Chapter 49：The Real Situation (1/2)

I watched on as the Corrupted King Realm's body slowly disintegrated, starting from the source, the corruption was now completely covering him with no skin unturned. His previous brownish skin was now pitch-black as it slowly turned into ashes blown away by the winds.

As I had guessed, when the corruption reaches its completion, the Barbarian's body will collapse. Unless they achieved assimilation, there's no future for them but that.

From that Corrupted King Realm's mouth, we learned that Raiden successfully killed their Chieftain, some of them surrendered and willingly followed the new Chieftain in the form of Raiden.

Most barbarians' way of thinking was this simple, follow the strong. However, there's always some like this guy who was completely loyal to his Chieftain. Seeing the situation, he fled among others who felt the same.

As they were in the process of leaving the area, they met a Dark Beastmaster who stopped them and offered them revenge. Riding on the situation that they're still aggrieved by the death of their Chieftain, all of them willingly get corrupted in the hopes of taking revenge against the Lightning Chieftain.

Why didn't he start his own tribe then? He's strong enough to do that somewhere but no, he chose to be corrupted.

Currently, his army that was previously made to stand by here and the absorbed tribesmen of the opposite tribe were being besieged at their location. The army stationed here were called by Raiden to reinforce them.

He couldn't rely completely on the newly absorbed tribesmen, if he shows any weakness against Dark Beastmasters, they will abandon him just the same since they're originally enemies

That's the reason why they're not here.

The three Dark Beastmasters that were deployed here were ordered to stop and kill every messenger that will pass by. Hence the explanation of why there's no news about them for 2 days.

And this Corrupted Barbarian was sent to supervise and to stop any possible reinforcement. They probably heard about the Old Man and that made them become wary of him.

But they underestimated his strength. Most likely Old Man Reol is the top expert which is the closest to the Emperor Realm in this world. One Corrupted King Realm isn't a threat to him.

It's another story if they could send 10 at once. Otherwise, there's no way they could defeat him. They could stall him, sure, but that's all they can do.

Ah well. I told the Corrupted Barbarian that I'll stop the hastening of his corruption if he told us everything. Sadly, by the time he finished talking about the things we wanted to know, it's already too late for him. Even when I stopped it, he's too far gone that the corruption sped up by itself.

When his body completely disintegrated, the Dark Beastmaster who listened to me looked expectantly.

”W-we can go now, right?”

He almost bit his tongue by talking too nervously.

”Sure. Go on.”

Overjoyed, he hurriedly put his unconscious companion at his back and bolted away from us.

However, ten steps later, a Pillar dropped from above them, turning them into a meat paste in an instant.

”You really let them go.”

While controlling his bloodied Pillar back to his body, Old Man Reol commented.

”I'm a man of my words. Besides, I know you won't let them go.”

It's really that guy's fault for believing me. It's not like I lied to them, anyway.

Besides, I would have died from them earlier if not for the Orb of Concealment. They're enemies who not only have the resources but also the personnel.

Losing three 2-Star Beastmasters was something negligible to them but for us, cutting their numbers even for a bit is a great contribution.

”You sly kid. Let's go.”