The construction materials were not sabotaged.

Components for assembling the farm complex. We furnished them with low frequency acoustic emitters. They're meant to deter beasts. Gotta order another batch of them.

Deter beasts? Is that a joke? They dragged the stuff all the way here. I think it does a better job as a beast lure.

Oh, I guess you're also going to say that it lured in all those Aggeloi, right? People who don't know how things work should keep their unscientific opinions to themselves.

Tch. Easy for you to say that, since this isn't your turf.

Dude... This is nothing personal. The scientific principles of acoustic deterrents are quite complicated.

Trying to mislead me with your scientific mumbo-jumbo? AGAIN? Bet you never cared if the Stockade lives or dies.

Typical Wuling buggercrap. I smelled it once and remembered the stink. You double-crossing stuck-ups never cared about the smallfolks.

You're making ... baseless accusations! You know what happened back then? The Tianshi came here to build a city with zero support. You Stockaders just stood by and watched.

We don't owe your Stockade anything! In fact, we Tianshi endured and defeated that disaster ten years ago on our own! We've been most accommodating in this joint project, but I guess asking someone for common decency is too much!

Endured the disaster on your own, eh? You know how many of our fam died that time? I wonder how that calamity blew up in our face. Oh, it's the friggin' Tianshi and their crazy-ass experiments! You brought it upon us!

Whatever, old man. Guess you have a book of grudges. Look, we Tianshi have to keep both disasters and bandits at bay. We can't spread our forces everywhere.

Bandits?! Dork, you talking about us? Nobody ever calls us bandits. Not until you raised that silly wall of yours.

No, that's not what I... Ugh. Why do I even bother? You're so unreasonable.

Well, this seems like a good time to restock our key materials. Let's settle down and rest before we discuss the next steps of our operation.

Hmph. I'm letting you off this time 'cos Darkmask. Remember! The Third Dare isn't over yet!