"Master, it's done. Now this man will listen to your orders." Isaac couldn't help but smile. If Greadsorn knew what mistake he has done by sending one of his precious third-order powerhouses, he would smash his own head and cry like 5 years old child.
"With this, I now have only one obstacle that is blocking my way."
"Zeno, wake him up." Zeno poured a bucket of cold water on the ex-leader of the Principality of the People faction.
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"Ah!!! Where am I?" The ex-leader of the Principality of the People faction opened his eyes and began to look around. Seeing the man named Richard acting like he wasn't under the mind-controlling spell, Isaac looked at Sasha for some answer.
"Master, try asking him some questions."
"Who is your master, Richard?" Isaac asked.
"I don't have a master."
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"With what intention did you make the Principality of the People faction?" In this world where the strong ruled the weak, Isaac refused to believe that someone would fight for the cause of the people. There are surely some ulterior motives behind this.
Richard sat on his knees and spread his hands outwards. He began to laugh loudly like a joker. "Hahahaha!"
"The normal people are already afraid of that bastard Greadsorn. I just took advantage of that with some bullshits. Now I have a faction that can rival Greadsorn's power. Soon, I will crush him and kill that bastard with my own hands." Richard was answering without knowing that he was under a mind-controlling spell. The spell worked without the user knowing about it.
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"Why do you hate Greadsorn so much?" The next second Richard stopped laughing as anger turned his eyes red.
"A few years ago, I was a small merchant. I came to this city with my family. I greatly trusted that bastard. But that bastard used his powers to destroy my family. He did the unthinkable to my wife and later killed her. I have been acting ignorant of this for years now. Fortunately, the heavens did not close their doors. I got a golden chance to kill him. So in the name of equality and democracy, I created my own faction."
"I don't care whether the monster destroys this city or not. The only thing that I care about is the death of that bastard."
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A look of disgust appeared on Sasha's face. She can't believe she was working for this kind of man. Most of her time, Sasha spent in the library reading books and learning new spells. Whenever her power was required, she was summoned by Greadsorn.
Greadsorn only used Sasha when he needed her in urgent times. Sasha knew that the Greadsorn family did illegal activities. Never did she think that the head of the Greadsorn house was that kind of man. Sasha was now beginning to feel fortunate that she meet Isaac. If she had not become his slave, then when she had faced Isaac in a battle, she would have died for no reason.
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"How do you plan on destroying Greadsorn?"
"We constantly sending zombies to keep the soldiers engaged all the time. All I need to do is find a route and launch an attack from behind."
"How did you meet this second-order zombie? And why is he willing to help you?"
"I helped him with his when he needed to kill a second order to become fulfill his requirement mission. After that, he swore his allegiance to me. Currently, we're working as equals. Both of us have hate for the Greadsorn family."
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"Sasha, can you use your mind-controlling spell on this second zombie as well?" If Isaac could get this second-order zombie under his control, then he can use the zombies in this city to fight against the upcoming monster outbreaks. At least zombies would serve as cannon fodders.
"Master, unfortunately no. I can only control one person at a time. Also for some reason, my mind-controlling spell doesn't seem to work against zombies."
Isaac leaned forward and looked into Richard's dark eyes. "That's alright. After all, the second-order zombie does own Richard."
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"Why did the leader suddenly call for a meeting?"
"I don't know."
"I heard that the real leader of this faction is going to be revealed."
"Meaning, that the current leader will lose all of his commanding powers."
"What did you mean by a real leader?"
"The very person who first started this faction."
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All the high-ranked evolvers of the Principality of the people faction were sitting together and waiting for the supreme leader to arrive.
Just within 3 days, many corrupted individuals have started to gather powerful evolvers by their sides so that they can become the next leader of this faction. Since Richard's original goal was to fight Greadsorn, he didn't care about these small problems that were gradually becoming stronger.
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"The leaders are coming." Everyone stood up to greet the founder and the supreme leader of this base.
The first person to enter the underground hall was the current leader of this faction who had an ugly and angry expression on his look. When he was told that someone else was going to replace him, the current leader of the faction wasn't a bit happy about it.
After the first person, Richard walked while Isaac and his team followed Richard.
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5 chairs were placed at the end of the hall for the leaders to sit down. Paul, who was the current leader selected by the people of this faction walked angrily without waiting for Richard and took the last chair placed on the left side.
Richard, Isaac, Zeno, and Sasha walked without a bother in the world. While walking, Isaac began to observe the evolvers who were going to become his soldiers in this fight. While Sasha walked in, Zeno noticed that many men were looking at her. This made Zeno frown. Whoever looked at Sasha, only ended up receiving a deadly glare from Zeno.
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After reaching the end of the hall, Richard let Isaac take the chair in the middle. Although this small action was insignificant, this didn't go unnoticed by many intelligent evolvers who were also aiming for the leader chair. The frown on Paul's face deepened seeing that another person was sitting on Richard's chair.
"Everyone, thank you for gathering here on this short notice. Today, I have a big announcement to make. So I hope everyone will pay attention to my words."
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"This is Isaac. I am already too old. Even before the apocalypse started, I already had retired from my merchant carrier. So I have found Isaac to be worthy of becoming the new supreme leader of this faction. From now on, you all will be under Isaac's command. I...I object" Isaac knew there will be some evolvers who will be dissatisfied with his decision and try to challenge even Richard. This would also give Isaac the chance of wiping out the insects that have been corrupting the faction from the inside out.
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Everyone looked at the young muscular tan-skinned tan whose age was about 30 years old. His name was Taylor Hill. Taylor was a level 41 powerful evolver who had the power to even kill a Peak second-order zombie. In just 3 days, he had gained the recognition of everyone in this base. There were some people who tried to mess with him in the past, but those people had mysteriously disappeared from the faction. Everyone knew in their hearts that Taylor had done it but no one was gonna admit it openly.
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"My name is Taylor Hill. I challenge you for the position of the Supreme Leader." Taylor at this point completely ignored Richard knowing that Isaac was the one who had the real authority in this place. So by defeating Isaac in front of everyone, no one would be able to stop him from becoming this faction's leader.
Isaac calmly stood up as his eyes flashed in cold light. "Why should I accept your challenge, Taylor?" Isaac asked with a cold smile.
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"If you're a man then you will accept my challenge?"
"What a pathetic reason. I have heard this cliche sentence for hundreds in the past. If you find a good reason maybe then we can have a duel." With an unbothered look, Isaac sat down making Taylor, the hot-blooded young man angry.
Putting his right palm to support this right cheek, Isaac looked at Taylor. "If you want to fight then you have to put something equally precious on the line."
"I will allow anyone to challenge, Isaac for the leader's position. However....." Richard looked at everyone's faces.
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"However, there will be consequences of facing Isaac. The loser will meet their end. So decide carefully whether you're willing to put your life on the line." Saying that Richard closed his eyes. Isaac was sure that some other fools were also going to challenge him.
While Taylor, after a moment of silence. He gritted his teeth and took out a ring from his pocket. "This ring has 2,500 spirit stones that I have been saving for 4 years. If you win then this ring is yours, If I win then I will become the next ruler."
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"Sure, let's get this challenge started." Even though Issac didn't show it on his face, inwardly he was super excited. In order to make his Castle, he needed to gather 10,000 spirit stones. Although this amount wasn't much, at least this was better than nothing.