Playing Waterbending (Avatar: Last Aibender SI)-Chapter 58 -

I clicked my tongue while looking down. From my current height above the ground, the view was clearer. A larger unit of men in green were taking down the Fire Nation soldiers blocking the path. And let me 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 me 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 me 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 me 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 me an important hint.

They had been prepared for the Fire Nation army more than I had. Yet, somehow, 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. Some people might say he'd been an idiot since he was a child and call him slow, but I believed that someone like that could never be a king. And let's not forget, Bumi could cook up schemes, 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 some hidden agenda I couldn't figure out,' I thought.

There was no way I could know what the Mad King was thinking.

"Okay. Sokka... remember 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 me, 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 me.

"Toph, you can go down," I said.

"Do you think we can trust them?" she asked.

"I mean, if they don't..." I mused.

"What?" Toph asked.

"I'll make the mother of all omelets," I smiled.

There was no need to waste more energy. I had already used bloodbending, and it had drained me enough.

"Okay..." she replied reluctantly, her face contorting like someone 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 crime, 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 me.

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 me.

"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 name of spirits is this?" he whispered to himself, but I heard him.

The arrested soldiers, especially the men, gave me 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 me to arrive."

"Well, to be honest, no one did, except for our king," he replied honestly. "But to be fair, we expected metalbenders 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 me guess," I replied without much thought. "He wanted to see the metalbending in action."

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"Yes, that and dustbending. But I think we've seen something beyond our expectations," he said, looking at me and then toward Toph.

He looked back at me 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 seemed to be in agony.

Oh.

That's why he was sweating so much while looking at me.

It seemed that sparing that bounty hunter's life had paid off.

I had enough reputation that even allies feared me.

"You mean, 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 me.

I guess it made sense to fear me, 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 metalbender with me."

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 metalbending, why couldn't she learn something beyond that? Why couldn't she learn to bend bones or something like that?

"I believe you are quite tired after your journey. Why don't you follow me?"

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.