Fighting and war are not the same thing.

Not to mention the more ethereal situations like leading the momentum, when individual combat power can dominate the direction of the war to a certain extent, then this individual combat power will be labeled as strategic-level.

After a fight with Jiamene in the sky of Death Canyon, both sides were relatively restrained, but Mu Hua was undoubtedly labeled as a strategic-level person, and this was no longer a false label simply due to some strange abilities.

After all, those mysterious abilities can usually be restrained, but for something like absolute power, without sufficient levels of strength, even a relatively easy-to-use fire shock cannot be withstood. If you confront him head-on, no matter what you bring out, you can only fight a war of attrition.

Right now in the Caines Courtyard, the Goblin Kingdom is engulfed in war. As neither side has formed an overwhelming advantage for the time being, a huge amount of emotional energy is brewing in the tense war.

While countless goblins were killed and wounded, some of the goblins participating in the war did see a significant increase in strength, as if their strength was gradually increasing.

While the human adventurers in the Goblin Kingdom area were excitedly exploring, other monster forces seemed to ignore the Goblin Kingdom's intentions. This tense and continuous war seemed to be something they welcomed.

The Mechanical Forest is relatively peaceful, but there are frequent arms trades with the Snow Ridge Ranch and the Goblin Kingdom.

Unlike the transport teams that Mu Hua had robbed before, the transport teams carrying war supplies from the Mechanical Forest are now on standby at all times, as the adventurers have discovered multiple escort routes.

Some human adventure teams, even including the garrison regiment of Fort Caines, organized manpower to continuously explore the newly opened escort routes in the Mechanical Forest and participated in the activities of blocking these escorted materials.

There is no right or wrong. Humans and demons are mortal enemies, and it basically all depends on strength. The cost-effectiveness of robbing these transport teams is still very high.

However, in this regard, the casualties on the human side were even more serious than the war in the Goblin Kingdom.

Gradually, the Adventurer's Guild classified adventurer tasks for such activities.

I don't know if the Adventurer's Guild has reached some kind of agreement with the Magic Empire, where looting and plundering are no longer encouraged, and privateering missions centered around the garrison regiment are a common occurrence in the Adventurer's Guild.

In the fortress city, the garrison regiment has increased its troops and strengthened its combat readiness. The fortress city's battleship factory has been initially built and is openly recruiting technicians. The 100-meter-class battleship production line has been put into production.

While external resources were being transported frequently to and from the city of Caines, the detection of mineral resources in the courtyard was upgraded to the S-level standard by the Adventurer's Guild, and the SSS-level adventure mission of occupying mineral resource points was hung high at the top of the Adventurer's Guild's task bar.

The number of adventurers in Caines Courtyard has increased significantly. In similar situations, the Adventurer's Guild firmly holds the initiative.

Regardless of the chaos caused by Taibetha and others in the Goblin Kingdom, or the Jade Court's preparation to launch a war against the Mechanical Forest, or even Mu Hua's fight with Jiamene, the Adventurer's Guild did not interfere.

However, regarding the adventurers who have recently moved into the courtyard and the supporting security measures after these adventurers accept missions, the Adventurer's Guild has announced strict regulations, which absolutely prohibit Mu Hua, the major brigades and those with pioneering rights from suppressing new adventurers due to vested interests.

Of course, there are more elements of guidance and posturing.

After all, the Kanins Courtyard is far from stable nowadays. Apart from some adventurers of average strength who have the right to explore and may have some conflicts with new adventurers, everyone is trying to attract more people and has no time to suppress anything.

However, this kind of behavior and guidance is necessary. While the Adventurer's Guild strives to gain reputation for itself, it also prevents the living atmosphere among humans in the Caines Courtyard from developing in a cruel and harsh direction.

Simply put, there is a multi-faceted competition between the various forces. Those who want to monopolize and exploit will die, and those who pretend to be cool will be out of business. Long Aotian has no market...

The role of the Adventurer's Guild is to prevent powerful interest groups from uniting without limits and working in unison to control and exploit ordinary adventurers.

As for whether it is necessary or not, that's a matter of opinion. No matter whether it is for the purpose of showing off one's presence or for the purpose of maintaining one's own credibility, the Adventurer's Guild is not doing nothing after all.

In Mu Hua's words, the adventurer forces, the adventurer's guild, the imperial garrison, and the fortress city's ruling party are all happy at ordinary times, but when it comes to the real deal, no one is easy to deal with.

To some extent, the development of the Snow Ridge Ranch, which can be regarded as the eye of the storm of the current courtyard war, is not much different from what Mu Hua expected.

Mu Hua refused the assistance of the Adventurer's Guild and the Garrison Regiment. Snow Ridge Ranch has now become an absolutely high-risk area among the areas in the front half of the courtyard.

There are adventurers who come here to wander and explore, but most of them are organized into teams and adopt a highly mobile exploration method, trying to find common resource points in the Snow Ridge Ranch. There are basically no teams that intend to stay here permanently.

After several adventure teams were wiped out and suffered casualties north of the hot spring town, the number of adventure teams coming here dropped significantly.

To the south of the hot spring town, in addition to a new noble from the Kingdom of Galaposo who planned a large ranch here, there were also some adventurers who bought the development rights from Bear Pig Town and came here to enclose land for development.

Among them are also family members of Mu Hua's subordinates, such as members of the Black Crow, the Dead Law Mutual Aid Society, and the Brotherhood and their families.

After all, it is the beginning of development, and daily necessities are more important than anything else. For the time being, the development here is still mainly based on farms and ranches, because Mu Hua will take special care of them. To a certain extent, this area can be regarded as an area controlled by Mu Hua's forces.

The fact that Snow Ridge Ranch was listed as a high-risk area is not a deliberate attempt to discredit this area, because the hot spring village may be invaded by monsters at any time.

Mu Hua's faction has its own strengths, especially after Mu Hua had a fight with Jia Mo Nie. Under normal circumstances, facing an enemy like Mu Hua, the monsters should defend the city or continue to harass Mu Hua in order to wait for Mu Hua to come and fight a war of attrition.

If it really doesn't work, just ignore Mu Hua and the others. Xueling Ranch is so big anyway. How much space can they occupy and develop if they are given ten or eight years?
But who asked Mu Hua to bring all those demon generals and elite troops back home?
If those stone statues were not demolished, Leticia would not be able to explain to her subordinates, and might also be ridiculed and despised by some monsters, such as the demon generals under Philemon who wanted to replace her.

Seeing that Mu Hua was constantly improving his defenses, Leticia prepared for an attack on Wenquan Town while sending peace envoys to Wenquan Town.

Well, he is indeed a peace envoy, so he can bend and stretch. Leticia wanted to take advantage of the fact that Mu Hua had almost exhausted the Purgatory Arms in the battle with Jiamene to attack him, but she was not sure that she could take advantage. If she could be given more time, she could also prepare more means to deal with Mu Hua.

This is probably because both sides want to kill the other side in one blow, but both sides need time. Amid all the embarrassment, Leticia hopes that Mu Hua can put forward some conditions and return the stone statues to her.

However, it was obvious that Mu Hua was more looking forward to Leticia coming to cause trouble. War didn't matter. After all, he had made a lot of money even in the previous war, not to mention after building a defensive position.

During this period, a rather special change occurred in the Kanes Courtyard. That is, several demon merchants have visited this courtyard.

It is said that the Miphisto Bank has appeared in the Mechanical Forest. Generally speaking, it is a demon exchange established by demon merchants that can transfer money with Hell.

"Beautiful Ms. Kui, please suggest to Mu Hua that we destroy the Mechanical Forest. Those dolls are not worth mentioning. I can provide you with one Absolute Isolation Killing Array, one End of Heaven Codex, three Eternal Guardians, and twenty Infinite Barriers."

"Add ten scrolls of forbidden spells, let Basanimu cooperate with Muhua, and with your abilities, you can definitely defeat the Mechanical Forest."

Hot spring town.

The unmovable Qin capital - Hatirif.

In the Central Mirage, the demon merchant Besero actively encouraged Aoi, who came here to manage the city-building affairs for Mu Hua, to attack the Mechanical Forest.

Mu Hua has a lot of things to do, for example, his Purgatory Armaments have all been used up...

He didn't have that much time to keep an eye on the Hot Spring Village. After the situation at Snow Ridge Ranch was opened up, Rin stayed at the Ash Fortress while Aoi moved into the Hot Spring Village. As far as members of his own faction were concerned, the development of the Kanes Courtyard was more important than the Abyss Island for the time being.

As the core area of ​​Hatilef, the Mirage Palace was built simultaneously with the outer city wall. It is shrouded by the Abyleus Labyrinth all day long. The statues of powerful monsters that were petrified by Mu Hua are stored in the underground palace under the Mirage Palace.

Recently, Mu Hua has also begun to try to breed hybrid monsters with the bloodline of Hinnom Valley demon worms. According to his plan, some handsome monster statues will be placed in his palace in the future, mixed with some Hinnom Valley demon worms, which will definitely bring endless surprises to invaders.

Nearly three meters tall, Becerro's appearance today is very different from his early years, and can be considered androgynous.

Well, it's not the kind of gender-neutral. As a devil, the evolved Besero won't appear too different in the eyes of different races.

In the eyes of demons, he is naturally a demon, but although he has dark red skin and keratinous body tissue, humans will wonder what race he is.

"You're going to destroy the Mechanical Forest and leave behind a useless ruin? We've known each other for so long, but other than the token, I've never heard of you giving us anything."

"You want the Lord to help you open the Miphisto Bank? The Lord probably doesn't have that much power for now, and I don't think you have that much capital."

Mu Hua did not summon Besero. This guy ran to the hot spring town by himself. Well, that's right, he was not teleported from hell. Instead, he was summoned by someone in this courtyard and came to chat with Mu Hua. Mu Hua was too lazy to come out of the Abyss Island, so he found an excuse and asked Kui to receive him.

This guy went to the Mechanical Forest to participate in the Monster Bank bidding, but seemed to have been eliminated. After that, he probably went to other monster commanders, but he probably didn't gain anything.

He is now encouraging Mu Hua to go to the Mechanical Forest, completely intending to destroy the devil businessman who runs a bank there. He is even more suspected of bragging and complaining. As for the forbidden spell scrolls and various protections, he may not give them to Mu Hua even if he really asks for them.

"Mu and I have only known each other for a year, but I have never let you suffer any loss." Besero muttered, pacing in front of Aoi's seat and looking at the layout of the palace, while Aoi smiled without expressing anything.

"Haha, I heard that Mu Hua has been causing a lot of trouble in this courtyard. That Valk and the Ice Queen here are buying up Tears of the Earth Element everywhere."

"I met Leticia in the Bloody Hills before. Haha, she actually wanted to comprehend the Flame of Gehenna. She should not be in the Snow Ridge Ranch now. How about it, is this information useful?" Besero said to Aoi.

"What are you here for? To remind the adults not to contact other demon merchants?" Kui frowned. For the time being, it didn't matter to her whether Leticia was at the Snow Ridge Ranch or not. Mu Hua would not attack the other party's Snow Mountain Ice Palace anyway.

Based on Aoi's understanding of Besero, he probably felt uneasy because of the appearance of multiple demon merchants in the courtyard. Even though he has evolved into what he is now, he still lacks some competitiveness in front of those demon merchants who can open a bank in the courtyard.

"Okay, I admit that this is a well-intentioned reminder. You need to know that, normally speaking, it is the demons that can bring more long-term benefits to the demon merchants."

"The friendship of devils is very precious. It doesn't matter that Mu Hua and I have a friendship contract, but as for other devil merchants, if you come into contact with them, your information may very likely become a commodity for them." Besero smiled awkwardly, then turned serious.

"But I'm different. We are in the same group." Becero said seriously.

"But I think this is not a normal situation for my lord, and you should be well aware of that. Well, for now my lord has no need for other demon merchants, so go around when you have time and quickly get everything my lord wants."

"By the way, there is a demon general named Zamback in Death Canyon. You can go and have a look. Recently, the Lord needs materials to derive the Undead. You can find more. We also want the golden apple saplings and branches of the World Tree."

The people he comes into contact with on a daily basis are becoming more and more diverse. Now even the devil merchants come to do customer maintenance. Aoi casually gives instructions and sends Besero away.

The fight with Jiamenie gave Mu Hua more confidence, but the cohesion of the Purgatory Armed Forces became Mu Hua's important agenda now. There were also a lot of things to do in the hot spring village, including those who were occupying the land in the rear, and Kui now didn't have that much time to deal with all kinds of social activities.

Including the collection of plant essences, Mu Hua is also thinking about spending some money. Kui estimates that some of his own mascots will have to be killed, so Mu Hua needs to find some subordinates who can help him collect plant essences. (End of this chapter)