The angels must have other motives and schemes in play. And yet I couldn't glimpse even traces of these schemes.
If I couldn't do anything to this zombie, and I didn't know anything related to the plans of the angels, then biding my time and fortifying my defences here would be the most optimal choice I had.
"Hahahaha! See? You mistreated me and that's your payback, hahahaha!"
Once I narrated the current situation in brief, the first to speak was the jerk. The jumper laughed and kept pointing at me as if this was quite amusing.
"Oh, someone here seems to have a death wish," I didn't show any sign of anger. In fact I spoke calmly while giving him a smile that wasn't like one.
Once I said these words, the body of that biggest jerk jerked slightly and he cut his useless laughs in the middle.
I might tolerate any of his sh*t anytime else, but not in such dire situations.
"Lord, what shall we do?" Legend asked, while giving the jumper a side glance filled with disdain.
We were all in this together. If I fell, if my kingdom got destroyed, not a single one of them would be spared.
So it was stupid laughing like this at my bad situation. After all, we were in all this sh*t together.
I looked at Legend and paused. In fact I already thought of a plan to fortify this zone.
But when I thought deeper about it, I knew just by doing this I'd end up losing the advantage I once had.
For a reason I felt that just by defending and staying alive wasn't enough. It was a vague feeling, but something told me I'd be dancing in my enemy's fingers if I just did that.
The other solution I had wasn't that great. It was risky, however with such risk I felt safety lies within.
It was crazy, but just staying inside the boundaries of my kingdom and defending wasn't going to work.
"I'm going to go all out," I slowly announced my shocking decision, "we aren't going to be cornered here. We will go out, all out, killing all the enemies who are eyeing us, here or out there."
The generals around me amounted to one hundred and fifty. That meant they ruled over one hundred and fifty armies.
It might look like a fearsome force, but after all the fighting with the zombies, such force declined to less than one fifth of what they initially had.
But that didn't mean much to me. I raised all these fighters and trained them on the second Earth for all these years just to be used in this brutal quest.
I knew if it was someone else but me then he or she would have been in a much dire situation than what I had right now.
The Hescos already came here. They were far north. And they might be also at other places. Waiting much longer would add more pressure to me.
Besides, I knew that even with the current good situation I had in the fifth quest, things were destined to go south later on.
There were already many dens finished, one on land and the rest underwater up north. Not to mention the scary den that was controlled by that damn turtle zombie in the south.
If I didn't take the initiative to strike first, force the Hescos to reveal themselves and start killing them, I'd have to fight them while fighting the upcoming zombie storm.
Throughout my dealing with the turtle zombie, I got to learn that zombies would evolve with time. I didn't know how the aquatic zombies would evolve, but I was sure they would.
And once they reached the same stage the zombies coming from the southern den reached, they'd start hitting my land.
Defending against zombies from north, east, and south wasn't a good situation I wanted to be facing. And if I added Hescos in the mix, things were going to be out of hand.
I controlled the zombie plaque in most of the lands controlled by my kingdom. However I didn't control even half of this continent.
I couldn't say what was going on at the lands outside my kingdom control, and I didn't know what other races were doing. However I was sure there were going to be more dens outside the borders of my lands.
And eventually zombies from these dens would come and attack my kingdom.
In other words, although it seemed to be the best move right now to stay inside and fortify my defences, it was a losing move in the long run.
Dreaming about facing all these zombies coming nearly from all directions was mere fantasy. Without taking risk and securing the initiative, trying to clear the danger of Hescos at north and force other Hescos and hidden players to show up themselves, there was no real hope in winning this quest.
The only way to do it was to lead everyone I had, send them all towards the other worlds and go towards the north and clash with Hescos up there.
"Are you crazy?!!" The first to speak was the jumper. This time I knew he wasn't just trying to pick at me. He was indeed speaking seriously at this moment.
"This is the only way," I paused, "without taking risks, we are all going to die."
My words lacked any explanation, but from the deep tone accompanying them, everyone got that I wasn't bluffing.
I was their lord, the one who made all this possible. They knew I wasn't going to just risk everything without a good reason. And when I'd say our lives would be in danger, then I honestly and seriously meant it.
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