1134 Midnight Bay
Thunk! Thunk!
Thunk!
"Faster! Faster! Faster!"
Whip—!
"Ssssss...."
Slaves scraped the ground away with their shovels as the burning sensation from lashes increased their thirst for revenge. Working hard under the scorching crimson moonlight, the slaves knew not to complain and work until their bodies gave out. Rows and rows of thin and sickly slaves bound by heavy chains shoveled the ground by a large lake, administered by men in white uniforms. A tranquil lake nestled between tall limestone mountains was being disturbed by the constant digging and shoveling at the shore by thousands of slaves.
POP—!
Like a balloon, the harmless slave's body popped and exploded, splattering its bones, blood, flesh, and organs onto the people nearby. There was no pain. No despair. It was a swift and quick death for him. Lysander licked the splattered blood on his lips and wiped his soiled face with a clean cloth. He then threw the dirty cloth on a nearby slave's face and went back on his horse, surveying the surroundings. "The weak must be weeded out. If you find any near you, inform us, and we will reward you." Lysander shouted. 'Oh wow, how original.' Lith scratched his chin and thought.
Lysander went on to cause more trouble for the slaves and after being bored, went to his camp that was placed at the base of a lush green limestone mountain. Lith stopped looking outside and turned to the ladies near him. "Did you two see it?"
Wang Wei and Qingshan nodded their heads. "He's a real prick, young master." Wang Wei felt her blood boil when she saw how the innocent were slaughtered. "That's just how the youngsters of the big clans are. It's a cruel world." The sect master of Qing Mei Sect, Qingshan, said with a hint of sadness. "The strong devours the weak. That's just how it is." Lith said with pity and shook his head. Even if he wanted to, he couldn't help that slave. He was in hot waters right now and causing any ripple would be hazardous to the future plans. All steps from here onwards had to be taken cautiously. This place was of great strategic importance and losing it was not an option. Helping the slave would have resulted in good karma, but Lith would end up messing up all plans if he was helped. Currently, the halo on his head had almost vanished. It was thinned out quite a lot after he fixed the issues in his home world. There shouldn't be any oddities that should arise like the ink death. As long as he was cautious and played safe, the plan would safely be executed. "Qingshan, are you ready?" Lith asked the lady. Qingshan nodded her head, clasped her hands, and said, "Yes, young master."
Lith turned to look at Wang Wei. She didn't need to be asked. She bowed and gave the same statement as Qingshan. "Good. Let me brief you about the plan once again." Lith said to the two. The three sat down in a circle and went through the plan once again. From the start, Lith had an idea of how the Midnight Bay was. He had sent the spies of the Qing Mei Sect to look around, and they had done a good job in providing a proper map. Add to that, the Asura lady had given him a lot of information on the secret base. One important thing about the secret bases around Shen Ze that the Asura held was that they looked like a copy of the place they had a gate to. Like the Midnight Bay's base looked exactly like one of the Midnight Bay's important areas.
There was a pier surrounded by barren mountains in one of Midnight Bay's important places. It was controlled completely by the Evure God Clan. Midnight Bay as a world did not have a lot of proper terrain to reside upon. It was mostly tall mountains or canyons with them being either barren, sandy, or completely made of limestone. Only at certain intervals did they have proper rainforest type mountains which were somewhat habitable. Every piece of land was surrounded by sea and there were so many islands that neither the Evure God Clan nor the Asura God Clan kept a count of. The areas within the mountain ranges like the lakes or the areas around the shore and the sea bed were filled with rich resources. Any low tier clan could get on the level of the top clans of Shen Ze if they had access to a place like this. The Evure God Clan were seriously taking this place for granted as they had everything with them, but the Asura's second young master was not as stupid or blind. Even if the Asuras had everything, his sharp eyes noticed this world, and many years of planning was done to capture this place. It was not a fluke or a coincidence.
Lith was aware of it and so were the ladies of the sect. Nobody from the Asura God Clan could be underestimated. Overestimating them was always better than underestimating as the matter was about life and death here. At present, Lith and the two ladies were in a corner of the world, away from the Evure God Clan's area of governance. The Evure God Clan kept to the center of this world where there were lots of resources and did not bother checking up on the areas in the corners. Due to such negligence, the native life of this world hadn't been wiped off yet. When the Asura's second young master found himself a place, he immediately enslaved all the natives nearby and forced them to work. They had nobody to complain to and the Evures weren't even aware of their existence. Lith had plans to infiltrate these natives. Not among the ones enslaved by the Lysander, but among a nearby tribe that was away from the territory of Lysander and the Evures. It was almost dawn when Lith finished speaking with Wang Wei and Qingshan. Once he was done, he pulled off his assassin hood and left the cave with the two ladies, looking for the natives nearby and executing his plans of infiltrating them.