Chapter 261: Feeding his Misconception (1/2)

From the sequence of events, the Dark Beastmaster couldn't utter a response to my question.

Probably, what's in his head right now was how to get away from here, alive. And I need to take advantage of that while he's still out of sorts from the death of his beast and Marina's shout.

With Benedict's fate unknown, the crossbow guy still entangled to my clones and Marina rushing towards her man's falling figure, there's no one who can save him from me.

Ah.

Wait. Someone can.

”Tharkon!”

From the direction where I came from, the Dark Soldier Transcendent who blocked me on the way here arrived. Though he's fairly fine on the surface, his Transcendent Aura was a bit erratic. It could probably be attributed to how he rushed here after getting freed from my clone.

”Where have you been?! I sent you to block anyone that will come, right?!”

Instead of being happy at the arrival of an ally, the Dark Beastmaster called Tharkon angrily shouted at the newcomer.

Ugh. Good grief. Idiots are truly everywhere. But with his appearance, this guy's shock from what happened was instantly erased.

”I did block one but he had clones as strong as a Transcendent! Huh? That's him!”

The newcomer reasoned with him and explained what happened. Only after that did he notice me.

I waved at him which made the guy take a step back.

Judging from his reaction, my clones did a number on him, eh?

That huge sword of his now had cracks on some parts. His armor was also shattered in some places but there's no visible injury on him

In any case, with his sudden appearance, it became impossible to kill the Dark Beastmaster. There's a choice of going all out to kill one or just leave now with Fleur since she's already done with what she wanted to do.

”You should leave now. Because of how you openly flew there, more Transcendents are on their way to that location. Don't underestimate a higher Source Energy like I did before.”

From out of nowhere, I heard the familiar voice of the silver-haired woman.

Her warning was timely as I'm still mulling over what to do.

It rang directly on my consciousness. This means it's not her Incarnation's voice who's roaming the world, as it looks for the Portal's location. It's the real World's Will that was watching things unfold from where she was.

Just like how she could summon our consciousness, communicating this way is easier for her.

But this is an opportunity to cut down more of their numbers…

No. She's right. I should stop underestimating them… With us outnumbered here, I should not risk it.

I'm getting too confident again after my few successful encounters with them.

To be sure, I tried responding to it to ask about the authenticity of her warning but I was met with silence.

Haa. I guess it's up to me to decide whether I will listen to her warning or not.

Fleur was already on her way back to my side and the two in front of me already had their guard up.

The Dark Beastmaster already called for a retreat and the crossbow guy was doing his best to get away from my clones.

That one also hasn't shown anything more than his crossbow and blade strike while this Tharkon only had his beast killed by me.

There's a possibility that that's all there is to them but I couldn't rule out the possibility that they might do something unexpected when faced with a truly life-threatening situation.

It should be a swift kill without any room for a retaliation.

If I could think about a sure-kill skill among my arsenal, it would be the nameless Sword Skill I created to win against my little contest with the World's Will.

But for that Sword Skill to produce the same power as before, I don't have the time at the moment.

”Whatever the reason, let's retreat for now. This guy is bad news but he's most likely the strongest Transcendent they have. We only need to wait for His Excellency to descend to deal with him. After that, this world will instantly fall into our hands.”

I don't know if he's too confident to talk in that loud voice. But he kept spouting about that 'His Excellency'. It's probably that guy who's supposed to be a descendant of a Great One, right?

Does he think I will not be able to do anything to him now? Maybe he's right. But he's not the only enemy here.

He's someone higher in their chain of commands. If he believed that I'm the strongest, then they won't know what hit them when we used our trump card, Sofiel.

He even forgot that Fleur had just killed someone from their side. His focus was on me due to how I killed his beast.

How did this guy even get a high position or rather how did he become a Transcendent if he's this big of an idiot?

Well then, let's add another thing for him to fear from me. I might not be able to kill him today but this will surely be imprinted in his mind.

While the Dark Soldier was still deliberating on his answer, I gripped the Orb of Ailment in my hand and activated it.

For now, they probably still hadn't received the news about what the World's Will told me. Because if they knew, this Tharkon will not continue his retreat and try his best to detain us.

As the smoke-like Aura of Ailment oozed out from the orb, I started my move.