1060 Gathering Up My Lands
Such a rich and generous feast wouldn’t be rejected by me. Yet the premise of all this was for her to take my threat quite seriously and head over with everything she got.
And I had to be present when she’d come. Time played a crucial role here. If it happened while I was away, then bye bye my little territory for good.
At least I got such a deadly weapon to use against her and her armies when the time would come. At least I wasn’t so powerless or helpless when dealing with her.
I watched as the battle changed and kept moving into my favour. In less than one hour, this chaotic battle changed and became one sided one.
And then it was time for me to search for my second biggest trophy here; those lords.
“Sorry, but I need to borrow your land,” I landed over the first lord while saying this amidst my laughs.
And how couldn’t I be happy? All the Reapers here turned into my evolved soulers, and they seemed to retain part of their strength when they did that.
It was quite unexpected, but it was enough to make my laugh last for a long time.
These lords aren’t that strong or terrifying actually. They all lacked the common sense of strength, ending up all dying under my glaive.
And their lands and cubes were going to fall into my hands just like their forces. However I had to wait and watch for my soulers and evolved soulers to tear apart the remaining standing Reapers in the next few hours.
This long and arduous battle, the one that witnessed lots of changes for many hours, even half a day, ended simply like that by my interference.
Sometimes waiting for a bit longer would garnish anyone better rewards.
As I got control over such an awesome army of evolved soulers, I didn’t hesitate to call them back.
When I’d return to my second Earth, I’d take my time to test their abilities and learn more about them.
Did they also need souls as my soulers to survive? Or did they need something else?
“Lucas… What happened here?” Even though I was already celebrating such sudden change and news, I still didn’t grasp everything that happened.
I needed to know what exactly caused all these changes. Who knew, I might find other chances to replicate such a miracle.
“Lord… I still can’t get the head and toe of what happened,” yet unlike what I expected, even my Lucas couldn’t give me the answer I wanted.
“So this all happened without you knowing anything about it? Nothing at all?” It was still quite surprising. I thought he might get something from the exchange that happened here.
“None, lord… I never even knew about the presence of such a race before.”
I could only accept such a lack of reason for now. If my Lucas didn’t know, then there was someone else who might know.
It was Berry!
She was the one who controlled these Reapers, and that meant she could summon or create them in her own way.
She might be like me, buying them out. Or perhaps she got the ability to create them like I could create my dragons and other races through my class.
Or she might have a treasure, a magical artefact even, allowing her to nourish such people.
In any case, she held the key to the secret vault of this issue. And I had to just wait for the right time to ask her.
In my eyes, Berry was destined to lose out to me. Having such scary Reapers serving her, and helping create such fame and power was great.
But she just met her nemesis. When she’d come, and she would, I’d crush all her forces, stripping her from all her forces and prestige, declining her into just a single person.
And from her outstanding capabilities, such a person should fall under my grasp, ending up serving me.
That might be a long term plan, but I had nothing more than patience.
“Time to go out for a hunt,” I got lots of territories, a huge harvest actually. I killed all the lords of these territories, and now I had to go out there and start collecting them.
“Lord… Do you need our help?” from the side, Lucas didn’t hurry to leave.
I got what he wanted to say. He was worrying that these undefended territories would be eyed by other lords and I might face problems there.
“Stay put,” I paused, moving my eyes around, “make sure these forces are waiting here under the leadership of one of your entrusted men. When time comes, they’ll follow your orders. Bring them back to my land. You know the way, right?”
“Sure!” he responded in such certainty, making me unable to believe him fully.
However he was the one I could entrust with this task.
“If Loran comes, let her stay here for now,” I knew I gave such an order for Loran to lead her forces to Tom. Yet when she’d arrive there and learn about this huge ongoing battle here, she’d come without doubt.
I didn’t know if there was still another army or forces belonging to Berry in the region or not. If so, then there was a chance for them to come here.
If so, the bigger the army stationed here the better. Like this, Berry might send more forces to help and that meant more gains for me.
As I watched Lucas leave, I moved my chariot while feeling and following the directions I got from my left arm.
Up till now, this world was shrouded in many mysteries for me. At least this cube thing was weird.
I got that I’d get lands and forces from any killed lord. But what about these cubes? What was special about them?
Were they good? Were they bad? I couldn’t actually tell. But I hoped they’d not end up messing something big inside my body. Or else this would be all regretful.