This was a thing that would take me tons of time, effort, resources, and might also not succeed in doing this to everything I got!
Just thinking about how he'd transform the trash things inside my inventory into real treasures was enough to give him such evaluation.
What I truly lacked? Aside from capable generals, I lacked truly powerful artefacts and treasures! If my elite cycle got such things, then I'd be more confident in sending them all alone, fighting any foe, without fearing or worrying about losing them.
In brief, my babysitting period with them would be finally over. And I'd start rapping benefits for all the investment I did into them during all this time.
This all happened thanks to this dude here. Not to mention I expected great things from the artefacts I already had.
My chariot, my glaive, my Libra, my pillar, my board, my tripod, and other artefacts I had… All of these were going to evolve, and I was dying to see what they'd be like after getting such a once in a lifetime chance.
"Thanks…" and after I said my words, a tsunami of energy appeared out of nowhere, twisting in the air, forming a giant cyclone shaped tornado around Clatinberg.
It looked as if he was going to explode out of this energy, however I didn't even think about going in and helping him.
I left him screaming, retreated my chariot away so he'd have his time evolving. "What will he end up at?" I knew he was going to evolve and become someone else. But just thinking about what he'd end up excited me a lot.
He was someone who was going to be a trusted subordinate of mine. Forget about this battle here, forget about this entire quest, just the future role he'd play after all this would be over was enough to drive my impatience off the roof!
And as he was evolving, I checked on my chariot. It was still covered in the same ball of energy, which covered its entire structure underneath me.
It could still follow my orders, fly around whenever I wanted, wherever I wanted. Its shield didn't get affected, yet. And so I wasn't that worried about what was happening to my girl.
My other artefacts, treasures, weapons, and gears were inside my inventory experiencing the same round of evolution.
"Who is going to end first?" I looked at all my items and Clatinberg, then shifted my gaze over a distant place, "tsk! This enemy can't even give me a single moment of peace of mind without trying to kill me."
The dark clouds coming from the distance were getting her so fast. I didn't know when Clatinberg or my items would end evolving, and something told me the enemy would arrive here first.
"Come with me, all of you," and as I didn't have anything to use but my bones, I decided to use the evolved warriors from down below and moved them towards the enemy.
I led everyone, even the gods down below flew after me. They followed my call as if they already were answering the call of their master and lord.
Watching such a scene unfolding gave me instant delight. It wasn't that surprising actually, after all I did what I promised, helped them with blessing, and didn't do anything bad to them yet.
I grew used to not trust anyone without using my contracts. But something told me this race would grow hostile if I tried to force them to sign contracts with me.
And would my contracts even work on them? They were the ones breaking natural laws and order known in the universe, in the entire cosmos!
I threw aside such thoughts, decided to let them follow me based on their feelings and trust for now.
The moment we moved, the enemy at the far distance seemed to grow anxious. They started to arrange themselves, preparing for a big battle.
"Listen up! They are already above your pit! And so, all we need to do is to kill as many of them as possible and let me do the rest."
The most suitable way to fight them was to hide inside and let the shield stop the enemy as it did right now.
Then our role would be hunting them from inside the shield, without risking anything.
However, this wasn't my way of doing things. And I didn't want to just kill this bunch of fiends.
I aimed to help the entire world here. And to do that, I shouldn't be hindered by anything.
My warriors and god allies' role would be to keep these fiends away from me. If I got my chariot, then things would be great.
However, I preferred not to risk affecting or interrupting the evolution happening to my chariot. I decided to depend on my newly acquired wings and fly directly towards the nearby holes.
Luckily the evolution process didn't touch a single bone in the inventory, or was it just my bad luck? I honestly couldn't tell.
As I got closer from the enemy, I purposefully lowered my flying speed, allowing for my warriors and gods combined army to bypass me and attack the enemy first.
The initial clashes between the two sides were quite bloody. The two sides seemed a bit equal in strength, which made me realise a little thing that I missed here.
"I forgot to give them stats!" I used zero state warriors from the start. And as they evolved and became stronger, I forgot all about the important role of stat points.
They were now at the same level as my soulers and other deadly warriors. However, my soulers just needed to flash through the enemy to kill them. And my warriors here needed to properly fight them.
So, these losses were expected. And I didn't care. I got my hands on a treasure trove already. These gods… They were like one of those artefacts I gained from the Toranks sovereigns, ones like the den of heroes and such.