Chapter 194: Finishing The Preparations to Conquer The Castle


    As I made sure those behind the walls didn''t notice what I had done, I started the second phase of my n, as I thought:


    ''I want to sign a serving contract with all the yers inside.''


    ''Each contract will cost you fifty gold coins. The contract is a standard ve contract that can''t be breached except if you released them. any vition to the contract will end by killing the yers. do you want to proceed?''


    The cold voice came to give me a detailed exnation of the contract. I really didn''t know what a ve contract was, but I felt it was somehow simr to the butler contract. To be safe I thought:


    ''Show me the ve contract.''


    ''Contract is in your head, if you agree just say the magical word.''


    I didn''t know why but that cold sound seemed to enjoy this. I had a contract suddenly in my head. I read it more than once and it was strangely simr to the butler contract of Diana. When I was sure of its strength to safeguard me, I thought:


    ''Let''s do it.''


    ''You have eighty-five thousand yers inside, each will cost fifty gold coins. Do you want to proceed?''


    ''Proceed.''


    ''yers have signed the contracts, and you as the owner of the artifact have signed the contract by me. I will be the witness on this contract and the one to monitor them.''


    I was surprised to hear this, wasn''t this contract bound to the game? however I didn''t have time to worry about such a thing, as by the end of this phase, I had to start the third one.


    ''Do you want to release them all now?'' the cold voice asked.


    ''Release fifteen thousand of them.''


    ''Done.''


    Suddenly the whole space got crowded at once by fifteen thousand yers showing up from nowhere. Their appearance startled my personal little army, who moved to cluster around me in a protective way.


    I admired their fast reaction as well as their loyalty. I raised my spear up high as I yelled:


    "Stop, they are ours."


    Just as I said these words, this fantastic crowd of yers looked at me with burning eyes and angry faces. They were mad and angry, but I didn''t feel any pressure at all.


    I knew if anyone tried to cross me, he would immediately die. They also knew this, so all they did was to stand there motionless ncing at me.


    If looks could kill then I would have burnt to death countless times already.


    "Listen up, I''m now your master and you are my servants. Anyone has a problem with that, just show himself so I can kill him and end his misery."


    My voice echoed in the ce which made everyone''s looks burn stronger, however I didn''t faze off as I stepped outside the protective ring of my men as I added:


    "I have already captured all the yers scattered in ambush here. I know your previous n and what you intend to do, so if you have any problem in showing respect to me and obeying my orders, I wouldn''t hesitate to kill all of you and rece you with more."


    My threat wasn''t lightly taken by them, as they already tasted my ability to trap them all without breaking a sweat. They also knew how harsh and strict the contract they signed was, so their anger and disobedience didn''tst more than that before they all knelt to the ground.


    They were my ves, and I hated very, but to make sure my n seeded I had to cross couple of my red lines here.


    As I managed to break their spines, I had sessfully controlled this spot and began to arrange duties for them. all they had to know was to stay guard here as they were supposed to be, and move whenever they got the signal from me.


    So I made Gen create a separate team chat for some leaders of them, as to ry orders when the time would be appropriate.


    Finishing here, I moved to the next spot with more confidence. I visited each ce that had these yers before, and there I did the same. A ve contract was signed, those yers'' will was broken by me, then I gave them my orders and Gen added more yers to his new chat.


    This process took nearly three more hours before I wrapped everything. As I finished thest group of yers, we ended up at the first ce we started from. Now I was ready to start the next phase of my n, the riskier phase.


    "Gen,e with me for a bit."


    Gen followed me to move away from the group, and once we were in a distance safe from any one spying on us, I asked:


    "Can your men fly?"


    Gen looked strangely at me as he replied:


    "We can, but the span of our flight wouldn''t protect us from these towers. They will see using from far and kill us even before we reach them."


    His reply was instant, but that was what I wanted to hear. They could fly, and that would make my n sess rate to go higher.


    "Can you carry someone with you while flying?" I asked.


    "Sure, but this would lower my speed and also will make my altitude lower," he replied with a look of loss on his pretty face.


    He had no clue about my n, and that was a good indicator that no one would think about me doing it.


    The element of surprise was in my side this time.


    "Don''t worry about that, now let''s bring the men and go from here," I said.


    "May I ask what will we do and where are we going?" he asked with doubt.


    "Don''t worry, you will know everything in time. let''s go, we have already wasted enough time here," I didn''t reveal anything of my n as I patted on his shoulder before going back to my personal army.


    We were now stationed near the walls, and I could see the outline of these walls from my ce. I had to lead my army to walk a considerable distance to the west, away from the wall and the castle.


    I estimated that we needed one hour at least to be safely away from the eyes of everyone in the castle, and that hour was what separated us from the nightfall.


    I needed night as covering for me, or else my n would fail.


    I moved leading my yers to the west in a move that seemed unlogical to everyone, Gen included. However Gen felt I was moving ording to a n, so he trusted my judge and followed me without opening his mouth.


    I appreciated his obedience and trust, as this would make him a fine general in my army.


    The journey to the west wasn''t that smooth, as once we exited the ce of ambush, we began to face a high rate of demon teams.


    It seemed demons could sense the high numbers of yers concentrated here, so the numbers of their teams grewrgely from one team each forty minutes to be a team every five minutes or even less.


    Although the rate increased, I didn''t find any difficulty in exterminating them. that only cost us more time, so we took roughly one hour and half to cross the distance we should cross in one hour.


    Reaching this spot I didn''t stop, as I began to move to the north for one more hour. My actions were weird, but noneined or asked anything. Like generals like soldiers, and that made me very content with them.


    After we crossed that distance with difficulty, and facing arge number of demon teams and killing them all, we finally reached a perfect spot for me.


    There was a small hill one kilometer away, and despite the veil of the night, I managed to spot it easily. It was like a huge ck monster that looked so creepy from my ce.


    "Now gather around me and listen up, our goal is to reach that hill over there."


    I said as I pointed towards the hill nearby. Everyone looked at the hill then back at me as Gen asked the million gold coin question:


    "What are we going to do? We are too far from our target."


    I smiled as he was still oblivious to my n, and now was the time to reveal it.


    "We are in the perfect spot now, as this hill will give us the needed altitude to fly higher than the surveince of the castle and its towers."


    "Fly? I doubt that altitude would be enough for us to fly higher than these towers, besides the distance from here to the castle is very big. We can''t sustain this long journey on our own," Gen denied my words as he thought my n was illogic.


    However when I took an item from my Inventory, his eyes lit up. Not only him, but the others as well, as what I took made all the mystery around what we were going to do vanish at once.


    "Wait a second, are you nning to" Gen muttered as he stopped his words in the middle as I nodded to him.


    What I had was the armored balloon treasure which I took from that wicked bastard. It was the time to use it, and I nned to make its first appearance legendary.


    "What do you think? Can we do it?" I asked with a wide smile enjoying their facial reactions which were really funny.


    "This it might actually work. We might lose some kids over there, but we can enter the castle like this with most of our yers," Gen said as he was rubbing his chin with his silly smile.


    He realized, just as the others, that my mind was thinking differently than theirs, and that made them quite happy. After all, the role of a leader was always to think outside what others could think of. Having a unique leader was equal to having a blessing.


    "Now, let''s go to the hill, shall we?" I said as I began to move while I kept that balloon in my hand. It was a special item which granted me the ability to summon a huge balloon that could amodate to a thousand yers inside.


    The balloon was a special military gadget that had its offensive and defensive abilities. I wasn''t in need for offense right now, however one of the defensive abilities was something I liked.


    It was called the silent fog, as the balloon would cover itself with a dark fog that could blend in the darkness of the night to sneak undetected towards its target. It also created a soundproof shield around us, so no one could hear or see using.


    We could be on the top of their heads and they wouldn''t even realize that. That was the pre-final move of my n.


    As for my final step, Gen and the others guessed it half right and half wrong. we would jump from the balloon to fall towards the castle like special forces. However we wouldn''t target the castle itself, as I was targeting its dungeon.


    My n from the beginning wasn''t to create disturbance in this castle, I nned to get this castle for my own by conquering the dungeon.


    As for the yers I scattered around the castle, they would act as n b for me. a safety measure to any new variable that might happen, so I wouldn''t be out of options at any time.


    War was all about choices and ns. The person with more ns and moves up his sleeve would always end up winning.


    The journey to the hill didn''t take minutes, which was caused mostly by facing two teams on the way to it. as we reached the bottom of this hill, we faced three teams in one go.


    "That''s weird, why are there such high density teams around this hill?" Gen muttered as we just killed the three teams to have more teamsing from far towards us.


    "Let''s move up and gain ground, we need to reach the top. Forget about the demons, there is no time to dissect them," I gave my orders at once to rise up and leave the killed demons behind.


    Losing hundreds of pearls wasn''t my intention at all, however if I was blinded by greed here I would end up losing more than that.


    My yers followed my orders to the letter as we began to climb the hill, despite that the hill began to be surrounded by more demon teams, and they were really relentless in chasing up even towards the top of that hill.


    "What the hell is wrong with these demons?!!" I asked with anger and doubt.