Chapter 1004 We Got A Problem!
I found pale gold gems, not that many actually. I got around one hundred of them.
As for other gems, I got almost twenty thousand of them at the end of my search.
[What's up?] As I finished, I sent this message over with a big grin of satisfaction on my face.
I got twenty thousand gems. And if each gem was exchanged with ten thousand elite soldiers from the other universe folks, then this would end up giving me almost two hundred million in one go.
And that was aside from the loot that got from many more dead bodies than this number.
It was just a regret that I couldn't gain any bones from these. I had to kill the ones I'd get bones from, or get them killed by my forces.
[There is a problem… Can lord come for a second?]
A problem? What kind of problem? Damn! Don't tell me they were responding!
I suddenly felt like falling from the top of a mountain to the deepest abyss. It didn't feel nice to not get anything after this work, after all these dreams.
These were at least two hundred million of elite and very strong forces. Having them was simply enough to invade four up to five worlds without fearing facing Hescos directly.
I planned to divide them into great legions, each would have around forty million. I'd add more armies of mine to them and send them over to five worlds with Hescos.
Like this I'd save my forces a big deal of trouble. And that was just my gain from collecting gems.
I didn't collect any leaves, flowers, fruits, seeds, or even water and grass. If I managed to collect all these, I'd have enough armies to invade at least ten worlds without any worry.
But all this collapsed the moment he sent me this message. Damn! What bad luck this was!
[I'm coming over!] I was at the end of my world right now, watching a big dome of fog that marked the end of my world.
I didn't delay and called back all my warriors, then led my chariot to fly at its highest speed. Crossing this distance of a few hundred miles took a couple of hours until I finally saw Oglak.
He was still flying midair, seemingly not moving a finger since the last time I saw him.
"What went wrong?" and even before reaching up to him, I shouted in an anxious tone, "couldn't you reach them?"
"I did, but that's not the issue… They asked for something else… Something… Weird!"
"Weird?" I paused, "didn't you say they need these things from worlds like mine? What's wrong then? What changed?"
"I… Frankly don't know, and honestly I didn't get what they asked for. But the one who spoke to me said that my lord will understand when I tell him their terms."
"Then say," I watched him land on my chariot. And I was sure if I could see his face right now, he'd show a disturbed look on it.
"They asked for something weird called… Bones! Does lord know what these imply for? I frankly never heard of any bones to be used as a currency before!"
Bones? Damn! Don't tell me they wanted my bones!!!
"Lord… Do you know what it means?!" and when I went into such silence, getting shocked from their weird request, Oglak seemed to get a clue from the look on my face.
"Sigh! How come they knew about my bones?" I sighed, "did they ask specifically for my bones?"
"Your… Your bones? Damn lord! Do you sell your bones or what? How come…"
"Oh, don't get me wrong," I couldn't help but bitterly chuckle when he said these words. At other times, I'd laugh instead. "These are things I could only provide in the entire universe."
"This…"
"Tell me first everything that happened between you and that impact's dude."
"Well… I first sent him a message and he responded. I asked for a trade like we agreed on, sent him samples when he asked. He dealt with my oldest lord before, and so he asked me how come these goods were different and lower in quality than the ones we used to trade with."
"And?" So far things were going as expected.
"Then I told him about you, telling him that I got a new lord. So he asked about your name and race, and I told him. Then… He suddenly asked for a few hours to think about this before he sent me this weird demand."
"So… He wants my bones… Interesting…"
"It's weird… He isn't someone weak or unknown in the entire universe. But he cares mostly about the news and things related to the other universe. Lord… Do you get such fame here and there or what?"
"Sigh," I heard it once from that crazy sovereign of the Toranks race. He said that I got fame for my bones. But I never expected such fame to reach those related with the other universe.
What? Don't tell me my bones were useful for these people!
"So he asked specifically for my bones? Does he know we are asking for a trade with the other universe folks?"
"He said that this was a direct request from them," Oglak added in such an interesting piece of news, "he said they wanted to do this trade with your bones. And for the price list, they provided it already."
"Oh, interesting," I paused, "send it over to me in a message. Let me see what they are looking for."
It was such a twist in events. I thought about the gems I worked for hours to collect and couldn't help but inwardly sigh.
They were now useless for me. And I couldn't just return them back to this world. They were like a product from the world here, and there was no way to return them back.
I'd leave them inside my inventory for now then.
Chapter 1005 [Bonus chapter] I Know The Use Of Your Bones
"I sent it over," from the side, Oglak forwarded the message. And when I saw the list, I couldn't help but suck in the cold air of breath.
The list started with my white grade bones, all the way up to my diamond grade! That meant they were following my bone news, and even got the latest and unique ones I gave to the Toranks sovereigns.
Who leaked such news then? Sovereigns? Or that idiot, Silverlining?
My guess? It came from Silverlining. He was idiotic enough to do it.
But that wasn't what made me shocked, but the number of forces and items stated next to each grade of my bones.
Starting down from the white grade bones, the ones I didn't have any for now, a single bone was exchanged for ten hostages or one hundred loot gained from the killed races of my universe.
That wasn't much, but the higher the bone grade became, the higher this exchange turned out to be.
The green bones would give me each one hundred forces or one thousand loot. The blue ones would give me five hundred forces, or five thousand loot.
The silver ones would give me five thousands, or the loot from twenty thousands. And when the bones reached gold grade and beyond, these exchange rates skyrocketed.
The pale gold ones would give me twenty thousand forces or loot from one hundred thousands. The dark gold would give me one hundred thousand, or five hundred thousand loot.
The black bones would give me one million forces, or the loot of ten million. The red bones would give me twenty million forces or the loot of fifty million. And the diamond bones would give me one hundred million forces, or the loot of one billion!
Damn! Just from the look of it, they were tempting me to exchange the higher grade bones. And it seemed they craved my diamond ones.
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I got many of these, enough to get me armies of billions of force, not to mention the loot I'd get as well.
But there was one thing that looked fishy here.
I got that my bones had great value for my universe. They lacked any clear energy like the ones stored in my bones. And there must be other usages that I was unaware of.
That made quite sense for my universe folks, but what about the other universe then?
These bones shouldn't be that useful to them. They had high concentration of energy indeed, but was it that much better than the magical artefact's products I sent to them?
Something was fishy here. If I wasn't trusting Oglak's words and the system guarding the contracts I signed with these people, I'd suspect that this was a grand scheme and a trap.
"Ask him first…" After thinking and pondering over this matter for almost an hour, I raised my head and said to Oglak, "what are the benefits of my bones to the other universe people?"
"Does lord suspect something?" Oglak was smart enough to guess, "can I see one of my lord's famous bones?"
"Sure, here is a black grade one," I took something that was high in grade and threw it over to him. It was a humerus bone, one that came from a dead Hector paragon.
"This…" and the moment Oglak received my bone, his face suddenly changed. "Lord… We don't need to ask anyone about the usages and benefits of such bones… This… This is really remarkable!"
"Remarkable? Do you recognise any usages of my bones?!!!" He kept silent for almost half an hour before suddenly saying these words.
And it was shocking!
I asked, trying to know what my bones were used for. And yet I didn't even get a single clue. And here he was, just from inspecting my bones he seemed to get what they were used for.
"Lord… Don't tell me… You don't know how valuable and extremely precious these bones are?!!"
"Sigh! I just got the way to get them, but didn't get anything else," I bitterly admitted, "and all the people I dealt with using my bones never explained anything to me."
"This… Lord… These bones… Damn! Lord didn't go yet to the outer battlefield, right?"
"That's a given, I came from the human race, and my apocalypse is still fresh," I bitterly sighed, admitting this clear fact. Yet it felt really sour to admit such a thing.
I had such great treasure, but didn't know what it was used for. It was just like not having it at all! That was the true might of knowledge and experience.
Lacking such simple information about how to use my bones turned such precious ones as he described into useless pieces of bones in my eyes.
"Tell… Don't stand idle and shocked and explain to me what these bones are used for!" I was damn eager at this moment, and I didn't want to listen to his shocking words or even wait for him to collect himself better.
I wanted to know, desperately wanted to know.
"Lord… Didn't you even try it before?"
"Try what exactly?"
"Do this…"
As he said it, he extended his arm over the bone and the next moment a drop of his blood appeared and fell over the bone.
The moment it got in touch with the bone, it vanished.
"Lord… Your bones don't only hold a great amount of energy, it can also get linked with you by blood."
"And? Don't tell me I'd end up absorbing the energy inside because that's something I already was able to do."
"No… It's not that shallow! Look, I'll show lord how to do it properly…"
The next moment, a gush of a large amount of his yellow blood fell over my bone. Each single drop got absorbed fast and vanished inside the bone. And with more blood falling, the bone started to shine brighter.
Then like it was covered in dirt, fine particles like dust started to get shed off it until it got smaller, and much brighter.
It was a pitch black piece of bone, yet at this moment it looked flashing and flaring up with lustre that gave me a dangerous feeling.
Chapter 1006 The Remarkable Use Of My Bones
"This…" I moved my eyes in between this bone that never looked anything like the ones I had in my inventory for such a long time and Oglak.
"Lord… The magic show is just about to start now," and as he said it, he raised his arm high in the air, letting his blood gush out like a fountain and cover up his fist.
Then as if he was punching it, he closed his fist and landed a strong hit over the bone.
"No one knows who gave such a technique to the entire cosmos, or invented it. But this technique is widely known as the magical binding technique."
And as he said these words, he started to jump around the bone, punching it with his blooded fish, causing a silent clash that released tons of energy from the bone, tempering it further and getting it to shrink even more.
I looked in daze and amazement, wondering how come I'd know about all this. He said it was a universe wide known information, but I never heard about it before.
It must be only known in a limited circle, a circle of elite people with extraordinary status and power.
I watched and engraved the movements he was doing to the mind. He wasn't just randomly jumping around, but he was doing this over twelve points in the air, all surrounding the bone from all directions, forming a twelve headed huge star with my bone at its centre.
And he kept punching, faster and faster, until he finally completed twelve rounds, each composed of twelve punches.
"It's ready," once he did that, he stopped, sucked in a deep breath before he finally hit his chest with his blooded fist, forcing himself to cough fresh blood over the bone.
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"This…"
"The last touch must come by blood carrying part of your soul and power," he said, and he seemed a little weak in my eyes, "but it's worth it! Now this bone is ready, and is considered a priceless treasure."
"Treasure?!!" it was indeed looking like one. After that last gush of blood he left over the bone, it started to emit dazzling arcs of energy, that gave me an intimidating feeling.
"Lord… Try holding it out," he threw it once it was done towards me, "leave a single drop of blood over it and you'll get to know its remarkable effects."
"O… Ok…" I held the bone, and this seemingly much smaller one felt very heavy. I didn't delay and left a blood drop over it.
And the moment this happened, my mind started to feel squeezed as if someone was holding it in between its two gigantic and brutal hands.
It went all blank for a few seconds before the world became clearer again.
"What just happened… This… This…" and just before I'd ask him about what this bone did, I saw my body.
It was a gigantic body, not the small human body I used to have. It wasn't only huge, but it also was covered in a red coloured leather like material.
It was… I was… I was just another image, exactly the same as Oglak.
"Lord, your bones coupled with this ancient and mysterious technique can grant anyone the power of the one who tempered it for as long as the energy inside your bone can sustain. As long as the lord is holding the bone close to his body, this effect will last."
"This… Did I also get your power?"
"Power, cultivation base, everything I got you got right now… Imagine having thousands, tens of thousands, or even millions of these bones… Can lord see how fierce and pretty damn important these bones are?"
"This… This is remarkable!" I closed my fists tightly, feeling the gush of super power inside my body. I looked at the direction of the ground, and without hesitation I jumped and fell down and punched it.
*Rumble!*
A deep hole appeared, and the ground all around caved down in such a violent explosive rumbling sound.
And then I looked at the sky and the next thing that happened was for me to fly! I actually flew! Damn! Damn! This…
"Lord… You got my power… You can let anyone grant anyone their powers… These bones… They are really priceless treasures!"
"Damn! And I sold these for such a cheap price? Damn me!" I cursed while feeling more enraged at the moment.
I was feeling like getting tricked or something. I did everything fair with those I dealt with. But in the end, none dared to tell me the real implications of my bones.
And how would they? If I knew, If I got this piece of info from the start, then I would never have thought about selling my bones, not even at such a cheap price.
I got to raise my price! I got to start storing up these bones for my forces!
Just imagine what would be the case if I let all the Hescos I got to grant their powers to all the forces I got? Damn! This… Just imagining this made the blood in my body boil.
I didn't have any doubt… These bones of mine were really something outside of the reach of my universe, and perhaps all the other universes in this cosmos!
"You said that these bones can grant anyone the power of the user… I got its value for us, but for the other universe…"
"Lord… The basic technique used to activate the bones is one that none knew its source. It is widely spread across all universes, and can be used over such precious and rarely found treasures in any universe. It can be used by any race, no matter its origin… And so…"
"They want my bones to grant more power to their forces… This…"
"I know… It'll bring much trouble to our people. But, on another side, these bones are all consumables. And besides… The Lord can negotiate and raise the price, making sure the other side wouldn't get such bones in large amounts."
"You got a point," that was given, "but for me it's better to limit the trade than using the high grade ones with these folks."
Chapter 1007 A Problem And A Solution
It wasn't just the matter of raising the price of my bones, but to limit the number they'd get from me.
For example, a single diamond grade bone would give me what tens of thousands of blue grade or green grade bones would.
The simple logic would drive me to keep the high grade ones to myself and exchange the low grade bones with others. But when I thought about the grander picture, this wasn't a great thing, not good.
Giving one high grade bone out in return for saving tens of thousands or even more of the lower grade ones would be better.
Like this the enemy would only get one bone to grant power to others, affecting only a small and limited number of their forces. Yes these few would gain scary power, and for a much longer time, but their extremely low number could be matched by my universe's elites and strong powers.
It would be a totally different story if I let them get their hands over a large number of bones. This would be a game changer, and would bring serious damage on all battlefields.
"Lord is wise and right indeed," Oglak nodded, "let me negotiate and raise the price. How much increase does lord have in mind?"
"Ten folds," I said without hesitation, "at least we will raise the price of exchange ten times."
"This…"
"We can settle on five times at the end, but it will be better if we raise it even more."
"I got it, lord," he bowed his head and I left him to contact the people on the other side while I kept watching myself.
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Damn! Just thinking of granting the power of Hescos to all my forces, using these bones at the critical moments… This was enough to decide the fate of all the fights in a few hours.
Not a single world could stand against me from now on! My bones… I hurriedly checked my inventory to see how much I had from them.
I thought before that I got a huge amount, enough to sustain my needs for months. But now… I doubted this amount was enough!
The most I got were those low grade bones. This wouldn't do. I needed more, I needed more of those higher grade bones.
And then my eyes fell over another type of bones, the one that I always kept for myself. These were the dark realm monster bones. They were just few in number, yet they all got such higher density of energy compared to their similar grade ones of normal bones.
Would using these differ? I had to test and see first. And then an old idea flashed again in front of my eyes.
When I got little Qi, we spoke about how to evolve the monsters. I got an idea about how to take monsters to my shadow world, let them get baptised by my endless and brutal dark energy.
But there were many problems there. I got to first solve the problem of my shadow world devouring anything I'd throw inside.
Then I'd love the way of calling them back here.
It was a big mess and a hard problem that forced me to drop it. Yet after getting to know such secrets, I got this idea coming up again in my mind.
And the more I thought about it, the more tempted and eager I became.
I could get tons of bones, high calibre and much powerful bones. And they'd come from monsters, those beings who held no real value for me.
They could reproduce fast, and their numbers were growing on such a scary scale. If I managed to solve this problem, then I'd be able to secure myself and my forces a stable source of bones.
By then I'd turn all my forces into a similar and terrifying image of Hescos. Even Hescos wouldn't dare to stand against me. I got the advantage of numbers, the advantage of many treasures and weapons, and now I got the power of these strong dudes from their race.
The ones I got were all strong, very strong. I knew that. And using their power and granting it to my forces would turn my armies into such terrifying beasts.
"Cough! Cough!"
Yet just as I was lost in my thoughts, I got to see the first drawback of using this technique. Oglak kept coughing up blood, looking much weaker than ever.
"Are you alright?" I hurriedly asked, and he sighed while taking deep successive breaths, telling me he was too weak to even stay awake, not to mention speak.
"Lord… This technique is overbearing the stronger the one using it is. I need rest, at least sleep for a few days to regain my lost strength."
"Oh… So it doesn't come without a price…" I watched him fall over my chariot again while leaning this time over the rail.
"Lord, nothing in this world comes without a price. Power doesn't just fall from the sky like rain without thunder, right?"
"I got it…" I had to admit, seeing him in such a weakened state made me disappointed. I thought I could widely use this method to strengthen my forces.
But it had such limitations, one that I had no way to deal with for now.
"Can potions work?"
"I lost the essence of my life… I need stronger treasures to help heal me fast, cough, cough!"
"Oh… How about these then?" I took out one of the gems I collected before, "can they help?"
"These… Are too precious to waste on healing someone like me."
"Just take it and see the results first before complaining," I tossed it towards him while rolling my eyes.
This dude was so calculative and conservative. Saying these gems were a treasure wasn't an overstatement.
But if they were able to restore his energy fast, then it was worth using these. After all, I got no other real uses for these for now.
I watched him consume the gem like he was eating a bar of chocolate. The more he bit, the better he looked. And halfway through it, he was able to stand on his own, looking healthier and in better shape than before.
Chapter 1008 Dark Realm Monster Bone
"It works!" I said, before suddenly breaking out in laughter, "it works! Hahahaha! That's great, hahahaha!"
"Lord… These… Sigh! Lord can't simply think of wasting such valuable treasure this way," he got what I planned to do, and tried to dissuade me from doing it.
"Shut up, shall you? I'm having a great moment right now, hahahaha! Let me enjoy it and don't ruin the mood."
I kept laughing and smiling for almost an hour. Thinking about these gems and their magical effect that countered the side effects of that technique was really exciting for me.
Like this… I got a complete echo system. I could let my Hescos use the technique and then heal them using my gems. It was just perfect!
I liked such an arrangement very much.
"Lord… These products take a long time to get produced…"
I waved my hand to silence that dude from saying anymore. It didn't take that much for me.
I knew if not for the many treasures I used to nourish this place, this world wasn't going to get such expansion and development. But who said these treasures were one time offer only?
"I can get these treasures whenever I want, just don't spoil the moment for me, ok?" I looked at him in warning. I got fed up with him to be honest.
"Ok lord… So… Are we…"
"Hell yes we'll do it!" I knew what he was going to ask, "we can't let such an opportunity slip by. However… I want you to test something first…"
I took a dark monster bone of dark gold grade and gave it to him.
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"This… Is it a grade lower than the one lord gave to me before?" Oglak seemed to not appreciate the bone I got out, judging it just by colour.
"Just take it," I said, and he took it and went into silence for a long minute.
"Lord… What exactly is this bone?"
It was a weird bone actually, one that might be a phalanx bone of one of the dark monsters I killed before. I didn't know what part it belonged to, however I knew it was much better than the black bone I showed him before.
"Tell me, do you think this bone can get different results?"
"Well… Can't tell without trying. However, something is stirring up my troubled sense inside me… How did lord get it?"
"Don't worry, it's just something special I got," I laughed, "try it and let's see."
"Ok…"
Despite being hesitant, he started to do the same thing again. I wanted to see if my dark bones were different from the normal bones. After all, they were filled with violent dark energy coming from the other universe.
Just as he gushed out his blood, the bone started to dazzle like the previous one. Yet instead of shrinking in size, it expanded, as if his blood released some sort of a seal inside, making it bloat out by immense energy.
"Not good… This is going to explode… Lord…"
"Give it to me!" Once he finished doing that technique, and just as he got weakened, the bone started to massively expand and shine, emitting rumbling noises that looked quite scary.
He didn't guess it wrong! It was going to explode! Dammit!
"Come here!" As he was too weak to do anything, I hurriedly jumped, hit this bone using my glaive and threw it at the door behind me.
Since coming into this world, a door would stick to my side no matter where I went.
And just as I hit it, the bone flew and vanished through the door, and all the troublesome energy it brought vanished.
"Lord… This… What the heck is this thing?!!" and with rushing breaths, Oglak couldn't prevent himself from asking.
"Take this first," I threw him one of my gems. And as he started eating it, his weakness began to fade away, "this bone is filled with a dense amount of energy. Aside from me, you are the first to see these bones ever."
"Dense amount of energy? Does it come in a special way or what?"
"Not in a special way, but from a special monster… It came from monsters who are known as dark realm monsters."
"This… No way! Lord! Did you face one of these? It's a blessing that the lord is still alive after facing and running away from these…"
"One? Hahaha! Oglak, oh my Oglak, you are underestimating your lord too much!" Before he'd continue his wrong words, I interrupted him with my words and laughed.
"I didn't run, I never ran from any enemy. I always run towards them, not away to safety. And these monsters… I killed them all."
"Lord…"
"Anyway, it seems these bones have a berserk amount of energy that can't be tamed by this technique… Sigh! What a regret…"
"Lord… It might be invaluable for us, or too much for us to handle. But if it came from a dark realm monster, then the best ones to deal with it will be those from the other universe, right?"
"Your meaning is…"
"We can give them a single bone of these, and it will be enough to secure us lots of benefits for sure."
"No!" without getting to hear more or even think about what he said, I instantly and decisively refused, "I won't give my enemies a weapon, such a fierce weapon, without knowing its uses."
"This…"
"I made a mistake before, using my bones in trade without getting to know their real power. And now I deeply regret it. However I'm the only one suffering from such loss. If I gave my enemies such bones and they turned out to be something insanely strong, then many will suffer. No, I can't risk doing it!"
"Then lord…"
"Did you forget? I already got people from that universe under my control."
"Lord's meaning is…"
"As you use this technique and way, I can let them use it. You said it yourself, this bone is filled with dark energy, one that came from the other universe. And the best thing is… I got many with just the perfect kind of energy out there."
Chapter 1009 A Scary Ocean Of Fire
I was of course referring to the dark shadow clan folks who were using the same kind of energy as myself.
I planned to go and train with them before, to get inspiration and learn. However I didn't get the time to do it. And I planned to go and train inside my pocket world.
Of course I could bring them inside with me, despite the fact that they might feel unpleasant thanks to all the deep and bitter memories they held for that cursed place.
But at least I could convince those higher ups or even order them. And now I had another use for them.
I'd give them these bones and test them. If they ended up exploding, it would mean I got deadly grenades under my control.
If they turned out to be something special, like storing the energy from these people for a longer time or doing something else, then it would be better.
Either way, I got to go back and test these bones over them.
"Our visit here is over," I looked around at this world. I knew there were too many things I could salvage from here, but I didn't need any for now.
Once we got outside, a terrifying scene appeared in front of my eyes.
"Dammit! Don't tell me it's caused by my bone!" Just as my chariot came outside, an ocean of running wild fire engulfed us.
My chariot's shield kicked in, protecting me from anything. I looked around, and all I could see was fire everywhere, fire coming and going like they were enraged water.
"Lord… Look there… It's the bone!" and as I tried to move away, I got to face the fierce retaliation of this fire.
It seemed like the fire had a will and might of its own. It was the first time for me to experience such a thing.
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How long has it passed since I threw it outside? Almost half an hour or something? And that was by the time of the necromancer's world.
It must have been just ten minutes or so in the Earth's time. And yet that didn't make any sense. How come fire kept wreaking havoc in such a way, and in such terrifying might, for all this time?
And when Oglak shouted and pointed towards a direction, I got to see the source of all this.
It was indeed my bone. It was standing midair, raised from the ground by hundreds of metres, shining all bright and releasing thick tongues of fire.
It gave me the same vibe as a terrifying star surface or something. "I can't get near it," I tried, aiming to suck it inside my shadow world using my second or merged techniques.
But how could I do it if the chariot of mine was flying at such snail speed? It felt like I was swimming against a mighty current in the middle of a fast running river!
"Let's go," I finally dropped the idea of going to take this bone away and started to go to the opposite side.
It was much easier, yet it took me roughly an entire hour to get away.
"Damn! How come this bone turned into such fierce bomb?!!!" When I finally broke free, I managed to see the entire scale of this thing.
The fire was forming a gigantic fireball, expanding for tens of miles in radius, killing and scorching anything alive within. Luckily there was nothing close to it.
The closest thing was that shore and ocean, and more tens of miles separating it from my capital.
Luckily this didn't happen near any inhabited cities or towns, or near any big army of mine.
"Lord… Will we stand here and watch?" from the side, and after waiting here motionless watching all this mess for three hours, Oglak couldn't prevent himself from asking.
"I need to know how fierce this bone of mine is," at first I was anxious about this bone and the explosion to kill anyone passing by.
But gradually I started to see the real use of this. I could use this kind of bone as a mighty grenade.
Damn! Just imagining throwing these bones in the middle of a massive army fighting mine was enough to make me drool at using these in real wars.
"Lord… Are you possibly considering using these in wars?!!"
"What? Isn't this beautiful? Come on, I can't be the only one seeing its beauty."
"But… This… It's uncontrolled!"
"Don't get panicked, we can time its use with my help."
"Your help?" he looked at me in doubt, and I nodded while pointing towards my chariot and explained:
"With the help of my chariot and my portals, we can just jump over any army, appear in the middle of it, use these bones, then jump away towards safety."
"Yet…"
"It's a great strategy, a marvellous tool to incinerate all of my enemies and cause enough havoc in the middle of their ranks. Come on! The use of this little baby of mine is just boundless!"
"I know… But…"
"Don't worry, I'll even consider using it myself if you are afraid to be there."
"I'm not!"
"Then stop speaking in such fear, shall you?" I rolled my eyes, "your lord is mighty, but I'm a human. How can you let a human be more courageous than you, a mighty Hescos?"
"…"
My words went deep down his soul and the insult I just underhandedly delivered left him speechless for hours. I cancelled the transformation that I gained as I stored the bone inside my inventory.
I tested its effects, and now I had to test out how long it would sustain its marvellous effects when not used. If it could be stored inside inventory for a long time, then it would be really practical to mass produce them before any fight.
Yet if it would expire soon, then I'd have to do it just in the middle of battles.
I kept watching my gigantic ball of fire for hours until almost half a day passed. Then gradually the fire started to shrink, until it vanished.
"Damn! The bone is still there!" And when the fire vanished, I went towards the location where everything started, my necromancer's world.
Chapter 1010 The Magical Transformation Of The Training Ground
And there I found the bone that caused all this lying down on the ground. It returned to its normal shape and size, looking as docile and innocent as any cute baby.
"This…" Oglak went ahead to grab it, in a sign that announced he wasn't fearing this bone or fire. Yet when he returned to me, he said, "there was not a single speck of energy inside."
"It got depleted… But why is the bone itself still here?" I looked in puzzlement towards this phalanx bone, feeling more confused the more I thought about it.
"It may be a special kind of bone, lord. Its shell must be extremely durable, able to sustain itself after consuming its energy."
"Well… If so then…" suddenly a thought flashed in my mind, one that I would test later on. "Let's go, we stayed here for a long time already."
I stored the bone away inside my inventory, and then opened a portal pass towards the second Earth world.
I left for over half a day, and that meant lots of time passed inside my second Earth world.
[Where are you?] Before leaving, I left instructions for Lily to lead those talents and start building the third training grounds.
Of course I got a huge boost and wildcard of my bones, but it wasn't enough to depend entirely on them. They could help in times of distress, but I couldn't use them as my main winning card.
My forces had to adapt to fighting against Hescos without the help of my bones. Even if I got a way to handle the side effects of that technique, I could at most arm up tens of thousands of bones.
That wasn't something that could be considered enough, not even close from enough. What could tens of thousands do against armies of tens of millions?
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Not to mention I got lots of worlds and tons of fighting battlefields to cover.
I had to give more time for my necromancer world to grow, and I also wanted to purchase more items to grow it up. And also who said I got only one magical artefact that I could use?
I had twenty six unused magical artefacts, and most of them could be applied in this world of mine.
I regretted using my necromancer world back on Earth. Time there goes like a snail! Instead, using these magical artefacts here was more suitable.
So I planned to go on a spree of establishing these marvellous artefacts before going to train. And before all that, I got to first finish the preparations of the two new training grounds.
[I'm at the new training ground, and it's almost done]
[This fast?!] I was surprised to hear that.
[This fast… What? Did you stay all this time on Earth? Sigh! For us ten days passed, and that's more than enough to get this continent ready for training]
[Cool] I realised my mistake here, [What about the second training ground?]
[Done! And the first is getting enough forces coming from the heaven place you discovered. Also Angelica is doing great in spreading the new culture of getting married in between different races]
[That's great! So many responded and accepted such a new concept?]
[Many? Tons accepted that per the latest reports! According to her, she asked for more people to come and help organising this matter as the scope of people joining in this process is too much]
[More people… For what? They are going to marry, they don't need our help]
[What a dirty mind you got inside your skull! Angelica wants to record those who are going to marry, to keep track of things and get to find any suitable talent early on]
[Oh… I got it] I felt a little embarrassed by my dirty thoughts back then, [Alright, and the races and humans coming here… Are they doing great resting and relaxing?]
[I sent part of them to train at the first training ground, and shifted those elites and old ones to the other two. I also brought over here the strongest soldiers we got. Like this, we can start at any given moment]
[Sure, wait for me to come and hear your thoughts first] I could just jump over and inform little Qi to release his trapped monsters.
But before doing this, I had to first understand how Lily planned the second training grounds.
Where did she want the ground monsters? Aquatic monsters? And which zones would be left for defence, and which would be for offence?
I needed to hear all about her plans and understand them well before going to meet my little Qi.
And after that, I'd entrust things here over to her and head towards my most mysterious place; the shadow world.
I got to explore it this time and reach further beyond its limits. I got to see what lies behind my shadow world, and how to solve the problems I got with it.
It didn't make any sense to just have such an OP world and not be able to get the best use out of it.
However when I jumped over to the third training ground, I was shocked by what I saw.
"Lord… Do you have wizards in your forces or what?!!" Oglak couldn't help but say, expressing the shock we both had.
We left this continent and it looked just like any other place in this world. And yet right in front of my eyes I saw a totally new terrain!
Deep trenches that expanded from tens of miles to the horizon, many cities and towns, forts and castles, and even flying islands appeared in the distance as well.
How… Just how could she manage to do all this in such a short time? Damn! It seemed I underestimated those new talents.
I knew the secret behind all this belonged to the new generations born. It seemed the talents they inherited had improved by much.
And across all this, there were lots of workers and soldiers, working and getting into positions.
Chapter 1011 Ronald, The Genuis Tactician
[I'm at a place filled with trenches and in the far distance I can see a couple of floating islands] I sent Lily when I couldn't spot her anywhere.
[Oh, you are at the central place then. I'm not that far away. Let me come to you]
[Ok] I didn't wait in my place for her. If she said she wasn't that far away, it meant she'd take an hour or two to arrive here.
During this time, I started to roam the world, examining all these preparations. To be honest… I was impressed!
"Nice work!" I said when I saw her chariot drawing near, "you did make a good use of these talents."
"Hahahaha! It's great that you know who the real heroes are behind this… Let me introduce these three to you; this is Lina, Roland, and Karabof… The three are the outstanding talents who made all this possible."
"Oh… These are…" I looked at the three and measured them up. They weren't humans, but came from three different races.
One was a dwarf looking young man, and the other two were giants. The three standing next to each other gave a spectacular image that was a little funny for some reason.
"Lord, I'm honoured to finally meet you," the girl said, "I'm Lina, an expert at designing and drawing blueprints."
"I'm honoured too, lord. I'm Karabof, and my talent is about leading workers and getting the best out of them."
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"And you must be Ronald… What's your speciality?" I looked at the dwarf who just kept looking at me in sparkling eyes without saying anything.
"Lord… It's really you… Damn! I lived my entire life hearing legends about you. You… You are my idol!"
"Come on," I couldn't accept him saying his entire life and all he lived was a year or two, "what can you do?"
"He is a military training genuis," Lily leant over Ronald, patting him on the shoulder while adding with a big smile, "thanks to this dude, we managed to arrange things not only here, but back at the other two training grounds as well."
"Is that true?" My eyes shone with excitement when I heard what she said. And Ronald nodded with slightly red cheeks as if he got embarrassed or something.
"Great! I'll depend on you from now in terms of arranging and planning for military grounds," he just saved us a big deal of headache to be honest, "now, can you explain to me what you'll do here and at the second training ground? I got to go and order these monsters and Hescos here should get into the right line up."
"We already spoke and explained everything over to Hescos," Lily said, stealing a side gaze to Oglak, "but it seemed they were waiting for someone to give the final order for them to follow our arrangements."
"Lord, I'll go and tell them to follow everything down to the letter," Oglak nodded and bowed his head before he left when I waved for him to do that.
"Sigh! They hold that dude in high regard," after he left, Lily couldn't help but sigh.
"Lord… Lord… Is it true that you can order monsters here?" and just like a little kid meeting a true magician, Ronald couldn't prevent himself from jumping around and asking.
"Sure, is it weird?"
"It's amazing!" he shouted in pure excitement, one that made me feel sorry for the future of this little fellow.
I'd use you buddie in hellish work, and you got to endure thanks to that immense admiration you got for me. Don't blame me for using you too much.
"Good," I turned to Lily, "show me your plans for the second training ground then. We need to start these two grounds as soon as possible."
"Great," she turned instead towards Ronald, issuing for him to speak up with a simple nod.
It seemed she held this fellow in high regard already. And I hoped he wouldn't disappoint me.
"Lord, here are the designs of the three continents…" and as she gave him the order, he leant on the floor of my chariot and spread out many sheets of papers.
They all had drawings, densely packed and very complicated looking ones. From first glance, I understood that understanding these arrangements would take a long time without doubt.
And the more he spoke, the more I realised his big value.
This little fellow didn't miss anything, not even a single idea or possibility at war situations. He designed such complicated and hard to grasp drawings and planning based on one simple concept; to mimic war in all its brutality and different foes, terrains, and situations.
He even arranged places where my forces would be pressured by greater numbers than theirs, situations where reinforcements would arrive to relieve the pressure.
According to his words, the former situation had the forces to hold on for the longest period of time. And the latter would train them how they'd react when reinforcements arrive.
He kept explaining for long hours, and I felt time passing like running water. However, I got more interested in hearing everything.
I admired his meticulous mind. He didn't let a single possibility go by without preparing a place for it. And he didn't stop there!
"Lord, according to this schedule, forces from here would train for days before switching with those training here. Then forces here would switch with others here, and…"
He even thought about the time schedule and switch arrangement for all of my forces. That would greatly help. After all, no one could tell what would happen on a real battlefield.
Things were destined to be changing and unpredictable. So to make sure my forces grasped everything, got adapted and well trained at different scenarios, he made such a well detailed time schedule with well thought of switching order.
If my forces followed this… Then in less than six months they'd get to take a double tour at each zone in the three training grounds.
Chapter 1012 Giant Behemoths
Yes, he didn't exclude the third training ground. By his words, he said that the main foe we would all fight would be Hescos. So every single one of my forces should fight against them at least once.
"Great!" After listening to such a detailed explanation for an entire day, I couldn't help but say in praise, "you did a great job. Thanks for being part of my kingdom. Now I can be relieved and sleep well at night knowing that someone like you is watching over my forces."
"Lord… This… This is truly a great honour and the best moment in my life," and unlike what I expected, this little fellow fell on his knees and cried out of immense joy and excitement.
I moved my eyes over to Lily who rolled her eyes and hit the chariot with her foot, giving me a clue about what I should do here.
"Take this, it's yours," I took out one of my chariots, and threw it to fly beside my bigger one, "from now on, you are one of my best generals here."
"T… Thanks lord… I won't forget your kindness and generosity. And hell no I'll disappoint you!"
Well, he said it in such a weird way, making me unable to hide my smile.
"Lord, we also can contribute," from the side, the other two looked at Ronald in envy while Lina hurriedly said, "I can draw any blueprints lord wants, anything starting from civilian residents up to flying islands."
"You are the one behind these flying islands?" indeed that was something I craved for. Hescos were a very versatile race, and facing them without proper flying legions would be a grave mistake.
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Even with everything prepared, my forces would always be on the back foot if they didn't have enough flying islands.
"Yes, this little girl here is crazy about these flying islands," Lily hugged her from the side, feeling more comfortable it seemed to have such a giant girl next to her.
"And I'm also very much interested in these kinds of islands," I nodded, "great. From now on you can focus mainly on this. We don't need to expand any further in either cities and towns, or training grounds. We got enough for now."
"Sure lord, I won't disappoint you," as I didn't bestow any chariot over to her, she hurriedly knelt on the ground, showing a much more respectful and respectful way than Ronald.
And when I looked at Lily, I saw her muttering with her lips in silent words that I should do the same with her. And she also rolled her eyes to the side, not forgetting Karabof.
"Fine, you two are going to join my inner circle of leaders," I took two more chariots and let them appear next to Ronald's, "as for you… You have to keep arranging the builders and workers all over the world here. We got not only cities and towns to build, but also a great mine continent that needs attention."
"Sure lord, I'd do any task you ask of me," and as the other two showed their devotion to me in their own ways, Karabof slammed his fist hard on his chest a couple of times, reminding me of those berserkers.
"Great, then you all can go to do your tasks now," Lily clapped with her hands, as if she was the one behind this little show here, feeling proud of her disciples.
She got such a wide grin over her face, a smile that made me doubt she had a hand in all this.
"But… We needed more portals everywhere, right?" she looked at me in such meaningful way, and powerlessly I bought more twin discs as I said:
"Go, I'll handle this for you," I paused before adding to Lily, "go and warn those at the second training ground… Monster attacks will start in two hours at most."
"They're ready," she said in such a firm tone, "they just are waiting for their enemies to appear."
"Great. I'll entrust all this over to you…" I knew that after finishing installing the discs and seeing little Qi, I'd start my real moves towards my shadow world.
And I didn't know for how long I'd be absent out there.
So it was better if they worked without my permission, handling everything that mattered, and got all the authority needed.
"Sure, just don't go away for too long and forget about us."
"Hahahah, I won't," I got what she wanted to convey here, and I escaped from this trap with just laughing.
I watched them leave and then I started to jump over the world, installing discs everywhere. I left the portals while leaving instructions behind using the dragon rider girls.
Lily was fond of these girls, not lesser than I. So she kept bringing a few over to each continent.
"Time to see that little playful kid," as I got done from all this, I opened a portal and jumped over towards the monster continent.
I was away for not that long from my past visit. Yet when I arrived there, I saw a magnificent scene waiting for me.
Monsters… Sigh! Just seeing how crazy they could reproduce more of their kind, I felt envious for sure.
The monsters I left got multiplied by at least ten folds! And there were lots of new breeds and kids out there, hard to count or follow their path of evolution.
On another note, I spotted many giant behemoths, either flying or on the ground. These were the end products of what my little Qilin did here.
The upper hand went for sure for the flying ones, having the most out of these giant behemoths.
What would be the case after leaving them for long months without fighting or killing them by my forces? I could already see that this continent alone wasn't enough, wasn't going to be enough to contain such a huge number of them.
"Lord, you finally came," and as I looked for my little Qi, I found him standing in the middle of all the giant behemoths, acting like their lord or something, "see? This is just the beginning! Give me enough time and I'll impress you, hahahaha!"
Chapter 1013 Monsters Need One More Continent
"It seems you were having your fun," I laughed as well. Just looking at all these behemoths made me crave to get more. "Come, I want to explain the deployment of monsters at the second training ground of mine."
"Oh, we are going to let the kids play? That's fun! Hahahaha! Hear that? Your kids are going to have fun as you do, hahaha!"
Well, it was living in a world of its own for sure. I knew that it was trying to get all of the monsters here evolved by using this devour method, but what was that about calling other monsters kids?
Were they kids in its eyes or what?
"Tell me lord, tell me, I'm anxious to let the kids go out and play, hahahaha!"
I looked at this dude who grew much more than the last time I saw it. It became so giant, enough to stand on the ground and its head would reach my chariot.
Standing in between all these behemoths made it look small, much smaller than how big it really was.
"Ok… I'll take out maps and explain things over," I got a copy of all the drawings and maps designed by Ronald. That dude had such a hard to understand mind. Without his drawings, I'd not be able to explain any of this for little Qi.
And even when I got the maps out, things didn't look that easy either. I struggled to recall all of the information Ronald said, and struggled more to get little Qi to get them.
"Lord… I don't get this point… How come we ask for monsters to defend a place and not rush towards their enemies? This isn't how we, monsters, work!"
"I know, but stick with me. Their enemies will keep coming at them from all directions, so in reality it will be a messy war."
"I know… But why can't my kids chase these prey after crossing these lines?"
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"Hey, concentrate," as its body got bigger in such a way, I had to poke its head using the blunt end of my glaive, using it as a real stick, "they aren't prey, they are my people and soldiers. And this isn't a war to exterminate them, it's just training drills where the lesser casualties the better."
"Like this the kids won't get a chance to evolve properly."
"Just stick to the plan!" I rolled my eyes, "Besides, I'm considering opening a portal for you and your monsters here to go to another big continent and evolve there."
"Really? That's great! How about I shift the kids fighting there? After serving for a while, they can retreat and go towards that continent and evolve properly there."
"This…"
"Don't worry lord, I will make sure to replace them with others. After all we got nothing more than kids, hahahaha!"
"Fine," as it said it itself, I got no objection towards this kind of arrangement. "But make sure when they do, they'll all retreat in one bulk and head towards the direction of the nearest shore."
"But… Not all of them can swim…"
"Then leave enough aquatic monsters to carry these kids towards the new continent."
"That's great! I can let them do it!"
For sure they could. After all, there was an entire race who depended on using aquatic monsters as their ride and means of transportation. And this race was one of the top three in my universe.
"Cool," I hesitated to tell this little kid about my plans to get them all towards my shadow world. But I refrained from doing so when I saw it laughing and moving around, telling every monster it met about the chance given for their kids.
It was really pure and kind hearted, innocent still, and that made me not want to tell it anything yet.
I wasn't yet sure about my ability to take them inside. There was a big difference in me wanting to do so and my ability to do it.
If I told it and it got all hyped up then I failed, what would be the case then?
No, it was better to keep this hidden off it for now.
After it left, I opened the map and selected a big continent not too far from here.
It was slightly to the northwest of this continent, and it was considered a medium sized one.
It wasn't as big as this huge continent here. But its close location made it easy for monsters to pass in between the two continents without much trouble.
Flying there took almost three days. And once I arrived, I installed a few discs all over the continent, taking another day from me.
Then I returned back to the main continent of monsters, finished installing the portals, and told little Qi about these.
"We already started," after seeing the portals and even jumping over to test them, it said amidst big laughs, "our kids are now having their fun with their… With your forces."
"Good," at least I got to realise how bad it was to call my soldiers prey, "keep controlling the situation. I'll be off for a long time."
"Don't worry, lord. I'll do an excellent job here."
"If you did… I'll make sure to give you a handsome reward."
"Reward?" and when I said it, its eyes shone and even its body trembled, "I never got rewards, ever in my life."
Ever in your life? Kiddo, you just got born recently!
"Just do your job and make sure to impress and not disappoint me," I said before opening a portal, "I'll come here after many months. So don't expect your reward anytime soon."
"Thanks lord, I won't disappoint you!"
And as I was passing through the portal, I heard its excited voice from behind before the world shifted and I reached a new place.
"It's time to pay my related folks a visit."
I appeared on the far continent where the folks from the other universe were.
Chapter 1014 Interrupting Cultivation Has A Price
Before I'd step into my shadow world, it was better to hear more about this from people who knew more; the dark shadow clansmen.
I didn't need to look for them. After all, when I was passing over this continent earlier, I saved a few bookmarks about places that had these people training.
This continent was now filled with many great phenomena, making me wonder how fierce these folks were, and how this world of mine who was in my universe held such pure spiritual energy.
I got that this world was formed by merging many worlds together, collected from different universes, under the help of that cruel weapon.
Was it the reason behind such abundant spiritual energy here? I couldn't frankly tell.
The sky was filled with thick layers of clouds, while at a far distance I could spot pillars heading towards the sky, adding more disturbance there.
As for the place I arrived at, I could feel my spiritual energy inside my body reacting to the fierce and chaotic energy in the atmosphere.
And that was all caused thanks to the large group of people sitting cross legged in the distance, seemingly training together.
They arranged themselves in circles, one that would be slightly wider than the others inside. They stood in fixed intervals, giving me the impression they were training according to some sort of a technique belonging to their clan.
In the centre of all these circles, a single individual sat there. He gave me the impression of being their leader or the strongest out of all of them.
All sat in silence, closing their eyes, and slightly moving their bodies right and left, swaying as if they were part of a harmonious huge wave in a disturbed ocean.
It was a remarkable scene, and it gave me inspiration about how to train. It seemed training on cultivation was never a secluded single man job.
I needed to train with others and it seemed to get more results. But what for? And how could this help? I couldn't get the answers for that.
I knew that trying to awaken someone in a deep session of cultivation was bad, and even quite insulting. I heard the records the old man left about cultivation, and how it was considered a sacred ritual in the eyes of many.
Trying to awaken someone from such a deep session was something that might result in a big fight. Not to mention the one getting awakened would end up losing part of what he gained, even to the extent of having a backlash if he was on the verge of breaking through.
However… I didn't have time to waste here sitting and waiting for them to open their eyes and end their training.
Cultivating was a long process that I experienced personally more than once. In each time, I never got any control or even a grasp over how time passed.
I couldn't tell when I'd wake up, and every time lots of time would pass before ending a session.
"Excuse me," and so I decided to go down there and risk it. Even if he got mad, even if he ended up with backlash, it wasn't something that would worry me.
With a single order he wouldn't be able to move a finger against me. And so I started to wake him up with such confidence.
*Rumble!*
However what I didn't expect was when I poked him with the blunt end of my light glaive, shaking his body and snapping his mind out of that deep cultivation session, others would also break free from this session.
I heard popping noises coming from all around, even screams of pain and agony. All opened their eyes, and I could see a flash of black light inside many, with all having red and enraged faces.
At this moment, I felt a real threat! Facing all this pressure without expecting or getting prepared for it was something not easy to handle.
"Stand up and salute your lord," but even if I was getting pressured and threatened with their gazes and rage, I said in a strong tone that showed that I wasn't afraid.
Facing one was like facing a million, what was the difference? They were all part of my people, shackled with my contracts and couldn't pose a threat to me.
"Lord… This… This…" the one in the middle was the first to stand up. Even such a formidable looking figure got his body trembling and shaking, and his face was slightly ashen white.
"Take these," I knew I caused them great suffering this time, so it felt right to just compensate them slightly, "they are filled with death energy, something close to the energy you are using."
I got out enough gems to saturate their numbers, even gave the ones closer to their leader two. As for the leader, I gave him three.
There were almost close to three thousands sitting here, and that cost me close to four thousand gems.
It wasn't a big price to pay, especially when what I was going to ask next was something major and crucial for me.
I got these gems to help later on. But I got little and not enough of them. So spending this number might seem a loss, but it wasn't something that would greatly affect my plans.
"These…" The leader of this group looked at the three gems he got in doubt.
"Just eat them up like you are eating candies," I said in a loud tone so everyone would hear me, "these will help you restore what you lost, and might even give you some extra benefits."
Of course I was bluffing! I knew these gems could help in restoring lost strength as they did with Oglak, but they weren't this magical to restore lost spiritual power or repair damaged bases.
"You heard the lord, eat up!" and when everyone seemed hesitant, that leader said in such a weak tone before he led by example.
And then a miracle happened!
Chapter 1015 Zangibar
Once he got to eat almost the first gem, his body started to shine in bright black light, startling even this giant dude.
"Lord… Lord… This…" and when he closed his eyes to inspect his body for a few minutes, he couldn't help but scream in such shock and excitement, seemingly happy about what he did find inside his body.
"What? Not enough for your taste?" I acted as if I knew what happened inside his body, despite the fact that I didn't! And I wanted to ask, desperately wanted to ask about what happened there thanks to my gem.
"Lord… These… These are the legendary fruits of heaven!!!" and after a few more minutes of shaking out of excitement, he looked at the two fruits in his hand while muttering in such disbelief.
"Legendary what? They are just gems I collected from one of my worlds," I honestly said, but my words seemed to not explain anything, or make his shock get lighter.
Instead, his body kept shaking in a fiercer way, while his eyes shone in bright black light while a thick black fog gushed out from his body, forming a thick layer over it, reminding me of my soulers.
"Lord… This can't be real, right?!!!" and out of manners, he held my both arms and shook me fiercely, "lord… Each fruit of these is priceless to my race! There are too many races in my universe! Lord… You can't just throw these over to us, it's a waste. A damn waste!"
What the heck was wrong with him? "Easy there, I got you out of cultivation and that brought you damage for sure. It's my duty as your lord to make things correct and compensate you for your losses."
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"No lord, this is more than what we lost… Guys, return what you got back to the lord, hurry!"
"No," I firmly shook my head, shrugging my body free from this dude's iron-steel like grasp. I turned to all before adding, "if they are really beneficial to you, I promise I'll try to get you more. But what you got from me is a gift, and it will be rude to return these gifts over to me."
I said my last words while fixing my gaze over their leader. Wasting a few thousand gems over them? No, it wasn't even right to call this a waste or a loss!
From what he said, he seemed to know how these gems of mine could be used, properly used. He knew their true value, and it seemed he held these in high regard, a very high regard.
I thought about giving them in exchange for forces from the other universe, their universe. But now? I was glad that this deal wasn't done.
"But lord…" he looked at the two gems in his hands, seemingly having a fierce struggle in between his immense desire to keep them and returning them back to me.
"Consider this as a gift from a fellow dark shadow master to another," I said, moving my glaive blunt end to push his hand holding the gems back towards his chest, "keep them. They are my token of appreciation and sincerity."
"Lord… You just said…"
"See by yourself," I started forming my first technique, the simplest one. And when it appeared, the face of that leader changed drastically.
"Lord… You… You have the same power as us!!!"
"Sure, why would I come here then and interrupt your training session without such a reason?" I rolled my eyes, turned to all who were sitting on the ground, struggling to take their breaths, "eat up the fruit first and recuperate. I'll take your leader for a private chat and I promise to return him to you in one piece, but won't promise to return him anytime soon."
"Thanks… Lord…" even if they were all in such a weakened state, they struggled to raise their hands and cup them in respect for me.
Wow! It seemed these fruits weren't just known by their leader, but they also got the true value of these gems.
I watched them consume these gems and in a few minutes, they all got refreshed and stood up on their feet. They all looked in such a shocked state towards me, and I simply nodded, turned to their leader and started to walk away.
"Follow me, this isn't a suitable place for what we are going to talk about," and we were going to talk about many things for sure.
I came here and wanted to ask about cultivation and the dark shadow world. And now? I was going to ask first about these gems, or fruits, or whatever.
I led him away, towards a direction with many untouched trees. They seemed to not touch so much of nature here, and just accepted simple life in the middle of such beauty.
"What's your name?" as we arrived at the edge of a nearby forest, where many green appeared with different colours of weird looking weed, I asked while gazing up and down this fellow.
He was as giant as any other giant race I met before. He got nothing special more than blackness that covered many parts of his body.
Deep black eyelashes, eyes, long curly hair that fell over his broad shoulders, and lots of tiny black dots scattered all over his cheeks, nasal bridge, reminding me of freckles that were famous with my beautiful and sexy female girls.
"I'm Zangibar, my lord," he bowed his head in respect, "I'm grateful for the lord's generosity."
"About that… What do you know about these fruits? Tell me everything you know about," if I wanted to know, then I first had to admit that I knew nothing about these.
All I knew was that they were products coming out from my necromancer world. I got to know that the artefacts I got were called the magical artefacts, and I was planning to use them all inside my pocket world here.
Gaining advantage of the time difference was something important. After all, all of these artefacts depended on the passage of time to produce something amazing.
Chapter 1016 The Spiritual Crystal
"This… Isn't lord aware of how valuable these legendary fruits are?!!" and as if what I revealed shocked him, he couldn't help but frown for a few moments, before taking the two gems again and extending his big hand over to me.
"I can't… I can't take advantage of lord's not knowing about these gems," he said, and I had to push his hand back.
"Dude, I got enough from these," I lied, "but I need to understand their value. A big deal is going underway and few folks are asking for these gems at a low price."
"This… This is a daylight steal!!" I had to lie and give him such an excuse so he'd close the page of returning these two gems over to me.
"That's why I need your help here. All I know about these is that they are produced by absorbing death energy and can replenish any lost strength."
"Lord… Is the lord aware of how cultivation works?"
"It's by absorbing the natural spiritual energy from the world and storing it inside the meridians and dantian," this was my current understanding of how cultivation worked.
"Well… In general that can be true. But the spiritual energy we absorb is getting refined through our dantians. The meridians act like veins, and dantian is like hearts… And here comes the true value of these legendary fruits."
"As they do… What?"
"They work to refine the dantian and meridians, make dantians more effective in working their magic over the absorbed spiritual energy. They also will turn the meridians more spacious, making them able to store much more energy, allowing us to absorb more."
"So in theory, they can't restore the lost bases or repair the damage caused by what I did…"
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"Lord, they can't restore anything, but surely they can heal any damage," he paused before adding in a serious tone, "and the results brought by a single one of these are enough to make any cultivator crave for these, and place them in a very high regard."
"How so?" If they can't restore bases or even add more, then why would anyone want them?
"Because they can shorten the time of our cultivation. If we needed a year to just jump a small base higher, then with these we can cut time into half. And not only that, give anyone without cultivation one of these and he will step into the cultivation world instantly!"
"What?!!!"
"That's how magical these legendary fruits are," he laughed, "and that's why we all crave to get these. But lord… In our universe… The presence of such fruits is almost non-existent."
"This… Are you saying that they are priceless?"
"Even the strongest leaders of us won't find these fruits this easily, and that means they are more than just priceless."
Well… Just the effect of allowing anyone to step into the cultivation path was enough to turn these gems into legendary stuff in my eyes.
I needed to test such a theory. And if it was proven to be right, then things would be much different from now on.
I got only these gems back from my necromancer world. What about the leaves? Seeds? Flowers? Water? What about the world itself?
If all had such magical effects, then I swore I'd empty this world and others empty from their products.
I'd turn not only a few tens of thousands, but millions and tens of millions even into cultivators.
"Lord can't just sell them cheap. It's an insult, not just a waste!"
"I got it," I knew I had now a wild card, one that I should properly use.
I got my bones, got these awesome gems and other products from my necromancer world… All of these were priceless and held great value to me and others.
But I also was terribly weak and lacking tons of stuff. So at some point, I'd have to accept such losses and do trades, like the ones going on with Silverlining.
I wasn't in the situation to select and refuse to not continue doing such trades. I wasn't in the position of keeping my treasures and good stuff for myself alone.
And yet… That also didn't mean I'd settle with just any offer like a stray dog!
"Thanks," I said in gratitude, "now can you tell me more about how your people cultivate?"
"I… I have a question to ask the lord first… How did you get our power? Are you perhaps related to us?"
"Well… It came as a coincidence."
"Luck is also one form of power… Interesting indeed," he kept nodding and muttering to himself for a few minutes before he finally made up his mind. "I'll teach lord our ways. After all, it's an honour that our mighty saviour and lord belongs to my clan, hahahaha! I just want to see the faces of other clans when they get to hear this, hahahaha!"
"I'm glad you are excited about this, however I do lack in everything," I was excited that he agreed to tell and teach me his clan's secrets.
I was worried he'd be too damn loyal to his clan and refuse to tell me secrets even if the price was his head!
"First I gotta test the purity of the lord's base," and as I was lost in thoughts, he said this weird stuff.
"What do you mean?"
"Well, everyone isn't the same. And the main difference lies in the purity of one's cultivation base. It's a complicated concept, but there is a simple technique to test it," he got out a small crystal and handed it over to me.
It was small enough to fit my hand perfectly fine. A pure white crystal that seemed like a normal rock. It was transparent, and I didn't feel anything special about it.
"What is this?"
"It's called spiritual crystal, something common in our universe," he said before explaining, "I want the Lord to do two things here. First drop a blood drop over it, then wait for a minute and then start to ingest it with your spiritual energy."
"And?"
"I'll explain when things happen," he calmly smiled, giving me such an answer which wasn't. It seemed this matter was too complicated, and I wasn't looking for any headache.
Chapter 1017 Spirit Representation Stage
As he said, I did. First I let a single drop of my blood fall over the crystal. I expected anything to happen, but aside from the crystal to shine with a faint red colour for a few seconds, nothing much happened.
"Sigh! I told you my base is weak!"
"It's yet too soon to judge, lord still needs to ingest his energy to activate the crystal ability."
"Ok," I didn't know from where this dude brought such confidence, but I admired his attitude for sure.
As he said, I gushed my spiritual energy after one minute inside that crystal. The moment my energy went inside, the crystal started to shine brighter with each passing second.
"Lord… You can give it to me now," after a few minutes, he asked for the crystal back. Yet before I'd extend my hand over, a new change occurred.
It was like arcs of lightning appeared around the crystal, black lightning that danced in thin arcs, giving the crystal a magical appearance.
The crystal was already shining in bright blue colour, the current grade of my spiritual energy it seemed. But these arcs of lightning was something I didn't expect to see, and it seemed also Zangibar didn't expect it either.
"Lord… Lord… Keep ingesting your energy, never stop, ok?"
"Sure," I didn't know why he got all this excited, but I kept gushing out my energy for almost half an hour.
The more energy I poured into the crystal, the thicker the lightning arcs became.
"Sigh! It's almost there, but it seems that something is still lacking…" and from the side, and after the passage of half an hour, he muttered such weird words.
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And just as he said it, a faint rumble suddenly occurred, making me instantly shift my attention over the crystal.
"This… This…"
"Is this normal?" I saw a silhouette appearing all over the arcs of lightning. Just when the rumble occurred, a faint layer of black fog appeared enveloping the entire crystal.
It looked like the lightning was burning something, and in the middle of all this fog, a shape appeared.
It was a face, a face of someone that wasn't any different from me.
Was it my face? How come my face would appear down there?
"That's… Spirit representation stage… Damn! Damn! How come… I thought it would stop at most at the spirit lightning ascension stage, but to reach the spirit representation stage… That's unheard of for tens of thousands of years!!!"
"Zangibar, what's wrong with this?" I didn't get a single word of what he just blurted out in such immense shock.
He raised his head, looked at me for a long minute without being able to say anything.
"Lord… Are you sure you are a descendant of this universe, not ours?"
"Sure, I'm a descendant of my universe… Why?"
"If so… If this is all true… Then…" he ignored my question and kept mumbling to himself, "lord… Does the Lord have already opened the shadow world of his?"
"Well, that's why I came to you. I got such an amazing and fascinating world without any ability to control it."
"So it's true… And that means…" he sized me up and down before adding, "lord, what you got is something considered mythic in our clan's history."
"For real? How so?"
"We use the shadow world energy, drain it to form our bases and use our techniques," he didn't laugh over my mockery, acting as if it was something too damn serious, "and the stronger the bond we got with the shadow world, the stronger we become."
"But I got a world of my own."
"That's… A blessing, truly a blessing. Lord, this world of yours isn't just a place, it's an entire world in all what the word means! You can not only draw energy from it, you can even go there, build towns and cities, and even bring people to live there!"
"Oh, I went there a few times already but couldn't get anyone there with me."
"You already visited it? Wow! And you did all this without knowing anything about this world? That's quite… Impressive!"
"Thanks, I had to establish my base there so…"
When I said it, his body trembled and I got to stop. I didn't know why, but saying anything to this dude would turn him all excited and get him deeply shocked.
"Lord… You already moved your cultivation base there? How did you do it without our clan's secret technique?!!"
"It's not that I moved it there, I established my cultivation base in that world. See, the first thing I did was to open the world and then establish the cultivation base there, and the two happened almost at the same time."
This time, I totally ignored his disbelief and shock, while continuing to speak.
"I went there, and felt like my world had more potential than what I took it for. So I came here to ask. Is there another world beyond mine? How can I take people and monsters there? And you said I can build towns and cities… Well, considering the small size of my world, I don't believe this will be possible."
"Lord… Lord… You… You just got such an amazing gift without knowing how to use it. You don't get any of the techniques of our clan, the ones that will solve all this for you. And about the world, it's just like any other world in our universes. You got a place to rule over, while being surrounded with tons of forces that limit your space. So to expand…"
"I need to fight…" I got his point, "but how? I'm all alone there! Shall I go outside and kill my way through?"
"No, lord this is suicide! The forces living inside that world aren't bound by any limits. They can be part of our cosmos, or from other cosmos we never know about! They got tons of forces, and they are very strong."
"This…"
"Lord has first to select his forces carefully. The space there is already limited, so the lord has to select carefully whom to send over."
"Well… I already sent a bunch of crazy folks out there."
"What? How?!!!"
Chapter 1018 Plans To Invade And Expand
"Oh, I developed a technique, opening a gate towards my world, and then could send anything there. But if I sent anything weak, my world would devour it, turning it into a pure form of energy."
"That's… You simply tossed them there, without giving them any of your stamp or signature, right?"
"What… Are these?"
"Oh… That explains it then… But if the ones you sent are already living?"
"Those folks? Yes they are crazy monsters with colossal bodies and tons of energy," I waved my hand to reassure him. But he ended up getting shocked and he eventually signed.
"Lord… You are truly blessed with the gods of luck! You managed to find such fierce monsters, let them survive the cruel world of yours. That means they are really strong, formidable to be honest. And they will just form great generals for my lord, leading his forces out there."
"Well… I think they are dependable and quite capable," I didn't get much from what he said, except that the little ones I sealed and formed a tattoo over my back were formidable. And that was something I could vouch for.
"Lord, sending anything there without getting the stamp of lord, a mark of lord's energy, then the world will consider them as hostile beings, start attacking and devouring them. Only those exceptionally strong enough will sustain such brutality."
"I see… And that stamp thing… The mark of my energy, how can I leave it over others?"
"There is a technique… There are lots of techniques about this world that the lord has to learn before truly unleashing the power of his world."
"Teach me then," I was eager to fully utilise my shadow world to the fullest, "I want to send monsters there to evolve."
"Lord, you got to know that the capacity of this world is limited so…"
"Don't worry, I'll work first to expand this world, then I'll let many enter it," I got his point, "but can I send anyone there? I mean, can I send people as strong as you?"
"Lord, it's an honour to join and live inside your world," and against my expectations, as I just asked this question on a whim, he suddenly fell on his knees, cupped his hands, and added:
"If lord permits, I can go out now and select the most capable ones of our clan to join lord's world and crusade."
"Your clan? Will it only be enough to depend on the shadow clan?"
I got that these folks used the same power as mine, and that meant they'd gain much more harvest than any other clan.
But if I just depended entirely over them, that meant I'd gain lots of mediocre forces. He said it himself, the other forces around my world were all formidable.
"Lord… Letting others join won't be a good idea. They won't get the best out of this chance, believe me lord…"
I raised my hand to stop him. This dude… He was just thinking about the benefits gained for his people. "I promise that your clan will be all moved towards my world when I expand it enough. But I have to first expand it, you got my meaning, right?"
"Sure…" he said in such a dejected tone, "I'll go and see other clans then."
"Good. but first teach me stuff about how to let people in and out."
"Lord can give me an hour, I'll draw all the techniques I'm aware of about this legendary world. Then the lord can sit and study them here while I'll go all around to gather the strongest folks from each clan."
"Cool."
It was a fair offer. I got him paper and a brush, let him start working while I watched.
He kept drawing and writing, and I couldn't help but peek from time to time.
At some point, I stood next to him, watching whatever he was writing.
"So these are instructions about hand seals and techniques, right?" I got lots of papers and techniques, and I noticed that all of them depended on a stance, a series of movements of my hands and fingers, ending up with saying a few words and using my energy in certain ways.
"Yes, lord is right," he nodded, "our techniques all depend on these steps, a stance, hand seals, energy channelling, and words said. Isn't this how the lord did his techniques?"
"Well… I never shouted any words to be honest," I looked at one drawing after another.
"This… Then how?"
"I used to write words using my blood and energy," I shrugged, raising my head from the papers, "that way my techniques work."
"This… Is quite remarkable!" he was shocked again, making me sigh inwardly.
"Ok lord, I'll go and see others. But always remember, saying words is always more efficient and easier than writing them. Despite writing them means a much more complicated and fiercer form of the final technique."
"Ok," I got his point. It was easier to speak the words than write them down. But writing them down would turn any technique stronger.
Well… If I have time then it should be done by writing and not shouting the words, right?
As I watched him leave, I started to study what he left for me.
Well… He left tons of instructions and drawings, making me feel at loss at first.
But gradually and with the passing hours, I started to get a grasp on what was going on here.
He didn't lie, there was literally everything for anything I wanted to do there.
Wanting to send people over? Simple! A variety of techniques were there in front of me, allowing me to send different amounts of people inside.
There were techniques that would allow for tens, hundreds, and even thousands to enter, and there were others who would allow for hundreds of thousands and up to a hundred million inside.
The main conditions were to have enough space inside my world, and to spend different amounts of energy for each technique.
Of course the main problem for now was the limited size of the world. According to a drawing he left behind, I got that my current world, the startup one, would allow for only ten thousands to be there at most.