Chapter 363 - Subjugation (6)

It hadn't been more than a week since the dungeon break of Wuhan. Yet after seeing the chaos and destruction, no one would be able to guess that. It looked as if the city had been abandoned for decades. From the buildings to the streets and the dust tinted windows, everything had been shattered into bits by the rampaging minotaurs. Arnold was standing on the top of one of the few buildings that were sturdy enough to withstand the monsters. His eyes running around the destroyed city.

The place that his summons were clearing, was supposed to be one of the major shopping districts of Wuhan. But now there was nothing left to buy in the broken shops nor was there anything else to do. The once noisy streets had now embraced absolute silence. No sound could be heard there apart from a bunch of rampaging Minotaurs roaming on the streets. Apart from them, not a single being could be found on the streets. Or so Arnold wanted the minotaurs to believe.

"Is this place even worth saving anymore?" Yu Zhung mumbled, "I mean all I can see is a pseudo-wasteland."

"It doesn't matter what it looks like now. I was planning to just rebuild the place from scratch either way. So the way I see it, the minotaurs did me a favour by levelling most of the city." Arnold shrugged his shoulders and gave Yan the signal to engage.

Within moments innumerable monsters surrounded the half a dozen minotaurs like a bunch of starving hyenas. His Summons did not give the minotaurs a mere second to realise what was going on before swallowing the minotaurs alive. The fight barely lasted for 30 seconds and before Arnold knew it, Yan had revived the half of minotaurs to join his army of undead.

Arnold had told Yan to leave half of the minotaur corpses untouched because he was planning on selling the monster carcasses. He would then use the money earned by the corpses to help rebuild the territory from scratch. After all, Wuhan was one of his territories now and he had the responsibility to look after it and its people while simultaneously making money from the city. Monsters or not, everything was a business for Arnold.

"Sector clear." Arnold softly mumbled into his communicator, "The main team will now be heading into deeper zones."

"R-Roger that, sir!" Xiaofan's horrified voice came from the other side.

It hadn't even been thirty minutes since Arnold started his operation to retake Wuhan from the monsters and yet he had successfully recovered more than half of the area back from the minotaurs. The efficiency with which these monsters were working was exceptional and unparalleled. Even if Kang had more soldiers than Arnold, it would've taken them days if not weeks to clear half the area Arnold and his summons did in half an hour. 

At the start of the operation, Arnold carefully divided his summons into 10 groups. Then each of the groups was assigned a part of the territory to clear of the monsters. Arnold's plan was simple, rather than charging at the minotaurs and pushing them back, his summons would surround them and push the minotaurs towards the centre, where the dungeon boss was, while slowly reducing their numbers. And so far, his plan had been going through without a hitch.

Cerberus and Duke were together leading a group composed of the hounds and golems. While Bad-Breath and Alice were leading another group comprised entirely of automatons and so was Talos. Tiamut and Ogur were Arnold's strongest summons and hence were soloing but had a couple of automatons accompanying them for communication purposes.

Grock was leading the few resurrected lizardmen that Arnold had in his army while Dread and Natasha were each being backed up with Yan's undead soldiers. Asterios was having the time of his life fighting alongside the evolved ogres and finally, there was Yan, being an absolute killing machine thanks to the resurrected Minotaurs and his swarm of undead monsters.

With every win that Arnold's summons got, Kang and his people, who had been left behind in their makeshift base became more and more impressed and scared at the same time. At this point, they had finally realised how foolish they had been to think Deathless would need their help to clear the city from minotaurs. 

"I hope now you realise the weight of what you had done." Kang lightly flicked Xiaofan's head, "He's no ordinary man and you ended right up in his wrong books. you should be glad that you're still alive after the little stunt you pulled off earlier."

"Yes, master... I was a fool to think anyone could take him down... on my own." Xiaofan replied back.

Kang didn't need to remind her how lucky she had been that the merciless Deathless decided to let her live, despite the 'warm welcome' she gave to him. As for Kang You, he was just glad that he surrendered himself and his authority over Wuhan to Deathless. With an army like that, no one could even touch him, let alone kill him.

'I was right... this guy would be the one to unite the emperors to do his bidding... hehe'

***

Three hours later...

Arnold's summons had finally gotten rid of almost every single minotaur in the region. Except for the Black minotaur who was the dungeon boss and a dozen of his close lackeys.

"Master, how do you want to end it?" Talos humbly asked Arnold.

Arnold turned to look at Yu Zhung, "Want to take a shot?"

"If you want me to, then sure." Yu Zhung happily agreed to take the monsters down.

After all, he still had to show his true strength to Arnold and one-shotting these monsters would be the best way to do so. With that, Yu Zhung jumped down from the collapsed building they were standing on top of, before charging towards the minotaurs.

Yu Zhung simultaneously used his swords to easily dispatch the regular Minotaurs. However, his kill streak came to an end soon after that. No matter how hard he tried, his swords couldn't even graze the Black minotaur's skin. Even his Thousand Swords skill could do any harm to the minotaur.

'This is bad...' Yu Zhung thought when he realised what was happening there.

The Black minotaur was not the usual type of minotaur. But it was one of the few who specialised in using magic. As for the reason, why Yu Zhung's attacks were not having any effect on the minotaur, it was because the black minotaur was using a special ability that turned the mana of his opponents into defence points for itself.

"This is interesting." Arnold smiled before nodding towards Asterios, "Looks like you're up."