Armipotent

Khaya saw Commanded Edson’s expression. The man tried to stop her captain a few moments ago, but now he was watching the show with her that her captain presented. The black fire pillar kept rising on the army of the void creature’s side. The black thunder struck them from the sky, and a tornado swept over them, tearing and blowing them apart.

She hated the void creature just like everyone else, and watching how her captain slaughtered them satisfied her. This far she witnessed arrows made of several elemental powers: black fire, wind, black thunder, poison, and even ice.

Her captain also had his arrow with no elemental power. The arrow was black, but it was not the same black fire. The arrow moved in a pattern, piercing through at least seventy void creature’s heads. A single arrow killed seventy of them. Then there was a power shot, it pierced through to the back line army of the void creature, an unstoppable arrow.

Khaya thought of following her captain, but she lost her confidence. She was not confident that she could do the same as her captain. The scene was amazing, but also a blow to her confidence. If she had shot an arrow now, she would have been compared to her captain for sure, and she did not have the confidence to match her captain’s feat with the bow.

On one side, the black fire stopped the troll from advancing, on the other side the slippery ice floor slowed Orc Rider, and on the other side was a black cloud that the void creature stopped entering after their friends never came out after entering the black cloud. All in all, her captain’s bombardment slowed the army of the void creature to get to the wall.

Her captain did not stop either as he kept shooting the arrow. She believed that he alone had killed thousands of void creatures.

[Don’t compare yourself to him, girl. He is an anomaly. You will get discouraged if you are comparing yourself to him, the battle maniac who had been pushing himself. Believe me or not, the older spirit told me that he almost died many times, then he died once, and he died again just to form a contract with a stronger…] Radiance did not finish his words as he realized that he might be over-sharing with Khaya. The elf was not his master’s woman, and he was not supposed to tell her about [Seven Souls] skill.

Khaya also realized that the chatterbox might make a mistake by saying something he was not supposed to. She furrowed her brow when she proceeded with what her partner spirit said. Her captain died, not just once but twice.

‘That does not make sense… I guess there’s a resurrection skill…’

[Blelelele-blublueblue-bliblilili! Forget what you just heard or you might die, girl. Believe me that he will not hesitate to silence you if he knows that you know what I just said. And I will also die with you if he finds out. Please keep it— No, you don’t know anything. Blelelele-blublueblue-bliblilili!] Radiance panicked and said random things to confuse Khaya.

Radiance went silent afterward, the chatterbox finally stopped talking after realizing that he messed up.

Khaya was obviously curious about what Radiance said, but she was well aware that Radiance did not lie to her when he said that Tang Shaoyang might kill her if he knew that she knew one of his biggest secrets.

She tried her best to distract herself, and she checked the total kills for the mission. The last time she checked, it was almost twenty-two thousand kills which she believed that most kills were her captain’s.

36,891/100,000 kills

She took a deep breath when she checked the total kills. Her captain just killed more than fourteen thousand void creatures in a few minutes. She saw the number of the kills increasing in real-time.

Then there was a change on the battlefield. The army of the void creature managed to hold back the black fire. They could walk past the fire without dying even if their bodies were in flames. Some of the trolls died after a while and some of them kept going despite the fire. The boar-like creature managed to find a way to walk through the slippery ice floor. Each of their steps caused the ice to break apart, and that helped them to advance albeit much slower than they were supposed.

The five-meter-tall black-furred wolves that just arrived from the portal, walked through the black cloud. They managed to pass the black cloud even though some of them fell to their death after a few meters from the black cloud.

The army advanced after its first big obstacle which was her captain. A single man managed to stop thousands of void creatures for a while. If she had not witnessed it herself, Khaya might not have believed that this happened for real.

“The Orc Riders are closing in! Ready your spells and arrows!” Commander Edson took charge and was followed by his generals, transmitting the command to the other side of the wall.

The Orc Riders were the fastest among the army of the void creature. They were closing fast, and Commander Edson complained to her captain once more.

“Why don’t you use your ice arrow to slow them again?” The commander was asking, but it sounded like a complaint to her. It was as if he was telling her captain, why didn’t he shoot the arrow when he asked her captain to and shoot the arrow when he did not ask her captain to shoot.

“Too close to the wall. It will be a problem for your soldiers later.” Her captain thought that they would abandon the wall and fight the void creature on the ground. At least, her captain’s answer sounded that way.

“I like your confidence, but we will not fight outside. We will let them come to us! Why would we throw away our massive advantage?” Commander Edson’s answer was exactly the same as her thought.

Khaya thought her captain would start to shoot more arrows at the incoming Orc Rider, but his captain always had a surprise for her.

“Then I will summon my own army below, and they will fight there and maybe delay these void creatures.”

True to his words, her captain stopped shooting the void creatures and summoned a skeleton army. She subconsciously took a step forward and took a peek below. Thousands of skeletons were summoned below, and they were summoned in formation with variants. The giant skeleton with a maces-like hand, the giant skeleton with a massive shield in the front of the skeleton mage army.

There was another skeleton with a black cloak, and she noticed they were holding daggers as the tip slightly protruded out of the cloak. The swordsman skeleton army, and three-meter skeleton with a reaver in each hand. There were seven skeleton variants as it was obvious since each of them was in a massive group with one leader. The leader itself was different from the skeleton army.

Despite their number which almost reached ten thousand by her estimation, she did not think that these skeletons would be any useful against the void creature. It was until one of the skeletons shot a black beam toward the incoming Orc Rider. The beam was five meters in diameter, and the beam evaporated the Orc Rider. A big empty line formed in the middle of the Orc Rider formation.

The second beam followed after and killed more Orc Riders. Those Orc Riders were helpless in front of this attack. They tried to use their shields, but the shield evaporated along with their bodies.

No one noticed when the cloaked skeletons moved until a thousand of the cloaked skeletons hovered above the remaining Orc Riders while only a few hundred of them were alive. The cloak fluttered and completely blocked their vision. No one knew what happened below the cloaked skeletons, but then dozens of the boar-like creatures slid through the ground along with their rider.

The Orc and its mount died and slid on the ground from the impact. The cloaked skeletons landed on their feet and showed what happened in that brief moment. All Orc Riders died, no one knew how they died, but all of them were on the ground, not moving. The cloaked skeletons returned to their main formation afterward.

No one took the skeleton seriously until that happened. Even though the Orc Rider was less than a thousand in number, completely getting outnumbered, the way the skeleton army took the Orc Rider down was shocking, but also incredible.

Khaya subconsciously looked to the side and just realized that she stood right next to her captain. She was like an excited kid, watching a show in the arena, and got herself to the railing without realizing it. That was what happened to her, she did not know she was right beside her captain. Her face was too close to his, but while his skeleton army was in a battle against the Orc Rider, her captain was still shooting the arrow.

Her captain did not even spare him a glance, and this somehow reminded her what Radiance told her her captain did not have interest in the elves, including her.

Back then she admired Tang Shaoyang’s strength in defeating the void creatures that got released into Sulan World. That admiration turned into attraction without her realizing it now. Seeing him up close, he looked more attractive than before.

‘Wait!? What are you doing, Khaya!?’ She snapped out of her thoughts and immediately stepped back before her captain realized it. Even though she knew that her captain might catch it, she was not willing to admit it. She took a step back, but then her eyes still lingered on the back of his head, she got to see his cheek from the side. Your next chapter awaits on My Virtual Library Empire