Unlocking talent

Can Klavis hold Iram back long enough? Has William really evolved enough to be able to hold back 15 super-powered Zarans? Is a protector of humanity like Oliver really intent on destroying Teloria? Are the Zaran soldiers really on the verge of extinction, or is this just a ruse by the higher-ups to lure the human soldiers into a certain trap?

...

As Klavis struggled to fight back, and Ikram began to get seriously impatient, Bjig said:

"William, is not it? You know earlier I said that the difference in quantity is something that is difficult to compensate for, but at your level you should know that, shouldn't you? When the difference in strength is overwhelming, the quantity is insignificant."

At the end of his sentence, the handle of a giant axe materialized in his hands, as the axe in its entirety covered the sky for several miles.

"Admire the power of an attack from an (A+) rank," Bjig added with a sly smile.

"Travis." called William mentally.

The skeleton with two rusty swords suddenly disappeared from the ranks of skeletons behind William, and the next second William's two swords formed an X, ready to decapitate Bjig.

Immediately, the enormous flow of energy constituting the axe returned to Bjig, and condensed into two small shields around his neck.

The condensation of such a huge amount of energy could stop any attack below rank (A+).

However a flash of surprise could be seen on his face because if he had been slightly late then he would have died.

Obviously the stalemate only lasted a fraction of a second, and Bjig firmly clenched his fist while swinging it towards Travis who was completely defenseless.

"Irina, Issac."

Seeing the situation deteriorate, William mentally called out to a skeleton archer and a skeleton spearman who were both former base bosses, and thus former human geniuses.

Both had rank potential (B-), only one rank lower than Travis.

Following William's call, an arrow was ready to pierce Bjig's brain, while a skeleton spearman had appeared right behind him, his spear not far from his heart.

However, Bjig had no intention of escaping these attacks, so he halved the energy devoted to the tiny shields around his neck and formed two new energy shields, one in front of his forehead, and one behind him not far from his heart.

This immediately stopped Irina's and Issac's attacks and because of this, Travis was about to take the full force of the one rank (A+) attack!

In fact, Bjig could simply surround his entire body with energy and that would make him invulnerable to any ordinary (B+) rank.

But of course no one would do that, because not only would it decrease the fighting instinct against those of the same rank, but the cost of this kind of defense technique is monstrous even for an (A+) rank.

So, in a war where energy is of the essence, to do this is to give the enemy an opportunity.

Although firearms cannot threaten an (A+) rank even if it has no energy left, the attack of an ordinary (C-) rank should be enough to kill it.

But this assumes that this attack can hit the (A+) rank.

Back in the fight, Bjig had a slight smile on his face because he knew that by killing this skeleton, his side would have the psychological advantage over William's. Unfortunately for him, he had underestimated the power of the skeleton.

Unfortunately for him, he had underestimated two things:

First, Travis was not so weak.

Indeed, an extremely intense black aura emanated from Travis instantly and concentrated on his two swords, then strangely, the two swords passed through Bjig's two shields as if they did not exist.

The two swords continued their path and decapitated Bjig, but before he could completely lose control of his body, Bjig managed to complete the movement of his punch, completely annihilating Travis' skeleton.

And so came his second mistake: his lack of knowledge about William's abilities.

Indeed, immediately, a skeleton of the same size and armed with two swords reappeared in exactly the same place the next moment.

Even the aura he gave off was the same.

Bjig's pupils showed surprise and reluctance to die in this way.

Not only him, Karlos, Orlac and the other 12 experts, but also Klavis, Iram and several thousand human and Zaran soldiers were also extremely incredulous when they saw the head of a high-ranking Zaran nobleman with monstrous power fall to the ground in such a miserable way.

Immediately, Karlos, Orlac and the other 12 experts gathered in an aerial formation because after all there were nearly 10,000 skeletons behind William, and no one could foresee what kind of strange attack they could unleash individually.

Bjig's death had proven that, and they could no longer underestimate them just because these skeletons were merely of (C-) rank.

Not far from the stratospheric limit, Iram had seen the scene but his face had not changed at all, only the Gods and some special individuals could know what he really felt in his heart.

On the other hand, Klavis felt hope!

Hope that the Zarans could be repelled without having to destroy the planet!

Down below, the cheers of various soldiers could be heard, but it didn't last long because some of the higher-ranking Zarans still alive had reestablished the army's chain of command, and ordered the soldiers to step up their attacks.

And that had the desired effect.

All of the top generals were blocked by Zaran experts who had only just appeared, and even Odysseus and his son were blocked by Zarans of rank (B-).

Let alone defeat them, it would be pretty good if they could stay alive until the end of the battle.

Although these expert Zarans were not known as Joker Myriam and their power was far inferior to the latter, they were still not something the top generals could handle with their current abilities.

The rest of William's army was actually in no better shape.

They were completely exhausted after fighting for so long and seeing no end to the Zaran army, as if it was inexhaustible.

The high ranking experts came one after the other, there was no end to it.

When one expert of rank (B-) finally died, another would soon arrive, and it was the same everywhere with regard to the lower ranks.

William's soldiers had already faced an army of several million Zarans, who in this battle had lost 351 soldiers, 10 generals, including 3 generals of rank (D-) and above.

About 10% of the soldiers were seriously wounded, and most were also slightly wounded.

Fortunately, in the misfortune there is a blessing of the system that allowed all users of the system to gain 10 times more experience when they killed enemies in the real world.

So after this battle, all soldiers were at least at rank (D-).

However, the 200,000 Zarans that arrived afterwards were all elites with at least (D-) rank, and they were accompanied by several hundred corvettes, each of which had a cannon that could injure or even kill an (A-) rank, and even 3 frigates whose power rivaled several dozen corvettes at a time.

To put it bluntly, if Klavis had not come in with his own elite army of 100,000 men, his hundreds of corvettes and his frigate, William's army would have been totally wiped out.

In fact, the key factor that tipped the scales in favor of the humans was the factor of being able to resurrect the defeated enemy into a skeleton at no cost.

Without this, the human army, William's and Klavis' combined, would have long since been wiped out.

Instead, the human army now had a slight advantage, but nothing to completely exterminate the remaining 80,000 Zarans.

Indeed, those who were still alive were the elite of the elite.

Back at William, he could clearly feel the situation of the supreme generals, generals and soldiers under his control.

"For every minute that passes, some of my soldiers close their eyes forever. I have to finish this as soon as possible," William thought quickly as his white eyes flashed with a certain light as he looked at the 14 Zarans experts still alive before him.

"Unfortunately, this one won't work again," he continued mentally.

Travis' attack was very special.

Since William had attained (C-) rank, all skeletons with a potential of (C-) rank or higher also attained it, and that included Travis.

Upon upgrading to (C-) rank, Travis unlocked a part of his talent, which allowed him to ghost objects for a second.

This part of his talent also allowed him to ignore space-time. This was worthy of a talent that could stand at the top of humanity in ancient times.

Unfortunately it was only a fragment, and at present Travis could only perform this attack every 12 hours, if this time limit was not respected then Travis' soul would "collapse".

But fortunately, it was not only Travis' talent that had been partially awakened, but also that of the 15 base leaders, that of Ivy the master skeleton swordsman as well as his 3 swordsman disciples, that of Terry but also ;

The one of the individual who stood at the 3rd place of the universe during the antiquity: Kent Zeraphy.