For the sa race to possess two treasures of the sa calibre in one city and in such an early stage of the apocalypse was sothing I never heard of before or even imagined!
“They got the support from their higher ups,” it was the only explanation I could give in such a weird case, “but what are they trying to do?”
*Roar!*
Just as I said that, the beam of light which fell directly over the head of the monster started to get smaller. At first I thought it was fading away, but gradually I realised it was getting fiercer, being concentrated from a size of tens of tres radius to a thickness of a closed fist.
That was a great amount of condensation if you asked . And once it reached such a scale, the monster roared in another painful way.
“Are they trying to kill it?” I couldn’t believe even my own words when I said them. Killing the monster just after summoning it? That would be insane!
“No, they are ssing with its senses,” the jumper seed to see sothing I couldn’t. He pointed at the direction of the monster before adding in a panicked tone, “a distortion effect item… Sothing to ss with the senses of the monster and make it not see the illusionists!”
He didn’t stop there. He took many things out of his inventory, strange items, different kinds of weird gears, and even many grenade like items that I recognised.
“F*ck! You have the grenade of death in your inventory all this ti and didn’t tell ?!!” I was shocked when seeing these little grenades that were shimred in dangerous red light.
“They are my last card to survive,” he rolled his eyes before adding, “plus it’s not ti for you to worry about them! We have an apocalyptic level monster heading our way right now!”
He was right indeed. That monster once got hit by the beam of light, it started to shake off its massive head before turning its head away from the castle.
It looked like that beam turned the entire castle into a deserted place in the monster’s senses.
And now? The monster was attracted by the massive numbers of the monsters coming towards us. So the end result was very simple… It was coming in our direction!
“So what?” Unlike what the jumper might have thought, I shrugged as if this had nothing to do with .
“Are you out of your goddamn mind?” The jumper left everything he took on the ground and jumped to my neck. Again I felt his strength squeezing my neck, yet it didn’t look that domineering like before.
“Calm down,” I pushed his arm using my own strength, “we aren’t in such a desperate situation yet.”
“Indeed we aren’t!” He seed to take my words as a joke. He laughed in a sarcastic way that I didn’t care about.
“After we survive this, I’ll take half of your precious grenades,” I pointed at the grenades scattered at the ground.
“That’s of course in case we survived this sh*t!” the jumper snorted and I shrugged in a carefree way.
“Watch and learn,” I turned to the front, looking at the incoming thousands of monsters and races in my direction.
I had to admit, this move was really cunning. It was like my move of the bubble that took out of this death ga with a simple move.
And just like my brilliant move, they also used another one to take themselves out and force back directly into the sour spot of the ga.
But who said the ga was over or it was a checkmate? I still had my own moves to play.
“Running away?” The jumper stood next to while busying himself, arming every single inch of his body with anything he could carry. “Is this your answer?”
“No, it’s that one,” I simply motioned my head to a certain spot. The mont the jumper saw what was happening, and once he connected the dots, he couldn’t help but gasp.
It was the first ti for him to show such a reaction since I knew him!
“This is…”
“A brilliant move?” I completed what he couldn’t say.
“A silly and risky move,” despite his rude answer, I was slightly glad he returned to his old nature.
“Silly or risky doesn’t matter, we want to kill our enemies and not lose our lives in the process,” I simply said while steering my chariot to move in her interdiate form away from the incoming enemy wave and that gigantic monster on their tails.
I wasn’t trying to run outside the city, instead I was moving in a wide arc, almost taking the illusionist castle as my centre.
It was a wide circle where it extended from one shore to another! It was big enough to take almost an hour to cross it in one full circle.
And as the chariot was moving in her interdiate speed, it was enough to keep the distance between us and the racing enemies behind fixed.
“Won’t you accelerate a little?” the jumper seed to grow tired of this useless chase, “that monster… it only had a big body and little brain it seems!”
I knew why he was frustrated. When the monster first chased us, he thought it would attack the monsters and then co to kill us.
But up till now, the monster showed one hell of a weakness… It’s slow compared to all of us!
“Not now,” I shook my head and the jumper got my intentions.
“When is it then?” he asked, “this is the third round already!”
I looked at the direction of the central castle and said, “at the fifth circle we’ll move.”
“Fifth!!” The jumper was startled by my answer, and yet I didn’t change my decision. I knew this would consu around five hours here doing nothing, but in fact that was wrong.
I wasn’t just running in wide circles. Even the keen senses of the jumper couldn’t get that the circular course we were running kept getting shorter with each lap!
If I did so in a big move or all of sudden, then the enemies would notice this. So I was cautious to slightly deviate the chariot’s course a few tres every few minutes.
That might seem like a slow deviation, and that was why I needed the entire five laps to complete what I wanted to do.
The remaining two laps went without much suspense. It seed that many monsters reached their limit and once got tired, they either slowed down and got devastated by the ongoing behemoth behind them, or they scattered across the city in an attempt to run.
“This might be bad,” at the start of the fifth circle, the jumper said in warning.
“We’ll move soon,” I said, “hopefully we won’t get discovered.”
“Told you, it’s a risky plan,” he rolled his eyes in discontent. Why did that damn bastard keep grumbling all the ti?
“Any plan is risky at this point,” I shrugged, “get ready. We’ll need your precious grenades soon.”
“This…” he seed to not see this coming.
“What? Didn’t you plan to use them all to survive?” I asked while giving him a deep glance.
“But you already have a plan!” he argued.
“And in my plan I need your grenades!” I said while not flinching an inch.
“I won’t give,” he was about to store away his grenades, while his tone showed his deepest regret of taking them out.
“If you won’t, then I’ll use my privilege and empty your entire inventory!”
“I dare you do that!” he shouted in pure rage.
“I already did it once dude! I dare you to test again!”
We stood motionless, eye to an eye, head to head, as if we were enemies and not friends and allies. Seconds passed and even when I was challenging him in such a stance, I was keeping an eye over the general direction we were heading towards.
“We are getting closer to the right point to move,” I said, “either you voluntarily give five grenades now to use or I’ll empty your goddamn inventory out!”
“F… Five? Didn’t you just say one?” he held his grenades like he was holding a precious part of his body! Dude! Co on! I didn’t have ti for that.
“I order you…” as I got tired of hamring such a steeled brain of his, I had no other choice but to force him to do it.
“Alright alright,” but he hurriedly interrupted , “I’ll give you three, alright?”
“Are you bargaining with ?” I gave him a cold gaze that made him retreat a couple of steps.
“Why are you giving such a look?” he said and I was already at my limit with him.
“I order you…”
“Alright alright, just stop it, please,” he said before he gave a long glance at his grenades before throwing five at my direction. I swore I even saw a single tear coming down from his eyes when he did that!
Dude! They were precious, no doubt about that. But who said they were one of a kind? I knew of a few ways to get them later on, and you must be aware of that too!
“You should have done that from the start,” I stored them at once inside my inventory.
In fact I only needed one, but who said to not try and tease that hard to get more from that bastard? If he was always getting on my nerves, then the pleasure of getting things out of his inventory by his own will was my response to that.
The grenades of death were a very brutal item. Single one was enough to cause small-scale devastation equal to a limited scaled single attack of the star weapon of the angels.
Their only drawback was that once exploded, they’d only hit a small zone of five hundred tres radius for ten seconds. That might be considered a weakness, but compared to other items like these, this was an insignificant weakness.
After I got what I wanted, it was ti to start my next move. Yet it didn’t start from my direction, but at the direction of the illusionist gate.
*Boom!* *Boom!* Boom!*
Loud explosions occurred in that direction in a span of a few breaths alongside few rumblings and the signs of brutal fighting happening all of sudden.
“Your boys have started,” the jumper pointed in that direction, “shouldn’t we join them now?”
“Of course,” I evilly smiled while turning the direction of my chariot sharply to head directly towards the illusionist gate.
Up in that direction, all my warriors appeared miraculously there in a big formation. The first attacks ca from my shield warriors, causing enough devastation to crack the doors of that big castle open.
This was my plan, the one I started in response to the brilliant move from the illusionists. Once I started running, I began to slowly deploy my own warriors in a few numbers with each few hundreds of tres.
I sent them instructions through one of the illusionists using the contract between and them to relay ssages. From all my warriors, only Gollems stood behind to operate the big ballista on the deck.
Even the illusionists, I scattered them with my warriors as well. Their mission was simple; move in a few numbers and gather near the direction of the illusionist gate.
I told them to move during my fourth lap, but it took so ti for them to move. Once they attacked, it was no ti for to hide my intentions. So I steered my chariot and drove it towards the direction of that castle and gate.
The warriors were in enough numbers to hold their ground against the army inside the castle. Of course the illusionists weren’t prepared for such a move. They mistook my actions earlier and thought they already pinned down.
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