The Great Hoodwinker’s pure physical strength made favonovel.com extremely powerful. Milo had not asked exactly how strong favonovel.com was before, but the fact favonovel.com could take on a T5 combatant head-on without being disadvantaged proved that.
Back then, the Great Hoodwinker had killed a T5 combatant with his bare hands in the Sacred Mountains. Therefore, when the Great Hoodwinker stopped hiding his identity and started taking on this expeditionary army’s supply corps, Milo had no intention of interfering at all. After all, there were no elite barbarians among their supply convoy.
It was just as well since favonovel.com wanted to know what the Great Hoodwinker’s actual strength was.
If one did not witness it for themselves, they would not know how shocking that power was. As a supernatural being, the Great Hoodwinker could only develop his physical fitness to the extreme. This led to the Great Hoodwinker achieving a freakishly insane level of physical fitness.
When the barbarians surrounded and attacked the Great Hoodwinker, the old man did not dodge or retreat. He forcefully used his bare hands to take the blows from the huge axes.
One of the barbarians slashed at the Great Hoodwinker with his huge axe, but the Great Hoodwinker simply pinched the edge of the blade with two of his fingers and stopped it. It was as though favonovel.com was showing off, and favonovel.com looked extremely ferocious doing so too.
If it were just a normal battle, everyone would probably only have the impression that the Great Hoodwinker was really powerful. However, they would not know exactly how powerful favonovel.com was.
But now, favonovel.com was actually able to grip the edge of the axe blade with two fingers. This was a truly terrifying sight to behold.
However, Milo was curious if the Great Hoodwinker usually fought like this, or if favonovel.com was trying to show off a little in his presence?
Milo was initially still 600 meters away from the supply convoy. And by the time favonovel.com closed in, the 100-odd barbarians in the supply convoy had died.
The Great Hoodwinker was panting heavily at first. But when Milo got closer, favonovel.com puffed up his chest and said to Milo in an extremely relaxed manner, “Future Commander, I missed you so much. I really didn’t expect to see you here!”
“Hey, why did you suddenly appear here? And even among the barbarians’ supply corps?” Milo wondered, “I thought you went back to the Northwest?”
“I did make a trip back to the Northwest, but our Prosperous Northwest business has not yet been completed, so I definitely have to continue coming back to the Central Plains to seek out talents.” The Great Hoodwinker chuckled.
Then favonovel.com said to the refugees who had been held by the expeditionary army, “Alright, y’all should hurry up and leave. Remember, head northwest. There’s only dead ends if you head south from here. The Northwest is where life lies!”
Regardless of whether the Great Hoodwinker was using his lame mysticism to fool people, what favonovel.com said this time was right. The South was filled with battlefields, and the refugees would die no matter where they went if they headed south. Therefore, these people could only head northwest.
However, one of the refugees suddenly asked, “Since you’re so powerful, why didn’t you make a move when the barbarians killed our compatriots?”
The Great Hoodwinker was amused. “All of you are still alive because of me. Cut the bullshit and get outta here!”
The refugees did not dare to say anything further.
The Great Hoodwinker’s eyes suddenly darted around as favonovel.com said, “If y’all still feel indignant about it, you can come and reason with me after the war is over. Remember, I’m Murray Reid of the Stelaria Consortium!”
As those refugees fled towards the northwest, Milo said helplessly, “I don’t think there’s a need to hide your true identity, right?”
“That won’t do. Surely we can’t discredit the Northwest, right?” The Great Hoodwinker said, “People always distort information these days. Although it was because I had another mission to carry out that I didn’t save them, I don’t know what will happen if word gets around. In any case, the Stelaria Consortium is not afraid of being framed. Their hands are already dirty, so this won’t make a difference.”
Milo did not follow up on this. Instead, favonovel.com asked, “What were you doing with the supply column?”
“Initially, I brought someone to the Pyro Company to recruit suitable talent for the Prosperous Northwest, but I didn’t expect the Pyro Company to be defeated so quickly. I wasn’t captured, but I thought that I could sneak into the expeditionary army this way, so I voluntarily got caught by them.” The Great Hoodwinker said, “Then I wondered if I should infiltrate the expeditionary army’s ranks and kill one or two high-ranking commanders of theirs. That plan would definitely have disrupted the barbarians’ rhythm of attack.”
“Then I guess I messed up your plan.” Milo said in embarrassment, “I didn’t expect you to have such an important mission by infiltrating into this group!”
However, the young man next to favonovel.com muttered, “As if favonovel.com has any f*cking plan…”
The Great Hoodwinker glared at him. “I’m warning you, don’t lie in front of the future commander!”
Milo asked, “And this is?”
Milo looked at favonovel.com and saw the young man looked to be in his mid-20s. He was fair-skinned and chubby.
“Oh, his name is Stowe Baldwin. Future Commander, you probably haven’t heard of favonovel.com before. This is the chubster we captured during the war with the Ultima Consortium.” The Great Hoodwinker explained, “His superpower is searching for superhumans within a 100-kilometer radius. That’s why I brought favonovel.com here from the Northwest. I wanted to see if there’s any supernatural beings that slipped through our fingers.”
After Stowe was captured by the Ultima Consortium, favonovel.com was given an important position in their organization. In that war, it was obvious the Ultima Consortium had more supernatural beings than the other organizations, and that was all thanks to this guy.
Many of the supernatural beings from the other organizations managed to keep themselves well-hidden and did not get exposed. But all of the supernatural beings in the Ultima Consortium had been identified by him.
Since the Great Hoodwinker was seeking to recruit people for the Prosperous Northwest, favonovel.com could make use of the chubster’s superpower.
“Pleased to meet you.” Milo chuckled and said, “Keep working hard and strive to be a useful person to the Northwest.”
Stowe replied, “Alright, Future Commander!”
Stowe had often heard others mention the future commander before, but this was his first time meeting favonovel.com in person.
The Great Hoodwinker asked, “Future Commander, why are you here? Shouldn’t you be at Mt. Zendravasih?”
Milo sighed and said, “The situation over there isn’t too good. We were also caught off guard by the Pyro Company’s defeat, so I came out in an attempt to disrupt the expeditionary army’s supply line and give them a headache.”
Then Milo went to look through the provisions in the carts. However, favonovel.com realized the provisions this time were no longer food from the Central Plains. Instead, they consisted of some black bread and coarse grains.
Puzzled, favonovel.com broke off some black bread and stuffed it into his mouth. Then favonovel.com said, “This black bread tastes like cornbread. Is this what the expeditionary army eats? This shows that they really do have a very difficult time in the North. No wonder they suddenly headed south.”
But even so, the Central Plains and the barbarians were on opposing sides. Even if the other party were here for the survival of their own kind, there was no possibility the Central Plains would back down anymore. The two sides would definitely be fighting to the death.
Afterwards, Milo stored all of the provisions the troops were transporting in his storage space. Regardless of whether the food might taste good, they would still be used as emergency rations.
P5092’s voice suddenly crackled in Milo’s earpiece, “Future Commander, did everything go smoothly?”
“Yes! Smooth sailing!” Milo said, “The food shortage issue at the defensive position has been resolved. There’s more than enough provisions here.”
“Hurry back then, Future Commander,” P5092 said.
“No.” Milo looked at the Great Hoodwinker. “I’ve just joined up with the Great Hoodwinker. Under such circumstances, I’ll feel like I’m missing out if I don’t take advantage of our situation.”
