Armipotent

Chapter 1669  The Third Kingdom (1)

Tang Shaoyang chuckled and found it amusing how this woman switched one hundred eighty degrees in such a short time.

”Do we? I donʼt recall the administrators in my trial taught me that lesson. And if you need my protection, that means you are not strong enough to join the raid.”

He took a few steps close to the woman, meeting the womanʼs gaze.

”Rather than becoming a burden, you should stay here. Who knows how many more people will die to protect someone like you who thinks she is entitled to protection just because we are fellow administrators.”

”If you and your team are not strong enough to survive the mission, you should never join the mission in the first place. If you and your team are not strong enough for a kingdom, then you should not fight it in the first place.”

Anneʼs eyes widened in fury. She could not accept it when Tang Shaoyang said they were a burden. That reminded him of what happened to her team and the others during the raid.

”Did you promote her to Junior Administrator?” Tang Shaoyang turned toward Birom.

”She is Senior Administrator Anne.”

Ira and the others always stayed with him since they arrived in the fort. They overheard the conversation.

”How did she become…” He stopped midway, ”Why would I care?” He shrugged, ”If you donʼt want to share the information, then itʼs fine too. We will leave in a few minutes, Birom.”

He then left the wall with his team, leaving Birom and Anne behind.

Birom stopped Anne who was about to say something at Tang Shaoyang.

”Stop making trouble for yourself and behave, Anne. He saved you and your remaining teams. And more importantly, he is quite close to Executive Arion, and he is stronger than me and Lendar. You canʼt mess with him just because I am here.”

Birom was like a father, advising his daughter before she got in trouble.

Anne did not believe the last part that Tang Shaoyang was stronger than Lendar and Birom. She believed that Tang Shaoyang was close with Executive Arion. Because she heard him cursing Arion earlier. That also might be the reason why Tang Shaoyang was fine until now even though he killed many administrators.

Anne joined the raid, and half of the remaining people in the fort joined as well. Her motivation to join the raid was split; half for revenge, and half to see how strong this Tang Shaoyang was.

Of course, she did not withhold the information about the kingdom. She explained the reason why their first raid failed terribly. It was because of the shadow calamity. The cat beast, lion, tiger, and wolf. There was also a void bull, a bull that could use Void Elemental Power.

Those were the Unique Calamity Rank, the ones who destroyed them. The perfect ambush destroyed their formation and almost wiped out the teams.

As for the king, she did not know. She felt like the king had not made an appearance yet before their team was destroyed.

The kingdom was in the forest, not at the fallen ruin like the previous ones. It was a massive grove where all kinds of beasts stayed, mutated beasts of course. The beast that was contaminated by Void Energy and adapted which made them calamity.

The kingdom occupied more than five thousand meters of land with a massive tree at the center. The tree was, of course, still smaller than the one they fought. It did not look like a flesh tree because the tree did not emit a strong aura and energy.

Anne did not like Tang Shaoyang taking the lead, but she could not say anything when the others accepted him. They stopped five hundred meters away from the kingdomʼs territory.

She followed Birom because Tang Shaoyang called the other team leaders as well. Even though she was not a team leader, she still joined the discussion. She represented the team from the 5th Fort.

At first, she thought they were planning how to attack the kingdom based on the information she provided. But she was baffled when she heard what they discussed.

”The distribution of loot is the same as the previous raid. You take what you kill!”

It was not a discussion, but Tang Shaoyang decided it himself. She calmed down and convinced herself the plan for the attack was after the distribution.

”We will do it like the previous raid as well. You can join me as a vanguard or you can support me from behind. Itʼs your choice, but just so you know, I am not going to help you. You are on your own!”

”Whatʼs with that crappy plan!?” Anne blurted out as she could not hold it back any longer.

”What are you going to do with the shadow calamity!? They could move in the shadows and ambush us! Shouldnʼt you offer a solution to face the ambush!?”

She thought Tang Shaoyang had a plan to counter the ambush since they were confident in the raid, but she was wrong. He offered nothing, not a plan or even a method to face the ambush. Her information was useless, not used in the planning, at all.

”What solution? Let them come out and ambush me. I will kill them, so you can be at ease in the back!”

Anne was at a loss for words. She felt like this man did not understand the threat from the shadow calamity.

”Ah, the back line should be more careful. I think the shadow calamity will attack the back line first. If they are smart, they will ambush the back line and cut the retreat to ensure we will not escape this time. So the back line should be more careful. It doesnʼt mean you are safer because you are behind.”

Tang Shaoyang did not come up with that part. It was Ira who reminded him that the shadow calamity might target the back line. If they were smart, which was most likely, they would attack the back line.

”Then I will stay in the back instead of joining you as the vanguard,” Birom volunteered to stay back.

Anne wanted to say more, but she was stopped by Birom. She protested and complained about how dangerous it was to continue the raid with such a crappy leader. Of course, she did not say it out loud, but she expressed it with her gestures and expression.

”We will be fine. Executive Arion is watching from the shadows, and he would not let any of us die.”

He was telling Anne that Executive Arion would protect them instead of Tang Shaoyang. He was aware that Tang Shaoyang was also aware that Executive Arion was watching them.

Anne was frustrated, but she still followed the team for the raid. Once they arrived in the familiar, the entrance to her hell. The fear and terror returned, but she braced herself to continue until they arrived at the entrance to the kingdomʼs territory.