Ranking System

[Charles' POV]

With the Luminite Mine being the main priority, I embarked on an adventure outside of Chrome. The city of Gontz is to the west of Chrome, and if I were to calculate the walking distance, it would take me eight hours to get there.

I had zoomed through there in minutes, concealing my presence. I had gone through the city gate without being noticed.

The city of Gontz was similar to that of Chrome. It wasn't a surprise since we were in the world's backwaters.

Countries and Empires were easily hundreds to thousands of times larger than Chrome. Starting small wasn't a bad thing. It was better than those who didn't even have a starting point.

I had to find a way to get information to keep myself from sidetracking. The best way to do so was to get the information from a higher-ranking person in this city.

"Take me to your leader." I had mind-controlled the guards and taken the owner of this land's servants. Obeying my orders, the guards led me inside the mansion, which confused the servants.

Before any of the servants started questioning me, I put them all to sleep, ensuring no commotion.

"Who are you? What are you doing in my house?" The big boss of this house yelled out loud, finding my presence annoying. I couldn't take much of his bladdering, so I controlled his mind and asked him some questions.

With his mind controlled, I slapped the man's face out of amusement. Taking control of the top brass in this place made me think controlling a whole city would be easy.

However, doing so would add too many uncertain elements. If someone somehow gets rid of my mind-controlling abilities, a rebellion would happen in a heartbeat. I quickly dismissed the idea and looked at the man under my control.

"Tell me, do you know anything about the Luminite Mine your city has found?" Getting straight to the point, I had asked if the man I controlled knew about the Luminite Mine.

"The Luminite Mine? Yes, I know a lot about it." He spoke slowly, which made him look stupid.

"Tell me the essential details of it." I didn't want him to ramble about useless information I didn't want to hear.

"The Luminite Mine is located to the east. It's hidden inside a giant mountain bordering the two other nations." With a map, I could see how the nations were stationed.

Next to Gontz were Etellia and Riona. Etellia is a snowy mountain exclusive to ice elemental beings. As for Riona, it's an Amazonian-type city.

You may be wondering why there was such a massive terrain shift. Being in the sixth realm, the god you worship could influence how the place is.

Divinity is a bullshit power source that allows one to manifest what they're aligned with. Etellia's god is an ice god, and Riona's god has something to do with nature. Iris' territory has a strong blood smell, making it a paradise for vampires.

Anyway, the person I had in control was an orc named Barzel. I thought Barzel was a noble, but apparently he's a merchant who uses this city as his main operation.

"The battle between the three forces is ongoing, and neither side is giving up." Barzel continued to talk as I absorbed the information given to me.

After gaining the necessary information, I changed the memories of everyone who slept or was controlled. To them, they were returning to do what they were doing.

Since the battle for the mine was already underway, I should check out the three nations' forces.

With how much money the mine would make, all of them would send someone powerful. I still hadn't gotten the chance to test out how powerful the people in these cities were.

The closest person I had seen in power was the commander of my city. While he wasn't as powerful as I would have liked him to be, he was better than almost everyone.

Knowing the location of the mine, I could sense a battle in the direction of where my destination was.

Arriving at the destination, the battle was almost over. The two sides fighting were exhausted, with some people already dead.

One side is from Gontz, with the other being part of Etellia. Being in a stalemate, no side was winning, and if anyone were to come in, they could have annihilated them.

"Good morning to you all. People of Etellia, do you want some help?" The people of Etellia looked more pleasing than the people of Gontz. I also told Vega I wouldn't be siding with him, so there's that.

"Help? Don't think of it." Seeing that I might be a potential backup for the people of Etellia, the people of Gontz started to attack.

Most of the people of Gontz focus on head-on physical attacks. I didn't know much about Gontz, but I heard they serve the god of might.

"Stupid move." With the attack, I tried to repel them by punching them back.

My fist collided with their leader's fist, resulting in half of my body bursting open. I had wanted to test out the power of the people of Gontz, and I could say that I was satisfied.

Attacking someone with brute force was never my strong suit, and I could say these people deserved to be in the sixth realm.

As an immortal, my body had regenerated like nothing. The leader, who had destroyed parts of my body, clicked his tongue in annoyance.

"A cockroach, how annoying!"

Being compared to a cockroach had me thinking. Since the man who hurt me hated cockroaches, I shall make them his enemies.

"Cockroaches? If you hate them so much, fight them." Summoning billions of cockroaches, I freaked out the people on both sides.

The people of Gontz were already tired. What I had summoned were mutated cockroaches, they weren't large or anything, but their survivability made them scary.

"You shouldn't have called me a cockroach if you hated them." I laughed at the sight of them being swarmed.