What just happened !!.
Quite impressive .
Whatever that was happening on the battlefield it was enough to gain the attention of the crown prince and the acknowledgment of the entity beside him .
He had really exceeded my expectations of him and now i'm quite sure of how strong was he ?.
The crown prince was still in shock of what he just witnessed and didn't utter a single word , the entity continued to say :
He is a lot stronger than i expected, he could easily pass as a Ruler and an elite one at that , no he is a variable to our plan and i believe that he won't be easy to persuade , especially not after that stunt you recently pulled off on him .
But that sole remark about his speculated strength awoke him from his shocked state and again returned to his hysterical state as he opened his mouth wide and had a bulged eyes , with a quite lost expression on all of his face , but he calmed down after the entity said :
Remember what i told you about how could he have gotten this much strength, the feasibility of my second guess being correct is now 80 percent , i believe you understand what this mean .
These words were enough to uplift the spirit of the crown prince as he took a breath of relief and continued to listen to what the entity still have to say, it continued to say :
Since he made it quite clear in the massage he sent you that he doesn't want anything to do with you and i guess he really had some capital to threaten you the kingdom's crown prince , if you ever touched one of his so called acquaintance , we will have to began planning for a countermeasures to use against him, if he ever decided to meddle in our plans .
He puffed his chest up for some reason and said in a tone that beamed with confidence : What are your orders ? .
Currently our only choice is to banish him forcefully from the kingdom and that could buy us enough time to finish the task at hand and after that my brother will be free to take care of that guy .
Where can we banish him to and how, with his strength it will be impossible to push him through a portal especially when he won't allow me to even get close to him and i have no doubt that the moment i come close to him, he will attack me without a second thoughts .
At least you are still aware of your shortcomings, you are right about it being difficult to push him through a teleportation portal, but who said anything about using one , you will use this Space Banishing Scroll .
With that said the entity conjured a black paper scroll that kept appearing and disappearing as if distorting the space around it and make it float around towards the hands of the crown prince that flinched when the paper was coming towards him .
Don't worry it won't any effect as long as it's not activated, put it in your ring and at the right moment i will give you the signal to activate it and then you will leave the rest to me , take it .
He gritted his teeth and took it begrudgingly thinking about the many times the entity played tricks on him using similar items , those incidents all end with him suffering but luckily for him nothing happened after he caught the scroll paper, he then stored the paper in his stortage ring and turned to look at the entity and asked her a question that was currently on his mind .
I hope your excellency won't take any offense in me asking this, why can't you just take care of him in person .
The entity remained silent for a second or two and stared at the sky above and said in a more serious tone not like her usual playful one :
I'mnot as strong as my older brother to be able to directly go against the Shard's Will, so if my intervene was to be noticed by it, it will probably identify me as a threat and will relentlessly try to find and nullify me , but i'm more than capable of killing you in a whim .
The crown prince began to shudder as he hurriedly bowed down and said :
I was just asking, i have no other intentions i can make an oath, i'm really sorry if my question offended your excellency .
Rise, i can't use much strength yes, but at the critical moment i will interfere and do my part, don't you worry but that female friend of his will need to be put under surveillance since she could become quite useful to deal with him in the future .
Boooooom .
( End of the Pov ) ( Back to the main point of view ) .
I was beginning to get a bit irritated at the doubting attitude of some of the people in front of me and what made it even worst was me recognizing that a bunch of them released a malicious intent at me some minutes before, just as i was about to berate them openly for it a loud ~swoosh~ sound forced me to look at its whereabouts .
A huge boulder was now heading quickly in my direction and the air whistling came to be from the huge impact that the said boulder had on the air .
I have no doubt about surviving this, but if that boulder was to hit me, it will deal a devastating damages to almost everyone in the vicinity and i kinda like the timing of such an attack since if used effectively it could lead to consolidate my position and authority in each and everyone here .
Add to that, it being a greeting gift from an acquaintance forced me to carefully and tenderly consider how to deal with it .
In the end i didn't find that boulder to my liking and decided that i should probably give it back to him , i took action instantly and silently sprinted in the direction of the boulder and stopped it in its tracks with quite ease and in contrast of its huge size .
I launched it into the air and took off right after it with an astonishing speed and long jump and directly appeared behind the boulder and i took an enough aim and punched the boulder with enough strength to launch it back at the overgrown and enraged Goblin Lord Javo all this took merely a second .
The boulder went towards Javo in a straight line and a sudden barrier appeared in front of his body as if wanting to protect him, but the moment that the cannonball like boulder made contact with the barrier, the collision between the two ended in a fraction of second, something that was probably only noticable to me.
The barrier broke down and the huge boulder directly smashed into his face just as he was going to finish saying Humaaann, die , just as he momentarily finished saying this, he ate the whole boulder to his face knocking him out cold, he was now laying down on the ground , i guess we shared a very brief but worthwhile moment here with each other , right ? .
He was now asleep so i guess it was only me who was feeling that way, he is lucky that the barrier that just appeared absorbed some of the kinetic energy of the boulder or something like that otherwise that shot just now could have at least obliterated his head completely not only knocking him out .
I was beginning to fall back down but before i get back on the ground , i saw two scenes that gave me quite the shock .
The first was the existence of another monsters army in the far distance that even consist of even more monsters than the one that the Goblin Lord was in leading of but the one leading this army was no where to be found, there was a weird flying dark blue palanquin that was omitting some repulsive aura, even from this far distance i was able to feel it , so i guessed that this has to be the aura of the leader .
The second thing that almost had me crashing into the ground in a more accelerated way was the scene of those sorceress that i recently saw before .
But weirdly those guys were standing behind the swarms of monsters in a weird ritual circle and they were all seated in different directions at the edges of the red ritual circle inscribing something in the air with their hands .
I was finally able to land but i was still immersed in the second scene that i just saw and was unaware of the frantic eyes that was currently staring at me as if i'm some kind of a celebrity .
Why were those Royal Sorcerers there and not inside the city in the first place and what exactly was that ritual for, and were they with us or actually against us .
What did you just do ? .
The old man Larn suddenly came to me and asked with a shaking voice, awaking me from my momentarily detached moment and give me a weird look , i was a bit unfocused so i didn't got what he meant by that so i asked in a confused manner :
What did i do ? .
You one shot that colossal Goblin just now, what do you mean by asking such a stupid question, don't you understand how strong was the stunt that you just pulled off .
I just did what i have to, don't mention it , and why were they looking at me like that .
Larn Pron :
How do you want them to react, it wasn't like they saw someone capable of achieving such a feat every day .
It's a bit uncomfortable tell them to stop .
He then came closer to me and whispered in my ear :
You shouldn't waste such an opportunity to show and consolidate your dominion and authority in their hearts even more .
Without him reminding me about it , i might've have already forgot about why i made such a scene in the first place .
I cleared my throat and looked at the incredulous looks on the surrounding people faces and said :
I believe you already know what is best for you , now do you have any objections .
The guys that were making a scene earlier stood there speechless but their gazes still had some undisguised hostility in them even after seeing what i just did, but as for the rest of the people in the vicinity, their faces began to actually lighten up a bit and the dispirited state the they were in from before began to clear up , but suddenly one of those guys said :
What will we get if we followed you, heck you could be even a very high ranking Adventurer that was sent to trick us into sacrificing ourselves and at the critical moment you will abandon us and leave us to our doom .
Some people in the crowd began to join him in favor of the argument he just declared, most of them were those malicious guys from before but they were beginning to lure other adventurers into agreeing with them .
So even after what i just did, there were some people that were still doubting me, if i let that huge boulder hit me, almost everyone in the vicinity would have already been dead, and why was he accusing the high ranking Adventurers when he and most of those that supported him were one .
I was becoming a bit impatient since the monsters were now coming in our direction in an even more ferocious way and it was quite noticable from the deafening echos that their movements made and the frequently trembling earth beneath us , i could just silence them all with my fist, but in the end i decided to ask openly , why would they believe that i'm incapable of protecting them .
You are a one person, you can't expect us to believe that a one person will be able to protect all of us on the battlefield, how ridiculous .
I marked those guys who held an uncalled for hostility against me in my mind these guys won't be marked as allies, but his point actually made sense , but i found an answer that could allow me to easily win them all over .
I said :
The monsters for those who felt the shocks are heading towards us just now, so there's no more time for me to try to convince you of following me, hence i'm quite sure to take the whole monsters raid on and fully alone, but i will show you how much help can a one capable guy offer .
With that said i began to head towards the incoming monsters accompanied by Larn and a few adventurers that were moved by my words and i activated Aura Of The Strong and allowed it to stretch in size to cover all the field in it and it was at this moment that the people understood how much help can i offer them .
Rows upon rows of people were beginning to leave line besides me, the desperate mood in the surroundings was completely uplifted and in its place an invigorating determination was beginning to take root, filling those who joined me with strength and more importantly expectations .
Larn : i guess your strength was able to convince most of them , is this great invigorating feeling really your doing , you are brilliant .
I was pleased with these guys reactions and looked at larn and nodded in answer of his question before i asked him if he knew anything about those guys that kept jumping like some clowns circus by saying :
Yeah, i guess so too, but i'm curious why were those high ranking Adventurers here and most importantly why were they so collectively deciding to go against me , i can still see a lot of hostility hidden deep inside their eyes .
Larn then nodded and said : i made some inquiries about their identity when they first confronted you and was able to find out that they were all the employees of Duke Lacron Vorce of the Vorce noble house , you know the man who recently issued a task to find his escapee Beastfolk female slave .
Lacron Vorce !! , so he is the one that chubby coachman went to report and presumedly asked for his help and most likely told him about me being the one responsible for Lora escapement , so no wonder these guys hate me to the core, for their both sake, i hope they didn't come to the battlefield or else they won't be coming back ever again , no matter what the consequences of such an action are .
All the people who joined me were deemed as allies getting a one time boost all of their strength while also invigorating their fighting spirits, as for the rest some of them still have the chance to join in the fun, but those high ranking guys will be on their own .
I'm not quite sure what exactly was their target , but it's probably something that will be quite harmful to me, so yeah i won't be allowing people like them to take advantage of me .
The moment the monsters appeared in the horizon and the two parties were almost face to face another battle horn was blown out marking the start of the battle against monsters and another one was released from the monsters side making their eyes becoming more red as if they were all becoming more and more ferocious.
I was currently in the vanguard troops but the moment that i saw the numbers of the actual monsters coming our way more clearly i forget about all the reservations that i had before on sharing my skill boost with the other and granted a boost to all those guys who were in my skill effective range , excluding the guys that i marked before and took one step ahead towards the incoming monsters while thinking of how much i miss my Katana Frozen Edge and how would it have make finishing all these up a lot easier .
It was only a step but it pushed me directly to be in the center of the swarming crowds of monsters, i pierced through most of the monsters that were in my way and was now dyed with different colors of blood , some red, some yellow, some were even black and some were green , the monsters didn't react much to me appearing, heck if other humans saw how i looked like now, they will probably think that i was a monster all the same .
I used Rock Slide and the earth beneath me and a huge chunk of the land around me instantly collapsed burying a lot of monsters with it in , but their numbers were still astronomically vast , i tried to use my Aura Of Strong to force them to stop their marching, but i believed that horn that was blown had probably forced them to go berserk , my skill wasn't having any effect on them, another shortcoming to this skill of mine, if the opponent wasn't able to feel fear the skill intimidating effect is considered null , as i just found out .
I will decrease their numbers as much as i could and most of those guys are of lower strength which should be quite easy for the others to deal with them, i got back to the 4 meter size and caught a dear that was all black with green like color oozing out of his head , i presumed it was some kind of a toxin and began to use him as a weapon swinging him left and right but after i beat a few dozen of the strongest monsters that i can found with it, i saw the ground beneath me suddenly shaking and a few volcanic craters were beginning to erupt from under me .
I looked at the familiar skill effect and looked behind me to saw the colossal Goblin Lord finally walking up, knowing what was going to happen next i hurriedly left the area, a second later the whole area was engulfed with magma, killing most if not every monster in its range , i looked at how much was such a skill able to do and i was completely aware that wasn't even the strongest skill in his arsenal of skills and a weird thought came to my mind .
That weird thought was that if Javo continued to attack with this much ferocity for a few more times he will probably able to eliminate this whole army of monsters in a few seconds, but he won't be to use this skill of his constantly since it was quite costly to cast if i'm remembering correctly .
But it could be used more effectively in the hands of someone like me, someone that can never run out of Mana or Stamina , i hurriedly used Appraisal wanting to see if he have gotten any more skills that i could Steal but my try ended in failure just like the first time we met each other .
I began to hear the sounds of battling and explosion occurring behind me and was able to tell that the actual confrontation between the both parties began, or at least the first part of the confrontation since there was even a bigger army of monsters in the back , hope they will be able to hold their positions for a few seconds until i finish dealing with this overgrown and enraged goblin .
I turned my Obsidian Armor skill off and just as i was about to turn it back on the dear that i have just lit go off and was to my surprise still alive suddenly appeared of nowhere above me and came crashing at me in try of kicking me with its hooves and that's when my Hunter's Instinct came to take effect allowing me to duck to the side enough to evade the sudden attack and without even turning the Obsidian Armor back own i instantly punched it while it was landing in gut completely obliterating it in one strike .