Chapter 683 Sold?

Chapter 683 Sold?

The days after the Regional War ended flashed by quickly.

Michael and his subordinates dealt with the 106 Lords of the Savannah Region. They overwhelmed them, killed the Awakened, and decimated the remaining defenders spread through the territories of the 106 Lords.

There were no more surprises if one excluded that Michael was still having issues with Extraction.

His main Soultrait was no longer weakened, but the Cursed Seals caused problems. Something about them was off, but Michael couldn't tell what it was. He guessed that they were drained after they had been used too often and too long in a short period. However, that was merely a guess.

But it was a fact that the Untamed Jungle's outer ring and the Savannah's eastern area were no more. The abandoned settlements in Savannah's eastern area had been torn apart by the True Extraction Domain, just like everything it engulfed.

Michael ripped the towering trees, the densely grown bushes, and the wide variety of plant life that grew in the Untamed Jungle's outer ring for decades into shreds.

The damage caused to the Savannah didn't matter to Michael, but the Untamed Jungle was not the same. Something profound in his chest tremored violently whenever he thought about his debt to the Untamed Jungle for damaging it.

Michael was indebted to the Untamed Jungle.

He collected saplings of the towering trees and a wide variety of seeds from the bushes, flowers, and herbs found all over the Untamed Jungle and planted them in the outer ring with Insert. After that, he requested aid from the Botanic Sorcerers and the Greater Nature Spirit to accelerate the plant life's growth.

The outer ring reconnected to the Untamed Jungle and received enough nutrition and origin energy to grow. However, Michael could tell that it was not enough. His debt had not been repaid yet.

"Calm down a little, and I will give you more than enough fertilizer," Michael spoke into the depths of the Untamed Jungle, even though he had no clue whether the Untamed Jungle could hear him or if it bothered him in the first place.

He had more than enough corpses to give the Untamed Jungle as fertilizer, but Michael had yet to loot them. The Will's goods were still waiting for him to take.

Michael would have extracted the goods of the Will if the flood of energy influxes that ravaged his body wasn't blocking his energy veins.

Even using Insert on some plants had been a heavy burden. That was something Michael had never expected to happen. However, he could understand why his body was in such a bad state. He obliterated the army of nine Lords, Higher Lifeforms, and their subordinates – hundreds of thousands of them – before rushing back to the Untamed Jungle, where he dealt with more than 1.5 million Summons and Awakened.

He killed more than 50 Higher Lifeforms and 200,000 Tier-3 powerhouses. The remaining deaths were mostly Tier-2 Summons. That was what Michael guessed from the potency of the energy influxes that ravaged his body.Follow current novels on novelb((in).(com)

If not for the energy influxes, Michael wouldn't be able to tell the difference between Tier-2 Summons and Summons at a lower rank. After all, they died just as quickly in the True Extraction Domain.

Hiraku was an exception, but Michael could discern Hiraku would stay in Arx. The Descendant's Link of Loyalty was even firmer than Frederik's Link of Loyalty at this point. It would be a big surprise if Hiraku decided to leave now.

Michael came up with multiple reasons for selling the Savannah Region to the Valyr.

First, he didn't have the resources and manpower to claim the entire Savannah Region. Even if he had the resources and manpower to claim the Savannah Region in its entirety, Michael wouldn't do that – not before he was stronger than the strongest powerhouses of the Trilance.

Michael was not yet ready to claim an entire region because it would morph it into a secure territory for more Human Awakened to emerge. The Savannah Region – if asserted by him – would transform into a Human Domain. That would make everything a lot more complicated than it had to be.

He might even have to deal with High Society and others inside the Origin Expanse. Michael wanted to prevent that if possible.

By claiming the Savannah Region and focusing on his territory's expansion into the Savannah, Michael would have to deal with more than 30 enemies bordering the Savannah Region.

He didn't like the pondered of jumping from one danger into the next since it felt like fate was going to throw more issues at him either way.

Michael did not need to expose himself to more danger than necessary, whether it was other Lords or High Society.

Of course, selling the Savannah Region to the Valyr didn't mean Michael gave up the resource deposits within the Savannah. That would be foolish.

Selling the Savannah Region created countless opportunities for the young Lord of the Untamed Jungle.

That was also why he sealed various deals with the Valyr before they learned about his combat prowess and the Untamed Awakened's true power. He ensured the Valyrs pondered they were at a disadvantage until it was too late.

Some might think that Michael was a fraud, especially the Valyrs, who were foolish enough to underestimate him, but it was not like it was Michael's fault that the Valyrs didn't believe he could deal with the Savannah Region's Lords.

In their eyes, he had been a mere Low Tier-3 Lords with above-

average combat strength.

To their misfortune, it looked like they were as blind as moles.

Lucky for Michael.