It wasn't that much in my eyes. After all these forces here were mostly common people, not real fighters.
In a real battle, they wouldn't fare any better than a child holding a sword or a pickaxe.
That didn't actually matter. They were going to act as fodders here.
The last thing I did before making this deal was to add another strength, defence, speed, and healing boosts to me.
The boosts I had were already gone during my hellish experience in gaining an extra life. So I had to add more again, in preparation for the upcoming fight.
I wanted to use a wide range of healing effects. However when I recalled what happened before when I did that, I had to drop such an idea.
If I did that, it would get instantly depleted the moment I'd arrive at Earth. I just used a restricted field of healing for now.
[Some have grenades, anti-air big, medium sized, and small weapons, and also different kinds of items and weapons. Do you want them?]
[Send them all over] I sent, [and it's better to be in large batches]
[They are. And they ask for the same way of payment]
[Cool. Send the list over then]
And then I got a large number of items, with a large number next to many of them. There were few which had single digits or double next to them. They must be the rare and precious mass destruction treasures.
The price in the end was really astronomical! I paid slightly over two hundred million green bones, making my storage of such bones decline to leave me with less than five percent of what I initially had.
-.ᴄᴏm But that wasn't even considered a price in my eyes. These bones lost their commercial value a long time ago. It was nice that I finally found such foolish and greedy customers willing to get them.
And as my inventory got emptied by a large chunk, it instantly got filled again with lots of different things.
"Time to go back," as I did all this, I was ready to return to Earth, "hopefully that bastard would give me a few minutes before throwing his coin."
I had to deliver lots of things to my generals and spread out my last instructions before going to the battle arena.
Then I summoned my portals and came back on top of such a large army.
The first thing I did was to check upon the castle flying in the air. That king didn't yet use his coin.
"Got back already? Humph! I thought you got scared and decided to run away! Even if you did, my coin can still find you anywhere in this world."
I wanted to answer back and tell him how wrong he was. But I didn't. I wasn't in this world at all. I was far, far away in a singular world, one that his precious coin wouldn't find me.
I thought for a second to return there and let him waste such a chance. But then I decided not to. Even if I did, I wouldn't gain anything in return.
One hour would grant me twenty in that world. So even if I gained this bonus right now, it wouldn't matter that much.
I'd still lack a few hours to call it a day. So instead, I started to move my chariot with its fastest speed, going over to the nearest generals here, Lily, the jumper, Isabella, and Sara.
"Gather up at my chariot, right now!" I held my horn and shouted in such a distressed tone towards the four of them.
And in a span of a few seconds, they all came on board their corresponding chariots.
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"Take these, make sure to distribute them evenly over the generals," I started to take heaps of things. Warriors tokens, items, weapons, and even grenades. Everything that I got from Silverlining were handed over to them.
"These…" Lily's face slightly changed while the jumper wasn't polite and started to take his share.
"Don't worry, I'll make sure they'll get theirs."
"If you don't, then I'll hold you accountable under the law of the contract!"
Once I said it, his body stiffened and his face got changed. It seemed saying these words activated the contract power, blocking all paths over this jerk to do problems here.
"Dammit!" He was already thinking about doing what I thought, not handing what I gave over to the generals of mine.
"When I'm gone, that bastard will summon lots of his forces here. These forces will get punished, so the more they kill the weaker they'll get."
"Do you want us to throw our forces away like that?" The jumper was ready to pick another fight with me, but I didn't give him the chance to do so.
"Not this time," I said in warning, "just listen as I have little time left. I brought over fodders, use them to weaken their forces. Don't throw them all at once, or else his forces might wipe them out at first. Also that aquatic battle is just a diversion. The real one is going to be here. Ask Legend to come to your aid alongside the spearhead and Hilary. Leave the rest to others."
"Ok," this time they all nodded as they felt how I was rushing my words up without even taking a breath.
As I finished saying all this, I saw a bronze ray heading towards the sky again.
"Little one," I had only one order left, "focus everything on the forces coming here. Make sure to kill the aerial forces first before the ground ones…"
"Hahaha! It's a sword! It's a sword! Hahaha! You are really doomed, human king, hahaha!"
Just in the middle of my orders, the loud laughs of that king came to make me inwardly sigh.
"Never leave the protection of my shield or the walls," I said my last piece of warning to the four generals here before a bronze light engulfed me, shielding me off the world.
"Hahaha, let's go human king, let's go to the place where you will never return from," and just as that light engulfed me, all the voices vanished except for that despicable king.
I looked around while the world started to grow hazy. I stood there alone, without my chariot.
"So he will leave behind his castle," I muttered to myself. If my ride was forced to be left behind then he would face the same fate.
Of course bringing up such a vast and well defended castle to such an arena would be cheating! Even if I got my warriors and chariot, I'd not stand a chance alone against it.
The world vanished and only the bronze world remained. I didn't know how long I'd been here, but at some point the bronze light vanished all of sudden.
What appeared in front of my eyes was a big bronze platform rising high in the middle of what I could consider as space.
Dark blue world with sparkling stars here and there, it looked amazing especially for someone like me who never got to the real starry sky I read about in old records.
The platform I was standing on top was floating peacefully in the middle of a stardust stream, made out of silver fine specks of dust.
[Welcome the preparatory stage of the Bronzed Coin Legendary battling arena]
Just as I was lost watching the world around, I got this sudden message before more began to appear.
[This stage will last for two hours. During which you can do anything before the start of the battling stage]
[In this arena, you won't be able to use any of your warriors or summon any living thing]
[PMO/コンサル/フルリモート]小売業向け...175万円/月・業務委託フリーランススタート
pꪖnᦔa (nꪫꪣ)ꫀl [To know more details about this stage, you can always check it through the battle arena interface at your profile]
[Good luck champion, and may the luck be on your side]
I looked up at these messages before I hurriedly opened my profile page. I selected the arena option, and there I found lots of info.
[Welcome to the all about the battling arena manual]
[The arena is a special world sealed inside the Bronzed Coin. You can access it under certain conditions known for the owner of the coin]
[The general rules of this arena is as follows:
-Each king will take charge of a limited area surrounded with walls and three defensive towers.
-There is a central castle where it will emit four armies per minute passing. Three will go towards the three routes connecting the castles together, and the fourth will be stationed inside the castle and only answer to the king's orders.
-During the preparatory stage, each king can let himself scanned and the Bronzed coin will determine the highest value energy currency in each king's possession. Once determined, the king can accept using it or issue an appeal to use another energy currency.
-The energy currency determined won't change.
-Each king will have the choice to use his currency and buy things out of the arena's market. Things like upgrading the defensive walls, adding more towers to the castle region, or adding towers at the three paths can be done. Also boosts can be bought for the spawned soldiers, and even upgrading them to much higher levels.
-Everything can be done during the preparatory phase using the currency of the king until either the king is satisfied or the currency runs out.
-The preparatory stage will last for two hours, then the battling stage will start.
-In the battling stage, each king will receive his castle and will start to do one task; kill the other king's forces and dominate the king's castle.
-Killing the opposite king won't lead to any win. Only the forces following the king will get reduced to half. The level and stats of the spawned forces from now on will lose one tenth of their initial value.
-Each king has the freedom to move out, use any weapon or gear he has to help his forces to win the battles.
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-The fight will be over by one king ruling over the castle of his opponent.
-The loser will die, and the winner will get half of the dead king's inventory, plus the seal of kingship the king had]
I read these instructions more than once, and the more I read the more I knew this was going to be a very hard fight indeed.
As I guessed before, the currency used here would be the energy currency.
I had to let the coin assess my belongings and determine the highest value currency I had.
Should I depend on my bones? Or should I use my soul?
Of course I'd go for my bones. The problem was in that part related to the exchange rate.
If the price tag was high, then using just the highest bones I had wouldn't be enough.
I closed the interface and went into silence for a few minutes.
This battle arena depended entirely over the preparatory phase. According to the description I read, I would get a castle and three paths connecting the castle to the other one.
So I got three paths to defend, and three paths to lead my forces to reach the other castle.
On paper, things seemed to be equal and fair. But I knew that wasn't true.
Using the currency would make all the difference. And that was where the importance of this stage came.
I shouldn't think like that. Thinking simply about buying out things wouldn't work.
I should consider the overall map of that arena. Three paths, so the perfect and shortest one would be the middle path.
I didn't know what kind of terrain the arena would have. Unlike that king, this was my first time here.
He would have an easier time knowing what to do. So instead of just filling out my part of the map with defences, it was better to think about laying traps here and there.
Also the idea of him going through any route without me knowing it was a nuisance. I shouldn't stay back at the castle as well. Or else my forces would get smashed to pieces by that king.
"Let's check the market first," I decided, and once I said it, a message popped up all of sudden.
[You requested to get access to the market]
[However you have to go through an energy currency check first]
[Be ready]
"Come then," I didn't know why I should get prepared, but the next message explained it all.
[Bring forth any item of energy that you see fit to be selected as your currency in the arena]
[Please note: you have to select three currencies to choose one from]
"Three?" I muttered to myself while opening my inventory and started checking things there. "Take this, this, and this," I took out one green bone, one piece of the god essence, and one energy crystal from my inventory.
[Three items are offered]
The moment this message appeared, the three items I took vanished into bronze dust.
[The evaluation is under progress]
[The evaluation is done]
[These are the three items arranged according to the highest energy to the lowest]
[First: The green bone. Second: The God essence. Third: The energy crystal]
[Do you accept?]
"I accept," the result came just as expected.
[The green bone is selected as your standard form of currency]
[The system detects the ability of much higher forms of this currency]
[Please when purchasing anything, you can use other higher forms of this currency and the system will evaluate the final price]
[Good luck champion, and may the luck be on your side]
[The market interface will be available now]
Once the last message appeared, an interface opened.
And there I found lots of things in front of my eyes, with each item there had a simple description about it plus the price needed to purchase.
"Dammit! That king must be lying on his back right now and getting his mind and soul ready for the fight!" I knew it would take a long time for me to scan all these things and select what worked best for me.
There were literally everything starting from single upgrade to the spawned soldier arms up to increasing their levels and even increasing their numbers and shortening the duration of their summon.
I found items that would upgrade the walls of my castle, upgrade the defensive towers there, add more towers to my castle area, or add towers to the paths.
I even found weird things called defensive post summon and upgrades, I even found items summoning monsters in forests.
I found lots of things to make my head spin. I lacked the simple understanding of this arena, making me not able to determine what to select and would work best for me.
"Calm down… From what I read here, there are forests and special zones I can control in between the paths," this was something I concluded after reading all this info.
So the fight could extend beyond the reach of the paths. Would I be able to reach the other castle using the forest way then?
If this was true, then focusing everything over the three paths would be a deadly mistake.
I looked at the market interface and suddenly got some inspiration. Linking all dots together, I could be certain that going through the forest path would be the plan of that king.
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So I had to safeguard myself against this.
However… The price tag next to each item made me inwardly sigh. There were items that were sold in tens of thousands of my green bones.
Things like upgrading the gears of the spawned soldiers and elevating the soldier level by one rank worth this much.
But when I turned to the big guns, upgrading the castle defences and towers, adding towers to the paths, summoning monsters in the forests, the price would skyrocket to reach ten million.
And the most effective tools like revealing the fog off the map for thirty seconds would cost like one hundred million!
That was a must have item! Even if it would only allow for the entire map to be revealed for thirty seconds, I still could determine the whereabouts of that king and deduct his future moves.
Then there was that silence item, which would stop any forces of the enemy from moving or fighting for ten seconds.
It also cost one hundred million green bones of mine. Ten seconds might be a very short duration, but it was enough to turn the tide over in such a fierce battle.
Then it came down to summoning posts and upgrading them in the forest.
To summon a single post, I had to pay fifty million green bones. And according to the description, I got no upper limit for such purchases.
This was a sly move from the system. Like this I wouldn't know how many available areas to summon the posts at in the map.
In addition to that, upgrading a single post for one rank would cost ten million green bones, and there were only ten ranks available for the towers, walls, and posts.
So that meant for each post, I would pay up to one hundred and fifty green bones to get one summoned and upgraded to the full level.
I looked up at all these items and found little I missed. There were items to add magic soldiers in the spawning ones. This one would cost me twenty million bones.
Then there was the option of adding flying soldiers as well, and this cost me fifty million green bones.
I looked at my inventory and felt little regret. I just paid tons of my green bones to Silverlining for my deal before coming here.
"Sigh, I have to use other bones then," as I decided to go out, I started to take my higher grade bones and tried a few out.
The blue bone was equal to ten green ones. The silver bone was equal to fifty green bones. The gold bone was exchanged for two hundred green bones. And the dark gold bone was worth five hundred green bones.
Then black bone could be exchanged by one thousand green bones, and the red bone was equal to five thousand.
This exchange meant I could use higher grade bones safely to secure my needs. The higher the bone grade was, the higher the exchange rate would be.
It seemed profitable to exchange higher grade bones. But come on! How often would I get such bones?
Not to mention their amount in my inventory wasn't as much to get me what I wanted!
"Sigh! I had to go all out using my blue, silver, and gold bones first with my green ones. Then I'll worry myself about other types of bones," I decided to purchase the basic necessities first.
I upgraded the castle to level ten, the towers also to level ten. I added twelve more towers at the castle, making the total number there reach fifteen.
Then I scattered five towers at each path. I also upgraded the armour and weapons of my soldiers to level fifty, adding magic and flying soldiers to the mix.
Then it came down to the big guns; the number of forces summoned each time, shortening the duration of each summon, adding monsters loyal to me at the forests and upgrading them, summoning the defensive posts and upgrading them, and last thing was the special items like revealing the map and the silence item.
All these would cost me a fortune! Just finished the first purchase spree consumed almost fifty percent of my overall bone storage.
And what remained made me feel it wasn't going to be enough! Not at all!
"Hmm… Let me purchase the most needed items first," I decided to exhaust the low and medium grade bones first before thinking about the highest grade ones.
I bought the special items first. I purchased three silence tools, and one to reveal the map for thirty seconds per minute.
Then I went to purchase the summoned monsters. I bought ten of them and upgraded them all to level ten. Then bought ten of the posts, and upgraded them all to rank ten.
By doing that, all the bones in my inventory got consumed, the low and mid grade ones. What was left now were the highest grade bones.
"I got a few of them… It's really a loss to spend them here…" I hesitated.
The things I lacked would be to elevate the level of my summoned soldiers and shortening the duration of each summon.
The problem here was that there was no limit for these two. Perhaps the duration of the summon would hit the rooftop of one second, but upgrading the level of soldiers had no rooftop.
What if the enemy upgraded his soldiers to level fifty and mine were at level ten? That would mean the end of the battle before it would begin.
"Hmm… I got a few dark realm monster's bones here…" I had to keep the dark realm monster bones for myself. I knew that. But I also knew that I could only use the high grade bones and higher.
I got lots of unneeded lower grade bones that I could spare to sell. Unlike the highest grade normal bones, these ones had no real value for me.
[The exchange price of this dark realm gold grade bone is ten million green bones]
"Damn fierce!" I sucked a cold air of breath when I saw this message in front of my eyes.
Ten million? Damn fierce! That was way beyond my imagination!
I looked at my inventory and when I saw the current number of dark realm bones there, I couldn't help but laugh.
"Ok, time to elevate the level of my soldiers to level one hundred," I said amidst my laughs before I started to shorten the duration of the spawn to reach the least time allowed; one second.
And after doing all that, I still got a few gold grade bones left to use.
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"Let's buy more posts and upgrade them," this was the most undetermined variable here.
The forest battle was going to be hot. And if I had much stronger forces than him but ended up without having enough posts to defend the forests, then I'd be screwed.
So I raised the number from ten to thirty and upgraded them all to level then.
Then I bought forty more monsters using dark gold bones. The single one of these would be exchanged for one hundred and twenty-five million green bones.
I bought these monsters and upgraded them. Then I added more towers to the paths and my castle, ending up with double the initial number I had after my first purchase spree.
I have thirty towers at my castle, and ten on each path now. After I finished all that, I found that I spent close to one hour since coming here.
"Damn! This took too much out of me!" I shook my head in a hopeless way before I started to sit down, and regulated my breathing without closing my eyes.
"I hope the time will be enough," I evilly grinned before adding, "I want to sacrifice one million souls to activate the healing effect. Make it big, covering up one hundred miles."
[You will pay ten million souls to cover up such distance. Do you want to do it?]
"Yes," this was my last trump card. I didn't know how vast this battling arena was. So I had to make up for any unforeseen circumstances and cover up such a huge area.
Then what came next was for my souls to form a wailing greyish ball around me, while I started to feel the same pain again.
I didn't mind such pain this time. My only worry was that the time wouldn't be enough before the start of the battle.
However, just as I opened my eyes and the pain subsided with the disappearance of the greyish ball, I got a message popping in front of my eyes.
[You are late to the challenge!]
"Damn! I messed up!!!"
When I read this message, my heart clenched tightly and I didn't know what to do.
Would I be doomed as failing this challenge? Would I be the loser and he would emerge as the winner?
[A duration of three minutes delay are calculated]
[A fee is decided. You either pay or fail and you'll be considered a loser!]
[The fee is calculated upon your currency]
panda nOvel.cO,m [For each minute, you will pay ten million green grade bones]
"Only… That?!!" I was taken aback at first, before laughing out loud. "Damn! You got me here for a second, hahaha!"
[Will you pay or won't pay?]
"I will, yes I will indeed pay," I laughed again before taking out one dark gold bone of mine, "Transfer the change to upgrade to my soldiers."
[It's done!] the moment I took the bone out, it turned as usual to bronzed dust. That dust thing ate away tons of my bones so far.
If I could find where all my bones went, I'd gain a fortune! It wouldn't only have the bones I paid, but also everything other kings paid since the creation of this Bronzed Coin.
[The fee is paid successfully]
[You are eligible to enter the battling arena]
[You will enter in three… Two… One… Now!]
As the countdown reached its end, I got surrounded with bronze light before it vanished in the next moment.
[Welcome to the battling arena, champion]
[You got ten minutes to study everything and decide which and where to deploy your forces]
[You can only deploy things at areas under your control]
[The spawning soldiers will start in ten minutes]
[Good luck champion, and may the luck be on your side]
The first thing I noticed was how big this place was! When I saw that my castle zone covered one mile, I grinned in satisfaction.
"It seemed what I prepared before is going to show its worth now," I laughed before looking around.
The thirty towers were arranged all over this vast distance. Luckily I added more towers or else this place would look empty.
Each tower rose up high for almost one hundred metres. They got a shining diamond shaped bronze crystal there that hovered on their top like an eye, in a horizontal way.
Then it came down to the walls in the distance. They were towering, rising up for more fifty metres. And that wasn't all. There were lots of defensive items there that I bought before.
Then the world outside looked all lavish green as dense forest expanded a few tens of metres away from my walls.
I looked again, and inside the castle I saw three wide paved roads with lime stone before they passed through three big gates at the walls.
By the side of each gate, one triangular tower was there to defend the gate.
I looked at the side of my vision as there was something flashing in bronze light. It looked in diamond shape. "What is that?" I touched it, and the next thing happened was for a big map to unfold in front of my face.
I already read much more detailed and more complicated maps than this one. So reading this one out wasn't that hard for me.
"Hmm… So the forest stretches from here all the way to the other castle. And this world… It's circular…" I muttered while noting in my mind the info I was reading from this map.
Then I saw the three passes with points that marked my ten towers. Looking at the vast distance between them, I regretted not buying more.
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Yet when I checked the forest zone, I smiled. There were two zones in between the three paths, and each zone had ten void rounded places.
"So… I got twenty zones to place my posts at… That means I have ten extras… Interesting…"
This time, I overbought this item. However I didn't feel any regret.
This was an all open war between my forces and that king's. So I would aim at damaging his defensive posts, ending up for me to have void zones to summon my posts.
I had ten extra posts to use, either to replenish any damaged ones by his forces, or to damage his and use mine to narrow down his forces movements.
All of sudden, this fight turned out to be an all out mind game. I looked at many possibilities considering that the distribution of the posts at his fog covered side of the map would be identical to mine.
I couldn't decide right now. After all, the fight hadn't yet started, and I didn't know if my posts would be damaged first or his.
So I had to wait, and during this time I started to go towards the free areas for my posts.
"This… There is a monster guarding each zone?!" Once I arrived at the nearest post, it took me almost two minutes.
I was using a speed boost effect, so that said enough about how big this place was.
"Ok, let me get rid of you first," I took out my deadly glaive, and waved it high in the air before jumping and landing fiercely over that monster.
*Roar!* The monster was all bronzed in colour, covered with thick fur that looked like a thick carpet. It has two long and curved tusks coming out from its mouth, and a body in the size of seven metres length and five height.
It got eight legs, all ended up with sharp looking claws. But they weren't as sharp as its teeth.
As it roared in challenge to my incoming glaive, I could see three rows of different shaped teeth. They were all sharp, but they went in different directions from each other as if they came out with an anomaly or something.
They looked weird, and so damn dangerous as well. In response to my glaive, that beast raised three of its legs to meet my glaive, and three more to hit me.
As it stood on its two rear legs, it arched its body, opened its mouth wide open, seemingly ready to swallow me.
"Scram!" But what was it facing? It was my deadly glaive, and it was augmented with my strength bonus.
Chapter 784 [Bonus chapter] The Battling Arena - Part 1
The moment the glaive touched the claws of that beast, its bronzed eyes shone as if it realised the danger it was in.
*Roar!* it tried to move the other three legs and even bit over my glaive with its sharp teeth and tusks. Yet that was futile!
*Boom!* it could only stop my glaive for one second before it was sent flying high in the air, fell in such loud booming before its body turned all into bronzed dust particles.
It died out, just from a single hit from my glaive.
How cool was that?
"Let's bring one post out," I opened the arena interface where there was a special inventory for my things there. I selected one post and the next thing happened was for the entire area to get brightened in bronze colour.
The area here was almost half a mile in radius, seemingly half the size of my castle area.
"That's… Amazing!!!"
I thought that the post would be just walls and one or two towers. But what appeared in front of me was something different.
It was an entire defensive tower, rising up for a hundred metres. It got a giant diamond hovering on top of it, releasing a circular ray of light around the tower, covering up a distance of a mile radius.
"This… It's a really strong tower," I wasn't just impressed by it. I was thinking about the enemy posts as well. "Sigh, I have no time to waste here."
I wanted to stay and better examine this tower. As it was this massive, it got three levels where it had offensive ballistae.
It was apparent that this tower would perform better if I assigned people to it.
Could I summon my fallen gods here? No way! Anything living was prevented from coming here from outside the arena.
So the only option I had was to lead forces here myself. The castle would spawn four waves, one to each path and one staying under my control at the castle.
"That's why there is another wave then… Interesting arrangement," I muttered in understanding while I went towards the next post.
Each place I visited had such monsters there. It didn't take me more than one minute to arrive at a new location, and a few seconds to kill the monster and relay the post.
In less than ten minutes, I got all the posts available for me under my control.
Then I moved my eyes at the direction of the fog region while muttering:
"Reveal the fog!"
I used the item I bought before to reveal the fog.
[The Fog Clearance magic tool is activated]
[Now you can see the opponent's zone for half a minute]
[Each minute you will be able to see for thirty seconds randomly allocated]
The fog in front of me didn't change, but when I opened the map I saw something different.
The fog was cleared and now I could see the other half of this place clearly. The king was presented in red dot, moving towards the opposite direction of mine.
I was already in the forest zone between the southern and middle paths, just near the area of that Hector king.
"Hmm… He is moving fast, but not as fast as me," this was the first comment I got from watching the other side of the map.
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The zones I changed into posts, which were already all my zones here, were all shining in green circles. As for the enemy's, he got only to deploy five posts so far, and was heading towards the sixth area.
He started from the south, and headed north. He placed most attention towards the zones near his castle, leaving all the frontline empty.
"Ok, let me help you then," I evilly grinned before stepping towards the enemy region.
[Warning! You can't step into the opponent region until the ten minutes are over!]
However, just as I tried to step inside his territory, I was blocked with a soft barrier that prevented me from going forward while not giving me any harm.
"Is there such a thing?" I looked at the map again and there was a flashing timer that was counting the time passing here.
And there was less than one minute left.
"Ok, let me wait then," I was already so far from that king. So even if he used the same gadget and saw me standing here, he wouldn't be able to do anything.
He made the mistake of not controlling all the posts in time. He just controlled the part near his castle, and was now working on the northern part of the map to expand this number.
I counted the remaining seconds before the effect of the fog clearing item ended. The king was already on his way to the sixth point, and that meant he would need a couple more minutes to clear the monster there.
"It's time!" as the timer hit ten minutes, I didn't even spare a second to check the messages that popped up in front of my eyes, and went directly towards the front.
The barrier was gone. And I managed to step into that king's zone without any problems.
"Got you!" I reached the first zone where a monster was there. It didn't take me a hit to kill it, and a second to deploy my post before hurrying towards the nearest monster location.
I didn't get the vision help from the fog clearing item, but I memorised the places of the nearest monster. Midway though, the item got activated and I saw that king still fighting at the point at the far north.
"Keep wasting time, idiot," I smirked while memorising the place of the next monster.
I killed two more and stopped. Like this, I controlled three of this king's posts. I could go for the fourth, but that king already finished the northern battle, and was heading as well towards the last post.
If we both reached there together, a big battle would erupt between the two of us.
Chapter 785 The Battling Arena - Part 2
"So the southern region is going to be my area of activity," I checked the map when the vision ability came again for thirty seconds.
The map was now filled with lots of red and green dots. My forces were all green, and the enemy's were all red.
The three paths were all filled with forces fighting at the midpoint in each pass. That king scattered fifteen towers in each path, five above me.
But what was the use? He was preparing for a big path battle to entangle me there while he'd lead his forces through the forest to infiltrate my region.
He expected me to go through the three paths as it was the most logical approach. So he heavily fortified the paths, and seemingly didn't expect me to go towards the forests from the start.
I looked at the green and red dots fighting against each other, while a long line of green dots appeared all the way from my castle towards the frontline.
The first impression I got was that my soldiers were having the upper hand in terms of number and strength. Just during the first few minutes of this clash, the frontline was pushed towards the direction of the enemy's castle.
"Your forces are now pressured, what will you know, Hector king?" I grinned evilly before deciding to make my next move.
"Come out!" I selected one of the monster summons I purchased before and threw it towards the forest around the last post I deployed.
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If I was the king, then the first thing I had to do was to clear my region from all the hostile posts.
He played this arena for a long time already, and won every single time. That meant he was so damn experienced about how to get rid of the posts.
I had to surprise him using monsters.
*Roar!*
The monster that popped out wasn't much different from the ones I killed so far. But it was much fiercer indeed and hellish stronger.
It was at level ten, and that told me these monsters were at level one or two perhaps.
This monster didn't have the same fur as the other ones. Its fur was replaced with spikes, short and sharp, thin looking like needles. And its tail got a sharp long needle that was dropping some sort of dark green liquid.
Anywhere that liquid touched released a small green fog before the spot turned from green to dark green. "Toxic needle… Interesting!" I liked this monster, and had high expectations for it.
I didn't leave before scattering two more monsters around this post. What I noticed was that the number of monsters I previously had increased by thirteen.
That meant the monsters I killed already were added as my summoned ones. However I had such belief they would be stuck at their low levels, not showing the same fierceness of my purchased and upgraded ones.
It was a regret that I couldn't access that market again, or else I'd be able to upgrade these newly acquired ones.
I moved towards the next two posts and did the same. I never thought about going to help my troops at the three paths for now. I needed to turn my forest region next to a hellish place if that king thought about infiltrating there.
The last vision given to me exposed the king's location. He was heading back to the castle, seemingly wanting to get his fourth forces and come to invade my forests.
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However he had to cross the entire distance going and returning. Unlike me, he seemed to not have a staff that could memorise places and let me jump at.
I saved lots of places already, yet never used the staff so far. I was sure this king bought the fog clearing item as I did.
So if I was at a location and after a minute I appeared at a far away one, it would make him guess it all about my staff.
Instead, it was better to keep him in the dark.
The next thing I did was to return back to my southern forest, and started to deploy the monsters I had in it and at the northern one later on.
I deployed thirty monsters, divided up into fifteen ones in each forest. One was stationed around each post, and two were located in the distance between posts.
Like I expected, the monsters I killed and added to my arena special inventory were all low levelled. But they already gave the king a hard time to deal with.
I summoned ten low levelled monsters, and twenty high level ones. I scattered the low levels to be beside the high level in the areas between the posts.
Like this, I already used thirty-nine monsters out of the sixty-three I had, leaving me with twenty-four monsters for later battles.
It took me around five minutes to do so. And when I got done, the king already arrived with a big sized force, heading towards the total opposite direction of mine.
I was up north, and he went directly towards the south. "Trying to get rid of the posts? I'd love to see how you'll do it," I started to run again all the way down, taking three minutes to arrive at the post just near the middle path.
When I crossed the path, I got to see my spawned soldiers. They were all giants, rivalling my Bulltors in body size and their bulging muscles.
They got square shaped big heads with three big rounded eyes at the middle of their foreheads. They looked fierce with such long harp bones expanding from their elbow joints, acting as deadly short and curved swords.
panda nOvel.cO,m Each held a thick and heavy looking shield, wore a full body armour that was made of fine oval shaped metallic small rings. Some held swords, others held spears and sledgehammers.
Every wave had almost fifty of such infantry soldiers, followed by twenty archers, ten mages, and five flying soldiers with big bronzed wings that gave them an angelic appearance.
Chapter 786 The Battling Arena - Part 3
The waves kept clashing fiercely forward like fighting waves of a wild ocean. At the same time, I got to see the distant enemy forces coming from the direction of the castle in the same manner.
Yet their numbers were a bit shorter than mine by almost ten percent. Also their bodies were smaller as well.
The fog was cleared by my forces for a limited distance at the enemy region, giving me the ability to clearly see their forces fighting with mine, getting killed and getting pushed back.
What was worthy of note was that not a single soldier of mine got killed so far. And that was thanks to my healing ability that covered almost the entire battling arena.
"You elevated them to almost level eight or something close to it, right?" I shook my head while imagining the frustrated look on the face of that king.
He planned all this depending on his readiness with enough energy currency to ensure his superiority here. Least he knew that he selected the wrong opponent for such a battle.
As I passed the path, I headed directly towards my post.
And just before reaching it, I could hear the loud noise of the violent battle going on there.
I could now see the flashes of lights coming from this battle. It seemed he also added magicians and flying soldiers to his army.
Once I got closer, I managed to see how fierce this fight was!
The three monsters I left behind already lost one, and another was half way to die.
It seemed my healing ability didn't affect monsters, only sane races would get affected with it.
Despite losing these two, I didn't feel any regret or bitterness.
They managed to stop an army of almost a thousand from reaching the post. And there was still one monster fighting lively against the enemy forces.
The enemy aligned themselves in three lines, with the infantry trying to contain the three monsters, and the magicians and archers hitting them from far.
However that wasn't an easy task to do. The three beasts here were really strong. Their bodies were covered with these needles which looked much harder than I thought.
The enemy had to rain down their attacks for more than two minutes to wound one of them.
In return, my three monsters started a killing spree in the enemy forces. It seemed that levels weren't the same in soldiers and monsters.
In my eyes, each one level of monsters would equal ten levels of the spawned soldiers.
This meant that the king led forces of level eighty or something, and were facing level ninety soldiers.
If they were dealing with the three monsters alone, then things wouldn't get this complicated. However the post at the back kept firing deadly rays that killed anyone it touched.
The enemy was already inside the detecting circle of my post. And once they got entangled with my monsters, they got attacked without having any way to defend or evade.
Three monsters acted as the frontline fodders, while the real killer was my post.
"Damn you, human king! What the hell did you do here?!!" Just as I arrived, I got to see the face of that Hector king for the first time.
I had to admit, I sucked greatly at getting the age of any Hector. In my eyes, that dude was just as young and energetic as Lily.
But I knew he was too old to be from Lily's father's generation.
"I just played by the rules," I laughed before pointing my glaive at the forces entangled and struggling under the attacks of my post, "it seems you brought lots of forces here. Tell me how and I will ease your passing at the end."
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"Screw you! Go and figure this out on your own!" he shouted in a very different attitude than the carefree one he showed me before coming here.
The situation greatly changed. The battle he thought was going smoother than anyone else he had was getting out of his control.
The enemy he thought was a mere fly, ready to squash him with his feet at any moment he desired, turned out to be a fierce dragon.
I grinned as I looked directly at that king in the eye.
"Then let me figure out things on my own then… Come out!"
If three monsters caused all this trouble for his thousand forces, what would five more would do then?
I was sure he didn't just bring one thousand forces here. The dead bodies thrown all over the place told me he brought two or three thousands at least.
"Dammit! You have more of those Savages!!" and when my monsters appeared next to me, that king exclaimed in such shock and clear fear.
"Retreat!" and without any hesitation, he shouted, issued an order for his forces to break free from the fight and run back to the castle.
"Kill them!" But who said he could leave this easily? I knew I couldn't stop him with just my seven monsters, with one with one leg through the door of death.
But at least I could take with me more than half of his forces.
I knew he would gain another army by each passing minute. But that didn't mean I'd let a chance of killing his forces slip by like this.
And also I wanted to further crush his mentality. Having such a blow would affect him more than he'd even expect.
After all, this came from the enemy he was looking down at till this clash started.
"Damn you! I will kill you with my bare hands!" and he already went down the path of no return. I laughed to add more fuel to his rage, clouding all the logic from his mind.
I watched him run fast while less than one third of his forces left after him. I didn't need to check the map to know his current location.
He needed five minutes to go back and forth from his castle, at least. So I had five free minutes to do whatever I wanted.
Chapter 787 The Battling Arena - Part 4
"Time to test these forts," I knew the battle was going to be decided not at the paths, but at the forests with their posts.
The one to control more posts would win. The one who would keep smashing the enemy's forts and replace them would win.
Besides… I wanted to see if he upgraded his posts to the same level as mine or not.
"You all, follow me," I didn't intend to leave a single monster here anymore. I knew that king would come later, but I had a plan for him when he'd do that.
It was still too early in our battle to use my staff. So I had to depend right now over my monsters to make the difference I needed.
As I moved forward, the first thing I met was the middle path. I had seven monsters here, and one of them was on the verge of dying.
"Go there," I pointed at the severely wounded one, "kill until you die."
I planned to create more havoc while pushing the middle path forward. Like this, I'd place more pressure over the king, making him hesitate to move his troops to support which front first.
*Roar!* The monster roared and like a tiger he jumped over the flock of sheep. I didn't pass without killing lots of them using my glaive, as a single hit created enough impact to send tens of them flying, mostly dead.
I kept waving my glaive right and left until I crossed the path. My other monsters also killed freely as they followed my way.
The path was wide, almost one hundred metres in width.
"Push forward!" as I was in the middle of the path, I raised my glaive and pointed it towards the direction of the king's castle. My boys roared while green numbers kept flashing over their heads.
My healing ability was doing its magic, and that might be one of the main reasons why they were able to push the enemy so far.
"To the post!" I pointed my glaive while flashing so damn fast. The monsters were all top tier, but they couldn't match my speed that much.
I reached the post in almost one minute, but had to wait at the outer zone of this fort for the monsters to arrive.
They took one more minute to reach here. And by that, I saw the king reaching his castle zone, and didn't move out yet.
Well, he got all the reasons in the world to not move right away. What I did at the central path changed the situation drastically there.
The three paths were already ruled by my forces, which were slowly pushing the enemy backward. But when I arrived there, I fiercely hit the enemy and cleared lots of them.
Not to mention I left one monster back there to keep clearing the path.
So in the map, I could see the middle path getting filled with greed dots, moving fast towards the direction of the enemy castle, crossing almost one third of Hector king's part of the path.
It was apparent that my forces were getting closer to his castle through the middle path. What stopped them were the towers he summoned and filled the paths with.
But with the sheer number of my forces here and the support coming from my healing sacrifice, things looked good so far.
And now I was going to add another source of pressure over this king.
"Attack!" Once the six monsters arrived, I sent them directly towards the tower.
*Swoosh!* *Swoosh!* Swoosh!*
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The moment they passed inside the area of effect of that tower, the diamond at its top flashed brightly before releasing successive bronzed rays towards them.
It was the moment of truth. I looked at the monsters around and when I saw them taking the fierce attacks of that tower without dying, I heaved a sigh of relief.
"Keep pushing forward," I bent my knees, held my glaive and got myself ready to move. I wanted them to cover half the distance first, get closer from that tower before I'd take part in this battle.
I didn't depend on them to take down this post. I'd tear it down stone by stone using my glaive.
All the monsters needed to do was to act as fodders, distracting the incoming attacks from that post so they wouldn't hit me.
I had my shield to protect me, but I didn't want to get delayed. The monsters were sent a few metres to the back each time they got hit with that ray, interrupting their momentum.
Just while they were getting closer to the midpoint of this post zone, the vision ability came again.
"Oh, you decided to come at me and hunt down my boys?" I saw the king coming with lots of red dots that formed a huge red circle around him. "Cool! Let's see if I'll destroy it or you'll arrive here first."
I didn't wait anymore and pushed my legs against the ground, travelling fast towards the front, creating a series of afterimages.
When I reached the line of my monsters, the ray started targeting me. But thanks to the momentum and speed I had, the rays passed over, failed to hit me.
I drew closer from that post to notice that it was identical to the ones I summoned before.
"Get the f*ck off my way!" as I reached almost fifty metres close to it, I jumped high in the air. As I did that, I got a direct hit from that ray without any room for evasion.
The only thing I could do was to use my glaive and wave it, releasing thick arcs of lightning and big balls of fire from the clash that erupted.
If I got hit, I'd be sent flying back and wouldn't reach that tower. I timed the hit of my glaive to come just when the ray touched my shield.
The shield protected me and absorbed most of the impact while my glaive crushed that ray into bronzed wisps of smoke.
Chapter 788 The Battling Arena - Part 5
As such I didn't lose much of my momentum, and landed just midway at that tower.
*Boom!*
And as I landed, I directed a fierce blow with my glaive towards this tower, creating such a fierce explosion which released lots of rocks out from this tower.
I left my glaive fixed there in the hole it created, leant over the tower for a second before pushing up with all my might.
"I said get destroyed!" I roared while holding my glaive with both hands. My body rose high in the air and reached a level higher than the top of this huge tower.
At such a close distance from that big diamond, it was impossible for me to evade any attack.
It released a constant ray at me, and I met this fierce attack with my falling glaive.
This moment didn't need any caution or to wait for the help of my shield. I just used my glaive to smash this fierce ray with fiercer might.
*Boom!*
The clash didn't last for a few seconds until my glaive cleaved the ray into two halves before reaching the diamond.
Once I got hit, a very fierce explosion erupted, even sending me flying for hundreds of metres in the air before landing on the ground and gliding for more than five hundred metres.
Just this explosion alone pushed me all the way back outside the area of control of that post. However as my body got stopped, I saw the massive tower fall from top to bottom, looking like it got destroyed on its own.
Rocks started to fall in succession from top to bottom, releasing a thick bellow of dust cloud that went in every direction.
Yet it didn't exceed the zone of this post.
"Good, you are still alive," I looked at the side where my six monsters were standing from different spots as they got sent flying as well.
They were alive, but they were wounded.
"Scatter around," I gave the order, while checking the map while running towards the front. I didn't care about this cloud of dust and didn't wait for it to settle.
There was no time! Just during this fight, the king drew closer with his large army.
He would be here in a minute or less, just enough for me to lay down my new post.
"Come out!" As I reached there, I didn't hesitate and threw out the post I got from the special inventory.
Then a mighty tower appeared in the place of the destroyed one.
.
"Let's see how you will try to take this down," I called back my monsters and let them guard this zone.
As for me, I started running through the forest, heading towards the next nearest post of the enemy.
Let the king get busy dealing with my post and monsters while I'd smash the rest of his posts one by one.
He initially had seven posts, five at the back near his castle and two at the north. One was taken down and the other was now standing alone up there.
It took two minutes to arrive at that northern isolated post. Once it would be taken down, it would mean the end of this king's control over half of his map!
At the same time, I checked and found that that king was still fighting against my post with his forces.
Was he thinking about smashing his way through my monsters and destroying the post after sacrificing most of his forces? He must be crazy then.
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I am just on the outer zone of that post. I decided to do things the same way I did before.
"Come out!" I summoned seven monsters this time, leaving twelve behind for later time use.
"Go," as they came out, I simply gave them the order and waited for a minute or so for them to reach the midzone of that tower.
Then I started to move out.
However, just as I was this close from the post, evading its attacks using my speed, I heard a loud ruckus from behind.
"Hahaha, you fell for my trap, idiot!" I heard the loud laughter of that king while I saw his army coming towards this post.
Damn! This post was still under his control. That meant he could easily kill my monsters and then come at me!
"You must be wondering how," he laughed while my moves got sluggish before a ray of light slammed at my shield, sending me a few tens of metres back, "I'll tell you then… It's called visual illusion effect. Have you ever heard about it?"
I had to move fast before another ray slammed heavily at me. "Gather around me, don't clash with them," I shouted before that king would continue his words.
It seemed he got the habit of being talkative whenever he got the upper hand against any foe. Well, it was a bad habit indeed. After all, I wasn't going to fall here!
And he didn't gain any upper hand at all!
"The map will show the number of forces as small dots. But what if the forces are stretching over a long distance? And they are connected together? Then if they don't have much difference in numbers, they will appear as dots revealing their places. But if there is a big difference in numbers, then the map will show the location of the biggest force, neglecting the others… I call it the magical flaw of this map, hahaha!"
He seemed in a very good mood. And when I turned to gaze up at his forces, I found that he brought only one thousand here.
I was sure from the size of the forces he brought that their size was over five thousand. Then he used such flaws in the system to his advantage.
However… It was futile!
"Come out now!" As I was pushed against the wall like this, getting trapped between two enemy forces, I summoned five more monsters.
Like this, I had twelve here.
Chapter 789 The Battling Arena - Part 6
"Wow! You even got more? Hahaha! But I'm telling you, this is pointless."
"I'll show you then how deeply wronged you are," I fiercely said, turning my attention to my twelve monsters, "half go to keep them busy, and half go with me towards the tower."
"It's pointless! The defensive post will always target the king if he ever existed inside its region!"
Just as I stepped forward, I got hit again and was sent flying for another tens of metres.
"Screw it!" I stood up fast, and started to run in an arched path. "F*ck it then! All of you, go and kill to your heart content!" I gave such an order as the six monsters here didn't have any value at all.
"Hahaha, yes, keep dancing, hahaha! It always felt great watching the last struggle of dead kings like you, hahaha!"
"Just watch then how a dead king will kill you… I always wanted to do it.. Shut the f*ck up!!"
At this moment, I was already less than seventy metres from that tower. I only needed less than twenty metres to reach there. But each time I tried, I got hit by a ray, sending me flying.
For a reason, the speed and intensity of these rays got a sudden boost. It had something to do with the presence of the king here.
And that is what gave this king such confidence!
As I knew going directly or using an evasion route wouldn't work, I got as near as possible before activating this important gadget, Silence!
Once activated, the enemy and his forces would all be silenced. It also included his fort here.
The moment I used it, the laughs of that king paused, the sounds of fighting got dimmed as only my monsters had the chance to kill.
And that ray of light coming in my direction faded in thin air like it never existed.
"Damn you!" but such silence only remained for one second. The next, that king roared in a fierce way, while I crossed the twenty metres in this second and jumped.
The ray came next, but I was ready using my glaive. I timed it to hit the ray while the ray touched my shield.
The clash ended up like before, ending up with me hitting fiercely at the tower. The same explosion erupted, and a massive amount of rock and dust was released from this hit.
"Dammit! All move forward! All of you move, goddammit!" and as I reached that post, the king seemed to lose his confidence and cool, growing all fanatics out of immense fear.
He was afraid of loss. He must be feeling the cold edge of my glaive blade touching his neck, about to severe his head off his body next.
I didn't waste this chance and jumped high in the air, received the full throttle attack of that ray, yet timed it to meet my glaive and shield at the same moment.
My glaive passed through the ray, much slower than last time. Yet when it touched the diamond, the same fierce explosion happened, sending me flying all the way outside the zone of this post.
"It's mine!" Just as I landed on my feet, I heard this fierce roar from the king while seeing his silhouette flashing fast forward.
Dammit! He wanted to go and place his post! Ok bastard, it was time for me to show you the price of underestimating me like this!
*Fwoosh!*
In a moment I took out my staff and activated it. I saved the place of the defensive post when I was struggling to get closer to it.
I didn't think I'd need it so soon, and thought just to save this spot for later, to bring troops here to defend it properly.
Yet there was no other way around to beat him. I was already trying to resist the recoil of this explosion, and would need more seconds to stabilise myself.
I just opened a portal behind me, and then my body vanished inside it.
The next moment I appeared just less than seventy metres away from this post. The king was still a couple hundred metres away.
"Stop!" I fiercely roared while planting my glaive deeply in the ground, creating a hole in the ground before my body forcibly stopped.
"Dammit!" I just stole a gaze at that king to see him freeze in place motionless.
He already lost to me in terms of individual speed, and as I was so far ahead of him, he knew it was a lost battle to try and race with me.
"F*ck you!" he shouted, turned around, and started running.
He was trying to get as far away from here as possible to avoid the incoming attack of my post.
But he got over two hundred metres to cross, while I had less than seventy.
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And he was slower than me.
"Humph, I love the sight of dead kings running for their lives before getting killed," I laughed while returning this line back to him, "come out now! Kill that damn king!"
I reached the place of the falling post in just a few seconds. The place was still filled with dust, falling rocks, looking slightly dangerous.
But with my shield, I feared nothing!
*Zip!*
My post appeared in a flash before its diamond released a mighty ray towards the running king.
*Boom!* Boom!* *Boom!*
At this moment, the king took out lots of his protective treasures, shielding himself from this deadly ray.
Before an explosion occured as the king was thrown high in the air, before falling less than a hundred metres off the safe zone.
"Again! Hahaha!" I took the role of him as I laughed while watching him stand up fast, and tried to run once more.
*Zip!*
Yet once more another attack came fiercely and he had to sacrifice more treasures.
"I'm going to kill you, then go back to your pathetic world and tear it apart!" just as he got thrown again, he landed at the safe zone outside the range of my defensive post.
"I'll find every single human out there, torture them until they die out of pain. I won't feed them, won't give them water, and will let them suffer till their last breaths while cursing you!"
He seemed to be a bitter loser! One who would go and cry to his mammy when he got beaten up!
"Ok, I'll show how real kings should behave," I was already standing high, on top of my post, next to the shining huge diamond there, overlooking him the same way a god would look at an ant.
"I will look for each Hector, enslave them with my contracts, and force them to work for my people. But I won't mistreat them, I won't torture them, and I won't let them ever remember your name. You… A mighty king who once got all the glory in the universe for what he did, won't be remembered ever again!"
And that was my answer to his threats.
That was how humans deal with their defeated enemies. We were weak, but that didn't mean we didn't have our own code of honour just like any big race.
Chapter 790 The Battling Arena - Part 7
"Trying to look like a merciful and kind king? Trying to look cool with such big and useless words? Humph! One day I had such thoughts and ideals like you, but after all these years I can tell you… You are no better than any of us!"
His tone came in such despicable way while running away with what was left of his army.
"Hunt them until you reach the next post," I said to my monsters, "then come back here again."
For some reason, I felt somewhat depressed. For a reason, what he said seemed to resonate with something deep inside me.
It was a doubt, a doubt and little fear that I purposefully ignored.
I came here with one goal in mind, to just gain a class and live a normal life of a human. I aspired to live just like what I saw other humans in my time lived.
But right now? I wasn't even close to what I imagined! For a time, I started to see myself as a tyrant, someone with an endless threat for power that wouldn't get quenched by gallons of blood of his enemies and allies.
At a point, I felt I was treading a path I never even knew existed!
I started with the desire to have a class, and now I ended up with such an irresistible desire to rule over the entire apocalyptic cluster of worlds!
It… Was scaring me! Just that feeling of being drawn by power, tempted with what I had and going to ate my courage and self confidence away.
I… Had to find a midway solution. I started this path, and had to finish it. But under no circumstances I'd lost myself, lose my humanity, or lose my soul!
What he said came as a warning from someone who already threaded on this path. Just looking at him gave me such an invaluable lesson.
No one was immune in this life! No matter how high one climbed, how strong one got, how vast his armies were, how rare and unique his treasures were, there would always be someone like the nemesis of anyone.
No matter how I grew stronger, I had to keep this in mind all the time.
I was beaten more than once by that clone, got my girl taken away and brainwashed by a mysterious entity… I wasn't immune… I wasn't invincible…
I was just a weak human, cladded in all these items and treasures, surrounded by all these mighty warriors and forces, but I still was the same.
And I had to always remind myself of my origin, of where I came from, so I wouldn't lose sight of the true essence of myself.
I was Hye, I was that loser who got bickered at by everyone. I was now mighty and famous, I was a king… But that wouldn't change who I truly was.
I wouldn't let this fact fade away from my mind. Recently I started to forget the old bitter days I lived through as if they never existed.
That was wrong! My past was what shaped me to become who I currently was. And that would lead to my future.
I should never forget who I was, or where I came from, never!
I tightly clenched my fist over the cold shaft of the glaive. Its coldness had such a refreshing effect, pushing away such doubts off my mind for the time being.
"Ok king, let's make a bet then," I fiercely said, "do you think I'll end up like you? A corrupted soul with all horrible deeds haunting you at night? Nope, I beg to differ. Let's make a bet then, and I'll become the king that will be hailed in history records as the righteous and just!"
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I made up my mind. Even if I walked through the valley of death myself, I would never let my soul get tainted with such cursed and corrupted energy there.
As the king was drawn away, running with its tail in his teeth, I had time at last to do what I wanted.
"Listen up," I took out my horn and shouted, thinking about my thirty monsters I left behind, "one of you will guard each post, the rest will move forward. Get stationed at the five posts here, four at each one."
I planned to push the frontline to the king's half. I controlled the five posts at the frontal half of his territory, and I had to tightly secure it.
Aside from these thirty, I still had eighteen monsters left, considering that the one I left for the central path got killed already.
The fast advance of my troops there halted as they started to fight just slightly above the midpoint of the part belonging to that king.
That meant the monster was killed, and it was just expected.
So I got eighteen free to deploy anywhere, and I just got the right places to deploy them.
I waited for ten more minutes before my twelve monsters returned. They seemed to have their fun killing and chasing down that king all the way to his castle.
He was terrified to go to any post and got surrounded there with my forces. So he decided to go to his castle, as it was the safest place here for him.
That made my forces kill lots of his forces, especially when the bigger part he left behind retreated as well and got ambushed with my twelve monsters.
I kept tracking this fight using the map. And now it was time for the next move.
"Six of you will go to the northern path, and the other six will go to the southern one," I said before moving fast towards the middle post where I left my boys there to protect.
It took three minutes to arrive there. Since that king got kicked his ass all the way to his castle, he never moved a single step out.
It seemed he was already amassing a new army to lead out or put the last struggle against me.
Chapter 791 The Battling Arena - Part 8
He lost big in the previous clashes, lost almost all of his forces that he gained passively from the castle.
Unlike me, he kept using his forces repeatedly, ending up with their deaths.
I got a large army back at my castle, one that I was saving all this time for the big and last battle at the castle walls.
I intended to bid my time and make him lose more before this one. But something told me he wasn't going to go out or risk losing a single force anymore.
He would bet everything on that last battle, and I'd come with all my forces and crush these walls on his head before killing him.
"Go to the central path, and help forces there," as I reached the next post, I gave such an order to the six monsters there which had a good time defending this post.
I waited, didn't move as that king didn't. It seemed like we both were sitting opposite to each other, around a chessboard, and waiting for anyone to make a mistake.
I had the upper hand now in everything. Even if that king had enough treasures to elongate this battle and save his forces at the castle, in the end they'd all die.
I calmly watched the map where my boys kept pushing their enemies back. At some point, I got the message that my healing effect was gone.
Well… It lasted for at least half an hour, and it helped my muscles a lot. I didn't have any worry about losing it.
With the addition of my monsters to each path, the fight seemed to go smoother. But for a reason, the number of towers at the rear part of each path was five or six.
That made each step taken was paid heavily with lots of my forces' lives. It seemed the sudden escalation of the damage taken exhausted my healing effect and let it vanish faster than I thought.
But it was alright. The enemy was already pushed back, and on its last leg.
"It's time," as an hour passed, my forces had less than two towers to take down, "come back, all monsters converge at the post near the middle path," I decided to make my move and take down these posts.
I thought about taking them from north to south, or from the opposite direction. But I was sure the sheer size of that king's army at the castle was so big at the moment.
If I did that, I might risk that bastard going out of his castle and heading directly towards the farthest away post of mine.
It was much safer to just go towards the centre, secure these two first before expanding towards the other three at north and south.
My monsters took ten minutes to converge, then I started to march together. Such a big army of my monsters was enough to take down anything.
"Let's hit this one first," I stood at the edge of the post lying south to the central path. I waited first for the vision to return and checked the current location of that king.
But something made me doubt. Last time he used the flaw in the map to make me lose track of him.
Would he also do the same?
"One each will go to be stationed in the area between the posts," just to be safe, I decided to send scouts out and followed them on the map.
Just when one of them reached a spot, a sudden flare of lots of red dots appeared there. "Damn! You were trying to fool me then," it was up to the north. And from the sheer number of dots appearing there, I knew a big army was there.
But I waited for a few more seconds before the one at the south appeared in its location.
And then another scene appeared there.
"Ok… So you divided up your forces to make me divide mine… Cool," I knew the best way to act was to go and clear these forces. I thought for a second there and first saved the spot before deciding to go for the southern army first.
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It was a bit closer to me.
"Stay here," but I didn't take it all. I left behind twenty of my monsters to stay guarding the central path.
After my forces cleared this path to the forefront, the path became only filled with my soldiers heading from my castle towards the direction of the enemy castle.
So leaving them there wouldn't be a big problem. "One each will stand near the four posts, and three will be stationed in between," these monsters acted as my eyes here.
I then moved with the rest of my monsters and headed directly towards the big army at the south.
I knew the battle to take down that army and the two posts near it would be hard and quite challenging. But if I succeeded, then there was no hope for that king.
He was trying to use this flaw and turn the tables over. As I drew closer, I made sure to keep an eye over my monsters.
The ones at the north and south were still alive, but they seemed deeply immersed in brutal fights.
Yet they were alive, and that was what mattered.
Luckily from the map, I got that they didn't venture into the area of any post yet.
If they did, then both would have been killed already.
Once I drew closer, I got to see the huge army of soldiers waiting up for me and my boys.
"Interesting," I muttered when I saw this army that was in tens of thousands already, "but he isn't here."
That meant he either betted right and guessed my direction or he was here and left when he saw me coming.
"Sigh, it's tiring to kill a wounded and cornered beast indeed," I knew he would aim for the north right now. But even if I knew this, I didn't hurry to leave.
"Go to the two northern posts and defend there," who said I got no other army left to stop him?
Chapter 792 The Battling Arena - Part 9
I guarded the southern path, and my twenty monsters guarded the central path. So what was left was the north.
And I got just twenty monsters free to get deployed there.
I sent them without batting an eye. I just needed them to delay the king and I'll come for their aid.
"Attack!" Once I finished doing this, it was time for me to get rid of that army.
As I deployed my monsters around to delay the enemy, the enemy also placed them here to delay me.
Who would clear his enemies first? Who would control the first post in the last line around his castle? Well, the first to do this would have a better time later on.
Once I gave the order, my monsters lunged at their enemies. I didn't stand idle and went forward as well.
With each wave of my glaive, I killed lots of enemies, sent much more flying. I kept moving forward while waving my glaive fast right and left, creating a vacant path for my monsters to enter if they wanted to.
For the next fifteen minutes, I kept fighting like hell while checking the map all the time. My monster that went to the north was killed five minutes ago, and that made me lose any sight of the enemy forces for now.
But I wasn't worried. I joined the fight so if that king was still nearby, looking at me from a corner or something, he would be reassured that I was totally focusing everything here.
Even myself joined the battle in person, which was a clear indication that this was everything I got.
And now, I had to wait for him to make his next move.
There was a post in the middle of these forces. But the size of this force was big enough to take me an hour to clear.
So I didn't rush directly towards the post. Even if I was faking falling for it, I shouldn't really fall for this trap.
If I stepped with my small forces inside the post's zone, bad things would happen.
"Come on," after fifteen more minutes, that bastard didn't show any sign of moving, "what are you waiting for?"
Just as I was wondering about this, a sudden change happened.
"Wow! You decided to throw everything you got at such a move? Hahaha! Nice!"
In front of me, two big groups of red dots appeared all of sudden. One was heading at the northern post of mine, and the other was heading at the one south to it.
It seemed he wanted to start reclaiming these posts by doing this. Suddenly attacking two places without warning would drive anyone insane.
Especially if his foe didn't have any forces left to deploy.
But was I out of force?
Humph! That was my trap for him, and he just was about to get a bitter taste of how I had no forces up there.
Then I took one item out.
It was my horn!
If he planned to go all out, then it was time for me to go all out as well.
During this time, the size of my forces down at the castle looked the same. They filled the entirety of the castle without expanding outside the walls.
I didn't know if the spawning process would pause if the place got crowded or this was thanks to the flaw of the system of the map.
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Anyway, it was time to put my large army down below into good use.
"Listen up," I thought to my personal army stationed there while looking at my castle, "divide into three armies, each will go towards one path. Push all the way towards the castle of the enemy and start attacking it."
This was my answer to that king's move. He was lured outside his castle, and left it undefended by taking almost all of his forces there.
And that was just the right chance to do it!
Sending off my armies to the paths wouldn't change the look of the dots there. So the enemy would be blind until my forces would knock heavily with their weapons on his castle gates.
Then I took out my stuff. If I was that king, then I'd select the farthest place from me to start his attack.
So I selected the northwest post and teleported there.
And once I arrived, I found a brutal fight going on between my monsters and an army of twenty monsters on the same level.
If not for my monsters to take defence by the post and they had an equal number with the hostile monsters, they'd have been eaten alive before I'd arrive here.
But all they got were wounds, mostly caused by other monsters and few caused by the huge number of soldiers here.
"Listen up!" Once I arrived, I moved my eyes around and I finally spotted the ugly face of that king. It seemed he expected a different scenario, one which he would walk easily to crush this post and the one below it.
But that was a mere dream! And I intended to knock him back to his senses using my glaive, "All monsters will go and kill the soldiers, leave those monsters for me to kill!"
Then as a beast, I jumped high in the air, waved my glaive horizontally before landing it fiercely over a group of five monsters on the enemy side.
One hit, it only took one hit from my glaive for these beasts to fly in the air while roaring such heart curdling roars.
"Hi king of Hectors, did you miss me already?" I said before running fast, creating a series of afterimages and finally landed my glaive again at another group of three beasts, killing them.
"Weird!" Just as I killed more than half of the beasts here, that king never said a single word!
His face was the same, looking ugly and dark as if someone dear to him just died. He stood at the far back of his forces, protected by a sheer number of his soldiers.
Chapter 793 The Battling Arena - Part 10
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But for some reason, he didn't use his old habit of talking, making me have doubts about this.
Something… Something seemed off here.
I opened my map and started to closely inspect it. Everything was just fine there. The enemy forces were about to get slammed fiercely with mine coming from the castle, and they would push all the way to the enemy castle soon.
As for the middle two posts, things there were looking calm. The southern battle was still hot and I didn't lose a single monster there.
So… Why was I feeling that something was missing?
"Damn! Ok, let me kill them first," I waved my glaive fast at the remaining monsters on the enemy side and killed more than half.
Then the sense of danger kept rising up in my heart like never before.
If I was the enemy, then which place would hold the highest chance of winning? Which place held the highest support and aid?
It was the southern post my monsters were attacking! They were close to the post location, making that king have a better chance of wiping them out.
"Damn! He is going to use the silence tool!" it suddenly hit me! That bastard! He would use the silence tool and stop my forces from fighting for an entire second.
But… Was he so confident in his ability to wipe out my monsters there or what?
I didn't know the answer to this. I left twenty-three monsters there.
It was a good number to kill, and that would place me at a disadvantage.
One thing would explain all this, that bastard had more monsters to summon. Or else why would he do it?
"What the f*ck?!!" I was about to use my staff when I got the idea of summoning my seven monsters and leaving them to aid the forces here.
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But when I did that, the number I saw wasn't seven, it was twenty-seven! Something seemed off! Twenty monsters were just added to my account!
Wait! I just killed twenty monsters! Would that mean killing other king's monsters would count as adding monsters to your own?
Suddenly it hit me! He wasn't just planning to kill a large number of monsters, but he was planning to summon them and use them in the next attack.
Damn! Lacking such little knowledge would have cost me more time and effort to kill that bastard.
But what was about that thing standing there motionless? Was it another treasure of his or what?
Just looking at him would tell you it was that king. But from his stance there motionless, I knew he would never be the king.
That king… He never kept his mouth shut all this long before!
What reassured me so far was that the forces down at the south were still intact. That meant he didn't yet use that silence item.
I held my glaive in my right arm, and the staff in my left. I was ready for the final battle.
Damn! Killing such a cornered and wounded beast was really troublesome!
Once I passed through the portal, I saw another face of that king.
"Got you!"
"Got you!"
We said it at the same time! As if we both were sharing the same thought!
"Silence!"
We also said it at the same time, as if we were the same person.
For a second there, all forces froze and ended up without moving.
"Damn you! Silence!"
"Silence!"
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Again I used another silence gadget, putting his forces in freeze mode just as he did to mine.
"Damn! How come you bought this much? Silence!"
This time he outplayed me using this one. But I wasn't feeling any worry. It was just one second. What possible could happen in it?
"Hahaha, you might think this second won't make a difference, right? Silence!"
Damn! He was more silent than I thought!
"Silence!"
And with the third silence, I knew he planned for me to fall into such an endless loop of freezing.
"And now for the most magnificent thing that you don't know… The king is calling! Sacrifice all the posts and merge them here in this one! Expand! Cover up my damn enemy and kill him and his forces!"
Dammit! Just as I got freed, I saw this post at the forefront getting a sudden bright bronze light as if it was going to explode.
Then a fierce wave erupted, covering up ten miles at least behind me.
"I have no silence items again, but you won't be able to survive this, human king!"
"Really?!" I raised an eyebrow before a booming explosion happened. It came from the direction of the post.
It was covered with a thick veil of bronzed fog, and now it expanded out of it, showing its real and scary face.
"All of the monsters in the middle and back… All gather up here!" I suddenly gave such an order before adding, "all my forces at the southern and middle paths… Gather up here!"
"Calling out reinforcements? Great move, but it's not enough," that king returned to talk carefreely when he got the upper hand, "this baby of mine will shoot any target anywhere at a distance of ten miles! Ten f*cking miles! That's almost one tenth of the entire arena! Hahaha! You and your forces are doomed!"
*Zip!* *Zip!* Zip!*
Just as the new post went high in the air, showing its fierce size and shape, the three diamonds on its top started to launch deadly rays against me and two of my monsters.
"Not a chance!" But who said he got the last word here? I moved fast, using my speed advantage and hit the three rays in succession using my glaive and shield.
*Bang!* but the next thing that I felt was for me to be thrown high in the air, falling almost a hundred metres back.
"Retreat!" I hurriedly shouted even before I stood up, "always keep your distance not too far away."