Chapter 41：Weird Corrupted Barbarians (1/2)

It has been two hours since the battle started and yeah, it's still as chaotic as before. All sorts of Augmented Skills were still flying around though it's already a bit less than before.

The grounds surrounding the Heavenly Lightning Tribe were already littered with corpses both of barbarians and Wild Beasts.

And even now, the Dark Beastmasters were still nowhere to be seen. Those cunning freaks letting this world's denizens fight each other, dwindling their numbers.

And because of how disunited this world is, they could just sit back and relax while sending sweet words to unsatisfied barbarian tribes to corrupt them and fight in their stead.

Now even without Raiden's explanation, his plan to unify this world first before dealing with these invaders was already appealing to me.

They needed to come together to deal with these guys or else the world would just head towards its doom through its own denizens' hands.

I need to have a lengthy talk with him when this is all over. I want to know all or some of his plans so I can have a clearer picture of how he will deal with them and also give my own input if possible. Like how the Principal let me in on his thoughts about the Pocket Dimension, I can help Raiden think and plan out this World's future.

”General, we need you to send some troops.”

The messenger uttered hurriedly. Looks like he rushed here to my side to deliver the message. The other General that was sent here with me at the Western side died. On how he died, I don't know, looks like he took the frontline and was ganged up by a group of Corrupted Barbarians lying in wait to ambush him. They're not like the Wild Beasts who were controlled after all, they could still think by themselves.

I looked at Ophelia who was resting. The Orb was on its cooldown again so we're back at taking a defensive stance. Compared to the 300 troops near us which were already down to half of their original numbers, our casualties only numbered less than 30. It was certainly impressive but losing 30, I wouldn't say I'm okay with that.

”Ophelia, what do you think?”

”General, it's not wise to send them without Enhancement, I suggest we finish up here then move everyone to aid them.”

As the battle went on longer, they all got accustomed to the Corrupted Barbarians and the Thornhogs. Those who were attacking us earlier were already wiped out. Now we're fighting fresh enemies from the other battlefields that were performing well.

Due to that, these messengers kept on coming to me to ask for aid for the other battlefields but yeah, the reason why we were performing well was the Orb of Enhancement. If I sent a platoon, without Enhancement, they'll only be a little organized than most barbarians fighting on our side and without the support of a leader like Ophelia, they'll be overwhelmed.

”Just wait for a bit. We'll finish up here before aiding them.”

I answered the messenger, taking up Ophelia's suggestion.

Erin and Avelin were also resting beside me. They stopped talking and just saved up their energies to keep up with me during my walks through the battlefield.

There was a time when I was also ambushed by a group of Corrupted Barbarians but these two swiftly dealt with them and I only saw their bodies falling to the ground, lifeless.

It was during one hour into the battle when a system message appeared that I already maxed out the Support Character System. It's already at Level 5 and 100%.

I really power-leveled it during this battle. Just from how many I was supporting all at once, I received a lot of experience points. I got 2.4 Strength and Endurance from leveling my system from Level 3 to 5. Ah, my Intelligence attribute also got an increase of 0.7 points. It might look little considering I got 3 Strength and 1.5 Endurance from advancing to Augmented Realm but only this system gave out an increase on that hard to raise attribute.

Due to that increase in Intelligence, I felt my control on the inherent energy increased and that resulted in a reduced time to channel the Brute Energy needed to activate the Orb to cover more than 100 barbarians.

But because I'm not at the World of System, there's no way I could upgrade my System to put me in Adept-class. I'll ask Yuko back on Earth if I can ride on her connection to that world to upgrade my System. I still don't know if that will work but it's worth a try.

Lastly, the continuous use of Physique Boost proved to be effective as well, the container was enlarged again, now the experience sat at 60%. I proved that the increase in Intelligence Attribute was really affecting our unique Abilities that was awakened by being exposed to Psyche Energy.

I remembered Raiden thanking me for that Support Bonus which increased his Intelligence to 0.2. He said it improved his Temporal Acceleration. Now, because that Support Bonus increased again thanks to leveling my System, both Yuko and Raiden got another 0.2 Intelligence points to all of my Supported Individuals.

I'm sure Yuko's Foresight will also get an improvement because of the added 0.4 Intelligence.

I took this time of rest to check my stats again and yeah, I was satisfied when I looked at it.

It grew again, decreasing the gap between me and the Heroes.

[Physique Cultivation: 1st Stage Augmented Realm (48%)

Strength: 15.8(22.4)(1.0)