I Should Be The Villain, Right? - Chapter 28

“Where am I?” That is the first sentence came from his mouth, after awake from his enlightening phase.

He, Tommy Stank, change his name in order to become a king of his own nation. He been imparted the advance cultivation technique by his beloved person and gone through the worst trial of all cultivator practitioner, the heavenly tribulation. Wrong step, his body and bone will reduce to ash and some said, it will also destroy the soul. This is the trial that all the mortal must gone through before reaching the divine realms.

Of course, he manage to handle that trial before fainted. After quite a few hour of black out, finally he awake from his unconsciousness state but still in mind confused. His eyesight still blurry but little by little, his vision become more clear. Unaware of what happen, actually he floating on the air. When he realize that, he descending to the floor slowly, controlling his new ability. His descend to the floor greeted by a happy voice.

“Dear Tommy, you already succeed the advanced technique of Earth elemental cultivation. I really proud with you, my dear.”

“Mother?” Tommy sight focus on the voice owner, his most beloved person. She hug her with full of happiness, while saying these word.

“You still call me mother?” Tommy become hesitate because the sudden attack, but he never afraid to reply it.

“Jarnis….” A beautiful smile bloom on her face. Tommy doesn’t dream that he could call his foster mother with her pet name. He never though that his most respected person now become his lover.

“Dear Tommy, what will you do now…”

“Jarnis, let’s prepared for the worst.”

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The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat,

and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy,

All warfare is based on deception,

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting!

Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence;

supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting,

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory,

Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat,

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war,

Opportunities multiply as they are seized,

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare.

The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands,

but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

Know thy self, know thy enemy,

A thousand battles, a thousand victories!

Thus Sun Tzu begun his journey,

And the rest are history!

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The first thing that Tommy done is to create his base, the alchemist lab, with the combination of the modern science. He used the high ranked monster cores that he loots from the invader, that stupidly killed by him. He created a huge laboratory with the help of his A.I. The facility been supervise but fully A.I systems and he manage to create a new A.I operation system, become the main helper for him. He called the new system, the ‘Nano-material Operating System Core’. That system is a new version of his A.I, Ai 02 with more powerful that the older version. The A.I main system will reside on the lab, while remotely control my spiritual soul core as its operator.

All the creation and upgrade thanks to the stupid group of invader. Those idiot also brought many valuable things, such as rare materials, the Divine ranked weapon, and the most important thing is the spiritual armor. Unfortunately, he couldn’t gain any spiritual soul because those things will destroyed upon the death of the owner. Tommy using those resources maximum efficiently and managed to upgrade his armor and core. His Iron Might finally become much stronger that ever, and reaches the neo-divine ranked spiritual armor.

Not all of his spiritual things have been upgraded. His spiritual pet can’t be helped as his slime has already evolved into the highest rank of its kind, the Gluttonous Slime Emperor. Actually, he can do another pact with other spiritual pet, but his lack of basic mana has make it out of questions. Indeed his mana now grown quite large, but not the his basic stat. He need his spiritual soul and armor to help him generate the mana that been supply by the monster core. That’s his biggest weakness.

After ascending into immortal state, his prowess become high, and it’s not overrated to say that he is the most powerful being now in the middle dimension. He manage to double his original CP into 10 millions, but his beloved one doesn’t convinced with his current strength. She said that he should underestimate those higher realms and mastered his cultivation technique. She said I need at least 200 years to conquer it, so how would he done it in this limited time?

Tommy doesn’t panic at all. After one week building his laboratory, he move his focus into the territory of his beloved person. He wanted to develop the place even in this difficult time. In these two weeks, Tommy easily restored the village that have been destroyed earlier by the invaders. Not only that, he upgraded the village into a small city, with complete facilities for living. He using his transmute power combine with his new cultivation technique to create the better buildings and houses. The water piping supply and sewer systems also included in his plan. He managed to develop the city and brings the civilization of the early 1900 into the place.

He builds the school and university for the people here. For you information, the population of people living there about 10 thousands people, mostly the orphans that gain freedom from Jarnis after become an a.d.u.l.t. The Zheng family, who been appointed by Jarnis as head, now appointed as the Mayor of the new city, handling the administration and all the management of the city. The city named Zertorwing, as Tommy planned, which his former name that given by his beloved. Tommy given the education facilities to the scholars, which is the orphans who finish his study and return here to educate their fellow orphan so they can build a brighter future.

Tommy have created a device to impart the transmute skill with three conditions; first to finish their study and graduate from the school, second, must follow rules or can’t updates their ability (which must gone through the renewal every five year) and lastly, never betray the nation. Those condition will supervise by the A.I of the Tommy laboratory. He published the books of his old knowledge about sciences , math and alchemist for the reference, as well as the syllabus of educations that should been followed in the school. Those scholars quite surprise with the details and the new knowledge given to them, but their spirits of educator have burning passionately!

Tommy also has reforms many things such as tax and security. He using rent systems, which all of the people here must pay the rent to the government. All of the house and building will own by government, as there no such things as private properties. The bigger their house or the building, the more rent they have to pay. The rent also include the water and sever systems charge. Tommy created work opportunity in government sectors, that control all the productivity of this nation. Tommy also appointed the head of each government sectors, such as agriculture, clothing, and many more depends on their ability and talent.

Tommy doesn’t afraid about those corruptions or bad persons, because all of them already leave this place for their ambitions. The people here is the fellow orphan who want to become like Jarnis, helping those unfortunate children that been abandon by their own parent. Well, he doesn’t know about the future of the younger generations, but he never lose his hope for them. As people said, the education make different, the manners maketh man.

Although Jarnis happy with the change of her region, but she can’t erase her desperate because incoming danger that will destroyed this place. Even Tommy become much stronger now, the immortals belong on the higher dimension are out of world and different level then those in the middle dimension. She already voiced her anxiety to her beloved Tommy, but he always said; “don’t worry.”

“But Tommy, don’t you think that you should prepared more on yourself than develop the place that will become a battlefield in not more than one month!”

“Dear Jarnis, I already told you that I will prepare for that. Just be patient…”

A month after the invader incident, finally the new city, Zertorwing has fully functional with laws and government. Tommy finally decided to make the appearance as the founder and first ruler of the city. All of the citizen have gathered in the open space on the new government centre, formerly the place of orphanage. Tommy has rebuild the building and place his laboratory here, under the place. He face all the audience and begun his speech.

“Dear beloved citizens, my name is Tommy Stank, the first ruler and founder of this city. I represent the leadership that bestow me by our beloved Queen, the caretaker of this region as well as it’s Goddess.” A loud clapping hand heard from the open space, showing their acknowledgement of Tommy words.

“Dear citizens, our place, this city will face a new attack in the future, estimate on a month time.” Those word silence the audiences.

“You may run from it, or hide from it. Should you escape, there won’t be any blame or actions taken to you. For the one who stayed, still don’t worry. You won’t involved directly in the battle, still I hope who that remains will persevere those knowledge and technologies that I given to this city.”

“If I win, I will begin our visions to establish a new nation where we can prosper like the only one nation in this continent, the Terepero Maritime Country. I will unite those small village around our city to form United States. In this way, we can become like those people in the Terepero Maritime Country, living happily without care of the world.” The citizens cheers loudly but just for the moment.

“But, if I lose, our dear Goddess and definitely me will died. Thus, it’s will end my dream.” All of the audience silence again.

“Well, I hope they won’t hurt you all, definitely not. They only wanted us, well, our Goddess but I, Tommy Stank, the Iron Might user!” Suddenly, the whole body of Tommy appear the most prized armor suit of his, showing off to the audiences, his might.

“I have killed those so called higher form people but died with these hands. I will do the same to their master that will arrive here to kill our Goddess. Neither I afraid nor I cowering, I will face my destiny!” Tommy giving her war shout, making the citizens burned with fighting spirit.

“Tommy, Tommy…..!”

“Dear beloved citizens, I will gone for awhile to train and strengthening my ability. So I wish for the citizens to prepare yourself in this difficult time.” The cheering ended as the citizens focusing the order of their beloved Lord.

“Please prepare for the food supply within a month time. The reason why I said that is all of the citizen must hide in the underground bas.e.m.e.nt. All of the building and house have the path to enter the secret bas.e.m.e.nt that I built for my citizens. During the fight, I would like you all to stay at the place and never come out. Let the fight to me.”

“This crucial moment of time really needed your cooperation so I won’t be distracted by your safety and fight our enemy with my whole strength! So please stay at the place! Let the fight to me! Stay for me, so you won’t held me back!”

“Tommy! Tommy!”

“The authorities will supervise this order so any difficulty, please refer to them….”

“My dear citizens, this might be the last speech of mine, but remember this! I am Iron Might!” Tommy showing his ability by flying to the sky, above all the people that gathered there.

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“And…. How do you want to train for that?” Jarnis voiced her though to Tommy, after he taking his break time, sitting in the sofa in his laboratory.

“Jarnis, I have completed the new time device that can make the time longer. We can train together for 200 years without worry.”

“Oh, okay…. That’s not it! What the heck with that thing?! Are you kidding me?”

“Nice retort by the way. Well, the reason that I not yet try to cultivate the technique because of the device. With the facility, I can convert two weeks time here into 200 years on that device. I planning to train there before facing our enemy…”

“Ah… I feel ashamed because doubted you for being overconfident. As your sweet heart, I should trust you more…”

“Speak of that, when will I receive those present from you, you know, the present is me?”

“Sure, but after your seclusion cultivation ended. Well, you must prepared your heart first….”

“…. Why?” Tommy don’t understand those words, but later on, he found those answer, with a bitter reality….