Chapter 870 Few Hobbies To Waste Time With
"Take your time, and don't forget to get out," but waiting for them to get over such a state of mind would take days, even weeks! So I started to move again, going towards the next gate.
It took me a week to get to the next gate! This… If the distance between gates was the same, then I'd take just slightly over six months to move in between these gates!
It was… A really long time without doubt! I already saved the location of the zones by my staff, but I never expected just moving around the gates would take such time.
And fighting the beasts inside took four more days!
Each beast did the same as the first one I killed. They all blabbered about how their abilities antagonised mine, how the system was locked here, and how they'd end up eating me!
But in the end, all of them failed to do any of that! I ended up adding twenty-four more beasts to my shadow world using my techniques.
Each beast I killed would send me back to the gate I came through. Then I'd go inside, and work over their colossal bodies and garnish my heavy loot.
Bones, organs, meat… I collected everything! Even their blood was collected in liquors for future assessment and use.
I took nine months to wrap things here. Each time I'd clear a path, I'd speak to those standing outside.
And not in a single time I was met with a different response than what happened at the first path.
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They all wept, fell on the ground, and looked very emotional when they heard my words.
I have stayed here for over a year now. That… It was the longest since I came back in time. It felt long, slightly boring, and filled with depressed responses from the people I was trying to help.
There was no cheer, no shouts of joy, or any sort of celebration from them. The only thing that made me sustain all this time was the great loot I was getting from this place.
It wasn't just in the form of the harvest of the beasts, but also the great number of souls I kept gaining even after one year!
I didn't know how or why, but even after one year the soulers led by Lucias didn't manage to clear everything!
They were close to being done, as if they packed their advance based on my progress. But they were working without any moment of rest.
Races needed food and drink, good bed at night to rest. But soulers… They only needed to eat souls. These soulers kept working for the past year without taking a single moment of rest.
And I doubted they even wanted to have such rest.
After one year, my soul count rose up to a staggering five hundred million souls. That was the end after deducting my personal usage for the sacrifices I used, the consumption of the soulers, and the consumption of my general.
I knew they ate souls all this time, and that made that general consumption to reduce to less than one fourth of what it was initially.
Yet getting five hundred million souls was really something! I never thought I'd get such a figure without the need to get into a huge war after war.
The last big brutal war on the Hector continent ended up with almost one hundred and fifty million souls harvested by me.
And that was just the total amount of souls gained. If I calculated my consumption, then almost half of them remained at the end.
"They should get out in a month or something," I was curious about the people I left behind. Would they move and leave this cursed place or what.
So after one week, I used my staff and returned to the first path I cleared. I was shocked to see them still crying, with many sitting on the ground motionless, looking in daze at the horizon, at the rear where they lived, or wasted their lives there.
After this visit, I started to grow more curious. So I returned back again after killing the beast and collecting its loot.
But for a month, they didn't show any change or intention to leave. Just at my last visit to them, I grew wary and worried over the integrity of their souls and minds.
I never expected the effect of such a place would be this deep. But when I visited them one week later, I was surprised to see the last batches of them walking towards the path.
Phew! They got me scared for a moment there, or a month.
After this, and as I had nothing else to do during the long periods of travels, I started to grow this habit.
Each week I'd jump back to one of the oldest and earliest paths I cleared, checking on the people waiting there. And gradually, I even started to line them up, according to the time taken for them to make such a decision.
The fastest? Damn! They were my soulers, or the souler race descendants. They weren't spared from getting emotional, but they overcame that in just two weeks!
That was remarkable. As for the longest, it was a weird race that had scales at their bare chests, forming a shape of two wings, with long strands of smooth hair curling down from the narrow space in between the two wings.
They looked strong, but they took almost two months to get their clansmen moving through the path up front.
After getting a little fun doing that, I got to solve one little problem left; the missing five zones.
Even till now, I was sure there were twenty-five zones here when this world was formed. But there were five missing, and I got a hunch about their place.
*Flash!*
I jumped using my staff towards one of the saved locations at one of the zones. The twenty zones were all arranged in circular fashion, making them all away from the central region by the same distance.
Chapter 871 Getting Inside The Core World
"According to what I experienced before… Such distance… Hmm… It will take roughly a month," I looked at the map, tried to compare the distance separating me and that door to the core underground world with the entire map.
Well, it was wrong! It took almost one month and a half months to get there. The world was already silent, and travelling for so long without having anything else to do was deadly boring.
"At last!" I was so damn eager to get out of this place. It was weird. I always craved peace and tranquillity, but when I got them here I wasn't as happy as I thought.
It seemed I got infected with the hectic atmosphere back at the apocalypse. I wanted action, wanted to fight, to struggle and keep winning despite all odds.
And standing at this big gate made me realise that I was going to live through those hectic battles again.
This gate wasn't as huge as the gates I found at the paths. But what made it give me such a terrifying feeling was the air emitted from it.
Thick bellows of scarlet red fog, sometimes black, something coming out with echoing thunder and faint roars, kept coming out from the gate in front of me.
It had no doors, no guards, as if the ones who built it left it open for anyone daring to come in and trespass what lied behind.
I looked at the heavy presence of that air coming out from the gate and sucked in a deep breath.
"Come back," and before going in there, I decided to put an end to the soulers journey in this world.
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They got enough food, enough for now. I needed them to start fighting on my side. Something told me I'd need them, and so I didn't hesitate to call them back.
Then I led my chariot into that gate.
The first thing I felt was the thick bellows of smoke coming from a deep hole, and this gate was just the opening of that hole.
My shield kept everything away, but after a few minutes, I couldn't see clearly what lay ahead.
I kept following the path I could vaguely sense by the sounds of friction coming from the clash of my shield with the rocky walls of this deep tunnel.
Aside from that, I felt like I was submerged into water, red and black water, so thick to prevent me from seeing through.
Even when I used my Hawk Eye skill, I failed to see through. The only thing that worked was my pulse wave attack that pushed the gas away, letting me see the path I was treading.
It was a long, very long tunnel that extended for hundreds of metres down below. And that was just the reach of what my pulse wave attack cleared for me to see.
"I… Don't like this…" after going like this for half an hour, I still couldn't reach the bottom. I felt the gas getting thicker, but that was everything I got.
I never expected going to the core would take me such time. The distance was covered in five hours, and the main reason for this was for me not seeing anything.
So I had to make my chariot slow down. Falling at such a low speed made me cross the distance for such a long time.
But I was wary about what lay in that smoke. What if enemies appeared? What if I threw myself into the middle of the enemy armies?
And just as I was thinking about this, I finally got out of this tunnel. "Damn! It seemed I jinxed myself!"
I got out from the end of this tunnel to find myself descending from a hole in the sky. But there was no sky here, only thick clouds of red and black smoke with little lights escaping from the ceiling above.
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I was sure the ceiling was made out of sturdy rocks, made of a special ore that kept shining faintly from time to time in an irregular rhythm.
But that wasn't the issue, the world here was. When I looked down, I found that this place was enormous!
I couldn't see the end of it! Such a dimly lit world filled with such thick clouds of red and black gas wasn't a problem for me.
It was just like when the sun went down and we had to live into a week of dark nights.
My eyes were adapted to see through such circumstances. And what I saw made me frown!
"Don't tell me it's spanning just the same space as the world above!" This was a scary thought for me.
Wasting more time while walking through the same space up above? This would be a torture for me.
*Boom!*
However, just as I was lost in my thoughts, I heard such loud booming coming from down below.
My chariot was at least a mile high above the ground. And unlike the world up above, this ground was barren, void of any green plants or anything that could be considered beautiful.
"This…" however when I just turned to see what caused such an explosion, another explosion erupted from another direction, then another, and another.
"Five… There are five different explosions… These are the missing five areas I was looking for," I was slightly happy by this. After all it felt good for one's guessed to come true, right?
Each explosion released a thick pillar of smoke rising high up, even reaching to the level of clouds, the level of my chariot.
One red, one green, one brown, one silver, and one golden… These were the colours of the five smoke signals issued from the five different directions.
"They must be calling for their forces," seeing this made me realise a big fight was going to happen. I didn't know what was coming at me. Even when I used my Hawk Eye skill, I couldn't see anyone at the ground, no one was around these smoke signals.
Chapter 872 The Terrifying Negative Effect
Were they ignited automatically? Once anyone trespassed here or what?
To be ready for anything, I started my preparations.
"My first technique is good enough to fight against many enemies. But if they are strong, then it will be limited… My second technique is better suited for dealing with stronger foes, but it lacked the wide range of activity my first technique had… It's better to merge the two together then…"
It didn't take me a minute to reach such a conclusion, and five more to end up the merge between the first and second technique. A big black ball appeared, with many thick arms coming out from it.
I took out many bones and filled up my chariot. I even filled the interior of the chariot. The three floors were now filled with different graded bones.
My harvest from the beasts was really rich. I could now use the gold graded bones or even the dark gold ones to replenish my lost energy.
But I didn't go to such lengths. I just used my green, blue, and silver graded bones, leaving higher ones for better use.
And then I waited.
*Boom!* *Boom!* *Boom!*
After the rise of the five smoke signals, more followed. At some point, I could hear the echo of distant explosions, but couldn't see anything.
That meant the far away lands from here were also getting stirred and alarmed. Who was doing it? And who would come?
Were they also an army of races belonging to my universe? Or were they an army of grand beasts?
Something told me it was neither. If the enemy here was like the races above, then the ancestors of these ten races wouldn't have found any problem dealing with them.
And if there were beasts like the ones guarding the paths, then the old strict warning to not go into this place didn't make any sense.
If so, they would have just sent different messages, telling their people that this place was guarded with the same fierce beasts like paths.
Then who was going to come here?
Just in half an hour, I got the answer. And it didn't come just alone, but with lots of bad news.
[Warning! You are getting exposed to an alien and hostile universe energy]
All of sudden, I got this message popping in front of my eyes. When I came here, I checked, and the system still worked.
That made me feel more reassured. But when that message came, many changes started to happen.
The first thing that happened was for the thick layers of clouds to suddenly fall. They fell over my head, covered up my entire chariot, making me see nothing.
I thought they were going down, but this darkness continued for long minutes. At the same time, I kept hearing sizzling noise, as if my shield was fighting against fierce power outside.
[Warning! Your system power is going to lost eighty percent of its value]
[Warning! Everything related to the system will lose eighty percent of its value]
[Warning! Your strength and stats are going to lose eighty percent of their value]
[Warning! Your forces are going to lose eighty percent of their strength value]
[Warning! Anything brought from your universe will lose eighty percent of its value]
[Warning! The weakening curse of the alien hostile universe energy is activated]
Damn fierce! I sucked in a cold air of breath while one thing echoed loudly in my mind.
When I got the treasures from the three sovereigns, Silverlining stressed over their crucial role and high value in dealing with the hostile universe energy at the outer battlefields.
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I didn't place that in my mind at that moment. After all, going to these battlefields wasn't a thing I'd do anytime soon.
But right now… And seeing all these messages, feeling my chariot getting weaker, and even it couldn't keep the high altitude and started to fall made me realise how deadly such an effect was.
I took it lightly before. However right now I was feeling the real threat of death coming at me.
This wasn't just about the weakening effect of this hostile universe's energy… It was about what this all meant!
The upper world was inhabited by my universe's races… And this one was inhabited by the hostile universe races!
I recalled the stories I heard from the zone leaders before. They all agreed on the same story, this world came to existence amidst a great war between their ten races, mighty forces and the hostile universe forces.
"Damn! I never asked about the nature of the other universe forces…" I couldn't help but blame my carelessness on this.
I never thought I'd have to fight these enemies here. The stories spoke about how the world was created by the sacrifice from the hostile universe forces.
But it seemed these stories were wrong! These races survived, just like my universe's elite ten races did.
If the ten elite races of my universe were fighting a brutal war against the hostile universe forces, then I could assume these forces were at least as strong as the ten big races of my universe.
If not being stronger!
And that… It was terribly bad news for me.
I looked around… The chariot was all surrounded with such thick layers of clouds that kept assaulting my chariot. I hurriedly opened the core of the chariot and examined the status of energy there.
"Damn! I lost eighty percent of the energy stored here! F*ck this!" I was scared when I saw the great amount of energy stored here getting reduced to just a couple tens of millions.
That… That wasn't even enough to sustain me for an hour against heavy assault! An hour was even an exaggeration!
"Damn! The energy crystals lost eighty percent of their value!!!" and gradually I was seeing how fierce this eighty percent curse was.
I used to take out tens of my crystals to get enough energy for my chariot, enough to sustain me for weeks.
Chapter 873 Flying Serpents Shrouded In Clouds
But now? I used a hundred pieces and didn't even get enough to make me feel secure! I kept gushing out crystals, until I used one thousand of them.
I got many of these crystals, but if such consumption rate continued then I'd end up depleting this reserve in no time!
Damn! I never thought that fighting on the outer battlefields was just tedious and hard, much more expensive than fighting deadly and long battles in my universe.
Just when I finally filled the chariot shield with enough energy, I felt like the world all around was trembling.
Something… something was coming!
The enemy already mobilised their armies and came. At last I could spot their forces, and know about their races.
But… There was a little problem here…
"Lucias… Have you ever fought on the outer battlefields before?" and as I lost intel about the nature of races in the hostile universe, I had to ask the help from one who would know.
"Lord… This feeling… This energy… How did we end up on such fierce battlefields outside our universe?!!"
Lucias was already in my inventory. Yet when he came out, he seemed to be shocked by the circumstances around, and didn't even respond to my question.
"I'll explain later, but did you fight there? Do you know the races of that universe? Can you identify them?"
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I knew by what he exclaimed amidst his shock he gave me the answer directly. And then I hoped he would be able to recognise the enemies coming, help me by telling what their strength was, tell me everything related to their strength and the way they fought with.
I had one single experience with the alien race fighters. And despite that clash ending in my victory back then, I felt how hard and risky it was to fight these fighters of the other universe.
And that was when I was in my universe, not negatively affected and cursed by this alien universe energy.
"I fought there, just like many others," Lucias said, and at this moment I noticed how weak his orange fire became.
Before, I would never be able to see through the thick curtain of this orange fire and fog. But now I could vaguely see his body, and even a glimpse every now and then of his face.
"And?" I demanded for more. I didn't ask for his life story, I needed his help by identifying the incoming enemies.
"I fought against many, and can tell my lord about them in great detail. But first, we need to see."
Well… He got a point… That thick layer of cloud was getting on my nerves already.
"Pulse wave!" I got that the nature of these clouds were just like the fog that assaulted me in the tunnel while falling here.
As expected, once the pulse wave appeared, it pushed the clouds away.
But… The effect of it decreased! It didn't manage to push the clouds for hundreds of metres like before. The clouds were sent only fifty or sixty metres away, before seemingly about to return back.
"Not a chance!" I felt that these clouds were moving towards me on purpose, like someone or something was driving them to do so.
And so I didn't sit idle and pushed my chariot to fly over its limits. Yet it moved in slow, much slower speed than it used to thanks to that weakening effect.
But it was still enough to get me away from this cloud layer. And once that happened, I managed to see what was coming at me from the ground, and also see what was happening at these clouds.
"Why shall we stay here? Why not return back?" Lucias pointed at the tunnel opening high above.
"This…" however I wasn't paying any attention to him, "what the heck… Are these things?!!" my attention was piqued with something else.
As I got out from the cloud entrapment, I came to see something bizarre up there!
The clouds were made of dense fog, red and black. But when I got out, I saw these clouds changed, and something else seemed to fester inside them.
The clouds gathered around my chariot and seemed to attack it. I thought it was the effect of that fog, but never thought that something was living inside the clouds.
"This… These are the flying serpent clan… Damn! They are fierce and hard to deal with…" At last, Lucias said something useful here.
He recognised these long and thick thighs twisting inside the clouds. When he said serpents, I couldn't help but feel a great similarity with snakes. But these things didn't look that much alive to me.
It felt like they were formed of the fog, with much denser bodies than other thin fog around, but they weren't alive.
"Are you sure? I feel they are formed entirely of fog."
"That's true, after all this is just the manifestation of their techniques," Lucias looked around, then checked the ground. My chariot wasn't that far above the ground like it should be.
Only less than five hundred metres separated my chariot from the ground, almost a sign that the chariot was running on the intermediate mode, or the top mode was reduced to be like the intermediate one.
"Technique… So they are using cultivation techniques…" I realised this and recalled the fact that our cultivation originally came from the other universe. "What are you looking at?"
"The ones using and controlling these serpents can't be too far away from here. We need to take them down first, or else more trouble will come."
"They will use a higher form of technique?"
"No, the flying serpent clan are just the introductory clan in most of the big fights at the outer battlefield," he kept looking around while speaking in such a hurry to explain things over to me.
"Once appeared, it meant a grand battle lies ahead. They just pave the path for other fiercer clans to come and build much deadlier technique on top of them. Usually, thunder hawks and the fiery lion clans will appear next."
Chapter 874 Using An Artefact To Change The Fate Of This Desperate War
"Thunder hawks… Fiery lions… And flying serpents… Interesting," I got another clue. It seems the clans in the other universe usually use names of a natural power and an animal, a sort of combining them together to form their attacks.
"No time for that, my lord, we need to find them fast and exterminate most of them before the more troublesome dudes arrive."
"Why look alone when we can summon part of the souler army to do that?" I was just about to summon a large group of soulers when Lucias suddenly turned to me and shouted in such fright!
"Don't! My lord… Sorry, but you can't… If you call them here, with how weak and low grade they are, they will end up dying!"
"This…" I stopped, realising the point he was referring to, "So we are left without any force?"
"Lord can summon the five elites, also those fallen gods and the high dragons… Anyone without high stats will be left to die here, my lord."
And his words landed, making me realise I just lost most of my forces simply like that, simply by being here.
*Rumble!*
And just as I was lost in the shock of this, I heard a loud rumbling coming from many places around.
"Lord, they are coming… We need to find them fast! We need to kill them before others will arrive!"
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"Damn!" and using my Hawk Eye skill made me see how bad, terribly bad, my current situation was.
Densely packed enemies were running towards my direction, all big and frightening looking races. Their number was frighteningly high, too much for even my army of soulers to handle.
And just now I realised I lost my army of soulers, and had to fight against all of them alone! With weakened allies and forces on my side… How the heck should I win this damn fight?
"Lord…" Just when I was lost in the heavy effect of the moment, Lucias' voice came to jolt me awake. "It's now… Or never…"
He said it in such a way that made me feel that my death hour was drawing near, so damn near that I could even hear the bells of the death god on his chariot flying towards me right now.
I turned and looked at my weak and pathetic looking chariot and my Lucias, thought about the scene I'd have, with just a few fallen gods and five elite soulers, a bunch of flying dragons, Bulltors, and shield bearers.
"I… I'm screwed!" I got this result even without trying to take them out. What was the point? It was just pointless.
We lacked in everything, either the overall strength, the size of the armies, the level of gears, abilities, and even the individual strength.
Would my legacy end here? Would I end my journey and fall in such a forsaken place?
I clenched my glaive tightly, feeling the coldness of it. I looked at my left arm holding the centre of the merged technique of mine.
I… Couldn't fall down here, would never fall this easily without a fight!
"I never expected to use such things here… But who cares! If my life reached to such a point where I might lose it, then who f*cking cares!"
Well… I wasn't out of options to be honest. However the solution I had was something I intended to use back at my capital.
But… Who cared! I looked at the world around me and had one single thought in my mind… This had to stop!
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This entire place was a torture! I didn't know how these races from the alien universe were living, but I could say for sure they were having a hellish life, just like my universe races.
They were coming at me, might be mistaking me for the ones who caused all this to them. If I was in their shoes, I'd come with everything I got to crush the bastards who did this to me.
But they were directing their battle towards the wrong enemy. Even if we were enemies, that was on the outer battlefields.
Right here… And inside this grand prison designed by the dirty schemes of those motherf*ckers, we weren't enemies, we were victims of the same tyranny and injustice.
Using that item right now? So what! Losing a lot? So what! I only needed to restore the balance of this fight, turn things upside down, and give my technique a chance to show its worth.
What was the biggest obstacle, the major factor that turned this fight into such a desperate state? Wasn't it the alien universe energy?
Simple… I'd negate that effect at once and would restore the balance of such a battle once more.
I got two unused artefacts from the sovereigns, one was the dens of heroes. That little egg required a peaceful place to grow itself into a magnificent den of heroes.
It wasn't suitable to be used here. My second Earth world would be the perfect place for such an artefact.
However right now, and in the middle of such angry masses, and in a place that had the smell of death reeking from all its corners, I had only the other artefact left to use; the fountain of life!
I knew its name might give a false impression about this little baby, but it was really the most suited artefact to use in this kind of situation, in such a place filled with death.
What was that artefact? It was one that was given to me from Tontram sovereign. It was supposed to be a treasure to help in turning any dead place filled with terror of death and big wars into such prosperous place, brimming with life and many potentials.
Well… Its uses actually weren't going to be useful for me later on. As this entire world would fall and collapse after destroying what these idiots were defending.
But that was the only thing I got to turn the tables around without losing my life in the process.
Chapter 875 Feeding My Bones To A Statue
I took it out and examined its description again. I recalled there were lots of conditions to be met before using this artefact, and so I had to read through it again.
Damn! All the conditions were really so damn hard to fulfil!
First I needed to have a territory of my own to use this artefact at. Well… This was a hard thing to do, especially when I had no time to do anything major.
The second condition was about the state of the place used upon. It must be a big battlefield, one that had tens of millions of souls sacrificed in hellish fight.
I didn't know if this place had such battles or not, but from the grand death count of my universe races at the higher ground, I got this condition was already fulfilled.
Then I had to spend lots of energy activating this artefact. One hundred billion energy equal to stat points were needed to make it start its magic.
Then it would take six months to give birth to such a marvellous world filled with life and peace.
Unfortunately, I'd have to give up seeing this piece of heaven as this world would soon collapse.
But that wasn't a totally bad thing. After all, and out of the three artefacts I got so far, this one was the only one that could be repeatedly used.
What did that imply? I could use it here, and could use it later on at another place. I could always use this artefact as long as the conditions were met.
Ok… I looked at this statue in my hand. It wasn't that big, only at the length of my arm at most. It didn't give me any feeling of being heavy or anything, making me wonder how this little statue of a girl wearing a cape and holding a torch in her right hand, and a ball made out of white marble like material in her left hand.
It gave me a pure impression, especially with such an angelic face and the realistic features of that statue.
If I wasn't truly holding it in my hands, I'd mistake it for a little girl wearing such a custom.
"Ok… It's time to solve this territory problem…" I placed the statue over my chariot, before taking something else out.
"Lord… They are getting near… We have to deploy our forces right away," Lucias was anxiously watching me do all these weird things and didn't call out any fighter.
He grew anxious. Did he think I lost all hope about fighting this battle? Did he mistake me for losing my mind and succumbing to the fate of death?
"Lucias…" I slowly said as I raised my right arm high in the air.
"Yes my lord…"
"Don't ever think I'll lose hope," I muttered, while the next moment I said, "Thundering Might!"
I took out my pillar, the one artefact that could bring me an area and make it belong to me. "I never lose hope, not even when I'm standing alone against hundreds of millions of scary and terrifying enemies just like now."
"Y… Yes lord," his tone changed out of my domineering gazes and tone. I wasn't giving up, I was planning a hellish fight back at these enemies down below.
Even if there were too many to cover up earth and eat away the sky, I wouldn't lose hope… Never!
As expected, the effect of my pillar was just too damn weak. I got that it was affected by the negative energy of the alien universe.
But… That was soon going to change.
"Are we going to fight inside this shield? It might be good but…" Lucias mistook my actions, but what I did next made him freeze out of shock.
I just put the pillar away, grabbed the statue from the floor of my chariot, before jumping off it towards the ground!
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I held the rope and crossed a few hundred metres off the ground before landing safely there.
"Lord…" and from behind, Lucias screamed out in such shock and fear!
Damn general! Man up! I told you already, I didn't give up! Never did! And I didn't have any suicidal wish!
"Stay up there!" I had to shout at him, to make him stay there and not follow me down below.
"But lord… I…"
"I'm not going to sacrifice myself against all of them all by myself, idiot!" I gritted on the statue in my hand before I placed it on the ground.
Now two conditions were met, and only the last one remained. And this one… I knew it was going to hurt me.
"Please… Please work…" I got crystals, too much of them. But I doubted their ability to make the energy reach such a terrifying number.
So I had to use something else to help… My bones!
I got one of my green bones, and just looked at the statue before throwing it towards it. I didn't know if this would work or not, but before doing this I already left a big red mark of my blood over this statue.
Well… In my universe things were activated and linked to anyone using one's blood.
Just as the bone came closer to this statue, it seemed like the statue got invisible hands. It suddenly stopped a few inches away from the beautiful face of this lady, before it started to burn and turn into dust.
"It worked!" I shouted in such joy, one that must have given Lucias watching me from my chariot high above a scare.
Well… He wasn't to be blamed. If I was in his place, I'd seriously think I lost my mind and would get the same kind of scare as well.
As the test succeeded, I gushed out tons of green bones. And like a bottomless pit, this statue kept devouring them all within seconds.
"Keep eating," I didn't know for how long this statue would keep eating, but I got little time here. In my estimate, the enemy would arrive in less than fifteen minutes.
Chapter 876 The Statue Speaks!
As I got little time, I started to take half of the crystals I got at one go. I also got half of the green, blue, and silver bones out, leaving the rest for my future deals and my personal use.
All of sudden, almost half of the area covered up by my pillar's shield got packed with bones in different colours and crystals.
As I thought the statue would take forever to consume them, all of them suddenly shone brightly before turning fast into ash.
This… This was a scene I never expected or even imagined!
"Damn fierce! Do you still need more?" I looked at the statue that appeared from the storm of ash that appeared from all the bones and crystals.
"No thanks!" and just as I was speaking to it out of my surprise, I got an instant shock when I heard such angelic voice, "I don't know how long it has been since I had such a meal. Thanks for the generosity of my lord. I have enough energy to form three worlds here, or do you want just one right now?"
I looked at as the voice appeared from the statue, I noticed that the eyes that were looking at a fixed point moved and were looking at me.
Damn! What the heck was this sorcery?!!
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"Well… Can you merge the three and form a faster growing one?" I asked, but she shook her head, making me realise this wasn't a statue, it was a real being cursed to look like a statue.
Damn! Don't tell me she belonged to an ancient race as well!!!
"Sorry lord, I can't do it. I know you like being called a lord. I watched you from behind, seeing all the deeds you did. And remarkably enough, you are worthy to be my lord, even if you are just a mere human."
"Thanks, I'll take it as a compliment," I sighed, as this was indeed not such one.
"But there is still one thing missing… Give it to me and I'll start forming the world."
"This…" of course I knew what she was talking about. Reluctantly I took out my last kingdom's heart and handed it to her.
Her hands didn't move, but the kingdom heart moved and I followed it with such bitter feelings.
"Don't feel this sad… After all, this world will belong to you."
"Stop telling me lies to make me feel better. I hate it when people do such a thing," I sighed, took a deep breath, "this world… It was built on top of a deadly and scary weapon. I have to take the weapon down, and with it the world will lose its core and will crumble and collapse down."
"No, lord is mistaken here," yet she didn't feel any offence from what I said, and calmly said while the kingdom heart touched the torch, turning it into real fire that engulfed this torch, "I can't merge the three worlds into one to accelerate the process, but I can do something else."
"What?" I looked at her with anticipation. Well, a mature and wise girl appeared from the inside of a cold and still statue… So I could expect anything out of her.
"I'll change that core for you," she suddenly said, "I will add this heart not as the core of this little dome of yours, but to this entire world. So when you take down that nasty core, your kingdom heart will kick in, and turn this small world into a growing mighty one, one that will keep expanding as long as you take good care of it."
"This…" my mind froze for a second when I heard what she said, "will this be safe? I don't want any remnants of that nasty weapon."
"Don't worry lord, in my time, my race was called the world creators. We were considered mothers who can give birth to new worlds, worlds that can grow and expand. But that was a long time ago, and it's just a blessing that I can use my real powers again, thanks to my lord's generosity with energy."
"…"
Ok… Ok… What the heck was wrong with me? Everytime I gained a race, it would turn out to be cursed in a way or another.
"I'm going to work now. For six months, don't try to remove me. No one can remove me except you, even those mighty gods won't be able to make me budge an inch. Good luck lord, and keep fighting for yourself and your people, keep fighting for all the good in this universe, the good that went missing amidst all this chaos and pain."
And by her words, her body started to suddenly grow in size. For a moment there I swore I saw the big stain of blood I left behind got separated, coagulated into a small ball of red blood, before she moved her left hand and let the orb there absorb it!
This happened in a blink of an eye, making me question myself if that really happened or not.
She grew up, grew up so damn fast. It was like a seed grew up from the ground using magic, grew tall and towering to reach the peak of my dome.
Then like a bomb, she release her shining pure white light all over the place. It wasn't limited only to my dome, it went way beyond, vanishing behind the horizon.
For a second there, I got to see everything that the pulse wave of light touched. Hundreds of millions of different races were coming at me, with much more staying behind inside towns and cities.
They had families, had kids, lived their lives the same as my universe's races did. I saw a glimpse of the look on their faces… And it wasn't any different from the look of horror anyone in my race would show at such desperate times.
As I expected, they mistook me for something scary, someone that was considered as their eternal foe and deadly sworn enemy.
Chapter 877 Bringing Everything Out! Doing Everything I Can To Win!
I sighed. What the heck happened for such a situation to develop? I hated it! Hated those damn motherf*ckers standing behind this, hated everything related to this entire meaningless fight.
What were we all fighting for? A trap was laid and we were killing each other instead of turning our blades towards the necks of our true and common enemies.
What fools we were! All the races in both universes, all the races in the entire cosmos who fell for such a scheme… We were all fools!
I have no power to change such a situation even between our two universes, but I have the power to change it here.
"Come out!" and once that light expanded all over the place, I got to feel strong again, "come out my valiant warriors! Let's put an end to this miserable tale, let's end it using our blood and theirs."
I called forth for all the soulers, warriors I got before from the Silverlining, and even for the necromancers who were supposed to be way away from here, way back at Earth.
Yet magically as it might seem, they appeared! All of my forces gathered up, and formed such a mighty looking army that stood and filled my entire dome and expanded outwards.
My shield? It started to grow at a fast speed visible to naked eyes. It was getting bigger, stronger, and I knew this was all thanks to the energy coming from that gigantic statue in front of me.
"Go my lord, go and have the blessing of the last descendant of the supreme life shrine. May good fortune and good intentions be your biggest ally."
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"Thanks," I honestly bowed my head slightly in her direction. If not for her actions, none of this would have become possible.
"What the heck are you doing up there?" and the next moment, I turned entirely and shouted at the direction of the petrified up there Lucias, "get your fatty ass down here immediately! Lead my forces, go and kill our enemies!"
"Y… Yes… Y… Yes… My lord…" and even after shouting at him in such a way, he was still lost in his daze and shock.
Of course he got all the right to feel as such. It wasn't simple to just jump from the depths of hell and stand on top of the tallest mountain in heaven!
Our situation turned upside down, just what magic would do. Miraculously the alien energy eroding our power went away, and now we got a chance, a chance for a fair fight to win this war.
But I never intended to use fighting to secure the win here. "Good luck to you too," I said to the lady that I didn't get her name, "till we meet again," and I said while giving my chariot the order to descend before jumping high up to its deck using the help of my rope.
Now it was time to go all out!
I started first by releasing my threads from my merged technique. Then I closed my eyes and started activating different sacrifices.
I got that one of a couple of these affected my technique before. And in such a battle, against such immensely vast and endlessly looking enemies, the only thing I could do right now was to make sure this battle wouldn't last long.
Or else the death toll on both sides would grow much more than I should tolerate!
I didn't set my eyes over taking this world for myself, or just destroying that nasty weapon anymore. As I got ancient races from my universe, I aimed towards taking more from the other universe as well.
Who said these alien universe races didn't go extinct? Didn't face the same terrible fate my universe's elite races faced after the historic and ancient major war?
I lacked an intel about that universe or its races. And this fight just seemed right for me to know everything.
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Each sacrifice took one hour to complete. And once one was done, I'd take half an hour to examine the current situation of this battle.
Damn! Those enemies from the other universe were really worthy of being called terrifying! They kept using techniques, summoning scary foes one time after another.
The first to fall were those flying serpent folks. Once the souler army went outside with everyone else, they were spotted first by my dragons and flying monsters.
Then the soulers landed over them. With the help of the deadly fallen gods attacks, killing those who tried to escape, most of them fell just before the major army coming behind arrived.
But few managed to escape, and that showed me the real terror of such race.
They were acting exactly like what Lucias warned me of, setting the stage for far formidable techniques to be used.
The clouds had serpents there, and most of them got shattered with the death of their users. But when other races arrived, these serpents turned into mighty dragons.
They started to change, their bodies swell up, and became fiercely thicker and bigger. They started to move, showering my forces down on the ground with deadly attacks of different elements.
Fire, thunder, ice, and even rock attacks landed over the heads of my forces.
The only thing that helped in shielding my forces and decreasing the death toll by much was the fast expansion shield of mine.
It started to encompass most of my forces out there. Not to mention the help of dragons and fallen gods to counter the raining attacks by theirs, making the enemy lose much of their attack force before landing over my forces.
"Come out little dragons," and as the situation grew to such a deadly scale from the start, I summoned my little turtle and my lizard, "go… Help my forces and kill my enemies."
I didn't care about losing too much of those enemies at the start of this fight. After all, if I failed to stop their advance, things would grow ugly for my side.
Chapter 878 Things Are Going For The Better
Also I had to complete my sacrifices before fully attending this battle with my full attention.
I spent almost ten hours getting my sacrifices done. And when I got finished, I saw the instant change in my technique.
These hours were worthy of my time! I had to use my healing sacrifice for my boys out there. And that depleted it in less than five hours, even when I sacrificed fifty million souls for that sacrifice alone!
Anyway it was worth it! During these five hours, not a single one of my forces died! No matter how hard they got hit, no matter how deadly the enemy came with their sparkling to the eye fancy looking attacks, they all survived and their enemies fell.
"Time to start my hunt," as I got over from my sacrifice, I filled my chariot with gold grade bones. This was the first time ever to start up using such mid grade bones from the beginning.
But my enemies were fierce! And they got cultivation bases to supplement themselves. So I estimated it would take more effort to get them under my control.
As expected, without the gold bone help, the time needed to control them was as long as half an hour! But when I used my bones, it shrunk to only a few minutes!
Also the scale my technique worked on increased by leaps and bounds! I kept controlling those standing far at the back, and then when the time came for them to get to the front line, I gave one single order:
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"Join my side, all of you move right now!" I shouted at them before holding my horn and gave a general warning for all of my forces to not kill them.
This came as a surprise in the middle of this battle. One had to know I targeted the really far away forces, and the time it took for them to get to the frontline was over ten hours!
One could infect hundreds, and hundreds could infect thousands! By the time these forces came to the frontline, it looked as if a big chunk of forces was cut off from the enemy and added at the same time to mine.
My forces seemed to lose themselves in the fight for so long. Few hit the incoming allies but soon everyone complied with my orders.
"Good… The next batch then…" I shifted my gaze towards the distant forces while the frontline got pushed all of sudden for miles ahead.
I didn't rush outside the protection of my shield. After all, many of these forces fighting mine were able to use aerial attacks. And most of them looked really nasty!
It took almost a day to clear all the scattered flying serpents clansmen from the enemy lines. I didn't know if I got any of them on my side, but it was safe to say I did.
By taking them out, the main source of annoyance for my forces was eliminated. Then all it was left was the ground forces. And these were like naive prayers for my technique.
I noticed a few who used the same techniques as mine, using the power of the shadow world to control the souls and minds of my forces.
Yet they never did it on a big scale as mine or could infect as much as I did. And once spotted, I marked them as my top priority.
What I greatly lacked to elevate and upgrade my cultivation base and techniques? It was masters! People who were able to use the same power as mine, who traversed through this path before and knew all about its secrets.
And these were the ones I was aiming for! Once spotted, densely packed threads would instantly target their location, sparing none from my control.
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I didn't know if contracts would work over them or not, but I had no other option but to use them. At first, I tried over a small group, releasing my control over them and waited to see what they'd do.
I left instructions for a group of my fallen gods and soulers to stand by, waiting for my signal. If this group started going berserk, they'd interfere and act against them.
"Kill yourself!" and what was the biggest test that would uncover any lie? It was asking anyone to take his own life with his own hands!
With cold blood I gave the order for these couple thousands to kill themselves. I clenched my fist over my dragon glaive, waiting for their answer.
"A small loss for the better good…" And as I watched, they each raised their techniques in the form of swords and other weapons and severed their necks.
They killed themselves. It was something I wasn't truly proud of, but it was the only way to know if the system contract worked against them or not.
"Cool, it works," I bitterly said while shifting my gaze away. I didn't want to see their bodies, or ever recall such an act of brutality ever again.
It was a must, but it was brutal. Anyway I got what I sought, and contracts really worked over these races.
That highlighted an issue… Contracts came from the system, and the system was a force only present in our universe.
How come the contracts powered by our system that worked only inside our universe worked over folks from another universe?
I had no time to think deeply about such an issue, and decided to leave it for later.
As this test worked out perfectly fine, I started to return to my old routine. I controlled those forces with my threads, before forcing them to sign a loyalty contract with me, then I'd release the threads, letting them work freely over other folks around.
And with such simple adjustment, the efficiency of my merged technique showed an obvious upgrade again.
Each day I had to spend almost ten hours reactivating the different sacrifices. The first crazy move of spending fifty million souls over the healing dome wasn't repeated again.
Chapter 879 The Last Struggle
I just did it at the start of this battle to give my boys a hand. But right now? This fight was going in my favour.
The enemy was losing at all fronts, and my forces got bulks of reinforcements each few hours, to make it look like they never lost a single soul to begin with.
At some point, I decided to let the alien race forces fight each other while my personal army would work as firefighters.
The situation kept growing in my favour in such a way that I dared to do this. At some point, I even gave an order for my forces to rest, wait for any hot zone to appear and jump in.
Yet Lucias didn't agree. That dude was a really fierce warmonger general. In his eyes, his soulers would rest by killing and consuming their foes' souls.
Per his stubbornness, I decided to let them fight and let my other forces rest for a day or so.
Even after the passage of five days, the fight was still brutal, making me wonder when it was going to stop.
I was sure I killed hundreds of millions of my enemies so far, enough to make them scared and think about retreat. Yet they didn't! They kept coming, sending more forces here, as if they got no end to their forces.
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At some point, I even suspected they were calling their families and kids to fight! Damn! What did these motherf*ckers who created this prison do to make them get all such wrong ideas about me? About anyone coming from the surface world?
Seeing all these lives thrown away thanks to such a dirty scheme was really painful. And yet that told me the sooner I'd controlled them the better.
So I threw aside all these disturbing emotions for later, and focused entirely on using my technique to control more, more, and more!
The fight extended for another three days before the scope of the battle went to a far extent that I couldn't just stand in my place and control it.
My forces went for thousands of miles in all directions, fighting their enemies close from their living bases.
It was this close from getting over, but it was also getting risky.
I had to get out from the reign of protection of my shield, risk getting targeted by all the different techniques that showered my chariot once I did.
Anyone with a simple mind would realise that killing me would put an end to this entire battle. Even if they were on the losing side here, even if they lost hundreds of millions of their people, and got hundreds more getting controlled by my technique, there was still hope to turn things around once they took me down.
So taking such a step was something that came with tons of attacks, to the extent that I doubted they abandoned fighting the other forces standing in front of them and focused entirely over me.
I didn't care that much actually. I already filled my chariot with enough energy to sustain me for days like this. But from time to time, some fierce techniques would merge together and form a much fiercer form of attacks that left my shield full of cracks.
Such attacks gave me a scare once I appeared for the first time, especially when I was already flying on top of the main bulk of their forces in one zone.
But thanks to my energy reserve, these cracks got all healed in a blink of an eye, making me heave a sigh of relief.
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This thing got repeated more often the more I delved deeper into their ranks. But I had to do so.
I was quite sure they were mobilising all their families and even kids to join this fight. I didn't want their future seeds to be lost in this fight. I didn't know how long one of them would take to give birth to kids, and I wouldn't risk losing these youngsters thanks to their adults' foolish decisions.
So I had to push forward, attack them with my threads, spanning the field of my technique's activity to cover most of the battlefield.
Going to such lengths placed great pressure over my bone consumption. But I never hesitated to replenish the golden bones again and again, until at least one entire zone fell under my control.
It happened on the twelve day since this entire hectic fight started. And once I did, I gave them one simple order.
"All the kids and mothers stay behind, old men as well… the rest will move, pick up your arms, and follow my chariot."
One zone was down, taking me almost five entire days to secure. But there were still four more left.
Just after taking down the third zone, the remaining two felt threatened and got what I was doing. Instead of fighting in separate ways, defending their two remaining zones, they merged together, and started fighting for their survival and the future of their kin.
That turn came at the expense of losing much more in such a short time for such a merge to happen. Yet when that happened, the remaining lot of them stood like a mighty and formidable wall of steel in front of my forces, fighting with everything they got, costing me lots of casualties in the process.
I knew this wouldn't end well. Coming at a cornered beast was the last thing any wise leader would aim for. But to win this, to secure this entire core, I had to do so.
So I let my boys fight with all their might, closed an eye over the rapidly and terrifyingly increasing rate of death in my forces, and focused on controlling the enemy with my technique.
If this battle would be won, it would be won by my threads, not my soldiers.
At the end of the twenty-eighth day, the last group finally fell under my control. I looked at this vast zone, where the ground was covered in thick pools of blood, mixed from the dead bodies of my side and theirs.
Chapter 880 Meeting The Leaders
It was a hellish last stand, one that showed me the true worth and value of these fighters from the other world.
They were here without any proper preparations. They got no support from monsters, they got nothing of the evolved techniques their races currently had, but they were formidable!
I lost more than two thirds of my souler army, at least one half of the all controlled forces of their side when the last battle ended.
But that didn't matter. I won! And that was what mattered to me.
I got tons of questions, and so I held my horn and didn't even let them rest as I started to give a long line of orders.
"Listen up, go and gather at my chariot. I'll open a portal now, one for you to go out to the surface world. There you will find a grand gate lying ahead. Go there and pass through to reach a new realm. Wait for me there and don't fight, don't do anything stupid, or else you'll die!"
I got out my staff and opened many portals, linking this place to one of the gates leading to outside of here. I didn't know if they'd get affected by my universe's energy or system, but I doubted it.
I was worried they'd enter into a big fight with my forces waiting at my second Earth world. So I had to stress over this again and again, giving them strict orders to not fight, even deciding to send Lucias with them to act as their leader.
"I want the leaders of your zones or those who remained from them to come on board now."
I got one task done, and now all I have left is to get to the bottom of all this mess. Why were they living here? Why didn't they try and get out? Why the f*ck were they fighting me like I was the one to kill their mothers?!! And the most important thing…
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Where was that damn weapon?
"Lord… Are you sure you don't want me or them anymore?" From the side, Lucias didn't like going away at such a time.
What happened here seemed to leave a deep impression over him, making him feel he was obliged to keep me safe all the time.
I felt his view about me changed, giving me the impression I reached a much higher place in his mind and heart than before.
Well… I really did pull a miracle here indeed. I turned to look at the gigantic statue of the lady in the middle of this entire core world.
Even if I was so far away from the central zone, I could still see part of her, shining with such bright white light that gave me confidence and warmth.
It wasn't me who was supposed to get Lucias gratitude, it was this lady, the last descendant of another cursed race.
If not for her, we wouldn't have survived even for an hour here.
I looked down at all the great numbers of these alien universe races. They were now bound to me by contracts, becoming part of my kingdom.
I didn't know how I should feel about this. They should be our enemies, ones once spotted should be killed on the spot.
But in my eyes, they just opened a new horizon for my kingdom and power. They would be another formidable weapon and shield to my kingdom.
And if anyone tried to get funny ideas about them, I'd protect them with everything I got.
From this moment on, they were part of my kingdom and people.
Yet sending them to Earth or even using them at any big upcoming fights at the betting world or the golden quest was risky.
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I should keep them all hidden here, wait for them to recover their strength and try to recover part of their initially huge numbers.
And as I was lost in such thoughts, thinking about giving them an entire continent back at my second Earth world for them to rebuild their civilisations there, a group of them came to my landing on the ground chariot.
One of each race I fought, and I have fought ten races so far.
It was a weird match that I felt was by any means a mere coincidence. Our universe got ten races trapped here, and there's also got ten.
The toll of this defeat left a deep mark over their faces. They came with such lowered heads, all bulging eyes, and even with trembling bodies.
They were still unable to believe they lost. I couldn't say I understood what they were thinking or feeling, but soon enough I would.
I just lacked a great deal of info, ones that these folks standing in front of me were going to tell me in the next few minutes.
I looked at these ten folks. Well… The people from that universe weren't that much different in looking at that many races in my universe. Just their bodies were much bigger, at least three times of Bulltors and Selvators for example.
Aside from this, they also got a layer of energy surrounding their bodies, like a thin coat of fire that kept dancing all the time.
Red, green, brown, blue, purple, and black… These were the colours I saw covering up their bodies.
"I'm Hye, and I'm your lord from this moment on," I introduced myself before adding, while ignoring such looks of hate and enmity coming from their daggering eyes, "introduce yourselves to me."
"Lord? In our universe, lords are the mightiest being that no one can touch."
One of them harrumphed and spoke in such an arrogant tone. He was a big dude with fine spikes coming out from his body, giving him the impression of being a gigantic hedgehog!
"I killed your strongest forces, crushed all your armies, and you are now bound by contracts with me," I knew getting them along with me was going to be a hard task, "besides, why are you hating me to such an extent?"
Chapter 881 The Cruel Fate These Races Faced Here
As he started to speak in such a way, I had to show my demeanour to him and others. Also I wanted to know the answer to this important question.
Why the heck were they fighting me and my forces in such stubbornness?
"You… Are you full of yourself, aren't you?" that dude seemed to still not accept his defeat.
"If you had the ability, then why am I the one standing on top of your heads and asking questions here? I'm your lord, you can suck it up or accept it, but that won't change the fact that I won and you lost."
"…" a bulging glaring daggering eyes were what I was met with when I said these words.
"You are wasting my time. If you won't answer, then go down there and send others up, ones who can speak and not just bitterly cry on the corner for their losses."
"Fine… Great… Let me challenge the so-called lord then! I got to see that you use our dark shadow clan techniques. You did great, but against me…"
Before he would continue his trash talk, I moved my dragon glaive and stopped it just an inch off his neck.
My glaive was moving like another arm of mine. Supporting all these sacrifices made it look like a feather in my arm.
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"This…"
"Let me make myself clear… I won't tolerate any nonsense like this ever again. Wanna fight? We have been fighting for goddamn month! If you had such an ability, why didn't you defeat me back then? I hate it most when talking about useless stuff like this. So it's either all of you kneel down, bow your heads, and acknowledge me as your lord right now, or you'll all die, and without the need of my to stain my precious glaive with your blood! I'll do it using the system power."
I was fed up with such nonsense. If they didn't get it, then I should kill them and make them an example for whoever would come on board next.
"Sorry… Lord…" but when I expected them to defy me, one of them with all scarlet red fire surrounding his body said, using the title I bestowed over myself as a sign of his acceptance for me.
"It's just… We lived our entire lives seeing people from your race as the criminals who caused all this to us… But for a reason… Why do I feel you know nothing about this?"
"Oliver! Don't!" the dude who was so close from getting his head rolling on my chariot shouted in such distress and panic.
But Oliver just shrugged. "You know that I can feel people's honesty from their auras, so…" this Oliver dude seemed to be someone with special psychic powers. He felt my confusion, and the need to know the truth of this matter.
As I expected, they mistook us for the ones who did all this to all of us.
"What Oliver said is true," and before anyone would step in and ruin this chance of breaking through their thick shield of hatred, I had to step in and clear things out, "in fact… there is a surface world where our people live and experience… Hell! And we got to know that you are the ones who did it."
"Lies!" that dude who had the same power as mine shouted in such anger, "your people did all this to us! Entrapping our people, sacrificing many each year and make them get tortured and screaming until they were dead! We heard everything! We saw everything! How cruel of you! How brutal you are! And you dare to come here, asking us to follow you as if nothing happened? I prefer to die than to listen to such rubbish from such a tyrant!"
Wow! It… was way worse than I ever expected!
"Those motherf*ckers!" and I didn't keep my thoughts hidden from them at such a crucial moment, "we all got trapped here by a third party, another enemy, the ones who did all this to all of us."
"You… Are you quite shameless, do you know that?!!!"
I ignored that dark shadow clan remark and kept talking:
"I came from the outside world, where I found by accident this pocket world. Here I found on the surface ten of my universe's mightiest races, races who went extinct after entrapping here."
"You…"
"They suffered from another fate, they had to see many of their people die and turn into souls. It's not as brutal as you experienced, but it wasn't nice as well."
"Stop lying! Stop spouting nonsense!!!"
This time, most of them screamed in such a way, while their eyes told me how immensely deep such hatred was.
"Fine, do you know why I came down here?"
"To kill us, for sure."
"I came here to find a weapon, the main thing this entire hellish prison was built upon and for. Do you think your people were sacrificed for nothing? My people were killed for just fun? Our people were killed for years to fuel a deadly weapon lying underneath this damn place. I'm going to find it, and I'll show you everything to make you believe me."
I didn't wait for their responses, turned around and closed all the portals I opened before. Not a single one passed through them yet. "Change of plans… I will take you all with me to see the ugly truth of this world. Let me show you how dirty the scheme you fell to is. Just stick around and follow my chariot."
I held my horn as I spoke to everyone. The next moment, Lucias flashed and appeared next to me, giving everyone here a scare.
He looked scary, and he did great in this war with his soulers. So the leaders here mistook his actions as a sign for me deciding to kill all of them.
"Tell me, is there a hidden place underneath here? A place where we can go but blocked by anything?"
"This…" Oliver looked in such a wary way towards Lucias, making me inwardly sigh.
Chapter 882 Going To The Central Zone
"If you got anyone to worry about, then it should be me not my general here," I couldn't help but add, "I can kill you all with a whim of thought. Don't mistake my generosity and kindness for weakness. I can kill you anytime I want."
My words managed to return their focus again to me. "Tell me now, where is such a world? Where is such a place?"
"Well… If the lord is asking about a scary place where no one of us dared to enter after our ancestors tried, then it's all under the central zone."
Oliver pointed at the direction of my gloriously shining lady of the supreme life shrine.
And his words just matched what I initially heard from the leaders of the twenty zones up there on the surface world from before.
This… Looked quite familiar, weirdly familiar, making me grin evilly.
Would I find more beasts there? More bones and flesh? More precious materials? Damn! This world was filled with misery and fortunes at the same time.
"Where is the way? Show me," I didn't hesitate to ask for directions.
And that seemed to get them all startled and surprised.
"Lord…" Oliver hesitated, looked at the others, "this place… even the strongest of our ancestors fell there, and all they sent was a warning message to never touch that place. It's just like what we got about the path leading towards the upper world you are speaking about."
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"Dude, just let me see it… I killed tons of beasts already, and it's not an issue to kill more."
"Beasts?" they muttered in shock, but I knew it was hard for them to understand this.
"Just show me the way," I didn't give them any option to argue, as I led my chariot towards the central zone.
The beasts on the surface all had the ability to negate the time and space abilities of my universe's supreme races. They also got the power to seal my system and anything related to it.
Would these beasts be the same? I didn't believe that. The only possibility was for the beasts to have the ability to devour and negate these races' abilities.
As my chariot moved fast, I gave the order for the other races at the ground to follow me. I had to do it in front of all of them, so such deep hatred would be cured.
Of course I didn't aim to clear it all, I aimed to redirect it towards the right enemies, those motherf*ckers who did all this to all of us and remained in the shadows, hiding themselves from everyone's eyes.
During the journey back to the central zone, I started to ask many questions and get lots of mysteries resolved.
They came here the same way my universe races at the surface world did. They lived here, under the fear of going out through the path leading to the surface world, or trying to venture deeper into the central zone.
They lived under the curse of getting many of their people abducted, tortured in front of their eyes while watching in helplessness their flesh and bones got separated in brutal way before dying.
Their bodies vanished alongside everything else, and they didn't get any explanation about where they went.
But I did know.
I told them what was missing from their side of the story. I spoke about the mysterious enemies who kept all of them trapped here. The surface world had the curse of turning their people into souls to fuel the weapon, while their people's bodies acted as the back structure of this world and weapon.
My people were oil, and their people were the materials that made the engine. It was such a genius plan, a hideous one that was devised by such twisted dirty souls.
What were they? Demons? Or devils? Or what?
Of course I knew whatever I said wasn't accepted or believed by them. They got all the right to feel so. After all, they lived on stories telling them we were the ones behind all this.
How could they possibly believe me like this?
It took roughly five days to cross the distance that took almost a month before. Once I arrived at the central zone, I started to follow the instructions and lead of Oliver.
He led me towards the direction of the opening I came from. "Lord, the opening lies down there," he pointed and I managed to see a great amount of rocks gathered here.
If not for him pointing it out towards it, I wouldn't take note of this.
"Why all these rocks?" I felt puzzled. The gates at the surface world weren't closed by anything. And yet, I could see rocks only here, gathered up to cover a huge circle on the ground.
"We… Had to close it up so no one would be lured inside," Oliver seemed to be their official speaker with me.
"You did this?" I pointed at the rocks and couldn't help but sigh when he nodded.
Fear… Would cause even the mightiest people to do such a pathetic move.
"Fine… You blocked it, and you will clear it," I shrugged. If they did this, then they should be the ones to clear it.
"But… Lord…" Oliver looked at others in fear and doubt, "once we cleared it, a pillar will appear, connecting the two openings together. And… Our ancestors said…"
"I don't care," I stopped him before repeating his useless warning, "just open the damn thing and leave everything else for me to solve."
I got a glimpse about what was waiting for me down there. Why were they seeing us as the main enemy here? The bad guys?
It was simple. Whoever went into the underground level through this opening was met with a scary beast, or more. And all of them had the power of a system backing them up.
Unbelievable, right? The system who was on my side and my universe's people's side was on the side of such monsters. It was unexpected, but it was the only thing that explained all this.
Chapter 883 Clearing Rocks
Or else how come they weren't able to break through these beasts or whatever lied down there? They must have faced some sort of sealing power, one that I wasn't aware of yet but was supported by the system.
The system could affect them. I experienced this through the contracts I enforced upon them. For a reason I didn't know, we could use their cultivation powers, and our system could also affect them.
If so… Then could they possibly use the system as well?
I didn't know the answer for that until trying.
"Start working," I rolled my eyes, "don't waste my time. Clearing that path will take days and even more."
A single beast took up to five days each time I killed one. What if there were more than one beast down below?
This was just a single path, but it might be filled with beasts underground. I got bored staying all this time in this world. I wanted to go back and check over things on my second Earth world.
Besides… I came here looking for Angelica and Lily, yet to find a single trace of them.
I had to scan two vast worlds and turn them upside down until I'd found these two. I knew they were alive thanks to the contracts binding me with them.
Or else I'd lost hope about finding them alive, or even their corpses.
As they had no other choice, they went down below and started a long session of discussion with their people, one that I ended after one hour with a direct order using my horn.
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"Start working! Stop wasting my damn time!" I got irritated by their actions. Who said they were going to suffer from this? I was the one going inside that path and faced those beasts.
As they got the order, they started to finally work. It took around three days to clear this path off rocks.
And as part of it got cleared, I was shocked to see it wasn't an opening, but some sort of a magic circle.
"What the heck is that?" as the rocks were all cleared, I got to see a very sophisticated diagram on the ground.
It covered up a circle, spanning for almost ten miles in radius. It was made out of pure white special type of ore, giving me the impression I was looking at a piece of ground covered in ice.
The lines, the drawings, the letters… All were made by deep carving in such white material and using different colours of ores.
Red, orange, purple, blue, green, silver, and golden… All of these were colours appearing at the white ground of this circle.
I got the feeling of how strong it was, how deadly it was. "Are you sure this is the path?" I asked, and just before I'd get the answer from the leaders standing behind me, A fierce rumble came.
"It's happening!"
"Take cover!"
"Run for your lives!"
As this rumbling happened, many shouts erupted from down below, startling me.
I turned and all I looked were the pale faces of those standing behind.
"What's wrong?" I couldn't help but ask. It seemed they missed a tiny detail in their long story, a very crucial one.
"Lord… This… The pillar once appearing will grab anyone close to it and force it inside," Oliver said in such a shaky tone, "lord… Please… Let's retreat…"
"No way," I firmly said, "if you want, you can all go back and leave this chariot. But if you did, don't ever question anything I say."
My words fell and they got what I meant. I was going to fight the beasts down below, and I needed witnesses on that.
I wanted them to spread the news, tell stories about what they saw. This way, they were going to clear all the doubts and help me relieve such hatred targeting me and my universe.
But if they decided to retreat, then they shouldn't question me ever again. I'd lose my chance to clear all the doubts once and for all. And so if they decided to leave, they had to drop all these doubts for good.
"Fine! I'll stay," the one who had the same power as mine said in such a firm tone, "you all return back. I'll stay behind and see what this liar is going to do."
"I'll also stay," and just as one spoke, many started to join. It seemed that the universe also had some sort of a comradeship between them.
"Ok," as they all voiced their opinions, I had to cut it short so they wouldn't start acting like kids, trying to convince each other to leave, "let's go then."
Without giving them any moment to think or react, I moved my chariot and headed directly towards the pillar of light that just got formed while they were speaking.
It was a grand white pillar that took the entire surface of the ground circle, heading towards the opening high above, getting thinner and brighter the higher it went, until it got connected with the opening high in the ceiling above.
As they said, this pillar connected the two openings together. What was that pillar used for? I had an inkling that it was something related to that weapon, and not just for show.
The moment I got into that pillar, I felt something weird.
It was like my class sacrifice! The same feeling of energy gushing inside my body, and the same refreshment I got from it.
But when I turned, I saw the ashen white faces of those leaders of the ten races.
Well… So this pillar was using my universe pure form of energy to infect their bodies and weaken them? Could my universe's pure energy be used to cause the same effect just like this alien universe's energy did to our people?
Then it hit me! This pillar was really part of this weapon. It was condensing the purest form of energy from my universe, condensing it to form such a mighty and scary pillar.
Chapter 884 Finding The Weapon
What made the two universes different? The alien universe has a higher concentration of energy. That made our people suffer when going there, but not the other way around.
So this pillar was doing what my universe lacked, condensing the energy into such deadly concentration, enough to affect and weaken them while giving me a boost.
But seeing them getting this weakened made me think about a way to help them.
"Thundering Might!"
I used my pillar again, and this time the effect was weirdly different.
The pillar of light that enveloped my chariot seemed to be aggressive against any other form of energy, as if it took it as a challenge to its authority or something.
So in front of my eyes, the two forces kept fighting back and forth, until my pillar formed a small world for the first time ever.
It was a bubble of almost half a mile radius with my chariot in the centre. But when it appeared, all the negative effects coming from this pillar vanished.
I watched my leaders get on their feet, while the look over their faces got a lot better.
"This is the most I can do for now," I said while looking around. The bubble size was something that annoyed me.
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Since when will my pillar act in such a weak way? This… This wasn't the energy of my universe, couldn't be. It was something that belonged to another universe, similar to ours, but different in essence.
Or else why would it antagonise my pillar's energy in such a way? I looked around, with more vigilance while raising my guard up.
"Thanks lord, it's ok," Oliver said in a faint tone of gratitude, making me realise I was so close to breaking the ice between the two of us.
"Do you know where we should go?" even if I got this bubble, I still stood in the middle of this pillar of energy.
I didn't know where to go. The world around us was all white.
"Down," Oliver said in such decisiveness, "we should go down where that underground tunnel is."
Well… At least there was a tunnel. I listened to his advice and started moving my chariot down.
The moment I did, I felt that the speed of my chariot decreased greatly, resisted by some mighty force, taking away most of its former speed.
This energy… It couldn't belong to my universe, never!
Was there another universe running over the same system like mine? Using a similar form of energy?
I knew this energy came from my people, the ones who got into souls and lived a fake life up there. They were the fuel needed to form such a pillar. And that made me sure the essence of this place, the core of this energy, was something totally different from my universe.
I kept pushing my chariot against the energy pillar, going through the circle of magic at last after a few hours of struggle.
According to Oliver and others who were shocked when seeing this, this pillar should be pulling, not rejecting anyone trying to get through it.
They didn't get it. Whatever lied deep under this circle was rejecting my coming. It felt my power and knew I was dangerous to it.
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The magic circle looked as if it was made out of thin air. My chariot passed simply through it and started a long and tedious journey through the underground tunnel.
The tunnel was expanding the further we went down below. And the intensity of that white energy kept getting fiercer the more we delved deeper.
My chariot would hit the sides of this tunnel from time to time. I didn't know how long this tunnel extended for, but it took us more than one day to get to the bottom.
And it consumed almost one fifth of my stored energy inside the chariot! Crazy, right? Even with the bubble, the hostile energy managed to enter inside, clashing against the shield of my chariot.
When I got to the bottom, it felt like I penetrated through a thick membrane before getting freed. The last stretch was really very hard, took alone five hours of continuous attempts with many failures.
"What is this place?" and just as the chariot passed through that pillar and got freed, I found a very vast place here. It was so huge, so damn huge to be called another world on its own.
But at least I could spot the edges of this world. It looked like it was on the size of the central zone, making me realise this pocket world was built on levels where each lower one would be in the size of the central zone of the above.
However… That wasn't the main issue, that thing lying at the bottom in the centre of this place was.
"Is it… A giant with one eye?" Oliver narrowed his eyes as he pointed in the direction of that giant, looking like a small version of the pillar of light coming from a weird looking ball of light.
"What about the army down there? They look like a smaller version of that giant!"
Oliver got to notice that giant, and Lucias noticed the army. But none of them noticed the weird thing that lay just underneath the pillar of light.
It was a ball of light, looking like a big ball of white glass. But that wasn't the issue. It lay just on top of a floating nest, made entirely out of weird looking bones.
Seeing these bones made me eager to go there and get them. Each single one looked special, and there were tons of them.
The next expanded over the ground for tens of metres before it vanished into the ground. Don't tell me… This entire ground, this entire place, this entire vast world was made entirely from these bones.
Damn! Were these the bones of the ancestors of those other universe elite races? The ones who were fighting against my universe ten races back then?
Were all the sacrifices done so far gathered here? Was this… The weapon? I looked up at the pillar, and an idea flashed in my mind.