Hero of Darkness-Novel

Chapter 428 - The Surprise

On the border of the Berawaa region, the once overwhelmingly intense battle suddenly took an impasse as the two semi-saints and two peak grandmasters who led the battle with four million soldiers spread in the 10 kilometer region felt noticed that the monster forces were retreating.

And in the past hour, for some reason, most of them were trying to get back to the place of their origins instead of trying to run away or kill any of their soldiers who valiantly fought on this massive battlefield.

But just a few minutes ago… most of them went awry and as if losing their minds, they started viciously attacking even their own forces as if they were natural enemies, to begin with.

Apart from Omega & Jugram, no one had any idea about the possible cause of this sudden change in their behavior. While the magic swordsman and hell berserker could link it to the battle between the legendary Ashokvatika & Ceril coming to an end.

RIP!!!

Ceril's gigantic scythe cut open the massive 100 meter tall Ashokvatika in half as the incredibly sharp blade made out of pure darkness element and dark magic severed it horizontally from the torso region.

Although it appeared that Ceril did it very easily, only he knew that many things had factored up in his victory.

Just the immeasurable numbers of underlings this legendary wood elemental creature had were two and half times more than the soldiers belonging to various species and fighter classes at the border.

If Ceril hadn't come here… they would be completely outmatched and unlike the incident with Caladrius… not just a hundred thousand but more than a million soldiers would've died.

Just the very fact that it had these vast numbers and hundreds of strong giant figures that were enough to kill thousands of enemies themselves; would've turned the tide of the battle very quickly. Even with the flying ships and magic cannons, this force of colossal tree giants would've breached the border easily.

If not for Ceril himself being a legendary rank Necromancer and having an army of 10 million undeads equipped with proper battle gear… there was no chance of victory because forget killing the enemy boss… their forces wouldn't even have entered 10 kilometer radius from it.

Also, his Six Guardians had retained all their skills before Ceril turned them into his summoned undeads so they were many times stronger than the tree giants summoned by Ashokvatika.

Given the fact that all the fallen monsters under its command could be rejuvenated and resurrected from time to time… the enemy boss was the biggest nightmare of any force and even a saint leading an army wouldn't have been able to touch it without having his own side getting wiped out first.

And given the fact that Ceril himself was a big of higher levels compared to Ashokvatika, he had an advantage in stats as well.

On top of it, all of his skills were of Darkness attribute. One of the two strongest elements of reality which was not only stronger but many times more destructive than others.

Ceril's matching numbers, skills and attributes made him a custom-made predator of Ashokvatika.

And in the end, he used his newly acquired Apostle of Necromancy class, the details of which were unknown to many even now.

After the ginormous body dropped on the ground and the life force of the enemy completely diminished… Ceril awaited his master's return quietly.

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As the battle finally ended after their side killed off the remaining army of the monsters as Ceril killed off their main boss, the victorious battlecry of the soldiers echoed in the battlefield.

Meanwhile, Omega and Jugram stopped the flying ships from venturing into the deep of the forest, claiming that help from the capital was coming soon and they should wait lest another wave of monsters attack. That it was too early to celebrate the victory.

And after looking at the exhausted forces, Commander Chetak, who also knew that these 2 peak grandmasters were actually Kahn's personal bodyguards agreed with their reasoning.

The reason they did so was because the body of the Ashokvatika was too big for any of them to hide and they had to keep it there till their master came to this region himself.

At this moment, Ceril had ordered the guardians to be on guard and he took his human form again.

5 hours later, Kahn's envoy arrived with 4 warships. They brought necessary relief supplies and items to take care of injured soldiers. The scale of the battle was many times bigger than compared to Caladrius attack and so were the number of injured.

Kahn met Commander Chetak and received the total reports of the battle. And as he expected…

Thirty-three thousand soldiers had given their lives to fight for the sake of their motherland.

"Make arrangements for the mass burial. We will also make an announcement tomorrow about this whole incident.

And I will personally take a look inside the inner regions of the forest.

Everyone else is on guard duty." commanded Kahn in his domineering tone.

However, just as he was about to depart with his generals… a halfbreed demonkin suddenly spoke..

"Tch! Trying to take credit for our fruit of labors I see." spoke Victor Apopis.

"You're still alive?" asked Kahn as if he wasn't even aware of the demonkin's existence.

[This lowlife bastard!] cursed Victor in his mind.

"I know you're going to claim that it was you who brought the victory while we did all the work.

We're the ones you forced back that legendary monster and its armies to retreat.

No way in hell I'll allow that!" spoke Victor in a tone full of disdain.

Sigh!

Kahn sighed and rolled his eyes.

"Is that what you should be worrying about? If it was me, I'd first check how many men and women under my command survived.

But I guess you never had to worry about others in your entire life.

Fine, you'll get your credit during the announcement." said Kahn as he started walking out of the castle.

Just then, Blackwall who had arrived a few hours after the battle ended brought the warship close to the main headquarters and had been waiting for Kahn to finish the discussions.

"We're ready to leave." he said.

BOOM!!

Suddenly, a grim aura revealed from behind Kahn and his entourage that was filled with killing intent.

"Hey! I'm not done talking!!" shouted Victor as he felt like no one was treating him with enough respect despite being coming from a prestigious clan.

SHRILL!!

But the following moment, 4 grim and terrifying auras filled with bloodlust landed on his body.

Blackwall, Omega, Jugram and Ronin released their killing intent on the semi-saint as if they wanted to rip him apart for talking in a loud voice in front of their master.

In their group, Blackwall was already comparable to a saint but had been hiding his strength under Kahn's orders joined in.

Thud!

Their collective pressure suddenly was so heavy that it made Victor fall on his knees.

"Our lord may be forgiving. But I am not.

You better keep your mouth shut if you don't have anything important to say." spoke Blackwall in a tyrannical voice as he swung his golden battleaxe and stopped right in front of Victor's neck who was frozen on the spot.

None of them had time to entertain a rich brat here who cared about fake valor and prestige more than the lives of the people who were his responsibility as a military officer.

Kahn and his group then peacefully left the place and departed for Ceril's location.

Victor, who finally felt the mountain-like pressure lifting off of his body gave a vengeful expression to their departing figures.

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After crossing a completely devastated battlefield full of crevices, torn and shredded trees and monsters… their warship finally landed in open space against the corpse of the Ashokvatika legendary creature.

Ceril, who landed in front of Kahn knelt like a loyal subject.

"You've done well. And to think that you broke through to legendary rank without my help… even I'm surprised." said Kahn as he looked at the kneeling magician general.

"It's because of you providing me with those millions of corpses from the burial site of Mordor.

I was able to create more than 10 million undeads thanks to them. And I've spent all of my time researching and experimenting there.

And naturally… I ended up achieving enlightenment 3 times.

Because of which, I became a legendary rank being after tremendous hard work." spoke Ceril as he subliminally praised himself.

To this, all the generals and Omega have an irritated expression as if they couldn't stand this psychopath nerd who had a smug expression on his face.

"System. Give me his details." spoke Kahn.

The following second, the system started recounting Ceril's new stats and skills but just in the midway of the report….

Kahn's expression turned aghast as he gave a look of disbelief while looking at the dark summoner.

He spoke with a loud voice that even caught all the other generals by surprise.

"This shouldn't even be possible!!"