Chapter 497 Old Friends
Time passed while the army was stationed in front of the seal of the passageway.
The whole area had already been isolated by the Mysterious Expert, so there wasn’t any way for retreat, nor anyone planned to turn into a coward at that point.
Everyone knew that the Wolf God was one of the two commanders, so no one dared to near to the place where Yale’s group was waiting.
They knew that the Wolf God had his own elite group and that it was something that he had decided together with the Battle God.
Moreover, the army had been instructed to not interact with the Wolf God or the members of his group, which immediately turned them into mysterious people in front of the rest of the army.
Yale’s group was small, and everyone was people related to him.
Shiba, Lina, Eini, Aiwai, Terug, and Gerken.
Together with Yale, they were a group of seven.
The rest of the people related to them with enough power, like the members of their factions or Terug’s followers, joined the ordinary army.
Shiba had turned extremely famous after he once defeated a member of the ten strongest Origin Gods, and was, without doubt, one of the strongest of the universe.
Lina was a bit weaker than Shiba since she hadn’t been so focused on increasing her battle prowess, but she could easily rank into the fifty strongest Origin Gods.
Even Eini could easily rank into the hundred strongest Origin Gods.
Any of those ranking was enough to make others respect them, but what was really enough to make them obtain respect was that they were one level lower than Origin Gods, yet they were already so powerful.
Thus, no one found strange that the Wolf God had selected them even if they disregarded the relationship between the Wolf God and them.
Aiwai had just barely managed to become a fourth level immortal, so she wasn’t that strong compared to others. However, the blessing on her bloodline and the version of Yale’s Path available for her bloodline were strong enough to make her comparable to an above average Origin God, but she was still lacking in strength to enter any rankings.
After all, since the universe was created, it was impossible to count how many Origin Gods appeared. Although becoming an Origin God was incredibly difficult, through the whole universe and an extremely long time, it wasn’t surprising that the numbers were so high.
Terug was even weaker than Aiwai because he barely managed to become an Origin God, and he had a Fake Origin Path. Given that he was already a World God when he met Yale, he couldn’t change his Path to that one.
However, Terug was the oldest among them, and Yale had a great impression of him because of how he risked everything to protect Aiwai in the past, so he decided to put him in the group.
Terug also had a high social skill, which was something that everyone else in the group lacked compared with him. They were going to infiltrate, so someone who could use words to trick the opponent would be useful.
As for Gerken, he wasn’t too good at battling despite being stronger than Terug and Aiwai, but he excelled at killing and being stealthy, which was of vital importance for the mission.
In fact, no one except the Battle God and those in Yale’s group noticed that he was there.
There were some people that wanted to speak with Yale, but there were also people that Yale wanted to meet, yet he couldn’t because of the rules he had put in his group.
After Yale scanned the whole army when he appeared in that place, he shockingly saw some familiar face that he never expected to be there.
The first one was Revgen. He had long ago become an Essence God after solving all his problems and leaving the Empire in charge of Nurvey who turned the new Empress.
Revgen only managed to become an Essence God in the Life Essence, so his role in that war was to act as a support and a healer. He had been stationed in the part of the army directly under General Aknarel, or in other words, Yale’s father.
Of course, Revgen was Aknarel’s disciple, so it wasn’t strange that he was under Aknarel’s orders in the war.
Revgen being there was quite shocking, but it was still something that Yale could accept, but the others were too difficult to believe.
They were just beside Revgen, and like him had only mastered one Essence each one.
Those three were Aizu, Zack, and George, the three first friends Yale made after his reincarnation.
Aizu had mastered the Fire Essence, Zack the Archery Essence, and George the Earth Essence.
After Lar disappeared for the incident with the bandits and Alter Yale, they decided to leave the world and embark into a trip through the universe.
Yale knew until that point because his incarnation saw them leaving, but he never expected that they would increase their power so quickly.
In fact, they had several strokes of luck while traveling, so many that others would die from jealousy if they knew. It was like if fate wanted them to turn stronger.
If Yale could choose, he would send them back instead of having them participate in the war because their strength just reached the threshold for joining and they were the weakest among ordinary soldiers.
However, no one had been forced to join the army. If they were there, it was because they had decided to join by their own will.
The last person, if it was correct to call it a person, that surprised Yale for being there was Ronragruk. He was also under the others of Yale’s father and was in his dragon form.
Ronragruk was far stronger than the other four because he had mastered several Essences.
He had left the Dragon Tribe to travel some years after Yale left and managed to obtain the bloodline of an Ancestral Dragon that had been an Origin God.
The affinities of that dragon didn’t match with his own, so there was a risk of dying if he absorbed that blood, but again, everything went smoothly and added those affinities to his own.
Fate had turned weird for those related to Yale, but Yale hadn’t noticed it until that moment.
If Ronragruk were just an Essence God, it would be one thing, but he had mastered several Essences and more than a half Ice Essence.
Yale really wanted to speak with them because, with his Divine Eyes, he could see their past, and it was really too difficult to believe that they had so much luck.
Yale could guess that it was the strongest of fate acting again, but he didn’t know that only those connected to him suffered that change in their fates.
In fact, he didn’t know that Julie was already a Law God, and Oscro a Law Master.
Everyone who had a good relationship with him had turned at least a Law Master.
Even the newborn disciple from that village that he accepted but never met had grown to turn into a Law God just because he always considered Yale as his master despite had never met him. He was currently working in Trade City with Tar, who was also a Law God, and Julie.
There were also a lot of wolves in the army, but despite being able to take human form, they choose to remain in their wolf form while they looked a lot of times towards Yale with worship on their eyes.
Among those wolves, there were the couple of wolves that followed Yale for a lot of years; they were standing besides Aknarel.
All the wolves from the pack that obeyed Wyba and Yale back in the Imperial City were also in the group following Aknarel.
The army was subdivided into several groups, or it would be too difficult to manage so many people even for the Battle God.
Although the Battle God was the commander, there were several generals like Aknarel guiding forces that were related to them. Of course, everyone from Yale’s planet, and even Yale’s disciples counted to be related to Aknarel.
Yale recognized disciples who he hadn’t seen after his reincarnation, but they were just like Aizu and had barely reached the minimum threshold to join the army.
However, it didn’t matter how much people Yale recognized; he remained still in the midst of the outer space waiting for the seal to break.
Yale’s group would disappear after crossing the passageway, and no one was allowed to know about their objective, so they set the isolation rule to prevent them from saying something unconsciously or having others trying to join them.
"If they want to meet me again, they must return alive, and, of course, I must survive too."
With that thought on his mind, Yale continued to stare at the seal until one day it started to show signs of cracking.
"Just at the same time as in those memories. Then the place we will appear should also be the same. There shouldn’t be any problem with our plan."
The infiltration plan relied a lot on those memories Yale had obtained of a different future. If it weren’t for them, they would have been blind in respect to what was on the other side, so it would have been far more difficult to plan.