Chapter 790 The Battling Arena - Part 7

Chapter 790 The Battling Arena - Part 7

“Trying to look like a merciful and kind king? Trying to look cool with such big and useless words? Humph! One day I had such thoughts and ideals like you, but after all these years I can tell you… You are no better than any of us!”

His tone came in such despicable way while running away with what was left of his army.

“Hunt them until you reach the next post,” I said to my monsters, “then come back here again.”

For some reason, I felt somewhat depressed. For a reason, what he said seemed to resonate with something deep inside me.

It was a doubt, a doubt and little fear that I purposefully ignored.

I came here with one goal in mind, to just gain a class and live a normal life of a human. I aspired to live just like what I saw other humans in my time lived.

But right now? I wasn’t even close to what I imagined! For a time, I started to see myself as a tyrant, someone with an endless threat for power that wouldn’t get quenched by gallons of blood of his enemies and allies.

At a point, I felt I was treading a path I never even knew existed!

I started with the desire to have a class, and now I ended up with such an irresistible desire to rule over the entire apocalyptic cluster of worlds!

It… Was scaring me! Just that feeling of being drawn by power, tempted with what I had and going to ate my courage and self confidence away.

I… Had to find a midway solution. I started this path, and had to finish it. But under no circumstances I’d lost myself, lose my humanity, or lose my soul!

What he said came as a warning from someone who already threaded on this path. Just looking at him gave me such an invaluable lesson.

No one was immune in this life! No matter how high one climbed, how strong one got, how vast his armies were, how rare and unique his treasures were, there would always be someone like the nemesis of anyone.

No matter how I grew stronger, I had to keep this in mind all the time.

I was beaten more than once by that clone, got my girl taken away and brainwashed by a mysterious entity… I wasn’t immune… I wasn’t invincible…

I was just a weak human, cladded in all these items and treasures, surrounded by all these mighty warriors and forces, but I still was the same.

And I had to always remind myself of my origin, of where I came from, so I wouldn’t lose sight of the true essence of myself.

I was Hye, I was that loser who got bickered at by everyone. I was now mighty and famous, I was a king… But that wouldn’t change who I truly was.

I wouldn’t let this fact fade away from my mind. Recently I started to forget the old bitter days I lived through as if they never existed.

That was wrong! My past was what shaped me to become who I currently was. And that would lead to my future.

I should never forget who I was, or where I came from, never!

I tightly clenched my fist over the cold shaft of the glaive. Its coldness had such a refreshing effect, pushing away such doubts off my mind for the time being.

“Ok king, let’s make a bet then,” I fiercely said, “do you think I’ll end up like you? A corrupted soul with all horrible deeds haunting you at night? Nope, I beg to differ. Let’s make a bet then, and I’ll become the king that will be hailed in history records as the righteous and just!”

I made up my mind. Even if I walked through the valley of death myself, I would never let my soul get tainted with such cursed and corrupted energy there.

As the king was drawn away, running with its tail in his teeth, I had time at last to do what I wanted.

“Listen up,” I took out my horn and shouted, thinking about my thirty monsters I left behind, “one of you will guard each post, the rest will move forward. Get stationed at the five posts here, four at each one.”

I planned to push the frontline to the king’s half. I controlled the five posts at the frontal half of his territory, and I had to tightly secure it.

Aside from these thirty, I still had eighteen monsters left, considering that the one I left for the central path got killed already.

The fast advance of my troops there halted as they started to fight just slightly above the midpoint of the part belonging to that king.

That meant the monster was killed, and it was just expected.

So I got eighteen free to deploy anywhere, and I just got the right places to deploy them.

I waited for ten more minutes before my twelve monsters returned. They seemed to have their fun killing and chasing down that king all the way to his castle.

He was terrified to go to any post and got surrounded there with my forces. So he decided to go to his castle, as it was the safest place here for him.

That made my forces kill lots of his forces, especially when the bigger part he left behind retreated as well and got ambushed with my twelve monsters.

I kept tracking this fight using the map. And now it was time for the next move.

“Six of you will go to the northern path, and the other six will go to the southern one,” I said before moving fast towards the middle post where I left my boys there to protect.

It took three minutes to arrive there. Since that king got kicked his ass all the way to his castle, he never moved a single step out.

It seemed he was already amassing a new army to lead out or put the last struggle against me.