Boiling Beast Bloodline-Chapter 2181 - 671: Two vs One [Middle]
"Get to the point," Old Liu said impatiently.
"Plants growing in cold regions, such as the conifers at the foot of Mount Tamerlarya, have to resist the cold environment, so their branches and leaves are filled with large amounts of oil, making them highly flammable!"
The Pompei scholar with a head full of curly golden hair spoke while taking a special conifer branch from his bag, carefully removing the cones, and showing them to the attendees one by one. Suddenly, he held the lush green branches to an open flame, and in the blink of an eye the needles were ignited. The sound of bursting oil was clear amid the flames, burning as quickly as paper.
"According to what you’re saying, Lusen City is a city built entirely of wood and is adjacent to a conifer forest. By directly air-striking with Charcoal Sprite Bombs, the entire city and its inhabitants can be burned down without needing to deploy ground troops?" Upon hearing this, Liu Zhenhan couldn’t help but frown. Fires were an indelible memory for him: "But Caiyu City of the Bode Clan is also located within a conifer forest. If the fire spreads, wouldn’t they also suffer collateral damage?"
"Your Grace Richard, there is no better way to deal with Lusen City than a fire attack!" The Pompei scholar nodded: "Although the fallen Elves have a similar awareness, establishing a firebreak between the city and the forest, this barrier is less than ten miles wide. In the current autumn season, the wild grass on the ground is perfect for setting fires. Once the air strikes commence, hundreds of tons of charcoal sprites will undoubtedly turn Lusen into a Sea of Fire. The coniferous forest at the mountain’s base might also be affected by the fire. As for Caiyu City, you can rest assured that they are three or four hundred miles away from Lusen..."
"That’s not the point. Even if everyone could be evacuated with advanced warning, the newly built Caiyu City still couldn’t be saved! Like Lusen, Caiyu City is also an elfin city, made entirely of wood!" Liu Zhenhan thought to himself that it was a relief Mourinho hadn’t been invited to this secret meeting, or else the old swan would likely have jumped three feet high.
"I know you have professional arsonists under your command. You could have them design a comprehensive plan to concentrate the fire on Lusen’s eastern side using crossfire radiation points. This way, the intense heat from the fire will melt the millennia-old glaciers of Tanggula Peak, and the resulting snowmelt will quickly stop the fire from spreading." After contemplating for a moment, the Pompei scholar added his thoughts: "But let me warn you in advance, doing this will certainly have repercussions! The surging snowmelt will halt the forest fire’s spread, but it will also assist in extinguishing Lusen’s fire. By then, if even one person survives with the charcoal sprite formula and flees to the Sea Clan or Demon Clan, all our painstaking efforts will be in vain! However, the plan I previously proposed doesn’t have this flaw—once the fire starts, Lusen will be reduced to ashes!"
"What do you all think?" Old Liu turned his gaze towards the human leaders.
"We are willing to compensate for all losses to Caiyu City, but we implore Master Richard to use Professor Klinsmann’s initial attack strategy provided just now." The human leaders whispered among themselves briefly and then gave a firm answer: "Turning Lusen into ashes is cruel, but for the safety of the entire Aegean, we must bear this responsibility!"
No wonder the so-called "sensible people" of the Aegean were so desperate to bring Lusen’s downfall. They could only blame the fallen Elves’ fickle nature, and Moore for inventing the charcoal sprites, not to mention their prior treacherous ties with the Underworld Clan!
Although the threat from the Underworld Clan ended in the Southern Cross Star Forest, it doesn’t mean everyone forgot about it.
"Leave this to me!" After a long period of silent contemplation, Liu Zhenhan finally relieved everyone.
"Your Grace, for secrecy’s sake, we will not send anyone to assist you in implementing the plan going forward..." Ten human leaders showered praises without bounds: "You have once again saved all of the Aegean for us!"
Old Liu shivered and goosebumps appeared all over him.
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"Look, that fellow is considered a Saint Xiao." After the secret meeting ended, the ten human leaders returned to the Pompei court. Without waiting to be seated, the prince cheerfully remarked to the other nobility: "Even as a Saint Xiao, he’s still led by the nose, doing whatever we ask!"
All the human nobles exchanged a glance, shrugged their shoulders, raised their eyebrows, and laughed.
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"Look, those bastards you just saw are the noblemen at the pinnacle of the Aegean Humans’ rule," Liu Zhenhan happily told the Beamon King: "Those animals are truly cunning, they take all the credit while leaving the dirtiest jobs to us, the Beamon, to handle!"
"Humans have always been like this, not just for a day or two; they have been evil for a long time," King Sal sneered: "You just got a Supreme Mage title from them, and then you offered up the Beast King Dubin and the Medusa Priestess to the Forgotten Valley frontline. Tell me, when have they ever had a losing deal?"
"The key is my high awareness. If I ignore them, won’t they just end up with nothing?"
"What about this time? You must think carefully. Even though the Elves are fallen, they are still Aegean Natives, not Demons or Sea Clan. If you indiscriminately slaughter them, even the Summer Palace Warriors might find such an order hard to accept!"
"Why do I even need to think? I’ve already got it figured out! I never thought humans would actually send me so many charcoal sprites. Ha, live crabs, live crabs, live crabs, hahaha... those idiots..."
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Eleven days after the secret meeting, Lusen City was engulfed in a Sea of Fire overnight.
The fire burned for four entire days and nights, and the vast conifer forests within a hundred miles of Lusen were reduced to ashes.
The high-temperature circulations from the forest fire melted the glaciers of Tanggula’s main peak, thus creating a brand new snowmelt tributary on the Donau Wasteland. "The world’s most beautiful pearl born from a clam" became an emblem of nostalgia, with its remains being a massive snow-water lake. Only by diving deep beneath the darkened charred riverbed could one appreciate the spectacle of three million people once living in one city.
On the same day as Lusen’s fiery destruction, the Hai Mu coalition besieging Sabak suffered a nearly annihilating carpet bombing from the Beamon Air Force.
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