The Eternal battle

Chapter 300: Conquering the First Stray Soul (2)

Shi Tu remembered what Mu and Rai explained earlier and understand what is going on.

"Since they failed in their lives and ended up dying, they have great remorse and unspeakable hatred, to gain their recognition I must help them correct their remorse in this illusion, huh."

Among the twenty warriors, one stood out and seemed to be the leader because he was the centerpiece of all the warriors.

Shi Tu's eyes narrowed upon seeing the black ring on the leader's finger, this black ring exactly matching the Darkness Ring on Shi Tu's finger.

'This means that the source of Stray Souls within the Darkness Ring is the former bearers of the Darkness Ring who died without being recognized as judges like Zhan Xieshen while most Stray Souls are the souls of friends who share the Darkness Ring bearer's remorse.'

Shi Tu analyzed the information he obtained calmly and came to a conclusion that is most likely correct.

Shi Tu noticed that the group leader carried a bottle containing a message that must be delivered no matter what the cost.

"Do they want to get the message across?"

The Leader hands the message to someone else and asks him to hide while they buy him time to get away, then he can find another way or fix the bridge to cross.

"This is a stupid decision, no wonder this is their biggest regret."

With those overwhelming numbers behind them, this small group wouldn't be able to catch all of them and one or two people's disappearance can be easily noticed in the case of small groups so most likely the other party sent people to search for the missing person and he was captured which means mission failure and most likely destruction of the force that stands behind them.

"It's annoying because this kind of very loyal people won't believe anyone they don't know in this case especially if they are spies collecting information. I suppose I should help without them suspecting that something is wrong and that someone is helping them and not believe that someone is manipulating them."

Thinking about this, Shi Tu checked his body and how much he could do to find that he couldn't use his strength strangely even though it was there.

"Mortal? Huh, same like them, no wonder this cold affects me, it means that I can do nothing beyond the capacity of Stray Souls and my only choice is to lead them myself."

Without further hesitation, Shi Tu advanced towards the small group and as soon as he was noticed, all of them pointed towards Shi Tu with their weapons except for the leader.

"Who are you? What are you doing here?"

"Leader, he must be a spy for the Donghai Empire, we must kill him quickly so that our position does not leak."

The Leader shook his head and turned to Shi Tu, "He shouldn't be a spy because we didn't notice him until he approached us. If he is a spy, he wouldn't show himself and we wouldn't be able to notice his presence. Also, the army of the Donghai Empire is behind us and knows where we are, so there is no need for them to send a spy for us. With the current condition of the bridge, we can't survive. So I ask again, who are you?"

Shi Tu smiled and seemed to like this leader because his eyesight is very good.

"You don't have to know who I am, but you should know that I can get you to the other side in a few minutes if you follow my words."

" Bullshit!! "

One of the warriors shouted angrily, "Without the bridge, how can we go to the other side? Are you making fun of us?"

The leader gestured with his hands to follow him to stop and then looked at Shi Tu carefully and said, "Assuming you can help us and are not from the Donghai Empire, what will you get in return?"

Shi Tu pointed to one of the Leader's fingers, which had a ring that was exactly the same as the Darkness Ring, and then showed his Darkness Ring.

"You see, I want this ring, as long as you give me this ring, I can help you."

"How can we trust you?"

The Leader asked carefully.

"Isn't that simple? I'll help you first and when we all get to the other side you give me the ring, I have great confidence in my ability to turn you all into corpses and take the ring if you try to do something stupid."

The Leader looked suspicious and said cautiously, "Since you're so confident, why don't you just take it?"

"Even though time is precious now, you have a lot of questions, huh."

Shi Tu sneered and said, "Because I wouldn't be the owner of the ring like this, it would be different if I took the ring from your corpse after you broke your promise to me."

The leader didn't understand how the ring could choose his master as if he were a living being but he didn't care, there are always those crazy people who believe in supernatural powers, gods, and demons and most likely Shi Tu considers this ring sacred.

As for the leader, the ring didn't have much value so he didn't hesitate at all.

" Okay, Deal "

"Leader, don't agree, he's just a stranger and his words are not trustworthy, what if he deceives us?"

"So what? We're dead anyway, you don't think we can succeed while the Donghai Army is behind us right? Since we're going to die anyway, why don't we gamble?"

With hesitant looks, the rest nodded helplessly because they really had no other choice.

"Follow me"

Shi Tu took a large plank of wood from the remains of the bridge on this side and quickly climbed one of the small slopes.

It didn't take any intelligence to know what he was up to.

"Do you think we haven't thought of this? It's impossible because the distance is so far."

Shi Tu did not care and said to the Leader.

"How many people can you not do without?"

The leader did not hesitate and said, "We are all ready to die, but even if only I went, I wouldn't get to the other side."

"So our agreement is valid as long as someone arrives with the letter right? Who will go?"

'' The Leader of course! ''

" leader is our strongest and smartest, with his going there is a high probability of success and delivering the message on time."

Shi Tu nodded and said, "Everyone goes up"

Everyone exchanged strange looks and no one moved.

"Afraid of death? No wonder your empire is about to fall, since the people who are supposedly willing to die are afraid of death, how can the rest fight to the end? Tsk tsk "

Despite the looks of anger on their faces, they did not react much because they are spies trained to curb their anger. If just insulting them and their country is enough to anger them, they do not deserve to be spies at all.

One by one, everyone sat on the plank, Shi Tu tore some of their clothes and tied most of them with a long string made of clothes and then pushed the plank.

The plank moved at a tremendously rapid speed until they were in mid-air and their faces turned pale because no matter how they looked at it, getting to the other side was completely impossible.

At this moment, Shi Tu jumped off the plank and pulled with him everyone who bound, and before he fell he used his leg to add an extra thrust to the plank.

Of course, Shi Tu and the rest tied up are destined to fall, but none of them showed remorse but pride and happiness because the plank had successfully reached the other side.

They didn't know how Shi Tu did this because but they are grateful to him from the bottom of their hearts for this.

The leader didn't waste much time and set out to deliver the message, completely ignoring Shi Tu, not even looking back at all.

In the end, he succeeded in delivering the message, and the Yan Empire was able to successfully confront the Donghai Empire and even launch a counterattack and occupy the Donghai Empire.

Back at the cliff, Shi Tu was sitting in a small hole on the cliff wall with a black ring similar to the one on his finger in his hand.

"It's been a week and nothing has happened yet, should I go and help them counterattack as well?"

Shi Tu shook his head and dismissed the idea.

"No, this should not be. I am supposed to correct the ring-bearers remorse, which is the failure to deliver the message, and not to interfere with more than this. Hmm? Finally! "

Shi Tu smiled and put the ring he had obtained from the leader on the same finger as the Darkness Ring.

Right away, the Darkness Ring seemed to swallow the other ring

The scene around Shi Tu changed and returned to space inside the Darkness Ring.

"How much time has passed?"

Mu Reply, "Five minutes, don't worry, the concept of time doesn't mean anything here, how about you check now what you got?"

Shi Tu lost his soul and found an alien soul, after checking it out he discovered that it belonged to the leader with his entire team.

Mu explained, "Since they are just mortal they don't have any secrets you can benefit from and you won't find anything important in their memories but their soul will be good food for your soul, for the future, you need a very strong Soul Power."

Shi Tu thought deeply and asked, "How many of these souls are there?"

"More than I can count, but the bearers of the Darkness Ring? A few billion, and don't misunderstand because many Stray Souls have no remorse and have not carried the Darkness Ring but are very useful to you, you should not be lazy and underestimate any stray soul "