Reaper of the Martial World

Book 10: Chapter 9: Team Building (3)

Dyon looked toward his chosen army without much expression. Currently, Little Shere, Biibi, Linlin and Sen were by his side. Luckily, they weren’t in their full forms, but had rather shrunk down to the average size of normal tigers, deer and apes. Only Linlin took on the size of a larger than average tortoise, allowing Dyon to sit on her beautiful ancient rune etched shell.

As of right now, all the other armies had already left, only Dyon remained in the dust field, even the various elders had either gone to their posts to oversee the first mission, or had gone to Star Palace in order to leisurely observe the proceedings.

Those here were feeling a bit anxious, as one might expect. Though Dyon had many Sacharro Clan geniuses to accumulate points for him, many of them were the only hope of their Clans and Sects, they couldn’t just stand here without a purpose or goal.

“I understand if you’re all anxious. I won’t claim to share your plight, but you all must understand that our best chance is if we come together as one.

“I’m sure you all know this, but this mission will take years to complete. It’s a long process. Trust me, a few hours won’t make or break your futures. You don’t have to trust me now, but you’ll see that my methods are correct in the future.”

Hearing Dyon’s words, many of them calmed down. He was right, this process, even with how weak the 100^th quadrant was, would take years. Even a conservative estimate would be around two or so decades.

Dyon could of course conquer the entire quadrant in just a few months if he had his whole army, but right now, he was restricted to just a count of ten thousand. Only about a single thousand of which were the actually youth geniuses of their Federation, the rest were lower celestials who had most reached the end of the potential who were taking on this task for the pay.

This was the first problem Dyon faced. His army was built of two completely distinct groups.

On one side, there were geniuses willing to lay their lives on the line for a chance to raise their potentials. But on the other side, there were celestials who had already lost their right to enter the Epistemic Tower any longer and had only come here to seek small benefits.

Still, Dyon was in a good mood. Every time he remembered their twisted expressions, he would laugh internally.

Those bastards actually tried to tamper with his wife’s placement? They tried to fool around with formations and arrays before him? What a fucking joke.

They actually tried to place Madeleine, Serbona and Yandevere within the battalion of an Army Chief headed by a masked man from the Golden Crow Sect. Obviously, they wouldn’t dare to scheme for Madeleine’s life, but this would definitely suppress her achievements.

Since geniuses lost points for disobeying the commands of their Army Chief, Madeleine would have no choice but to follow their lead.

But, obviously, Dyon wouldn’t allow this. He tampered with the settings without lifting a single finger, allowing Madeleine to enter God Amora Pegasus’ battalion.

In truth, he allowed Madeleine to follow her not because he trusted this unknown woman, but because he didn’t know enough about the Pegasus Clan.

If he wanted to conquer the tower quadrants, how could he allow there to be a Clan he knew so little about? So he left the task to his wife. Of course, he also gave Madeleine Orchus’ Star Lord Robe so she would be able to protect herself from unforeseen incidents.

In truth, he wanted to have his wife by his side, but he felt that that would make it too obvious that he was responsible for the change. It would be better if they thought it was a mistake on their part.

Like this, Madeleine entered Amora’s battalion, Ri entered True God Lux’s battalion, and Clara actually ended up entering Amphorae’s battalion. Of course, this last one was organized by Dyon as well. He was the most worried about Clara’s battle prowess despite her recent constitution awakening, so he left her under Amphorae’s protection.

As for Dyon’s own battalion, he had been lucky to get his lucky Star Chef Saru. Though she was also a True God, she had only recently exited and was even still on the Saint Floors. Since she had yet to enter the Celestial Realm, the elders decided that she would be treated as a normal genius for now. Once she grew, she’d of course be given her own battalion in the future.

‘Luck?’ Shere snorted in Dyon’s mind. She hadn’t been happy with him ever since she found out Dyon signed a pact with Chenglei.

Dyon rubbed his nose in embarrassment. ‘Okay… Maybe I was a little hungry.’

Shere turned her head, not bothering with him anymore. historical

In addition to forcefully adding Saru to his battalion, Dyon also added his two disciples – of which Brahman had finally found out his true identity – in addition to his little brother Zaire and his little sister Lyla. On top of this, he had the mute Ryu join and also added Alidor’s little sister Kaeara because she seemed to be the only one capable of reading his thoughts.

With them, he was confident in forming the core of his battalion. In addition, since they were relatively unknown, their addition wasn’t enough to raise any eyebrows. After all, the Sapientia had done their best to suppress what happened on the Middle Celestial Floor for fear that it would expose their dark side. And though they were still exposed in the end, Zaire and Lyla remained relative unknowns, relatively speaking, of course.

“Alright, how about we start with some team building exercises then?” Dyon said with a smile. “We’ll hold a single elimination tournament wherein everyone’s cultivation will be sealed down to the Lower Celestial Realm. The better you perform, the higher your ranking in my battalion will be.

“This will be your first test. Don’t hold back or else it’ll be too late to regret it later…”

When everyone heard his words, they felt their lips twitched. How was beating each other to a pulp a form of ‘team building’?