His legs suddenly started shaking, causing him to fall on his knees,

“What? Why can’t I move? What happened to my body?”

“Oh, nothing much, when my fist came in contact with your face, I sent some virus through your skin, your body is now already contaminated.”

“What? But poison should not be able to affect the undead sorcerers.”

“Yes, but your replica is not undead, if you think that your real body and your replica share the same strength and weakness, then you are mistaken, you are using a human replica, humans being body are very fragile, to function they need their brain to send signals, heart to pump blood, cause even a little disturbance in those process and the body could stop functioning, I was amazed, when I saw that your vessel had no countermeasure against poison, then again you are the same fool who thought my replica was powered by a core, this must have been your first time using a replica, am I right?”

“So what? I am not the only one whose replica is about to be destroyed, what I destroyed might not have been your core, but still, that does not change the fact my sword has wounded your body, now my dark aura would soon flow through your body, and corrupt your divine aura, soon destroying it.”

“Really? Then why is that only you are on the ground yet I am here standing.”

“But I can see my sword’s aura flowing through your body you must be pretending to be fine.”

“Well, there is no point in arguing with a fool.”

I walked towards him and grabbed his head, “Get your hands off me, What? What are you trying to do?”

“Keep quiet and let me analyze.”

His replica was unlike mine, in my replica I had transferred some part of my own soul, so there was no need for any other link, the distance between the replica and my original body did not matter, but his replica was made using a mana link like a wire, it gave him the advantage of being able to transfer mana from his original body to his replica constantly unlike mine, but using the mana link I could also trace back his original body.

“I see, calculating from a distance it should take at least a day for you to arrive here with your original body and rest of your army.”

“So what? You think you would be able to run away in a day.”

“Run? Why should I run? You can come to me whenever you want if you want to taste defeat.”

“This battle was my loss, but you cannot even imagine the extent of my true power, I will come back soon and take your head, that is if you can survive until I reach here.”

His body fell down, “I see, he cut his link with the replica.”

The undead he summoned went inside the ground, his sword also disappeared.

Suddenly I heard a roar from behind, the two dragons were still there, the rest of his undead had already returned, but,

Did the dragon take advantage of its summoner weakened state to be free?

Well, I had no interest in them. Also, I was nearly out of mana, so as long as the dragons did not attack,

But the dragon breathed fire directly pointed at me, it was hot enough to make the entire ground, and the nearby building vaporize,

Its size and power both had increased than before, but I still had my army,

I jumped on the top of a building, “priests, surround it with a barrier, rest, convert your weapon into a bow and fire.”

One of the dragons got surrounded by the barriers and got trapped but the other flew and managed to escape,

“Well, since there is no one watching.”

“Darkness Magic: Shadow Chains”

Chains came out from the shadow of the buildings, and one of the chains caught the dragon’s leg and pulled it near the ground where the rest of the chains surrounded it and entrapped it,

“Now, fire the arrows.”

Both of the dragons faced a rain of arrows, most penetrated through the skin, but since they were still undead, they were still struggling to escape,

“Flames of Abyss”

My flames, burned the dragons, slowly devouring their flesh, after some time their size decreased, soon they got reduced to ashes, but in the center, a small ball remained, my flames were not able to burn it,

There were 2 blue balls, they were shining brightly,

Are these the cores of the dragons?

“Appraisal”

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It did not work that must mean this thing is a living being, but I could not sense any life force,

Suddenly I felt some powerful presence from the far east, I stored the balls in my ring, and went towards the border of the empire made by massive walls,

Using my eyes, I could see very far, there was an army of around a hundred thousand, they were knights, nearly 10 leading paladins and a royal paladin

The emblem on their clothes was of this empire.

Was this the empire’s main army? Then what were they doing when the empire was being invaded?

I get it, the undead sorcerer’s must have known about this and attacked this empire while its main force was not present.

They would reach here in about 2 hours, I barely have any mana left, I won’t also be able to maintain my own army for long,

Should I retreat? The undead sorcerers would be back after a day, If I withdraw for a day, then the battle between the sorcerers and paladins would be unavoidable, and I could reap the benefits after that,

But run?

“No way I am running away from a fight calling it a retreat.”

“Let them come, I shall face both the undead sorcerers and the paladins head-on.”