Chapter 399: Lesson (1/2)
After tossing the body of the Dark World Transcendent, Avelin jumped back inside the Black Mist before I let go of the now pilotless Ultimate Darkgen, letting it fall down the ground.
If they didn't pick that up later, I'll have someone loot it for us to use. It only had a ripped cockpit after all. One of my girls could use that or perhaps for Old Man Reol.
Giving that Old Man a new toy to play with sounds great, he could bond with the other Old Man at the Empire. If Ezyn also managed to become a Transcendent, the three old men can bond together. They could spar against each other like that.
As soon as Avelin jumped back inside and settled back on my seat, I patted her head and praised her swift kill.
Not that I'm encouraging her to continue terrorizing the enemies by showing her innocent but ruthless side. They're enemies anyway. If not her, one of us will kill them. There's no use having a prisoner here.
To complete the act I wanted them to comprehend, I controlled the Black Mist erratically to make it appear as if it suffered sufficient damage from the frantic retaliation of that Transcendent moments before Avelin snapped his neck.
Convinced with that act, the four Ultimate Darkgens started chasing me around the battlefield, hoping to end me while the Black Mist was damaged. However, unbeknownst to them, I was maneuvering my Ultimate Metagen to direct their attacks straight to their troops down below.
Of course, I was making sure that I would also be grazed by their attacks, letting them chip away armor plates of the Black Mist.
By doing that, it was enough for them to consider that sooner or later, I would make a mistake which would eventually lead to my doom by getting hit squarely on my back.
”See this, Avelin? Sometimes, we need to play around with our enemies. If they become too scared of us, they will most likely separate from each other and it will take us a long time to hunt them down one by one.”
Using this chance to educate the Barbarian Girl comfortably using my body as her backrest, I let the video feed on the back of the Black Mist show how the four Ultimate Darkgens compete against each other to hit me with their skills and attacks.
”I understand. Earlier, was snapping his neck good?” Since she always powered through on her fights and battles, Avelin tilted her head, wondering about that earlier event.
”Un. That was magnificently done. I let you pick one of them to kill after all. That's why you don't need to think that hard about that one. Remember, if you can kill the enemy easily, do it without dilly-dallying or waiting for them to reveal their trump card. Those who wait and babble their mouths were simply stupid and idiotic... Look ahead.”
Continuing my lecture to the innocent girl, I pointed to the video feed at the back where the four were continuing to chase us.
”Those four. They didn't see how you killed that guy clearly and I made them think that this thing we're riding was damaged. They combined that information and now, they're thinking that they could defeat us because we're weakened.”
”Do we wait for the right time to deal with them?”
”No. We will not. I told you. If they become scared of us, they will run away and hide from us. For now, we'll let them live. But that doesn't mean we will let them do what they want. Instead of killing them, we're going to confuse them.”
”How?”
”Watch closely and learn from me. If you master this, only those overwhelmingly stronger than you could beat you.” I patted her head again before continuing on my plan to confuse them.
I know, these Transcendents could be fooled for a while but because they're not complete idiots, they would start noticing things. That's why before they completely caught on to what I was doing, I would confuse them by doing something that would fool them once more.
Around two minutes of chase, the chance to do that finally arrived.
”He's leading us on, idiots! He's not really injured!” One of them shouted to the other three about his discovery of the strangeness of the current situation.
Upon hearing that, the other three slowed down their tracks which made the gap between us widen. With that one shout, all of them started to form doubts about the strangeness of the situation. If someone caught on like that one who shouted, he would support his notion. However, those who failed to catch on to it would start thinking of other possibilities.
In a while, the four Ultimate Darkgens completely stopped their tracks while I continued to maneuver the Black Mist away from them.
With that kind of display, those who were thinking of other possibilities would start doubting the claim of the first one. And to nail it down in their head, what I had to do is to hammer it in!
Upon reaching a certain distance where they wouldn't be able to easily detect the fluctuation of Energy, I activated the Black Mist's add-on ability wherein a patch of darkness would spread from its feet before covering the whole Metagen completely, making it appear somewhat invisible to the eye when it reached a certain distance.
Following that, I silently activated Phantasmic Doppelganger, creating one clone that continued retreating further, while the real one became concealed as the effect of using the skill turned around to go back in their direction.
Not giving them the chance to convene and align their suspicions together, I focused my eye on the one at the forefront.
”See here, Avelin, they started suspecting me. Now that suspicion will turn around and it will completely confuse them.”