Chapter 1381: Chapter 1381

"As for you... This official will give you a chance to atone for your crimes through your merits, depending on your performance in the battle against the Demon Clan!"

Harrison immediately knelt down and kowtowed, "Your Excellency can rest assured, I will seize this opportunity and I won’t let Your Excellency down."

Did Master Lane not know the true strength of Harrison’s army? Of course not. Harrison thought he could deceive Master Lane, but he underestimated the Horizon Bureau! However, Master Lane had no intention of punishing Harrison from the very beginning. As the King of Bottleneck Pass, stability came first in times of war.

Nevertheless, Master Lane still deliberately issued orders to draft one hundred thousand elite soldiers. If Harrison still wanted to deceive Master Lane, then Master Lane would give him a lesson to prevent Harrison from acting recklessly in the upcoming war.

Since Harrison was honest and straightforward, Master Lane marked down this punishment for the time being, allowing him to atone for his crimes through his merits.

With the addition of Rock George, Master Lane now had the support of two vanguard officers from the Seventh Realm in the upcoming battle against the Demon Clan! Moreover, these two vanguards would undoubtedly strive to perform in front of Master Lane.

After all... The one who performs poorly will definitely be punished by the authorities.

Master Lane’s tactics produced immediate results. In just two days, Harrison had prepared fifty thousand elite soldiers for the campaign.

Rock George too, in a frantic act of self-preservation, secretly contacted the nobles in the Capital. The fifty thousand elite soldiers that Master Lane needed were soon gathered and rushed towards them at full speed. It was estimated that they would rendezvous with Harrison’s army in two months.

Thus, on the third day of Master Lane’s arrival at Bottleneck Pass, fifty thousand Harrison Army soldiers marched out of the city gate and headed for King IIias’ territory—the people welcomed the royal army with joy!

Under King IIias’ rule, their lives had been extremely difficult. Their lives had no guarantee, and the large families were also suppressed. Without a Grandmaster at the Fifth Realm or above in the family, a Great Demon could walk through their gates at any moment, killing their family members and stealing all their wealth. No laws would punish these crimes, and the Human Race could only rely on their own strength to protect their lives and property.

Master Lane judged that within King IIias’ territory, public grievances had long been boiling over. His constant provocation of wars was an expression of insecurity, and he needed to keep a large army by his side to feel safe.

The real reason Master Lane told King IIias that he had "changed his mind" and wanted to send him back to the Capital for a slow execution by dismemberment was that Master Lane had suddenly thought of a proper way to use King IIias.

One of the vanguards of the army, Harrison, who knew the border areas better, was given the use of King IIias. Following Master Lane’s instructions, King IIias was hoisted up at the very front of the troops with a thick bamboo pole running through his chest!

King IIias’s clothing remained unchanged, but his face was exposed. A large hole appeared in his chest, and upon losing the protection of the Mini-world, he was left with only a single breath. The once-mighty Seventh Realm King IIias had his Mini-world shattered by Master Lane and was ultimately turned into a banner for the army to fight against his treacherous ways!

During the journey, whenever the leader of a city was still a human, they would immediately open the city gates upon seeing King IIias in this state, welcoming the Great Army into the city.

Many people wailed and wept as they knelt at the city gate to greet the troops: "Master Lane, we have finally been waiting for you! The people have suffered greatly under King IIias’s rule..." As King IIias was carried into the city on the bamboo pole, numerous stones and tiles were thrown at him. Forget about rotten eggs or cabbage; King IIias didn’t enjoy such treatment. Under his rule, the people were so impoverished that they couldn’t even afford cabbage, let alone eggs.

In just half a month, King IIias’s territory was entirely reclaimed by the Great Army! Master Lane stood at the entrance of the Royal Palace, hands on his hips, and couldn’t help but chuckle. Master Lane, when you suppressed King IIias’s rebellion all those years ago, the end result was King IIias becoming independent. But now this land has been reclaimed by this official!

However, this matter couldn’t be boasted about to Abner Lane, or else Master Lane presumed both Sister Liam and Tamsin Macy might hold a grudge against him.

On one side, Master Lane’s forces advanced, recovering King IIias’s fiefdom and killing or driving out tens of thousands of demons within the territory. On the other side, Mesmerizing Demon, Master Lane’s little servant girl in the Ghost Chariot Guard of the Demon Clan, took on the appearance of a high-ranking envoy of Bevis Country and sought General Hugo. The tiny figure raised her sharp little chin, staring at Hugo from an uncomfortable angle: "My master has ordered me to inquire, General, about the situation at Bottleneck Pass."

"How can we continue our cooperation smoothly with border stability? With the current war and chaos, how can it continue? Can the Nine Witch Demon Court not even control their own dogs?"

General Hugo couldn’t help but furiously vent at this intermediary of their partner: "What the hell are you doing? Yes, our original cooperation involved sending Tire-5 Demons to the Red Clan Barbarian Continent, allowing them to evolve through blood consumption and make money from them. Yes, this General has received that money as well, but now that hundreds of Tire-5 Demons have gone past, why hasn’t a single one returned?"

There were some personal motives that Hugo couldn’t openly mention. He agreed to this partnership not to make money from the Tire-5 Demons, but to strengthen the Nine Witch Demon Court’s power when they returned after evolving. Otherwise, if he only took the money and the Nine Witch Demon Court’s overall strength didn’t increase, it would only decline.