On the other side of the planet, another one-sided battle was now finally coming to a close. The area around the alpha base had been thoroughly glassed by the flamethrowers and other turrets. Everything within a kilometres radius had turned black due to the heavy shelling and unregulated use of superhuman abilities.

As if the wasteland itself wasn't horrendous enough, the carnage left after the battle was even worse. At least before, one could enjoy the beautiful sight of dawn and dusk but now, even that sight had been tainted.

Both parties had started their fight against an unprepared enemy. As Talos and other summons were aware of who they were up against. While the brigadier, although knew who his enemies were, had drastically underestimated them. However, in the end, it was the Brigadier's overconfidence that led to his failure. By now, it was undeniable which side had won the battle as monster corpses were littered all over the battlefield, while not a single automaton had been destroyed.

Talos and his army had taken the Brigadier by surprise. The Brigadier's army might have outnumbered Talos and his army by a lot. But the brigadier had forgotten something. Rather than focusing on improving his undead summons, he had focused on their quantity and not quality.

Arnold's summons may have been less in number, but even Yan's undead could easily take on ten of the Brigadier's monsters without any aid from Yan. So one could only imagine what a carnage an entire battalion of Arnold's summons would have caused once they were unleashed on the unsuspecting monsters.

The Brigadier general had been completely outsmarted and outperformed by the trio of Arnold's summons. As he had no measure against their collective thinking or their teamwork. He thought he alone was enough to take care of both Arnold and his summons, however, he had been wrong and he would have to pay the price for his immature mistake with his life.

Although, his defeat had been assured a long time ago, yet, he still wasn't ready to give up. The resilience that had kept him sane all those years in the vast wasteland, did not allow him to give up so easily without fighting. He was a conqueror! He was a Paladin! What were these puny creatures in front of him? Nothing! They were nothing more than a speck of dust.

No way in hell was he going to surrender to these lower pieces of crap. Especially without fighting with Arnold. In his eyes, even Talos, Asterios and Ogur were frail creatures. It was a different thing that he wasn't able to even fight against Yan, who was by far the weakest among Arnold's summons.

Moreover, whenever he asked his goddess' voice to aid him, the brigadier received no response from her. All he wanted to know was the level of his opponents, but the voice never replied to his requests.

Maybe the voice had malfunctioned? That could be the reason why the goddess he had devoted his entire life to, could not guide him anymore. Well, he would wish that was true, but the reality of the situation was... that his Goddess, Hel, had abandoned him.

Earlier she had intended to aid him in his battle against Arnold's summons. But when she got the news that Hercules had been defeated by Arnold. She along with Surtr immediately retreated from earth on Loki's advice. As soon Arnold was going to gain something no mortal being ever had in a long, long time.

Moreover, when Arnold obtains his new powers, the existence of lesser gods won't be a secret to him anymore as he would be able to sense them. Furthermore, if he got to know that Hel had been the one messing with him behind the curtains, not even Loki would be able to save her.

That's why Hel had to run away after erasing any trace of her, including the Brigadier's system because that was the only thing she could do now. It was the same for Surtr. Even he didn't want to stick around when Arnold ascended for the second time.

But even if Hel's system had been there. It couldn't have done much. But to inform the Brigadier of the misery that was in front of him. Talos' level and stats were higher than his stats as he was still stuck at Cosmic C rank. Even if his gears were considered, he was no better than C+.

"Just give it up already and surrender yourself for your crimes against the nation. Well, before that you should surrender for your crime against our master. Because he might not be as lenient as the courts." Talos yelled at the top of his lungs, "Especially not to an ugly basta*d like you."

Although it looked like Arnold summons had surrounded the Brigadier and were bullying him. The reality was somewhat different. They weren't bullying him, they were humiliating him. Talos already knew the brigadier was even more stubborn than their master, hence he would not give up so easily. So he thought why not let the summons have a bit of fun till they completely broke him.

Moreover, now that he had received a report stating that Hercules had been taken care of. Thus he and the rest of the summons were in no hurry to end the Brigadier's misery and join their master anymore. Their master could enjoy his victory over a demigod, while they enjoyed their own victory in the wasteland.

All of the summons had formed a circle around the Brigadier. One could say that it was a circle of death, which the brigadier could only leave once he was dead. The summons were taking turns to attack him and considering how things were going for the brigadier, it didn't seem he was going to last for long either.

His body was full of holes and slashes which were no longer healing on their own as he no longer had a system to aid him in the battle. With the disappearance of the system, he had lost most of his battle-related skills. Thus, he was nothing more than what he had been on the day Arnold had kicked him out of the alpha base.

"It's not that I'm not enjoying how you people are thrashing him," All of a sudden Arnold's voice came from behind Talos, "Do you mind wrapping it up? I'd like to take Talos and Yan with me. We have things to do."

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