Chapter 321: War is Inevitable

For most people, they taught that the frontline war is the place of opportunity. However, Angus and most experienced war veterans know that the frontline is actually a very dangerous place. One carelessness or mistake could become their own doom.

This rule also affects low-grade and high-grade soldiers, but also the legendary seventh-grade combatant. There were many cases where careless leaders or seventh-grade combatants were killed in the battle in the past.

Seventh-grade combatants may have unbelievable strength, but they are still mortal and could be killed though it will be very difficult. 

This is also why seventh-grade combatants never act tyrannically when facing another kingdom unless the other party is very weak in terms of military strength. 

The current Heart Kingdom is surrounded by many large and strong kingdoms. Therefore, King Leon needs to act prudently. Otherwise, they will be attacked by all sides.

Although some of these kingdoms are bound with contract and couldn't harm the Heart Kingdom, for the time being, they still could use underhanded tactics to harm the Heart Kingdom.

As the greatest human race kingdom, Heart Kingdom occupies a large area along with resources in it such as dungeons, rare ore mines, and other stuff. Even if the most pacifist people themselves will naturally be attracted towards the Heart Kingdom riches.

Over the decades, King Leon managed to keep them at bay with his strength and various ploys. Still, in the end, the war itself is inevitable. At first, according to the nearby kingdom's military strength, war will not happen at least in the next ten or twenty years.

Before Angus returns from the Endless Battlefield dimension and brings the others, Heart Kingdom is already a strong kingdom and will not be easily defeated by any nearby kingdom. 

However, they are not at the pace where other nearby kingdoms could not catch up to the Heart Kingdom. With the addition of the Sur village people and Jade, Heart Kingdom's strength is increased by a leap bound.

If this situation is left alone, the other nearby kingdom will never be able to catch up with the current Heart Kingdom. Therefore, the other kingdoms could only launch their attack and war at this moment in the hope of invading the present Heart Kingdom or reducing their advancement.

All the High noble, especially the most sensible one, also notice this situation and decide to think of a way to avoid the unnecessary war. They only need sometimes before the Heart Kingdom continues to rise in power and could easily subdue the other kingdom.

In the meantime, some of the foolish and greedy lower noblemen wanted the war to happen. Only by participating in war could they gain merits and prestige to reach higher positions. Therefore, the political side of the Heart Kingdom is divided into two.

One wants to have war while the other does not. Both of their voices are quite strong equally, but the last verdict will fall on King Leon himself. According to rumors, King Leon also wants to avoid war for the time being. However, he also will not be stupid to become a sitting duck.

After the arrival of Jade and the other Sur people, King Leon immediately prepared and invested a lot of resources to increase their military strength. 

With his long experience, he knows that war is inevitable. However, he still doesn't know when it will happen. All he could do was to prepare for the worst-case and increase their military strength to defend themself.

Another month passed by since Angus increased the intensity of his hellish training. Currently, Ferry, Gibby, Tilda, and a few other talented soldiers managed to learn the Explosion Skill. After two months of hellish training, they finally could detonate their fire mana into a small bomb.

Still, their explosion could not be compared to Angus's skill. They could only detonate massive amounts of Fire Mana outside their body at a certain distance, while Angus could use the explosion skill more freely.

As long as he detected his fire mana, he could easily manipulate it and detonate them. As more soldiers start to learn the explosion skill, Angus's mission in training them will be done soon. 

There are around ten people that managed to use the explosion skill, with Ferry, Tilda, and Gibby on the lead. Though the number is relatively low, many soldiers also start to get the gist of the skill. All they need to do is practice more to master them.

As Angus's mission finally comes to an end, he decides to leave the explosion and go towards the Black Fortress to meet with Jayna and little troublemaker Anna. 

Thinking about Jayna, Angus could help feel the longing for her. But, he knows his mission is important to create a peaceful life for them. Angus decides to wait for five or more soldiers that are able to use explosion skills before going towards the Black Fortress.

Like his usual routine, Angus goes towards the modified barren training. After the soldier manages to pass the circle runes and theoretical test trial, they will get an opportunity to learn explosion skills from Angus.

Currently, only thirty people have managed to pass his trial. From these thirty people, only seven of them managed to use explosion skills in a rough way. On the other hand, the other twenty-three soldiers are still undergoing hellish training.

Arriving at the modified training ground, everyone immediately saluted Angus in nervousness. After giving hellish training and trials to almost all the soldiers in the base, Angus' name as Sergeant from hell is spread around.

Currently, nobody dares to refute or question Angus's order. There are times when some soldiers ask about Angus's orthodox training method. At that time, they were immediately sent towards the medical facility and needed to rest for months before getting complete recovery.

Moreover, Angus also beats all the people that slack off in his training. Most of the soldiers here have been burnt alive by Angus. At that time, they noticed that being boiled and burned with Vulcan Oil was better than being burnt by Angus.

Because of the Hellfire, Angus's fire is more painful and seems not only to hurt physically but also their mind and senses, which make his fire more painful than others.

Looking at the soldiers, saluted him nervously, "Alright, continue your training and don't slack off. I want most of you to be able to use explosion skills by the end of this week. Otherwise, don't ever think of getting rest. Now, move out!!" said Angus.

"Yes, sir!!" shouted the soldiers in unison before returning to their training.

After inspecting and supervising the soldier's training, Angus begins to meditate on a certain corner. While he is doing his mission, he never forgets to train and improve himself. Since he is inside the base, he couldn't carelessly cultivate his chi.

But, he still could train his natural fire manipulation. He could also refine his mana or fighting monster/combatant with the help of his system. Sitting inside one corner, Angus begins to check his current status.

Host: Angus Victory

Age: 17 Years Old

MP: 600/600

Chi: 231

Heritage chi: ???

Strength: 48 

Dexterity: 47 

Intelligence: 48 

Vitality: 46 

Soul Point: 227 

Soul Reserve: 541

Currently, Angus reaches another bottleneck in terms of his mana growth. Like when he is stuck at the 300 mana point during his first grade, Angus also finds a similar situation as he is also stuck at the 600 mana point mark.

Normally, people need to reach a certain state and accumulate enough mana to reach third grade. However, Angus mana core is different from the norm. Now, he just needs a trigger to break through to reach third grade. 

His mana core limit is off-chart from the ordinary one and could easily break through and be upgraded. Still, it needs some kind of trigger. This kind of trigger could happen with the change from the outside.

During his upgrade from grade one to grade two, he managed to do it after eating a third-grade monster dish. At first, he thought he also needed to eat a special dish, but a third-grade monster is a maximum grade to be processed into edible food.

Therefore, Angus needs to use another method to upgrade into the third-grade combatant. After thinking for a while, he feels that fighting a hard opponent will be a good trigger for him to breakthrough. Still, finding a suitable opponent is not easy.

He didn't dare to fight a four-grade monster or fifth-grade combatant inside his system as they were too strong for him. In the end, he decides to find a suitable opponent when he goes toward the Black Forest.

As one of the famous monster habitats, he believes he will find many interesting opponents and monsters that could trigger his breakthrough.

Since he couldn't refine his chi and fighting monsters were quite useless for him. He decided to train his fire manipulation. Angus decides to train another skill in his mind. This technique required not only high fire mastery but also excellent heat sense.