I Only Wanted A Class In The Apocalypse

But when the two shouted at them, many started to follow what they said. Of course facing such a life and death decision made everyone on the edge. Just a single word of advice in such a way made many give up on the strong stance they decided upon and lean to my desire.

I had to admit, these two just stepped in at the right moment. Anyway, I looked at those kneeling races with cold eyes. As for those who didn’t listen to my words, they ended up dying down there.

Out of the hundreds of thousands I got initially, I lost one tenth of them so far.

But that was a much better fate for them than what I initially used to do. I only kept those strong forces, and killed the rest.

Of course the amount of good races in each batch wasn’t that high. If I ended up with ten percent, then I’d consider this a winning bargain.

“Stand erect,” I shouted, “from now on, you are going to be distributed into five armies. Each army will listen to one of my leaders. Defying them means defying me, means death. You will follow them from now on, and I’ll receive daily reports on your overall performance. Failing me will end up in your severe punishment. Trying to be smart will lead to not only your death, but risking to kill most of your race in my forces as punishment.”

I stated the code of honour for them. They had to understand their new situation, and got to know their responsibilities and the consequences for breaking any of these rules.

Of course I also had to safeguard against any funny attempt for revolt. If anyone tried to act funny, their entire race here would pay the price.

Such a code would be repeated from now on on the ears of any new forces I’d get. For now I’d put on hold my desire for revenge, and act to make the best use of these forces to fight on my side.

“Five?” Hilary was the first to speak, “how are you going to arrange these forces on us then?”

She turned to me while crossing her arms. Others also looked up at me, and I simply explained:

“First this isn’t the only batch of forces we will get,” I started my explanation by saying this. Once they heard it, they got reassured and knew they would get reinforcements even if they didn’t get part of this cake now.

“As for the current arrangements, I have to make something clear… You won’t lead any forces on the battlefield. Your role is to just give orders, move your forces around like pieces on a chess board.”

“This…”

“You all have to start opening your cultivation bases. Also you need to go to dungeons and learn skills. In addition to that, you can always be ready to be deployed at any critical zone once needed.”

“How?” Isabella asked, “We will need much time to go to any place from the capital.”

“Wrong,” I shook my head before taking out the staff of mine, “we can use this and go through anywhere we want using the markings I saved during our flight.”

I paused, while everyone gave me a weird look filled with surprise, “what? Do you think I just kept moving around without any backup plans? Anyway, this problem is fixed and you don’t have to worry about it for now. Just think about how you’ll arrange your forces, how to control them, and who will lead your forces when you are absent.”

“That’s… cool,” Sara said, looking at everyone who just nodded. They knew they’d have to put extra work here, as they had to select trusted subordinates to lead the new big forces of them and also plan things out.

Frankly speaking… They were turning into true army leaders as I wanted them to be. Only by facing such situations would they end up developing their leadership skills and hone these.

As they started to walk in different directions, Hilary was the only one standing by my side.

“You know… That… dude down below has his forces crushed hard before,” she said in a weird way. She seemed still struggling to speak about him after knowing his secret.

“I didn’t forget about him,” I said, before motioning my head towards the vast number of forces here, “but we need to wait for him to regain his true self. After that, I’ll make sure he will take enough to form a big army.”

“Ok,” she paused, seemingly hesitating, “can’t we use this as a chance to bring him back?”

“Letting him get busy with work?” I thought about it for a second, but didn’t feel truly enthusiastic about it, “this… Will be hard. You know, at some point, people might need time and space for their own souls to heal.”

“O… Ok,” she wasn’t convinced, but she didn’t object. After all, she was still shocked by what she discovered about him.

So she seemed to trust my instincts about deciding what was best for him.

I knew he was going through a tough situation, one that would either turn him much fiercer and better, or crush him into shreds.

Hopefully it would end in the former not the latter.

“So, am I going to take any of these?” she asked as she knew by our numbers, not everyone was going to get part from here.

There were seven, if I excluded the jumper and myself for now. So there were two destined to be left without any forces.

“You will have to pass for now,” I declared my decision, and before she would object, I added, “you are going to have a lot of important work at the capital.”

“What work?”

“I’ll depend on you for building up the kingdom,” I said what I had in mind for her, “you will have to help me in revising my viewpoints and planning, add and modify as you might see fit, and also try to enforce these with me.”

“This…” from the look on her face I knew she perfectly understood how big this was, “I never tried to establish a kingdom before. It’s… just too tiring to do so.”

“I know,” I didn’t deny such fact, “but together we can do it, right?”

“Hmm…” she nodded without saying much, while I knew she was going to do great in such regard.