Chapter XXXIX: The Virtue of Waiting
The fall of the Seers was three days ago.
And Regana's disappearance was yesterday, and right under his nose - without warning, without time to struggle, just like the girl who was talking...... disappeared silently.
This was not the first time that the Glorious had witnessed the disappearance of the Awakened Stigmata, and he had been mentally prepared for Rigana's departure, so when it happened, he was rather indifferent.
As he had done the day before, he felt nothing.
Even the harbingers of death showed no signs of activation, and everything was calm like a pool of stagnant water, without even the slightest ripple.
It's not normal, very, very abnormal.
In retrospect—he hadn't been activated even once since he had awakened in the city of death, even if he had been in danger several times, even if his companions had fallen in pools of blood, and he had not seen them die.
Although, the glow of life has completely departed from them.
A teenager who was initially troubled by his weak physical fitness might have been shocked for a while when he learned of this result, but for those who were vaguely aware of the true glory hidden beneath the surface of the Dead City, it was a matter of course.
After all, seeing ...... Not necessarily true.
Amy Ulysses narrowed, then looked up, her gaze resting on the curtain.
Almost one after the other, Corbock lifted the curtain of the tent.
"Welcome back," the young Glory Man greeted casually, pouring him a cup of tea, "How's it going today?"
He didn't manage the logistics, and the short boy in front of him was in charge of the finances.
"One thousand three hundred and fifty. Kaubak gave the answer, there is nothing to say about this number, compared with the day before yesterday, although it has risen, but the amplitude is not large, compared with the value of more than 2,000 the day before yesterday, the decline is more serious, "There is still considerable room for expansion." ”
Expansion space is the space to expand the team.
He has not been able to understand why in this turbulent and turbulent period, Judas did not stand up for the lead, but rejected everyone's application to join the group.
This...... Doesn't make sense.
It was obviously a good time to expand his power, why did he let the camp fall apart at this time, and let those precious combat forces escape?
"It was better than I expected. ”
The Glory One nodded, although the sum of these two days was said to be two thousand, and even the one thousand and five mark had not been broken, but unlike the first two days, those powerful demons that had been deliberately avoided in the past had long been wiped out under the sweep of several days in a row, and most of the time spent on hunting for the enemy was spent on seeking the enemy, and it could maintain an efficiency that was not inferior to the previous point acquisition, which must be attributed to the team's run-in, and...... The awakening of those who hold stigmata.
Corbck, Aina, Hawke –
As if with Regana's disappearance as an opportunity, the three of them awakened one after another yesterday.
Corbock's ability is regeneration.
Aina's ability is phase shifting.
Hawke's abilities are gigantic.
Because the ability of the initial awakening is still quite unstable, there is no way to know how these abilities can be converted into a few points of combat power in a short period of time.
But what is certain is that they have all grown stronger—a great improvement in physique, in terms of will, and in combat experience, since they first met.
Amy is sincerely happy for their growth.
"In that case, there shouldn't be anything to worry about, right?" didn't know what was going on in the Gloryman's mind, he just raised an eyebrow, "It will take at least two to three days from recruiting people to forming combat strength, and two to three days...... It's just too much of a luxury for us. ”
Can't afford to waste.
As for the disappearance of those who possess stigmata based on some mechanism, he found a time to inform them of everything about the Demon King Mammon and about the city that had been driven into the abyss of destruction by greed, as soon as the Prophet Alliance collapsed and news began to circulate in the camp.
Before awakening the stigma, they may have felt only amazement, but after the awakening of their abilities, it has become a fate that shares their weal and woe.
A sense of urgency arises.
"I thought," the short boy paused, "that we need to absorb some fresh blood." ”
"Fresh blood?" Amy Ulysses roughly guessed what he was thinking, and couldn't help but laugh dumbly, "It's not that embarrassing yet, is it...... Besides, it's not yet time. ”
"Not then," raised an eyebrow, "when is the time?"
"Wait until they've had enough of the pain. The voice of the young Glory Man was low and powerful, "The ancestors have a saying, do not hit the south wall and do not give up—until they experience the difficulty of survival in the deepest night, I am not sure that I can make them bow their heads, and I am not sure that they will really pull out a team." ”
"Mammon, the greedy demon king. The young man in charge of logistics management shook his head, "Isn't it not suitable for group operations?"
This was Judas' own assertion, and there was no need for him to conceal or lie in this regard.
"That's right," Amy shook her head in the affirmative, "but the reason why Regana brought her team to join us, who didn't even build the skeleton of the team in the first place, is because group combat is indispensable to the Raider Demon King." ”
"What do you mean?"
"Demon King Mammon is sealed in a parallel dimension that bifurcated from the branches of the world we are in," the Glory One shared the information recorded in the notes that Regana left him after she disappeared, "The area cannot be determined, but at least it will not be smaller than the city we are in, although only the Demon King Mammon is sealed in it, but ...... Along with that greedy demon king, there are also dozens or even millions of fallen souls. ”
This is top-secret information from the Prophet Alliance, which only circulated among the original seven captains, and is a reality that an awakened stigmata with spatial characteristics accidentally glimpsed from the gap in space.
He saw it...... A world full of gold, silver, agate, jade, and pearls.
I saw it too...... Countless greedy, tyrannical, depraved souls.
They are only one step away from the devil, they are real resentful spirits, evil spirits, people who have been blinded by greed, who can never be satisfied, who can never rest in peace.
Quantity –
Countless.
If you want to kill the high-level demons entrenched in the depths of the world, if you can't fight your way out of at least tens of thousands of fallen souls, it will always be just an unrealistic fantasy.
"This ...... This ...... "The difficulty has risen even further."
"So, what I need is an army that is absolutely obedient to the command, a corps that can escort us to the palace where the Demon King lives. Amy looked at him, her blue eyes flickering under the fluctuation of the candle, "You know, words are pale and powerless a lot of the time, if you don't consider the purchase of equipment necessary to fight against the demon king, maybe you can fill the gap of desire with benefits, but in order to kill Mammon, we earn a lot of points, yes, but we must allocate the bulk of the head to a squad of sharp knives, and the others can only get the supplies they need to maintain their daily needs- Even if there is a reason for this unfair distribution, it is easy to breed antagonism and dissatisfaction. ”
With a slight sigh of relief, the young Glory One took a sip of tea.
"So, don't push them to the brink—"
"I'm not at ease. ”
"You ......"
Kaubak's lips moved, and he wanted to say something, but at last he could only say dryly, "That's amazing"—what else could he say? To say that he was thinking too despicable, too reckless for human life? It is not denied that such a thought was born in the heart of the young man, but only for an insignificant moment, after all...... He was not one of those canaries who grew up under the wings of his parents, and he knew quite well that what Judas had just said was indeed the truth, an indisputable and irrefutable fact.
"It's okay," Amy rubbed her eyebrows, "In this position, I have to be responsible for everyone. ”
He is telling the truth.
If he didn't carry the lives of others and the last hope that Rigana had entrusted to him, the Glory One would have wanted to test the nature of the world beneath the dark surface.
But there is no if, even if there is already suspicion in his heart, and there is doubt that he should not have, but he ...... After all, I didn't dare to leave the others in the camp behind and die a dashing death.
"Understandable," the short boy nodded, "but I think the situation may have gone beyond your expectations - when we returned to the camp today to trade, the inquisition madmen attacked us, and although there were no casualties, since they dared to attack us, it was certainly not the first time they had done such a thing, and I don't know how much blood they had on their hands." ”
The prototype of the legion created by Judas is currently the largest and most legendary team.
To attack it, you need not only excellent strength, but also courage, and equally excellent courage.
"What do you mean?" asked Amy.
"Almost," Corbke, as the team's head of logistics, probably had the clearest understanding of the situation in the camp of all, "The madmen who have been clamoring for heresy trials all day are undoubtedly really crazy, and those who have escaped have come back one after another today, these two days should be the best time to recruit, we don't have that much time to waste." ”
"I see," the Honorable One nodded, but the tone changed, "but that's not enough, it's better for them to come directly to us than for us to force them to change their mentality—however, there have been no lobbyists coming to the door for the past two days, and I, or we, will have to wait a little longer." ”
He tapped the table with the knuckles of his index finger slightly.
"Waiting is a virtue at all times. ”