Chapter 274: Day 1: Invincible clones

Campsite at Ai Themor, Evelon Kingdom;

Envizor, the level-226 player representative rushed towards a certain tent.

If it was somebody else, they would have been stopped by the soldiers or by the Royal knights but having the privilege of being a player representative, everyone gave him the way.

He rushed past the soldiers, Royal knights… didn't stop at Generals but was stopped by the two guards at the entrance of the tent.

"Tell his Majesty that it is an urgent situation."

A few seconds later, he entered the tent and saw everyone was happily drinking the wine.

"What happened?" The King asked him in a casual tone, "did the enemy breakthrough your defense or something."

Envizor nodded with seriousness, "it was a hundred-member army comprised of otherworlders. I'm not sure whether they are disguised as the Llyne's fallen prince or it is the fallen prince who used some sort of skill to replicate himself but none of our defenses were able to halt them and neither they were able to gauge the strength of the enemy."

The atmosphere suddenly turned tense. The King put the glass down and spoke, "I knew that you lot are useless… Supreme Commander Adyraus, send a team of Royal Knights to destroy the invaders…"

"Your Majesty…" Envizor then alerted him, "If it is the fallen prince, then, I suggest sending two or three generals might be better…"

"Three generals?" The King as well as the other frowned in response. "Earl Envizor… You want me to send three generals out of 21 of them to face a mere hundred otherworlders?

Our strength may be less compared to humans but don't underestimate the strength of our generals."

"Father…" Then, suddenly, one of the princes stood from his seat, "let me go and lead them… If the enemy really turned out to be Llyne's prince… Fallen or not, it is proper that a King will battle another king or in this case, a prince will battle another.

Moreover, based on the reports gathered by our scouts, tat Llyne's prince commanded its guardian beast, the winged lion. Don't you think it is more fitting if I go?"

"Hmm… What you are saying is right…" The King thought for a while and agreed for the Crown Prince to leave.

Upon hearing it, Envizor also became satisfied. He smiled, "if it's his highness, then, I have no doubts about killing him. Once Time Traveler dies, their strength will also decrease by a lot."

With over 20 Royal knights, a giant Red-colored rhinoceros with two additional tusks, the Prince set out to defeat the hundred clone army.

It didn't take long for the two parties to meet each other.

By the time he met the enemy, the Prince saw more than a thousand players are going against the incoming enemy but all they faced is the swinging of their pillars and getting killed in each strike. 

The battle didn't even last a minute before every player was killed and the clone army advanced further.

The Prince wasn't flustered even a bit as he saw all of them are weaklings. He also didn't take it seriously as he saw every one of the clones was at the same level as the weakest Royal knight.

He raised his bow and equipped the arrow while ordering the others at the same time, "go…" And he released the arrow towards the sky at the same time.

The clones saw the arrow was replicated into hundred arrows as it reached the highest point of the parabola before rained down on them.

The clones did nothing to defend and let the arrows pierce them only to receive "-1" damage on their heads.

While the prince didn't know about the damage number, all he saw was that there was no response to his attack. None of them even try to dodge and the most important thing is that they don't even have a single shred of emotion.

He frowned, "are they puppets or they are looking down on me?" 

For whatever reason, he took the opponents seriously. "Guardian Aolis… It's time for you to join the war." He respectfully said to the Rhino.

It growled in response and rushed forward.

Aolis

Species: Rhinoceros

Grade: Legendary+

Level: 400

HP: 62.2 Billion

Description: The guardian beast of Evelon. 

Meanwhile, the Royal knights and the frontline of the clones collided. The clone swung the staff and they blocked it with the shields.

The clones didn't even use the skill, however, at that moment, all of the Royal knights felt the difference between their strength and enemies.

But it was too late to realize.

"25,875,231,515"

All of them were flung away immediately and then, exploded in the air in front of the eyes of Prince.

At the same time, the Rhino reached the clones and attacked one of them.

It pierced a clone with one of its horns and raised it up before flung it away.

"-24,616,243"

For the first time, a damage number appeared on a clone's head but it did nothing much due to high damage reduction.

However, the clone that was thrown onto the ground stood up as if nothing happened and dashed towards the Rhino from behind.

Even if it was Wil, he wouldn't have cared about the damage because his HP totaled more than 140 Billion. What would losing 20 million would amount to…

Meanwhile, the remaining clones attacked the Rhino at the same time.

Looking at the incoming attack, it used its skill and turned its body into metal, increasing its damage reduction to 75% before slamming its head into one of the clones.

Meanwhile, two of the attacks from the clones were successfully landed, taking out 6 billion of its HP each time.

At the same time, the Prince who was angry for losing his subordinates over nothing released another arrow.

The arrow struck near the feet of one of the clones and a grand explosion occurred.

Every clone was blown off to dozens of meters in different directions. The Rhino was unharmed because of the relationship with the Prince.

"-13,521,452" Similar damages appeared on all of their heads, however, once again, they stood up as if nothing happened just like puppets.

As if they felt no pain, all the clones stood up on their feet. Without giving any expression of the sort, they dashed towards the metal Rhino.

Perhaps, this was the toughest battle the clones might have faced. It took them more than five minutes to finish off the Rhino.

Upon its defeat, the clones targeted the Prince, making him gulp. "We really underestimated the enemy."

As they were rushing towards him, The Crown Prince raised his bow vertically towards the sky and shot an arrow.

At the campsite, this time, instead of Envizor, a general rushed into the Royal tent. "Your Majesty, you need to see this…"

"Oh! Tell me General Flinar… Is the Prince returning in triumph?" The King asked him.

The General answered with hesitation, "His Highness sent a message… It appears to be his last message…" He spoke the last sentence slowly but everyone heard it.

As the King hurried out of the tent, he saw a message in the sky. Not only the king, every soldier, NPC, and player was able to see it.

The message contained apologies and also a warning to get ready to face the enemy with all the strength or else, they will be defeated.

The King hollered in anger, "Time Traveler…"