"What the hell is that? Take me to your leader, I am a Britten ." Matheus decided to use his name before it was engulfed in thousands of spells. It didn't even take 30 seconds for him to find himself facing Kayden and Linus.
"Kayden!? Linus!? What is this mess?" Matheus was surprised to see his brother and his new friend in control of such a large army, he didn't even know it was allowed.
"Well… this is what happened," Kayden began to explain the story while scratching his head. "Now we are waiting to meet the rest of our friends and then finish this battle royale ."
After that, another hour passed, this time they were able to find Isac and Heimer, but there was still no sign of Sarah, this time the number of participants dropped by more than half reaching just 100 thousand.
And Kayden's group reached an incredible number of 400 people, they even had duke-level nobles in their midst who became very meek when they discovered Linus' surname.
"Kayden!! Come here quickly, we found something unexpected", Matheus who became the second in command of the army called after Kayden. It didn't take long and Matheus took him to a pile...
A pile of frozen bodies, it was simply gigantic, it had at least a few dozen bodies, without a doubt this was the work of a strong genius.
Crash!
The ice broke with the boy's blow, causing one of the bodies to fall.
"It's alive", his sentence made everyone breathe a sigh of relief, the small ice mountain reached almost 50 meters and their frozen appearance matched that of a corpse.
"Unfreeze everyone", Kayden gave the order to the army as soon as he saw how the boy who came out of there was removed from the test, you could say that this was a small gesture of mercy.
While everyone worked to get as many people out as possible without hurting anyone, Matheus came to talk to Kayden in private.
"This is Sarah's doing, she is known as the ice queen of our generation", they finally had a clue as to where she was, the problem was that she seemed to be extremely aggressive.
After unfreezing everyone, it was obvious that their army had taken a small hit, with an order and Matheus, everyone gathered together to hear Kayden speak. Seeing the huge crowd with full attention looking at him, the boy had a strange feeling.
He felt like a king of dozens of subjects, his word was law, his orders had to be carried out to the letter, without half terms or anything beyond what was ordered.
"Ladies and gentlemen, our army is at its highest point, but," Kayden paused dramatically, "we have received a casualty of 50 soldiers, luckily the person who attacked them is Matheus's sister, so our goal now is to look for him. her and recruit her, even if she took 50 of us, she's worth more than that."
As no one had close ties to anyone in this army, most didn't care at all about losing 50 members and, upon learning that they were going to recruit whoever did this, they were pleased.
Again they were divided into dozens of reconnaissance groups and began looking for the girl, this time Kayden allowed them to shout her name and warn that Matheus was their leader.
Kayden no longer feared coming face to face with a gigantic genius, as now his tactic was simply reconnaissance, upon sighting anyone other than Sarah, the battalions should retreat and not seek confrontation in any way.
Even more so now that they had the test center in their possession, plus it was being set up with dozens of arrays by Heimer and the mages he hired. Even if they didn't have much experience, they should do something minimal, like just providing mana or drawing an easy part of it.
Not only that, but a small stone fort was being built little by little by earth element magicians, it also had a hospital area under Apollo's command and a food and rest area.
The people watching didn't know what to say, this was unusual, for the first time in history one of the participants was making the test look like a farming game, where he grew soldiers and then improved his base.
A few minutes later Sarah was brought to the base and had the same reaction as Heimer and Matheus.
'What the hell is that?'
"Welcome little sister to our humble base" Matheus received her with a smile, finally everyone was gathered, now they could begin the final phase. Again Matheus gathered everyone together for Kayden to give instructions.
"Hello ladies and gentlemen, we are finally ready for the final phase of our plan, we will no longer be passive participants and wait for new blood to come to us, now we will go all out" It may have been for a short time, but Commander Kayden won the hearts of many people, he never gave anyone too much burden and was always ready to help everyone.
"First I want everyone to use masks and cloths to cover their identities, we don't want angry nobles to come knocking on your door later" With that Kayden showed thousands of masks that were produced by a weaver wizard, he was only in the fifth rank and shouldn't even be in this test, but by a twist of fate it fell into Kayden's hands.
"Always identify yourselves as the Britten army " Kayden had asked permission from Matheus and Sarah before doing this, so even if they encountered one of the big ones, their anger would not be taken out on him. "And another thing, recruit as many as possible, laid off." With that he finished giving the order for the final plan.
There were two hours left until the end of the competition and they were reaching the decisive moment, the next hour they would try to recruit as many people as possible and then just defend their position.
A reception team was created just to welcome new members, first they went through a test to find out where they should be allocated and then they received all possible instructions.
"We had 200 more members in those 20 minutes Kayden, this is surreal" Linus commented enthusiastically, he didn't expect much from this test, but since he met Kayden it was being truly fun, not only that but they also had a chance of winning this test.
Little by little a truly impressive army was built, the organization of all functions surprised all the soldiers who were watching the match, the level and hierarchy organized in just a few hours was unbelievable for mere teenagers.
"Han, the army is going to ask for this boy, you know that, don't you?" Lucian spoke from inside their private tent.
"Yes, but he won't go" The old man said after thinking about it for a while, Kayden was usually very free and reclusive, the old man didn't believe he would go to the army without a good offer.
"You can't stop him if we give him something he wants," Lucian said confidently, which only elicited a smile from the old man and no response.
Finally the competition arrived in the last minutes, more specifically in the last hour, now the diameter was 10 kilometers and there were only around 10 thousand participants and.....
2 thousands. 2 thousand of them were from Kayden's group, this time even the king spoke out praising the boy's performance. The fort they built was heavily guarded by all the ranged mages, while the rest just sat around chatting.