Ten minutes later.
Shallow wind valley, few hundred miles north of western warlords palace.
Western warlords palace had gone through a major change by now with unfaithful rats being weeded out from their ranks!
While the western warlords palace was preparing for war, Mark was now glancing at the last yellow rank base who was pretty much targeted to get absorbed by him!
" This girl... I never thought that she'll become this strong... this sooner... "
Wendy had completed her work by now. All the green rank bases which caught off guard were annihilated, including the half mutants which now were not much of a threat to her.
After all her corpse flame was special right?
Thanks to her corpse flame which became more frightening with essence of dead, the half mutants could only get obliterated unless they were of superior variants to begin with!
Right now Wendy had enough strength to obliterate peak order aura emperors, much less White who could hardly put forth a fight against her!
Still she remained as humble as a faithful woman which showed her loyalty to Mark
" Boss... "
Comming back to the present, Wendy pulled the sleeves of Mark and looking at the strange creatures which were unknown to her.
Curiosity made her look upto mark and question him who seems knowledgeable about them.
" Bear heads? Boss... they are bear headed people? "
Looking at the towering bodies in shallow valley, Wendy's eyes gleamed with excitement.
After all the towering bodies filled with vitality was ideal snack for her right?
" Indeed! They are beast men race's half Bear folk! "
Mark gave a casual laughter before explaining.
" Wendy, do you know that the half bear folk are quite rare in existence and are known for their vigorous vitality? "
Vigorous?
Mark let out a hardly smile as he explained
" It's inappropriate to say this at this place but... "
Cough! Cough!
" The half bear folk are said to have low fertility rate... To compensate this they mate at least once daily and each session wouldn't be less than a couple hours to boot... "
Mark had learnt about this from his inherited memory, and with Wendy being grounded into her mansion since young she indeed was less knowledgeable about beastmen than others.
No wonder she found half bear folk amusing when they had bear headed faces with brown fur all over their back!
That vigor!?
Wendy's face turned red for a second, still she didn't back off as she questioned
" A lustful race then? "
Cough! Cough!
" It's their genes which made them stronger, still creation had reduced their fertility rate, so they couldn't be put at blame silly! "
" And I guess that this single base is worth more than a dozen... Amounting more than half the orange rank base in terms of harvest! "
" So no mistakes are tolerated, since they are enemies to begin with no need to feel guilty about killing them all! "
Looking at dozen meters tall bodies of bear folk soldiers which were robust, Mark stressed his words before revealing a sinister smile which revealed his intentions!
" You are free to consume them, just make sure that our undead army breakthrough peak-mid order or high order aura kings by the end! "
" After all, a peak-mid order undead is worth ten initial order undead in terms of strength na? "
Darkness extract!
Laughing out lightly, Mark straight away pounced towards their base blending into shadows before stating.
Whoosh!
" Summon our army! Surround them! Not a single half bear folk soldier is allowed to escape! "
Understood!
Giving out a nod of reply, Wendy gently stood from ground, tidied her robes as she smiled
" Even if you hadn't commanded, I wouldn't let off those juicy prey which are severed in silver platter right? "
Whoosh!
Black smoke started amassing around the valley and undead wielded with heavy armor started popping out who were about to fight a battle for real!
As commanded, wendy summoned her undead army to surround bear folk from all sides.
Though the bear folk were caught off guard with the unexpected, they were after all beastmen who had heightened senses to become aware of what transpired within the mist!
Enemies!
" Gather over! Enemies from all sides! I repeat, enemies appeared from all sides! "
Earlier, when Wendy met with him at the meeting point, Mark gave her his portion of intact corpses, which raised the undead numbers she commanded at present.
Forty thousand plus aura kings surrounding the yellow rank base from all sides!
Just how much of a pressure was bear folk put under when they could sense their own death nearing them?
Looking at the large army of undead surrounding them, the bear folk soldiers immediately assumed formation, to resist the undead.
" Such death aura... still we aren't push overs damn you! "
Boom!
Still their quick reflexes and swift movements were rendered useless when Mark interfered!
Slash! Slash! Slash! Slash!
Slash! Slash! Slash! Slash!
Mark secretly managed to sneak deep into their formation, and once the time felt appropriate he boldly revealed himself before starting at rampage!
Good formation still it couldn't help much under Mark's rampage, as they need to fare against undead who were attacking them from all sides!
Slash! Slash! Slash! Slash!
Slash! Slash! Slash! Slash!
Half bear folk numbers started dwindling rapidly and with Wendy going to join the battle personally they were bound to die ugly!
Summon!
Walking down graciously like a gentle beauty, Wendy summoned her lance and straightaway launched it to emperor rank expert at a frightening speed.
Whoosh!
Tearing through the air with devastating powers, the lance launched by her had passed through multiple targets before bursting the head of bear folk expert who had important role in formation!
Boom!
The emperor rank expert surrounded by multiple bear folk soldiers was killed on spot, accompanied by dozens of unfortunate soldiers that got dragged in the trajectory.
Summon!
Boom!
She once again resummoned her lance and thrown it for an another time, killing an additional emperor class expert and crumbled the whole line of formation following it.
A single attack from Wendy had done a huge blow to their morale, and with the next she had completely drawn them to despair.
Right when Wendy was about to launch her next attack, the remaining experts of bear folk ignored Mark and dashed straight towards her to make a kill.
" Haha! Idiots, instead of fighting this Mark, you go dashing towards Wendy! Death seekers indeed! "
White could only laugh with an amused face as bear folk made a mistake which would cost heavily in current flow of battle!
After all, if they wished for, they could try escaping even if it does cost them heavily with casualties to begin with!
Still their bestial sense of pride and revenge colluded their minds which made it difficult for them to think rationally as they headed towards Wendy which made their fate inseparable from death!
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
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20 minutes later.
The battle was overed quick and with Wendy taking care of the stronger ones personally Mark didn't had much to do as he could only appreciate the strength of undead which excited him!
A thing which startled Mark was her growth, even the half mutants which were troublesome had not fared better against her as they got eliminated quick!
And looking at the sight where they were reduced to mere food for undead, Mark got chills...still looking over the fact that she was his power, he got reassure to calm back to reality!
Gulu... Gulu... Gulu...
" Wendy hurry up with your devouring! We still have those orange rank bases to deal with! "
Looking at Wendy who was taking her pleasure in digesting the fleshly energies of bear folk, Mark spanked at her butt and ordered her to haste up the process.
" Boss!~~ treat women gently! "
Wendy moaned out in pleasure, doesn't know weather the fleshly energies were influencing her as such.
" Damn! I did it without thinking much... "
Doesn't know the reason why but Mark felt a little better when he spanked Wendy for better!
" This vitality, hehe!~ We hit large this time! "
" These energies... it had made past our undead knights ascension rate to thirty in hundred! A little more and I'm almost done with it! "
Moaning out loud, Wendy made a pitiful expression before continuing with her work.
Sigh!
" This girl... I can't find words to reprimand her, after all she isn't slacking off though... "
Mark let out a casual sigh before moving away from the place to scout for strange movements in the surrounding.
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Few minutes later!
Few hundred meters away from the destroyed base, several black armoured soldiers riding on top a wolf like mounts were rushing towards the yellow rank base hastily.
The commander looked extremely savage with his half naked upper bodies revealing the sturdy muscles on the outside with multitude of scars and wild etched totems which made him look fierce.
Right when this group reached the yellow rank base on orders, there wasn't a sign of bear folk soldiers they were ordered to receive.
In turn, all that revealed to their eyes were burning skeletons, grey ash, and a dark center which was devouring grey flames present around!
" Fuck! How did these fuckers got screwed to dead? "
The rotten smell of burnt flesh had already triggered their senses earlier, but looking at the actual site of destructing which was severe than imagined, they started panicking for real!
After all they were supposed to attack the northern gate of palace by reinforcing half bear folk right?
Still reality hit them hard which made them want to escape as it wasn't their s*** any more!
" Fuck! This isn't my fault either way... "
" All units retreat! "
Whip!
The commander leading the troops had whipped his mount to get ready!
But unfortunate for him, a little figure in black robes had straightaway intercepted him, flying few feet above the ground and made his escape plan for naught.
Stay put!
" Who are you? "
Glaring cold at Mark with his fierce face, the leader roared out intimidatingly wanting to end the matters without putting a fight at this place!
White was after all a kid to his eyes, even if he really did reached aura emperor realm, would he a proud beastmen who reached similar stage fear one?
He felt Wendy who sat within the ball of flame intimidating, intimidating enough to rival his vice lord who was in retreat after suffering injuries!
Such a fearsome entity, he needs to evacuate quick!
Though he tried acting tough, Mark was easily able to deduct his inner thoughts just by looking at his body which tried hard to resist shivering.
" Since guest had came this far, how could we send them back without showing our hospitality? "
Mark chuckled a bit, before unsheathing his blades to welcome them.
" kill! "
Since the option of retreat was overed, the fierce man could only battle Mark to get out alive for real.
Thousand initial order aura kings, with dozens half step aura emperor elites to accompany!
Though it was a strong army to content against, it wasn't much of a deal to mark, who had reached seventh stage in refinement!
" Did I say I was fighting alone? "
Shudder!
The land below their mounts started shuddering at once, and not long from then multiple silhouettes in heavy metal armor started popping out which was a intimidating sight to behold!
Crack! Crack!
One after the other, beastmen got killed in the ambush which was extremely unexpected for them to counter!
Thousands of undead were revealed out from soil, who started a slaughter with element of ambush in their favor!
" Damn! Controlling this group of undead is a pain in... how did Wendy command them like nothing? "
Mark could only curse Wendy for asking him to command undead personally, still he couldn't entirely blame her as it was his own decision to begin with!
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Author's notes:
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Status:
# Mark - 7th stage of refinement! ( High order aura emperor equivalent )
# Wendy - High order aura emperor!
Wendy's undead forces
1. Initial order aura king - 32,000
2. Middle order aura king - 8,000
3. High order aura king - 1,200
4. Peak order aura king - 800
5. Half step aura emperor - 620 ( mostly piled up from half mutants and green rank base leaders )