NOVGO.NET Chapter 480: Truce? Truce!
Chapter 480: Truce? Truce!
“The time of war has come up—”
“Shut up already, you stinky lizard! Don’t you dare move a muscle, or I’ll bash your head in! No, I’ll do worse than that. I’ll peel your scales and sprinkle you with salt!”
At this moment, anyone watching the scene would have had a heart attack. A mighty general was getting berated endlessly by a youthful shaman woman?!
“I’m fine, Lizzy, really…”
“Fine, my ass! All that BS left issues!”
He simply shrugged, letting her take care of him. Yet, that didn’t stop him from sending her a teasing glare. What was it, again? Something about her fine ass? Ah, she was blushing.
Sighing, she kept “lecturing” him.
After the events of the Lizardgeddon, Jack was finally enjoying a well-deserved break, and yet even that was shadowed by dark clouds. Being the general brought new missions:
[Task 1: Conquer Infinite!]
[Task 2: Rally Lizardmen Under One Banner!]
[Task 3: Capture New Sacrifice For The Next Generation!]
….
And there were far more than that; he had just stopped scrolling. Hell, he was already feeling the headache coming. From now on, he had to be on the lizard’s side.
“How about it? Think you’ll be able to sabotage it all?”
“Hard to say, it doesn’t bode well…”
The issue was the number of troops. There were FAR too many! Basically, Jack was in direct control of 300 Lizardmen, but the full invasion would include thousands!
His 300 were just a drop in the bucket. And if he started giving shitty orders, then he’d either be killed by the High Shaman or by a prompt mutiny instead. He felt caged.
But then, there was one thing that also mattered a LOT!
“More importantly. I need information!”
“Info? On what? Pray tell.”
“This…”
Even now, Jack remembered vividly the weird stuff when he had entered this realm. That weird time-stopping villain had mentioned Pumpkin Girl. Thus, he got to work.
He raised a powerful claw to cut the cave’s surface and draw a portrait. And soon enough, it was completed, revealing a scene that stunned Lizzy.
“So Pretty?! What goddess is that?” She asked.
But as he kept looking, she suddenly felt about to go insane. What was this?! The face was disfigured beyond belief, but why didn’t it affect the drawing’s beauty?!
It was as if its creator could see through the essence and—”
This was no goddess. This was his… wife?!
She found herself unconsciously raising a claw to her chest. It wasn’t just a difference in levels, but a difference in realm! No wonder he was so keen to save his world! He—
“See if you can find anything about her. No matter what.”
As Jack ordered, she found herself nodding along, leaving with her heart heavy. She almost entertained faking the search for an instant, but then she discarded the idea.
Besides, she had to find her if she wanted to surpass her, right?
And just like that, a new rivalry was born, Jack not minding it one bit. In fact, he was busy with an Event of his own. At the cave entrance, there was a splattered gecko and a letter.
< Golden Scale Invitation! >
[Ding! New Golden Opportunity!]
[The High Shaman Has Invited You!]
[Accept the Obvious Death Trap? Y/N?]
“Sigh. Better face it now than later, for sure.”
He was the center of attention as he rushed through the Lizardmen realm. Adults would stop working, children would stop playing, and shamans would start cursing.
“Ah?! It’s the general! Wave, wave, wave!”
“Is he going to the temple? How interesting!”
“Fucking bastard killing my Newborn. Hope he dies!”
Accompanied by their well-wishes, Jack soon reached the meeting point. He expected to find a lavish cave, but it wasn’t. All he found was a scene of powerful slaughter.
Behemoth skulls, behemoth skin, and behemoth bones.
All of those were stacked nicely, creating a gigantic tower that looked as macabre as glorious. Normally, he would have been praising it as a necromancer, but he couldn’t.
There was something wrong! All the bones? They had been sucked dry of any soul power. In fact, it was as if the souls that had inhabited them had been forcefully annihilated.
There was absolutely nothing left.
With this, Jack suddenly felt a chill. Would this be his fate? What if the guy had finally turned mad and decided to off him damn be the consequences? It was VERY possible!
But then he forcefully calmed his beating heart…
“Better dying now than dying later as Infinite’s getting attacked.” He sighed as he pushed the double doors of the gigantic tower, entering.
CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!
’Come up…’
There was no sound, yet he knew something was speaking to him. And as he started climbing the stairs, the feeling only got stronger. It wanted him, wanted his soul!
After what felt like an eternity, the top of the tower was finally revealed, along with an awe-inspiring Shaman. The latter was glancing at the horizon.
“Beautiful, isn’t it? Look at how peaceful it is…”
“Peaceful? I thought peaceful was bad.”
“Hehe, of course it is.”
He chuckled, the peaceful part seemingly a bait for him. Had Jack agreed, he would have attacked him right there and then. Still, he wasn’t done testing him either.
“You know, I’ve been pondering. Why did Scaly choose you? Why did Scaly let you slaughter all its children indiscriminately? Why did you become general?”
Why?! The answer was obvious because he had cheated!
“Why? Obviously because I’m the best.”
“The best? How ironic…”
The high Shaman suddenly extended his forked tongue, tasting the irony. The best lizard had a soul that murky? What a goddamn joke! But that’s when the intensity increased.
“You know, I can smell the impurities on you. I can smell how much of a bastard you are. I can even taste it.” He raised a hand, a majestic table appearing out of thin air.
With the Shaman sitting down, it got even worse…
“You know, I invited you here to kill you.”
He did know. They both did. That’s when intense pressure exploded upon him. It was killing intent, pure Mana, and even something more mysterious and ancestral?!
Jack’s legs failed him, his lungs failed him, but his eyes still glared.
“So what? It’s not like you’ll go through with it. Pretty sure you don’t have the habit of pointlessly talking to weak lizards. I’m guessing you want to reach an agreement.”
“Precisely! And here are the terms…”
With a wave of its claw, the lizard suddenly made a glowing scroll appear on the table, one full of runic characters. Ones that Jack instantly recognized! Infernal?!
What the actual hell?! He would have expected Draconic or even the Old Runes, but not THIS! And seeing this, there was only one thing for him to do.
“How am I even supposed to read this?!”
“Hehe, that’s the neat part, you don’t.”
“What do you mean I don’t?”
“I’ll naturally explain it…”
And he instantly got to business. But the more it went on, the more baffled Jack became. What was up with this contract? It looked pretty standard overall?!
More importantly, the Shaman didn’t seem like he was trying to trick him either?! He, who was usually confusing others, was finally on the receiving end of it for once.
Everything was in order.
Nothing wrong so far.
All good, no issue.
In fact, before long, he was signing his name away on the contract, one that basically stated he wouldn’t try to genocide the lizards in basically too many lines.
“That’s it? Just like that, we’re not enemies anymore?!”
“Why? Would you rather we fight one another?”
< True-Blood Crimson Shaman Overlord Than’Hos! Lv 130! ☠🦎🩸> NOPE! He was good! He probably wouldn’t come on top even with his stats boosted by the General Job.
“Good, then let’s celebrate our new alliance! Cheers!”
The considerate shaman had even brought tea along to seal the deal? Talk about amiable! This feeling only got stronger as he took a sip. This thing tasted heavenly!
This was the most delicious poison he had tasted…