Chapter 175 A Bunch Of Good And Bad News

With that plan I just discussed with the jumper, I knew that things would turn out for the best for me.

From one side, I got Wryly preparing a massive force for the attack. And from another side, the jumper would do his job and delay the building process of that tower.

So the long time of twelve hours that Wryly asked for wasn’t that hard to secure anymore.

“Should I take a nap or what?” I haven’t slept for a long time already. But before resting, I sent a brief message with instructions to all my team members here.

They had to be ready for the big upcoming war. In return for my messages, they asked for distributing the big army of humans that exceeded thirty hundred thousand fighters.

[You’ll have to group yourselves first. I’ll have Karoline with me in one group, and others shall decide for themselves]

[What about that crazy dude?] Leo sent back.

[That dude already has his own forces here. So avoid selecting them and just divide up the rest]

[But he has almost one third of the entire force!! That can’t be just!] Angelica fired her words at me and I could only helplessly smile when I read them.

[He was the first to ask for this. You can’t punish him for being too smart! Blame yourselves before anyone else. Also be grateful I also didn’t ask for one third of the entire forces as well]

[Boss you are a generous man all the time. Of course you won’t ask for something like that] The spearhead was trying to make me not ask for this.

Of course I didn’t plan on taking such a large number. After all they all worked under me and I needed strong elites with many war leading abilities and experience and not just mere large numbers of fighters.

Besides I found my sole strength only in my own private army. I never cared about bringing forces with me. Just look at the illusionists I got before! They were strangled far back in the north while I wouldn’t be able to bring them all the way here.

As for my own share of forces, I planned to give them to my Karoline. I just needed to make sure she would stay safe and stop worrying about her.

Sorting out this matter left me with nothing else but to eat, drink, and then sleep. For a moment there I started to feel the meat taste getting worse each time I ate it.

I needed more food resources, fresh vegetables and even fruits. Back in my days vegetables were commonly found in any market, but fruits were considered expensive goods.

But this was the early stages of the apocalypse where there was nothing green left at all. I sighed while resigning to my fate, deciding to build big green fields back at the lands I’d conquer and claim as my own kingdom.

Despite cleansing my chariot off that bastard’s shadows, I didn’t sleep without leaving my soulers to protect me. I wasn’t going to risk dying while sleeping, a very humiliating way to die.

I took a nap for almost five hours before waking up after hearing a loud bang around me.

I jolted awake, jumped over my bed and summoned my two swords almost instantly to only see Isabella standing on the door with Karoline and others while having a strange look over their faces.

“What’s wrong?” I tried to see over their shoulders but I couldn’t see any kind of threat here.

*Bang!* *Bang!* “A wake up call!” Isabella hit the opened door with her closed fist two times while shouting with a teasing smile over her face.

“Damn girl! What did I do to ever have that?” I finally got what was going on here as they were only waking me up. Waking me up in such a way? Damn! That was brutal!

“That crazy dude is spamming us with his annoying messages so yes… You deserve this!” Angelica’s angry voice came from outside but she seemed to stay leaning on the wall or something.

“Who? The jumper?” I asked before noticing a strange large number of messages coming from three people.

“Just check your messages and you’ll know,” Isabella’s tired voice came as she seemed to send a message to that jumper. “At last he can stop nagging me!”

I blinked twice before throwing all this behind me. That jumper seemed to do a great job in stirring the nest of hornets over my head.

That bastard! Even while trying to get a nap in such a rare moment of peace, he made sure to wipe that away with a simple move of his.

I was so enraged until I opened the messages and saw what he sent.

[Alert! Alert!]

[Please respond fast!]

[There is a development here! The three gates are merging! I repeat… The three gates are merging!]

[What the f*ck is wrong with you? Why aren’t you answering back?]

[Are you dead? Please tell me so I can dance around fire for celebration]

[Dude… Playing dead won’t help you! I can simply jump to another apocalypse and kick your ass!]

[Just respond! There is a major thing happening here!]

[Dammit! I’ll send for someone to find you then! Screw you lousy leader!]

[Sleeping?!!! You dare to sleep when things are crumbling on my head? F*ck you!]

[Next time you’ll do the reckon mission, not me!]

[I won’t put my life under your mercy again! f*ck!]

I scrolled over a long list of insults coming from that angry jumper. Ignoring that usual flaming attitude of his that might end up exploding or something, I started to think about the valuable info he sent over.

“Three mega gates are merging into one? Strange…” I was feeling that something dangerous was coming this time.

“What’s happening up there for him to whine like a girl like this?” Angelica’s mean comment came with a shout of anger. That dude seemed to bother him a lot just like what he did with me.

Before I could say anything to them, I ran through the messages sent by the other two. Unlike the jumper, each one sent fewer messages that held pieces of good news, bad news, and an explanation as well.

[I got news about that dragon archlord] Fang sent this message first in the middle of the ton of angry messages from the jumper. Just seeing the name of that lethal enemy I waited for, I couldn’t help but have my heart clench for a second before finally relaxing.

[He got hit fiercely by the middle continent enemy]

[That human enemy came all the way to Kentucky state, kicking that dragon ass hard enough to make him flee to the west for now]

[He is now regrouping at Wisconsin, with fewer troops remaining at our side]

Once I read all these messages I couldn’t help but heave a sigh of relief. That girl was really hitting on the iron when it was still hot!

She seemed to have a grudge against that dragon dude, or perhaps she just wanted to wipe him out or weaken his strength so he wouldn’t pose any threat to her in the future.

Yet thinking about that from a different angle… Didn’t that also mean she led a huge and strong human army force? Also didn’t this also mean she was closer to me?

I had to find a way and meet up with her. I knew before even meeting such a person that she wouldn’t agree to become my minion.

But in the worst case scenario she would end up being my ally. We both were humans after all, right?

If she maintained her grasp over Kentucky, then I could meet her up at Ohio. I just didn’t get any contact with her or an eye to see where she was going next.

If I was her, then I’d either hunt down that dragon archlord until I kill him or kick him entirely out of the US map. But another viable option here would be by abandoning such useless and slightly dangerous chase and go for that archlord army.

After all, a general would do nothing if he had no army to command! From the messages I got from Fang, I could tell that this hit came pretty much unexpected by that dragon dude.

So he must have left in a hurry without having time to reorganise his troops. Putting in mind that he was primarily planning to take over the east side here, he must have scattered a good deal of his forces in nearby states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, plus the two Virginia states.

If I was her, I’d go first to cut all the arms and legs of that dragon, chopping his two wings first to ground him.

A grounded dragon was as good as a dead dragon after all.

But this depended entirely on her estimates. Anyway I got her close by and hopefully I’d use the help of Wryly to get in contact with her sooner than later.

As for Wryly, he sent me messages that also spoke about the same thing. He told me his paragon was delighted about the bravery of that girl, making him desire her even more.

I didn’t comment on that. After all that girl had all the right to accept or deny such a thing. As for the rest of his messages, they contained an explanation and bits of bad news as well.

[I got a tip from my paragon… The illusionist archlord made a deal with the defeated dragon archlord]

[The two poured a lot of blessing points into that death breath, turning it into a more terrifying weapon called apocalypse gate]

[It’s a grand gate that needed the merge of an odd number of gates, least three, better seven. This gate will be hovering just over the place of that central tower, and it will add a protection layer around it like it’s a shield or something]

[That gate won’t only call forth one single disaster, and the area covered with it will be multiplied as well]

I looked at these detailed messages while thinking about this problem.

[Does that mean the tower will be protected and can’t be destroyed?] This is the glaring issue right now. I built my entire counter plan over this and even lowered my guard and went to sleep because of it.

If the jumper’s grenades of death couldn’t deal enough damage to destroy the tower, then the entire plan would be jeopardised!

[The Supreme gate will shield it from any damage] he sent me the worst news ever, confirming my worst thoughts. [Without taking it down, we won’t be able to touch that tower or even get near it!]

I looked at the jumper’s messages again. That dude had all the right to panic! Did he try to hit that tower and failed or what?

I just prayed he didn’t! If he did, he would instantly alarm the entire enemy and let us lose our only chance of doing something!

[Please tell me you didn’t hit that tower yet!] I instantly sent this over while sending another message to Wryly.

[How can we destroy that gate then?]

[Only natural disasters can do the trick] he sent back while the jumper also sent at the same time.

[Of course not! I’m not that crazy to go blindfolded towards that thing without knowing what’s going on!]

[Also don’t ever sleep while I’m on a mission like this! Or else I swear I’d come and kill you myself!]

[Dude, you are bound by a contract preventing you from doing so] I rolled up my eyes while ignoring the long list of insults he sent in return.

[Do you want to create another death breath weapon here to antagonise theirs?] I asked Wryly while feeling much doubt about such a plan.

It wasn’t a plan! It was simply setting one’s house on fire just to burn the thieves inside!

[We can’t do that even if we wanted to… Such a thing requires a lot of preparation beforehand. We can’t do it]

[Then what?]

[We can only lead our armies straight there and stop them from completing that tower… That’s the only move we currently have]

I paused for a second. [Did you get all of your forces here yet?]

[Not even close to half of it! But what else can we do? Any hour passing means more of that tower getting built. We can’t allow that to happen!]

I looked at his answer and without hesitation sent to the jumper:

[Can you still get to these ovens?]

[Sure, but that tower has a strange coat now shielding it from me]

[No problem… I want you to work fast and set plans to target most of the ovens there. Also if possible, try to destroy as much resources they have as possible]

[Will that be enough?!]

[It should be enough] I sent over to him, [Let’s pray it will]