145: Chapter 145 Being a dog is pretty good too

Seeing the three carts of supplies.

The Tie Ge's eyes widened instantly.

It's meat!

Orcs rely on eating meat to maintain morale.

If they go without meat for one day, the soldiers' morale will collapse.

If they are without food for three days, they will flee immediately.

These three carts of supplies are enough to sustain him for a month.

But...

The Tie Ge did not touch the supplies.

He faced Xu Qin and immediately knelt on one knee.

"My Lord, please wait a moment."

Xu Qin stopped, tilted his head slightly, and looked at him out of the corner of his eye.

"I am grateful for your gift."

"But I would rather serve you, my Lord."

The Tie Ge said with a pious tone and a humble expression,

"I am willing to become your vassal, my Lord."

Xu Qin turned around.

He looked down at the Tie Ge and said indifferently,

"You want to become my servant?"

"Yes!"

Xu Qin didn't say anything else but strode out.

The Python Emperor's body moved with him,

casting a shadow over the Tie Ge with its massive snake body.

"That is not impossible."

The Tie Ge was overjoyed,

but before he could even look up,

he heard Xu Qin continue,

"But there is a condition."

The Tie Ge looked up and said with a firm expression, "I am willing to accept the test!"

"A test?"

Xu Qin looked into the Tie Ge's eyes.

"I am going to pass through a portal to another world."

"You must come along."

"If you agree, I will take you as a servant."

The Tie Ge was stunned.

A portal?

Another world?

"Once we are over there, you must obey my every command."

"If I tell you to go east, you cannot go west."

"If I tell you to die, you must die."

"If you cannot do that, you can stay here."

"These three carts of supplies are yours; let's consider our connection ended here."

After hearing this, the Tie Ge began to weigh his options.

Stay here?

What is the point of staying?

The alliance has broken up.

Lord Ta Lun doesn't know where he ran off to.

There is no news of Ci Jia either.

As an Tie Ge with a few hundred remnants, he is hiding everywhere on this wasteland.

He cannot even defeat a few dozen Void Rift Demons.

He barely managed to repel one wave today, but there are more elsewhere.

What about tomorrow?

What about the day after, or the day after that?

He currently cannot even scrape together enough resources to repair a wall.

But following Xu Qin...

The Tie Ge recalled the scene when the Floating City descended.

He remembered the scene where those thousand Bone Beasts flattened the monster tide.

Is it dangerous to go to the world behind the portal?

Of course it is dangerous.

But following someone like that monster...

At least he can see a way out.

Seeing that the Tie Ge remained silent for a long time, Xu Qin snorted coldly and turned to leave.

"My Lord!"

The Tie Ge looked up sharply.

"I am willing."

Xu Qin stopped again.

"Instead of fleeing everywhere, it is better to die standing."

He lowered his head.

"The Tie Ge is willing to follow you, Master."

Xu Qin turned back and looked at the Tie Ge.

Seeing that the Tie Ge remained in a humble kneeling posture, he opened the command panel.

He scrolled through the communication list and found the Tie Ge's name.

He clicked on it.

[Initiate vassal binding request: Do you want to accept the Tie Ge "Tie Ge" as a vassal lord?]

[Vassal effect: The vassal lord must unconditionally obey the main lord's commands. The main lord can call upon the vassal lord's units, resources, and heroes at any time. The vassal lord's territory core will be bound to the main lord's command panel. Once bound, it cannot be voluntarily dissolved.]

Xu Qin clicked confirm.

A notification popped up on the Tie Ge's panel.

[Lord "Xu Qin" has initiated a vassal binding request with you.]

[After accepting, you will become this lord's vassal and must unconditionally obey his commands. This binding cannot be voluntarily dissolved.]

[Do you accept?]

After reading the notification, the Tie Ge decisively clicked [Accept].

Ding!

[Vassal binding successful!]

[Lord "Tie Ge" has become your vassal lord.]

A grey prefix appeared in front of the Tie Ge's name.

[Vassal · Tie Ge]

Xu Qin nodded.

"Bring your troops and your resources."

He pointed to the Floating City above his head,

"Come up."

"The things in the transport carts are yours as well; keep them safe."

"Yes!"

The Tie Ge stood up and bowed.

Then he turned and strode towards his territory.

"All troops, listen up!"

The Tie Ge's voice spread throughout the entire camp,

"Dismantle all buildings! Pack up all supplies!"

Ten minutes later.

All territory buildings were dismantled.

Supplies were put into the inventory.

The Tie Ge led dozens of orcs,

along with twelve Iron-Horned War Rhinos,

and marched onto the Combat Readiness Platform.

Xu Qin stood at the entrance of the Lords Hall, looking at the twelve rhinos.

Not bad, they are indeed fierce enough.

The Tie Ge brought the thirty-six orcs and twelve Iron-Horned War Rhinos onto the Combat Readiness Platform just like that.

But after seeing the scene before him,

the Tie Ge was frozen in place.

On the Combat Readiness Platform,

stood dense rows of undead units.

In the very front was a row of Tank-type Bone Beasts.

In the back rows were thousands of skeleton Archers and Dwarf Musketeers.

Further back.

The Tie Ge's pupils shrank sharply.

Eighty Bone Dragons,

lay neatly on the highest level of the Combat Readiness Platform.

Each dragon was over forty meters long.

Purple soul fire flickered in the empty eye sockets of their skulls.

The Tie Ge's legs subconsciously felt a bit weak.

The twelve Iron-Horned War Rhinos huddled together,

making intermittent whimpering sounds.

The Tie Ge involuntarily recalled the thousand soldiers he had previously possessed.

Then he looked at the formation in front of him.

How should he put it.

It was like ants comparing their size to a mountain.

He casually tapped on the panel of a passing Bone Beast.

[Attack Power: 1860]

[Defense: 890]

[Health Points: 12400]

The Tie Ge opened the panel of a rhino cavalryman.

[Attack Power: 68]

Heh.

The Tie Ge smiled bitterly and closed the panel.

No point in looking.

Looking at it just ruins his mood.

However...

Once he thought about how he was now on the same side as these things,

his mood instantly brightened.

The Tie Ge puffed out his chest,

and said silently to himself in his heart:

"Following the right master, being a dog isn't so bad."

The Floating City flew for about three or four hours.

In the distance, dark purple mist was already clearly visible.

A large number of Void Rift Demons were wandering near the ruins, numbering at least ten thousand.

Xu Qin stood on the Watchtower and opened the communication panel.

"Dragonbone."

"Clear an open space for me first."

"Yes."

The hatch at the bottom of the Combat Readiness Platform opened.

Dragonbone flew out of the cabin with ten Bone Dragons, sweeping towards the east side.

Thirty seconds later.

Boom, boom, boom!

The ten dragons opened their jaws at low altitude, and purple-black breath covered the area from above.

The Void Rift Demons on the ground,

before they could react,

were swallowed by the dragon breath and directly evaporated.

The Tie Ge stood at the edge of the Combat Readiness Platform,

watching the scorched area in the distance with his mouth wide open.

A few minutes later, Dragonbone flew back.

Xu Qin looked at the Tie Ge.

"Take your people down. Set up camp in that open space."

The Tie Ge was stunned upon hearing this.

"Master, am I not following the Floating City?"

"No need."

Xu Qin waved his hand,

"Use the resources I gave you to build up your territory first."

"After the ruins are cleared, I will call you over."

Although the Tie Ge had a belly full of questions, he ultimately asked nothing.

Whatever the master says, goes.

"Yes."

The Tie Ge turned and led his people and the rhinos off the Combat Readiness Platform.

Xu Qin summoned two more Bone Dragons,

and had them circle and patrol above the Tie Ge's camp.

The Tie Ge looked up at the Floating City slowly moving away, with a vague guess in his heart.

The reason the master let him wait outside,

surely wasn't because he found him to be a nuisance.

It was because there would be missions to assign to him later.

So he had to recover his combat strength quickly.

"All troops, follow me to build the territory!"