Weird and bizarre silhouettes appear one after another from the shadows through the merchant world.
The Mother of the Swamp and her followers, the Banyan Guards, the Shadowmen, the strange residents headed by Jimmy Remy, and Irene who holds the riddle... almost include all the powers that can pass through the merchant world except the twisted shadow and its followers.
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This is just the beginning.
Warnings and mobilizations from the Land of Light are being sent to all allies and quasi-allies through merchants. They obscure the existence of the swamp and only indicate that a world-ending crisis is brewing in Midnight City.
Plant Habitat and Ghost Town were the first to respond. The former knew the crisis under the prophecy of the prophet, and the latter hoped to repay the help of the Land of Light. Then came Hell, where the known idealistic demons and abyssal demons decided to help. Coal Mountain Town, Storm Cape, etc.
The allies are still waiting and watching, and the Weiner Dungeon is completely unable to provide help.
Treemen who resembled banyan tree guards emerged from the merchant world, mixed with ghosts, cultists, and hell demons. Lu Li and the others left the castle garden to make room for the allies who kept coming out.
"I never thought I would have the chance to come back..."
Feeling the emotion of Chris when he returned to the empty palace, Lu Li walked to the high window and looked at the garden swinging between chaos and order.
"Assemble here from hell - Erin! Let the riddle keep an eye on them! Don't breathe fire! I'm talking about your horned guy - not you!"
"Sister Linna! Keep these tree men away from the devil! Put it down! Please forgive its offense..."
"You guys in Ghost Town, hurry up, you don't need to pray now... hurry up, there's going to be a stampede from behind!"
"Other heathens, don't worry, please ask the priest to manage your people. Everyone here is an ally, there are no enemies -"
The shouts of the undead who were managing different forces for the first time echoed over the castle. Fortunately, the scale of the merchant world was limited, and the allies were not too fast to get out.
"Half the power of the Land of Light is here... Is the price too high?"
The Mother of the Swamp came to Lu Li's side and watched as her servants headed towards the dry forest in an orderly manner.
Not only allies, almost all the forces that the Land of Light can send are here, leaving only the twisted shadows that cannot pass through the merchant world and need to guard their homes.
"If you don't resist completely, you don't resist at all." Claire flew down on Lu Li's head, trampled his black hair, and settled on it. "Weird can slap his butt and leave at any time, but we can't because this is our home."
Lu Li added for Claire: "The best chance to stop the swamp is when the Ghoul King is captured, and the second is now."
The fact that the swamp secretly swallowed the Ghoul King instead of swallowing Midnight City or the old sewers shows that there is something it fears.
Since the swamp doesn't want to be exposed, then they will help it be exposed.
"When are you leaving?" Claire pecked Lu Li's hair.
"Wait until the allies are settled."
"Do they have any function?" Claire continued with her venomous tongue, since they couldn't hear her anyway. "All I can think of is making the swamp taste richer when it eats us."
Perhaps the Ability God and the believers can become the backbone of the defense against the swamp, but the Ability God is not here, and the believers are just sacrificial leaders. To put it harshly... Claire can solve them by herself.
"The more we pay and the more we win over, the more convincing we will be." Lu Li replied.
This is not for the swamps, it's for the weirdos.
"But there are not enough of them."
A simple comparison: the Land of Light is no match for the Ghoul King - the Ghoul King is no match for the Swamp.
"It's enough as an introduction."
A faint vibration came through the faded blanket, a tremor brought by the visitors from hell.
Behind the several-meter-high Hell Guards, Lu Li saw the figure of the Devil's son, Earth Demon, revealed. The appearance of it and its guards silenced the restless and chaotic Hell visitors.
The most important thing is that when the tea party presented the initial plan to the awakened Ever Dreamer, he did not stop it.
That means they're on the right track - at least the least bad of a bunch of broken paths.
The earth demon ordered the demon guards to maintain the order of the visitors from hell, and followed the leadership of the undead to the palace.
"Glad you could help." Swamp Mother thanked the Light Land on its behalf.
"The human world and hell coexist." Earth Demon held a bunch of buds on his head, "Father also allows us to come to the human world to help you."
"You?" Lu Li noticed the quantifier.
"My brothers and sisters will arrive soon..." the Earth Demon said, and it persuaded them, "I told them that you found the traces of the Mayfly Demon... and we will be your help."
"Thanks."
Hell's strength has been well preserved...if they get the help of the Devil's Sons who are backed by Abyss City...their current size may be able to compete with the ghoul group - excluding the Ghoul King.
"To what extent have the ghoul warlocks been transformed?" Lu Li asked, thinking of the ghoul clan and the utilization of waste.
"It has just begun." Swamp Mother replied, "Elena is guiding it to raise the divine fire. This takes time."
Margaret came to the window and asked the immortal: "Professor, how is it outside?"
"The allies are fine, but the weirdos are a mess," the undead replied.
Those weirdos refer to those who signed a devil's pact to become allies, but lacked wisdom and order.
They are the culprits that make a garden look chaotic.
"Let the ghost cultists maintain order." arranged by the Swamp Mother.
Weird's wariness against pagans is deep-rooted.
"Lu Lilililililili——"
An echoing scream sounded from deep in the corridor, approaching quickly.
The short, clumsy button-hole puppet "Puff" rushed over on the floor tiles, grabbed Lu Li's trouser legs, climbed up, sat on his shoulders, stretched out his cloth hand and patted Claire on Lu Li's head.
"Why did you bring it?"
Lu Li looked at Ophelia, who came next.
"I didn't stop it," Ophelia said.
The eldest sister and Claire were already fighting, and Lu Li, who was surrounded by them, felt like he was in a crow's nest.
The dull sound of flapping fans spread into the hall as the bat monster rose.
The mother of the swamp looked up at the bat monster rising like the night, and sighed: "We were born at the wrong time, after all, the end is near."
"It's unpleasant to think that we have to protect the world while also protecting those weird things."
Claire and the eldest sister temporarily stopped fighting, and the bird feathers exploded like a parrot.
“It’s so lively here.”
The pungent smell of sulfur wafted over, and the mind-centered demon also appeared in the hall.
"Why are you here?"
"Just sending some things. Valendo said that you are gathering allies, I guess you need a lot of devil contracts." The idealistic demon handed over the devil contracts that he had made in a hurry to the Swamp Mother, and then left in a hurry.
"Disperse operations."
The moonlight-like light shone on the outstretched white palm of the Swamp Mother, gently stroking Lu Li's black hair.
"Leave Midnight City to us and leave the outside to you."