After wreaking havoc and kidnapping Bret, General Bodin Mont laughed out loud as he rode straight back to his camp.
"Hahahaha! This is the best victory in the world."
"No doubt the great me will be promoted, gajajajaja."
"The general will no doubt be promoted."
"This plan came out so perfect it's scary."
"When we return we must inform General Lurden about─"
*Landing*
Something fell in front of them.
Their horses stopped, a large cloud of dust was rising.
The general sweating said.
"W-What is that?"
Through the dust cloud a shadow emerged, it was taking strong but slow steps.
Stepping out of the dust cloud, everyone noticed a young man saying with an angry look.
"I will kill you all! I will finish Norden with my own hands!"
The soldiers seeing him proclaim that, laughed loudly.
"Hahaha what is that fool talking about!"
"What pit did he come out of?"
"Let's cut off his legs to drag him back to camp."
Two soldiers got down, showed their sharp swords.
"Kid, the worst thing you could have done was to show yourself."
"It's not our fault what's going to happen to you."
"The one with the weird mustache is the one in charge, right?"
Rei showed no sign of caring about the threat.
The soldiers as they approached pointed their swords at his neck, Rei raised his hand and said.
"Don't ignore me. Hoop."
From the palm of his hand space began to distort to black as night.
A black hoop floated in his hand.
"What is that thing?"
The soldier wondered, but it was too late.
Rei tossed the hoop over his head and then...
"Absorb."
The soldier was swallowed whole.
Rei materialized another hoop in his other hand, which brought it to the direction that was the stomach of the remaining soldier.
The hoop went through the soldier with no problem.
Rei smiled before saying...
"Release."
"....!"
The soldier suddenly started to convulse, his belly started to grow, after a while they saw something creepy.
From the soldier's mouth a hand came out. Which was propelled causing it with everything connected to come out as well.
Everyone watched in horror as a human being came out of the mouth of another.
The soldier was torn to pieces while the other guy had died from broken bones.
Rei played with the hoops that floated.
"Space-Time Magic... or some shit like that Kuro said it was called."
"This thing allows you to send an object to be absorbed to another place. He said that send from point A to point B an object."
"I don't care, just answer. The one with the mustache is the one in charge, right?"
The soldiers were terrified, but the general shouted at the top of his lungs.
"Don't hesitate! The enemy is only one and we are more! Kill him quickly or else your heads will fly!"
The soldiers hearing the general's proclamation, did not hesitate to attack.
"Charge all of you against him!"
They rode with their spears, bows and swords against Rei.
Who didn't even blink or care.
"Idiots. I wasn't going to let them live anyway, even if they told me."
"Let's get to it."
Rei materialized two more hoops in each hand. Making a total of six hoops.
She sent them away as she turned her back to the enemies.
One of them sent his arrow straight at her face, but an invisible wall destroyed the arrow.
Then a spear came, which broke instantly.
"They're here."
Rei said ignoring his enemies who were beating him to no effect.
"Die."
With those words, the hoops approached some soldiers and emptied their contents.
One emptied red sand, it's sand that has small carnivorous insects in it. A trap in other words.
Another emptied sharp rocks.
Two of them emptied sharks as they went ashore. The fish despite not being in their environment ate the soldiers.
The remaining ones emptied swords left over from the battlefield.
Within seconds all the soldiers were dead except the general.
Who released Bret and rode off after turning around.
"There's the guy, I'm out of here!"
"You think I'll let you?"
Rei said in a sinister manner.
He threw one of the hoops, the general was forcing his horse to run at full speed.
It only took seconds before the general felt something strange.
His lower half felt light and his hands held nothing.
Slowly he realized he was in heaven. He had been caught and thrown here.
"Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!"
He let out a panicked scream as he fell to an enormous height.
Before he hit the ground, he was caught by a hoop, again ending up in the sky.
"Please noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!"
It was already three o'clock in the afternoon when Rei got bored.
"This is boring, I thought I was going to have more fun."
At that moment, Bret woke up.
"... Hey, where am I?"
Of course, he was confused.
Rei told him.
"It's about time you woke up."
"It's you! Where am I?"
"Where... well..."
Rei gave a quick summary to Bret.
"Uh... it can't be..."
"That's right... I'm bored already."
Rei gently laid the enemy general on the ground.
He was so dizzy that he was vomiting nonstop.
Rei cured him and said.
"Go away."
He took a horse and headed back to his base.
Bret asked him still confused.
"Why did you let him go?"
In which Rei replied wickedly.
"To make my elimination target more fun."
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Night fell as the general returned to the enemy camp.
A soldier came to his aid.
"General, are you all right?"
"... Gather everyone! Here he comes! We must get ready!"
"Who is coming?"
"The smiling demon!"
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Rei used a skill to generate a small tornado and after placing a carpet he had kept in his storage, he placed it on top and both us and Bret were on our way to the enemy camp.
Bret who was upset said.
"Emm, what am I doing here may I ask?"
"Just for one thing, I won't tell you, it's experimental yet."
"Yes, I understand... but am I really needed here?"
The carpet was on top of a small tornado, I'd be peeing myself too if I were him.
Rei who was yawning said.
"Of course, if what I have planned works, you'll be the key part of it."
"Really!"
Bret rejoiced like a little kid.
"Just shut up and do what I tell you."
"Yes sir!"
As time passed we arrived at our destination.
Everyone from the enemy camp was waiting for us.
The guy with the mustache too.
"What will you do Rei?"
"Isn't it obvious, I'll make them wish they had died before my arrival!"
Rei was smiling even more terrifyingly than before.
"Die! Fire Spear!"
From the sky a red cloud formed, which split into small shapes equal to spears.
These were sent at great speed against the camp.
In less than a second the place was in flames.
Rei will not allow them to escape, he activated another ability.
"Wall."
A wall of air covered every inch of the place.
They could not escape.
To make them suffer more, he activated something much worse.
"Teleportation."
Rei brought something from somewhere.
They turned out to be desert scorpions.
Rei knew about them since in the days we were here we went around and found some.
Scorpions hate fire, obviously they would try to dig to escape, but Rei used the skill "Hardness" so the ground was so hard they couldn't dig.
Naturally they would become desperate, attacking everything in their path.
The cries of despair and pain from the soldiers was a very morbid scene.
But I think this is what Rei wanted, the same thing they did is coming back to him.
An eye for an eye is called.
I said to Rei.
"So what do we do now?"
"I want to see if they survive."
We stayed there for a couple of hours... in the end only one survived, the guy with the mustache.
His body was swollen, he was calling for help while his face reminded me of a blowfish.
Rei walked towards him and said.
"No help, you'll stay like this until I'm done with the others."
Rei activated an ability to heal his pain a little so he wouldn't die.
The desert scorpion's venom is equivalent to the Asian giant wasp's, the pain is so much that you need morphine to be able to endure it.
Rei threw it on the carpet before saying...
"Now let's go for the next general's."
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"Hurry up!"
"They're coming!"
"Leave no side free!"
A soldier was sent by General Mont to deliver a message.
"The smiling demon will go for all of us! Get ready for the attack!"
The general in charge of that camp was a brown-haired man with a mohican.
His name was General Rodd Lurden.
He didn't believe in fantasy tales, but he knew the man sending him that message wasn't chicken, so something serious had to be.
They were all ready for combat from whatever enemy was coming.
"Nothing yet that answers the squad sent!"
The man was asking his subordinate who was trembling.
"I'm very sorry General Lurden! But the gold pine squad hasn't returned yet. In fact, no message has reached us confirming that they arrived at their destination."
"How do you say─?"
The conversation was interrupted by a huge explosion at the front.
Remains of soldiers were falling to the ground. Their intestines were scattered everywhere.
"Damn it is here!"
The general grabbed his helmet and battle mace.
"Prepare for battle!"
All the soldiers took their weapons and followed the orders of the general who shouted.
"Left flank and right flank must not leave any holes! Everyone must have their weapon ready!"
Whatever caused the explosion was getting closer and closer.
The general grabbed his gun and pointed to the front.
"I am General Rodd Lurden of the Norden Kingdom! You will perish here!"
The explosion ended and someone was sitting behind a large cloud of smoke.
"Hah, who the fuck is that!"
The cloud of smoke gradually disappeared and the general began to sweat.
A figure─ a man was sitting on a small mountain.
No, it was not a mountain of dirt, it was a mountain of corpses.
His sword tapped his shoulder out of boredom.
"These guys were supposed to be strong, but it looks to me like they're mostly wimps, hey, are you listening to me? Hey."
"Who are you talking to?"
The general asked, but he didn't give it any more thought and stood in front of the enemy.
"You finally arrived─ smiling demon!"
The man gave the general a sidelong glance after being called that, stood up and─
"I hate being called that, it's a very ugly nickname."
He smiled in the scariest possible way.
"But it's true that I enjoy seeing their faces sorry to see me, so it's flattering."
The man jumped off the mountain of corpses and in less than a second.
"I am Rei, the strongest Cheat Lord in the world!"
He cut off the general's head.
"Come on all of you idiot, I'll kill you one by one single handedly to make it exciting!"
"Geez, you really are quite barbaric, Rei."
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Rei didn't hold back with the squad that was sent after him.
He killed them all while having fun.
I could see as Rei mowed down his enemies as Bret stood terrified behind a rock.
The mustached general was with him.
He was convulsing every now and then, his eyes rolled back in his head.
Rei slaughtered the enemy army in less than 5 minutes.
No one was left alive.
He grabbed the general's head and said.
"It's time to go after the big fish to finish this."
"Hey you, I'll send you back to camp to report what happened."
"Alright..."
"Okay Kuro, let's go give a salute to the king of Norden."
Rei walked over to the mustached general and grabbed him like he was a sack of potatoes.
"It's time to teach a country why it shouldn't mess with the Kingdom."
We flew straight to Norden.
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The Norden Kingdom.
A country located to the north of the Brune Kingdom.
Their economy was not very good, they were very indebted, their only way to achieve income was through sending soldiers.
Their population is larger than that of the Kingdom, with a total of 3 million habitants.
Unlike the Kingdom they have close to the sea, being able to invest in the maritime sector but due to their king it is impossible.
The king of Norden, a man named Walsh, was a horrendous person in every sense of the word.
His appearance was grotesque, his face had pimples from the fatty foods he consumed daily, his scraggly beard was so stinky that it was as repulsive as his yellow teeth.
His big belly was visible, including his body hairs that radiated his foul odor.
He stank in different ways. Servants approached him with their noses plugged so as not to smell him, nor did he bathe even though he had sex every night.
A minister said to Walsh.
"Your Majesty, reports have reached us that the squads have not reported since yesterday."
Walsh was chewing a grilled fish with his hands.
He was wiping at his clothes or a maid's hair before answering.
"And? If those good-for-nothings don't show up just cut their pay."
"B-But Your Majesty. I'm not talking about them not reporting anything, I'm talking about how rare this is. They always send reports even if there's nothing to report."
"Then don't bother. If they haven't sent anything it's because there's nothing to report. Don't bother me anymore and let me eat."
*Chomp*
"If the king does not eat, the people suffer, so the king must eat more than the people."
Walsh used taxes on his own personal expenses.
If anyone told him otherwise, to the guillotine.
If anyone questioned him, he tortured them before killing them.
If someone didn't do what he ordered, he played with his family and threw them away.
The king of Norden was a brute, many corrupt ministers as knights backed them up.
For that reason, he could do as he pleased, because others supported him.
Everything was normal in this little hell, when they heard a strange sound.
"What is that?"
It was that of an object falling at high speed.
Something came through the window and crashed to the ground.
It generated a small tremor like a large cloud of dust.
"What's going on!"
"Guards!"
The guards stood around the cloud of smoke, as time passed it cleared and everyone was speechless.
General Mont lay there dead.
They thought it was from the impact, but he died long before he crashed.
"Why is the general lying there?"
"How did he fly here?"
"Call a doctor."
The door connecting to the hallway opened.
Rei walked in carrying a large leather bag.
Behind him were several dead knights.
"You guys sure are a pain in the ass."
"Who's that? Arrest him!"
Walsh shouted, the knights went straight for him, but Rei used a skill called "Air Blade" and the seven knights with spears ended up split in half.
Silence filled the atmosphere, Walsh got down from his throne to try to escape.
But Rei threw an air blade at him and it flew past him.
Walsh was very scared.
"Hey pig, if you try to run away I'll slice you up, sit down."
He heeded him, Rei reached up to where he was and then pulled General Lurden's head out of the leather bag.
"Rodd!!!"
"That's right, I killed this guy as well as that one over there, if you don't want to be next, tell me what you want to know."
Walsh instead of understanding his position, got haughty.
"You think you can get away with this! I am the king of Norden, my allies are the principality and the desert kingdom, if they find out about this you and your nation will be─"
A dry sound was heard.
It was Walsh's right ear being yanked off.
Blood was pouring out in droves.
"Heal."
Rei healed his wound, but it was so he wouldn't bleed out.
"Guards!"
"I won't say it twice pig, tell me everything I want to know or you'll end up roasted."
"Guards!"
"Tch. What an annoying pig."
Rei grabbed Walsh by the shirt and threw him out the window.
Walsh cried as he screamed before falling to the ground.
But he was grabbed by Rei who flew out to catch him.
Rei took him to his throne, Walsh wet himself, he stunk so bad.
Rei activated "Clean" so the stench wouldn't affect him.
Walsh didn't even know what world he was in by his expression.
Rei said.
"I guess I'll destroy this country if this pig doesn't talk."
"Emm, excuse me... what can I get you?"
A minister approached him speaking respectfully.
Rei looked at him and replied angrily.
"I want to know who this pig has been corresponding with, to be exact, it has to do with Brune."
"With Brune? Give me a few moments, will you?"
"Hurry up."
The minister hurried off, while a maid approached Rei to ask if he would like a cup of tea.
Rei sat down on the stairs and told her "Yes."
Minutes passed and before he finished his tea, Rei noticed the man coming with several documents on him, other men were with him scratching papers.
"Th-This is all the information we have on Brune and this pig!"
"If there's anything you need to confirm exactly just say so!"
"I want a letter from a guy named Catley. Look it up."
"Aye aye!"
The ministers set about looking for the contents of that name, after a while they did.
They found several letters with the return address Catley.
Rei read them all and most of them were junk.
Except for one.
"Bingo."
With that, not only was the war over, so was the plot between Harvey and Catley.
"Alright, with that, there's nothing left to say but that the war is over, right?"
"Y-Yes!"
Replied everyone present.
"Soon an army will come, they would open the gates for them and say that Duke Redblade conquered all of Norden. did you hear?"
"Understood!"
"Good. Do what you want with that pig."
Right after Rei flew away, the servants grabbed various weapons and approached Walsh who was still babbling.
Walsh's entire body was torn to pieces by those present for all he did to them.
The king died and with that the war between Norden and Brune was over.
But now there was only one matter left to resolve.