Chapter 241: Encounter From All Sides

At the same time Howard and Mernan were fighting, two different forces were approaching Jenniva City.

One of them contained the strongest of the warriors of the Great Neck Nation yet the other was much more terrifying. They moved through the darkness of the night with such haste that not a single soldier from the Great Slavensen Nation had been able to detect them.

The two men, clothed in black attire from head to toe, barely made a sound as they arrived by the first defensive wall of the Great Slavensen Nation. Seeing the countless soldiers patrolling the line they almost laughed. They could tell the soldiers in their earth tone armor were marching along a defense array. And yet with ease, if they wanted to, it would be no problem for these two Arthraku mercenaries, Janx and Marxin, the ones Gorgin had hired, to breakthrough it. 

Both of them had spent years in prison, but like all prisoners the Authoritarians they captured weren't stripped from their bodies. Instead, after years of inaction, their Authoritarians stored inside of them had grown stronger. And one of the Authoritarians both of them happened to had were called Stone Mouth Authoritarians.

Stone Mouth Authoritarians were rather weak Authoritarians in the Jarkalon Abyss that could be found in a lot of regions where Authoritarians roamed. They were usually found in mountainsides, or in caverns where there were areas with both stone and rock. And yet… A very specific kind of Stone Mouth Authoritarian actually didn't eat stone like its other ancestors. Instead of that, it devoured Ki Stones that developed in some of the rivers that flowed in the mountains.

The reason why this was such a powerful Authoritarians was because that eating Ki allowed them to break through nearly all defensive arrays. 

Janx smiled and nodded his head at his bigger and taller brother before he shot at the array and almost instantly passed through it. His brother, a second later, did the same, turning into a dark shadow that seemed to almost instantly break through the defensive perimeter.

'I can't believe out of all nations Howard would run to he went to the Great Slavensen Nation,' Janx said with a look of disbelief, seeing the soldiers. They were all rather weak, in fact powerless, compared to basic Arthaku adults, and yet it was so weird seeing them. He felt a little bit of a desire to test his strength against them, and yet… Killing Howard was his top priority. He sighed and stepped off his back foot before they shot forward.

A massive Ki surge a second later shot into the two brothers as they moved almost instantly causing them to stop in place. 

Clearly, there were two powerful people fighting! It almost instantly delighted them, and yet they paused and assessed the situation.

"I never expected there to be someone so powerful here," Janx turned to his brother who was silently observing the fluctuations in the air. The two of them were unsure of who was fighting, but it would be best to avoid them for now.

Both of them hadn't been out in the Jarkalon Abyss for over 100 years, so they were unaware if even the Great Slavensen People could've gotten a few experts in that time. They chose almost immediately to instead sneak into the city and take their time looking for Howard, and yet… After one more explosion a second later, their plan changed.

Looking behind them, some of the soldiers that had been marching back and forth against the ramparts erected to defend the array looked shocked beyond measure. That was because in the distance over 150 Great Neck Warriors were coming through the trees and approaching them slowly.

"Damn it! Activate all the arrays now!" The leader of the Great Slavensen Soldiers screamed before hundreds of leaves began to float in the air around him. He was preparing to use the Great Willow Sapling to try and by some time for his foes.

However, before he even got a chance to attack, he heard a horn began to burst through the air. Looking around him, he looked back and forth, this was really bad! This small of a force didn't warrant the use of the horn!

The horn was meant to be blown for forces that were too much for a garrison to handle. Right now, there were over 300 soldiers with him, and a force of 150 Great Neck Warriors should be more than enough for them to handle. And yet one of the things blowing the horn would do would cause the other troops at other protective barriers to come rushing towards them.

With his black hair blowing in the wind behind him, the commanding officer of the Great Slavensen Soldiers looked for which of his novice soldiers had blown the horn. It was obvious many of them would be terrified, and yet not a single one of them seemed to have the Golden Horn. The next moment, he almost instantly realized that this could only be the result of one thing. Someone must have betrayed the Great Slavensen People!

"Mitchen!" The leader named Garsel said, looking at a small teenager with rather lanky legs. "Go, right now, and rush to find Mernan! He must know immediately someone has double crossed us and sided with the Great Neck Warriors."

"Sir… I think I pissed my pants" Mitchen, the boy said, his legs trembling as he saw the Great Neck Warriors getting closer from the darkness of the trees. Their yellow eyes were glowing in the darkness as they approached step by step towards the array. "Are you sure you can't ask anyone else?"

"Kid, I don't care if you pissed your mother's bed, get out of here! Look, if you don't run off now what do you think will happen when the fighting begins?" Garsel patted him on the shoulder. This boy in front of him was like a son. He would never want him to get hurt, so sending him off made a lot of sense. However, there was also another reason. He was one of the few warriors given a Speed Foot Plant. For an S rank soldier, he was one of the fastest at his level in the entire nation. "Now damn it! Go! Piss along the way to leave a trail for all I care, but if you don't go at your fastest speed to find Mernan you can forget marrying one of my daughters! Now run you little shit!"

"Yes! Yes sir!" Mitchen turned around and trembled looking at the empty expanse. He'd frankly much rather be next to soldiers, after all, what if one of them got through the array. "I'm scared, but I'm doing this for our Nation! I can do this! I'm going now!"

Swoosh!

Right at this time, like a line of light, everyone looked in shock as something appeared almost instantly at the array.

Howard, who had just been over 50 kilometers away a minute ago, slid against the ground and stopped in front of the Great Neck Wolves.

Almost instantly, all the soldiers dropped their weapons in shock from his sheer speed. Only someone in the SSS rank could move that fast. If they had ot fight him as well, they pretty much stood no chance! Even the Great Neck Warriors looked terrified, they who had been advancing relentlessly towards the barrier suddenly seemed to pause and seize their advance.

And yet Howard didn't even bother looking at them. He looked through the trees and saw Alenx holding a horn. Feeling his eyes meeting his, Alenx almost instantly dropped the horn and started to tremble. Did he again get stronger? He never imagined in a million years he'd get here so soon.

"I'd kill you right now if they weren't here as well," Howard spun around and instantly activated his Emperors Domain before thousands of swords seemed to spawn into existence. "Are you two Arthraku? Come out now or I won't help myself and attack."