Death… And Me

Chapter 3724: The Gap Between Barriers

”Just find some corner and throw him out. Make it so he will wake up in the next few minutes,” Celis suggested.

However, Roan shook his head in response. ”He will wake up and see the warning on his CD. He won’t understand anything and will wonder how he appeared here at all. At such a crucial moment, he will likely report to the humanoid races, who will investigate. Waking him up now might be more annoying instead.”

Rean sighed, preparing to leave. ”Whatever. I guess I can only take part in the battle in his place.”

Kentucky couldn’t help but ask. ”So you will fight for the humanoids and kill the Demon Beasts? Isn’t it bad?”

”I think you are forgetting something,” Rean commented. ”At the moment, we don’t really have any side we want to join for real. But...” Rean sighed. ”I truly don’t want to go out there and start killing just because I want to prevent issues for this guy. I would be basically exchanging one life for another.”

”Your involvement with Reliance and the spy likely will end up in even more deaths,” Roan spoke the obvious. ”What’s the point of thinking about it now? That’s just hypocrisy.”

”Well... that’s true.” Rean couldn’t refute Roan’s words. ”Oh, I know what to do!”

Rean left the Dimensional Realm a few minutes later, heading to the supposed battlefield. With his speed and the distance he was from it, he only took around an hour to get there.

As one could expect, the experts of various cities gathered here already, so there were plenty of Space-Time Realm and even a few tens of Divinity Realm experts. Let’s not even talk about those at lower levels.

On the other side of the formations, the Demon Beasts were also gathering. However, the Demon Beasts seemed to be in lower numbers. Maybe because they found out about it too late, or maybe they just didn’t have as many experts to send as the humanoids. No one knows.

Rean didn’t really care about any of that, though. He checked his CD that was using Forohel’s ID and went to his own position. Another few hours passed, and the Divinity Realm experts took the front, passing the order.

”Open the formation!”

Immediately, the formation on the Humanoid Races’ side opened a huge gap of several hundred kilometers, and the humanoid races’ armies charged.

On the other side, the Demon Beasts didn’t move, watching as the humanoid races approached and started to attack their own formation. They wanted to let them spend their energy against it first.

Rean, too, was there, attacking the barrier with another two Space-Time Realm Experts. As long as he didn’t need to kill anyone, it wasn’t a problem.

The Demon Beasts used the time the humanoids were taking to destroy that part of the barrier to gather more of their forces. Soon, there were hundreds of thousands of them, including various Divinity Realm ones. It’s just that their numbers were still far lower than the humanoids.

As Rean attacked the barrier, he finally found out why the humanoid races suddenly decided to attack. It wasn’t just here but on many, many more fronts all over the borders between the two powers.

Why was that happening? That’s because the Demon Beasts’ Territories bordering the Spirits were attacked by a huge force, and they were forced to take many of their defenses here to go there.

It happened because the Spirits did what Roan suggested to Reliance. Back in the City, Roan told Reliance the Demon Beasts should have simply allied with the Spirits, like some pact of non-aggression, so they could focus on one side alone for the time being.

Well... The Spirits, whose territory borders the Angels and Demon Beasts, made that pact... with the Angels! It was more like a forced alliance thrown at the Angels, actually. After all, the Angels’ Territory had been growing smaller with the Devils’ assaults to the point they lost 30% of their lands.

The Spirits knew that, and offered this temporary alliance that was basically a non-aggression agreement. That way, the Angels managed to send more of their forces to fight the Devils, while the Spirits attacked the Demon Beasts.

The Spirits knew the Demon Beasts wouldn’t ally with the Humanoid Races, which was the other territory bordering them. That’s because no one wanted to ally with the very force that controlled their Universe for so long, the same one that has the Universe Owner.

What did that mean? That meant the Demon Beasts still had to focus their forces on two fronts. The Spirits Front and the Humanoid Races’ Front. The Spirits, on the other hand, didn’t need to worry about the Angels, so that was the chance to take part in the Demon Beasts’ Territory. Perhaps, if things worked well, they could take the entire Demon Beasts’ Races out of the equation. Why? Because the Humanoid Races definitely wouldn’t lose that chance to force themselves into the Demon Beats’ Territory either.

The humanoids were definitely occupied with the Devils, but not as much as the Demon Beasts were with the Spirits. So, how could they let that chance pass? Not to mention, they lost some of their territories to the Devils as well. So, this is just one of the many battles in various parts of the Divine Realm where the Humanoid Races were attacking the Demon Beasts.

Rean, obviously, was taking part in this single front. ’The Demon Beasts are truly put on the back foot, uh?’

’Sometimes I feel like Master and senior Roan attract calamity everywhere you appear...’ Zangeshu commented inside the Celestial Soul Dimensional Realm while scratching his head.

Roan immediately pointed at Sister Orb. ’It’s her fault.’ Well, he was actually talking about the system. They can’t discard the possibility of the Destiny Attraction intervening in this.

[I won’t even comment on this...]

’Whatever,’ Rean continued to attack the barrier while pretending to be Forehel. ’We are almost there.’

*Plang!*

Finally, the barrier on the Demon Beasts’ side broke down, and another huge gap was created.

The Humanoid Races didn’t rush inside, though. Instead, it was the Demon Beasts who took the chance to attack, using the fact that the enemy had used some of their strength to take down the barrier.

It only took a few seconds for Rean to be attack by a Demon Beast in the same cultivation realm. It sneaked behind Rean, using its abilities and the chaos on the battlefield, striking Rean head-on!

*Arrrghhh!*

Rean screamed, a deep injury on his lower chest. It almost hit his ’dantian,’ which he didn’t really have, ’forcing’ Rean to retreat.

Who is Rean trying to fool? Others didn’t know about him, but the rest of the twins’ group did. That was all a play. Rean immediately fled with his ’huge’ injury, and with so many witnesses, no one would blame him for that. Well, no one would blame Forehel, to be more specific.

Soon, Rean, together with a few others who were truly injured for real, fled far from the battlefront. Rean ignored them, though. That’s because he fled to the space between the two protection formations. ’Alright, we saved a lot of effort here. Now we don’t need to create a gap in the humanoid races’ protection formation. Let’s focus on the Demon Beasts’ one instead.’