281 Everyone Wants Them
“Not yet,” I shook my head and she seemed a bit energetic as she stood on her feet and shouted while clapping:
“Then let me talk with them.”
“Why do I feel you only want to add them to your forces?” the spearhead said, and I couldn’t find any fault in what he just said.
“What? Is that all that you are thinking about?” Hilary responded sharply at him, yet she didn’t even deny such a hypothesis at all.
“That’s the only thing I can think about,” the spearhead shrugged, looking directly into her eyes without any fear.
“Stop it,” I had to intervene. Even if she was planning to do that, I wouldn’t say no. After all she held much more importance than the two standing in front of me. “You’ll come with me,” I turned to face her and she gave me a chuckle in response.
“As for you two, you have to not only hold the city but be prepared.”
“For what?” The spearhead looked a bit angry about my decision. It seemed not only I, but everyone here felt how important these humans were.
Even Angelica showed a distressed expression over her face. That girl seemed to weigh going against Hilary and supporting the spearhead and claim those forces or just retreat and take a point for this from my chick.
Just watching how these two handled the situation here was enough to pinpoint how much different they were from the jumper. Even if he was a jerk, acting as a bastard most of the time, he would never let such a chance slip off his hands.
Asking for his right? He would simply force himself over me and come without waiting for any permission at all.
Just like Hilary here acted, that jumper and Hilary both were in a different league than everyone else to be honest.
Anyway, the more capable and talented humans were by my side, the better.
“You have to be ready to go inside the cities and support me,” I said as if this was something obvious.
“But the shield…” Angelica paused as I stopped her with a look of my eyes.
“I’ll handle it,” I firmly said, “but you have to know we’ll have a narrow window. Once down, you’ll have to push forward with everything we got.”
“Won’t we wait for others to come?” the spearhead finally got what I meant, as he asked in doubt.
“They have one to two hours to arrive,” I stood up before adding, “we can’t just wait for them to arrive. We’ll attack first, then they’ll have to follow up.”
“That’s better,” Hilary nodded, seemingly unable to hide her excitement to go and meet up those humans, “let’s see those good fighters first. As for you two, just be ready.” ρꪖꪕᦔꪖꪕꪫꪣꫀꪶ
For a moment there she acted like she was their boss. I didn’t know if that was her nature or she took being my girl meant to be their boss as well. Yet I gave her a silent warning gaze she met with an irresistible smile from her.
“O… Ok,” Angelica pulled the spearhead away before adding, “we’ll make sure everyone is ready to go and support you.”
I didn’t need to stress over this matter with them. After all, I was going to leave Hilary back with them. She was capable of making them follow my words to the letter.
If we missed this chance, then we’d elongate this battle for more unneeded hours. I also didn’t know if that race had another ace up their sleeves or not.
It was risky to extort that weakness and fail to turn that into our advantage. So as I led my chariot towards the frontlines again, I spoke a few words with Hilary about that.
“Don’t worry, I’m fully aware of how dangerous those Hectors are.”
“How do you know about them?” I asked, and my eyes carried the words I didn’t say.
“It’s as you guessed,” she sighed, “they were in the world I faced after taking over this one here. But what you don’t realise is that they were the ones who put an end to my momentum.”
“They were?!” I asked, “I never thought about it.”
“It was them,” she said in a tone that was filled with hatred, “I never imagined I’d face them so early on here.”
“Looks excited,” I seriously added, “are we enough to stop them?”
“They aren’t that mighty alone,” she shrugged, “besides they’d never abandon the other world. You have to know they are much greedier and more arrogant than the likes of dragons and Selvators.”
“Really?” I raised one eyebrow in response, and she seriously nodded.
“They place much importance over their universe wide fame and image. They came here in response to something you must have done. But that doesn’t mean they abandoned the first world they were fighting at.”
“That’s good to hear,” if they were fighting over two fronts, then their forces would be stretched. Also their efforts would be distributed evenly over the two worlds, including their immense wealth and richly dangerous items like that pillar.
“It’s not that good either,” she paused before adding, “according to what I recall, as there was a race joining up more than one world, then the fight in the two worlds will be decided together.”
“Together?!!” I exclaimed in shock, “do you mean we’ll have to conquer two worlds and not one?”
“That’s the deal baby,” she said in a tone that held more amusement than empathy, “what? Afraid already?”
“Intrigued,” I admitted, “but that won’t stop me.”
“That’s my baby,” she hugged me in weird excitement before I ended our little talk here with my glaive.
“We are here,” I pointed towards the ground up front. We already reached a point where most of this force gathered up.
“Let’s get down and say hello then,” she was about to move, yet I swiftly moved my arm and pulled her body closer to mine. “What?” she asked in a loss while not resisting my touch.