Chapter 32: The Alpha Death Knight
Before going to Zeraxos game world…
The time pause cancellation happened just a week ago, so there was no many things to happen out there, but Ibro wasn't sure as his village was already targeted by another fiend that was hunting him through time.
Hepatia village situation was very complicated at Zeraxos world, although he managed to lay down a strong foundation for his village, but his enemies had increased now by another formidable opponent, so his path wouldn't be any smooth.
Ibro didn't need only to defend and upgrade his village, he needed also to search for Sefiera, a mission he knew beforehand how difficult and risky it was. He also needed to find a way to go back to Rioneed, so he had many things to do, with limited options.
The options he had were scarce, but they were all perfect, as the most perfect solution for him was that old master who sent him a scroll of cultivation way. Ibro planned to target this master first, as succeeding in obtaining his support would make things far easier for him.
The return journey was out of any suspense, or surprises. Ibro moved using instant teleportation until he reached the place of his teleportation portal, then he passed through it to appear inside his world. Once he appeared there, he found his alpha death knight waiting there for him.
The alpha death knight was a fighter, so even when summoned into this world with no task yet, he didn't stand still and began to direct all skeletons here towards killing the demons.
The world was a constant war between skeletons and demons, which was a perfect way for Ibro to breed strong skeleton armies all the time.
"I have a mission for you," Ibro said once he exited the portal and headed to the busy alpha death knight. One the alpha death knight heard his voice, he stopped what he was doing and saluted Ibro as he said:
"I'm sorry my king, I was busy and didn't notice your presence."
Ibro felt some changes in the way his alpha death knight was speaking just now, but he thought he felt it wrong, as he felt that death knight was more like being a human than a skeleton.
Ibro had once offered for his alpha death knight to formally be a villager of his supreme village and enter the cultivation hall, to become full human again, but the death knight refused. Ibro didn't pursue this feeling as he believed it was a false alarm, then he said:
"I have a mission for you."
"Your wishes are my orders, your majesty."
"I want you to form an army and then head straight towards the parallel world and lead our armies there. I want you to assess the situation and evaluate the war there. I also want you to search for any way that can move me between two universes. If you find it, or if any great calamity appeared there, come here and notify me at once," Ibro ordered.
He was sure the demons were moving to hit all the worlds related to him. Zeraxos world was a very strong world, so hitting it directly would cost demons a lot.
The cultivation world had Maya who was wise enough to defend there. The game world that Ibro just came from was now temporarily secure, as the whole universe was going to be unified under his rule sooner or later, and the demon armies were kept away behind the passageway world.
The only two weak joints here were the Rioneed world, which he would try to search for a way to reach there or even support it, and the parallel world where he was trying to extend his reach over another universe. The first problem would be solved by him, so he trusted his oldest soldier to this task.
"Your wishes are my orders, your majesty," The alpha death knight replied at once. Ibro felt more doubt towards his attitude, as it was more human like than before, but he just ignored it again as he ordered:
"Start gathering your army now, and I will move you to the teleportation gate where you will be in charge of the armies there."
"I won't fail you, your majesty."
'That's weird,' Ibro muttered to himself as the same strange feeling came to him, he then said to the system:
'Keep an eye on him and move the skeletons he needed to the teleportation gate. Monitor the place there all the time and if anything happens, you need to notify me then. Now move me back to Zeraxos' game.'
'…'
Ibro then vanished from his pocket world and appeared at Zeraxos game world. he took a deep breath as he muttered:
'It's always nice to come back home.'
At the same time, his alpha death knight was standing in front of the teleportation gate looking up straight towards it. This gate was once a normal demon gate, but Ibro used his system to modify it.
'I have to admit, my reincarnation is way better than I imagined. Back at my time I couldn't do that to any demon gate, and he could do it to any gate he wants. It seems I was slightly sloppy and didn't do all my effort back then, sigh.'
The alpha death knight stood silently watching the armies of skeletons which began to amass right here. He wasn't a normal death knight after all, but he was a wisp of Rioneed's soul that managed to survive all this time.
This was part of a plan, a huge plan which he put long time ago. he wasn't that dumb to believe his enemies wouldn't play it dirty with him. he was pretty sure his enemies would do anything to make him fail, and so he put some preparations to help his reincarnation.
And this alpha death knight with a wisp of Rioneed's soul was one of his preparations.
'I began to feel my reincarnation doesn't need my help, as he is doing a great job actually. However I'm glad I didn't reveal myself to him, the real ordeal doesn't begin yet.'
He thought to himself when he recalled the early moments of establishing the ultimatum village. This village was built in a special environment and using special materials, so it could spawn skeletons not villagers.