Salvos only promised not to harm or antagonize him intentionally. So it is very possible that Salvos will still antagonize him. Soverick doesn't know if he made a mistake or not by letting Salvos go. It is not a good feeling. There is so much that he will lose if things go wrong.
"Legion cannot continue forward in blindness. Something must change or we will walk into a wall. Or worse we will walk into a trap. We must gain sight so that what happened with Zerkon and Zernon will not happen again." He said to every clone of Legion.
He has said it before but he is emphasizing it again because it is very important. They began discussing a way to fix this problem of their's. Brute strength is not enough. There's a need for information to make the best possible decisions. Or Legion will be toyed with the same way he toys with his enemies because of the advantage of his sight.
He reached the pyramid in seconds. Then he leaped to its top and took the crown. Next, he sat down to meditate. He has to be ready for whatever will come. The crowd of people that used to surround the pillar scattered when almost half of them were doused in all-consuming flames. They stayed away for a while before they returned to besiege him.
A lot more people came as time went by. At first, Soverick wasn't worried. Then the number of people reached more than a million. He is just one person. If all of these people attack him then he will have a lot of trouble on his hands. Fortunately, he knows that not all of them are his enemies. Some of them came here to cheer him on or to assist him. The time for that will come. For now, both his enemies and his allies are content with staying back and watching.
People were trickling into the barricade and adding themselves to it little by little. There is the occasional group but nothing more than 100. Most of the people here are clueless about what is to come. The ones that know are probably his enemies. The rest of the clueless people will divide and show their allegiance when the time comes. The large groups won't come until it is time to fight. Their numbers will probably reach two million by then.
He saw all of these happen and he sighed. "It would have happened one way or the other."
His situation is not that serious. He won't fight all of the people surrounding him. But most of them have been turned against him by his enemy. They have used his closed-off personality to turn people against him.
He is not a social person and he has made a lot of enemies. It is only proper that it will come to bite him one day. But even if he were a popular person, what is about to happen will still happen. They will just find another reason to antagonize him. Today is inevitable. The competition has given his enemies an opportunity that they can't let pass them by.
He realized that he might fall today. He doesn't consider himself infallible and unbeatable. A million is a very large number to fight. A person might not be able to defeat him but a million can. Even if he has the sin of pride and underestimates people, he is not so foolish as to underestimate 1 million people.
But he didn't feel despair. They surrounded him like a dam made of mountains. He looked at the barricade of people with the determination of one that wants to break mountains.
"If I will fall today. Then I will show them what it takes to put me down."
They will certainly pay a heavy price if they intend to kill him. He will make sure that if he is to fall, he will not fall dishonorably. Their aim to discredit him won't work. He will use the boost his title as child of the plane can grant him if he has to. And he will bring down damnation on all of his enemies.
The first large group soon came. They are more than 100 thousand in number. It is not a single army but one formed by a coalition of large armies. They have numerous crown bearers wearing the crowns of kings and others but none of them are wearing Emperor crowns.
One other peculiar thing about them is that they do not look like an unruly crowd of people. They are formed into ranks. They maintained their formation as they marched uniformly. It made them look like a real army.
They came marching forward with an unstoppable momentum towards Soverick. The barricade of people around the pyramid split apart to let them pass. If they don't make way for the army then they will be overrun and trampled upon by the soldiers. So the army formed a wedge of power through the barricade as they made their way to his pyramid. They didn't stop at the front of the barricade like the others. They continued marching forward until they reached the pyramid.
The person at the head of the group shouted to him. "Permission to come aboard?"
Soverick shook his head at her antics. He replied. "Granted."
Salvini and a small detachment from the group ascended the pyramid. Soverick stood up to them. This would be the moment of truth. He will get to find out if he made a bad decision in trusting Salvini. Things can still go wrong later on but this is the most defining moment. It will determine quickly if he has been deceived.
All of them stopped 2 meters down from him. He looked at them and realized that they are exactly 100 in number. Some of them are the ones that Salvini defeated during the second challenge for her to acquire the position of the last man standing which she then gave to him. Litori is also among them. She is pointedly avoiding looking at him.