BUILDING MY OWN EMPIRE - My Journey from Nothing to Overwhelming Power-Chapter 35 – part 2 Underworld Insects. The Lesser Secret Disaster
In a moment.. the sounds of arrows were piercing the noise and falling consecutively upon the bodies of the moving insects..
And in another moment.. the first volley of arrows ended.. everyone’s eyes turned toward the place..
"Did it succeed?" the village crowd wondered from behind the wall.. waiting for the signal from the tower..
From before the eyes of Monali and Lois.. dozens of insects were carpeting the ground, fallen and wounded..
"I didn’t expect that" Monali’s lips parted with a smile.. then she directed her gaze toward the villagers with the victory sign..
"Ooooohhhhh"
The voice of the villagers rose in joy.. then they quickly prepared for the second volley of arrows..
Swoosh .. Swoosh .. Swoosh
The volleys continued consecutively.. more than 20 volleys.. passed consecutively toward the massive numbers of insects..
The left side of the fourth wall.. appeared after the end of the volleys as if with half the number and less of insects..
"They fell.. half of them have fallen" Lois shouted with joy.. while she tried to go down toward the battlefield..
"Stop.. " Monali prevented her again..
"Sumaaaan" Monali shouted to wake him from his distraction..
At the bottom, Suman had not finished his thoughts and plans.. then he heard something from Monali’s voice..
"She is rushing me to make a decision.. fine, if I’m not sure, I will only do what we agreed upon.."
He raised his double spear.. then summoned 5 wolves again..
"Launch" Suman gave his orders. And his wolves dashed quickly toward the prey.. the Underworld insects were nothing but an easy prey to hunt..
Their actual strength is in their large number and their final point of arrival..
The direct major wave that started with a thousand insects.. was united, fast, and its goal was clear.. even the formidable Jo could not stand in its face without being subjected to a serious injury..
After the wave split into 6 sections.. it became slower and its only danger ended.. represented by the cooperation between them..
Something else contributed to making those numbers scattered in this way.. the circular design of the walls..
When the major wave entered toward the fourth wall.. it split into 6 waves..
The most impactful thing was the direction of the waves in two opposite directions.. which made dealing with them individually an easy matter..
More than a thousand arrows were directed toward the four left waves.. it cost the insects the loss of half their number..
The two waves that headed right.. found Suman and his wolves in front of them..
The five female wolves were like arrows storming the crowd and preying on them without resistance..
In less than half an hour.. the insect wave was less than a quarter of its total number..
circling in a circular shape in the space between the fourth and third wall..
Suman and his wolves retreated after eliminating both waves entirely..
When he reached near Monali, he was already panting with exhaustion..
"Give me some time.. and I will eliminate them all" he said with an exhausted yawn and smiled..
Lois’s lips were parted as well.. but Monali was looking with focus toward all sides.. then she said
"Lois.. go and attack all of these, you must gain strength points"
"Haha finally.. fine, I will finish the mission myself" Lois answered then jumped. And before she landed, she was already wearing the two gloves 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢
After less than ten minutes had passed..
BOOM ..
Lois struck her final blow and brought down the last of the insects.. she deactivated her gloves and laughed
"Hey Monali, what do you th—..."
Zzzzzzz ... Zzzzzzz ... Zzzzzzz .... Zzzzzzz
Suddenly ....
From the right side.. the sound of noise roared loudly again.. many times louder than it was before..
The trees that surrounded the right side began to fall violently..
While everyone stood with anxiety..
"Everyone.. reposition now" Monali shouted quickly.. her eyes watched the event with worry.. she was expecting something similar..
"Dammit.. the first wave fell easily.. from the beginning there was something telling me that there was a problem" she muttered then cursed..
Quickly Lois reached near her and Suman stood as well..
In a moment.. the insects began to emerge from between the trees.. and from the first glance.. and the width of the insects’ rank.. the matter was clear
"Their number looks doubled by two times?" Lois whispered in wonder.. while the speed of the insects was greater..
"Lois" Monali shouted quickly and continued "Quickly go and gain strength points from the edges of the wave.. go"
Lois did not answer and jumped quickly... and hardly had dozens of insects come out until Lois reached the side..
BOOM .. BOOM .. BOOM
And she struck without any hesitation..
"Suman quickly ask the villagers to prepare again.. "
"My lady.. two hours have not passed yet for them to be able to aim"
"Dammit.. I forgot.. what... dammit.. "
"My lady please calm down.. tell me what you are thinking" Suman asked
BOOM .. BOOM .. BOOM
Lois’s strikes began to increase consecutively.. and instead of single numbers, dozens were falling now..
"I am bringing down many and many of them.. despite that, their number doesn’t seem to decrease. How many are they, damn it"
In the middle of the open space.. the massive wave was approaching bit by bit to the fourth wall..
Everyone.. knew the inevitable truth when the wave arrived.. that wall was never a match for its combined strength..
Suddenly ...
"Hyaaaa.. Launchhh"
From the other side of the wave.. powerful shouts roared..
Lois turned toward the sound.. and cast her gaze upon the scene..
10 fighters carrying different specialized weapons.. launched with the vigor of youth and the enthusiasm of fighters.. and struck together..
"Hahaha go on you little ones, fight!" Lois shouted and struck violently and encouraged
"Lady Lois, we will topple them all, rest a little" one of the fighters shouted
"Haha don’t be arrogant.. you are competitors to me.. let’s see which of us brings down more haha" Lois shouted and struck again..
In a moment, the enthusiastic voices rose again.. the strikes increased and the competition was intense..
The wave’s line became thinner. And thinner until it looked as if it would be cut from the middle..
"Well done" Monali muttered.. then she jumped..
In a few seconds.. she was near Lois..
"What are you doing here" Lois asked then struck..
"Tell me, how much is left of your Accumulation?"
"70%"
"I believe you’ve built up enough points to bring down the front of the wave, right?"
"Yes.. but the strike will consume no less than 30% of the Accumulation"
"Ohhh" Monali muttered.. then she moved to withdraw before saying "Do not deliver the blow before my orders, and tell the fighters.. any one of them who reaches half of his Accumulation withdraws"
"Your Majesty’s orders" Lois answered arrogantly then struck again
Monali returned again to the tower and asked Suman about his Accumulation
"60%" he answered her quickly
"The momentum with which the wave launched has been broken.." Monali said then muttered.
"The wave now is less impactful than the first wave.. what is the solution then? Should I make Lois destroy it with the concentrated strike.. then she will lose the strike and lose the Accumulation.."
Monali’s thinking did not last long before Lois withdrew near her..
"The wave will approach the wall, what’s the solution" Lois asked..
Suddenly.. Monali’s eyes turned toward the side..
"It seems they decided to enter the battle finally" Monali said..
Thump .. Thump .. Thump
The sounds of footsteps echoed harshly..
Thump .. Thump .. Thump
Like a trained guard with the highest degrees of order.. a company of 30 people led by a leader advanced..
"It’s time, men"
The Leader of the Rock Village shouted.. his body was twice as massive as before.. his muscles were rippling and his color stood out with a sharp shine..
His features were hidden and he appeared as if he had a mustache over his rough, rocky face.. and in his hand, he held a large spiked club..
Behind him.. stood thirty rock fighters, massive in build with rippling muscles.. each holding a specialized weapon..
"Come on men, let’s execute plan number 40" the Leader shouted..
from above his head a blue light emerged and launched toward the soldiers as if it were binding them and leading them..
At the same time, the Leader’s special ability was activated..
(The Leader Leads)
After reaching the paths.. the Village Leader chose to turn into a fighter as well.. but his rank as the Leader of the village.. made his evolution higher than the rest, and instead of turning into a fighter.. he turned into..
(Leader of the Rock Fighters)
Upon turning into the Leader of the Rock Fighters.. the Leader gained the Leader’s Club..
{ Leader’s Club }
{ A specialized weapon that can be evolved into an Ancient Weapon after naming.. grants the owner the properties: The Leader Leads, The Leader Attacks, and The Leader Defends }
At the same time.. ten rock fighters moved toward the right side of the wave and ten others toward the left side.. then
They began the attack
consecutively and intensely..
The specialized weapons that adapted to the Rock Men made the attacks more fierce and precise..
Compared to the 10 human fighters who were characterized by skill and agility.. the Rock Fighters were more dynamic in strategic movements..
And thanks to the property (The Leader Leads).. soon wind, fire, rocks, water, light, cutting, kicking, and smashing were flying in all their types over the insects.. in a coordinated way that made every two or three attacks merge into one intense attack that brought down dozens at once..
In a few minutes, no human was fighting anymore.. instead, everyone on the ground and atop the tower stood looking at that fierce battalion..
In less than an hour..
The Rock Fighters battalion had toppled the entire second wave with a number exceeding three thousand insects...
While the Leader of the Rock Fighters stood over the corpses, boasting..
"This is the Leader’s true army haha"
