"Oh~ I didn't expect this town to be already facing a crisis. Someone did all the groundwork for me." Nimona smirked while caressing the hypnotized Bac.
Nimona looked at Bac with a crazed expression. "You will go to the surface and wait for your queen's arrival."
"But first." A wicked smile appeared on her face.
Her stinger suddenly moved behind Bac and inserted itself inside his chest.
"Ack!" Bac screamed in agony, but then stopped.
Her stinger didn't fully penetrate his chest to the other side, it stopped entering halfway in. Then from her stinger, some transparent fluid came out and entered Bac's soul.
When she felt she had injected enough of that fluid, she took out the stinger. She used the stinger to spit out a drop of shiny golden honey that fell into the hole on Bac's back.
The moment it landed, Bac's injury was fully gone. The blood behind his back was flung away by Nimona.
"Now, you can communicate with me through your soul even if you are in another region." After Nimona said that, her aura changed to an imperial empress's. "Go, report me with every kind of thing you see and heard of."
The colors in Bac's eyes returned, and his iris could be seen. However, from the looks of it, there was no panic after all of this happened. He calmly came down from the bed and bowed at Nimona. "As you wish, my highness."
After saying that, he walked toward the stone wall, which opened again for him. Passing through it. He heard a giant thud behind him, but he didn't care. He came out of the tunnel and went to the cave that led to Nimona's room.
Here, he saw the scene of a couple of beasts gruesomely eating his minions' body parts. The beasts' body was smeared with their blood, and he could see despair written on their face even after death.
He got an instinctive fear seeing that but it changed when he saw those beasts kneeling at him like he was their master.
Bac got filled with arrogance as those beasts were in Grade-3 and the same things that he was scared of are now bowing to him.
Bac ordered them with a stern face. "One of you give me your beast core. Your king needs it."
Right after he said that one of the beasts tore apart its chest and brought forth the beast's core to him.
However, right after it arrived before him, it dropped dead on the ground.
"Hmph, worthless." Bac sneered, seeing it fail to fulfill his command properly. But he still took the beast's core from the ground and walked toward the tunnel that would lead him to outside.
Meanwhile, inside Nimona's chamber.
Nimona was smirking at Bac's behavior. "Ahh~Foolish humans. They fell so easily into our race's trap. I am lucky to find the stupidest one, at that. He will help me pave the path for my revenge."
As soon as she said that, anger and rage filled in her eyes. "I will kill you, Daoist Free. You will pay for trying to kill me. You thought I was dead, but I was alive, secretly making an army to raze your Martial Union!"
"First I will start with this town, then the sect, and then slowly encroach onto your area. I have planned for so long. I changed the whole forest with my honey, making everyone eating it get hypnotized. Unfortunately, I can't hypnotize someone above my cultivation rank."
"Tch," Nimona got annoyed. "If I could hypnotize stronger beings, then I would not have started to build this army of ants, and I have to give my body to someone to help me get stronger. If only I got someone stronger, then I could have him be my furnace or just be cooperative."
Nimona looked up, and a smirk appeared on her face. "But I don't care about it now. The plan has already begun. Let's finish this first."
With that, Nimona slumped onto her bed and fell asleep.
...
On one of the judge camps where the flow of people was high, one could see Gale and others among them.
Jasmine curiously asked Kaley."Why are there so many people here?"
She was perplexed because, despite being in the middle of the forest and with the sky already dark, this judge camp seemed to be teeming with people from all walks of life.
Many kinds of stalls could be seen like at a festival however it was in the middle of the forest. Lamps and other sources of light could be seen that brightened up the forest, which would always be dark and quiet.
Kaley happily told Jasmine the reason. "I heard this is the closest judge camp to Light Yellow Forest. So, most of the participants would come here in a hurry. Also, it is fun to see who would have the most people qualifying from their respectable family or clan."
"Oh," Jasmine nodded her understanding it.
However, Lenny, on the other hand, didn't care about any of that. He looked at the grilled meats on many stalls and said to the girls."Wanna try those? They look delicious."
The girls nodded their heads instantly, agreeing with him. Lenny took the stalls and started their eating spree.
While they were eating, the leaders of the three overlords had arrived near the judge's camp and were waiting for their offspring.
Julie and her elders silently sat on their bench, waiting. On the other hand, Galibar couldn't miss this chance of teasing his rival Brustiar about his misfortune.
Galibar said to Brustiar, who was sitting beside their clan's bench. "Brustiar, I heard some idiot stole your family's trash. I am truly sorry for him, as those things are useless as garbage."
The veins on Brustiar's forehead started to twitch frequently. "Galibar, I hope you keep your mouth shut down or I might seriously give my all just to kill you."
Gravitar quickly grabbed Brustiar and whispered. "Brustiar, calm down. There are many people present. You can't ruin your image; let that idiot say whatever he wants."
Galibar had a smirk on his face as he was having fun but decided not to when he noticed, Odino was sleeping on the judges' chair.
Julie cursed in her mind upon seeing them. 'These two idiots, can't they just live peacefully? They are making things hard for me.'