"That was quick..."
Shin looked around him only to find all the adventurers dead. He was the one who killed them but even for him, it seemed quite fast.
'Weren't they strong adventurers?', he asked himself.
Adventurers had different ranks assigned to themselves - Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Diamond - these were the four main ranks for them and their group.
Of course, they are given a type of badge to wear around their wrists or to stick on the armor or sword. On seeing them, Shin confirmed that most of them were Silver ranked adventurers while others were bronze. Earlier he had disposed of many of them out of which around 90% were bronze and the rest were silver.
The blood had been spilled everywhere. Without a doubt, it was Shin's victory.
He used Bite and Dash skills along with Wind Run to kill all the adventurers that came to hurt him. Other than that, his army had taken care of other humans.
Technically speaking, the population of each village or town was ridiculously low. It wasn't more than 300 anyway so the army could very well take care of them.
That was what happened. The goblins and the wolves killed almost all the humans that failed to escape. Although not all the humans of the town were massacred and managed to escape, the number of human death was still high.
In order to conquer the entire Kingdom, the destruction or winning of the towns should be maintained at the current pace after all he had only 4 or fewer days left.
Conquering at a later date wouldn't ensure winning for Shin since the reward of finding Aella was what he aimed at.
*tap tap*
He walked slowly and steadily towards the town. As he entered, he found a lot of dead bodies. Both humans and other creatures had been brutally killed.
The wolves stood near the border of the town and so did the goblins as if they were waiting for Shin to arrive and give orders to raid the next town.
Sin just walked past the dead bodies casually while only having a feeling of pity in his heart.
'I no longer am a human...', he said to himself.
He knew that since earlier but at the moment, he meant that his heart no longer belonged to that of humankind. This was because, other than pity, he felt nothing while looking at the massacre.
No guilt, no anger nor any remorse. In fact, it felt as if he had squashed some pitiful bugs or ants that were in his path.
'Well, can't help it.'
'You all were chosen by the system after all.', he sighed.
Soon he arrived near the other border as well while confirming that there were still a few other races surviving in the town Cry Pale.
He let them hide and didn't kill them since they weren't his target from the beginning. Perhaps, the goblins and wolves let them live because their hatred was target towards the humans.
"Master..."
"Master!"
Both goblins and the wolves looked at Shin as he walked slowly towards them.
'Unbelievable...'
'Did we just kill the humans without having even a single death?' - the shadow wolf general was surprised by the feat that was accomplished.
Although he had some sort of resent towards Shin, now he was full of admiration, but it was not enough to win his heart over completely.
As for Deoras, he was wagging his tail at the sight of Shin. He was already tamed, a lot of time back in fact when he met Shin for the first time.
"Yes, rest for a few minutes."
"We will charge after five minutes."
It would have been wise to attack the humans while there was chaos. Since the humans from Cry Pale ran towards the next town - it would cause a lot of chaos in the said town.
This would mean that killing the humans there would be a piece of cake, however, Shin didn't want that to happen.
He knew that nothing good could come from the chaos, after all, even their side could suffer heavy casualties.
In order to survive, humans could resort to any means - sometimes self-sacrifice to help their kin survive or sometimes abandonment of their own kin to ensure their survival.
Whatever it may be, one thing was for sure, if the army was to go during the unsettling chaos, they would suffer the most.
However a mere five minutes wouldn't be enough to stop the chaos, though, it will be reduced but not completely disappeared.
Also, others needed a bit of rest and understanding.
"Just because we took over the first town, do not underestimate the humans.", Shin said.
They heard him and stopped the arrogant look and confidence that they had. It was same for the wolves as well.
They stopped being so confident and started to think about the casualties that they could have suffered or would suffer in the future.
In any case, just by taking these small breaks and attacking the next towns, Shin conquered almost all the towns.
The Kingdom was rich - as mentioned earlier - however, the adventurers were not of high level.
It was partly because there were no strong monsters nearby but the main reason was because of their low population.
Yes, the low population caused them to relax and there was no competition among themselves - so the strongest adventurer that they had was a gold ranker and it was just one, there was no one stronger than him.
Shin finished off the gold-ranked adventurer easily but it took a little longer than the silver-ranked ones. Of course, the power of the people here was quite low.
Shin had conquered all the towns and now only one city remained - the capital of the Kingdom - Tyron.
It was already the last day and only a few hours were remaining. Everything was going according to Shin's prediction - most of the humans had fled from the entire kingdom.
Around 35% of the humans of the Kingdom had been massacred. 51% escaped the Kingdom entirely and because of refugees of other kingdoms nearby and the remaining 14% of the humans were present in the Capital Tyron.
The King of that place had been panicking from the start. Of course, he sent many letters for help as Shin had suspected but none came to help, not till now.
"Are you ready?"
"Time to take down the capital!", Shin shouted.
The defense of the capital was superb. It had some canons and superb archers waiting for Shin and his gang to attack.
Shin knew this the moment he used his skill - All Seeing Eyes - to look at everything that was present in the capital.
He knew that it could be fatal for the goblins and wolves since their attacks wouldn't reach whereas the arrows would come and hit them.
Because of that, he devised a plan - Summoning the shadow dragons for help.
Yes, the same shadow dragon, whom he had summoned a few times earlier, was summoned now too. Since physical attacks wouldn't work on shadow beasts and shadow monsters, the shadow dragon and the shadow wolves were safe.
The Black wolf pack that was with Shin had Shadow wolves so they were safe! But the only problem was using the goblins - they would have been defenseless if they were showered with arrows. So Shin told them to wait in the previous town and not meddle with anything.
[ You have used the skill Hymn Of The Dragons ]
[ Pact with the Shadow Dragon Argant detected ]
[ Would you like to summon the Shadow Dragon Argant? ]
[ -> Yes/No ]
"Yes."
Right after doing that, Argant appeared from a black magic circle just like usual.
The moment this happened, the aura in the entire area changed.
First of all the ones that were close - the shadow wolves - were startled by this.
"That is..."
Their eyeballs started to shake the moment they saw the red furious eyes and a dragon-like pitch black body which was appearing and vanishing as if it was smoke.
Yes, it was shadow dragon, after all, this much was to be expected.
"Argant, you know what to do right?", Shin asked with a smirk while explaining the situation in which they were.
"Leave it to me."
"I will make sure that those humans suffer even after they die!"
'Uh... I don't want them to suffer because of his torture.'
*cough*
"Other than the royalty in the castle..."
"Kill all the humans."
"Let others live." - that was the only order Shin gave and the shadow dragon along with the wolves took off from the place.
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