"To be honest, I never thought I would ever see you in my life, Reign." Lios said as he and Reign sat down inside a giant tent that had been placed behind the army lines.
Licht, Lisea, and the other Tier II combatants were sitting on the side, none of them, except the first two mentioned, even had the courage to join in their conversation.
"How the hell did you become so strong, about half a year ago, I was still a bit more powerful than you, and now look at this," Licht said from the side as he stared at Reign with a mildly annoyed look on his face while Lisea laughed out loud.
"It's good to see you again boy, you saved our asses once again!" Lisea shouted as she drank another large glass of beer.
With Reign arriving so quickly, the Tier II combatants of the enemy kingdom weren't able to pull a fast one and simply flee as the previous ones did.
This time, they managed to capture or kill all of them.
"Boy, I don't know if you've heard, but Lieara-"
"Her body is being guarded by Raigon, I placed it in a tent next to Eisenhorn."
"I see, so she's truly gone?"
"I managed to salvage some pieces of her soul, there might be hope, but it's almost impossible, to be honest."
"I see, and what about Eisenhorn, don't tell me the old bastard kicked the bucket after finally getting his power back, I sensed that weird power, I can bet it was from him."
"He passed out after launching that attack, he is fine otherwise, even managed to heavily injure the enemy king."
"Damn, he really does live it as the protector of the realm, just came out of retirement, and already doing crazy things, ahh, I am happy that he is back though, it was hard seeing him like that."
"It was hard for all of us, you know how close my brother and your uncle were when they were younger." Lios said with a sigh as Lisea smiled.
"Yeah."
"Wait, nobody finds this weird, the guy is Tier II and yet you're telling me he heavily injured, almost freaking killed a Tier III enemy?!" Licht yelled out as they all smirked.
"Well, I guess we were all used to seeing him do crazy things back in his youth, you're young, you never got to see Eisenhorn fight, otherwise you wouldn't be surprised either," Lios said before drinking some of his beer as well.
"So, what's next for you, why did you come back?"
"Honestly, it's for my evolution challenge."
"Huh, for the evolution challenge, you mean you're already about to step into Tier IV?!" Lios asked in disbelief as Reign nodded his head before drinking some of the beer as well.
Licht, Lisea, and all the remaining officers that were present all stared at Reign in shock.
He was probably the youngest one present, and yet, he was without a doubt the most powerful one. Not only here, but in the whole area.
"I need to take care of the final demon, he's about the same strength as I am, and after that, well, I need to wait to get the second part of the challenge."
"Well, that coincides with what we are going to do," Lios said before getting up.
"With such a victory, we're not going to stop, we'll be assaulting the capitals of both kingdoms, after taking them down, the whole area will be under our control, we will be almost as big as an empire at that point."
"You will probably find the demon you are looking for at one of the two capitals, hell, after learning of how powerful he is, we probably won't even be able to defeat him without you."
"Don't worry, I will be going, not only because of my challenge but because I truly do think of you guys as comrades." Reign said with a slight smile as the two of them downed their drinks before going out of the tent.
The army would first stay here while most of them were going to meet with Raigon and the king.
They were going to meet a couple of miles back. The meeting place had been chosen long ago and was a secret to all inside the kingdom, with only the higher-ups and those that they truly trusted knowing it even existed.
It took them about half an hour to get to the meeting place.
It was in a gorge, but the gorge was not the true meeting place. Upon reaching the place, Lios came to one of the walls and inspected it before pressing his hand and chanting some words.
Suddenly, the wall started shaking before moving and uncovering a small entrance. Reign and the others all passed through the entrance, with Lios being the last to enter as he was in charge of closing it as well.
A long tunnel was what greeted Reign and the others. Many torches lined up the walls of the tunnel and provided light for them.
They walked for a couple of minutes before coming outside and reaching an underground camp.
There was a small waterfall to the side and a small lake that had formed there. Three small streams could be seen coming out of the lake and disappearing down into the ground.
Three tents were present in the camp, one large one for the meeting, and two small ones.
Reign and the others were the last ones to arrive.
Eisenhorn was placed inside one of the smaller tents as he was still unconscious and Lieara was placed inside the other one, her body was completely covered, and placed inside a coffin that had runes and inscriptions written all over it.
"The coffin will preserve her body perfectly, if you truly think there is a chance for her to return, then we will keep her body in perfect condition until it is done."
"I see, good thinking, if I do find a way to bring her back, then it would be for the best to have her body."
"What about the injuries?"
"We have managed to heal them, there are no problems there either."
"Good." Reign nodded at Lios before they entered the giant tent in the center of the camp.
The king, Raigon, the prince, and every single high-leveled general and minister were there.
They were all sitting down and waiting for Reign and the others to arrive in order to start their meeting. Upon seeing them, the meeting started.
It was more of a formality, to be honest.
The kingdom already had a complete advantage and taking over the territories of their enemies would be easy, the only danger they faced was the lack of knowledge they had of the territories.
They had no idea just how many demon worshippers were there, they didn't know whether there were more demons that were present, they knew nothing. With a horde suddenly appearing a while ago in their own territory, one could only wonder what could happen inside the enemy territory.
If not for Reign, the king wouldn't have been able to easily go and deal with the horde of demons, which could have left some serious consequences for the kingdom. Another problem they had was that the capital cities of both kingdoms had incredible defense and defensive structures placed.
Each one had an array and a mana shield, something that the capital of Riplas lacked.
The defensive structures alone could stall their armies for a bit, but thanks to them all being available now, the Tier III combatants could easily destroy the defense of the enemy.
"I still don't like it, it's too easy," Lisea said with a serious expression on her face as the others all nodded.
"True, it is that we have only managed to get to this point thanks to sir Reign, but I doubt the enemy, especially since they were being led by a peak Tier III demon, have no plans in place for our attack." A general said while the others all stared at the giant map in front of them and contemplated.
"Will you stop acting like this, it makes me want to go back to sleep." Eisenhorn suddenly said as he came inside the tent.
"Eisenhorn, are you alright!?" The king asked with concern as the latter nodded his head.
"I've never felt better, I even managed to become Tier III after waking up." Eisenhorn suddenly dropped a bomb as everybody rose up from their seats and stared at him.
"What, reaching rank Z with my glaive turned out to give a lot of benefits, hell, any of them makes the years I spent practicing worth it."
"So it was rank Z after all." Reign softly said as Eisenhorn looked at him with a smile on his face.
"Yeah, so now we have four Tier III combatants, with your help, we can do this."
"One has to stay back, we never know if the monsters will attack again," Raigon said as everybody nodded.
"You have tired yourself out, you should stay." The king said as he patted Raigon on the shoulder.
"What, no, you are our lord, you have to-"
"I will not stay safe inside my castle while all of you are fighting, I have done so enough times already." The king said sternly as he looked at Raigon.
"You won't be able to fight with your full power, so it's better for you to stay and rest, even if the monsters were to attack, you can use your powers to attack them from a distance and force them to stay back."
"Yes, my lord," Raigon said as the king nodded happily before sitting down.
"So, how shall we do this?"
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