Alec could tell he had been underestimated simply because he was only a Tier 6 mage, he was certain of one thing, if not for the fact that he was the lord of the settlement, they wouldn’t have sent as many as five after him.Even so, he had to admit he was genuinely surprised by the Stalker Zergs, their camouflage had reached the point of true invisibility.But that didn’t mean he would show them any mercy, the moment his left hand drew the Bone Katana from its scabbard, he raised it toward his left side though not the entire length of his weapon, just enough to defend himself as a loud clang rang out.The body of the Stalker Zerg that had just tried to sneak attacked him instantly came into view the moment the strike landed, its face carrying clear surprise, as if it had never expected something like this to happen. Its body structure resembled that of an Arachne, not exactly the same, but close enough, the upper half had a humanoid form, while the lower half was far more insectoid,

All this while, he had always believed he was the real cheat when it came to growth and leveling up, but after seeing how much the Zergs improved simply by consuming the corpse of a stronger Zerg, even he had to admit this race was terrifying.Fighting an army that could grow stronger in the middle of battle like this was never a good sign, and the transformations didn’t stop there, many of them were evolving into new classes Alec hadn’t seen before—the Hunter Zergs and the Crawler Zergs.Though these two new classes seemed weaker than the main three mid-rank Zerg types, Alec noticed that they looked more like a continuation of the lower-tier Zerg forms.From that, he came to a conclusion, that maybe these were the forms the weaker ones eventually became if they couldn’t evolve into one of the three true mid-rank Zerg classes. And he could already tell that the ones changing now were part of the group that had fed on the flesh of his barbarian soldiers who had fallen from the wall to

The moment Titan stepped forward, the massive bodies of the captain-rank Ice Golems under his command began dragging themselves up from the frosted ground, almost as if they had been waiting for his call all along. They wasted no time, with Bulwark, his strongest captain, taking the lead.The Tier 6 Zerg that had just broken through the line just happened to be a Ravager Zerg, a creature with a structure that could only be described as muscular and disgusting. Its body was packed with lower limbs, many of them looking more like blades than actual legs, and its wide mouth opened to reveal three layers of fangs that looked deadly in every possible way.It bit down, swallowing three Barbarian warriors in a single gulp, then kept chewing at them until their bodies disappeared completely.After that, it lifted its gaze toward Titan, who was approaching with what seems to be his entourage.“Roooaaaarrr!”It let out a thunderous roar and charged straight at him, aiming to devour the stronge

In a clearing not too far from Alec’s city, the mage who had finally healed the hole in his hand and managed to summon his army, along with a few extra soldiers through something called the Unit Purchase from his city heart system, couldn’t help looking toward the direction where Alec’s city clearing was supposed to be.Even from where he stood, he could hear the snarling and the distinct screeching echoing through the distance. Since the battle began and he saw the small number of Zergs that had appeared at his own little wooden barricade and trap-filled surroundings, he had already felt that something wasn’t adding up.After managing to clear out the Zergs attacking his region, though not without losses, he quickly took a portion of his army to scout the surrounding area hoping to run into the nice boss that helped him out, but the moment he saw the army of Zergs gathered around Alec’s territory, chills ran straight down his spine.He had never seen anything like that in his entire

The citizens of Alec’s main city couldn’t help but grow worried, it was finally that time, yet their city lord—the main ruler of their entire small region—had still not returned from the Blood Moon Region.They were all anxious. In fact, there were already some who had begun to fear that something terrible had happened to their lord, and they started wondering how they would survive now, or how they would continue to progress, when the one lord who had shown genuine interest in taking care of them might have fallen in the Blood Moon Region.However, not long after that, a bright light finally flashed down from the skies and shot straight into Alec’s throne room, the moment the worried citizens saw it, they all began rejoicing and turned toward Iroh—the man Alec trusted the most and had left with many of the duties he could not personally attend to—begging him to go see the lord and return to tell them about his condition.But just before Iroh could head toward the main palace section o