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Chapter 1424 High Zombies

The problem lay in what nature these creatures were. Were they a hard to counter race? Just like those suited dudes for example? Or were they something trivial and easy to crush, like the locusts and Silences?

When I recalled the Silences, I couldn't help but inwardly sigh. These dudes were considered the scariest forces any of my universe realm ever faced.

But now they were just like weed, easy to get crushed and didn't even pose a single threat against me.

I knew this was thanks to my early preparations for this quest and fifth quest in general. If not thanks to that, if not thanks to my class, if not for Silverlining, things would have ended up quite bad actually.

I steeled myself while waiting for the arrival of that new enemy. And in less than ten more minutes, the enemy finally appeared.

And when I saw them, I couldn't help but suck in a cold air of breath.

What the heck were these creatures? They got giant bodies, ones that were covered up with naturally acquired shields.

These shields were irregular in shape, few were circular, others were diamond, and few were triangles and even squares in shape.

They came one on top of another as if they formed layers, and that gave these creatures a fierce look.

From the first glance, I could tell many similarities in these foes with zombies I fought back at Earth.

Were they a higher version of the zombies? Or locusts? Were they a hybrid race or what?

The early batches were formed of such giant shaped monsters which walked on six pairs of thick and strong limbs. Their heads were like an onion head, with hair rising up against the ground, moving around as if they were some sort of working radar or something.

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After the early wave appeared, other smaller sized monsters appeared. These were walking on four limbs, had four others like arms holding weapons.

They were the same size as my Hectors and Bulltors, while their bodies were covered with smaller shields that looked like rude and ugly looking scales.

They looked strong. And their heads still had hair rising up, moving in a regular way as if they were detecting something.

Both types got big elliptical eyes. In the giant king, these eyes were flashing in dangerous dark light, with five pairs of eyes spread all over the big head of theirs.

In the case of the other smaller kind, they got two pairs of elliptical eyes, shining in bright and frightening purple lights.

I called the first giant ones the black high zombies, and the other type I called the purple high zombies.

And even when the two kinds appeared, those holding drums didn't appear yet.

I didn't know how far they were, but it was clear they were not far from here.

The tactic of the enemy was easy to grasp. They'd use the huge black high zombies to act as tankers, while the smaller purple high zombies would act like the killers.

I had to say the two kinds of high zombies had many similarities with the real zombies and even locusts. They got pale skin that showed from the gaps in between their shields.

Even their movements, especially the giant black high zombies, were similar to the moves of the zombies and locusts.

But there was a very crucial and major difference between the zombies and high zombies. The former wouldn't walk in such regular lines, or hold themselves when seeing my lovely forces.

However the high zombies were acting as if they were a regular force or something. They looked sane enough to take formations, listen to orders, and suppress their natural desire to consume my forces.

I knew they got such an instinct as they kept drooling and letting their saliva out of their mouths just like when zombies meet any living creature.

"Tsk... This is going to be a little hard," I knew the sole weakness point of the zombies lay in their insanity. They couldn't take formations, follow up orders, or execute the simple tactics.

But these high zombies solved such weaknesses. And that turned them into quite deadly enemies to face.

"I have to test them first," as the enemy brought out such a new race to the board, it wasn't right to let my elite forces fight them head on.

It went without saying that the enemy already selected such a race as they could counter my elites here. Or else the enemy wouldn't generously give me such a grand army to kill.

"Stop them!" I moved my chariot and instantly created lots of shields to protect my forces. At the same time, I took out many warriors without stat points and asked them to go and test these folks out.

And the end result was something I didn't like.

The warriors couldn't do anything in regard to these enemies. The high zombies were like moving tanks, not suffering a single damage no matter how hard my forces attacked.

Their shields were dark brown in colour, not looking that sturdy. But for a reason, whenever they got attacked, their shields flashed with black light, and all the attacks got negated and deflected successfully without leaving a single scratch over the shields' surfaces.

And that wasn't all!

With their limbs, the giant black high zombies started to emit weird black fog out of them. And the next thing happened was for my forces to get stuck towards their limbs.

Suddenly many weird shaped and creepy looking mouths appeared all over these limbs, eating and swallowing my forces alive like they were nothing.

Not a single force got sucked and managed to break free. And seeing this scene made my scalp numb.

"Damn! They brought real trouble this time," I knew even if my geared forces got sucked, they'd end up swallowed and eaten without any exception.

These mouths were like bottomless pits, with a weird suction force and very sharp teeth that looked like they could devour anything in mere blinks.

Chapter 1425 Their Weird Ability

"Retreat!" Seeing such a scene made me instantly issue a grand retreat order, "get inside the shields, don't stay outside!"

It was time for me to use my last resort, the ace killers I had.

But first I needed my forces to retreat, all of them, or else they would get in the middle of such an attack.

I wanted to take them back and store them inside my inventory. But it was just impossible to tell which were standing on the ground here and which were back with my generals fighting with them.

So I got to wait for my forces to retreat, and that wasn't just a simple thing that would happen in a short time.

And I readied myself to lose lots of force in the middle of such a process.

"Time to set the final preparations then," if I wanted to kill such scary dudes, then I should use the deadliest and strongest attack I ever mustered.

And so I started to move, trap those high zombies inside lots of my shields. These high zombies might be killer and scary, but they got one single disadvantage; they couldn't fly!

As long as I kept my chariot high in the air, I was in the safe zone. And they couldn't stop me.

However when my forces started their grand retreat back to the shields I summoned before, the flying suited dudes came at me with a grand gathering of fiends.

They never tried out my chariot, but this time it seemed to grow slightly anxious. They started to attack me, trying their best to stop me from taking them down.

What they could do was to blind me by such densely packed attacks. As for taking down my shield or even scratching it, it was something that they should keep dreaming about and not truly see happening.

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I kept spreading out my shields, and the more I spread, the more of these scary folks getting entrapped.

Even the ones who came to stop me got trapped inside these shields, unable to extricate themselves out.

They wanted to stop me, and they ended up getting trapped inside my shields.

They tried to hit the shields and crack them, but my shields were sturdy and unable to get broken by their attacks.

I liked the result. If they kept coming at me like this then the end result would be quite disastrous to their side.

After almost an hour of doing so, and after spreading tons of shields all over the place, the enemy finally decided to stop coming at me, retreating as far away as possible.

And yet they kept sending off their high zombies towards me, like they never cared about such an attack coming at them at all.

The more I looked at it, the more I got how weird their actions were. There was a single reason that made sense to their weird attitude, and that was in the hidden abilities of these high zombies.

If the enemy wasn't that confident in the ability of his high zombies to deal with my upcoming deadly attacks, then they'd have recalled these troops back as they did with the precious fiends, suited dudes, and those one eyed giants.

Yet I never stopped my hand, and even got my actions a bit faster.

[Get ready, I'm going to use my fierce wave of attack] I sent this message to all of my generals, just to make sure that they were going to end up safe and not step outside the shields when the attack would arrive.

My forces already retreated back to the shields. I didn't have time to count my losses, and didn't care about that for now.

Almost two hours passed since I gave the order, and that was enough time for my forces and the enemies' to retreat to safe zones.

It was time to test how these high zombies would deal with my exploding bones.

I took one dark realm bone, green grade as usual, and got it activated. I threw it inside the shield the moment this bone got activated and shone brightly, then it released its deadly swarm of fire.

The shield turned all red, covered entirely in very berserk waves or fire.

However just before I'd leave this spot, head towards another shield to repeat the process, a new thing happened.

The fire that was supposed to keep raging wildly for days and even a week, ended up getting weaker and slightly fainter. I paused in my tracks before watching the fire that I released turned to show many white dots, gaps in the sea of fire.

Dammit! What was that? What caused such a thing to my precious fire?!!

I didn't move a single muscle and waited for these tiny white dots to expand slowly yet steadily, exposing what caused them.

Down there I saw something I never saw before.

The high zombies two kinds grouped together, the giant black high zombies stood in a circle around, surrounding the smaller purple high zombies inside.

They didn't just stand there idle without doing anything. The creepy mouths were all wide open, and they released thick black fog all over, sucking the deadly fire dry.

"Trying to eat my fire? That's an amazing trick!" I muttered in shock, before realising something.

The smaller purple high zombies lacked such ability to devour fire. However and for a reason, the black high zombies dealt with them like they were priceless treasures!

They surrounded them, protecting them from any fire coming to them. They emerged unscathed and unharmed from such a clash, ending up without losing a single one of them.

That was quite weird. If the black high zombies got such ability, why would they care about the weaker and smaller purple high zombies?

There was something that I didn't know. And for a moment there I thought about going inside and trying to mess up this formation.

But I decided to do something else almost the next second.

Chapter 1426 Adding More Bones

"If they can suck my fire, I refuse to believe they can do it permanently," I took out another bone, and this one was much higher in grade than the one I used to use in such an attack.

This one was a fine gold grade bone, one of the middle grade bones in my arsenal of bones.

It was the first time to use such a high grade bone. And when I activated it, I noticed it took much longer than the green bone to get activated.

The time needed to activate a single bone didn't take more than one minute before. And this one took close to five.

During this time, the fire inside got much weaker as the white dots expanded to become big circles.

It looked as if a majestic armour got hacked by the sharp weapons of the enemy. I didn't like seeing my deadly fire get such unfair treatment.

The weakness behind the enemy tactic was clear. If the black high zombies could absorb such energy effectively, then they'd have cleared the entire fire in a short time.

But even after the passage of close to half an hour, they just managed to clear no more than thirty percent of the total fire here. And the parts they cleared still got fire remnants at them.

It was clear how their effectiveness in absorbing the fire wasn't perfect. They had limitations, and could only absorb a limited amount per minute.

As a result, I planned to increase the amount of fire they had to absorb. Doing this would solve lots of problems indeed, add more pressure over them, and let them struggle to keep up.

I still didn't know what part the purple high zombies played in such a counter plan of the dark high zombies. However I was quite sure they had a role to play.

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Or else, if they just needed to sit there and get protected, the enemy would have withdrawn them a long time ago.

As they left them here, it wasn't just because they trusted the black high zombies to keep them alive, but because they played a role in such a defence.

No matter what, I intended to crush those inside no matter how many bones I used. The fire inside couldn't touch the high zombies, but it burnt the other races and enemies trapped inside.

I hated those high zombies, hated anything that could counter my abilities. And so after activating this bone, I released it inside and got one out at the same time and started activating it.

I'd never give those damn high zombies time to breathe!

The moment my bone entered, it released a much scarier wave of fire. Even my shields trembled, but didn't crack luckily.

It told how fierce the fire was. And the areas these high zombies worked to clear before got crushed almost in the next few seconds, vanishing from my sight, and everything in the shields zone turned to be bright red and little orange in colour.

I didn't stop my hands, kept activating the bone I got. During the five minutes taken to activate this bone, the enemy managed to barely clear small dots inside the ocean of red fire.

The white dots were the mark that these high zombies were keeping up. Yet the moment they appeared, I threw the second bone and took a third out.

"Let's see how many bones you'll consume until you burn," I was dead fixated on killing all of them, no matter how many bones they consumed.

The third bone was ready and this time these high zombies couldn't match my fire. The world inside the shields was totally covered with raging wildfire waves, nothing else.

"Die you motherf*ckers!" I threw the third bone, and then decided to leave towards the next shield zone.

I wanted to wait and see the result, but something told me this time they wouldn't survive.

Even if some managed to survive by a miracle, many would die. And they'd take a long time to clear part of the fire there.

I stored that location and moved towards the next shield zone. This time I didn't play around, took a dark gold dark realm bone from the start and activated it.

This bone took ten minutes to get activated. After throwing it inside the shield, I took another out and started activating it.

The fierceness of my fire this time didn't allow for the high zombies inside the shields to do anything to the fire. Instead they got all covered and bathed by the fire.

And then I threw the second bone, stored this location, then moved to the third shield zone.

I kept doing this for hours. After five hours, I decided to return back to check on the first shield world I tested my fine gold grade dark realm bones at.

When I jumped back, I saw a few white dots shimmering in the middle of all the red and orange sea around.

"Like I expected, they have limitations to how they can absorb the fire," seeing this made me take one more fine gold dark realm bone and activate it.

I decided to use the dark gold dark realm bones as the base for the attack, and fine gold grade bones as a supplement to the attack if needed.

And just seeing these few scattered away from each other white dots made me realise each shield needed a small boost.

I threw my bone out, while sticking my middle finger out to the enemies inside. "This is your death moment, b*tches," I snorted before moving towards the next shield and started to activate another bone.

After adding the fine gold dark realm bones to all the shields I visited, I decided to use two dark gold dark realm bones with one fine gold dark realm bones from the start at any shield zone.

If this proved to not be enough, then I'd add one more fine gold bone in the mix. Or perhaps replace all the fine gold bones with a single dark gold bone.

Chapter 1427 The Deadly Attack

I kept moving around and this time I spent ten hours before finally returning to check on the first shield zone.

And there I found no white dots at all.

"It's safe to assume they are all dead… However…" I decided to stay around and wait for another day before deciding such a crucial matter.

If the enemy found a way to remain alive inside, then it was better to add more fire to the shields and incinerate them once and for all.

I resumed releasing my bones at other shields. And when I ended up dealing with these shields, I started to seek more enemies and form new shields and do the same.

After doing this for endless times for over one day, I ended up returning back to the initial zone.

"Tsk, there are five stubborn dudes down there," I noticed five faint white dots, flickering in the middle of all the orange and red sea like they were going to die at any moment.

Seeing this made me take one more fine gold grade bone and started to activate it.

As this happened here, I decided to add one fine gold bone to other shields. And such a task took one more day to get it done.

I didn't hurry to return back, and decided to spend five more days spreading more shields and death all over the world.

I covered hundreds of miles, even thousands, with my shields. I didn't aim towards merging the shields together, and instead focused more on spreading them on regular intervals, to cover up more lands and prevent the enemy from grouping later on.

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Not to mention all these shields and deadly fire inside was enough for me to release a scary wave of attack.

However I wanted to first confirm the death of those inside these shields before releasing the stacked damage inside each shield and kill those way away from my reach.

The enemy didn't sit idle during this time. Instead, they kept moving their forces away from my reach, trying their best to stay away from me.

At the same time, I didn't let them retreat in such peace., instead I kept hunting them down. At some points, I kept releasing my shields at a far distance, entrapping inside many forces and preventing those behind from easily running away.

After spending five days in such a hectic chase and killing, I returned back to the first zone.

"Great, they are all dead by now," there wasn't a single speck of white in the middle of all redness and orange colours inside.

After almost one week, I was sure there wasn't anyone living inside. And if there were some, they would be heavily wounded and wouldn't pose any threat to me.

Out from the grand army the enemy brought here from these high zombies, I entrapped more than half already. The other half was entrapped in between the shields, unable to move forward easily, or even enter the shields to help their friends inside.

"Time to release the beast," I evilly grinned, made a group of shields somewhere, and entered inside to shield myself from the upcoming deadly attack.

Then I activated the offensive ability of my shields. And the next thing I saw was a very blinding bright light that turned silver red this time.

The silver red light bathed the entire world. I closed my eyes, decided to take this time to rest and consider my next move.

I already covered enough lands to call it a base. So it made sense to start merging the shields together, before asking Isac to lead others to build a base here.

"If I wanted, I could easily go towards another world," I spent almost two weeks here, enough for me to go and visit another world.

However building such a base here would take a long time indeed. I couldn't take Isac away, and leaving her behind to lead the building process and lead the forces out there didn't make any sense.

"I should leave her with another general then," this was the best solution to such a problem. And so I informed her to select one general to stay behind while she'd remain here to rebuild the entire world.

[I'll select Isabella] She sent after one day of thinking and considering everything. I didn't have any objection towards that, and simply thought it was a good choice.

Isabella was one of the all rounded generals here. Isac wasn't stupid, and she knew once she finished building the base here, a task that would take at least ten days, then she'd retreat back to the ground zero world.

-n0ve1,com We have a grand war coming, and I'd need her help to build tons of defences and bases in the twenty worlds.

So she selected one that could take over defence and offence at the same time, a perfect choice indeed.

I got Legend in mind as well as a suitable candidate. However Legend was far more important to my future plans at that upcoming great war to leave him rot in such a forsaken place.

[Fine] I sent, agreeing on her choice, [Tell everyone to get ready. Once this attack ends and I confirmed the death of everyone here, we'll return back to ground zero]

[Got it!]

I remained inside, while wondering for how long this attack would last.

I already spent close to two weeks here, much of it got wasted on exploring the higher surface without getting any clue about anything.

The real action started when I came here and got met with such deadly enemies. Despite it being hard, it was a bit more exciting than just wandering a scorching hot world.

The attack lasted for the entire five days. And once it got cleared, I started to examine the world around me.

This attack didn't last as long as I expected. But the devastation it left was clear.

The ground got lowered by fifty metres at least! The outer region that was away from the attack zone looked like huge walls of rocks standing all around the place.

Chapter 1428 I'm Unstoppable!

At the same time, the outside region didn't escape any damage. I didn't need to go and visit it to know this as I witnessed such an effect before.

As for the grand wall of rocks around, I could see it from my spot without the need to go and see for myself. Not to mention the ground inside the shields all got levelled up from the outer world, like they were standing pillars of stone or something.

I went inside my shields, and there I found not a single one alive. This kind of attack wouldn't leave behind any spoils to collect, and that was quite expected.

I found nothing inside the shields or outside it. That made me a little regretful, but I had no other choice than to do such a scary attack to kill the enemies here fast enough.

Not twenty days passed and less than ten days remained from the opening of the twenty worlds.

I have two choices now… One was to take this time to rest, arrange my forces in all the zones and two worlds I controlled so far, get my warriors out and feed them crystals, hunt down more fiends and add more gears to my forces and such.

Or, I should take the risk and invade another world, hoping that world wouldn't be that challenging like this one here.

Thinking about this took me roughly my entire stay inside the shield zone while waiting for the attack to get finished. And the decision I reached was simple.

"I should accumulate strength," I decided, "trying to risk opening another battlefield before the grand opening of the twenty worlds won't help me at all!"

This was the most logical and rational decision out of the two I got. Going to another world wouldn't just distract and exhaust my forces and generals, but would also consume tons of my forces.

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I didn't get much from this world actually. All I got came from the previous world I conquered.

"If so, then…" I sent a message to Isac, telling generals to rest and take it easy. Isabella would still lead the forces here with Isac supervising over the building process.

But other generals should rest as we wouldn't go and invade any other world for now.

They all accepted such a decision, all but one!

[I want to leave this damn place and go to another world!]

It was indeed none other than the jumper. I sighed when I received tons of such messages while travelling towards the grand mountainous walls out there.

I decided to explain things out for him first, but that dude acted as if he replaced his brain cells with sh*t!

He was relentless in his desire to go there, forcing me to send to him at the end of our long and useless discussion:

[If you have the ability, then be my guest! I won't stop you! Go and rescue that dude of yours by your two hands and stop pestering me!]

Yet he never stopped sending his annoying messages, till the extent that I prayed the system would add a block function to the messages or perhaps I should remove him from my friends list.

​ As for me, I decided to take this period hunting down more forces from the enemy side.

The enemy here was like a treasure trove! They had tons of strong and formidable forces, and I wanted a piece of such cake.

I went towards the mountainous walls, and there I found lots of enemy dead on the ground. I started to gather bones, to get tons of dark realm bones in addition to Holy Ones bones from the dead fiends.

I scattered normal warriors, asked them to gather up all the gears and scale like shields from the bodies of the fiends and high zombies. At the same time, I asked them to try and take off the suits from the suited dead race.

However the suits ended up attached to their bodies, and it proved impossible to take them off. That was similar to how the Hescos developed their suits.

And so I started to store away those suited dudes inside my cube while my warriors spread over to collect my trophies.

The area of damage of my blast expanded to cover thousands of miles. I took a day and half to just reach the end of that zone. And that grand zone was void of any life, filled with dead bodies, nothing more.

I kept taking out warriors and asked them to do the same task like others. And when I spotted living enemies, my eyes shone brightly.

At last! I instantly used my technique and released my threads to control those high zombies, the suited dudes, and even the fiends and one eyed giants.

"Tsk! All of them got something to stop my threads… Not a problem!" I knew it was now or never. I got little time to use and control these folks, or else I'd end up without gaining much from this trip to this world.

And so I started to use my cube, sucking all the forces in one hundred miles radius, before forcing them to sign a contract with me.

Such a method didn't take a few minutes, and ended up with a one hundred success rate. This was crazy! And the enemy never expected that I got such a method up my sleeves.

Using the cube I was unstoppable! I kept roaming the world for days, taking tons of forces until I lost count of how much I actually stored inside.

The enemy tried to stop me many times, ending up losing anyone they sent over to me. So instead of trying to attack and stop me, they tried to retreat their forces away from areas I was going to visit.

But that didn't stop me! No matter how hard they tried, they wouldn't be able to evacuate a hundred miles zone fast enough.

And even when they managed to do this, I started to store places, move in a fixed route that could be easily predicted, before jumping back to the places I visited, changed my route and hunted down the forces they retracted away before.

Chapter 1429 Clearing All Zones

The enemy couldn't do anything towards me in the end. The most they did was to waste little of my time wandering around before I'd take in tons of their forces after jumping back.

How could they handle someone like me who could simply jump back to any point, then move fast with his chariot that could cross hundreds of miles in one hour?

After the passage of six days, I decided to retreat back and collect the trophies all over the place.

I left tons of warriors before at the buffer zone, and they got enough time to cover such a grand zone and collect all the gear I wanted.

When I jumped back in a flash, I found mountains of gears waiting for me. These mountains spread all over the place, reaching to the horizon without showing any sign of stopping.

All of these... All of these were gears that belonged to me, solely to me, hahahaha! Thanks my dear enemy, without your constant contribution, I'd have found it hard to crush you, hahahaha!

I started to gather all the gears while laughing from time to time. I took two days to finish all this, while I took back the weak warriors who finished their task, and replaced them with full state warriors.

It was time for me to add more geared forces to my side.

The number of gears gained from this world exceeded one billion complete sets of gears and much more than that of incomplete sets.

I didn't bother myself thinking about which warriors I should arm. I simply took out all the full state warriors and armed them up with my sets.

After I finished, there was less than one day remaining for the twenty worlds to open. And it meant it was time to go back.

[Make everyone ready, we're going back] I sent this message before jumping towards the first place we arrived at.

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[We are coming to you now] Isac sent, [I already finished my task. And Isabella will stay here to govern over things]

[Ok]

In less than ten minutes, the nine generals appeared one by one, and they looked quite eager to go back.

They got enough rest, while I worked my ass literally to strengthen ourselves.

But the end result was quite shocking! The number of forces I gained and stored inside my cube was simply out of my wildest imagination!

Not to mention the geared warriors that I armed up and stored back inside my inventory.

All in all, it was worth the trouble coming here and visiting this world. And now it was time for a brand new adventure, the most important one of all.

After all, the golden quest here depended entirely on my ability to free the trapped twenty races here, not just crushing the entire enemies.

I hoped I dealt enough blows to the enemy forces, so the upcoming adventure wouldn't be that hard to accomplish.

And so I took everyone back using the portal I just established, and before leaving I made sure to merge the shields together in the central zone to cover up the entire defences Isac built and give my forces here room to fight and defend quite easily.

I left a few words to Isabella, stressing over retreating or sending a messenger if things went south. I would accept the loss of any forces of mine, but not a single general.

To me, generals were such an indispensable force that I would never accept losing a single one of them.

[I'm back!] I sent this message over to Lily once I returned to the ground zero, [Bring everyone back]

[What about the hot zones? Will we leave subordinates to lead our forces there?]

[No, I'll crush the portals in the next few hours. Make everyone retreat inside the shields for their safety and order the generals to come here]

I knew she was still thinking about the fights going on in the hot zones. But such fights would be a distraction from now on.

It was better to take down all the portals, and take everyone back to help invade other worlds.

I didn't know yet how my access to these worlds would be. If it was a portal opening at my controlled zones, then these eight zones would have to wait until the attack vanished.

That might take a few days, up to one week at most. During which, I'd go and invade the other twelve worlds, getting to know the situation there, and prepare a plan to free them.

But first I got to secure these eight worlds. So I jumped around, left behind lots of zero state warriors inside the frontline shields.

The locusts were now considered my most loyal troops. Without them, pulling such moves would be quite hard.

I didn't take much time in deploying my forces, and then started to gather bones from all over the zones.

I didn't get much time left anyway, so I just randomly jumped between places I saved before in these zones, and yet I barely managed to gather up bones from all these.

The dead bodies piled up here were endless! So just taking bones would take a long time, even with my turbo mode.

[We are ready] after five hours, Lily sent to me when I came to her zone after collecting the bones, [You can start]

[Good] I didn't forget the time limit I gave to them to withdraw their forces. As they retreated, I went to each zone, activated the offensive attack, didn't stay behind to check over the situation, and jumped to another zone.

The eight zones turned now into a purgatory place for all the enemy forces. At the same time, all the portals would get crushed.

If the shields supporting these portals tried to stop the attack, then I'd like to see how they'd stop an attack coming from months of accumulation of damage.

Even if a few portals remained in the end, I could simply use my bone energy and unleash a deadly attack. Or I could activate a few of my bones, scatter them inside each zone, and release a mighty attack later on.

Chapter 1430 You Got Me Wrong

Such an attack wasn't something I'd aim to use from the start. After all, in all these eight zones, tons of bones and gears were there.

If I used my activated dark realm bones from the start, then I'd risk losing all the spoils accumulated here during the past few months.

Even if I got forced to use such an attack, I'd first gather up everything I could before using it.

After doing all this, I jumped back to ground zero, where all of my generals were gathered.

The entire roster that I brought with me stood here, with the exception of two generals, the two who took over things at the two home bases of the enemy.

"You left my Isabella back?" and just before I'd say anything, the second jerk, the spearhead, spoke in a tone that was filled with tons of rage.

"She is quite safe there, much safer than what you think," I shrugged, not taking his useless question or tone to heart.

"She is safe by my side!"

"Dude, wake up!" I frowned as this dude was overstepping his boundaries already, "this isn't a field trip, this is the apocalypse! If she couldn't protect herself, if you two don't want to face risks, then f*ck off my sight and never show me your faces again!"

My tone was harsh, and cold. And I didn't just aim to remind this jerk about this simple truth. In fact my real words were meant for the jumper, and anyone else who might have such thoughts here or in the future.

This wasn't a game, not a joke, and definitely not some sort of a friendly test. This was the apocalypse, and death lurked all over the place, waiting for us to misstep at any moment and devour all of us.

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This wasn't the place nor time to speak about such things. This wasn't a place for romance, or acting heroic for a girl.

If he didn't want to see his girl take risks, then he and she should leave my side, go as far away as they could, and see if they could survive on their own.

When I said it in such a way, that jerk's face twisted and yet he neve said a single word again.

Even if he was stupidly driven with that foolish feeling called love, he also wasn't stupid enough to ignore the risks of the apocalypse.

Living alone here was like a death sentence to anyone, no matter how strong and resourceful he or she was.

Even I wouldn't say I'd stay alive alone, even with everything I got on my side.

"Now," I closed this annoying page of this love couple issue and started to focus on the far more important things, "we are going to have the twenty locked worlds open. And that means we are going to make a decision here…"

I took in a breath, before adding, "it's either we scatter, each one takes one world, or each two takes one world, or we shall stick together and fight one world at a time."

"I believe doing the latter will take much longer," the jumper didn't focus on anything else but to do things fast, fast enough to finally have time to go to seek his dude, "so I'll vouch for the former option."

"Dispersing is dangerous," Lily argued, "we don't know what these worlds look like, what their current situation looks like, what type of enemies are waiting for us there, and the most important thing is how to solve such problems and free these folks trapped there."

"We have to do it," the jumper didn't show any sign of retreating, "we need to take the faster route."

pAn,Da n<0,>v,e1 "Why?" Legend joined the side of Lily. and it was expected. Just from the weird logic and harsh attitude of the jumper, this dude was going to make everyone stand against him.

He wasn't that popular among others in the first place. And he was just spouting nonsense right now. So this dude might have thought by speaking up, he'd lead others to support his desired plan, and yet ended up messing things up for himself.

Tsk! That dude was indeed endlessly unlucky!

"Easy there," I had to step in and save that jerk. Or else everyone would stand against him and doom that plan.

I truly didn't care about that jerk's aim to save his dude. I was still quite doubtful about that jerk's information that he got from his god.

But that plan was something I wanted to do actually. I wanted to take a good look at each world, and start to help the locals there.

If I waited to visit these worlds after taking down one world each, then I'd arrive too late at some worlds. The enemy would have enough time to do whatever he wanted there. And I didn't want to see that.

I knew these worlds were either trapped inside a time loop or a space lock. Either way, in any of the two situations, the enemy didn't have the upper hand or enough force to threaten these locals or my forces.

All the worlds were like this, all but one, the angelic world!

So I decided to take that angelic world solo, while leaving the others to deal with the other worlds. There would be one world left without a general, which could be taken over by one of my newly acquired generals or a bunch of them.

"Are you going to follow his madness?" Lily seemed to grow fed up already with the jumper. And I couldn't blame her. Anyone would feel this way once he or she dealt with that unreasonable and unlucky jerk for a long time.

"I'm not taking anyone's side," I stated clearly my stance, "and you got me wrong! I'm not asking for you to voice out your choices and the plan with more support wins!"

"Then…"

"This…"

"What do you want from us then?"

Chapter 1431 Why Take Our Opinions Then?

They all looked quite puzzled, even that jumper stood in silence while his eyes were dead fixed on me.

He already got what I wanted to do here, and that meant I already selected the method to invade these worlds.

So no matter what he or others said, I already decided on what to do. And that made that dude quite anxious.

"I want you to tell me your thoughts," I shrugged, "according to the reasons you'll give me, I'll decide to follow through on what I decided, or change a few details in the plan, or change the plan entirely and select another."

"..."

My words left everyone here speechless. This was a democratic gathering, but a war council where the leader, I, already decided on what to do.

I just wanted to hear out their thoughts, to make sure I didn't miss any detail that might cause problems later on.

"Come on, don't give me these looks," I laughed as no one spoke, "tell me what you think, and don't bother with each other's viewpoints."

"Tsk," even Lily was displeased with my way of doing things, "at least tell us what you decided first."

"Isn't it obvious?" I spread my arms, and left them to guess.

I didn't want to tell them anything, or else they'd focus on either defending or criticising the plan I selected. I didn't want to hear complaints or praises, I wanted to hear ideas, logic, thoughts, plans, and such things.

The first to speak was the jumper. And that jerk just kept repeating the word 'Fast' too much in his talk.

After that Legend stepped in, spoke more about how the slow approach was better and gave many reasons for that.

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One by one they started to speak up, and after an hour or so, I got nothing new from them.

This made me inwardly sigh. Everyone only focused on safety and such useless things. They never cared to see the bigger picture, not giving real useful ideas or tactics except for few.

Legend spoke again about the bubble tactic. While Lily spoke about using the zombies and the great weapons I got from the research department.

Isac spoke about using the geared forces as the main bulk of the army. And yet none of these were helpful to me.

I was aware of all this. I needed new tactics, new ideas, and no one gave me such a thing.

Tsk! It seemed they weren't going to be of any help at all in this regard.

"The meeting is over," dejectedly, I gave them the order to retreat and get a little rest before the grand opening.

"Won't you tell us your decision?" The jumper, Sara, and Legend spoke up at the same time while others glared at me in a curious way.

"It's obvious as I said it before," I sighed, "we will disperse, one general per world."

"Yes!"

"I love this plan!"

The two who spoke up in support and joy were none other than the jumper and Sara. One wanted to get this task done fast, and the other loved brutal and deadly fights.

pAn,Da n<0,>v,e1 As for others, they got gloomy looks on their faces. None was stupid, and they all got how hard and quite risky such a plan was.

"Why take the harsh route instead of the steady one?" Lily finally spoke up, expressing her doubts and asking for an explanation.

And with a few words I explained what they all missed, including the jumper.

"We don't get the time you all thought we have," I sighed, "these worlds are either time or space locked, and we have a limited amount of time for each world. If we took it one by one, no matter how fierce we tried, no matter how many armies we used, we would still end up missing a few words at the end…"

I started to explain, explain things they all missed. The more I spoke, the gloomier they became. But none ever spoke to argue or object on any of what I said.

After all, I was speaking with facts and my words made sense. I wasn't like the jumper, blurting out we need to do it fast and all without explaining anything that would make sense to anyone.

"Sigh! It's decided then from the start to follow this plan… Why take our opinions then?" Lily asked, seemingly disgruntled from my decision and yet she got nothing to say to change my mind.

"I wanted to hear new interesting ideas," I shrugged, "but you all disappointed me."

I was telling them the truth. Even if it was a little harsh, they still had to hear how I felt.

I thought they might give me new ideas, tactics to use depending on the newly acquired forces like the geared ones.

We now had lots of assets in our armies. And that was something that requires lots of minds to mix together and bring new ways to better use them.

I might have a few tricks that I already used and tested. But that also meant the enemy learnt about these. That was why I wanted to hear out new ideas and tactics, to use them in what is yet to come.

I wanted new stuff, things the enemy didn't know. And so I would still have few surprises left to use in dire moments.

The enemy saw everything I got. They saw my Avengers, soulers, my shields, my bones, and even my recently acquired cube.

They saw my artefacts, the main tactics I used to fight with. They got to see all of my generals, learnt all about their abilities and nature, and there was no fresh pool to select from except the newly acquired generals from Silverlining.

The only thing I didn't use yet was the weapons I got from the research department. Even zombies got used before and I ended up losing them when that scary attack was unleashed back then.

In brief, I got nothing that the enemy didn't know. And from the look of things, they got to prepare to fight against most of my tricks, if not all.

And I didn't like such a thing.

Chapter 1432 I Got No Answers

"Hmm… We can think of ways to fight better," Legend and others weren't stupid. They soon picked up what they all missed, "but give us little time to think."

He moved his eyes around as I did, and everyone silently nodded. The only three who didn't nod were the jumper, Sara, and the second jerk, the spearhead.

The latter dude got his mind fixed on his girl, and he seemed just as stupid as the jumper.

All he thought about was his girl and how to be with her again. And that was something stupid in my eyes.

I ignored these three, as I knew they were lost cases. As for others, I hoped they'd find something to help, a nice idea or a new tactic or something.

"Ok, it's decided then," Lily paused before adding, "how about the armies each one will lead? What about you?"

"Me?" I paused before adding, "I'll take the most troublesome world, the angel world."

"No, I'll take that!" and without any speck of hesitation, the jumper spoke up all of sudden. His eyes shone brighter while he added, "this world is mine."

"No," and as he was determined to speak up, announce his desire, I also spoke up quite fast, refusing what he said at the next instant.

"You…"

"This world isn't easy," I knew everything this dude had in his mind or what he wanted to do and say. However he underestimated the true value of the angelic world.

I didn't even learn about how important this world was to the enemy until I came here.

This world… If not for me targeting it, the enemy wouldn't have bothered with me. Even if I ended up saving many worlds here, I doubted the enemy would have focused on me in such a way.

But that angelic world seemed quite special. Besides, all the other worlds were still in peaceful periods, time before the start of the disaster or wars, all except for the angelic world.

The angelic world wasn't a place that anyone would go there and even survive it. Just from what I experienced from that enemy, I could tell frankly that the upcoming clash was going to be hellish.

The enemy might bring all of his big dudes up there to take me down alongside the locals there. Even if the place was bound with a time loop, and people there wouldn't actually die, I would.

Bringing up worms, Exomachines, fiends, one eyed rocky giants, the suited dudes, or even other forces that I didn't know yet would be quite troublesome.

Not to mention the angels there didn't know of my presence or my true intentions of helping them.

Another aspect was worthy of getting me worried, the time left for me to handle things there.

According to the description I got from the system, this world was inside a time loop that starts from the middle of a hellish battle. And that meant the entire world was on the verge of destruction and battles were everywhere.

That wasn't the true issue here, but the time I got to intervene and change this world's fate. According to what I guessed, the time I got was quite limited.

If the time loop started from the middle of a hectic battle, just before the grand destruction of the world, then the end of this loop wouldn't be that far away from the start point.

Sending anyone else but me out there wouldn't have any chance to do anything before the allocated time for him would run short.

And without my endless resources, abilities, and artefacts, trying to do anything there would be a dream.

"Then take me with you!"

"And your world? Who is going to lead it?" I glared at that dude. I got limits, and he was saying nonsense in my eyes.

"You can appoint that souler dude instead."

"Don't tell me what I shall do with my forces," I strictly refused his proposal, "and don't think about sneaking again. This time, I swear I'll cut your head with my hands."

"..."

He paused, and his body trembled, not of shock but of frustration. "If you want to do what you desire, then make sure to control your world and stabilise things there quite fast."

"Then give me armies," he blurted out, "tons of them."

"Sure," I nodded, moving my eyes around, "I'll give everyone enough forces to arm up hundred armies."

"That's great!" Sara was the second one getting pumped up with such words. As for the rest, they were smart enough to know just using armies wasn't going to work that fine as Sara and jumper expected.

But none spoke up or said anything to wake up these two, and I also didn't.

"Go now, rest and think," I paused before adding, "I'll leave warriors at the twenty zones we got. Once the gate opens, you'll go to each zone, lead your armies, and go there to stabilise things in these worlds."

"But we got eight worlds without a place to leave any forces behind!" Lily said, "how will you solve this?"

"I'll leave extra forces at each zone," I paused, "and the generals can move them back to these zones before leaving to the corresponding worlds."

"Are you sure?" Isac asked, "won't it be a little late to join the fights?"

​ "No," I slowly shook my head, "we got enough time anyway."

"How about the allocation of worlds for generals? How can we access them?" Legend asked questions that I didn't get answers to.

These were all logical questions, but I didn't know any answer to them yet.

"We'll wait for the announcement of the system about how to do that," I paused, and when everyone gave me weird looks, I added, "each zone of the twenty is supposedly part of the twenty worlds. And that means we already have access to each world through each zone."

"But… We don't know which zone belongs to which world, right?" Lily asked, while moving her eyes among everyone.

Chapter 1433 Bad News

According to what I told them about these worlds, they knew there were different cases for each world. There were worlds facing wars, others facing natural disasters, and each required a different way to handle the situation.

That meant each world should have a general suitable for it. Or else the end result wouldn't be that good, or even quite disastrous.

For example, if I left an all offensive general like Sara to handle a natural disaster, things would go south!

And if I used someone like Isac to solve a huge war crisis, then failure was the only result.

But if I replaced the two, then things would end up quite differently. Isac would better handle such natural disasters, while Sara could control any war no matter how bad it was.

"We'll have to wait and see," I paused before adding, "that's why I didn't ask for you to go over each zone and take over the armies there. This allocation will be left over for Lily and Legend to decide."

I trusted these two in making the right choices, especially when they got to know better about the generals here.

I only knew my friends, as for the new ones, I knew nothing about.

"How about the missing general seat?" Legend seemed to get jolted up when he heard his name, and asked this missed point from everyone's minds.

"I have few generals that we can use there," I didn't say I got tons of generals or else the two jerks would ask for these generals to replace them and each would ask to do what he wanted.

And this might even infect Sara, making her ask to come with me towards the scary and quite dangerous angelic world and replace her with a few of these generals.

"This…" and as I expected, just by saying I got a few generals, the jumper was about to ask about replacing him with one of them.

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"I don't have enough to do what you want," I interrupted him before he'd alarm the other two about such a possibility, "and I don't have much trust in them anyway. So it's better to leave this bunch together to handle the vacant world seat."

"Tsk!" The jumper seemed to not totally believe my words, and even might have suspected that I got more generals than I said I got, but he couldn't say anything about this.

If I said I didn't get enough, then what could he do about that?

"Go and rest," I said, "think about new ways to use our forces and armies. And wait for the good news."

I watched them leave, checked on time and there were still a few hours left before the start of the grand opening.

And just when I thought I'd finally take a few hours of rest, to think about how to mix my current grand forces to pull new tricks and moves, I got some weird news all at once.

[Attention! There are five hours left before the opening of the world!]

[Attention! Per your request, the quest this time will be an all out gamble and war! You'll gain access to the twenty worlds and each world will have different time limit and mission requirements]

[Attention! Achieving more than seventy percent of the mission requirements in the allocated time will end up the quest with your victory]

Up till now, things were quite logical. I didn't find anything weird about any of these messages.

Each world got a different disaster lurking around to destroy it. And as I expected, each world would have a different time limit to do the task of saving it.

The time limit would end by the fall of that disaster, and the world coming to an end, before the time or space loop or lock would be activated to restart everything or lock people inside forever.

So the time limit was quite predictable. And the different mission requirements were also expected.

Hearing that I didn't need to complete the entire mission goals made me feel a bit relieved. At least I didn't need to get a full mark in this test, and my generals could mess up sometimes, failing to do a few tasks, and that wouldn't negatively impact the entire result of this quest.

However, what came next was indeed quite troublesome…

[Attention! The world of angels won't open right away]

What the f*ck…?! I looked at this message in disbelief, before other messages appeared that made me curse at first, freeze later on, and stand motionless for long minutes without knowing what to say or do.

[Attention! The gate of the world of angels changed! The controllers of this quest paid the required price and the portal to that world through your zone got blocked]

[Attention! The start of the world of angels quest will start in one month!]

[Attention! To get there, you'll need to find a portal on your own]

What the hell was that! How could I save a world without having access to it?

The first thing that popped in my mind was that the gate to that world was hidden inside one of the ten home bases of the enemy.

Or perhaps it was sealed somewhere else.

This was quite bad! If that was true, then I got only one month to find this gate, or else the entire quest would be lost!

Losing this quest wasn't like losing any other world quest. To me, taking down this quest and securing the angels became a personal issue.

The enemy placed tons of importance over this world for no reason I knew. And just seeing what they did to make sure I wouldn't get there was enough proof for their determination to keep the angels sealed.

The more the enemy wanted to seal them, the more I wanted to save them. But without a way to them, I wouldn't have a chance.

What should I do? Even if I jumped over to the enemy home bases, trying to scan all these worlds in one month, find that portal, secure it and gain access towards that world would be quite impossible even for me.

Chapter 1434 A Way Out

There was no way out! There was no hope for me! I felt true rage and frustration. This… "This is truly unfair! Aren't you supposed to be on my side? They did something like this, then why won't you do something in return?"

I shouted, shouted at the air, shouted at the sky, shouted at the system. I was risking everything, even my life, here to save these folks.

And yet the enemy paid a hefty price to make things impossible for me. Then what about my mighty ally? What about the system?

They did that, and I did nothing in my power to change such a thing. But the system had such power. If they acted, why didn't the system fight back? Why didn't those damn bastards work to find a way out for me?

[Attention! There is a new task for you!]

And just when I was on the verge of exploding in anger and cursing towards that pathetic and useless system and bunch of people standing behind it, a weird message popped up before others arrived.

[Attention! The other contestants got locked up from the preparation period for some reason]

[Attention! The ninety-nine contestants will gain access to their zones right away]

What?!!! I always thought these dudes got crushed and killed, or even surrendered and left. I never thought they would still be present here.

Hearing this news made me a bit startled. However what came next went beyond my wildest expectations.

[Attention! The other contestants are under severe attack]

[Attention! Ten contestants already surrendered, two are dead]

[Attention! Sixteen contestants already surrendered, five are dead]

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.

.

[Attention! Sixty-nine contestants surrendered, thirteen are dead]

Messages like these kept popping up at me without any rest. I didn't know what was going on here. Was the system pulling a prank on me or what?

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How come in mere ten minutes most of these contestants got surrendered or killed? This was quite weird!

There was a possible explanation for such madness, and that the enemy gained access to each contestant zone from the start.

If that was true, then these contestants would end up in a very bad situation without doubt.

And when I thought the messages would never end, and all the contestants would end up dead or surrendered, leaving me the sole contestant here as I expected, a new series of messages popped up.

[Attention! Eighteen contestants are now resisting the enemy]

[Attention! Their situation is quite dire! And they issued a grand quest of help]

[Attention! Will you accept helping them?]

[Attention! The ones you agree to help will give you access to their zones and worlds]

[The name list of those eighteen are: Olga, a zoonotic race contestant, has access to the second world]

[Antony, a Hescos race contestant, has access to the fifteenth world]

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[Toramos, a Hescos race contestant, has access to the twentieth world]

I received tons of messages, speaking about the names of each of those eighteen, giving me their races, and the number of their worlds they had access to.

I already got a list of worlds before, with numbers to each world. I looked at these long rows of messages and couldn't help but freeze over the last message.

The number of Hescos participants surviving so far amounted to five in total. That was almost one fourth of the entire surviving contestants, including myself.

But that wasn't what piqued my interest, the number of the world that Toramos dude had access to was.

"The twentieth world… That world… It's the angelic world…" I muttered in disbelief as I realised what that meant.

If I helped him, I'd have a portal linking my zone here with his. Not only that, I'd also gain access to that world through his zone.

pAn,Da n<0,>v,e1 If that was true, then the entire scheme of the enemy got foiled! Yes! That was my system, that was how my system should truly be like!

"Thanks dude," I said, thanking the system and those behind it from the bottom of my heart.

Now things have totally changed! Entirely changed!

That dude named Toramos was the only one gaining access to the angelic world. As for the rest, they were just accessing other worlds.

I wouldn't say I wasn't interested in saving them all. However, thinking about their high number, with such lots of Hescos in them, made me think deeply about that.

If I had to, then I'd just select to save that dude alone. But if I did that, the enemy would just wipe the others out and end up coming at me with everything they got.

Saving them meant bringing more trouble to the enemy. Not to mention each one of them came here with lots of resources, and twenty capable generals on their side.

And that was the thing I planned everything upon.

"Can I speak with them first?" I asked, "I want to ask about the general situation out there."

[I can deliver the message over, but the entire situation is quite dangerous for all]

As expected. They managed to survive just thanks to the use of artefacts, defensive ones that would have limits and wouldn't last for long.

"I want to know how many of their twenty group members are still alive," I directly stated what I wanted to know, "can you get me the answer for that?"

[The answer is simple, all still have their entire team members intact and full]

"Good."

[Have you decided which one to help? Once decided, the others will surrender to save themselves]

"Tell them this… The human Hye is coming to rescue all of you."

[This…] even the system higher up speaking with me right now got shocked by what I said.

"What? Don't you want to see all of them survive?"

[That's not it… The issue lies in the little time they got! Few are going to die in less than one hour, while the best will last for one day]

"Cool," I stretched out my arms, "open a portal towards the fastest to fall in your eyes. Then open portals at each zone based on the same concept, ok?"

Chapter 1435 Toramos

[Are you sure? The enemy out there is very formidable!]

"Just do it!" I decided, and the next instant I sent a message over to Lily, [I'll leave the generals I promised here. As for the warriors I promised, I'll have to take a trip first before coming back for you]

[This…]

[Don't worry, I won't take long] I was very confident in my ability to stabilise the entire situation fast. Even if there were eighteen places to visit, eighteen endless forces of the enemy to fight against, eighteen groups of people to save, I was quite confident in my ability to do so.

"Open the first portal," and as I said this, I took out my most precious artefact, held it tightly, while watching a portal open in front of me.

"Time to show these fiends who the true boss of this entire quest is," I led my chariot to pass through the portal, arriving at a brand new world.

Before taking a single step, I left behind many halves of the twin teleportation devices, keeping the others stored within my inventory.

If others got access to zones leading to one of the twenty worlds just like me, then it was expected for all these zones to be close to each other.

And that meant I could freely move in between these zones and mine without any problem or the need for the system's help.

pAn,Da n<0,>v,e1 "Hello from Earth, I come in peace," and the moment I arrived there, I said in mockery, even waving my hand towards the endless swarm of enemies down below.

The group of that contestant took the protection of a grand shield that looked like a shell of a sea creature.

It was sturdy, taking physical form, not like any of my shields. And yet it was showing cracks spreading all over its surface, announcing its close to destruction state.

My chariot just appeared out of a portal on top of that shell like shield. And when I appeared, the entire world ushered under a deadly wave of silence.

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"Thundering Might!" and in the middle of all such heavy silence, one that told me how the enemy got shocked by seeing me appearing here, I instantly activated the pillar's shield.

This was the reason behind my utmost confidence in dealing with any enemy and saving everyone in a short time. And that wasn't all.

When I appeared, I took that chance of shock and inspected the general types of the enemies here.

"So they brought fiends as well… That explains everything," I saw locusts, Silences, and fiends down there, fighting against that shell like crazy before my arrival.

As I saw friends, my eyes shone brightly before activating more of my shields. When I finished, the enemy seemed to wake up from their shock, and started to arrange their lines.

When I saw that, and watched the densely packed attacks coming at me, I couldn't help but feel a bit weird.

"Didn't they learn about my abilities or what?" This looked a bit weird. It seemed as if these dudes here got separated from other zones and worlds, and didn't receive the news about me yet.

If so… Then it explained their weird attitude.

For example, the outside forces tried to break my shields, which was a futile task. As for the inside troops, they tried to rally themselves up against me, thinking they could take my chariot down.

"Pathetic!" I took out ten million mixed forces, the same line up I used before when I dealt with the enemies at the second home base of theirs.

"Open the second portal," once I took them out, I didn't have any interest in watching the upcoming fight, "this group is saved."

[Are you sure?]

"Weren't you watching my performance before or what?" I raised one eyebrow. Any blind could tell this place was mine the moment I did all this.

[I wasn't responsible for dealing with this quest] and when he said these words, I realised why he asked me this.

"Just trust me, alright? These people are saved and no harm will come to them. Open another portal to another zone, let me go and save others."

[Fine…]

I knew how doubtful and quite surprised this dude was. My stay here didn't take more than two minutes, and yet I dared to claim this zone was safe and the group down there got rescued.

The portal opened as I requested, and I simply jumped to the other world. Before leaving, I left the second half of the portal device, linking this zone with the ground zero zone of mine.

"Open another portal," and like before, I simply used my shields and the mix of my geared warriors and full stat ones before asking to leave.

And before leaving, I left behind another portal.

I kept doing this for the next hour. After I got done, I couldn't help but ask:

"Have you watched what happened in the first zones I visited? Have you realised why I said these zones and people are saved?"

[You are true to your words] that dude seemed to be away when I caused all the ruckus here. I didn't yet know anything about these higher ups, or where they worked, but it seemed they were quite busy or something.

"Now, tell me where that dude is!"

[What dude?]

"The one called Toramos, that dude from the Hescos who had access to the angelic world."

[The twentieth world? Sure, he was the first one you visited]

"The first?!" This came as a shock to me. And when I thought about it, I realised that it made quite sense.

If I was from the enemy, then I'd just focus more on the ones who posed a great threat to me. And that went without saying that this dude was the poisonous needle the system inserted in the grand plan of the enemy.

They did everything right, preventing me from getting access towards the most precious angelic world directly from my zones. And so I had to go towards their worlds and seek for a portal that would lead to that angelic place.

Chapter 1436 Meeting The Man

Of course that was impossible! And just forcing me to such a tight square, a dead end without any path of retreat or advance, was the most devastating blow they could deliver to me.

And yet the system counterattacked, using this way of blocking and protecting everyone from the one hundred contestants from taking part in the preparation period.

Or perhaps this was the doing of the enemy themselves. After all, the enemy gained access all this time to these zones, took their time in preparing, and the end result was clear.

Out of the hundred contestants, only nineteen remained, including myself.

I couldn't tell if this was the system doing or the enemy, and I didn't care. What I knew was that the system gave me a chance to get a way towards the angelic world, and that ended up quite great for me and very bad for the enemy.

"Fine," I clenched both fists, knew this was going to be slightly tough, "open a portal for me towards that dude's place then."

[Right away]

I already got portals leading each zone of these eighteenth dudes from my ground zero zone.

However I didn't know yet which one led towards that dude's place. And as I stabilised the situation in general, I wanted to focus totally on dealing with the most important zone, the one leading to the angelic world.

This zone was the top priority right now, even if I ended up losing too much in return or losing other contestants.

Things weren't that great out there when I arrived. The shields managed to block the attacks coming from outside, however something else appeared, something quite terrifying and deadly.

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The worms appeared here out of nowhere! And I knew this was going to be bad! And on top of that, I already expected this.

"Tsk! The only enemy I faced and had the ability to take down my indestructible shields are here," I muttered to myself when I saw the giant worms come up from the ground, chew many of my elite forces, and cause too much chaos and leave behind too many dead.

The good news was that there weren't too many of these worms. There were around one hundred out there, and they weren't enough to change anything out there.

If they got tens of thousands, or even thousand, then things would turn to the worst. However what made the situation quite dangerous was the focus of these worms.

They left most of my forces, the few miles covered up by my shields, and focused mainly over Toramos and his little group.

The shield that dude used was something else. It stood against the relentless attacks of these worms one time after another.

I was gone for one hour, and the enemy's worms should have come here not long ago. Just seeing the number of dead of my forces around told me these worms didn't come for long.

But it was clear that a cracked shell like shield wasn't going to last that long as well.

"Tsk! I didn't want to use them but…" I got no other way to handle those deadly folks but through using the same type of weapon the enemy used.

I took out my cube, and released a few hundred worms from inside.

Even if the two were worms, my worms were already wounded. So I decided to take down much more than what the enemy had.

The moment my worms got out, they penetrated the ground as if giant pillars fell from the sky and landed deep into the ground.

They vanished underneath, and things returned to look calm again. I couldn't see any worms coming out again for almost five minutes.

And then like the apocalypse came here, the entire ground all around got damaged like it got hit with endless meteors.

Rocks flew fast, and many clashed against my chariot's shield. Just when my worms vanished underground, I hurriedly went down towards that dude called Toramos.

"There is no time to waste," I didn't know that my worms would be enough to keep the enemy's under the ground for five entire minutes, "come here now and let's talk later."

"Who are you?"

"An old enemy, and currently a friend and ally," I didn't lie to him. After all, I couldn't tell if this dude came from my apocalypse trial or from another trial.

If he came from mine, then he should be well aware of my identity. And if he didn't, my fame must have reached his ears.

Either way, I didn't plan on lying from the very first moment we met and told him the truth.

"I heard that a human called Hye is coming to our rescue," and when I thought he'd start a long session of talk, he jumped into my chariot, alongside the other twenty of his group, "and I only knew of one Hye."

"I told you," I turned to face him, while my chariot moved high in the air again, "I was your enemy, but now I'm your ally."

"So it's you…" the twenty-one Hescos in front of me were all wearing suits, and I couldn't differentiate which was whom.

They all got red suits, suiting their identities as paragons.

So all of them were paragons, what a bunch of crazy folks these Hescos were! Other races would struggle to produce just five in a single apocalyptic trial, and they could easily take out tens and hundreds in return.

"It's me," I shrugged, as if this was nothing. As I expected, my fame already reached far and wide, reaching such a dude I never met before, "you are Toramos?"

There was one who was speaking to me, but I couldn't even tell which one was speaking. I looked at three where the voice came from their direction, and couldn't help but ask.

"It's me," and one of the three stepped up, took a weird feather that had all the colours I could think of in there, and placed it over his head, "I'm Toramos."

Chapter 1437 Are You Afraid?

"What's the feather for?" I felt weird for him to do such a thing while introducing himself. It was funny actually, and that was why I had to ask.

"It's the prime feather of the flying Gorgons, one of the fiercest foes I ever met in my apocalyptic trial," he said, and from his weird words I could tell one thing.

That dude wasn't part of my apocalypse, and that meant his stats were much higher than mine!

"Are you afraid?" He seemed to do it on purpose, giving such hints about his origins.

"If I want you all dead, all I need to do is snap my fingers," I laughed, while answering without any speck of worry.

I wasn't lying or trying to put a strong front here. In my chariot, no matter who was here, he or she would get their asses kicked if they tried something funny.

And if they got outside my chariot, they'd end up having lots of dangers waiting for them. Surviving wasn't guaranteed, and they'd lose their lives in less than one minute.

"Interesting," from my simple response, he could tell that I wasn't bluffing, "I heard lots of things about you, but it seems they are all wrong."

"Oh, how so?" I raised one eyebrow before he explained:

"I heard you are arrogant and weak without any right to feel so. I heard that your victory over our kids out there came thanks to the support from the filthy Toranks."

"And?"

"You have all the rights to act so," he pointed towards his feather before adding, "formidable foes are the ones who deserve my full respect and attention. But a word of advice, don't be my enemy or else you might end up being like that dude, a mere feather on top of my head."

"Thanks for the kind reminder," I calmly smiled, responding to the same threats with another, "If we ever met in a battlefield, I promise you to make a nice helmet out of your suit and wear it all the time."

"..."

"..."

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The two of us kept glaring at each other while the atmosphere looked like it was going to explode at any second. I didn't care about what they felt, right now they needed me, and I needed them.

We both might be called enemies, but it wasn't that bad actually to put aside our hostilities and act friendly for the little time we had here.

"You are indeed interesting," after a few minutes of silence, he finally spoke up, "it's quite unfortunate for you to not be in my apocalyptic trial. Or else things would turn out quite fortunate and amusing for me."

"I can't argue with that," I paused as I felt something was amiss.

And the next instant, a deadly explosion erupted, making the entire world around tremble and change.

Rocks started to fly out and fall all over the place, while many hit my chariot.

The worms that went all calm and silent under the ground for five minutes finally started to act.

And from the look of it, they were having a fierce and bloody battle between each other.

"Worms… They are fighting among themselves!" one of Toramos' men muttered while the dude himself kept his silence.

I felt his gaze falling on me, and that told me he already guessed it.

"They are my boys," I pointed towards that scary scene, "and they are trying to take the enemies' down."

"This…"

"Did you say they are yours?"

"Is this what makes humans special? Makes you special? The ability to control and breed worms?"

"Damn! That's why our kids lost against you!"

I heard such weird exclamations and words. They jumped to the wrong conclusions, and I couldn't help but inwardly laugh.

"Silence!" Toramos seemed to not like what his dudes were saying, or just didn't agree with such nonsense, "so they are under your control?"

"They are, why? Do you need one as a gift?"

"If you are willing, then I'm willing."

"Thanks, but let's just keep working here in such a way…" I paused, before pointing towards the entire place here, "this is just a small part of my strength here. I brought little of my forces to this quest, and I want you to work for me."

"Work for you?"

"Damn! You have big dreams, man!"

"Humph! Last time I met a human, he served me and I didn't serve him!"

"Stop this nonsense or else I'll fight you right now to die…"

*Bang!*

The moment one of them stepped forward, issued such a hostile comment towards me, I didn't hesitate to activate the chariot's control ability and threw him off this place.

This dude flew high in the air, and even before he'd fly for a hundred metres away, he ended up in the belly of one of the giant worms.

No one knew if he got eaten by the worms of the enemies, but they all saw how his death came fast and swift. He couldn't even put up a single struggle and ended up dead against such a formidable foe.

"I won't tolerate any of such attitude again," I slowly said, moving my eyes around before adding, "all I wanted is to come here and gain access to your zone. If you don't like it, then be my guest, go out and try to survive on your own."

"You…"

"Silence!" Toramos spoke up again, silencing his friend and follower from repeating the same deadly mistake of threatening me.

We might be called enemies, and they might think about how to bring me down. But they shouldn't forget how bad their situation here was.

They were going to survive this if they stuck to me, going to die without any exception if they just took a single step out.

"We can surrender, and you won't get any help from us," that dude called Toramos was something else. He could already read through my real intentions, read far ahead than anyone else here ever did.

Chapter 1438 Seventeen More

He realised what I wanted, and used the right method to start a bargain with me.

After all, without having a bargaining chip, they'd end up being under my mercy. And such strong dudes coming from a formidable race wouldn't accept such treatment.

I liked how this dude worked, and how he had such quick wits.

"We both don't want to see such a result," I smiled before my smile vanished and was replaced with a serious look, "but that doesn't mean I'll give you more than what you deserve."

"Stop th…"

"Remain silent and don't speak a single word!" Toramos seemed quite annoyed by his group. They seemed to have a fish memory or something, forgetting about how their dude just died thanks to what he said.

"So you want us to lead your forces, right?" I liked this dude. He reminded me of Lily and Legend, even with the jumper but without his foul mouth and bad temper.

"That's correct," I nodded, "but you'll follow my orders. And that's not to boss you around, but it's for your own sake."

This time not a single one spoke and that wasn't just because of what Toramos said earlier. That dude moved his head around, as if he was warning his group from speaking up again.

"You speak as if you fought against these dudes for a long time," as expected from such a good dude. I really wanted to rope him in. How could I do such a thing?

I lacked generals, but the wisest and far sighted generals were like rare gems to me. I only got a few, too few to count on a single hand.

But trying to recruit this dude and take him from the Hescos was going to be a long term plan. I got first to impress him, and then waited for the right moment to take him into my side.

I wasn't without hope actually. In such grand and mighty race eyes, they got tons of good seeds. And they would at some point mistreat this dude, and that would be my point of breaking through inside him and taking him to my side.

And who knew, I might end up having more surprises from other Hescos here as well, in addition to other contestants still surviving here.

"I indeed fought against them for many months," I didn't hide such facts from him. After all, this entire quest was monitored by many and wasn't a secret.

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"This…"

"You were locked up from getting into your zones…" I explained in brief what I did, aiming to impress this dude.

"You fought all of them all alone? And even invaded two of their homebase worlds? Damn!" He was indeed shocked by what I did. And I simply remained silent and didn't say anything.

"But… That's why they sent such a grand formation and new troops to meet us… But why did we get locked in the first place?"

"That's thanks to me," I pointed to myself in pride before adding, "and to your knowledge, it's not just my efforts that made them this terrified."

"What do you mean?"

"Your zone… It's quite special."

"In what way?"

"You saw the list of worlds we had to compete in, right?" I paused and he nodded, or that was what I thought from his suit upper part getting slightly tilted.

"There is a world in there, the twentieth world."

"That's the world our zone opens at… Wait, is this angelic world that special?"

"I don't know," I didn't lie about that, "but anything related to that world meant real threat to the enemy."

"Hmm… You said you cared about our zone, what does that mean?"

"I got blocked from getting to that world," I slowly said before adding, "and that's why I wanted to take control over this zone above all."

"And you need our help in that?"

"Not just that," this dude would ask for an easy life if he wanted to just do this task, "I want you to lead armies and help others."

"Others? What others?"

"There are others like you," I paused before adding, "I'll take control of this zone. But the other seventeen zones will be handled by you."

"This… Seventeen…"

"Don't worry, I will arm you up with enough forces to take these zones down."

I wasn't lying. Just from the last batch of gears I got before coming here, I could arm tons of forces with my gears.

At the same time, these zones were like treasure troves for me. They were filled to the brim with fiends and other elite forces.

"Come with me," I looked at the brutal fight in between the worms and didn't care about the end result.

With my cube, I could tame all of them. But first I gotta take this dude and his group over the others, relief and rescue them before releasing them all over these zones.

I didn't care about any of these zones. I got access to all the worlds back at my zones. Only this zone here got my utmost interest.

"Come," I paused before adding, "open portals to other zones.

[Right away]

A portal appeared, and then I went through it.

Just from seeing the absence of worms was enough evidence to me and others that the enemy placed great importance over the past zone.

"Come with me," and all I did was to go down to the bubble shaped shield which protected the contestant down below and his group.

As for the fight going on here, I took more warriors and left them to be led by one of Toramos' men.

Like that, I kept simply jumping around from one zone to another, rescuing those contestants, adding more warriors, and leaving one of the good men I acquired behind.

The Hescos got all their team members to be paragons. As for other races, they weren't that great to begin with.

I left a few of the gained team members behind, explaining everything to Toramos who gladly took over this task.