Chapter 71

"Beast King, what do you mean by this? Although the threat is currently to our few groups of monsters, you are also in the新手区域. If we were to lose, you would not be spared either. Facing a major enemy now, it is your duty to contribute. Now, you are making such excessive demands on us. Do you want to take advantage of our situation?"

"When I was in trouble and asked for your help, didn't I also have to give you territory for you to act? Now that you are in trouble, if you want my help, shouldn't you give me some benefits? Do not do to others what you do not want done to yourself. Now, I am merely asking you to return the territory I gave you initially. I am not asking for more territory, which would already be a good deal. Do you really want to see how I take advantage of your situation?"

"About this..." Although Zhou Tian was clearly taking advantage of their situation, the monsters, who were not good at speaking, could not argue with him. After thinking for a moment, they actually felt that Zhou Tian's words had some truth to them. Although they acknowledged Zhou Tian's argument in their hearts, due to their low status, they could not make the decision. They could only promise Zhou Tian, "We have no authority to give you territory. This matter must be decided by our leaders (kings). Please, Beast King, wait a few days." After saying this, the monster envoys hurriedly returned.

Regardless of how the bosses negotiated, on the second day after the monster envoys returned, Zhou Tian received information that several groups of monsters had given him territory.

Successfully obtaining a large benefit from the monsters, Zhou Tian still had no intention of stopping. When he received the information, he actually found fault with the territories the bosses had given him.

Some territories Zhou Tian found the location unsuitable, some he found the environment unsatisfactory. Since the other party had already agreed to give him territory, he still tried to find faults, seemingly not very willing to send troops to help the monsters.

However, the more Zhou Tian acted this way, the more anxious the bosses became. Although the pressure on the monsters was reduced after the doll house sent troops, the doll house's strength was only equivalent to that of the undead monsters. But how many monsters were in the doll house? The undead monsters could easily form armies of thousands or even tens of thousands. Given this situation, the doll house's efforts were far from enough to change the monsters' situation.

So, no matter how angry the monsters were at Zhou Tian's behavior, they still had to beg him to send troops to help reduce their pressure.

Although it was impossible for the monsters to give Zhou Tian more territory, they successfully convinced the doll maker to speak on their behalf.

It must be said that the bosses chose the right person. If there was anyone in the新手区域 who could make Zhou Tian wary, it was the doll maker. In terms of both strength and ability, the doll maker could completely outmatch Zhou Tian. Thus, while Zhou Tian might not give face to others, after the doll maker spoke, Zhou Tian immediately put aside his thoughts.

"Unfortunately, the time is still too short. Otherwise, those guys' losses could have been even greater." Under the threat of the doll maker, although Zhou Tian was unwilling, he still had to lead his group of beast warriors to the front line.

This time, Zhou Tian did not mention the issue of the bosses giving him territory. Zhou Tian would not take such a hot potato, and the bosses had no intention of continuing to scheme with him. When Zhou Tian sent his troops, all the monsters in the territories they passed through chose to let them pass. As a result, Zhou Tian quickly arrived at the front line where the monsters were fighting the undead.

Although Zhou Tian knew that the monsters were struggling to resist the undead, when he actually reached the front line, he found that the situation was much worse than he had imagined. If it were not for the help of the doll house, the monsters' defenses would have been breached by the undead long ago.

"I miscalculated; the intelligence of those undead monsters is actually so high!" Before reaching the front line, Zhou Tian did not realize that his original plan had a significant flaw. If he had not followed the doll maker's advice and gone to the front line, and had continued with his original plan, Zhou Tian would not have been confident that he could drive the undead monsters out of the新手区域.

Zhou Tian's plan did not have any obvious flaws, but his mistake was underestimating the intelligence of the undead monsters.

Not only are the intelligence of monsters generally low, but among monsters of the same level, the intelligence of undead is always the lowest. Therefore, Zhou Tian had only been focusing on the monsters in the新手区域, and never thought that the undead monsters he was using as tools would have actions not in his script.

The passage connecting the skeleton cave to the undead monsters' lair is too small for some of the larger undead monsters to pass through. Because of this, even though the half-orcs were not very strong, they could still block the undead on the other side of the passage.

When Zhou Tian was scheming against the monsters in the新手区域, he naturally only considered the strength of the undead monsters that could pass through the passage. However, he did not expect that, despite their low intelligence, the undead monsters had unexpectedly expanded the passage. Now, among the undead monsters attacking, not only were there the smaller ones Zhou Tian had anticipated, but also some medium-sized undead had joined the battle.

The performance of the undead monsters exceeded Zhou Tian's expectations, and the pressure on the monsters resisting them was naturally greater than Zhou Tian had thought. Zhou Tian had originally thought that the monsters could barely hold off the undead, but in reality, the battle on the front line was a one-sided slaughter. If it were not for the dolls, by the time Zhou Tian reached the front line, the undead monsters would have already annihilated the other monsters.

Seeing the situation, Zhou Tian was shocked and immediately joined the battle.

"Fire!" With Zhou Tian's command, his beast archers released their arrows. In a scene reminiscent of a classic hero, countless arrows rained down from the sky. The group of undead monsters that were about to charge at Zhou Tian and his group were immediately hit by a shower of arrows.

Although the difference in levels and the undead's physical defense against physical attacks reduced the effectiveness of the arrows, under the continuous rain of arrows, the undead monsters suffered significant damage after being hit multiple times, sometimes even ten times.

After several waves of attacks, when Zhou Tian's beast archers stopped, a large gap appeared in the center of the undead monster formation, which had been pressing the monsters in the新手区域.

"Great job!" Seeing the performance of Zhou Tian's beast archers, the monster bosses praised them. Taking advantage of the opportunity created by Zhou Tian's beast archers, they not only blocked the attack of the undead monsters in front of them but also counterattacked, reclaiming some of the territory that had been lost to the undead.

Unfortunately, shortly after the beast archers' attack ended, the battle situation returned to its original state. Without the suppression of ranged attacks, the overall strength of the undead monsters still had the upper hand. They easily stopped the counterattack of the monsters in the新手区域 and, using their strength advantage, continued to attack the monsters.

Feeling the pressure from the undead monsters, the monster bosses once again looked at Zhou Tian, hoping he would use his beast archers to suppress the undead monsters' attacks again.