Meanwhile, Rina slowly began to expand the range of her spells... she was doing something beyond the limits that the system allowed for their current level. Still, as Aivern said, those two had the potential to reach great heights...

As if the enemies were watching and decided to change their strategy, when the second battle started, the behavior of the monsters changed. At first, they tried to keep the same rhythm no matter the obstacles. Still, when the squads began to attack, the monsters on the side kept moving, and they changed directions to surround the dark elves.

"What a troublesome bunch..." Shalia said and then used her Earth magic to erect some Earth spears for some of those monsters.

Shalia’s range had increased for some reason. Maybe she had upgraded her magic with the crystals since she never bought equipment. Either way, Luke couldn’t understand how she could do that. Still, Shalia was just a single person, so she could only do so much... However, things improved when Rina enhanced her magic power.

"I didn’t ask for help," Shalia said.

"I didn’t ask if you didn’t ask for help," Rina said.

Luke sighed... Why did they have to bicker so many times... Still, thanks to Rina’s support, the power of Shalia’s earth spikes was duplicated, and she bought even more time for the dark elves to retreat. On the first run, they had killed around eleven thousand enemies, but now they only killed eight thousand because of their responses. 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎

Meira wants to become your follower. Do you accept it? Y/N

Saleh wants to become your follower. Do you accept it? Y/N

Rylee wants to become your follower. Do you accept it? Y/N

...

After seeing how much the other dark elves had improved, new ones decided to take the oath. They really were thirsty for power, or perhaps they just wanted to participate in those wars where they were decimating the enemies that were destroying their world.

"It seems the opinion of others about you is changing gradually," Seirion said. "... You look a bit pale. Is everything all right?"

"Yes... don’t worry," Luke said, trying to hide the discomfort caused by the poisonous bolts. "Can you divide them to be parts of the new squads? I would like you to use them to prevent that pincer attack."

"Yes, I will do that," Seirion nodded and then left.

While Seirion left to work on that, Luke observed the horde. They won some battles and killed thousands of enemies, but the horde as a whole had yet to slow down on their charge. They gained maybe ten minutes, but for every battle, they had to waste at least one-hour resting and finding good terrain for them. At the same time, they gave one hour for the enemies to fix their formations and summon more monsters... Still, the overlords were bound to realize that a battle of attraction wasn’t good for them.

In any case, when the third battle ended, two of the Overlord’s skills reached level ten, and Luke quickly upgraded them. Now, with each level up, the skill would grant Luke’s followers an extra of twenty points in Intelligence and Resistance. The enemies also didn’t expect those extra squads would show up and help. Hence, they managed to fight for a few extra minutes and killed almost fifteen thousand monsters.

"Hehehe, at this rate, all these dumbasses will have joined us in a few days," Shalia said.

"Don’t say that while showing such an evil grin. It might make people think that we are plotting something evil with this power," Luke said.

Although he said that, Luke was also thinking along those lines. The more, the merrier, that even truer considering the current situation. It would be hard to imagine having millions of dark elves becoming his followers. Still, maybe a few hundred thousand would be possible. Maybe, the overlord’s skills will be the ones to reach the highest rank first.

In any case, the fourth battle will be the last one before they have to stop and resume their efforts to rescue the dark elves in the camps. However, somehow, Luke had the feeling that things wouldn’t go smoothly as the others. The fourth time is the harm, after all.

"If something happens, I want you guys to stay on standby," Luke said while the preparations for the fourth rum were being finished. "If you want to help the dark elves, do so, but try to not stand out."

"Do you think that the overlords will interfere now?" Rina asked.

"Until now, they have been overlooking us because they think that we just obtained the resources to have a flying fortress," Luke said. "However, their forces are clearly decreasing. So, I would say that it is about time for the most impatient ones to show up."

Shalia looked at Aivern, and he just nodded. It seemed that Luke’s feeling was right, but he didn’t need confirmation for every single thing from Aivern. Regardless, it didn’t take for the fourth run to start, and then rose, who had good senses, like Shalia, Rina, Seirion, and Aivern, immediately felt a powerful presence approaching from above.

At the very moment the dark elves began to attack the monsters, someone appeared in the sky while fell at fearsome speeds. Without wasting time, Luke grabbed his ax and jumped toward that figure.

Drork LV 591

HP: 6258/ 6258

MP: 2562/ 2562

SP: 4059/ 4059

STR: 1254

SPE: 690

INT: 350

END: 920

RES: 980

FOC: 2100

Free points: 00

Gold Coins: 155.365

Active Skills: Dash Lv 10, Cleave Lv 10, Swarm Lv 10, Steel Skin Lv 10, Sonic Punch Lv 10...

Spells: Heal Lv 10, Cure Lv 10

Passive: Fire Resistance Lv 10, Wind Resistance Lv 10, Cold Resistance Lv 10, Earth Resistance Lv 10, Meditation Lv 08, Electric Resistance lv 08, Poison Resistance Lv 08, Iron Heart Lv 10, Vigor Lv 10...

It was another dumbass that didn’t even try to hide their status and skills... In any case, Luke ignored that and swung his ax toward the enemy with all his might.