582 Good News
“Cool,” as I got confirmation from all of them, I said, “let’s go get each of you a decent team to lead. Ah, come here, let me add you as friends to be easier to contact each other. Also do the same with each other.”
I added them while they were already friends.
Finding suitable forces for them wasn’t that hard. I just went around and picked forces from the ones fighting monsters in the small trenches.
They got the taste of monster blood. I gave each one a thousand man force, making a total of a hundred thousand army.
Before the addition of humans from other worlds, such a number would be big and risky. Yet right now I don’t have any worry about that.
The sheer number of fighters training here was simply in millions, even tens of millions perhaps if adding the forces at the second Earth to the count.
Anyway… I led the army and then got to know the places of the tunnels Leo and Alex discovered so far.
On the grand map over my chariot I started to point in different directions, assigning missions for the one hundred generals here.
“I’m not sending you out to fight, keep that in mind all the time,” I said in warning, “if you ever found a situation you don’t know what to do in, just send me a message.”
“Got it, lord,” they all shouted at the same time. I saw them off. The big army broke to one hundred small ones, each taking a different route.
I had to get to the bottom of them, and this force would always act as my alarm warning force from now on.
“Boss…” from the side, the spearhead kept watching in nervousness and stress. I got what this dude here was thinking about, what was eating him up from the inside.
“What?” I faked my ignorance, rolling up my eyes, while he could only jump and kneel to plead.
“Please, please boss… Let me go back… I got to help them…”
“Why not say it out straight? Sigh! You have to be daring in love,” I placed my left arm over his shoulder, making him faintly tremble.
“Let’s go, I’ll drop you off where I grabbed you from.”
“Thanks boss,” I could even see tears in his eyes! That dude… Sigh! He was so damn kind hearted, spoiling his girl.
But it was also good for Isabella. After all she was my first teammate, the first one I met when I came here.
I just hoped his care and love wouldn’t interfere in the future path of hers. She was supposed to shine after quest five, and I wanted to see that happen.
As I promised, I took him through a long route around the entire capital. I visited almost every place here, even checked over the genius boys at the MIT campus, or what was left of it.
They were doing fine! The energy they generated before and got ruined was so close to being brought back again here.
“Boss…” from the side, the spearhead kept pleading, and all I did was to just ignore him.
“Here…” just as I arrived at the ship’s zone, and before I could continue my words, that jerk jumped off like he got fire in his legs or something.
“Thanks boss,” he shouted while falling to the deck of the ship.
The situation was really hard, and the team struggled to keep fighting with monsters. ρꪖꪕᦔꪖꪕꪫꪣꫀꪶ
I noticed the distance the ship took shrank and they also lost a few people as well.
I looked at the Hectors in a warning way, without the need to say anything. I needed them to train my forces hard, and I liked the way they did it so far.
But ending up letting my boys die was just unacceptable! They had to be more cautious, think about how to do it without risking another life.
I didn’t speak up as I knew part of this was on me. I took out the spearhead from the team, disturbing their balance and rhythm.
Yet that was also for their good. The spearhead wasn’t going to be there all the time to help.
As I finished doing this, I returned again to the outer zone. And once I got there, I got the good news from different people.
[I got confirmation from the impact higher up to accept talking with you, Hye. He will contact you soon]
The first message was a direct one, coming from the god who proposed help with the talent impact.
[That’s great!] As we were talking in a private way, I could send him messages directly.
[Can I join your Ultras group now?]
[Not yet! I still have to receive his message and also close a deal with him] This god… What was so special about my group? He was acting a little impatient here.
[Ok, I’ll remind him to contact you now]
[Thanks] I got nothing else to say but this. Yet this was a good piece of news.
And the second came from none but the lady.
[Did you go out and seek help from other impacts?!!]
[You… How did you know that?] I faked my surprise for her to get such intel, as if I wasn’t the one hoping she would sniff this news.
[Do you think such news won’t reach my ears?] she seemed a bit mad, and I liked it!
[I was just thinking about other options]
[We never let you down, right? So why look for others?]
[You… Became a little stingy with me out of late! Don’t forget that our last deals ended up with you taking lots of time to respond]
[We… Just because you are asking for strange things, precious items that can’t be given that easily]
[If you can’t give easily, then other places can]
[Sigh! Ok, here is our response, we agree to your terms]
[All of them? Without any complaint or comment?] I knew this would be the response they’d give me, but I had to act a little baffled with that.
[What? Do you want us to bargain with you?]