Chapter 65 - 731-745

731 Having It Hard At First

The first wave of their attack came in such a deadly way to cause such rumbling all over the world. The difference between the strength of the two of us was demonstrated in this moment.

They got numbers, and I was superior in terms of attack might.

"Keep firing!"

"Don't mind them!"

"Keep attacking!"

In response to my sudden bellow of attacks, more shouts rose from all around, making me sigh.

These Hectors didn't just amass good soldiers, they also got capable generals, ones who would stand still like rocks in front of death itself.

Such generals weren't this easy to nourish. How long did they train their men to reach such a degree? I wanted my humans to be like them, even better..

"Keep playing with them," as for me, the next move was my technique, "just focus over those far away. Try to damage as many of these weapons as possible."

"What about those forts?" Sara asked, while the forts started to join the fight.

During the initial wave of attacks, few landed over these forts. I noticed the presence of strong shields that absorbed most of the damage.

But they still got damaged, making me realise these forts weren't as good as the flying islands the paragons used to have before.

"Not now," I decided to wait for a good moment and try to break these shields open. Then I'd lead part of my forces there.

Who knew, I might end up having few flying forts in the end.

"Ok," Sara sighed, as she seemed to be craving to go up there and have fun.

As we started this fight in such heated fashion, I started to form my first technique. This technique was useful to gain control over a large number of forces in the shortest amount of time.

What I wanted to do was to create a barrier between the forces around my chariot and the ones extending even beyond the walls of mountains.

I'd let my technique take control over the ones down below, before using the support of the warriors I recently gained to create a fierce momentum that even Hectors wouldn't stand a chance against.

The first batches to get under my control were always the longest! It took five minutes this time to control the first one, making me sure of my earlier guess.

All the forces here were all elites! Such a large number of elites with such capable leaders was something I wanted for myself.

"Jumper, order my fallen gods from now on," as I was totally absorbed in controlling the few tens of thousands of forces down my chariot and turning them into my followers, I had to entrust this task over to the jumper.

"What to do? They are doing great without any instructions!"

"Make them control the tempo," I said what I wanted, "let them attack in a circle that will expand slowly, letting a few tens of thousands in each time."

"You are such a cunning bastard!"

"Thank gods then I'm on your side," I laughed over his remark. This dude really could read my mind out pretty easily most of times.

What I wanted to do was to let the destruction brought forth by my gods be controllable, helping me to gain control of more forces.

When I'd gain more than one hundred thousands here, I'd release them like plaque over the entire army of Hectors.

They wouldn't be alone as I'd get out one million for each of my generals here to lead out. Like this, I wouldn't only push these enemies back, but also gain more as well.

As for the Hectors carrying my threads, they would be protected in the middle of all these warriors.

"Get ready!" After an hour of such brutal fighting, and while the enemy kept firing everything they got at my chariot, I gave this shout to everyone, "You will each get a one million force, leading them to push the enemy away from the path near us."

"We won't go towards that path?" the spearhead asked, and I didn't need to explain myself here.

"Idiot!" but the jumper, who was busy ordering and orchestrating the attacks of my gods, hit the spearhead on the back of his head, "if we pushed them towards their basin, how will our forces fight them then?"

"Ouch! It hurts!" the spearhead complained, but Sara said next, ignoring his complain:

"So we are targeting the armies coming from other basins? What about the army at our back?"

"I will handle it," I firmly said, "just be sure to create enough space for more forces to arrive. Also make sure to guard the Hectors I controlled."

"Will rats spread plague in the city? I like that!" The jumper was getting annoyingly smart out of late. What was it? Was he using a technique to read through my mind or what?

"Just do as I say," I said in warning, "don't forget, we aren't here to kill, we are here to pave a path towards that monster."

"Then…" the spearhead feared to continue his question, or else he might get another hit from the jumper.

Out of all, the spearhead feared my jumper so damn much. He even didn't dare to show off in front of this dude, seemingly getting scared from his reaction.

"You are going to push the enemy back as far as you can, then I'll pour out lots of warriors to hold this zone," I motioned my head towards the direction of the nearby path, "then we will hit the basin and exterminate all the forces there."

"You mean you are going to take control of them, right?" the jumper scoffed, and I ignored his useless remark.

"Then we will move towards the monster, have another brutal fight there with the forces stationed around it before getting our boys out to take a hit at the monster before killing it."

"But how?" the spearhead stole a side glance at the direction of the jumper, "how can we kill such a behemoth?"

732 Paragons Are Here!

"Keep attacking it until it dies!" Sara said, "if the Hectors can kill it, then why can't we do it?"

"But what if we killed it and the Hectors secured the lakes? Getting their boys in those bloody pools?" The spearhead was an arrogant jerk most of the time, yet his hunch was mostly on the spot most of the time.

"We will move to secure the lakes then," I shrugged, "we will do whatever we can to take control of this region."

"What about me then?" the jumper suddenly asked, and I got what he wanted to ask about.

"You will move out once we clear the entrance and go inside the basin," I said slowly, "you can get off the radar using the chaos we will create."

"I'll keep you posted," he said, "but you know you have to repeat such fights at other places, right?"

"Something tells me we won't find such big forces at other sites," I looked down at the seemingly endless forces here, "they brought everything they got here as they could trail us. So it's safe to assume they got lesser forces at other places.".

"That doesn't mean it will be easy!"

"Just do your part," I looked at him, "and leave the rest to me."

"You are the boss," he shrugged and I didn't know why but I felt this dude said it in mocking way.

"Go out now," it wasn't time to get into another fight with this jerk. As I gave them the signal, I took out three million warriors from my inventory and let them come to this world for the first time.

"Damn! These are weak warriors?!!" When I saw their huge bodies and the sharp weapons they all got, I couldn't help but suck in the cold air of breath.

How were the strong warriors in the eyes of Silverlining then? Beings like my fallen gods or what?

"Go, one million army will follow each of my generals here," I pointed at the three standing by my side as I held the horn with my right arm while controlling the technique with my left.

Then the three took out their chariots and went away, leading their armies at once.

"Spread out," I didn't forget to give another order to my Hectors, "go into four directions, three will follow the three armies, and the fourth will go to the path."

I had to send them directly there despite it being secured with a large number of forces. I didn't intend to use my warriors there for now, as I simply had a better weapon to use.

"Attack there," I ordered all my fallen gods to aim at the path with everything they got, "clear this path for me, boys!"

My fallen gods were enough to do it. The next half an hour was really bloody, where many forces died on both sides.

I didn't hold back myself, even summoned lots of green bones to use as well. I was trying to shorten the time needed to control these Hectors, but all I could do was to increase the magnitude of my threads.

During this half an hour, the three worked their best and forced the enemy back. At the same time, the Hectors infected with my threads were infecting many others, expanding the size of my controlled forces here.

As for the path battle, it was bloody! That damn army standing behind the path was relentless! Every time my fallen gods would clear it, more forces would flock in and fill it up!

But gradually my threads found their way towards the inside of the basin. I focused on controlling as many forces there as I could, fanning my threads in all directions.

The Hector leaders were smart. They spotted my threads. Thanks to the long minutes needed to control Hector, they managed to kill lots of their race and not let them fall under my control.

But no matter how hard they tried, they failed to stop my threads. I kept controlling more forces with each passing minute, while the shouts of the deadly fight kept rocking the entire world.

"So you grew restless at last," as I was doing my best to control all the forces down below using my technique, I got to see something flashing and coming towards my direction.

It came from the direction of the beast's location. It looked like a tiny dot at first, but started to grow fast, getting bigger and breaking up into many smaller dots.

They were the paragons residing in this continent, or perhaps the paragons of the Hector race.

I got the feeling that they were watching from close by. If so, then they would move out when things would grow bad.

"You are calling off your cavalry, and I'll call off mine," I snapped my right fingers, while calling off all the dragons and flying monsters I got.

"Sith, I know you are watching right now. Can you tell me how to summon my own monster?"

[Damn kid! Do you get eyes in the god realm or what?!] the deep voice of Sith came at this moment.

"I just got the feeling that you will be watching," I laughed. Of course he was. Such a big battle, one that would determine lots of things here wouldn't be missed by him.

Especially if such a behemoth was involved in the fight, the baby of such a mighty guardian of a mighty race.

Sith gave me the impression that he was watching my moves all the time. But he selected the moments to show up to not let me doubt his presence.

[I told you before kid, you have to find a way on your own to summon this monster]

"I know, but I'm asking if you got anything," I said while waiting for the incoming large army of flying islands to come in the range of my fallen gods.

I fought lots of paragons before, smashed their islands to pieces many times already. I got enough experience to know what to do. But this time I wasn't facing just one of them, but a large batch of fifty!

733 The Brilliant Idea

Damn this race! They got fifty paragons to spare to fight me here while having lots of paragons waiting at other continents, taking over their business.

Did they train a hundred paragons? Other races would desperately try to train five or seven of them, and this race was throwing paragons casually if they were nothing much!

This race… The more I dealt with it, the more envious I got.

[I thought of a way, but I dunno if it will work or not]

"That's my god!" I couldn't resist a big smile appearing over my face slowly, "it's better than nothing, right? Tell me, what should I do?"

I looked at the direction of my fallen gods while giving the order: "Attack!"

They were focusing their fire all this time at the direction of the path. Just shifting their attack was easily done, but it would leave a big impact at that important battle..

"Start attacking, secure that damn path!" At the same moment, I held my horn and shouted at the Hectors I already controlled for the past half an hour inside the basin.

They weren't enough to secure the path alone, but were enough to buy me time to bring forth warriors there.

And the warriors I summoned were thrown into such a deadly battle, without having time to adapt or get the ins and outs of anything that was happening here.

"Attack!" I held my horn and shouted, not even waiting to get a better look over that side of the battle, "kill any enemy you spot!"

I couldn't summon more than one hundred thousand for now. But with the almost the same number of Hectors I controlled, both were enough to stabilise the path there.

I just needed them to stabilise the path for ten minutes, for other warriors to get inside the basin from outside.

I summoned a few million warriors outside the basin and gave them the order to get inside and kill.

"I'm with you now," after doing all this, I turned my attention towards Sith. At the same time, I started moving my chariot around, maintaining the distance between me and the incoming large number of flying islands with their paragons.

From such close distance, I could see that they brought more flying forts with them, making the count rise slightly over two hundred.

It was a truly sizable force that I wouldn't be able to crush alone in a short time.

There was a catch for this to work, and that was for those Hectors to be damn fixed over killing me than stopping my army.

"They aren't that foolish after all," as I took a detour around the place, taking most of them away, few stayed behind and started to attack my forces down below.

That was why I summoned such a large number of warriors at once. If they killed a lot, then I'd summon much more to make out for the losses.

And even if they weren't that good at fighting aerial enemies, my dragons and monsters would keep nagging them all the time.

As such, the ones who broke out to meet my forces and try to exterminate them faced such a dilemma. They couldn't kill as much, and at the same time the dragons and monsters flying around kept annoying them.

This was a problem as the enemy just used the flying forts to do this task. They focused all of their flying islands at me, and the forts didn't have the same sturdy shields as the islands.

So even when they were facing such a small force of mine, they were struggling to keep themselves safe and intact! And at some point, they had to spare many of their shots to aim at my flying forces.

When that happened, the true value of the defensive type monsters with many bubbles covering up their bodies showed up.

They absorbed most of the hits, while the few that fell over my dragons didn't cause that much damage.

In the end, their attempt which they thought cleverly about was stopped and interrupted by my early on preparations.

The rest of their flying force kept following me around while taking direct hits from my fallen gods. At some point, they started to release their deadly waves of attacks, sweeping even part of their forces on the ground.

When they did so, I started to shift my chariot to fly over the large bulk of forces at the big basin.

Like this, each time they used their attacks, they'd end up doing not a single damage to my chariot, and killing tons of their forces down below.

"Damn you coward! Fight like a man if you dare!"

From the middle of this large batch of flying islands, a loud shout came in such an angry way.

I laughed in response, did nothing but to launch one of my pulse wave attacks from my chariot towards the forces down below.

This was the right response to such provocation. Did he think me a Selvator? Caring about my image and not victory?

[Are you ready to use the way I told you about?] During this, Sith kept telling me the details about his idea.

It wasn't that bad after all. This god was really something. When he put his mind on something, he managed to create such a brilliant solution to my existing problem.

I got a behemoth, a scary dark realm monster, sealed inside my world of shadow, linked to a tattoo over my right shoulder, and I didn't have a single way to use it!

It was a stupid thing! Having such a mighty weapon without knowing how to use it! But Sith just thought of a good way to activate this weapon.

His idea was simple. He said if the monster was sealed inside my world and left such a tattoo over my body thanks to my seal technique, then it would only be logical to use a similar technique to release it.

It was such a brilliant idea, but it had one flaw.

734 Using Terrain For My Advantage

"I need to wait until I'd get rid of those annoying bastards at my tail," I needed time and focus to do this.

If I tried to execute it, and made a single mistake out of the pressure I was getting so far, then I'd regret it!

I had to get rid first of those annoying bastards, kill some, control some, and scare the rest to fly away from here before thinking about doing such a thing.

But first the forces attacking the basin should control more lands there before I'd do such a thing.

The situation over there wasn't that promising. It seemed the forces stationed inside the basin were of different calibre than the ones outside!

They were strong and experienced enough to not lose their cool even under such massive pressure! Even with such a large number of forces gushing into the basin, the threads controlling lots of their forces with each passing minute, they didn't retreat that much.

They got my admiration and respect. I decided to turn most of them into my followers, using their mightiness and even give them the chance to raise up their powers by bathing inside the blood pool of that monster..

Even if I had a technique to invent next, and lots of battles everywhere, I didn't lose focus of my true goal here; getting that monster killed and let my boys get stronger with its blood.

So no matter how hard they tried to divert my attention, I stayed focused on that goal.

[You should have prepared lots of aerial forces and weapons to help you] Sith gave me such a useless remark, one that I already was aware of.

"I tried, but I failed as you know," I said, defending myself against his claims.

[You should try harder!]

"I will, when I get time to do that!"

Asking me to do something I craved for all this time and failed to do? It was a useless topic to speak about.

[I have something important to do now. So good luck and hopefully you will win]

I knew he was watching me all the time. So it wasn't that he got something important, he was going to sit back and watch the show in peace and quiet.

As he went silent, I started to focus on my next move.

Such a bunch of bastards running after me in such a way was a nuisance! I had to not go too far away or else my threads wouldn't do their magic quite well.

So I was entrapped inside a limited space, moving in circles while evading their attacks and releasing mine.

[Those damn flying forts are damn annoying! Can't you do anything to stop them?]

The jumper sent such complaints from time to time, and each time he got the same answer from me.

[Just ignore them and focus on expanding the area you control]

I kept sending new warriors down whenever I'd fly near their zones. They were doing great, but my forces in the basin were doing worse.

I thought about converging all my forces together and hit the basin with everything we got, but I refrained from doing so.

It was risky, quite risky actually with all those flying things around. During the past hour, I managed to destroy around a dozen of these flying forts, ending up with almost not much to change the battle here.

So I had to improvise, and the only thing I got was to use the current terrain for my advantage.

We got lots of mountains, and they got such deadly rocks. Why wouldn't I then use their attacks and let my boys add a little touch to separate such massive rocks and let them fall over their heads?

At least if they didn't get destroyed or damaged, they would be more cautious in following me like this!

"Listen," as I decided to do it, I started to fly my chariot directly towards the rocky walls. I was inside the basin already, and the inner side of this colossal mountainous wall wasn't that smooth like the outside.

"Aim your attacks at that wall at my mark," I selected a spot away from my forces. I knew such rocks falling wouldn't differentiate between anything. So if they failed to hit the forts and islands flying after me, they'd at least create damage to the forces near mine.

"Now!" As I got closer to that wall, the attacks coming from behind started to fall over it and create little damage. Then my fallen gods worked their magic and started to hit the wall with their destructive power.

Many rocks started to fall freely, but they were still far from the direction of the enemy. "Move… Please…" I didn't depend entirely on gravity and dreams to get the rocks over the islands and forts behind me.

I abruptly shifted the direction of my chariot to fly parallel to the walls before using my chariot pulse wave attack. The wave moved, pushing the heavy rocks and sending them flying away.

"It works!"

Most of the rocks followed my pulse wave direction, at least flying for hundreds of metres with such momentum, enough to turn them into strong projectiles.

They crashed over the shields of these forts and islands. The forts took the worst hits, as their shields were weaker than the islands and they already suffered lots of damage thanks to my boys.

So many of these forts had their shields destroyed, and many got their towers smashed with a large pile of flying big rocks.

"Attack!" and at this moment, I shifted the attack of my boys over the direction of the severely damaged forts.

The islands did better. Their shields could sustain my boys' attack so far. During this pursuit, the enemy focused their islands in the forefront most of the time, absorbing the attacks coming from my boys and acting as the fort's shields.

But now? The rocks hit them in such large fashion, reaching even the furthest forts and islands at the back. The damage the forts took was enough to deprive many of their shields.

Not to mention such a sudden attack ruined their tight and perfect formation, letting them try to evade more rocks coming at all costs.

735 Hit The Walls Again

Their formation got messed up and the shields got considerable damage or got broken already. So when my boys got the order and executed it, I managed to destroy at least forty of these forts at this single attack!

I failed to do so during the past hour! And I also got a few islands which stood most of the time up front, acting as the shields for the forts.

So the frontline islands lost almost half of its count, and many forts were ruined. The next half an hour was like a fun game for me and my boys, as I kept ruining more or causing severe damage to the rest.

"Give the order to retreat now, what are you waiting for?" but even when they lost more than half of their forces, and the other half wasn't faring that well, the enemy never showed a sign of retreat.

I thought if they lost as much, they would hurry to run away. But it seemed I underestimated their resolve.

Were they dedicated to getting rid of me? Even at the cost of losing such a considerable aerial force and a good number of ground forces as well?

This was quite disturbing! I depended on scaring them away so I could focus over their forces here..

But now, and even after destroying more than half of this considerable force, they didn't even think once about retreat.

"What holds you back?" Even in the face of strict military orders, one's life should be worth more than any punishment, right?

I didn't stop my attempt to ruin more of these forts and islands. Yet after one hour, they grouped together again and returned to chase after me.

Using the same tactic twice wouldn't work over them. The element of surprise was my greatest asset at the first attack.

But that didn't mean that tactic was pointless. It still would cause little disturbance at the enemy line up, besides it will also help my forces down below.

During the last attack, many forces got smashed under the heavy weight of the falling rocks.

This came as a good help for my forces, relieving them momentarily from the burden of facing the falling rocks, ending up pushing the frontline for the first time in an hour at least.

"Attack!" So as before, I moved my chariot towards the rocky wall, selected a new spot to land my fallen gods' attack on it.

*Boom!* *Boom!* *Boom!*

As expected, they didn't fall for it again. Just when my boys hit the wall with their attacks, the flying forts and islands broke free from their formation and evaded the falling rocks.

"Hit them!" but even if they managed to escape my falling rocks, they messed up their formation in the end. "Aim at the forts first, take them down!"

In the group of one hundred chasing me, half was formed from the forts. So taking them down would still be considered a good contribution.

Just from this wave of attacks, half of the forts fell while the others were timely saved by the islands nearby.

"Hit the wall again!" I was flying close to the wall and so I didn't let the enemy catch his breaths or try to rearrange his formation.

Messing up the already messed up lineup was going to create a big mess!

"Again!" hit after another landed over the walls, releasing a large number of different sized rocks. I used my chariot pulse wave to release them all over the place randomly, trying to force those flying forts and islands to break up again.

"They are fast to react…" But after the fifth wave of attack, they started to change the way they responded.

Instead of trying to evade the rocks, they used the islands to shield the few remaining forts, while launching all kinds of attacks at the rocks, trying to smash them before arriving at their shields.

It was a nice tactic to respond to such an attack. But they just missed one tiny detail; me!

"Attack them! Hit anything you want," I shouted at them, giving them the order to target the islands and forts.

Even if the islands moved to intercept the incoming rocks, their formation was best described as chaotic.

So my boys managed to land hits at the shields of these forts and islands, while snipping down the forts first.

As for the rocks, once they got smashed at the shield of the big islands, they broke into tons of rubbles that fell from such height over a large stretch of land.

Even the far away forces of mine were entangled with few of these rubbles.

I couldn't step in to help and had to consider this as an avoidable loss. I kept attacking, alternating hitting the islands and forts with the mountainous walls.

Every time they managed to arrange themselves, I moved towards the mountains and hit them to disturb their arrangement.

In less than another hour, all the forts were cleared and the islands even lost big parts of their mass.

Not to mention six islands were destroyed and brought down to the ground, killing lots of their forces as well.

"Coward! You are a coward! Your race is a cowardly race! You are all a bunch of idiotic cowards who keeps running away from a decent fight! Come on! Get your ass here and let us fight!"

That foul mouthed angry dude kept shouting non-stop during the past hours. He seemed agitated from my way of fighting them.

"Dude, if you have it in you, then come and try to catch me!" I laughed to irritate him more, hoping he would help me in further breaking up the current formation.

But he was patient, unlike his tone and words he didn't even try once to get me even alone. I kept using rocks to add more chaos to their formation, killing lots of their forces down below during the process.

For the past two hours, their forces down below finally got on the back foot. They were pushed hard by my warriors and Hectors, while I kept adding more to my forces using my technique and summoning more warriors.

736 Using My Pillar

After every big wave of rock attack, a wide space would be created, like a void in the middle of the ground. I instantly summoned a group of warriors there to fill this gap and add more chaos to the enemy backline.

At first, this didn't do anything remarkable or worthy of note. But when the enemy took time to kill my forces, I managed to plant more warriors in other places.

Gradually this became the greatest source of trouble for the enemy. After all, any army would be tightly arranged at the frontline, with slightly loose formation at the backline.

So hitting this unprepared backline and in such a hard way to control, adding to it the help of the falling rocks at the forces down below, things started to look better for my side.

Gradually the forces scattered in the middle of the enemy managed to clear lots of them, and eventually they started to merge together and form bigger sized forces.

But they were too far away from my main bigger force. As the forces at the entrance got such an advantage, they started to expand the area under their control, allowing for more outside forces to come in.

After four more hours, the part around the pass inside the basin was totally under our control. The enemy was pushed so far back in the depth of the basin.

And So I had to stop using the rock tactic, moving the battle over the big forces of the enemy..

[Be ready to come inside] as things turned out this way, it was time to pull back all the three generals with their forces.

[Are you finally done? Can I go now?] The jumper seemed pretty annoyed with what he was doing here.

This dude was so impatient to go out and look for more monsters and basins like this.

[Just use the chaos by the retreat of all the forces and move] I sent to him, [Hand over your forces to help the other two]

[Like this they will know I'm gone!] he paused, [I'll first recall my chariot, go with my army and will appoint one of the warriors you called here to lead them]

[Nice trick. But will that dude be enough to handle the army?]

I got what he wanted to do here. He wanted to trick the enemy into believing he was still here. If he listened to my orders from before, then the enemy would know of his absence and start looking for him.

But this way he wouldn't arouse any suspicions inside of them. His army would be there, and his chariot would remain hidden.

Chariots were like flagships, a remarkable presence of my generals anywhere.

It was an avoidable side effect of having these chariots.

[You don't know how fierce those dudes are! Sigh! You are just damn lucky!]

[Stop envying me and start working for yourself even once!] I rolled my eyes. This dude was always eyeing my things like a hungry tiger.

[I'll start doing my part now. Don't take your time here and find me when I send you my location]

I closed the chat without saying anything back to him. We both agreed upon meeting when he arrived at the capital, not at finding the location of the other beasts.

"Stop them!"

"Don't let them in!"

As the three armies were coming inside the basin, their enemies were drawing close enough for me to hear their loud shouts.

"They look energetic," I laughed before sending my next instructions for the two generals.

[You will handle the frontline] I sent to the spearhead, before sending another to Sara, [You will handle the backline for now. Make your forces stay inside the basin all the time]

[But shouldn't Sara handle the frontline? She will do better than me] the spearhead sent, and I could only sigh.

[Just do as I say] I stressed over this. After all, such an arrangement was temporary.

[If I stayed all the time back, I won't be able to help the frontline!] Sara also sent out her worries.

[It's just temporary. Just make sure your forces stay inside the basin all the time]

[Got it!]

As I closed the chat with them, I focused again over those annoying things flying after me.

"Time to use bigger weapons then," they lost almost all their forts and around one fourth of their islands. But they never stopped chasing me, or releasing their attacks after me.

Just when I sent the order over to my two generals, the forts that were chasing them joined the chase after me.

But it didn't matter that much. After all these forts were destroyed by more than half thanks to my flying dragons and monsters.

As the forts joined the forces chasing after me, my flying force also joined me. But I preferred to send them to help the frontline instead.

Staying by my side wasn't going to be a good thing. The enemy could easily target them and I wouldn't be able to defend them at all.

Not to mention that they wouldn't deal as much damage as they did to the forts. The islands' got a stronger shield, and I got the right weapon to smash it!

"Crushing Wave!"

I held my pillar in my right hand, raised it towards the direction of the islands and forts running after me. I aimed at the centre while all of sudden stopping my chariot from moving.

I did it all of sudden, without any warning, taking everyone chasing me by surprise.

But the bigger surprise was in my next attack. The pillar's skill would release an attack that would turn an area of one hundred metre width and five hundred length into an explosive area for the entire five minutes.

And the best part was in my ability to control its direction.

So just as the chariot of mine got stopped, the islands and forts crossed the large distance between the two of us in a blink of an eye.

737 Closing The Pass

They flashed past me, and even a few slammed fiercely against my shield. Just for a moment, I felt genuine worry over the integrity of my chariot's shield, and even checked the status of the fuel in it next.

"Damn! Just these couple hits took away almost one third of the fuel in it!" I was shocked by this, but the most shocking thing was the end result.

Aside from the explosion caused by my pillar, I counted at least twelve islands smashed directly into my shield.

The good news was that my shield sustained such an impact with just losing one third of its fuel reserve. The greater news was in the direct annihilation of these islands, turning them all into fine dust in mere seconds, killing almost everyone on it.

Only the paragons and their elites managed to shield themselves before the big moment, even jumping off towards the ground directly.

They were nuts! Reminding me of that jerk on my side for such a long time. But their craziness saved their lives, at least.

But for others, they got hell waiting for them to deal with!.

I didn't let my baby release its fart and watch. I started controlling the explosion, moving it around to fire everything up like the sky on July five!

For the entire five minutes I ruled this sky. Nothing escaped from my attack, and whoever tried to run, I chased him and showed them all how damn fast my girl was!

She ran all this time with just its intermediate speed. I didn't want to scare the kids away, and now it was time for fireworks.

"Good!" The end result was satisfying. I destroyed almost eighty percent of them, and the rest were getting showered by my boys' attacks.

They kept firing, helping my girl's explosion to take down these islands and forts like damn flies getting killed with a spray.

Phew! At last I got rid of those flies and could focus now on the big fight going down below.

The remaining flying islands and little forts who survived this hell went fast away without even turning back.

And with this, I regained my freedom once more.

The situation down at the ground wasn't that bad, but it wasn't that good either.

Right now my forces were all surrounded in between large forces from the inside and much larger trying to get inside through that pass.

They were in such a tight situation which didn't give them any chance to breathe.

The spearhead was leading the army at the forefront, releasing his ability and maintaining the situation slightly under control.

But the size of this fight was very broad, expanding for tens of miles already. He had to travel right and left, using his ability all the time.

He was doing fine, what it was needed to just keep the frontline secured and stable as a mighty rock.

As for Sara, this girl was really brutal! She listened to my words and didn't let her boys inside the pass, but let the enemy control a fixed area inside the basin, around the pass, and kept killing them nonstop.

Things weren't that hard at that pass. I got the feeling that Sara could easily crush this little force, yet she kept toying with them by her forces.

This girl… She was getting much bloodier the more she grew up in this damn world! I watched what she was doing and hesitated.

Should I stop her? Give her a couple of words? Would that even help?

For a moment I seriously considered acting like a good friend, but the next I dropped the entire issue.

In this cursed world we were living in right now, every single one of us had his own way to deal with it.

I wouldn't act as their guardian or god, or even their wise friend. We never asked to be here, and they had to do it their way to handle this damn pressure.

The last army that was here was the one that jerk left in the hand of one of the warriors. This jerk never showed his admiration to anyone before. But this time he selected someone and even praised him.

Just watching him for a few minutes made me feel he was worth this chance. He didn't lead his army to fight at the frontline like the spearhead or to play this useless game back at the pass.

He arranged his army into hundreds of teams, each started to act as elite forces, hitting the enemy whenever a chance appeared, then retreating fast as if they were ghosts.

This way they managed to aid the frontline and help them sustain such immense pressure. It was a nice tactic from this dude, giving me an impression about how capable he was.

But such a situation in this big battle was going to change soon.

"See this pass?" I came closer from the pass, "turn this damn place into a big pile of rocks!"

*Rumble!*

I didn't know if they overdid it or what, but the first wave of their attacks was enough to not only close the pass with a huge amount of rocks, but it was also enough to bring down parts of the two mountainous sides down as well.

Just like that, this pass was closed for good for a long time. It meant we closed the way of our retreat, but it didn't matter.

We didn't come here to just find a way to run away. It was either a do or die job.

[Nice job!] Sara sent this the moment the pass was closed, [So I can go to the front now and have real fun?]

[Go] I gave the order, [Push the line with everything you got. Don't leave a single soldier back, lead them all towards that damn monster up front]

[You still didn't find a way to solve the problem of the army behind us] She sent while I watched her army starting to change its direction, [They won't leave us have our fun without trying to ruin it]

738 Chasing The Hectors

[Leave them for me] I said, while turning my chariot up above the destroyed path, [I'll keep them busy for the time being. As for you, I'll leave things here for you and the spearhead]

[That jumper went his way already? Quite impatient dude indeed!]

I didn't answer her as I turned my full attention towards controlling the army behind the blocked pass.

As Sara expected, they were trying their best to remove the rubble and rocks. But just when they started to do it, my threads came and started their magic to turn them into my forces.

"Retreat!"

"Kill those attacked by these cursed things!]

[Don't stand together! Spread out! Spread out now!]

In a few minutes, and with the absorption of the shock from the collapsed path and my appearance here, the generals of this huge army started to spread out orders..

"Got you!" but as they just gave such orders, I managed to pinpoint their locations. The next thing I did was to send lots of threads to control those at these places.

They gave the order for the soldiers to kill their friends and allies? Then let them get a taste of such a bitter cup then.

As I sent the threads over to them, the orders spreading around ceased all of sudden. It seemed I hit the brain of this army, and with this the entire army got paralyzed.

They got paralyzed, but I didn't. It was my time to spread all the threads I could and infect many of them.

I even used the help of my bones, blue ones this time, to make sure they got infected and controlled fast.

I didn't care about pushing them to sign my contracts. All I did was to increase the amount of my threads to reach as many as possible during this confusing moment.

But as any army, they have a chain of command. Taking the leaders down wasn't enough to stop this chain. It managed to paralyse them for ten minutes, then shouts of new orders started to come again.

"Don't stand like an idiot! Move around!"

"Kill those infected with the black things all around you. Or else you will get infected as well!"

"Why aren't you hitting that damn chariot down? Take it down with everything we got!"

"Bingo! More smart as*ses to control," I laughed while sending more threads towards the places which gave out such shouts.

They wouldn't be as valuable as the generals I just controlled, but they would help to lead the armies later on.

With the second wave of leaders taken down, this time the silence lasted for a much longer time, enough for me to take control over almost a couple of hundreds of thousands of their forces.

"Retreat!" the order I waited for finally came. But who said I was going to let them loose?

My two generals inside were going to handle the enemy. I left more warriors for them to lead and help in controlling this huge basin.

As for me, I'd play the role of a troublemaker, starting fire all over the place, putting pressure over these Hectors to not have time to do anything stupid.

I patiently waited while watching the big army break into two halves, one went right and the other went left. I knew they were going to the nearest pass, joining the forces there and preparing to go for my boys.

"Alright folks, it's time for you to show your worth," I said while taking up my horn, "I want the generals of this army to step forward. Consider it your lucky day, as you are going to get a brand new army now!"

A group of ten moved from different directions, forcibly following my orders. I started signing contracts in batches and forced them to sign them.

"Come forth," I summoned a large number of my warriors. I used slightly over five million so far, and many of them already died.

But I got more.

I summoned ten million this time, giving each leader a million to form an army.

"Two of you will remain here, defending this pass," I said while holding my horn. "Six of you will go this way," I pointed in the right direction, "kill and don't stop even if you follow them into the depths of the basin."

I paused for a second before pointing at the remaining two, "you will lead the rest of my forces, and I'll help you. Go this way. Let's start boys!"

I knew it was damn hard to accept such fierce and sudden change in roles. Just less than an hour ago, they were leading their forces to kill mine.

And now they were listening to my orders like loyal dogs, leading their armies to kill their race.

It wasn't easy to accept such sudden change, but thanks to my contracts they had no option but to do it.

After all one's life was priceless and nothing would stop anyone from holding tightly to it.

I sent the six armies towards the least in number retreating forces. According to my estimates, the enemy would bring the most forces they could to the biggest army they had.

That meant the pass at the left side from here held the bigger army. And I was leading my forces to chase after this one.

As for the other six armies, they had to just fight their way there at the right pass, causing enough trouble to give the enemy a great headache.

I had absolute confidence in their ability to rout the enemy there and enter the basin then join my big forces fighting there at the moment.

As for me, I kept controlling more Hectors while they were running as if their lives depended upon this.

It seemed they lost most of their mental strength at this moment. So I faced little resistance to control them, and instead of taking five minutes to control a single dude, it took only two or even less.

739 Finding The Location Of Other Beasts

It was great news, like music to my ears. I kept chasing them down, using my fallen gods to release attacks randomly whenever I felt they got more comfortable.

Like this I kept adding more forces while chasing these pussies around. In the next two hours, I added more than I did during the past time!

This army was in millions, running like they were a nation running from the end of the world. They tried a few times to target my chariot, leaving forces behind to delay my forces, but they failed.

The main reason for this was the fact that the ones at the rear were all controlled by me! If they gave them the order to stand back and hold my forces, they just turned around and joined my forces.

This dealt a bigger blow to their morale, making the time to control them decrease to even one minute.

In the end, they arrived at last at the next pass. And there I spotted a large number of forces waiting for us.

This time they were ready, with flying forts standing over their heads to keep me busy while many big weapons were aimed at my chariot.

As for the ground forces, they finally brought over fodders to keep my boys' weapons away from their necks..

"Attack!" but the moment the runners joined the big army at the pass, I finally gave the order for my boys to move out.

They kept hidden there, following the main orders coming from the remaining and hidden chain of command in this big army.

Yet they waited for this moment to turn their coats and show their fierce side.

Their number was close to a million right now. And just by this number, chaos erupted at the army stationed at the left pass.

Then my chariot arrived, next to it was my big army.

And with that, the next big battle at this left pass erupted.

I didn't know about the current situation of the other battlegrounds, and didn't have time to check on them. I got my arms busy dealing with the big army here, and those annoying forts in the sky.

Luckily there wasn't a single island here, meaning we didn't have a paragon. The forts weren't that hard to kill, but it took me almost two hours to get all of them destroyed.

During this, the battle that started on the wrong foot for my enemies got worse for them. They were now pushed all the way back inside the basin, where another brutal fight was going on there.

The pass was secured, but not for long. My forces weren't enough to push the line forward on their own.

"See those big Hectors? Rain them down with your gifts," I controlled my chariot to rise up over the mountainous pass before pointing at the direction of the big army behind it.

If my boys weren't enough, then I'd use my scary gods to create a chance for them.

*Rumble!*

The world echoed with such violent explosions, killing lots of these forces while giving mine a chance to breathe.

"Why not try to do it again? It was fun!" Just as my boys finished the fifth round of attacks, I had an idea. "See those wall boys? Aim at it with everything you got!"

I didn't have the fierce attacks from all the islands and forts to help to create the same wave of deadly rocky attacks.

But my boys were enough to create a similar version, slightly weaker, but it would do the job.

Just as my boys hit the wall, I used my chariot's pulse wave attack to spread the deadly rocks all over the place.

In the next half an hour, many places were cleared from any life thanks to these attacks. And then my next move came.

"Come out! Kill freely and don't stop at nothing!"

Before, at the previous pass, I had to use this technique as I lacked any chance to help my boys. But this didn't mean this tactic was bad.

It was effective! And I saw at the final moments of the big battle back there how this move helped to conclude the fight for me.

So I decided to give it a go here as well, spreading lots of warriors all over the place, using the emptied zones thanks to the falling rocks to become serious stress points.

I spread almost fifty small armies down below before I joined the fight.

I didn't just control the Hectors, but I started using my chariot's pulse wave weapon as well as my pillar's supreme attack skill.

Death ran after them from the ground, rained over the heads from the sky, and kept coming from any angle at any moment from my chariot and my fallen gods.

This was literally a hellish defeat for these Hectors.

But they had nowhere to go. We blocked the pass of their retreat, and the basin was already a dead end for them.

Yet they decided to run deep into the basin, with the low hope of meeting up with more forces to help.

And with it, I ordered the armies of mine to push forward, kill whoever they could.

"Come with me," but I didn't give the order to all. I kept a good deal of my warriors with me, plus a good share from the Hectors I controlled here.

Then I started to lead all of them out, back outside the basin, then go more left, aiming to hit another pass.

Each pass took us almost six up to ten hours to control. When I reached the fifth one, the size of forces was enough to lead the way on their own.

After all, I got another place to be at.

[I found the location of another beast, just go north for two hundred miles, then turn East for a hundred miles and you will see it]

[From the place of the second one, head north again for one hundred and fifty miles before turning north-west for another one hundred and fifty miles. The third one is there]

740 Going To The Other Beasts

During the past time, I got these two messages from the jumper. This dude was doing his part really well and quite fast.

He was having his own treasure to hide himself. But I didn't know if there was any paragon nearby to spot him.

I sent him a warning message before, telling him that a bunch of paragons ran for their lives and scattered around.

He said they wouldn't dare to go far from here. After all this was the focus of the fight.

He got a point, but he missed something.

Once I started to move towards the second beast, these smart motherf*ckers would sniff everything about my plan.

That was why I didn't hurry to leave before leaving such considerable forces here. I even stored lots of places into my staff, few of them were located deep inside the basin.

The basin was really huge! The forces fighting here right now were almost close up to fifty million! I didn't know how the Hectors got such a scary amount of elites, but they deserved a salute from me for that..

And now their beloved elites were my sharpest weapon, fighting fiercely at all fronts to allow my boys a chance to get to that baby guardian beast.

I waited for ten more hours to clear two more passes and control more forces to help.

I knew I could jump over here anytime I wanted, but I didn't want that. I needed this place to be secured enough by my forces, long enough for me to secure the other beasts' locations.

"You are going to lead more armies later on," I turned to the group of twenty Hectors standing behind me. They were the leaders I selected from the armies I crushed so far.

I carefully selected them to solve the up to come problem of leaders. I had to scatter forces all over the other places, and for such armies to perform well, I had to leave behind capable generals and leaders to lead.

[Be careful, I'll leave to other spots right now] I sent this message to my two friends leading the armies deep inside this basin, [Your task from now isn't just to secure a spot for our forces around that beast, but also to keep other forces here busy to not retreat and go to other places]

[Got it boss!]

[I will show them hell!]

The two sent their answers, the ones I expected and hoped for.

"Let's go," I said, while turning my cold gases around. There were lots of eyes spotted on me, I could feel it.

[How are the size of the forces you spotted at each place?] As I started my journey towards the first location the jumper sent to me, I asked him about that.

[It's just as you expected, not that much to hold a candle for you and your warriors]

[They aren't trying to kill the beast?]

[I didn't dare to go deep enough to assess their forces there. I just got a far away gaze, and the forces there aren't anyway near a single pass forces we fought so far]

[Great news! Keep looking. Once I get close to the second beast, they will know about your presence and will try to get to you]

[Don't worry, I know how to handle myself well]

I didn't know if he was saying this out of his arrogance or if he was really able to survive their assault.

But I hoped it would be the latter.

"Do you know where the other beasts are?" as I was on my way towards the next beast, I knew I'd take at least five hours to arrive there.

So I decided to waste time here by interrogating these Hectors.

"We know only of the presence of one egg," one of them responded, with thicker scales than Lily's.

He looked as if he was the strongest and highest in rank among the others. I moved my eyes around, as I didn't just ask for his opinion.

"Everyone shall speak freely," I slowly said, while moving my eyes among them, "each one will give me his answer. Lie, and you will die by the contract."

They shouldn't feel any smart or try to fool me here. As I expected, not all of them were stationed around the first monster.

"I came from the one you are heading towards, lord," a young voice came, attracting my attention.

I failed to recognise the age of these Hectors so far. How could I do that and they all were covered in scales without any other signs of ageing?

Was getting old related to the colour of their scales? Or the thickness of their scales? Or none of the above?

I didn't know, and was curious to know the answer from Lily later on.

"Why such a young man standing in between the generals?" I asked, while directing my question not to this young dude but to the first one to speak.

"He is a prodigy," the voice that came told me this general didn't like how things were done here. He seemed quite protective about this kid, hoping that I wouldn't notice him.

"A prodigy? A prodigy and not involved in the paragon line up?" I raised one eyebrow while feeling this dude was hiding something off me.

"He didn't like to join such a program," the elder and highest ranked general here said, "ask him yourself if you don't trust my words."

"I don't trust you," I shrugged, "I just trust the system and the contracts secured by it."

Then I turned to this dude, asked him directly: "What's your name?"

"I'm called Legend, lord," he gave me such a mighty and arrogant name, making me have a good feeling about him.

"Is what he said correct?" I asked and he slowly nodded. "Speak up freely, I'm not that scary!" I said, and honestly I didn't believe myself.

"Well… I came from a family with a military background. The paragon path doesn't suit me. I like being on the frontline, fighting and leading forces."

741 What About Our Families?

"Are you good?" I was in need of capable talents. I knew how fierce and capable the Hectors were from Lily. If he was half as good as her, then he would deserve my support.

"I'm not."

"He is!" The highest ranking commander here spoke in different words than that kid. I inwardly sighed. This kid was either telling the truth or he just set a higher standard for him that he didn't reach.

"I'm not!" he shouted back at the old Hector, "I'm just a minor leader! I haven't got my army yet!"

"Kid, you are fifteen! How many did you guys see in his age reaching his stage? Leading your army? Come on! Only those in their thirties would have such a chance! And you are only two ranks away from it! I bet on my life that you will reach it before reaching twenty!"

"I'm still not there!"

Yes, that kid set such a high standard for himself then. "It's your lucky day then," I shrugged, "I'm in desperate need for generals to lead out my armies. So you are going to lead one, fight brutal battles and prove your worth.".

"This… Lord, I don't accept shortcuts!"

"Neither do I!" damn! It was so damn hard to deal with such aspiring talents! "Screw up and I swear you will serve your entire life as a soldier!"

I wasn't exaggerating. Such a big war was a golden chance for such a warmonger kid. Fifteen?! Damn! He was younger than me by a few years already and was speaking such big words!

What did his family do to him to reach such a stage? Were they all in such regard and ranks in the army or what?

"I accept it then," the kid slowly nodded, "but I have a request, weak battles aren't my type or desire. I want strong and deadly ones to prove my worth."

"Don't look higher than you can reach, or else you might get your neck broken!" one of the other generals said in such a deep tone, seemingly despising this kid.

"I agree," but who said any of those here had the authority to say yes or no? "I have the right battle for you."

"Good. I will show you my worth or kill myself in the battlefield!"

Damn this kid! Why was his enthusiasm getting on my nerves?

"I'll hold you by your words," if he decided to show off like this, then he should be responsible for his own words.

"You, do you know about any other places of the beasts?" done from this kid, I continued my work in asking others about the places of other beasts here.

But unlike what I expected, either they came from the capital directly to here or they were stationed here in the first place.

"Tell me more about your capital then," as I didn't get much information from them, I decided to keep asking about something else.

The capital… It was the last destination I was heading towards, and the place where I was going to use that aspiring kid to prove himself there.

"It's the biggest city in the entire continent, filled with many wealthy families, strong and with such deep heritage," one of them answered while the others showed such unsightly expression on their faces.

They weren't idiots, and were fierce generals, mostly. They got what I wanted by just this simple question.

"What's up with all of you? Speak so I can see you," I moved my eyes around those who had their faces darkened, including that old and highest in rank general.

"Lord, are you planning to hit it?"

"This is a war, and it won't be over without getting the highest place in the continent invaded and controlled by me," I didn't hide such info from them, "what? Do you have an opinion about it?"

"Our families, lord, there are there," another dude spoke in a tone that told me he was in his mid thirties.

"And?" I knew this was their home, and they all had families here somewhere.

"Can we ask for them to leave the capital then?" the oldest one said, before hurriedly adding, "we can ask them to leave in stealth."

"Families of the big general's of a defeated army are leaving the capital at the same time? Won't this arouse suspicions in the higher ups there?" I said in such a cold tone, and they didn't respond to me.

They kept glaring in silence and hesitation. They knew I was right, but their fear of their families prevented them from saying the right answer.

"I forbid you from telling anyone about this, not even your families or friends," I said in a decisive tone, "as for your families, let them converge at a place easy for me to extract."

"Lord… Are you possibly…" one of the other generals asked in such disbelief.

"You are my men from now on," I shrugged, "I dunno how things are done at your race, but in mine leaders are not just in name. They have to take responsibility for their men."

I paused, looking them directly in the eye, "Just tell them to move to a certain place when the time comes. You know the capital quite well it seemed, so select the spot carefully. I want something away from any military facilities, away from the heat of battle."

"We have something like this already," the oldest general said, "it's the secret underground path provided for the royalties."

"Royalties? What are those?!" I was surprised to hear about this word. Shouldn't it be used to describe those who already had their own kingdoms?

"Lord, the ones who lead us aren't the higher ups or the paragons," Legend spoke, "they are the princes and princesses of already established kingdoms in other worlds. As part of their reward for clearing their apocalypse trial, they will lead other worlds into new apocalypses, acting as our real rulers."

"I see…" that was why there was such a gap between humans and other races, at least Hectors. If such folks were here, people who already tested and ruled over other apocalypses, then any race could perform better, any race but humans.

742 Draw Me A Map Of The Capital

"It's just a thing of our race," the oldest and highest in rank general said in such arrogance.

"They are a group of motherf*ckers! I didn't join the paragon program to not become a slave of them!" yet Legend seemed to carry deep hatred towards them.

That was good. After all, we were going to bang on their fancy palaces and kill them all.

"They are our wise advisors!"

"They act like they own us and we are just a bunch of morons!"

"That's not true!"

"Just ask anyone, anyone who dealt directly with them and he or she will tell you the same," Legend scoffed, before his face showed a genuine look of anger and hatred, "they asked paragons to sign contracts of loyalty with them. This is forbidden in our race, and you know that!".

"Don't tell me such a simple thing stopped you from being one!"

"I'm not the dog of anyone! Not even to him!" This kid was easy to get mad, as he pointed in my direction, referring to me.

"Watch it carefully, kiddo, or else you might say something that you will regret," I said in a cold tone, while pointing at my mouth.

"I'm not being rude," he said, "I know that my life is bound to you by the same contract those dirty royals forced on all paragons before. But at least you are giving me a chance to prove myself to you, not just ordering me around like a puppet, taking all the credit for the good things I'll do and holding me accountable for any failures!"

"That's true," I didn't get offended by his storm of rage, "I'm a fair person. Prove yourself and you will get rewarded. I don't have any preference for anyone I know. Just do your best and let me judge."

"See?" Legend turned to the other generals, "if they were just one tenth of this lord, many won't have to select other paths than paragons."

"About that…" as he mentioned the paragons in such a way, I had to ask, "how come you have such a high number of paragons? Other races only have a few."

"It's our tradition," the oldest general spoke in a tone that told me he wasn't satisfied with what Legend just said, "each big family must provide their direct lineages to become paragons."

"Aha, and you have lots of such families then?"

"Lots of them," he nodded, "at least a hundred paragon in each world is present. And as we expanded our reach to this world of yours, we had to divide our forces. So the indirect descendants of the big families are also included to make up for the gap."

"I get it now…" I muttered to myself before adding in a louder tone, "so your paragons are selected by blood lineages and not abilities?"

"Thanks, someone finally said what I wanted to say for a long time," Legend all of sudden pointed at me while saying this. This kid… He was so damn energetic and didn't know when to speak or hold his tongue.

"Kid, this is our heritage, respect it!" the eyes of that oldest general glared fiercely at Legend. Well, it seemed that this was something known to this kid as few rolled their eyes in such a tired way and others just shook their heads helplessly.

"I'm not now following the orders of those damn tyrants! I'm following a new lord now! Just like all of you!"

This kid… Sigh! He was brilliant at making enemies out of friends.

"Alright, it's not the time or place for you to share your old grievances," I said in a tone that left no room for anyone to say anything else. "Now, as you are well aware of the capital, why not draw a detailed map for me? Also select five generals to lead the armies in the next battle."

"Will I be selected, lord?" Legend asked in such curiosity, but when I shook my head he looked a bit depressed.

Kid, you were the one to ask for a hellish battle. So don't expect to be selected in any of the upcoming ones.

"I will handle this, lord," the oldest general said, and I simply pointed to a corner and summoned one of my Gollems for them to use as a writing board.

I needed furniture here, ones that would suit my needs.

I let them do their work while I started to follow the status of battle everywhere.

The battle at the basin I just left was getting fiercer. The Hectors started to summon monsters to come and help them in this fight, and also many races appeared as well.

But in front of the upper hand my forces held so far, they got nothing to do to stop mine. I knew this fight wouldn't be concluded fast, especially if paragons joined it.

The end of this battle should come at the same time as the end of other battles. I just wanted them to draw the full attention of the Hectors, forcing them to use everything they got.

Like this, other battles would be much easier. And when the Hectors would try to stop us, the time to hit the capital would be right.

As for the jumper, he was still in his search, looking for the rest of the beasts. We found three so far, and two were missing.

I wouldn't mind missing one, but it would be better to get them all. My forces would all have a chance to get a hit at these beasts and get bathed by their blood.

And by that I meant my entire forces, including those who were stationed far from here.

As I got it done, I returned to watch the drawings they made.

Well, the military generals weren't artists or architects, but they were well versed in drawing maps. So the map I got was like a puzzle for me, so I had to ask many questions to understand it better.

743 Lily Knows Them

From their words, I got to know how big this capital was! I thought my capital which absorbed three cities within and large areas around was big! But according to their words, it was the size of Texas.

Damn! It was damn big! And that meant it was very complicated as well. The military camps and posts there were in hundreds!

They didn't follow the arrangement of mine, the triangular zones. They used circular zones, scattering them all over the capital.

The central zone alone has at least twenty of such zones, forming an entirely separate military big circle around the centre.

And there were the big shots, the big names of each big family, and the royals and their private armies.

Of course such mighty figures wouldn't come here without their own forces. That meant the battle to take down this capital would be fierce and long, filled with many variables.

The capital was located in a very good spot, overlooking a big and deep gulf that expanded even to the outer military circle of the central zone..

Such a big gulf gave me the feeling that it was filled with an army of aquatic monsters, tons of them actually.

As the capital size was this huge, it reached a nearby set of mountains. It was as big as the mountains I saw before, making me believe a beast might be reserved there.

If that was true, then the last battle would be the battle to kill the beast and take down the capital.

It meant things would get more complicated for me and my boys.

However, I didn't feel any pressure yet. I had to first ascertain this news. And as such I sent these to the jumper to be aware of such a possibility.

[That's interesting! So they kept one beast near the capital so they would allow their forces there to get benefits from it. That's smart! Like this they'd defend it easily using the forces of the capital]

[It means the last fight for that beast would also be the fight on the capital] that dude missed the point entirely and focused over praising their arrangement!

[I know, I was just commending their tacticians]

[Ok, keep looking and don't get lazy. I'm less than an hour away from the second beast]

[I think I'm close to the fourth one. Just give me an hour before you attack that region, ok?]

I knew he wanted to wait until finding the fourth beast before I'd attack. Like this, he wouldn't get pressured by the Hectors before finding the fourth beast.

With one beast remaining, and my guess about its location, it would be easier to escape their pursuit and find that beast as well.

[Ok, I'll wait for the good news then]

As I got an hour left, I decided to go and spend it inside the other world.

"Wow! This… Is this another world?!!!" The oldest general was shocked when we arrived on my second Earth.

"Brian? What are you doing here?" the voice of Lily told me she recognised this old man from far away. She was shocked to see him here, and I could only explain what happened to her in brief.

"Wow! You got one of the three big generals of our world!! That's awesome!" she jumped in such delight before turning to Brian, "tell me, do you like the new lord or what?"

"He is… Ok."

"He is mighty, much stronger than those useless folks in the capital."

"See? Even a paragon like her knows they are useless!" Legend pointed at Lily while saying this in such a tired tone.

It seemed this kid had a very deep grudge towards the princes and princesses of his race.

"Legend? What are you doing here?!!" Lily also recognised this troublesome kid.

"Do you know him?" I asked, and she gave a look that told me she really knew him quite well.

"He is the best, THE BEST! In our entire roster of youths for this apocalypse run, this kid came up first and on top even over those kids of the royals."

"That… Was part of the past now," Legend said, seemingly like someone regretting his golden days that went into the wind.

"You beated every single one of us back there, using that tricky and dirty little mind of yours and those little tricks in fights… I still feel bitter about my loss to you," Lily rolled her eyes before looking at me:

"He came from a family with a long heritage in the military. But when the royals came last time, they imprisoned his family and sentenced them to death because they refused to let his big brother join the paragon program and sign a contract. He lived because he was a bit younger and seemed harmless. Least they know about his monstrous talents."

"I'm nothing but a loser," Legend shouted, seemingly getting irritated by the facts she narrated about his past.

So this was the reason behind all such hatred. Well, to be fair, if I was exposed to such unfairness, then I'd end up having tons of hatred and rage towards the entire race.

"They committed a single mistake, so don't make a drama out of it!" Brian scoffed, making it like it was something trivial.

"You… I know for a long time already that you are on their side!" Legend couldn't control himself, moved fast to point his finger in Brian's face, "you were the one who held me back, not allowing me to rise up in ranks despite I deserved better!"

"Humph! What's there to get blamed for?" Brain was full of himself, "I was following the orders of the mighty ones. Everyone should, including your long gone family. They should know better! Resisting heaven itself isn't a wise thing, kiddo!"

"You… Great…" When I thought Legend was going to lose it, he retreated, walking a few circles around the chariot before adding with a fierce glare, "Now these mighty ones are going to face the wrath of the Fierceless family's lone descendant. Let them show their worth, or they'll die."

744 I Just Need A Solution

"Good words," I commended and praised him in such a way, giving that old man a side glance. Even if he was a great general, he should be fair with his men.

He let Legend suffer on purpose, not taking his rightful place and rank. That told me a lot about this old man's ins and outs.

He was a sly fox, only barking to the strongest master.

Well, he was now my dog, so it's not that bad to have such a man around. Especially if he was such a capable general as Lily described.

"Anyway, you are going to answer to my Lily from now on," I established this chain of command so no one would think smart or something, "lead them to train and train forces here."

"Aren't we going out?" Lily asked with anticipation, and I could only shrug.

"Things out there are a little hectic now," I summed up everything that happened, "so we got one day here to rest and train. Use this time wisely, and prepare armies in four groups, each will move to one beast location."

"Got it," she slowly nodded before adding, "Will we use them?"

"Arrange them over the four armies," I needed lots of generals indeed, "but leave this dude alone. I have other plans for him.".

I pointed towards Legend, and he seemed to want to ask about my arrangement for him but refrained from doing so.

"Are we going to get more forces again?"

"I will arrange this now," this was part of the reason I decided to come here.

Cultivating was out of the picture. It would take lots of time and wouldn't add anything to my current strength.

I had only three ways to add up my strength during this time.

One was to get more warriors, humans, and races here. I planned to keep the warriors inside my inventory, while delivering the rest over to Lily and Angelica's people.

As for the second option I had, it was my class! I could now evolve it to the next level smoothly. Each level would open up a mighty feature for me.

I lacked enough souls before to do that. But with my current over one hundred million count, and lots more to come, I could easily upgrade the soul class to the next level.

The third thing I could do was to try out the idea of Sith. Here was so peaceful and quiet, a suitable place for me to try and take that brutal monster out and see what it would do.

We were enemies, and I forced it to become my companion. But I didn't know how my technique worked in taming it.

Would it go berserk the moment it saw me? Or would the technique work better than I thought?

I had to try to determine that.

The first thing I did was to open a chat with Silverlining, asking for more races, warriors, and humans.

[You are really impatient. But I'm working all over the place and asking even the sovereigns to help]

[Really? Can they?] I totally forgot about his sovereigns. If such mighty figures helped, then it would be great.

[They can do anything man! But I just have to reach a good deal for you. After all the three sovereigns aren't the only ones interested in helping you right now]

[That's good] It seemed the crazy request I made had other benefits here, [If you can secure more of these in a day, it will be a great help]

[I'll see what I can do. But you know, my soeverigns won't just settle with those weak and low grade blue bones]

[I know, I got silver bones for them, ready to make out any deal they wanted]

I wasn't bluffing or bragging. I got tons of silver bones, and they meant nothing to me.

The green bones were for replenishing my energy, the blue ones were for the Petals impact, and the silver ones were for these sovereigns.

I just hoped with their help, I could get better results.

Those who would come in the next day wouldn't be able to join the battle, mostly. Only the warriors could.

But they would stay here and get hellish training from Lily. While I'd fight my way towards the capital, she would remain here and build me a mighty army.

I closed the chat with him and started to first observe the drawings I got from the generals.

They drew very complicated maps, making me feel it needed someone with tons of experience to read it.

But I got a rough explanation, knowing at least where the key places were.

It wasn't a surprise that the biggest training camp and military defences were all situated around the gulf.

That meant they really got tons of monsters there. And using their help, they could defend the capital with an iron fist.

"I lack water forces… Mine aren't even enough to deal any damage to these monsters…" I got a little taste of how Hectors used their forces alongside the aquatic monsters.

They would ride them and go to the ocean. The ocean was considered their turf. And if I went after them, I'd end up facing tons of trouble.

[Dude, please tell me you got something to deal with aquatic armies]

[Fighting Hectors, right? This is something bad indeed. Well, the best thing is to have your own aquatic forces, formed better from warriors and well trained forces]

[I don't have time to train forces, and warriors… Can you get me some?]

[Are you going against a normal army or a big one?]

[I'm going against their capital]

[Damn! That means you are going to face the royals of their race… That's not good]

[You do know about them?]

[Who doesn't? After all, they stole our race in the first place! Lots of races did actually, so I can't just blame them alone]

[I see] I didn't know that the Toranks invented such a good means to lead their forces to a new apocalyptic world.

745 Upgrading My Class Again

I started to like that race. [So can you provide me with lots of warriors, aquatic ones?]

[This… You do know that the best people in this universe in such a field are the ones you are fighting right now?]

[I just need a solution bro]

[Then you should divert your ways of thinking] he suddenly sent this, [Instead of trying to found an aquatic army, why not seek for weapons and items that can help you restrain and kill them?]

Damn! This dude… [Is there such a thing? Do you have it?]

[As Hectors are considered one of the big three, they have tons of aquatic monsters. And as our race is one of the big three, we also are very experienced in weapons to deal with them]

This… This was great!

[Ok, tell me the price and I'll pay]

[It's just… Such things aren't available at our impact, only at my race]

[Ask the sovereigns then].

[I plan to do so, but I need half a day to arrive to them before the meeting would start]

I had my hopes high before he added, [But… These things are considered our thing]

[Meaning what exactly?]

[Deciding to give them to you means they have to make the decision first to support you in your plan. Like this, things will grow much smoother and be a lot easier]

[So… I have to wait for the meeting to end?]

[And it should be a decision in your favour in the end]

[Ok, I'll wait then]

[But this might take days! Such a decision isn't easily considered. Besides, I heard there are few who are arguing against supporting you]

[Hmm… Are they that big? Do they have such influence?]

Having few who would reject and resist helping me was logical. It was just the impact of such a refusing group over the others.

[I heard a couple of big names, so it might be a little troublesome to pass the decision. However, the final call is in the hands of our supreme council, and only one of them is there]

[Ok] I started to feel a little nervous about this decision, [Just go and let me know of the decision at the end]

[Wait for the good news, or pray for it]

[I'll wait, better than praying]

I didn't like praying. It meant one had lost hope to do something. So waiting was much better, at least I could get the vibe of winning this.

"Now it's all up to this meeting," I took a deep breath, calming myself before opening my class to check its current status.

[Soul master class: Rank: Hidden. Grade: Heaven. Level: 150]

[Fourth stage is opened for you to use: The grade of soul evolution]

[Each time you kill a living being, you'll be able to absorb his soul. The absorbed soul won't reincarnate or be revived by any means]

[Storing one hundred souls will allow you to raise all your stats by one point]

[Storing one thousand souls will let you upgrade the level by one]

[Using soul evolution will help you evolve any stored upgraded souls to merge together and evolve. The evolution process will bypass at least three ranks and also will add more features to the final soul. Each time you'll need at least one hundred high grade souls developed by your merge phase II ability. Each time you'll consume one hundred thousand soul points to make the process succeed]

[Dealing with the evolved soul is like dealing with your merged and stored souls in your soul class list]

[Upgrading the class level to reach level three hundred will open the next stage of the class for you]

Well… Last time I was stopped by the high consumption of this scary technique to widely use it.

But now? I could easily use it. However, why would I when I was going to evolve my class again?

Who knew? Each time a mighty ability would pop up. So it was better for me to wait for the class to be upgraded.

"Upgrade it!"

[Your current soul class is at level one hundred and fifty]

[You need to pay one thousand soul point for each level]

[The next upgrade is at level three hundred]

[Do you want to pay the price for the missing one hundred and fifty levels?]

"Pay!"

[One hundred and fifty thousand soul points are deducted]

[Congratulations! Your class has been advanced]

[Soul master class: Rank: Hidden. Grade: Heaven. Level: 300]

[Fifth stage is opened for you to use: The grade of soul sacrifice]

[Each time you kill a living being, you'll be able to absorb his soul. The absorbed soul won't reincarnate or be revived by any means]

[Storing one hundred souls will allow you to raise all your stats by one point]

[Storing one thousand souls will let you upgrade the level by one]

[Using soul evolution sacrifice will burn the souls and turn them into superhuman power. The power can come in many forms: magic, strength, defence, speed, and even resurrection!]

[You can either decide to spend one thousand souls and let the class randomly select an effect for you, or you can pay different prices to get the effect you desire.]

[Magic effect: You will pay one hundred thousand souls each time to use it. It will add a randomly selected elemental magic effect that will last for one day. The effect can't be changed but you can sacrifice more to get a different effect. If you want to select an effect directly, you'll have to pay one million soul points]

[Defence effect: You will pay one hundred thousand souls each time to use it. It will add a mighty shield around you that can last for one day or until the durability is worn out. The shield can be either against physical attacks, magic attacks, and even against god attacks, each randomly selected each time. The shield can't regenerate on its own, but you can add more shields by sacrificing souls again. The durability of the shield is determined by the number of souls sacrificed each time. You can pay one million souls to get the shield effect you desire directly]