133 A Monsters Expedien (1/2)

After going through three different portals, Daniel finally found the right spot to cultivate.

There were no tribes in the surroundings. He had made sure of that in order to avoid inadvertently killing them, in case a vortex happened to appear as he broke through the next stage of cultivation.

He had also left the pocket dimension to Edmund, taking with him only the time sphere, which he rapidly locked in the middle of the desolated plain inside which he was currently in, and activated it.

The flowing of time hastened by three times, allowing Daniel's already enhanced speed of cultivation to reach six thousand and three hundred times the speed of cultivation he would have had without karmic system, and time sphere.

He quietly sat down on a greyish patch of terrain, and tried to calm his state of mind through deep and slow breaths.

One breath in, one breath out.

The various essences in the surroundings were slowly attracted by his body, and moved through into it as he inhaled deeply.

In a matter of seconds, his consciousness drifted away, and he fell unconscious.

The moment Daniel fell asleep, in a radius of a thousand kilometers the ground started to tremble.

Just like Daniel had expected, a vortex started to form around his body, and causing every bit of corrupted essences and spiritual essence to be pulled towards him, as darkness started to enshroud Daniel's body.

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Back in the tribe's territory, something odd was happening.

Around the territory, a few powerful warriors which did not belong to the local tribes, had been spotted roaming around the various tribe bases.

These warriors casually entered other tribes' territories and tried to start conversation about Daniel's magical powers, or about the incoming war with the monsters.

Mid chief level solitary warriors had appeared at the same time around every single tribe's base that was located in the surroundings of the tribe ruled by the triumvirate.

At first, the triumvirate had thought that these warriors had heard about the rumors that they had spread, and had come to be purified, and join the war against the monsters, but instead, these powerful warriors simply waited around the bases.

As time passed, more and more bases were visited by the warriors, to which was asked to leave, or left alone as they didn't seem to have any ill intention.

They either claimed to be wanting to witness the powers of this mystical young man they had heard so much about, to meet purified warriors, or to have been sent by their own far away tribes to gather informations.

Since Daniel had appeared, thousands and thousand of warriors had come from many different tribes. So, they had expected to meet a few odd ones within the pile. Some of them were more credible than others, but since their entire race supposedly shared the same goal of going back to better time, they were not considered as a direct threat, but a simple nuisance instead.

That, was a mistake.

A few of these warriors had infiltrated each and every tribe which was now under the triumvirate's control, and exactly at midnight.. The chaos started.

These warriors turned towards the tribes' members, and started a slaughter.

Curiously, the ones they attacked, weren't the warriors that Daniel had purified, but the corrupted civilians, and the weaker warriors and hunters.

The numerous purified warriors reacted with haste, and thanks to their numerical advantage, they were quickly able to neutralize these warrior, despite the majority of them attempted to escape.

The majority of these warriors managed to kill various civilians before being taken down, but the moment the first of them had been killed.. A loud voice resounded through the entire world.

If Daniel was conscious, he would recognize this voice as the voice of the herald of corruption, which said ”The side of the Spiritual Emperor broke the temporary armistice, the war starts now. To repair for the damage, in the name of the Sovereign of corruption, I grant a token to the King of monsters.”

The moment the herald of corruption finished speaking, various large groups of warriors started to come out of hiding. They then marched towards the territories of the tribes whose warriors had been purified, and were now part of the army of the Spiritual Emperor.

Back in his castle, the King of the monsters, which was comfortably sitting on his throne with a faint smile on his face, was looking at small purple pearl in his hand. It radiated pure and deep essence of corruption.

His plan had succeeded perfectly.

Despite what people might have thought about him, the King of monsters was an extremely intelligent being.

His plan was simple, and yet exceptionally smart.

From the very first moment the king had heard Daniel's requests, his plan started to form in his mind.

He never intended on letting six months pass before attacking Daniel's army, but he didn't want to be the one to break the armistice either, as he wanted to impress the herald of corruption.

Plus, he had been warned by the herald himself that, in case his side attacked Daniel before six months, the spiritual emissary would immediately grab the chance to grant his side a token of power..

For the past few months, the king's emissaries had visited the tribes with the worst reputations. Tribes which had adopted slavery, tribes which plundered, raped, killed for fun, and even had cannibalistic tendencies.

These visits were aimed at one single thing.. Convince the prominent warriors of these tribes, that if the war was won by the side of the Spiritual Emperor, they would be exterminated as well.

After all, the ways to obtain power in the spiritual world were not through savagery, or brutality, but through dedication towards the path of cultivation.