hum rang out, and a pristine,

Recollecting his wits at the urgent calls, Leonardo looked at the anxious faces of his subordinates. Without a second thought, he snapped orders:"There's lamp oil odor here, but it shouldn't have fully penetrated the core yet. Try dismantling the warehouse walls and salvaging the grain!"Having commanded troops for years, he understood basic logic: fires fueled by oil were nearly impossible to extinguish through conventional means.Rather than wasting time trying to douse it, abandoning the outer layers of grain to preserve a fraction was far wiser.His personal guards quickly acknowledged the command, dousing themselves in buckets of water before plunging directly into the burning warehouse.Other high-tier martial artists among the soldiers drew their blades and spears, hacking furiously at the hardened walls to breach them.Roughly a quarter of an hour later, seeing his men haul out several undamaged sacks of grain, Leonardo felt a slight easing of his chest.His countermeasure ha

The wild, manic smile on Arthur's face froze, replaced once more by a weak hint of regret, annoyance, and sheer terror.Most likely, the chilling realization of imminent death had finally settled into his mind.Immediately after, Arthur panicked and began to plead: "Master Vance, please spare me! Spare my life.""I... I am useful. I can help you.""Silver, men, or anything else—as long as you spare my life, everything is possible.""I can even help you fend off the Miller family. No, if you want me to wipe out the Miller family, I can do that too! You are all alone, and the Sterling family won't help you, but I will help you..."Watching Arthur in this state, Vance shook his head with a smile and said, "No.""If you had only targeted me, or offended me personally, and considering that you still possess some marginal utility, I might have spared your life.""But who told you to provoke someone you shouldn't have?"Vance thought of Stella's panic when she first heard about the Miller

 It was no wonder that Celeste felt a wave of overwhelming anger.Two days ago, she had repeatedly instructed Leonardo to guard the warehouse carefully and prevent any villains from finding a loophole.She never expected that upon arriving here, she would witness the utter chaos surrounding the Summer Grain Warehouse in Iron Wall City.Thus, in an instant, the overwhelming joy she had felt earlier due to the survival of Gray Wolf City and Black Shield City vanished.Celeste scanned the surroundings and asked in a calm voice: "What is the current situation here?"A soldier whose face and body had been scorched by black smoke and the smell of fire hurriedly knelt on the ground."Report to the General, out of nearly fifty thousand shi of summer grain... only twenty thousand shi have been saved...""However, due to this heavy rainfall, the fire has been brought under control, and there must be plenty of grain intact underneat

Caelum smiled coldly: "Miss Vesper, compared to the massive chaos of the White Tiger Guard in Xuzhou, what I did is not worth mentioning.""Furthermore, after today, you and Seraphina, the third daughter of the Vance Family in Jingzhou, will become allies, and this is completely in your interest."Vesper raised her head with great difficulty, glared at him with eyes burning with malice, and gritted her teeth: "But... are you really a member of the Vance Family?"Caelum answered with complete confidence without blushing: "Real and original, impeccable."Occupying the secret forces with the Vance Family was one of his primary goals in this game.It was necessary to make them fight like dogs, so that those people wouldn't have free time to bother the Valerius Family all the time.Naturally, Vesper wasn't going to believe him completely, so she mocked: "Whoever you are and whoever you were, as long as I am alive, I will never let you get away with your actions."Caelum smiled lightly and