Chapter 442: Frog in the Well

The group flew for a week straight. During this time, the surroundings changed numerous times, and finally, they reached a coastline.

They found that the closer they got to the coast, the fewer people they found, and quite a few abandoned villages could also be seen.

It was clear that all the civilians had long since retreated from the coastline and the land close to the coast, as these areas were turned into a warzone.

Xue Wei put away the top-ranked essence stone and began observing the surroundings. He was trying to familiarize himself with the terrain so that he knew what kind of surroundings he would be fighting in in the future.

Every member of the army was going to be put into groups, and they would decide the size of the groups by themselves.

These groups would then roam the battlefield and fight as they came into contact with enemy groups.

This type of warfare originally began when they had sent pirates to each other's shores and seas to fight, but slowly the pirates got replaced by soldiers, and then the war escalated.

Xue Wei listened to the Primordial Beast, who was leading the Golden-Winged Eagle, and got a better understanding of the entire situation.

He was quite relieved. Although he did not mind a full out war where two armies were facing one another, it would be challenging to excel in such a war. It was a chaotic battlefield where he could not improve much, but in the current situation, he could grow at an unimaginable speed.

It was not only Xue Wei who had packed his resources away, the majority of the experts on the eagles were also sitting with straight and solemn expressions on their faces as they paid great attention to what their beast tamers were telling them. The briefing on the war was immensely valuable, and no one wanted to miss it.

They flew above a few groups of people, but because they were so far up in the sky, it was impossible to see whether the people that were on the ground were friends or foes.

There were also small skirmishes, but they did not stop to help anyone, they just observed as the people beneath them were being killed.

This was the cruelty of war. While some people were important, the common soldier was not. Those who were truly important were not allowed to enter deep into enemy lines or protect the land in small groups.

Everyone with a certain status was left in the main camp, and this was where they would do random, but dangerless, tasks.

Initially, the Emperor wanted Xue Wei to maintain such a job as well, but after considering his purpose for joining the war, he could not say anything.

Xue Wei wanted to get stronger and improve his fighting ability alongside igniting his potential. If he stayed within the main camp, he would be wasting time.

It took them an extra day to reach the main camp. The main camp was located in a city that had been emptied of civilians. All the houses within the city now gave shelter to the soldiers.

As they landed just outside the city, they found that a general was waiting for them. This was not one of the generals that Xue Wei had worked with previously, this was a genuine King ranked expert, and he was not to be belittled.

Most of the soldiers looked at him with reverence and slight fear. Their goal in life was to become an Emperor or a King, but they knew how difficult this task was.

They were not even aware of the ranks above the Emperor, only Xue Wei and his friends knew of the vast world beyond their own, and the reason they knew about it was because Xue Wei had been in contact with Hui Yue and Lan.

These two experts were on another level than the ones within this world, and Xue Wei understood that he should not clip his own wings. He should not aim for the Emperor rank but aim for the world that was outside, for the many worlds that he could enter when he became a deity.

He now understood that there was no 'strongest' rank; one could always grow stronger; it was just that the stage that would change.

Xue Wei did not look down on the other experts, whose aim was to become a King or Emperor ranked expert, as his goal was similar to theirs, once upon a time.

It was just that now he knew that he was once upon a time a frog in a well. The frog thought that the well was the whole world, until the day where it ventured outside and noticed that there was a world on the other side, and that his entire world was but a fraction of the real world.

But although Xue Wei was aware that all these soldiers were like the frog in the well, he was not planning on telling them the truth.

They were happy with their goals in life, and while some might become even more driven by hearing the truth about the worlds beyond their own, others would despair.

Also, he was not a person who would like to invite trouble. He did not care for the people he did not deem his own, and thus he was not interested in helping them out, especially not since they might become mad and turn on him when the things they believed in were shaken up in front of them.

While Xue Wei was looking at them all with narrowed eyes, the two men who had led them to the main army camp saluted the King ranked general, before they, and the many Golden-Winged Eagles, all flew away in the air.

Now the groups of soldiers were on their own, standing in front of the strongest expert they had encountered in their time within the army.