Juan took an outfit from the villagers and put it on so that Lord Keons' agent would not recognize him and began to act like one of commoners. After a while he realized that there was no one here at the level of soul formation, but tens of thousands of people at the energy harvesting level. So, everything was too risky.
'What a normal grade task this is. There are too many risks. It should have been listed as a hard grade or very hard grade task.' Juan murmured anxiously.
During the waiting period, Juan did not waste his time. He was watching the fights in the arena during the day and practicing himself with the wooden spear he picked up. He was trying to open up his acupuncture points by meditating for three or four hours in the evening.
He learned thirty of acupuncture points that the spear users with weapon-force had to open and the spearmen generally opened during his Umra Castle mission.
After working this way for two weeks, Juan was used to using the spear and opened his seventh acupuncture point. *(1)*
After attending the early morning breakfast, he noticed that everyone was running in panic. After he got out, he heard that all newcomers had been ordered to assemble. The first groups to defend the pass would be the newcomers. So, the strong and professional soldiers would join the war later.
Hearing the warrant, Juan was deeply stressed. It was said that the first skirmish would take two hours and if they survived they would be replaced by professional soldiers in the second group.
'It's sheer nonsense. Is it such a duty? We're fucked now!' Juan was cursing inside. He could not take offense, being in the custody of the high-ranking dignitaries radiating powerful energy around him. Juan moved towards the passage that was shown to him with about ten thousand people.
Four thousands of these ten thousand people were forcefully chosen from the peasants. Others were peasants or farmers who voluntarily joined the army.
After the war trumpet had been blown three times, they ran towards the pass. Juan had only an ordinary sword and shield, which he had taken from the barracks, against his enemy. They didn't even give armour. His enemies appeared on the other side of the gorge. The two groups ran and collided.
Juan, of course, was cautiously behind. Or he thought so. Because many people close to the collision were much slower and lagged behind. Suddenly seeing the front lines killing each other senseless, Juan was furious.
A few minutes later, with most of the front line dead, Juan was now one of the front line fighters. When Juan saw that the other person was an ordinary person, he began training swords with him without killing him. All he wanted was to stand back unobtrusively. The gateway in which it was located was supposed to remain in his kingdom. If he succeeded, his mission would be over.
The battle in the Gate was beginning to be lost more and more after an hour with the stronger pressure of the enemy side. Juan had escaped before he could kill his enemy, and he had not killed anyone so far. His new enemy was again an ordinary person.
After a few minutes of fighting, the enemy suddenly made a sudden attack with all his might, using his energy at gathering energy first level. Juan activated his armour automatically from the ring with a difference of split seconds. As Juan activated his energy armour, he removed his spear and began to attack his insidious enemy with a spear, deadly. After a few minutes of fighting, they both ran out of energy.
Juan began to flee back in panic and sent his armour and spear back to the space ring. He tried to defend in the back after taking the sword of one of the dead soldiers on the ground. Twenty minutes before the war ended, almost one hundred of the ten thousand men who entered the battle with Juan remained behind. The enemy had about a thousand men.
'I will die of tiredness. There can be no such stupid war. It's over now! End it!' As Juan retreated, the enemy soldiers who could harness the energy seemed entirely intent on killing those still alive. Deciding that no one would come to the rescue himself, Juan took his rare spear in his hand. He left his armour on his ring so as not to attract attention. He began to kill ordinary enemies with his spear. Every time he killed a man, the spirits of his enemies turned into grey smoke and added to his necklace. He started to feel more vigorous with every man he killed.
'I didn't want to kill, but it seems that I've been wrong from the beginning. Everyone has to die in this war. Either I'm going to die, or they are. You left me no other way!' Juan began killing his enemies furiously.
When he swung his spear, he would sometimes kill six people at once, using energy. After a while, so much energy accumulated in his body that the eighth acupoint opened by itself. There were only ten people left on his side when he looked around in astonishment.
The enemy was around sixty people. Everyone was at the gathering energy levels. But all were low. Because the war of the higher levels would happen later. It was almost useless to kill people with low energy levels, as you gain more energy by killing high-level ones. Therefore, those with the most acupuncture points on the battlefield were at the gathering energy third level with fifteen acupoints opened.
After taking a good look around him, he donned his armour without hesitation, and by activating his spear, he darkened and started attacking his enemies. Thanks to the strength of the spear and the durability of the armour, the more he killed, the more his energy increased, and he felt like a fish in water. After killing more than 30 of his enemies in a few minutes, Juan's ninth point opened.
Juan did not feel tired at all because his energy was full. Eight people surrounded him at once. They were the last nine on the battlefield. Juan and the eight men of the enemy kingdom. Avoided from mortal wounds, Juan fought as best he could, and after killing just one more, the trumpet sounded. Spitting their anger on the ground, his enemies snorted and retreated.
Two soldiers at the gathering energy later levels came to Juan's side. "The general orders you! Come with us!"
Juan followed the two soldiers. Hundreds of thousands of people watching the defence were looking at Juan with interest.
'System Information: Lord Keons' agent was killed.
'System Information: Ryu defense is successful. You defended the gate for the given time. Thanks to your kingdom, it remained equal to the other kingdom.
'System Information: The place of duty can be abandoned at any time.
'System Information: Time to leave the task: 5 hours.'
Juan was delighted to have succeeded with the warning. The general looked at Juan with a smile in front of hundreds of people. "Young warrior, why are you among the peasants? You had to fight those at the next level. There is a rule about those who have a high level and enter the war early. They have to fight throughout the day until they fight those of their own level."
"As you are yet the gathering energy level two, the next battle will be at your level. You have to join that war. The war will begin exactly 23 minutes later. Rest if you want. Even though you are the last remaining warrior of my kingdom in the portal, I want to gift you a hundred mana crystals for defending the portal because of your strong-will and courage. Soldiers, raise this man to the rank of corporal and give him the energy regeneration medicine!"
'System Warning: The new main quest has been received at normal level. Defend the Ryu gate thrice. Currently number of successful defences= 1. Bonus: 3 times, Penalty: None '
While one of the soldiers gave rank to Juan, the other gave him a pouch containing mana crystals. He was also handed a pill in a small bottle of potion. Juan felt very energetic after swallowing the pill. He looked at the general and bowed in front of him with a slight bow.
"My name is Juan. General! I want to find my brother's body among those who just died in the previous war. Can I go and find his corpse before the next skirmish begins?"
The general's eyes twinkled as if he was excited like a poor man won a lottery, and he had trouble keeping it.
"Of course" he responded, hardly bracing himself to not tremble. With a little more words his emotions would have been noticed that his voice trembled with excitement. "Take care now!" The general pointed with his eyes to one of his guards next to him. Juan left with one of the guards.
*(1)* [Juan: Physical Power: 1.9 Agility: 1.9 Intelligence: 2.2]