King's Rule: Creating the Strongest Kingdom With My Broken Talent-Chapter 45: Official Merge, Warfare Event

"What kind of weapon is that?!" Duke Artilon’s eyes widened.

"It can slice our airship easily. That’s the kind of weapon it is." King Aurora wryly smiled.

Arga and the other four went down and started working.

They saw the approaching tide. It would be there within five minutes.

That was more than enough time to create the divergent tactic to redirect the flow of monsters there.

There were two people among these five who could instinctively force beasts to the other side.

Fire.

Arga took to the left end side, and Yeolodan took to the right end side.

"We have to bring up the L-shaped firewall so that the beasts move to the west instead of east when facing the fire." Rovina relayed. "Start preparing. After exactly two minutes, manifest the L-shall wall."

Kayan looked up at more flying monsters. "They are going towards Skylord Behemoth K."

"Well, we don’t have to worry about that." Viana chuckled.

In the sky, Vesh manifests his Slime Sword and also joins the battle as over fifty flying monsters head towards Skylord K.

Vesh narrowed his eyes as he felt a deja vu.

’The quests aren’t coming in anymore. I wonder why that is?’

Swoosh!

Among those fifty flying monsters of various kinds, forty-six were Root-rank, and four were Stem-rank.

Vesh directly appeared amidst the flock.

’Sword Art: Expanding Ribbon Spiral.’

The technique behaved as its name suggested. 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

A spiral expanded outward as Vesh swung his sword widely. Within the spiral, curvy ribbon-like slashes shot in all directions.

Within one full second, hundreds of those ribbon-like slashes flashed outward.

And all fifty monsters fell into pieces. No exception. Be it the Chimera with 37 million combat power, which reacted with a quick barrier, or the monster at the edge of the group.

Every single one was cut all the same.

Combat Power was not everything. Chimera may have a solid arsenal of powers, but the technical power of Vesh’s moves outclassed their shallower skills.

In terms of technical power, Vesh was at SSS-rank. In terms of Elemental prowess, he was at S-rank.

But pairing those two, he was a lethal force to everyone at Stem-rank and below.

This shocking scene of Vesh cutting down the horde startled the distant Talzon King, who was watching.

As for Harven, he felt his guts bleeding.

"One individual...why is he so strong?!" Harven’s jaw clenched tightly.

’Should I go all out? Or retreat? Beast Tide can’t be controlled anymore, but I can take back Root-rank and remaining Stem-rank monsters.’

Harven looked at Vesh through the senses of a hawk.

And saw Vesh looking right at the hawk.

"You’re watching, right?" Vesh narrowed his eyes on the other side.

That hawk was watching him with focus, making it easy for him to detect it.

In a second, he appeared before the hawk and trapped it inside a layered barrier with him.

"Who are you?"

In response, Harven decided to speak as his voice came out of the Hawk.

"You did a good damage to my army. But next time, I’ll have far more Stem-rank monsters, and there will be Bloom-rank monsters next time. Live peacefully while you can because I am coming to take all that’s yours."

Vesh frowned.

’Bloom-rank monsters? Where is he getting those?’ Vesh’s eyes caught the distant ocean from his current position high up in the sky.

’From the ocean?’

Vesh looked at the hawk.

He didn’t respond to the threat of this person and simply waved his hand as the beast received a quick death.

’Bloom-rank.’ Vesh looked up.

He had reached the atmosphere level where S-rank energy was present.

It was a dangerous zone where elements took form and were in a state of ’living’.

His Ascension Storm of Heaven and Earth just couldn’t remain there for two full seconds.

Barriers were also torn apart.

King’s Rule outright denied the success of what he wanted to do.

Because that zone was not merely an S-rank energy zone, but far more dangerous than that.

So there was only one other way to start curing out S-rank Refined Magic Energy.

Find a source on the ground.

And like the insight he just got from this unknown enemy.

In the ocean.

Vesh’s eyes glinted. According to King Aurora, due to not having enough resources of S-rank, there were only a few Bloom-rank beings on this sideland, and most of them were monsters that nest in their territory.

The total number of such monsters was merely four.

It was said to be a Bloom-rank powerhouse here, but due to not appearing for nearly a decade, he was considered to have left.

In short, no King was Bloom-rank here due to having no resources to elevate a Stem-rank to that.

But there could be a source of S-rank magic energy if there are Bloom-rank aquatic monsters in the ocean.

’Kaeli, go to the beast tide’s end, and start decimating beasts from there.’

’Meow!’

...

Below, the beast tide was successfully directed towards the basin.

They started piling up since the basin was quite deep. Rushing monsters with bloodthirst in their heads wouldn’t come to reason.

They continued rushing while avoiding the fire and piling up in the basin.

Many started attacking each other.

Vesh arrived before the basin.

Simply unleashing a blast here would be a big waste.

If these monsters were going to die, then might as well make use of them.

At least, many people would be able to eat meat with the amount of monsters piling up in the basin.

His forest could grow fruits and vegetables, but not meat.

Vesh began tapping in the air as if he were playing a piano.

With each tap, the air above the basin began filling up with patterns and colourful sparks.

Once all monsters were inside the large basin, the colourful sky above it was painted with patterns of magic descended.

Thousands of flashes occurred first.

And then a bubble formed that produced water rapidly and started whirling. It was deep crimson from all the blood, but it gradually turned clean.

Vesh was still controlling this phenomenon of magic as he cut the monsters, cleaned them, and separated the meat and bones.

’It looks like I won’t be getting any guests after showing such a spectacle.’ Vesh thought, thinking of the next steps.

It was also clear that King Aurora had joined him. The news would spread fast, and even faster once Aurora Kingdom starts transforming under Ananta Kingdom’s influence.

...

Two hundred kilometres from where the Beast Tide was dealt with, there was the largest kingdom of this sideland.

Howling Star Kingdom.

A kingdom consisting of humans and beastfolks.

Such big news of the beast tide had already spread to all major kingdoms on this sideland.

King of Howling Star also sent some eyes to watch.

Seeing everything, they arrived at the same conclusion as the other two strongest Kingdoms, namely the Talzon Kingdom and the Asterisk Dynasty.

"Aurora Kingdom went and submitted." Talzon King muttered. "Given everything we have seen so far, and assuming that this Ananta Kingdom has more force than this, do you think we can win against them and take over the A-rank Magic Vein?"

The people in front of him were council members, though the final decision rested in King Talzon’s hands.

They were just there to give opinions for the King to mull over.

However, this time, all of them had the same opinion.

"So the best option is to bolster our power first." King Talzon’s eyes glinted. "Contact that beast tamer. Tell him that I want a meeting with him, and that we should work together."

...

After returning to Rising Star City, Ananta Kingdom and Aurora Kingdom officially announced, so that it would spread to other kingdoms.

Aurora Kingdom had been dissolved. Its territory was now part of the Ananta Kingdom.

The expansion officially began.

But the moment Vesh and King Aurora established this, something triggered.

A burst of light shot out from the far northwest of this sideland, slightly into the ocean. This light was over a hundred times bigger than what Vesh had created.

[Power Balance reorganising. Warfare Event—Conquest of Sideland will start after ten days. Until then, the invasion of other kingdoms will result in disqualification from the event.]

[Warfare is constant in this realm of wars. The King that unifies this sideland shall acquire one SS-rank Artifact Selection Box and one SS-rank Talent Stone.]

[From the depths of the ocean, Abyssal Lord Yorual shall encroach on this land for his conquest. Abyssal Lord Yorual will attack the Kingdom with the highest points in the leaderboard.]

[Leaderboard]

Rank 1: Talzon Kingdom | Total Combat Power: 443 million.

Rank 2: Howling Star Kingdom | Total Combat Power: 342 million.

Rank 3: Aurora Kingdom | Total Combat Power: 283 million.

Rank 4: Asterisk Dynasty | Total Combat Power: 248 million.

Rank 5: Kolarun Principality | Total Combat Power: 194 million.

Rank 6: Mugen Beast Kingdom | Total Combat Power: 184 million.

Rank 7...