I clicked my tongue while looking down. From my current height above the ground, the view was clearer. A larger unit of n in green were taking down the Fire Nation soldiers blocking the path. And let tell you, there were more of them than the ones I had faced.
I turned my head to look at Katara, who was initially confused but then gave a gentle, reassuring smile.
I smiled back and looked down.
To be honest, Katara was the only girl I wouldn't regret sleeping with, even if I ended up impregnating her with ten children and having to take care of them for the rest of my life.
Let tell you. If not for her, I wouldn't have learned Nutsbending. And without Nutsbending, I wouldn't have been able to achieve bloodbending. Both of those forms were necessary to survive this situation.
[The system has finished calculating]
[Waterbending 30k experience points.]
[Freeze 2000 exp]
[Steaming 5000 exp]
[ 200k accumulated experience]
I began to appreciate the system even more for not giving individual experience notifications until the battle was over. What a considerate friend I had here.
But I decided to put thoughts about experience points aside for now; I had soldiers from the Earth Kingdom to deal with.
Seeing them positioned in different spots gave an important hint.
They had been prepared for the Fire Nation army more than I had. Yet, sohow, they hadn't intervened and had let them be.
Omashu.
A major Earth Kingdom city ruled by the Mad King, Bumi.
A person you could never expect. And a very powerful earthbender. So people might say he'd been an idiot since he was a child and call him slow, but I believed that soone like that could never be a king. And let's not forget, Bumi could cook up sches, and he had extraordinary endurance and patience.
'So, they were ready, but they never made a move until the Fire Nation did. I guess they either wanted to use them as an alarm or they had so hidden agenda I couldn't figure out,' I thought.
There was no way I could know what the Mad King was thinking.
"Okay. Sokka… rember the bounty?" I turned to Sokka and asked.
"Yes. But we've already defeated the soldiers. So, no hundred thousand gold."
"I'm not talking about that," I smirked. "I'm talking about the thousand gold demanded by the Earth Kingdom."
Katara's expression started twitching and changing. Toph gave her a side glance before turning her head away.
Katara stood between Sokka and , scolding, "Are you for real now!" she yelled.
I replied softly, "It says 'alive only,' doesn't it? At least you guys can take the credit."
"I don't know, Ryuk," Toph argued. "She has a point. And what do you think about our image once we hand you over?"
"But a thousand gold is a thousand gold," Sokka said.
His sister shot him a glare, and he turned his head away.
I frowned.
Does no one appreciate money in this world? Even a girl like Katara and Toph think it's absurd to go after money.
'Guess gold-digger pranks won't work on them,' I sighed. Looking at the Earth Kingdom soldiers arresting the Fire Nation soldiers, I decided to try my luck. Maybe my Warlord title would work.
"Go for it, boys! Do your job!" I cheered/ordered.
Fair enough.
I'd get a reward when this was over.
[ 150k experience points]
A man with a bamboo hat and green attire, with armor on top, waved at .
"Toph, you can go down," I said.
"Do you think we can trust them?" she asked.
"I an, if they don't…" I mused.
"What?" Toph asked.
"I'll make the mother of all olets," I smiled.
There was no need to waste more energy. I had already used bloodbending, and it had drained enough.
"Okay…" she replied reluctantly, her face contorting like soone who had just drunk a squeezed lemon.
I guess she had seen Nutsbending… on the X-ray level. Even I wouldn't want to see that.
Although I considered that form of bending a cri, I hadn't lost hope in life. Once this war was over, I planned to build a nice house and live a peaceful life. That was my goal, and nothing was going to take it away from .
On the other hand, if you think about it, firebending is more painful. You see, getting burned is more painful than giving birth or having kidney stones.
Maybe my form of bending wasn't that bad.
It's just scary.
The platform we were standing on glided slowly down the mountain until we reached the ground.
The leader, a man with a bulky physique, approached .
"You're Mr. Ryuk, aren't you?" he asked.
"Guess I'm famous," I smiled.
The Omashu squad's leader had a few beads of sweat on his forehead, and his eyebrows were twitching.
Man, was he sick or tired after arresting these soldiers?
"You could say…" he said, turning his head. "What in the na of spirits is this?" he whispered to himself, but I heard him.
The arrested soldiers, especially the n, gave a glare. Their eyes were bloodshot, and they were shaking in their boots. Most had wet pants, but I guessed that was from the water vein explosion.
"Anyways…" I decided to clear my doubt. "You seem to have expected to arrive."
"Well, to be honest, no one did, except for our king," he replied honestly. "But to be fair, we expected talbenders to show up. We've seen the Fire Nation squads setting traps, yet they never attacked. But according to the king, he decided to leave them here."
"Let guess," I replied without much thought. "He wanted to see the talbending in action."
"Yes, that and dustbending. But I think we've seen sothing beyond our expectations," he said, looking at and then toward Toph.
He looked back at and added, "What was that? The way you created mist, the way you made soldiers float and use them as human shields. More importantly, is that your rumored powers?"
He glanced at a soldier who seed to be in agony.
Oh.
That's why he was sweating so much while looking at .
It seed that sparing that bounty hunter's life had paid off.
I had enough reputation that even allies feared .
"You an, playing ping pong inside the sacks? Yeah, that's another way to describe it," I laughed. "But hey, I'm not the one who filled the balls with water…"
The soldier faked a laugh, seemingly afraid to offend .
I guess it made sense to fear , even with an army behind him.
After all, even if your army could kill your enemy, what's left to live for without your balls?
"Hehehehehe…" I heard a distant laugh. "Very interesting indeed."
I turned my head toward the direction, looking at the top of a mountain, where I saw the city of Omashu.
"Anyways," I looked at the leader. "I have a talbender with ."
I placed my hand on Toph's shoulder and said, "She's the most talented one in the world."
For Toph, I believed her talent should exceed the norms. If normal people could learn talbending, why couldn't she learn sothing beyond that? Why couldn't she learn to bend bones or sothing like that?
"I believe you are quite tired after your journey. Why don't you follow ?"
After that, we followed the captain of the soldiers, taking a narrow path before crossing a rocky bridge. Omashu city was truly impressive. The architecture was beautiful, and it was built like a pyramid. The walls were high, and with the city perched on top of a mountain, you could tell it had perfect defenses.
At the entrance, I spotted a familiar face.
A man was pushing a cabbage cart.
"Cai!" I called with a wide smile.
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