580 Taking The Hero Away
[Boss, there are many forces coming out from one big cave on our West side!]
It came from none but Leo. and from his words, I got the forces he was speaking about were huge.
[How much?] I paused before adding, [and where are they going?]
[They are still getting out, gathering in large groups. I believe their number now is in the tens of thousands, even more!]
[Many races, or a single one?]
[A mix of races, but there are lots of mercenaries as well]
[Ok, here’s what you are going to do… You will retreat and watch from as far as possible. Maintain the distance fixed between you and these forces. Try to see where they are going]
[What if they are going to attack our lands? Our kingdom?]
[I doubt it] That was something I was sure about, [They are going to have a foothold or few around us. Just keep your distance and watch]
[Ok]
So he decided to move early on and secure a few cities and towns for him? Interesting! And was he doing this only here or at other places as well?
I had to get the bottom of this.
Going personally wouldn’t help. My chariot was so eye catchy, and would be spotted from miles away. So I had to send other forces there.
But where? And whom to send?
I decided to call it a day for studying. I was reading through the complicated info about how to make potions. These…. Were really enough to give me a headache.
I went back to the top of my chariot. The fresh air there made my mood slightly better.
“I have a little trusted circle around me…” I had to admit this. Just right now I wanted to send lots of teams to search, and I faced the problem of finding good and capable, trusted subordinates.
“I’ll have to ask them one by one then,” I knew Hilary’s subordinates were working at the northern coast. As for Angelica, she was leading them to the second Earth world, working to sort out the human batches there.
So I had to ask the spearhead, Sara, and Isabella for that.
The three were training at the ocean. So I went directly there.
Like before, they were fighting aquatic monsters. The fights were ragging hot, and I got to see the difference in these teams.
The ones that started from early on were having a much easier time than the rest. They also had led their ship half a mile forward, seemingly attracting much bigger and little fiercer monsters.
“Spearhead,” as I approached, the entire group of my fighters here were in the middle of a heated and bloody battle.
But that didn’t prevent me from shouting at the fat dude fighting using his ability that showed little improvement than before.
The ability before could affect monsters a little. But right now it seemed any monster getting touched by his ability would become weaker for a few seconds. ρꪖꪕᦔꪖꪕꪫꪣꫀꪶ
During these seconds, any attack landing at these would cut them into shreds! This dude seemed to learn how to better control his ability, turning the big field he previously used into a more focused and much more effective pulse of attacks.
But he could only target fewer targets this way, mostly five at the moment. Also his ability’s effect wasn’t that big or mighty, lasting only for a few seconds.
If monsters escaped the incoming attacks for any reason, the ability wouldn’t affect them again like before. I noticed a few instances like this, making me realise there was still a big room for his improvement.
“Boss…” out of his breath, he shouted back, “can we delay it for another time?”
“Just leave this and get up here at once!” I knew he was the cornerstone of their fighting tactic here. But that wouldn’t do them any good in the long run.
They had to adapt, learn how to fight without relying too much on each other’s special abilities. Especially for someone like the spearhead, they shouldn’t focus on him as he would be like a joker in any fight.
He wouldn’t settle in one place or a fight. So they had to adapt to his absence.
“Damn! Where is the spearhead going?!”
“Damn! We are being pushed back!”
“F*ck!”
Many curses came out loud the moment that fat dude stopped using his ability. In return, the team here was getting pressured, pushed back with the aquatic monsters which came in much larger momentum.
“Keep fighting,” I shouted, “the spearhead won’t be with you all the time! Get used to his absence! Or else I’ll forcibly send him away!”
“B… Boss!”
“Lord!”
“Damn! We are screwed now!”
Many exclamations of shock, surprise, and fear came from the rest of the team. If they faced great trouble with the absence of the spearhead, right now they were this close from getting killed!
“Pulse wave!” but I didn’t stand by and watch them suffer thanks to me. I instantly used the AOE attack on my chariot.
I sent a fierce pulse wave that pushed all monsters back and further away in the ocean, buying them a few precious moments to get a better hold on themselves.
“Stay in formation and focus!” The shout didn’t come from me, but from one of the Hectors standing nearby. That dude was daring enough to give me a blaming look, as if I ruined something important here.
Dude! You were the one working for me, not the opposite!
But as they were doing a marvellous job here, I decided to close an eye over this attitude of his.
“What’s wrong, boss?” The spearhead felt more pressure as he knew he was the reason for all this. He ran to me with his big belly, making me laugh.
“Easy, you aren’t fighting for your lives here.”
“We already lost a few lives,” he said such shocking news before adding in defence for the Hectors, “this is for our good, boss! They threw us in the middle of such disadvantageous battles, making us suffer like we are in real fights.”
“But they let a few of you die!”