The Hand of God System
Chapter 22: Change of Plan

*bruk! Voldos' body fell from the sky and hit the ground.

"It's over, huh? Ughhhh!" Ryuuji held his head in dizziness.

[Master, your stamina is very low now, please take a break]

"Please wait a little longer, I want to make sure if he has really lost."

[Understand]

Ryuuji walked slowly closer to where Voldos had fallen.

But before Ryuuji almost got there..

*crack! there was a voice at the place where Voldos had fallen.

*Brak* a pile of stones came out of it and showed Voldos standing back.

"M-impossible right?" Ryuuji widened his eyes looking at Voldos who was still able to stand up after receiving his attack.

Ryuuji's gaze suddenly became increasingly blurred.

"Ughh! my view.." Ryuuji is getting dizzy due to his diminishing stamina.

Voldos directed his gaze towards Ryuuji for hearing his voice.

"My nails, now I'm sure, the one who defeated Bermoth, is you?" Voldos.

Ryuuji immediately fixed his position and smiled at Voldos.

"Heh, looks like it's been found out?" Ryuuji tried to keep a firm look in front of Voldos.

It was because he did not want Voldos to know that he was on the verge of a boundary now, because if Voldos knew then it was likely that he would exert everything to kill the weakened Ryuuji.

"My nails, with your ability, that's for sure. But how can you do that? imitating my magic is that easy, even making it stronger."

"I don't have to tell my abilities to my enemies, do I?"

"My nails, enemy huh? you're right.." Voldos let out a little laugh at Ryuuji's words.

Then he turned his gaze around the village and the area that was destroyed by the fight between him and Ryuuji earlier.

"I haven't had such fun in a long time, most people who fought against me would lose before I expended 10% of my strength. But you are different." Voldos pointed at Ryuuji with his index finger.

Then he turned his body away from Ryuuji.

"Hoi, don't you want to end it here now?" Ask Ryuuji.

Voldos chuckled at Ryuuji's question.

"I look forward to our next fight." Voldos jumps up the town hall building and hangs Ryuuji's questions.

"Heh, so he has no intention of ending it here huh?" Ryuuji said with a bitter smile.

After Voldos caught a glimpse of Ryuuji from the top of the town hall, he immediately went northward.

Ryuuji breathed a sigh of relief knowing that Voldos decided to leave.

[Master, your body is now on the verge of limits, you will fall asleep automatically in 5 seconds]

"Yes, I know that." Ryuuji slowly closed his eyes and put his body on the ground.

*bruck

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9 Hours later after the fight between Ryuuji and Voldos.

"Ughhhh!..." Ryuuji slowly opened his eyes while feeling a hint of dizziness from his head.

"Master!" Said someone beside him.

Ryuuji slowly directed his gaze to the origin of the voice he was familiar with.

She looks like a blonde and long-eared woman whom she knows very well.

"Ah, Rena...is this in my room?" Ryuuji asked while trying to check around.

"No, this is the medical room in the town hall, because we were panicking when we saw Master lying limp in the street, we decided to bring Master here because it was the closest." Clarify Rena.

"K-we? aren't you the only one here?"

"That's it..." Ryuuji looked at the window that was right next to him.

He looked at the dark sky that showed the night, stating that he had been asleep for quite a while since the fight was over.

"It seems I underestimated him too early, he has a power far greater than I imagined." Ryuuji.

"But the Master managed to expel him, didn't he? even that alone was already very good, Master managed to make the village safe."

"But it's just now, isn't it? the fact that I failed to defeat him, it means that they will come back here with a power that might be 2x that of before."

"That-that's..."

"And I'm sure now that the North is 100% overrun by them, if we don't prepare something from now on, it's likely that we'll be targeted next." Ryuuji

"If based on the explanation from Timbus this afternoon, it is true that we will be the next target after the North is controlled." Reply Rena.

"So it's true.." .

"But I'm sure that'll change."

Ryuuji scrunched his eyes at Rena's words.

"What do you mean it's gonna change?" Ask Ryuuji.

Rena began to explain her prediction slowly to Ryuuji.

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On the other side in the camp of the Flemish Empire..

"Oi Voldos, how could you be battered so? where were you this afternoon?" Ask a man.

In a tent that looks the largest in the middle of the central camp of the Flemish Empire in the northern region of the forest, two people who are both leaders of the army there.

One of them was Voldos, and the other..

"Reinar, wherever I go it's none of your business." Voldos

"Heh, that's none of my business. But seeing you who can be battered so, that includes my problem as it concerns the threat to the Empire.

"Just calm down, I'll take care of the threat myself, you focus on your own work."

"Oi-oi, are you hiding something interesting from me?" Reinar took out a knife from his right hip and pointed it at Voldos' neck.

"Do you want to die?" Voldos said while giving off an intimidating aura.

Reinar kept his position for a while, but after that he immediately distanced the knife from Voldos' neck.

"Sad, you war-mad, a lunatic like you doesn't deserve to lead an army."

"That's the duke's decision, whatever you're talking about, nothing will affect me."

"Hoooh really? then I'll head south to find someone who can make you that way."

*wush!* In a flash a golden glove stopped right in front of Reinar's face.

It was only 5 cent away from his face.

"If you do that, you'll die right now." Voldos said as he pointed his fist.

Reinar made him a small smile looking at Voldos who pointed his fist at him.

"So right, well, I won't bother him, but if it threatens the Empire, then I will fight it without needing your consent."

"...." - ".Voldos was silent after hearing Reinar's words.

Then he immediately turned his back on her and walked towards the outside of the tent.

"Tomorrow I will lead an army to attack the west, you lead to the east."

"Are? shouldn't we go south?"

"Trust me, it's not yet time to attack there, we must control as much territory as we can before heading there."

"Hoooh is that so? all right, I'll follow your plan."

"Then it's decided." Voldos slowly walked out of the tent.

Reinar who saw it from behind still maintained his small smile.