Chapter 90 - The Next Move
“It’s your turn now,” as the waves stopped, and the world started to grow calmer, I said these words to my Bulltors. “Go, scatter in groups of five, kill anything you meet and don’t leave anyone alive!”
Although I sat my eyes over these Gollems, there weren’t the only enemies in the vicinity. The waves washed away the rest, and might have killed many of them.
But the remaining survivors might create problems for me once they gather together. I wouldn’t show them mercy, not when I held the upper hand like that.
Not when I had such impatient and eager Bulltors on my side, eager for battle, eager for blood, eager for revenge.
As they got the order, they sprung fast and vanished from my sight, dispersing into many directions. I wouldn’t worry about their safety. Not a single race I saw before here could stand a chance against these merciless creatures at their prime.
Not to mention the enemy was now worn out by the effect of the mighty waves, or perhaps they might be even heavily wounded.
“Oh… Are you still here?!” As I finished giving my last orders for this hard battle, I noticed something big standing on the side of the river.
It was that gigantic ballista. Come on! Don’t tell me I couldn’t reap the spoils of war after my well earned victory, right?
“Come inside,” as I went to it, I found not a single scratch appeared on its surface from the never ending wave assault from before. This meant this big toy wasn’t your common cabbage.
This ballista must be of a high grade, made out of rare and precious ores.
“Thanks for the gift,” as I touched its surface and called it inside my inventory, it vanished and left a great gap in the area. I was pleased, so pleased that I even raised my head and thanked the angels in an honest way.
But would they accept my sincerity? I doubted that!
“Go back and rest,” as I finished packing the unexpected trophy, the heavily wounded dragon came to my side. He placed the shield with the two girls attached to the silk thread and all soaked with water with paled faces.
The dragons didn’t look any better. He was already panting in heavy breaths, while his body kept trembling out of weakness.
As I called it inside, I could finally heave a sigh of relief. He wasn’t dead yet. Hopefully he will never be.
“Oh! I totally forgot about you!” looking at the girls made me notice that shield on the ground. Once seeing it, I recalled that shield warrior who was so unlucky to get summoned and witnessed the hard part of this battle.
“Come back,” as I recalled him, I didn’t hesitate to call him back. I saw his token resting in my inventory without any change, meaning he wasn’t dead either.
Great! I didn’t suffer any losses in my troops up till now!
But I couldn’t say I came out unscathed from this clash either!
I got one heavily wounded dragon, one in an unknown condition, a shield warrior… and both couldn’t be summoned in any short time soon I guess.
And I got myself worn out and exhausted to such a terrible state. I got separated from the rest of my group, and the two unconscious and looking in terrible condition girls here!
I first made sure they were still breathing. I placed my head over their chests, feeling something soft and bulging hit my head in return.
But it was fine, these big soft things kept rising up and down. Despite the breathing looked irregular, the girls weren’t in any threat to die for now at least.
“I need a mighty healing potion,” as I confirmed their safety, I opened my market and searched for a healing potion there.
I didn’t act stingy and bought a large stack of expensive healing potions, each cost me around fifty thousand coins. I took one out, held the all soft Alex in my arms and gave her the medicine.
As nothing happened, I went to Karoline and did the same as well. I had to admit, the two had their outstanding features that made both so stunning and outstanding in the world of women.
But comparing them with Isabella or Angelica… I couldn’t tell who was better than the other.
“Sigh… Getting all these girls around with no chance to even enjoy them is a curse not a blessing!” For unknown reasons, I recalled the strange conversation I had with the jumper inside the tunnel.
That dude! He really got on my nerves back there! He acted like I was going around collecting girls for my own! Come on! This was the time of disaster, not a school tour in a civilised time!
Yet the two girls didn’t give me any sign of getting better. Don’t tell me I got scammed over these precious and expensive potions!
But when I read their description, I found out that it might need more than one potion to heal anyone on the verge of dying. The description stated clearly that I needed at least five for such a case.
“Alright… Four each then,” I didn’t keep my hand and emptied four more potions in their mouths. The portions were kept inside a transparent thick small bottle of glass, with shimmering pure azure coloured fluid inside them.
I didn’t know what taste such precious medicine would have. But after I gave them the fifth potion, a rosy colour appeared at last over their cheeks, and that deep purple stain of their lips vanished and was replaced with red one.
They got better! At last!
I carefully placed them on the ground before looking at their soaked clothes. The water made their fabrics get attached to their bodies, nearly exposing every single hot contour of their bodies.
For a brief moment there I almost lost control of myself. Such a virgin like me seeing such delicious delicacies of the world that he never tasted before was something irresistible!
“Wake up!” I slapped my face to force such a feeling away, “it’s not time to play lovey dovey here. Not the time, and worse not the place or the situation to do so!” ρꪖꪕᦔꪖꪕꪫꪣꫀꪶ
As I woke myself up in such a way, I turned my back to them, resisting such a tempting urge to take a peek again and marvel at their beauty.
To make myself forget about them, I first checked the ongoing battle next to me. Almost ten minutes passed and there was only one last Gollem breathing in the middle of the submerged crater.
“You won’t get away from this without facing our tribe’s retaliation!”
A deep and strangely mechanical voice came from that giant Gollem. I knew he was an intelligent race, able to think and speak. It made a great difference between them and the usual Golems known to the public.
But they weren’t that evolved like dragons or Selvators. They couldn’t turn into human form at least thanks to their hard journey in cultivation.
“A tribe? Humph!” I loudly snorted. I heard such threatening words from the dragon kid back then, but I never batted an eye when I killed him and his group.
“Keep killing him!” I showed no speck of mercy as I shouted like this. But I noticed my voice became shaky, affected by my uncontrollable desire as I looked at the all soaked soft bodies of the two girls.
So I hurriedly looked away, took one potion out and emptied its content in my mouth. I wasn’t injured on the surface, but was filled with immense pain physically and could swear I must have ruptured organs internally thanks to all that grabbing and pulling from before.
“Damn! It tastes like sh*t!” but the moment I gulped that azure fluid, I felt like I took in the most bitter medicine ever! I never expected this expensive potion to come with such terrible taste.
But it was enough to force away any remaining disturbance inside my mind. I felt a surge of heat coming from within my belly, and strangely I could feel the fluid expanding and reaching to many places inside my body.
“I’m broken all apart! Damn! I never expected this!!”
I could feel my body now thanks to that mysterious potion. And from what I felt, it seemed there wasn’t a single organ intact in there.
Without any hesitation, I gulped two more potions, enduring their horrible taste. I needed to get to my top shape. Who knew what else those dirty angels prepared for me.
I wasn’t worried about sending any more star weapons to my head. This battle was enough as a proof of how a failure that would be against me.
If they did, I would welcome that and survive like usua;. But I doubted they would be such foolish or stupid.
“I curse you to burn in hell!”
Just as I felt the miraculous effects of the potion, I heard the strange voice of the Gollem before he finally fell motionless in the small lake.
“You are noisy,” I smiled when I saw his body grow weak and go down the water, “go, bring all the corpses of them to me.”
In my eyes, fifteen gigantic bodies were like a treasure trove! Who said I wouldn’t find more bones in there? Who said I couldn’t summon Gollems to work for me?
The three dragons dived into the lake water like whales. I knew they were able to bring the dead corpses back. So I shifted my eyes to the most important thing right now.
How many souls I stored all this time?
I worked my ass through New York city, killed tons of monsters and traitors before coming here. I didn’t do this alone. After all, any forces that worked under me and my channel were considered part of my forces.
I fought at many zones, at Manhattan where I cleared the castles, killed sh*t loads of traitors and wolves on the street. I killed a lot at Queens and Brooklyn, and my forces did the same as I controlled most of New York and its castles in this way.
I opened my class and looked at the number of souls I had with great anticipation. And the number I saw didn’t fail me.
[Soul master class: Rank: Hidden. Grade: Heaven. Level: 10. Second grade: The grade of soul merge]
[Each time you kill a living being, you’ll be able to absorb his soul. The absorbed soul won’t reincarnate or be revived by any means]
[Storing one hundred souls will allow you to raise all your stats by one point]
[Storing one thousand souls will let you upgrade the level by one]
[You can decide to sacrifice five thousand souls and merge them together. The merge will yield a soul monster that’s totally loyal to you. The monster will be one resembling the souls used in its formation. If you used more than one origin of the soul, a new species will be developed]
[The newly merged monsters will be loyal and follow your orders. They can be stored inside your inventory. They will possess zero stats and will need you to spend stat points to increase their stats. The rise of the stats will follow the same rules of the warrior section]
[There is no limit to the number of the monsters you can merge]
[Death of the monster you merged will result in entering it into a dormant stage. Each monster’s dormant stage’s duration differs according to the strength of the monster and the number of deaths it suffered before. The higher the deaths the longer the duration. The stronger the monster the longer the duration. You can use soul points to shorten the duration as follows: for each day you’ll need to spend five hundred soul points]
[Current soul points: Eighty-nine thousand souls]
[Upgrading the class level to reach level fifty will open the next stage of the class for you]
“Eighty-nine thousand souls… Hahahaha, see these damn angels? I killed ninety thousand monsters and traitors of your servants, hahaha!”