950 Elephant in the room
"Our Overlord?" Robin laughed and shook his head, "If you mean the All-Seeing God, then don't count on him too much."
The idea that the All-Seeing God would send something to help him is illogical, can he even be thought of as an Overlord? Pythor and his men visit the Middle Planetary Belt constantly to participate in wars there and enjoy the blessings of their Overlord, while even someone like Volpe who is used as a tool was able to send an expedition to his Overlord's home planet twice, and he can send more if he wants.
But him? He has never set foot on the Middle Planetary Belt, he doesn't even know what the All-Seeing God looks like, all he knows is that he is the "ruler of a few planets in the Middle Planetary Belt" as he himself said, but that is something that cannot be confirmed or denied either.
And secondly, talking about his rival and that he has a mission to stop the "rival" and things like that… The prisoners of the Great Serpent Empire who were captured at the beginning of the war said that they came by chance and did not know anything about Planet Nihari before.
Robin refused to draw any conclusions from their testimony and said that perhaps the leaders did not inform their soldiers of their intentions, but when he questioned the Marshal's soul imprisoned in his soul domain, he heard the same thing!
The Marshal's testimony made him reach a myriad of possibilities, including that the All-Seeing God somehow sees the future... But one thing was certain and unquestionable, the All-Seeing God had lied.
He had told him that the invaders were preparing for an invasion in fifty years, while they had not yet learned anything about Nihari and therefore had not prepared anything... Of course, it seemed like a small lie to urge Robin to speed up the process, but it was still a lie, and those who lie once can lie a second and third time.
So far, the All-Seeing God hasn't hurt him in any way, on the contrary, he saved his life after his heart stopped and he tasted death of all old age, then gave him the coordinates of the Orphan Blood Planet and Greenland Planet, each of which proved to be a treasure in its own way, and in return, he only asked him to prevent his supposed *rival* from controlling Planet Nihari, and even told him that he could do whatever he wanted with Nihari after that!
Robin hadn't decided yet how to look at the All-Seeing God, so he decided to take a step back and create a gap between them, not relying on him or getting closer to him, and at the same time not earning his anger.
But Sakaar didn't accept the refusal, "Lord, you told us briefly before about your relationship with the All-Seeing God Overlord, I realize that asking him for help won't be easy, but why don't you try? Even if he refuses, you can raise your status in his eyes more by fighting someone with such strength alone."
"...You're right, I should try." Robin nodded a few times, at least after declining to help him, he wouldn't dare ask for anything else later.
*Bzzzz* The gate of Jura City activated again and a number of the Northern Demon Army's injured soldiers started to emerge.
"Wait a minute, what do you mean fighting someone of that strength alone? We're going to keep fighting?!" Amon quickly asked, "Are we going to go back to stand in front of that thing again?!"
Caesar watched the injured demons float emerge from the portal as he spoke in a low voice, "If we don't go back to Nahari they'll come for us, this is no longer a battle for the ownership of a planet, they've destroyed our home and we've invaded all their planets, there's no turning back now."
"We'll find a way… We have to find a way." Robin sighed and turned to Caesar, "I also don't think we'll see those dark cubes again easily, something like that can't be made in large quantities especially if it contains a piece of their overlord's soul."
"That's right my lord, it was a preemptive strike to weaken our power and show us that they're not joking, and they succeeded, they reclaimed the entire planet in a few seconds." Amon nodded as he clenched his fist, even though he didn't see the cube he could feel its power from a massive area enough to make several planets!
"But they definitely didn't use up all their supply either." Caesar unclenched his fists, "If they used two then we have to conclude that they have at least one or two more, there's no way they used up all their supply of those dark cubes in the first attack."
"One or two more is plenty enough." Sakaar looked down at the ground, if that shadow hadn't taken his time trying to kill him, he would have been able to wipe out the entire army easily, having just one more cube meant they couldn't muster a large army in one location again.
As for Robin, he asked something completely different, "…You said the southern region is almost lost, what do you mean by almost?"
Caesar quickly replied, "As you know, we have displaced a large number of the people of the northern and western regions there, as well as the locals of the southern region themselves, so the southern region is filled with billions of people and a large number of them can fight, we can use the Shadow Swords to gather them near the portal and use them to protect it."
"Good, we'll start there then." Robin nodded and turned to Sakaar, "After everyone has returned and rested, form a small army from among those who can still fight and return to the southern region, disperse but stay around the portal, especially you, and if you see that cube again you are allowed to jump into the portal and escape immediately without caring about anything else… We need to maintain a foothold in the southern region at least."
"…In the southern region only, Your Excellency? Don't you think there is another place we should head to?" Sakaar asked slowly, "You still don't want to talk about the elephant in the room?"
Caesar and Amon turned to Robin as well, wanting to hear his response, of course, everyone understood that Sakaar meant the Nihari Union Sect.