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Chapter 1409 A Weird Island
"Hmm… So the fiends aren't here? Not interested," after flying around for a few minutes, I noticed these forces were formed out of Silences and locusts, with no friends.
Without friends I wasn't that much interested in dealing with these enemies. Even if they got startled by my presence, I simply led my chariot deeper, totally ignoring them.
Even if they'd bring me lots of dark realm bones, it was still pointless. I could simply clear them away using my cube, however I didn't try this out.
pAn,Da n<0,>v,e1 Such a method should be kept only for those who proved themselves immune to my threats. Or against a worthy opponent. Aside from these two conditions, it was better to keep my cube's abilities secret from the enemy sights.
The enemy was in the middle of gathering up his armies, but all I saw were the two useless races and nothing like fiends appeared for an entire day.
I kept flying around the cleared region first, then decided to move out and try to go deeper.
I thought that this situation would change after going deeper, but it didn't. For long hours, I kept flying with my chariot's top speed without seeing a single fiend.
And then things started to abruptly change.
"A flying island? That's new!" I saw something like a black dot at the far end of the horizon. Without the need to go there, I used my Hawk Eye skill and saw through that distance.
Twenty miles away from me, I spotted something flying in midair. The distance was already quite far for me to see anything clearly. But I could tell it was a flying fortress.
After flying for a few minutes towards it, I finally saw it using my skill. It was huge! A colossal piece of land that spread over the sky for close to a hundred miles!
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It was the first time for me to see such a thing. But that wasn't the issue here. When I got close enough, I could finally see what lies inside.
The forts I saw before were filled with towers and offensive weapons. However this one didn't have any of that.
What it got was portals! I counted at least a thousand portals spreading all over this grand place.
Each portal was at least hundreds of metres in width and length, looking like giant black holes that would take away anything thrown at it.
I couldn't see anything else on that piece of land, which was something weirder. Such a grand floating island was left without any protection at all. It was really weird!
Were these portals useless? Or was there some sort of a trap in such an arrangement?
I got curious, especially when I noticed the direction this thing was flying towards was none other than my controlled region.
That meant the enemy intended to do something back there, and I got to know what such an island held of secrets.
I didn't know if such an island was a sole thing or if there were more of such things.
I acted upon the worst case scenario, and controlled my chariot towards this mysterious island.
"This…" The moment I got close enough, not more than one mile away, these portals flashed and started to show a reaction. It seemed like a beehive I stirred without intending to, and I stopped when that happened.
However the portals didn't show any reactions other than this. I kept my distance fixed at one mile, while slowly moving my chariot further away and closer.
"So they react to any enemy getting close? That's why there is no one defending this place?" I muttered while thinking about this.
Seeing this made me realise a formidable hit would come next towards me. I didn't hurry to get near these portals, and just threw tons of energy crystals into the heart of my chariot, increasing the defensive abilities of it.
"Let's see what you hold inside," once done, I moved my chariot forward, and waited to see what would come from these portals.
The moment I became five hundred metres away from this island, the portals started to madly flash and swirl, releasing scary pillars of light towards the sky.
Each pillar was in the thickness of each portal, and it flew high up for hundreds of metres before stopping. Seeing such a scene made me feel bad omen, as if I got eyed by a deadly and quite scary monster.
"Let's see what you'll do next," I abruptly stopped my chariot, took out my pillar, and used my shield skill.
The shield once clashed against some sort of hidden power. And the next instant, it looked like the world was going to end!
The sky dimmed, the air started to show fierce lashes of wind, and the world around me started to get filled with flying rocks, black rays of light, and explosive noises as if many bombs were exploding near my ear!
It happened all of sudden, and I watched my shield I just summoned show cracks on its surface from the pressure, unable to expand outwards no matter what!
It got stopped around the island, not able to take a single step forward.
"Tsk! So this island isn't an empty thing as I doubted… It can release such a deadly attack, enough to wipe out any forces of mine from miles away!"
I got how scary such an island was. And couldn't help but shake my head while activating my shield's offensive ability.
If the shield was going to crash like this, it meant it was under intense pressure and hellish amount of damage stockpiled in the past few seconds.
I instantly replenished the shield that was on the verge of breaking with another, and another, and another. I kept using my Thundering Might skill while releasing the accumulated damage once per half a minute.
The world kept in its berserk and crazy state while my shields' offensive skills kept trying to counter such insane pressure.
Chapter 1410 Hunting Islands Down
"This won't do," I realised after one hour of doing this that it wasn't going to work at all without dealing with the source of the problem itself, "I need to take down these portals first."
I noticed that my offensive attacks accumulated together, and kept pushing the outer force until they cleared an area of hundreds of metres.
But it wasn't enough to take down or even touch a single portal out there.
What I needed to do was obvious, and I didn't hesitate to do it. I controlled my chariot, moved towards the end of the protective zone cleared out by my offensive skills.
The moment I reached there, it seemed like the entire shields got moved out with me. This aided the offensive force at the forefront, pushing the outer force a bit further.
It was slow, but it was still a progress. I didn't stop summoning more shields, or activating the accumulated damage once per half a minute.
At this rate, and in less than half an hour, the outer force got pushed back by hundreds of metres. And this time, few portals appeared inside the cleared zones.
The moment they got inside, I felt like they got severed from something they were connected with.
The pillars that came out from them started to fade away slowly. The portals were already huge, and so they didn't enter with their total bodies inside my free zone.
However just by being there, even if it was partially, the connection they got with the outside world got severed. I watched the pillars dying down, and not a single pillar remained after the passage of one more hour.
The moment these pillars died down, I watched cracks appearing on the surface of these portals. "So they were only here to release such a scary attack, tsk!" I thought I'd get something great out of this. However it all turned out to be an item storing such a formidable force and got easily crushed.
*Thud!* *Thud!*
The portals started to crumble on their own, falling all over the ground of the island, releasing such loud thudding noises.
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It sounded a bit weird. And that attracted my attention to these pieces.
"What are these?" I jumped off my chariot and inspected one of them.
[Dark energy gate piece: A very formidable piece that got an unparalleled amount of energy inside]
"Amount of energy? Unparalleled amount of energy?!!" I first froze without knowing what that meant before something flashed in my mind.
"Is it like that godly essence I got from before?!" I was inwardly shocked and quite delighted when I realised this.
These pieces… All these pieces… They were all priceless sources of energy! And I got them for free!
The most exciting thing about this was that these portals broke up into a really huge number of pieces.
And there were one thousand portals if not more on this island!
Damn! That… These enemies of mine were very generous towards me!
As I realised such unexpected loot, I instantly turned my attention towards crushing the entire portals and gathering up more of these.
To do so, it was worth it to use my bones!
I instantly took bones to cover the area cleared by my shields and offensive ability before gushing all this energy into the shields.
And the next attack came strong enough to push the outer force in mere seconds by more than three folds!
Seeing this made me instantly take out more bones and do the same. The more I used bones, the slower the expansion became.
This wasn't because the outer force got adapted to my offensive ability and shields, but it was thanks to the huge area covered up by my shields.
That made the expansion speed quite slow. And in eight hours, I finally managed to break almost seventy percent of the entire portal. And the moment that happened, the entire island started to crumble.
"Phew! I got it down…" I watched while the island got broken into giant boulders before falling alongside the entire portals on it to the ground.
The fall was quite brutal, and I saw the ground at the distance tremble from such impact. However that wasn't what truly shocked me.
"This… The entire island… The entire island is made out from the same high calibre energy as portals… Hahahaha! Thanks a lot, thanks for all this help, hahahaha!"
I couldn't believe it! It was like I found a colossal mine of precious and extremely rare ores out of nowhere appearing in front of me!
After that, I knew taking out everything would be quite a long and tiring process. I didn't want to get stuck here. I wanted to go and scan the entire world and see if there were other islands around or not.
First these islands were indeed real killers! I needed to take them down or else my forces back there would be in grave danger.
And above all, I craved such immensely rich energy stones. So I took out my cube, injected ten dark realm bones, and got its area of suction to one hundred miles.
I didn't care what it would suck in as long as it would get me my energy stones.
It didn't take more than a few seconds to suck everything inside that cube. And then I started to move around, flying all over the place, looking for more islands to hunt.
And just in less than four hours, I spotted my second island.
I took it down the same way I did before, and this time I did it a lot faster than my first attempt. I knew what I should do to take this colossal thing down.
After that, I started a long spree of hunting these islands down. After two days of doing this, and as I took down thirty of such islands, a new change occurred.
"They group lots of islands together… Interesting!"
What welcomed me this time wasn't a single island, but a group of a hundred! Damn! I took all this time to take down thirty islands. And just now one hundred stood in front of me, blocking my path.
Chapter 1411 Fighting A Hundred Islands
"Facing one isn't that hard, but facing all these together may be challenging…" I felt this was the intention of the enemy.
Using such a grand gathering of islands to take me down was a good idea indeed. If I dared to move forward, then I'd take all the pressure coming from one hundred deadly groups of pillars.
Just a single one was enough to shatter my pillar's shield in less than a few minutes.
So with the help from all of them, I knew I'd end up getting fried without having time to retaliate.
And yet I didn't hold my chariot back, and kept going forward towards them.
"Bring it on!" I shouted in defiance, with my blood boiling with the will to fight. These one hundred islands might be what the enemy held, and it was a great chance to not only reap endless rewards, but also to take out such a scary weapon off the entire board of war.
If I evaded them, then these one hundred were enough to take down my forces once I left this world.
Even if I stayed behind, the enemy would still come at me with all of them and much more forces to support. That meant I'd have to fight them no matter what.
Fighting them while I got little advantage was much better than fighting them while trying to defend my place, better than fighting them alongside many other enemies.
Besides, who said I was out of options here?
"Thundering Might!" The moment I stepped into the trigger zone of five hundred metres, the pillars got activated and these islands started to move all over the place, trying to surround and entrap me.
I didn't try to stop them. As usual, I used my shield and let it clash fiercely against everything around.
Depending solely over my shields to stop the incoming scary wave of attacks wasn't going to work no matter what.
A single island was enough to change the entire world around and spread cracks all over the shield. And so if I left my shield to clash directly against all such a grand number of islands and pillars, then things would end up quite bad.
So after summoning a few more of these shields, I waved my hand, and took out a few bones.
The area that was freed all around wasn't that much. Taking out normal bones wouldn't help.
I got a few hundred metres around, less than five hundred. I pushed my chariot through the wave of attack, and moved towards the nearest island.
The bones I took landed and filled the part of that island ground, and the next moment I started absorbing their energy.
"Damn fierce!" I felt a scary wave of pain that I never experienced before. I gritted my teeth, held my pillar as hard as I could, and kept muttering the words of that skill repeatedly.
The bones I took out weren't my normal bones, nor were the dark realm bones, but the newly acquired Holy Ones bones.
These bones were quite domineering! They were the highest bones with energy amidst all the bones I got.
Even if I used green grade bones, they were still quite hard to control! The energy kept clashing inside my body, trying to explode me into shreds.
"Dammit!" I resisted with everything I got, shifted such berserk energy towards the pillar and through it towards the shields. At one point, I held the pillar with both hands, holding it as if I was holding a mighty weapon or something.
I tried to gush out all the energy I could towards the pillar and shields. And yet the pain never stopped. I felt the urge to close my eyes and rest, and that meant it'd be my final and eternal rest.
I fought with everything I held dear to my heart, with my dreams, my endless ambition, and my long awaited adventures after taking control of the worlds of my apocalypse.
I didn't when it started, but it seemed that my simple and humble dreams to survive a better life in the apocalypse turned miraculously to be endless hunger and thirst for power and fame.
I wanted to be strong, wanted to be the strongest person in my universe, in the entire cosmos!
I wanted to be strong enough to compete with all my enemies, crush all of them, including the scariest Holy Ones.
I kept resisting for god knew how long, and while fighting against my pain and torture, I kept my chariot flying forward, and used shields whenever I got the chance or consciousness to do it.
"Release death!" and just after waiting for long enough, and I felt I'd end up failing to resist the insane amount of energy gushing into my body, I knew I had to sever the link with these bones one way or another.
If I did that while being in the middle of such a colossal fight, I'd end up dead. If I didn't stop absorbing more energy, I'd die as well.
I'd end up dying both ways, and there was no running away path open for me without taking risks.
The only path to survive this was to keep attacking! And so I released the stored damage inside my shields.
Since the first moment my shields got created, they got tons of energy gushed into their domes from me. This energy was enough to contend against the insane amount of damage coming from outside.
I couldn't clearly see anything at all from outside. The world turned all dark and blurry the moment these pillars attacked.
Then how could I tell my shields were still standing and fighting back? How did I know the energy I experienced so hellish pain from working?
The answer was simple… I was still alive up till now! If my shields broke, then I'd not stand for even a brief second alive.
It was a rude way of assessing the entire situation, but it was the only way for me to tell things out.
Chapter 1412 The Enemy Retreats
When I released the beast from my shields, the entire world started to change.
Instead of darkness, light prevailed! My shields' counterattack started, and it held light to vanquish darkness while I ended up not seeing anything in both cases.
The next moment, I didn't care about anything else anymore and severed the connection with my brutal bones.
The bones already turned into specks of light. And when I stopped absorbing them, they condensated, turning into a smaller version of what they initially were.
If they were miniature in size before, that small size got even smaller. They lost at least half of their mass, and that meant I absorbed half of their energy during the process.
I turned around and all I could see was blinding light. Even if I couldn't see anything outside, I still held my pillar and kept creating more shields.
I didn't know how effective such an attack would be. And if I didn't count the attack which I used my deadly fire to trigger, this one might be called the strongest attack I ever unleashed in my entire life!
The light kept flashing and blinding everything outside for many hours. After almost one day of wait and preparations, the world dimmed at last, and I could see what lies beyond.
"This…" What met my eyes was something crazy and scary!
First of all, almost half of the islands were gone! Fifty islands went into nothing, turned into rocks piled up and thrown away to cover an area of tens of miles.
That wasn't what shocked me. The other half did. The islands that remained were burning at the moment.
White blazing fire, one that I never saw before, was eating everything there, taking all the portals under its reign of terror and death, damaging everything!
Such a scene I never expected to see and never witnessed before. My attack no matter how overbearing it was, it always ended up without leaving behind any remains.
And this time was different! The attack ended and yet it left behind such weird fire.
I tried and tested these islands out, but found to my surprise that these islands weren't working. The portals didn't respond to my approach, not even when I passed over them.
And when I tried to touch one of these portals, everything on that island cracked, broke apart like ash, fell to the ground while that weird white fire didn't die down.
I grew curious, and after breaking all the remaining islands, I returned to observe these fires. They kept dancing around all the rocks and remains of the islands and portals, but didn't seem to truly harm them.
If I wanted to describe what I saw, then this fire was part of the entire rocks around. And that was quite weird.
Did my attack release energy inside these portals and islands? Become part of them? Then why didn't this happen to all of the islands and just half of them?
I didn't know what caused all this, and decided to not seek any answers for now. The only question that I needed to answer was my ability to store such rocks in my inventory.
I was worried that such white and wild looking fire would turn against me and attack when I'd touch it.
I took out my heavy glaive, and tried to poke one of those rocks and touch that fire. The moment the glaive touched it, the fire danced and weirdly enough, it invaded my glaive.
"Damn! It's contagious!" I couldn't believe this and inspected my glaive closely. The fire was limited to the part that touched it, and didn't spread over the glaive or even harm it.
It was like it was part of the glaive itself, while was a bit weird actually.
"Tsk… No time to test or risk testing such a thing here," I didn't want to throw myself at something I'd never accept. And so instead of risking doing something I'd regret later on, I took out my cube and injected my bone energy inside.
Using the full capacity of my cube, the entire place got absorbed and arranged inside cells there.
I didn't need to use the cube more than five times to cover up the entire region here. As for these weird rocks with flames, I'd leave it for my research department to explore, or I'd save it for later after taking care of all the things I had.
After doing this, and after killing such a grand number of deadly weapons, I didn't find it weird to not spot any islands anymore.
Even the forces on the ground started to move out, retreating away from my region.
This was quite expected. The enemy lost big this time. And all the preparations here seemed to depend entirely on these islands and portals.
Losing the islands dealt a deadly blow to the enemy's entire plan. Seeing all these locusts and Silence's retreat made me feel quite proud and relieved.
This was all my doing, and by this the enemy would have to wait for my departure, or even find another way to deal with me.
I wouldn't underestimate such an enemy. They seemed quite resourceful, having tons of hidden cards and weird forces on their behalf.
The incident of the worms was still lurking in my mind. "I don't know if I shall leave a few worms behind to defend the place or what…"
I couldn't tell how they acquired such a scary breed of monsters or if they got more of these worms or not.
But I had to act based on the worst case scenario. If the enemy got more of these worms, then I had to leave something behind for my forces to fight back.
"I got many worms inside my cube… I can leave ten for my forces to help if things go south."
The only drawback of the worms was their lack in aerial abilities. And that made me crave to merge them with a race bloodline, one that could fly.
Chapter 1413 Going Back
Imagining such scary worms flying in the air, treating the clouds like they were ground, made me want to do it right away!
However this wasn't the time for such an experiment.
I controlled my desire, and kept scanning the entire area around my controlled zone. The enemy kept calling back his forces, driving them thousand miles away from my zone.
They created such an open space here, enough to make me feel safe. And yet I couldn't.
"Go, secure this region and make sure no hostile forces step a single foot inside!"
I wasn't the one who determined such a large scale area to be a buffer zone. And just like old humans using mines, I scattered ten of the worms all over the place, asking them to defend this zone and kill anyone trespassing.
After doing this, the time limit I gave to Isac was almost over.
[We are ready!] she sent just before I'd return back, [We are ready to move out]
[Who is going to stay?] I asked, and she gave me the name of one of the new generals.
All of my friends were coming with me. [I'm coming!] I opened a portal, took a last glance at this world, before passing through it.
It was time to go back.
I returned and found all of my generals standing there. They were just waiting to leave, and I found the one who was selected to stay behind.
"You are going to remain here," I said to the one selected by Isac, "don't underestimate the enemies here. They are quite resourceful and very powerful."
"I know," that dude who was called George said, while nodding his head in acknowledgement. And yet I didn't stop here.
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"I just faced something…" I started to explain what I experienced, explaining not only to him but to others about how hard it was to deal with these islands.
"So keep your forces inside and defend for now," this was the task I wanted him to do, "if the enemy came with something you can't face, go through the portal I'll leave here. Or send someone with a message, explaining everything here to Lily."
"Sure," he nodded, and this time I got that he really meant it.
"Are we going to face such things in other worlds?" Sara asked, seemingly not afraid by what I said. Instead, she got excited about it.
"I believe we will face more surprising things in other worlds," I learned that each leader of those fiends got a few tricks up their sleeves.
The first dude got the fire and cloud artefacts. Then he asked for help, and another dude came and provided the worms and the Exomachines.
Perhaps there were two and not one who helped here. Each one of these scary beings was enough to be considered an ace for anyone.
Then the islands came, and that announced the appearance of a new leader.
I got to learn this lesson quite well. And so I knew the ones I was going to fight against next would use new tricks.
I couldn't tell what trick they would use, but I was sure each trick was going to be something terrifying.
I pushed aside such worries and took out the second half of one of the teleports. I already activated their first halves back at ground zero.
The moment that half touched the ground, it changed and a huge portal appeared next.
"What about our forces?" Isabella asked, and I shrugged as if this was nothing I should care about.
"We'll leave them here," the general who was going to lead this place was destined to face tons of armies alone.
So he should get all the help that he could, including the warriors of other generals.
I took back all the elite warriors who belonged to me. As for the Exomachines that followed my lead and were still moving, I decided to leave them here.
I left the order for every single warrior of mine to follow the lead of George. Then I passed through the portal, while my ten generals followed with their chariots.
[Any news?]
I returned back to ground zero. I sent a message once again here, asking her about the updates.
[We are getting hit severely bad at all fronts] she sent such news before adding, [The enemy sent Silences and they dealt lots of damage to our people]
[Are we losing?] I knew leaving for this long and causing such trouble out there would result in much fiercer moves of the enemy here.
So it wasn't that surprising to hear such news. I only cared if we were facing defeat or not.
[So far so good] And she sent the good news over, [We are using all the warriors you left behind. Till now, the enemy couldn't break through our central zones. And the shields you left behind are still standing]
[Good] I knew I ordered everyone here to keep themselves at check, not venturing outside, fearing such retaliation from the enemy.
And it was great that they listened to my words like that.
[What's good about that? We lost almost half of the warriors you left for us!]
[It doesn't matter] I knew this wasn't a big loss. I got nothing else but tons of warriors in my inventory.
[But…]
[I will take a tour now, and will leave enough warriors to use] I paused before adding, [I'll spread all of them over the twenty worlds. As for your arrangement for them, you can handle such a thing personally]
[Fine! Are we going to stay behind? Not attack?]
[Not now!] It wasn't yet time for that, [Don't forget, the doors to the twenty worlds will open soon. Prepare our forces, we need to defend here plus actively take part at these worlds' dilemmas]
[Ok] I felt that she wasn't that satisfied about what I said. But it wasn't yet the time for offence.
What I was doing at the enemy ten homelands was enough offence already. Their task was to handle the pressure, while I'd handle the offence for now.
Chapter 1414 Keep Defending
As for the time when the ten worlds' doors would be opened, things would go hectic at all fronts.
That was something I was sure about. The losses of the enemy at these two worlds would drive them insane! So they'd try everything they got, they'd aim to stop me from reaching the twenty worlds.
But no matter how hard they tried, I planned to crush everything they'd throw at my way. And that was also part of the reason why I asked Lily and others to stay defensive.
If they kept defending for so long, the enemy would grow used to this. They'd think my forces weren't able to attack, and wouldn't place so much importance on these worlds.
I wanted them to make that mistake. At the moment they'd lose their grip here, I'd flip the switch, move my forces towards an all out offence and clear all the portals leading to these worlds.
As I promised her, I started to roam the twenty worlds, leaving behind tons of warriors and stat crystals. I got lots of crystals from Silverlining before, and it was time to put them at good use.
It took me a few days to get such a thing done. As for my generals, I asked them to stay at ground zero, and most responded to my orders, all but two.
The first was indeed that jumper. That dude started to roam the twenty worlds, without any proper reason for this.
I got reports from Lily about his weird movements, and ordered her to remain silent and not care about that.
That dude kept moving around, not doing anything at all but to visit the twenty worlds. He kept moving from one to another, without doing anything else.
As for the second person, it was Isabella.
And she wasn't the one to break my orders, but her boy, the spearhead!
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He grew insane the moment he learnt about what the jumper did and he couldn't. So he took her with him, and started to chase me around while I was doing my task.
"Boss, please listen to me, the jumper already went with you. Why can't I do that?"
"Tsk! I already told you, he came with his own abilities and got punished for that."
"No, he didn't!" The spearhead turned to Isabella who remained all silent. She seemed to tell everything that happened to the spearhead, and with good intentions she explained everything including the jumper's joining and not getting severely punished by me.
I made the jumper lead warriors at the first battle, which was part of his punishment. But the real punishment he got was his current nightmare with his god and the man he wanted to save.
I couldn't tell that jerk about the other jerk's hardships. And so it was impossible to convince the spearhead with such words.
"Boss, please don't be partial towards me," he shouted, acting as if he didn't care about getting punished, "I want to come with you, just like that jumper!"
"If you have the ability, then come with us depending on your abilities," I paused before adding, "however I have to warn you. The gates of the enemy are protected with fierce explosive shields. If I didn't intervene at the perfect time and saved that jerk, he'd be long gone by now."
"But you saved him!"
"I can't guarantee I'll do the same thing again," I shrugged, putting a carefree expression on my face.
"Boss, please, we both go way back to the early days of the apocalypse."
"Don't try convincing me, as I won't," I said in a threatening tone, "you shall learn how to handle the tasks here and trust in your girl's abilities."
"I'm not doing anything here!"
"Believe me, soon enough you'll find yourself very busy to not have the time to stretch your back over a bed or even find time to come here and pester me like this!"
Even if I kept arguing with him, I never stopped my hands from taking out warriors and stat crystals.
I kept taking warriors for days, and that jerk kept chasing me nonstop like crazy.
After some time, I started to grow dull towards his presence, and totally ignored him.
"Boss, please, take me with you, please," when I finished my tour around, the spearhead knew I'd take everyone and jump away and he wouldn't be able to follow.
Even if he tagged along, he wasn't as brave and daring as the jumper. That dude was all talk with no actions at all.
"I told you, stay here and trust everyone to do their tasks," I said in a plain tone. Getting enraged from this dude wasn't going to solve anything. So ignoring him was the best thing to do to deal with such a jerk.
"Please boss…"
"Jump in," I said to everyone of my selected generals. And when that jerk remained on the chariot, I glared at him and didn't say anything, but he knew if he didn't step out on his own, he'd get kicked out and embarrass himself.
"Boss, please consider…" Even when he returned back to his chariot, that dude kept shouting while I vanished through the portal, heading towards one of the hot spot worlds.
I selected a totally different world this time. I sent a message to Lily, confirming that everyone on our side got inside the shields.
I was gone for almost one month. And that meant my shields here kept taking damages and storing them for all this time without releasing a single speck of energy out.
And so I planned to give the enemy here a little surprise before going towards a new world.
[We are ready!]
[Good!] I didn't hurry to activate the offensive attack from my shields all over this world. I just visited the frontline, left tons of warriors without stat crystals there to attract the heat of locusts, and then returned back to the central zone.
I jumped later towards the other seven worlds, and started to activate the offensive attacks there.
Chapter 1415 A New World!
Each world shone brightly and I didn't stand there to watch. I kept jumping from one world to another, until I returned again to the world I selected to go through it towards a new enemy's homeland.
"Aren't you going to do this trick here or what?" and as I opened a portal, passed through the portal to reach the frontline, the jumper drew closer and asked.
Everyone could tell I used the pillar to do such a thing. However, I haven't done it here yet.
"Why be impatient?" I had to activate the attack to get through the nasty shields protecting the portals.
But before that, I had to select a portal, store the closest point to that shield. Then I was ready to devastate that shield.
"Stay put, we are going through that damn shield!" and like before, I started to activate the offensive strike of my shields. And the world turned all bright.
I kept pumping against that portal's shield until it crashed down and then my chariot moved through. Like before, the new shield came and crashed against my chariot's, and then the battle between the shields started again.
After half an hour, I finally managed to pass through. I didn't know if it was thanks to my early experience, or the fierceness of the attacks of my shields back there that crashed over the shields of the enemy, I managed to pass through much easier and a bit faster.
I prepared myself for a hellish fight and a deadly trap. However when I passed through, I found myself flying on top of a normal land.
There was nothing weird here. The sky was brightly lit with a group of seven stars looking like my Earth's sun. The land was flat, with few hills here and there.
If I wanted to say there was something weird about here then it'd be the weirdly high temperature!
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The seven suns were close to the ground, each was ten times the size of my Earth's sun before the apocalypse hit us.
The ground didn't have a single plant there. In fact, the ground looked all black, with pillars of smoke rising and dancing in the air, giving a weird sight of something similar to a scorching land.
It felt like a big fire erupted here not long ago. "What's with this world?" Isac was the first to speak up.
"I feel like this world isn't suitable for any creature or race to live in," Legend added, and I couldn't help but inwardly sigh.
"Don't think this way," I slowly said, "we came here towards a world of the enemy. No matter how bad and impossible the circumstances here looked, the enemy is here. And we got to find him."
"No one can sustain such temperature," the jumper pointed towards the shield of my chariot, "even your shield is getting burnt, rising bellows of smoke."
He wasn't lying! The moment my chariot appeared here, the shield of my chariot showed a fierce reaction as if it was a block of ice thrown in the depths of a great fire.
I could hear loud and clear the sizzling noises coming from my shield. At the same time, the energy essence stored inside my chariot's heart got consumed as well.
The rate wasn't high, but it was evident that the temperature outside wasn't life friendly at all.
"Then where are they?" Alex spoke up in one of the rare moments of this girl. She always kept her silence and side alone from any of us.
Since what happened with her boy, she seemed to change, more towards being more depressed and far silent than before.
"Let's search," I wouldn't risk getting them out on their chariots, exploring the world. I used my chariot, and started to fly around.
I kept flying for days, moving my chariot at its highest speed. At first, I thought the world here was going to be a hellish world at day, and a very cold one at night. However there was no night! It was all bright all the days we remained here. And the seven suns kept shining brightly nonstop all day long!
"This isn't a world one can live in!" Isabella muttered, while other generals around had gloomy faces.
During all this time, there wasn't a single vegetation on the ground at all! There wasn't a single carcass or a leftover of any monster or race, not a single evidence that this world got any living creatures here.
And yet I never doubted my beliefs. This was one of the enemy homebase worlds, and they were indeed living here.
"Let's explore the sky," I decided to go up, explore the vast sky that was void of any clouds.
We could see clearly for miles ahead and above us. And yet I went up there, enduring the fierce waves of heat that came fiercely the higher I ascended.
The thick bellows of white smoke rising up from my chariot's shield became much thicker and denser. And after flying for more days, we didn't see anything.
"There is nothing here," even the jumper gave up, "let's just return back. This is a dead end."
"Your target isn't here?" I asked, and he simply remained silent, a kind of silence that was equal to a confirmation.
"What target?" Sara asked. She was, like everyone else who dealt with that masked rude dude, was curious about his secrets and background.
Yet neither did he say anything, nor did I.
"Let's go down then," if there was nothing high up in the sky, nothing on the ground, then there was a single place that we didn't yet visit.
"Go down where?" Isac and others knew I didn't mean going back to the ground. We already visited there for days, and even after a week, we couldn't see anything new.
"Down there," I pointed towards the ground. During our exploration, there was something that kept bothering me.
The ground was all flat, like it got cleared and cleaned by some sort of force. The heat in this world was so overbearing to the extent of clearing the ground clean and flat.
Chapter 1416 The Weird Hills
Yet there were hills, many of them actually, scattering all over this world. They weren't that huge, but they looked in my eyes as if they were covering up something.
And if there was no one living on the ground, in the sky, then there was a single place that made sense for anyone to live in; underground!
"You don't think..." Legend's face changed, and in a few minutes, everyone else got the same expression on their faces.
"The enemy can't live up on the ground, and wasn't in the sky," I simply stated my reasons behind such a logical conclusion, "and that leaves us with one possibility."
I was heading already towards one of these hills. The hills didn't look any much different than the ground, except for one thing.
The ground anywhere we went released thin and thick pillars of smoke in different colours. However this wasn't the case of these hills.
In fact the first time I noticed these hills was thanks to the absence of smoke rising up from them. It was a unique sign that attracted my attention towards them, but I didn't consider anything weird about them until now.
-n0ve1,com If these hills were made of the same materials of the ground, then they should show the same reaction and rise up smoke pillars.
When we went higher, we met up with a fiercer temperature. Looking at these hills, which each spanned for one hundred metres at least, I knew something was off here.
Even if they got higher than the ground, they didn't get burnt from the heat, didn't get any damage at all, didn't raise any smoke pillars, and didn't get flattened like everything else in this world.
They looked as if they didn't belong to this place at all. And that made them man made hills in my eyes.
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They weren't hills, they were like great domes protecting something underneath. And there was a single possibility for what they were hiding; entrances to the underground world.
I'd seen lots of weird things in the apocalypse, heard about much weirder things in the universe. So a world like this wasn't enough to make me feel any shock or even surprise.
I only wanted to find my enemies, crash them, claim a base here, before thinking about going to another world.
When I got closer to one hill, I noticed that it was indeed weird. The hill surface looked smooth from outside, but from this close distance, I could see small protrusions that were so tiny to be noticed from far.
They were very small, but neatly arranged on the surface of the hill like it was an army of ants.
It wasn't normal, and everyone on my side also noticed these and started to turn vigilant.
"Get ready," I decided to activate my sacrifices first, "I'm going to do something for a few hours. Then we will attack this thing and see what secrets it holds."
I didn't wait for their answer and instantly activated the sacrifice of my class. I boosted my strength, defence, speed, my chariot's speed, and also a healing dome that was focused solely on me.
As for this healing shield, I spent one hundred million souls on it. No matter what lay down there, waiting for us, I planned to personally crush it without any care or worry about anything.
With such healing shields, and with everything else getting boosted, I doubted even a direct hit from the deadly portals on the islands I crushed before would leave a mark on my body.
"What were you doing just now?" The jumper seemed to see me for the first time using such a trick. In fact, all of the others saw me for the first time doing this, but he was the only one who got curious about this.
"I'm just getting ready," I didn't explain anything, took my dragon glaive out, pointed it towards that hill before adding, "we are getting inside now! Attack!"
I didn't intend to waste my breath or energy over this hill. So I took out my fallen gods, released their deadly attacks towards the hill.
*Screech!*
Well, it was an overkill! Who said this world was void of living creatures? This hill wasn't a hill, it was a creature actually. I couldn't tell what it was as the attacks just burnt it and turned it into dust.
For a reason, what the suns here failed to do, my fallen gods managed to accomplish. The hill screeched before it puffed in thin air, releasing a thick cloud of ash.
"Let's go!" and as I expected, underneath it was a wide hole that spanned for hundreds metres.
That hill was covering up the entrance of that tunnel. And that meant there was an underground world down there waiting for me, filled with enemies.
The moment I passed through it, I noticed a few things.
This tunnel wasn't by any means natural! It was weirdly smooth, with gaps on regular intervals, looking like giant stairs or something.
It went directly down for a hundred metres, then became horizontal for another hundred metres, then vertical again. I kept following it for half an hour, while the heat finally got its way inside.
And that brought tons of sizzling sounds before all the noises suddenly vanished.
Whatever happened back there meant the enemy didn't just depend on the hill like monsters to protect their entrances. There were other means to keep the deadly heat out.
I clenched my glaive, while moving in a dimly lit world. And that was another weird aspect about this place.
We were underground, without a single hole leading to the surface. It was impossible for lights to come down here. And yet, I could see light coming to this tunnel, from a direction that was impossible to get such lights, the bottom!
That meant there was something at the end of that tunnel. "Is this Alice's rabbit hole or what?" and when we got closer to the source of that light, the place became brighter, and Sara couldn't help but ask in weird excitement.
Chapter 1417 The Underground World
Girl! Do you like such fairy tales or what? If so then it was expected why she was acting in such an energetic way inside the apocalypse.
To her, it seemed this entire apocalypse and adventures were like living a dream, living inside a fairy tale or something like that.
But she wasn't wrong here. As we got out of the rabbit hole, I saw another world in front of my eyes.
This one didn't have any suns at all, didn't look as hot as the surface looked like, and wasn't empty.
In fact when I came out, what met my eyes was the grand gathering of tons of flying things.
These weren't like islands, it was more like the Hescos' suits. If not for the huge bodies of the ones wearing these suits, I'd have doubted them to be part of the Hescos.
Each single one of them was at least one hundred metres in length, and they looked like they were the same in shape and size.
Some had pillar-like bodies, others got bodies like pagodas, and some looked like they were mountains or something.
Many got tentacles, others got many arms, and few didn't get anything at all. I even saw a group who looked like spheres, perfect spheres without a single arm, limb, or tentacle coming out from them.
As for the ground, there were tons of forces there. I spotted the Silences, locusts, fiends, and even Exomachines.
"Well well, what a nice welcoming party this is," I didn't feel any surprise or worry, even when I saw a new race here, not even when I got totally surrounded.
"They seem to wait for us," Sara moved forward, standing by my side, looking with fiery eyes towards the entire world around, "this is more what I like! A straightforward enemy, one who doesn't lean towards cheap tactic tricks!"
"Tactics aren't cheap!" Legend stood up and became on my side, "wars can't be won without tactics!"
"I hate tactics!" Sara blurted out, and when I turned around, I spotted most of my generals stepping up and standing beside me.
Only Isac remained behind with a general that seemed to not grow interested in all this, that jerk, the jumper.
Seeing that dude standing back there told me his man wasn't indeed here in this world.
"What will we do now?" it was Isac who asked the question, and it wasn't me who answered it.
"We will fight for sure," it was Sara, and she spoke in such an excited tone that told me she was barely holding herself from jumping outside and fighting.
"Then..." Isac didn't need to say anything as everyone around me turned and gazed over my direction. I knew they wanted to fight, but I was the only one who would grant them the ability to do so.
"Just wait here for a few minutes," I didn't hurry to take out my warriors. Instead I stepped over the edge of my chariot, ready to jump, "I'll clear a path for you then you can join me down there."
"Tsk, having all the fun for yourself first, that's not fair!" Sara grunted from behind, and I couldn't help but laugh while jumping high in the air, getting out of the protection of my chariot's shield.
"If you have the ability, then you shall come down here first."
"Tsk!"
The moment I went outside my chariot's shield, the entire world seemed to set its deadly gaze and lock it upon me.
I felt tons of eyes falling on me, with immense pressure coming from everywhere. But that didn't matter. I already prepared myself with the best boosts I could have. And I was ready to start out a big fight solo, facing the entire world alone.
My aim was to first test those flying things wearing suits. They wore suits that were similar to the Hescos from the surface.
I couldn't tell if these suits were just the same as the ones worn by Hescos, and would work to protect the owners from most attacks except ones filled with spiritual power.
Would they be different? Like the gears of the fiends? Giving those creatures special abilities and skills? Would these suits boost their defences and strengths? Or did they have other effects?
I needed to test them first to determine the best approach to crush them. I also wanted to test my technique over them. No matter how I looked, these new enemies looked quite formidable.
If I could snatch a good number of them, then it'd be great!
The new enemy spanned to cover the entire sky here. The sky was different from the one at the surface, at least it had clouds.
I appeared from a hole in the sky, and when I looked back at that hole, I saw it was like a small star, emanating light towards here.
How come? Weren't lights coming from down here? Or does this world have some sort of complicated mechanism to divert the light from outside to down here?
As for the new enemies with suits, they were in millions, tens of millions, or even more if the entire world was filled with them. Their suits came in colours, like the suits of Hescos.
I saw all colours all around as if it was some sort of festival. The moment I became airborne, free from the protection of my chariot's shield, the entire world acted against me.
It was enough evidence that the ones leading this world knew more news about me and my abilities and items. So they knew trying to get me inside my chariot would be futile.
The chariot was well protected with a sturdy shield. And so they never let their forces attack me until I stepped out from that shield.
And then everything tried to get a bite off me!
Endless streams of lights fell over my body like flashes of cameras, while many weapons got thrown at me from everywhere.
I saw gears, the gears of fiends, the ones who could explode or attack under the fiends' control, coming at my direction. I saw sabres, swords, glaives, spears, and arrows heading at me from the ground.
Chapter 1418 One Eyed Giants And Suited Creatures
I saw bolts of lightning, fire, ice, wind, and even rocks coming at me. I even saw many of the suited enemies move directly towards me, seemingly wanting to crush me using their immense bodies and insane strengths.
I watched all this coming and landing over my body, without feeling a single speck of worry. My body got slammed fiercely with endless attacks, and the next instant, I moved my glaive around, cleaving many of the attacks falling on me into shreds.
The attacks seemed deadly, but most couldn't sustain the brutal attacks of my glaive. At the same time, few managed to survive, or evade the assault of my glaive using superb speed, ending up hitting me.
I felt like I got crushed by a mountain, and yet I didn't feel any pain. I checked, and my body emerged unscathed from such a brutal attack.
"Sorry but this isn't enough to take me down," like a god talking to mortals, I slowly muttered while ignoring crushing the incoming attacks, aimed at the nearby enemies with suits, and hit them with my glaive.
The clash didn't last for a few seconds, not more than ten actually, before I got thrown by the sheer force of these attacks towards the ground.
At the same time, the ones I hit with my glaive ended up the same, falling to the ground, smashing many others in their paths.
I didn't care about where or how I landed, focused entirely over the enemies I just hit with my glaive.
"Quite formidable indeed!" Even when using my glaive, only a few wounds were left there. Golden thick blood droplets oozed out from their wounds, but they weren't that deadly enough to take them down.
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"Tsk! This will be quite harder than I expected," seeing this told me their defences got enough boost to match my boosted strength and scary glaive.
But who said I couldn't kill them? I never doubted my ability to crush them all. However, I'd take a long time to do so.
I planned to get rid of the enemies here, establish a base, before moving out towards another world in one week or ten days at most. I wanted to visit two more worlds before finally returning to my ground zero zone, and get ready to take part in the upcoming challenge at the twenty worlds.
But no matter how I saw it, taking down this world would take one month or even more!
"Scram!" When I got down there, endless ground enemies came flooding in my direction. I slammed my glaive at the Exomachines, fiends, locusts, and even new races that looked like giants with one eye only.
These dudes looked quite scary. Each was fifteen metres tall, having bodies that looked like it got formed out from rocks and lava combined.
I saw rivers of lava running from the top of their shoulders and necks, running all the way across grooves in their chests, abdomen, legs, ending up at the ground.
The paths they walked left behind long trails of red lava behind. They wore nothing at all, and looked quite scary and strong.
However no matter how strong they were, a single wave of my glaive boosted by my strength was enough to kill many, send others flying backwards with deep wounds.
Even those rocky one eyed giants didn't end up any better than others. They might not get killed by my glaive, but they got thrown back, clearing a long and wide path from many enemies they crushed in their way, before falling on the ground, rolling and killing more of the enemy forces.
Yet that was like throwing a rock in the middle of an ocean. My actions would never do anything at all, especially when the aerial army of those suited dudes was coming and attacking from far towards me.
"Tsk! I wanted to stretch my muscles but you all got too damn serious from the start," watching all this made me softly chuckle, take out my pillar, and release my shields.
"Get ready, you are going to control one shield zone each," and as I summoned enough shields to protect a zone, I ran outside, killing anything that stood in my path, while shouting in my chariot's direction.
It would be an overkill to let my generals lead warriors and fight the endless enemy forces in the open here. So I planned to let each general lead a single shield zone, clear it, before moving them towards another region using the ability of my shields to merge together.
This might be quite slow, but it was much safer. I already accepted the fact that taking down a base here would consume a long time no matter how hard I tried.
So if I'd not be able to do it fast, it was better to crush the enemy with the least losses if possible.
Even if my tactic here would make it hard to control a base in one month, it was still worth a shot.
The enemies were helpless against my shields. And I used this to my advantage, aimed towards training my forces here on how to face off the enemy forces in this world.
This was just the second world, and the enemy showed such great gathering. I felt like by reaching the last couple worlds, I'd end up facing a huge gathering of forces, including the scary worms.
I wanted to train my forces to face off the different enemy units. So when we'd face the scary worms, I'd worry only about the worms, not care about handling any other enemy.
I kept moving in between the enemy forces while tons of damage got negated by my healing and defences boosts.
I jumped off from time to time, hitting those suited enemies in the air. I never managed to get one killed yet. And all I could leave behind were shallow wounds, oozing golden blood.
As for those one eyed giants, they also proved to be a tough opponent. They might not be tanky like those suited dudes, but I also failed to kill a single one of them.
Chapter 1419 We Can't Do That!!!
The best I could do was to leave behind deep wounds, exploding rivers of lava out of their bodies.
I got the impression that if I followed through, attacking more a few times, aiming at the deep wounds I left on their bodies, then I could easily kill them.
But I never got the chance to do so. My glaive was indeed overbearing, sending out all of my enemies far away from my reach.
And the enemies never gave me any room or chance to follow my first attacks with more to kill those giants at least.
This slowly started to get on my nerves! I wanted to see one of the two formidable races here getting killed on my hands. This would bring me satisfaction and quite the relief.
As for the once scary Exomachines, they ended up malfunctioning under my glaive like usual. And with my strength boost, I even cleaved a few into two halves, smashing many parts of others.
They might be scary against others, but against me with a strength boost, it simply turned into an overkill.
I kept moving around, laying down one group of shields after another. I didn't leave behind any warriors for now as they needed generals to lead them.
If I threw my warriors simply like that, then things would turn quite ugly and I'd lose most if not all of them.
Putting aside the scary new one eyed giant dudes, the flying suited ones, the other forces of the enemy weren't pushovers!
There were the scary fiends, the hard to deal with silences, and the annoying locusts.
I decided to lay down the foundations first using shields. Then I'd let my warriors out, led by one general in each zone.
And then I'd start to clean the outside forces using my shields' scary attack.
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For a reason, I felt like the end result this time wouldn't be as remarkable as usual. There were the Exomachines, the ones who could shield anything and anyone away from the deadly attack of my shields.
And there were two new races here! I didn't know if they could handle my attack or not.
Not knowing the answer made me more focused on trying it out.
"Come down here!" I gave the order to my chariot, and it moved fast and reached my place at the next moment.
"Listen well…" I looked around and before I'd say anything, the jumper was the one to interrupt me.
"This battle isn't going to be easy."
"I know that…"
"It's going to be long."
"That's expected…"
"I hate being delayed on what I wanted to do," that dude said, and when I thought he was going to complain about my tactics, he suddenly added, "this world must have a core. Why won't we aim towards it? Why don't we dig deeper, explode this entire damn place to shreds and get out from here?"
"..."
Actually this was the first time, the first time I could recall, that this jumper acted this decisively and proposed something so brutal and decisive.
He was desperate, he wanted to get out of here as soon as he could.
Delaying ourselves here meant he'd get delayed from going towards the world that held his dude. And he knew that we got less than one month left before the grand opening of the twenty worlds' gates.
If he couldn't get to the world of his man by that time, then he'd end up waiting for much more. Without securing and stabilising the situations at the twenty worlds, I'd not allow for a single one of them to roam other enemy homebases.
Not to mention I was the only one with the ability to get anyone towards new enemy homebase worlds. So he needed my help, and I wouldn't ever allow him to do anything aside from handling the situation at the twenty world's first.
He also was sure that the moment the twenty worlds got opened, a hellish period of fight and hard times were awaiting us.
"We can't do it," I knew what he wanted to do. If we were already underground, why wouldn't we dig deeper and reach the core of this planet?
This was a world, but like any other world it resided on a planet. And like any planet, destroying the core would turn the entire planet into an impossible to live in place, or even explode it to shreds.
This dude wanted me to focus on digging the ground, moving to the core, exploding it using my methods, and then ending up ruining everything here.
"Reason?" he calmly asked, but I could feel his endless rage just from this calm tone.
"We need this world," I sighed, before adding, "we actually need every single world here."
"Why? We got many worlds back at home to conquer! And we have twenty worlds to conquer!"
"You don't get it yet, don't you?" I rolled my eyes before adding, "look around! Have anyone seen such races before?"
"Trying to control them isn't going to work," he noticed how my threads and techniques failed to control the Exomachines before it seemed, "and it's pointless! Once we conquer the apocalypse, our journey will be over."
"Wrong!" I decisively responded with a firm shake of my head, "once we cleared the apocalypse, controlled all the worlds in it, our real adventure will have just begun."
"This…"
"Let me tell you something…" I looked around, gazed at all the others while slowly adding, "you may think we just got unlucky here by meeting up such weird and formidable foes. But believe it or not, this isn't our first time meeting such an enemy."
"I never recall meeting such an enemy before," the jumper kept leading the debate against me, "not in this life, not even in any other life I lived!"
pAn,Da n<0,>v,e1 "You are wrong again," I slowly shook my head before adding, "remember the pocket world?"
"What about it?" The jumper was still glaring at me, as if he wanted to devour me, force me to follow his desires and needs, lead him away after crushing this entire world here or even ditch everything and leave.
Chapter 1420 A Dilemma
"It was also led by an enemy like the ones we are fighting here."
"..."
This time I could feel the atmosphere getting heavier as everyone got shocked and quite scared.
Many didn't witness my pocket world battle. After all, I went inside alone to chase after my two kidnapped girls.
But the stories about it spread over, not to mention most if not all of them already visited that world more than once already.
"Your meaning?" The jumper kept silent, like everyone else, for a long minute before slowly asking.
"My point is, meeting this enemy here isn't just a stroke of bad luck or coincidence… We are destined to meet this enemy more often, more than what any of you might have thought! We are destined to fight, not just here, not just at our apocalypse, but what lies beyond the vast universe, and even what lies beyond that."
pAn,Da n<0,>v,e1 I stopped, left them to absorb what I just said before slowly adding, "accept it earlier, the earlier it is, the better. This enemy won't disappear from our lives when we leave here. So take this chance, try to get used to dealing with them, find ways to crush and kill them without losing your lives in the process."
I turned around, towards this world where things looked quite difficult and very challenging, "this isn't just a hiccup, an obstacle we need to overcome… This is a training ground, one that'll prepare us for what yet to come."
I stopped while moving my chariot towards the nearest shield zone and added, "Who is going to take the first honour this time?"
I said it, referring to the time when I opened the portals to other worlds and the jumper stepped up.
"He took it last time, let me go this time," Sara was the first one to speak, faster than Legend who was just half beat away from volunteering.
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"Cool," I didn't tell her anything, not to slow down, not to try and think wisely, not even considered giving her any tactic. I simply added, "attack with all your might, do everything you want, and never stop fighting."
"Will I stay inside forever?" She asked, referring to the time of taking over the central zones at the twenty areas from before.
"No, this time we'll invade the world, one shield at a time."
She didn't get it at first, like many others. But the jumper, Isac, and Legend managed to pick what I truly meant.
Others would understand, eventually.
"What about my forces? Armies? Warriors?" she looked at me like I was abandoning her in the middle of nowhere or something.
"Take these…" I waved, and instantly tons of warriors appeared. I had lots of forces with gears, and so I took out two million mixed troops wearing gear in addition to other warriors with full stats, reaching all into ten million.
"This…"
I held my horn, never cared about her reaction, and shouted to all of them, "Follow her orders as if they came from me."
It was enough and direct to make them follow her lead.
"Thanks," her shock turned into excitement, jumping at once from my chariot before vanishing through hers towards the bottom.
"Tsk, she is quite impatient!" I shook my head, "she didn't give me time to explain the role of the new troops with gears."
"Don't worry about that," Legend suddenly said, "all of us are well aware of how deadly your geared forces are."
"Good," I nodded, "but there are few formidable foes down there, even new ones as well."
"We got to watch and analyse them while you kept fighting," Isabella said, "don't worry, we weren't slacking back there."
"Great," I controlled my chariot and moved it towards the next shield, "who is going to take the next one?"
One by one, I left my generals at each zone, leaving behind the same alignment of forces in each zone.
Such a grand number of troops was enough to crush the enemy. However there were those one eyed giants, and those flying suit dudes.
After I finished doing this, I turned my attention towards one simple task… I should find a way to solve the problem of these forces outside the shields, especially these two annoying races.
The moment I stepped into my chariot, not a single enemy tried to attack me. I roamed the place freely, while considering my options here.
I could simply use my shields down there to stack damage and then release them outwards. Or, I could create shields, activate bones, and release them inside these shields.
I could summon a grand army of my elites, start a grand massacre all over the place. Or I simply could use the artefacts of mine, try to affect gravity to handle those flying bastards and augment the strength of my forces at the same time.
The first method was simply the easiest one. I'd just wait for a day or two, release the counterattack from my shields, and then wait for the attack to end and assess the results.
However, after what I witnessed before at the hands of those Exomachines, I knew it was possible for many if not most of the scary dudes on the enemy side to shield themselves and survive this attack.
The second method wasn't bad actually. My exploding bones were really a killer! I doubted any of the enemies here would withstand any of such attacks.
But there was a catch here, I should drop any idea of taking loot back from these dudes. Not a single bone or gear would be left after such a brutal attack. And that would be considered a big loss to me.
I could wipe out an army and would accept such loss, but wouldn't take the loss of the entire world being dealt in such a way.
After all, the method I'd select here would be considered the standard way to control this world, and other worlds that I haven't explored yet.
Chapter 1421 Starting My Counterattack
Putting all this into consideration, I knew that it wasn't feasible and practical using such a deadly move. "I should leave this as the last resort way to deal with them," I decided.
As for the third way, it'd be a very exciting way to crush them, but in return I'd end up losing too much. And if the scale of the battle spanned outwards, covered a huge stretch of land, I'd not be able to control everything, and would suffer more losses eventually.
"Ok, I'll use the first one," I decided, "but I'll start scattering shields then."
I didn't have generals to lead from my friends, but I got generals whom I got from Silverlining. All of them would be enough to lead a single shield, and that would greatly help.
The bigger the number of shields, the faster the speed of taking control of this part of the world. At the same time, the amount of damage stored in ten shield zones would be much weaker than the amount stored in tens and even hundreds of shields.
I didn't even need to leave generals at all the zones. The most important fact about this army here was that it was mostly locusts. And these dudes were like headless flies, running amok all over the place, trying to get to the shields I left before.
As I decided, I started to create more shields, leaving behind the same mix of troops I left behind. At some point, I reached places that got filled entirely with locusts. And those were the result of spreading many shields in a circular fashion.
The locusts took the charge and led themselves around the shields. When they started to swarm the place, just in mere minutes, the huge central ground that was filled with normal mix of troops before changed to be filled mainly by locusts.
There I didn't leave a general behind, and didn't even leave the two million of my elites. I left a few hundred thousand, enough to take down any stray forces in these regions.
As this trick worked, and the enemy couldn't handle it as the locusts weren't the kind of troops to listen to orders and logic, I started to replicate it!
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I grouped every ten shields to surround a grand area of ten miles radius inside. This helped a lot in clearing lots of land, controlling many parts already as the rest of forces with little sanity found a way out fast enough to evade my traps.
From the look of it, the enemy was very wary of my shields. And that made my early doubts about the enemy having ways to deal with my scary offensive attacks of my shields more grounded.
pAn,Da n<0,>v,e1 That didn't stop me. What I was doing was like forcing the enemy to reshape their entire forces in the region. And that brought a great idea into my mind.
I started to take into account the grand design of the circles I was drawing using my shields. Instead of throwing them around without order, I started to form a bigger circle filled with my smaller circles of shields.
The enemy would flock out most of their forces, the most formidable ones, outside these circular zones. They'd leave behind few, and that wasn't a decision they willingly selected.
The locusts prevented many from leaving in time. And when I started to distribute my circular shielded zones in the design I had in mind, the enemy lost more of their formidable forces.
At the same time, the number of the enemy forces outside when I got finished from doing that looked quite pathetic.
They weren't arranged in any formation, standing on the ground or flying in the air in disarray.
Seeing this made me grin evilly. The enemy focused more on running away, fearing from the last devastating bone exploding attack I used back at the previous world before coming here.
And when I started to widely spread my shields, they began to run with fear and desire to survive above anything else.
At first they retreated while keeping their formation. Yet later on that all changed, and all they cared about was how to survive and not fall under my traps.
The end result was quite expected. I was quite sure their leaders and superiors were spreading out orders, trying to arrange them, and they'd soon succeed.
Yet that'd take a long time to happen. And who said I should give them the chance to do that?
It was time to test the effectiveness of my soulers and repeaters, enhanced with my gears, over these one eyed giants and flying suited dudes.
"Lucas… A grand feast is waiting for you!" I took almost half of the remaining forces inside my inventory out, and let Lucas handle them all.
"Sure lord, do you want to attack a single region or everywhere?"
"Clear any enemy around my shields, don't stop until I bring you back or give you the order to stop and retreat."
"Leave this to me," Lucas was such a dependable and capable dude who would simply do what I wanted without much hustle.
He led his forces at the spot, didn't even think about arranging them at all, and started the killing spree.
"Hmm… So these suited dudes can withstand my soulers? Interesting…"
I still recalled how these dudes withstood the attacks of my glaive before. And now they were able to stay against my soulers while flashing through their bodies.
Yet there were too many crazy soulers and reapers out there. The two worked together and didn't relent until they started to bring these suited dudes one by one.
"Damn! Almost ten thousand flashes are needed to kill a single one? That's scary and crazy!" I now realise why my glaive couldn't handle these suited dudes quite well.
My glaive's strength was slightly stronger than a thousand soulers. I tested it before back at the last world I visited.
And now the mystery of my glaive failure to kill a single dude of them was cleared.
Chapter 1422 How Take Giants Down
These dudes were quite scary! They needed ten thousand flashes to get killed! That was simply too much!
My glaive wasn't enough, and now I had to rely over my soulers to take them down.
These suited dudes were trouble! There was also something scary about them. They were able to take down many of my soulers at the same time.
Taking one of them down cost almost one hundred of my soulers! That was insane!
However I didn't give the order for Lucas to retreat. In fact, amidst all my forces, soulers and reapers were the only ones able to kill these crazy dudes.
But when the other geared warriors of mine stepped in, things changed.
My Bulltor like warriors were crazy! Their strength was quite formidable and it seemed these suited dudes got something against brute strength.
And when the shield bearer, like warriors, stepped in, used their combined skills, the losses of my soulers fell by a great margin.
From one hundred, only ten or even less would fall in exchange for taking down a single dude of them.
"Time to give you a little boost," once I saw this, I knew it was time for me to help. I took tons of my bones out, and started to gush the energy inside the tripod artefact.
The tripod would boost my strength, defence, speed, and even healing. The moment I used it, the scale of battle shifted all of sudden.
The suited dudes who proved to be troublesome to deal with turned magically into weak and vulnerable foes, ones who got crushed much easier than before.
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I didn't try out my gravity board as I didn't need to do so. Since the first souler flashing at any of these flying dudes, he'd lose his ability to fly and fell to the ground, unable to fly again until he'll die.
Like this, the aerial advantage they got was nullified by my forces. At the same time, they became the common target of other warriors as well.
Not to mention falling in the middle of my forces made it impossible for them to find each other, regroup, and form a strong defensive formation or something like this.
That meant the ones that got hit were doomed to die at the end. The best thing they could do was to activate their weapons and release whatever they could at my forces.
In the end this ended up with nothing thanks to my shield bearer like forces. Watching the scale of battle change in such a way and the speed of taking down the mighty suited forces of the enemy went this smooth made me laugh.
That was the hardest troop in the enemy ranks, and they ended up dead by the hands of my boys.
As for the one eyed giants, they were indeed a little weaker. However they have a very troublesome ability.
If they didn't get every single rock of their bodies smashed into dust, then they'd regenerate and return to full health perfectly once again in a few minutes.
I saw it! Saw many of the once gotten destroyed one eyed rocky giants stand up again, with their smashed parts returning magically back to reattach with their bodies.
"They are like immortals, but they aren't totally immortal," I muttered this to myself, while thinking about how the ones I hit before got themselves healed already without realising this till now.
When I augmented the stats of everyone on my side, this changed. The hits of my forces were enough to smash lots of their bodies, and I noticed that when their entire bodies got smashed, they wouldn't resuscitate again.
"Listen up, the one-eyed rocky giants have such a troublesome feature..." When I realised this point, I held my horn and spoke to all of my warriors around.
As for my generals back there, I sent them messages, informing them about what they should do to kill these troublesome dudes.
[How about telling us how to kill those flying suits? They are invincible!] Legend asked, trying to get the secret behind such a troublesome enemy.
[It's easy, just let the soulers flash and they'll lose their ability to fly]
[We already noticed that!] he argued, [And it didn't work! They ended up flying again without having much wounds on their bodies! And when they returned to fly, their wounds started to heal]
[Just make the soulers hit them on intervals, and they won't fly]
[I thought about that. But how to kill these dudes then?]
[Use simple offensive troops, use normal brutal force to take them down] I paused before adding, [In the forces I left, there are enough defensive forces. Use them to defend your side and keep these suited dudes on the ground using soulers. Then kill them using everyone else]
[Ok, will try this out]
[It worked with me, and will work quite fine with you] I knew there was something different. I got my troops boosted by my trips artefact. But that wouldn't really matter.
pAn,Da n<0,>v,e1 The number of strong enemies left at their shields wasn't that high to begin with, not like what my forces were facing at the moment.
The enemy sent tons of these suited guys over to my location, trying to submerge me with these dudes and kill as much of my forces as possible.
Comparing the two together, it wasn't that hard to get rid of these annoying suited troops at Legend and others' places.
I kept leading my forces here, supporting them with my tripod after spreading all I got to everyone else.
I also sent the right way to handle these suited dudes as I told Legend about.
I didn't use too many bones this time, and so the boosts I gave to my forces weren't anything like what I used before when dealing with the Hescos.
After all, at that time, I was using one artefact to counter the effect of another on my forces. And that costs too much energy to do so.
Chapter 1423 Drums!
Gradually the entire situation here changed and became the focus of the enemy troops in this region. The enemy troops weren't in good formation at first, but after an hour, they started to form themselves and lined up, coming at me in a more organised fashion.
The counter move I used was to increase the amount of energy I sucked and directed towards my tripod artefact. The increased energy helped in relieving lots of pressure over my side, and even when the enemy came prepared, they couldn't achieve anything worth mentioning.
On the contrary, when my forces absorbed the shock of the enemy's arrival and stood their ground firmly, they started to push the enemy backwards, killing lots of them at fast speed.
This took almost five hours to happen, and then the enemy started to witness what could be best described as their nightmare.
[I cleared my zone] and just after a couple hours, I got such a message first from Sara.
[Wait, I'm coming back for you] I already saved their shields' locations into my staff. And so it was a piece of cake for me to return back to her place.
"Nice job!" The moment I arrived, I noticed that the entire zone was emptied from any enemy. The ground was tilled with enemy corpses, and many of my warriors got killed as well.
Sara was simply lunatic at fighting. And it was expected to lose most of her forces in return to achieving such a fast victory.
But when I saw more than two thirds of her forces standing erect, I couldn't help but comment in praise.
"I just followed your advice," she shrugged, "come on, give me one more zone to kill."
"Sure," I left a grand area nearby my generals shields to use as an expansion place for all of them.
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I went to the nearest place and used my pillar to create new shields that merged with her shields and expanded to cover up a grander space.
"Have fun!" I said before taking my leave. The place I added to her zone was already filled to the brim with many of the enemy forces, with few locusts and more formidable foes.
After all, the locusts were mainly gathered around the grand circular gathering of my shields. And the forces here were part of the troops who hurriedly retreated and went far away from my circular trap.
As I knew she was going to have it a bit harder this time, I left over another batch of warriors before starting the merge.
I doubled her forces, and intended to do so with other generals as well.
One by one, they started to tell me about their success in clearing their sides. They lost different parts of their forces, some lost one third, others lost one tenth, and one like the jumper lost two thirds of his forces!
His luck was really so damn bad! The enemies he faced were mostly formed of elites and not just locusts like other zones.
I didn't know how bad the luck this dude had, to end up having a zone formed of the enemy leading base of this region.
Tsk! That dude was indeed a magnet for trouble without doubt!
After doing all this, I returned again to the frontline. During the time I was gone, my forces didn't suffer that much.
The loss of my boosted artefact effects didn't greatly impact them. After all, my forces got the momentum and upper hand. Besides, I never went for more than half an hour each time.
I started to push them forward, forming shields around areas where new reinforcements arrived from far away to intercept their paths, force them to divide, and lose their formation until reaching the grand battle zone.
After twelve hours of doing so, I decided to visit my warriors, the ones I left in the circular zones I formed from before.
As expected, they managed to clear all the enemies already inside their shields. Their losses weren't that bad, the worst lost one fifth of their entire numbers.
"Follow me outside," as I got such a grand area cleared, I repeated the same, used my shields to surround another region nearby, expanding my turf to new lands.
Then I held my horn, and ordered all of them to pass from one shield to another, following my chariot towards the new shields.
Then I let them swarm the shields surrounding tons of enemy forces inside, taking them in batches.
I knew using such a tactic would speed things up for sure. And so I decided to add more of these circular regions nearby, to allow them to take their time in taking down these shields while I was busy dealing with a hectic battlefield.
pAn,Da n<0,>v,e1 *Doom!* *Doom!*
And just after I returned back to the frontline again, a weird loud bangs appeared like thunder exploding in my ears.
"These... Are these drums of war?" I could pick up a rhythm, something that wasn't usual in the apocalypse.
Drums were used by few ancient human civilizations, leading their armies into wars, giving them orders, and raising morale.
It was uncommon to hear drums in any place in the apocalypse. I once heard one human overlord who came from the East had armies led by drums.
*Doom!* *Doom!*
The drums kept releasing their scary noises, and from that I could tell whoever was using these drums, they were coming closer to here.
"I should expect something grand and brand new, right?" I muttered to myself, while preparing for a grand battle.
The sounds of drums kept coming and rising up slowly, as if it was gathering up momentum or something. After just a few minutes, I could tell that there were hundreds of thousands of these drums and that was why they caused such terrifying thunderous noises.
If just the number of the drums was in such high count, how about the armies they led towards here? I expected tens of millions coming, and that wasn't a problem.