1114 All Are Present Except For One...
But that was left for later times. First I had to finish installing these portals which didn’t take two hours from me to handle.
Then I returned back to the capital before returning back to my second Earth.
[This…]
[Are you sure? You do know that not many will agree. Not to mention the plan of evolving their upcoming generations will be greatly affected]
Lily’s response was just a simple word yet I knew she was already surprised a little by my sudden request. However for Angelica, it was a nightmare for her.
[Who dares to oppose me? If I said I want them to move then they have to comply] I already anticipated such a problem. But it wasn’t that big.
Aside from using my name and threats, I was quite sure many would just be willing to move out.
[Just start bringing those who agree directly to here] I paused before adding, [In two weeks time I’ll come back to escort all of forces and people over to Earth]
[It’s your kingdom and I’ll follow your arrangement then] she complied and I knew she would. All of her previous complaints were just to advise me against doing this.
After I made sure that Lily got what her role was, as she had to select part of the armed forces and scatter them around the grand kingdom of mine, I finally returned back to Earth.
Slowly and in the upcoming few hours, many familiar and unfamiliar faces appeared as they ascended into my chariot.
The old friends who followed me for the longest came first. With the exception of the jumper, they all came with many new faces.
I realised that during this period, many of the forces must have brought out many talents. I left instructions before leaving for them to select the promising and most capable ones and appoint them in the vacant leadership positions.
And they seemed to find many great talents. It was expected. After all, we gained control over many of the Hector forces, and they weren’t just your normal cabbage.
As one of the three greatest races in the entire universe, and even if they paled in comparison with the other two, they must have a way to keep their forces strong.
Just seeing Lily and her people made me sure of this. And seeing many of Hector ‘s faces covered with fine and rough looking scales made my guess correct.
“Boss, boss, you are finally back, I miss you boss…” just when that talkative spearhead appeared, he started causing ruckus.
Everyone else came and nodded in greetings, standing in silence by my side. Even the oldest fellows like Isabella and Sara kept their silence as a form of tactic to show respect.
Yet that jerk was already making the place noisy, even jumping at me before greeting his girl. What a jerk!
“Go away! Stand there on the side in silence for now,” I gave him a kick in the face, sending him flying over the side of the chariot.
“Boss, don’t be mad at me, it wasn’t my fault. It was that masked man’s fault. He kept insisting on advancing and attacking while I tried to dissuade him.”
“Speaking about that, humph!” Just when he was about to jump up again, showing a remarkable increase in his tenacity, Sara harrumphed from the side, “if I recall correctly, it was you who kept supporting him all the time.”
“No, no, that didn’t happen. Please don’t believe her, I tried my best to convince him to stop…”
“Silence!” I frowned when I saw his persistence in faking lies. He already got the reason behind my attitude towards him.
In fact I knew this wasn’t any of the one present here’s fault. But as generals of my armies, how could they dream about escaping judgement?
Having privilege came with a price. Everyone who came here seemed to accept such fate, and yet this dude here was the only one trying to coat his way out of punishment using useless words.
Didn’t I know his personality? Such a sly dude wouldn’t move out and place himself in the centre of the light out of his will.
He was sly and scheming, knew that if things went south the one to hold accountable would be that jerk not him.
In my eyes, they both were all jerks. Which reminded me of the third jerk that dared to antagonise me.
“Don’t dream about getting out of this unscathed,” I didn’t say this only to him, but to all the present here, “I entrusted you with a task. You completed it, I give you that. But at what cost? What? Did you think that armed and well trained forces fall off the sky like raindrops or what?”
The worst thing was that most of the forces lost were experienced and long termed ones. This meant the loss this time was huge.
“I do know that,” out of the blue, Isabella spoke while giving her man a meaningful glance.
It was as if she was asking him to man up and prepare himself to shoulder the consequences.
Seeing this, the faces of the newly joined generals slightly changed. In fact if they saw me treating my old folks with bias and didn’t judge them on the faults they made, how come they’d follow my orders and try to satisfy me?
It was out of the question. To maintain a healthy atmosphere among the generals of my armies, I had to show them the stick, not the carrot!
The carrot would be used to tempt them to join my highest ranks, but the stick was the most suitable way to keep them under control.
“Humph, you all are gathered here but that pathetic fellow didn’t show up yet…” After putting the mess of that spearhead under control, I waited for more hours.
More generals appeared, yet that jerk didn’t. Without waiting for anyone to respond, I simply sent a message over and it had one simple sentence.
[If you didn’t show your damn ugly mask in front of me in the next half an hour, I’ll simply tell your life story and your origin to everyone here]
[If you dared to do that…]