I Reincarnated As A Stick

Chapter 172: Code Omega

“Let’s start Code Omega,” Chonk said to Horell without hesitation. Horell, who was in the middle of the gathering of the remaining members of the army, could not help but shudder and radiate a faint aura of fear, which did not go unnoticed by some of the members who were looking at him like some sort of divine prophet.

Fortunately, Horell was able to compose himself in a matter of an instant as he replied to Chonk’s statement. “By Code Omega…you mean…?”

“All of the phases, Horell,” Chonk answered Horell’s question in a serious tone before adding, “We don’t know if they have more tricks up their sleeve like the one a while ago.”

Hearing that, Horell could not help but look at the members of his division, as well as those that had escaped from the onslaught of the ultimate skills, with slight guilt. Although all of the members of Chonk’s army knew what Code Omega meant, only Horell, Chonk, and Chungus knew what Code Omega truly was.

“I’ll just go and prepare a few things before we start. I also need to tell Chungus about this,” Chonk said a few seconds later before using a few skills to locate where Chungus was. After locating Chungus, he then said to Horell, “Make sure to always be ready to obtain my message, Horell.”

“Yes, Master,” Horell replied with a tone of slight fear and reverence as Chonk turned his body to point towards the general direction of where Chungus was, before dashing at his full power.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

Due to his class being related to Wind, to the Inanimates, Chonk was more or less invisible to them if he moved at his full speed. Nevertheless, the breeze that was generated from his movement was more than enough for them to know that the army’s main leader was here.

Letting the breeze made by the dash caress his body, Horell could not help but think about what had happened to Aurus. He knew that Aurus used a portion of his soul to possess the six division leaders, turning them into his puppets, which were ultimately destroyed by Chonk’s attack. He could not help but worry that the injury Aurus obtained on his soul was severe that he would not be able to make any further moves.

Fortunately, Horell’s worries dissipated into thin air as he heard a familiar voice resounded throughout his mind.

“I wasn’t expecting him to attack that quickly,” the voice said in Horell’s mind. It then added, “Anyways, I’m back.”

“Aurus?!” Horell was in disbelief. A small amount of time has only passed between the time when the bodies of the five division leaders were destroyed and the time when Chonk left to head to where Chungus, but Aurus was actually able to recover a great part of his injuries to communicate with him?

“What’s with the surprised tone?” Aurus could not help but ask, clueless as to why Horell was shocked to hear his voice. Not long after, Horell responded to his question, saying, “It’s just that…how?”

“How…what?” Aurus did not understand what Horell was trying to say, to which Horell noticed and said, “Only a small amount of time has passed since the bodies of the five division leaders were destroyed. Surely you would’ve obtained a great injury to your soul after that, right?”

“Oh…that.” After listening to what Horell was trying to imply, Aurus could not help but lightly chuckle as he said, “I only used a small part of my soul to control them. To be honest, I did not take that long to heal those injuries. Most of the time was taken up by me talking about what I did with Herellia. At the moment, she’s still dumbfounded.”

“What did you tell her?” Horell could not help but ask.

“I’ll tell you what happened then,” Aurus replied to his question, starting to narrate what had happened after the bodies of the five division leaders were killed. Of course, the story he narrated to Horell was a bit different from what had actually happened.

…

Fwoosh!

“Agh. That hurts,” Aurus could not help but say as five of the perspectives he saw were instantly removed by a single swipe of Chonk’s front paw. At the moment, he was only left with three perspectives: one from his original body, one from his clone’s perspective, and one from above the territory of Chonk’s army.

In actuality, a sizable chunk of his soul was removed from that attack, which effectively slowed down Aurus’ capabilities by quite a bit. Fortunately, this side effect was alleviated a bit by the [Pentatasking] skill, allowing the other parts of his soul to do what the lost parts of his soul were doing. Knowing very well that having a chunk of his soul gone would not be of great help to the war, Aurus hastily activated his healing skill, focusing it towards its soul.

Whoosh!

“Well…that was fast,” Aurus could not help but say after he felt the instant recovery of his soul back to its peak condition. Not only that, he felt like his soul was slightly sharper than before, though it was just barely noticeable. Nevertheless, with his soul back to normal, Aurus let out a small sigh of relief as he looked at the perspective from Chonk’s army, noticing that Chonk was talking with Horell through energy transfer.

“I’ll just hop in later, who knows if Chonk wants Horell to do something bad to the alliance,” Aurus decided before teleporting to where Herellia was, appearing near the entrance of the alliance’s small ecosystem where the discussion was being held.

Whoosh!

“Wah! You scared me!” Herellia could not help but scream after Aurus appeared in the center of the circle where they were discussing something, prompting the other members, who were in the discussion, to look at Aurus with slight surprise as well.

“Hehe, I apologize,” Aurus lightly chuckled as he apologized to Herellia before teleporting to a more appropriate place. He then looked at the other members that were included in the discussion before radiating a slightly serious aura.

“I sincerely apologize for interrupting the discussion,” Aurus said before adding, “Could anyone tell me what was being talked about before I came here?”

“I’ll tell you, Vice Leader,” One of the members in the discussion, who was a branch in the shape of a banana, rolled forward before focusing its sense of vision towards Aurus, the aura radiated from it being a mix of awe and shock.

“Please do,” Aurus replied politely to the banana-shaped branch, inwardly proud at the fact that he was called Vice Leader.

“Before you entered the discussion, Vice Leader, all of us have agreed to initiate Code 5 and Code 7 in the case that the opposing army comes to our alliance and attacks us while we’re inside,” the banana-shaped branch started to explain after Aurus was finished talking. It then added, “At the moment, we are currently discussing as to whether we should activate Code 1 if they—”

Just as the banana-shaped branch was finished talking, Aurus could not help but say, “Ah. I almost forgot.”

“What did you almost forget?” Herellia could not help but look at Aurus and ask.

“Remember that I went ahead and counterattacked against the move done by Chonk’s army?” Aurus said in a slightly questioning manner.

“Yeah? What about it?” Listening to his words, Herellia’s interest could not help but be piqued as she asked.

“Well, let’s just say I might have gone overboard and killed around 90 percent of Chonk’s members.” After saying this, Aurus let out a short chuckle. In response, all he got from the members of the discussion, as well as Herellia, was silence.

It took a few seconds for Herellia to break the silence as she asked, “Eh?”

“Ah, I’ll tell everything later,” Aurus said before teleporting back to the center of the alliance base, leaving Herellia and the other members of the discussion hanging.

…

“And that’s pretty much how it went,” Aurus said to Horell, omitting the stuff about the system while exaggerating the speed at which he had recovered his soul even further. After listening to Aurus’ story, Horell could not help but think that Aurus had improved by quite a lot after he had left the alliance.

“Anyways, I noticed that you and Chonk were talking about something while I was talking with Herellia,” Aurus continued after narrating his story. “What was it about?”

At that instant, a faint aura of fear radiated from Horell, which carried over to his tone as he replied, “Chonk told me that we were going to initiate Code Omega.”

“Code Omega?” Aurus could not help but ask, wondering as to why the alliance and Chonk’s army were using codes before placing the thought at the back of his head.

“Since we now have a connection, I can pretty much tell you most of the codes that Chonk’s army has,” Horell said after pondering over how he was going to explain Code Omega. He then said, “Anyways, I’m pretty sure that we’re going to start Code Omega soon, so I’ll just tell you the main parts of it. Make sure to relay it to Herellia, okay?”

“Mm,” Aurus replied to Horell with a grunt before adding, “My sense of hearing is focused on your words.”

“Alright,” Horell said before starting to explain.

“Code Omega is…”

…

While Horell was telling Aurus a simplified version of what Code Omega was, Chonk had finally arrived at the area where Chungus was. As he arrived, he was greeted by the sight of a magic circle that spanned about 15 meters in diameter. Around the perimeter of this magic circle was a docile looking rabbit, etching a few sigils with its paws on the ground.

This docile looking rabbit was none other than Chungus, the Animate that Chonk hired to be a part of Chonk’s army for this war.

“Oh! If it isn’t Chonk!” Hearing the sounds of bushes shaking, Chungus could not help but look at the origin of the sound, noticing that a jade green wolf had arrived. “It seems you’ve come to check if the Grand Restriction spell is complete.”

“More or less,” Chonk replied to Chungus’ question as he got closer to the magic circle, sensing the large amount of mana that was infused into it. With this in mind, he looked at Chungus and asked, “Mana stones?”

“Not just any normal mana stone, wind mana stones,” Chungus replied to Chonk’s question with a slightly cheerful tone.

“I see,” Chonk said before becoming silent. After a few seconds, he then asked Chungus, “How much time left until the circle is complete?”

“Not a lot if you help me out on some parts,” Chungus said as he headed towards another part of the magic circle, drawing a few sigils while channeling the energy of a few wind mana stones into it.

“Sure,” Chonk acceded to his request before adding, “It would be a great help if the magic circle is finished before we start Code Omega anyway.”

“Wait…” Chungus could not help but stop what he was doing and stare at Chonk as he blinked a few times. After that, he asked, “You’re starting Code Omega this early?”

“What else can I do?” Chonk let out a sigh as he replied. “I don’t know how, but the opposing alliance has infiltrated our territory and killed most of our members.”

“Tsss…” Chungus could not help but suck in a breath of cold air. After that, he went silent for a bit before replying, “Alright then, I’ll speed up the completion process of the circle so we could prepare more for Code Omega.”

“Don’t worry, I’ll help out,” Chonk replied before heading towards another part of the magic circle, drawing a few sigils on the ground as he started to ponder over the army’s next move.

‘At this point, it’s all or nothing,’ Chonk thought to himself. ‘It’s quite weird though. If they could possess six of the division leaders quite easily, why did they not possess Horell? Is it because he’s a Pseudo-Animate? Or is it…?’

‘I’ll just keep my eye on him even more. If he does end up betraying me, I still have that skill up my sleeve anyway.’

…

A couple of minutes had passed since Horell started telling Aurus about the general mechanics of Code Omega. At this moment, the conversation between the two of them was already finished, but they still maintained their connection for emergencies.

“I should tell Herellia about this as soon as possible,” Aurus could not help but mutter as he looked at the perspective from Chonk’s territory, noticing that the remaining members of Chonk’s army, as well as the three strongest members, were making their way towards the alliance base.

“What are you going to tell me?” Just as he was about to teleport, a familiar voice resounded behind Aurus, prompting him to focus his sense of vision in an instant to take a look at who that was. After finding out that it was Herellia, Aurus let out a sigh of relief as he said, “You almost scared me there.”

“Think of it as payback,” Herellia let out a short chuckle before adding, “Anyways, what do you want to tell me?”

“Herellia, listen well,” Aurus replied to her question, saying, “Chonk’s army is heading to our alliance at this very moment. They’re going to use something I heard from Horell called Code Omega.”

“Code Omega?” Hearing that it came from Horell, Herellia’s aura could not help but turn serious in an instant as she asked. “What’s it about?”

“According to Horell, Code Omega has 3 phases,” Aurus replied without hiding any of the information Horell told him. “The first phases of Code Omega is—”

Whoosh!

Just as he was about to start explaining to Herellia what Code Omega was, Aurus instantly sensed an incredibly menacing aura coming from outside the alliance base, interrupting his explanation midway. Fortunately for him, everyone else sensed this aura as well, looking at the origin of this menacing aura.

What they could see was the remaining members of Chonk’s army, all ready to go ahead and kill the members of the Tempest Branch Alliance without hesitation. They were arranged in a formation, with Chonk at the very front and center, while Horell and Chungus took up the left and right sides behind Chonk respectively.

At the very moment, they were intently looking at the alliance members inside the base, with Chonk mostly focusing his attention towards Herellia, who was at the center of the alliance base. He could not help but take note of the glowing wooden sculpture beside Herellia, noticing that it radiated an aura that did not lose out to her.

After that, Chonk turned around to look at the remaining members of his army as he shouted, “Everyone, we are gathered here today to engage in the final skirmish that will determine the ruler of Tempest Cliff!”

“I need everyone’s cooperation in this final operation, for this operation will surely allow us to achieve victory even with our minuscule numbers!”

He then turned around one more time to look at the alliance base before saying, “Horell, Chungus, activate your spells!”

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

In an instant, a large blue ball manifested over Horell’s head, while a large red ball manifested over Chungus’ head. Not long after, a large green ball manifested over Chonk’s head, to which he manipulated to consume the blue and red balls, transforming into a humongous ball of light.With the ball of light over his head, he then shouted with intense fervor, “Code Omega…”

“Phase 1…”

“[Maledictum Claustra]!”