Bro, I'm not an Undead!

Red Rage and his entourage went northeast from the giant ice block, their steps being surprisingly quick as well as fairly silent given the fact that they were a large group.

The level of synchronicity in their movement, as they were directed by Red Rage to the next destination was unparalleled, making it seem like the Apostle had tamed these hundreds of beasts in the magical sense which wasn't actually the case. At least not in the conventional sense.

Red Rage's class and race had nothing to do with this. Or rather not entirely.

As mentioned before, Red Rage's armour was now a part of his regular form even though in the past, it had been part of the skill called [Incandescent Attire of the Omnipotent Pelvis Hegemon]. The skill offered him the ability to speak, fly, gave him great defence, damage refraction and incorporated the aspect of Balance the Pelvic series had – the ability to ensure that he could handle powerful attacks and powerful enemies.

There was another aspect of this armour he had and had attempted to use against Tomin back when he and Skullius fought the Evenfall cultists but failed because of the large gap in power.

(A/N: Refer to Ch.277).

It was the sub skill known as [Foolmaker].

At the time, its function was to temporarily claim the mind of people the Pelvis Boar-Man deemed as unjust, criminals even, but as the Apostle grew in strength during his retreat, evolving into this new form, the armour he wore grew vastly stronger and this skill became a sort of rehabilitation type ability.

[Second Chance].

That was its new name.

For most powerful skills, sub skills that enhanced their main effects weren't uncommon, and this skill latched onto Red Rage's armoured body, allowing him to do the 'taming' he was doing now.

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[Second Chance]

With the revelation of golden light, the Pelvic Arbiter is able to reform weak minds, bringing them under his charge with better morality, mind-set and general reasoning. The efficiency of the skill has greater chances of increasing when used multiple times against a target and as soon as said target's mind so much as eases up to Pelvic Arbiter, their mind, body and soul will be bound to them wholly, breaking all barrier forms between the two. Usable 5 times a day.

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Over the past month, Red Rage had been abusing this skill whenever he and his master entered a Cluster. He would collect unique monsters and use [Second Chance], which qualified as a high level Special skill, on them until they were loyal beasts under his command. Granted, he did take care of them really well.

At this moment, behind the flying Red Rage, a charge of powerful monsters followed, most of them decked in Unique to Legendary grade armours!

Killin Max was at the forefront, a custom made silver armour, bulky and quite beautifully designed over its dark body. A helm to go with its thick face that spotted tentacles could be seen while a large spear was in his hand as he jogged forward.

The fact that in the seven days Red Rage was absent, he had managed to bring this creature up to Tier 9 was a miracle. To be fair though, the Apostle had run through more than 12 blue Clusters and exploited the Gale Fiend's ability to absorb cumulative mana just by inhaling sharply.

Behind Killin Max were four other creatures like him, their red bodies more lean and their tentacles longer with a purple hue over their sharp-tipped ends. These were Killin 0 to 3, poison type monsters called Venom Terrors. They were also adorned with sleek armour, but helms were absent from their heads.

Following these were twenty others with taller, thicker bodies than the Killin Max and the Venom Terrors. Their builds were extremely bulky, clearly build for overwhelming raw strength and endurance – the Boulder Terrors, Killin 4 and beyond. They wielded thick, Unique grade hammers and large swords – great swords, bastards swords, Dadaos and cutlasses – most taken from Clusters and bandit groups.

The rest were hundreds of common Terrors in the fourth Tier and below while several other monsters other than the Terrors looted from other Clusters followed from the flanks in the back.

One of the most unique looking ones was a giant white fly with colourful wings that flapped silently, its bulging eyes that saw from every angle constantly reflecting a plethora of scenes. Red Rage had named this one Buzz 0 and preferred not to let him out too often since he was still only Tier 3. However his ability was extremely useful. He could see close set future possibilities of whatever he was looking at and react accordingly.

A very powerful ability!

For this reason, more of creatures like Buzz 0 were still stored within Red Rage's mysterious cape storage.

The other of note was a large brown ram with big, thick ivory horns. From a different angle, it looked like a bison given its shape but its head was telling of what it truly was. The Infinity Charging Ram named Bull 1 by the Pelvic Arbiter. Though it was yet to reach its full potential, when it lowered its body and went for a charge with its oversized horns, it could generate greater speed, strength, stamina and durability with each gallop! The cap was unknown and maybe non-existent.

There were more creatures in this group but other than the aforementioned, the rest were too weak to fully manifest their abilities and thus only followed to gain experience.

"There really are a lot of cities," Red Rage noted while looking ahead.

The weak vegetation and running stagnant streams didn't give this Cluster a very lively feel but the large number of civilisations, including the absolutely massive one hundreds of miles away, so great in size that even without advanced sight it could be viewed clearly, told of how the Hau Kaka goblins were actually thriving.

The 'how' was beyond Red Rage's comprehension. Not that he cared. All he could focus on was how much his children were going to level up with so many monsters around here.

The very thought got him all giddy inside.

Hopefully Skullius wouldn't kill the Cluster General too quickly.

Hmmm.

Hopefully he could kill it without his help.

Right now, the group of monsters had drown closer to a city a bit larger than the previous one.

Their approach had long been spotted and the enemy had taken the initiative. Though they could have stuck within their walls which were powered by runes also, they couldn't ignore the glow of gold covered enemies marching in unison towards their abode.

An army of goblins was already flooding out from the city gates.

The same contraptions that had been used in the previous city were employed by the goblins here too, seemingly racing forward on flat ground because of some...

"More runes?" Red Rage asked himself while floating over his army of beasts. "Interesting."

Roughly sixty of these wheeled locomotives with battle ready passengers barrelled forward, runes on their behinds that spat fuming flames to propel them forward glowing incessantly!

"Hau Kaka!!!!" the goblins that acted as the vanguard screamed as they launched their attacks, tinges of blue burning in their beady eyes!

From the rain that empowered them and weakened their enemy – it was supposed to – they felt their caution and fear dissipate, their might rising by close to two fold!

As they neared, Red Rage stopped, prompting his group to come to a halt.

"Killin Max, you charge first. Killin 0 to Killin 3 follow after him. Killin 11, 14, 16 and 19 assist from the flanks and make sure Killin 0 and Killin 3 don't get swarmed. The rest of you will kill the wounded and take on the weaker enemies close to the Killin Max and the rest so that in case of danger, they'll protect you, got it?" the Apostle instructed.

He was answered with a hundreds of nods of understanding.

The Pelvic Arbiter was satisfied with this.

"Charge!" he cried, prompting his orders to be followed to the letter.