Chapter 104

In less than one hour, all the monsters here were dead. Ibro didn't feel relieved, as he knew he would face a great danger right now.

He knew where his weakest point was, the sides of his stretched army. At once he gave orders for the light cavalry to retreat to the heart of his army.

He knew they had a high moral right now, but they were tired. He also ordered for his heavy cavalry to come and rest.

Heavy cavalry were a short lethal dagger that can't withstand a long time battles or long-distance travel.

He replaced his heavy cavalry with his lance cavalry and his light cavalry with archer cavalry whose job was to keep an eye for the back.

In this small rest, Ibro instructed the cooks to work and offer their dishes to the tired soldiers. Meanwhile, the ready rations which he brought back from the village showed their worth here.

In half an hour, the sense of danger escalated to a high degree which made Ibro very sure a new attack would hit him soon.

He was ready for whatever his enemies threw at him. What he didn't expect was the hard battle of the front.

He thought this would be an easy battle for these heavy cavalries but when he watched their faces he felt surprised. He asked one of these units:

"What happened there?"

"My lord, we faced strange monsters that kept appearing and hiding everywhere. Although they didn't manage to kill a lot of us, they were really a nuisance."

It hit Ibro suddenly like a lightning bolt. He knew he was mistaken. The hit wouldn't come from the sides at all. He looked to the front and said in a deep serious tone:

"Send my orders immediately, all the front line withdrew to the heart. Send other orders to the magicians and archers. I want them to rain down their attacks like hell all the time towards that front."

He thought about shifting his class to be a magician, but he postponed this move. His enemy proved to be unpredictable. He felt he was a bit rash in his decision, or his enemy was more nervous than him.

He felt the deep strong desire in his enemy to kill him and destroy his village rapidly. Why would such an enemy focus on him?

When he looked around him and noticed the new incoming wave from the back he felt his move right now was really appropriate.

That enemy took great trouble to gather all these monsters. It was best to kill them right here and now. He looked towards the front.

His soldiers began their withdrawal and his long-ranged soldiers began their heavy attacks. From his place he noticed massive numbers of hidden enemies appear from their stealth conditions.

He noticed that many of them died under this heavy rain of skills and arrows, but much more escaped with some injuries. He felt that his enemies were a mix of low and high-level monsters.

If this was right then the incoming monsters would have many high-level ones too. That wasn't good news to him.

He looked at his runes reserve. He only had less than 150 runes left. He didn't hesitate and gave these to his own messengers and ordered them:

"Deliver these to the resting light cavalry. Let them use these in the battle of the back. They with archer cavalry are responsible for the back battle.

Heavy cavalry is responsible for shield warriors about defending the heart here. The front is for lance cavalry with magicians and archers."

He then decided to make better preparations.

"Activate Rapid Rune Skill."

"Activate Penta Rune Skill."

"Activate Mega Omega Skill."

He now activated his two passive skills and one active skill. He held his pen and started to write on the ores he took from his Inventory.

He decided to make his runes made from 50 ores this time. He had very strong enemies and these weak runes couldn't be enough to kill them rapidly.

He had one hour to make runes by his Penta skill effect. He didn't waste even a single second. When he finished, he had made over 140 Even runes and over 50 Odd runes in this hour.

He kept making runes for the second, third, fourth, fifth and six-hour. Although his total number decreased a lot, he was satisfied.

By the end of six-hour, he stopped making runes. He already had nearly 400 Even runes. It was time for his retaliation.

During this period, his armies were in imminent danger all the time. Wave after wave of enemies emerged from all sides.

Every time these monsters tried to penetrate his army ranks, they were either stopped by the timely use of runes or the rain of skills and arrows.

Ibro wasn't ignorant of all these battles and changes. He received reports on the spot from his messengers. He noticed that some units had outstanding performance than the others.

These units made the battle more stable and created some balance. Ibro felt these units would have some talented personnel that might upgrade to generals one day.

Throughout this hard battle, his initial 10k army had lost over one-third of it. Although it was a big loss, the remaining two-thirds managed to raise their levels over level 10 already.

This helped to relieve a lot of pressure, especially at the backline battle. He was now ready for the final showdown with them.

"Order the magicians and archers to be divided into two halves. One part focuses on the front and the other focuses on the back."

Ibro didn't move to the front nor to the back. He moved to the heart which had heated battles all the time from a few strong monsters.

The heart was supported by the heavy cavalry unit and shield warriors. He then smiled and said:

"Activate Dark Dinar summon."

In seconds, a black Ibro emerged. Ibro gave him 100 Even runes and said with a smile:

"They are very strong, so use them well."

His enemies were trying to stretch his army and kite it down.

he couldn't win without suffering some losses, so he accepted the death toll so far. He now was ready for his retaliation.

He gave orders to divide the remaining heavy cavalry between him and his doppelganger. He left shield warriors behind to hold the heart area.

If this heart was lost, then his two big parts of his army would be isolated from each other and would be surrounded. That wasn't an option.

Ibro and black Ibro moved in opposite directions, each was like a sharp precise knives that was unleashed on the throats of their enemies.

Ibro moved with nearly 700 heavy cavalry who had only one mission: kill any strayed enemy you face. It was the same at black Ibro side.

When any Ibro found clustered enemy soldiers, he used one rune to massively destroy them. He then moved to finish the remaining scattered monsters.

The heavy cavalry also worked as shields that protected Ibro and black Ibro from any monsters' retaliation. After this Ibro disengage immediately and searched for another target.

Although they were two small units on the battlefield, they caused severe damage with their surgical strikes to key points in the monster's army.

Minute after minute, hour after hour they kept going and killing and bombing the monsters with runes. After 12 hours of continuous fights, Ibro noticed the obvious decrease in enemies' armies.

He didn't stop though and continued to use his runes. He attracted all monsters he could attract by his taunt skill and then bomb them with his runes.

His army also lost some of his numbers. They were now half their original numbers, but they were much stronger than before.

The lowest one in level was 15. Some even passed the 20 mark. Ibro wasn't focusing on this as he tried to monitor the whole battlefield.

After the third hour, the black Ibro disappeared and Ibro received his men as he continued his harassing attacks.

This kind of tactic caused severe headaches for the monster's army. Many times they tried to ambush Ibro and his troops but they failed.

The main credit was for the devastating rune effect indeed. After another 5 hours, the last monster fell on the ground and the place was full of the loud cheers of victory.

Ibro was really tired, but he didn't think about the rest. He didn't take all this trouble for just winning a battle. He wanted his trophies. Suddenly, a lot of purple dots appeared on the horizon.

They were like shiny stars in the dark sky. Ibro counted these dots. They were over 20 dots. He was surprised.

If his guess was right, then these stars were the gem of these territories. That meant he completely killed all the monsters of these 20+ areas.

He felt shocked. Did he just kill all these monsters? Why did they focus on his territory?