A Demon's Journey

Chapter 168 - Developing Groups

In the Glerian Kingdom.

Azaroth had returned to Veninza City. He investigated a bit of how the recruitment was going for Laura, Ralph, and Noah.

For Noah and Laura, the two appeared to have atleast recruited nearly 40 or so warriors and formed their groups.

Just as Azaroth instructed them, Noah formed a close-combat group. All of them were warriors who were being trained by Noah about how they should fight in close range.

Noah was only the master of a sword and didn't know how to efficiently use other weapons. Thus, he sparred against them, and after the fight, he would inform them of their mistakes.

Initially, many warriors under him were quite disappointed in themselves when they lost against a mere kid repeatedly. The fact that ate them, even more, was that Noah wasn't all that famous.

They would have found it easier to accept if he was the heir of a Noble Family or a sect disciple. However, this wasn't the case at all.

But slowly, as time passed, they were getting used to Noah's abnormality.

They had understood that Noah was a monster. The fact that he wasn't famous was an oddity in itself as well. When they questioned him, Noah just blankly stared at them and ordered them to get back to training.

Meanwhile, Laura's group focused on ranged combat. Laura's Archery Skill was exceptional. Upon seeing her skill with the bow, many young warriors couldn't help but admire her greatly.

They were all geniuses who had barely passed the trial set by Laura. Only after seeing her skill did they understand that what the trial they had passed was merely the threshold.

Laura was giving tips to all the warriors in her group on how they could improve as an archer.

She took them to a forest each day and gave them different targets. Actually, in the forest, there were too many things they could aim at.

Laura used her Wood Manipulation to create multiple targets for her subordinates to aim at.

Slowly, she increased the level of the training by making them move, or making the targets smaller and moving them faster, and so on. These targets were also using their surroundings to get out of Laura's subordinates' vision. Thus, her subordinates had to learn how to quickly shoot as soon as they saw the target.

This skill wasn't so easy to learn though.

Laura and Noah hadn't halted their own training. After instructing their subordinates, they would head out for their own training.

Azaroth had given them multiple gravity seals and some seals that would restrain their elements.

Only by regularly tempering their bodies and elements could they become even more powerful.

However, it had to be known that they were quickly burning the money Azaroth had given them.

Meanwhile, Ralph's group within the Dragon Tiger Palace had grown to 15 members, including him. Ralph was naturally the leader of this group.

Most of his subordinates were young with 2 Star Rank Cultivation. While there were 4 more warriors of the same cultivation as Ralph. They were in their twenties and naturally had their own pride. They couldn't obey the orders of such a young child. Also, they believed they were much stronger than Ralph, whether it was in terms of cultivation or combat power.

One of them was even a peak 3 Star Warrior.

Thus, the peak 3 Star Warrior named Blake suggested that all the 3 Star Warriors within Ralph's Group should have a Battle Royale to decide who should be the leader of the group.

All the members agreed except for Ralph.

Ralph knew he couldn't accept this battle royale. If they allowed this battle royale to choose the leader, then even if he won, his authority wouldn't be absolute.

What Azaroth had commanded them was to possess absolute authority and loyalty of his subordinates. The strength was merely secondary.

As a result, Ralph made a bold proposal.

"All of you against me. If I win, then I will be the leader. If you win, I will give you 50 Spiritual Coins each, and then you can decide a leader amongst yourself."

Ralph thought this would be the best way to settle this argument.

His comrades were initially shocked before they began laughing. They didn't doubt that Ralph was strong enough to defeat one of them. They wouldn't doubt it if he said that he could defeat Blake.

Perhaps he had a trump card through which he could defeat Blake.

However, he couldn't possibly fight the four of them at the same time and win.

That would be far too humiliating for them. However, none of these 3 Star Warriors refused.

They weren't from overly rich families. It was extremely difficult for them to earn a lot of Spiritual Coins. And after defeating Ralph, they would receive 50 Spiritual Coins each. This was quite a sum for someone to give away for free.

This was what they thought about this.

If there was someone else in their position, he would have done the same. It was a fight between an Early 3 Star Warrior vs. Four 3 Star Warriors.

Naturally, more people would be inclined to bet on the one with the numerical advantage.

There was also the fact that Ralph was completely unknown to them. They weren't clear about how strong he was.

Ralph had been quite secretive since joining the Dragon Tiger Palace.

He wanted to go on a mission after having atleast 15 warriors in his team. The mission he was going to attempt was naturally going to be a large one.

However, after he did gather 15 members for his party, this situation occurred.

Now, he had to make them all understand that he possessed the power to lead them!

Azaroth was quite pleased with what his retainers had achieved.

He started walking towards Lennox Rees' store. It was now time for him to make contact with the Glerian King and finalize their agreement.

Naturally, to contact the Glerian King, he didn't need to talk to Lennox Rees.

Thus, in the middle of his way, Azaroth changed his direction and entered one of the alleys.

He quickly moved towards the man he sensed that had been keeping an eye on Lennox Rees for quite some time.

He felt rather disappointed with these men.

It was so easy to find them. They had to atleast switch the men watching over Lennox Rees after a couple of days.

The men who were keeping an eye on Lennox Rees were the same ones that Azaroth sensed last time. Thus, it didn't take him long to reach one of these warriors.

Azaroth used his Mystic Eyes of Perception to look into that man's eyes and spoke coldly, "Inform your king that the demon has arrived. Ask him to send the currency to Lennox Rees's shop within a Spatial Ring."

"Take this to your king. A small token of my greeting."

Azaroth threw a spatial pouch. This spatial pouch possessed many rare materials that the king required to recondense the ores within the mines.

He knew that the King wouldn't take him seriously if he couldn't even show he had the goods.

Also, he wasn't worried about this man remembering his physique. Azaroth had used his Mystic Eyes of Perception to create an illusion that would make his vision getting hazy as he looked at Azaroth.

This man wouldn't be able to remember any detail about Azaroth.. Thus, it didn't matter whether Azaroth showed his face to this man or not.