Chapter 288: Pseudo-Transcendents (1/2)

”Inspector? Since when did someone like him bother with us, Mortal Ranks?”

The leader of these white silk robes tribe answered doubtfully. At least he didn't just flip out and none of his people went out to report our arrival.

”And even more so, he picked someone from this world to do that. Sounds totally different than the one I remembered.”

So, is he really someone with that kind of attitude? I only guessed but the way this guy described that Descendant of a Great One… it's full of disdain. It's like that guy was full of arrogance which he couldn't stomach. Despite not confirming anything yet, the way he dissed him sounds like he's someone who's not afraid of him.

This guy either didn't believe what I said or he's just that disdainful towards that descendant.

And the answer is most likely the former. There's just no way he could be that disdainful against someone powerful enough to crush all of them. Unless these white robes tribe have something they depend upon.

”I don't know. We're just someone he picked randomly. Are you refusing to show the result? You were given this Zone for your tribe, is this how you will repay his kindness?”

As I observed the changes in his expression I gave a silent command to everyone to leak out some of their Transcendent Aura, letting those near the edge of the Zone huddle together, squeezing themselves towards the middle.

”T-that…”

The leader stuttered before he turned towards his subordinate. It looks like my words intimidated him and he started showing signs of fear. Like I thought, he's just probing us with his words.

”Will you leave after showing it to you?”

”Of course, we have more zones to inspect. We couldn't waste our time in one.”

I answered in which the leader nodded in reply.

The subordinate he talked to then ran off to somewhere. I followed him with my eyes and he ended up in the middle where he pulled open a lever.

From there, the ground opened which revealed neatly stacked Dark Energy-filled Tanks. And next to it, a mountain of Elemental Stones with at least intermediate-grade in purity.

These guys accumulated that much, huh? Is it because it's a Merged Zone? The first six we cleared up didn't have any hidden stash. But thanks to this, we'll have more harvest.

Not only I got a gist of the descendant's attitude, posing as an inspector like this would let us round them up easily while only becoming vigilant.

”Great. You're doing great here. You can close that now. Someone would collect them.”

I acted pleased while letting them close it. It's a shame if we hit it with strays.

”I understand, we'll prepare half of them to be carried out.”

”You don't need to prepare, the collectors are already here.”

I lifted my hand and gestured to everyone to start.

And likewise, the Incarnation behind me instantly made spikes out of her Energy which instantly rained down towards the ground.

”Y-you!”

The leader pointed at me angrily but he was pulled back by his subordinates, pulling him inside a defensive skill that blocked the rain of Energy Spikes

”There's no need to get angry, you're all going to die here anyway”

I smirked and opened Domain of Valor and Bedevilled Outburst joining the Incarnation to bombard them with hard to resist projectiles.

Jayna, Fleur, Hikari and Boris also started raining down their attacks below them.

Now that they were squeezed to the middle of this Merged Zone, running out to report what's happening became impossible so what they did was to defend and counterattack.

Somehow they formed groups of five wherein the frontmost or the leader of each group grew in strength before sending their counter-attacks towards us.

”They're using a method of combining their strength into one. It will be proven troublesome for ordinary Transcendents but with you and your logic-defying group wouldn't have any problem with it.”

The Incarnation whispered behind me as she continued to weave her Elemental Energy to take down groups of these white robes Dark World denizen.

Though some of them could block the Transcendents attacks, there's still a lot who failed to do that. Maybe lacking in their group's strength or they're not versed with the method they're using to combine their strengths.

”No… I refuse for us to die here! Stop the 5-man Captain Formation! Switch to 25-man General Formation! Make the strongest one to receive your strengths!”

Seeing that the combined power of five was not doing any better, the guard leader who managed to calm himself down directed an order in which he became an example.