Armipotent

Chapter 1808  Glodden Is Cute

Fortunately, Gianni was up for a conversation instead of attacking them by assuming they were part of the Void Cult. He listened to what he had to say but did not believe everything he said either.

”How am I supposed to confirm that everything you told me is true? I donʼt know if you might try to scam me with this contract.”

Tang Shaoyang shrugged. ”As I said, if we canʼt reach an agreement, we can always solve it with a battle. If you win, you will return to your place, and if I win, I can force the contract upon you.”

Gianni looked at the woman and assessed that both were stronger than him. If he had to fight them, then he would lose without a doubt.

”This will be my last try, and if you canʼt believe it, then we will resolve this with a fight.” Tang Shaoyang did not like wasting his time by explaining everything because Gianni would find out everything eventually. However, he considered that Gianni would be a commander of his army, so he tried to convince the former commander with words.

”Do you perhaps have a grandson called Nikolas?” Gianni was from the Lysvand Family, and since he was the second commander of the Hurakan Legion, two generations above Nikolas. He assumed Gianni was Nikolasʼ grandfather.

”Nikolas?” Gianni muttered in a low voice. The name sounded familiar, but he did not remember everything. His memories were still clouded with his fight against The Genesis Emperor, and he had been in the void for too long.

It did not take him too long to connect the name. It was the name he often listened to when he returned to his estate after his long duty in the frontier. First, Nikolas was the stand-out grandson he had among seven grandsons he had. Second, aside from his good traits, this guy was a troublemaker which was why he always heard the name from his wife or butler.

”What happened to Nikolas?”

”Heʼs dead, just like you, fighting The Genesis Emperor, and he is one of my spirits. I could not summon him to meet you right now because he is currently with my team member. And I have bad news for you, and itʼs about the Lysvand Family.” Tang Shaoyang added.

Gianni was silent, his underneath helmet wavered when he heard about the bad news about his family. Even though he said he did not believe Tang Shaoyang, he was slowly convinced that the man was telling the truth.

”Do you want to hear it now, or do you want to hear it from your grandson directly?”

Gianni was silent for a moment before agreeing with the contract. Tang Shaoyang had explained what he was, and why he was here. He agreed to the contract by trusting Tang Shaoyangʼs words. With that, the second spirit was contracted, and Tang Shaoyang proceeded with the third and the fourth spirit.

[You have established a contract with Archaic Spirit, The Hurakan Legion Commander II - Gianni!]

The third spirit was another calamity, but a calamity with no connection to Artrus. Known as a calamity, it was defiance, and decided to fight against him. Of course, Zara and Avyn easily took the spirit down.

[You have established a contract with Archaic Spirit, The Corrupted Earth Calamity - Garinth]

The fourth spirit was cute in his eyes, and the two girls looked at the fourth spirit in disgust. The fourth spirit was an Archaic Spirit but with a surprise.

[You have summoned an Archaic Spirit, The Golden Imp Calamity - Glodden!]

The creature was a quarter of his size, reaching his thigh. Its eyes were red with a small slit pupil in the middle, pointy long ears with two black horns on its head in contrast to its golden skin, and it was bald. It had a small, short, and thin hand. Its legs were slightly thicker than its hand, but it was also shorter and had a bulging belly which was ”cute” in his eyes. It had a pair of golden wings, it looked like a smaller version of a dragon wing, and its wing frayed at the edge of the membrane, darker gold in color.

He thought it was ”cute” because, despite its mini size, it was an Archaic Spirit, stronger than most God Ranks he met so far. If he had to bet between this imp and Gianni, he would cheer for the imp.

”Gold! I want gold! If you create me a hoard of gold, then I will serve you for the rest of my life!” That was the first thing that came out of Gloddenʼs mouth. From the way it spoke, it was familiar with the contract as it stated a condition instead of getting confused with the situation.

ʼGold? Where do I get gold?ʼ Tang Shaoyang thought to himself. He never saw gold after the Game, something not important in his eyes. ʼWhat about Game Coins?ʼ

He checked his balance, and he had more than twenty billion GC. Game Coin was a universal currency in the universe. He knew them, but he never actually saw them in physical form.

Tang Shaoyang took out one gold from his balance, and it was made from gold. The coin was around four centimeters in diameter, and he noticed immediately that the red eyes almost turned gold at the fight of the golden coin.

”You must make your own hoard of treasure, Glodden! How about this, each time you fight for me, I will give you five gold coins like this!” He showed the count, and funny enough, Gloddenʼs eyes never left the coin, following wherever Tang Shaoyang moved.

”Thatʼs true! Glodden must create his own hoard. Five gold coins every time you ask Glodden to do something.” The imp nodded, but its eyes never broke away from the golden coin.

”Deal!” The imp turned into a golden orb and entered his forehead. All the sacrifices were used with the imp summoning, and he checked the rank for the new spirits.

Gianni and Garinth were the low Archaic Spirit as he expected from the amount of sacrifice he used. The surprise came from Arneel, and a bigger surprise came from the golden ”cute” imp. Arneel was intermediate Archaic Spirit, and Glodden was high Archaic Spirit. Meaning he did not need to waste his sacrifice reserve to upgrade Glodden.

He could sense the excitement from the imp for its new home. Each spirit had its own space and territory, and it was built based on their desire. Tang Shaoyang summoned the imp, and the golden did not like that it was interrupted. But its annoyance turned into a pure delight at the sight of a gold coin in his hand, forgotten that its new master just interrupted it.

”This will be the first coin, the start for your great hoard!” He tossed the coin toward the imp with his thumb.

Glodden did wait for the coin to come to him as his figure blurred in gold, catching the gold coin in the air. It held the coin with its two tiny hands, admiring them closely before sniffing the golden coin.

Tang Shaoyang had seen a similar expression, it was when his people in the gang used drugs. They made similar expressions as if they were in paradise. He saw it on the imp when it sniffed every inch of the coin.

”Now letʼs try if you can bring the coin back to the spirit world!” With that, he recalled the imp back to his spirit. The figure disappeared, but the coin remained, falling to the ground. That was to be expected, the spirit could not bring anything back to the spirit.

[Thief! You lie to Glodden! You steal Gloddenʼs gold! You…] a burst of accusations came from the imp, but surprisingly, the golden imp did not curse at him.

”Listen, Glodden! I donʼt steal your coin! Your coin is here!” He picked up the coin, and the little imp fell silent, and he could feel the delight from the impʼs feeling.

”You canʼt bring the coin back to the spirit world, so we need to create a hoard for you in my home. For now, I will keep the coin for you, understand?” He took his time to tell the imp, explaining about its future hoard. To his surprise, he found out that he had more patience for the golden imp than the other three spirits.

At the end of the explanation, Zara and Avyn cast a weird glance at their man.

”The golden imp is cute, no?” He doubled down with his opinion that the little imp was cute.

It immediately turned the two women into disgust when he mentioned the imp was cute. They just ignored them. ”Letʼs go back!”

Tang Shaoyang shrugged and canceled the domain. They returned to the battlefield once more, missing the void creature corpses, but various kinds of equipment from the army of the void creature were left behind.

He then recalled his spirit and skeleton army, including Avyn and Zara. Having the women would attract a lot of attention, especially with their looks. He would rather avoid an unnecessary conflict with the hungry soldiers and have a peaceful life for the rest of the mission, especially after Team Chalice left the frontier.