Second World



Now that all the enemies were gone. Jack could finally take a breather. He looked at Grace, who came to his side.

"Thank you!" Jack exclaimed. "I'm truly saved by your arrival."

"Hey! What about me?" Oswald complained.

"Yes, you too," Jack said.

"I'm sure you would have been able to defeat them all if given time," Grace said.

"Maybe, but then I would have to use one skill I have been saving for that main battle," Jack said and looked over to the battle that was still raging by the plains.

"I have a lot of things to ask you, like where have you been all this time? How do you get so strong, and all that, but I'm afraid that all have to wait. I got a war to win here."

"Sure, King Jack. Let's go to your army. They need you," Grace said with a smile.

"You know I'm king?" Jack asked.

"I heard the news from where I was," Grace answered.

"Okay, I'll go first," Jack used the one skill he had been saving, Reset. He then transformed into the supreme dragon form again.

"Let's go together," Grace said and activated her Inquisitor's skill, Angelic Possession. Wings made of light sprouted behind her.

"Right," Jack uttered. "Let's go!"

Jack, Grace, and Therras took to the sky.

"Summon me when you get there!" Oswald called. "It looks a hell of a long distance to run."

The flying speed of Jack's supreme dragon form was faster than Grace's. He didn't wait for Grace. Grace didn't mind getting left behind.

Jack scanned the battlefield with his dragon eyes. The situation was bad. They were outnumbered and their positioning was bad. They had been caught in a situation where they didn't expect a battle. After looking around for a while, he decided to go where the field commanders of the Liguritudum army and his army were fighting.

Liguritudum's field commander was the high marshall, Oberon. He was fighting against Temisphere's Lord Marshall, Emris. Emris was originally ganged up by two high-level mythical-grade opponents, Oberon and the undead Balzrim.

Balzrim was Hydrurond's lord dominator who had been killed when Hydrurond's army was fleeing the capital after their defeat. He was then resurrected by Master together with the other fallen soldiers in Messephyria. He was now just a mindless undead serving the bearer of the Necronomicon.

Emris was having trouble facing two powerful opponents at the same time. Luckily, Arlcard came to the rescue not long after. Arlcard was nine levels weaker than Balzrim, but he was still able to keep the undead lord dominator busy enough that Emris could cope with Oberon.

Jack saw Arlcard was having trouble. Both Emris and Arlcard were battling in the sky. Jack flew up higher than their altitude, before making a sharp dive.

Peniel had told Jack that the disadvantage of turning into the undead by the Necronomicon was that the resurrected person would no longer be able to associate with mana. So, even if Balzrim was a mythical draconian who could sense mana or manipulate mana during his life, he lost that ability when he died. So, Balzrim wasn't aware of Jack who was coming at him from his blind spot.

Jack slammed into him from above and dragged him all the way down to the ground.

"Arlcard, now!" Jack called.

Arlcard cast his Dark Lord's Sword at the same moment Jack used Lightning God Barrage and fired Soul Breath. The three combined attacks struck Balzrim with perfect timing. The resulting explosion took a large chunk of Balzrim's HP.

Balzrim was a level 82 mythical grade, so he was over-leveled for Jack. Jack took advantage of this ambush to wear him down.

While Balzrim was still disoriented, Jack cast Perpetual Lightning Judgement. The lightning disaster hit all enemies in a large area around him. He then followed up with Iron Mammoth Stampede. Twenty giant iron mammoths appeared. They immediately spread out and charged at the first enemies they saw.

These mammoths were extremely strong. The soldiers were unable to stop their charge. Whatever formation they were adopting, it turned to shit once these mammoths ran into them.

Jack also called out his spirit weapon, golden wolves, and Therras copy. He had them spread out to help the mammoths fight the nearby enemies. Jack and Arlcard then continued dealing with Balzrim. Therras and Grace who arrived later joined the fight.

Grace called Oswald using her companion token and the two played support by dealing with any soldiers who tried to aid Balzrim.

Therras joined Jack and Arlcard by clashing directly with Balzrim. Between the three of them, Balzrim's remaining HP was slowly ground down.

*

The war continued to rage in the other parts of the battlefield. Whether it was on the land or in the sky, it was full of conflicts. The sky was dominated by the Eagle Rider Hunters and World Maker's werebats. Military officers who could fly also did so to fight a more focused battle in the sky rather than the chaotic battle on the ground.

In the sky in the distance, Broidrireg was still trading blows with Suzaki. Broidrireg proved more powerful so he could send his AOE spells to blast the enemies below as well. Several of the higher-level officers from the Liguritudum army took to the sky to aid Suzaki.

Master had returned to engage Nilrem so she couldn't continue wreaking havoc using her spells on the army below.

Duke Alfredo and Jack's royal agents had arrived earlier and they tried to flank the enemy's army.

Out on the eastern side of the battlefield, the Hydrurond's force was engaging the Aurebor's army. Duchess Isabelle had led a legion and went to help them in that fight, with the priority of protecting Queen Aldryth. They couldn't afford to lose her. Securing her escape was the whole point of the current campaign.

Armstrong, Claudius, and Salem were leading the Themisphere army on the field while following John's instructions transmitted via the war table. The army had received a second wind from Serenity's healing. This healing had been extremely helpful, buying them some more time to resist the enemies.

Even so, there were too many enemies.

As for the Cult of Phobos, most had circled past Eoranth who was engaged by the Primordial Hydra and Vekja. Most of the cultists had higher average levels than country soldiers. They hit Themisphere's army from the flank. Their involvement tipped the scales even further to Liguritudum's side.

Seeing all this from the 3D projection on the war table, John must admit it didn't look good. They were being overrun. It was just a matter of time till the Themisphere and Hydrurond armies collapsed.

"What should we do?" Tip, who was controlling the guild army command platform from the side, asked. The guild army he was controlling was also not doing so well. They were being besieged by two enemy guilds and the zombie army.

John couldn't answer. He had tried all kinds of maneuvers, but the Liguritudum army matched his tactics with equal precision and cunning. Considering they were outnumbered, this put him on the losing side.

While he was thinking of a solution to their current dire predicament, he heard one of the guards forming the perimeter of his command post exclaim, "Enemy!"

John turned and saw a single ethereal player there. This ethereal player had the World Maker's guild tag. The player's name was Wease.

When the guards were about to attack Wease, this intruder shouted, "Stop! I come bearing a message!"