Chapter 240: Drawing the Tiger Away from the Mountain
“The Millennium Tower, that’s the giant tower reaching to the sky. Why is he building this tower?” Zhanyue asked.
“Sigh, you might not believe this. The Sand Dune King simply wants to build a tall tower, one that will be recorded in history and become legendary, unprecedented and unmatched. That’s all,” the Desert Worm Clan member explained.
“All this effort just to build a wonder?” Zhanyue wanted to cry out that wonders ruin nations.
“Building the Millennium Tower requires a vast amount of manpower and resources. The Desert Worm Clan, the Sand-Armored Giant Clan, the Sand Dune Clan, and many smaller surrounding Clans have all been enslaved by him, including his own Sand Dune Clanspeople. He spares no one. As for the sand, stone, and wood needed for construction, it all comes from this oasis. Do you know? This oasis used to be ten times its current size. But the edges have all turned to desert. If this continues, it will soon disappear into the desert,” the Worm Clansman lamented deeply. The Sand Dune King was clearly mad.
Zhanyue asked, puzzled, “Haven’t you all thought about uniting to resist? After all, if so many people could unite, he might not be able to handle it.”
The Worm Clansman smiled bitterly, “You’re thinking too simply. That villain somehow mastered the golden scepter, and then gained the power to control the disaster beast. In a very short time, he killed the Sand-Armored Giant Clan’s ancestor who tried to resist, and captured and imprisoned our Worm Clan’s matriarch. Did you see the spiders on everyone’s faces in the oasis? Those are our matriarch’s soul-devouring spiders. He controls our matriarch, and through her power, controls everyone else.
Free individuals like me are extremely rare, and it’s only thanks to our ability to live underground in the desert, rarely needing to come to the surface. He’s already formidable, and with the golden scepter and the disaster beast, plus controlling our matriarch and countless strong individuals as his enforcers, how can we resist? Everyone is ultimately forced to build this meaningless tower for him.”
“I see. Do you know what those disaster beasts are?” Yunyao interjected.
“We don’t know the origins of those disaster beasts either. They’re incredibly greedy, eating everything except sand. If you fall among them, not even bones will remain. I personally saw the Sand-Armored Giant Clan’s ancestor devoured completely, and that was a Sand-Armored Giant with terrifying defense,” the worm shuddered, recalling that horrific scene.