Chapter 60: Downfall of Balak Kingdom (1)

Chapter 60: Downfall of Balak Kingdom (1)

Word count = 1744 , published = 8/1/2023

After having a pleasant tea time, Xue Tie returns to his work as there is a massive plan coming up on the horizon and he needs to be certain of victory. He spends a few more days finalizing details and his people have a few more minor skirmishes with the armies of the Balak Kingdom but with Xue Tie's potions, even though the exchanges are relatively even due to the better level of spirit rings which only grows more wide as they redeem their battlefield contribution points for extra ring power.

There have even been a few daring ones who chose to get body refinement and thus underwent 3 minor refinements instead of full ones as they didn't pay for those and Xue Tie isn't dumb enough to only provide one full enhancement as that is only a tragedy waiting to happen. It is only through balance that true power of the body can be reached. The individuals who underwent this 'fun' experience were all his commanders. When he assigned them the position, he had provided a few benefits for them which already included one round of body refinement, so this is their 2nd now and Xue Tie was able to coherently assign them into 4 stages.

With both ring refinement and body refinement, the 5 commanders under Xue Tie had a sizable boost in power even though their cultivation did not rise. They were already at Spirit Saint level like Xue Tie as Xue Tie was mostly playing catch up when they joined his organization but with the multiple increments in power, they are comparable to some Spirit Douluos even. If they reach the full enhancements while staying at their level, they might even be able to fight newly risen titled douluo, but that is a concern for the future not that Xue Tie is worried as he implemented safety procedures against his own people in the case of spies or traitors who are only after benefits.

Which is why Xue Tie is quite proud of his organization's merit system, as if a traitor were to arise. By the time they would get the benefits they wanted, it would be too late for them to pull out as they would be stuck. This might give rise to some grudges but under the insurance policy, they won't dare to try anything tricky. Otherwise Xue Tie gets to see if he can make hulks out of people through pure constant refinement.

The thought arose due to a change in the nature of refinement where he no longer needs to directly stab something to refine it. He got the idea that he can enhance one's natural healing ability. Which he naturally tested on himself since he has the potions anyway to heal him if anything went wrong. It didn't but there was a small limit which is more of a hypothesis that he might give himself cancer if his healing speed goes to a certain limit and for whatever reason stop there. To avoid this he stops just short of supernatural healing and is just accelerated.

Shaking his head of his rampant thoughts, Xue Tie declares his thoughts and provides his plans to his commanders. They look at it and offer some feedback which then modifies the plan until it's better before a force of 1 thousand plus people leave the castle city.

They have a strike plan, they are to take over a few villages along the way to the Balak Kingdom's capital which is luckily only a few days travel from the castle city due to the original partnership between the two kingdoms before the sun and moon douluo came about and rebelled. Now it's serving as their bane since there are only a few small villages along the way and a single city but Xue Tie knows already that all the citizens had been evacuated before the conflict started.

So, Xue Tie just uses these miscellaneous towns and city to act as his supply relay before reaching The capital of Balak Kingdom or whatever fort was set up in between once they detect his armies movements. As for worrying about the defenses of his own capital and the supply relay. He has enough people to manage it all.

With their short distance and number of people which surpasses his own army, they can easily support each other to get word out until Xue Tie or other high level officials get there to fight off the enemy commanders and then slaughter the rest of the force. But Xue Tie knows they won't do that as they already lost quite a lot of forces to Xue Tie's schemes already and are in a weakened state along with worrying about Star Luo on the horizon. As they have been moving, laying around on the border, waiting for an opportunity. Like a viper as it watches its prey fight each other.

They have received aid from Heaven Dou against Star Luo but it's more exclusive to the border and less so against Xue Tie as he can only assume that their line of thought was met and that if Xue Tie successfully takes over Balak Kingdom, he would have to immediately worry about Star Luo but what they don't know is that he already has plans for Star Luo once he is done with Balak Kingdom and "Immovable Guardian", Monument Douluo-King Liu Sheng and his right hand general, "Guardian Beast Raptor", Raptor Douluo-General Tie Xue (literally iron blood as compared to blood iron which is Xue Tie. gives you something to look forward to later).

A few days pass with little resistance as Xue Tie's plan is initiated. The villages were occupied, the city was made a supply depot and basic walls were set up while the main army went up ahead. Xue Tie is actually surprised that the Balak Kingdom didn't set up any sort of fort along the way.

They didn't even try to plagiarize Xue Tie by attempting to raid their camps but it only makes Xue Tie look up to them as they didn't stoop as low as him which he appreciates.

He might even let a few of their people live even though that might bit him in the ass since he really doesnt want to deal with patriotic bullshit unless it's propaganda he is spouting himself.

Soon enough, the walls of Balak City come into view, naturally it's the capital city of the very friendly neighbor. They have hundreds of people manning the walls with all sorts of protective coverings that can be easily modified to make tower shields.

"Gods above, what do they think of me? Do they really think I have something that can directly blow them up? Because I do" Xue Tie humorously states to himself with a cheeky smile on his face.

The enemy is confused over his smile but it only seeks to unnerve them. The captains and higher begin yelling to stay focused and not fall for enemy intimidation. Since they believe that Xue Tie's smile is a form of psychological warfare.

Xue Tie walks forward of his people and begins yelling, "Hey Neighbor, I've come over to play. So where is my buddy the general? Or your king? Surely they aren't in some far off city corner watching us all? That would be weird, even for me. I'd prefer to stalk you directly in your face."

This time around, it's psychological warfare as he both makes the situation appear like their king and general don't care for them while also unnerving them with his own behavior while also pondering what it means to stalk someone in their face. These uncultured people don't even know yandere and with the base speed of technological creation of Douluo Dalu. They are a few thousand years too early to figure it out.

"Silence. Stand your ground, don't listen to his words. They are obvious ploys the likes of that even children can detect" A gruff voice resounds in the city as an armored figure makes his presence known on the high walls of the city. The figure wears thick armor with a mid chest length white/gray beard with a helmet on that blocks any other hair except the beard from sticking out. The armor itself holds bird monster-style designs on it, making it look quite imposing.

"Cease your trivialities, you shall not take this city or our great kingdom. You are but a group of ragtag cultivators who wish to spread chaos." The general Tie Xue proclaims.

"Oh my other half, Any other day I would have agreed with you but unfortunately for you."

" I exist."

"Which means you can only be proven wrong yourself, now do you want to get into it, hot and heavy or take our time?" Xue Tie calmly says, a relaxed aura around him as he doesnt put the raptor douluo in his eyes.

"There is no slow or fast in war. Everything is of the circumstances that arise, and you alone won't make a difference" The general once more states.

"Once again, Any other time I would have agreed but since your so determined. Ill let you meet bob."

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So chapter 3 is remade but remaking the old chapters is affecting me more than I thought. It took almost until the next day (but before day reset) that I even finish this chapter. I keep getting distracted. So im going to take a break until next tuesday and focus on the old chapters so i can get it out of the way a bit faster. Ill try to update 2 a day if possible.

But the other main distraction is new ideas popping into my head for fanfics/novels and i kinda wanna write about it.

If yall want, Next official chapter I can post an interlude chapter that describes some of my ideas and their synapsis and you can give your opinions on it. I would probably write them after finishing the main story for this book or try to come up with some sort of new writing schedule where I can provide a chapter for the other stories and this one without lowering quality.

So drop a comment on your thoughts on the story, this chapter in specific or if your interested in my other ideas. I like reading yalls comments, they cheer me up.