Chapter 62 - 685-700

685 The Two Jerks Are Mad!

They nodded, turned to stand at the edge of my chariot, before sending off their deadly attacks.

I didn't need to crush this army or force it to retreat. I just wanted to slow it down.

And the best way to do it was by creating chaos at any place I could. So instead of focusing everything on a single point, I had to randomly hit anyplace I could reach.

The first to do it were my fallen gods. Their attacks created a great disturbance at the enemies far from me.

Then my technique popped up in the picture.

The threads moved out and started to infect many races down below.

Unlike monsters, these races showed a resistance I forgot for a long time against my threads.

I knew that the longer it took to control someone, the stronger he would be. So when my threads needed a couple of minutes to control the first batch of enemies here, I got how strong they were..

They were elites! An entire army of elites! Damn!

Once I knew that, I seriously considered changing up my plans. Seeing such a huge pool of talents and elites made me drool over having them.

But I didn't keep such thoughts in mind for more than a few seconds. I had a bigger goal to achieve here. And these elites wouldn't go anywhere in the end.

As I controlled the first batch, more threads came out from their bodies to infect more of those nearby. I didn't wait for more than five minutes here, forcing those who became under my control to sign the contracts, before moving out.

I gave them a simple order; kill! They turned around and started a spree of killing that caused little trouble at this zone.

If it was just this zone, then this wouldn't matter. But as I progressed to the direction of the shore, I kept using my technique and repeated such mess in other places.

Besides, my boys were attacking all the time, creating a situation for my technique to give better results.

As they kept attacking, I started to arrive at zones void of many forces. I only hunted those standing on the edge of such emptiness, looking puzzled and terrified.

Like this, the more I progressed forward, the more forces I gained, and the bigger the fight became. At the same time, my army was marching forward towards the shore at a high pace.

But the rear of my army got entangled already with enemy forces that I didn't target.

I saw the big bellows of dust clouds rising up from the rear and could only accept such a result. I started just from the midzone of my army, and went towards the shore at such a slow and steady pace.

So it was expected for the rear to get hit and might also get exterminated. The strongest forces of mine were already at the forefront, leading this march.

Even if the rear was entirely lost, I wouldn't feel sad about it.

But after fifteen minutes, and with everything I was doing, the enemy drew closer from my army and was just this close from clashing with them.

"Move slowly towards the south, keep the distance between you and the enemy fixed!" I got out my horn and gave such an order.

There were around twenty miles left from the shores from the main bulk of my army. The vanguard units arrived already and were waiting for the rest of the army to arrive.

If I waited for any longer, then the enemy would clash against the last half of my army. So I thought about moving towards the south, maintaining the gap fixed between the two sides.

From one way, this would keep my armies intact and safe. From another, my real aim was to be closer to the bridge at my capital.

So moving in such a direction wasn't bad after all.

With such a simple move, my army was left untouched no matter how hard the enemy tried. And in the meantime, I bought myself enough time to amass more forces under my control, and create more chaos.

At a point, I stopped moving forward and started to roam around in a certain zone. My forces already reached the shores and were gathering up.

There were less than five miles left. And this was enough to hold my army here. So I didn't press forward, and kept pressuring the enemies around the rest of my army.

As for my forces at the shores, they already started fighting their enemies.

It took roughly an hour for us to cross a distance that was supposed to be crossed in half. I lost almost one fifth of my army until the army gathered up at the eastern shores.

"Attack!" and by this, it was time for payback.

I didn't wait for my chariot to arrive at my army to give such an order. And once given, my forces sprung out and started killing in a bloody fight.

The strongest were my soulers and dragons. Aside from my fallen gods, they killed the most without much resistance.

"I'll take a different route," as my boys were leading the army forward, I selected to not join them and just go towards the enemy directly from a different route.

The enemy was gathering up just in the same way my army did. And unlike what anyone would expect, I moved towards the opposite direction of my army.

I had to form another army to help mine when the time would be right.

So I started controlling and forcing forces down at the ground to follow me using my technique and contracts. Then I gave them a simple order

[Stay hidden, don't expose yourselves, and don't go near the frontline]

From this moment on, the stealth operation of forming another army started.

[F*ck you Hye! You said five hours and even after eight you never showed up!]

[We are losing a lot! We are retreating far behind! We are going to be killed in the end! Screw you human! I should have known from the start that you aren't that trustworthy!]

686 The Final Battle Starts

Just as the battle kept grinding at both sides for hours, these two never stopped complaining and whining.

I knew they were pressured, but they got to have more faith in me. Even after all this time, the enemy didn't start moving out yet.

I was back holding their back, and that wasn't just a simple task. I didn't bother letting them know about this. In time, they'd see with their own eyes.

For a long time, I felt puzzled towards the delay in enemy movements until I realised something.

The enemy had many continents and forces here on Earth, but those near us were far away. So even if they sent such a big coalition army and kept supporting it from the big number of portals in the cities and towns nearby, they still didn't manage to bring the army needed to crush that bridge.

Also I got the feeling that they would wait until the four generals of mine would be close to the bridge before attacking.

Doing so would deal a strong blow to the remaining forces morale, letting the last struggle of my boys greatly weakened.

I read through their intentions. And that had only one explanation; they weren't ready!.

They couldn't amass enough forces to crush mine yet. So they had to use such a tactic to make sure they'd secure their lands.

Knowing all this made me calmer. I was pressured to such an extent, and they were also facing the same problem.

So I didn't hurry to move out there yet. I had to amass as much force as I could.

Once the Hectors would start their attack, I'd jump over and leave this battle for another leader.

[Have you arrived?] As I decided whom to lead my forces here, I had to make sure his replacement arrived at the capital first.

[Just half an hour away]

[Good. you will handle the fight at the capitol on your own]

I then opened a chat with one of the dragon girls around the capital, asking her to find Lucias and deliver the new assignment over to him.

He would leave his army behind for Isac to order and would travel to me. At the right moment, he would take over the army here and I'd be freed to face the Hectors.

And according to the situation at the capital, I'd decide if I'd use the help of Isac and her army or not.

Gradually the plan became more coherent. The advantage I was getting now made me more comfortable towards the end of this big war.

I knew the four armies at the Hector continent were getting wiped out. But I was preparing more armies for them.

After this war would be over, Hectors would emerge as the biggest losers. They wouldn't only lose lots of forces, most of their continent near my capital; they would also lose more at the northern epic tri-races battle.

They tried to put down a fire at one home to end up losing the entire town! Their leaders acted a bit arrogant this time, much more foolish than brave in my opinion.

I didn't know what happened to them. Did they think I got deeply wounded and looked like a tasty meal to them or what?

Did they grow greedy? Thought they could use the help of their strong northern armies to smash my kingdom?

Well, I didn't know what went loose in their heads, but they screwed up big this time.

Even comparing the losses of that bastard enemy of mine with them, they lost even more than him.

I kept turning their elites against themselves. After the passage of four more hours, things started to show an expected development.

"Lucias… I'll leave this place over to you," when I got the reports describing a huge aquatic army appearing all of sudden around the bridge zone, I turned to my souler general and said.

"Don't worry lord, I can handle things here," he slowly bowed his head. He arrived a couple of hours ago and didn't take part in any fight.

He just stood by my side, watching in silence and respect as I kept taking control over tons of enemy forces.

All the elites I controlled were moving in circles, avoiding going near the bloody frontline or showing any signs to expose themselves.

The frontal battle kept grinding more lives during the past hours. My side lost a lot as for the enemy. However they lacked constant reinforcements, not like how enemies kept replenishing their losses all the time.

I could just have ordered my newly gained forces to turn their blades and kill those around them. But I had to wait for the right moment.

And this moment was here.

[Listen up, gather around my chariot first. You will follow the order of Lucias, the general with orange fire and fog. He will lead you from now on]

I sent this order to all the newly acquired races. It was time for them to gather up and join forces with my big army.

My chariot stood in the air for half an hour before a grand army of mixed races was formed down below.

"They are all yours now," as they gathered in enough numbers, I handed things over to him while taking out my stuff.

I recalled back my fallen gods and chariot, and left things here over to him while jumping through the opened portal.

I decided to buy Lucias a nice chariot as my other generals. Such a fierce souler shouldn't get buried under dust inside my inventory.

He should lead his army and keep killing enemies everywhere. Battlefield was his home, and I intended to let him live freely there.

Once I passed through the portal, I appeared on a point at the eastern shore of my capital.

Sounds of brutal fighting were echoing from every corner of this world. From the mainland, the brutal fights between Isac's forces and the enemies were causing big noise.

But the loudest came from the nearby ocean. The incoming aquatic big army started the fight, clashing against the aquatic forts and races belonging to me there.

Alongside this, the defensive forces stationed at both sides of the bridge joined. In addition to the elite forces prepared by Lucias, this zone turned into a real piece of bloody hell.

687 A Bloody Fight At The Bridge

"This is my home as well," for a reason, I felt this place was better suited to me than the peaceful life I experienced during the past few months.

I trained, lived in a peaceful world, and watched my capital, cities, and towns rise up.

Yet I never felt such adrenaline and excitement when I achieved all this like I was feeling right now. The thrill of crushing down enemies and ruling over them no matter how hard they resisted, was enough for me.

"Let's end this then," I summoned my chariot, let my girl rise high up in the air, before making my first technique again.

Watch me bastards as I get back!

The threads exploded out of my technique, hungrily running and attacking the aquatic monsters. The monsters weren't alone, as they were boarded with Hectors.

I didn't know how they remained under water for all this time without getting suffocated. As far as I knew, Hectors weren't an aquatic race, right?

Or were these fine scales a sign for them being so? I had to ask Lily later on about that..

For now, I started attacking the monsters first. They were their ride, and controlling them would stumble the advancement speed and limit the movement of these Hectors.

Besides, it was much faster to control a monster than to control a Hector dude.

I knew how hard it was to control races, not to mention Hectors.

As I planned, the monsters once controlled started to act a little berserk before they followed my orders.

And my order was simple; make the riders on your back fall into water and then attack them.

I wanted to interrupt the current fierce momentum of such a terrifying race. I witnessed lots of Hector's fighting, either by my side or against me.

They were organised, well trained, and knew no fear. Just a small group of them was enough to bring enough trouble for me and my enemies alike.

So I wanted first to keep them busy fighting against useless monsters while my threads worked their magic against the real goals.

I first hit monsters they rode, then as they got controlled in a few seconds, more threads came out and attacked those on its back.

This made any Hector on the back of these aquatic monsters get infected. And during the fight that lasted for a few minutes, these Hectors ended up under my control.

"Sign the contracts!" I didn't delay and sent the order while spreading contracts over.

I controlled lots of Hectors in the first few minutes since I came here. But that wasn't even close enough. Just as I was waiting for the Hectors to get controlled, I attacked more monsters, dropping the Hectors on their back before attacking them.

This created enough chaos at some point to make the fierce attack of Hector's face lots of problems.

During the first hour of my arrival here, the Hectors held the upper hand. They never stopped attacking, and managed to cause damage at many points of the bridge.

The bridge extended for many miles up front. So it wasn't easy for me or my forces to defend it against such a brutal attack.

However, just after the first hour, and as I kept moving around the entire bridge, I managed to create enough disturbance to make the attack pause for the first time.

The water churned with deep red colour from the death of many monsters and lots of Hectors. The fight between the two was brutal, but most of the losses came when I created chaos.

At this moment, my forces found their chance to kill lots of Hectors. Then the fight between my Hectors and their former friends and allies caused more casualties.

At last was the effect of a direct clash between my forces defending here and them.

Among these forces, the ones stationed in the underwater forts caused the most damage without doubt. These races didn't look that fierce to me.

But for a reason, and perhaps thanks to the forts underwater, they managed to kill lots of Hectors.

Looking at this water fight from high above made me inwardly sigh. The Hectors were really such a mighty race. Even when they came unprepared, they brought such a large army that was this close from taking down the bridge.

And this wasn't the full scale of their assault! In addition to their forces attacking with other races at the northern gulf, there were many who came out on the shore of their continent, and tried to surround the close by four generals of mine.

Of course I got lots of screaming and cursing messages from Fang and the jumper, but I ignored them all.

Right now my full focus was on stabilising the fight here and securing the bridge. Next I'd think of a way to come and help them.

So they had to deal with this kind of attack, wait for my timely arrival.

Despite things looking bad, they weren't that bad in my eyes. To me, the enemy was pressing forward with everything he got.

So when we'd survive this shitty time, they would look weak. Then my retaliation would really begin.

Losing forces wasn't a pleasant thing for me. However I was in such a situation where I had to choose between different types of losses.

I cared more about the final result of this war, the general look of the map describing the reigns of each force here.

That was what I kept in mind while pressing over the Hectors coming at my bridge. I could spare part of my attention and help those four out there, but that would place more danger over the bridge.

After all, once the northern battle would be concluded in my favour, I'd bring all the remaining forces here.

Without a bridge, an intact and secured bridge, how could they join and help?

So for the next seven hours, I kept fighting fervently using my technique. I signed tons of contracts, most of their owners were lying dead at the bottom of this ocean.

688 Things Are Bad At The Eastern Side!

Yet that didn't make me feel any regret or remorse. I knew those fighting here were elites, the cream of the crop. But I knew there were lots more of Hectors waiting for me on the continent.

So I focused only on stopping their deadly charge during these hours. When the seven hour passed, the situation here started to finally tilt towards my direction.

The amount of forces coming here started to show a sudden decline. I knew there must be lots of portals underwater for such a big army to appear out of nowhere and keep coming at me.

"So you are reshifting your focus over the mainland? Wise choice, but it won't make any difference…"

I knew the sudden decline wasn't without a reason. And that was simply thanks to a big change to their plan.

They accepted their defeat here. And so they started to shift their focus over the fight on the main continent.

Such change meant this bridge would be safe for the time being. I looked around, and the number of my forces here was enough to keep the enemy away from the bridge..

"Time to join the mainland fight then," If they changed their tactics, then I'd change mine as well.

Without any speck of hesitation, I controlled my chariot to fly over the ocean and go directly towards the continent.

It took almost half an hour to arrive there. I didn't need to arrive there to see how bad the situation was.

First of all, the four didn't manage to come together as I thought! There were two big groups of armies in the middle of an ocean of Hector forces.

I got the reason why Fang and that jumper kept annoying me in such a way before. The two were together, fighting side by side all the time.

It must have started by one of them before they both walked over this path of mindset of complaining. I sighed when comparing the two big boys with the two girls up there.

The girls never sent a message to me complaining or saying anything. Unlike the two big boys here, they acted more mature.

But to be honest, the overall situation looked dire! They were isolated from each other, and the number of forces under them dwindled to such dangerous extent.

I estimated that each army only had one hundred thousands or even less! That meant each group would have two hundred thousands at most, not enough to face such a close and crazy encirclement of the millions of Hectors.

But this had to stop now. "Go forth, make me an army," I said in a cold tone while my threads sprung at the shitload of Hector's down below.

At the same time, I snapped my fingers and the fallen gods and the warriors handling the weapons on my chariot started their all out assault.

*Rumble!* *Rumble!* *Rumble!*

Once my boys joined, and the fight turned into much deadlier confrontation. The attacks of my fallen gods caused such weird violent explosions every now and then, which was something I didn't get until later on.

"They brought such big guns with explosive ammunition to kill faster? Great! These weapons are going to be mine in the end!"

Just after dozens of flights over the collosal army down below, I got to notice the big weapon scattered among these forces.

They looked like big cannons of old human civilization. They sent out deadly shots, attacking and killing lots of my forces in a few minutes.

Each hit exploded, forming a small mushroom cloud that engulfed tens of my forces and even hundreds. Beside each weapon, lots of ammo were stacked there in wait to be used.

And when my boys attacked these places, violent explosions rumbled all over the place, creating bigger mushroom clouds that ate thousands of Hector in it.

"See these things? Aim at them first," even if I sat my eyes over these weapons, I didn't keep my boys from hitting them. Instead, I specifically marked them, chose these to be the focus of such attacks.

If they brought such weapons here, that meant they got lots of them in their inventories.

Once the battle dust would be settled, the inventories of these would be all collected by me. I'd gain these weapons and their ammunition without much trouble.

Besides, the explosions that came from these tons of ammunition brought the death count high off the chart!

And they created enough chaos and gaps in the middle of the dense Hector army to let my threads work better and faster thanks to all the confusion caused by these explosions.

The Hectors brought lots of such weapons. So just in the first hour, tens of thousands of such explosions occurred. That didn't only help me, it also helped to relieve the pressure over my forces for many occasions.

[Move together, idiots! Don't be separated like that!] As the first chance appeared, I didn't hesitate to rudely reprimand these two arrogant jerks and order them to regroup with the two girls.

Of course they showered me with curses, but in the end they started to go to the other army. It made sense this way, and even if they got sharp tongues, they got brilliant brains to get the advantage of such a move.

The first attempts failed. Yet at the end of the first hour, the two armies finally managed to come together.

But I didn't hurry to help them with my newly controlled boys.

I did the same as I did at the northern gulf battle. The size I thought of the final force I controlled made me eager to wait.

Not only the large number that would gather up at the end, but adding the psychological effect of seeing such a big army gathering up to their help.

My forces who kept routed and hunted down like they were dogs would show a ground shaking transformation, turning from such low points in morale into such mighty and vicious beasts.

689 The Counterattack Starts

I waited for three more hours. During which I only let my boys on my chariot attack with the help of my chariot different weapons and abilities.

During this time, the fight going on at the bridge showed no new development. My forces kept routing back and killing all the enemies who dared to come.

Despite they shifted their focus over the mainland forces, the Hectors never stopped sending forces to hit the bridge.

It seemed they were wary of my forces there to come and help the ones trapped in the mainland.

What helped this wrong belief to deepen in them was what happened since I appeared there. Even with my help, they kept killing my boys and keeping them entrapped without any way out.

This was wrong because I didn't truly act against them.

As for the capital, the situation looked quite calm there. No new enemy dared to come or target the capital for now.

From one side, the coalition army led by Hectors at the northern gulf was getting routed and killed right now. They just got a stable backing from the cities and towns there..

However the previous large number of reinforcements sent by the Hectors was stopped as they shifted everything towards their continent.

Other races kept bringing their forces. However even the Dragons couldn't be compared at all with these Hectors.

So with the help of my soulers and controlled forces there, and under the brutal and fierce leadership of Lucias, that fight was getting better for my side.

The fights in the West didn't show much development. My armies were facing great resistance from lots of races.

Thanks to the punishment we all got, the fight started to lean towards the enemies out there. Their speed of advancement was affected greatly.

But I never gave them the order to stop or even retreat. Each inch gained of land during the time of merge was a big gain for me.

Until the merge was over, I would never allow a single troop to turn back or stop from moving forward!

At the western battles, the spearhead was the real star. His ability to negate any stat or strength of the enemy proved its worth more than ever at these battles.

Even under the combined bonus and debuffs, his ability wasn't affected. And whoever got under his ability area of effect would turn from mighty lions to weak and powerless kittens.

Despite his new arrogance, he deserved to act cocky! In such a big and decisive battle, his contributions alone were above all others.

The merge had around twelve hours to get done. It was enough time for my forces to gain lots of areas.

Not to mention I didn't start anything here yet.

I waited for a couple more hours before finally taking action.

[Come on! You are here and only using these weak attacks of yours!!!]

[You promised me an army of reinforcements, and only you arrived and did nothing much so far!!!]

These ungrateful whining two were getting on my nerves! If not for the current situation and the bad circumstance they saw during the past hours, I'd go down there and slap them on the face with my right hand.

And my right hand held such a terrifying might that no one could resist!

[Start gathering up!] I selected all the Hectors I recently controlled, and ordered them to group, [Group under my chariot!]

It was enough time to gather up tons of these Hectors. Even if they would take much longer than any monster to get under my clutches, I managed to amass lots of them during all this time.

And during the next ten minutes, a sizable force appeared under my chariot.

At first, the Hectors here didn't get what was going on. But when the army stood under my chariot, not getting under any attacks from my boys, and not trying to fire anything at my chariot, they started to get the full scale of the scary situation.

They tried to kill my Hectors. However what happened was for my boys to rain down fierce attacks over their heads from my chariot, while letting few routes open for the remaining controlled Hectors to arrive.

"It's enough… All the Hectors under me listen up… Attack and kill!" I held my horn and spoke to all the Hectors belonging to me.

I knew that not all of them managed to come here. But it was already enough. A force of almost one million Hectors was standing down below my chariot, extending for a mile radius around my chariot.

And with my order, this force started to move out as if a bomb got exploded.

[Don't stand idle! Press in the opposite direction now!] At the same time, I sent this order to the four generals of mine.

[Are you sure?]

[The opposite?]

[Damn! Do you want us to die this bad?!!]

[You are crazy, much crazier than those maniacs, the Berserkers!]

The four gave me different answers, but I gave them the same response.

[Just do as I say, it's time for your revenge!]

I didn't stop for a single moment. Instead as the fight below became much fiercer, I used the current minutes of chaos and confusion to spread more threads using lots of green bones.

I pressed forward using everything I had to control more Hectors. And thanks to such a messy situation, my control speed became a bit faster.

"Attack! Keep attacking! Don't stop for even a second! Keep moving forward! Keep pressing forward!"

I held my horn from time to time and gave such orders loudly to all the Hectors I controlled. I didn't specify any direction, letting them expand their attacks in every possible direction, creating much more chaos than before.

More chaos meant more forces to get under my control. I spent three hours until this hectic fight turned to my favour at last.

Most of the Hectors who were here when I arrived turned either into cold dead bodies or into my forces.

690 A Surprise Army Awaits Me!

At this point, and thanks to the combined army of my four generals, Hector's reinforcements coming from the depths of the continent never got the chance to arrive at the deadly and heated up battle in the rear.

"Move out, go into the continent, and never stop until you are dead! Claim cities, get towns for me, and don't stop killing no matter what!"

As the fight here got finally over, I gave the Hectors under me the order to start invading their continent.

And with this, the reinforcements that were gushing towards here coming from the portals at the capital, linking my Earth with the second Earth, finally managed to arrive at the four general armies.

They never stopped coming, but they faced the tight encirclement of the Hector's from before. Not to mention the brutal fight at the bridge zone killed most of them before even setting foot over this continent.

However this now is over! And with such a big influx of reinforcements of humans and races alike, the size of the four armies started to show healthy signs of recovering up fast.

That was the main reason I didn't feel any panic when the size of the four armies kept decreasing during the past hours under my watch..

I knew with the trapped big reinforcements coming from my second Earth world, these armies would swell back to their prime and even gain more.

That was thanks to the additional army of Hectors fighting on their side. With the big number of Hector's army that kept increasing with each passing minute, the four generals' armies would grow wings and deadly fangs.

As things reached this point, I didn't advance anymore. The fight here would snowball and the defeat of these Hectors would just keep deepening.

They used up most of their forces, used everything they could to kill my four generals and free their lands.

That came with such a hefty price now. They got nothing to stop my forces from going forward. Not even a single force gathered up in time to stop my forces advance.

Before all this, my four generals already controlled hundreds of miles from this continent. When they got routed back, the enemy didn't have time to fully control or rebuild any defensive structures.

So when my general's returned, attacking these lands, they had a smoother time in controlling them. I kept receiving many reports about how fast they gained land during the past five hours.

"It's time to end the fight at the bridge," I waited all this time and didn't go to put an end to the fight at the bridge.

From one side, I was taking control of more forces sent by the Hectors using my technique. And from another, keeping such a leak here would keep the forces coming at my generals smaller.

Even by a bit, such a decrease would greatly help them.

But as they were advancing in such a way, it was time to put an end to the fight here. This bridge battle kept lots of my forces in this place occupied.

They could be used better at other places.

To put an end to the battle here, I had to go all the way down and move this fight from the surface of the ocean to its depth.

"Come here, let's attack them together," as such, I called forth all the aquatic monsters which remained alive after all this fight. I also summoned the monsters from Albany city, my Krakens, and also my dragons.

I was going all out this time to finish off the portals lying deep at the ocean bottom.

However when I moved with my chariot underwater and gained the blessing of the aquatic building from Albany city, I found a shitload of portals shining non-stop at the bottom of the ocean.

And down there I found a grand army waiting for me.

"Oh, so you weren't just focusing on the jumper… You want me!" From the look of such an army, and the endless stretch of it, I got the feeling this one was brought over here for a long time already.

And from the different races here, I got the impression this wasn't just the Hectors' move.

If the Hectors got such a colossal army here, they would have sent it up earlier to stabilise the battle at their lands.

So there was only one explanation, it was brought over by that damn clone.

But who cared! Bringing such a sizable army to fight me wasn't that much of a threat. I could easily return back to the surface anytime I wanted.

They brought their forces, and I brought mine.

"Attack!"

I didn't even think twice before giving such an order to my boys. I also started sending out threads, tons of them to take over as many races as possible.

They weren't like Hectors, Selvators, or Dragons. So taking control over them didn't take much more than one minute for each person.

In return, they started their attack on me. First thing they did was to move out, surround me in such a tight circle, which shielded any way of retreating off me.

Idiots! Who said I'd try to run away when I got the home advantage here?

[Spread the word, any aquatic races will have to jump over and join the battle at the right side of the bridge] I sent this message over to all the dragon rider girls hovering over my capital right now.

If the enemy brought up such a massive army for me, I would also bring my own army here.

And as they mistook me to come alone and thought they surrounded me in such a way, they would get shocked when the army of races would arrive from the surface.

All I needed to do was to hold out as long as it needed for the early forces to arrive.

And that wasn't hard to be honest. My boys sent out their deadly attacks while my chariot's shield absorbed all the attacks coming here.

*Roar!*

691 The End Of War!

But just before the early forces of mine would arrive, I heard such a scary roar coming from one direction before more started to come.

"Damn! They brought such heavyweight monsters here?!! I want them! I want them!"

The roars came from colossal monsters that looked like aquatic dinosaurs to me. They got broadheads with a horn in the middle of their heads.

That was the sign of them being hybrid beasts. Hybrid monsters in such size? That meant they weren't normal at all!

"My threads aren't working… Then it's time for my merged technique," I tried to shift all my threads here over them, ending up getting anything touching these colossal monsters torn into shreds.

So instead of wasting more threads and time, I started forming the second technique before merging the two together.

Thick arms came out, ones that I could freely control. Unlike the threads, these arms got much strength and could deal better with this new breed of monsters.

*Rumble!*.

However during my preparation for counterattack, these monsters started theirs.

Their attack was mostly done by releasing massive and violent waves across the ocean waters. These waves kept assaulting and hammering my shield, making me feel worried for a few moments.

Yet when my shield got itself repaired, I heaved a sigh of relief. I stored up lots of energy before at my shield. And it seemed such a vast amount of energy came into use right now.

I didn't need to worry then. Instead of diverging my attention over the shield, I kept focusing over the thick arms and tried to control my first hybrid beast.

And in such time, my forces arrived from the surface, coming to my rescue and aid.

The fight turned instantly bloodier with such addition of fresh forces. The water all around kept rolling up and down, forming bloody whirlpools that engulfed lots of the enemy forces.

However even with such addition and help, they only affected the forces around. These colossal monsters kept resisting even my thick arms, not giving me any chance of controlling them.

It was such a loss! But that didn't mean I was out of options.

Gradually I started moving my chariot away from the big black sphere. As I did, I started the next step of the merge; merging the two techniques truly together.

I prepared lots of green bones for such a step. That merge was a true beast, consuming tons of energy in the process.

But once it was done, I ended up with a much bigger and fiercer technique that was able to hold five colossal monsters using my thick arms.

If I failed to control them, I'd just use my arms to drag them into the big sphere.

My energy was limited, I got that. But compared to the fierce black energy in my shadow world, these beasts held zero chance of surviving this.

The only regret I had would be in losing the chance of turning such violent hybrid monsters into my own.

But winning this battle was all I had to focus on right now. I'd leave such regret for later time.

Taking down such behemoths took me almost one hour. They kept struggling, and even asked for help from their friends.

But any monster that dared to come closer to them was trapped as well with my thick arms. The situation kept getting better when I dragged almost twenty monsters into that sphere for the first time.

The remaining monsters were slightly over a hundred, meaning I'd need to repeat this for five or six more times at least.

As I kept doing this, my shield kept protecting me from any kind of attack.

The enemy depended on numbers to drain my shield, then using the brutal force of these behemoths to attack and crash it down.

However they greatly underestimated my shield! Also they missed my aquatic races!

The incoming forces from the surface kept the swarms of aquatic monsters here under check. As for my fallen gods, they kept attacking the behemoths at first with no result.

So I had to shift their target towards the rest of the enemy forces. These hybrid monsters were really something else! I didn't know how that clone bastard managed to get them, but I now envied him a lot for that.

Thinking about this issue from another perspective, if this clone specialised in aquatic battles then he would turn into a troublesome enemy.

I had to admit, getting the two together, that clone and the Hectors, would form a terrifying aquatic force.

Earth was initially a water planet. It was filled mostly with big oceans and seas.

Even with the addition of new continents, they would bring their oceans and seas with them. The size of the planet would grow bigger, and with it the size of the water surface here would be much wider than ever.

Letting such a terrifying alliance continue would be a mistake. I had to crush the enemy here and let this clone lose his first battle, with the hope of him getting killed by another clone.

But something told me this clone wouldn't get killed this easily.

I got the feeling that this fight was just the test this clone had to do to see how his abilities would fare against me.

And frankly speaking… He was going to cause lots of trouble for me.

Sigh! I just hated the fact that this dude was unkillable! Facing such an enemy who wouldn't die no matter what was annoying.

I had to win this fight first before worrying about the upcoming ones.

As I dragged the first batch of monsters, I started to attack others. This time, the behemoths learnt their lesson, and didn't come to help their friends.

I had to spend more time fighting here while dragging monsters in batches of fives and tens. After almost ten hours, I finally dragged all of them, and only the aquatic army and portals remained.

"Aim at these portals, crush them down!" I didn't even take a moment of rest, pointed at the direction of the portals and let my fierce fallen gods attack them.

692 The Flag Appears

With each wave of attack, many portals got crushed into pieces. In less than two more hours, the portals got all damaged and the enemy lost its way to get reinforcements.

The rest was a simple story for me and my boys. I kept fighting here for one more hour before finally leaving this area for my boys to handle.

I wasted lots of time here, and right now the merge should be completed.

I moved up to the surface in the middle of deep red coloured waters, while feeling more excited about the final merge of the two kingdom hearts with my kingdom.

What would it be like? What changes would happen?

I was dying to know that!

As for the current fights, they didn't need to press forward anymore. The western side would stop fighting by my orders.

All my focus should remain on the eastern battle. As for north, things went calmer during the past hours as the enemy got killed and the entire region got under my control again.

I didn't intend to let the northern army stay there. But first I went outside to check my capital.

The first thing I noticed was the new halo that appeared over the ground. It looked like Earth got a new layer made out of pure green energy, starting from my capital and expanding outside in all directions..

The further it went, the fainter it got.

As I went over the capital, I found that buildings there got covered with the same coat of energy.

Even the training grounds also got the same, with waters inside it dyed green instead of all the redness that prevailed over the ocean near the coast.

Other than this, I didn't find anything special about it. I doubted my eyes and started to roam around, trying to see what went differently here.

[Congratulations on merging a kingdom heart of green grade with your lands]

Just as I spent a few minutes flying without finding anything worthy of note, I received this message from the system.

[Now you can give your kingdom a name, give it a symbol, and will have a flag inserted in the heart of the capital]

[What name will you choose?]

[Note: this name won't change. It will be spread universe wide according to the system regulations. You are the first to acquire and establish a kingdom in the entire apocalypse cluster you are in]

"Hmm… So it didn't show any change yet because of the system? Alright… I chose the Kingdom of Heaven as the name."

[The Kingdom of Heaven will be the new name of your kingdom. Do you confirm?]

"I confirm!"

[The name is chosen]

[The kingdom will be linked to the Human race. Please confirm]

"I confirm!"

[You need to draw the symbol of your kingdom now]

Just as the message appeared, a floating screen appeared with black white space inside. I looked at it for a second, not knowing what to do.

[You can draw over this board using your fingers]

"Cool!"

I started to draw the simple triangle while its top launched rays of light everywhere. It didn't take a minute for me to finish.

[Is this the final symbol you want? You can ask for the system guidance and suggestions about the final version of your primitive drawing]

"P… Primitive? Thanks for your humbleness system… Ok, show me your brilliant touches, artistic system!"

[Here are the twelve versions we prepared for you. Please select one and confirm]

"Damn!"

Just seeing the versions this system created made me feel how bad my drawing was!

The system said that I wanted to draw a pyramid with shining rays coming out from its top. It generated different versions with different colours, designs, and even added a few touches like an arc of colours hovering over the top!

I scanned the twelve designs, feeling that everyone was better than the others.

"I selected this," but one of them stood out the most. It was a red pyramid with golden rays coming out from its top. The top part was dyed golden yellow, with orange edges.

As for the rays, they were in the shapes of arms, resembling the arms of my second technique. It has an arc of rainbow colours hovering over it, as a symbol of peace and prosperity.

I liked it!

[Do you confirm this?]

[Please note: one selected, the symbol of your kingdom can't be changed again!]

"I confirm!" I didn't hesitate as this symbol felt really amazing.

[The symbol is created. A flag will rise up from the central zone of your capital. You can take this flag with you wherever you go. As long as you own this flag, you are the ruler of the kingdom. Your offspring will have a chance to hold this flag after your passing according to certain rules]

[Good luck human race Hye, the first king in the apocalypse cluster here]

[As you are the first to gain such honour, your name will be spread all over the universe in a universe wide notification]

"Thanks," I didn't know if this was a good or bad thing. But if it was a reward, then it was fine.

Just as the messages ended, something appeared in the middle zone of my capital.

It first started as a gathering of dense rays of golden colour, then it got slightly red, then it finally ended up rising high in the air.

Damn! I never thought the flag would be this huge!

As the energy rose up for one hundred metres, a grand flag appeared from its depth. It had a massive flagpole, looking like a big obelisk or a pillar.

The flag wasn't made out of any type of fabric, but made entirely of faint green energy. In its centre, the symbol of my kingdom shone brightly in its different colour.

It extended for tens of metres in length and almost ten metres width. It looked big, even from far away anyone could see it!

[Boss, what is that?]

[Damn! You left us fighting and was busy finding a good piece of decoration for your capital!]

[I like it, is it a flag? And what's drawn over it?]

693 I Have To Prepare For The Future

Many messages came, mostly asking about what this flag was for. Only two messages came with such rude comments, and I totally ignored all.

[This is the flag symbolising our kingdom. From now on, our Kingdom of Heaven will stand tall and mighty, above all races in the apocalypse]

I sent this as a declaration of the true birth of our kingdom. And next, I was showered with congratulatory messages from all.

I closed all of these messages, looked at that bright flag shining in the middle of all the dimness here.

It was eye catchy, so damn eye catchy to make me unwilling to take it away.

"I have to store it," I realised what Sith meant when he said that the only way to take down a kingdom was by killing its founder.

As I could store the flag in my inventory, only if I willingly took it out and handed it over to anyone, no one would be able to touch my kingdom!

The kingdom wasn't in its lands or people, but in its symbol and flag. I went towards it and stood there, watching the wildly dancing flag in the middle of my capital..

It looked magnificent! If not for the big risk of losing my kingdom if left here, I'd not have thought about taking it away.

"Come inside," reluctantly, I extended my right arm and touched it. I thought it would give me the feeling of holding an ember in hand, but it felt so soft and cosy.

And once I touched it, it vanished, got inside my inventory.

I opened the inventory and checked this flag there. It didn't stop moving as if there were wild wind inside my inventory.

"Keep your head high up, I promise you will flutter over endless lands in many worlds in the future."

I closed my inventory to be welcomed with a voice in my head.

[Good job! You finally merged the hearts together with your kingdom]

"It's thanks to your guidance," he was a Sith, and he seemed to be busy with something.

[Anyway, I have to go and check over something else. Always remember, the lands of your kingdom will always be protected by your flag. Any land you want to add to your kingdom you have to control a city first, then insert the flag anywhere in it. The bonus effect will weaken at the newly acquired lands. As for the old ones, they will enjoy strong blessing from your flag]

"Thanks," I got that he was speaking about the difference between the newly acquired lands and the old ones I got before the merge ended.

I had lots of questions to ask, but I felt he wouldn't answer so I didn't ask.

For example, what were the benefits of the flag and hearts over my people? He told me that I could add any land I wanted by using the flag over it.

So what about my second Earth world then? Was it part of my kingdom now? Or would it be considered as newly acquired lands?

I had to go there and see how things worked.

But before doing any of that, I had to close all the loose ends in this war.

[Strengthen the borders and leave part of your forces protecting it] I started working over placing the final touches over this war.

I sent this message to the four at the western frontline. They did a great job in pushing the kingdom western borders as far as they could.

And now it wasn't time for keeping the fight at such a front. Before retreating back here, they had to strengthen the border out there and leave enough forces to defend this advanced line.

Before this war, my kingdom spanned from Michigan up north, passing through Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee.

We previously controlled all the way towards Texas in the south, but these regions were lost thanks to the mighty tsunami and flood that came from the ocean and the retreat of the jumper with his forces without leaving anyone behind.

Fang failed to come and help at that time, and the regions that he controlled stopped at Georgia.

But right now, the new map looks much different.

The western border started from Wisconsin, going through the mid zones of Iowa, Missouri, and Arkansas before ending south at Mississippi.

I believe the total area got doubled, and if adding the newly controlled lands at the eastern Hector continent, this might be tripled.

But the eastern battle wasn't that calm yet. The Hectors got the fierce hammer this time, yet this was still their land.

Even if they lost a lot, this wasn't the end of their resistance. In fact they showed signs of recovering, as new forces started to arrive and join the fight.

If things kept going this way, then this zone would turn into a replica of the bloody long war up north that I read about in many records.

Such a war wasn't easy to handle. A long time war against such a fierce enemy would be draining on everything.

And my biggest fear would be in its side effects on the future growth of my kingdom.

The only way out was either by trying to crush the Hectors fast before they'd amass their forces again and arrange their defences.

Or by trying to sign a peace treaty with them.

Forcing them to sign such a treaty would be tricky and challenging. I had to show them that I got the upper hand, and must also find more hot points to pressure, forcing them to seek an end to the war here to mind other hot zones.

"Hmm… I hope those Berserkers are doing something nice up there," the only hot zone I was aware of right now was the northern epic war.

The Hectors tried to reach out for a peace treaty with them, to free themselves from the northern battlefield and focus over the fight here.

They did that because of the fear of my threat. And the only way to force them to sign such a treaty with me would be the northern battle.

694 Zombies!

[How are things at your end?] I sent it to Wryly while hoping they started the war up there.

[No news yet]

[What do you mean?!]

[The paragons decided to accept the treaty]

What the f*ck!! They did what?!!

[Doesn't your race love to fight? What the heck happened?!!]

[I believe some sort of a deal has been reached, something that my paragons couldn't say no to]

[Damn! So you aren't fighting at the moment?]

[Neither do we, nor the Dragons as far as I know].

[Won't you fight anytime soon?]

[The treaty spanned over a year, so there won't be a fight anytime soon]

I paused, thought for a second. Such a situation was something I had no say in or couldn't change.

[Then lead your forces and come down here. I need you in a big fight against Hectors]

[Right now? Where?]

[It's far from the north. That treaty is limited to the northern continents, right?]

[That's true. Ok, I'll see what my paragon will say]

[I don't care about him. If you don't show up, then we aren't friends or allies anymore!]

[This…]

[This is final! Make up your mind bro. I like you, but if you are going to be a liability the Fang who fought by my side in this brutal war will be my only friend]

I had to use this direct and harsh way to force him to move here. If he asked his paragon, then there was a slim chance for him to come down here.

If he didn't show up, then he wouldn't be my friend. What was the use of friends if they didn't show up and support me in such times?

He left his posts, left his lands unprotected. He caused me lots of trouble, failed to force war upon Hectors at north when the situation was optimum for his race to push forward and crush Hectors.

I got that he had no say yet in such matters. But if he didn't come and help me with his big and intact army, then there was no more use for him.

According to what he said, the war up north wasn't going to continue for an entire year! It seemed the Hector leaders were smarter than I thought, and moved early on to block on me such a path.

Like this their intentions become clear to me. They placed this fight here as a top priority. The previous plan of setting fire to their backyard failed even before it began!

I had to prepare for a long and exhausting war between my side and theirs. In such a war, I'd need all the help I'd get. Or else I'd always be in such disadvantageous situation for a long time.

Sigh! This war already consumed lots of my forces. Even the great number of humans and races I amassed at the second Earth world was consumed up by half at least.

Such big losses would unfortunately continue for a long time. I had to reconsider my own plans about the second Earth and here.

I got to start training many forces, using the time advantage in the other world to my benefit.

To do that, I had to find those monster dens and buy them in big numbers. I got lots of Hectors this time, and under Lily's leadership they'd help my forces.

As for Fang, this dude lost it big this time. I knew he could bring more forces here, but this blow would need lots of time for him to return to his old mighty state.

I had a deal with the Selvator race, and I didn't yet get to use it. I was planning to use Fang's help in training my forces, alongside Wryly.

One lost it big, and the other was acting in such a way to make me doubt he would continue as my ally.

This might be considered one of the most dangerous moments in my kingdom.

I had to tread carefully from now on. Going all out wouldn't help. I had to reserve my strength, start building up and getting my kingdom and people on their feet first.

The size I controlled was a good start. I just had to focus on rebuilding, getting more humans and races to fill these empty lands.

Without the people living in each inch of my kingdom, any enemy would find it a field trip ride while attacking my lands.

I built my kingdom, but it seemed I underestimated such a step. I had tons of things to do. And one of them was my lack of good and capable generals.

I had to start filtering and screening good candidates to be generals. Having such war was ideal to select and test their abilities.

Selecting generals must be matched with forming new armies. These armies could be acquired from the Petals' impact. But they needed time and good preparation to be trained.

In addition to that, the fourth quest would end and the fifth and bloody quest would start with the mysterious golden quest.

The fifth quest was all about zombies. All the fights and killing during the past four quests would result in tons of dead bodies everywhere.

All of them would rise up, turning into such vicious and cruel creatures that would be much more dangerous than any hybrid monster.

They knew no logic, had no mind at all. They just would roam the world, look for any living being and attack him.

Even monsters would get attacked and infected with their deformity, turning them into a hybrid breed of zombies.

This breed would appear out of all races and monsters, even aquatic and flying ones. This breed was the main problem. Only a single bite was needed for anyone to turn into something ugly as this hybrid breed.

When such fierce inhuman nature got mixed with little intelligence, it would become scary!

They would start working in big groups, controlling towns and cities and even acting like any sane race.

But they knew nothing but killing and feeding on the flesh of their victims. So they would only spread death and chaos, without leaving behind anything worthy of note.

695 I Will Make A Big Order This Time

The places controlled with them would be like graveyards! And the worst thing would be the support they'd gain from the system when they'd control any town or city.

The portals in these places would all fade away and turn into deep pits. It would turn these cities and towns into factories to produce more of these nasty creatures.

They were a plaque! Once infected a place, it would be really hard to exterminate them.

I had to find as many humans and races as I could during the fourth quest. It wasn't just for building up armies and replenishing the losses we had in this war, it was for the fifth quest.

Or else I wouldn't be able to leave here with a clear heart and join the golden quest.

According to what I knew, the fourth quest that just started for less than a day would last for ten to fourteen days.

It was a good period to do all this. Especially when I planned to use my second Earth world in a much better way.

I got out my staff and called back my chariot before jumping over to the northern gulf..

The area there looked quite different than what I left this area in. The entire zone was filled with dead bodies, while a huge army spanned over tens of miles, standing on the shore in wait for any sign of enemies.

Putting in mind what I learnt recently about the Hectors big plans, I knew this region couldn't be left unguarded.

This gulf wasn't just separating my lands from the lands on the other side of the guld. It was a source of danger.

I needed to replicate what I did back at my capital here. I also needed to leave behind enough forces to hold this area secured.

Going over this gulf and controlling the other shore would be pointless. The danger would come from the ocean waters here.

Trying to clear the gulf off any portals was useless as well. Even if there were portals down there right now, clearing them wouldn't help in the future.

The enemy could always come here and spread chaos by summoning more portals. The only way was to build as many aquatic forts as possible, taking complete hold over this gulf.

The key for this lies in the neck zone of this huge gulf, the area connecting it with the ocean. If this neck was held firmly enough with forts and aquatic races, then not a single enemy would trespass my lands.

"Come," as I decided that, I had to first help the eastern battlefield. The eastern armies were moving back to the capital. But they alone wouldn't be enough.

So I came here and called for Lucias to get on board. "Bring the army back, leave enough forces of the other races here in defence."

"Why not bring everyone with us? I smell the scent of a good fight on the horizon."

This dude… He looked more aggressive and bloodthirsty than ever. It seemed this fight brought lots of changes to his personality, or perhaps awakening the old soul that went into slumber before.

"We have to defend here," I simply said, "go and select enough forces from the remaining races to stay in defence here. Then I'll call all of your boys back, and you come on board and remain on my side."

"Ok, lord," he bowed his head before moving down to execute my orders.

During the hour he spent arranging forces here, I started to think about what my next move should be.

[I want to ask for a favour] And this was the first move I decided to take right now.

[What? Ask and I'll see what I can do]

It was Silverlining. And the first move would be finding the monster dens.

Without them, I wouldn't be able to train lots of forces in such a short time for the fourth quest.

I tasted the benefits of having enough force stationed elsewhere. If not for the two armies stationed back at my second Earth with tons of humans and races, the fight at the bridge and the eastern frontier would have turned ugly.

[I want to buy monsters dens, enough to train good forces for me]

[Hmm… You are asking for the hunters' impacts, right?]

[Indeed]

[Sorry pal, but this isn't up to me or anyone] just when I thought he was going to help, his words weren't of any help at all, [We have ties with them indeed. But these folks… They have their own minds and won't listen to anyone]

[Then…]

[But I have another way to help] Just when I lost all hopes, he added, [I can ask the three sovereigns to buy dens for you. They will resell these over. I believe you are seeking low grade dens, ones that will spawn weak monsters for your forces to train on and kill, right?]

This dude was really something else! Even though he gave me such bad news, he already thought of a solution.

[I have no objection to that] I didn't care from whom I'd get my monster dens, [But I want many aquatic and flying monster dens]

[I'll gather up enough to fill an entire world with dens for you. As for the price…]

He paused, and I knew what he was thinking about.

[I'll use a higher grade bones than my blue ones]

[It's not only that! The sovereigns are anxiously waiting for your bones according to the deals from before. I shouldn't have told you that, but they want to test and experiment your bones for their benefits]

Hmm… So he wasn't just referring to using my higher grade bones in this deal. He was inclining over the three deals I had with these sovereigns.

He had a point here. If I was one of those three, I'd be dying to get my hands over as many bones as possible, before other sovereigns would move and seek bones from me.

[Tell them this, I'll ask for a huge order this time according to our deal. Just give me one day before I'm ready. Also try to prepare as much dens as possible]

696 This War Will Last For Months

[That's a relief!] He seemed to be under great stress from the three sovereigns. [I'll go and talk with them then. I'll let them prepare lots of everything, if that's ok with you]

[It's fine] I looked around, [I'm going all out this time and will pay a huge amount of my silver grade bones and higher]

[Great! I'm sure they'll be jumping around out of joy. I'll wait for your message. And please, don't start any training until we are done!]

[Hahahaha! Don't worry, my hands are full with lots of fighting this time]

I closed the chat while laughing over his last remark. This dude… Every time I ordered something from him, I'd end up losing myself in cultivating.

But this time I had no opportunity to do so. Just as I closed the chat with this dude, I started my first spree of collecting bones.

The death toll this time was great! And on this side of the war, just the number of killed races was staggering!.

According to my soul count, I gained over one hundred and thirty million souls in this war. This came mainly from the monsters, and then the mercenaries.

But the number of killed races was also huge! Just jumping around and collecting bones and clearing inventories gave me tons of different grade bones.

When I finished clearing the battlefield, I couldn't help but grin. The gain this time was really big!

Who said war was the time for the rich to get richer? This dude was a wise man!

Forget about the tons of bones I got, just the gears and monster materials I got was immense!

There was also a large number of coins I had from these dead folks. I didn't have much use for coins at the moment. But at times, I'd need to buy tons of things from the market, and they came in handy at such times.

It took me almost ten hours to clear the entire battlefield here. Just thinking about the huge stretched war in the middle of my kingdom gave me a big headache.

"Come on now, let's go back together," I called all the soulers here, even the elites. Their number was slightly over five million before this war. And now they are slightly less than four million.

They lost almost one million during this fight alone. It might seem a big loss, but considering the many fights they participated in, I knew this wasn't a big loss.

My other forces have lost tens of millions so far. And the count was about to increase in the next few days.

According to the messages coming from the eastern frontline, the Hectors started to amass large armies to stop their advance. They already covered thousands of miles by now.

Yet that seemed like covering up a small percentage of that continent!

What was bad was the fact that I had no way to train more soldiers this fast. I first needed to recall Lily and her Hectors from the frontline first, and replace her with others.

Then I'd have to wait for a day or even more, to buy dents from Silverlining. Then I'd have to go to the second Earth and look for a good place to scatter them.

Also the places used to make the potion of my people should be relocated to the second Earth world.

The time difference was a must if I wanted to produce these potions on a larger scale.

So far, the five thousands who got the chance to open their cultivation were still lost in their cultivation. I knew they might take weeks, even months to wake up.

So staying here would be a waste! I couldn't relocate them, but I could move everything else to the second Earth and start this big project over there.

This would be the second step then. I had to wait until the western armies and generals would come here before doing any of that.

I got Isac and the other two back to the capital. The capital was all now secured and safe. However Isac was needed to supervise over building the defensive structures at the northern gulf, and the other two weren't trusted at all.

I really lacked good talents to depend upon in such times. This would be my next move after getting all this done.

As I opened a portal and passed through it with Lucias, I started another spree of collecting bones.

The fight zone here was filled with tons of dead bodies, and the best part was in them being concentrated over a much smaller area than the other battlefield.

Despite getting fewer things from their inventories, I got lots of bones. These bones were low grade, mostly green, blue, and silver.

I knew the higher grade bones would come from the eastern and western battlefields. The eastern one would bring me the highest grade bones among all the battlefields in this war.

My only regret was in the bodies lying in the depth of the ocean. However, who said they could get away from me this way?

"Come out!" I called forth my soulers and also dragons and krakens.

"You will lead your boys across the big bridge over there," I first assigned the next task for my bloody general, "go there and kill any enemy you find. I'll join you later in a couple of days."

"Couple of days? Is this a long term war then?" the eyes of Lucias shone in such dangerous red light. I knew this dude got stronger, but this new personality of his was a bit worrying.

What would he do or feel in times of peace? I had to find him good places to fight, even send him over the betting world to fight there for me.

"It will last for months," I brought such great news over to him, "during this, I'll keep adding more souler armies under your command. Even in the presence of other generals, you will be the supreme leader of your race."

697 Gaining Tons Of Bones

"Thanks lord for such great honour," this time he didn't doubt my words at all. Instead, he fell on one knee and bowed his head in veneration and respect.

He knew I meant every single word I said. And securing such a position over him was something he deserved thanks for being the first to join me.

Sometimes luck plays a great role in one's life. Being first like this might be the once in lifetime opportunity anyone would get.

As he led his boys over to the direction of the bridge, I turned to the dragons and krakens of mine.

"Down there, on the sides of the big bridge, lots of dead bodies lie. Go, bring them all to me. Gather them up all out there," I pointed towards an empty place outside the northern big walls.

*Roar!*

The two races roared before they left in a hurry to execute my order. The first to vanish off my sight were the dragons. These kids were really brutal and domineering.

I entrusted such tasks to these two. I would never let a single bone or inventory untouched..

Especially when putting in mind that the race killed over there was Hectors! These dudes were much fiercer and richer than the Dragons.

I was sure my gains from the Hectors alone would be much more than all the gains from this war battlefields combined.

I started my collection spree, working all over the few miles surrounding my capital.

Mostly were monsters, and much less were various mercenary races. The capital didn't get hit by anyone else during this war.

After five hours, I managed to finish clearing the entire battlefield, adding more green, blue, and silver bones to my inventory.

Few occasions I got golden grade and higher bones. But their amount wasn't much compared to the other three low grade bones.

Green bones were useless to me, yet they kept popping up a lot. Right now the most bones I got in my inventory were the blues, followed by the green then silver.

I didn't complain as silver bones were useful, alongside the blue ones.

However, this all changed the moment I started claiming my loot from the dead bodies brought over by my boys.

During the past five hours, they managed to pull hundreds of thousands of bodies, and were still working till now.

The size of this dead army reminded me of the big army that I faced at the last moments of this war.

I was sure the number of the aquatic monsters in that army were in the tens of millions! That meant my boys were about to get busy for days!

I started my work over the bodies. Every now and then I'd face a Hector race fighter, claiming lots of valuable things from his inventory.

As for bones, the lowest grade I got was silver! That would give you a closer image of what I got from all these Hectors.

I even got many black bones during the first five hours alone! Not to mention the ten red bones I got as well.

This start made me drool over Hector's bodies. So instead of waiting for me to finish here, I summoned the remaining warriors of the one hundred thousand I got before, and sent them over to the other continent to bring me the dead bodies from there.

There were less than half of their initial numbers, telling me a lot about how the war was brutal.

As I sent them over to bring the dead Hectors over, I kept clearing the bodies brought over by my aquatic two warriors.

Just in the first half an hour, another huge pile of dead bodies was formed by the bodies brought over by my ground warriors.

I thought I'd take a day to clear the entire battlefield. But just clearing the eastern battlefield took half a day alone!

That proved how bloody hell this right over there was!

But that didn't matter. Just my gains from bones alone was enough to make my smile last for the last time already.

As for the other things, the biggest gain was the weapons I crushed and detonated at the last show of this fight.

I anticipated lots of these weapons and their ammunition, but what I gained exceeded my wildest expectations.

The number was enough to arm hundreds of thousands of fighters with such deadly weapons! And the best part of it was their versatile uses.

They could be used to join ground, aquatic, and even aerial fights. However, what I seriously planned for these weapons was something else.

Imagine forts and towers armed up with such deadly weapons! Nothing would pose a threat against them, no matter what kind of enemy dared to try and fight my kingdom.

I intended to not only use them in strengthening my capital vast and different defences, I also planned to give a few to the MIT boys and the genius talents helping them.

Together, and by using this as a model, they could speed up the process of evolving the human arsenal.

I had to not miss this long term project. I have planned for it since my arrival here, and I knew it would take a long time and lots of effort and resources to give results.

After I finished clearing all the dead from the eastern battlefield, I finally had time to check over the armies that came from the western fight zones.

They came almost five hours ago, looked pretty exhausted. So I decided to keep collecting my loot while they rested.

The four generals came on my chariot and got to rest inside the rooms there. I waited for a couple more hours, while flying over the capital and checking over the current situation of forces inside.

In this war, most of my people turned into fighters. I lost many of them, but that was the true horrifying face of any war.

The capital looked more like a grand war camp than a civilised city. This would change in the upcoming weeks for sure.

698 Meeting With My Generals

The training camp here would be moved out and be placed at the Hector continent. Even that part of the continent would experience a huge rebuilding process, with many towns and cities being constructed there.

The strongest defence of any nation would be their people living in densely packed cities and towns. Like this, any invading enemy had to go through hell first before crossing a good distance.

That task would be left over for Isac to do. From now on, she would officially handle any building projects in the kingdom.

As for the manpower, after I'd close the upcoming deals with the three sovereigns, I'd go on a wide purchase spree of all the races I could gather.

And my humans would come on top of the list for sure.

I took my time to rest as well. During this war, I kept jumping over from one hellish battle to another without having any moment of rest.

Thinking about cultivating was a waste of time. I just learnt my body over my chariot, ate and drank enough to replenish my energy.

[Come on board] As I finished, I sent these messages to all the four generals, plus Isac..

As for Alex and Leo, these two should get a taste of how demotion worked in my kingdom.

They weren't considered part of the upper echelon of my kingdom anymore.

When Isac about bringing these two over, I straightforwardly declined. I wouldn't get shy over such a thing, even if Leo was shameless enough to ask for it.

In the next half an hour, the five generals appeared on top of my chariot. From the look on their faces, I could tell how tired and exhausted they were.

The war was over, but the real deal started from now.

"… This is the current situation of our kingdom," as they came on board, I started by speaking about what happened in this war and what the current situation looked like.

"So… We aren't going to have any moment of rest, right boss?" The spearhead was standing puffing out his chest despite looking extremely worn out.

This dude exerted his last ounce of strength to help the three generals at the frontline. He did great, and I had to give him credit for that.

"Hectors won't leave us alone," I shrugged.

"But… Our forces…" Isabella looked over to the other three while they nodded.

I got what she wanted to say. They lost a lot and weren't in any shape to join such a long term fight.

Their forces were already exhausted and needed time to rest.

"I'm working over to solve this problem, and that's part of what I wanted you all here for," I paused before adding, while moving my eyes among all of them, "I need you to recommend fresh names for me. They will lead their own armies, and you will act as supreme generals from now on."

"That means… What?" Hilary asked while leaning her head over my chest. She was very tired, just like the rest of the generals of mine here.

"You will lead generals, ordering them around."

"What about our forces?" Isac asked.

"All of you will gain fresh blood soon. But I have to do something first. By the way, you will be stationed for the time being in the capital, supervising over the needed building projects like…"

I started to speak about my grand plans. The more I spoke, the more her face fell.

"You want me to start such big building projects all over the kingdom with such few people we have?!!"

"I said I'm working over solving this problem," I rolled my eyes, "right now the top priority is to start the building process to strengthen the kingdom during this long war. What comes next won't be nice anyway and we have to be fully prepared for it."

"What will come next?" Sara asked, having the same puzzled look over the spearhead, and Isabella's faces.

Only Isac had her eyes widened for a second and my girl got on her feet, with such a look of horror over her face. These two knew what I was talking about.

"The Zombie plaque! Damn! I totally forgot about this cursed quest!"

"We have to prepare for that," I said while others exchanged weird looks before Isabella asked:

"Are you perhaps those undead mythic creatures who were featured in films and TV series before?"

"They are real," my chick said in such a firm tone, "they are real and they are much scarier than what you might think."

"That…" even his spearhead felt a little shaken when he heard what my girl said.

"We will walk through it like we did with everything else," I spoke to reassure them, "but we will need to do lots of things for that. I'll depend on you to select the capable fighters from your armies, those who excelled and showed exceptional performance during the past war."

"That's not hard," Isabella sighed, "but this zombie thing… I can't get over it!"

"We will have the punishment left by then, right boss?" the spearhead asked and I nodded, "that will be great then. We lacked a lot during the last moments of that big war thanks to that stupid punishment."

I knew what he was speaking about. At the end of this war, they got to face lots of races' armies in the west, facing the real deal of this punishment plus the quest debuffs.

This was the same as the eastern battlefield. But during the fifth quest, this would all change.

"We have around fourteen days, right?" my chick asked, and I nodded before shaking off my head.

"Don't forget the wait period between any quest," I said, "so we might have up to three weeks here."

"We should strengthen our lands," she was the only one experienced among all of them about this zombie infestation, "every single zone must have a defensive camp filled with forts and towers. This way we can secure our kingdom."

"This…" Isac was the main focus of Hilary's words. And I couldn't disagree with her.

699 Moving Bodies Over To My Second Earth World

"Take it easy, you just start drawing designs while I'll prepare enough manpower for you," I paused, "you have to take advantage of any terrain. Be it rivers, hills, and even mountains! Everything must be used to stop this invasion."

"Can you explain more, boss?" the spearhead said what the others had in their minds, "from you two, I got the feeling that this is going to be a wide open war against such scary creatures!"

"I'll explain then…" Hilary took charge of this mission, while I stood silent on the side. All she spoke about was true.

"So… At the end of this quest, will we lose lots of our lands and people?" Isabella didn't believe what she heard, as it was so shocking indeed.

"That's why you want me to focus totally on this task," Isac finally got what I meant. "I heard lots of stories about zombies, but I never felt their horror in person. It seems to me you two are speaking out of real experience, right?"

She came from a race who got his people trained from the early days of the apocalypse. Yet she didn't get to know how scary facing zombies was.

As for what she guessed, I knew all of them already had guesses and doubts about my and my chick's real identity.

"You have to do your best then," and I jumped over her direct question, focusing more on the real deal here..

"You have to supply me with tons of manpower and resources," she shrugged, "as for how much I will be able to do, this will be left to the future."

"Don't worry," I smiled in confidence, "I'm going to bring enough to raise to the ground everything in my kingdom and rebuild it twice at least."

"Good to hear," she sighed, "so I have to say goodbye to rest. What about the two I have?"

I knew she was referring to Alex and Leo. the others might not know about what happened to them, and I didn't speak about it in any way.

"Move them to any of these four," I wasn't really interested in appointing them to a specific general of mine.

"Who are you talking about?" the jumper asked Isac, and she looked at me while I shook my head.

"You will know later on," I slowly said, "now, you will lead your forces and cross the bridge. From now on, you will be stationed on the eastern continent."

"Does it have a name yet?" All of sudden, Sara asked such a weird and unexpected question.

"It's named after that race, right?" Hilary was fast to select a name for it, "let it be called the Hector continent as Hye is calling it from the beginning."

"Ok," Sara seemed a bit disappointed by that answer. This girl seemed to expect a new name or something.

As the meeting was concluded, I sent them away while stressing over the task of selecting capable personnel.

Isac remained seated at the capital with part of her army. The rest was divided equally among the other four armies, before setting out towards the eastern continent.

I left the task of their deployment over to the four generals fighting already out there.

As Hectors were bringing fresh blood here, I also sent out my current forces to help.

That left me with one task for the moment; collecting loot!

This time, the remaining battlefields stretched over my entire kingdom. I went towards West Virginia as it was currently the central zone of my lands.

Then I sent over my ground warriors and dragons to bring back all the dead bodies from the areas around.

It took roughly an hour before the first batches of these dead bodies to arrive here.

For the next half a day, I kept working over gathering up my loot and gaining more bones.

The first batches brought me low results. But when the warriors brought over the dead bodies of the race's armies, things started to be better.

The grades of bones collected ranged from green up to dark gold at most. Only on rare occasions I got black bones, with no reds at all.

I spent over a day working here. During which, Silverlining sent me messages, asking about when we would complete the deal.

I asked him to wait for at least half a day at least. I was still busy collecting my things from such a vast stretch of land.

Even with the fastest warriors, the dragons, they took hours to come back at the end of this operation.

As I got time, I started to check over the progress of war on the eastern frontier.

With the addition of new armies, things started to slowly stabilise. However the advancement speed didn't improve.

The Hectors brought many armies to stop mine. Even when more appeared on my side, they kept pouring more out there.

They seemed dead fixed on liberating their lands from my hands. Damn fools! Whatever fell in my hand would never be given back!

I sent my orders out; kept fighting and only sent Lily back with all the Hectors we had so far.

I was close to finishing my task over here. As for Silverlining, I already asked him to amass as many races and warriors as he could get.

He replied that his impact's subsidiary impacts were able to bring me whatever I wanted. However I still asked for everything they could bring me.

Right now, my inventory is filled with tons of bones. The three lowest grades held the most of them, and the blue ones were enough to buy worlds, not just a few armies!

He promised he would do his best to satisfy me. I knew he wasn't exaggerating, and hoped to see hundreds of millions, even billions of races and humans arriving next.

Such big plans of mine needed tons of manpower. Not to mention I needed to replenish the lost human and race armies.

The more he could get me, the best.

"Grab these bodies over," as I finished doing my task, taking almost ten more hours than I expected, I pointed at the big mountains of dead bodies, "bring them through these portals and leave them at the next side."

700 [Bonus chapter] Finalising The Big Deal With The Three Sovereigns

I first moved back to the second Earth world, and went towards an empty place there. The world looked quite desolate with such a lack of the bustling life before brought by humans and races alike.

I knew this was a price I had to pay. And soon I'd refill this world with life once more.

I stopped at such a wide and empty zone and then returned to Earth as I gave my order.

These dead bodies had many uses for me. I was going to have the treasure promised by the three sovereigns, and I also didn't want to prepare such a rich source of zombies for the system to use in the fifth quest.

My boys started working fast. In less than three hours, they moved all the bodies that took more than a day to collect.

Then I called them back, closed the portals, used my staff to jump back to my capital, before doing the same with the big mountains of corpses there.

Then I went to the northern gulf and did the same before finally getting ready to finalise the deal with the sovereigns.

[Send me the price list, and the amount prepared for each item for me to revise]

[Finally ready to close that deal? Great! I'll send things over to you now. I also gained lots of races and warriors, including humans and the cursed soulers you like]

[Thanks for the trouble. Send everything over].

I received long lists of items with the prices of bones used for exchange. Of course they all used the silver grade bones as a base price, and they were quite fair in deciding the prices.

For example, the Lurdan sovereign brought over his list of items he offered before. He was that dude who offered me the seed of necromancers' world.

It was such a nice treasure that suited my current world at the moment. It used the death energy to create a separate world filled with death energy.

It was used to nourish necromancers. His first offer didn't include any necromancer warriors, but this list had them as I asked.

The price tag for a single common grade necromancer was ten necromancers for a single silver grade bone.

It might look like a high price, comparing it with the price tag of the soulers. But I didn't know how fierce necromancers truly were.

The list included how much of each time I could buy, or how much these sovereigns could provide.

The necromancers had one thousand next to them. It was such a low number in my opinion. How could a mighty race dwindle to such a degree? To be sold like goods and in such low numbers as well?

Even soulers never had such low numbers before!

Their value was now justified. And goods would be priced based on their value and rarity. From what I saw, these necromancers were quite rare!

As for the other items in the Lurdan's list, they came in batches.

"It was such a nice treasure that suited my current world at the moment. It

used the death energy to create a separate world filled with death

energy.

It was used to nourish necromancers. His first offer didn't include any

necromancer warriors, but this list had them as I asked.

The price tag for a single common grade necromancer was ten

necromancers for a single silver grade bone.

It might look like a high price, comparing it with the price tag of the

soulers. But I didn't know how fierce necromancers truly were.

The list included how much of each time I could buy, or how much these

sovereigns could provide.

The necromancers had one thousand next to them. It was such a low

number in my opinion. How could a mighty race dwindle to such a

degree? To be sold like goods and in such low numbers as well?

Even soulers never had such low numbers before!

Their value was now justified. An goods would be priced based on their

value and rarity. From what I saw, these necromancers were quite rare!

As for the other items in the Lurdan's list, they came in batches.

"Hmm… So the drop of black seeds of death are sold as one thousand dropper silver grade bones. The potions of fog of death are sold in the same way, one thousand potions per bone. As for the leaves from the biggest tree of death in the universe, they were sold as ten leaves per single bone…"

From the look of it, the leaves held the highest value, or were also the rarest out of these items.

[Ok, I want one thousand necromancers, one million drops of black seeds of death, one million potions, and ten thousand leaves…]

Lurdan could provide ten times this amount, aside from the necromancers.

[This… Are you sure?]

[Is it too much?]

[The necromancer thing is a surprise for me. But the rest… I thought you might ask for more than that!]

[Cool, bring me everything they could provide] I closed the lists and decided, [All the sovereigns' items… Bring me everything they can provide]

[This…]

[Too much?]

[Too unexpected actually. They gave such high numbers as they made a bet with other sovereigns over how much you'll buy. It seems these three really understood you better than anyone else!]

A bet? Damn! Even when making deals, such mighty figures were trying to have fun as well. What a nice mindset this was!

[They just trusted my deep pockets] I laughed while adding, [Prepare the items and send them over. I'll pay accordingly. Just tell me the final price I should pay]

[You will use silver bones only?]

[I'll use other bones as well] I felt it weird to just use silver bones. After all these sovereigns were after my higher grade bones, craving deeply for them.

As for the price of such a deal, each sovereign would cost me almost one hundred thousand blue bones, or less in case of using other higher grade bones.

But such a price was nothing to me. I had millions of silver bones.