System's POV

Chapter 685: Rally To Me!



"Everyone, please evacuate a few miles away from the city," Thirteen ordered. "This is no longer something ordinary Wanderers can face head-on."

"But if we retreat each time something like this happens, what will become of the human race?" a Wanderer asked. "Will we have to retreat until we no longer have a place to retreat?"

Thirteen glanced at the young man, who seemed to be in his late teens.

"You live in this city?" Thirteen asked.

The young man gritted his teeth before nodding his head.

It was very easy for Thirteen to figure out why the young man spoke the way he did. For him, Glory City was the place where he grew up.

If it disappeared from the world, a good chunk of his past would disappear alongside it. Some of the residents of the Sirius Continent originally hailed from the Antares Continent, which had been the first continent to fall from the Jinn Invasion.

Although the current generation no longer remembered how it happened, their Grandfathers passed the story to their fathers, and their fathers to them.

Even the residents of the Cygni Continent had also evacuated to the Sirius and Aldebaran Continent.

Some of the Wanderers, who were present in the team led by the Hero Party, belonged to the Cygni Continent.

"The young man's words resonated in their hearts.

If they really kept running forever, there would come a time when they no longer had a place

to run.

When that happened, what would they do?

Countless eyes looked in the direction of the thirteen-year-old, who was standing in front of them with his hands behind his back.

They were waiting for him to say something.

Hoping that he would say the words they wanted to hear.

"I think you are misunderstanding something," Thirteen replied. "The reason why I asked all of you to make a strategic retreat is not because we are going to let the monsters rampage as they please.

"I asked you to back away, so you wouldn't get in the way of the Elite Forces who will deal with this Monster Outbreak."

Thirteen scanned the faces of the people who were looking at him and looked at them in disdain.

"If we're in Solterra, your way of fighting might work because you'll only have to deal with a monster or two, or probably a small group of them," Thirteen explained. "But this is a Monster Outbreak. You are not a trained unit who can follow orders to that dot.

"Earlier, I asked all of you to retreat, but the majority of you questioned my order. If this was in the military, all of you would have already been punished by military law for defying orders.

"A headless group of ragtag Wanderers think that they can face a Monster Outbreak led by a Rank 7 Sovereign? Are all of you delusional?"

The Wanderers looked at the teenage boy, whom they had idolized, and shuddered in horror. They always thought of Zion Leventis as a righteous person, who would encourage them to fight.

Even if this fight would lead them to their deaths, they would fight willingly!

But now, not only did he not encourage them, he even looked down and disdained them.

Those eyes filled with ridicule made them feel anger rising up from their chests.

If not for the fact that Erica, Sherry, Shana, and Diana immediately stood in front of Zion to protect him, they might have already lunged at him out of anger.

"Please step aside," Thirteen said coldly, making the four ladies in front of him shudder. However, as if they were programmed to obey him, they indeed stepped aside and allowed the young man to walk past them, facing the angry mob with a look of contempt.

"All of you expect me to say that as long as we work together, we can overcome everything?" Thirteen asked in a teasing tone. "Do you believe in the power of love and friendship? Okay, if you really think so, then that's fine by me.

"All of you, who are brave enough, please step forward and charge into the city. I promise you that when you die, I will piss on your graves and write on your tomb the words 'Here lies a stupid person who died thinking he was a hero'."

Thirteen then made a gesture as if he was inviting them to charge at the city.

"Go on," Thirteen said with a smile. "The cycle of reincarnation is waiting for all of you. I hope that in your next life, you will no longer be as stupid as you are now."

Roland, Joshua, and Derek felt their hearts turn cold.

They had never seen Zion act like this.

When they were in the Absolute Heaven, he led everyone to fight against hordes of Jinns and effectively turned a ragtag unit of Wanderers into mean killing machines.

He even went as far as to go ahead of others, clearing the obstacles that stood in their way. He made sure to injure the Bosses of each floor, giving them a chance to win a fight against them.

However, even in their injured states, the bosses were no pushovers, and they still had a hard time defeating them.

But now, that same person, who was the final boss of their mission, allowed them to return to Solterra, despite the fact that all three hundred of them were unable to defeat him in combat.

"You know, I'm kinda liking this bad boy Zion a bit," Sherry whispered in Rianna's ear, making the latter nod her head in agreement.

"Give him three more years. I'd like to see him topless, wearing a bandana and holding a machine gun. That will certainly be a good thing to see," Rianna whispered back.

Thirteen, who had no idea what the two ladies were talking about, scoffed at the Wanderers who didn't dare to take a step forward.

However, his next words made them all look at him with burning gazes.

"I'm going into that city and fight," Thirteen said casually. "It's just a Rank 7 Sovereign. But I don't want to bring extra baggage with me. Only those who can follow my orders without questioning it will be allowed to go.

"If I tell you to jump, you will jump. If I tell you to charge, you will charge. If I tell you to risk your life, you will risk your life. And if I tell you to die, you will die. Only those who are able to do these things will be allowed to come with me.

"So who among you wishes to follow this Supreme Commander to the battlefield? The Wanderer who survived a faceoff against a Majin Prince, a Majin King, and the Fiend

Mammon?"

Thirteen smirked as he made a come over here gesture with his finger.

"Who among you wants to experience what it's like to be Legendary? Thirteen asked like a devil, tempting everyone riches. "While a Monster Outbreak will pale in comparison to the battles that I have faced before, it will not be a bad opportunity for you guys to feel what it's like to fight alongside me, right?"

Thirteen then reached out to the empty space on his left and right side and pulled back two short swords from his Dimensional Storage.

His body was then covered in red armor, which was made from the Scales of the Majin King

that he defeated.

This armor was a Mythical Equipment, but its stats and abilities were useless to Thirteen.

Because of this, the Rank required to wear it was also negated.

For him, it was just a piece of armor that was sturdier than others.

Still, it would be enough to save his life from the attacks of Rank 4-5 Monsters.

The teenage boy then took out a red helmet and wore it, only showing his eyes.

A red flame rose up from the back of his helmet, which Thirteen installed to make it look cool.

He was now like a red version of the Pokem*n Ceruledge, looking imposing in front of

everyone.

Sherry's Armored Blade Panther, whom she named Mors, walked beside Thirteen and lowered

its body so that the teenage boy could ride its back.

The two looked incredibly well together, like a knight and his loyal mount.

"Who's coming with me?" Thirteen asked in a domineering tone, which made some girls

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Vincent looked at the teenage boy with a faint smile on his face.

He was the first to take a step forward and stand by his side.

Derek, who had been mesmerized by how cool-looking his Master was, cursed internally

because Vincent had beaten him to be the first to accompany his Master to battle.

Erica, Sherry, Diana, and Rianna followed.

Shana sighed helplessly before she, too, took a step forward.

Roland gave Joshua a sidelong glance before they too, walked forward.

Soon, all the Wanderers felt their blood and hearts burning inside their chest as they raised

their hands to utter a warcry.

Thirteen smiled faintly from behind his helmet and pointed his sword toward the city.

"Rally to me!" Thirteen shouted as he urged Mors to charge forward.

The main reason he said all of those things was to make the Wanderers obey him absolutely, preventing the senseless loss of lives just because they couldn't follow his orders.

Now that they had been riled up by his challenge, they would become his sword and cut

through the Monster Tide like a hot knife through butter.

The Wanderers, who were now pumped up to fight, summoned their Avatars to carry them to

Glory City, where the enemies awaited.

Land and Flying Avatars numbering in the hundreds all surged like an unstoppable wave.

This time, they were no longer a rag-tag group of people without a leader.

This time, they were following Zion Leventis to battle, and it would be a battle that they would remember for a lifetime.