455 [Bonus chapter] The Monster Attack Begins
Hilary kept herself away from me like she was scared or something. For the first time ever, I got to know what to use to stop this seduction demoness from getting so attached to me all the time.
As I had nothing else to do, I sent messages first to Fang and Wryly. Yet both simply ignored my messages, or perhaps they were busy.
[Whassup?] next I texted Lily. Before sending her away, I already added her as a friend.
[Great. I did what you asked me and she didn’t respond at all]
[Interesting… How is she doing now?]
[Nothing much. She is just interested in whatever project you have here]
I was asking about Karoline. Before sending her away, I gave her a task to fake her plan to revolt and speak every now and then with her about this.
But it seemed such a move was slightly obvious for the all suspicious Karoline to fall for it.
However Lily said something interesting. “So she is interested in my weapon upgrade project? As if she didn’t know what I was going to do… That’s interesting!”
In fact, for Karoline to be interested in what my boys were doing told me a lot about how deeply wrong and different she was.
All of my team were familiar with what I was doing there. If she showed such interest that meant she knew nothing about it.
“Did she hit her head or something? I heard there were such bizarre diseases before the apocalypse happened… What were they called? Schizophrenia or something like that…”
I started thinking about a logical explanation for her weird behaviour. I knew there were lots of diseases and syndromes that would render anyone with impaired personality and deformed memory.
But as I recalled, such things came with confusion and doubt. Unlike the current Karoline who seemed so full of herself, seemingly knowing what she was doing.
[Keep a close eye on her all the time] I paused before adding, [I heard to allow races to have cultivation, just like my humans, you need a blueprint of a technique that ran into your race. Is that true?]
[It’s true… I only know how to execute it, but I never got to see the full details about the technique… Wait, how did you know about that? It’s a top secret of my race]
[I have my ways] I grinned, [So if I got you the technique, you can execute it, right?]
[Of course! But getting the technique is something harder than ascending heavens! No one has such access except for our higher ups]
[Leave this to me. I just want you to prepare for executing the technique]
[Well… If you are serious, then I will need lots of materials]
[Like what?]
[Energy things, things that can grant your humans lots of power to be used in opening their rudimentary dantians. Oh, you are a human as well. You aren’t familiar with what I’m saying]
[No, I have already opened my cultivation base. Anyway, I’ll try my best to prepare these things to you]
[You opened your dantian? Impressive! For someone from such a retarded race, you did a great feat]
[Watch your tongue lady, it’s my race after all] ρꪖꪕᦔꪖꪕꪫꪣꫀꪶ
[Sorry, no ill intentions here. I’m just speaking facts]
[Ok, get ready. When I come, we will start]
[Sure. I might also need a few things that can be bought from the market. It’s not a big deal to you, right?]
[If it’s coins, then it’s not a problem]
[Great… I’ll arrange my boys then into groups to execute the technique. Once you are here we will start]
I closed the chat with her while thinking about the problem of Karoline. For unknown reasons, I felt she would cause great trouble later on.
“I should ask her to watch out from her then,” I looked up at Hilary while muttering to myself.
“We are done!”
Just at this moment, all the team members came one by one while saying this. Once Angelica finished, she and Hilary came back together while whispering like they were in heated conversation.
I didn’t want to butt in their talk. These two ladies were weirdly getting closer to each other and it felt dangerous to come closer to them at the moment.
“What did you get?” as everyone returned, I knew they finished arranging their forces lineup. Also they got to know more about what was happening right now in the world.
“It’s… not that good boss,” the spearhead was the first to speak. He sighed, while adding in a bitter tone, “many portals appeared and lots of strong looking monsters came from the. Ground monsters aren’t the problem, but the aquatic and flying ones are.”
“There are flying ones?” I asked just to make sure he didn’t say it as a mistake.
But he and others nodded.
“Right now all the forces we left behind are entangled in brutal fights,” Sara said, “my boys are using the emblems and castles to fight those monsters back. However they lost control over the rest of the cities and towns.”
“Mine too!”
“It’s the same with me.”
“The grand army marching here is getting attacked by such monsters,” Isabella added, “monsters marched out from the cities and towns they controlled and came to harass them.”
“This…” I would accept losing lands for monsters for now. I also would accept losses from the forces stationed in the frontline towns and cities.
But letting my main army get attacked? That was out of the question.
*Zing!*
Just before I would say anything, a weird sound came from the direction of a far away town.
It seemed like a small sized town, not that big anyway. However the size of that portal was so big, making me feel the number of monsters coming out from it would be too much.
*Roar!* *Roar!* *Roar!*
Even before the portal would expand to its fullest, hordes of monsters gushed out from it. They looked like big dinosaurs, the ancient creatures that walked on my Earth a long time ago before my human race came here.