Alm smiled inwardly, knowing that things rarely followed a smooth course as expected.
’We saved so many of them, and as soon as they try to repay, it feels like a movie repeating in our lives... great,’ said Alm, displaying a bloodthirsty smile. ’A good deed never goes unpunished. Since they don’t want to repay, let’s rip it from them.’
Bruno sensed animosity, but there was no killing intent coming from the dwarves. He sighed as he spoke, ’Hold on, there must be a reason. I can... damn, I feel Vuard praying somewhere. He’s injured.’
Alm laughed even more sinisterly, remembering the tactic they suggested to the dwarf who was their follower. If he was in serious trouble, pray so they could sense it. And that’s exactly what Vuard did. From the distance, Bruno could even describe his condition and location.
"Get ready," Alm calmly commanded the whale.
Quickly, Ruri, Loeus, and Corin became serious and approached the whale, drawing their weapons. In the distance, the dwarves noticed the change in attitude and became agitated. Among them, a dwarf covered in silver armor roared, activating his cultivation.
’Full mithril armor. He must be the dwarf king’s general, and he’s in the first level of the Heaven Stage Realm,’ Bruno said incisively. ’Only a general is at the same cultivation level as the evil patriarchs... that’s why those evil cultivators were confined to the desert, using that world to protect themselves.’
In two seconds, hundreds of armed dwarves appeared and surrounded the entire bar. The whale and everyone else just silently watched the dwarves stare at them with cold eyes. Quickly, Ruri and the others also became equally furious. They had done a great good deed... why, then, were the dwarves acting like this? They thought grumpily.
At the other tables near the whale were the human and dwarf women who chose to stay with them. All of them trembled severely, holding their babies. It was at this moment that the dwarf in full armor stepped forward.
"Are you the so-called divine being that Vuard mentioned? You just look like an ordinary human..." he began to speak but stopped abruptly with a furious look. Due to the silence and tension, half a dozen babies began to cry frantically. Babies were sensitive to any change, no matter what it was, and they quickly reacted with all their might.
The dwarf looked at the women and their babies, and soon hatred sprouted in his eyes, the only visible thing in that armor. "Disgusting ogre hybrids... it seems the king was right, he must..."
BOOM!!
He didn’t need to finish his sentence as a sharp explosion reverberated, shattering the earth and space in the direction of the dwarf. The whale didn’t need to say anything. Ruri activated the runic seal of the short sword that the whale had temporarily given her and attacked furiously.
The cutting power exploded against the mithril armor, making the dwarf take a step back. However, it didn’t cause any scratch. Ruri’s cultivation was too low, and no matter what she did, she wouldn’t achieve anything. He only retreated because the sharpening seal was challenging, and Ruri attacked unexpectedly.
Loeus and Corin took only a second to react, but they were as furious as Ruri. The whale just watched calmly and commanded mentally.
’Corin, focus on the leader.’
’Loeus and Ruri, deal with the others.’
Ruri, with cold eyes, turned and attacked the dwarves around her. The soldiers were mainly summoned blacksmiths, mostly using axes. Their cultivations varied widely, ranging from the middle to the late Core Formation Realm. All above her, but Ruri was who she was; trained rigorously since the age of ten, these dwarves, despite being stronger, seemed like children fighting against her.
She easily dominated them, and if she could use the runic seal again, she would have killed several quickly. However, without it or spatial laws, the dwarves just flew unconscious with minor injuries.
Alm watched from afar and nodded. Even though Ruri wasn’t killing, he would swear that her intention was there, but her limited cultivation prevented it. Bruno nodded, interpreting something entirely different; Ruri could use her mental power to cause much greater damage and even kill some with luck, but she chose not to do so.
Loeus, on the other hand, didn’t activate his runic seal and just casually beat the dwarves. The leader didn’t order killing, so he didn’t. His mistress always taught him to follow orders, and killing was something radical; if it wasn’t ordered, he wouldn’t do it. Moreover, in Loeus’s mind, there were only the words of the green woman all the time, and slowly, the distance was indeed doing what Bruno predicted.
CRACK! CRACK! CRACK!
Corin attacked the dwarf in full armor with his spear, and with each thrust, the armor creaked, showing subtle signs of cracking. They were small fissures, but they were already accumulating. With each strike of his spear, the tip pulsed with multicolored power. He learned to concentrate his bloodline instead of attacking with everything.
The dwarf swung his axe furiously, but Corin just stepped aside and dodged, delivering a new devastating blow.
Watching, the whale nodded. They gave some words of guidance to Corin and Ruri in the city. Ruri helped him train, imparting to him the battle concepts she knew from their master. Now Corin remained calm and controlled, realizing that the dwarf was slow and relied solely on his higher cultivation, just as he himself did in the past.
The difference between Corin and the dwarf was only one level. Corin was still at the Elementary stage of the Heaven Stage Realm, just like the whale. With the dwarf’s lack of skill, he was overwhelmed to the point of resisting only by the defenses of his armor.
The fight lasted for five minutes until the hundreds of dwarves realized it was an impossible battle. The whale, who should have been the leader, watched with bored eyes. Then, realizing the dwarves’ lack of will, he just yawned and turned to the dwarf fighting against Corin, with the armor completely cracked.
His eyes gleamed. "Gravitational Domination."
The dwarf froze in place, immobile, feeling a mountain pressing against his body. In the same second, the spear advanced through the cracks, violently piercing his stomach. All the soldiers stopped, trembling; the general was defeated.
The whale became slightly excited. Now that it possessed a hundred drops of Behemoth Bloodline, its gravitational power multiplied tens of times. If it used this power on someone weaker, it could instantly explode them with gravity, even if they were a level higher in cultivation.
Ruri and Loeus stopped as the dwarves dropped their weapons to the ground. The whale approached the general and extended its hands, pulling him in. Soon, the dwarf was grabbed by the neck, trembling as he saw the whale’s bloodthirsty eyes.
"Don’t resist, or you’ll die," they said dryly, and the dwarf’s soul was invaded, his memory read. The dwarf only trembled violently for seconds, but he wasn’t foolish enough to resist, or they would kill him without hesitation. Soon, the whale turned and threw him away like trash.
The whale’s eyes narrowed at what it saw. They pondered for a second and said, "Corin and Loeus, stay to protect the women." Then, they turned toward the castle, and Ruri jumped on their back without thinking.
The whale took flight, heading directly to where the entrance was in its memories. An outer tower of the castle was the entrance, and they would pass through there to invade, so it wouldn’t hurt to stop.
On the way, a dozen dwarves saw him flying and roared, wanting to attack. However, the whale’s eyes simply gleamed, and a controlled gravitaty emerged, burying the dwarves in the ground, leaving only their heads exposed. Bruno did it because Alm would have simply blown them up in blood.
Dwarves don’t possess a strong bloody aura or an intense killing intent. They are not warriors and seem not to be malicious. Only that general was someone Bruno even wanted to kill. He wasn’t a blacksmith, and being so weak in battle, it could be presumed that he was someone respected who became arrogant in his status. So much so that he considered himself superior even to the dwarf women of his race and called their children disgusting. All the dwarves who saw the hybrids looked askance but didn’t say anything to avoid offending the women of their race; after all, they were not to blame. But he had no restraint.
In a few minutes, they arrived at the tower after burying dozens of dwarves in the ground. With a punch, a hole in the tower appeared; at the same second, an alert sounded throughout the nearby castle.
Alm and Bruno entered and saw inside a cell. Vuard was kneeling with his head bowed as if praying incessantly, but his body was red and injured. Beside him, a dwarf woman with golden hair looked at the whale tensely. She had no beard and had a pleasant appearance, even for a dwarf. She should be considered a beauty among her race.
"Are you the princess?" They said dryly, and she nodded, completely dazed.
In the same second, Vuard, upon hearing the words, raised his face; he was completely disfigured and toothless. It was impossible to tell where his red beard began and where his face ended; everything was messy and violently destroyed.
"Vuard!" Ruri spoke in shock, her eyes trembling. The whale, in turn, narrowed its eyes angrily, not because of the dwarf, but because Ruri saw it.
He, in turn, only moved his lips. "Mi...ss... fo...rgi...ve... the king..."
He spoke without strength and lowered his head again. The whale snorted and looked at the woman beside him. Her cultivation was surprisingly high, equal to his at the elemental level of the Heaven Stage Realm. Then, they spoke coldly.
"Get him out of here and take him to the bar. My companions have pills to help him."
She trembled and quickly bowed beside Vuard. "Have mercy on my father, sir."
The whale just sighed. "If you weren’t by his side, I would have destroyed the entire kingdom, but now I can negotiate. Take him out quickly."
Then, they turned and exited through the hole, and the two stood up with trembling eyes. "I told you... just pray, and he’ll turn... let’s go..." Vuard said to the woman, who nodded with admiration.
Alm and Bruno then snorted, activating their physical cultivations to the maximum. Ruri felt the tension and mentally prepared herself. They increased their speed and didn’t forget to deal with the soldiers running towards the prison tower. Then, they quickly approached the castle. And like ants, hundreds of dwarves rushed out from the castle attacking... only to end up buried.
BOOM!!
The king, inside his room, heard a loud noise, and the entire building shook. Quickly, he activated a communication crystal and ran in one direction.
He ran through the corridors, scared to notice there were no soldiers around. Then, he looked out the window and almost fell backward, seeing thousands of dwarf heads in front of his castle. Obviously, they were just buried, but the king, overcome by fear, only saw heads and almost vomited blood.
He continued walking and reached the grand hall, opening its doors.
Then, he saw the giant golden hall of the empty king, and on top, the throne made of mithril was occupied...
Their eyes met, causing the king to freeze. It was a giant ogre! He was sitting on the throne, and in his lap was... a human? The king thought in fear, and he quickly activated his cultivation at the second level of the Heaven Stage Realm.
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"YOU DAMNED OGRE!!" The king roared furiously.
The whale just snorted, and Ruri tightened her sword. But soon, the whale turned to the side, sensing the approach. The real master had arrived.
BOOM!
A second hole appeared, coming from below the hall, and soon, a slender figure floated down. The dwarf king turned, sighing, and spoke:
"Sorry to summon you, sir! This ogre invaded..."
"He’s a human," the figure cut in. "This might be the round one I’m looking for. I need to investigate him properly."
The figure looked coldly at the whale, and they exchanged glances for seconds. It was an elf, the first they had seen on this planet; the dark elf, who was an evil cultivator, despite having "elf" in the name, belonged to a very different race. This one was pure... so pure that Alm and Bruno felt something was off.
’Fifth level of the Heaven Stage Realm, with an age equivalent to a 15-year-old human, and still possesses a density of QI and pure laws well above this ascending planet...’ Bruno analyzed seriously.