Lin Qingqiu naturally didn't understand Chen Yu's confidence.
In their eyes, a Dungeon Lord was absolutely the weaker party in terms of military strength; an invasion by ten to twenty thousand Harpies would give even them a headache, requiring immense effort to deal with.
Let alone a Dungeon Lord?
Even if he exhausted all his soul crystals and summoned a large number of Adventurer to assist in the battle, it would still be difficult to cope.
Even if they won in the end, it would be a Pyrrhic victory.
Rather than persist,
it would be more suitable to just give them the soul crystals and let them 'do him a favor' instead.
This was a choice Lin Qingqiu felt was good for both sides.
Since ancient times...
Dungeon Lords have always been like this: either they cooperate and join an Alliance,
or they are defeated and forced to join the Alliance.
The only difference between the two is their status within the Alliance. The plan Lin Qingqiu offered was the former, even giving him the position of Vice-Alliance Leader. So, in her opinion, they had already shown enough respect and expressed sufficient sincerity.
However...
Chen Yu did not accept such 'sincerity'.
He finally replied, "I'll also give you a chance. I hope you can go back and think it over. As long as you are sensible early, the Great Xia Alliance can still reserve a good position for you. As for the so-called help, I don't need it. Those Harpies can't even fly past the Boulder Hills, let alone reach the Starlight Forest."
After speaking,
he closed the chat interface and never replied again.
Seeing this,
Lin Qingqiu's face turned pale with anger.
"Damn guy!"
"He really doesn't know what's good for him, to refuse me like this..."
After a cold snort,
Lin Qingqiu said angrily, "I'd like to see how you deal with that army of tens of thousands of Harpies."
An army of ten to twenty thousand Harpies.
Even if hundreds of Adventurer were called in to assist, it would be useless; the numerical disparity isn't that easy to overcome.
Lin Qingqiu made up her mind.
She would just watch from the sidelines then, and when this guy couldn't hold on anymore, she would appear.
By that time...
If he wanted her help again, the conditions wouldn't be the same as now.
Lin Qingqiu smiled triumphantly.
So, she immediately arranged for these dozens of Witches and Flower Elves to keep a close eye on the movements of the Harpy Kingdom, reporting any situation to her immediately.
In the end, she would appear as a savior, and dealing with this level 10 Dungeon Lord would be effortless. By then, he would undoubtedly fall at her feet.
Not long after,
a Flower Elves had already scouted the movements of the Harpy army.
This information was relayed back.
Upon receiving the message, Lin Qingqiu's lips curved slightly, and she ordered the Flower Elves to keep a close watch.
Image after image, pieced together from the information relayed back by the Flower Elves, appeared in Lin Qingqiu's mind, as if she were seeing them with her own eyes.
The army of the Harpy Kingdom had already poured out...
From afar, they looked like a dark cloud, rising from various Harpy nests in the Boulder Hills.
Finally converging in one place.
Their sky-obscuring wings blocked the already dim sky, sharp claws gleamed with cold light, and piercing screeches merged into a heart-pounding symphony of death, rolling southward towards the Starlight Forest.
These Harpies were at least of Excellent quality or higher, and their levels had already reached 10. Among them, there were even a large number of Rare-grade powerhouses.
After this period of development, their strength was already much greater than that of the Goblin Kingdom back then.
And this time, Harpies from all nests had gathered; this was truly a full-scale mobilization, and the number was even greater than Lin Qingqiu had imagined.
It had reached at least 30,000 or more.
This number was something Lin Qingqiu hadn't expected.
Originally, she thought it was just the power of one Harpy Kingdom, but she didn't expect that this time, all nests had gathered, and all Harpy nests in the entire Boulder Hills had poured out.
They directly covered the entire sky.
Obscuring the sky.
The terrifying oppressive feeling made the Witches and Flower Elves under her command tremble involuntarily.
"There are actually so many..."
Hearing this number, Lin Qingqiu couldn't help but frown.
She felt a headache coming on, wondering how she should handle the cleanup when the time came.
However, on second thought, having such a formidable opponent wasn't a bad thing. At least it could make that Dungeon Lord realize his mistake and understand that in this day and age, you need a backer to get by.
And their Witch Alliance was his best choice.
Lin Qingqiu thought so.
She was already impatient to see Chen Yu regretfully come to her, hoping she could send troops to save him from his predicament.
Just thinking about that scene made her excited.
The Harpy legion was like a dark cloud in the sky.
Heading south along a certain route.
Everything was as Lin Qingqiu had expected, including the trajectory of their movement.
Only, what she didn't expect was...
At the same time, on the summit of a steep mountain, on the Harpies' inevitable path south.
Zhang Shiyu stood on the mountaintop, facing the strong winds. Her black combat suit outlined her tall figure, and a pair of twin ponytails fluttered in the gale.
Her eyes held a hint of anticipation.
Looking north.
It was as if some old lover she hadn't seen in many years was about to meet her.
Behind Zhang Shiyu, stood a scattered group of 100 ordinary Adventurer, all of them tall, beautiful young women.
Bai Feifei stood beside her.
101 pairs of long legs, on this mountaintop, were even more eye-catching than the sun.
The strong wind stirred up sand, making the girls' hair and clothing rustle loudly.
Bai Feifei brushed away the strands of hair blown onto her face by the wind.
She turned her head to look at Zhang Shiyu, who had an 'anticipatory' expression, and couldn't help but tease, "Hey, Xiaoyu, can you rein in that expression? If people know, they'll think you're waiting for Harpies to deliver themselves. If they don't, they'll think you're waiting for a prince on a white horse; your eyes are practically drooling."
Zhang Shiyu, upon hearing this, not only didn't restrain herself but instead smiled, revealing her two small canine teeth.
She raised a hand to press down her fluttering twin ponytails and said excitedly, "Feifei Jie, I can't suppress this! I heard there are ten to twenty thousand of them! What weapons do you think we should use later? How about RPGs? Although a Rare-grade RPG only has one shot, it must feel great to fire it, right? Sisters, you must want to fire it too, right?"
"Fire..."
Beside her, Lin Xiaoxiao's face stiffened, as if she recalled some unpleasant memory, "Xiaoyu, when you use me later, can you not use so much force? I can't quite handle it."
Although they could turn off their senses, if they turned them off, they wouldn't know when they returned to their original forms, which could easily become a hindrance in combat.
And...
Actually, the feeling wasn't that bad. Although she couldn't quite describe it, it wasn't uncomfortable, and was even quite pleasant.
It was just that sometimes, when too much force was used, she couldn't quite bear it.
Zhang Shiyu waved her hand as if she hadn't heard, "Got it, got it, I'll try to be gentler..."
Looking at her expression,
Lin Xiaoxiao helplessly complained.
Clearly, she hadn't listened.