CHAPTER 223 Day 31 Afternoon : The End_Atlas: Back to the Present - Time Travel + Post Apoc + OP MC

Atlas looked across the room with the corpses of the fallen and made a statement.

“Nadir’s army is broken, and now, so is his stronghold.”

Titus asked, "Why are you razing them, Boss, and not taking over as Overlord?" John had the same thought in his head. Titus continued, "I don't mind marching, but Mama always said these boots are made for walking. I guess that's what I'll do."

Atlas chuckled, seeing the confusion on Titus’s face. "Don't worry, it's a fair question. Let me break it down for you so it's easier to understand."

He gestured to the Faith Settlement’s teleportation point and continued, "Our settlement kiosk allows us to teleport to the nearest settlements, and those are two days away. If we raze a territory, the kiosk still registers the old teleportation point, meaning we can portal an army over to those points."

Atlas raised his fingers, counting off each point to make it clearer.

"1. You can use your original settlement kiosk—in our case, Fort Bone—to teleport to adjacent territories ONLY.

2. You can only teleport roughly 20 men at a time.

3. Razing the territory? You can teleport an entire army without limits to that territory. If Nadir was here, and we could somehow convince that fucker to give us the Overlord, it would accomplish our goals. But, since he's not, and I doubt he would agree to losing his seat of power, raising it is the best option.

4. From there, the army would only have to march two days to attack another territory.

5. But it’s still faster than marching from Fort Bone, which would take four days if we're attacking a non-adjacent territory."

He glanced at Titus, giving him a reassuring smile. "Quicker, right?"

"Didn't you say that we can't portal armies?" John said, "It would have saved us a lot of walking. But couldn't we have teleported all four hundred men directly into the Belief Settlement?"

Atlas said, "Only if they'd given us their Overlord Power. And Olivia hadn't been able to convince them."

Olivia joined in. "Yeah, we talked about it, and if the fight had gotten worse, maybe they would've allowed it. But before that army attacked, Oliver and Stevens both thought they could hold on long enough for the army to make the march. And Hank and I couldn’t really convince them."

John still wasn’t convinced. Titus just scratched his head.

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Atlas continued, "We can't portal an enemy army directly into any settlement's teleportation area. That 20-something person rule always flags foreign armies, and that's based on citizenship. But if you're a friendly army, you can portal directly to the edge of your territory. I'm excited to see what happens, though, when we hit this raze button because once we do, we finally have a whole continent to ourselves."

John asked, "You've never had that happen before?"

"No," Atlas replied. "In my past life, there were always holdouts, and we only had to win those 100 tokens by having the highest points on a leaderboard."

"I wonder how we're doing on that leaderboard?" John mused.

Atlas grinned. "Well, we're moving fast. I don't think any town has our economic might. And we've been doing a good job clearing dungeons, too. Remember, it's only month one. We have 11 more months."

"Oh, yeah, that makes sense. So more hunting dungeons next?" John asked.

"Definitely," Atlas nodded. "They've probably been cleared of bosses by the Faith Settlement and the Belief Settlement. But if we can take down the Faith Settlement's dungeons, that'll clear out any chances of massive dungeon hordes overrunning our territory."

Alexander overheard and shouted, "Yeehaw! More dungeon hunting!"

John nodded, a small smile forming. After this conversation, Atlas hit the ‘Settlement Raze’ button.

Points transferred.

Half the points of any settlement that was razed were directly given to Atlas and the Portal Crushers. ‘Holy shit. Getting 1,250 coins just for the level 3 walls is great,‘ Atlas thought. ‘Looks like they had some other things in here too. A total of 2,027 mana coins.‘ ‘I can do a lot with that,‘ he thought, mentally spending them already.

A new notification popped up in his vision.

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‘‘ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED:‘‘

‘‘TITLE: WORLD CONQUEROR ‘‘

‘Description: Ooh, look at what you've done. Smashing a whole continent? Good job, boy. Next, you’ll be taking over the whole world!‘

‘‘BONUS:‘‘ As the first person to take over a continent, you'll receive walls across all your territories. Extra perk….they come with watchtowers.

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Atlas had done it. He had conquered a whole continent, something he had never accomplished before in his past life. Clark was gone, and while various bandit leaders like Nadir and Bjorn were still around, they no longer represented a significant threat to Atlas's growing army and empire. He took a moment to look over at the Faith Settlement and said, "Men, let's head back home."

The men cheered. The settlement had now been razed and turned into a teleportation point, allowing them to portal the whole army back without any worries.

BZERP

They returned to Fort Bone. Atlas was triumphant, savoring the feeling when the Red Fairy appeared high in the wasteland sky.

And that was never a good thing.

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END OF BOOK 4

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