Despite being able to build one, we haven''t built any Teleportation Gate near the gold mine. No,ziness is not the reason. I am not that stupid to let myziness make me do something so stupid. We just can''t build one. We tried drawing a Teleportation Magic Circle once and it didn''t work. Any form of [Teleportation] simply doesn''t work there.


    This information is also known by the Temple because I told Shanifa to let them know. It is to further encourage them toe to the mine and it worked. Everything is ording to the n, but I didn''t expect the Temple would be this sneaky. Fortunately, I have Genelos; otherwise, Decima and the others would have suffered greatly.


    "They are holding on well," Millonia remarks as she looks down at the sh between Decima''s troops and the Pdin squad.


    "Very few of the humans manage to survive, though," I respond. "That''s to be expected, of course. The saving grace is that we haven''t lost that many Warriors. It''s great knowing that they don''t sacrifice themselves for the human soldiers."


    "Well, that aside, what are we going to do?"


    "Look for any intelligence squad. Demolish them when you find them."


    "Then, that means..."


    "I will leave Genelos in your care."


    Jumping down from Genelos after I nod my head, I tell Teanosvera to cover me with his shadow as I fall. No one can see me and I slip into the shadow of one of the Pdins nearby easily. Spreading my Mana Sense sneakily, I find the strongest in the squad. I immediately rush at the guy, jumping from shadow into shadow with Teanosvera''s help.


    When I slip into the Pdin''s shadow, the said Pdin immediately shifts his posture. He looks ready to fight as if knowing something threatening has juste his way. Taking out my beloved dagger, I aim it at the guy before throwing it from Teanosvera''s Sub-Dimension. Ites out of his shadow like a shooting star, baffling him greatly.


    Unfortunately, he managed to dodge my dagger. It only managed to scratch the side of his armor which is nowhere near impressive. The Pdin looks around in rm. His eyes wander the surroundings and a frown soones to his face. He can''t find the one who threw the dagger--me.


    Thinking quickly, the Pdin decided to look for where the daggernds. He is maybe hoping that the dagger will fly back at the owner. Such a thing won''t happen, of course, so it leaves him bitter. Clicking his tongue as he spreads his Mana Sense, fear overwhelms him as he notices something ising out of his shadow.


    I can''t see the face he is making, but I bet it is hrious. Despite his state, he is still able to turn around quickly. His eyes widen as he looks at me and I can see recognition in them. It seems I am rather popr among the Temple''smunity.


    "The Right Hand Land!"


    "I didn''t know you called me that way."


    The Pdin immediately swings his sword at my reply. I am not holding anything, so I p the sword with my bare hand. The Pdin looks extremely bewildered when his sword is flung to the side. His eyes widen in disbelief as he loses bnce, but he still managed to take a distance in the end.


    "W-Why are you here?"


    "Don''t act as if you know when I am in or out of Antares."


    Every citizen of Antares, whether they are originally from there or immigrants, has my Geas on their chest. None of them can betray me because they will die if they do so. The only thing my enemy can do to spy on me is to send Assassins. It is not hard to spot them, so Antares has always been free of Assassins.


    Simply said, while I know what my enemies are up to, my enemies don''t know what I am up to. They have no way to monitor what I do even though they know where I am.


    "You are not supposed to know...no. Even if you do know, you shouldn''t be here until everything is over."


    "You are just slow, imbecile."


    Blinking out of existence for a couple of milliseconds, I appear before the Pdin and kick him in the stomach. His armor readjusts its shape into my leg and his body bends like an arrow before it isunched like a bullet.


    I understand the optimism of the Temple well. Knowing that we don''t have any Teleportation means to the gold mine, they must conclude speed is the most important factor. Added to that, no means ofmunication will work in this ce. Getting confident that they may sessfully overtake the mine is not a stretch.


    Unfortunately, they didn''t consider there might be eyes that would spot them before they reached the mine. These eyes can contact me because they are not within the mine''s area of influence, so their ambush means nothing.


    "Koff! Koff! Bastard, you kick hard, don''t you?"


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    "It''s a fucking rhetoric!"


    The Pdin gets fired up by my reply. He holds his sword sideways, channels his Holy Power into it, and then charges at me. He turns into a golden streak. I can only see him as a human again when he is right in front of me. At this point, his sword almost pierces my stomach. I don''t want to feel explosiveness in my stomach, so I step aside.


    The Pdin puts all of his body weight on his sword, probably thinking he will be able to stab me. Because of that, when he missed, he immediately loses his bnce. He is experienced enough to regain it, but it means nothing since I am his opponent. My dagger flies at me faster than he moves. When he regains his bnce, it is already sunk into his waist.


    He exhales deeply in shock. His hand immediately reaches for my dagger out of reflex, probably because of the searing pain that he feels. He is distracted and it gives me a chance to kick his ass, literally. I hear a ''crack'' before he isunched into the distance.


    I only run after him when he is already rolling on the ground like an offroad car tire. I stop him with my foot and he has suffered from other broken bones by that time. His face, however, remains fierce. He gazes at me with intense hatred; he would have killed me if looks could kill.


    Ptooi!


    He spits the blood in his mouth out at me. Of course, it missed its target.


    "Fuck you!"


    After saying that poetic line, his only able hand grabs the Cross Pendant on his neck. He channels his Holy Power into it, causing it to glow blindingly. I know where this is going, so I distance myself. [Teleportation] doesn''t work here--I have to rely on my quick feet.


    BOOM!


    As the sound of the explosion rms everyone, the light illuminates the battlefield. Everyone stops swinging their weapons just to look at the source of the light and explosion.


    The wind st sweeps the battlefield not long after. I am one of the few that is unbothered by the st and I watch in interest as the others sway when it passes them. When the sound stops and the light dies down, silence fills the world for a few seconds. Everyone then looks up to the sky and nts their gaze on me.


    At this point, I am still musing about how explosive the Cross Pendant was. I wonder if the stronger the Pdin is, the more explosive it gets which has always been the case.


    "Commander Land--he hase to our aid!"


    "It''s Commander Land!"


    "Commander Land!"


    As Decima and her troops cheer brightly, the remaining one hundred and fifty or so Elite Pdins look at me with the ''we are fucked'' look. The only choice they have, if they don''t want to die, is to retreat. They won''t be able to contact their backup since any form ofmunication also doesn''t work here.


    Before they retreat, though, they look at the north. A smile creeps up on my face as their face darkens even further. Instead of finding the people that watch over them, they find Genelos spewing fire at the ground. Only after seeing it do they retreat.


    Decima''s troops, surely, won''t just let them go. They chase after the Pdins, but very few of them manage tond a hit. Quite the opposite, many of them suffer from the Pdins'' attacks. As the word goes: "A cornered rat bites the strongest."


    Being part of the Demon King''s Army, however, means that they possess the trait that every Warrior of the Demon King has--an unbreakable spirit. None of them stops chasing after the Pdins.


    I watch the scene in satisfaction but don''t let it continue. They still need to face the iing two Legions of the Rectusomine Army, so they can''t keep dying.


    Spreading my hands, I use [Senbonzakura] and create enough cherry blossom petals to create a head-sized sphere above my head. Using Fire Magic, I create a fire core that will explode at mymand inside the [Senbonzakura] sphere.


    A red light illuminates some parts of the sky and it makes the Warriors chasing after the Pdins stop in their tracks meanwhile the Pdins run even faster.


    "I am good at foul y too, you know?"


    After saying my remark, I throw the sphere above my head to the ground. I can sense the Pdins'' fear that dramatically spikes as the sphere descends from the sky. The fear instantly disappears when the sphere touches the ground. A red light quickly illuminates the world, followed by a deafening ''boom.''