I Only Wanted A Class In The Apocalypse

After all, the one controlling more gates and castles would gain the ownership of any city or town. I didn’t ask to bite what I couldn’t chew. My forces weren’t that large or experienced enough to capture more cities.

I was struggling this bad with only two! So I leant toward another kind of a deal here.

[In addition to free all the humans trapped inside the cages, you’ll have to assign a force from your elites in each city I conquer and make them train all the humans how to fight and survive in the apocalypse]

[What?!!] Fang sent almost instantly, showing how shocked he was.

Sure, that would be the right price I’d ask for in return for giving a city to him. I couldn’t protect more cities, and I didn’t want any of this sh*t.

But who said he knew anything about any of that? In his eyes, I was just acting the way he did, working my best to expand my territory before the arrival of the real monster.

[Are you referring to other cities as well?] After five minutes of silence from his side, he finally started to take the bait.

[I’m planning to conquer at least five more cities around here] I wasn’t lying. After all I was forced to take such a long detour to trick my enemy, [and I might go even beyond that before the big battle]

[It’s a deal then] as he saw five free cities added to his reign, how could he resist such an offer? Even if it meant he would turn his mighty experienced elite Selvators into tutoring teachers for my weak and helpless humans, he wouldn’t say no just for that.

He got something, and I got a much valuable thing in return. At this moment I started to get a bit greedy. Who said I would settle down with just five cities trapped humans? I should work harder and expand that number by at least double.

I had such a priceless chance to make my humans get such training from one of the best masters in this apocalypse.

[Hey, change in plans] As I decided that, I instantly sent copied messages to my scattered team, [Go to any city with gates. Work with Selvators there to take over the other gates. We get two, they get three]

Of course the jumper dude didn’t drop this matter without getting to the bottom of it. He kept ramping in messages, threatening to not follow these new orders as he had inexperienced forces.

But when he knew about the deal I made with Fang, he sent me this message:

[Goddammit! Are you sure you are really a human? I heard of a race called tricksters who loved to trick other races and con them in every possible way! Alright, alright… This is a good chance indeed. I’ll take as many cities as I can, but in return all the humans I free will end up under my command. No room for objection dude, this is a final call!]

I read that message and couldn’t help but inwardly sigh. That bastard changed his attitude and started to drool over this big loot. [Don’t forget you are under my mercy] I sent to remind him of his position.

[One day I’ll find a way to crush that f*cked up contract]

[I meant your little secret buddy] I laughed while totally ignoring the showering rain of angry messages that came after my last message.

Dude… I wasn’t only tying you up with a contract, but also with that little secret of yours. Humph, let’s see how you’d get yourself freed from that as well. As if breaking a contract was something possible in the first place!

The other team members didn’t have the same farsighted goal like the jumper. They were happy, but none dreamt about forming their own forces like him.

Even the spearhead, he simply was delighted and didn’t ask for anything.

In fact I liked the jumper’s attitude. Having elites under my command was a must, but also aspiring people was also a necessity.

I needed to let them deal more with the jumper to learn from his shamelessness. Such an attitude might get on my nerves most of the time, but in the end it would bring great results to me.

As I saw the team’s enthusiasm, I sent a message to Fang notifying him about the increase in the city number. He was excited as well, and didn’t show any sign of rejection at all.

“Alright, time to go for the next city,” as I closed this good deal, I finally had time to focus on moving onward.

The next city to hit was Bloomfield. This time the fight was more organised and far easier than the one at Newark city.

Fang’s men were already attacking other forces when I arrived. I just jumped in, threw every dragon I summoned so far, including new twenty drags as well, and took the direct hits of that angelic star weapon.

I got used to it. As long as I sat foot inside a city from now on, the angels of that city would hit me with their deadly weapon. At some point I knew my big reserve of stat points in the chariot would be depleted if this kept going on.

Just taking the toll of a single city star weapon was enough to take away almost ten million stat points. I initially had close to sixty million in reserve. So I could do that for six cities only.

That was slightly annoying. So instead of that, I asked my drags to go around, gather the dead bodies of all the top fighters in any race gate.

Putting aside Selvators, I had four other races to replenish my own stat reserves from. In just two cities, I collected close to forty million stat points, making me feel more relaxed.

Even if I paid almost half of that number into my chariot’s shield, I still ended up with almost twenty million stat points. Giving stat points to all my newly summoned drags, I was now having twelve million stat points after taking two cities.

The other good thing about this was the large number of souls added to my account. For a reason, the system seemed to count Fang’s men as part of my force. So anything they killed was added to my stored souls.

And like that conquering each city would grant me at least fifty thousand souls. Not to mention other ongoing battles everywhere. So by the time I took Bloomfield city, I had close to one hundred thousand souls. ρꪖꪕᦔꪖꪕꪫꪣꫀ​ꪶ​

“Come forth,” I summoned twenty more dragons and by now my drag forces summoned here were sixty. Putting in mind that I pushed their levels up to level two hundred, then this small force of big drags was enough to shake any enemy gate forces.

Even taking a city now wasn’t that hard if I got triple that number, and I aimed for that.

The only problem I constantly faced was the angels. Their deadly weapons could easily kill my drugs. If I didn’t hurry and call them all back, they’d be all dead by now.

And doing so always left a void in the middle of deadly battles. Within the last fight, I noticed the angels timed their deadly weapon to interfere whenever the battle was hot.

That might have caused many problems for the Selvators, but it didn’t change the final outcome.

After organising things with Fang’s men in the city and making sure they understood their part to play next, I left towards my next target.

Cities started to fall like pieces of dominoes. After Bloomfield I headed south all of sudden and hit Irvington, Plainfield, and Elizabeth cities.

I did so to just make my real enemy miss my real intentions. If I kept heading north, he might get suspicious and would leave far away.

So going south was a must to move. Besides I gained three more cities, sixty more drags, and had raised the total number of my human training camps to five.

Aside from me, the jumper seemed to go all out. According to the messages coming from Fang himself, he was totally overwhelmed with the ability of the jumper.

That dude’s luck was really great as he aimed towards a cluster of five cities south of Plainfield. The five cities were close up, and I didn’t know how the jumper did it but he controlled four out of those five in the time I took five.

I had my drags and chariot, so what did he use then? At some point I was tempted to open his feed and see what the hell was that dude doing!

When I did that, I found him using lots and lots of scrolls. The scrolls he used were all strangely AOE that covered almost half a mile in radius with each hit.

Some were even mobile moving and rotating around. That added more damage to his scrolls and helped in cleaning a large number of enemies in a short time.

I thought he would conquer one city, wait until humans would be trained to some degree before taking them with him and go directly on a killing spree in other cities.

But that dude was so fixed at getting his goal; a large army of human elites.

Besides the army he already led was only carried along the way. As I watched for an hour, I got bored. That dude just exhausted more than a couple hundred scrolls in just an hour, cleaning the fourth city and controlling two gates in return.

“Sigh, that dude really has a rich inventory,” I shook my head while examining my own scrolls inside my inventory.

I had tons of such scrolls, yet they were all low grade ones that only covered an area of one hundred metres. Not only that, the damage that each scroll dealt wasn’t enough to kill fighters from other races.

They might be good against normal monsters. I looked at such a large amount and felt how pointless it was to use them.

“I should give them to the boys then,” I closed my inventory while considering giving these useless scrolls to the growing army of mine.

They might be useless to me, but for them these scrolls might be heaven defying.

As I came from Elizabeth city in the south, I had to go past Newark and Bloomfield cities. When I passed by them, I saw a large number of humans getting taught how to fight and get stronger outside the cities.

I didn’t know why Fang arranged for things to be like this. The cities were already in ruins. But as his men led the humans freed from the castles outside the city, they arranged them in groups, each having one thousand humans.

Each city had around twenty to thirty of such groups. That meant the mean number of human survivors in each city would be around twenty-five thousand.

That was a big number if you calculated the ten cities that now resided under my agreement with Fang. damn! Even if I counted only half of that number to be promising elites, that still was close to fifty thousand human forces.

I wanted more cities! At this point I started to seriously consider expanding such an offer with Fang. After all, my real target wasn’t any city here, but high up the north where my future base would reside.

“It’s not time to talk about this,” I knew I had to restrain myself. After all, Fang wasn’t that easy to deal with. Let him first taste the sweetness of our deal before considering expanding it.

My next target was the last city in the upper north part of New Jersey state. One that was called Paterson city.

The real target didn’t situate there, but to the last city at the east of it, a city called Hackensack.

But to go to Hackensack I needed to first tighten my net around the big fish I was hunting. To do so I planned to go further north where few cities waited for me to conquer, those who belonged to New York state.

Let’s do it!