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Chapter 794 The Battling Arena - The End!
The monsters moved fast and went towards my direction, yet three beams took the lives of three of them.
"Hahaha! Yes, run, run and try to survive. I want to see how long you can, hahaha! Running for ten miles? Hahaha! You will die, your monsters will die, your forces will die!"
"We will see!" I knew he pulled such a big move, but who said this really mattered?
As I got my heated cooled down, I held my horn and issued another order:
"To all forces, abandon everything and head towards the enemy castle," I said in such a fierce way while another ray came in my direction. I used my glaive and ended up flying in the air once more while shouting:
"Don't stop at anything, move from all directions, get that damn castle destroyed now!"
"You!!!" from behind, I could hear the scared shout from this king.
Indeed he put much effort in doing this feat, but this bastard just helped me and my forces.
This fight wasn't concluded by any king getting killed! Indeed dying had its bad effects on my forces, but it wasn't the end!
"Silence!"
Damn liar! Didn't he say he didn't have any more items to use?
"Kill him! Go and kill that motherf*cker! Silence!"
He used another one! Damn! How many did he buy before coming here?
The next thing that I saw was a bright light coming from three different diamonds, all shone brightly over my body. Without my ability to move or do anything, the rays fell over my body without any hindrance.
And then I felt my soul get scorched like it was literally on fire.
Damn! I was… Dying!
It felt like my soul was withering under a strong presence. At this moment, everything I lived and saw moved slowly and passed in front of my eyes.
Was this how dying was? Was this what anyone would experience at his last breaths?
I saw everything from my moment of birth all the way to this last moment. I even saw moments I never remembered ever! Like the faces of my father and mother, and how carefree they looked and happy to see me.
I saw things I didn't understand. But the memories kept flashing fast in front of my eyes while my mind started to slow down like it was burdened with heavy sacs of sand.
I was dying… And everything I saw at the end became like seeing a movie without having any thoughts about it.
[Ding!]
[You died!]
Just at this moment, I saw a ghostly shadow coming up from my body. That was my body, the motionless cold sac of meat that just slammed heavily on the ground.
But I was still able to think, feel, and hear.
"Hahaha! I killed him! Hahaha! I killed you! What a disappointing thing that you won't really die! You will just resurrect in a few minutes. But rest assured, I will handle your forces properly and send them towards their grave, foolish human king, hahaha!"
[Ding!]
[You got a resurrection ticket]
[Ding!]
[You got the privilege of the Bronzed Coin battling arena to resurrect]
[Ding!]
[Which path will you choose?]
For a reason, this system looked a bit different than the one I used to have. It issued Ding sounds before sending me any message. Was this normal?
I knew that resurrecting through the arena rules would save me one hundred million souls. But it would come with great consequences.
That king just said it right now! I would take long minutes before coming back to life. Not to mention my forces would be annihilated without me, it would also give debuffs to my remaining ones.
This… Wasn't acceptable!
"I'll use my resurrection ticket," one had to get the fruit of what he worked hard to sow. And that king just asked for a bad beating, one that would leave him speechless before dying.
[Ding!]
[The resurrection ticket is issued]
[Ding!]
[You got two bloodlines in your body]
[Ding!]
[Which race do you want to resurrect at? Humans? Or the angels?]
"A… Angels?!!!" I was shocked, truly shocked this time when I heard that.
"The… Humans," but I was a human, I lived my entire life as one. Even if I didn't know how I got such bloodline in my veins, or if it would make me stronger or not, the mere idea was rejected! It was unnegotiable!
[Ding!]
[Your selection is respected]
[Ding!]
[Your body is going to gain a reform ticket]
[Ding!]
[You can always change to the other race using this ticket if you wanted]
[Ding!]
[Resurrection ticket is activated]
[Ding!]
[You are going to live again!]
What the heck was all this?!!! I was deeply shocked but the next feeling wiped away all these doubts.
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It felt refreshing, really nice to have my soul back to my body.
It was like I was in a complete numb state, and got my body parts awakened one by one.
It was like a nightmare! One that I was glad and blessed to get out from.
"Hahaha!" but as I got back, that bastard was still laughing, "go, go and tear his monsters apart… What the f*ck is that?!!!"
Just before he could continue his words, I stood up, held my staff out, summoned my portal, and then vanished within.
"Come with me," I didn't leave alone, and took elven monsters with me.
They were the remaining ones alive. During the few seconds of my death and resurrection, the deadly rays claimed the lives of nine of my beasts.
I lost twelve! But that didn't matter! Not at all! I got revived, and that king already fell in his trap.
I didn't stand behind for even one second or bothered to spare him a single glance. All I did was to just open my portal and bring my boys with me and vanished.
I just gave that old king a single and silent gaze before vanishing inside my portal. The look of his face was priceless.
It wasn't easy for anyone to just feel the taste of victory, to be held by his neck and dragged all the way down to the rock bottom of hell.
I appeared with my eleven remaining monsters just at the northern post where I was fighting the big army of that bastard. The army wasn't here, as it seemed to go after my forces to stop them from taking down the castle.
"Come out!" I summoned the twenty-seven monsters I had, "go, let's enter this castle together."
I led them in a charge towards the distant castle.
As for that king, he should remain seated behind at his magnificent and terrifying post. Even if he tried to come and lead his forces at the castle, it would already be too late.
"Keep attacking!" Once I arrived, I vented all the frustration I felt over the soldiers here.
The castle was heavily secured with many towers, but they all had no way to harm me.
I led my forces, while my shield kept me alive and in one piece.
At the same time, I aimed towards one of the three gates of the post, hammered at it heavily with my glaive and crushed it to pieces after a few strikes.
When I entered the castle, I totally ignored all the defences here and troops. I just ventured forward, crushing anything and anyone standing in my path until I reached the heart of the castle.
It was a big bronze diamond with a shield over it. I didn't bother with anyone and kept banging my glaive at that shield, cracking it piece by piece before it smashed after two minutes.
[Congratulations! King Hye of the human race just won this arena challenge]
[King Silvador of the Hector race lost!]
[King Silvador died]
[Half of his belongings will go to you]
[The Bronzed Coin now has a new owner!]
[You will be teleported in five… Four… Three… Two… One… Now!]
And with the countdown reaching zero, a bronzed ray of light enveloped me before I left this place.
This arena battle… It ended up with my victory! Hooray!
I now could go back with my head held high, and that f*cking battle against the Hectors would be over.
Their king was dead, and there was no one up there to stop me right now!
Chapter 795 I Gained An Aquatic Army! Hooray!!
The bronze light kept taking me away while I was lost in thoughts.
This battle… It wasn't just the typical fight I had so far!
The wits of that king, the last struggle he pulled, and the desire to win and live were all remarkable and new to me.
I never faced such an opponent before, ever!
I always read records back in my time, always read stories about great figures and how they struggled to keep themselves victorious.
But for the first time ever, I had the privilege to witness this in flesh.
This wasn't a man fighting for his race, he was fighting for his gains, for himself.
It wasn't a crime to do that. But against someone like me, shouldering an entire race over my shoulders, that king paled a lot in comparison.
He became a prestigious king, hailed over worlds and many races, brought glory and pride to himself and his race.
But what did he do in the end? He came here, enjoyed such a pathetic life and even went into deep slumber.
A sword must always be sharpened by blood and hardened by the fire of fights… I once read it somewhere in the records and it seemed whoever said this was a wise man.
I should never allow myself to end up like him. Everyone had a date, but mine should come after I'd achieve everything possible and visit every single place in this entire universe… No, in the entire big cosmos!
The light faded and I returned again, on top of my chariot, standing against a brutal scene of fighting.
It seemed that what I worried about before was true… That king summoned all his forces here.
I saw tons of ground forces gushing out from massively big whirlpool-like portals in the distance. The big castle was still there, hovering over the ground, attacking with ranged weapons.
My valiant generals were facing ground and flying forces alike.
The weapons and items I bought earlier proved themselves worthy. The sky was filled with tons of flying beasts and winged races which kept coming hot at my forces inside the shield.
But from the shield, my forces launched their attacks, killing a large number of these forces.
These items… They were really worthy of each bone I paid.
Bones… Recalling this made my heart ache!
I lost a lot! Spent too much before to strike the deal with Silverlining, then spent the rest at that arena.
However, just when I was feeling this deep pain of losing so much in such a short time, I got a series of messages that made my mood change at once.
[Congratulations! You won the king Vs king challenge]
[You now have half of what king Silvador had]
[You gained half of his belongings inside your inventory]
[You gained control over half of his forces in this world]
[You gained control over the Fearful Castle]
[You gained a king medallion]
I looked up at these messages before it suddenly hit me!
I gained half of his forces? How come this is? And an answer popped up in my mind, a very daring answer that I didn't take for granted before checking my profile first.
"Damn! It's true! That dude held his forces by contracts, just like me!" I looked up and there I found in the contract page lots of additions that just came in at the last minute.
They were a bunch of many races, mainly Hectors. I looked up at this screen before laughing.
Such gain… It was truly unexpected at all!
"Listen up" I held my horn and shouted amidst my laughs, with the thought of contacting the recently joined forces to me, "break free from the enemy and join my forces now! Disobey and you will all die by the power of the contract."
This was a game changing! I just gained half of what he had here, but he already brought out much of his forces.
I didn't feel any bitterness about losing the forces that didn't come here. It seemed it was forbidden for me yet to use them.
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Who knew? I might get these forces later on when I'd leave this world and go venturing the vast wide universe.
I stood on top of my chariot while watching a very shocking and exciting scene.
Half of the forces started to suddenly break apart, move away from their allies, group together, turn around before forcing their way towards my shield.
My forces kept themselves all this time inside the shield, giving them a good chance to kill the enemy without getting killed.
The sight of such a move startled my forces, and that reminded me that I hadn't spread this great news yet.
[Don't attack the incoming big troops, they are on our side] I sent this to all the generals here, while another battlefield piqued my interest.
It wasn't the fight going on at the walls, led by my generals there. It was way beyond!
The aquatic battle was long ended by my loss and retreat. The size of forces there were simply too much to handle, and there were lots of other stressing issues here to handle.
But now? And just at the far distance I saw a huge number of forces coming out from the gulf and trying to gather up together.
Damn! He also owned the huge aquatic forces up there at the ocean and gulf? If so, then this war brought me such a pleasant surprise!
What was my sole weakness against Hectors? Of course lacking decent aquatic forces!
Damn! I got myself such a large number of very well trained and much experienced aquatic army! And it had to go on land and fight their way towards my walls?
No way! No f*cking way! This would be suicidal!
"Listen up," I instantly held my horn and ignored all the messages that came from my generals asking about what the heck just happened here, "all aquatic forces near the gulf, go into the water and group there. Find a safe zone outside this battlefield and wait for more instructions."
Like they got electrified, the large wave of forces that was getting formed by the sh*The load of forces coming out of the gulf paused for a second there.
Then as if they were all controlled by a higher force, they all turned around and returned fast towards the gulf.
I even saw many forces in the middle of the dense enemy army turning around and started running.
This came all of sudden and the enemy didn't have any decent generals to give them orders. I killed their king, and they were now like headless giant pythons.
As I secured my aquatic army and saved it from getting unneeded losses, I shifted my eyes towards a certain direction.
"So… You aren't a normal castle built by the Hectors after all… You are an artefact! Just like my chariot!" I grinned evilly the more I looked at my new baby.
She… Was awesome! Able to keep me breathless for days even while looking at her beautifully huge sized area and the lots of defences over it.
This baby… She was mine!
The bronze light kept taking me away while I was lost in thoughts.
This battle… It wasn't just the typical fight I had so far!
The wits of that king, the last struggle he pulled, and the desire to win and live were all remarkable and new to me.
I never faced such an opponent before, ever!
I always read records back in my time, always read stories about great figures and how they struggled to keep themselves victorious.
But for the first time ever, I had the privilege to witness this in flesh.
This wasn't a man fighting for his race, he was fighting for his gains, for himself.
It wasn't a crime to do that. But against someone like me, shouldering an entire race over my shoulders, that king paled a lot in comparison.
He became a prestigious king, hailed over worlds and many races, brought glory and pride to himself and his race.
But what did he do in the end? He came here, enjoyed such a pathetic life and even went into deep slumber.
A sword must always be sharpened by blood and hardened by the fire of fights… I once read it somewhere in the records and it seemed whoever said this was a wise man.
I should never allow myself to end up like him. Everyone had a date, but mine should come after I'd achieve everything possible and visit every single place in this entire universe… No, in the entire big cosmos!
The light faded and I returned again, on top of my chariot, standing against a brutal scene of fighting.
It seemed that what I worried about before was true… That king summoned all his forces here.
I saw tons of ground forces gushing out from massively big whirlpool-like portals in the distance. The big castle was still there, hovering over the ground, attacking with ranged weapons.
My valiant generals were facing ground and flying forces alike.
The weapons and items I bought earlier proved themselves worthy. The sky was filled with tons of flying beasts and winged races which kept coming hot at my forces inside the shield.
But from the shield, my forces launched their attacks, killing a large number of these forces.
These items… They were really worthy of each bone I paid.
Bones… Recalling this made my heart ache!
I lost a lot! Spent too much before to strike the deal with Silverlining, then spent the rest at that arena.
However, just when I was feeling this deep pain of losing so much in such a short time, I got a series of messages that made my mood change at once.
[Congratulations! You won the king Vs king challenge]
[You now have half of what king Silvador had]
[You gained half of his belongings inside your inventory]
[You gained control over half of his forces in this world]
[You gained control over the Fearful Castle]
[You gained a king medallion]
I looked up at these messages before it suddenly hit me!
I gained half of his forces? How come this is? And an answer popped up in my mind, a very daring answer that I didn't take for granted before checking my profile first.
"Damn! It's true! That dude held his forces by contracts, just like me!" I looked up and there I found in the contract page lots of additions that just came in at the last minute.
They were a bunch of many races, mainly Hectors. I looked up at this screen before laughing.
Such gain… It was truly unexpected at all!
"Listen up" I held my horn and shouted amidst my laughs, with the thought of contacting the recently joined forces to me, "break free from the enemy and join my forces now! Disobey and you will all die by the power of the contract."
This was a game changing! I just gained half of what he had here, but he already brought out much of his forces.
I didn't feel any bitterness about losing the forces that didn't come here. It seemed it was forbidden for me yet to use them.
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Who knew? I might get these forces later on when I'd leave this world and go venturing the vast wide universe.
I stood on top of my chariot while watching a very shocking and exciting scene.
Half of the forces started to suddenly break apart, move away from their allies, group together, turn around before forcing their way towards my shield.
My forces kept themselves all this time inside the shield, giving them a good chance to kill the enemy without getting killed.
The sight of such a move startled my forces, and that reminded me that I hadn't spread this great news yet.
[Don't attack the incoming big troops, they are on our side] I sent this to all the generals here, while another battlefield piqued my interest.
It wasn't the fight going on at the walls, led by my generals there. It was way beyond!
The aquatic battle was long ended by my loss and retreat. The size of forces there were simply too much to handle, and there were lots of other stressing issues here to handle.
But now? And just at the far distance I saw a huge number of forces coming out from the gulf and trying to gather up together.
Damn! He also owned the huge aquatic forces up there at the ocean and gulf? If so, then this war brought me such a pleasant surprise!
What was my sole weakness against Hectors? Of course lacking decent aquatic forces!
Damn! I got myself such a large number of very well trained and much experienced aquatic army! And it had to go on land and fight their way towards my walls?
No way! No f*cking way! This would be suicidal!
"Listen up," I instantly held my horn and ignored all the messages that came from my generals asking about what the heck just happened here, "all aquatic forces near the gulf, go into the water and group there. Find a safe zone outside this battlefield and wait for more instructions."
Like they got electrified, the large wave of forces that was getting formed by the sh*The load of forces coming out of the gulf paused for a second there.
Then as if they were all controlled by a higher force, they all turned around and returned fast towards the gulf.
I even saw many forces in the middle of the dense enemy army turning around and started running.
This came all of sudden and the enemy didn't have any decent generals to give them orders. I killed their king, and they were now like headless giant pythons.
As I secured my aquatic army and saved it from getting unneeded losses, I shifted my eyes towards a certain direction.
"So… You aren't a normal castle built by the Hectors after all… You are an artefact! Just like my chariot!" I grinned evilly the more I looked at my new baby.
She… Was awesome! Able to keep me breathless for days even while looking at her beautifully huge sized area and the lots of defences over it.
This baby… She was mine!
Chapter 796 The Awesome Flying Castle - Part 1
I got my chariot, but by no means it was enough to carry an army of soldiers. I once had an army of illusionists that I didn't even think about tracking their whereabouts for a long time now!
The trouble of bringing them around was big enough to make me drop using them. Besides, they weren't that good to begin with.
If I had my castle with me, then I could solve this problem… Partially.
After all, the speed of movement of this big baby was really rivalling a snail!
"Come inside!" as I got it, it was time for me to move it into my inventory and deprive the enemy of such a strong asset.
However, what happened next shocked me!
I thought when I'd recall it, all the forces on its back would fall to the ground. Such a fall from such height would kill anyone, no matter who!
Without using treasures and items to fly or reduce the impact of the fall, none of them would survive, or should.
However what happened was for the collosal castle to vanish alongside the soldiers inside it. I blinked twice, scanned the gap created by the castle's disappearance, but I couldn't find a single troop falling.
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What the heck just happened?
I opened my inventory and there found the castle lying quietly there. However, there was a lustre of red colour surrounding it, giving it a special feeling.
Out of curiosity and lack of understanding of what was going on here, I opened the description window of this item.
And a long window popped up in front of my eyes.
[The Fearful Castle: Heaven grade artefact. Belongs to King Hye of the human race. Can't be dropped except by killing the king by another king.
Previous owners: King Malak of the Sorceity race. King Grendo of the angelic race. King Silvador of the Hector race.
It's a living type of artefact, one who feeds on the death energy created from killing any enemy with forces on top of it, or by using its weapons and abilities.
The current death energy stored: Ten thousand units.
The castle can work as a separate world where it will apply to any special abilities of its owner.
The current special ability detected by King Hye of the human race: Time manipulation.
The king has all the power to regulate the time manipulation as he wants, with minimum time difference 1:2 with the real world as the passive effect granted without paying any price, and 1:100 with the real world with paying the highest price.
The castle weapons:
Towers and turrets are free to use if you have forces. If not, to automatically activate them to attack any hostile forces to you, you'll need to pay one hundred thousand death units per day.
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The offensive siege weapons can be freely used if you have forces. If not, to automatically activate them to attack any hostile forces to you, you'll need to pay one hundred thousand death units per day.
The central castle is the heart of the Fearful Castle. It controls the defensive shield. The shield can be passively activated without any price, or you can pay one hundred thousand death units per day to activate the intermediate might of the shield, or pay five hundred thousand death units for activating the supreme form of the shield.
The central caste can use rays to pick up troops belonging to you from the ground passively, with the capacity of one thousand per minute. Or you can pay fifty thousand death units to let the rays pick ten thousand forces per minute, or you can pay two hundred thousand death units for the rays to pick up one hundred thousand units per minute. The effect will last for a day.
The central castle has the Fearful Axe, an artefact of man grade. It can be activated by paying two hundred thousand death units, forming a mighty axe of energy, hovering on top of the castle and will last for one hour. The king can control it mentally and wave it to attack once per five minutes.
The king can pay one million death units and the axe can last for six hours, and be used once per two minutes.
The central castle has the supreme silence pulse cannon wave weapon. It can be activated by paying ten million death units to be activated once to silence the entire enemy forces for an entire hour in a distance covering one hundred miles radius.
The Fearful Castle has the following abilities that are based and tailored on the current king's time manipulation ability:
-Time manipulation ability at the closed world of the castle: Can be used while the castle is stored inside the king's inventory, or can be halved when used at the real world where it's summoned in a world where the king is.
The passive time manipulation effect is 1:2 of the real world time.
Paying daily one thousand death units or monthly ten thousand death units will increase this ratio as 1: 10, 1: 15, 1: 20, all the way up until it hits the upper limit.
The price for activating the highest time manipulation effect, 1: 100 is one million daily death units or twenty million monthly.
The range of effect is limited to the castle region when stored, ten miles around it when it is in the outside world. The king can pay ten thousand death units daily or one hundred thousand death units monthly to increase this range by a hundred miles each time.
-Legs In Sand ability: The king can specify an area of five miles radius and affect all the enemy forces thereby a time reduction effect. Paying ten thousand death units will get this ability activated for one hour. The king can pay extra ten thousand death units to expand this area by ten miles, or gain the ability to control the area and move it around, or even both by paying fifteen thousand death units…]
Chapter 797 The Awesome Flying Castle - Part 2
-Don Kihot ability: The king can specify an area of ten miles in length and one in width and affect the enemies there with time distortion effect. The attacks of the enemy will all miss the forces of the king for one hour by fifty percent. The king has to pay ten thousand death units to activate it, pay the same to get this area increase by the same, or control it and move it around, or both by paying fifteen thousand death units.
-Godspeed ability: The king can pay ten thousand death units for his forces inside an area of ten miles radius to gain a speed boost and precision bonus for an entire battle. The king can pay ten more thousand death units to increase the area by ten miles.
-Rewind ability: The king can pay one million death units to activate a battlefield general ability that will affect the enemy forces and force them to reverse their moves for the entire battle.
The current state of the Fearful Castle: Green stage. To upgrade it to the higher Blue stage, the king has to pay fifty million death units]
Damn fierce! That was the simple description about how fierce this chariot was!
All these weapons and abilities… The big surprise came from two, that supreme silence cannon wave thing, and all the abilities that were driven from my time manipulation ability.
For the second time, I felt really grateful and blessed to have such ability inherited from the old man.
Old man… Thank you! Really from the bottom of my heart I thank you!
I reread the description again, neglecting everything that was going on at the battlefields around me.
Things were supposed to go fine by the removal of the current leadership inside the castle, and by killing that king.
The more I read, the more impressed I became. This castle… It was way OP than my chariot! Than my pillar! Thank you! Then anything I got so far!
I now got why there wasn't a single troop falling from it. They were all trapped inside my castle, enjoying the time difference there.
I looked at the different number of pieces written beside each weapon and ability. Death energy units… Were they the same with my pocket necromancers' world's death energy?
If it was, then this would be a blessing!
Aside from that, it seemed my castle would bring the effect of time manipulation to this world at last. Despite it needing tons of such death energy units to be paid, at least it could be applied.
Then that scary silence effect. Just thinking about using it in the middle of a huge battle was scary! This castle wouldn't just be my strongest asset, but my most reliable weapon to shift the tide of any battle.
The only problem would be the death units.
The only explanation why that king didn't use it properly was thanks to such liability. It seemed he finished his last battles and exhausted most of his storage of the death units.
It never crossed his mind that he would be forced to such a situation in a newly formed apocalyptic world like Earth and would regret not having much more of these units.
But as I became the owner of it, I had to find a way to solve this problem!
How was this death unit thing even calculated? I didn't have an answer to this question. If it was calculated based on the number of souls exhausted in a single battle, it would be easier then to store such energy.
But something told me this wasn't as easy a feat as this. The exchange must be much higher than this.
If it was one death unit per a hundred souls, then in big wars like this one, where tens of millions died in it, I'd be able to store lots of death units indeed.
Wait a moment… That king summoned it and left it here for a purpose. He didn't just leave it as a headquarters for his forces.
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He wasn't that kind of a king who would be caring and attentive to his people.
That meant those ten thousand stored death units came from the time this castle was brought over here.
If that was true… Then the exchange rate would be scary!
I opened the description window again but didn't find anything related to this rate anywhere in it. I had to check it manually then, test how much it would absorb and expect how hard it would be.
I was sure millions died in the time this castle was hovering over the battlefield. That meant the exchange rate might be close to what I expected.
I looked around. There were still millions on the verge of dying in this end battle. Should I summon it then?
I hesitated for a second. That castle was under my control when the enemy used its weapons and rained them all over my boys.
I estimated that almost a million troops were already on it, or even more. I got they were the strongest elites, and they'd be a good addition to my forces.
But it was safer to summon it at a place void of my forces, at least not during this critical moment of this fight.
"It's best to leave it for later then," I decided before checking over the current situation of the battlefield.
The unexpected addition of fresh forces to mine added more momentum on all fronts. Aside from the aquatic side, which I planned to leave till the end, the other two fronts were just doing fine!
The number of forces coming from the central zone was enough to support both fronts for now. I watched the enemy forces starting to lose hope.
They lost the sight of their king, and the generals leading them vanished alongside their castle.
[Spread the word… Hector king Silvador just fled the battlefield with his generals and elites] Instead of spreading word about his death, it was best to use his flee as a good blow to sever the already on the verge of collapsing morales of the enemy.
Chapter 798 Finishing The Central Battle
[Tell them this, whoever throws down his weapon and surrenders will be left untouched to live alongside his family] I sent this while adding the family touch as I knew how deeply the Hectors care for their families.
The first to object was Sara. she sent asking for continuing the fight.
And then many more started to object, including Legend whose words were delivered by the jumper.
[You know this kid you brought over, the one who called Legend, I like him! He is very brutal and aggressive, just the suitable lieutenant I was looking for!]
[Keep you hands off him, he is just a pure talented kid]
[But I want him in my army!]
[How? And he already has his own army to lead!]
[Stingy lord and king who never attends to his trusted and long serving aidee!]
I rolled my eyes. This jumper wanted to take a tiger and make him hold the fort for him! I wouldn't let him do that. Legend has proved his worth so far, and just objecting to my decision proved he wasn't satisfied yet.
[Don't worry, the armies here won't all surrender like this] I sent this to all, [Besides, who said we finished this war? There is still the grand aquatic army waiting at the eastern walls, and the rest of the continent left to conquer!]
That was true. Even if we won this battle, killed their king, and controlled their capital with the kill of most of their strongest armies.
That didn't mean we got total control over the entire continent. There was still lots of work left to do, and they were going to be busy for a long time.
Also there was the small and very crucial part about the monsters.
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According to the generals who left their posts there and came here to help, led by Hilary and Isabella, they left enough forces to safeguard the beasts.
They let their forces have a bite off these beasts. I would lead them out there first and kill each beast and watch how they would grow stronger.
And that would take time.
Not to mention the fifth beast must be somewhere in the northern towering mountains.
Hearing this, they all settled down and started executing this rumour plan.
At first, the response that came wasn't that much. Only scattered hundreds up to thousands surrendered here and there, gaining themselves the retaliation of their allies nearby.
However after a few hours of fighting without the appearance of any of their leaders and king, they started to slowly believe what they were told.
Then the waves of surrender started to take a much larger scale.
[Told you, there will be many fools who will resist till the end] this was the true case here indeed. Even if most of the forces here surrendered, threw their weapons and fell to the ground in a surrender move, there was a good number that kept fighting.
Those were the hardest and last struggle the Hectors here could pull. Each single one of them took lots of forces of mine with him before dying.
When the forces surrendered, I spread contracts over their heads before letting them enter my shield.
Whoever refused to sign was killed at the spot by my dragons.
Seeing few of them being butchered in such a merciless way when they refused, the rest were terrified to even raise their voices, and signed the contracts.
As I was settling this here, my generals here led their forces out of the shield and started to kill to their heart's content.
They got many losses, but that didn't matter. By the end of the tenth hour, the last resistance pocket here fell, announcing that this entire capital was under my control.
Only one battlefield remained; the eastern one.
[You will go to the mountains and search for the last beast] but before that, I sent the jumper this order, asking him to continue what he didn't finish so far.
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[Why is it always me?]
[Just do it. This task of yours isn't finished yet]
[Ok, what about my army? Don't lend them to anyone, I'm warning you!]
He started this fight with an army made entirely out of warriors. But during the long course of this war, he ended up adding many races, humans, and even controlled Hectors to his army.
[Let them scatter in the capital] I sat my gaze upon the big pie here, [Let them stabilise the situation there, and take these signed contracts and let them distribute these over the citizens there]
[Ok, even if I felt a little bitter about letting them do that, at least no one will corrupt the mentality I planted in their souls and minds!]
I didn't comment over his arrogant attitude and words, simply closed the chat before opening three others.
[Lead your forces towards the eastern walls. We will start to clean that battlefield]
[But we don't have any aquatic forces!] Sara objected.
[Don't you have Hectors? The forces that just surrendered are all elites. Use them and I'll have my turtle helping] I looked over the gulf and ocean, [Also there is an army nearby that will come to our aid]
[Ok!]
The three answered before working out to take a piece out of the Hector's surrendered to me. The jumper saw this and didn't leave before taking his share.
This dude would die if he missed a chance or something like that!
But I didn't say anything to stop him. In this war the armies fighting here lost it big, especially his.
He fought first at the eastern battlefield alone with my little one. Then he led his forces in a hasty retreat, before joining up the fight in the central zone of the capital.
It looked just fair for him to replenish his losses using such elites. Hopefully he wouldn't end up destroying this army for the fourth time!
As the jumper left, and his army got tons of contracts to distribute over the citizens of the capital, I watched the four other armies move out towards the direction of the eastern walls.
Chapter 799 It's My Victory!
"What about me, dark lord?" from far, the turtle asked and I had to come closer to it first before whispering his next task over.
"Oh, I like this. Thanks for entrusting me with such an army, dark lord," he said in a way that I didn't know if he was speaking honestly or not.
Then as it left to execute his task, I focused on the still hot fight over the eastern walls.
The aquatic forces there weren't alone. They had lots of races and Hectors to fight alongside them. In my eyes, they weren't an enemy, they were a decent army waiting for me to take.
But considering their huge numbers and the constant reinforcements gushing out from the lots of underwater portals, I knew this fight would last for a long time.
And the main reason behind this was my desire to control as many as possible of them before this battle would be over.
Even if I got a good aquatic army from the Silvador king, it was still one army. Having just one aquatic army when my kingdom had such wide areas of waters to defend was unrealistic.
I aimed to control more armies using this battle. And as such, I gave the order for everyone here to stay inside the walls and keep defending.
I, alone, ventured to the forefront, hovered above the enemies' heads in the sky with nothing they could do to stop me.
They weren't aerial forces, or even ground forces with lots of weapons to target my chariot. That if my chariot could be shot down like any mere fly or something.
Then I entered a fervent state of working my technique and threads to control the forces just coming out from the ocean and gulf.
These ones were the safest to control without much casualties. I tried to control forces at the central battlefield but ended up losing them.
They either had to go to the walls and pass through the heated up fight there, or go back to the ocean and cross long distances. Either solution failed, and so I ended up standing near the ocean and gulf, controlling massive numbers in the process.
Anyone controlled would first get the order to retreat back to water before forcing him to sign a loyalty contract. I kept doing this for long hours, extending over to almost a day.
During this time, my hands were tied down by my lack of bones. I spent almost all of my bone reserves on the low and mid grade ones. Using higher grade bones like dark gold and above just didn't look right and a big waste of resources.
And in the middle of this, the effect of my sacrifice boosts vanished, greatly affecting the ability of my technique to perform like before.
Yet I kept working over the races and monsters coming out from the waters until I felt enough.
In fact I was never going to get enough. However after a day and half of such work, the enemy stopped sending herds of enemies here.
The size of the armies sent dwindled by much. It seemed that whoever was lending a hand here to this continent got the news of the fall of this continent's king.
It was futile and useless to keep fighting such a war. It was already lost, and whoever was handling the situation on the other side of the portals decided to give up this continent.
As such, I tried to control more before I felt it was a waste of time and effort. The scale of portals was just massive! And now their forces weren't gushing out like raging waves of the ocean, from everywhere.
They were coming out in scattered points, separated from each other by a large distance. Going to and forth was pointless. And so I gave the order:
[Attack! Kill all of them on the land!] I sent this to everyone before turning my eyes towards the direction of the big ocean:
"Come here now, lead everyone and crush those portals. Don't leave a single one intact. Then bring all the corpses from the depths of the ocean and gulf here on shore."
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"Yes, dark lord!"
I couldn't even see a glimpse of my little turtle's colossal body, yet he managed to hear and even responded to me from such a far distance.
In the next five hours, the entire battlefield ushered under heavy silence by the fall of the last enemy.
Then loud shouts echoed from down below.
This war… It was my win at last!
[Gather up!] I sent this once the fight was over, [Scatter out your forces, grab all the corpses here]
I lost all my bones, but that didn't mean I wouldn't get more. From this war alone, I estimated to get a good replacement of what I lost.
I hoped I'd got more bones this time than I ever had before. And considering there were tons of elite Hectors here, I expected to get much higher grade bones than before.
I previously thought I got enough, but the last two spending sprees I did made me feel I'd never had enough.
So as I waited for my different generals to come on board of my chariot, I watched their armies scatter around, bringing all the corpses from near and far.
The good news was that this wasn't the only battlefield I got. There still were the battlegrounds of the four beasts, plus the battles we got before near my capital.
"Congratulations lord for such an overwhelming victory," the first to speak out of all generals when he came was Brian.
This old sly fox… As I got the tide on my side he was showing such an excited and sincere look of joy.
But I knew once the tide would shift, he would be the first to abandon the ship.
"Thanks for your efforts," I said, while silently motioning with my eyes for my friends to come to my side. I didn't miss Legend as well. "You all did great."
I did that just to put a line between those who performed extremely well and who didn't. Not to mention even if I got thousands of generals, my friends wouldn't lose their position in my kingdom or to me.
Chapter 800 My Thoughts About The Upcoming Golden Quest
Only exceptional generals like the Legend case would be granted such an exception. Seeing my silent arrangement made the faces of the Hector generals change slightly before they returned to their joyful and cheerful expression.
"Lord, can't we ascend and climb ranks in the kingdom?" one of them couldn't fight the urge to ask about this.
"In my kingdom, anyone has the chance to ascend higher," I simply answered him, in a tone that wasn't humble or overbearing, "but I know my friends and how good they performed. Also I saw Legend in the act. As for you… I have to listen to reports from other generals first before deciding your ranks."
I rejected his indirect request, and also gave them all hope. I wasn't lying. Legend did extremely great, fighting on all sides, and even gained the recognition of the jumper.
As for the rest, I was quite busy handling other fights and matters and didn't have the chance to observe their actions.
Yet they weren't fighting alone. They were fighting alongside many friends of mine. So I just had to ask, and if any of them performed exceptionally, he or she would be rewarded.
"We shall leave this for later," Hilary said while leaning her head over my chest. Since coming onboard, and she didn't leave my side, "we still have beasts to kill."
"And a continent to conquer," Isabella said, and I looked over their faces while nodding.
"First things first," I paused, "the jumper is looking for that fifth beast. But so far he didn't find a trace of it. So you should go and talk to the locals, see if they know anything about this."
A day and half just passed already without finding that beast. I got one of two explanations for this; either it was already killed, or it was well hidden away from here.
This continent was massive! Even if it was hidden somewhere, then my forces would just break every stone and explore all valleys before finding it.
But first, we had to ask around and see if this beast was already killed or not.
"So boss, are we going to kill beasts first or control the land and people?" The spearhead seemed weary and tired, but he had such a big smile as his girl was also leaning her head on his chest like mine.
The presence of one's lover was enough to bring joy to anyone, even if he was deadly tired like this fat dude here.
"We will clean this battlefield first and find news about the missing fifth beast," I said to put things out in order, "then we will go to a single beast and kill it. If your forces still have not gained blessing from it, then let them first before killing."
"Will we allow…" Sara paused, moving her eyes in silence towards the group of Hector generals standing here before adding, "other races to get such benefit?"
"Anyone serving me is serving the kingdom," I had to clear such doubt before it would infest and expand larger and cause a mess, "in my kingdom, there is nothing like humans and other races. We are one nation, and we will rule over this entire apocalypse by this concept."
My words were sudden to all, even to Brian and his gang, even to my friends. But none spoke to argue with me.
After all, I had to deal with such a new situation emerging from what I had achieved and gained so far. I controlled many races indeed, purchased much more from the Petal impact and the Toranks sovereigns.
So my kingdom was mutli-ethnic nation. And if I just focused over my humans and made them feel like they were the chosen and sacred race, my kingdom would never be united.
I wouldn't go to the extent of expecting internal wars and chaos, massacres and such. But after my time, my descendants wouldn't have a nice time controlling what I left for them.
Not to mention the number of all races combined to my humans was bigger. I recalled what happened before on the second Earth world.
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There a massacre was going to happen between humans and other races, a massacre in which my humans would have been on the backfoot and suffered lots of losses.
Such a kingdom wasn't going to thrive or enjoy prosperity. The best solution was to let everyone live in peace and under equal rules.
Whoever would perform good would be treated well. Whoever would excel would be rewarded. And whoever would bring trouble would be punished, no matter which race he belonged to.
Equality and justice… That was my answer to such a tricky situation my baby kingdom had.
"You can go down now and start looking for answers," I sent them all away.
"Even I?" Hilary looked at me, holding herself around my neck with both arms.
"We… Aren't done yet," I gulped, controlling the heat that burnt down below before caressing her head and toying a little with her hair, "after we control this continent, let's have a long vacation in another world."
"Uhm," she nodded, and I couldn't let her off without a deep and long fiery kiss to quench a little of my thirst for her.
As I saw her leave, I could only sigh. I looked up at the sky while inwardly wondering: 'Where are you, my Karoline?'
The fifth quest was drawing near, and with it the golden quests would be opened. It was the promised date for meeting that thing that controlled and brainwashed her.
The golden quests… Such a name I first heard from my old man. But during my time here, the golden quests held much more importance than just fulfilling an old man's long wish.
The jumper had to meet and find his mate in it. And I had to find Karoline and rescue her.
Three tasks till now were held upon my shoulders and related to the upcoming golden quest. Three major and very tricky quests that I wouldn't be able to lose one of them.
Chapter 801 The Problem Of The Fifth Beast
Lots of questions about the old man and his race, about the angelic bloodline and ability that I had were lying somewhere over there.
The jumper would either meet the man he craved for, and solve everything. Or things would grow out of control for him, and me.
Even if he was a jerk, he was a priceless asset and a friend to me.
What made me feel unsettled was the fact that I only knew; his god! It was a troublesome existence lurking in the shadows, a merciless son of b*tch who loved toying with lives in such cruelty for his pleasure.
I never forgot that he was the one to seal my channel before and caused me lots of problems back then.
Such a god was a cancer, and the jumper was oblivious to all this. I thought about telling him before, but how could I and his god be watching all the time?
And even if he knew, would he believe me? And if he did, what could he do then? Would he allow me to use my godly nemesis scissors over him? Would that sneaky hideous god allow me to do it?
Sigh! Everything about this jumper was just… Too damn complicated! I just hoped at the end of that journey, everything would be fine.
Then my Karoline issue would come. Up till now I had no clue about what she experienced. From the words I exchanged once with her, or the thing that was now her, I got that he and I shared a history.
I wrecked my head lots of times already, but couldn't find a single foe that would hold such a deep and old grudge against me.
All the races here had a chance to take a bite off me, or try to and fail. Yet that bastard seemed like he never did so, and this was his way of paying me back what I did.
Sigh! This was the cost of being overbearing and OP! I had too many enemies to even remember them all.
"It's time to gather my bones," I was about to do it when something huge landed fiercely next to my chariot, sending off a storm of dust.
"Dark lord, please, please send me back, please…"
I raised my eyes and saw the colossal body of that turtle which acted like a little kid at this moment. "Ok, you stuck to your words and did great," I slowly said, "I'll send you now… Ah, but how can I do it?"
I paused as I had a technique to seal it and one to summon it out. Would sending it back require another technique?
"It's easy dark lord, just place your head over my body and think about calling me back. It's just like what you normally do with your warriors, pretty easy."
I looked at it in doubt. I never needed to do such a thing as touching my warriors to summon them back. "Come inside then," I waved my arm and the next moment, that colossal body of it vanished with a loud popping sound, leaving behind a massive cloud of fog.
"Even till the last moment, you were trying to fool me?" I laughed, shaking my head and didn't let such an act spoil my mood.
Right now, I was finally going to quench my thirst for bones. Having bones felt to me like having all the wealth in the universe. And having no bone left me with such a threatening feeling of being poor and hopeless.
As the little one returned back to my shadow world, I led my chariot off to where heaps of dead bodies were gathered by my scattered forces.
And without any hesitation, I jumped down and started a long spree of work.
Tons of bones started to flood my inventory at last, enriching my dried up bone reserves with different grades of bones.
As I expected, the number of the higher grade bones was much higher than any attempt I had before.
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The normal before was to have green and blue grades as the mainstream bones, much fewer silver and gold grades. While the precious ones starting from dark gold and higher were extremely rare.
But now I started to find a clear shift in such incidence ratio. The mid grade bones were now the mainstream found, and the lower grades became much scarcer than before.
Not to mention the rate of the highest grade bones got tripled and even higher.
Of course that was great news to me. But still having low grade bones was never bad.
I knew this battle and the one at the first basin would have the highest rate of finding higher bones than the rest. So I had nothing to worry about getting the low grade bones I lacked at the moment.
[We asked everyone, but they said there was nothing like a guardian beast offspring gigantic beast ever here]
This message came from Hilary after five hours of their leave. I paused for a moment, thinking about where this beast was.
[Keep asking about any big area that can be hidden from the eyes around here] I was sure the fifth beast wouldn't be far away from the capital.
[I will]
I closed the chat with her before asking the jumper.
[I searched these damn mountains twice so far, but couldn't find any single trace of that damned beast] he seemed enraged by failing his task, [I'll go outside and look then]
[Do whatever you want, but find this beast for me. After all your army won't get any blessing from others but this fifth one]
[Hye! Don't do that!]
[It's just the right thing, it seems you lack motivation. How about this as one?]
I closed the chat before it would explode out of his angry and rude messages. It always felt nice teasing such a jerk.
And I wasn't bluffing. He had to find it or his army wouldn't have the chance to get the blessing from the other beasts' blood.
Chapter 802 The Immense Value Of The Fifth Guardian
I knew I could depend on him and others to find this fifth beast. But the question here was: Why did they take such trouble to hide the last beast?
Weren't all beasts the same? Why would they hide the last one in such a way?
[Is there anything special about having five beasts under our control?] As I got questions without answers, I opened the chat with the only person who could give me them.
[There are!] And Lily just answered swiftly back, [You guessed it right. Having five beasts and letting our people get bathed in all of their blood would have at least double effect of just letting them bath in four beasts' blood]
"Oh! So there is such a thing?" I now realise why they took all this trouble to do it. I paused, thought for a long time about it before resuming collecting bones.
After one hour, it suddenly hit me.
Where was the safest place in this entire continent? A place where Hectors could hide such a huge beast of eyes, even from the eyes of their common folks?
Of course it was there!
[Listen up, come here and take an aquatic army] I sent this to the jumper and the rest of my generals, [Search the bottom of the ocean and gulf, look for the big hole first. Once found, the beast won't be far off]
[Are you sure? This… I got it!] The jumper seemed to be sceptical at first before he read what I had in mind.
The Hectors… The only place they would hide the beast at without getting exposed was the ocean and gulf.
Water wasn't our turf, but it was theirs. So it only made sense to hide that last and very important beast there.
It shouldn't be hidden far off the capital, or else if it was accidentally discovered, they wouldn't be able to defend it.
Also it had to be close to the shores, so they would lead their men there and get the boost of it later on.
As I cracked this mystery down, it was only time before my men would find it. So I returned to collect bones, trying my best to collect all of them in the fastest time.
However, the ocean was really vast! From the words I got from my boys there, it was filled up with lots of mountains and caves, very sophisticated valleys and underground tunnels that took them over a day to scan just half of the area close to the shore in a few hundred miles radius.
During this day, I was close to finishing collecting my bones. I estimated I need half a day more. But in the middle of this period, I got the message I wanted at last.
[I got it!] It was from the jumper. That jerk didn't fail my expectations for him and really found this beast, [I found the hole it crawled out from] however he didn't find it yet, he just found the place it was born at.
[Look around it then] I sent, [Also send your location for others to come and aid]
[This beast is mine, it's not for them to butt in like that!]
[Come on! Your army will bathe in its blood, are you satisfied now?]
[Partially]
[Just send out for them. I have less than half a day here to get done. You should find it before I'm done]
[Or what?]
[Just do it right and don't get on my nerves, bastard!]
[Humph! I have no time to waste on you]
I closed the chat in anger. That bastard always got on my nerves each time I spoke with him.
He was a jerk! I vented my anger over the remaining bodies and claimed bones at a faster pace.
This battle here had tens of millions of dead, and most of them were the elites of the Hectors. The best were those who came from the dead king's army.
Each one gave me lots of bones, the lowest of them was gold grade! Can you believe that?!!
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I even got many red bones from them like the red bones turned to be dark gold bones or something.
I was having my fun here while my armies kept searching the base of the ocean for twenty-seven hours. And the one to send me the right message was none but that jerk again.
[I found it] He sent it just when I had a couple of hours of work left to get done from here.
[Cool! Can you find a way to draw it here?] It was great to find it, but the main problem still remained.
It was so damn way off the shores, too deep in the ocean. It was pointless to leave it there, or else how would my forces get the boost from it?
[Well… We might have a little problem] he sent and the first thing that popped up in my mind was the presence of an army there.
[I'll bring the turtle again and let it lead my aquatic army to help] This was my answer to what he just said, however he hurriedly sent it over to stop me.
[No, no, it's not a problem of an army defending it]
[Then what?]
[This beast… It's not just a normal beast…]
[These beasts are all special and not like your normal ones! Don't tell me you already forgot about the size and shape of the other beasts already!]
I couldn't believe it! Did he have such a fragile memory or what?!!
[It's not that, idiot! I'm telling you, something is wrong with this beast!]
[Explain then!]
[You better come and see yourself! I won't bother telling this to you and you won't get what I mean]
I couldn't help but feel frustrated again. This jerk… [Fine! Give me two hours and I'll come to your location]
[I'll let your useless chick hover over the place with her chariot]
I closed the chat and ignored his last remark about my girl.
Chapter 803 Lily's Weird Request!
What would be weird about such a weird and unique beast? I truly couldn't get it. But I first focused on handling the bones here before I finally went towards the ocean.
I just took short glances at the capital I had. I couldn't consider it a capital anymore. My kingdom had only one capital.
So I planned to rename it to be a metropolis or something like that.
I didn't have time to inspect it enough, but from what I looked it seemed all the Hectors here just accepted the result of their loss.
They were signing contracts and all the fights ceased. They all surrendered and accepted such harsh reality for their future and the future of their kids.
This was the brutal nature of any war. In a moment, a mighty nation might just lose and their people who were once hailed as one of the top three races in the entire universe would end up in such a miserable state.
Ending up being a part of a nation belonging to a race they'd never put in their eyes no matter what.
I moved my chariot away while entrusting this place over to my forces. They needed to rest and they deserved it.
For long days, they kept fighting from one battle to another, marching even for hundreds and thousands of miles until this war ended.
Their reward wasn't just rest or wealth, it was the promise of making them stronger using these beasts.
As I flew over the ocean, I kept asking Hilary about her location.
[Just go north west. There is nothing here to mark the place I'm at. It's all water!]
This was funny indeed, but I kept moving my chariot ahead with my fastest speed.
They took more than a day to search for this beast until they found it.
But in less than five hours, I managed to spot her chariot as a dark dot at a distance using my Hawk Eye skill.
"You surely took your time to arrive," she rolled her eyes, seemingly feeling a little bored.
But she wasn't alone.
"Lily is here," I moved my eyes towards the chariot next to Hilary as Lily was on its board.
"There is something I need to talk with you about," she seemed so damn serious. Wasn't the war over? Didn't we win? Or did she have a request regarding her people?
Well, she fought and contributed to my victory. If she asked for a small privilege for them I might consider it.
But it never crossed my mind that what she wanted to speak about was something entirely different.
"Come on board then," I waved at the two girls, and they simply jumped off.
"I don't know why she came," Hilary gave Lily such a vigilant look. From day one, Hilary placed Lily as a potential threat for no obvious reason to me.
"I want to ask for a favour," Lily looked me in the eye without blinking. Just seeing her alluring figure made me think about things, but when looking at her scales, I couldn't help but throw these thoughts out of my mind!
I still couldn't get over this scale issue.
"What favour?" I asked while my entire thoughts were focused about her possible favours regarding her people.
"That beast… Can we keep it alive?"
"…!!!"
Well… I never saw it coming!
"This…" I knew I decided to reward her for all her contributions she made so far to my kingdom and armies by accepting her request.
But this favour… It wasn't the kind that I'd accept even from my girl!
"What are you talking about?!" Hilary turned fiercely towards Lily, taking advantage of my momentary pause, "weren't you the one to tell all of us about the benefits of having this beast? And now you are asking us to leave it alive!!"
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Well, Hilary got a point. But something still was off. Lily was indeed the one to tell me and seemingly others about the big value of the fifth beast.
So why would she change her attitude all of sudden and ask me to keep this beast alive?
It didn't make sense!
"Explain yourself then," I ignored what Hilary said and said to Lily. Even when she got confronted like this by Hilary, Lily stood all collected and calm in my eyes.
"I'm aware that asking this out of the blue might seem inappropriate and illogical, but I have a good reason for it."
"Then tell," Hilary crossed her arms as if she was challenging her to give any reason enough to make me change my mind.
Of course Hilary knew me better, and she knew that I would never risk giving my boys such a chance under the request of anyone.
"I will," Lily said before focusing her eyes on Hilary, "but I'll tell him alone."
"You… B*tch!!" Hilary got stirred up all of sudden and even grabbed her sword and was ready to start a fight with Lily.
"Stop," but I had to intervene and prevent such a fight from happening, "go now. I'll come later on and join you down below."
"Hye! You can't…"
"Don't be childish like this and meddle personal feelings with work," my tone wasn't loud or low, expressing how calm I was.
"…" Hilary had a hard time believing my words, but I had her to leave. Under my calm gaze and unmovable stance, she decided to leave.
Yet she gave a long warning and promising fiery gaze towards Lily before leaving.
As I watched her chariot go into the ocean, seemingly using some sort of a treasure to keep her alive under water, I couldn't help but sigh.
"Why do the two of you act like this all the time?" I turned and asked Lily, who shrugged as if this matter wasn't a big deal for her.
"It's like how you and that masked human do when you are together. Is it friendship? Or enmity? Or envy? I dunno…"
This girl… Was she finding my quarrels with the jumper amusing? Weirdo!
Chapter 804 A Weird Meeting
"You can tell me now," I waved my hand. She asked Hilary to be gone, and we are now all by ourselves.
"Not like this," yet she suddenly took out a flashing golden orb and held it tight in her hands. Once she did, the orb flashed in bright golden light before a huge net of sparkling golden threads appeared around my entire chariot.
"This…" I didn't get the meaning behind what she did.
"It's one of the highest selling items I have," she went to touch the threads, and the moment she did a melody appeared as if she was playing on an instrument or something.
"Anyone trying to listen to our talk will hear this melody instead and might feel sleepy," she didn't stop touching the threads, moving around my chariot while adding, "now we can speak properly, Hye king of human race."
"What?" her tone and attitude strangely changed. I raised one eyebrow while she kept moving around like she was doing something she got to do from a young age.
"Don't worry, I'm just a messenger," she said as if this was a light thing, "We are just taking over your subordinate body temporarily, to just deliver a message."
"You? Who are you?" I answered these shocking words by holding my glaive and pointed it towards her direction. Yet even if I got the feeling she got what I just did, her moves and actions never showed any sign of nervousness.
"Don't get stirred up like this, we are just here on a friendly visit."
"You didn't say who you are yet."
"We… Can be considered to you as the collection of old souls," her tone was the same, but she gave me the sense that she grew older and had much domineaur than before, "a group of old souls guarding our race."
"The Hector race? Or another?" I was in such a weird situation where I couldn't get what was going on.
"The Hectors," she nodded while keeping her walk around, "we were watching you through our people you entrapped using the advantage of the system."
"I'm just playing according to the rules," I shrugged, without shifting my gaze off that weird soul controlling my Lily for even a single second.
I didn't feel great having such an uninvited guest in my chariot. And so I also called for my pillar, ready for a brutal fight at any moment.
"Rules or not, you are devastating my poor race with such supremacy."
"Poor race? One of the big three is a poor race? That's a joke!"
"Ranks and titles never mattered in the apocalypse, only might and strength did. And you are considered an anomaly in such a world."
"Thanks for the praise, but you didn't tell me why you are here."
"I did," she kept her tour around my chariot, completing the first round and continuing, "I want you to keep the fifth beast alive."
"When it came from Lily, it looked weird. And coming from you, makes it weirder," I paused before adding, "this fifth beast holds great importance for me and my kingdom. Sorry, I can't agree."
"I'm not speaking about losing a beast. If you want, I can just give you an egg of another beast, just to complete this useless circle of power you are seeking."
This mysterious soul… He was offering me a beast in return? And his way of putting it made me feel he never placed any importance about stopping me from taking the blessing of the five beasts together.
"Don't give me that look, after all we didn't leave the guardian beast behind for our race to kill."
"You… Are speaking like you are the one who created the legendary name of your race."
"I am," she slowly nodded, "not only me, but everyone else on my side is."
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I didn't get his meaning, truly, but it seemed he despised the fact that his race's future generations kept killing the beast's offspring he left behind.
"Why didn't you try and speak with your race leaders then?" This was the easiest way to solve this mess, "they are your descendants and will listen to you."
"The greed for power… You can't underestimate such thirst," he said as if he had already tried, more than once, and failed. "We tried, but they never listened to our requests and pleas. All they cared about was finding ways to make their people stronger."
"That's natural," I didn't have anything to say to argue with such logic. I wasn't acting any different actually, aiming to get anything to help me to reach this goal as well.
"No, don't think you are the same," shockingly enough, this dude seemed to read my mind, "you are different."
"How? Sorry but I beg to differ."
"Of course you are, did you forget about what you said earlier?"
"About what?"
"A kingdom where all races will live equally and have a chance to get to higher positions based on their efforts?"
His words made me freeze for a long moment. Indeed I said something similar just recently. Don't tell me he was listening to all this while he was controlling my Lily.
"We were watching you for a long time already, I told you this before. So don't be surprised, thanks to that great speech you said before, we are meeting today."
"To ask me to let go of that beast? Offering me another? Why?" I had to understand before deciding anything.
"The guardian beast… Is just like any sane race in the universe."
I didn't get what he wanted to say. "What do you mean?"
"She… Is like any mother, giving birth to new kids every few years. Tell me, what shall be the normal course of such an act?"
"Mother gives birth to kids, she watches over them until they grow up and have a life of their own."
"A guardian beast will give birth to who will become guardians in the future, right?" When he said it, he controlled Lily's body to stop, turn around for the first time since starting his tour, and waited for my answer.
Chapter 805 An Interesting Offer
Well… His words made sense. A human would give birth to humans, Hectors would give birth to Hectors… It was the normal thing in this universe that a race would give birth to kids who would grow to become like them.
"So… You're saying that this guardian beast is giving birth to more guardians?" I got the meaning behind his words, and even beyond, "but if that was the case, then your race should protect those offsprings with everything they got, right? Why the hell were they killing them?"
I even heard it from the Silverlining himself. If not for this guardian beast protecting the Hector race, the Hectors would never have reached such a pinnacle or even kept it for such a long time.
If I was in the shoes of Hector's higher ups, and what this mysterious entity said was true, then I'd do everything in my power to keep the guardian beast's offspring healthy and alive.
I'd do everything I could to even accelerate their growth.
"That's if you want more guardian beasts in the first place."
"What do you mean?" He kept saying such weird and shocking things, one after another.
"A guardian beast isn't just a normal beast, not even close to the ones you saw here. These are just newborns, with little intelligence and little power. Imagine a much grander beast, with intelligence and wisdom that way goes beyond your abilities to understand. How will you behave towards this beast?"
"With veneration and respect of course," I honestly said.
"That's because you are a pure human," yet his words told me I guessed it wrong, "having such a beast isn't just all great like you thought with your honest mind. It's a formidable force, enough to rival the authority of those selfish and arrogant old men sitting on the thrones of my race for a long time already."
I remained silent, and he kept talking when I didn't.
"The most thing incapable kings would fear is the presence of an untouchable being that gains the respect and veneration of the masses. Not only their authority will always get challenged, their people won't listen to their words if placed against the wise words of the beast, right?"
"This…" it finally hit me. Those kings and leaders were terrified of the guardian beast.
A formidable existence that should act as the sword and shield of the entire race was turned into such a formidable opponent, one that shouldn't exist in the first place.
Instead of working hard to nourish and support that guardian beast to give birth to more, and helping those kids to grow up and become mighty beings like their mother, the Hector kings and leaders placed the task of exterminating those kids as their top priority.
"Why are you telling me all this?" I got what the current situation was at that race. It looked bad indeed. But why was he telling me such secrets that only his higher ups should know?
He took the trouble to come, controlled my Lily, and kept watching me for a long time to get to know me better.
Of course it wasn't just to save one small beast!
"You have to know this first," as I said that he returned to issue tunes from the golden threads again, "not all the offspring the guardian beast delivers have the potential to become a true guardian. Only one in each generation does."
"And that one… Is it just down there?" I pointed my glaive towards the direction of the ocean, "and you want me to just keep it? For your sake?"
"No, for your sake," he shook his head, "we grew pissed off and tired from the selfish and brutal actions of those kings and leaders over the long course of time. We got it, it was wrong to entrust our people with such beings."
"Speaking like you and that beast are old friends."
"We are," he paused, turning to me before adding, "just like you and that turtle are, just like you and the rest of your little group of friends are."
Like my friends? I got the general idea he was trying to deliver, but truly couldn't understand it fully.
From his tone and words, it seemed he didn't put his race in the same regard as that guardian beast.
"I know it doesn't make sense, but this is how we are," he shrugged, "anyway, that beast down there is just the one in generation offspring that has potential to grow and become a guardian."
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"And you want me to keep it safe?"
"I want you to nourish it, make it grow to be your kingdom and race's guardian beast."
"And?" Despite this looking like a shocking offer, I felt there was still more to it.
"I want you to promise one thing to us…"
"You want me to kill your race?" This was the only thing I could think of. He said all these things to show me his grudge against his race.
"Not the race, but it's kings and leaders," he said.
"I won't be able to touch a single king without killing his subordinates and followers."
I wouldn't make a promise that I couldn't keep.
"Killing troops is fine, but killing innocent people isn't."
"And what if they didn't accept my rule? What if they held their race high in their hearts?"
"As it pains me to say it, placing such heart for the wrong race and kings is a sin that I can't say anything to argue against."
"So… Are you cool with it? Entrusting your race, one of the three big races for an outsider like me? You do know that I won't accept a single one without a loyalty contract, right?"
"At least you still keep part of your nature in you," he stopped, looking at me for a long minute before adding, "Serving a just king is much worthier than being lords under a tyrant selfish one."
"It's your race, and it's your call," I shrugged, "but if you think offering me just one beast in return will make me agree, then you are mistaken."
"I beg your pardon?"
Chapter 806 The True Face Of An Enemy
"Taking down one of the big races? This is a hard task! I can't do it with such a cheap price of knowing interesting stories and one beast for my forces."
"What do you want then?" he seemed to be prepared to pay whatever it takes to get my approval.
"I dunno… What can a bunch of old souls offer? I doubt you can do anything useful to me anyway."
"Don't underestimate us," he slowly said, "indeed we are souls, but we can offer you something you lack."
"I doubt it!"
"Intelligence perhaps?" he said, and for a second I didn't get what he meant before it hit me.
"On what scale?" Having someone to tell me news of the universe seemed great and all, but I didn't get it over my head.
The scale he would offer would make me decide. Limiting this to just the world I was in wouldn't get me anything good. But if he could do it on a wider scale, then I might consider it.
"Well… How about the entire universe?" he asked, making me pause for a long moment.
"Are you sure you can do it?" I paused, "will you control one of my people to tell me the news? I don't like it!"
"It won't be practical either… Let me think… You have something that plays recorded orbs, right?"
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"Well… You can say I do," I didn't know why but for a reason this dude here seemed to know everything about the old man's memory beads that I had.
"Don't bluff it, we already saw you playing one before," he chuckled, "anyway we can record such orbs and send them over for you to check them later."
"What if the info wasn't that useful?"
"Believe me, we can reach every single corner of the universe. Of course our number isn't that big, and we have other things to do as well, but at least we can fill in the gaps of the big picture that you lack."
"I have lots of gaps actually," I didn't cover up my desire, "but I don't want you to slack on this. Is there some sort of contract we can sign?"
"We are souls, there is nothing like contracts to bind us. We aren't living to get under the brutal and tyrannical rule of the system."
"Then… How can I be sure you will follow what you said earlier?" Without contracts, without any means to ensure their commitment towards doing this intelligence service, I wouldn't agree.
"Why do you want a guarantee and you got the beast we desire you to protect?"
"One in each generation, and that big girl is giving birth to lots of kids every few years. So it's not that hard to abandon me and seek others' help in the future," I knew they only got me for now.
But something told me they were testing this approach first through me. They would get lots of chances to repeat such a mean later on if it proved successful here.
"Smart human kid indeed," all of sudden that calm smile over Lily's face turned sly, "but we are souls, we don't have anything to bind us with."
"Then you just wasted my time for nothing," I waved my glaive before adding, "I'll go down now and get the head of that beast rolling on the floor of that ocean."
"You…"
"You made such an interesting show, and gave me such an offer, but you aren't willing to bind yourself to it. How come I'd agree then?"
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"…"
I didn't add anymore and he just stood there, controlling Lily's body, and doing nothing but glare at me in such a fierce way.
He seemed to get me wrong. I read all about his little scheme since he started speaking about the old story of his race and that guardian beast.
It was interesting how they were this desperate and kind to save that beast. But this was their side of the story.
In my opinion, that beast is getting controlled by these old fogies. As they lost their authority over their race, they started to devise plans about getting that guardian beast out from that race.
They were Hectors? I bet they weren't! I just saw him through the face and eyes of Lily.
The ancestors of any race shouldn't ask for an outsider to enslave their people and kill their kings, destroy the long heritage of their race, one that started by their deeds as he claimed.
These souls were no better than the kings and rulers of the Hector race; both were greedy for power, willing to do anything to get it.
And that also made me worried about one thing.
If they weren't the souls of the Hector's ancestors, were something else, some sort of being that had connection with the guardian beast and could control it.
Wouldn't they also control the offspring that would grow up to be a guardian later on?
Having such a fearsome being on the back of my kingdom was awesome and such, but I wouldn't invite such cancer in my kingdom.
"You… Are really smarter than what we thought," and as he said it, another doubt of mine proved itself here.
"You can read my mind, and you weren't just watching me all this time. It just happened to get to Lily and from her you get to read my mind, right?"
"Why should we speak in such a way? We were just doing fine acting as friends," he shook his head before suddenly raising one finger and pointed at Lily's throat, "why not we do it this way, you touch my beast down there and I'll kill your people one by one, in front of your eyes."
"Oh, this is the true face of you then," I suddenly laughed, "go, do it if you can," I waved my glaive in the air, making full circles before pointing it in such fierce way towards the ocean, "your boy here will die, and you won't have anything to do to stop me from killing it."
Chapter 807 Doing An Exorcism!
"Such a tyrant and here I was thinking you are different," that dude was still keeping his act despite getting blown in the wind.
Was I a tyrant? Of course not! If such a being had such ability from the beginning, then he wouldn't take the trouble to come and trick me like this.
If you got such ability from the start, why would you take such trouble then? That didn't add up!
So he was bluffing, and he hoped my care for my people would cloud my eyes.
"I don't care what you think," I shrugged, "now scream and let me kill you beast with a clear heart."
"I will kill your people, do you hear me?!"
"Do it then," I got enough from this fool. The next moment I controlled my chariot and let it move towards the ocean.
"Stop! I'm serious! I'll kill her!" he grabbed out Lily's sword and kept screaming like a little girl.
I spared on gaze to size him up. "Let me bet… You are inside this body controlling it using your soul, right?" my face showed a vicious smile, one that made him retreat backwards with a few steps as he read my mind.
He knew what I was thinking about, my scissors!
"F*ck you!" The next moment the golden thread vanished while the water clashed at my chariot's shield.
I looked back at Lily, and now her eyes returned to what I used to see when the two of us met.
"What… Just happened?" her body suddenly grew weaker before slamming at the ground. I didn't move a finger to help her.
"Hahahaha! Quite ruthless one you are," and just as her body fell heavily on the chariot, that bastard's voice appeared again.
Trying to trick me to come closer and drop my guard? Indeed he couldn't kill Lily, but who said he couldn't control her body and kill me? Kill others?
I had a crazy idea about the root of all this. If it was true, then all of sudden my entire Hector talents would turn useless.
Just thinking about this sudden twist made my blood boil!
"You guessed it right, again," he slowly stood up, looked at me with such a smug smile that I wanted to go and wipe it using the blade of my glaive.
However I couldn't. He was in the body of Lily, and there was just one way to exorcise that evil soul.
"The god nemesis scissors? Are you sure?" Even if he kept smiling, I knew this little toy of mine would be able to kill him.
"Let's try and find out," I instantly jumped at him and the next moment he did the unexpected.
He controlled Lily's body and jumped off the chariot, heading towards the ocean.
I knew that he wanted to escape with his life, and then he would go towards the forces down below and create chaos, enough to make me enter another war.
What did he think I was?
"Damn! Why can't I go out!!" just before he would leave the area of my shield, he slammed heavily against it, unable to walk through.
"I didn't tell you about my little girl here yet, right?" I moved in slow steps towards his direction while the shield suddenly twisted to form stripes that held Lily's body from the arms and legs, moving her to come to me.
He tried to resist with all his might, but no matter what, he couldn't break a single stripe off.
"My baby here is magnificent," I stopped walking, moved my eyes around my chariot, "she stayed by my side for such a long time that I started to consider her family. Can you believe that?"
I watched Lily's body getting moved with my shield's stripes to come closer to me. She stopped a metre away, with a vicious expression on her face.
It wasn't hers, it was his. He knew he got screwed!
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"I'm just curious, is it a one way journey to here or what?" I held my scissors high, while feeling it wasn't that heavy anymore.
I used to struggle to just hold it and always failed. Like my glaive, it was a heavy existence that I failed to even hold.
I used it as a shortcut, but now I am holding it so much easier than before.
My right arm was strong, stronger than even my body. It seemed I didn't need the boost from my sacrificial soul class abilities to let me hold it.
As such, I raised it high in the air, while watching the struggling and fierce eyes of that foe.
"Are you regretting coming here?" I asked while holding the scissors like it was a spear.
.
"You will burn in hell! Do you hear me! All of your people will die in front of your eyes, scumbag human race kid!"
"Nice last words indeed," I didn't hesitate to stab Lily's body with my scissors.
My scissors were a mysterious godly item to me, yet I knew it could sever the connection between any race and gods.
Accordingly, it could sever any intangible connection on a spiritual level, just like this little dude here.
"Ah!!!" and the next heart curdling scream that followed made me know it worked. Yet I didn't show any sign of joy.
"Your soul will burn in hell for eternity!" he said such a threat before a black fog rose up from Lily's body.
And this time when her body went loose and weak, falling on the floor while her eyes showed such a weak gaze, I held her up and supported her with one arm.
[You! How dare you?!!] and just as I did that, I reached a level seemingly seen by my girl. She sent this short message to me, getting it all wrong.
[Stop fooling around and hurry up here. There is a disaster we have to prepare for]
[Humph! As if I can get fooled by you! I saw it, holding that girl in your arms as if she was yours!]