Chapter 2181: Chapter 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 Tarlarya, have to resist the cold environnt, 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 fla, and in the blink of an eye the needles were ignited. The sound of bursting oil was clear amid the flas, 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 mory 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 comnce, 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 eting, 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 lt the millennia-old glaciers of Tanggula Peak, and the resulting snowlt will quickly stop the fire from spreading.” After contemplating for a mont, the Pompei scholar added his thoughts: “But let warn you in advance, doing this will certainly have repercussions! The surging snowlt 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 bla the fallen Elves’ fickle nature, and Moore for inventing the charcoal sprites, not to ntion 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 an everyone forgot about it.
“Leave this to !” 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 implenting 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 eting 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 noblen 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 ti,” King Sal sneered: “You just got a Supre Mage title from them, and then you offered up the Beast King Dubin and the dusa Priestess to the Forgotten Valley frontline. Tell , 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 ti? 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 Sumr 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 so many charcoal sprites. Ha, live crabs, live crabs, live crabs, hahaha… those idiots…”
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Eleven days after the secret eting, 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 lted the glaciers of Tanggula’s main peak, thus creating a brand new snowlt tributary on the Donau Wasteland. “The world’s most beautiful pearl born from a clam” beca 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 sa 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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