Chapter 377: Enhancing the Heavenly Lightning Tribes Army (1/2)

”He's weaker than I expected. But we cannot underestimate someone from the lineage of one of the strongest individuals in the Dark World.” I handed the Scouter to Irja and she also looked into the UPL of our adversary.

At the moment, the two camps are quietly waiting for the other side to move first. With eight of them here, we have to wait for the other Transcendents to come to his side first before making sure that none will be able to flee and hide somewhere secluded in this world.

To probe the other side, I summoned Kael and had it creep over to the middle of the gap between the two camps.

In a few moments, two of the vacant-eyed Beastmaster Transcendents floated from their camp and dropped down their quadrupedal Soul-bound beasts; one looked like a green sabertooth tiger with two heads and the other looked like a direwolf with rainbow-colored fur.

The two heads of the sabertooth opened their mouths and acidic liquid sprayed out of their fangs, like snakes spitting their venoms.

Kael punched down and a huge chunk of the ground rose and blocked it.

The rainbow-colored direwolf moved so fast that it appeared to be split into seven different colored direwolves before jumping altogether, aiming for Kael's neck.

However, a golden arrow shower fell on that spot, accurately hitting each colored direwolf in their bodies, revealing the real one riddled by it while purple blood dripped out of its body.

Delian waited for that timely cover fire next to me.

Using that opportunity, Kael flew up high before swooping down like a meteor towards the wolf.

Unfortunately, the rainbow wolf became covered with Dark Energy and its speed was suddenly heightened, retreating back to their camp.

The green two-headed sabertooth issued a deafening growl while showering its front with its acidic saliva before retreating back to its camp as well.

Upon seeing that, I called back Kael and unsummoned the two Pillar Guardians.

Looking at the enemy camp, that descendant was biting his fingernail in irritation.

When he noticed me looking at him, he immediately composed himself although he's already caught in the act.

So he's acting tough, huh? Should I challenge him to who could 'act tough' better?

”Those two Transcendents were really controlled by him,” Irja told me her observation.

”Yes. It's probably one of his skills. But if he can control seven Transcendents at once, that skill of his is overpowered. Do you think we're missing something here?”

”Considering you can also create clones as strong as Transcendents and your Pillar Guardians who could hold themselves against Transcendents, I doubt there's nothing wrong with it… However, you're not normal and he's just simply a descendant… Perhaps he's employing some kind of tactic for us to be wary of him.”

That's plausible. He even tried to look composed. I guess I have to employ that kind of tactic again. However, before that, I have to make it worth our while.

Since we finished probing the enemy responses, I tried touring Raiden's Heavenly Lightning Battalion.

Apart from Old Man Reol that is Raiden's close aide and could be said as the Deputy Commander of his army, there are also five Generals who are at the later stages of King Realm. However, none of them reached the 5th Stage King Realm.

Months ago, only Old Man Reol reached that stage among every King Realm existing in the Desolate Plains and a lot of Chieftains of large tribes who were probably around 3rd Stage King Realm died against Raiden or became corrupted that were all later cut down.

It's already a wonder that one of his Generals reached the 4th Stage King Realm.

Back then, I thought that everyone's progress was linked with me but in truth, I'm only partly the reason for that. It's actually the quicker encroachment of the Dark Energy that's mixing in this Mortal Worlds' atmosphere.

Add the descent and the emergence of the Transcendents, the Mortal Worlds' energy concentration became thicker than how it was originally or three years ago. The signs of evolution of World of Elements World's Will were also because of the number of Transcendents in that world as well as the existence of Dark World Zones, especially whenever one of those would be destroyed.

Upon checking the army's current state, I decided to give them a small boost. Using Energy Zone, I used five baseball-sized stones and through my Energy Manipulation, I bathed everyone in the camp with the dissolved essence of the energy stones.

After estimating their numbers, there are at least ten thousand Barbarians in this camp, around seven thousand of them were Mortal Ranks which served as the infantry or in other words, the cannon fodders. Of the remaining three thousand, two thousand three hundred Barbarians are at varying stages of Augmented Realm, six hundred eighty Barbarians are at Saint Realm and only twenty King Realm experts.

Compared to the almost extinct human race of the World of Element or the Spiritas and Spirit Beasts at World of Spirits, the number of experts here and their stages is too pitiful.

Perhaps if there's no interference from the Dark World, the experts here will remain stagnant because of how the large tribes always tried to keep the other large tribes in check.

In just around five minutes, the lowest ranking Mortal Realm Barbarians simultaneously experienced breakthroughs. Some even directly went to Augmented Realm making the camp rowdy that everyone became alerted, from an Augmented Captain of a squad to the five strongest Generals and their deputies.