Chapter 120: Heading into Battle

We all rendezvoused at the very edge of Burliande where we split up.

"New plan." I started the discussion. "We're going to surround this whole continent."

"Hold up, what?" Yefa interrupted. "This is the biggest continent in this world Zieglind, it's impossible to surround it with just us."

"No I'll just surround it."

"Now you're just confusing me even more."

"I don't want these undead to be left alone so I'll just make some rock formations enough to be called a wall to prevent them from escaping. So I'll be surrounding the whole continent. That's the first phase of the plan."

Zeta joined in, "Wait, surrounding this whole continent will take a lot of mana. Summoning rock formations doesn't consume that much but in this large… no, extremely large continent it'll be incredibly difficult. I don't know how much mana that'll cost but it'll be a lot."

"I can manage… I think. I'll never know if I try. Anyway, on our second phase, since killing these undead are proving useless, we'll search for the head of this place. But if you find an undead general or so they call it, try to kill it. See what happens. If it regenerates, continue heading for the boss. Okay. Move out."

Everyone ran to their objectives and began looking for the boss of this place.

"Let's take a look at everything shall we? Man- oh yeah… Undeads don't have mana. Hmm… Fine. Imagery Intensify." Good thing I saved the information of the world map on my mind using Perfect Imagery back at Polk. Remembering that place still hurts. Everything I vowed to protect died because of me being weak. How laughable. The slaves I rescued just to die within days after. Maybe I shouldn't have rescued them. "Haha, I'm getting off-track. Let's see Burliande continent…" It is incredibly huge. But I think I can make it happen. "Rock Manipulation."

After a minute long silence, the ground began to shake. It wasn't anything serious, just a shake. I was lifting the ground forming a wall. "Holy crap 5,000 mana per second? THE HELL? I NEED TO BE FASTER!" I need a wall enough to restrict the movements of the undead. I tried to make the walls higher and higher. "IT'S DRAINING WAY TOO MUCH!" After I heightened the walls enough, I stopped. "Twenty three thousand mana left… THE HELL? I DIDN'T EXPECT THAT HAHA!" I couldn't help but laugh.

"But anyway… this five meter wall should be enough right? Hmm… Telepathy. Zeta, Yefa, Afal, Precia, Rize, Greta. The wall, did it reach there?"

Everyone replied with affirmation that the wall reached there.

"Okay. I'll head your way now. Let's find that boss."

I descended down to the ground, "Lightning Body, Haste!" It was faster to run than fly in this situation. So I ran and ran avoiding and ramming myself through their horde.

After running for what took like hours or something, I bumped into something hard. I went through it but I couldn't help but check what it is. I looked back and it was a giant undead. "Woah." I couldn't help but be amazed. But it seems that I angered it by destroying its legs while I rammed through him.

"So you're a general huh? Come at me!"

"Fireball." The undead general casted.

"WHA-" I quickly dodged to the side. That caught me off-guard. I thought undead doesn't have any mana. "How…?" I quickly stopped and tried to think on how they're doing that. Maybe they're using the mana of their master as their own mana? But that is way too convenient and incredibly strong… They have basically infinite range as long as their undead or summons are that far.

"Lightning Chain." The undead general continued casting low level spells.

"Dragon Lightning!" A lightning formed in a shape of a dragon found its enemy and dived head first onto the enemy destroying its upper body. But just as I feared, it isn't enough to kill it completely.

It regenerated itself back to full nearly instantly. "…" It swung its blade to me.

"Woah." I dodged it. But the ground where I was once before was destroyed and left a huge crack ten meters after that. "They're that strong huh. Fine. Let's make this a test of strength. Come, Soul Scythe."

He swung his gigantic sword and I did the same with my scythe. Every time we clashed, a huge wave of wind was felt and the ground beneath us began to break. We were equal in strength.

"Sorry but I don't have time for you. Soul Scythes." Ten of my soul scythes appeared and was floating in the air. They all spun rapidly and launched themselves on the undead. Tearing its flesh down with the rapid spinning of the scythes.

"Holy Burst!" Obliterating everything that was once his body. "I just wanted to fight someone but this one is too weak huh." This general might've been an adventurer or a high ranking official in this continent. What a shame.

"Telepathy. Rize, Greta, Afal, Precia, Zeta, Yefa. Did you find it?"

Precia was the next to speak. "I think so. Should I go in?"

"No wait for us. Where's the location?" Precia then sent a detailed instruction on how to get there. After ten minutes of searching where it is we got there.

"Woah." We couldn't help but be amazed.

It was a huge towering castle. Large undead were guarding the outside. Maybe generals. They are also surrounded by hundreds maybe thousands of undead. And we couldn't help but notice but… There's a skeleton dragon and a zombie dragon on top of the castle overseeing us.

"Let's make grand entrance shall we." I gathered light and dark from both of my hands and combined them both. "Brightest Dark!" It shot a beam of ray mixing the properties of light and dark magic, literally obliterating anything it touches.

Sure the undead are immune to dark magic but the power of the light magic mixed inside is enough to kill them all.

And it sure did kill them all. But the castle was still standing and the dragons above weren't attacking us. The door of the castle opened as if inviting us in.

I looked at them all and we all had the same idea. We headed in even if it was a trap. He was a being that could kill us and the whole world if he wanted to. We need to put him to stop.

As soon as we entered, a magic circle below us activated and unleashed a bright light. The moment when we opened our eyes, we were in a completely different place.

There they were, ten of them sitting on what seems to be a throne. The nine sitting parallel facing each other while the king sits on the throne on top.

"DRAGON LIGHTNING!" Zeta instantly casted a spell headed towards the direction of the king.

"Dragon Lightning!" But it was interrupted and been cancelled when the two spells collided. Zeta's was stronger but the strength of the two twin mages managed to overpower him by casting the same spell.

"I see how it is. The reason why your undead won't stop dying. You're using the unique skill Sacrificial Gain. The higher the quality of your sacrifice the better rewards. Be it health points or mana points. But to think you're using living beings other than monsters and animals…" Zeta then pointed at the back of his throne.

It was filled with corpses of different species, humans, orcs, centaurs basically hundreds of dead bodies just to supply his mana pool so that his summons won't disappear.

"Hey kid!" The twins talked in unison. "You have no right to be here. Begone! Win-"

Greta suddenly transformed into her beast form and jumped to the twin mages. But she got interrupted by another one of her own kind. "A werewolf?" It was just like Greta's beast form but this one was a different kind. They both walked and looked the same. But this one is a werewolf.

Another one stood up from their thrones and showed his bow and took a shot at Greta. But it got interrupted by Rize.

"Hou Yi's bow…" the accomplice of the enemy suddenly muttered something.

But Rize was shocked. "How do you know the name of this bow?"

"…" She was silent for a moment. "Just old memories with someone."

The king sitting on the throne stood up and began to speak. "Eliminate them all."

Everyone suddenly was grabbed.

Rize got paired against the one who attacked Greta.

Zeta got paired against the twin mages.

Greta got paired against the werewolf.

Afal got paired against the two unknown enemies.

Yefa also got paired with one of the unknown enemy.

And I got paired with this king and these two unknown hooded figures.

"One versus three? Isn't this unfair?" I complained jokingly.

"You who dared to invade my abode can not get a fair treatment."

"Oh is that so? Come, Soul Scythe." I rushed at him and slashed him with my scythe. "Die."

His upper body fell onto the ground. "Two left." Just as I said that, the upper body suddenly disintegrated into blood and the lower body of the king suddenly began to generate the upper body.

"What…?" I was shocked. I was sure I cut off his upper body.

He began to laugh menacingly. "I am a king… no… a GOD IN THIS WORLD!"