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Location: Andes Highlands.
A large number of figures quickly shuttled throughout the border areas of this region. Their goal was very clear, that is, to find the 'hidden' territories of the Castle Lords and native forces. After yesterday's war, every Castle Lord in the region was eliminated by the Great Aetherium.
These people didn't need to find all the territories. All they had to do was find a few of those territories, take the resources and escape before the Royal Army arrived. Their identity was also quite obvious. They were 'Rangers'.
"Boss, is this really a good idea? We are stealing the spoils of war from the Great Aetherium. If we are discovered by their Royal Army, we will be finished!"
"Yes boss, I've read on the World Chat Channel that those Angels are exceptionally cruel. They say that the Angels take their enemies' souls and torture them for thousands of years before finally destroying them."
"What are you afraid of? As long as we are quick, Haru's army will not be able to find us. Even if we are found, we can simply claim that we are Rangers who came to seek refuge in the Great Aetherium."
"Besides, who said that those resources belonged to Haru? These are unowned territories and we're not going to steal from the Great Aetherium's warehouse. What are you afraid of?"
"You're right, boss. Finders keepers. We should hurry up. We have already found six out of the ten unowned territories we planned to find. Just four more and we will evacuate the Andes Highlands."
Soon after, they found another territory in the forest, boldly marched inside, quickly killed the few troops stationed inside and destroyed the Castle Heart. Since the Castle Lords have all died, most of the troops have already defected and very few loyal ones were left here.
Compared to these Rangers, their strength was quite weak. The territory was now in ruins and a large amount of resources burst out from the warehouse. At the same time, they also got various blueprints, which they could sell on the Hyperspace Trading Channel.
"There are more than 4 million units of resources and more than 50 Architectural Blueprints, we've made a huge profit!"
"Hurry up! Whatever we can't collect, sell it on the Hyperspace Trading Channel, marked at a sky-high price. After we return to our base, we will take them off."
The Rangers moved quickly and evacuated from this ruined territory to find another target. Moreover these people weren't the only ones doing it. There were similar teams of Rangers doing this in other parts of Andes Highlands and the Endless Prairies as well.
Some daring and greedy ranger teams even set their sights on the Dynasty Level forces in these regions. These dynasties have also faced similar situations to the Castle Lords and although the Rangers couldn't directly attack those Dynasties, they could still sneak in and steal some supplies.
But such behavior on a large scale in all parts of these regions was really encroaching onto the Great Aetherium's interests and how could the Angels allow it? That's why they only dared to steal from territories at the border locations of the two regions, as far away from Angel City as they could.
"Although this is a carnival for our Ranger Alliance, the Royal Army is coming soon. No matter what happens, evacuate before evening."
Someone sent a message in the Ranger Alliance's group chat and the Ranger teams accelerated their speed. From this, it could be interpreted that this was a coordinated operation organized by the Ranger Alliance.
They believed that since they were 'free Rangers' and couldn't be tracked by Haru, they didn't need to be afraid of the Great Aetherium. That's why they've grown too arrogant.
At this time, unknown to them, two figures with black wings appeared in the sky tens of thousands of meters above the Endless Prairies and Andes Highlands. They were the two Sixteen-Winged Fallen Angels under Haru's command, Eveline and Thessaly, both at the early-stage of High God Tier.
Thessaly said with an indifferent expression, "These Rangers, how dare they steal from the Lord? Are they really tired of living?"
She looked again at Eveline, who had the same grim look and asked, "What do you think?"
"Not a single one." Eveline's answer was short. Of course, it meant two things. One was that none of them were worthy of the personal intervention of two High Goddesses, second was to seal their fate that none of these people would survive today.
Thessaly nodded and said, "Okay, let's leave this to the lower Angels. We shall find out their boss' identity and destroy their base camp as well."
The 'lower Angel' which she referred to were the Six-Winged and Eight-Winged Angels. Then again, for Sixteen-Winged Angels like them, even Twelve-Winged and Fourteen-Winged Angels were 'lower'.
"Hmm." Eveline nodded slightly and after they sent their orders to their subordinate Fallen Angels, they disappeared.
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