Boiling Beast Bloodline
Chapter 900 - 208 The Performance Begins_2

Chapter 900: Chapter 208 The Performance Begins_2

"The South Star War" ended when Great Diviner Ali of the Saint Kailu was the High Priest of the Main Temple in Piacenza, a southern province at that time. He possessed the advanced magical pet, "Morando Giant Sculpture." Although the Barbarians had been defeated by then, they were still lurking in the Southern Cross Star Forest, yet to collectively migrate to the rugged mountains and wilderness beyond.

The Barbarians clung to life in the Southern Cross Star Forest because they relied on the "Boe" and "Wodu Clan," with "Boe" being the male Wizards among the Barbarians and "Wodu Clan" the female Wizards. These Barbarian Wizards possessed strange, natural time-space powers and worked in husband-wife teams, leveraging the forces of nature together, making them particularly difficult to handle. Even more bizarre, the Barbarian Wizards were almost Immortal Bodies, for once they fell in battle, they could graft their powers onto others through energy transfer.

As long as a Barbarian had the capacity to bear powers, they would develop mysterious elemental patterns on their faces. From the moment they were discovered, they were placed in mountain cave dwellings near the "Space-Time Rift," to be nurtured and acquainted with the natural time-space forces, ready for power transfer, or to undergo self-cultivation. After the "South Star War" between the Barbarians’ lands and the Bimon Kingdom ended, ninety percent of the Barbarian Wizards had perished. However, within three years, these bearers could inherit and familiarize themselves with the transferred Elemental Power. Coupled with the Barbarians’ vigorous capabilities, they stubbornly refused to abandon the Southern Cross Star Forest. They desperately carried out guerrilla warfare in the mountains and forests to delay the conflict, hoping to reemerge eighteen years later.

Bimon Kingdom could not afford to be continuously embroiled in war due to its scarcity of resources. Therefore, eradicating the successors became a crucial strategic objective. Several high priests, including Mourinho, regularly patrolled the entire Southern Cross Star Forest.

At that time, Great Diviner Ali just happened to receive a report from a Hauss Clan Scout. A Hauss patrol team had discovered a Barbarian secret lair in the Kilimanjaro Rift of the Southern Cross Star Forest and urgently needed reinforcement.

Since the news came so suddenly, Ali feared that the enemy would quickly relocate the Wizards’ nest. Notifying the High priests and the military department was already too late. He decided to ride the "Morando Giant Sculpture" alone and swiftly flew to the conflict site. Coordinating with the Hauss Clan Scouts, he managed to obliterate the Barbarian guards guarding the Wizards’ nest and a couple of Barbarian Wizard couples, destroying all the successors within the lair and dashing the Barbarians’ hopes.

In that battle, since the engagement with the Barbarians was so abrupt, Ali and the Barbarian Wizards fought an unusual close-combat duel. Ali’s long-unused Saint Kailu martial arts came in handy. However, as a priest accustomed to years of meditation on his spiritual power, his valor remained but his body had long since lost the robustness of his youth as a boxing champion. After a rough scuffle, throwing a series of flawed punches, he managed to disfigure the similarly frail Barbarian Wizards but also twisted his hands such that they trembled perpetually afterwards.

Liu Shock had long heard of the "South Star War," a period when the Barbarian Kingdom was once a very powerful indigenous regime in the Southern Cross Star Forest. They had an intense disdain for outsiders, a penchant for looting and killing. In the Southern Cross Star Forest, apart from the mountainous Giant tribes and Elven kingdoms, they were fierce opponents.

Ever since retreating to the Donau Wasteland a thousand years ago, the Bimon Kingdom’s territory slowly expanded as its vitality recovered, eventually spreading to every corner of the Donau Wasteland. The Barbarians previously had no contact with Bimon, but once they did, conflict was inevitable, with each side as a thorn in the other’s side. Degraded phoenixes were no better than chickens; due to scarcity of warriors from the Boma Tribe and Taige Clan, Bimon Kingdom could not launch large-scale mountain or jungle wars. They struggled to handle the Barbarians, who roamed the forests arrogantly, trapping both sides in a stalemate with no clear victor.

After Grecke Sal ascended the throne, he carefully conserved strength for ten years and employed all of Bimon Kingdom’s decade-long stores of honey essence to bribe a Jest Tribe in the Southern Cross Star Forest to hire them as mercenaries. With this two-pronged approach, he decisively crippled the Barbarian Kingdom, forcing them back beyond the mountains—an episode historically known as "The Decade of Accumulation, The Decade of Lessons."

King Grecke Sal’s maneuvers during the "South Star War" were also studied by Daisy, who found the strategy straightforward—to "drive the tiger to swallow the wolf," buying off other bandits to attack Feilengcui.

Liu Shock and Daisy had meticulously examined this case of war. King Grecke Sal boldly used a decade of honey essence as bribe to buy the Jest people’s loyalty, a plan demanding a long preparation period and audacity. Considering this was just a down payment, Grecke Sal promised that after the war with the Barbarians, he would reward the Jest Tribe with Bimon Kingdom’s twenty-year reserve of honey essence as remuneration.

The Jest people, also known as "Jungle Walkers," resembled bears with their dense green fur. They craved honey as much as Giant Dragons covet Gold Coins. Their combat prowess in the jungle was nearly on par with the Bimon’s Jungle Assassin Boma Tribe Leopard warriors. In the decisive battle of the "South Star War," King Grecke Sal deployed all his Jungle Walker mercenaries, and at the cost of all 2,500 mercenary lives, successfully purged the Barbarian Kingdom.