The soldiers of the Methia Emperor had no idea what happened to their general. The death of their Mid-5th-order cultivator Sylas had shattered their Morales. Even though Hamza was their commander in this battle, he failed to gain the soldier's respect. Instead, Sylas was more popular than Hamza among the soldiers and everyone respect him more than they did Hamza. The reason the soldiers even tolerated Hamza's arrogant behavior and allowed him to do whatever he wanted to do is because he was the son of the current Emperor and he could potentially become the next emperor.
So seeing the death of Sylas had a bigger impact than it did seeing Hamza running away with his four guards. Once the morale of the soldiers broke down, they lost their will to fight. The energy shifted in favor of the Istarin army. But not in favor of the Hephaestus soldiers who couldn't win against the Methia Empire's soldiers who constantly trained themselves, had better equipment, and kept themselves in shape, unlike the Hephaestus soldiers.
Even though the Methia Empire was losing, the Hephaestus Soldiers were getting killed the most. And after what the Hephaestus soldiers did to the Istarin soldiers, no one from the Istarin Empire tried to save any of the Hephaestus soldiers from the enemy. The Istarin troops ignored them and continued with their fights.
Even though Aditya has made them stop fighting among themselves, the hate between the soldiers of the two allies still existed.
Fortunately, Aditya returned in the 6th minute. His return immediately shifted the scale of the power. Aditya was that level 100 player who had been put on a battlefield full of level 10 players. His very existence was a cheat code for his allies.
Just as Aditya appeared, chaos began taking place. Loud explosions and Crimson lightning bolts shook the entire battlefield. He became the center of focus.
Magma Manipulation!
"Is it me or do you also find that the ground beneath us is strangely getting hotter?" Asked one Methia Empire's troops.
"It's not just you." Their leather shoes began burning. Not just theirs, but other soldiers also had similar experiences.
Crack!!!
booom!
Large and small cracks appeared on the ground. From the sky, Magma started flowing out.
Ahh.....!!
Many soldiers couldn't get away in time as Magma surrounded them from all sides. Within a few or two, the magma completely consumed them.
『Ding! You have killed a Peak 2nd-order cultivator. Your experience point has been saved.』
『Ding! You have killed a Peak 1st-order cultivator. Your experience point has been saved.』
『Ding! You have killed a Beginner 1st-order cultivator. Your experience point has been saved.』
『Ding! You have killed a Peak 2nd-order cultivator. Your experience point has been saved.』
『Ding! You have killed a....』
Aditya ignored the buzzing sound coming from the system and continued to slaughter the enemy soldiers.
Aditya's attack had reduced the number of enemies by almost 80,000. He was about to use another of his skill when he sensed someone approaching. Thinking that approaching a person is an enemy, he decided to kill that person first.
But when Aditya turned around, he found a beautiful female soldier kneeling in front of him.
"This humble servant greets the Dragon Monarch." The woman said making Aditya surprised. After all, he always kept his bloodline suppressed, meaning that unless someone is extremely sensitive to another bloodline, no one would be able to know that Aditya is a Dragon. And the fact that Aditya is the Dragon Monarch is not known by many people. After all, he never went ahead and proclaimed himself as the Dragon Monarch.
"Who are you?" Aditya asked seeing the woman kneeling before him. He can tell that this woman was also a Dragon. He can sense a Dragon bloodline in her.
"My name is Mila. Mila Mcdonald."
Mila has blue eyes and hair that falls down to her waist when untied. She is rather short and has a modest chest. Mila ties her hair to chin-length with a white ribbon that extends to her knees. Mila's regal uniform is blue and exposes her belly button, and her skirt is semi-transparent (see-through), which reveals her light blue underwear.
"What do you want?" Aditya did not forget that this woman was still from the enemy side.
"My clan has been looking for you ever since your bloodline evolved during the goblin invasion." Mila and her clan are a powerful noble clan within the Methia Empire. Her clan has a special Dragon bloodline in them. Mila and her clan members possess the Ice Lotus Dragon Bloodline. The Ice Lotus Dragon bloodline is one of the rarest Ice-type Dragon bloodlines.
"Now that I have found the Dragon Monarch, we, the Ice Lotus Dragon Clan wish to serve you and follow you forever."
'Ice Lotus Dragon? This is the first time I am meeting a Dragon with Ice nature affinity.' Aditya thought in his head.
"Why did you join the army?" Aditya couldn't help but ask. If Mila's clan is so powerful, then surely her clan must possess a certain reputation and political power. Aditya refused to believe that the Ice Lotus Dragon Clan didn't have any political power or influence in the Methia Empire.
And why someone from such an influential and powerful clan would join the military?
"My King, I recently joined the military because my clan wanted me to gain experience from working as a soldier." There is another reason why Mila joined the military. It was because, before joining the military, as the youngest member of the Ice Lotus Dragon Clan, she was very naughty and mischievous in nature. She was uncontrolled and disorderly. She had no discipline. She did not cultivate or train properly.
Mila's parents and the clan elders were tired of this. Unable to endure it anymore, after Mila made a mistake, she was punished to serve in the military for a year. It only has been 5 months since Mila joined the Methia Empire's military. The Ice Lotus Dragon clan's Patriarch who was Mila's father personally wrote a letter to the Emperor and asked him to let her join the military. Mila's father requested the Emperor to keep Mila's identity a secret. Meaning that unless she was in a life-and-death situation, she wasn't allowed to use any of her dragon powers.
Of course, Mila couldn't tell this to Aditya as she was too embarrassed to say it to the Dragon Monarch. Staying in the military drastically changed Mila. She had now become calmer, more discipline, and, hard-working.
"Joining me will mean that you and your clan will have to betray the Methia Empire. Are you prepared to Betray the very place that you and your clansmen have called Home for years?" Aditya also wanted to ask how Mila was able to tell that he was the Dragon Monarch. After he had suppressed his Divine Blood. This meant Mila either had extraordinary other bloodline sensing ability or she had a unique artifact capable of finding his Dragon bloodline.
She did not waste a single second to reply. "Yes, we are prepared. Ever since we heard the news of a Divine Dragon being born, we have been preparing to leave the Methia Empire and join the Dragon Monarch." Her clan had stopped their businesses in the Methia Empire. They had to be careful to not alert anyone about their plan so they didn't hastily take action.
Aditya looked behind Mila and saw that after his magma attack, almost all of the soldiers from the Methia Empire's side has started running away. "Stand behind me. We can talk about this after I am done with them." Mila did as Aditya asked and stood behind.
'I guess it's time to use Acid Rain. It has been a while since I used this skill.'
『Acid Rain!』
Pitter! Pitter!
It started to rain. But strangely enough, the rain did not touch the battlefield. Instead, it fell around the Battlefield. The Methia Empire's soldiers already had left the battlefield, suddenly their bodies started burning and melting upon coming into contact with the raindrop. Their skins, armor, and even some low-quality weapons began to melt.
Ahhh....!!!!
Within a few seconds, thousands of fleeing soldiers had died from their entire bodies burned in acid rain. Compared to normal Acid rain, this Acid rain was many times strong and was capable enough to kill even a Peak 3rd-order.
Seeing the soldiers in the rain dying like that, the ones that followed them behind immediately stopped and stood away from the rain. The rain was like a barrier that can kill them upon contact.
"What the hell is this?" They knew that this was probably done by Aditya.
Meanwhile, Mile who was standing behind Aditya was in awe watching this. The admiration that she had for Aditya only increased. 'What a power!'
The Emperor summoned a ring of Crimson flame around him and Mila. He then created a second ring of Crimson flame above the first ring. He then made the third ring of Crimson Flame. The ring of Crimson flame was 20 meters in radius.
'What is he trying to do now?' She has long heard that Aditya used Crimson flames. Seeing the Dragon Monarch fight with her own eyes, it was very special.
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