Chapter 85 - The Lincoln Tunnel Battle
*Roar!*
My shield warriors felt the threat and didn't hesitate to use their combined skill from the very start. I didn't stop them. After all, we hadn't even crossed half of the tunnel yet. Their skill would buy us more time and let others adapt to the fighting styles of those rats.
*Bang!*
The giant shield emanated from the warriors, headed fast towards the rats coming up and swept them all like a broom sweeping dust.
"Keep running," just as I noticed the jumper's intention to attack, I hurriedly shouted, "don't stop moving!"
If it was only these rats, then I wouldn't feel any pressure. Just the lots of them that got crushed by the mighty shield of my warriors were still on the ground paralyzed from the impact.
That allowed my Bulltors, archers, and magicians to kill them while we kept heading forward. But that wasn't the end of their charge, it was simply the beginning.
"Keep running!"
But no matter how many of them tried to appear and block our path, the shield warrior skill was really the best counter to the rats. As we ran for a few more minutes, we were considered to reach the middle of the tunnel.
There we found what I feared about!
"The slithering snakes!" the jumper exclaimed in warning, but he didn't see another hidden threat.
"There are life suckers as well," I shouted in warning, "never leave my side, do you understand?"
It wasn't a warning for the girls only, but also for the spearhead and the jumper as well. The jumper already was at the forefront, trying to prevent the incoming disaster.
But if he went way too far ahead, I wouldn't be able to help him if things went wrong.
"I can kill them," the jumper said in satisfaction.
"My domain is weak against such monsters, but it still can weaken them," the spearhead tried to argue.
"As the life sucking bugs are here, that means their giant friends are here as well," I said in a grave tone. And my words made the eyes of the jumper widen for a brief moment.
"You don't possibly mean…"
"Yes," I nodded in a firm way, "the worms are here!"
"What are those worms?" Alex seemed to be afraid of bugs and insects. Her face was already pale since we met those rats.
She wasn't the only one showing such a response, but the other girls didn't react the same way when I mentioned the worms.
She screamed, her voice was burdened with all the worry and fear she held deep inside.
"They are something you don't want to meet," the jumper was faster to respond, and he said it in a direct and honest way, "especially inside such an underwater tunnel. They can turn cement into powder, and with their large bodies and our narrow space, this tunnel can be drowned!"
Dude! Come on! You weren't helping here at all!!
"Don't worry about them for now," I hurriedly said to reassure the girls, "I have a perfect counter for them."
The jumper looked at me in a way that seemed like he didn't believe my words. I rolled up my eyes in response. Come on dude, give me a little hand here and show some faith in my words.
"You can kill them?" Karoline asked with a tone that seemed to be also doubtful to my words.
"I can do what it can to stop them from hindering us," I said before shouting, "magicians and archers, start raining hell over those monsters!"
The slithering snakes were the first to move closer to us. Each one of them had a thick body like a human body, with a length varying from five metres to twenty.
Their bodies were covered with smooth soft yellow scales that seemed to be covered in mucus. It looked disgusting! But when anyone would look at the four horn like pairs of fangs in their large opened mouths, no one would find this disgusting but a bit terrifying.
Seeing their bodies and their fangs would make anyone think their deadliest attacks would come from either biting or squeezing their enemies.
But that was wrong!
Their deadliest attack would be that disgusting looking mucus covering their bodies. It was a poisonous, very aggressive kind of toxin that would be considered a treasure in the apocalypse.
"Don't let the snakes touch you," I shouted, "do anything and don't let that mucus come into contact with your bodies!"
The jumper nodded, and the spearhead ran to the front with him. One had the ability to limit the movement of the snakes and the other was experienced in killing them.
How to kill a snake? One might think of many ways to do that. But against the slithering snakes, only fire would work. It wasn't a simple kind of fire, but a fire coming from exploding.
"I'll spray a liquid," the jumper shouted, "make sure your magicians aim well."
I didn't delay and gave the order for my magicians to hold their attacks and wait. The jumper took out two things from his inventory, a big flask and a small fan that can be held in the hand.
The flask was made of a grey material that looked heavy. Despite that, it showed many small cracks on its surface. It was a weird flask, but I could guess its origin.
The fan was small, black and dark purple in colour. But it was filled with golden and red drawings of many circles interlinking together in a beautiful way.
"The flask of fire and the fan of gusty wind… Did you rob a noble race house of a dragon race or what?"
Seeing these two precious items made me drool even more on that jumper's inventory. It seemed my intentions were obvious as he said out of the blue:
"Forget about sharing what I have with you!"
"Stingy jumper," I pouted my lips in objection, but at least he didn't hold his hand and helped with everything he got.
What he did was simple. He just waved the flask in the air and many big scarlet globules of high viscosity fluid came forth. They didn't stand in the air for a blink of an eye before he started fluttering his fan, releasing a small tornado of wind that carried these red droplets towards the snakes.
"Now!" Once he did that, I didn't wait to see the fluid touching the snakes. I shouted and my ready magicians acted.
Thick tongues of fire appeared raining down over these snakes from my magician's skills. The attacks landed at the same moment the tornado of wind carried the big droplets of that liquid and made them arrive at the snakes.
Then everything turned up front into a bright scarlet red light before a violent gust of wind erupted with a deafening roaring explosive sound.
"Keep running!" Even in the middle of all this, I shouted not to keep myself safe but to move forward.
And I had a point in saying this.
The fire seemed explosive and mighty, but it was our only chance to slip through that incoming disaster's counterattack from the monsters.
The fluid the jumper threw was very explosive. It was enough to deal with the snakes for now. But what about the bugs? The worms? The other snakes coming from other tunnels?
We couldn't stand in our places until the fire cooled off! If we did, we would be signing our death sentence without doubt.
"Move!" Alex and Karoline were just next to me. I pushed the two girls up front while looking at the other two. Isabella looked in better shape, but Angelica was much better than her.
That violent Angelica was already up front, using her swords with the jumper and spearhead to kill the snakes.
"Store their bodies," I hurriedly reminded the jumper and the other two. After all these snakes carried tons of precious materials, besides they held another usage for all of us if things went wrong.
And they did!
Just as we tried to squeeze ourselves amidst the dense fire, a muffled whooshing sound was detected from far.
"Worms!"
It was a unique sound that I wouldn't miss! Clattering like they were cladded fully in armour, alongside the swift movement of their bodies, creating a unique mix of whooshing and rustling noises, unique to the worms.
"We can't fight them," the jumper screamed, " we need your magical solution now!"
Things were heading to the deepest pit far worse than I thought! We didn't even cross five hundred metres before meeting up with the worms.
And whenever worms appeared, the life suckers followed.
"Shield warriors, surround us! Now!" without hesitation, I instantly guarded against the impending threat first. The worms were still hundreds of metres away. But the bugs weren't.
Even if I couldn't hear or see them, I knew their familiar pattern. They were like the front soldiers of the big worms, acting as the frontal force until the main force of the worms arrived.
The fire held no threat to them. Only physical strength would stop them. Unlike the worms, these bugs were so poor in dealing with physical attacks.
The worms held such an advantage, but they weren't that good in handling magic and elemental attacks.
"Keep hitting the front," I urged my magicians, "don't stop using your deadliest skills!"
"Don't tell me that's your plan in handling the worms!!" The jumper's panicked voice came in a sort of mockery, but a bitter kind of mockery.
"Just watch," I didn't plan to depend on my magicians to stop the worms. But who said I only had only these few warriors? Or valiant fighters?
"Come forth my mighty dragon!" The next instant I summoned one of my four grand dragons. The dragon stood with its gigantic body, enough to reach the top of the ceiling with its immense body.
*Roar!* but I didn't summon him for his body nor his roar, but for his unique ability.
"Use the combined skill, now!" I said in a deep tone, as if I was issuing a death sentence to all the monsters up ahead.
*Roar!*
The dragon roared while I could already see the big shadows of the giant worms. In fact worms weren't any lesser than the dragon in size, meaning they were stuffing their butts inside the tunnel and literally blocking it.
So what? Let's barbecue some worms for late dinner, should we?
The dragon twisted its long thick neck while his body emanated bright red light. "Get down," I shouted before the dragon released its deadly breath, raining death over the monsters up front.
*Sizzle!* *Sizzle!* *Sizzle!*
And his breath was fierce enough to issue loud sizzling sounds. I didn't lower my head like others, wanting to see the majestic brutal attack of my dragons for the first time.
All this time I only allowed my dragons to use their basic breaths abilities. In fact I never needed to up the game and use such a deadly kind of attack.
Besides this attack was brutal, but it wasn't without a price to pay! The dragon would enter a state of weakness after using such devastating breath, lasting for a few minutes.
The breath was a myriad of colours, mixing white, silver, red, purple, and green in one big funnel of expanding fire. The more it expanded, the fiercer it became until all the lights would merge together to form a terrifying black current with flashy white lightning arcs dancing all across it.
It was deadly! I even felt threatened by just looking at it! Damn boy, you were a really terrifying dragon!
Trying to move amidst the explosive fire of the jumper was something, but trying to go within the ultimate breath skill of the dragon was another.
I had to admit, my dragons were really OP! At this moment I realised that even if we were faced with Golems, we wouldn't lose.
"Is it even possible?" Karoline, who was the latest to join my forces, couldn't help but stand by my side and watch with wide open eyes.
She held my arms in reflex, trying to stand erect and strong. But her gentle touches made me feel some heat in my body.
Damn it girl! Stop doing such dangerous stuff in this dangerous time!
Chapter 86 - Something... Is... Coming!
"We can kill anything, literally anything right now!" she seemed to be carried away by seeing this. But girl, my dragon had unlimited ammunition but needed some time to rest in between… Please keep that in mind!
"We can't depend entirely on his dragons," the jumper, the party crasher dude, didn't seem to like what I was feeling right now. "He can only use such an attack once in a while, right Hye?"
I didn't know why but from the look of his eyes I felt a threatening warning towards me. Dude, if you want a girl, go outside and pick one yourself! I worked my as* literally to get these girls to be on my side!
"Even so, it's still remarkable!"
Good girl! Yes, give him what he deserved! Tell him I was the best, the best.
"If his dragon can only do that, it will be only enough for one time," she added, "it might not be satisfying for me, but it's enough for those monsters. Go, go on my dragon, f*ck these monsters up!"
"I know girls who won't mind him going on for a single time," Isabella from the side adjusted her glasses before adding, "but it's a waste if he can't go on for more… There will be no fun in that!"
"One time won't satisfy anyone!" Angelica added more fuel to the fire.
"..."
Girls! You were really harsher than the jumper!
"Humph, I hope he gets your points in the end," the jumper rolled his eyes while giving me a snort. What was wrong with that jumper?
"Be ready," I had to shift the topic, "we'll move out in the next minute."
"Will we be safe?" Alex was still closing her eyes, rolling up her body and literally hugging my leg. I could only pat her on the head to reassure her. Or else how would I be moving in such a way?
"Don't worry," I said, "the worm and other bugs and monsters are now burning in hell."
I wasn't boasting without firm grounds. My dragon breath was so dope to be enough to be called a small scaled weapon of destruction.
*Hoof!* *Hoof!*
Just as the dragon finished, he started to heavily pant.
"And he gets tired so fast! Didn't even last for five minutes!!" the jumper spoke out of the blue, making me glare at him.
Yet all I got was a silent and calm gaze, as if he was acting oblivious to what he was trying to hint here.
"Let's go," I instantly took my dragons back. Just before that jumper would say anything silly anymore, I gave him a warning gaze and he welcomed it by rolling up his eyes again with a fake helpless shaking of his shoulders.
That jumper… Tsk!
"I'll lead the front," he said, "if anyone is interested to join, then come."
Didn't know why I wanted to punch him in the face at the moment. But he moved fast, leading the spearhead, Isabella, and Angelica away while leaving the all trembling, closed eyes Alex alongside me with Karoline.
"Let's go," I evaded looking at Karoline and luckily Alex was in her own world at the moment.
"What's that?" just as I raised Alex on her feet, she slowly opened her eyes and muttered.
The scene in front of us was really worthy to be part of the true apocalypse. The monsters were twitching, convulsing in immense pain while they couldn't even roar or scream.
The black fire was already engulfing most of their bodies, eating them away. I patted her shoulders and tried to reassure her again.
"They were going to kill us, so I had to kill them."
"I'm not talking about that…" but she said in a weird way ,making me feel worried over her for a moment there.
"Are you alright?" I moved her head to examine her closely, "did you hurt your head or something?"
"Hush!" yet unlike my actions, she shushed me while moving her head to the side, as if she was attentive trying to listen to something. "Can't you feel that?" she asked and I couldn't help but look at the all confused Karoline by my side before taking a rear glance at the group moving away without even waiting for us.
"Feel what?" I asked with doubt, yet she pointed her hand up and said in scared and shaky tone:
"There is a faint rumbling coming from up there… No, it's not rumbling, it's like water gushing into the dirt in a berserk way."
My eyes went all wide open when I heard what she just said. Where were we? We were trapped inside the tunnel, not underground but under water.
"Are you sure?" I firmly grabbed her arms with nervousness. Yet all I felt was her body shaking more and more.
"It's getting fiercer…" she said as if she was describing a scene of a horror movie, "it's getting closer… it's getting closer…"
Just as she said these words, I started to feel the ground underneath shaking. It wasn't a big deal, just faint trembling that seemed unnoticable if I wasn't paying much attention now.
"Run!" but linking this with what she just said, I didn't delay to shout in warning.
However even before anyone could move a muscle or speak, the trembling got suddenly fiercer. The entire tunnel seemed as if it was made up of jelly matter, not cement.
It started with twisting like a rubber pipe, right and left, up and down. Then without warning, the ceiling broke in many places and large ugly heads of those worms appeared uninvited.
And they didn't come alone! A violent gush of turbulent water followed through the gaps they created. Such huge and many gaps left all of us paralyzed with shock, before I saw the sides and even the ground of the tunnel broke with many giant heads of those ugly vicious worms.
"Get here," we were screwed! I knew it! Nothing could save us now except if we stuck together. Without saying or doing much, I grabbed the soft bodies of the two chicks on my side, got them all glued to my body using my powerful arms, and didn't forget to call back all my warriors.
I could already feel their ragged and hot breaths touching my neck, but I wasn't in the mood to appreciate any of this. The next moment the large worm heads all retreated, and the doors of a deadly flood opened widely in front of my eyes.
Damn! How did it end like that?
Without feeling anything around except for the uncontrollable force that rotated my body in all directions, I kept my two arms steadily holding the two girls.
I had to exert all my strength to keep holding them by their wastes. If we got separated, even for a mere blink of an eye, I would never find them easily later on.
*Swish!* *Swish! *Splash!*
I lost feeling with time, not knowing how much did it take before I finally raised my head on the surface of the raging water.
I sucked in a deep breath before I found myself getting slammed heavily by something and got rotated upside down, thrown into a chaotic state for long minutes.
I tried to stabilise myself, tried my best to raise the two girls up the water and take in air. It felt like I wasn't holding their soft and light bodies, but like two statues made out of pure steel!
*Crush!* *Crush!* *Kadoom!* *Kadoom!*
The sound of the turbulent water slowly changed into a muffled sound of my heartbeat. I was almost out of breath, luckily got my air gasping chance every once in a while.
Damn! Wasn't this river cool and steady? What happened?!!
Just after a long time of such suffering, I started to finally stabilise my body. I raised the two girls high at first, but from the look on their faces I could tell they were already unconscious.
Great! I now ended up with two dead bodies on my side to handle. I placed them over my shoulders, one on each side. Then I had the chance to ascertain my current situation.
I was indeed still inside the Hudson river. But what was worthy of notice was the fact that I saw the familiar buildings of the spot where we just left from to enter the tunnel.
What was going on really here?
*Roar!* *Roar!*
Just before I could tell what was going on, I heard the loud and violent sound of the water gushing at me again. At this moment I finally saw what caused all this.
Something was rotating in the depth of that river! It wasn't clear if it was a monster or something else, but it was able to turn almost half width of the entire river water to rotate to form a gigantic whirlpool!
Yes! We were just rotating in circles, crushed by the increasing pressure of such a violent whirlpool!
For a second there I appreciated my luck! If I ended up inside that giant black pit in the middle of this whirlpool before, then I would be doomed without doubt!
"I need to get out of here," as far as I was concerned, as long as I managed to break free from the outer clutches of this whirlpool then I'd be saved.
Yet whenever I tried to swim, I found a strange thing this time. The water seemed to grow thicker, much denser and heavier than it should be.
That wasn't good! The thing causing such a massive whirlpool seemed to change the nature of the water!
"I need to get out of here… Come out now!" without any hesitation I summoned one of my shield warriors. "Put your shield on the water," he said. I didn't wait for him to stabilise himself and gave such an order first.
As he did so, I placed my two unconscious girls on the shield before starting to push with my full strength. "Push it with me!" I shouted while exerting every ounce of strength out of my already drained body.
The two of us worked together and finally we managed to move against the alarming growing violent tide. In mere minutes, we were already outside the reach of that whirlpool.
As I was already at my last breath, I struggled to get up to the shield, slept on my back, and closed my eyes while trying to control my breaths.
And the warrior kept pushing us away from the reach of the whirlpool.
I wanted to tell him to direct our direction towards the Jersey city shore, but I was overwhelmed to the point that I couldn't.
I could hear the roaring noise of that deadly whirlpool getting slowly further away from us. Of course we were the ones moving away, not it.
After couple of minutes, I finally opened my mouth as I said:
"Get us to the other bank of the river," I paused before opening my eyes and was ready to point out the direction of Jersey city.
But I froze! The moment I opened my eyes, I totally froze out of pure fear!
Damn! Were they prepared for me before coming here or what?!!!
Chapter 87 - Fighting For My Life
I was already laying flat on my back over the big shield of my warrior. The shield wasn't that huge, but it was enough to take the three bodies of us sticking side by side.
Once I laid myself there, I closed my eyes and tried to gather up my strength. My only concern was to prepare for the upcoming fight that was inevitably waiting for me on the other side of the river.
But it never crossed my mind that the moment I opened my eyes, I would be met with another challenge. And this one was deadly enough to scare the sh*t out of me!
I saw it, a grand shining star in the middle of the dim gloomy sky. Yes, it was it, it was that notorious star weapon of the angels.
A brand shining f*cking red light appeared in the depth of such greyish lifeless colour of that f*cking sky!
These angels!! They proved they were on another level from the ones I faced at New York city.
But there was no time to waste now. I didn't know how long that thing was shining. Damn! It would be the end of me if they activated it the moment we got out of the tunnel!
But they couldn't! Even if they were meticulous and so calculative, they wouldn't be able to mark the place they should aim at! Or else they would basically aim at the centre of the whirlpool, as if that f*cking whirlpool wasn't enough to kill me in the first place!
"Hey, wake up! Wake up!"" The first thing I thought about was Karoline. She had that unique ability which could simply counter that deadly star weapon aiming at us.
But no matter how hard I shook her, she didn't show any response at all! Even her lips started to turn slightly purple, a dangerous sign! It was a dangerous sign indeed!
Yes, I was just lacking more trouble so come on and add one over my broad shoulders!!!
"What should I do now?" It wasn't time to lose my sh*t here! I had to adapt, deal with such a disaster with whatever I had.
But the question was… What did I have to stop or make me and the girls, at least, survive that deadly weapon?
"Trying to kill me using your weapons? Alright… Pretty much good… I would like to match this with my own arsenal of warriors then!"
If the angels went this far to kill me, then why shouldn't I match their craziness then? Of course I lacked that kind of a big trump card to turn on tables at times like these, but that didn't mean I was out of options.
However at this critical life and death moment, I realised the immense importance of having something OP.
"Come forth my mighty dragon!" As things reached this point, I summoned my strongest asset. The dragon appeared just next to me, but who said water could stop dragons?
*Roar!*
He didn't take much time to soar higher in the air. I didn't have the luxury to marvel at his amazing scene. Water splashed over his body while he broke the surface in a big momentum, flapping his wings until he was outside of the water.
Just as I summoned him, I had another thing to do.
I hurriedly opened my market. And luckily those bastards didn't go to the length of locking it up. I didn't have time to search manually and simply typed the first name that popped in my head.
[The Goliath cable isn't available yet to your current level]
"Damn!" I cursed but didn't stop there. One name after another was written in the search bar. I didn't stop at any message like the first one I got, I never stopped at any rejection.
Until I finally found something I could work with.
[The commonwealth silk robe: rare item. Can be considered thin, but it's durable. Can withstand a force over ten tons, and a pressure over one ton]
I didn't hustle and instantly bought it using its buyout price. I didn't only buy a single one, but an entire patch. After all, I needed it later to get out of these deadly waters.
The silk was thin as described, in the thickness of my middle finger. But it was long enough to exceed ten metres. I didn't take it out to examine, but moved my lead weighted body over. I even crawled on the surface of the shield, even had to jump over the two unconscious girls.
I knitted the silk to the four tapering ends of the shield before I threw it over to the dragon. "Catch!" I shouted and the dragon compiled by grabbing its end with his sharp claws.
"Careful there," I warned out of my worry. I knew the description said this silk was kind of tolerable, but I didn't want to risk anything here.
All this happened in a few blinks of an eye. At the same time, I kept my vigilance while watching the red bright light at the depths of the high up sky. And it was getting brighter with each passing second!
It was almost on the verge of launching! Those damn angels! They activated the simple version of that weapon, targeting smaller areas with it at the cost of having it launch faster!
If there was a way to make it instantly fire, I'd bet they would have selected it without doubt.
"Go there now!" I didn't even look and pointed in the opposite direction of that deadly whirlpool. Even if I had to keep going into the Hudson river, I would accept that for now to survive.
"Grab the shield," I didn't forget my warrior, "tightly grab it!" and as I warned him, I also jumped over the two girls and used my entire body to pin them and myself over the shield.
I extended my two arms and legs, tried to grab the edges of the shield even with my teeth. I would do anything to not fall over. After all, the one who was going to drag this shield wasn't a simple warrior, but a dragon.
*Roar!* The dragon seemed to feel the pressure and imminent threat as he roared and moved like an arrow towards the direction I pointed towards.
And the fun ride over the water started at this moment. The shield acted like a big surfboard.
The silk was really tough! It withstood the pulling pressure of my dragon and didn't break even at the hardest first pull. The dragon was attentive to not fly high or else he would carry us over water and we would have fallen.
*Splash!* *Splash!*
Yet this came on the cost of the violent crushing water waves from the river. I held my place over the girls and managed to stabilise their bodies after the first impact.
But things wouldn't end here. The next moment all I could see was a giant pillar of bright red light falling like a downfall from the sky over water.
We were already outside its immediate attack point, but that didn't mean we were safe yet.
*Rumble!*
The entire world went into a strange and very heavy long moment of silence before a mighty rumbling noise erupted. The river seemed to revolt as if a volcano just erupted underneath it.
Then the aftermath of that deadly attack hit us with a grand wave one after another like a tsunami.
"Pull faster," as we reached this point, I lost any hope of withstanding those waves and remained together after that. So I had to shout, risking it all, giving it all.
"Come forth my dragons!" as it reached this far, I summoned my two other dragons before I issued them one single order, "fly on top of me, stop any wave from coming here!"
Yes the waves were like gigantic walls drawing closer to me, but I had my way to fight this.
I didn't need to crush the entire waves and stop them, I only needed my dragons to pierce through them using their breaths and create a gap, wide enough to miss me, my shield, my warrior, and my girls.
*Roar!* *Roar!* *Roar!*
Three roars appeared simultaneously. The first dragon accelerated, I even felt the shield being lifted on the surface of the water, creating a cushion of air acting like a soft bellow underneath it.
The two other dragons started to release their breaths like shooting stars one after another. The two remarkably worked together, synchronising their attacks to come one after another and not together.
I didn't have extra attention to pay for their breaths or watch their devastation to the waves. All I could hear was mighty explosive sounds coming, and as the first couple waves passed by me I knew my plan worked.
Now all that was left was to keep going like this until that damn weapon would stop and the river would cool down.
Just as three minutes passed, I already could breath and feel at ease. I looked at the waves coming and was delighted to realise that each dragon breath was strong enough to create a big hole not only in one wave but in five at least.
"We can do it!" I tightened my grip over the edges of the shield and already could hear myself heaving a sigh of relief.
Yet just at this moment, I heard something strange. A sound that didn't make sense appeared as if something was traversing the air in mighty speed, drawing closer to me in frightening speed.
*Swoosh!*
I just had the time to raise my head towards the left before I saw a ray of bronzed light passing like a comet. The next moment all I could hear was a painful loud crying roar of one of my two protective dragons, before a fountain of pale golden red blood gushed out and covered even my eyes.
"This…" I saw it, I saw what came all this way, slammed my dragon and managed to penetrate his sturdy scales and create such an ugly wound to him.
"A ballista!" I turned to the other shore, the shore of Jersey city. There I saw a gigantic ballista that was made from a strange golden and silver coloured ores.
It spanned for at least twenty metres, making it like a giant truck and not a mere ballista! Behind it I saw many dark silhouettes, but familiar shadows were recognised instantly by me.
"Gollems! Those f*king Golems are here!"
I couldn't miss their gigantic bodies even from such a distance. And that was pretty much expected. To operate such a massive weapon, a behemoth was needed, and also a group of them!
"Disperse!" I first assessed with haste the injury of my dragon. Luckily my dragons had a terrifying level to begin with. So the dragon sustained the hit and didn't die from it.
Yet the wound looked ugly. It was the size of my closed fist, so deep that it was releasing big amounts of blood with each passing second.
Yet it wasn't the time yet to look for something and stop that bleeding. As I used my far away vision skill I could see another big arrow was getting pulled by five behemoths like Gollems, prepared to release it towards another dragon.
So the wise thing was to make them disperse! Calling them back wasn't an option! The weapon was still firing, and it would last for two more minutes.
The waves were still roaring and drawing fast towards me. One simple slip and we would get submerged by such violent force and would get separated.
I could already see a lot of archers on the side of that ballista. Most of them were humans, dirty filthy traitors! Gosh! I just wanted to instantly teleport there and kill them with both hands!
Yet there were few who belonged to a couple other races.. They weren't dragons or Selvators for my luck, the much weaker werewolves and kobolds.
Chapter 88 - It's Time For Revenge
Wolves and dogs… in addition to humans who weren't any better than them in my eyes. "One fire at the waves, the other fire at the other side!" I changed my orders to adapt to the current changes.
If they aimed to disturb my momentum, then why wouldn't I aim to disturb their rhythm as well?
I saw my two dragons moving everywhere while one giant arrow passed fast in between them. One dragon opened his mouth and released his breath towards the incoming waves, while the other launched his breath towards the ballista.
That dragon seemed to be enraged by that threatening ballista and its dangerous arrows. But the moment his attack came closer, a strange scene appeared.
"A protective invisible shield? Damn! They came pretty much prepared!"
At this moment I knew my enemies were doing all they could at this point to stop me. I knew some facts on such invisible fields. Either they were one time use, and they were known for their stronger defence.
Or they could last for longer duration, mostly counted in minutes. But they were known to be vulnerable against strong attacks. But they also had the upper hand of covering up a broader area than the single usage shields.
"Target the humans," I shouted, "and the other races with them."
I had to know if this was a single time usage shield or a longer duration shield. By logic, single time shields were very expensive, very rare, and could be forbidden to be used in such a stage of the apocalypse.
Even if my enemies were backed by the angels, both had to follow the higher rules of those controllers from the shadows.
As for my first dragon, he kept moving and dragging us through the clashing waves of the river. At this point I felt like I was inside a pissed off piece of ocean, not a calm small river!
The waves passed us with no harm at all thanks to my dragon attacking them. I knew we could sustain this for much longer, but I had a crazy idea at this moment.
Without even thinking much about this, I took out another silk and started to wrap the soft bodies of the two girls firmly like I was capturing them. After I finished, I wrapped the other end around my arm and shoulder as well, making the three of us connected no matter what happened.
I had a reason to go for this crazy idea. One of which was the fact that we couldn't keep running like this in the river.
The enemies had the ballista, and what I feared just now started to happen.
"Watch out!" I called at my first dragon, "they are targeting you!"
This was one of the reasons behind going for my daring move. The other two dragons could move and avoid the incoming arrows, but not the one dragging us away.
That dragon was now tied up with us, making him as a bird in a cage, an easy target to hit.
And the enemies decided to target him to immobilise me, which gave me a thought about their next move.
While my mind was seeing through all their plans, my dragon released another deadly breath in the form of a massive ball of bright blue fireball.
*Sizzle!*
"So it's a long duration shield," I reached this conclusion, which followed with another instruction, "go, aim for a single spot one time after another. Aim for that damn ballista!"
Even if they had a shield to protect them, whenever the first fireball came, the Gollams paused for few seconds. I need this time, I badly needed it.
But the next arrow came and swiftly pierced through the dragon dragging us. A mighty roar filled with immense pain plus a deep wound emerged afterwards.
We couldn't keep on like that! Yet the good news was finally here…
"Help your brother," I instantly gave the order to the second dragon once the pillar of the star weapon vanished. As expected, the aftermath and the devastating waves created by it ceased to exist. Only the surface of the river ragged for a longer duration.
But it held no threat for us anymore. The only threat now came from that ballista! We must stop it! We must!
But it seemed I underestimated that shield. Even with the two dragons combined, they couldn't cause sparks on the surface of such a shield.
How come?
"There isn't one shield!" it just came to me, "there must be more than one! Damn!"
If one could be broken, then the combined few wouldn't. That meant I had to wait for longer, and that would jeopardise my dragon grabbing the shield and also endanger me and the girls as well.
After all, the goal of those on the other side wasn't to just kill us, but to stop our escape. And I could tell why without thinking much about it.
"F*ck it!" As things reached such an end, I threw all my caution to the river by my side, "drag us to that side," I pointed towards the direction of the enemies, "do whatever you want to evade the arrows!"
After all, if you fell here, dude, we would be doomed!
The dragon already had two arrows deeply embedded into his body. Luckily the two aimed for non-vital organs, only hitting the lower part of his abdomen, the most exposed part to the enemies.
But who could guarantee the next one or the next after wouldn't target his head or wings for example?
As I gave him such a crazy order, I leant on the shield and grabbed it with all my strength. "Hang tight," I said to my poor shield warrior who must be cursing his bad luck to come out from all his brothers. "If you fell, don't worry, I'll recall you back later."
That was the beauty of having a warrior. Even if we got separated, I could simply call him back with a whim of my thoughts.
But that wasn't the case for the two girls.
However this time my body weight wasn't enough to hold the girls! The next arrow came as well towards my dragon who shifted his direction and flew in high speed towards the other side.
As the arrow was launched, he moved swiftly, rose higher in the air and evaded it. But that resulted in topping the shield and making it all vertical, making me stop from falling by great difficulty.
But this wasn't the case of the two girls. Their bodies were slippery and moved underneath me towards the water before splashing heavily onto the river.
And the silk I wrapped around their bodies and my arm and shoulder got suddenly stretched, putting much pressure over my body and making me feel immeasurable pain.
But my torture didn't last for long as the smart dragon of mine descended again and that helped in stabilising the shield over the surface of the water with my body on it. Also the heavy pull from the girls' weight and gravity effect decreased by a great chunk.
I didn't pull the girls back, as I knew they would just be thrown again once the next arrow arrived.
The upcoming arrow would be dangerous over my dragons. After all, we were drawing fast and closer to the ballista.
"Keep hitting them," I shouted with all the left strength in me. If the two dragons could buy us more time, then we might escape the incoming arrow.
*Crack!*
Just as the two dragons kept launching their breaths, I finally heard a pleasant sound of cracking the shield. It wasn't opened yet, but it showed a long deep irregular crack over its surface.
And since that crack appeared, that shield stopped vanishing and seemed to shimmer in lustre despite still being translucent.
Yet the attacks of my two dragons didn't stop the next arrow to come.
"B*tches!!`` The moment I spotted its aim, I couldn't help but curse out loud. Those damn Gollams… They were targeting me this time!
Screw it!
"On my mark," I instantly responded with a loud shout, "pull us to the left!"
I gritted my teeth, focused my entire attention over the Gollams pulling the big string of the ballista.
And the moment they stopped retreating, I instantly shouted: "Now!"
*Fwoosh!*
The air whistled in my ears while my entire body was almost torn apart by the violent pull force of the dragon.
He was pulling us forward, and changing direction all of sudden had its toll over my hardly grasping hands. I was about to lose grip, especially when we went back into the air under the effect of that pull.
But I was almost saved when the shield slammed heavily on the water surface. Yet I hit it with my head like I slammed my head with all my might onto a sturdy rock.
I could already feel the metallic taste of my blood inside my mouth. But all I did was to gasp for air and try to firmly stabilise my body again before the bodies of the two girls fell into the water again.
"Damn it!" I cursed with pure hatred and immense anger, "is this all you can do, cursed angels? Is this all you have to stop me?"
I raised my head to the sky, in a clear, challenging and defying way. My moment of anger wasn't a loss of control. On the contrary, it was the perfect moment to push those angels to use more of their blessing points.
According to my estimation, the angels of New York city had enough blessing points from the two quests to trigger four attacks of that deadly star weapon, summoning the other race of the dragons to here, plus using the blessing points to issue me a quest before.
So if I calculated it right, these angels here wouldn't have enough blessing for four to five more attacks of that star weapon. And if I put into consideration the price they paid to bring that devastating ballista and those races here, then they might even have lesser chances than that.
As expected. My momentary storm of rage and my perfect counter of that deadly arrow pushed the angels to activate that weapon.
"Get ready," I slowly muttered when I saw that big red spot shining high in the air, "we are pulling back soon. But let's do something first…!"
Once activated, the star weapon aim wouldn't change. As I got the first thing I wanted here, then it was time to follow with my next crazier move.
I started to unwrap the silk holding the girls with me and took another one out. "Catch," as if I threw a ball to a dog, I threw two silks to the dragon and he caught them in time.
"That one," I pointed to the new silk I took out as I knitted it tightly with more silks that I got before from the market. Then I wrapped them all around my waist, "be ready to throw me with it to the shore, and grab me on my mark."
*Roar!* Despite not understanding my intentions, the dragon simply answered with his roar. The two wounds he had were still gushing out blood in big amounts, making me feel more pain for such a heavy injury.
But I had to pay them back. I had to get them to taste the same terror which they gave me.
"Now!" As there was not much time to waste, I hoped my silk wouldn't fall off my body under this crazy move, "be ready to pull back once I give the signal for it."
It was a crazy move, I wouldn't deny it. But I had no other choice but to do that! If I went into the city with all such pressure over me and my forces, then forget about taking control of the city even after an entire week here!
Even my safety would be in question as well.
Chapter 89 - Deadly Battle
So I had to deplete those angels from their blessing points as I got the chance for it. Besides, I might get lucky and kill two birds with one stone here.
Plus I sat my eyes over a certain trophy, something the angels provided to me on a golden plate.
"Now!" As I finished wrapping the silk over my waist, I took a deep breath, prepared my mind for the better, and gave the order at the moment the Golems were ready to hit me with another arrow.
*Fwoosh!*
Like before, the scenery changed in front of me where the earth and ground exchanged positions many times. I knew that the many silk threads I wrapped around my waist were unfolding in a rapid succession, rotating my body while getting thrown into the air.
That made me feel nauseous, but I tried to endure as far as I could. After all, everything depended on what I was going to do in the next minute. I couldn't fail this… I wouldn't!
*Buzz!*
All I felt was like my body got torn apart into two halves from my waist. It was a sign for the silk threads to reach their limit in length, and now they were tightened and stopped my flashing body and forcibly stopped it.
I clenched my teeth and didn't know if I screamed out of immense pain or not. All I felt was for my consciousness to grow hazy and my body to become limb.
"Not the time for that!" I bit the tip of my tongue, throwing out all this fatigue away and opening my eyes wide.
I found myself tens of metres away from the shore, just a couple of tens of metres away from my enemies. My body seemed to freeze midair, under the effect of the negating powers of my throw and the resistance of the pulling effect of the silks.
"Now!"
I knew it was time. Without even catching my breath I took out something from my inventory as I shouted to the back dragon. I felt my body fall to the ground under the effect of gravity at the same moment.
It was time!
I raised both hands high in the air, arched my back and then inserted the long staff I held with both hands into the ground.
[Do you want to mark this location for future use? To mark a place, you'll need to pay ten thousand coins per time]
"Save it goddammit!"
[Location is saved]
[Ten thousand coins are deducted]
*Fwoosh!*
Just as the couple of messages popped up in front of my face, I was already midair, forcibly being pulled by my valiant dragon.
And as I was getting far away from the shore, I could see at this moment a torrent of arrows being unleashed by most of the enemies on the shore.
I snorted while watching this, raising both middle fingers in front of them in a teasing move.
"I'll come again to kill y'all!" I muttered, without care if they heard me or not.
As I got closer to my dragons and girls, the attack of the star weapon landed at the river, just thirty metres away from the shore.
"F*ck you all!" I shouted before all the voices vanished under the mighty effect of that weapon. As I landed over the shield, I resummoned my staff again and planted it over the shield.
[Do you want to mark this location for future use? To mark a place, you'll need to pay ten thousand coins per time]
"Yes, bind it for god sake!"
[The mark is saved]
[Ten thousand coins are deducted]
The dragons were doing a great job as they pulled further away from the shore. That saved us from the mightiness of the attack. And I could tell without looking that the enemies on the shore escaped the range of that deadly weapon as well.
But who said I was planning to kill them using that weapon in such a direct way? Come on! I had to kill them myself!
"Link the two locations together," just before the gigantic waves were born again, I slowly muttered.
[You have many marks to select from. Please identify two marks from the list]
This was my first time ever using the mighty ability of my staff. A list opened in front of me and I knew this might take a few seconds to be done.
"Stop the waves," as I selected the last two locations, I gave my orders to the nearby dragons to do their part.
[Your selection is complete]
[One million coins are needed to bind the two location together]
[Warning: the gate will only last for one day]
"Bind the two together," I didn't like all these messages. Why didn't the gate just open once I gave the order?
[The two locations are bound successfully]
[One million coins are being deducted]
[The gate will open now]
Just as the last message appeared, I could already feel the change in the air all around. It felt like something was sucking all the air from the area, as if a negative pressure point was created just beside me.
"Stop!" I gave the order to my dragon who was dragging us all this time, "you'll stand on guard here. Make sure to protect my girls."
*Roar!* the dragon roared in a weak tone, showing how deeply injured he was. But I didn't even bat an eye. This wasn't a time to give him preferential treatment.
"Sorry pal, you need to hang in there for much longer," I said while the gate finally opened.
It appeared like a small whirlpool made out of pure silver white wisps of light. It rotated fiercely like it had a life of its own. In the centre of it, a small oval shaped blackness appeared, and got expanded with the expansion of the entire portal.
It was here, at last!
"You two, get back," as I opened it, I called back my two dragons first before I bent my knees and jumped into the gate.
All I could feel was a strange gush of cold air before I found myself appearing the next moment on the other side of the river.
There things didn't look much different than what I experienced at the river. The last time they waited until I moved far from the area of impact, so the waves didn't threaten them.
But this time was different. The star weapon landed just next to them. They managed to escape the deadly beam of that lethal weapon, but how could they avoid the terrifying waves?
I just appeared in the place I marked a minute ago. As I came here, luckily one gigantic wave just passed and washed away many of the enemies with it.
Only the gigantic ballista stood there with the big Gollems. They stood on the ground like small mountains.
Damn! Even the mighty waves couldn't budge their bodies an inch! But this came also within my calculations.
"Come forth my mighty dragons!" As I reached this far, how could I let such a chance slip by my hands?
I summoned my dragons first. Three big dragons stood in midair, flapping their long wings and looking around with much cruelty in their eyes.
"One stop the waves," I gave the order, "and two hunt down the Gollems using your breaths."
The Golems were such a terrifying race excelled in brutal strength and unbelievable defensive abilities. But in terms of offence or speed, they paled in comparison.
They couldn't pose a threat to either my dragons in the air or myself slightly away from them. Their movement speed was sluggish like snails, so it was easy to maintain the gap between the two of us all the time.
Besides that turtle-like speed would ensure them to not avoid my dragon's attacks.
"Come forth," but who said I would only use my dragons here? It was finally time for my counterattack, and it had to be swift and in such a domineering fashion.
My warriors finally appeared next.
"Shield warriors… Use your combined skill and trap them in a deep crater," I said in a cold tone that would make even the angels shiver in fear, "the magicians and archers, rain down the attacks over and don't give them even a second to breathe."
*Roar!*
The roar came not from my shield warriors, magicians, or archers… It came from my Bulltors.
They seemed to be so eager to join the battle.
"Not now," but I had to stop them, "just encircle us. I don't want any more surprises to come from those dirty angels."
I knew the possibility of this happening was almost nil. But it was better to be cautious than regretful.
As my small army of dragons and warriors kicked in, things started to go smoothly according to my plan.
Since the first time I saw those Gollems, I loathed them for myself! I wanted them! Badly wanted to acquire them like how I acquired my dragons.
And eventually things worked in my favour. On the surface, things seemed to work fine for the angels, not me. But who said calamities couldn't be turned into blessings?
There were around fifteen giant Gollem's trapped now in the deep crater caused by my shield warriors. They tried to resist, but they weren't agile or good climbers to begin with.
Besides, my dragons kept attacking them using their mighty breaths. Even the sturdiest shields couldn't withstand their attacks and cracked before the star weapon hit the river.
But under the mighty waves, that broken shield got smashed open. They got nothing now to protect themselves with, nothing to stop their upcoming death.
I knew the only drawback of this plan was the long time needed for my dragons to kill them all. After all there were fifteen of them and only three of my dragons.
But who said I couldn't use the waves to my favour?
That was why I created that crater in the first place! I didn't just want to trap them. My magicians and archers could simply keep them trapped without breaking a sweat.
But the deep creator the shield warriors created and kept deepening using their combined skills in succession was getting submerged with the successive giant and violent waves.
Even at some point I saw the huge bodies of these Gollem's get rolled and tossed inside that crater like they were feathers in the wind!
"Keep them inside," I urged my magicians and archers, "use your attacks to knock them back!"
The water was forcing the Gollems' bodies to dance inside the crater that seemed to turn into a small lake here. But that might allow these Gollems to escape at any moment.
So my warriors kicked in and used their attacks to force the bodies of those Gollems rolling back inside the depth of this crater filled with raging waters.
And my dragons were smart enough to grab the meaning of my orders. They also used their breaths to make sure the Gollems stayed within the centre of the crater.
The dragon's combined breath skill was a mighty weapon, enough to kill any Gollem with one hit. But it had the weakening side effect that would prevent my dragons from taking part in the battle for long minutes.
I couldn't accept that! So instead of killing three Golems in one go, I preferred to wear them down bit by bit, and finally kill them all once the weapon effect vanished.
Ten minutes… It took ten whole minutes to finally kill the last Gollem.
The attack ended in five minutes as usual. As it stopped, the mighty waves ceased to exist, and the imminent threat towards me and my warriors, dragons, and girl vanished.
"Go and help your brothers," I said to the dragon tasked with breaking the waves before I turned to the river. "Bring them over."
I knew that the first dragon I summoned was already at its limits.. I just prayed he wouldn't fall here. Or else I would consider this battle as a one won with one's meat and skin peeled off!
Chapter 90 - The Next Move
"It's your turn now," as the waves stopped, and the world started to grow calmer, I said these words to my Bulltors. "Go, scatter in groups of five, kill anything you meet and don't leave anyone alive!"
Although I sat my eyes over these Gollems, there weren't the only enemies in the vicinity. The waves washed away the rest, and might have killed many of them.
But the remaining survivors might create problems for me once they gather together. I wouldn't show them mercy, not when I held the upper hand like that.
Not when I had such impatient and eager Bulltors on my side, eager for battle, eager for blood, eager for revenge.
As they got the order, they sprung fast and vanished from my sight, dispersing into many directions. I wouldn't worry about their safety. Not a single race I saw before here could stand a chance against these merciless creatures at their prime.
Not to mention the enemy was now worn out by the effect of the mighty waves, or perhaps they might be even heavily wounded.
"Oh… Are you still here?!" As I finished giving my last orders for this hard battle, I noticed something big standing on the side of the river.
It was that gigantic ballista. Come on! Don't tell me I couldn't reap the spoils of war after my well earned victory, right?
"Come inside," as I went to it, I found not a single scratch appeared on its surface from the never ending wave assault from before. This meant this big toy wasn't your common cabbage.
This ballista must be of a high grade, made out of rare and precious ores.
"Thanks for the gift," as I touched its surface and called it inside my inventory, it vanished and left a great gap in the area. I was pleased, so pleased that I even raised my head and thanked the angels in an honest way.
But would they accept my sincerity? I doubted that!
"Go back and rest," as I finished packing the unexpected trophy, the heavily wounded dragon came to my side. He placed the shield with the two girls attached to the silk thread and all soaked with water with paled faces.
The dragons didn't look any better. He was already panting in heavy breaths, while his body kept trembling out of weakness.
As I called it inside, I could finally heave a sigh of relief. He wasn't dead yet. Hopefully he will never be.
"Oh! I totally forgot about you!" looking at the girls made me notice that shield on the ground. Once seeing it, I recalled that shield warrior who was so unlucky to get summoned and witnessed the hard part of this battle.
"Come back," as I recalled him, I didn't hesitate to call him back. I saw his token resting in my inventory without any change, meaning he wasn't dead either.
Great! I didn't suffer any losses in my troops up till now!
But I couldn't say I came out unscathed from this clash either!
I got one heavily wounded dragon, one in an unknown condition, a shield warrior… and both couldn't be summoned in any short time soon I guess.
And I got myself worn out and exhausted to such a terrible state. I got separated from the rest of my group, and the two unconscious and looking in terrible condition girls here!
I first made sure they were still breathing. I placed my head over their chests, feeling something soft and bulging hit my head in return.
But it was fine, these big soft things kept rising up and down. Despite the breathing looked irregular, the girls weren't in any threat to die for now at least.
"I need a mighty healing potion," as I confirmed their safety, I opened my market and searched for a healing potion there.
I didn't act stingy and bought a large stack of expensive healing potions, each cost me around fifty thousand coins. I took one out, held the all soft Alex in my arms and gave her the medicine.
As nothing happened, I went to Karoline and did the same as well. I had to admit, the two had their outstanding features that made both so stunning and outstanding in the world of women.
But comparing them with Isabella or Angelica… I couldn't tell who was better than the other.
"Sigh… Getting all these girls around with no chance to even enjoy them is a curse not a blessing!" For unknown reasons, I recalled the strange conversation I had with the jumper inside the tunnel.
That dude! He really got on my nerves back there! He acted like I was going around collecting girls for my own! Come on! This was the time of disaster, not a school tour in a civilised time!
Yet the two girls didn't give me any sign of getting better. Don't tell me I got scammed over these precious and expensive potions!
But when I read their description, I found out that it might need more than one potion to heal anyone on the verge of dying. The description stated clearly that I needed at least five for such a case.
"Alright… Four each then," I didn't keep my hand and emptied four more potions in their mouths. The portions were kept inside a transparent thick small bottle of glass, with shimmering pure azure coloured fluid inside them.
I didn't know what taste such precious medicine would have. But after I gave them the fifth potion, a rosy colour appeared at last over their cheeks, and that deep purple stain of their lips vanished and was replaced with red one.
They got better! At last!
I carefully placed them on the ground before looking at their soaked clothes. The water made their fabrics get attached to their bodies, nearly exposing every single hot contour of their bodies.
For a brief moment there I almost lost control of myself. Such a virgin like me seeing such delicious delicacies of the world that he never tasted before was something irresistible!
"Wake up!" I slapped my face to force such a feeling away, "it's not time to play lovey dovey here. Not the time, and worse not the place or the situation to do so!"
As I woke myself up in such a way, I turned my back to them, resisting such a tempting urge to take a peek again and marvel at their beauty.
To make myself forget about them, I first checked the ongoing battle next to me. Almost ten minutes passed and there was only one last Gollem breathing in the middle of the submerged crater.
"You won't get away from this without facing our tribe's retaliation!"
A deep and strangely mechanical voice came from that giant Gollem. I knew he was an intelligent race, able to think and speak. It made a great difference between them and the usual Golems known to the public.
But they weren't that evolved like dragons or Selvators. They couldn't turn into human form at least thanks to their hard journey in cultivation.
"A tribe? Humph!" I loudly snorted. I heard such threatening words from the dragon kid back then, but I never batted an eye when I killed him and his group.
"Keep killing him!" I showed no speck of mercy as I shouted like this. But I noticed my voice became shaky, affected by my uncontrollable desire as I looked at the all soaked soft bodies of the two girls.
So I hurriedly looked away, took one potion out and emptied its content in my mouth. I wasn't injured on the surface, but was filled with immense pain physically and could swear I must have ruptured organs internally thanks to all that grabbing and pulling from before.
"Damn! It tastes like sh*t!" but the moment I gulped that azure fluid, I felt like I took in the most bitter medicine ever! I never expected this expensive potion to come with such terrible taste.
But it was enough to force away any remaining disturbance inside my mind. I felt a surge of heat coming from within my belly, and strangely I could feel the fluid expanding and reaching to many places inside my body.
"I'm broken all apart! Damn! I never expected this!!"
I could feel my body now thanks to that mysterious potion. And from what I felt, it seemed there wasn't a single organ intact in there.
Without any hesitation, I gulped two more potions, enduring their horrible taste. I needed to get to my top shape. Who knew what else those dirty angels prepared for me.
I wasn't worried about sending any more star weapons to my head. This battle was enough as a proof of how a failure that would be against me.
If they did, I would welcome that and survive like usua;. But I doubted they would be such foolish or stupid.
"I curse you to burn in hell!"
Just as I felt the miraculous effects of the potion, I heard the strange voice of the Gollem before he finally fell motionless in the small lake.
"You are noisy," I smiled when I saw his body grow weak and go down the water, "go, bring all the corpses of them to me."
In my eyes, fifteen gigantic bodies were like a treasure trove! Who said I wouldn't find more bones in there? Who said I couldn't summon Gollems to work for me?
The three dragons dived into the lake water like whales. I knew they were able to bring the dead corpses back. So I shifted my eyes to the most important thing right now.
How many souls I stored all this time?
I worked my ass through New York city, killed tons of monsters and traitors before coming here. I didn't do this alone. After all, any forces that worked under me and my channel were considered part of my forces.
I fought at many zones, at Manhattan where I cleared the castles, killed sh*t loads of traitors and wolves on the street. I killed a lot at Queens and Brooklyn, and my forces did the same as I controlled most of New York and its castles in this way.
I opened my class and looked at the number of souls I had with great anticipation. And the number I saw didn't fail me.
[Soul master class: Rank: Hidden. Grade: Heaven. Level: 10. Second grade: The grade of soul merge]
[Each time you kill a living being, you'll be able to absorb his soul. The absorbed soul won't reincarnate or be revived by any means]
[Storing one hundred souls will allow you to raise all your stats by one point]
[Storing one thousand souls will let you upgrade the level by one]
[You can decide to sacrifice five thousand souls and merge them together. The merge will yield a soul monster that's totally loyal to you. The monster will be one resembling the souls used in its formation. If you used more than one origin of the soul, a new species will be developed]
[The newly merged monsters will be loyal and follow your orders. They can be stored inside your inventory. They will possess zero stats and will need you to spend stat points to increase their stats. The rise of the stats will follow the same rules of the warrior section]
[There is no limit to the number of the monsters you can merge]
[Death of the monster you merged will result in entering it into a dormant stage. Each monster's dormant stage's duration differs according to the strength of the monster and the number of deaths it suffered before. The higher the deaths the longer the duration. The stronger the monster the longer the duration. You can use soul points to shorten the duration as follows: for each day you'll need to spend five hundred soul points]
[Current soul points: Eighty-nine thousand souls]
[Upgrading the class level to reach level fifty will open the next stage of the class for you]
"Eighty-nine thousand souls… Hahahaha, see these damn angels? I killed ninety thousand monsters and traitors of your servants, hahaha!"
Chapter 91 - I Literally Hit The Jackpot!
It was such a staggering and astonishing number to not be happy about. In fact I thought it might end up around fifty thousand perhaps. But this time it seemed I hit the jackpot!
Literally hit the jackpot!
I needed five thousand souls only to merge the souls and get a terrifying Gollem. Of course it wouldn't be pure bloodied Gollem, but who said I wouldn't raise their levels and cultivation like I did with the dragons?
Bone? I have many to spare! Without the need to calculate, I had enough points to summon the fifteen Gollems I killed, and also enough to start merging the bones with me.
The cost of merging one bone was around one hundred points. That was the cost for the highest golden bone I got from the dragon kids.
What if I hit another jackpot and found more golden bones here? Damn! My blood was now boiling in excitement!
But I knew what I lacked most for now. I wasn't that strong, I acknowledged that. This battle despite it was my win, it brought to light my own shortcomings.
And the most glaring one was the lack of good skills to use!
I had to say it frankly, if not for my luck and my warriors, I would have died a long time ago!
I needed skills! I Need them badly now! But how could I get strong skills from?
The killed races couldn't get me any skills, only killing monsters would bring me such benefit. Or the items in the market right now weren't suited to be used to extract skills from the bodies of the races.
Also the market was void of any useful fighting skills. There were the most basic forms of skills. Even my class market was void from any strong offensive or defensive skills.
I knew of a way to solve this, a thing I had and could greatly assist me. But it wasn't the right time to use it.
"The dungeon keys… They are still upgrading," I looked at the two keys shimmering still in the diamond like light. These two were sleeping like far babies in there for such a long time already.
But even if they finished their upgrade, I had no time to use them at all. I had to go to Jersey City and control its castles before the start of the second quest.
I had less than thirty hours for that, a short time considering the warm welcoming party I just got from the angels dominating that city.
*Thud!* *Thud!* *Thud!*
At this moment the first three corpses of the Gollems finally were brought over by my three dragons. I nodded to them before they turned around and went back directly into the lake.
"Let's see how much you got in your inventories!"
I placed my hand over the dead body of one of them. Each Gollem was like a giant truck laid on the ground. It would be an epic scene if I had fifteen trucks standing by my side!
Once I placed my hand there, I got the message to get fifty percent of his inventory belongings, a notification about the presence of three bones in his body that I could extract using my separation skill, and a message about a strange thing called the impact.
[The race you killed is one of a large impact. Do you want to replace him?]
"Impact?" It was a weird word. If I literally translated it, then should it be a hitting force or something? What did it even mean to be a part of an impact?
Well… I knew nothing bad would come from these guys so I first salvaged half of his inventory and examined what he got.
"Not bad… Five million coins isn't bad… Also such a good number of blessing points is also good…"
I started to check what I got. This huge dude here gave me not only good wealth, but also five hundred blessing points.
What did that mean? He didn't only have a god sponsoring him, but he also accomplished tasks for that god.
Wait a second… Were such quests would be in the form of coming here and killing me?
No way! I shook my head while eradicating such silly thoughts from my mind. I wasn't that big a shot yet to be targeted by gods of other races.
Things I got were like usual; gears, scrolls, and even stat crystals were there. It seemed I wasn't the only one working my as* here, other races were.
But I found strange items there. I took one out and examined one of them.
It was a small statue, just the size of my finger. It looked ugly with such a statue resembling a green short creature with thick short arms and legs. It also had such a belly that looked funny.
"What is this?" I examined it, flipped it upside down and tried to see its details. But the thing I got was that I had no access to use this statue alongside two other important intels.
[You don't have access to view the statue details]
[You can't use the Bringold statue]
[You need to be part of the Bringold impact before using the statue]
"Bringold impact… Interesting," I muttered while looking at the dead body of that Gollem in understanding. I now knew what an impact might mean.
"It grants me access to use this statue! I'm brilliant! Hahaha!"
I was joking. I had to first accept the replacement of that dead Gollem into that impact thing before telling if it was something worthy or not.
But inside my inventory lies twelve pieces of such a statue. The thing worthy of note here was that these statues didn't take one single slot, but each one took a slot.
Which gave me more understanding about their value.
"Alright dude, time to replace you," I placed my hand again and the message of the system appeared.
[The race you killed is one of a large impact. Do you want to replace him?]
"Yes!"
[Confirmation is granted]
[Checking the preconditions for replacing the Gollem race member]
[The human race named Hye has a channel]
[The human race named Hye has people working for him in the channel]
[The current fame of the human race named Hye is over the basic requirements to join]
[All conditions are met]
[Do you want to proceed and join the Bringold impact?]
I was slightly surprised when I saw all these messages. I looked at the dead Gollem, raising one eyebrow while muttering:
"You were part of such a strict organisation? Fine, I want to proceed and join]
[Ten million coins are deducted]
[Five class points are deducted]
[One thousand souls are deducted]
[One hundred blessing points are deducted]
[Your application is accepted]
[Welcome to the Bringold impact :)]
F*ck you! Why did you put a smiley face at the end? And you didn't mention anything about deducting all this wealth from me!
Damn! It didn't only deduct coins, but also my precious and hard to acquire class and blessing points! Not to mention it got away half of my ten class points in one go!
And what about taking souls away? What sh*t was that?
"Screw you!" I cursed again while not knowing what I should do for this daylight scam.
Yet the next moment many windows popped up in front of my face, making me speechless. Not only my rage went away, but pure excitement replaced it!
"Damn! So this is what an impact means? F*cking awesome!!"
I even held my head out of my excitement! What did I see? Let's see together then!!
[Welcome to the Bringold impact. According to your initial admission fees, you are ranked as a silver member]
[You can now explore the wonders of many worlds, worlds beyond your apocalypse. You can contact many races, races you never knew or heard about! You can do literally anything here!]
[Our currency is the Universal Bringfold statues. You can acquire these statues by completing quests, selling items, and even exchanging information. Nothing is limited here, literally nothing!]
[You can access the main interface of the impact through the market. You can sell, buy, and even chat with any other race inside the big impact here]
[The higher your status is, the better treatment you'll get. According to the rules, you are now a silver grade member of the impact. You have access to all the basic features mentioned above besides you can attend the silver level auctions organised once per day. You also have the privilege to issue specific number of quests per week, maximum five]
[In addition to that, you also have a personal assistance help provided freely from the impact. You can access it anytime, anywhere, just by saying the magic word: Bringold help!]
[Another assessment of our end told us that you are part of a newly developed apocalypse. Good for you! It must be hellish epic at your side at this moment! There is a special pack provided for those newly joined us and are parts of a new apocalypse. We'll provide you with info regarding it right now > Bringold help]
[Newbie apocalyptic world package: In this package you'll get fifteen Bringold statues as a gift. You also will get access to the limited time auction over the fallen warrior races and fighting gears, with the privilege to buyout up to five of them with the basic price of one statue]
[The pack is already activated. You can find the statues in your inventory]
[To access the limited time auction, you need to get to the market in the next thirty minutes. Missing that and you'll miss your chance]
"Damn!" I hurriedly opened my inventory and there I found fifteen small ugly green statues lying in addition to the previous twelve.
I thought for a second. "So that dude here used three statues to buy out three things from the auction?" I looked at the place where that gigantic ballista was occupying and felt really blessed right now.
From all the cool things inside that dude's inventory, I ended up with such cool to use statues! Damn! I love my heaven defying luck, hahaha!
Despite having a time limit here, I didn't hurry to enter that auction. I went directly to the other dudes and salvaged their inventories from half the things they had.
My luck wasn't bad. Out of the fourteen, nine gave me the same statues and they had all thirteen. I now had enough statues to feel rich again.
As for the bones, each one gave me three bones. Yet their bones were ridiculously big and thick and heavy. The highest grade was one silver bone while the rest were all bronze.
"At least I got many bones to sell back at the class market and get more class coins," I consoled myself for having such low graded bones while I stored them all inside my inventory.
The look of my inventory was really a wonder to my eyes. I couldn't believe I got all this while being here for less than a week! I never had anything like these precious items when I lived for years!
Amazing!
As I was done from taking all the bones and clearing their inventories, it was time to summon my Gollems.
I checked my soul points again to make sure I had enough to try one golden bone for myself. Of course I didn't know how long it would take, so I had to wait after the auction and after clearing my current mission before doing that.
"Use the soul points," I slowly said, "enough to summon fifteen monsters!"
[You have eighty-eight thousand soul points]
[You can merge seventy-five thousand soul points and get the fifteen monsters you want]
[Detecting more than one bloodline in your absorbed souls]
[Detecting Dragon bloodline in the souls absorbed]
[Detecting Gollem bloodline in the souls you absorbed]
[Detecting Werewolf bloodline in the souls you absorbed]
[Detecting Kracken bloodline in the souls you absorbed]
[Detecting Kobold bloodline in the souls you absorbed]
[Forming four new monsters based on the preferences of the souls and their strength]
"Wait!" I hurriedly shouted to stop the system from doing the merge.
[Do you want to change your decision?]
Chapter 92 - Getting A New Species
Of course I wanted to! I knew about the Gollem, Werewolf, and Kobold bloodlines. But what were the other bloodlines then?
I still had dragon bloodlines? Didn't they all merge when I consumed my souls before?
And what was with that Kracken bloodline? When did I ever kill such a race?
"I have a few questions regarding the bloodlines I have," I said as I wanted to know more. I didn't want to lose any chance of getting powerful monsters like my dragons here.
[You can view the types of bloodlines you got through the class interface]
[You can select, deselect, or set priority to any bloodline for the future merges]
[Be aware that a low level bloodline can't overcome the higher level ones. So choose carefully as the system will follow the order of nature and not your decision if your decision defied logic]
That made quite sense, but I first opened the class interface. There I found nothing pointing to the bloodline I got.
"Where can I find it?"
[Choose the soul points and you'll see the bloodline there]
I didn't know that! I selected the eighty-eight thousand soul points and instantly a brand new window appeared that I never saw before.
It was a very detailed and densely packed window with a lot of information. There was a log telling me when and where I absorbed any soul and the origin of the souls that I absorbed as well.
"Oh, my Bulltors are still killing those traitors and races," as I could tell, the log was being updated with each passing minute. More lines of information appeared telling me that my Bulltors were killing the enemies.
Also the updates didn't contain the Bulltors only, but also I found other places that were slightly far from here.
"So they are hitting the Bronx now," I felt elated when I realised this. I could simply follow any of my forces progression through this window anytime I wanted.
In addition to this long log, there was also a list of the bloodlines I got. When I read the simple introduction of this list, I understood how I still had the dragon bloodline.
"So any bloodline I get will be added and stored for future uses… That's OP!"
It came as a surprise for me. But I had to see where I got that Kracken bloodline. Just as I clicked over its name, I got a smaller window telling me the information about the time and place of its death.
[Kracken race youngster was killed in the Hudson river bottom fifteen minutes ago]
The line was short, but it told me something I didn't know. "So… That whirlpool wasn't done by the angels directly but through a kid from a Kracken race?" I muttered to myself while understanding how I got this soul.
But I still couldn't get how I killed him. Unfortunately there was nothing telling me how I killed him.
"Not a big problem for me. I got his soul, so what's there to regret?"
In fact I was a little regretful. If I knew about such a race kid getting killed by me, I wouldn't have left his corpse to rot in the bottom of the river.
I turned my head towards the direction of the river. "Should I send a dragon out there to claim his corpse?" I asked myself this before I decided not to.
That river was considered a deadly trap, a place the angels worked so much to make my death there possible. I feared sending a dragon there and would eventually lose him.
"Sigh, at least I got your soul," I closed the smaller window before I found a place to put the souls in a ranking order for the merge.
The highest soul there was, surprisingly, not the dragons but the Kracken soul. Then the dragons came, followed by the Gollems, werewolves, and finally Kobolds.
"I won't change anything," I closed the window before I thought about something else.
"I want to ask another question," I said, "if I merged fifteen monsters right now, what are the chances to develop each race as a summoned monster?"
[You need to pay one thousand soul points to get the answer of this question]
[Do you want to pay?]
I raised my eyebrows when I read that. Was the system acting stingy here or what?
"Alright, take them you bastard!"
[One thousand souls are deducted]
[The ratio of each race will be: Kracken 30% - Dragon 25% - Gollems 20% - Werewolves 15% - Kobolds 10%]
I looked at this message for so long before I finally made up my mind. "It's better this way," I said while reopening the bloodline order window again, deselecting all the bloodlines here except for the Kracken.
Yes, I decided to go on this one by one, forming my entire forces by my own arrangement and not a silly percentage of possibilities.
"Start the merge," I said before the previous messages appeared in front of my eyes. Yet this time it detected only the Kracken bloodline and it only consumed five thousand souls only.
[Forming four new monsters based on the preferences of the souls and their strength]
*Whoosh!*
In a flash, a big bulky body of a monster appeared in front of my eyes. Compared to the Gollems, this dude here wasn't any lesser in size than then.
He had a big oval shaped head that stretched over five metres in length at least. He had a short chest and torso compared to his big elongated head, no arms and instead he ended up with eight large and thick tentacles.
Each tentacle was the size of a human body in size, in a length that exceeded ten metres at least. He was a gigantic one dude that reminded me of a giant octopus.
He opened his two pairs of eyes, blinked twice before he gained some clarity and spotted me.
"Master," he bowed, or to be precise he made his tentacles rise before bending halfway in the form of a bow. When he spoke, his mouth that was in the form of a thin line opened wide and showed three rows of long saw-like teeth.
He was vicious and brutal, that was the first impression I got from him.
"Can you walk on earth?" I asked as from his appearance I could tell he was an aquatic monster. Not only was his skin covered with a mucus -like substance that covered many thin faint blue scales that covered his body starting midway of his torso, but also he got gills.
The gills were in the form of three thin parallel lines on each side of the lower segment of his head, what I would consider his neck.
"Master, I can walk on earth but my speed will be decreased," he said.
"Call me lord," I corrected him before adding, "show me your speed."
If he was like a snail, then forget about it. I needed an aquatic monster anyway.
*Fwoosh!*
Yet what happened next made my scalp numb! What the hell was that speed?!!
He just moved his eight tentacles before he left a cloud of dust behind. In just a blink of an eye he crossed a hundred metres easily, making me pale in comparison.
"Come back, it's ok," I couldn't help but shake my head in amazement before he reappeared in front of me.
"Lord, are you satisfied?" he asked and I felt a tinge of worry in his low pitched voice.
Come on dude! It was me here who should act nervous, not you!
"Take these," as I was satisfied with his actions, I took a large number of stat gems, "use them to raise your level to level hundred. Ah, also take this and use it," I also took out a white bone and threw it casually on the ground in front of him.
When I took out the stat gems, his eyes shone in excitement. But when I threw the bone, his eyes got wide open, feeling shocked from the bone.
"Lord… This… This…"
"Yes I know," I grinned, "you must be lucky to have such a magnanimous lord."
"Indeed, indeed… Lord is generous and mighty," that Kracken acted like a spy kid, literally jumping over the bone and stat gems while fearing I might return in my words.
Dude! I wasn't that stingy or a loser person to go back on such few stat gems and one white grade bone!
"Go there and use them," I pointed to one side, where it was closer to the river. I was still worried that the angels might try something funny. So it was best to let such a water beast stand on guard over there.
As I saw how valuable this Kracken was, I summoned three more. I treated them like I treated the first dude I summoned.
Now I had four aerial dragons, four aquatic Krackens, and both looked formidable on the ground.
It was time to merge with the Gollems.
[Detecting Gollem bloodline in the souls absorbed]
[Forming four new monsters based on the preferences of the souls and their strength]
*Whoosh!* *Whoosh!* *Whoosh!* *Whoosh!* *Whoosh!* *Whoosh!* *Whoosh!* *Whoosh!*
Eight monsters appeared next, each was the same size as the previous Gollems I killed. They looked at me and bowed, in a slow way that expressed their slow speed.
Gosh! If such behemoths had only higher speed, they would become invincible!
"Take these," I did the same but this time I took out enough stat gems and crystals to make each one reach to level two hundred.
I didn't see them as my main killing force, but the ones who would hold the frontline from now one. They were my cannon fodders, and the more formidable they were, the more relaxed the rest of my forces would be.
So I didn't act stingy with them. I just hoped they would show slight improvement in their movement and reaction speed.
However, unlike what I hoped for, they only got slightly bigger, their skin looked tougher, and their strength and defence became more formidable.
Yet their speed looked the same when I gave them the order to move around.
"The last four monsters to summon then," I decided to give it a try by summoning four of each remaining race. Yet I was slightly hesitant about something here.
The Werewolves and Kobolds weren't that formidable like the other warriors I had. For a second there I thought about summoning a dragon or a Gollem instead.
"What if I merged dragons with them?" I thought about it and decided to give it a try.
Even if it failed, I still would end up with four dragons. Adding the initial four I had, then I would have eight.
Not to mention that heavily injured dragon, I could now have more flexibility and superiority in any fight. After all, the aerial monster stage hadn't come yet and the angels wouldn't summon aerial races without paying a hefty price for it.
Once I decided that, I selected the first dragon and Werewolf bloodlines before I started merging two monsters at the same time.
*Whoosh!* *Whoosh!*
Two monsters flashed and when they appeared, I couldn't help but open my eyes wide and felt astonished to see the result.
What was special about werewolves?
They had big bodies, not compared to the Gollems indeed. But compared to my shield warriors and Bulltors they were similar.
Their bodies looked like a wolf got enlarged, got its muscles inflated, and stood on two. They were hairy, thick hair covering up their bodies. Yet the deadliest things they had were their long and strong jaws, plus their sharp claws ending up in each arm instead of fingers.
What about the two monsters I got here?
They had the similar shape of the werewolves I just mentioned. Yet their size doubled! Their jaws, which I thought would never become any fiercer, got elongated and broadened, showing their teeth to get out from the side even if they closed their mouths.
The next remarkable thing about them was the absence of long hair.. The hair was gone and was replaced with medium sized scales that looked dragon like.