As soon as his last words were announced, he watched the chaos unfold among both the giants and the humans. Giants because they had spent their whole lives inside the village, and expansion was an idea they were not sure how they felt about. Humans realized they would have to probably fight off a full-scale war, while some, like the duke, were excited and others, like the little girl, got scared of the word war.
He expected them to react more or less, so he didn't mind the looks; more than anything, he was currently busy admiring the piece of rock in his hand with the rune that the runesmith had created. It worked as a microphone somehow. On closer inspection, he realized it wasn't just a rock and laughed. He was very familiar with what this material was, and of course it was adamantite. He was thinking of mass producing these, but his face curled up when he actually thought about the price. 'Man being broke sucks,' he thought to himself.
The old chief and the father of Carus, meanwhile, looked at him from a corner in the crowd. While he had told Carus he was willing to let the new generation take over, expand, and explore, no way in hell would he have ever thought that the lord of the forest would be so greedy. Was it even right to call him the Lord of the Forest at that point? He thought about it and gasped. Maybe that was the reason he just told them to call him Lord Jack. Does that mean he was planning all this from the start? While Carus's father made up his own theories about Jack, who just wanted to avoid embarrassment, the current chief found himself in a dilemma.
While he did want to expand and explore the village, he never wanted to thrust the village into a full-blown war, which was not something he wanted. While he was sure he could trust Jack, imagining his whole village being shoved into war was not something he could accept, as he spoke up.
"I am afraid, as the current chief of giants, I cannot allow my village to take part in a full-blown war." He, with a firm face, looked up at the man who could kill him with one word, but being the chief, he couldn't bitch out either. Especially when it came down to his people.
The elder chief, meanwhile, looked surprised by Carus's actions. At that moment, he could have said that his son had grown into a fine leader, but which father is able to tell their child they are proud of them? No matter how proud they are, it's always difficult for a father to talk his heart out to his son, but in that moment, he did feel proud.
Jack, on the other hand, looked down with a confused look before bringing the phone to his mouth and speaking.
"Uh okay? I never said your whole village was going to fight anyway."
It was now everyone else's turn to be confused as Jack smiled, and Ikami, who had already realized what was going on, face palmed herself. "Oh god," she said to herself while she sighed, and Jack continued.
"I will only be taking 10 people with me to conquer the rest of the island; that is enough."
This caused a bigger uproar in the crowd, and some were relieved. Some were confused, others were just unsure. But as soon as Jack said ten people, all eyes were on the ten humans who joined the village under Jack the last day.
Meanwhile, as Jack caused chaos in his village, much far away from earth, sitting on a chair was someone Jack had seen not long ago. The current administrator and manager of earth is one of the strongest people under the game master, who took over earth himself. It was none other than the announcer of the kings, Z. As Z watched the live feed of Jack's announcement, he didn't say anything at first. "Rather ambitious. He's the second person to announce that. It seems humans are greedy by nature. But it won't be a bad idea to use that. Since they want to do it so badly," as hands worked inside the dark room and on earth, a new chaos ensued due to Jack's foolishness. Suddenly, with the final press of a button, a screen was displayed in front of every ruler on earth. What Jack saw was.
[A great trial has been issued.]
[Great Trial: CONQUEST
Time: 6 months
Reward: 50,000 credits; rank upgrade.
Objective: Conquer all the sentient races and villages in your designated area.
Your area: an island of giants.
You may directly challenge the chief of each village or assure a war as you wish.
Penalty: loss of one's current nation]
"Well, it's not like there's an option left now. So I'll announce the people I'll be taking with me," Jack said as he was smiling, but at that moment, everyone just assumed it would be the ten humans—maybe not the child, though. But Jack surely had plans.