Chapitre 41: Amelia The Barbaric
Amelia jumped and stood at the very top of the many cars and metal bars. She looked ethereal standing there wearing a light brown dress that blows to the side along with her long hair. One would mistake her for a fairy, until she opens her mouth. "Oh what fresh hell is this?"
The downside about having so much sunlight is the constant rain. The place has been cealed shut from the outside. The ground has been accumulating water from the rain, there is no grass in this area tenacious enough to overcome the virus in the soil so this place is a mud pit. At least a large part of it is.
She sighed and went down but her bmfeet didn't touch the ground. It's amazing she is walking like this and no one has been watching the place incase something came in. She found everyone having a meeting.
"They are not contributing anything and just add more mouths to feed." A harsh female voice said and a few mummers of agreement sounded from the crowd.
"You monster! You want to kill our children."
"You can also switch places with them."
"When we die, you will just make another fuss to kill them again. We won't be there to protect them at that time."
"How do you know if you don't try?" The same woman said with a smirk on his face.
An overly large man sat on the highest seat with a few other men and women standing behind him. Amelia counted a small army seated and others standing. They all have Similar build. Tall and sturdy.
"Is this why you called this into motion?" The man on the seat spoke. A deep voice sounded as if the rumbling of a thousand horses galloping across the battlefield. 'So majestic.' Is what Amelia thought.
She felt like an apocalypse novel has suddenly turned into a beast genre. How cool...can she be the barbaric little wife of the beast chief? On second thought, that man is simply too large. Thinking of her first time with Lu Feng. That pain...*shiver*
She didn't show herself and listened in on the meeting. The person who seems to be in charge listens to everyone's opinion and then delivered his own judgment on each matter.
"Give this woman a few supplies and drive her out of the shelter." He looked to one of the nearby giants and a man stood up pulling her screaming form out towards to gate.
"Leader mercy, I really have the best of intentions. I won't dare again....." The woman shouted but no one wanted to be dragged in the mud with her. Even the people who were agreeing with her a moment ago turned their faces away.
The leader looked to her position with a piercing gaze making Amelia wonder if she has been discovered. But she has used a stealth talisman, could that large man see through it? No ways right?
The meeting went on and then the common people left while the small army remained. "Are you going to come out on your own or do you need help?" The leader said looking at Amy's direction.
Amy came out seeing she has been discovered. When she showed herself everyone but the leader got into fighting stance. She floated towards the man until she is in front of him.
Before she can speak, a large woman stood infront of her aggressively. Amelia raised an eyebrow. The woman took a short spear from her side and pointed at her.
"Although it is very impressive that you can do it, you are blocking my view of the human ape behind you." Amelia's voice came and everyone internally thought 'although the words are not nice, the voice is as nice as they had imagined it to be.'
"Hahaha..." A booming laughter came from behind the woman.
"Sonya, she has no malice." The man said but the girl didn't budge.
"I know that, but ....she smells funny. I don't like a vixen like her getting too close." The woman said. Amelia is surprised to hear a normal female voice.
"I smell funny? You all smell like blood....okay? Whose the one smelling funny between us?" Amelia put her hand on her hips with an annoyed expression on her face.
Her form is so small compared to everyone around her it seems comical that she will be this feisty at this time. In fact most of the people present see her as a small animal, cute and sharp tongued.
"And stop pointing that thing at me before you lose your arm." Amelia said with a frown. The last time someone raised a weapon against her, heads went flying.
"You smell like flowers, and it's the kind that messes with the head. Vixen." The woman spat.
"I can't help that, and it is supposed to be hidden. It's not my fault you have a dog's nose." The woman took a step forward but the man called her name again.
"Listen to the ape before I lose my manners." Amelia said to the large woman. The woman's arms are the size of her upper thighs. It's peculiar she is this sturdy but doesn't look ugly at all. Even the dark skin is not out of place at all.
"Stranger, why have you come?" The man asked. Amelia walked to his side and stood in front of a man seated next to him. Seeing him not move, she used her mental power to pull him away from the chair and sat down. The size is four times her size but she sat there unbothered. The man wanted to get angry but one look from the leader made him grunt and went away.
"I am looking for a place to train a group of lazy people and came across this place." She answered his question.
"Train people? Do you have a base?" The man asked after seeing her relaxed attitude even after coming across their group of strange people. That pale skin, he knew at a glance she can not be from around here where the sun is harsh all the time.
"Yes."
"Is it big enough to take in our people?"
"Why would you want to give up power of being a leader in a base of your own? Besides, you just met me." Amelia couldn't help be surprised.
"You seem well off and powerful enough to protect people. I never wanted the responsibility." How straightforward.
"If I take in the civilians would you continue staying here?"
"No, I will come with. I may have not wanted the responsibility but they are still under my protection until I know they are safe. Besides, there is something outside that is getting closer to this place. I can't stop it."
"What is it?" Amelia is intrigued because she actually saw fear in those large brown eyes. Honestly, this man is very handsome even with a large neck like that.
"It's a tree. It just won't die. We found its nucleus and blasted it. But we watched it come together again." The man shuddered. He is actually very creeped out by the undying tree.
"Does it have red and black lines all over its branches and leaves? The leaves can turn into sharp weapons and kill people at a distance?" Amelia aked in excitement. That is the underlying plant of the underworld. The only way to kill it is to distroy its crystal nuclei with concentrated light spells or the light supernatural power.
"Yes, how did you know?" The giant looked at her in surprise
"From the fear in your eyes. You are right to run. Not many people can survive the undead widow."
"Undead widow?"
"It is said that this type of plant is born from the death of a woman who had been betrayed by her lover. The more hurt she felt and the deeper the betrayal, the more tenacious the tree will be."
"How do we kill it?" Someone asked.
"You can appease her anger and grief. I know a place where they would push cheating husbands into the undying widow so it will not kill everyone in the village. You should try this method." This is of course nonsense.
"We are not sacrificing anyone." The leader said sternly.
Amelia shrugs. "I will take you into my base. Lets do it in one hour, I still haven't found a training spot." She said and stood up.
"What is your name? Don't you have questions for me?"
"My name is Amelia. I would like to know why do you all smell like blood?"
"It's not human blood." The leader said.
"I know that. I wouldn't accept you into my base if it were human blood."
"We are..." He is interrupted by a man who was rudely pulled out of his chair.
"Brother..." the man said in surprise.
"Fine, don't tell me. Its not like I haven't seen body cultivation before. I'm just surprised to encounter it here." She left all of them with surprised expressions.
This is only one of the bases she found in this fascinating province. She ended up taking back over 17000 people. Just in time too, the outer city needs residents.
The administration office was busy for two hole days registering these people and then printing ID cards for them. The nine kings were instructed to recruit people into their cities and start running the place. The important thing is the words that left them speechless.
"The current army belongs to the inner base. Train your own army, little brats. Remember to make the soldiers who have reached level 7 wear the uniforms of each your district when on duty." They looked at each other and realized they are being kicked out of the house.
The fierce competition of choosing candidates has began. But these were just the beginning of the instructions from the leader.
There are large amounts of clensing potions left for each of them a recipe to make fasting pills and the many other basic medications such as to stop bleeding, paste to disinfect, stomach ache potion and many others.
Amelia doesn't need to keep these a secret so she gave them to reduce meaningless deaths in their city. She told them to run the city however they want but there is a few rules. No homeless people on the street, no slavery and no forced labor. If people don't want to work they must leave.
10% of all your earnings will go to the main base and will be alocated by the main base for use according to need. It use will be published. Lastly, you can buy the various materials from the base leader at the the required price.
"A fourth wall is required further outward for market and other important facilities such as training centers, glass houses, planting fields and schools. The blueprint will be put together by yourselves during winter. As you already know, each district has a large few glass houses for growing food but the size of your future population will be bigger than they can provide."
Old Mo looked at the speechless young kings and felt a little sorry for them. They just finished a city each, but now they still need to build something more.
"The secretaries will give you a water tank full of cleansing potions each. The current army can be approached by you, if they want to leave the inner city to live in your cities they can go. But the shadow guards belong to the inner city exclusively." The several people became hopeful.
"The subsequent cleansing potions will be paid for after this first one. You can use the base machines to activate powers for free."
These are all the instructions on how to operate the electrical system in your cities. There is a distribution center in each of your districts. The water distribution is also very easy but you have a manual to help guide you."
"The leader told me to give you a map. These marked locations are the bases that can not hold on during winter. Go there and recruit the people back. Orphans can live in the inner city like before and the old people can go to the building previously prepared for them so you can keep the young and strong people for your bases." Mo continues seeing their smiles.
"Focus on the North because they won't make it through the winter. Take high level space powers to teleport everyone back, don't alert the big bases of your movements. You may steal their street kids and homeless people, remember we have medicine and can also take care of the old. So don't worry and bring them back, old people are usually very knowledgeable on matters we are ignorant about."
"You can go now. The leader wishes you good luck." The nine people left the office feeling a heavy pressure on their shoulders. Each district can house tens to hundreds of thousands of people, can they shoulder such heavy responsibilities?
"I am going to recruit trainer Qin." They each chose the five generals they had previously chosen as first citizens of their districts.
Amelia has finally found a zombie infested district it is large and looks to be a less well of community during the past. Now there is not a single living person in this entire are. Not far from this place is a city and even though there are humans living there, they are being oppressed by a gangster with guns and there is not enough food.
She sneaked in and saw sunken faces and blank expression. It is unknown if they are like this because they haven't eaten of they are living under oppression. She made the boss and his goons unconscious in their rooms at night and then approached the people.
"Hello." She had to make more noise for them to look her way. These are all ages from children to adults. One look and it is easy to see some are already contemplating death
"I have a base, do you all want to come?" She made her voice as non threatening as possible. The young children went to her after flattering her with words like "sister, you are so beautiful..." She ignored them and sent the to the administration office.
The rest of the people came up and she took them away. By the time the boss and his goons woke up, they were the only ones left in this place. Even the women they were sleeping with had been taken away.
Amelia has asked the woman of course and they wanted to leave without hesitation. Some wanted to kill the boss and his people but Amelia didn't allow them. If someone is to be killed, they should do so without her help.
Amelia didn't take anything from the gangsters and left them sleeping. When they came too they felt a chill up their spines. One has to remember they were vulnerable during that time, anything could have been done to them and they would have no way of resisting.
Amelia is seated in front of Zhou An sipping tea. She looks like a male scholar with a straight nose, wide shoulders and a thin waist. Long legs are folded in front of Zhou An.
Zhou An looked at her "This is honestly a very scary skill. You could be an assassin."
"I prefer killing my enemies upfront. Besides, some people only need to be taught a lesson. Are they done packing?"
"We can go once you finish your tea." Zhou An said.
"Alright."
While they are conversing, a girl kept coming in and out trying to make Amelia notice her. "You know what she is doing right?" Amelia asked Zhou An.
"I know, everybody knows you will be coming to help us move. She must have planned it at night, poor girl." Zhou An sounds like she pitying her but there is no pity on her face.
"You are not alarmed by her actions?"
"She is just a clown at most and I accepted her to irritate Liang Mei."
"How is she by the way?"
Zhou An told her all that took place. "They took away her army? They have no idea who they are dealing with. She will have her vengeance."
"Whatever, we are ready now."
Amelia took them to an dilapidated shelter that had been previously occupied and let them arrange their schedules themselves. She looked at Zhou An who is attempting to look pitiful. She only said one statement before she turned and left. "Make it work."
Amelia didn't want to be a hypocrite and discipline other people's army's while her own is in shambles. Appearing in the training grounds and saw the many soldiers training, she stood next to Qin Ai making him jump in fright. She had appeared like a ghost next to him. "Base leader, your scared me!" He said touching his chest.
Seeing their usually calm leader's surprised expression, the soldiers laughed at him. "Sorry, I should have announced my presence." She smiled at Qin Ai showing her left dimple. The beautiful smile made Qin Ai stunned and the tip of his ears became slightly red.
"I have come to take over training for all level 7 and above. Their training will be on weapons. I believe we have all the weapons. The training will start tomorrow at 4 am. By the time the usual training starts it will be three hours later." She turned and left. News that the level seven upwards will be trained by the base leader herself became known in the entire base.
The following weeks she didn't relent and trained her soldiers personally. The soldiers were so miserable, but the results of their training quickly shown when she took them to the depths of the eastern province for practice.
Amelia had been keeping track of the soldiers under Zhou An from time to time. It didn't take them too long to reach level 8 when they got crystal nuclei and traded them for purified crystal nuclei at a 20% price.
When they returned home, they were among the most powerful armies in the base. Amelia had told her to keep a low profile until the right time came. Months later, the Zhou army under Zhou An increassd to 15 000.
The many people were activated while a little over 3000 do not have supernatural powers but the cleansing feom the potion makes them very fit and the daily hunting allows them to be very strong. They are not without hope of gaining powers but they have ro stand out.
Zhou An has turned it into a way to motivate her people to work hard. Amelia doesn't mind this, they are ultimately her army anyways. The initial smaller area where Zhou An had built for her people became very full so they expanded. When winter finally became unbearable, everyone who works for Zhou An had a place to sleep.
Meanwhile Amelia didn't want to wait for winter to be gone before she sees the fruits of her labor in training the level seven and above on weapons combat. Especially since she also helped teach them how to apply their power on their weapons without damaging it.
She is very excited to see them in action so she took them to the deep area in the Eastern province where humans were moved away by the kings and now it is a warzone between zombies, mutant animals and mutant plants.
She even teleported some powerful zombies feom other parts of the country just to ensure the numbers are enough since she is bringing over 5000 people to compete.
"The weapons we have covered in our training have encompassed all the cold weapons in the hand book. This is because I had wanted each of you to know which weapon agrees with you. After months of vigorous training, You know which weapons works better in your hands but you are also very proficient in all the other weapons. Now, you have to go out there wearing your inhibitors and bring me those high level crystal nucleus!" The last words were said with a lot of excitement.
Zhu Li is seated in the tent with Amelia operating various screens on the side, many other staff members are here to help monitor the safety of each group. There are over 5000 participants in this training and all of them are being monitored with smart recorders that can scan the internal system to ensure their lives are not in danger and, they are not cheating.
Amelia ate mystic fruits and drank spirit fruit juice chatting with old Mo. "I really have to say, your training was brutal. What was that pill you made them ingest on the days where sparring took place?" Old Mo shuddered in fear.
"It's called seed of the undying. If you take it, you wont die as long as there is a drop of blood from your body, you will recover to your full health." Amelia explained this is the pill she is able to make after replanting the undead widow of the underworld inside her space, she can use it's juice with terrifying regenerative abilities to make the pill.
"That is one scary pill. Imagine if your enemies had an endless supply." Zhu Li had been learning the ancient magic language from Amelia. The base leader's schedule has been stable in the past months. The training in the early morning, the study of coding from the smart bracelet, she would seat by Zhu Li's office to ask questions whenever she is stuck.
She would spend the day in the base enjoying the various entertainment places newly built by the outer cities. Zhu Li has taken over many old social platforms and many sites where movies were previously stored. Tickets are sold and people can enjoy movies in the cinemas around the base.
The outer city is half full now that the nine kings have been going to various places across the country to bring back new members.
Back to the competition. The goal is to choose new nine generals who will lead armies for the inner city.
The videos moved and many scenes became clear in front of everyone. The fierce fights on the monitors are brutal and bloody. However, even her least talented soldier is just as brutal. The entire month, people used the knowledge learned from the various plants notices in the base to survivs in the wild.
Each time someone got heavily injured they were quickly disqualified and healed completely, unlike that stupid girl Zhou An, Amelia has plentyof silver healing pils. So even when they lose their limbs they can be heald completely.
The base has it's own channel and this training is being televised and broadcasted through the households and people can support their preferred general.
[Ahh...godess Hou is so heroic when she whips zombies with her crocodile spine whip.]
[I am a simp for goddess crocodile spine whip]
[I am a simp +1]
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The audience is not just the People from the hospital base but also the prison base. The traffic increased steadily and the people became invested in the brutal training of the next nine generals.
People are eliminated one by one. This way they are doomed to be under the leadership of the winners. The competition went on but a sudden change occurred. A level 9 mental zombie appeared.
The zombie is living in a castle like place. His face pale as a white sheet, his eyes gleam a silver light in the dark. Amelia spoke to the communicator.
"It has already been a month. Congratulations to all the remaining contestants, you may send in your current collections through the smart bracelets so that each of your contributions will be under your name, because now the stakes have increased.
You will be given an undying seed for the next round. This is because the next task will decide your future.
In this place, there are 219 peak level 7 zombies, 43 level 8 and 9 level 9 zombies in this training. There are over a few hundreds of level 8 mutated beasts and 9 level 9 mutated plants. Find them and bring them home. You may use your supernatural powers now.
Remember everyone is watching and cheering for you. Good luck." Amelia's words rang in the smart bracelets of every contestant. When they opened the storage in the bracelet, they saw the fasting pills and the undying seed.
The real main event has began.
[Level nine? *shiver*]
[Isn't this a bit too cruel?]
[The base leader is training the next generation of leaders. Do you want to be led by someone incapable?]
[Upstairs, it makes sense]
[Am I the only one who doesn't know what is the seed of the undying?]
Amelia only just glanced at the loud internet and continued watching the contestants.
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