Rebirth in Against the Gods with The Ultimate System - 97 Chapter 97

“Hachooo!!!!” Yun Che suddenly sneeze as he was on his way to the bottom of the tower. “Who in the world is talking about me? Don’t tell me she’s a big boobed and caring Onee-san?” As he was falling, he slowly shows his pleasured face thinking about those onee-sans.

“Or maybe just an old lady.” A voice started sounding in his head. It was none other than Hoyuu.

“You…can’t a man dream for once?” Yun Che’s mind drifted about the old lady making him shivered along his spine before shaking his head.

“Hey king, it’s a dream all right. Who knows maybe a woman about 150 plus years old is currently talking about you.” Then, he laughed sinisterly imagining that part.

“Guhhh, don’t say anything about it man. Why are you here anyway?”

“Hmph, mind letting me have some fun? It’s been a while since you let me out, you dumbass.”

“Chee, you’re the dumbass. By the way, the opponents are weak now. Sort off, so I don’t need your help man.”

“Hey King, let me out for once. Its not fair you get to have all the fun.”

“I’ll think about it, for now. Let me focus back to the trial.”

Boom!!!

Yun Che landed on the grassland below with both of his legs and Zabimaru behind his head. “Woo, that’s a tall tower. It’s even sturdy. Lucky Jasmine, she can observe from up there while I am here trying to kill myself.”

[Ding… Host has triggered the first trial of the Dragon Legacy. Defeat all ten waves of the stone dragon warriors. Difficulty: Suicidal. Hidden Objectives: ???]

[Each passing wave will increase the stone dragon warriors’ cultivation by two levels and will be multiplied by two.]

“Any tips before the waves, system?”

[Ding…Survive or Die]

“*Sigh, why am I not surprised?” He sighs before started walking on the grassland. As he walks, winds carried the smell of grass was smashing his face. The vast night sky covers the infinite plains of the grassland. No trees or hills were sighted and the only things aside from the grass are the massive rocks. All of a sudden…..

The rocks from the area started to assemble with one another before slowly forming into a shape of a figure. The figure was considered big and muscular as well as surrounded by armors made up of the rocks on the ground. The rocks started to form into armors, gauntlets and boots before surrounding the figure. The formation finally complete as the rocks finally shaped the figure’s face and helmet covering it. When it was complete, Yun Che could see the large figure staring down at him like an ant. Well, the figure was twice his size and all of it was made from nothing but stones.

[Ding… Wave zero: Defeat the Level 70: Stone Dragon Warrior.]

“Wait, what?, this is the zeroth wave. Not the first one? Already set the same strength as me?” Yun Che slowly scanned the warrior and there’s no flesh, energy or anything. It’s just a warrior made up literally from stones.

Above the tower, the figure of the flaming Azure Dragon was hovering above Jasmine. She was sitting near the edge of the tower observing Yun Che facing the Stone Dragon Warrior.

“What makes him so special for a successor like you to train him?”

“I don’t even know. This princess once though that I can use him as a way for me to regain back my Divine Strength. In the end, this princess decided to train a Soul Reaper to achieve Godhood.”

“A Death God, trying to become a True God. Looks like this dragon had witness miracles are thousands of years remain in this realm. Strange, this dragon seems did not have any memory regarding Death Gods.”

Jasmine turned her head towards the dragon and said “Even in era of the true gods, Death God didn’t even exist?”

“This dragon indeed befriended with so many true gods even among demon beasts. However, Death Gods weren’t even existing back then. Who is this one?”

“Even this princess has no idea. You can observe him to see whether he had the capabilities of becoming your successor.”

“Even though this dragon’s spirit is dissipating, I’ve lost all my prime strength and can only exist in this form. This dragon was hoping to see a successor inheriting all my legacies. If this one succeeded, this dragon will witness the birth of a Death God carrying the power of the Phoenix and Dragon along with him. As well as fulfilling this dragon’s final wish.”

“And that wish is….” Jasmine asked it.

“Hmph, this disciple of yours better past this test if he wants to fulfill it.” The Azure Dragon didn’t want to spoil the surprise and she simply sighs before returning her sight to him. She too wanted to see the capabilities of this disciple of hers.

On the bottom, Yun Che slowly stretching his arms looking at the Stone Dragon Warrior before commenting “Dude, you looked ‘stoned’.” Without any warning, the figure started to move and smashing its arms towards Yun Che. Which he received it whole hearted.

SMASH!!! He was smashed directly on his body but he didn’t seem to fazed by it.

[Ding… Great Way of the Buddha Experience points +1000] If Yun Che was the current and original him, that punch would sent him flying across the realm. However, the current him remain unfazed as the punch didn’t even grazed on injured him. Even his shihakushou remain the same.

“Chee, so little. I was hoping that big body of yours carried some damage but it seems not. Why don’t you take some of mine?” He flashed step towards the stone warrior before raising his fist towards its massive body. Stone dragon warriors looked tough but actually they do lack in speed due to their massive body.

Combining his strength and Great Way of the Buddha, his fist was already powerful but he decided to test something else. He coated his hand with haki before channeling the excess haki and focusing all of it into his fist. The moment his fist landed at the Stone Dragon Warrior….

BOOM!!!!

The stone dragon warrior exploded into tiny pieces from his haki coated fist. Nothing was left in front of him, the only remaining part was the stone legs glued to the ground while the rest of it went missing.

“So that’s how it is. It works similar as energy channeling.” Yun Che understood from the system that armament haki had excess haki coated around his body every time he used it to coat his body parts. He can say it is a countermeasure to protect his body from unwanted assaults. However, advanced technique of armament allows the user to channel all of that excess haki into a single point and releasing them all together. Similar to certain One piece characters able to use this kind of haki to produce powerful shock-waves using their haki. All he did was practically the same, he channeled all his excess haki into his fist and produce a massive shock-wave on the stone dragon warrior which was too powerful for it to handle.

[Ding.. Stone Dragon Warrior defeated. +1000 Experience Points.]

“Only a thousand?”

[Ding.. The stone dragon warrior is a spiritual being created by the Azure Dragon. Its EXP isn’t the same as live beings.]

“Same as the phoenix trial then. No matter, I’ll defeat any of them and finish this trial. By the way, that advanced haki technique really is powerful. What happen if I channeled all those excess haki during Getsuga Tenshou? I’ll bet it’s even more powerful. This is exciting.”

[Ding… Wave zero passed. Wave two starts in 3…2…1…]

The smashed stones were floating once more and reassembled back and formed the stone dragon warriors. However, this time there are two of them.

[Ding…. Wave one initiated, Defeat two Level 72: Stone Dragon Warriors.]

“Looks like the dragon didn’t lie about the two level increase. Let’s just get this over with.” With that, Yun Che swings Zabimaru horizontally extending it further towards them. Since he was stronger, the slash sliced off the warriors like knife through butter. It wasn’t long until….

[Ding…. Wave two initiated, Defeat four Level 74: Stone Dragon Warriors.]

“Chee, you guys are persistent.” Four Stone Dragon Warriors had only just appeared, but their bodies had already sliced using Zabimaru, falling upright onto the ground. At this moment, eight spears came thrusting towards Yun Che from his sides.

[Ding…. Wave three initiated, Defeat eight Level 76: Stone Dragon Warriors.]

Chee, Wave three already? “Without even looking at them, Yun Che swept Zabimaru, then eight stone spears were instantly destroyed, and the air wave brought about by the sweep forced the eight Stone Dragon Warriors to retreat. Right after, he sped forward and extend Zabimaru and slashed three times.

“Howl! Zabimaru.” Zabimaru extend itself towards the stone dragon warriors and three heavy bangs resounded, and the eight Stone Dragon Warriors shattered one after another… In this entire process, not only were the eight Stone Dragon Warriors not able to touch Yun Che, they were not even able to approach within three steps from him. A difference in level wasn’t that much to him.

[Ding…. Wave four initiated, Defeat sixteen Level 78: Stone Dragon Warriors.]

This time, he didn’t activate any buffs as he coated Zabimaru with his haki. Originally, Zabimaru was already had black half on top of it but his coating transformed the segmented blade into complete black Jade segmented sword. Fun fact about these Stone Dragon Warriors are these warriors might be stronger than him but their body was made from stones. Avoiding their attacks will be the wisest decision. Boring it might be but he needed to complete this as soon as possible.

“Howl! Zabimaru.” He extends Zabimaru towards the incoming sixteen stone dragon warriors before taking eight of them out in full swings. As for the remaining eight, they suddenly jumped towards his position and stabbing their spears towards them.

“Fast, not only that. They’re quite agile.” Despite their large bodies, the stone dragon warriors can jump at move at high speed fitting for their current levels. As Yun Che was gaining distance. A notification pops in his mind.

[Ding…. Wave five initiated, Defeat thirty-two Level 80: Stone Dragon Warriors.]

“Oh come on, cut me some slack.” The stone dragon warriors are increase to forty now and each of them are high level Emperor Profound Realm. Then, he detected an intent came from next to him as one of them swings it spear at him. He managed to avoid that swing but the other one managed to land a hit on him. Good thing he had his Haki block that hit. That hit sent him away from the tower but he needed that hit to gain distance.

[Ding… Great Way of the Buddha Experience points +10000.]

“Chee, man that stings. I love to stay and level up but I don’t have time for this.” He extends Zabimaru once more towards the them and some of the stone warriors managed to avoid it and he at least landed a hit on some of them. Tilting it towards the side, he managed to swing and taken out most of them in one full swing.

[Ding…. Wave six initiated, Defeat sixty-four Level 82: Stone Dragon Warriors.]

“Should equip Zangetsu after all. Now that it has come this. Don’t blame me for playing rough either.” He continued to flash step for a while while taking some hit from the stone Dragon Warriors. But the hit didn’t actually worth that much as their attacks are weaker compare to Granz but taking all those hits still pretty much painful as it is. Maybe due to the Emperor Profound Realm body he had right now. This kind of process was fast at the same time it was pretty slow. The points he racked up from 80 plus opponents didn’t even filled one-fifth of the Great Way of the Buddha’s EXP. The pain was there but the points didn’t even worth it. He needed a stronger opponent. Someone or something can produce a hit which increase his points faster just like Granz. As he was racking up points, another notification pops up.

[Ding…. Wave seven initiated, Defeat one hundred and twenty-eight Level 84: Stone Dragon Warriors.]

“DAMN IT!!!! You guys really don’t want me to rest after all!” Seeing these warriors accumulating, he suddenly had a sinister smile.

Boom..boom..boom…

The two hundred plus Stone Dragon Warriors started running together and the ground they ran on shook with every step they take. Yun Che smiled, he raised Zabimaru and plunged into the crowd of Stone Dragon Warriors which just doubled in numbers. Sometimes, he decided to take flight avoiding the rampaging assault of the stone dragon warriors. However, those warriors threw their spears in the air as he was avoiding each and every attack they throw. Good thing he knew how to fly or else he had to jumped around just to avoid them. The annoying part is even in the air, those things can generate infinite amount of spears and threw it in the air.

“You guys really are persistent.” He decided to charge his right leg with phoenix flames and this time coated that right leg with haki.

“Diable Jamble, Poêle à Frire: Spectre!!!” He shot up multiple meteor kicks from the air directly onto the stone dragon warriors. The enemies were swept away one after another, and their bodies shattered one after another.

“Diable Jamble, FLAMBAGE SHOT!!!” He used the same methods from the hollow battlefield in here as well and landed directly in the middle of the stone dragon warriors.

BOOM!!!

His landing created a storm of fire around them as it incinerates the nearby stone warriors. Without wasting any moment, he jumped towards the nearby stone warrior and grab its head.

“Looks like I’ll be using you as a steering wheel.” He looked at the approaching stone warriors before and spoke “I planned to test this at the second trial. But this’ll do.” He extends both of his legs horizontally despite wearing a hakama.

“Diable Jamble, Party Table Kick Course!!!” He then spins around rapidly to deliver a savage kick to the face of the stone dragon warriors within range. His kick produced a powerful tornado of fire which incinerates them after delivering a powerful blow to the head. After he runs out of targets, he dismounts and kicks the stone warrior he was spinning on. The head of the one he chose flew across the battlefield as he stood up waiting for the next batch of warriors. Just now, his stunt incinerates over half of the remaining warriors reducing their numbers from 200 plus to 100. It doesn’t matter their strength or level are stronger. As long as their bodies remain the same.

Right here and now, he was extremely glad that he didn’t have anyone to watch over just like the original Yun Che. Right now, all of the warriors are focus on him and he can have fun as long as he wants.

[Ding…. Wave eight initiated, Defeat two hundred and fifty-six Level 86: Stone Dragon Warriors.]

“Damn, more and more started to show up. Looks like time to bring out the big guns.” He immediately activated Purgatory and increased his strength to the third level of Tyrant Profound Realm. Yun Che finalized his kick by kicking a larger group of warriors causing some of them flew away by the aftereffect of the shock-wave.

He slowly stood up from the incoming group before flash step upwards. The remaining three hundred warriors started to throw their spears towards him.

“Howl! Zabimaru!” He extends Zabimaru all over him to cut any approaching spears making it shaping like sphere.

He slowly said while charging his spirit force to the maximum making his body slowly glowing from the energy. “Looks like you guys really need a storm. Hebi, Saru. Let’s do this.”

“BANKAI!!!”

The rotating Zabimaru around him started to rotating faster than the eye could see before glowing producing a massive energy around him.

The Azure Dragon saw this situation and widen its eyes. “This energy, it is the energy of the GODS!!!”

“Really? I thought that’s just his Zanpakuto.” She didn’t expect the energy he used all this time when activating Bankai was the energy of gods.

The Azure Dragon shift its head towards her before saying “Zan..pa..ku..to?”

“According to him, Zanpakuto are spirits and also the source of the Death God’s power. What you see over there is his spirit’s full power.”

“This dragon is really shocked. To be able to witness a death god using his full power.” To the Azure Dragon, this kind of energy really is powerful. It never expected that ‘Bankai’ was the god’s full power. Looks like this ‘god’ really wasn’t lying about proclaiming himself to be a god.

The swirling energy suddenly dissipates and the Azure Dragon could see a massive beast emerged from the energy ball.

“ROOOAARR!!!!”

“Hihio Zabimaru.” Yun Che emerged alongside the massive snake made up of bones. Hebi and Saru synchronize with him as he controls the snake along with his baboon arm overcoat.

“Master, there are so many of them. This is exciting.”

“Hmph, these ‘stoned’ warriors really wanted to compare our master to them. They might be strong but they’re still weak.”

“All right, you two. I need your help dealing with this one.” Yun Che started swinging Hebi around to get used to it.

“Any rewards master? We don’t want cuddles this time.”

“Rewards? Then what do you girls want as a reward?” He said while confused and the same time knew whatever they want, it won’t be simple.

Saru and Hebi looked at each other before saying “A kiss.”

“K…Kiss?” He said while widen his eyes.

“That’s right, its not fair only sister Retsu got it. We want some too.” Hebi’s voice sounded in the air.

“Uhh, Su..ure..I’ll give you two some later.”

“Really, yeah!!! Let’s get this over with. Master.” Yun Che shift his eyes to the side wondering how he wanted to deal with this. But he’ll think about it later. The stone dragon warriors continued to observe the emergence of the massive snake beast from the energy ball. However, Yun Che seems to have something up his sleeve. As he float in the air, he started channeling his spirit force towards Hebi.

“Wonder what happen if I used it on Hebi.” All of a sudden, his baboon overcoat suddenly transforms from brown to black. Even the skull on his shoulder started transforming as well. Turns out, he infused his bankai with haki thus transforming overcoat to black jade. If one can see it, his overcoat was swirling with dark purple energy from the haki itself. The process didn’t stop there. It travels all over his right arm onto his baboon hand.

Shing

Suddenly, the tailbone on his hand started transforming as well. The haki slowly travel from the tailbone to other parts of the bone. Since the snake was massive, he needed to expand more Armament Haki on it. As he started channeling, the coating was much faster until it reaches Hebi’s head.

Yun Che widen his eyes when the red mane of Hebi’s head slowly transforming from red to purple and the skull of the snake turned platinum. Hebi’s eyes took a drastic change as well. Its former red eyes were slowly turning from bright red to bright purple. Even Jasmine was shocked as she saw the brand new transformation of Zabimaru. Yun Che coated Tensa Zangetsu several times but coating a black blade with black Haki doesn’t make any difference. However, Hebi’s snake body was different.

“Holy shit… She looked so much cooler. Platinum skull, purple mane and black jade body. So this is haki coated Zabimaru looked like.”

“ROOOAARRR!!!!” Even her roar sounded intimidating compare before she was coated.

Yun Che tried swinging her to extend its length and he was shocked when he saw the spirit force connecting each segmented bones of Hebi’s body. The energy turned from bright red to bright silver purple.

[Ding…. Wave nine initiated, Defeat five hundred and twelve Level 88: Stone Dragon Warriors.]

All over the grass plains, the rest of the five hundred and twelve suddenly appeared on the battlefield totaling the stone dragon warriors to a total of eight hundred and twenty. Yun Che didn’t even feel remorse. One man and his bankai against eight hundred and twenty troops. The dragon was indeed right. This is suicidal.

But…on which side?

As he floated in the air, he observed all eight hundred warriors underneath him. The waves total from wave zero to wave nine. There’s one more wave and the last one will be hardest but the tenth wave will not trigger until he trashed all eight hundred plus troops.

“Let’s go Saru, Hebi!!!” Yun Che started swinging Hebi to the bottom and..

BOOOMM!!!!

Hebi slammed head first to the ground producing a large crater taking out some of the stone warriors with it. The attack produce large amount of smoke around him allowing him to gain advantage sneaking to the middle. Then, he landed on the neat the crater before executing one of the techniques from the system. In a one-man army style game, the best moment to execute a technique is when all of your opponents are around you.

“Hihio Zabimaru, Tengajin (Turning Fang Blade)” He slowly murmured before swinging Hebi in a vertical direction taking out all the warriors in a circular motion with him in the center. Since the snake was coated with haki, all of the attacks used by the stone warriors was nullified without a single resistance as Hebi came by and wipe them out. When the opponents around him was wiped out, he executed another hidden Hebi technique.

“Hihio Zabimaru, Sanrengeki (Triple attack)” He murmured slowly before sending Hebi to the front. The platinum skull of it bit the left side of producing a big shock-wave before dragging it towards the left side and crush the stone warriors with its body. Then, he started attacking the right side with the same result. Each of the shock-wave takeout most of the stone dragon warriors along with it. Finally, Zabimaru opened it giant fangs before slamming the frontal area with a massive shock-wave.

As Yun Che was slamming the frontal area, some stone warriors managed to sneak into his zone carrying their chained hammers. According to the system, ninth wave stone warriors are carrying chained hammer with them instead of spears.

However, he was unfazed before saying “Out of my Way!!!” He slowly raised his free hand before firing a sokatsui towards his opponents. Since sokatsui is a massive area of effect spell, the spell took out most of the stone warriors. After that, he flashed step towards the parh Zabimaru had created using triple attack just now.

“Chee, even with all of that, Zabimaru managed to took out a handful of them. System, how many stone warriors remaining.”

[Ding… Remaining stone warriors: 476]

“Damn, almost half. My Spirit Force slowly deplete itself after constant use of maintaining haki on Zabimaru. Should I use it?” Seeing all the remaining warriors making their way towards him. He continued “Now’s not the time to think, in a game I have to use every technique I had.”

Yun Che started to channeling his spirit force to Zabimaru’s mouth but he is not executing Zabimaru’s Hikotsu’s Taihou. He started flash stepping all over while maintaining Zabimaru’s energy ball charging.

“If Retsu were here, she could end it instantly by firing a massive Bijuu-dama. Looks like I can do the same as well.” He wanted to use Zabimaru to sweep the grassland but he couldn’t risk disrupting the charging process.

“Hebi, how long do you need?” He started to ask Hebi who was still charging the energy ball on her mouth.

“Muu, master. I need another 3 minutes to complete the charge.”

“That long?” Saru suddenly yelled.

“Easier for you to say, just maintain the energy, Saru.” She retorted back to her.

Yun Che started to feel a little tired. “Either way you two better hurry up. This attack really drains my spirit force.”

“Almost there, master. Just hold on.”

As he holds on, Yun Che decided to wrapped himself and Hebi’s head inside her bone body. She shaped her body into a shape of a massive sphere before using the second Evil God Art.

“Sealing Cloud Locking Sun.” He infused the barrier onto Hebi’s and a massive barrier suddenly covered both him and his bankai.

Boom

Boom

Boom

Continuous attacks raining and hitting the barrier all at once as the remaining stone warriors use all their might to smash the barrier.

Seeing the continuous attack on the barrier, Yun Che started to ask “Hebi, still not done yet?”

“Almost.”

[Ding…. Barrier integrity: 92%]

“How much time yet?” He said again.

“A minute.”

Saru then slowly said “I don’t think we last that long.”

[Ding.. Barrier integrity: 64%]

“Hope so, each of the attacks caused by high level Tyrant Profound Realm warriors.” As the attacks were raining upon them, Yun Che was afraid that if the warriors attacked Hebi’s body. She would be distracted. He can’t even use haki on the barrier as most of his haki are directed onto Hebi and channeled most of his excess haki into the charged purple energy ball in her mouth.

“30 seconds.”

The continuous attacks started draining the barrier’s integrity as it carried on. A minute might be short but that barrier doesn’t have much time yet.

[Ding.. Barrier integrity: 28%]

[Ding.. Barrier integrity: 20%]

[Ding.. Barrier integrity: 9%]

[Ding.. Barrier integrity: 5%]

Hebi suddenly shouted “Master!! It’s done.”

With that, Yun Che started to smile before preparing his great stunt again. “Good, when I dispel the barrier. Shoot upwards towards the sky.”

“Hai!!”

“Ready, NOW!!” With that, Yun Che dispel the barrier before firing multiple Sokatsui to the warriors outside. Decimating them in one fell swoop. Hebi shot upwards carrying Yun Che along with her. However, the concentrated swirling energy ball was ready.

“This is the first time we use it. It’s all or nothing.” He flashed step towards the distance causing all the remaining stone warriors to chase him. Then, he positioned Hebi around him and her head above his head. Hebi suddenly opened her mouth and the purple concentrated energy ball was ready.

“Saru, Hebi. Let’s do this!!”

“Yeaaahhh!!”

Seeing the stone warriors were in range. “Now!!!

“YAMATO SPECTRAL CANNON!!!!” All the of them shouted at the same time. The charged energy ball from her mouth suddenly burst itself forming a massive dark purple beam towards the distance decimating anything on the beam’s path.

BOOM!!!

Yun Che and Hebi slowly guided the beam from left to right into decimating the rest of the stone warriors. Since the beam is too big, the remaining stone dragon warriors couldn’t even run away from it. One by one. All of them are decimated by the beam leaving no trace and a large trench. At the end of the beam, explosions occurred continuously as they dragged the massive beam into decimating the entire four hundred plus stone dragon warriors.

Jasmine and the Azure Dragon widen their eyes as they witness the power of that beam. Even Jasmine won’t dare to take that beam directly.

[Ding.. Remaining Stone Dragon Warriors: 0]

The beam slowly powering down as Yun Che was panting regaining his strength. Controlling the haki coated Bankai and supply the beam with continuous amount of Spirit Force really took the toll out of him. He immediately drank the vial containing divine water from his inner he collected before.

The haki surrounded Hebi slowly dissipating itself as he regains back his strength returning her back to her original look.

“Hooo, that took most of our strength with it.” Yun Che said while panting from the overuse of his haki and Spirit Force.

Hebi shift her massive head towards him and said “You okay, master? Good thing that you drink the divine water because that attack just now used almost 80% of your spirit force.”

“Yeah, it was our first time preparing such an attack.” Saru slowly said from his shoulder.

Yun Che slowly regaining his stamina and spirit force as he stretches his arms. “Yamato Spectral Cannon is powerful indeed. No wonder its an advanced version of the Baboon bone cannon but this one used a lot of energy compared to Baboon bone cannon. I wanted to create a devastating effect on them before the final wave.

[Ding… Congratulation host for eliminating all nine waves of the Stone Dragon Warriors. Total warriors eliminated: 1023 warriors.]

“Damn eliminating one thousand stone dragon warriors with different cultivation really takes a toll for me. No wonder this is practically suicidal.”

[Ding Final Wave initiated. Defeat the Level 90 Stone Dragon General.]

All of a sudden, a wave of light suddenly formed a large version of the stone dragon general but this time, this warrior is carrying a chain hammer and a spear at the same time. Its armor looked even more powerful compared to the previous ones. It was really more to a general compare the smaller ones they fought before. However, Yun Che was shocked as he sees the next part of the notification.

[Cultivation: Level 90 Peak of Tyrant Profound Realm Body Cultivation: Peak of Tyrant Profound Realm.]

“Body cultivation?!? Shit…. This one’s really hard. Literally” He slowly said as the intimidating Stone Dragon General slowly approaching him.