Delivering the Message

To say it was useful, its usefulness felt rather bizarre. Yet to say it was useless, anyone with eyes could tell from its stat panel that it was anything but. The only problem was whether this Dimwitted Puppy would actually listen to orders. After all, it couldn't even properly control its own clones, and there was always the chance that the puppy clones would disobey commands. "Get up here!" Yu Xian first had the Chaos Evil Beast cease its attacks, then ordered the Dimwitted Puppy to come up. After the Chaos Evil Beast stopped attacking, the Dimwitted Puppy didn't obey Yu Xian's order to return to the city. Instead, its head tilted to the side, it flopped onto the ground, and it suffocated to death. The second after it died, its body automatically split in two, forming two Dimwitted Puppies. "Get up here!" Yu Xian ordered again. Only then did the Dimwitted Puppy shake its head and stagger unsteadily toward the city gates. After crashing into the wall dozens of times, it finally managed to hobble through the gate. "Not bad. It should be controllable." Yu Xian breathed a sigh of relief. Even though the Dimwitted Puppy didn't seem very bright, its base stats were formidable and its skills were utterly broken. Even if it couldn't serve as a combat unit, it would make an excellent meat shield. In any case, it couldn't die. After a while, however, Yu Xian frowned slightly. The Dimwitted Puppy had entered the city gates quite some time ago, so why hadn't it come up yet? He turned and walked to the inner edge of the ramparts, only to find the Dimwitted Puppy marching in place before the stairs. It actually didn't know how to step onto the stairs, completely blocked by the steps. "..." Yu Xian watched the Dimwitted Puppy in silence. After a long moment, he tried ordering it to jump up. As it turned out, the Dimwitted Puppy clearly couldn't understand his command, stubbornly continuing to march in place. *Fine.* *It really is dimwitted.* Yu Xian let out a long sigh, walked down the city wall himself, and scooped the Dimwitted Puppy up in his arms. *Huh?!* Looking at the puppy in his hands, Yu Xian realized that its body wasn't made of flesh and blood at all. Instead, it was ice-cold, soft, and slick, feeling almost like a non-Newtonian fluid. Carrying the puppy back up the wall, he simply tossed it to Fang Qinghao and said, "Here's another task for you. Keep an eye on this little thing." "Huh? Oh, okay," Fang Qinghao replied after a momentary daze. Little Nora stroked the Dimwitted Puppy out of curiosity, but felt it wasn't as comfortable as the Mengmeng Fortune Cat she was holding, so she lost interest in it. On the other hand, the Mengmeng Fortune Cat in her arms locked eyes with the Dimwitted Puppy. Soon, the fortune cat's eyes began to cross. It took a good while for the fortune cat to snap out of it, shaking its head vigorously to stop from going completely cross-eyed. Yu Xian hopped onto the parapet and sat on the edge of the wall, glancing over the battlefield. The giant black serpents were still locked in combat with the Twelve Knights; it looked like the battle would drag on for a bit longer. He decided to continue summoning. Perhaps because he had finally drawn the true body of the Dimwitted Puppy, his subsequent summons returned to normal. For his sixth summon slot, what appeared was a creature with a goat's head and a human body clad in a swimsuit from the neck down. Yu Xian checked its details and saw its name was the Goat Matrix. Its stats were utterly mediocre—obviously cannon fodder. Yu Xian simply sent it into the skeleton army to serve as expendable troops. The seventh, eighth, and ninth summon slots yielded only ordinary monsters as well. Bearing in mind that nothing should go to waste, Yu Xian assigned them all to the skeleton army, not knowing whether they would even survive the day. Finally, the fourth wave of giant black serpents collapsed, their bodies dissolving into beams of white light. Most of these serpents hadn't fallen to the blades of the Twelve Knights, but had been wiped out by the Chaos Evil Beast and Xielina's aura. "All right, only the final wave left," Yu Xian said with a smile as he watched the skeletons begin looting the spoils. Meanwhile, many class users inside the city began seeking out Ximen Wangcai to join the Sparkle Troupe. After all, the Sparkle Troupe taking over Jiangli City was already set in stone. "Big Brother, we're Level 45!" Little Nora cheered happily. After clearing the fourth wave of the siege, their levels had finally risen from 44 to 45, leaving them just five levels shy of Level 50. "Looks like we have a shot at reaching Level 46, though that depends on how much exp the final boss gives," Yu Xian chuckled after glancing at his status panel. The whole reason he had been so eager to take Jiangli City was, after all, for the free boss monsters. Now it all came down to just how formidable this final boss would be. *** Deep in the forest, two beams of light descended from a magic circle, causing the earth to tremble violently. Once the light dissipated, Wufentang and Jasmine Bladeflower appeared in the woods. The surrounding trees collapsed one after another, clearing space for their massive frames. At this moment, Wufentang's body was clad in heavy armor, its back bristling with funnel bits, and its head resembling that of a mechanical tyrannosaurus. "I'll attack the city; you go pass the word," it said to Jasmine Bladeflower. Jasmine Bladeflower's size had also expanded considerably. Nodding, it replied, "Don't worry, I'll deliver all the intelligence back to headquarters. Slay as many enemies as you can. If possible... I hope my partner will always be you." Monsters assigned a siege quest would suffer continuous health loss if they left a certain perimeter without carrying out the mission. Jasmine Bladeflower still had one resurrection remaining, so it was tasked with delivering the message, conveying information about the mysterious class user back to the Class Hunter Society. Wufentang, on the other hand, would follow the mission parameters and continue playing the role of the siege monster. "Rest assured. With my current strength, I can kill at least a hundred class users—enough to scrape together my next resurrection," Wufentang said with confidence. Though reluctant to part, Jasmine Bladeflower nodded. "Take care!" "Everything for the Original Inhabitants!" Wufentang declared solemnly. It would never forget what it fought for. The two parted ways. Jasmine Bladeflower bolted at maximum speed toward a secret outpost of the Class Hunter Society. Not knowing how long its health would hold out, it had to find the contact as quickly as possible. Wufentang marched resolutely toward Jiangli City. For the happiness and freedom of the Original Inhabitants, it would ride into battle in the form of a mechanical tyrannosaurus. "Class users, tremble!" Wufentang's legs transformed into tank treads, speeding rapidly through the forest. Before even getting close to Jiangli City's walls, the funnel bits on its back detached from its chassis and unleashed a barrage of light cannons toward the city. Beneath the city walls. The Twelve Knights stood at the very front. When the light cannons struck, the shield-bearing knight reacted instantly, stepping forward to deploy a radiant shield. This time, however, the outcome was entirely different from before. Several light cannons shattered the radiant shield in an instant, sweeping across all the monsters stationed beneath the wall. The few cannon fodder summons Yu Xian had just called forth were wiped out on the spot. Countless skeleton soldiers disintegrated into dust beneath the sweeping energy beams, and not even the monsters controlled by the Chaos Evil Beast could withstand the aftershocks. "Fantastic! Looks like this siege boss is a strong one!" Far from alarmed, Yu Xian was overjoyed at the sight. Leaping to his feet on the ramparts, he looked toward the faint metallic silver gleam in the distance and laughed aloud. The stronger the monster, the more experience it would yield. He felt that reaching Level 46 was practically guaranteed—he could even dare to dream a little, perhaps of hitting Level 47.