Hero of Darkness
chapter-90

For the entire week, Kahn spent his time relaxing and practicing his skills. And to still make good use of it, he spent of his vacant time studying different books on war strategies, historical events of the empire and information of the various species, their origins and detailed information on the geography of the empire.

Such as which city was situated where and what were they famous for. And which power held the prominent influence over these regions.

As per the information he gathered, there were more than 1023 main cities in the entire empire, hundreds of them even bigger than Flavot city. But majorly, only 83 cities had the biggest impact on the Empire's economy. Flavot City was one of them because of the natural resources they got from dungeons and terrain but it played only a small part in it.

Compared to some fiefs, the city looked like a backwater place. Kahn now finally gained the gist of how he was only strong in front of the weaklings.

The true masters and strong people lived in places like the Capital. And if he went there.. There would be thousands of people just like him. And even the Saint Rank people weren't that rare in the capital while in this city, there wasn't a single Saint rank person.

So compared to the vast ocean that was outside of the city.. Kahn was only living like a frog in a well.

This made him realize how stupid he was to think that his strength was something noteworthy.

The only advantage he had for now was that he was stronger than the other people such as the noble clan heirs and geniuses of some popular & prestigious academies. But in front of the true big shots that lorded over the empire.. He was nothing but a speck of dust.

Even the young heirs of some clans had an army of a few hundred thousand people at their disposal and their personal strength was no lesser than Kahn. And none of them even had any Divine Abilities that aided them in quickly raising their levels and strength.

"Man.. I'm truly ignorant." spoke Kahn to himself as a new world of truth was now opened to him.

And this also ignited his fighting spirit again.

Because at the end of the day, the strength and abilities of a person were their biggest assets while the resources they had on their beck & call was something he couldn't amount to even with all his current strength and subordinates he had.

"And here I thought I was finally good enough. I'm just another country bumpkin compared to those people." said Kahn as he reprimanded himself for being too foolish and delusional.

Reading these books and records brought him down of the high horse he was riding and broke the imaginary halo of strength & power he thought he had. He was still a small bug who could be easily squashed over by the people sitting at the top in the capital.

Let it be strength, skills, resources and even the number of fighters he had on his side amounted to nothing. Previously, he had the notion of having few thousand subordinates in the future and being a Saint Rank fighter would make him one of the top powers in the world.

But to his surprise.. Even those people didn't have the qualifications to call themselves the head of the snake. His previous life where the little strength those gangs and criminal organizations he heard about clouded his judgment, thinking that it'd be enough.. But this whole world was on a different league compared to Earth.

Some Empires even had over 2 to 3 billion people just inside their army. And the entire population of sentient living beings in this world was something that no one ever dared to put a number on.

"This won't do.. I need to become far stronger than I am now. Even that Lich could kill me.. And it wasn't even stronger than me or my subordinates." said Kahn as his mind became resolute again.

It was already noon.. Not late enough for him to wait for another day. So Kahn geared up in his adventurer gear again and thought of visiting a few neighboring dungeons first. The ones that had plenty of monsters that hunted in hordes and had a huge supply of bodies that he could use to upgrade his subordinate's levels and even create new subordinates for his army.

He wasn't going to be arrogant again and barge into lower-level floors of a dungeon to fight the boss as he did previously when he fought the Lich.

Because he was going to use these dungeons and hunting grounds to make an army big enough for him to help out in clearing a big target he had set up in his mind.

This eye-opening information had rejuvenated him more than the break he took for a week.

Kahn went to the adventurer association and bought more than a dozen passes of different dungeons because soon, he'd raid them one by one for upcoming days.

Only by raising his own strength and his army in thousands, would he become someone capable enough to stand on equal footing with people from big cities and the top fighters of noble clans and the military.

Because as the things stood, even someone like Commander Straze could easily kill him without a problem and that Tigerkin warrior wasn't even a Saint Rank fighter yet. Kahn couldn't ignore the difference between Rank & Bloodline that he had come to know from his recent experiences in the past month.

After his priorities were finalized and he gathered enough information about the nearby dungeons. Kahn planned on which floors he'd hunt on and which type of monsters he wanted to farm for skills and add in his legion.

Because for him, time seemed more important again and he'd hate to waste on the small fries that won't serve him well in the long run.

And his first place to visit was something he had already visited once.

The Cintra dungeon.