Global Game: I, the Necromancer, am the scourge

Chapter 858: Chapter 521 The City is Destroyed, Humans Perish_2

As for the commanders themselves, they could only resist, ultimately getting their heads chopped off by the enemy.

Unable to surrender and unwilling to be captured and forced to reveal their heritage and resources, each chose to die on their own.

Such a scene caused great distress among the eight lords.

Because with every commander they killed, they lost a treasure trove of a family’s heritage.

It’s important to know, in the current times of the Wild Boar Skin Dynasty, although major resources were still in the hands of the royal family, the minor ones were controlled by the noble families.

In contrast, the lower and middle classes held only a handful of resources.

The eight lords, after seizing territory, needed to extract resources anew, but the already tapped resources had been divided by these families and the royal family.

Now that these family ancestors had essentially committed suicide, it was impossible to make them regurgitate the resources they had swallowed.

This loss made the eight lords feel like they couldn’t breathe in pain.

But there was no choice, anyone knew that surrender meant death, and not surrendering meant a worse death.

Thus, the eight lords resolved to speed up their onslaught, quickly occupying the old witch’s territories and securing local resources in their own hands.

Only this way could they minimize their losses.

Originally, every siege would lead to a reduction in their army.

Now, as soon as the army arrived, after one round of attack, the city defense barriers would totter, and the enemy’s counterattack was sparse and easily repelled.

Within a few rounds of attack, they could break the barrier that never fully functioned in its defense, and then enter the city.

Once inside, there was little bloodshed; basically, wherever the army went, the city’s defending troops would drop their weapons.

Reorganization was just that simple.

Basically, the only place that would offer resistance in a city was the City Lord’s Mansion.

It only needed a strong force sent to kill all the officials gathered in the City Lord’s Mansion, and basically, a city would be taken.

Thereafter, the eight lords began to slaughter the city without hesitation!

Yes, slaughter the city!

However, they did not exterminate the subjects and Different Races, but rather the middle and upper classes, and the noble families.

Not a single family that had committed numerous evils would be spared.

Corrupt officials too would not escape.

And their minions must also be eradicated completely.

Blood would stain the city, bodies piled as high as mountains, with the entire city emptied out.

They seized people, seized resources, and even cities were dismantled and destroyed.

At this moment, in the direct territories of Heavenly Phoenix City, the army of the eight lords swept through like a plague of locusts, leaving only ruins behind!

The reason they did this was that this place was the old witch’s stronghold; from top to bottom, anyone with even a modicum of power or wealth supported the old witch.

Only the lowest-level subjects and Different Races had always been oppressed, unable to make even a ripple and dragged back as labor slaves.

As for any who showed the slightest hint of resistance, if you had the ability to resist, how could you still be allowed to live?

The eight lords advanced from the border with no opponents to challenge them.

Yet they conscientiously avoided the areas plundered by the Death Lord Zi Liyuan.

These areas had been plundered dry, leaving only resources needing extraction from the land, which were therefore temporarily left alone.

Once they had completely vanquished the old witch’s forces, they would discuss how to deal with this territory.

Their feelings towards Zi Liyuan were complicated.

Their counterpart was overwhelmingly strong, with incredible power and a force growing so large that it threatened to suppress them.

But recalling their counterpart’s achievements, the eight lords held no intention of resisting.

The seventh-grade sanctum early-stage old witch was still being hunted by their counterpart.

Even famed sixth-tier entities became like dirt and rubble before their counterpart, easily crushed.

With their current strength, should their counterpart desire, could they not easily wipe them out completely?

Don’t talk about being an allied force; when one side’s power is utterly superior, the alliance becomes fragile.

Zi Liyuan always had the power to tear up the covenant, depending only on their counterpart’s mood.

And they, the allied forces, were just lambs for slaughter; if they offended their counterpart at all, their fate was clear—death!

Their sober understanding made them wary of upsetting a certain someone.

Thus, their troops acted with restraint, not crossing the line.

The eight lords practically avoided Zi Liyuan, focusing first on completely conquering the old witch’s territory, leaving later issues for later discussion.

After all, this turmoil was incited by the Four Ancient Empires.

They had invested no small effort in this.

Ensuring their safety was needed, wasn’t it?

From the intelligence they gathered, the heirs of the Four Ancient Empires had quite a rapport with the Death Lord Zi Liyuan.

As long as they did not provoke the Death Lord, their safety should be ensured.

At most, when it came time to divide the old witch’s spoils, they’d offer a bit more willingly, as payment for their risk.

Also, the Death Lord’s territory had only recently descended into the first layer of the Sea of Realms and was still lacking in foundation, having some degree of difference from them, who had developed as Grand Lords for tens or even decades.

At least, their expansion, requiring manpower for resource excavation in occupied territories, did not face any shortages.

Basically, once they took over an area, they could quickly digest the resources within.

In contrast, Zi Liyuan had captured two large territories in a row, encountering major issues in resource extraction and excavation.

No wonder; the resource points in the original Land of the Dead hadn’t been fully developed or collected.

Now, with two more territories, developing and excavating naturally became a huge problem.

This was why Zi Liyuan and their team relentlessly fought and seized, prioritizing the capture of populations in every city and region.

Even with such frenzied seizing, gathering a vast number of subjects and Different Races couldn’t restore the two newly acquired territories to their strongest state.

It could even be said they hadn’t recovered even half.

They lacked subjects, lacked working Different Races, lacked middle and low-level management, lacked middle and high-level combat power; perhaps only top-tier combat strength was not in short supply.

With Zi Liyuan’s current strength, plus Mo Yi and Liu Yiqing, they were perfectly capable of directly facing Kang Mazi and Yongzheng together in battle.

The fall of the Heavenly Phoenix City territories was quicker than imagined.

The eight lords swept through, generally following a quick path of surrender and destruction.

The old witch’s erratic actions caused internal chaos among them, stirring panic and leaving no one with a clear mind to resist external invasion.

Zi Liyuan’s deliberate pursuit caused the defenses of one strong city after another to become paralyzed.

It was as if external invasion became extremely easy.

Internal collapse accelerated rapidly.

When the old witch caused turmoil in the regions surrounding Heavenly Phoenix City, the so-called Satellite Cities completely disintegrated.

The noble families and powers harmed or killed by the old witch exceeded over sixty percent under her command!

In this wave, the resources the old witch seized were enormous, only slightly less than the resources she had amassed in nearly a hundred years.

It could only be said that none of the noble families following the old witch were easy to deal with.

Now, toppled and torn apart by the tiger that napped above them, they got eaten without injustice, having only themselves to blame.

Trailing behind the old witch, Zi Liyuan easily acquired city after city, capturing both subjects and Different Races.

Meanwhile, Mo Yi could take command of the remaining garrison.

As for those small family guilds and the like in the city, of course, they were annihilated entirely.

After all, with the old witch in front eating ‘meat,’ Zi couldn’t follow without tearing off a ‘piece of flesh.’