Chapter 242: Island Takeover (1/2)
It was a good test for Lex's skill and although he was suffering quite a few powerful blows and was being quite heavily injured, the longer the battle went on, the more attacks he was able to dodge and block.
”Listen clearly. Your leader will die here and all of you can follow suit, or you can all pledge loyalty to me. If you do not pledge loyalty to me, your deaths are inevitable,” announced Lex.
As he did so, 5 clones of Lex dashed towards him and the 6 identical figures all struck the bandit tribe leader at the same time from all different locations.
It was clear to Lex that in the few minutes that he would have to hold back the bandit leader until his life force ran out, he could be killed by the extreme power of the bandit leader.
However, he was also unwilling to destroy his clones as they were important for the safety of the fox beast units and the innocents in the tribe, so instead, he teleported them all to the area beside him.
That would give him the chance to surprise attack the bandit tribe leader without disposing of his clones, and then he could send them all back to where they were previously.
With 6 powerful figures attacking him at once from all different directions, there was nothing the bandit tribe leader could do.
He tried to defend against the joint attack, however; he was struck down and his life force was running low anyway, so his death was unavoidable.
In truth, Lex desired to start a massacre and kill all the disgusting bandits within that tribe and all the other bandit tribes on the island, but Lex knew that it would merely bring more trouble to the innocents and defenceless.
If he did that, the other nearby islands would seize the opportunity to attempt to take over the island and large wars and conflicts between islands would begin, and there would be a lot of collateral damage.
Instead, Lex was planning to forcefully bind the loyalty of all the bandits to a totem that he purchased through the system and was planning to leave it behind to a single trusted, capable and talented individual.
Staying on the island wasn't something that Lex was planning on doing, but he also didn't want to leave before setting up a safe and developing environment for everyone on it.
As long as he was able to do as he planned, other islands would soon follow suit and be taken over by the leader that Lex was planning on putting in place.
The only issue is, he was yet to find any of them that were capable and trustworthy enough.
Once one had power in their hands, human arrogance and desires usually take over and by handing over the control of so many powerful bandits to an evil individual, Lex could be causing an even worse situation for the citizens of the islands.
Finding someone that had the right character for leadership, but was also just and valued all people's lives would be hard, but good people could be found everywhere.