384 Preparing To Go For War
As I learnt about this, I placed one goal above anything else. “I have to lure these two outside their lair,” I muttered to myself, thinking about this crucial move.
Leaving the two Hector paragons to build up power and arrange themselves? That looked threatening, especially when I planned to control a zone close to them.
If they were left untouched, all of this would be meaningless. But how to lure such two dragons down their forts? The idea looked interesting, but executing it… It would be near impossible.
Hectors were a race that gathered all the good traits of any race I heard about. They were smart, cautious, and not that impulsive.
“What do I know about them that can force them to leave their places and come to me?” I asked myself this question while looking at the messages Fang sent.
As Wryly said, Fang confirmed it. There was one of the Berserkers archlord stationed near the coalition forces of Selvators and Dragons. He also spoke more about the forces of Hectors at Tennessee, making me get deeper insights about this grand army.
The Hectors controlled that area fully. They were now using all the portals to bring a large number of forces, even enslaved races to there.
They were biding their time and gathering up their forces, a bad news indeed.
But just reading these messages gave me an idea.
“Oh… That might work,” I didn’t hesitate to open a chat message with Lily. Before she left, I added her as a friend to be able to chat with her easily like this.
[Yes, we place a very great importance over this matter] and her simple response made me heave a deep sigh of relief.
What I thought about… It could be done!
“Great,” I closed the chat with her before opening Fang’s, [You are going to hit that Berserker archlord forces]
[What about that idiotic berserker? Will he join me?]
[No, he will come with me] I knew Wryly held a deep grudge against Selvators thanks to how Fang treated him.
So it just worked perfectly when I thought about giving him such a chance to vent his anger and hatred over Selvators.
And Dragons just came as a bonus.
[Are you sure this is enough?] Fang seemed sceptical about this plan, [You know there are two vicious beasts lurking in silence, waiting for an opportunity]
[Leave them to me] I vaguely said, [I know what I’m going to do with them]
[It’s your call. But if things went south, I’ll just retreat]
[It’s fine. Just be sure to not move slowly when the time is right]
[Humph]
I closed the chat with him before telling Wryly the good news.
[I’m ready, tell me when and where and I’ll come] As expected, that dude was so eager to fight the Selvators and Dragons.
[Aren’t you worried?] ρꪖꪕᦔꪖꪕꪫꪣꫀꪶ
[Worried? Hell, these two races are too arrogant, thinking of themselves as the true rulers of this apocalypse. It will be a great chance to let me knock some sense back in their thick skulls]
Dude… I don’t know who had the thicker skull here, them or you. [Cool, start moving in two hours. We will gather up at my current city]
[Ok. I’ll start getting ready then]
Fang was going to move after the two of us. I didn’t know how much of their forces were up there, but I hoped there would be enough.
Alright, things were just getting in shape at the moment.
According to Fang, the big fights were going between the human forces and the coalition army of Selvators and Dragons, and one was happening between Dragons, Selvators, Berserkers, and Hectors at Wisconsin and Michigan.
My aim was to break that coalition force in the south, and break out an open war between all races like what was going on in the north.
Then I’d force my way and claim as many territories as possible, while luring the two Hectors out of Tennessee.
The target was Illinois. I looked at the drawn map on my chariot, thinking about the best route to take.
The easiest was to head West directly through Ohio and Indiana. But that would put us close to the northern battles at Michigan.
If we took a more southern route at Kentucky, we would be under the threat of those Hectors at Tennessee. So the best option was to move at the borders of Ohio and Indiana from north and Kentucky at south.
This way we’d have more buffer lands between any big forces in this region.
But the problem was in that zone. The area spanned for a long distance, shared with three states, and had many variables there.
I didn’t believe these forces were fighting like this without spreading their eyes around. Just look at Fang. he seemed to be exiled by his paragon and yet he got the detailed news about each forces’ current movements and locations.
That was enough to tell me the moment we’d move out, everyone would hear about us.
Who would be tempted to come and target us? Would we be able to stop such an attack?
According to that map, the big city of Kentucky was Frankfort. But the road to it wasn’t safe. The region I worried most about was a triangular zone between the three states, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio.
In fact these states shared a tripod shaped border, leaving me slightly worried about taking a route through there. Yet other routes were more risky, getting my forces closer to either of the big armies at north or south.
I hoped my news wouldn’t spread so fast. During the next couple hours, I watched my team arrange their forces. I sent messages to everyone, asking them to send back those MIT and genius minds who were supposed to work over modifications of human weaponry.
I didn’t send them with Karoline, as I planned something different for her.
[We are ready]
[Ready?]
[We are ready to roll]
[My forces are ready]
I got messages one by one from my team, and we only waited for Wryly’s forces.
[Where are you dude?]
[Just half an hour away] he sent back, making me wait for ten minutes before the early forces of his started to appear at the horizon.