"Human, you have tormented my friend a lot; it is time for you to die!" Said the snakeman through its domain, and that moment, I felt its invisible poison acting in the formation and seeing its power; I am grateful that I did not let even a speck of these poisons into me.

  If I had, even with my great strength, I would have fallen prey to it, completely powerless at the mercy of the Grimm Monster.

  As the snakeman activated the poison, another change occurred around me. The powers of the two Grandmasters begin to clash around me; the general is trying to save me while the Grimm Grandmaster trying to stop him.

  The Grandmasters would not take any action to save the elites or the leaders unless they were of importance, but it is not the case for the Masters. Every master has a very tiny possibility of breaking into the Grandmasters, the real pillars of the world, and Grandmaster will try to save them.

  Their clash began the instant snakeman had activated the poison moment ago, and now, they are fighting. Which is good, now the Grimm Grandmaster would not be able to disturb for what I am going to do next.

  Puchi!

  I lean down as if I am falling before disappearing from my place before appearing three hundred meters west of me with a sharp puchi sound.

  "You!"

  Let out the Snakeman as my rapier pierced through its throat. I had not spent so much time just fighting; I have always been aiming for the Snakeman, the most dangerous Grimm Monster on the field aside from the Grandmaster.

  "BASTARD!"

  A powerful roar rang out from a distance, and I felt a powerful attack coming toward me, but at the same time, an invisible shield of energy appeared in front of me.

  I know I have barely a second to act, and I have to deal with snakeman in time; earlier, I wanted to blast its core apart, but now, I have changed my mind. I wanted to try something; before, doing something like that was not possible, but now, it might be possible.

  ROAR!

  A huge grey wolf phantom appeared behind me and roared before it moved toward the snakeman, which is lying stationary on my sword, and before snakeman or anyone did anything, the wolf phantom had swallowed it, and snakeman disappeared while the wolf phantom shimmered and disappeared.

  "Little human, I will kill you," Grimm Grandmaster roared in anger, and I saw tens of tens of thousands of sharp energy beams materializing in the air. The attack was so majestic and powerful that it had scared the hell out of me.

  "Hofgrond, it looks like you wish to fight," Said the general from the command center, and tens of thousands of earthy leaves materialized in front of the huge energy beams, letting out an aura that is no weaker than it.

  BANG BANG BANG

  They remained their spot for a second before they crashed, and they clashed at such speed that I was barely able to see them moving before they clashed, and as they did, I felt like thousands of giant explosions exploding around me.

  The power of the attack is horrifying, so horrifying that even I had been caught in the attack, I would not have been able to survive even with my increased strength and powerful defensive abilities.

  The clash happened far, but it had stopped the whole battle, from the lowest kings to the highest Master class Tyrants.

  Everyone stopped and watched with bated breath; the next few seconds were very important. If Grandmaster fought, this battle would be of high consequences; grandmasters could die, even Grandlords could get involved.

  "Retreat!" "Retreat!"

  Two retreat sound rang out, and two Grandmasters appeared on the battlefield, a man in his sixties and Bullman with a completely white body, including its eyes; the Grimm grandmaster is from the Ivory Bullman tribe.

  They are also an ex-royal tribe; their past leader was a member of coven four hundred years ago till it got killed the war, the one that killed it was the past host of Empire of Mist.

  With the retreat order, I moved forward with the rest of the masters to protect our retreating forces. The Master class Grimm Monsters appeared in front of us to protect their forces, with half of them glaring daggers at me.

  I met their gaze head-on and even gave them a smirk, which seemed to make a Crystal Horn Bearman angry that it was barely able to control itself.

  As our forces retreated, we also retreated with them; when a few minutes later, the last of Tyrant entered back to the fort, all four of us Masters went back to a command center.

  Victor took over the command of the fort while we three looked at two Grandmasters who were about to start fighting.

  This will be my first time seeing the Grandmaster fight, I have seen the Grand Lords fight before, but much of the fight was invisible to me.

  The General and Grimm Grandmaster stared at each other for a few seconds before they moved toward each other at a speed that I was barely able to see.

  BANG BANG BANG

  The next second, the exploding sounds begin to ring out, and powerful shockwaves spread; it is a good thing Victor had predicted it and already had activated the shields to defend against the shockwaves.

  Even with all the huge upgrades, the fort Ardon is not strong enough to bear the Grandmaster-level shockwaves; it needed to deploy those newly added shields to do that.

  When I had come here last time, it was not a strategically important place; it only had three unranked Tyrants and twenty-some emperors in command; most of the people here were at duke stage.

  Since then, a lot has changed; now, this little fort is commanded by Grandmaster level powerhouse, hundreds of other Tyrants at his command.

  The battle between the Grandmaster had begun, the first open battle since the Grandmasters took control over this area; the result of this battle had the potential to bring huge change not only to this place but also to the whole war.