Alchemist In The Apocalypse: Rise Of A Legend!

We continued the march for a few hours.

During these hours, there were times we stopped to rest so no one was too exhausted for a battle should it start at any moment.

As we continued to march, I saw the emperor a few metres away from me unleash his wings.

His wings were still as majestic as they had always been: black and big, looking too large compared to his body yet managing to make perfect sense as there was not a sense of disharmony when the emperor brought his wings out.

However, the current issue that arose now was because of the said wings the emperor had just brought out.

For hours during the march, not once had the emperor brought out his wings, so why now? There was also the possibility that there was nothing serious behind the reason why the emperor had brought his wings out, but because of the current situation we were in and the emperor's sudden action, I thought otherwise.

And I was right.

Suddenly, the surroundings started to get filled with noise. The noise didn't come from our surroundings, though; it came from our front.

With my excellent eyesight, it didn't take long for me to uncover the source of what was causing the noise before it appeared in the distance.

Ogres, and a bunch of them.

"So that's why he brought his wings out. The emperor was just getting prepared," I thought as I turned to look at the emperor's figure in the distance.

Another realisation dawned on me.

Right now, the reason the emperor should have brought his wings outside is that he had already noticed the ogres from afar before me, even though I put more than half of my focus on the surroundings.

The emperor is indeed a strong individual. I have a long way to go.

I wondered who's more powerful, the emperor or the ogre king now.

Even though both sides seemed to have more than a thousand war participants who would contribute massively to the outcome of the war, I knew this was nothing more than a facade. Most of the war participants were just to keep up the appearance of war. The outcome really depended on the super powerful experts on both sides.

In other words, I believed the outcome of this war depended on the duel between both leaders.

Perhaps I had stared at the emperor a bit too much, but as I continued to observe him, he suddenly turned his head in my direction.

Before I could react, the emperor let out a smile and took to the skies.

After taking to the skies, the emperor did not remain in one position; instead, he started flying in another direction.

When I saw this, I turned to look at the situation of the ogres and saw a big figure emerge from the midst of the ogres. The ogre who came out towered over the others by a wide margin, and even with the distance between us, I could recognize the ogre immediately.

That was the ogre king.

After coming out from the gathering of ogres, the ogre king did not wait or hesitate before charging in the direction the emperor had flown to earlier.

'I guess this is for the best,' I thought, seeing that both our leader and the ogres' leader were absent at the moment.

From their actions just now, I could see that there was some sort of mutual agreement between the emperor and the ogre king, and that agreement probably included not fighting close to the war between their armies.

With the power of those two, fighting against each other alongside their own people was only going to cause mutual destruction.

The two were still going to surely fight, as the outcome of the war truly depended on their own battle, but there was no need to kill their own people because of their battle. Even the violent ogre king understood that.

On the other hand, I felt that what had just happened now was for the best.

Although it would be a shame not to be able to witness the battle between the emperor and the ogre king, at least now the battlefield was safer compared to when those two were around. Now if anyone died, it was because they were weak and not because they were unfortunate to get caught up as a casualty in another battle aftermath.

As I thought about these things, I turned to look at a particular figure on our side making his way towards the front of the army. I didn't know the man, but I knew his purpose in our army due to the final briefing the emperor had done with me and my group the night before.

Now that I think about it, it was obvious that the emperor had already thought things out because he said that should a situation ever arise where he's not with us to lead, the man currently heading in front of our group was to take command. From the emperor's actions and words, I knew this man was someone the emperor trusted deeply.

'Trust aside, he's also very powerful,' I thought as I remembered the information about the man when I last checked him out due to curiosity.

[Rank 1 King Guard Level 50]

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