Weed shook his head. “I did not see ghosts.”
Household expenses were much more frightening than ghosts.
Between the trees and behind his back, the ghosts moved stealthily. They weren't obvious, but you could feel something was there! Weed had been so immersed in mentally organizing his household accounts that he'd walked right past them without noticing.
Ding!
Alliance of the Deliverers. The Lekiye tribe who hunts in the River of Lamentation has joined.
The negotiator's fame has increased by 200.
Charm has increased by 60.
The alliance of the second tribe taken care of, Weed headed towards the direction of the third tribe.
The pursuers caught up quickly and had set up camp on the plains and were waiting.
Without breaking through the Dark Knights and the Embinyu Church forces, it would be difficult to go to where the third village was located.
“Bingryong, Phoenixes! Get rid of them!”
“Got it, Master.”
The fight between Bingryong, the Phoenix Brothers and the pursuers took place. Weed just watched them with folded arms.
The reason he made and granted life to sculptures based on aerial monsters was because aerial monsters had a high survival rate.
“They can't be compared to land monsters.”
Land monsters could perish quickly if they were surrounded and received concentrated attacks. However, a flying creature couldn't be hunted easily without a Magician or Archer squad.
Later, he had to prepare a balance so he could afford both aerial and land creatures. But so far, he mostly had aerial monsters centering around Bingryong.
The Embinyu Church's pursuers were having hard time thanks to Bingryong and the Phoenixes.
The highlight of the Phoenixes' power!
“Fire Blaster!”
When the Magicians used offensive magic, the Phoenixes flew enthusiastically.
“It's mine!”
“I saw it first.”
“I'm going to eat it first.”
As if they were competing, they ate the fire magic with greedy gulps.
The ability to absorb fire to replenish Health and Mana!
They also spewed flames as they flew low over the flaming ground.
As the trees burned and the flames spread, the Phoenixes demonstrated nearly infinite Health and attack power.
One must use Holy Magic, Spiritual Magic, or Mana Drain skills in order to deal with the Phoenixes. Or bombard them with Ice magic. Otherwise, there was no way to defeat the Five Phoenix Brothers!
The Phoenixes flew to the ground and flapped their flame wings or spewed fire in front of the Knights.
“ROOOAAAAAAAAR”
They were doing far more damage than Bingryong's ruthless attacks. Bingryong went around with his massive weight, picking out the Priests and crushing them.
The force of the Embinyu Church's pursuers crumbled to at least half in an instant.
This is the power of the sculptures!
A thought of mass producing Phoenixes grazed past Weed's mind.
“I should make about 30 Phoenixes… then they probably wouldn't disappear and die.”
With 30 Phoenixes, it would very well be a fiery hell!
With the characteristic of gaining strength from fire, he thought there would be almost no reason to lose Health!
If it wasn't winter or a rainy day, they wouldn't receive much effect from the environment either. While utilizing the most out of the fire characteristic, Bingryong couldn't compare in flanking capability.
However, sculptures have sensitive personality.
They were quite severely opposed to sculptures looking similar to themselves. What's worse was, they showed attitudes of wanting to fight each other.
The higher the Art stat, sculptures granted life were stronger, so the personality demands and egos became greater.
Due to the limitations of Weed's Leadership and Charisma, it was tough to handle over 10 of the same kind of sculpture.
“Yellowy, let's go!”
MOOOOOOOO!
Weed and Yellowy took care of the remaining forces together.
With each pursuer team, Yellowy, Bingryong and the Phoenix Brothers gained 2–3 levels each, and collected plenty of japtem and weapons.
Before arriving at the next village, the team of pursuers once again drew close.
60 Dark Knights.
10 Priests.
10 Magicians
400 Normal Soldiers.
This is indeed an extremely bloodthirsty army!
The large army came with the purpose of capturing Weed.
“Knights, Priests, Magicians, and Soldiers were all on horseback and chasing us with amazing speed.”
The Phoenixes he sent in five directions to scout had returned and reported.
Weed stroked the back of Yellow's neck. “Yellowy, let's go quickly from now on. Any more laziness and dinner will be beef soup.”
Even without Weed's threat, Yellowy was extremely worried every time food was prepared. He was getting stressed to the point of losing his perfectly good fur.
Weed's eyes looked like they really wanted to soak Yellowy's head or feet for a while whenever Weed boiled soup!
MOOOOOOO!
Yellowy increased his speed and charged forth with his supple body. With speed easily exceeding a horse's, downhill or uphill, he ran without rest.
“Bingryong.”
“Speak, Master.”
“Use Breath once and come back.”
The Ice Breath he used after flying to the Embinyu Church's pursuers! Like drinking a glass of milk every morning, he was ordered to shoot out Ice Breath everyday.
The Embinyu Church's pursuers sustained injuries by the Ice Breath and were dying little by little.
“Phoenixes.”
“We are listening to your words, Master.”
“You guys go and torch them. If they ascend the mountains or woods, quickly set them on fire.”
It was a strategy that didn't consider the likes of nature conservation. Attacking with fire! In the forests with many trees and flammable reed beds, the Phoenixes attacked the pursuers without fail.
“Bingryong, is there a canyon or large forest around here?”
“You need to move a bit to the west.”
“Let's go there.”
He chose a path difficult for a large army to move through and delayed the pursuers.
Fairly fighting one on one!
A duel of Knights fighting with their honor on the line!
Warriors fighting with their lives!
Weed was far, far away from those things.
Even though the Priests and Magicians used protective magic, they took considerable damage from Ice Breath, killing over dozens of people. The horses slipped due to the frozen ground, and the movement speed of the Soldiers were delayed.
However, once the Embinyu Church's pursuers came a certain distance, they ignored all obstacles and caught up by traveling in a nearly straight line. Since they were moving at maximum speed to catch up to Weed, the damage they have taken from Ice Breath had accumulated.
Even Weed could see the dust trail produced by the pursuers.
“We're screwed. They are almost upon us!”
The drunkard Smith, who had tried to help, gave up everything and was drowning in despair as he sought more and more alcohol.
However, Weed didn't think this was the end. He had already accounted for the pursuers catching up to them at this point.
“I'll make it more troublesome for them.”
He used an underhanded tactic of deliberately going only to places where monsters gathered, making slight detours and causing fights!
An escape superior to that of mud eels, creatures who make streams muddy!
The Embinyu Church's pursuers advanced straight through Bingryong's Breath and while fighting monsters.