I Can Read People's Comments

Chapter 71 Idea

[Chapter 70 Comment]

[Hunter_Keenan_2132: I wonder what Agata has been up to. You're building a reputation that exposes you, or is this the trap to lure her and find her first as she closes in? Good luck Theo]

…

"That's…" Baold gasped, finding hundreds of Marei following Theo's command. The fact that Lendrix was on his side meant they came as reinforcements. This must be within Theo's plan.

In that instant, Baold gave his order out loud. "All people are to unleash all their power and overpower the enemies for twenty seconds. Don't hesitate!"

After that order, the people released all their strength and shot out their attacks, overwhelming the Marei in the sky or below them.

Meanwhile, the high-ranking Marei panicked when they saw Theo and the incoming undead.

"Stop it!"

The high-ranking Marei knew they had to stop Theo, but this was the first time Theo showed the true power of the undead to the people in the main group.

When the undead pummeled the Marei before them, the dying Marei got resurrected and joined Theo's army.

One of the high-ranking Marei jumped into the air and clapped his hands. That clap released a powerful shock wave that blew everything away around it.

The Marei fell to the ground due to its power. However, the undead remained strong. They even looked as if they were resisting.

The undead let out a roar and freed themselves from the suppression.

When they were hit by an attack to the point a part of their body was completely destroyed, the undead continued marching and killing the Marei in front of them without any fear.

Even if Theo lost a few of his undead, the Marei easily killed more enemies and turned them into their allies.

The high-ranking Marei became frustrated.

"They don't have any fear? No, they don't even feel pain."

"What monster did we provoke?"

"Is this only an illusion?"

The high-ranking Marei were confused. On the one hand, they wanted to believe this was an illusion like the report they got from one of them. On the other hand, no matter how much they tried, the illusion never disappeared.

As long as Theo remained alive, the illusion wouldn't disappear. And even if they tried their best to think this was an illusion and dispel it with their thoughts, deep down in their hearts, they recognized this as reality. After all, the feeling, sensation, and everything that a living being would release were there.

Theo pointed forward, overwhelming the Marei. He lost one hundred Marei in the process, but his army killed three hundred Marei. If this continued, his army would only grow.

Even the low-ranking Marei who mostly acted on instinct finally felt fear for the first time. It was useless to fight against this undead army. No matter what they did, they wouldn't cower in fear or pain and continued to kill the opponents in front of them without caring about their injuries.

Their instinct was actually telling them to run away.

However, the high-ranking Marei ordered them to remain in their positions. In the meantime, five of them would join hands and defeat Theo as quickly as possible.

In that instant, all five high-ranking Marei rushed at Theo. They even ordered the Light Bead Cannon to change its target from Baold's barrier to Theo.

Theo forced them to use their full power if they wanted to defeat him.

On the other hand, Theo accepted the challenge. He continued moving his army forward while seeing five high-ranking Marei surrounding him, just like how the low-level Marei surrounded the hill.

"You humans shouldn't be here."

Theo smirked. "Of course. I don't want to be here if I don't need to. If you guys can just retreat and allow us to go back to a safe place, then I won't continue this slaughter."

The high-ranking Marei fell silent. They thought it was a good idea. At the same time, they couldn't afford to leave the legacy behind. The temptation of Lemin was simply too big.

It seemed that they recognized the threat Theo possessed and decided to talk it through. They knew if this continued, they would lose a lot of low-ranking Marei. Some of them would certainly die in the process while they didn't know if they could kill Theo or not. His power was still unknown, after all.

"If the humans leave the treasure you got, then we'll let you leave."

"Unfortunately, I can't agree to that request. After all, I'm merely an outsider, and the treasure belongs to those guys, not me." Theo smirked.

"In that case, there is no room for negotiation."

Three high-ranking Marei moved at the same time.

They released their attacks from a distance since they wanted to avoid a direct confrontation.

Suddenly, a mysterious figure intruded into their battlefield.

This mysterious figure waved his blade and struck all their attacks, splitting them into two. The excess essence also expanded into a crescent.

"!!!" All high-ranking Marei had to duck down as the excess trees were cut down within a twenty-meter radius.

"Oh!" Theo smiled as if he expected something like this.

The high-ranking Marei widened their eyes, not expecting another person. He was a middle-aged man with black hair. He had a cut wound on his face, intensifying his glare.

The man wielded a long sword and wore a black formal suit. Even though the suit looked restrictive, his movements didn't seem to have any wasted motion.

"I apologize for coming late, Master." The mysterious figure turned out to acknowledge Theo as his master. "I immediately went in your direction as soon as you sent a distress signal not long ago."

"I'm glad you're here, Al." Theo smiled. "Handle those three, will you?"

"Understood." The mysterious figure that Theo called Al nodded his head and jumped towards one of them. He waved his sword down, trying to slice the high-ranking Marei in two.

"Fast—!" The high-ranking Marei was shocked. He blinked once and Al had actually appeared before him.

He hurriedly clapped his hands and released a burst of energy to knock Al away.

However, Al's sword also released a burst of energy. Unlike the Marei, his energy was sharp and concentrated, cutting through the shockwave.

"Tsk." The high-ranking Marei gathered the shockwave around his arms and blocked the slash with his arm.

However, the slash was stronger than he expected. Once it hit, the energy on the blade erupted, pushing the Marei down.

The Marei did his best to maintain his arms, but as a result, the ground underneath him couldn't resist the impact and turned into a crater.

Boom!

"Gah." The Marei felt his hand numb and the bones in his feet crack.

The other Marei were shocked but soon regained their composure. Two of them immediately headed to stop Al in order to save their friend.

Al skillfully moved back and gathered his essence in his blade again.

"!!!" The Marei noticed that Al had been waiting for them. Because they had to rush to this place, they couldn't stop their momentum, making them align together.

Al took advantage of this opportunity to swing his blade downward, trying to cut them down altogether.

The Marei at the front could see everything clearly. He instantly threw himself to the side, barely avoiding the sword strike.

Thankfully, the second Marei's momentum was great enough to avoid it. He escaped death by a hairbreadth.

Sadly, the last Marei wasn't so lucky. Not only did he get hurt by Al from the first strike, he was also too late to dodge because he couldn't see the incoming attack clearly.

He could only tilt his body a bit, causing the sword to sever only his arm.

"Aaaahhh!"

Al took a deep breath as if he was adjusting his aim. He looked confident enough to defeat all three of them.

Meanwhile, Theo and the other two Marei were playing.

Theo formed a human-sized clown to stop one of them while he attacked the other one.

With a single wave of his hand, the ground started to come out and form a wall. After that, they moved toward each other like magnets, squeezing the Marei in between.

"Kh." The Marei gritted his teeth. They had been fighting for a while, but they couldn't find any gaps in Theo's defenses. In fact, if they didn't have any low-ranking Marei, Theo alone was enough to defeat them.

"We'll kill you!" The Marei glared at Theo, agonizing over the fact that numerous Marei had died by his hand.

But those words were actually the trigger for Theo. He glanced into the distance, noticing the blinding light that the Light Bead Cannon produced.

"It's time to go." Theo smiled while waving his hand playfully. "Bye."

"You're not going anywhere!" The Marei shouted.

The Light Bead Cannon launched its bullet. It was supposed to hit the ground in front of Theo and obliterate him with the shockwave alone.

Boom!

The ground shattered, and the shockwave decimated everything in a fan-shaped area. Everything within the range of the shockwave was either blown away or reduced to nothing.

Unfortunately for them, their efforts were useless. Theo and Al had disappeared.

That was right, Theo and Al's figures turned out to be an illusion. The real Theo was nowhere to be seen. The undead had also disappeared, leaving only numerous corpses on the ground that thought themselves dying.

Even the Marei whose arm was cut by Al got his arm back as soon as Al and Theo disappeared. Sadly, the wound on his arm was similar to what Baold experienced when he came to the academy. The Marei saw a purple ring on the part that was cut earlier and noticed that he couldn't move his arm as if it had truly been cut.

It turned out everything was an illusion. Whether it was Al, the undead army, or even Theo himself, there was no difference. The Marei were completely tricked by Theo. As a result, a thousand of them died under his illusion, and even one of them got severely injured from that illusion.

"That's…" One of them looked up and realized the barrier on the hill had disappeared.

Theo actually lured them and made them focus on him, allowing the rest to escape. When they thought about it, it was true that they saw Theo's students and the elite soldiers when he arrived. But they had never seen them again once they approached Theo. They actually had been looping around the hill to create a path for the rest of the people to descend the hill before making their escape.

As for the real Theo, he had been running across the forest to catch up with the entire group.

However, he seemed to be panting quite hard. He had exhausted a lot of his essence after performing a large-scale illusion continuously.

Still, he couldn't help but smile, realizing another advantage he could get from the chapter comment.

"I guess I have to thank my reader for giving me the idea." Theo became excited. Because the reader mentioned Agata, he wondered if it was possible to create another character that looked like they were from Agata's family and have them try to help him. He could make them ridiculous since it was just an illusion and it was pretty effective. In the past, he was always the one to change into someone else with his illusion. He never formed another person with his illusion.

With a big smile on his face, Theo said, "Thank you."