831 My Victory is Obvious
Training usually meant that one needed to do it in order to surpass the limit. But That is not the only thing a training can do. Or in this case, it's sparring.
Instead of fighting until one find their own limit then surpass it, what if there's another meaning of training? For example looking for something that they can do, but they don't know yet if they can do it? Learning another strategy? Finding the opponent's weakness?
For some, it might not be considered as getting stronger. But what's the goal of getting stronger? Isn't it so that one can overpower their opponent?
Whether it's to kill someone, to protect someone, because they enjoyed it, or many other reasons, the purpose of getting stronger is always the same. To overpower one's opponent.
For me, I have a lot of problems in training. It's because I'm not really specialized in one weapon. So I tried my best in various weapons and how quickly I can change my weapons. Either by getting Victoria's ability to shapeshift into another weapons in my hand, or to swap a weapon already in my hand with another weapon.
Even if I can't be as good as the Aura users in the past in their specialized weapon, if it's in the past, I should be at least the best in using various weapons.
Just because I use any kind of weapons, that doesn't mean that I'm what they call as jack of all trades, master of none. Well I might not be a master of something. But at least I could be expert in all trades.
Doesn't that make me the master of various weapons? Maybe. Though I think if I fight an Aura user in the past specialized in just one weapon, and I limit myself to fight that Aura user with that same weapon, I will still lose. But if I'm allowed to use various weapons, I can have various strategy and winning is not impossible.
Anyway, what I'm talking about is that training doesn't mean that one must surpass the limit. It also means that I can learn something else I can do within that certain limit.
.....
That's why for this match against Wendy after she reached master level, I limited myself to not use my familiars other than Victoria. Because Victoria is the only one who will always be with me. Even if she doesn't, I will always have loads of Blobbies I can transform into anything I want.
I always feel that I have more things I can do now that I have become an Aura Master. That's why for a match like this one, I want to find out what else I can do.
We are fighting in the sky. With several monsters trying to follow us. I told them before the match that they have to keep their distance because wind mage's attacks are mostly targeted for a large area. And they can get hurt just because they want to watch.
Well, since I have told them about it, they should be careful while we're both trying our best.
For acceleration to reach the highest speed, I am better than Wendy. But Wendy's top speed is higher than mine, so once she reached her fastest speed, it's difficult for me to catch up to her. And using two guns, she can block the bullet approaching her easily. And not just that, she blow the bullets far away from her because she thought that she might end up inhaling the gas that I hid inside the bullet.
I guess this is how a fight between two sides who knows well about each other. But this also mean that I can figure out more about my weakness. And I can show her what weaknesses she has.
"Roy, when you swing your sword, as long as your opponent can see your sword movement, they can dodge it easily."
Wendy said that after she dodged my slash from distance easily. She's right. Most of the opponents I have faced are those who can't even see my sword movement even if they are master level mages.
If the opponent is around Wendy's level, then my long distance attack will be useless. Or that I have to surpass my limit. But the goal today is to find out more about my weakness that I need to cover.
"Thanks for mentioning. I know that as well. But don't you think that it won't do you any good if you tell me in the middle of a fight?" I asked.
"It's fine. As long as you can't catch up to me, I won't lose," Wendy said confidently.
I still think that there's a way to beat her without breaking my limit though. I mean my stamina is obviously higher than her. As for mana, even if mine is lower than her, it's not like I kept using mana all the time.
If I compare it, how long I can use Aura is already much longer than how long a master level mage can use magic continuously. So if it's just a long fight, I will still win.
Her hope is only if she can hit me with magic from far. But because we're both quite far away from each other, I can also see her magic from this distance. So I can avoid it.
Except that her magic has bigger area than my slash. So I need to get far away from her magic. Unlike Wendy who just need to move slightly to avoid my slash.
Should I make my slash bigger? But if I do, it ended up becoming slower.
Maybe I need to focus on just making my slash smaller and faster, or bigger but didn't drop its speed.
When I do that, Wendy had more trouble avoiding my attack. But she still managed to escape and started attacking me again from distance. At least it's better than when I used guns.
"How about this?"
Then, Wendy used her strong magic. Creating powerful hurricane that even pushed me.
Well, I'm in the air, so just a little bit of wind can push me. But this is a hurricane. And I'm far from getting the ground. I don't have anything to step on except the air. But that's still difficult.
Her wind is so strong that even I have problem moving my body in the air. I'm an Aura Master, you know? My physical abilities should be surpassing that of anyone. But I still can't move my body freely.
If I use my Aura to the fullest, I can escape from this hurricane. In fact, that should be what I'm after since Wendy started to create a fire. Now it became a fire storm.
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Still, I didn't use Aura to escape from the fire storm. I just let my body follow the wind as I get blown by the hurricane around with Wendy at the center.
If I can use the wind created by the wind mage to get close to the enemy, then that's what I should do. As for the fire, I'll just protect myself with Aura and use air magic so that even the air that becomes the wind are not something that are flammable. This should save me for a few second.
And I can use that few seconds to use Aura for an instant to reach where Wendy is and hit her. This could be another way for me to fight wind mages in the future.
"You lose!"
Oh, wait. The wind is too strong that she can't hear me. Well, that's fine.
As I get closer to her, she instantly created a barrier made of wind and fire in panic. But that's not a problem for me.
I just covered my arms with Aura and pushed through the barrier. Just one arm holding a gun entered her barrier and aimed directly at her head.
I can see her expression changed. Afraid of getting hit directly. And I quickly transformed the Blobbygun into just one small marble ball filled with a calming gas.
Then I flicked the marble into her mouth. Erasing the Blobby as soon as it enters her mouth so the calming gas will take effect in since it will enter her lung right away.
The winner is decided. Although none of us were harmed, it's obvious who is the winner. Because if I decided to use the gun and not flicking a marble into her mouth, she could die. And she knows.
Maybe it's the effect of calming gas. Or maybe it's because Wendy has accepted her lost. But the fire storm stopped.
"You won, Roy," Wendy said as I was free falling to the ground.
"Well, at least we both know more about each other's weaknesses that we need to improve. That's what's important in a training," I said.
Since there's no more fire storm, she can hear me just fine even while I was falling.
I just need to land on the ground. This height is not a problem for me.
But instead, Wendy grabbed me and carried me like a princess as she helped me descending to the ground.
"...You don't need to do this, you know?" I said.
"Are you embarrassed that your first love is carrying you like a princess?" Wendy teased.
"Now the embarrassment is doubled. Fuck you. Let's go home."
Yeah, I forgot that she knows that she's my first love. This is getting more embarrassing even if it's my second chance in life. Good thing there are only monsters watching us.
832 At the Artificial Mountain
"...Before we return home, can we have a talk?"
While Wendy is carrying me, she asked me to have a talk first. Is this her real reason in asking me for a spar? What is she going to talk about me?
"Sure. But is that the reason you're still carrying me? You can let me down now, you know. And if you don't want to fly by yourself, we can both ride on Ray's back," I said.
"Nah, let's go like this. I saw a good place I want to go when I was fighting you," Wendy said.
"Should I leave?" Victoria asked.
"You can come as well," Wendy replied.
Yeah. But I'm not fine with being carried like this. Though there are only monsters watching us. And neither of us needed healing, so no angels will approach us.
If there is someone else here, this would be extremely embarrassing. Especially since I'm perfectly healthy. Though I can just pretend that I'm injured or something if someone is watching. But that will only make them worry. What kind of power can injure someone like me? Everyone would be curious.
Then I informed Graham and Shelia to tell the others that the match is over. They can do whatever they want now and they don't need to follow us.
.....
And so, Wendy is flying while still carrying me in her arms. Where are we going? Oh, it seems like we will go to that artificial mountain that we made in the past.
The landscape didn't change much. But this is still an amazing place.
This was the result of many expert level mages working together. Though I think some of us were still advanced level mages at the time. But I think even if the level didn't change from before, the same group can make this artificial mountain even better than back then.
And what about master level mage? Just one earth mage should be enough to create this mountain alone. That's how strong they are.
And so, Wendy landed on the mountain. Right next to the lake that becomes the source of water for the village. It's kind of crazy as well that we built a river from here all the way to the village.
"This is where you want to go?" I asked.
"Yes. This is something that we were working together to built. It's amazing what magic can do. And it's scary as well knowing that magic is how our world will be destroyed," Wendy said.
Well, we don't know yet if it was magic or some other means that destroyed our world. It's still far in the future. Far longer after I died.
I hope that by changing the past, this didn't make whatever destroying the world will be prepared sooner.
About this time in my past life, the cult didn't do much. But Lana didn't born and Marie's mentality got affected. And Albert's personality is totally different after that. At least that's what I heard.
Maybe at this time, the cult should still be slowly increasing their influences. Which is why there shouldn't be any attack at this time.
But we have stopped a lot of their plans. And we killed many of their people as well. So the future might be different and they might end up attacking us sooner. Though I don't think that's the case.
Maybe right now, the cult is waiting for us to drop our guard after making us think that they have stopped doing anything. Well, that's for the agents to find out. I will just hear about it later.
Then Wendy put me down on the ground and sat next to me watching the calm lake. I can see many fishes inside the lake. Some of them are going to the river to where the village is.
"...When are we going to attack those islands?" Wendy asked after a moment silence between us.
"When the agents gave us enough reports, I guess. I heard that they are still there pretending to be one of them. None of them got caught yet. Anyway, you should know about this more than me," I said.
Is she getting impatient? I understand. Because I feel the same.
But we have to keep calm and prepare everything. We don't know when they will make their move, or if we will be the one making our move first.
"The longer we wait, the stronger the enemies will be. I heard that there are already five more new master level mages breaking through in those islands," Wendy said.
I didn't know that. Or maybe I skipped that information because it's not worth my attention.
"Did you get too impatient and ended up reaching master level in a hurry? I hope that's not the case for you," I asked.
"No. I made sure that I'm not in a hurry when I'm cultivating. It's the result of my patience. But I'm worried that the war will go on for a long time," Wendy said.
"That's something we try to avoid. Though in my past life, the long war was already a losing battle now that I learned how strong the cult is now already. But now, we're no longer in a losing war. We do have a chance to win. So just be patient," I said.
Yeah. I'm not the best person to talk with about your worries. I'm bad at consoling other people.
"I just don't like it that I'm teaching my students so that they will enter the war. I wish that it will be over soon," Wendy said.
Yeah. I don't like that soon, Daniel might join us. He was just five when I found him. But there are things that I can't do on my own. So I have to be patient. I have a long live after all.
I just hope that everyone will be strong enough to at least protect themselves until the cult is destroyed. That's all I wish.
And Wendy also started telling me her worry. Which I can't help at all because I'm extremely lacking as an ordinary human. I have never been ordinary after all.
I'm an Aura user. And in the past, I was just a commoner. Just a normal summoner with weak slime as his familiar and a doctor. Even after becoming a doctor, I have never lived an ordinary life. Everyone still look down on me even if I'm the one they have to rely when they're dying.
So I can't really solve any of Wendy's worries. And it somehow led to Wendy and Victoria talking together.
I just do nothing and listen to everything.
"Thanks Victoria. And Roy as well. I needed this. If I don't have this conversation, I don't know when I will have mental breakdown. This war is frightening. And now that I become a master level mage, I will live for a long time. So I hope that I won't have to fight in a war for most of my life," Wendy said.
Yeah. Mental health is important. And even if all I have about this present life is good news, that doesn't mean everyone perceive it as good news.
I told everyone how bad the situation was in my past life. And even if I told them that the situation in the present life is better, they only experienced this life. For them, it's still tragedy.
"If you need anything, or have anything you want to say, or just someone to listen, then you can ask me. If you want to stop fighting, that's fine as well. Maybe like Sophie, you can do other things to support from behind," I said.
"No. I'll continue fighting. But thanks for the tip," Wendy said.
"I didn't do anything though."
After that, we... didn't say anything. She didn't say anything about wanting to go home. So I just stay there with her. Even if she says that she's okay, that doesn't really mean that she's really okay. Though I hope that she's truly fine.
I'm a doctor. But I'm not specialized in mental health. Though if she needs something to calm her down, I can use the calming gas on her.
In the end, I... fell asleep. We didn't say anything at all, so I'm bored and fallen asleep.
When I woke up, I feel weight on my chest. Wendy is sleeping with her head resting on my chest.
What is it? Don't tell me that she's interested in me?
Well, interest should be correct. But love is not necessary true. After all, I'm just weird.
As for Victoria, she's fishing on the lake. She noticed that I'm awake and just smiled before she focus back on fishing.
It's night here already. And the stars here is beautiful.
I can see our world from here. The moon. It's blue.
As for Monsters World, seen from the Earth, it's blue as well. Only a few years ago I noticed that the moon is a planet. And not moons.
Or maybe they are originally the moon, but then monsters started living there. Or is it humans first that lived on the moon? I don't know. And I don't care.
Until Wendy wakes up, I'll just enjoy the view here.
833 This Time, it's Shirley
Wendy worries a lot. That makes her a good teacher, I guess. She's worried that her students will join the war in the future.
That's something that we can't avoid. Because the cult has been preparing to destroy the world for a long time. While we just prepared to fight them back a quite a while after I returned back to the past.
And it's not just Wendy who is worried. Everyone is the same. But they didn't really speak about it. Pretending that everything will be fine.
Just like Albert for example. Well, he's a king after all. If people see that he's worried about something, then everyone will be worried.
So most of us pretend that everything will be okay. But I hope that they can talk to someone instead of bottling it up for themselves. Can't have them destroy themselves.
I think most of them chose to strengthen themselves to avoid thinking too much. And when they reach master level, they will start thinking of other things. Like how they will live for a long time and how to spend their lives as they don't want to continue fighting in a war.
Many kinds of thoughts entered their mind and just like Wendy, they will need someone to rely on. And for most of them, the person they rely the most would be me.
Well, not everyone. Since Kron doesn't seem to care about anything. He just wants to focus on his adventure. And he will help us when we ask for help since he hates the cult.
I think he has a lot of friends outside the usual group. Maybe he's talking to them instead.
.....
If they want me to listen to their worries, I'll do it. It's the littlest thing I can do to them.
After Wendy wakes up, we returned back to Cassau. Only to learn that it's Shirley's time to reach master level.
So quick. It wasn't long when Kron became our strongest mage. I knew it was just temporary. But I never thought that Wendy would reach that level so soon after that without even having Breezy around.
Then there's Shirley. She should be busier after she decided to help her brother with diplomatic problems. But she's still managed to reach master level this fast?
Hearing this, instead of being disappointed, Kron was so happy.
"Then, I can compare my magic with both Wendy and Shirley. Especially with Shirley since we're both also ice mages. Though I think she will reach master level in her ice element sooner than me," Kron said.
No sign of disappointment at all. What a sportsmanship from Kron. I guess he never really cares about being the strongest. He just enjoys his freedom.
I guess since he mostly cares about himself, he doesn't think about other people much. Though if it's him, if he witnesses someone in trouble, he will still help.
"Okay then. I'll tell Andro that we're going there soon. Have you prepared yourself?" I asked Shirley.
Right after I returned with Wendy, she called me and told me to transport her to Cassau. So she's right here with us now.
"Yeah. I'll go tomorrow then," Shirley said.
"Then get some rest. I'll leave now to Andro's place and tell the monsters to prepare to fight," I said.
"Okay."
I just left Monsters World. But I'm going back again. Though it's because another person is reaching master level. I'm glad that's the case.
So I told the monsters that we're going to Andro's back again to protect Shirley this time. And everyone is excited to hear it.
Thanks to the blacksmith, more monsters are well-equipped now. There are even some monsters who applied to be the blacksmith's apprentice. It was really great that he can produce many weapons and armors quickly with his apprentices' help.
The angels have new sets of armor and better spears. The elves have bows, arrows, and small daggers to protect themselves. And the centaurs got armors and lances. Though some individual monsters have their own preferences. So some centaurs have bows and arrows instead.
The horses also wear armor. Even Ray had one. But Ray doesn't like it. So it's only a saddle for him a saddle made comfortable enough for Ray to run with.
Having Blobbyarmor covering him is already good enough.
The next day, everyone is ready. Though the people here are much smaller in number than back when Kron was breaking through. But the monsters are all here on Andro's back. Including the elves and the centaurs who decided to cooperate together.
So, the elves will ride the centaurs. The elves will shoot their arrow from the centaurs' back, while the centaurs will focus on closer enemies.
Also, the arrows that the elves used were made by branches of some trees. And the elves can use their plant magic on the arrows they shoot. So even if the damage caused by the arrow alone is small, they can use their plant magic.
For example, they can grow a vine from the arrow that will bind the enemies. Or a poisonous flower can bloom from the arrow. What a cheat ability.
And they never miss their target. Even if they do and they about to hit their own allies, the elves will use plant magic to accelerate the growth of the wooden arrow. So that it will grow heavy and the trajectory of the arrow will change.
Plant magic is awesome. Even more awesome after they learned archery.
From what Tia told me, the Queen of the elves, this might be how the elves in the past fight. And when the method of fighting disappeared, the elves grew weaker. But now, they are almost comparable with other monsters in the village.
Though if it's close range, even if they are more agile, they will still lose in the end. But they are happy enough with just knowing that they can help the master of their God's master to destroy the cult.
Now, we're protecting Shirley.
We have been doing this twice. And this is the third time. So we're used to it already.
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Though this time, there are more elves involved.
The centaurs and the elves will stay on Andro's back. While other monsters will fight.
Angela is here because she wants to help her friend, Shirley. And because Angela is here, the others think that it will be fine even if they don't participate.
Big difference between Shirley and Wendy. Where Wendy didn't have other mages helping her. Just monsters. But I guess that's natural. Shirley is in the position of someone who needs to be protected. While Wendy is in the position of someone who protects. So when Wendy breakthrough, there were no one who insists on coming. But for Shirley's turn, Angela insisted.
And I even got a call from Albert himself to protect Shirley with my life. He doesn't need to ask me that. I will do that anyway.
Angela, the werewolves, and the weretigers will spread out and fight any monsters. Andro is as usual, killing everything in his sight. Then, the elves on the centaurs' back will shoot anyone who passed Angela and the others. The centaurs will watch out for other enemies approaching. As for the angels, they are spreading out to everywhere so they can heal those who get injured.
No master level mages helping. Not even the Summoner. But his familiar is here.
As for the tamer, he has tamed so many flying monsters. Though I'm sure he will help the next one to breakthrough to master level if they are not wind mages.
And... it's over. It just took Shirley two days to breakthrough!
Yeah. Two days. Even faster than Wendy.
Right after she reached master level, she looked around and fight the monsters on her own. I don't need to do anything here. All I did was bring in some food for those who are resting.
It didn't take long for Shirley to kill the rest of the monsters. Then she went to Andro. I mean Andro's head. Probably to say her gratitude for protecting her and allowing everyone to breakthrough on his back.
Then she returned.
"Alright, let's get back! For a royalty to reach master level, it needs to be celebrated," Shirley said to herself.
"You don't want to keep your level as secret?" I asked.
"No need for that. The cult already knows that we are fighting them. And for our people, knowing that their princess reached master level, it will raise their morale instead," Shirley said.
Has she been thinking of a plan like this? She also told me that if the cult learn of her achievement, there's a chance that they will make their move in haste knowing that we just got stronger.
"Well, I always said it. You can think of a plan, and I will do it. It's up to you and the others," I said.
And so, I returned her back to Cassau first. I only brought her back to the royal capital the day after.
In the capital, I can hear that many people are talking about Shirley reaching master level. I'm sure the cult will hear of it soon.
I guess I'll be her bodyguard during celebration then.
834 Parade
The appearance of a master level mage is not something that the people know. Most would expect that mages at most can reach expert level as master level is regarded as myth. But no one would imagine that a member of royalty will one day reach master level.
We never told anyone that there are actually a lot of master level mages. People never know about that because we keep it as secret.
Because if we leak that secret and people learn that the cult has master level mages, then they will fall into despair. After all, the common sense of this world is that master level mages are the strongest. Probably, everyone is thinking that they are much stronger than even Angela who won the tournament.
By the way, the second tournament is already planned in a year or two. And after that, it will goes on annually at least. With each country has their own way of selecting the mages who will participate.
I don't know if Angela and the others will participate or not. But if they just say that they want to, I'm sure Albert will give them the opening spots right away.
Anyway, we're about to celebrate Shirley's achievement of reaching master level.
People will think that she's the first master level mage after so long. And they even thought that master level mages are just myth. So they must be really shocked. And happy at the same time.
They prepared a parade. To let everyone knows that the princess is someone who has reached master level.
Do we really need to make it this big?
.....
Well, Albert said that they do. Because of the danger after the cult hasn't made any big move at all.
The danger doesn't come from the cult. But it's from inside the kingdom. Other nobles who think of having a coup.
"A coup? There shouldn't be anything like that in my past life. Though maybe I just didn't really care about it so I never heard of it. Maybe it doesn't affect Cassau at all at the time. Or that you are too tough on everyone after Marie fallen sick so no one dares to pick a fight against you."
I said that to Albert when he asked me if there was any coup at all in my past life.
But seriously, a coup when the cult is not destroyed completely? The nobles who think of that must be living a peaceful lives without ever getting directly involved with the war. So when there's no battle at all, they think that we're just being paranoid after the cult is gone.
But no. The cult isn't gone yet. So why do they plan a coup? What part of this kingdom that dissatisfied them so much that they even think about it?
"Actually, some of them didn't really want to do it. So they contacted me in secret. You know, we haven't really spread the phones to everyone. So they send letters via messenger birds. But if we spread the phones, then those people who is planning for the coup will even ask someone far away for support. So it's good that we don't spread it yet," Albert said.
Yeah. Phone is the most dangerous invention ever created. We already learned how amazing long distance communication when we used Sonia as our messengers before. But with phones, it's much easier. And it's much dangerous since people can talk with each other no matter how far they are.
So if they learned our weakness, they can report it to someone in an instant. That's what we don't want. So we haven't spread the use of the phone yet.
"Because of that, if we made a show that Shirley has reached master level, I'm sure that there won't be anyone who dares thinking of planning a coup if they don't have a master level mage with them. Though I'm worried that there will be many people asking me to let them marry Shirley. But that's okay. I'll just say that she's too strong for me and I can't force her to do what I say. Or we will lose our strongest guardian," Albert said.
Oh, that's right. I think Shirley is still single. I'm sure there will be many people who wants her hand in marriage.
Well, that doesn't matter to me. Shirley can pick any partner she wants. And those who were planning for the coup will have no choice but to forget everything. Because Shirley is too strong.
Though she's not the strongest yet. I think she's almost equal in strength with Wendy. But well, both of them are loyal to Tatrama. So if people learned that someone else reached master level, there will only be fear in their eyes.
'What coup? I never heard of it,' Is probably what they all will say when asked. Pretending to not know.
The parade started. It's just around the royal capital and back to the palace.
I'm sure no one believed that Shirley reached master level. But she showed some magic that normal expert level mages can't do. And that's enough for everyone to believe.
As for me, I was assigned as a hidden bodyguard among the masses. Finding someone who tries to harm Albert and the others, then kill them and take them away to somewhere without anyone noticing.
As for Shirley, even if someone is targeting her lives, as long as they are not master level mages, they can't do anything to her.
There are other people helping me. Apparently, there are too many people wanted to harm Albert.
He's riding his horse instead of being in a carriage. I guess to show how amazing his horse look.
And not just him. The troop under Mustache are all riding horses. And Shirley herself is riding a pegasus. Though she doesn't have her own horse at all. And she doesn't need a pegasus since she can fly. It's just for show.
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After the invention of phones, Mustache got a lot of free time. Because Albert can just contact him or me when he's in danger. So he can sent someone else as Albert's bodyguard while he's improving his troop's strength. The Flamboyant Mustache troop.
Well, maybe that's not the real name. But I don't care.
There are many people who asked to test Shirley's strength. But they stopped after hearing that Shirley will accept challenges from anyone in the next few days. They can test Shirley's strength there.
But that doesn't mean there won't be anyone else trying to harm the others. I even had to kill fifteen people already in the span of thirty minutes. Whether they are from the cult, or someone who used to plan the coup, or even someone else entirely, I just kill them.
And beside me is Veronica who is also taking the job.
"Hey, I thought that it would be either you or Celestine who reached master level first knowing that you were already expert level mages when we met," I said to Veronica.
"Well, Celestine is busy, I guess. And after reuniting with Lynn, I guess they have a lot to talk about to catch up with each other. Then she's busy since she's the Empress' sister. As for me, I'm just lazier than others," Veronica said.
"No, you're not lazy. When I see you in your room, I can tell that you're cultivating. There must be a reason why you haven't reached master level yet," I said.
She said that she's lazy. But she's the most hardworking. At least in meditating.
"Maybe I need real life experience first. I have to fight more. Though I don't really care about getting stronger. I enjoyed my life now that I'm out of the cult. But if there's a fight, I will still help," Veronica said.
"You don't have to join the fight if you don't want to," I said.
"No, I'll fight. I just don't care about getting stronger. Especially since everyone is slowly becoming stronger than me even though I was one of the first expert level mages who joined you. I'm just happy about it."
If that's what Wendy thinks, then it's fine. Maybe she's meditating not to improve her strength. Even though I often watched her doing it, it doesn't mean that she always do it. Maybe I only caught her doing it when I'm at home. And I always go out too often.
It's a shame that one of the potentially strongest wind mage refused to get stronger. But that's fine. That's what she decided.
"Okay. But if you decided to breakthrough to master level, then call me. I'll protect you," I said.
"I'm sure you will. If there's no other suspicious people, then bring me home already," Veronica said.
If she doesn't want to be here, then why is she here? She has saved a lot of money just by taking requests as a Hunter. So she doesn't really need money. But she's stil taking this job of protecting everyone during the parade.
It looks like she's just bored staying in her room or playing with the orphans all the time. So she took a time off here. And she got bored here already.
From all the people in the group, she's the one I don't really get. But if she says she's okay, then that's fine with me.
835 One Week Prep Time
The parade is over. Many people were either killed or arrested. Though most who died was because I killed them. There's no need to fill the prison with so many people after all.
I'm still a good citizen who pays taxes. Especially since my business grows so big, I pay a huge amount of taxes. Although I let someone in charge of my business, I still pay taxes. And I don't want my money to be used to let those criminals live.
Though the real reason is that no one can stop me if I want to kill someone. And unless the targets are already designated to be arrested and not to be killed, I will kill them. So they have to discuss with me first if there's anyone I shouldn't kill.
"I'm sure that there will be someone from the cult watching and escaped. The cult will be informed of Shirley reaching master level. Maybe they will even attack Tatrama right away. But that's good. We have prepared a lot of things. It's also thanks to Roy's and Ray's help in getting a lot of horse monsters for everyone. The things we could do is done faster thanks to those horses," Albert said.
It's the day after the parade. And we're having a meeting with everyone in the alliance.
"Must be nice to be the hometown of Roy. You received a lot of help and advise from him earlier than the rest. So the three people from Tatrama can reach master level firstt," Harold said. He didn't even hide his jealousy.
He's no longer a king. But his advise is still received well here. Despite being a womanizer, he's still a decent king with a lot of experience.
As for his son, the King of Arturo, Fabio, he's here as well. He's the king now, but sometimes, it feels like Harold is still the king. I guess Fabio is not completely there yet.
"Also, there are more wind mages in Tatrama than other kingdoms. So it's normal that they can grow so quickly since they have the wind spirit with them. And the Rygis country is so close to them. it's a country close to a spot where the wind gathers, so their cultivation is much faster there," old man Henry added.
.....
"Yeah. But we can't only have master level wind mages. The cult will notice that there must be something in Tatrama that is good for wind mages' cultivation. Though maybe that will be their reason to attack us the next time," Albert said.
Other than wind spirit, we also have air spirit. But there are so few air element mages we can trust.
I asked an air mage in the circus if she wanted to have Airy with her. But she refused saying that it's best if I could reach master level in air element first.
But the thing is, I don't have any talent in it. None at all that I didn't even have that element in my past life. Even if I have it now, it's not like I will suddenly have a talent in it.
So, the chance of me reaching master level is much lower than any other air mages in the world. But that air mage told me that it's fine. Because if I ended up reaching master level, that will help everyone more than if it's any other air mage reaching master level.
Though for Sara, she's so talented in it that it's fine for her to bring Airy everywhere. She ended up being labeled as a Sweet-Loving Noble though.
I also know an earth spirit. But to get his cooperation, we need to conquer that island along with the surrounding islands.
Maybe that's why we're here. We have received enough report on those islands to attack them.
"Thankfully, we learned where we can get the earth spirit's cooperation. And it's a good time as well because we learned almost everything we can from the agents we sent to those islands. We will attack in a week time. That should be enough time to prepare. Everyone except for the bare minimum enough to protect their kingdom will be sent. Though for Tatrama, they won't send their army as they are volunteering to be the bait. That's the whole reason for the parade," old man Henry said.
It's not his son, but old man Henry himself. I thought that he's only focusing in cultivating now. But I guess that's not the case. He's still has enough time to take care of other things that his son can't handle yet.
Since the location is closer to Varadis than any other countries, he will be in charge. Though for the general in the field, it will be Sunglasses.
He might be our recent recruit. But he has shown his leadership. So I think everyone is already accepting him as the general.
The meeting is over. We will attack those islands soon. When the cult is focusing on attacking Tatrama thanks to the parade. They will send their strongest mages to kill just one person, Shirley.
But that won't happen. Because Angela will be protecting her. And it's not just Angela. There are many more expert level mages who are as strong as most of the cult's master level mages.
There might be some casualties, but we will win.
It's good that Shirley announced that she will take some time off for a break in a villa owned by the royalty somewhere quiet. So the cult will focus on going there instead. And of course Albert will still have enough people to protect him and other cities.
"Then, I will go check on the earth spirit. I asked him to tell me if there's anything new from the cult's movement or the dragons," I said after the meeting is over.
With the earth spirit's help, we might learn something that the other agents didn't learn.
"Ah, Roy. I'm coming with you. It might just be a week, but staying near the earth spirit is good enough to improve my cultivation. I don't think I can reach master level yet, but any improvement before the big fight is good enough," Kayla said.
The other earth mages also agreed to follow me. Angela, Celestine, and Sara. I think five people is enough. Because it will be in that cramped space I dug from the sea.
And I need to come as well since it's a closed space. Or they won't be able to breath.
Since Sara is coming, I think I'll use that chance to cultivate my air element as well because Airy will be there.
Hmm... is five people enough in that space? If not, then I'll just dig up some more.
So, we first go to Monsters Village to tell the monsters that we're going to fight. And this will be the first time that the centaurs and weretigers will join the war. This will also be the first time the elves will join the battle directly instead of just preparing potions for us.
That means I have to bring Sunny to improve the elves' morale.
They have gotten so good that they are no longer the cowardly elves anymore. Just by learning how to use archery in battle already improved their confidence so much.
For them, we will dispatch them to the island with thick forest. The centaurs as well.
When I asked the centaurs if they can fight against mages, they told me to send a mage to fight them. So I had Candy to fight them.
The result? Any offensive magic that hit them will only have less than half the efficiency than when it's used against any other opponents.
"We have high resistance against any type of offensive magic. There will still be pain, but it's not something we can't endure. Though your friend was too strong for us. I think anyone stronger than her will be impossible for us to fight," the centaur said.
Even Candy's lightning magic is the strongest offensive magic among any other magic that the expert level mages can use. Which mean that they can even endure the attack from the weaker master level mages from the cult.
...All the monsters who are helping us are crazy. I love them!
Each have their own specialty. Though the werewolves and the weretigers are quite similar. But who can refuse the help of strong helpers?
After I told them to prepare, I told Graham and Shelia to kill as many monsters as they can in the next five days. And the other days will be for resting before the battle. Though I don't think Shelia will rest just because I told her to. So I just tell her to just some light sparring with fellow monsters with angels watching them.
After that, I bring Kayla, Angela, Celestine, and Sara right into the space underground where I last met the earth spirit.
"...it's cramped as expected," I said.
"Shall I make the space bigger then?" Celestine asked.
"No, I'll dig a tunnel myself. If you use earth magic, someone will notice. Even using a portal is dangerous as it is," I said.
And so, I dug some tunnel and threw the dirt away using portal before the earth spirit greeted us.
836 Should I Try Fighting Without Magic
"Hey, you're here! Are you going to attack right now?"
While I was digging to make the place bigger for everyone to sit on, the earth spirit came and greeted us. He noticed us appearing here, but he told the earth dragon first before he came here.
"We're planning to do it in about one week. So, these girls have something to ask you before the fight," I said.
The ones who needed the earth spirit's help the most are the girls. So they will be the one asking him for help.
"Earth spirit. With only one week to attack, we would like to grow stronger no matter how little improvement we make. So please let us cultivate in your presence. Reaching master level will be difficult in a week, but at least we can get a bit stronger before the fight," Kayla asked the earth spirit for a favor.
With everyone here other than me are earth mages, they will cultivate here and get stronger before they can fight. We can only do it now because everyone is preparing to attack the islands here. And after we get the job done, only then we can get the earth mages to freely cultivate here.
Before this, if somehow they noticed that we're here, the cult would either try to escape, which is not likely, or try to find us and kill us. But if we do it now, with only one week left before the fight, then even if they find us and trying to kill us, we can go wild.
This one week is not because we need that long preparation before the fight. It's just mean that we are already prepared to fight from the week before the scheduled time. So even if they are looking for us here underground cultivating to improve our magic, we can also get everyone here to fight right away.
This one week is for everyone to improve their strength no matter how little it is. Because other preparations such as food, water, and other supplies, can just be taken into a warehouse where I will then open portals to get them.
.....
I'm used as a courier. But that's fine.
"One week... I don't think any of you can reach master level in that short span of time. But if I can help just by being here, then I will gladly help. And you guys will be the one to fulfill the wish of the dragons. For them to die before they lose their mind. I'll do anything to help my friends!" the earth spirit said.
"That's great! Though for the dragons, it will be Roy 's job to kill them. He can finish the job faster than the others with his portal. And he's probably the only one who can kill them painlessly," Kayla said.
Right. According to the meeting, I will be the one killing the dragons. Though I think their clones will be a bit troublesome to face since they are too many. But I can escape right away.
Once I kill the Dragon Kings, their clones won't have anyone to obey and they will fight and even kill anyone in sight. Maybe they can help us a little by killing the members of the cult nearby.
I will use a portal to go to where those Dragon Kings are. They had been given a Blobby for me to go there when I first came here. Then, I will also open a portal to get the monsters to come here. The monsters will be split into four groups. The same number as the Dragon Kings. And each group will be taken to each Dragon King's location.
They won't fight the Dragon King. They will fight whatever it is in their way. Either the clones of the dragons, or the mages here.
After I get rid of all the Dragon Kings, I will leave this island and help other islands. Just the monsters are enough to get rid of everything here. And most of the inhabitants of this islands are monsters. The monsters from Monsters Village can fight against monsters better than our mages. So I'm sure they will be fine.
But for the strong monsters like Shelia, Graham, Tiger, and some others, they will help in other islands right away. Facing master level mages.
"Then what about you? You're not an earth mage, right?" the earth spirit asked.
"Since I have the time, I will try to cultivate my air element. Airy is here as well," I said.
Sara can actually just focus more on her air magic. Concentrating fully for the next week in just her air element. But she said that she wanted to improve her earth magic as well. That's why she's here.
Well, for a short term, for her, I think improving her earth magic is a better idea. Because even if she improves her air element in just one week, she won't reach master level. And the gases that she created won't be effective toward master level mages.
But her earth element though, she can still hurt master level mages with it. And if she makes her magic stronger, she can kill master level mages with her earth magic.
It's not like she only used earth magic to create bullets. She can also create other things and attack or even kill master level mages with her earth magic. Making a very small bullet for her gun is just more efficient since compressing air inside the gun didn't waste mana like using earth magic to attack.
By the way, Angela won't be here for the whole week. Probably.
She needed all her four elements to be equal in cultivation. So after cultivating her earth element for a while, she will return her focus on other elements and raise them.
Then hopefully, in a few months, she can reach master level.
It's fine if she's the slowest to reach that stage. Because I'm sure that Angela will be stronger than anyone.
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After making the place comfortable enough, all of us started cultivating. I prepared some snacks in case the others want to take a break while I'm still cultivating.
"Roy, your progress is much slower than Sara," Airy said when I took a break after two days of cultivating.
"Shut up! I know that, okay?" I said.
"I know that you know. I'm just teasing you," Airy said before she flies away to Sara's shoulder.
Sara didn't just focus on her earth element for some reason. She's also cultivating her air element when she has time. I wonder why?
Both Sara and I take turns in creating air in this closed space for everyone to breathe. Using air magic once to fill this place with breathable air, it can stay for around 12 hours.
If we want to, we can use magic to hold on for a few days. But we take turns every 12 hours just in case.
Compressing air is what we can do best. So compressing breathable gas, and make it lighter than the air that we exhaled so that the air we exhale will stay under us is easy. At least for expert level mages like us.
But seriously, I never thought that air have weight in my past life. Thanks to Victoria's random knowledge, or maybe it's not random, we learned a lot.
If only she's some sort of air expert from her world, then I'm sure my air magic will be more powerful than it is. But this much is already way too good for us who lacked the knowledge about air in this world. So I'm already thankful to her as it is.
By the way, she's with Ray right now. Hunting monsters in Monsters World so that I can breakthrough to master level in my summoning element. Though I need to wrestle some monsters if I want to get there.
Maybe I'll try it in this situation. I'll kill the three Dragon Kings first, then kill the earth Dragon King last. And I will not use Aura or magic when I fight him. Probably just a weapon. Maybe a spear. Or even unarmed. And I will try to kill the Earth Dragon King.
Though I promised him that I will kill him painlessly. Well, I'll ask the earth spirit to relay a message to the Earth Dragon King and see if he's willing to let me test my strength against him. He will be in a lot of pain, but I hope he will agree to help me get stronger.
After a while, the earth spirit returned.
"He said that if you think you can beat him, then that's fine. But don't expect that he will hold himself back. Good luck in killing him," the earth spirit said.
Well, now I have to figure out how to kill a dragon without magic and Aura. A fucking Earth Dragon King. Even at his weakened state, he must be much stronger than ordinary dragon.
Well, I'll think about it later. I need to tell Albert first that I won't be able to help other islands at that time then.
Maybe I should help other islands first before I kill the Dragon Kings. I'll ask the kings and Sunglasses about their opinions. Then I will move according to their plan.
837 It's Time
"Roy, tomorrow is the day. Let's go home today to rest," Kayla suggested.
It has been six days since we started cultivating here under the ground with the presence of the earth spirit. And tomorrow is already the day that we're going to fight these islands at the same time.
"Is there any news?" I asked.
"There were some movement to the royal capital in Tatrama. But since Wendy is already a master level mage, she took care of them all. None of them were stronger than her alone. Even without her, the others can protect everyone there," Kayla said.
As expected, they took the bait. Seeing that Shirley reached master level, and we didn't even hide that fact, it's obvious that the cult will go after her.
Though if she could just cultivate within Tatrama's territory, then everyone nearby would be able to notice. But that's still dangerous, so even she had to breakthrough on Andro's back.
If she do that there, I think it will be easier for the cult to come out since we just need to protect Shelia. But Shelia rejected that idea when we suggested it to her. She doesn't want anyone to get involved in that. Because the cult could even take innocent people as hostages.
Well, they can still do that now. But at least Shirley can do something about it.
In the end, we didn't bait the cult with her breaking through to master level because of her desire to protect the people. But that's fine. It's not like I have better strategy to use.
.....
I'm sure that when they are trying to assassinate Shirley, they would never imagine that they would be killed by another master level mage. Or even killed by an expert level mage. Because Angela was also protecting her.
Shirley, Kron, Wendy, and several other master level mages who have decent magic control, are all already capable of defeating most master level mages from the cult. Even if they are at the level of the Barbarian King that Angela defeated, I'm sure they can handle it.
...Does that mean Angela is already stronger than our master level mages?
Well, after Angela had some sparring sessions with Kron and Wendy, though I didn't witness it myself, they said that Angela is already beyond them in magic. Though for wind magic, she's just losing a bit. But her other elements helped her boost her strength.
So, I guess Kron and Wendy had never been our strongest mages at all since Angela is already that strong.
By the way, Angela left two days ago after saying that she had enough cultivating earth element. She's going to cultivate her other element to make sure everything is balanced. If she's too unbalanced, her magic won't be as strong as it is. It will grow weak instead. And she wanted to avoid that.
"There should be movement in those islands as well. Any news regarding that?" I asked Kayla.
"None of the agents noticed anything suspicious at all. Though they noticed that some people leaving those islands. And the closest place to go from there is Varadis. So Tatrama should still be safe," Kayla said.
Yeah. Varadis in the north and Tatrama in the south. There's no need for someone from an island up north of Varadis to go all the way to Tatrama.
But this also mean that there's still another place near Tatrama where the cult is making their base.
What a pain. I hope they won't plan any big movement anytime soon. We still have islands to conquer.
I looked around and see that Celestine and Sara are done with their cultivation for the day so I opened a portal for us to go home.
"Earth spirit, we'll be leaving now. We will return tomorrow and proceed with our plan," I said to the earth spirit.
"Okay. I wish you the best."
We return back to Cassau for rest. Though I didn't rest.
I move around the continent using portal and gather each country's army in several designated location. Some of them were from small kingdoms, so I hope they can get along with other kingdoms.
Except for our usual group in Cassau, those armies are waiting in a base prepared in Varadis. Since it is the closest place to the destination.
And the next morning, everyone is ready.
"I'll go there first with the monsters. After I killed the three Dragon Kings, and send the monsters, I will transport everyone else to the other two islands before I go back to fight the Earth Dragon King by myself," I said.
There are three main islands that we're going to attack. With some other smaller islands around them.
The monsters and I will take care of the islands with the monsters and their clones. Then the other two islands will be for the others. I just need to open a portal and say that this portal goes where so those who are designated to that island will enter it.
First, I move to Monsters Village. There are already separated into four group of mixed races. They don't really need to go with one race go together. They are already getting along well with each other.
"First group, come with me. Graham will go to the castle island later, and Shelia will go to the other island," I said.
"Why can't I go to that castle island? From how you call it, that's where the strongest enemies are, right?" Shelia complained.
"Because our strongest force will go there as well. You want to get rid a lot of them on your own, right? So you will have to move separately."
She's easily convinced. So easy.
If Shelia can't fight the strongest enemy, then she just need to face the most enemies.
"What about me? You don't trust us because we're new?"
This time, Tiger, the representative of the weretigers complained.
"You have been cooperating with us humans just a few times. I'm sure not all of you already adapted to how we fight. So it's best for now to get you all fighting together in an island first," I said.
"It's just purple cloth, right? We can differentiate that much," Tiger still complained.
"...The enemies are clones of Dragon Kings," I said.
"Let's go everyone!"
So simple. Unlike Shelia who is smart enough to know that any dragons who ended up getting tamed by humans can only mean that humans could be much stronger than expected.
As for Graham, he's calm. He knows that his main job is not to fight, but to heal. Though if needed, he could be a great reinforcement for the others. He doesn't mind going to anywhere he's assigned to.
Now that I don't see anyone else complaining, it's time to move.
First is the Fire Dragon King with the first group of monsters.
"As soon as I open a portal, all of you will enter and fight everyone there. Let's go!"
I opened the portal to where the Fire Dragon King is, and as soon as he saw me entered, he raises his neck to let me slash at it cleanly.
This will be the first creature I kill with the sword that the blacksmith created for me. The sword-cane.
I slashed the sword at the dragon's neck and killed him instantly.
"Whoa! This is as good as Victosword at least," I said.
"Huhu, now you know how awesome I am," Victoria said proudly.
"I always know that though."
When I see that all the monsters have entered, I return back to Monsters Village and opened another portal. This time is to the Ice Dragon King.
Like before, this one also prepared for me to kill him. So I killed him. And after everyone entered, while the dragon's clones still not reacting to the death of the original, I left again.
Then the Wind Dragon King. The same as before.
After that, I didn't return to Monsters Village. But I went to the base where everyone is waiting. Including Angela and the others. Even Victoria left with Ray.
I opened several portals at once. Each to where the agents we sent to those places placed with a Blobby. Some places that they won't expect we arrive from.
"Good luck, Roy. I made the plan to not include you during the fight. So you only need to take care of yourself," Sunglasses said to me before he entered the portal last. He's going to the castle island.
Only then I returned back to the Monsters Village. This is the last group. After this, they shouldn't expect me to open a portal to anyone. If it's anything important during my fight with the Earth Dragon King, they need to get Sonia to contact me instead.
This fight with the Earth Dragon King is not just for me to reach master level in my summoning element. I think I will need sometime to reach there. Though maybe if I'm lucky, I can reach that level since my familiars are fighting.
It's just for me to test which level of monster I need to fight if I want to reach master level in the future. If I can defeat the Earth Dragon King, then maybe I need even stronger monster to defeat to reach master level.
If I can't defeat it without Aura or Magic, then I need to defeat someone at that level then.
"Now then, shall we fight?"
838 Legend of Immortality
"Shall we fight?"
I asked the Earth Dragon King after I transported everyone. There are few monsters I brought here, but their job is to take care of the clones of the Earth Dragon King.
Everyone is busy. So no one will help me fight the Earth Dragon King. I can only do it alone.
Not even Victoria is here. Just me, the sword-cane, and Reizpear. But those two weapons are only there just in case. I need to fight the Earth Dragon King barehanded.
Am I crazy? I am.
Who would ever think that it's a good idea to fight an Earth Dragon King without any magic, Aura, and not even a weapon?
Well, there's one. Right here. His name is Roy.
Dear Roy. Can you be a bit smarter?
Well, if I recognize that my physical strength is insufficient to face the Earth Dragon King, then I will give up. I will use Aura or magic right away. Though it will be most likely Aura since my magic won't be enough to kill the Earth Dragon King. Though if it's just for transporting him, I can still do that.
.....
What will I gain by this fight? Just the realization of my own strength. Nothing else. Not even a breakthrough to master level in my summoning element. Though there might be a chance for that to happen.
My own strength, huh?
I know that even without Aura, I'm already stronger than even the master level mages who trained their physical strength for over a hundred years already. But to face a dragon, this might be difficult.
So the only thing I can rely on in this fight will be my own body, my battling sense, and my experience in a fight. Though almost all my experience are related to Aura.
But what if I can still actually use Aura if I want to reach master level? Then breaking through should be easy.
I doubt that it will be easy. Though the only thing I can do now is to improve. And this might be one way for me to improve my summoning element. Or maybe how to fight without either Aura nor magic as well.
"Ready or not, I won't be able to do anything anyway. Thanks to you, the other Dragon Kings are already dead. If I can help with just let you fight me, then feel free to do it. I still have something to ask you before I let myself loose. And once I let myself loose, I won't be able to even think. And I will only move according to my own instinct as a monster in dangerous situation. To kill everything in sight. So I want to ask questions to you first before we fight," the Earth Dragon King said.
"Some questions? Sure," I said.
"I already no longer give the order to my clones to stay still. It's good that your friends can stop them even though they are outnumbered," the Earth Dragon King said.
So the first thing he do is to praise my allies? That's cool. They deserve to be praised by a monster with a king in its name.
"Yeah. They grow stronger after I put various races together in one place. They compete a lot among themselves to prove who is stronger. I personally don't like competition, but I know it's good for some people. Or in this case, monsters," I said.
"I see. Competition, huh? Maybe if I gave the order for everyone to compete, then we won't have to suffer through this," the Earth Dragon King said.
Well, it's too late for that. All of his followers have died. Though I don't know if there are still other Earth Dragon or other dragons exist out there.
I hope that's the case. So that if I could defeat the Earth Dragon King who is strong enough to refuse to do the order given to his master, then it would be great addition if I could reach master level in my summoning. A monster comparable to the Earth Dragon King.
For example, a Lightning Dragon King. That will be so strong.
Or Water Dragon King. I said it once that I wanted a powerful sea creature to be my familiar. Maybe this one is good.
"Well, sorry to hear that. Is there any other questions?" I asked.
"I heard most of it from the earth spirit. So I don't have many questions. Do you think that there will be the King of Humans in the future?" the Earth Dragon King asked.
"No way. That's impossible. At most it will be a king of a territory. Never a King of Humans," I said.
"Then what will you do if there are other people like this cult you're fighting in the future? Someone with the desire to destroy the world and the power to do it without the limit of their own lifespan. What will you do?"
I see. So what he wants to know is what can stop such thing from happening again.
I'd like to say that I will kill them before they grow. But that will be limited by my own lifespan.
It's not like humans are immortal. We will die in the future. No matter how much progress you make as an Aura user or a mage...
Wait! What the fuck?!
"Are you trying to say that there's a way for human to gain immortality?" I asked.
"Imagine the worst. When I heard about you coming from the future, that's the thing that I thought of," the Earth Dragon King said.
The worst? What is it?
Something worst. Something related to destroying the world and reaching immortality?
"...Just like how ee breakthrough by meditating, we can breakthrough from mortality by killing people. And in this case, by destroying the world," I said.
"It's just a guess. But I heard from my grandfather of an ancient story. That humans shouldn't attempt to reach that stage. Because their desires are unlimited," the Earth Dragon King said.
"Wait, no. That's not the worst yet. The worst is that even after reaching that stage, the immortal was the one responsible in destroying the world. He did it for his own desire," I said.
"Oh, right! That's indeed the worst!" the Earth Dragon King agreed with me.
Even after reaching immortality, they will kill everyone instead. Just what kind of person has that much hatred to the world? So much hatred enough to kill everyone?
Alright, he's crazy. If that's what the Evil God is trying to do, then he's crazy.
What if killing Aura users is his way to breakthrough to immortality? Is that the reason he killed all Aura users in the past including Sonia and Victoria?
"Okay, that's enough imagination for the day. Or I won't be able to concentrate fighting you," I said.
"Fine. It got crazier the longer we talk about it. It's just some ancient legend anyway. Anyway, what will you do to stop humans from ever trying to attempt destroying the world again in the future?" the Earth Dragon King asked again.
"Even if I killed those who thought of doing it, it will be limited by my own lifespan. So the only thing we can do is to let those whose lifespans are longer than usual, to watch over the people. That's not for me to think. All I have in my mind is to destroy the cult. Whatever happen in the future, I can't care about it at the moment. I'll just ask someone smarter to think about it," I said.
"I see. So you're cursed with your past."
"That's one way to put it. So, shall we fight now?"
With difficulty, the Earth Dragon King trying to stand up on his legs.
"If I can't regain my own senses until I die, just know that I'm grateful to you."
That's the last words he said before he lost his senses and roared loudly.
"Whoa, this is crazy. He look so strong all of a sudden," I said.
He started attacking everything. Maybe because I won't use Aura or magic, the Earth Dragon King didn't think of me as a danger. So he ignores me.
So, what can I do with my fists and my legs?
The first thing to do is to aim at his weakness. His eyes.
So, I started climbing on his body. From his legs to his back.
Earth Dragon King is the biggest among all Dragon Kings I met. Though still smaller than a Andro. He has wings, but it seems like it's impossible for him to fly. But it's still annoying when his wings are flapping when I'm on his back.
"Climbing without using Aura is difficult. Maybe this is too much."
It took me about one hour to climb all the way to his head. And I already wasted so much stamina.
I overestimated my ability. Without Aura or magic, I'm totally useless.
No wonder I'm a summoner. Because I need some help.
But I'll preserve for now. Because I managed to punch him in the eye before he shook his head and threw me to the ground.
...Now I have to climb again. Though he's now focused more on me who had injured his eyes.
Well, now what?
839 15 Hours Battle
Kill more enemies so that the master can reach master level at the end of his fight.
That's what all four familiars of Roy agreed before the fight.
"Hey. Let's kill a lot of monsters so that Roy can reach master level and add another monster as his familiar."
The one who suggested that idea was Victoria. Roy's first familiar. A Black Slime who was an Aura user in her past life. And in her past life before that, she was an ordinary woman from another world.
She might be teasing Roy a lot with her various knowledge from her original world. But she's someone who has been with him the longest.
She knows Roy's desire to destroy the cult. And she's trying to help him in any way she can.
And one way to do it is for her to kill more enemies. Because that's how a summoner can reach the next level. By letting their familiar to kill enemies.
If the summoner himself can get experience by the enemies he killed, Victoria had no doubt that Roy would have reached master level a long time ago. If the requirement for reaching master level is not about fighting a monster barehanded without magic or Aura.
The other three Roy's familiars agreed. Though for Ray, he's a horse. So no one knows what he's thinking. Except probably for Roy.
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"It's just killing enemies. That's what I have been doing from the start. Monsters or humans, as long as they are enemies, I will kill them all," Shelia said.
She's the strongest werewolf in her tribe. And fighting is what a werewolf desire most. So even if Victoria didn't ask her, she will still do it anyway.
"Then I just need to change my position. Instead of watching our allies to see who is injured and heal them, I will move forward and kill enemies. I will also create a clone so that I can kill more enemies," Graham said.
He's the leader of the angels. Someone who can heal and fight.
Usually, for a big battle, he would go along with the other angels. Healing those who are injured.
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But he won't stay behind and choose to be the one fighting.
All of them are willing to help Roy. This is something that rarely any other summoner or tamer will experience. Their familiars willingly help their master without being ordered.
And when the fight started, the three familiars occasionally contacting each other about their situation. Since Ray is moving with Victoria, there's no need for him to be contacted.
"It has been five hour since the fight started! Have you heard anything from Roy?" Victoria asked the two other monsters.
As a familiar, they should only be able to contact their master via telepathy. But they can actually use telepathy on each other without having to contact their master first.
It's something that no one think it can happen. Because after all, Roy is the first person to reach expert level in his summoning and already have four familiars. The fact that a summoner can make contract with multiple monster is something that was first taught to Roy from Victoria. So not many others, especially from the cult, know about this fact about monsters' telepathy with each other.
Even Roy didn't realize it at first. There were a lot of difficulties every time he reached the next level in his summoning. He had to adapt to those changes.
Victoria is swinging her sword on Ray's back and killed another master level mage. None of them can block a sword. As long as Victoria can reach them, victory is granted.
Those mages only think of Victoria as a Living Armor monster. Once they attacked the armor, the horse will stop. But that's wrong. Because she's not a Living Armor at all. She's a Black Slime.
And she was taught to cut magic by Roy after she can finally use Aura a bit by riding on Ray. So any magic barrier is useless to her. Though she still can't use the long-range slash that Roy can do.
She didn't hear any positive reply from Shelia or Graham. None of them were notified by Roy about the result. And they know their contract with him still exist, so at least they know that he is still safe and probably still fighting the Dragon King.
Victoria then focused back to her own battle.
"That's make it thirty. I'm sure Shelia had killed more enemies. Thanks to Sunglasses with this plan to let us kill as many enemies as we can," Victoria said to herself.
Sunglasses is what they call Rudy. The blind strategist. Thanks to Roy's terrible memory in remembering most people's name, no matter how common that name is, he just gave Rudy the nickname Sunglasses because of the sunglasses he wears. And Rudy just accepted it.
Rudy agreed with Victoria because he knows that the stronger Roy is, the more chance they can win against the cult. Because everything started from Roy. And he's the strongest key member of the alliance. Even though he rarely involved himself with the meeting between alliance. Except for transporting the people to the meeting. He's the only one they can ask for transportation after all.
"Victoria. Without Roy, we don't know if we have cleaned everything here or not. Have you asked him about the fight?" Kayla asked Victoria. She's riding on a pegasus next to Victoria and Ray.
"No news yet. I guess he's still okay. Let's just make sure that we find everything before he finished his fight," Victoria said.
"I see. We're going underground after we cleared everything here. I'm sure some of them have escaped already. But we have no other choice. Even if Roy is here, it seems to be impossible for us to get rid of everyone before someone escape," Kayla said.
There are many paths leading down to some kind of underground base in the island castle. And some of the agents have entered the underground base in secrecy to investigate there.
What's under there was a research lab for cloning, and also for improving monsters. There are also some artificial master level mages. But they are no longer a problem for anyone who joined the battle.
Except the children. They are still young so no one can really go and kill them. But that's just make them hate the cult more.
"Alright then. If the enemies are too strong, just escape first. You can fight them again later in a more favorable condition. Though it's best if they are strong and you get them out here for me to kill. Maybe that will help Roy reach master level sooner," Victoria said.
"It's not like that's an easy task. Maybe I'll get Graham or Shelia down there with me," Kayla suggested.
"The island Shelia is in surprisingly has a lot of enemies. So take Graham with you. If it's him, when he sees the lab, he will only get angrier and will kill all the enemies," Victoria said.
And so, Kayla, Graham, and other members of the alliance who are free enough to move, entered the underground base.
As expected, Graham started to move on his own and kill all the researchers there. Even if they are just weaklings, if they are involved with the research to make monsters become stronger, they will be killed by Graham. Because of what happened to his sister.
It took them more than 15 hours until they can get rid of all the enemies. With Shelia, Graham, and Victoria kill the most enemies.
"You're just a monster!"
The one who shouted was the one who died last as he got killed by Victoria's sword. He's a master level mage. And he's also the strongest master level mage in the whole three islands.
Victoria needed a lot of help just to bring that guy down. But she finally did it and gave the last attack.
"I hope this will be enough for Roy to reach master level. Now what? We can't just leave because Roy is still busy," Victoria asked Rudy.
"Well... I never thought that he will take so much time just to fight one enemy. I guess we will just wait here until he's done with his fight. After all, we can't really go home on our own," Rudy said.
There are many casualties in this battle. Much more than Rudy expected. So he asked the others to bring the body of their friends so they can be buried.
"Well, then I will go to where Roy is and see how it goes with him. I'll tell Shelia and Graham to check the surrounding islands. If there are still enemies, they will kill them," Victoria said.
"Bring some mage riders with them. Just in case the enemies are trying to escape. They will let Graham and Shelia to give the last hit," Rudy said.
"Well, I don't think Shelia will like it. Just tell them to move on their own instead," Victoria said before she left to look for Roy.
And so, after more than 15 hours, the battle is over. Everyone is tired. But Roy's battle is not over yet.
840 Serpent Family's Battle
One day before the fight, there's already a group near the battlefield already. It's Spot and his five children.
"Are you sure you're going now? If that's the case, then none of us will be able to help you," Roy said to Spot.
Spot asked Roy to be brought to the ocean near the islands one day before the fight. And before the scheduled time to fight, he and his children will bring the Kraken away from there.
Kraken. The size is much bigger that just one tentacle of his, is longer than Spot's original size which already reached over a hundred meters.
Spot already promised that he and his children will be the one taking care of the Kraken. They will take the Kraken away far from any of those islands and fight him with the intent to kill.
"It's best to take him away from the battlefield. We will fight in another location so that our fight won't accidentally kill you," Spot said to Roy.
"Alright. Then, take care of yourself. Also, I will be too busy during the fight. So I won't be able to help you at all," Roy said.
"You mean you're going to fight the Earth Dragon King alone? I thought that it would be easy for you. Just one hit and you will win. Until I heard that you won't fight using magic, Aura, weapons, or any other support from other people. That's just crazy," Spot said.
"I know. I need to be crazy to get stronger. Well, maybe I don't need to. But this might be important for my future," Roy said.
.....
"If that's what you think. Then, you can return. We will prepare to fight the Kraken now," Spot said.
Roy then left using his portal as Spot and his children dive deep underwater to discuss about their plan.
Like Roy, they won't care about the other battle. They won't be able to help the army fight on any of the islands. Because while Roy is fighting against the Earth Dragon King, Spot and his children will fight a Kraken. A giant squid monster that could be much stronger than any Dragon King.
Even if Roy is the one fighting the Kraken, without any handicap and he's allowed to use magic and Aura, the chance for him to win is not high at all. But Spot and his children have the confidence to say that they're going to win.
The next day, early in the morning when it's still dark, Spot made his move.
"Wait here. I will bring that Kraken here. This is where we will fight him. Do as planned," Spot said.
The day before, he and his children were busy taking care of the monsters in the surrounding area. So that no one will bother their fight at all.
The six serpents either scare those monsters away or kill them. Making sure that no one will bother with their battle.
The area they will fight has been cleared for any kind of monsters within 20km range. And they made sure that it's not a place for any kind of monster's nest to be. Because if that's the case, then during the fight, some monsters will appear to return back to their nest and could in a way bother the fight.
Spot then swum very fast to where the Kraken is. To make sure that he can get there before the others arrive at the island.
Then even though there's nothing in front of him, Spot stopped.
He looked around and noticed that he's already near the Kraken's teritorry. Because no other monsters dared to go near there.
"Kraken! Come out and let's play!" Spot shouted to call the Kraken.
Not five seconds later, Spot can already see a tentacle is approaching him. A tentacle longer than his own length.
"You're alone? And you wish to fight me? Is that bravery or stupidity?" the tentacle asked.
"I won't be alone. I will bring you to where my children are waiting. Let's go!"
"Ah, so you have chosen the battlefield. Fine, I'll play with you. It wasn't that long since we last play, so I wonder what will change?"
The Kraken then followed Spot to where his children are waiting.
Spot was very fast under the sea. But the Kraken didn't lose his speed at all. In fact, if the Kraken is serious, he could be faster than Spot at full speed. At least under the sea.
The two giant creature swim very fast. And all the other monsters within their sight were busy escaping from the sheer presenve of the Kraken alone. That shows how scary the Kraken is.
And as they reached the destination, Spot didn't stop. The Kraken also didn't notice that he's already there.
And all of a sudden, Spot turned around and used his breath attack on the Kraken.
It might be underwater, but for a sea monster to attack using their breath, it was as if the water pressure is never a problem for them at all.
The tentacle avoided the breath attack, but the real body of the tentacle, the squid body, couldn't dodge it even though the Kraken can see that attack. So the body of the Kraken received a direct hit from Spot's breath attack. But it didn't injure him at all.
"Is this how you will fight? Using a surprise attacke? Wait, what?! AAAARGH!!"
While the Kraken was feeling confident that he could still win, Spot's children appeared from five different location. And each of them started attacking the Kraken with their breath attack.
Their breath attack might be weaker than their father's breath attack. But they are still powerful creatures who have lived for centuries. They could be said as the strongest sea creatures below Spot and the Kraken.
Spot's children released succesive breath attack. And they didn't direct their breath attack to the Kraken's main body. Because they know that it won't work at all.
But in their last battle, they learned one of the Kraken's weakness. It's the root of his tentacles.
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The place where his tentacle connected to his body is weak. And at that time, the Kraken even tried to protect that place even though their other attacks were deemed useless on his body.
Spot's children's attack hit the base of the tentacles. And the Kraken's tentacles were ripped off of his body.
Now the Kraken only have two tentacles left. They are stronger than the other tentacles. And that's why these two tentacles were unable to be removed even after Spot helped his children.
"As expected, it won't be so easy," Spot said calmly.
The plan was to remove all of the Kraken's tentacles. Because that will make the Kraken unable to move as he wished. But there are still two more tentacles left.
Though they need to hurry. Because the Kraken can still regenerate his lost limbs.
"You fucking bastards! How dare you do this!"
The Kraken was so angry. And Spot knows that he won't go down so easily.
"It's called strategy. I learned it from the humans I've been around with lately. He's not my master, but he's a good friend," Spot said.
"Humans again! Why does everything has to be related to a human! They asked me to destroy things! They tried to kill me! And now, they had you attack me?! Don't think that I will go down easily!"
Using his magic to increase his regeneration ability, the Kraken regenerate a few of his tentacles right away. So now he has ten.
The fight continues for much longer. And Spot and his children slowly and carefuly baited the Kraken to go to the surface.
When they reached the surface, Spot and his children flew to the sky and attacked the Kraken from a safe distance.
"Come down here and fight for real! Are you a coward?!" the Kraken shouted.
"I used to be what you call prideful monsters. If it's in the past, I would even fight you even if I have to die. But now, I won't. I have a goal. Which is to help my friend to destroy the cult. The people you were involved with. They are also the one responsible in killing my original master a thousand years ago. And I will avenge my master!" Spot shouted.
From the sky, Spot and his children attacked the Kraken. Thanks to their new ability to fly, Spot's children can dodge the Kraken's attack easily. They also trained to get used to his father's speed, so they can dodge the Kraken's tentacles.
While they are fighting, the Kraken didn't notice that two of Spot's children has dived deep into the sea. He only realized it after the two sea serpents bit off his tentacles and remove them before they shoot a breath attack directly into his wound.
This happened several times before finally, the Kraken no longer have magic to regenerate his tentacles.
The Kraken finally no longer have the will to fight. He pledged for his life to Spot and his children. But Spot won't let him live.
And it was the same time that Graham was above them. It took them so long that the battle on the islands have been over for a while, so Graham was asked by Victoria to check on the serpent family.
"Graham, kill this one. Maybe this will help Roy reach master level," Spot said.
And to Roy's surprise, that was indeed the case.