Divine Beast Creator

Chapter 2492: Chapter 2493: Thorny Troubles

Originally, Agunas thought that Feng Yuan had called him over for some important but uncomplicated matters that could be resolved quickly. However, upon learning about these matters, it realized that solving them wasn’t that easy, and it wasn’t something Feng Yuan could intervene in.

Although Feng Yuan had quite a name in Great Xia, after all, he had helped Great Xia so much before. The authorities couldn’t possibly ignore him. However, this matter wasn’t solely Great Xia’s concern. Besides, within the United Army alone, there were many countries more powerful than Great Xia and they might not be willing to give Great Xia face.

Agunas was different. Even though it was relatively close to Great Xia, ultimately it was a Divine Beast, and it had not declared any protection for Great Xia. Everyone understood that Agunas was more inclined towards Great Xia due to Feng Yuan. Furthermore, Agunas had contributed significantly to the United Army’s actions, gaining considerable prestige within the United Army, making its actions far more convenient than Feng Yuan’s.

Moreover, this matter certainly could not be shared with humans initially because Agunas couldn’t guarantee whether things would spiral out of control. Before negotiating with humans, Agunas planned to first communicate this matter with the Divine Beasts within the United Army.

Compared to other Divine Beasts, Agunas believed the Divine Beasts within the United Army could still be trusted, as they all shared the same goal—to strike back at the damned Empire Timeline and spare them from constantly causing trouble in the Main Timeline.

However, whether to eradicate or not, Agunas found itself a bit confused. Previously, it would have confidently said to completely annihilate all life in the Empire Timeline. It wasn’t being cruel, but it understood that if not handled properly, the hatred would perpetuate endless disputes.

After learning about the critical information concerning the time branch, Agunas hesitated. Destroying the Empire Timeline was indeed feasible, but it had a feeling that even if the Empire Timeline were destroyed, new time branches would still be at war with the Main World.

Because Agunas absolutely believed that the Temple didn’t appear out of nowhere, or even because of this war.

In that case, the retention of the Empire Timeline was open to discussion. Keeping it would certainly bring trouble since the Imperial People would undoubtedly seek revenge. Moreover, since they couldn’t completely destroy them for the Empire Timeline’s resources.

However, on the other hand, they could control the resources of a world and also obtain part of the Anti-Divine Beast Rune.

Although the existence of that thing was also an unstable factor for the Main World, in the absence of external threats, Agunas did not think those guys would dare to use that thing to cause trouble in the Main World.

It’s troublesome.

Swishing its tail, Agunas, after confirming with Feng Yuan that there were no additional intelligence reports, directly returned to the United Army’s frontline. This matter needed to be discussed and resolved as soon as possible.

As for the Temple matter, although it was unsaid, Agunas understood that Feng Yuan implied it was up to them to decide.

This matter didn’t hold much significance for Feng Yuan. Even now, with the City of Death, blocking a sudden assault within the range of Maomu City’s urban area wasn’t difficult. Even if a direct prohibition couldn’t be imposed, any incursion would be directly detected, and the locking abilities of the City of Death were sufficient to prevent destruction from escalating.

Unless, like this time, they used the Anti-Divine Beast Rune to air-drop, would it become troublesome and tricky.

However, Feng Yuan felt that they probably couldn’t sustain many more such consumptions with their Anti-Divine Beast Rune. Those guys probably wouldn’t attempt such an attack again.

This attack on the Empire Timeline not only dealt a significant blow and deterrence to opportunistic forces but also caused chaos within the Alliance.

Since the United Army was led by the Divine Beast Hall, uniting all countries willing to take active measures, presently, those participating in conferences within the Alliance were more likely those countries thinking about defending, waiting for opportunities to counterattack, or even just waiting for the right moment to claim victory.

Seeing those opportunistic forces suffer such severe repercussions filled them with concern, fearing the next attack might target them.

This time, the Imperial People did not focus their attention on them, so their attacks were not forceful, only serving as warning-type assaults.

However, unlike the United Army, which received attacks, they had no Divine Beasts coming forth to assist them in repelling the assailants.

That’s right; although no other Divine Beasts appeared in Maomu City, during the attack, many Divine Beasts not yet participating in the United Army’s combat revealed themselves to help various countries in the United Army fend off the attackers.

This also awakened those people, knowing that losing the support of Divine Beasts was in no way beneficial to them, no matter what petty calculations they harbored.

Furthermore, this was under the circumstance that the Temple matter had not been noticed. This was also where Feng Yuan’s concern lied, as their attitude toward the Imperial People this time left many countries with poor impressions among those neutral Divine Beasts.

Once the Temple matter is publicized, it’s unpredictable whether those guys will make frantic moves in desperation since the number of Divine Beasts is limited and cannot make Temples widespread across all lands.

In this situation, what actions those countries with a poor impression might take is really hard to foresee. This was also why Agunas dared only to discuss with the Divine Beasts within the United Army.

Because the Divine Beasts within the United Army shared a common goal and knew that disclosure would complicate their operations, they wouldn’t act recklessly, unlike other neutral Divine Beasts.

These two matters troubled not only Agunas; when it returned to the frontline, the other Divine Beasts aware of the situation were also severely troubled. Just as Agunas thought, regardless of their ultimate intentions, at least in dealing with the Empire Timeline, their objectives were aligned.

This is precisely why the Temple matter is particularly vexing. Instead, there were differing opinions internally on whether the Empire Timeline should be maintained or eradicated, primarily due to differing thoughts on how future warfare might develop.

Agunas and company worried about successive wars; their Divine Beasts couldn’t possibly always be following humans as protectors, given that they weren’t babysitters for humans.

Yet some Divine Beasts believed that after destroying the Empire Timeline, the newly birthed time branches might not actively attack the Main World, proving through their actual combat that they weren’t to be trifled with.

Neither side could convince the other, so the matter had to be temporarily shelved, as they were still quite far from occupying the Empire Timeline, only having fired the first shot in their counterattack.

In comparison, the Temple matter was more urgent, as making it public at least wouldn’t leave the Main World so passive during timeline jumping attacks.

However, they also had no choice but to consider the various chaos that it might incite.

Throwing the problem to Agunas, Feng Yuan returned to his peaceful daily life. After enduring another attack, Maomu City had no choice but to temporarily pause the progress of restoring normal production and life, as no one could guarantee whether the Imperial People would launch another attack.

This time, it could be said that it was lucky the regular people were in the Data City, so the issue wasn’t significant, but next time, there might not be such good fortune.

"It was clearly close to New Year, yet it ended up like this."

On the street, Feng Yuan lamented as he looked at the closed store doors. With ordinary people moved into the Data City for refuge, all daily commercial activities in the city range completely ceased.

For this reason, Maomu City even established temporary canteens at several locations in the city, specifically to solve the three meals a day problem for Beastmasters patrolling and providing assistance.

"That’s how war is unless they find a way to hold back the Imperial People beyond the national borders."

Seated on Rainbow Bubbles, Veronia hinted, and Feng Yuan understood what she meant. However, he helplessly spread his hands and said,

"Impossible, it’s not about scarcity but about uneven distribution. Even I wouldn’t dare to do that."

Even if he had the ability to have the entire Great Xia covered by Temples, Feng Yuan wouldn’t dare execute such a plan. It was a joke; if other countries didn’t get such benefits, and only Great Xia enjoyed them, not being besieged and isolated would indeed be surprising.

Considering the relative benefits gained, the resulting losses would be significant, and from Feng Yuan’s perspective, such an approach would bring more harm than good.

"Since it’s impossible, that’s how it is. However, if the war continues, they might eventually adapt."

Looking at the deserted streets, Veronia spoke gloomily.