The Ultimate Support Character

Chapter 41 Old Man Reol's Prowess

By the time we arrived at the main battlefield, we were met with a breathtaking scene.

Old Man Reol was hovering above the sky, with a huge Golden Crown in his head, 4 Pillars of unknown origins were circling around him. I don't know what those are but I had a hunch that they were something connected to Physique Cultivation.

Each Pillar has different carvings, as to what those carvings meant, I still have no idea. This is the first time for me to see someone at his level. Though my Adaptability is helping me to understand things, I still need a proper explanation about those.

Each of those Pillars was glowing in different lights but the Golden Crown on top of his head was shining brightly. There were 5 jewels embedded on it and it seems that those 5 jewels corresponded to his 5 Halos. Every time those jewels release a surge of Brute Energy, a Halo will be formed and a skill will be unleashed.

In front of him was a Corrupted Barbarian who also had a Darkish Crown in his head, unlike the Old Man, he didn't have any Pillar circling around him. He was also hovering in the air.

It seems like one can naturally hover in the air once one reached the King Realm and those Pillars were something unique to the King Realm. The Corrupted Barbarian was just someone who had just stepped into King Realm hence he only has his crown. Their Physique Cultivation was probably a few levels apart but because of his willingness to be corrupted, his abilities reached the Old Man's level.

"Reol. You were a legend before. What happened to you that you stoop so low to bow down to a youngster? And on top of that, someone from another world. You should've chosen this side. If you did, Emperor Realm will become quite easy for you to reach once our world becomes fully assimilated to  theirs."

"Assimilated? That will never happen. Look at you now, how was it being deprived of our own inherent energy?"

Old Man Reol mocked the King Realm Corrupted Barbarian and that immediately enraged him.

These guys. Are they this easy to anger?

From the Darkish Crown of the Corrupted Barbarian, the five jewels embedded into it shined brightly before a huge figure of a flaming falcon came out. Looking at it, it looks realistic but its true form was just a compressed Brute Energy shaped to be like that. To what's its purpose only the wielder and the receiver will know.

The falcon materialized and flew around him until it settled under his feet. The flames around it bloom and spread that even I could feel the heat it was exuding.

I was observing it clearly because of my Adaptability. It seems like it was something unique for a King Realm to unleash their 5 Halos and combine it into one just like that.

With that imposing figure, the Corrupted Barbarian rode the flaming falcon and flew towards Old Man Reol.

On his hand was a ruby-colored long spear. Like the falcon, it's whole body was flaming and just from looking at it, I knew I would be burnt to ashes by that even without it touching me.

That's how huge the gap between me and a King Realm is.

"Daisuke, look ahead."

Erin took my attention when she pointed somewhere at the front.

My troops were bolstered with the additional 100 who we managed to save, I spread them out to the established squads for them to easily adapt just by following their teammates. That way I don't need to teach them from the start.

The three ladies also agreed when I told them what I'll do to those survivors.

Even with the strongest experts fighting up in the sky, we foot soldiers were still battling it out on the ground.

With the help of the Orb, we still dominated our area but because on how chaotic the battlefield is, casualties became inevitable. I also stopped touring it and just gave orders from the back.

There's a lot of Saint Realm in this battlefield that it might get dangerous if I show what I can do to them.

I followed Erin's hand and saw the Saint Realm and his 3 subordinates from earlier.

They're near our area and they're once again using his Halo to make them look identical to each other. The Barbarians fighting them were losing out because of the confusion.

I patted Erin's head before calling out the materialized Longbow.

When I registered it to my System, I could now easily call it out, only the arrows that served as its bullets were the ones I needed to generate using pure Brute Energy.

And since it's already registered, I could use the other types of energy such as Psyche Energy and World Energy to be made into an arrow which could also dispel a skill that uses those types of energy.

Ah. Right, I opted to name it as Dispelling Arrows.

Well, I'm really bad at naming so just stating it's real purpose on its name was already good enough.

I even tried thinking about what could be the name of the flaming falcon of that Corrupted Barbarian.

Did he name it as The Flaming Falcon?

I've already prepared for this since I know we will meet them again.

After generating four arrows of pure Brute Energy, I aimed at those identical Corrupted Barbarians.

The arrows flew straight at them like a homing missile. I wouldn't miss as long as I timed it perfectly unless they're aware of what's coming, they would have no time to dodge.

As soon as those arrows hit the three subordinates of that Saint Realm, they froze and failed to retreat back.

Seeing their changed appearance, the barbarians fighting them finally got a chance to counterattack.

Taking back my gaze from them, I once again looked at the sky where Old Man Reol and that Corrupted King Realm was battling it out.

I'm learning a lot from watching it rather than looking at the battlefield after all.

They're locked in a stalemate up there but the look on Old Man Reol's face still feels relaxed, with one of the Pillars hovering in front of him, it expanded and became something like a shield that blocks the advance of the Corrupted King Realm.

His flaming falcon and long spear kept on hitting it but the dent it made was just getting repaired by the Old Man using his other Pillars.

Those Pillars weren't Augmented Skills or Halos. I don't think I can understand how those works right now but it's proven to be something like an edge for the Old Man.

The enemy might have been boosted by being corrupted by a higher energy leading him being able to fight the Old Man but that's still not enough to bridge the addition of those Pillars.

I don't even see Old Man Reol unleashing all five of the jewels embedded in his crown. That was something that should be on par with that flaming falcon of the Corrupted King Realm.

Soon enough, the flame from the falcon seems to have waned a bit, the Corrupted King Realm was about to retreat when the Old Man willed his four Pillars to surge forward. With all of it pointing to that Corrupted Barbarian, each of the Pillar transformed into a huge beast that was formed by Brute Energy. They're not as realistic as that flaming falcon but the four exuded different qualities.

One was a fast tiger-like beast which pounced to him.

One was a strong turtle-like beast which rolled over to him.

One was a lithe snake-like beast which seemed to coil around him.

And lastly, one was an eagle-like beast with talons like blades which soared higher before diving towards him.

With all four of these beasts attacking him, the Corrupted King Realm raised his spear to block them. From afar it looked like the Falcon being ganged up by four ferocious beasts.

Even with raising his spear, the Corrupted King Realm failed to block the transformed Pillars of Old Man Reol.

I now got a glimpse at the true prowess of that Old Man. And he says Raiden is even stronger than him? Did they really fight each other or he just conceded under him?

That guy went to storm the enemy tribe's HQ and until now, there's no news about them.

And here in this battlefield, after sending these beasts and Corrupted Barbarians, the Dark Beastmasters never showed themselves.

Did they send these detached troops here to stall Old Man Reol?

Two of those gigantic Berserker Thornhogs were now lying dead on the ground and this Corrupted King Realm was soon to follow them.

I was expecting an incarnation descending but it seems that kind of item was rare. It just so happens that that Priest back in the World of System had it on him.

Soon enough, under the barrage of those four beasts, the flame surrounding the falcon and that Corrupted King Realm faded away. And like a shooting star, he fell from the sky in tatters.

Old Man Reol didn't even lift a finger against him. Just how strong is this Old Man? No wonder Erin's cultivation was that fast despite her age, she inherited some of it from the Old Man.

With their leader struck down. The morale of the enemy Corrupted Barbarian plummeted.

And using that, all the Generals switched to an offensive tactic including me.

Bringing the two ladies at my side we dived back into that chaotic battlefield that's now slowly turning into our full advantage.