Farming in a Parallel World and Becoming a God
Chapter 856 - 552 Dark Alliance

Chapter 856: Chapter 552 Dark Alliance

The leaders of the slave traders captured from the dens of the Petrified Lizards were pushed to the bottom of the city walls, and the slave traders stationed in Ilip immediately fell into disarray.

And the walls of Ilip, not much taller than most Hobgoblin Giants, let alone jump, it seemed they could directly climb to the edge with an outstretched hand.

After a standoff of less than an hour, the other side opened the city gates and surrendered.

The most challenging part of such a den of crime was not the attacking and occupying, but the issues of conviction afterwards.

It’s an exaggeration to say that the entire city was involved with the Petrified Lizards’ Slave Traders Group, but to say there was a direct or indirect connection with this industrial chain wasn’t a bit overstated.

Gaven and Veranika briefly discussed and decided to cut the Gordian knot, gathered the representatives of Ilip, and directly issued a series of orders.

The core contents were two points.

One, only execute the ringleader, the accomplices shall not be investigated.

Two, all privately held slaves must be turned over, amnesty for past crimes, but those found to be hiding slaves or reoffending will be punished as a ringleader.

In just one day, they liberated all the slaves and wiped out all the illicit wealth of the Petrified Lizards’ Slave Traders Group, not leaving even the basic military forces behind, all withdrawn.

Because there was no point in doing so.

The geographical locations of these two towns determined that their fate was decided by Efanso City.

If the Conqueror Army took Efanso City, there would be no need to send any troops over, just a governor would suffice.

If they failed to take Efanso City, even if troops were stationed here, they would become alienated and secretly create obstacles for them.

The significance of Gaven and his group starting with the two towns was to completely eliminate these local Dark Forces because once they took down Efanso, they would immediately retreat into the shadows, and eradicating them would become exponentially more difficult.

The progress on Yeshandalah’s side was also surprisingly smooth. Whether it was the Purple Mask or the Tidal Blossom, the combat power they could bring to bear was a mere dozen or so Transcendents. The rest were either small Thieves or ordinary ruffians, enough to lord over a small town, but facing a Transcendent Battle Group, totally insufficient.

The more famous ones died the quicker.

On the contrary, the nameless ones were able to hide among the crowds and escape the calamity.

But their ability to loot wealth was quite astonishing.

Even after distributing a portion of the accumulated wealth of the Tidal Blossom and Purple Mask to the local residents over the years, the collected wealth was nearly a million.

The half that Gaven mentioned was a hypothetical figure, not an actual equal division, and most of what was given to them was of little use to the Conqueror Army, such as unportable items like furniture and other household goods, and bulky, inconvenient-to-carry loose coins, among other things.

Thanks to the tireless help of the Half-Blue Dragon Gnome, the take from the Petrified Lizards’ side was even more remarkable.

In addition to three three-masted ships with a total estimated value of half a million, from their secret dens and warehouses, they seized wealth amounting to one and a half million and over five hundred slaves. Only one-fifth of them came from the Giant Dragon Coast, sent home by the Conqueror Army’s escort; the rest were all drafted into the Conqueror Army.

Just as Gaven and his group anticipated, the eradication of these three local Dark Forces scared the entire surrounding Dark Forces of the Giant Dragon Coast. They became unprecedentedly efficient, and a secret meeting of the Dark Forces convened at the West Gate.

West Gate.

Not only is it the most influential city of the Giant Dragon Coast but also one of the most influential cities on the south coast of the Sea of Fallen Stars.

It is said that its economic power is the sum of all the cities of the Giant Dragon Coast, making it the third-largest trading power of the Inner Sea, just after Sambia and the Komeer Kingdom.

The reason the Giant Dragon Coast has a reputation for "everything has a price" primarily lies with West Gate, and its citizens are anything but ashamed of this; on the contrary, they take pride in West Gate being an open city—open to all races, all beliefs, all currencies.

It is precisely this openness that has brought them a great deal of wealth, as many transactions, not permitted elsewhere, are openly conducted here in abundance—like the sale of pirate loot.

While such activities are strictly prohibited in both Sambia and Komeer Kingdom, at least publically, they are audaciously auctioned off in West Gate.

In name, West Gate is governed by a nobility formed of wealthy families, but in reality, the Thief Guild known as the Mask of Dark Night controls all key areas of West Gate.

Naturally, this secret meeting of Dark Forces was initiated and hosted by the Mask of Dark Night, the only power in the Giant Dragon Coast with such influence, which also fully indicated that even they felt the pressure from the Conqueror Army.

More than thirty Dark Forces participated in the conference, numerous figures huddled in the dimly lit meeting room, their assembly just like their identities, unable to be exposed to sunlight.

"They are a bunch of lawless executioners, butchers, and robbers. Today they can take over Pross and Ilip, destroy Purple Mask, Tidal Blossom, and the Petrified Lizards; tomorrow they can conquer Taixir, annihilate you Astorians; the day after take Posku, eradicate you Light of Posku; and the day following that they can capture West Gate, wiping out you Mask of Dark Night root and branch. Therefore, we can no longer stand by and watch, we must unite, form our own army, protect the Giant Dragon Coast that belongs to us, our cities, and utterly crush these evil invaders."