We started by ten at the system start up, elevated to forty when the first part of the first quest came. At the second part of quest one, this limit was raised to one hundred. At the second quest, this limit was raised by one hundred stat points at one go.
But that limit would be raised by one hundred and fifty points at quest three, by an entire two hundred stat points.
So in these two quests, the lost stat points for me and my forces would be three hundred and fifty points. In return, our stats would freeze only at two hundred stat points.
That was really a big gulf.
“I have a way to make our people make up for this difference,” I said without delving into any details for now.
“Is this real?” the jumper asked in a dead serious tone, and I simply nodded.
“What are you two talking about?” Karoline, who was standing on my side, couldn’t help but ask.
And the jumper just volunteered to explain everything for her. Just as he finished, Karoline’s face turned ashen white.
“This is bad…” her lips trembled as her body. Of course she had to be scared. And at this moment she realised why Hilary was shocked when she heard about this punishment we got.
“Don’t panic, your valiant man here said he has a way to help,” the jumper just flipped the switch and again spoke in his old self tone filled with mockery.
That annoying bastard… yet at least he believed me. Or else he would instead be complaining and whining like a girl instead of just fooling around like that.
“Stop harassing my man,” she poked him with her elbow, making me smile regardless of anything else.
“Ouch, I’m not the one who snapped him off you girl!” The jumper had such unnatural talent in ruining anything great for me.
And as he said it, the face of Karoline who was filled with a bright smile dimmed again.
Screw you man!
“I got to know their locations,” to make things worse, Hilary returned at this moment, “what? Why are you three looking like this?”
“Nothing,” Karoline pushed her aside and went towards another side of the chariot.
“Show us their locations,” I noticed Hilary’s eyes following Karoline’s movement.
“Alright, they are here, here, here…” she shrugged, before pointing at the map while speaking.
Her forces scattered in six different directions. According to her explanation, thirty thousands of her forces were just left near the southern west side of Illinois, protecting against that Selvator archlord.
As for the other seventy thousands, twenty were stationed at southern east, protecting against any potential attack from that dragon archlord.
The rest were scattered in four armies, each having from ten to fifteen thousand strong fighters. Half were working on unifying Illinois, while the rest went to the east side where that deceased dragon archlord’s territory was.
“Interesting,” I muttered when she told me that her two armies, which were working to expand her reign over that empty area, had fought many battles already with Illusionists and Selvators.
Succubus armies were also with these two, seemingly trying to get a good piece of this cake.
“We have to go there now,” the jumper was rash in his decision this time, “or else we’ll have nothing left once we reach there.”
“I agree,” Hilary nodded, but I shook my head.
“It’s not time yet,” I said before turning to Hilary, “are you ready to move your boys near us?”
“By boys you mean… all my armies?!!” her eyes showed a great deal of doubt towards my words.
“They are isolated from us,” I nodded in confirmation while explaining, “I believe we are still separated from them by two states, right?”
“Three,” Karoline returned after calming herself down a little bit, “There are Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania states.”
“Indiana is the one where that deceased dragon legacy is left,” I said, but Hilary shook her head.
“His legacy is way broader than just Indiana,” she paused for a second, seemingly thinking about what she knew about that before adding, “he had Michigan and Ohio in addition to Indiana.”
“Three states?!!” I was surprised to hear that, “can you roughly draw these states and also the states between us and them?”
I directed my last question to Karoline who rolled her eyes, showing her dissatisfaction from doing this.
“If you don’t want to, I’ll gladly accept doing that. At least I’ll be doing something useful to my man rather than just telling useless tales,” yet when Hilary said this, Karoline’s face changed slightly before sticking out her tongue and starting to draw.
But something told me Hilary intervened to make fun of Karoline. Just a mere look at Hilary’s expression made me sure of that.
That chick… she wasn’t easy foe at all!
“This is it,” Karoline finished before noticing the weird look over her enemy, “f*ck you!” she threw the charcoal on the ground, smashing it into pieces before walking away in an angry way.
“She has such a childish mind,” Hilary shrugged as if this wasn’t related to her at all, “aside from her good body, she isn’t that good for you at all.”
I ignored her sly looking eyes and simply examined that map.
Putting Illinois as the centre of this map, it was surrounded by Wisconsin state at the north, Iota at west, Missouri taking the southern west side and south, Kentucky at southern east and east side, plus Indiana at east.
Indiana had Illinois at west, Michigan at north, Kentucky at south, and Ohio at east. Pennsylvania lied in between New York and Ohio.
The entire map was finally clear with all borders and states in this upcoming battle. “It’s going to be an epic battle indeed,” my eyes flashed with greed and excitement.
I never expected this battle would involve all this area. To be honest, if I managed to play it smart and ended up winning this fight for me and my coalition army, then the end results of this would be massive.
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