“So I have to choose all of you,” I moved my eyes over the elites of my team. In fact I planned to let a few go out and lead their forces to expand my territory and secure my capital.
But this sudden change disturbed my plans. I couldn’t risk sending anyone away for now. Looking at my team, I had ten. This meant I couldn’t send anyone out…
“Do you doubt us?” the jumper continued his habit, “or do you doubt yourself?”
“The only one I doubt here is you,” I looked up at him before adding, “till now you didn’t prove yourself to me at all.”
“I?” he pointed at his chest before exploding, “are you out of your mind? After all I did?”
“You did nothing,” I shrugged, and that seemed to make my two girls laugh.
“Do you want to die?” He stepped closer but the time I was terrified by you pal was long gone.
“Compared to me, you did nothing worthy of mentioning,” I kept pickering at him and his eyes kept glaring fiercely.
“Aha, so it’s a comparison between me and you… If you dare, let me go and I’ll show you my worth by the end of the upcoming two quests.”
“No need, it was a pain in the first place to tame you,” I lightly said in a way that made him look like some sort of an animal I captured in a cage or something.
“You…” out of rage his body trembled, yet I totally ignored him.
“Let’s prepare then,” I said, ending this useless debate between the two of us, “we’ll leave for a few days. Let your forces spread out and take control of the area around here. The top priority is to secure the lands until the coast, move north and west.”
“What about south?”
“What if they met those scary Hectors?”
“What about here?”
They all kept asking and I listened to their questions with full attention. I did that mainly to humiliate that very close to exploding jumper.
“Don’t worry about this, the Hectors will be pretty busy during the next couple of days.”
“Thanks to you I guess,” the jumper said while seemingly gritting on his teeth with each word he said.
“Using the same way I saved your lovely as* from death, do you remember such embarrassing moments as yours?”
“You…”
“Pft!”
This time it wasn’t only my two girls, but almost all of the others laughed at him. Yet the ones daring to laugh loud enough were Hilary and her supporter, Angelica.
“Anyway,” I shifted my gaze away from him to others, “if they faced any strong city they could regroup and attack it together. If failed, then they shall retreat and leave it until we come here. Ah, don’t let them go so deep into the west. Last thing I’d like to see is to alarm enemies there with our presence.”
“Ok,” they all nodded, yet I still felt doubt coming out from them.
I let them talk to their forces while keeping moving my hands through the hair of Karoline and over the back of Hilary.
As for the jumper, that dude seemed to put a challenge over himself. He kept sending orders to his men while focusing his eyes all the time over me.
What? Was he trying to test his ability to give orders while being distracted or blind? That fool…
In ten minutes, they were all ready. I could see their forces running through the city and going beyond my sight. They looked eager to fight, gain more victories and claim more trophies.
“Let’s go,” I held the key and without any hesitation, I called back my chariot. I also called back all of my private army, standing in the middle of emptiness with my team.
“Does the young kid know how to activate the dungeon key or what?” The jumper was still mad at me. I rolled up my eyes, and without warning I moved my arms, bringing my two girls closer to me on purpose.
For a flash, I saw his eyes shine with dangerous red light again before he controlled himself. Dude, don’t forget I knew your secret.
“Better to know to whom your heart belongs,” I gave him such sincere advice, from one who might be considered his only friend here.
“You…” this time he looked more afraid and shocked than being mad. I harrumphed, looked at Karoline and Hilary one by one while painting a soft kiss over their soft and tasty lips.
I didn’t do that only to tease him, but to bring good luck before starting this important move.
Hilary seemed normal after I kissed her, but Karoline had her face all red from embarrassment. I released my arm from her back, to give her a chance to breathe.
To activate the dungeon key I had to use my blood. It was a simple method and once my blood touched the key, the key shone brightly before a portal appeared out of a thick ray of dark golden light.
Before I could say anything to them, the portal suddenly expanded, engulfed without warning everyone standing here.
And with it, the scenery all around changed and I even lost the feeling of Hilary who was leaning in a challenging way over my shoulder.
I looked around, but everything was covered in blinding fast revolving whirlpools of a mixture of lights.
And before I could get drowsy with all this, a message popped up in front of my eyes, startling me.
[Welcome to the Lost Roker dungeon]
[This is your first time to enter the dungeon]
[You’ll get a test first to determine your authority level over this dungeon]
[The test will be conducted separately. All of your teammates will undergo the same test. The final result of all of you will be added together and the final evaluation will be done over your overall score]
[The test details will be available once arriving there]
[Good luck]
Damn! Good luck? How and each one of my team would be tested separately?!!
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