Chapter 871: The Struggling Mercenaries
The Supreme Leader knew exactly what Jason was planning! The death of the leader of a country was obviously going to throw the entire world into a panic, especially if it was the president of a country as important as North Korea! But by resigning and dropping out of office, the Supreme Leader would become someone unimportant, and his death would no longer matter! Jason wanted to make the Supreme Leader’s death just another random news headline rather than a nationwide event! It was the most insulting thing you could do to a man as prideful as the Supreme Leader! Taking away every form of importance he ever had and ensuring his death was as forgettable as possible! The Supreme Leader actually felt a surge of anger rising from his heart just thinking about it!
"Just.. Just kill me! Just kill me!"
The Supreme Leader seethed in Jason’s face as he begged for immediate death, but Jason didn’t give a damn. Jason stood up and put his hands in his pockets as he spoke:
"If in the next twenty-four hours, you haven’t done what I said, then I’ll sink you and your entire family to the bottom of the ocean. You came after my family, so it is only right that your family’s lives hang in the balance as well. I’ll leave someone behind to make sure you don’t go killing yourself like a coward, and I’ll be expecting the news tomorrow. Enjoy your final twenty-four hours."
Jason turned away and activated [King’s Substitute], and a Pawn Rank subordinate appeared in Jason’s place. The subordinate stood beside the Supreme Leader silently, and the Supreme Leader finally fell to his knees and hung his head in defeat.
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[The World of Radiz]
[Fifteen Dimensional Leaps from Earth]
The world of Radiz was a Rank IV world with an ecosystem of diverse magical beasts that lived on the different landscapes. There were massive forests, and huge oceans that stretched for miles into the horizon! Dangerous deserts filled with typhoons that prevented anything but the most powerful wind-type creatures from living there, and deep canyons that were crawling with massive magical lizards known as gorgons that could turn anyone to stone with only a stare!
This world did not have any intelligent life that took charge as the main species, but at this moment, the Rocky Mountain plains on the eastern side of Radiz were being used by a certain organization as a temporary base of operations. This organization was made up of some of the most powerful members of different worlds around the Primordial Expanse, and they were all hardened warriors who were willing to sell their skills and services to whoever paid them the most money! This was a mercenary group known as the Drakan Mercenaries, and they had set up camp in this world to treat the injuries they suffered during a battle between them and an enemy group known as the Jamani Mercenaries.
Recently, there had been a lot of tension between the Drakan and the Jamani Mercenaries. Not only were the two groups made up of some of the most powerful fighters in the Primordial Expanse, but they were also competing for the same limited number of clients in the Primordial Expanse. The fact that the Primordial Expanse had been at peace for a long time meant that every client they could get their hands on was very important!
But recently, the Jamani had been trying to steal clients from the Drakan to expand their influence, and this obviously made the Drakan angry! The Drakan had declared war against the Jamani, and they intended to take down those fools and absorb the Jamani mercenary group into the Drakan, but the Drakan had seriously underestimated the Jamani! Even though the Jamani had been established only recently, and they also had fewer members, the members that they did have were all in the high TITAN Ranks, and it was impossible for the Drakan to challenge them since most of their fighters were in the lower TITAN Ranks as well as SSS class!
Against any other army, the mercenaries of Drakan would be a very formidable opponent that would strike fear into your heart! But against the Jamani, they didn’t stand a chance!
Right now, there were many Drakan mercenaries nursing their wounds while sitting around a massive fire in the campsite. Some of the Drakan mercenaries had been shot, stabbed, or cut dangerously during the battle, and some had even lost limbs! Close to ten percent of their population had died, and even though they gave the Jamani one hell of a fight, it was obvious that the Drakan wouldn’t survive another dangerous clash!
In the middle of the campsite, there was a large tent that had been set up for the head of the Drakan mercenary group, and multiple high-ranking members were currently sitting on the floor and looking at a map on the table with scowls on their faces. The men in here were all powerful warriors who had been hardened by years of experience on the battlefield, but many of them now had bandages wrapped around their bodies, and there was a healer kneeling behind one of the men and using her skill to close a large wound on his back!
The battle against the Jamani left no one untouched, and even the leader of the group sitting at the head of the table had a bandage around his bicep and waist as he frowned at the map on the table.
"Laniz, what are we going to do? It’s only a matter of time before those bastard Jamani drive us out of this domain."
One of the higher-ranking members at the side spoke up towards their leader, and the leader snarled. Laniz was a large man with a roguish appearance and long, greasy hair. His shoulders, arms, and knees were covered in dark scales, and he had slit yellow eyes that made him look like a lizard. Laniz turned to the side and spoke:
"How many of our men were killed or injured?"
A younger man at the side immediately spoke up.
"Out of our two thousand men, we have a thousand injured and three hundred dead. If we face the Jamani again with our current numbers, we will be eradicated."
Laniz put a hand over his face and growled in anger! Laniz’s father was the one who had built this mercenary group from the ground up! Back then, it was still the Period of Lawlessness, so there was always an excess of requests coming in from warring worlds asking for their assistance, and they had built up a massive reputation and lots of riches from their battles! But ever since the Period of Lawlessness ended, things had changed drastically for a lot of mercenary groups! Not only did they no longer have as many jobs as before, but they now had to worry about being tracked down and imprisoned by the Overlords of the domains! Many of the mercenary groups in the other domains had disbanded or been imprisoned as a result of the overlord’s interference, but the Drakan managed to survive for this long because the Overlord Rubik was an easy man to bribe!
All they did was give Rubik some money to look the other way, and they managed to continue their work without issues. But now that Rubik was dead, Laniz had been putting off his meeting with the new overlord because he was trying to find out what sort of man he was. Laniz knew that trying to bribe the wrong person could end badly for them, so he needed to figure out if this Overlord Jason was similar to Rubik.
Laniz could never have expected the Jamani would suddenly become so hostile!
The Jamani were a mercenary group that operated across multiple Domains while managing to stay under the radar of the Overlords. The moment they heard that Rubik had been killed in this domain, they immediately moved into the sixth domain, and they began taking many of the jobs that the Drakan would normally be given! This had gone on for a few weeks, and the last straw for Laniz was when the Jamani took a job from a distant world going through a revolution!
