Chapter 35: Success!

[ Name: Ren Arken

Age: 14

Race: Human

Strength: 500

Agility: 10, 000

Vitality: 2, 000

Mana: ~~~

Spiritual: ~~~

Intellect: 1, 000

Unique Skills:

-magic cards -appraisal -evil gaze -strengthen -leap -basic magics -fire magic -Fire Archmagic -illusion magic -water magic -light magic -nature magic -Grimoire of death -Real Clone [Heavenly Slime] -Eye of Wisdom -Sword God]

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[Type: Demon [Duke]

level: 280

Strength: 4.000.000

Agility: 1.000.000

Vitality: 6.000.000

Mana: 15.000.000

Spiritual: 10.000.000

Skills: -Arch dark magic -Arch demonic magic -Arch fire magic -Herculean strength -Demon’s terror]

(Damn… All of them are demon dukes!)

(What the hell with that stats!? Their just a duke but has a status equal to a king rank!)

(Geeta’s mind magic won’t work on it!)

3 demon dukes are facing Oz right now, red huge and burly bodies, long and sharp claws, and terrifying faces. But Oz couldn’t sense any sense of intelligence from them, as if they’re robots or clones.

(Shit! Does it mean that I need to face these 3 demons all by myself!?)

Oz analyzes the situations and arranges his strategies inside his brain, and said: “Geeta, led the undead to release the prisoners swiftly and retreat. Azaline, back me up with your bow,”

“B-but, I could help you too-“

“You’ll be facing the opponents near the cage, there must be some powerful enemies there too, you’re to make sure that they will get out of here safely, now go!” Geeta immediately went together with the undead after hearing Oz’s stern instructions.

Oz raised the normal-looking sword that Aegir gave him, he took some stances and observes the demon dukes. What worries Oz the most is not the safety of his goblin clone, but the safety of the elf girl behind him and the success of the rescue plan.

He’s currently using the goblin [king] form, so he couldn’t summon the magic cards as he used to when he’s cornered. He could only fight efficiently with his decent sword and supported by his qi.

Azaline pulled the string of her elven magic bow and shoots, opening the fight. The demon duke aimed by Azaline intercepts her arrow with his claws, but Azaline’s arrow is not a normal one, the arrow exploded when the demon duke blocks it, hurting him a little. All of the demons dukes dashes forward, and Oz dashes forward to prevent them from getting near Azaline.

(As long I keep them on track for about 1 hour, it’ll be our win)

Keeping his calm, Oz deflects all of the demon dukes attacks with his sword. Two demon dukes will dash to Oz and have melee combat with him, while one demon duke will stay behind and support them with the arch magics.

*Sound of swords colliding*

Oz clicked his tongue.

(There are no openings…)

While Oz is keeping the three demon dukes busy together with Azaline, he keeps on track the other clones of him on the other side. Aegir and Gareth are having one on one with a demon each. Ibra is facing one of the demon dukes, teaming with Fedra. Brad and Gurolf team together too to face the last demon duke.

The only clones that have enough leeway to travel to Oz’s and Azaline’s position are only his skeleton [king] and griffin clone, the other clones are busy handling their respective opponents. Oz commands the skeleton [king] clone to hop on the griffin clone and travel to his place to support him.

Having to battle with three demon dukes together with Azaline only is way too difficult, and Oz’s goblin duke clone’s mana is not infinite! He’ll run out of mana soon, and his qi can’t run efficiently as this is not his real body that has the real qi circulation.

The battle has been going for 30 minutes, but there is no sign of ending, neither in Oz’s battle or Aegir and co’s battle. Even though Oz can’t feel the tiredness, his body still shows some signs of weakening. Getting unscathed when being a vanguard while facing three demon dukes with crazy stats alone is impossible.

(As expected, they’re just clones…)

(It seems that I underestimated their side too much)

(They sent a soulless demon duke to defend because they’ve anticipated our assault! And judging from how coordinated their formation is, it seems that the one who summoned them is watching this battle right now,)

Sensing something is coming, Oz sighed relief.

Seeing Oz that withdraws his battle stance and sighed made Azaline frown, confused. ‘Does he Gives up?’ Thought her.

Oz’s figure made her stop shooting her magic arrows too, and suddenly, all of the three demon dukes jumps and dashes to Oz’s goblin duke clone’s position and is about to strike him with all of their might.

But Oz remains idle as if he’s already given up. But when the three huge claws had almost cut Oz to shreds, Azaline caught a glimpse of something that doesn’t fit with the situation.

Oz is smiling with his usual evil smirk and his eyes filled with confidence.

Booooom!

An explosion suddenly occurred, following with a cry from a griffin. The demon dukes got blasted away from the explosion, and bags of dust covered the whole battlefields, making it hard to see anything.

*Sound of bones cracking*

Following the sound of cracking bones, a skeletal figure appeared beside the goblin king. It’s Oz’s lich [king] clone, Azaline’s expression immediately got bright after she saw the sight. Hope started to come back to her heart, as the lich [king] clone’s magic is peerless.

*Sound of stretching bones*

Oz stretches his goblin [king] clone’s head and said while smirking: “Now, fight seriously, shall we?”

Azaline pulled her bowstrings again, preparing to shoot, but she suddenly felt a gush of power streaming inside of her, the bowstring felt easier to pull and the bow felt lighter than before. Her mana that has been depleting because of the battle had also started to recover.

It shocked her, but she realizes that the skeleton [king] clone is buffing her with his magic.

“Thanks!” She thanked sweetly and shot three arrows simultaneously to each demon dukes.

The demon dukes had already blocked her arrows before, but the damage from the arrows this time is far different from before, their explosion is also powerful than before too. It seems that the skeleton [king] clone had also buffed her arrows, making a smile to be imprinted at her face as she continues to shot another volley of arrows.

The large explosion and the sudden boost of power at the arrows shocked the demon dukes, making them let an opening for Oz to strike. Oz’s goblin [king] clone dashes and strikes two of the demon dukes swiftly.

The first demon duke finally dead, but the other demon duke seems only get a heavy wound. Oz doesn’t miss the opportunity and the skeleton [king] shot three huge fireballs to the wounded demon duke, burning it to cinders.

The last remaining demon duke is still alive, but both Oz and the skeleton [king] clone suddenly sit down at the ground, making Azaline confused. Looking at Azaline’s confused face makes Oz laughed and said: “Don’t be confused, I’m giving the remaining demon duke for you to defeat, my skeleton [king] clone will boost you and assist you when you’re in pinch. So fight with all your might!”

“E-EH!?” Azaline let a surprised sound.

As she about to rebuke at Oz’s sudden command, the demon duke dashes at her and about to strikes her, making her to unwillingly swallow back her words.

Azaline took a breath to calm her and stares at the remaining demon duke with a cold gaze. As she observes her opponent, she saw that there are some wounds at the demon duke’s body that Oz had inflicted before. But there is one different wound that is deeper than the others.

“Lucky…” Azaline whispered.

“Swift winds… Guardian of nature… Be my arrow’s guide and let it pierce my enemies” Azaline chants with elven language.

The arrows that had already buffed by the skeleton [king] clone’s magic, got another boost, Azaline shot the arrow and the arrow pierce the deep wound that Oz had already inflict it before, piercing the demon duke, giving it a huge hole at its stomach.

“Good job! As expected of the elven princess!” Oz praised her.

“Of course! I can’t let you underestimate the title of the elven princess!” Said the elven princess while swaying her hair gracefully.

The battle ended with great success. The undead summoner that summoned the undead foot soldiers had the greatest role in keeping the casualties zero. There are some who got injured, but fortunately, there are no casualties.

The foot soldiers took all of the damages and jumped in when someone is in danger, making no one have the chance to got hurt or got a severe wound. Seeing the countless undead foot soldiers made them feels that they had multiple lives, their morale got heightened and they fought triumphantly.

There are hundreds of people inside of the huge cage that came from several races. There are goblins, elves, orcs, kobolds, and several dwarves. Geeta led all of the prisoners out of the cage and went back to Oz’s position, but unexpectedly, Aegir and the rest of the army also arrived at the same time with Geeta.

When Azaline looked at the prisoner’s direction, she seems to be looking for someone as her face gradually look paler and paler, seeming to didn’t find the person she’s looking for. When Oz about to console her, someone taps her shoulder from her back.

“Princess!!” The figure said to Azaline. Azaline turns her back and closes her mouth with both of her hands because of the surprise from seeing the figure. Tears gradually gather at the corner of her eyes and slowly falls to her cheeks.

“Em!” Azaline shouts the name belongs to the person in front of her and jumped to hug the person. The other elves gathered behind the figure Azaline called Em and waited for the touching reunion to end.

“Princess,” Em said. She got away from Azaline’s hug and kneels to her.

“We’re deeply ashamed for getting a multiple defeat from the demons. Our village got attacked when we let our guards down, and not only we became their prisoner, you even went personally to the battlefield to rescue us,” As she said this, all of the elves behind her also kneels to Azaline and apologized.

Hearing this line, Oz approaches Azaline and asked in a low voice that only both of them could hear it.

“Oi! Don’t you come from a different village? Why does this girl call you princess too? Doesn’t every elven village had at least one princess on their own?” Asked Oz.

Azaline turns her head, facing Oz, and said with a frown: “Of course not! What do you think a princess is!? We originally come from a kingdom that had a huge castle in the forest, but you humans came with your greedy eyes and assault us! You burn our kingdom and kidnap our people to be made slaves!”

When Azaline shouted these words, her eyes are filled with scorn and hate, layers of bad memories started to storm her brain, and the scenes and shouts from that time gushed like water that fell from the waterfall.

Seeing Azaline’s state shocked Oz for a moment, but he could only stay silent as he himself is a pure human, so he could only apologize and wait for Azaline until she calms down.

(Seems like that topic is a taboo to be discussed from now on)

“S-sorry…” Oz said while shifting his eyes away from Azaline’s gaze.

“Eh!? Ah! Sorry, the bad memories possessed me. It’s okay, Ren. You’re different from the humans that attacked my hometown, you don’t have the greed at your eyes,” Azaline recovered her cool and said with a kind smile.

*Cough Cough*

An old cough suddenly heard from the side, Oz shifted his gaze and found out that dozens of dwarves are standing beside him.

“Hello young un! Are you our benefactor!? We old dwarves want to express our gratitude to you, do you have some time?” Said the old dwarf while stroking his beard with his hand.