350 [Bonus chapter] The Spearhead
[Half a mile to your east]
[Good, stay put spearhead, I’ll come to take you and make you the hero of this battle] I sent while looking down at my boys. I sent all of them to take down that star weapon, and it seemed they’d take a few minutes to finish destroying it.
“Time to bring my hidden weapon then,” I said this with a big laugh, while moving to get the spearhead.
That man was destined to be the one to turn tables in this battle, a hero that will prove his worth to me and the world.
I moved fast towards his location while leaving my boys fighting against that star weapon.
[I’m here] just as I passed above eastern border of the city, the spearhead sent this to me.
I looked down. The situation wasn’t like any other place here. The hostile humans weren’t in dense numbers around this zone. Also I couldn’t see any brutal fights like in any other place.
[Come on board] I threw a rope to him.
[But if I left, the people here will die]
[We are going to save everyone, and losses are acceptable at any war, especially this one]
[Ok]
I knew the difference in the situation here was caused by him. The safe zone here extended for five hundred metres around the castle. It wasn’t that big but the hostile humans didn’t dare to come here in big numbers.
They seemed to get a bitter taste of his ability, and so their leader decided to leave the spearhead to the last.
After all, the spearhead ability was superb and deadly indeed, but it had a single major flaw.
He, alone, couldn’t do anything. His ability was enough to deprive any race from his stat advantage in certain areas. But that also wouldn’t kill them.
He needed forces to go and kill the helpless humans. If the enemy killed most of my forces here, then the spearhead demise would be set in stone already.
I watched him climbing his way up. Once arrived, he looked over the chariot, then over the raining down pillar of red beam in the distance.
“Damn! It’s true then! They managed to repair that damn weapon.”
“And I’m going to destroy it the same way I did before,” I simply stated the truth before adding, “but you aren’t here for that. We need to clear the hostile forces in the city.”
“They are like locusts, not showing any signs of stopping,” the spearhead shook his head in a tired way, “I tried to work with everyone, but my ability exhausted me and I can’t keep doing this on a large scale anymore.”
“Oh, how come?” I looked closely at him. It was true his face was slightly paler. He looked more like an old man who was this close from collapsing. “How can you restore your power back? Eating?”
“I need energy,” the spearhead suddenly gave me such a pleasant surprise, “I only depend on my stats to activate my power. Stat points aren’t enough, so I got backlash many times already.” ρꪖꪕᦔꪖꪕꪫꪣꫀꪶ
“I see,” it was the issue of his low stat points and zero cultivation, “where is everyone?”
“They decided to hold the front while I recuperate,” he sighed, “I couldn’t help at the last stages of battle.”
“Not anymore,” I simply waved my hands and took out a pile of my newly acquired crystals.
“What are these?” the spearhead looked in doubt towards this pile.
“It’s a great source of power,” I said, “you can use these to activate your ability without any worry.”
He held one and examined it closely. “How can I use it?”
“Well,” this was an unexpected question for me to be honest, “my boys used to consume these crystals by eating them. Some also used to absorb the energy from the crystals directly. Which way you can use these, it’s up to you.”
“Eat these?” he looked in daze before he did the unexpected. He opened his mouth wide open, placed one crystal inside his mouth before starting to chew it.
“It’s not… That’s hard,” he suddenly said while eating it like he was eating an apple, “and it doesn’t taste bad.”
“You… Are you really going to eat it?” I asked before all of sudden his eyes changed. It looked like his entire body got ignited with pure red light, shining like a little star in the darkness of this world.
“Damn! Don’t tell me you are going to explode,” I urgently moved my chariot fast, fast heading towards the frontlines, “hurry, use your ability now!”
I saw him losing control over his power. It looked like he was turning into a living bomb. If he couldn’t release that energy fast, he would explode and die.
“Don’t speak,” as I saw his lips twitching and his face struggling as if he wanted to say something, “just release your power all over the place, don’t hold anything back.”
He nodded with extreme difficulty while raising both hands high in the air. All of sudden, his palms shone like two little stars, releasing visible dense wisps of red beams that started to expand outwards.
They hit me, but I didn’t feel anything. Just in the span of a few breaths, the entire city was enveloped into his red beam. I looked around, and all I could see was the surprised and shocked faces of the humans attacking us.
It seemed his ability started to do its magic. I looked at him again. He was trying his best to release his energy, yet it seemed he still had much more in his body.
“Keep releasing it,” I said, “I’m going to take you to an interesting place.”
I wanted to use this chance and go to hit the portal. But I lacked my deadly boys. They were still engaged in that fight against the star weapon.
If they were still busy, it was better to take a tour around the city then.
I moved my chariot in a big circle, and the spearhead kept releasing his power. In the few minutes next, the entire area around the city was engulfed into a dense net of red beams of light, all connected with my spearhead.