Her eyes widened as she understood his meaning. She looked at him suspiciously as everyone else around both of them. She commented laughing like a small child happy of her birthday present:
“Are you in love with me?”
“Who? Me? I already have a GF back home.”
He laughed too on her strange remark. He actually admired her but he didn’t feel a love for her. He only wanted to repay a dept and give a painful blow to his enemies.
Although he replied spontaneously he felt something deep in his heart. He didn’t mind this feeling; Amira was really a very beautiful girl. He handed over most of his finished runes and summed his instructions up.
Then she contacted one of these Mognor riders. It took around two minutes for him to appear. For Ibro surprise she was a female warrior.
He noticed some similarities between the two of them. He guesses she was a close relative to her. In brief, Amira summed up Ibro’s plan.
She put the runes in one of her many bags on her waste then she gave her friend the bag of runes. Her friend looked at Ibro silently before she headed straight to the sky.
Those Mognors were really huge. Ibro was astonished when he noticed their fast speed. As he expected, their turning speed was slower than those new enemies that appeared from the horizon.
What Ibro discovered was that these new monsters had multiple heads and not only one. Some had three but the majority had two heads. He guesses that each head had the ability to release one kind of attack each time.
That would make things worse. They needed to just use one head as a decoy and kill their enemies with the second head. Their numbers were huge as well. All the sky on the horizon had turned pitch black in color.
They weren’t less in speed than those Mognors. They reached the sky above Ibro in no time at all. They tried to hit the leading group but they were obstructed by these Mognors.
The battle was so hot from the beginning. Many flying monsters were killed under the deadly claws of those Mognors. Their riders played a role too with their long sharp lances.
The Hekay monsters weren’t passive too. Many Mognors had fallen under their brutal attacks. In few minutes after the start of this air battle, the flaw that Ibro noticed was clear to anyone watching this fight.
Ibro didn’t slow down his advancement at all. He kept pushing the frontline to the maximum limit he could reach. Although he was hit many times by these various natural powers hits, but he was unscathed due to the combined efforts of those around him.
Ibro was counting seconds and minutes waiting for the moment of Dronil’s arrival. When the battle leaned towards those Hekays, Mognors riders started using the runes they received from Amira.
The sudden appearance of these runes disturbed Hekay’s rhythm. The fell in the trap of Ibro’s runes and tried their best to avoid the areas that were filled with black lightning.
Mognors didn’t let them have it easy, as they were moving in an admirable coordination between these runes areas of effect and killed whatever Hekay monster they face.
That change of battle pattern turned the table totally on these monsters. Ibro didn’t expect the effect of his runes to be this effective.
He was happy and knew that he used a great weapon of war without intending it. It was the element of surprise. Ibro gave the distant Donal a disgusting look.
He hated those traitors most. Although Donal tried to rally the fighters around his new place to move under his command, he failed.
He thought that Ibro would slow down his advance, but that didn’t happen. Ibro read his intentions early on and countered them as he kept his advancing pace steady.
Even under the combined heavy attacks from those Hekays and those distant snakes, he didn’t slow down even a bit. In this strong momentum of this Gornat army, a sudden trembling happened on the battlefield that attracted everyone’s attention.
In the distant area, a huge smoke rose like a huge tornado. Ibro focused on this area. There were huge monsters that rose for tens of meters from the ground that was coming in this direction.
It was his first time seeing these monsters so he looked to Amira who said:
“Those are Tokam monsters. They are very huge monsters that have huge bodies with thick skin.
Normal swords didn’t penetrate their defense. They have multiple long extensions that work like their hands. Each hit from them is enough to kill one of us.
They are very rare monsters and Defarot Empire never used them except in life-threatening battles. These monsters are really bad news for us.”
Ibro felt that his enemies were trying their best to kill him. They even used such rare monsters to kill him. He didn’t fret, but he felt his blood was boiling more and more.
He thought about his options. That Donal scum was eyeing him waiting for a single mistake from him. He mustn’t give him any chance to come back. He had only one option left.
He must learn to control these huge amounts of energy that kept dissipating from him. He must raise his Strength stat as soon as possible. He noticed his new enemies were moving slowly towards him.
The second option was for him to stop and direct some of this energy, but this option was omitted immediately from him. He then said to Amira and those around him:
“One of you takes the lead and moves forward like I usually did before. I need to do something now.”
“What about those monsters which are up ahead?”
“Battle them as you usually do for now till I finish my preparations.”
Ibro only replied shortly at Amira’s inquiry. He became the heart of this death squad. He then tried to focus on directing his energy and keep up with the rest of them.
At first, it was a difficult task for him, but with time he got familiar with the process. He directed all his energy towards his muscles. He needed to be stronger, much stronger than before.
He felt this amount of energy wasn’t sufficient for him to kill these new monsters. He didn’t want to hit another hard tank ranks after what he paid to bypass those turtles.
He hated tanks at that moment from the bottom of his heart. It was a race against time. They were trying to create a gap in these turtles ranks that lead directly to the heart of those snakes army.
On the other hand, the new monsters up ahead were trying to catch the back of these turtles before any gap would be created. In the sky, those Hekays were busy trying to save their lives from the constant precise attacks of those Mognors.
Ibro’s instructions to them were very simple, he asked them to be precise and wait for the perfect opportunity to kill their enemies. He turned those veterans to mighty snipers.
Although they had the upper hand up there, they couldn’t afford to support the ground troops at all. After a few minutes, the race of time seemed to be won by those monsters.
Although the new man tried to keep Ibro’s fast pace, but he wasn’t that familiar with that kind of movement like Ibro. The differences appeared clearly in the minute reactions that man took.
His reaction speed was way slower than Ibro’s. Nevertheless, this didn’t give Donal any chance to get anything from this situation. Donal wasn’t really worried as he knew how those Tokam monsters might up ahead.
He was confident in their ability to hold that nasty Amira in her tracks then he would show up in the desperate moment to save the war. It was the perfect scenario that he and the people behind him thought of.
That was really a very good plan, but it wasn’t a perfect plan. They made just one tiny mistake… they underestimated Ibro.
Ibro was in another world of his. He was trying his best to guide this unstoppable flood of energy to his muscles. Each second he got stronger.
Each second he got near the backs of those Hekays, but that was not enough. His strength increased but not to the degree that would make him feel confident.
On the other hand, those Tokam monsters kept approaching steadily. The impact between the two sides was imminent. Ibro looked up ahead.
Those huge monsters managed to reach the backlines of their turtle comrades before he and his comrades could penetrate it. He felt so angry about that situation.
Was it meant for every effort he made to be lost like this? Would he lose this battle with this Donal because of just a few minutes and hundreds of meters? That was unfair!
‘I’m back!’
