It wasn't a surprise for the remaining forces of the enemy to get crushed in the next half an hour. My warriors coupled with my team just needed a chance to vent all their stress, and those enemies ca at the perfect ti for that.
As for , I didn't have the desire to watch this fight anymore. A settled victory was already set in stone for my side this ti, despite being an incomplete victory to be honest.
But it was still my win. Next ti I'd do better, I promised myself that!
"Ti to get you inactivated," despite the fact that my forces didn't need any help from the castle to win, I just wanted to prevent any unseen events.
So I went inside the three story building and stretched my arm towards the hovering emblem. Last ti I was interrupted and stopped by that strong illusionist, but not anymore.
[Do you want to control the emblem?]
Once I touched it, the system sent this ssage. This was my first ti coming in touch with an emblem, and this was an activated one as well.
"I want," once said these words, the emblem flashed in bright silver white light before it changed into black coloured rays of light. This swift change made frown.
I knew the colour of the illusionists' power was silver white. Was my energy coloured in black? Why was that?
As I didn't have any clue to an answer, I shrugged my shoulders and simply examined the next ssage of the system.
[You control the advanced emblem]
[This emblem is now activated]
[You can control the emblem through an interface designed for emblems at your profile]
"Open profile," I simply checked the new interface and turned the activated emblem into deactivated form.
After doing all that, I finally had ti to consider two things…
"Co," as the fight was going smoothly, I simply walked outside and shouted, "co here my illusionists."
The ones I bound already were now fighting the enemies. But I didn't have ti to even check on their numbers or their stats.
My order was a decree that they couldn't defy. The next few minutes I saw two hundred and fifty illusionists standing in front of .
They had the sa physique of humans, but their skin was milky white in colour with repeated circular patterns of heart beating-like silver shining colour.
Their eyes were big and rounded, but they lacked visible eyelids like humans. Unlike humans, they got a mbrane-like fast moving layer that kept appearing and disappearing like water turning into frost before lting again.
I watched them while feeling their hatred and anger towards . Of course they were forced to beco my lackeys, and I didn't find anything weird about their current feelings.
What I needed from them was obedience and their strength; both were secured by the binding contract supervised over by the system.
"What are your current abilities?" I asked in a demanding tone.
"Who are you first?" one of them was courageous enough to speak in such arrogance.
I could tolerate their silent enmity, but dude… I was never allowing for any rebellious act in front of .
"You are going to die," I simply opened my profile page and looked for the contracts I had with others. There was a long list for to search but I simply thought about that dude and instantly a small window of control appeared with his na.
He was called Allengar, and without any hesitation I chose to punish him with death.
Of course there were many other options here to punish him, for example sealing up his powers and inflicting pain over his body. I also had the power to issue quests to any of them in exchange for paying a corresponding fee of blessing points.
"Not for now," without even batting an eye for the screaming Allengar, I closed that window which turned grey and looked at the rest. "I'm not a democratic person, so spare your opinions or else…"
I motioned my head to the dead body of Allengar before adding, "now, who is going to answer my question?"
This ti no one dared to say anything funny or useless anymore. "We have the ability to stealth and move fast during such a state as our innate talent," one of them spoke and his tone ca a bit shaky.
It seed they saw as a soft person to deal with before, but now? Humph! Despite having many people bound to by contracts, dealing with other hostile races like these was a different thing.
Only power was respected, as I just did.
"What about your illusion abilities?" This was sothing that didn't add up at all. What gave their race such a na wasn't just their ability to stealth, but to attack others using illusions.
But during all the fights back then, not a single ti one of them used such an ability. And I wanted to know why.
"That's because it consus a ton of coins," one of them said in a bitter tone.
"And?" if it was a problem of coins, then this wouldn't be the case. At least that strong dude who appeared late would have used his ability on .
"We also need intelligence stat points above three hundred," one of them added, "and also need blessing points."
"I see," so it was a problem of a stat point at this stage. I didn't know any of that before! Just recalling how I was terrified when dealing with that shadow illusionist and the illusionists here, I couldn't help but bitterly smile.
Knowledge was power, and the apocalypse proved this point clearer with each passing day.
So they couldn't use their deadliest weapon yet, and it seed from the many conditions they had, not all of them would be able to do that.
I wasn't only thinking about my enemies, but also considering my current force of these illusionists.
Coins and stat points weren't an issue. Right now the higher limit of the stat points was fixed at one hundred mark. So it was safe to assu that the next quest would raise this limit to two hundred.
So even in the next quest I wouldn't be able to fulfil one of the main conditions for their abilities.
Also the blessing points were a pain. "How many of you have support from gods?" I just asked with little hope, hope that was instantly crushed the mont they all raised their hands.
Damn! This was bad!
The bad thing here wasn't in their inability to gain further support from other gods, but it was also the nature of the gods they gained their sponsorship in the first place.
These gods were all illusionist race gods, all hostile to humans and human gods.
So thinking about the possibility of their gods giving them tasks and appointing blessing points for their deeds was a funny joke!
So I got a shitload of those illusionists with their gods, and they couldn't accept the blessing from human gods now… What worse could happen?
There was only one way I knew how to solve this ssy situation. Thanks to the angels, I knew that blessing points could be transported, just like what they did to attack thrice with that deadly star weapon.
ntioning the deadly star weapon, I now had a peace of mind about it. According to my chariot and its outstanding performance against that mighty illusionist god tear, I now had confidence in dealing with that scary weapon on my own.
That reminded of those lazy gods in my channel. How co they didn't co up with their offers yet? And what about that mysterious high god who was thinking about coming forward as the jumper said before?
At this mont I felt that they lost their chance in convincing to join any of their pantheons. Even that high god, I doubted he would be able to convince as well.
"Alright, ti to gather up intel," as I moved such thoughts aside for now, I turned to another hotpoint, "what do you know about that world gate that just moved away from here?"
As the mystery regarding their ability was cleared, now it was the ti for another mystery to be unveiled.
I knew world gates were rare, and extrely valuable. But from what I witnessed, that world gate seed to be able to move freely between places.
That wasn't sothing I heard of before. And just considering such a possibility made worried about controlling any world gate.
What was the benefit of attacking one world gate and before controlling it, that gate would whoosh away? That was unacceptable and I needed to know more about such situation first.
"That's easy to explain, mighty one," one of them said before adding, "this world gate wasn't the primary gate here. It was just a subsidiary gate created by paying a hefty price of coins and many blessing points as well."
"Call lord," I corrected the way he addressed . Just hearing that made understand sothing. "So you an there is a primary world gate sowhere in the city and this was just a branch of it?"
And he nodded.
"Yes, my lord."
"Then why did you pay all this price just to create a subsidiary gate?" I couldn't understand the reason behind this. As far as I knew, the world gate was sothing that needed heavy protection and much resources.
Just opening one must have consud a hell of their already scarce resources. Be it coins or blessing points, both weren't that abundant at such a stage of the apocalypse yet.
"We needed humans," one of them said in obvious hesitation, "human slaves that we can use in labours and also to sacrifice them for our gods."
"Sacrifices? Blessing sacrifices?" I couldn't help but feel anger when I heard these words. And it seed my anger was so obvious that it made them all pause and fell into silence.
But their silence was enough evidence to confirm my guesses.
"Damn!" I sucked in cold breath before adding, "so that ans other races are also doing the sa thing, right?"
And this ti they nodded.
"I heard that the Selvators and the dragons worked earlier than us to establish their outer gates around the city," one of them said before adding when I nodded in encouragent, "I also heard that the dragons were slightly angry for unknown reasons. They got the support of so higher ups in their clans and opened two gates, not one."
Once I heard these words, I didn't know why that dragon archlord or sothing from the auction popped into my head. Yes, he might be the one behind such a rage, or perhaps that was the nature of the dragons.
But that ant I needed to change my tactics a bit.
Blessing sacrifices was a very brutal concept, widely known and famous for all non-human races. In their eyes, humans were the lowest kind of race they ever t.
Seeing us as slaves was sothing common. But in the eyes of their gods, and for unknown reason, these gods kept issuing blessing sacrifices to them, asking them to capture us and offer such captives as sacrifices to please the gods.
In return for such quests, those races would gain tons of blessing points and in such an easy way. Just seeing us as cattle and sheep herds worthy of nothing but slaughter on their sacrificing altars made my blood boil.
And it also rang a very dangerous bell inside my mind. Wasting more ti ant they would gain more blessing points and beco more formidable than the way they were right now.
"Do you know where these subsidiary gates are?" I couldn't help but ask in anticipation. But I was dood to be disappointed when they all looked at each other while few shook their heads.
"We only know of our affairs," one of them said before adding when he noticed frowning, "but all the subsidiary gates are located in a wide circle around Jersey city that covers almost twenty miles radius."
"Twenty miles… That's not a small area to navigate," I thought deeply about that before I looked up and shouted, "co down here!"
*Fwoosh!* *Fwoosh!* *Fwoosh!*
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