Chapter 1133 It Got Born Already!
"Getting back is the best course of action right now…" I slowly muttered while controlling my chariot to retreat. When I just started pulling back, the red beams began to rain down at me again as if they just remembered me.
For a reason, the angels behind all this were trying to prevent me from escaping. Knowing this made me want to retreat and run away much more than ever.
I didn't hesitate to push my chariot forward without any regard to the falling red beams.
Before this, any red beam falling over me was singular. Other star weapons high in the sky above would have to wait before the first attack waned.
But this time was different. The red beams kept raining down on me like sun rays penetrating a thick layer of clouds on a sunny winter day.
Moving forward for almost half an hour felt like an entire lifetime to me. The speed of my chariot was somehow affected, and getting away from the falling beams wasn't an easy task like before.
After half an hour, all this changed. The red beams ceased to come at me and I finally managed to get through. By random check, I found that almost half of the huge energy reserve I left before in my chariot was depleted.
I felt happy and lucky about this, and also felt lots of pain. I already used much of my energy reserve to make sure my chariot would be running for long months and even years.
But half of all this was gone simply in mere half an hour. What the heck did these angels do exactly? Did they use all the tens of thousands of star weapons above to stop me?
I looked above with slight fear. If not for my preemptive move to stock the chariot with tons of energy, I'd be gone by now.
Looking at the illuminated sky with all these red stars made me heave a sigh of relief. They indeed used all the star weapons high above to stop me. And in the end they failed.
Even if I had to pay such a cost, it didn't matter. I could get tons more of these energy crystals whenever I wanted. But no money could buy myself a new life if I ever lost this one.
*Rumble!*
Just as I was feeling lucky about my hard escape, an ear deafening rumbling came from the direction of my shields.
Right now my shields and the zone inside turned exactly to be like a burning hot red star. I could even feel the heat coming out from it. Yet I couldn't see anything else but redness swirling inside.
The shields turned this part of the world into a gigantic red ball, and right now that ball was shivering like it was an egg going to crack open.
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*Rumble!*
Another shocking rumbling came from the direction of my shields. And with it, a violent shockwave erupted that drove away my chariot for a few miles.
When I stabilised, I finally could see what happened right there. The entire area around the now shimmering red shields got scorched by invisible fire.
The ground was tainted with redness and got covered with red sand. The rocks out there were smashed into tiny grains of sand. And if I was waiting just outside the shields when that happened, I doubted my energy reserve would be enough to sustain such damage.
Just from the backlash alone almost one tenth of the remaining energy reserves got depleted. What the heck happened in this world exactly? How come all the incoming attacks managed to deplete my enormous energy reserves like running water?
Seeing all this devastation and scary powers made me wonder how humans in my past life managed to survive for a hundred years.
It was a remarkable feat. One that was indeed aligned with the old saying: Cowards tend to live longer than brave ones!
Humans were the weakest in the chain of food back in my days. So it was normal that no one paid them any heed. Such impossible and scary challenges came to me as I was just showing power that humans shouldn't possess.
If I was weaker, I was sure none of this would ever have happened to me. And despite knowing this, I wasn't regretting anything.
Being powerful was a must, and the price I had to pay for that was acceptable. Nothing would pay me back for being weak, for lowering my head, for being a coward.
*Fwoosh!*
Just when I was lost in thoughts, I heard such a weird sound coming from the direction of that small red star. When I turned to look, I got all the hair over my body standing to no end.
In front of me, a few miles away, the ground that was dyed red before was now covered in pale and ugly looking yellow.
Huge bodies of zombies were coming out nonstop from inside the red star. And looking at their shape and build, I felt little familiarity with the colossal zombie that was absorbed into the grand portal just minutes ago.
"Don't tell me…" a frightening thought flashed past my mind, one that I never dared to believe. However, looking at the endless stream of these giant zombies made me lean towards it a little more.
This place… It was the first place to ever give birth to a high level den!
Looking at the rapidly increasing numbers of these giant zombies made me believe this was true. There was no other explanation about it. The angels did something using the help of that mysterious being on the other side of the grand portal, turning this place into a frightening high class zombie den.
The zombies that came out paled in comparison to the colossal zombie in terms of size and power. Yet they were all freakishly strong dudes.
The smallest was ten metres in height, and the biggest was almost thirty. They moved slowly, like small hills crushing the ground in their path.
I frowned for a few minutes, and during which they managed to cross a few miles already. They were halfway through the distance between me and that den.
"I have to pray that what these zombie masters told me is true or else…" if this happened anywhere else, I might not get such a fear and worry.
But this place was already close to my capital. And it lay just in the heart of my kingdom.
Letting these zombies roam freely in the world wasn't going to work. They would turn my kingdom into tatters and ruins just in the time of the fifth quest.
"Thundering Might!" Despite failing miserably last time, I had to use this skill again. Without it, whoever I'd summon to stop these zombies would have to face the wrath of the star weapons high above.
I summoned tons of shields this time before filling the entire space inside with my warriors. "Kill every single one of them, don't let anyone escape!" I ordered before moving away and resumed doing this again and again.
For ten times I repeated such steps. I created ten huge zones to entrap the zombie den and zombies coming out from it inside. From high above, one could see the ten zones I created as a grand circle surrounding the zombies and their den in the centre.
I lost count over how much I summoned my warriors for this task. I'd say they were in tens of millions, perhaps even in hundreds of millions. But that didn't matter.
I lacked nothing but warriors at this moment.
"Time to deal with you…" after I'd done that, I turned my gaze and attention towards the risk that I neglected from the start; the star weapons.
They kept interfering nonstop in my actions. With their grand number and versatile effects, they managed to force my hand here and form such scary den.
Taking these red beams out of the picture would have eased my task. However I knew with the power of fallen gods I have right now at my disposal, taking down them would be a hard and long task.
[I need energy crystals, everything you can get] but I knew of a way to bypass any hindrance and let my dear fallen gods take down these star weapons.
[I'll send you what I have, but if you need more than you'll have to give me few days]
[Send what you got for now] after closing the chat with him, I opened my class and instantly summoned one more thousand of the fallen gods.
"Eat these stats, become stronger and be ready to fight," I threw many stats on my chariot, while telling this to all my fallen gods.
They had to be in top shape to take these damn weapons down. All this I was inside the last shield I built.
As for how to take these weapons down, it was simple. The angels provided aid to protect the star weapons from me using the defensive star weapons.
Chapter 1134 Scaring The Angels
Trying to take these down by attacking them from the ground wasn't going to work. The best and easiest way was to let my fallen gods be hit first, then in the middle of the attack they'd start retaliating.
It was risky indeed, given that these star weapons looked a bit more powerful than the ones I dealt with before.
But I got enough souls to replenish what was lost. And with the thousand and half fallen gods here, I was sure to destroy lots of these star weapons in a short time.
"Go out, wreak havoc on these zombies to draw their attention," after watching them consume my stat crystals and getting stronger, I added, "once getting attacked, use your ultimatum to hit them back… Go now and may luck be on your side."
I watched them fly over and scattered all over the grand place. As they left, they started attacking the zombies, killing lots of them in no time.
The zombies were already having a hard time dealing with my scattered warriors. I watched many zones get devastated by the concentrated fire of my fallen gods.
Even if the zombies coming out from this super den were huge and strong, fighting against my fallen gods' attacks was indeed an overkill.
*Rumble!*
Then as I expected, the star weapons high above started to rain down deadly red beams over my fallen gods.
As I asked them to scatter around, the angels had to aim their deadly beams by activating a large number of star weapons.
At least a thousand star weapons got activated. Seeing this made me anticipate their next move.
The red beams were indeed hard to deal with. Even when my fallen gods were fighting with full stat power, they were still unable to withstand the full throttle of these weapons.
I saw many of them kneel on the ground while their bodies seemed to get tortured by the red beams. Without the need to ask, they were already in deep pain.
However, that didn't stop any of them from executing their ultimate attacks. Without the need for my words from earlier, any of them would be forced to use their strongest form of attack the moment they got trapped inside such deadly beams.
And when the fallen gods started to retaliate, the star weapons high above began to crack and crumble. As expected, the defences around them couldn't operate fully when they were firing.
One by one I saw the star weapons high in the sky bloom like red roses. They exploded in weird silence, while I knew the sound of their destruction was enough to devastate the entire Earth more than one time.
Seeing the red roses high in the sky made me feel quite relieved. I couldn't let more than one thousand join the fray as I knew there was a risk of losing them.
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Paying just fifty million soul points was a cheap price I accepted without any hesitation. In return for that, more than one thousand star weapons got smashed and lost.
"Retreat!" Once the red beams started to fade away one by one, I knew that the angels would be shocked for a few minutes before returning to fume their rage over my poor fallen gods.
If I left them alone like that, they'd end up getting hacked again. I looked and saw how weak they were. They weren't just strong as they should be as the last usage of their ultimate attack came on the cost of withstanding the great damage dealt by the red beams.
All in all, this exchange wasn't bad. And as my fallen gods were too weak to even walk, I simply called them back.
*Rumble!*
Just as I called them back, the next moment many red beams landed over the places they just occupied. If I was one second late, then the retaliation of these angels would have crushed all of them.
Luckily I didn't let them walk over to me and acted faster than those angels.
I looked up and saw tens of thousands of these weapons flashing in a frightening way. This time the angels didn't launch a single weapon over each fallen god.
They learnt from their lesson, and I knew it would be hard to trick them again.
I wasn't in a rush to replicate the same thing. After all, my fallen gods were weakened and they needed time to rest.
I could simply use my stat crystals and other energy forms to heal their fatigue. Yet they still needed at least a few hours to return to their peak condition.
Right now I was standing inside one of the ten safe zones here. Seeing me taking back the fallen gods and remaining behind in a secure way, the angels decided to launch everything they got over my head.
Even with the protection of my shields, the concentrated fire of tens of thousands of weapons wasn't something weak.
I saw many layers of my shields get smashed in mere seconds under such a cruel attack. Watching such brutality made me grit my teeth.
It wasn't easy to fight many enemies at the same time. "Come out!" however if this was a threat, it was also a chance.
I called the over thousand exhausted fallen gods again. This time I also summoned ten thousand more of them and spread my stat crystals over the entire chariot and even on the ground beneath.
"Feast well, and then teach those motherf*ckers a lesson," I paid five hundred million souls this time to get the new forces on my side.
But it was worth it. After all, my earlier theory was proven right. Getting at these star weapons while they were attacking didn't need them to directly get bathed with such deadly lights.
This current attack over my shields was enough as well. This time I planned to take down a good chunk out of the angels' powers.
And this would serve also as a warning. If they kept coming at me, then they'd better be prepared to get their precious toys ruined.
In one minute, my fallen gods were ready to fight back. The ones who fell under exhaustion from earlier were also ready to fight.
I knew they'd take longer to rest if they used their ultimatum attack like this, but I needed any help even if it was just one thousand of them.
The next minute more then eleven thousand deadly attacks raced high above and travelled fast towards the star weapons high in the sky.
When the angels saw this, and while they tried to stop the attacking star weapons and shield them again from the defensive ones, it was already too late.
Eleven thousand star weapons were destroyed, turning the entire dimly lit sky into a bright sunny day with red roses filling the entire world above.
It was a magnificent scene to behold, one that was both beautiful and scary at the same time.
After the sudden loss of almost one third of their entire force, and half of their offensive force, the angels refrained from using their deadly weapon for now.
I knew they wouldn't just ditch the usage of these weapons, but they wouldn't feel free to use them at any moment like before.
The threat of destroying these weapons was indeed terrifying for them. I finally could heave a sigh of relief after seeing this. Now I could let my warriors fight as much as they liked without any worry.
But before anything, I took a tour first to strengthen the defensive shields again. Then I went directly towards that den.
It was all bright red inside, looking like a burning furnace of fire. Standing this close made me feel dwarfed and gave me the feeling of standing just in front of a burning red star.
The heat coming from it was indeed real and terrifying. Even the surface of my chariot's shield was shimmering and twisting under such heat.
"Time to test it…" I knew I lost any control over the shields that formed that den outlining. However I wanted to test and see if it was vulnerable to my attacks.
So I first summoned my light glaive. In the worst case scenario, losing it wasn't going to hurt me.
I didn't use any skill at all and simply stabbed the den with it. I expected many things, for the den to reject my glaive, to fight against it, but never expected for it to penetrate through it like it was made of rubber.
But before I was excited, I felt like my glaive got suddenly lighter. I grabbed it back and the area that got inside the den was now losing almost half of its size.
Even after taking it out, the surface of the remaining part was sizzling and releasing small bubbles like it was melting under the effect of corrosive substance.
Seeing this made me frown. I already expected to lose my glaive, but I never expected the den to have such corrosive substance.
I gazed upon this den in solemn way. This proved to be more challenging than I expected.
Chapter 1135 Another Den!
Should I go inside and try out my luck? Would my chariot's shield be vulnerable inside or would it protect me?
Weighing the pros and cons here, I decided to retreat for now. Things were looking bad on the surface, but I felt I didn't reach such a desperate rock bottom yet.
The den released tons of the zombies, and they were enhanced versions of the commonly found zombies at this stage of the quest. However they were all entrapped by my ten grand safe zones.
With the help of the tens of millions of warriors here, I believed this den wouldn't bring much damage to my kingdom yet. So I wasn't in a hurry to deal with it. Instead, I decided to go and visit another place where an ancient epic battle erupted.
It was the zone where I fought against all the races for days and killed many armies until my forces were entrapped inside an illusion world.
This battlefield was unique without doubt. Despite it being harsh, it spanned over the course of hundreds of miles. So I had to travel to many places to cover up the entire scope of this grand war.
I decided first to open a portal and go towards the place where the illusion world first appeared. It was still a mystery about what happened back there. And so I decided to visit that place first before any other spots.
The moment I appeared there I couldn't help but feel immense shock when I saw what waited for me there.
I knew this place wasn't simple. Up till now I still couldn't get a glimpse over what really happened here.
At one side of the story, I knew that my nemesis that came from the future and sent copies to stop my steps did this illusion thing.
But at the same time there was the mystery of the army of humans that appeared and disappeared later without a trace.
They managed to abduct many humans from my side, and I still could get in touch with them. However even after the passage of all this time, not a single breakthrough was achieved about the mystery of the world they were in.
I didn't check with them for a long time already, but they also didn't send back any news. In the worst case scenario, they got killed already and that mystery would still remain unexplained for a long time.
As for what appeared in front of me, it was a grand ball made out of flickering white, silver, red, and gold lights. It looked as if a grand storm was swirling there, wreaking havoc with anything inside.
I didn't see a single zombie around, which was something bizarre. I still recalled how bloody this last battle was, and many paragons fell on my hand here.
I looked over, flew around, and yet I didn't see any zombie as far as my eyes could reach.
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"Weird... What's the reason? Is it because of this thing?" I finally turned my full attention over that grand ball that covered an area of tens of miles.
I couldn't see anything through it no matter how hard I tried. The world inside seemed chaotic and deadly, but I felt it harboured more than destruction.
I thought about venturing inside and getting to see things with my own eyes. My chariot's shield was enough to protect my life inside.
Even the mighty red beams failed to crush my chariot's shield. I was about to go in when the entire ball of light shimmered and all the chaos that appeared there started to vanish.
It looked like all the lights that kept flaring and flashing before got unified and merged together to form a thick and opaque red light that encompassed the entire ball.
I tried to see through it, but still couldn't. When I was about to enter, I was again stopped.
This time I spotted flashes of light coming out from the ball. It felt like something was thrown from inside out, penetrating the red ball and leaving behind long trails of red beam.
When these things landed, I was surprised to see zombies. They were in no different shape than weak zombies, except for the red colour covering up their entire bodies.
Zombies were pale yellow in colour, not this red. When I looked closer, I saw their eyes had all the white vanished from them and brimmed in bright scarlet red colours that looked like fiery gems.
They didn't seem to have changed much, but they gave me a scary impression. They were strong, and not easily defeated like other weak zombies.
In addition to that, their number was already huge, and more long trails of red beams kept coming out from the ball.
I didn't know why they didn't try to come out normally, like walking out from the red ball. But I didn't care much about it.
Another spot turned hot for me, and strong looking high grade zombies were threatening this part of my kingdom.
The place was slightly closer to the northern borders of my kingdom. If I left this place untouched, then in the end the northern region would be entirely lost.
Thinking about that grand gulf lining up my kingdom in the north, I knew this was going to end badly if I didn't intervene.
"I'm getting tired of this," as I started forming my protective shields using my pillar and filling the zones inside with tons of warriors, I felt it wasn't something that I fancied.
I got nothing against using this way, but I knew it wasn't effective. It was just a countermeasure aiming to contain this plaque and not swiftly end it.
"Should I use my technique and control a few?" I wondered especially when I saw how strong these red zombies were.
But it felt a waste of time and effort to do so. There were still a few other places I needed to visit. Not to mention that crazy and hellish place in the southern regions of my kingdom.
If every special place ended up in such a way, then I was quite sure the place where I slain my little turtle was going to be a nightmare.
I got the feeling that even if I went ahead and reached that place first and ahead of other places, I wasn't going to stop the disaster happening there.
So I refrained from going there till now, and I didn't plan to go there either until I finished visiting and controlling all the messy hot spots inside my kingdom.
One thing was for my favour, which was the location of that epic battle with that colossal monster. It was all deep in the ocean, away from land, making it slightly in my advantage.
"Keep them in bay," I gave the same order to all the warriors I summoned here. Just like I did with the first den zone, I created ten safe zones surrounding this second den entirely.
This red ball was indeed a second den, one that also produced high grade zombies like the first.
"I hope no more high grade dens will be produced," I sighed while taking a last look over this den before flashing away through a portal.
Luckily for me, the other places I visited didn't have the same insane development I experienced at the two dens' zones. The places of the bloody and long war of the past were just filled with endless small and weak zombies.
Using my warriors without the need of using any sort of protection was enough to start a killing spree there. Of course these zombies worked to make out dens, but their effort wasn't going to bring any fruit thanks to my intervention.
Without the presence of any high grade zombies here, the entire territory got controlled fast.
The building project that Isac commanded before reached this region. But after the appearance of zombies and the brutal fights that erupted later with the guarding garrison, many structures were damaged already.
But there were lots of places for my warriors to use as defensive anchors and depend on them to kill more zombies without suffering too much.
As the size of this old battleground was vast and expanded for hundreds of miles, I had to use hundreds of millions of warriors to make sure this spot wouldn't need my help anytime soon.
I also made sure to leave behind a few safe zones protected by my pillar's shields. Even if the angels thought to stab me in the back and come at my scattered armies with their red beams, my warriors would find sanctuary at these zones and escape total annihilation.
[Tell me about the recent development] As I finished doing all this, I didn't hurry to jump over a new area yet. I asked Isac, Lily, and even that jerk, the jumper, about what was going on in my kingdom.
More than four days already passed, and it was enough to assess any damage and see how well we were doing against the fifth quest.
And from the news they sent, I finally heaved a sigh of relief.
Chapter 1136 New Enemy Emerges
We ended up losing close to one tenth of my kingdom's region. Most of this was credited for losing the Hector continent and major parts in the newly acquired three ones at south.
If not for these, then the losses in the mainland of my kingdom weren't that bad. In addition to that, the number of confirmed finished dens wasn't that high.
In total, and putting aside the hot zones that I temporarily controlled, the entire situation wasn't that bad. It even looked better than my earlier estimate about our initial performance in this quest.
And now it was time to head towards crushing the threatening zones in my mainland before heading towards the south.
One of these spots was lying in the north. It was the place where that grand gulf appeared. There I fought hard against my enemies and slain tons of them. But a big part lied under what now became part of the ocean. And I couldn't tell if zombies would be able to appear under water or not.
It was time for me to know, and that answer was important to let me assess the real danger of the den already formed in the south.
[Don't try to sneak north or else bad things will happen to you]
Just before I could take my staff to use it, I got such a weird message coming from no one other than one of the jerks around me; Wryly.
Seeing this made me frown.
[What do you mean?] I was puzzled by his weird and sudden message, [And how do you know I planned to go there?]
[It's a long story. Cutting it short, there are too many eyes already sticking around you, led by a big behemoth]
[From this world? I can't believe this sh*t!]
[No, it's from outside]
When I read his message I instantly got an idea.
[The Hescos are here?] This was the only threat I could think of, one that could make the all powerful Berserkers work for them.
Without the need for me to ask, I got to know what went wrong back at the huge portal thing. It seemed that the Berserkers already sold it to the Hescos and that giant arm belonged to one of the latter powerhouses.
It was all connected. And when I thought I'd take them by surprise here and make the best use of the messy situation of the fifth quest, they were one step ahead of me.
Very interesting indeed… Just thinking about it drove adrenaline all over my body.
[You seem to know the demise you brought over your head, over all of ours actually]
I got that he was acting a bit weird. It seemed like these weren't his words, but words of someone sitting near him.
So they already went all the way up to the north. Wait a minute… Was he trying to deliver me a message through his words?
He warned me to not go up north, but he wanted me to actually step there. When I thought about it, I realised this made sense.
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All this time, not a single scent of Hescos was caught by any of my men. That meant they either hid themselves quite well, which was something I never took for real, or they came here to areas far away from me.
When I thought about it in more depth, I found the second theory was more pleasurable and logical. They were just like me, coming here would put them in a dangerous situation already.
They had to fight the zombies, facing the same terror and pressure like the rest of us. Not to mention they didn't have much dominance here. Yet from what Wryly sent, it seemed they appeared near the northern continents, and managed to strike a deal with these Berserkers.
Dammit! Just what went wrong in this generation of Berserkers? Why did they have such a soft backbone?
[So you are now advising me to lower my head? Naive boy… Betraying me has a cost to pay, don't ever forget that]
[You won't be able to touch me, I'm lying secured high up in the north, tens of thousands of miles away from me]
Good lad! He caught what I was referring to and delivered his location and the location of these Hescos directly to me.
[Stay put there and warm your neck for me please, I won't let you live as long as I kept breathing]
[Humph! We'll see about that!]
I waited for him to send more, but he didn't. It seemed whoever was watching over him sniffed that something was wrong.
I finally closed the chat and started to deeply ponder about this. So the Hescos already were here, and they came to the north. Thinking about this made me doubt their presence up there was the sole presence of them.
They must have scattered their forces. After all they got close to fifteen worlds partaking in this apocalypse right now. So they could come here in much bigger forces than just one world force.
Aside from my kingdom eastern and southern borders which were closely watched, they could come from further south where Mexico once lay.
Also they could come from the west where that crazy lord was.
In brief, my kingdom was already facing a tight encirclement from three directions. With the loss of Hector continent, it seemed we were already trapped.
Pretty nice move! I closed my eyes, took a deep breath while recalling what Wryly also mentioned.
The first thing he ever said was that I was being watched by my enemies. Hescos couldn't have such strong power yet as they were playing by the rules of the system just like all of us.
So there was only one possibility… They got help. And I already guessed who helped him.
"That was why they came out in such large numbers when the fifth quest was about to start…" I thought to myself while recalling the tens of thousands of angels who appeared when the fifth quest was about to start.
Interesting… This was all interesting. Just thinking about how my enemies played such a good hand made my blood boil.
I wasn't enraged or terrified, instead I was motivated. The harder they'd try, the better I'd feel when I'd crush all of their efforts and render them useless.
I took out my staff and activated the bookmark of the north. I had first to quench the fire spreading all over my kingdom first before spreading my actions outside.
It would be bad if I got entangled in a messy fight when my lands were deeply threatened by these zombies.
And with the angels running at my heels I had to make them lower their guard. If I acted now, it would be bad for Wryly.
He tried to warn me even when he was closely watched. At some point, he might have little freedom and would send me more news.
Having a spy inside the deep enemy lines wasn't something bad after all.
[Make the weapons created by the research department be ready to get deployed in one day] I sent this message over to Lily while I was passing through the portal.
[Are we going to use these now?]
[Just make them ready] I didn't reveal the news of the arrival of the Hescos to her, to anyone.
Having them worried wasn't a smart move. Besides, they all got their hands busy just like mine. Not to mention none but me was able to pull such a risky mission.
Passing through the portal made me end just in the spot where the last stand between my forces and the hostile aquatic forces of the Hectors happened.
This place already was drenched so deep with blood that I didn't feel any surprise to see such endless numbers of zombies here.
The entire ground was filled with zombies till the end of my eyesight. The defensive structures Isac spent much to develop here were all useless.
Without strong defending forces, these structures were as useless as mere rocks and sand in the desert.
"Come out! Make sure to kill all of them fast," I started deploying my warriors all over the places I flew over.
Till now I never used any of my true and formidable warriors. The soulers were left to handle the capital, and I didn't even deploy the most elite and experienced ones of them.
I had to hold over such force. There was a huge war waiting for me in the north after I'd gotten over all this.
*Roar!*
Just when I was busy deploying tens of millions of warriors all over the place, I was met with a frightening roar coming from one direction.
Then another came, and another. From the intensity of these roars, I knew they weren't that far, and the owners of these were pretty damn strong.
"Another grand zombie? How come…" I stood on top of my chariot looking in a certain direction.
It was the direction where these roars came from. However when I realised where that direction led to, I frowned.
Chapter 1137 They Can't Trespass
These roars came from the direction of the grand gulf. I recalled a mighty aquatic war to erupt there, but never thought it was this bloody enough to give birth to such grand zombies.
I counted more than one hundred roars coming from that direction before I stopped counting. My face changed when I realised this.
If each and single one of these grand zombies created a den, then it was going to be a real trouble.
After all these dens would all be underwater. And the question I needed to know the answer to right now was if these aquatic zombies were able to come on the surface or not.
If so then the current situation here and at other places, like the eastern side of my capital, would be dire.
Without wasting my time here, I started flying directly towards the direction of these roars.
Even if I was met with many grand zombies, my life wasn't going to be in any danger. And I needed to assess the danger lurking at my kingdom early on.
If my earlier guess was right, then this was going to be a very tricky situation. I wanted to go to other worlds and start causing ruckus there.
The Hescos already came here. And that meant I should also pay their kindness double and start invading other worlds.
However with the threat of the aquatic zombies here, I wouldn't risk doing this for now. I had first to secure the interior of my kingdom before taking any step outside.
Even going up to the North would have to wait until I'd secure this aquatic threat if it really existed.
Dens weren't that easy to destroy. In fact they were indestructible. The only way though was by using the method the zombie leaders proposed to me.
Knowing this I couldn't help but sigh. I didn't want to bet everything over unconfirmed theory. However, what choice did I have here?
I didn't need to fly for more than half an hour before that gulf out there came into my sight. When I came closer, I managed to see towering beings that appeared like giant rocks standing from the water.
They looked ferocious and different. Yet with their pale skin and wounds covering all over their bodies, I knew they were zombies, high class ones.
But seeing this didn't make me any worried. In fact I felt relieved. I saw slightly over two hundred grand zombies in the gulf ocean waters, but they didn't take a single step on land.
They looked threatening, but that was all. They couldn't get on land for a reason.
However the land already was covered in endless normal zombies. I started examining them, and found nothing abnormal about them.
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"Moment of truth then..." even by seeing their threatening presence in such a way, I didn't take this for granted.
They might act this way because there wasn't enough trigger for them to get on land. So the next moment I summoned tons of my warriors, and didn't bother using my pillar's skill.
I didn't want to mask the presence of my warriors or scare these grand zombies to not attack for the presence of these protective shields.
The moment my warriors appeared, chaos erupted. This region had a minimal amount of defences structured already. Yet it wasn't enough to give my warriors proper head start.
So I had to increase the number of the warriors, span them over a large zone to help them claim a piece of land.
Then I ignored the brutal and bloody fighting down below, and focused entirely over the grand zombies at the ocean.
They roared, seemingly enticed by the presence of life nearby like any normal zombie would do. But after that they did nothing at all.
They kept roaring without doing anything else. I also kept watching the shore to make sure not a single zombie would slip from the water to the surface.
Unlike my expectations and worries, nothing like this ever happened. I looked around and saw the bloody battle still ragging on.
I haven't jumped to conclusions yet. I kept myself here while waiting for my warriors to kill as many zombies as they could. I even summoned more warriors to replenish those who fell already and increase the number of them at the same time.
Yet even after a few hours, nothing happened. The ground zombies kept coming from all over the world, but not a single aquatic monster dared to step into the land.
The grand zombies kept roaring and I grew numb to this. I waited for more hours until part of the shore here got secured.
Not many zombies were heading towards here anymore. They either lost interest or my warriors killed them with such ease.
"Ok, I can now safely consider the aquatic zombies to be limited to the water zone only," I heaved a sigh of relief and then summoned a large group of shields to protect my warriors before starting to roam the entire northern coast.
I did the same and created many safe zones all over the region. I stopped at a few places to make sure nothing bad would happen.
The bad news was the number of the grand zombies in the water. They were indeed scary and massive in build, and they came in such large numbers that went close to a thousand.
Having such a number would give a fright to even someone like me. And when I thought about the possibility of having close to a thousand high grade dens all over the ocean made me tremble inside.
If I get the chance, I should try my luck in breaking these dens. Of course that if the method of these zombie higher ups would work.
Just having such an imminent threat near my kingdom all the time unresolved was a nightmare I didn't want to live in. however this wasn't the time to handle such a thing for now.
It took roughly one and half days to finish touring the entire northern region. I left behind many safe zones and an endless number of warriors. In fact I doubted nothing would happen to the northern zone in the time remaining of the fifth quest with such force.
There was another reason for me to do it. If I planned to go against Hescos from the north, then I had to leave behind an insurance like this magnificent force.
The Hescos didn't come here to sightsee or something. They wanted my head. And they just didn't come here yet as the general situation was still risky all over the entire world.
So they had to wait for the northern lord to stabilise her lands just like I was doing in my kingdom. I didn't know if the two were connected or allied or not, but I had to assume the two were working on the same agenda.
I could travel light and head alone towards the northern lands. But that would mean I'd leave my kingdom vulnerable behind.
I doubted the Hescos would try their luck before I'd invade the outer worlds. They knew I had prepared tons of armies to invade these worlds, or else I'd be just a boy dreaming about being a king without any right or power or support.
Trying to invade me right now would only be foolish. They'd face the huge amount of forces I amassed here. Even if they managed to slay part of it, they'd still end up losing their sneak dagger at my back.
If I was them, and I believed such a mighty race wouldn't have dumbs as their leaders, I'd better wait for me to send out my forces and even give them time to infiltrate deep into these worlds.
By then, thinking about calling them back would be futile. And as situations would develop, I'd have to send more forces to support the armies out there, thinning my own forces back home.
Then by striking when I was the most vulnerable, they'd be able to secure most of the gains without sacrificing much.
But I planned to pay them a visit before sending out my forces. Like this, they'd gain nothing by such a good plan of theirs.
Even if they had more than one force eyeing my kingdom, they'd already lose one threatening force.
And that might drive these well hidden forces crazy and led them to attack me faster than what they intended.
But right now it wasn't the time for any of this. I first checked over the general situation in the kingdom, and it was getting better.
The forces that fell were already replenished by the seemingly endless forces coming out from the other Earth world.
According to Isac, we already totally secured half of my kingdom. By her words, half of my kingdom lands were now void of any zombie.
At the same time, we had close to thirty percent almost close up from getting cleared as well. That meant only twenty percent remained dangerous, with different levels of threats ranging from mild to severe.
Chapter 1138 The Turtle Zombie
As for the hot zones, aside from the Hector continent in the East and the places I secured in the middle, there was still a mysterious place in the south.
And that was what I was heading towards right now.
I was now sure that the aquatic zombies couldn't come over to the land. That relieved me greatly. After all, I was quite sure that the scary zombie down there had already finished building his den.
Lots of time passed, and I'd be a fool if I thought it didn't. As for why I considered him scary, I had my own reasons.
That zombie was formed from the corpse of my little turtle. Fighting that turtle when it was a monster was really a nightmare. The memories of that fight were still vivid in my mind as if it happened just yesterday.
And as zombies would inherit the abilities of the deceased, then this zombie should be considered a scary, the scariest zombie in the entire fifth quest if I wasn't wrong.
As I passed through the portal, I came out at a spot just near the shore. There I saw a scene that I imagined, and another thing that made my face heavily dignified.
In front of me, I saw a mountain sized monster. It was the zombie, with a pale yellow body that was filled with blisters and pus.
It was ugly, and it was gross. But it was ferocious, and I felt the same sense of power and danger coming from it just like when I felt it from my turtle.
As before, the angels provided a curtain of protection over this huge behemoth. I saw many of my forces on the shore, fighting against what made my face drop; aquatic zombies!
And these ones weren't as common as the zombies scattered all over the world at the moment.
These zombies were huge, just like a mini version of that colossal waiting in the middle of the water.
They were big, strong, and bloodthirsty. And on top of that, they managed to come on land and fight my forces there.
Luckily for me, their number wasn't huge yet. I got the feeling that the den composed under water was either recently made or it was taking lots of time to produce such high grade zombies.
But that was in my favour. I saw the jumper fighting side by side with the spearhead. The two jerks worked brilliantly well. And seeing the spearhead made me heave another sigh of relief.
Even if my forces down there were fighting a hard enemy, with the presence of the spearhead this wouldn't matter. His ability to reduce the strength and stats of monsters wasn't that much as high as when he used it against races.
But it was effective. And in such a grand battle, such an effect was good enough to be considered a game changer.
It seemed that the colossal zombie got some intelligence as it took note of the spearhead. So many of the incoming zombies tried to cut his head down.
That was why the jumper came to his aid, alongside many of their forces.
As they weren't in any hard situation yet, I turned to watch that colossal zombie waiting for me in the middle of the ocean.
The turtle had few of the most deadly AOE attacks I ever saw in my life. So I knew if I summoned my armies to aid, I would only be delivering their bodies for this zombie to turn them into more zombies.
I had to fight it alone. But recalling the risky situation of these skills, and seeing that thick red curtain protecting this bastard made me hesitate.
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I wasn't doubting my ability to survive these attacks for a certain amount of time. But the problem lay in how to take down this beast while it was protected by these red beams.
"I have to take down these stars first," I turned my head and looked high to the sky. The red sparkling stars up there were shining bright as thousands of protective stars shone over the behemoth in front of me and protected it.
To take these stars down wasn't going to be an easy feat. These stars would be highly defended by the other defensive stars.
But I got the feeling that these defensive stars weren't as many as the offensive ones.
And that meant most of the defensive star weapons in the sky were preoccupied defending this behemoth.
I started to formulate a plan in my mind. This colossal behemoth had to be killed first. Or else no matter what, my kingdom would always be threatened by it and its zombies.
The zombies at the north weren't a problem right now as they lacked the ability to set foot on land. But seeing these zombies fighting on land made me realise the issue of the northern breed of zombies wasn't going to last long.
Once they'd evolved high enough, they'd be able to trespass my land. And so I had to take down this bastard, go down there and solve the problem of that den once and for all.
Then I'd start my northern invasion, and start my invasion of the outer worlds. As for the northern zombies, once they started to show signs of evolution and sat foot on land, I'd spare time to go and wipe them there.
[Get ready to retreat once I tell you] as I finished forming my plan, I had to secure the elites of my forces fighting here.
Or else while I was going to deal with this colossal zombie, I'd end up risking the lives of everyone around.
[No way! They are going to deeply infiltrate the land and kill everyone inside!]
For a rare occurrence, that jerk didn't cherish his life and chose to remain behind and fight. And yet I couldn't admire him at all. [Stop wasting my time and retreat when I give you the order]
[I won't!]
[Don't be stubborn! If you stay, not only will most of your army die, but also you may lose your head as well!]
[But the zombies...]
[Just retreat and form a grand circle around here. Kill any zombie trespassing] I grew tired from his foolishness.
What the heck was wrong with this dude? When I needed him to act heroic, he'd cower away, and when I needed him to pull back, he decided to stand his ground and fight.
Damn jerk!
[Cool! But once done, tell me to come and have more fun] he sent this weird message, which destroyed all the image I had about him from earlier.
He wasn't planning to stand here to protect my people or land, he wanted just to have more fun.
What was fun in fighting such strong zombies? I didn't know what went wrong in his head!
As for the spearhead, convincing him was much easier than this jumper.
[Sure boss. I'll retreat now! If not for that scary dude with a mask, I'd have retreated long time ago]
He was indeed the same coward and preferred running away when things went south.
Anyway, I waited for the two to prepare and I also did my own preparations.
I summoned most of the fallen gods, distributed them all over the shore. I also created ten safe zones and didn't leave behind any warriors.
[Retreat!] When I got done with all this, I sent the same order to the jumper and spearhead.
Their forces were already in millions, yet stretched over a large scale of the shore. So they looked few as they thinned out over the entire shore here.
Once the retreat order was given, they started to group as they retreated. Luckily the zombies were hungry and thirsty for their bodies and blood, ran after them and didn't walk aimlessly around.
[I'll need more force to form that encirclement] as they were retreating, the jumper sent this message, showing his greedy side again.
[You already have another army by your side]
[We two lost a lot of our men already]
[Then make use of the garrisons around here]
[They lost a lot of their forces too and won't be enough]
[Call for a close by army to come then]
[This will take forever! And this area is still unsecured. Do you think a free army can be found here except the ones you hold? Come on, give me one hundred million warriors]
[What do you think warriors are? They aren't grown on trees!]
[I heard you got billions of them. Giving me a hundred million is nothing]
[This isn't a game! Just do as I say and once this is all over I'll give you ten million]
[I can't promise to stop them with my current forces. Give me one hundred million and I can do it]
This jerk! He was getting on my nerves! And who did tell him that I got billions of warriors? I never told anyone about this before.
Was he bluffing? For a reason I felt he was seriously telling me that and wasn't joking around.
Chapter 1139 The Zombie Turtle
When I was ready to close the chat and ignore him, I saw the remaining forces of the two. Damn these two fools… They lost almost half of their armies already!
What the heck was wrong with them? This wasn't the first nor the second time to destroy an army I gave to him.
[Tell me, who is fighting at the south near the jumper and spearhead location?] as I saw this, I felt greatly enraged, instantly sent this message over to Isac.
[Legend is there, but why?]
[Give the order…] my eyes turned cold, [Legend is going to be the supreme general of the entire southern region. All other generals will report to him and follow his orders]
[This… But you have that masked dude there, right?]
[I know, and he'll also answer to Legend] I already had a good opinion about Legend. He was young, yet ambitious. With him leading here, I could finally heave a sigh of relief and focus on the tasks in my hand.
[Spread the word, all free armies and generals will come to the zone where I once slain a huge turtle monster here. Make them surround the region and form a huge blockade, kill any zombie coming at their direction]
[Is it this bad?]
[More than what you think] I closed the chat after stressing over doing this swiftly and fast.
The slackness of the jumper got on my nerves. That dude thought this was a nice time to bargain with me. Least to his knowledge that the situation was very serious.
Without the arrival of the entire reinforcements here and form their blockade successfully, I couldn't move. So even if that colossal turtle was waiting for me just a few miles away from the shore, I couldn't go there and fight it even if I wanted to.
This battle was destined to be heaven defying. Lots of people would die if they kept standing close from here.
So instead, I turned around and started killing the zombies using my fallen gods.
I didn't bring any warriors down though. According to Isac, Legend was less than one hour away. So I just had to buy him sometime before that capable dude would arrive.
[Did you make a kid superior to me?] Just as I started helping, that jerk seemed to get the news from Isac and got enraged.
[If you got something to say, wait till this is over before saying anything]
[F*ck you! It's better to serve another lord than you! Heck! I bet serving those brainless zombies is much better than you!]
[If you don't want to participate in the golden quest anymore then fine, scram and find some lord who is nice and generous as me]
[Screw you! Each time you do something bad to me you bring this damn matter over! Do you think I'm this miserable and pathetic? I can wait for the fifteen quest and meet my guy!]
[Yes, you tried this countless times over before and what's the result? Did you succeed? Ha?]
I knew he would say something like that one day. So when he did, my pre ready answer came swiftly on his face.
He went into silence, and I knew he wouldn't find any way to say something to extricate himself from this messy situation.
He brought this over himself. Who told him to act like a jerk all this time?
[Did that masked dude speak with you?] Just when I closed the chat with him and focused again on moving the chariot around, Isac sent it again.
[Ignore him, I already shelved him away]
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[Nice move, boss!] I swore I imagined Isac laughing at what I did with that jerk.
I closed the chat and returned to focus once again over the surrounding zombies.
Things weren't that hard actually. The number of newly joined zombies was still limited for a reason I didn't know.
But no matter what, it was something good that played to my favour.
The situation was under control until I saw lots of people coming from one direction.
[Lord, I'm here with my army] It was a message from Legend. That kid was young, but he was really trustworthy.
He arrived just in one hour as he promised. Sigh! Why didn't I have many such talented generals by my side? Why were most of my trusted people girls or jerks?
[Take command over this entire region. You know what to do, right?]
[Isac informed me already]
[Cool! Don't let any zombie escape. And don't let your people venture forward until I say so]
[I'll do what you say]
He was indeed a good boy. I just hoped he'd keep growing in the right path and not get polluted by the likes of the jumper and the spearhead.
As I watched Legend take command and retreat with his combined forces with the jumper and the spearhead, I knew it was time for me to head towards that behemoth out there.
But the first thing I did wasn't to move out, instead I bought a mighty weapon to balance the scales; my Libra!
[The being you selected is being judged]
[He is an enemy!]
[All of his stats will be permanently halved]
…
I got a long list of messages afterwards as the Libra worked fast this time. After it got activated, I saw that colossal turtle's body shone in black light, then its body started releasing dense black fog.
It looked like fire got in touch with a block of ice, releasing thick clouds from such contact.
I knew things weren't going to be good just by using this treasure of mine. But at least this behemoth was going to be cursed and wouldn't fight properly like it should be.
Then I started moving towards it.
I knew it was going to be a tough battle. My advantage might be in my prior knowledge of all of its abilities.
Just when I drew closer, that behemoth roared and next the dim sky was lit up by the falling scorching red fiery rocks that started falling from the sky.
Next the zombie roared again and I saw the ocean in front of this behemoth cleaved open, and lots of red dots started coming out fast, growing up in size like their growth was accelerated or something.
Another roar came and gigantic waves after another started to roll out towards my direction from behind that turtle.
Damn! I really hate fighting these turtles!
"Thundering Might!"
But even if I was impressed by seeing this might again, I wasn't slow in activating my best defensive skill.
The pillar shook the world and formed the grand shield. Then it fell in my hand while I watched a scene befitting the apocalypse.
The grand shield grew fast, sweeping across the ocean and part of the continent behind in mere breaths. At the same time, the falling fiery rocks, the gigantic tsunami waves, and the burning lava rocks came all at once to clash with my shield.
The clash created what one could best describe as the end of the world. Flashes of red, silver, brown, orange, and black lights glared at the edge of my shield, with explosive sounds that were ear deafening.
And these explosions came in succession, one after another, without any sign of being slowed down.
"Thundering Might!" The moment I got my pillar again, I reactivated the skill once more.
I had a doubt that the strength of this turtle zombie wasn't equal to the real strength of the turtle I fought once before.
That was thanks to the difference in quest levels where the two appeared. It might be zombies resurrected from dead monsters and fighters, but they showed strength befitting the fifth quest and not the real powers of those who died before.
And when I clashed against this turtle, and in the few seconds before I activated the Thundering Might skill again, I could see faint cracks appearing on the surface of my shield everywhere.
This never happened in the past fight against that turtle. And when considering that this turtle zombie got its powers halved, one could surely imagine how insanely powerful this zombie really was.
I clenched my fists while watching this epic fight. The zombie kept roaring non-stop, driving more deadly attacks towards my shields.
At first, with each few shields summoned, one would break apart like a burst egg. But after standing my ground for ten minutes, I finally was relieved to see my shields withstand the pressure at last.
*Rumble!* *Rumble!* *Rumble!*
Just when I heaved a sigh of relief, I saw many red beams falling down from the high sky, smashing all over my shield, bringing more damage to it.
And with the first wave of attacks, two outer shields didn't hold the pressure and got shattered at the spot.
"Angels! Screw you all!" I gritted my teeth knowing that the angels depended on my lack of fallen gods at the moment to come at me.
I couldn't call back my fallen gods for now. And I couldn't stand idle and watch these deadly star weapons keep messing with my fights.
Fine! You wanted to play with fire, then you had to expect getting your hand burnt!
Chapter 1140 Something Is Wrong!
"Come and eat as much as you want!"
I knew my situation looked bad. The angels acted at a very crucial moment without doubt.
Something seemed off about them. The angels I knew were quite impatient. They never thought that much up ahead in the game before.
But this time it seemed a bit different. This wasn't the first time they tried to outsmart me. Even if I managed to foil their plans, I had to give them the credit of being too calculative.
This wasn't a simple feat. These angels must have themselves a new leader. And that dude smelled trouble.
I watched my newly created fallen gods eat lots of stat crystals. I created ten thousand of them this time, planning to deal a hefty blow to the angels.
The price of creating this many was indeed high. Five billion soul points wasn't something cheap.
However I was ready to pay such a price. I wouldn't let such a chance of destroying most of these offensive star weapons slip by my fingers.
Also I knew without trying this hard, I wouldn't be able to regain control over the entire situation as well.
The fight this time was hard, and the main goal of these angels wasn't to kill me.
Killing me was something close to impossible. So they had another goal, which was to protect that turtle zombie and buy much time for it.
I could understand the point of trying to protect this giant behemoth, but trying to stall for time was weird in my eyes.
I felt so as if the angels wanted to just protect the turtle, they would have been settled with just using the defensive red beams.
But they also used their offensive red beams, which made no sense at all. The red beams would crush my shields with the help of that turtle's stupid attacks.
If they thought by using this alone I'd be stripped off my protective shields, then they'd have to be gravely mistaken.
If they were the old angels I used to know then I'd not suspect anything. But these angels were behaving smart, much smarter and more cunning than before.
Failing to notice my ability to use the pillar and create as many shields as I wanted didn't make any sense. So their aim wasn't to kill me, they wanted either to force my retreat or waste more time.
Either way, they'd end up buying lots of time. And that made me curious and little worried about their real goal.
What exactly did they dream to accomplish here? I looked around, and aside from that turtle behemoth in the middle of the ocean and the large higher grade zombies coming out in low rate offshore, nothing else posed any threat to me.
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If there was something like that, then it should be under water.
"I should deal with their trump card first," I pointed to the sky and gave the order for my evolved fallen gods to scatter.
"Pick one star weapon, use your ultimatum attack and detonate it!" I wasn't going to show any mercy to my enemies. As the fallen gods scattered under the protection of my shields, it was too late for the angels to stop their attack in time.
The next minute the entire situation changed. The sky high above was silent, but huge red flowers appeared up there.
I was sure if sound was allowed to pass, if that grand bubble protecting this planet was gone, then everyone in the world would have heard scary rumblings coming from these mighty explosions.
"Eat and replenish your energy," I didn't stand idle in this minute and scattered lots of stat crystals around for the fallen gods to use.
Even if they managed to destroy ten thousand of these star weapons, this wasn't enough to get rid of that annoyance.
I needed another shot, and by then I'd be satisfied. The number of the remaining star weapons up there wasn't that big at the moment. I estimated that after the second shot, there wouldn't be much more than a few hundred of them.
But as the angels were about to aim and fire, the star weapons up there strangely stopped their attack. I noticed the redness around that turtle diminished a lot, seemingly like fading away.
Before this, the protective red beams landed over the turtle zombie in torrents. And now, only a few threads remain.
"Shift your aim," I got what the angels wanted to do. They shifted the attention of the protective red beams to defend against my fallen god's deadly attacks.
But that came over the price to leave their biggest trophy unguarded. "Kill that motherf*cker!" I pointed my arm towards the turtle zombie, and next the entire world shook.
The combined attacks of ten thousand fallen gods wasn't a joke. The moment their attacks landed, the world beamed in different bright lights, flashing all over the place, filling the entire world in my eyes with blinding lights.
And then a scary rumbling booming noise appeared and lasted for a few minutes.
I was in my chariot, flying hundreds of metres above the ocean level. But from my place, I saw all the water around stirred up, forming waves of tsunami on their own without the need of that turtle's help.
This looked bad! I turned around and took a peek at the continent behind. Even the land didn't escape the wrath of my fallen gods' attacks.
I saw ground shaking, deep cracks like spider web spreading, and even lava appeared from many spots. Any hill or mountain near or far got flattened within minutes.
It was scary! And at this moment I felt relieved that I didn't start this fight before sending everyone back off.
I hoped they'd get back far enough to be protected from such deadly changes.
When I turned to look at the turtle again, I saw the lights shining further but the explosive noise started to grow weaker. At the same time, I saw the outer layers of my shields break apart, as if they got hammered with unstoppable force.
I hurriedly added more shields to replenish the lost ones. I felt like I was in a racing game, and with each passing minute, lots of my shields got broken and rendered into nothing but fine dust particles.
*Roar!*
Amidst all this, I heard the painful roars of that turtle zombie for the first time since such a scary attack landed. When I looked closer, I saw that my fallen gods' attacks didn't get brighter as I thought, they were actually getting suppressed.
The reason they looked brighter was thanks to the returning protective red beams that resumed falling again over the body of that turtle zombie.
The timely help from the protective star weapons came to protect this turtle from perishing in the hands of my fallen gods. And as it got such a special treatment, it started to target me again.
I didn't know why, but this time I felt its attacks getting much fiercer than before. Was it trying to get easy on me before or was it because it started burning its own life force to bring more strength?
Thinking about such out of this world strength made me wonder what it would have been like if I didn't curse it before the fight started?
Damn! If this was just half of its strength, then this bastard was enough to claim my head!
Thinking about that made my eyes turn colder. A scary thought flashed over my mind. What if the angels were buying time just to find a way to unseal the curse I applied?
I wasn't the same youngster who believed the old stories and the goodness of the angels before coming here. I got baptised by lots of adventures and tough battles, and I grew up to know a lot.
And if I had to say something as an unshakable fact about the universe, then nothing was absolute!
My cursing power was unique as it came from Anubis god. But as a god could grant me such abnormal power, another god might be somewhere in the universe able to undo it.
Thinking about such a possibility, and imagining what it would be like if this turtle regained its full strength, I knew I had to kill it as fast as I could.
"Replenish your energy," I moved fast among the large group of my fallen gods, distributing more stat crystals. Once they consumed it, I sent a mental order to them.
"Attack!" I simply raised one finger to the sky, and next thousands of attacks landed over the sky high star weapons.
Seeing this, the angels were forced to divert part of the protective red beams falling over the zombie to protect their precious remaining star weapons.
The shocking attack of my fallen gods already lost most of their brilliance and brutality. I knew they'd do it, and so I was prepared.
"Attack!"
Chapter 1141 There Is No Way To Kill It!
In fact, I didn't let all of my fallen gods attack the star weapons. Only half attacked, and the other remained in wait.
The moment the attention of these protective red beams moved to shield the high sky star weapons, I instantly gave the order for the other half of my fallen gods to attack.
And without any wait, their deadly attacks landed at that turtle zombie, bringing another wave of scary devastation along it.
The attack this time didn't cause the same destruction the first one did. Yet it was still scary. The world shook and the explosions came rumbling against the entire world, as if it was trying to devour it.
I watched the predicament I put the angels at. If they wanted to save their offensive star weapons, then they'd have to abandon that goliath zombie.
If they wanted to save the zombie, then things would be a little different.
I wanted to see their real intentions from this kind of attack. It was hard for me to see through lies and ascertain the truth. Without a hard to deal with situation like this, it would be impossible for me to know what the angels were truly thinking about.
If they decided to abandon their star weapons for the sake of this behemoth, then that meant this zombie held a much higher importance than the entirety of the star weapons.
I knew they paid a hefty price to bring such weapons here and keep activating them. At least tens of thousands of angels had to gather up here to deal with me.
So if they decided to abandon all this, that meant that the zombie's value was much more important than all the star weapons.
And if that was true, then this zombie would be truly scary.
Even if it was halved in its overall strength, its threat level wasn't related to its power, but to its value.
The angels would never strike a losing deal. And with the brilliant leader taking over all of them, I was sure they wouldn't make a wrong choice here.
Part of me prayed that they'd abandon this zombie. However when the red beams shone again over the zombie's body, lightening it all up with redness, my heart sank.
I looked up and saw thousands of the offensive stars getting destroyed. "It seems they have a deeper scheme than what appears on the surface," I muttered to myself in a dignified tone.
This… This was the worst case scenario. And the worst part of it was that I didn't know what they were truly after.
I had to act passive, wait until their preparations got completed and then try to react and adapt.
This wouldn't bode well. But what choice did I have here?
"Replenish and keep attacking," after the destruction of the star weapons high above, I didn't give up on them. Even if I couldn't see through their plans, I cared about this battle for now.
They made a decision, and I had to make sure they'd pay that price fully and without showing any mercy to them.
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However I didn't let my fallen gods attack the star weapons fully. I still left half attacking the star weapons above, and the other half attacking the zombie.
It took me almost half an hour to get rid of all the offensive star weapons in the sky. Now the enemy was chipped off one of their mighty blades. And that made me feel a little better.
But when I looked back at the grand turtle zombie, I couldn't help but frown.
The turtle kept attacking with its all might during the past half an hour. More shocking explosions and attacks came one after another. However not a single one managed to slip inside my shields.
Part of this was thanks to my fallen gods' crazy attacks. They nullified many of the zombie's power and even crushed many rocks and water waves.
But keeping using them to deal with this zombie was costly and not effective. I knew it was a losing exchange for me, and I had to call them back and stop this kind of madness for now.
I took away all the offensive star weapons, but whenever my fallen gods tried to aim at the defensive ones, they failed to detonate even a single one of them.
"Now… What can this son of b*tch do to make the angels favour it over their precious dolls?" I gazed deeply at the colossal zombie in front of me, trying to see what I missed.
I kept creating more shields while considering this troublesome issue. I recalled what I knew about this creature.
It came from the dead body of my turtle. According to my little turtle, it kept claiming that it was a descendant of dragons. Even if it was a turtle, it said it carried the bloodline of dragons inside its body.
Was it the reason then? Were they trying to level it up using whatever methods the zombies had?
Or was it the den? I didn't know where this den might be, as it was built under the ocean. The ocean was vast, and the den could be anywhere.
But seeing the small number of zombies coming out from the ocean made me unsure about this hypothesis.
Dealing with this turtle zombie out of water was a headache in itself. And if I tried to aim for the den to deal with it, then I would have to face not only the turtle zombie in unfavourable conditions, but also all the high grade zombies coming out from the den as well.
I could fight under water, and I had lots of monsters and warriors who could battle under water. Water battles weren't my sore spot anymore.
But that was under normal circumstances. This battle was a very high level one. And I didn't have any confidence in myself to make it out as a winner.
I didn't know what it took from the zombie race to make the dens all crushed and turned into my own puppets. But if they were required to get near the den and do something there, then I was sure this wasn't going to work.
Besides, I still didn't try it out to test it.
"I can't leave this place," I felt that something was binding this turtle zombie from leaving this spot. But as I didn't know what it was, I couldn't tell if this was permanent or temporary.
My gut feeling told me it was just a temporary case, and sooner or later the zombie would traverse my land and bring death everywhere.
It couldn't be stopped here, and I felt that later on I wouldn't.
What should I do then?
One option was to use endless warriors to kill it. But seeing the thick red curtain shielding it, I knew this wasn't going to work.
I thought about using my research department's modified human weapons. But again, the destructive power of this wasn't anything close to the combined ultimate attacks of five thousands fallen gods.
If all these fallen gods failed to bring it down, then I couldn't think of anything weaker to do what the fallen gods failed to do.
"It seems I have to use the same trick again," feeling helpless by finding no feasible way to deal with this danger, I took out another dark realm monster bone and looked at it in deep thought.
I could bind the movements of this goliath and the other high grade zombies using the explosion coming from this bone of mine.
I used the same trick already to bind the other giant behemoth zombie. And it worked just fine. However I knew this wasn't a solution at all.
It would buy me more time, and I had to find a proper way to deal with these troublesome zombies before the fire would die out.
"The top priority now is to seal this thing for now," I tried to search again for anything I had and could use.
I even thought about using the Hescos I had total control over to make them fight this turtle zombie, but something told me they wouldn't be of any help at all.
The most troublesome thing wasn't just the falling defensive red beams, but also that grand turtle zombie.
Its body was like a small continent floating over the ocean. Compared to my little turtle, it was much bigger without doubt.
This was all thanks to the boosts gained from the different quest levels. And so even if I tried to bring my little turtle here, it wouldn't even be of any help at all.
I thought about summoning all of my giant pets, but it felt like their combined strength wasn't enough.
I clenched the dark realm bone and decided to use it. Rushing to solve this problem in a few hours wasn't going to help. I had to take my time and try to find a way to crush these zombies once and for all.
As I decided, I held that bone in one hand and threw it in the air. Then I jumped all over it and started to refine it the same way I did before.
When it was ready, I risked and used a portal gate, appeared just beside that turtle dude, let the bone drop, then I teleported away.
This time I didn't return to my shield safe zone. Instead I appeared tens of miles away.
And from my position I could see a scary flare of red light that started to shine in that part of the world in a menacing way.
Chapter 1142 A Shocking Incident
Seeing such a scary mushroom cloud of fire even from such a far away distance made me quite relieved.
I had no way to contend with such a scary being for now. And there was another scary dude like this. At least by sealing the two together things would be quite easy on other fronts.
"What is that?!!!"
However before I would turn away and move to another spot, I noticed a giant blue colour coming up from there. The fire I saw before that dyed part of the sky behind that mushroom cloud was getting tainted by blueness right now.
It looked weird, and I felt a bad omen when I saw this.
*Boom!*
Standing this far away didn't stop the shocking explosive sound that erupted from the direction of redness and blueness.
And with the sound, a mighty shockwave swept across me and my chariot. The protective shield that could withstand tons of damage flickered, and for a rare incident it got crushed down into tiny pieces.
I looked in shock, not towards my shattered shield or my tattered chariot, but towards the direction such a shocking wave came from.
I saw no more redness there. All I saw was a massive blue colour that spanned up like it was a volcano erupts blue lava.
"This..." I tightened my fists and went instantly back to check over what happened. The shield over my chariot was regenerated smoothly in no time with the lack of damage falling on it.
The damage it took was over the capacity of the shield to regenerate and heal. So it wasn't weird for it to shatter, despite the chariot having enough energy to sustain the shield for long months.
When I passed through the portal, I saw a terrifying scene.
The turtle zombie was like a continent before, floating tens of miles away from the shore. Its colossal body surfaced on top of the ocean, looking like an endless carpet of blue colour around the pale yellow continent.
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But when I came here, and after the scary exchange between my fire and its water, I saw nothing left of this water.
The bottom of the ocean was revealed, creating what can be described now as a new shore. In the distance, I saw the ocean waves ragging wild, but unable to come closer to the deprived part of the ocean bed.
The land exposed wasn't like any land I ever saw. It wasn't irregular, but looked smooth like a polished surface of a diamond.
It was pure and clear, with transparent material forming its outer layer. Beneath it, I could see a grand mix of redness, blackness, and brownness.
It looked weird, like part of an alien world that came here.
The overall level of the exposed part of the ocean bed was already a couple of miles below the level of the old shore. In addition to that, it spanned for tens of miles in all directions.
Seeing this was enough evidence on how scary and brutal the exchange that just happened here was. I got the feeling despite such brutal exchange, that colossal turtle zombie was still alive.
I looked over the distant ocean, went towards it and kept looking with no avail. I couldn't see a glimpse of that behemoth.
I couldn't see its colossal body, and I still couldn't see any of its remains. That meant even after such a scary confrontation, that bastard was still alive.
"At least it went under water, either to heal or it got scared," I knew these were the only two possibilities happening, and despite that I felt the former was what would have happened here.
After flying around for an hour, I finally resigned and returned back.
[Send Legend, the jumper, and the spearhead with other generals over to my chariot] I sent to Isc, as I needed to discuss this matter deeply.
The other zombie was entrapped successfully, but this jerk had the ability to escape from my fire.
I didn't dwell much about what happened. I knew the turtle could use the power of the ocean and form massive tsunami waves.
But I never thought that such water would be able to contend against the scary fire of my activated bones. If I knew, I'd have used more than one bone to bring this bastard down.
It was too late to regret this now. Aside from such missteps, I got something useful from such an exchange.
That turtle zombie just got a taste of how scary my activated bones were. So it wouldn't risk getting out of the water no matter how appealing the situation was.
He could escape from my fire by using the endless ocean waves. If it went outside the ocean, it would lose its only protection.
[Where are you now?] Isac asked back and I looked around in a deep sigh.
[Make them come to the place where the grand explosion just happened. I'm waiting for them there]
These boys weren't that far away from me. In less than two hours, I saw many chariots coming towards me from the mainland.
I didn't just stand there idly. I kept thinking about the possible ways to solve these problems.
Dealing with the zombie back at New Jersey wasn't that troublesome compared with dealing with that turtle zombie.
Despite both having their own strengths, the one here was much harder to deal with.
One had a giant body and extreme physique and strength, while the other had deadly skills.
The reason that prevented me from trying to kill the zombie at New Jersey was the defensive beams. If not for these, slaying that zombie would take a while, but it was a sure kill.
Unlike this slippery dude here. This turtle zombie had what it took to bring me immense headache and endless trouble.
I knew this might be a good reason for the angels to support it over their offensive star weapons, but something told me things weren't that simple.
Chapter 1143 We Will Go All Out
The angels must have other motives and schemes in play. And yet I couldn't glimpse even traces of these schemes.
If I couldn't do anything to this zombie, and I didn't know anything related to the plans of the angels, then biding my time and fortifying my defences here would be the most optimal choice I had.
"Hahahaha! See? You mistreated me and that's your payback, hahahaha!"
Once I narrated the current situation in brief, the first to speak was the jerk. The jumper laughed and kept pointing at me as if this was quite amusing.
"Oh, someone here seems to have a death wish," I didn't show any sign of anger. In fact I spoke calmly while giving him a smile that wasn't like one.
Once I said these words, the body of that biggest jerk jerked slightly and he cut his useless laughs in the middle.
I might tolerate any of his sh*t anytime else, but not in such dire situations.
"Lord, what shall we do?" Legend asked, while giving the jumper a side glance filled with disdain.
We were all in this together. If I fell, if my kingdom got destroyed, not a single one of them would be spared.
So it was stupid laughing like this at my bad situation. After all, we were in all this sh*t together.
I looked at Legend and paused. In fact I already thought of a plan to fortify this zone.
But when I thought deeper about it, I knew just by doing this I'd end up losing the advantage I once had.
For a reason I felt that just by defending and staying alive wasn't enough. It was a vague feeling, but something told me I'd be dancing in my enemy's fingers if I just did that.
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The other solution I had wasn't that great. It was risky, however with such risk I felt safety lies within.
It was crazy, but just staying inside the boundaries of my kingdom and defending wasn't going to work.
"I'm going to go all out," I slowly announced my shocking decision, "we aren't going to be cornered here. We will go out, all out, killing all the enemies who are eyeing us, here or out there."
The generals around me amounted to one hundred and fifty. That meant they ruled over one hundred and fifty armies.
It might look like a fearsome force, but after all the fighting with the zombies, such force declined to less than one fifth of what they initially had.
But that didn't mean much to me. I raised all these fighters and trained them on the second Earth for all these years just to be used in this brutal quest.
I knew if it was someone else but me then he or she would have been in a much dire situation than what I had right now.
Even if I got such troublesome enemies to deal with, I was the only one in the entire apocalypse trials history to be able to say such words in such confidence.
I wasn't overconfident, I just knew how much power I already had. I had tons of armies and endless soldiers waiting to come here and help in any fight I wanted.
The Hescos already came here. They were far north. And they might be also at other places. Waiting much longer would add more pressure to me.
Besides, I knew that even with the current good situation I had in the fifth quest, things were destined to go south later on.
There were already many dens finished, one on land and the rest underwater up north. Not to mention the scary den that was controlled by that damn turtle zombie in the south.
If I didn't take the initiative to strike first, force the Hescos to reveal themselves and start killing them, I'd have to fight them while fighting the upcoming zombie storm.
Throughout my dealing with the turtle zombie, I got to learn that zombies would evolve with time. I didn't know how the aquatic zombies would evolve, but I was sure they would.
And once they reached the same stage the zombies coming from the southern den reached, they'd start hitting my land.
Defending against zombies from north, east, and south wasn't a good situation I wanted to be facing. And if I added Hescos in the mix, things were going to be out of hand.
I controlled the zombie plaque in most of the lands controlled by my kingdom. However I didn't control even half of this continent.
I couldn't say what was going on at the lands outside my kingdom control, and I didn't know what other races were doing. However I was sure there were going to be more dens outside the borders of my lands.
And eventually zombies from these dens would come and attack my kingdom.
In other words, although it seemed to be the best move right now to stay inside and fortify my defences, it was a losing move in the long run.
Dreaming about facing all these zombies coming nearly from all directions was mere fantasy. Without taking risk and securing the initiative, trying to clear the danger of Hescos at north and force other Hescos and hidden players to show up themselves, there was no real hope in winning this quest.
The only way to do it was to lead everyone I had, send them all towards the other worlds and go towards the north and clash with Hescos up there.
"Are you crazy?!!" The first to speak was the jumper. This time I knew he wasn't just trying to pick at me. He was indeed speaking seriously at this moment.
"This is the only way," I paused, "without taking risks, we are all going to die."
My words lacked any explanation, but from the deep tone accompanying them, everyone got that I wasn't bluffing.
I was their lord, the one who made all this possible. They knew I wasn't going to just risk everything without a good reason. And when I'd say our lives would be in danger, then I honestly and seriously meant it.