Green Monster Epic

“Have you heard? Our Wildlands demigod Marvin was assassinated by humans!!”

“This matter has already spread far and wide; how could anyone not know! Moreover, it's not just Demigod Marvin who was assassinated, but even his clan—the powerful Yucatan tribe—was attacked by human powerhouses, suffering heavy losses. Several legendary experts died!”

In the taverns throughout the Mance Wildlands, filled with a mix of news, various races of adventurers, travelers, and merchants gathered in small groups, whispering about the hottest topic in the Wildlands recently.

“This time, our Wildlands have completely lost face. Several Pillars and experts from the Temple Church rushed to Yucatan City upon hearing the news to intercept that group of audacious human powerhouses, but in the end, they didn't even catch a glimpse of them before they slipped back into the territory of the human kingdom!!”

“These damned hairless apes!!”

“Indeed, they deserve to die!! All humans are no good…”

With the help of the Wildlands' Pillars and the forces of the Natural Temple, the news about human powerhouses assassinating Demigod Marvin and ambushing his tribe, causing heavy losses, quickly spread throughout the Wildlands.

Even bards have begun to use this incident as a blueprint, composing vivid stories as if they were personally present, singing them throughout the Wildlands.

However, in their versions of the story, Demigod Marvin, facing human assassins who had both numerical and qualitative advantages, behaved extremely heroically and tragically, while his opponents were incredibly shameless and despicable in order to kill him.

Regarding the losses of Yucatan City, the bards also emphasized the cold-bloodedness and cruelty of the human powerhouses in slaughtering women, children, and infants.

As the incident and stories spread, coupled with the warriors of various tribes who had sacrificed themselves on the Southern Line Manhorse Grassland over the past hundred years, and the various relationships that more or less existed with the Wildlands natives, the suppressed flames of hatred in everyone's hearts were finally ignited, turning into a sea of burning fire.

The first to suffer were the human adventurers who made a living in the Wildlands, or the human bloodline hybrids who had been abandoned and unwillingly accepted by humans.

Although humans and the Wildlands had been at war for over a hundred years, many adventurers with human appearances still operated in the Wildlands and had not been ostracized or suppressed by the Wildlands natives.

However, as this deliberately provoked and amplified hatred spread, these human adventurers, whose living environment could only be described as relatively harsh, had now become like rats crossing the street.

Even many mixed-bloods who possessed other racial characteristics but resembled humans more closely suffered collateral damage. Whenever they appeared in cities inhabited by Wildlands natives, they often faced various hostile behaviors, even death.

In a short period of time, human adventurers disappeared from the Wildlands. The only proof of their existence may be the piles of remains exposed in the wilderness.

And those mixed-bloods who were originally rooted in the Wildlands and possessed human bloodlines were also forced to abandon their maliciously filled homeland and head to more tolerant regions.

Taking advantage of the rise of this flame of hatred, several Pillars also took action in the alliance, forcefully suppressing and cleansing the pro-human forces that accounted for a significant proportion of the alliance.

Several tribal leaders, under the threat of life, reluctantly but helplessly gave up their power and handed over the throne of the leader to more radical chieftains and commanders in the tribe.

This behavior immediately aroused dissatisfaction among many members of the alliance, but they did not dare to express it independently due to the power of the four Pillars.

Privately, several super-large tribes with demigod-level or higher experts sitting in charge, but with a very long heritage, began to collude with their allies, wanting to organize an alliance to contend with the four Pillars.

To this end, they did not hesitate to introduce the power of the Temple as a backer, because these leaders were very clear that compared to a loose alliance of several parties, it was really difficult to contend with the four Pillars and their factional forces.

However, the leaders were greatly surprised by what happened. The Temple Church forces, which had always been trying to win over various Wildlands tribes, showed a very tacit and negative attitude towards the olive branch they主动伸过来主动伸过来 extended this time.

No church wanted to be involved in this Wildlands tribal struggle. They seemed to have changed their nature, showing a high degree of neutrality, which made the leaders of the joint camp feel a bad premonition.

Soon, they felt strong intimidation and pressure from the Four Pillars and their subordinate factional forces.

Two Pillar demigods, who rarely moved in the Wildlands, and the newly promoted demigod Cole from the Greenwild Tribe, each led legendary-level experts drawn from the Four Pillars' camp, using three narrow areas cut out from the controlled areas of the four tribes as their centers of operation, patrolling back and forth.

In name, they said it was to prevent possible future harassment by humans and maintain the stability of the Wildlands. In reality, the legendary-level teams commanded by several demigods were more often putting pressure on the passing chambers of commerce and merchants, forcing them to reduce the time they spent in the territories of tribes that were not part of the four tribes' camp.

The territories separated from the Four Tribes' controlled areas almost encompassed the members of other tribes who had not joined their camp. Only a few tribes adjacent to the Manhorse Grassland and the Orcish border avoided this crisis.

The chambers of commerce belonging to the Temple had naturally received instructions long ago and had already stopped trading in the tribal territories of other non-Pillar camps.

And other independent chambers of commerce and caravans, facing the tough demands of the Four Pillars representatives, who were the most powerful in the Wildlands, were also unable to resist and could only cooperate with the other party's demands in order to continue normal trade in the Wildlands.

Even if some chambers of commerce originally traded in unique specialty goods from non-Pillar camp tribes, they still passed by the destination without entering, going to Mance City to spend more effort and cost to achieve their goals.

Or they simply changed their targets and purchased other Wildlands specialties to replace their original goals for this trip.

It is not impossible for Wildlands tribes to rely on the output of their own territories to maintain the reproduction and life of their clans, but that would inevitably lead to a poorer life.

After all, many necessary resources are not produced evenly in the territories of various tribes and still have to rely on the transfer of trade to exchange goods with other tribes and the civilizations of the two continents, so as to maintain their tribes' daily lives.

Now that the Four Tribes have done this, the high-level members of the other tribes were initially very indignant and sent representatives to jointly express their dissatisfaction in the Alliance Council, but unfortunately, they were collectively ignored by the members of the Four Pillars camp.

Subsequently, the teams of legendary experts led by the three demigods took the opportunity to launch attacks, deliberately causing trouble in the territories of these tribes, arousing the anger of the other party's experts and causing disputes. In the end, it ended with the other party's experts being ruthlessly suppressed, making these targeted tribes feel helpless.

At this time, the biggest problem and disadvantage of the Wildlands tribes was undoubtedly revealed: without a systematic knight training system, it was impossible to condense the vast warrior groups of various tribes into a bargaining chip to contend with experts above the legendary level. Naturally, it was also impossible to break the Four Pillars camp's barbaric means of forcing each other with force.

If it were not for the constraints of the Mance Alliance Charter on the Four Pillars camp, and the defensive forces of the cities and fortresses that each tribe had operated for many years, it could be said that the legendary expert teams led by the three demigods alone would be able to eliminate these non-Pillar camp tribal members one by one through the means of defeating them individually.

And the Temple Church, which should have been the maintainer of order in the Wildlands, turned a blind eye to the actions of the Pillar camp at this time, allowing them to act arbitrarily, which also made the high-level members of the non-Pillar camp tribes helpless.

The non-Pillar camp tribes had a huge base of tens of millions of people and possessed geographical advantages, but they could do nothing about the teams of experts with only dozens of people, allowing the other party to force caravans to change their routes, invisibly closing off the trade channels of various tribes.

The high-level members of the various tribes did not have the courage to completely break with the Four Pillars camp. Naturally, they did not dare to gather the legendary-level experts of their respective tribes to form teams to confront and contend with the other party's teams.

Moreover, they also knew that without a demigod-level expert sitting in their team, it would be difficult to pose much of a threat to the three demigod teams.

As for the various tribes forming their own caravans to trade in Mance City or border cities, there would always be various accidents when passing through the territories of the Four Pillars camp, and only one in ten teams could safely reach their destination.

One year, two years…

As the time of the invisible blockade gradually increased, the quality of life of the middle and high-level members of various tribes visibly declined. Their internal support for the ruling class's meaningless persistence changed from strong support at the beginning to gradually resisting and even opposing it later, bringing great pressure to the rulers of various tribes.

Having lived a comfortable life, even the bottom of the tribes did not like to return to the days of rough linen clothes and simple meals, let alone those middle and high-level chieftains who needed a quality of life to show their status.

And in private, the camps where the Four Pillars were located were not idle either, sending secret envoys to the resistance camp to internally contact and communicate, disrupting their already disunited alliance. Soon, some tribes could not withstand the internal and external pressure and defected, leaning towards the Four Pillars camp.

With the first defector, there would be a second. The members of several super-large tribes who were the core of the resistance camp, facing this situation, although they were determined to maintain the existing situation, they could only watch the disintegration of the existing alliance due to the disparity in strength.

Thirteen years later, the resistance camp, which was originally almost able to contend with the Four Pillars in number, only had a dozen or so left, scattered in various parts of the Wildlands, surrounded by the surrounding Pillar camps, and it was difficult to achieve much success.