Chapter 1171 [Bonus ] The Hole Problem
"How many?" she asked, and I returned to the ongoing battle at the world, "half of them."
Half was indeed a scary number, a force that was enough to go in at least five worlds.
But I didn't even flinch when I thought about it. If the Hescos placed such importance over winning this, then I should welcome their sincerity with mine.
This battle wouldn't be lost no matter what. It was a difference of heaven and hell between showing the victorious battle to my forces and people, and showing them a battle that we were this close from winning.
Hescos badly wanted to win, and I didn't pale in comparison. I needed this win, desperately needed it. With it, many things would change.
So if they were bold enough to send tons of their forces there to crush mine, then why would I keep my hands? I knew this might limit my forces' performance at other worlds, ending even to lose a couple worlds.
But this was worth the trade. I didn't even look back again while watching the endless stream of forces and Hescos running as fast as they could towards my outermost forces.
The incoming enemies increased in number to the degree that trying to stop them with my weapons was impossible.
Soon enough, many enemies appeared at the frontlines. And without much anticipation, they cleaved their path unhindered through my forces, going deeper and heading towards the big circular hole nearby.
Watching this from my point of view made me feel my blood boil. The Hescos were really scary. And when they dealt with this battle in a more serious way, they were able to crush my forces in mere half an hour.
It was indeed scary. But when I looked at the side of my forces, I couldn't help but grin.
The weapons I asked for arrived at the other world and started to get in position. As for the ongoing battle there, the aerial one was close to being done as expected. And the ground battle was under the control of my forces.
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One thing was missed, this circular hole stood in between my incoming forces to support the frontlines.
To cross this hole, my forces need first to crush their enemies and then find a way to cross this bottomless hole.
The hole was almost a couple of hundred metres in width. Crossing it would be quite challenging.
"Isac, there is a situation up there," I knew it would be too much to ask my forces there to solve this problem. They were already burdened by the heavy assault by these Hectors and the races supporting them.
"What situation?" Isac was already done from handling the task of sending people over the sand world to build forts and walls there. So she was quite free in the past hours.
"The battle there is like this," I started to draw the general layout of this battle over the back of my chariot. I didn't use anything and just drew on air for Isac and Lily to know what it was like out there.
"So our forces can kill their enemies without doubt. But they had to cross these holes if we wanted to reinforce the frontlines and even push forward to claim the outward dense circle of defences."
I explained the current situation in as much detail as possible. At the same time, I stressed over the importance of this problem, and how it would greatly affect the overall goal of this battle.
Victory and loss wouldn't be decided by who would kill much more than the other. The winner would be the one controlling the distant gathering of defences, and right now Hescos were considered winners so far.
Even if their initial armies were killed, and were on the verge of losing, that didn't matter much. They changed their style of using tactics and tricks and came directly at my forces in such a scary way.
My forces had to get over these holes to stop the incoming threat of the Hescos. And that was why dealing with these two holes was something crucial at this moment.
"Why won't we just bury them with rocks?" Spearhead suddenly spoke from the side, as he was eavesdropping just like many others.
"Burry what? Are you dumb or what?" Lily sharply responded to him, while glaring at him in a way that made the spearhead return to be silent.
He got scared by her response, and I wasn't surprised by her reaction. She was feeling quite stressed and pressured by this situation.
Lily was smart, smart enough to know how important winning this battle was. She knew this, and thus she felt more pressured and became quite nervous.
So when the spearhead said such a silly suggestion, she didn't show any mercy to him. Besides, she got a point indeed. Only an idiot would suggest doing something useless like that.
"We can try and build some sort of bridges," Isac paused as she knew that despite this looking as an easy solution, it wasn't feasible for many reasons.
First we didn't have much time to do such a thing. Building bridges and moving them over would take many hours. And we all knew my forces out there wouldn't last for all this time.
Besides this problem, there was still another one. Even if we managed to build and stretch bridges over the holes, and luckily the Hescos got stopped by my suits and weapons, then there was still a very unstable factor.
The holes themselves!
These holes were connected with the world behind the walls and fortifications of the Hescos. If they sensed the presence of these bridges and knew their threat, they'd move out and start hitting my bridges with everything they got.
With a direct channel between their backlines and my bridges, they'd simply send tons of forces, even useless races, to come and bring these bridges down. Like this we'd lose the bridges no matter how hard we tried to defend them.
Such a solution might seem simple and logical, but it wasn't practical.
Chapter 1172 Crazy Idea
I also thought about bridges the moment I realised this problem. I even thought about sending forces down these holes and standing guard there.
But I knew this was going to fail. Unless I was ready to turn this fight into a battle over holes, then this idea wasn't going to work.
"It won't work," I shook my head and told her what she already knew.
"Then how about we use flying monsters?" Lily suddenly said, "I recall you breed flying monsters, right?"
My eyes shone brightly when I heard her words. Little Qi already had lots of flying monsters.
I didn't plan to use them in a fight. I just needed them to transport my forces across the two abysses.
"Send someone over to the pocket world there," I chose Lily as Isac wasn't well informed about that world. Lily nodded and went to execute the order.
Using flying monsters as a mount was an ideal solution. Each monster bred by little Qi was majestic. Their bodies were enough to carry tons of force on their backs. Not to mention these monsters were ferocious enough to join any fight without any worry over their lives.
Before I got a chance to return and watch the ongoing battle in the other world, someone came towards my chariot, someone I recognised.
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"Lord, may I have a word with you? Please?" I looked down at Garry, the one who was sent by old Gan and others to lead the forces of the research department.
I motioned for him to come up, and threw a rope for him to climb up here. Once arrived, he panted in a weird way, making me wonder if his strength was this weak or what.
"Lord… Hoof, I heard you sent for flying monsters…" he couldn't speak without panting and catching his breath.
"What's wrong with you?" I looked in a weird way towards him, and he took a few minutes before calming his breaths down.
"I just came in a hurry towards here," he looked little better, and I felt like he ran all the way across the entire continent or something, "I heard lord wants the help of the flying monsters, right?"
"That's correct," I looked in anticipation towards what he was going to say. He was part of the research department, and he must have some sort of crazy idea about what to do.
Would he suggest using apaches and other fighters? I doubted that. If they got such a large amount of high end human tech, he wouldn't just send these small numbers of fighters here to begin with.
Besides, fighters weren't able to transport many troops. Or did they transform some sort of huge planes to be apocalypse friendly?
"I believe the lord has seen the strength of our portable shields, right?"
I was surprised by what he said, and I remembered the flaring lights and oval shaped shields that appeared around the apaches while fighting against Hescos.
"We can arm these monsters with these," he didn't stop his madness there, and kept adding more pieces of crazy ideas, "we can also arm their backs with portable cannons and guns. If you also wanted, we can add the new version of portable rocket launchers, mini-missile launchers, and the most recent addition of long ranged mine thrower."
I looked at this dude… What was he really thinking exactly? I imagined and tried to add all the things he spoke about on the backs of my flying monsters.
If what he said was true, and he and his crew succeeded in doing such a thing, then it would be awesome and mind blowing! Flying monsters would turn into miniature versions of flying fortresses! And they even might be much deadlier thanks to their swift flying capabilities.
"Are you sure you can do it?" I looked in doubt towards him. Saying all this stuff was great and cool. But applying it to the monsters was another matter.
Monsters were living creatures, not just some sort of ores or dead rocks. They couldn't have such things installed over their bodies without much damage to the bodies of these monsters.
"We have our ways to do it," Garry spoke in such confidence, making me even doubt that the department already ran tests over monsters to make such things work over their backs without worry.
"Then I want to see how you'll do it," I didn't reject his offer to help, "but if you are going to take a long time, I won't let that happen. You know we are fighting against a tough enemy out there."
"I won't disappoint lord," he kept acting this mighty and boastful of their ability to do it. And he claimed to do it in a smooth and fast way, making me wonder how they'd do it.
I watched him getting down and start shouting at his people. I saw a few going through the portals back to second Earth, seemingly calling for help.
I waited and watched without interfering or saying anything. As this was going to take some time, I returned to check over the current situation of the battlefield over the other world.
The battle was going according to my worst expectations. The sudden burst of Hescos with all their forces made it impossible for my outermost forces to stop them.
They couldn't even delay them too much until the Hescos finally got near the suit legions. The moment they got closer, the suits started to attack hard and fast, showing no mercy for these Hescos.
This helped a lot in stopping the incoming Hescos. But many of the Hescos wore flying suits as well. So the effect of the flying suits on my side was quite limited by a lot.
The ground battle turned to be much bloodier than before. The forces at the mid zones were already strong. They started to fight the Hescos on equal grounds. Only the number difference that played in Hescos favour was causing my forces to lose this clash.
Chapter 1173 Arming Monsters
But things were quite good in the inner zone, near the portal. The apaches there finished clearing the flying Hescos and only few remained alive, trying to run for their lives.
The ground fight was now getting heated up to a higher degree. The apaches which were freed from the aerial battle were now joining the ground one. As for the warriors, their number swelled up to form almost two thirds of the entire forces in the middle zone.
Such an increase helped pretty much in turning the situation out there to my favour. But without a way to cross the holes, this advantage would mean nothing at the end of the day.
Most of my warriors were stuck outside the portal right now, unable to enter inside. I knew the place out there was crowded, and that frustrated me.
If I got this time to send more reinforcements then I wouldn't have to worry about anything. But my enemies got all the time in the world to send their forces, and I couldn't.
It was indeed quite frustrating.
As things seemed to not change for the next few hours, I finally shifted my attention back to the world around me. The ones sent by Lily came back with many flying beasts.
I already have many monsters as warriors in my inventory. However I didn't intend to use them. I knew that little Qi was feeding and breeding monsters to a scary degree. So it was meaningless to use my own monsters and intended to use the scary dudes from that qilin.
I let the qilin play for a long time already. It was time to collect my interest.
Different shaped monsters came out from the portals linked to the second Earth world. From their outer appearances, I got the idea they were somehow related to each other.
I knew how my little Qi performed his plays. He used monsters to feed on others and grow stronger. If that was true, then it meant these monsters got part of the ones they consumed.
And that made their outer appearances look slightly similar. In the next hour, at least hundreds of thousands of them appeared here. And more were still coming.
Looking at their huge bodies made me sure about the transport task I'd entrust them with.
The moment they appeared, Garry led his people to start working over these monsters.
I watched tens of thousands working over a few thousand monsters which appeared first.
I keenly watched what they did. The first thing they did after climbing over these monsters' backs was to scatter some sort of special material over the monsters.
This material was liquid form, but once touched the backs of the monsters it turned a little solid. The liquid wasn't that hard, but it looked enough to stabilise things over.
They kept placing this material until its thickness grew for a few metres thick over the monsters' backs. I got the feeling this substance was heavy, but when the monsters flapped their wings and flew around to warm up, I knew it was quite light.
Then they started installing different types of modified human weapons all over the backs of these monsters.
Using the material they scattered first, installing the weapons wasn't now an impossible task as I expected. Each weapon had its own group of tripods that stuck deeply into this material.
I looked closer and the feeling I got from this material was that it was in a semi-solid state, acting as a cushion for the weapons.
Despite my worries, when the teams finished installing dozens of different weapons over the backs of each monster without affecting their flying abilities, stability, nor speed, my worries vanished.
One batch after another, these teams led by Garry were performing quite well. And I had to admit, they were quite fast as well. They didn't take more than a few minutes to finish installing these dozens of weapons and their ammunition over these monsters.
Seeing the monsters they finished processing and the fresh ones coming from the portal made me feel a great shock. The monsters coming out from the portals looked like they were naked, without a single gear or weapon, or cloth.
As for the ones having these weapons, they looked like true ferocious beasts. They left quite the impression in my heart, especially when few warriors landed over their backs to try the defensive weapons.
First thick layers of sturdy, cool looking ore shields with metallic lustre appeared all over the monster bodies, even covering up their feathers, horns, and talons.
Just these shields added a dreadful appearance to all the monsters. And that wasn't the end. The next was some sort of halo type of weapon that engulfed each monster with fire like clouds in different lights.
Without the need to test anything, I could tell these monsters got lots of boost at most of their stats. Their speed skyrocketed, their agility became something else. And I felt like their strength was doubled at least.
Then the defensive shields appeared in the form of oval shaped balls of light that I knew how strong they were.
Seeing all this made me have more hope in that battle. Despite Garry's pleas to send the monsters done with these modifications out to that world, I refused.
If I sent these in small numbers, then the impact given wouldn't last forever. The Hescos were just a smart race to be reckoned with. I wouldn't overestimate my abilities and underestimate their intelligence.
So I had to show off my hand in a shocking and crushing manner, not giving them any thoughts about how to deal with my new trump card.
Unlike what Garry requested more than ten times already, I kept myself patient, kept these monsters hidden here and didn't send them out to the other world.
I waited for another three hours until I got over a couple hundred thousand flying monsters.
This was barely enough to carry millions over the holes. I was keeping an eye on what was happening over the other world. The battle there was close from over in the central zone.
Chapter 1174 Starting The Counterattack
The outside battle was indeed dire. We started losing many of the suit forces, and the Hescos were advancing steadily towards the central zone.
I could only watch this and sigh. The outer layer was entirely crushed. And the Hescos alongside their allied races were coming hot towards the outer hole, almost close from reaching there.
Once this endless swarm of forces managed to cross the hole, then the battle in the midzone would turn uglier. I knew I couldn't wait any longer. And so I turned towards Isac as I ordered:
"All the warriors here, let them get on board these monsters and get ready to fight," I paused before adding, "the target will be the second hole. Make sure the monsters and warriors know this."
"Are we going to take reinforcements from here?" Isac wasn't the only one surprised by my decision. Others looked at me in weird ways, especially Legend.
"Lord, let me go in there and join the fight," that kid had a very explosive blood. He couldn't control himself anymore and wanted to go in there and have some fun.
"No," but my answer came as swift as his question.
"Lord… I'm not that weak," he seemed to be taken aback by my instant rejection.
"It's not a question of your abilities," I slowly shook my head, "it's just there is no need to waste two grand generals in one world."
"But the situation there is quite bad…"
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"It's not a stage you can shine at," I interrupted his words, "just stand out and learn from this fight about how these Hescos battle. Pray to gods that your world will be one with Hescos, or else you can't blame anyone for your bad luck."
He returned to his side dejectedly and without any sign of arguing anymore. Even if he was quite impulsive about going there, he knew he could do nothing if I said no.
Wasting two armies in one world, and on top of that two capable grand generals wasn't worth it.
Not to mention things out there weren't going to be this bad.
The boarding process didn't take as long as I expected. The process went smoothly and in fifteen minutes, all the modified monsters were filled to the brim with my warriors.
I estimated that at most five millions would be transported. But when I looked at the empty ground around, I got the feeling that over twenty millions were over the monster backs at this moment.
Seeing this site made me feel more comfortable. Without any delay I gave the order and that army flew through the pillar of light, heading towards the other world.
The moment the early waves of monsters appeared, they didn't stop and flew fast and crossed the distance fast towards the outer hole.
The situation at the outer hole was dire. But when the flying legions of monsters appeared, the situation turned upside down.
The first wave of attacks came from the flying Hescos. They tried to stop the incoming few monsters, but they got beaten as well by the weapons on top of the monsters' backs.
At the same time when the Hescos attacks landed, the monsters' bodies shone brightly by fierce lights while their bodies got covered with dense pieces of armour. The protective bubble shield appeared as well.
The three layered defence kited down the scary attacks landing at the monsters, rendering them mostly useless.
Just when the attacks passed, the warriors on the backs of the monsters jumped off. The monsters flew closer to the ground, and the warriors landed, rolling over the bodies of the dense enemies there, and started their killing spree.
I didn't know if this was just a strike of luck or this was intentional, but the monsters led the warriors to areas filled with other races except for Hescos.
That made the landing process of tens of thousands of my warriors much smoother than I expected. At the same time, the warriors once touched the ground and stood on their feet, moved their weapons and killed the weaker races, clearing out a large area for more warriors to land.
The attack and landing process came just outside the outer hole. The Hescos saw the scattered zones which turned into safe areas temporarily for my forces and then tried to crush these before growing bigger.
But when they finished from the first wave of attack, more monsters caught up from the direction of the portal, turning the entire situation more dangerous for these Hescos.
They couldn't risk shifting their attention towards the ground warriors for the time being. The monsters were growing in number by each passing minute, and now they almost reached fifty thousand strong.
This was nothing compared with the millions of flying Hescos. But what was the use of numerical advantage when the Hescos failed to kill enough monsters before?
The second attack landed fiercely and many monsters fell this time. They mostly were the monsters belonging to the first wave that arrived. It seemed their protective gears got exhausted by the first attack.
However when the second wave ended, the ground situation grew more favourable to my warriors. And while the ground warriors were trying to stop the advance of the races and Hescos from the outer regions, I spotted something flashing on the ground.
"Wow! They got cannons with them! That's impressive and pretty much unexpected!" I was pleasantly surprised when I saw the tens of thousands of cannons and machine guns getting fixed on the ground and starting to aim and heat up towards the flying Hescos.
Those muzzles flared up in different lights, giving the impression that little stars were shining down in the middle of a dark sky.
This sudden attack coming from the ground interrupted the Hescos formation. The attack came just in time when the Hescos tried to launch their third wave of attacks.
Despite the disparity of numbers, the attacks coming from two directions made quite the impact. After all, each monster was filled with dozens of weapons that could endanger these Hescos.
Chapter 1175 An OP Force
So when the third clash ended, the situation looked stable for my monsters and warriors. This time not too many got beaten up and the shields and protective gears all over the monsters managed to withstand the attack.
Then when the fourth attack came, the situation got even better on both sides. The ground warriors moved like an unstoppable avalanche, cleaving their path through their foes with weapons, carving a long path of blood and gore.
The dead bodies were scattered on the sides, while the warriors kept pushing the safe zones much further. In less than one hour, the entire circular hole was layered with another circular safe zone that the Hescos couldn't breach.
And during this hour, more monsters got modified, carried tons of warriors and headed towards the other world.
As there were still many still waiting outside the portal to enter that other world, many monsters passed freely without any warriors on their backs. They went to the central zone and started loading warriors and forces, sending them over the inner hole.
This addition made the situation in the zone between the two holes stabilise. All I needed now to just wait and my forces would surely secure this win no matter what.
"Trying to sneak your way again in the middle of my forces? That might have worked before, but now my capable grand general out there won't fall for the same trick again, idiots!"
I laughed when I saw new waves of Hescos coming out from the innermost circular hole. The leaders of the Hescos knew the main source of trouble came from the central zone.
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After ten hours, all the hostile forces in the central zone were cleared. The forces there were waiting in lines, boarding the incoming empty monsters and were moved to either battlefields up front.
So trying to send more Hescos in the central zone was the only means these leaders got to stop the unstoppable momentum of my forces.
And as this momentum was destined to be unstoppable, when the new Hescos emerged, they were shocked to see many forces lying in wait for them on the edges of the inner hole.
The Hescos didn't last for long before they got killed and exterminated by my forces. In return, my forces didn't lose much. After all these Hescos didn't have time to build up their forces.
The attack was fierce and quite thundering from my forces. Seeing this made me grin in satisfaction. "That grand general is as sly as he is good," I laughed while watching the Hescos sending their forces out there to die.
The central battlefield was like an unshakable mountain in the face of the raindrops brought up by the Hescos. The middle battlefield was now under control. And the outer battlefield was getting better with each passing hour.
Right now there were millions of flying monsters armed with deadly weapons on their backs fighting against Hescos. The aerial battle turned into a hopeless situation for the Hescos, but their leaders would never dare to abandon this.
If the aerial fight got concluded to my monsters and warriors on their backs, then the ground forces would be annihilated without any suspense.
The fate of the entire battlefield turned over the shoulders of my flying legions fighting theirs. Even if the Hescos were losing too much in this aerial battle, they didn't dare stop sending reinforcements to it.
More Hescos flew over from the outer region, and many more were getting killed during the time. What would turn any Hescos desperate was the fact that my monsters weren't this easily killed.
Those folks from the research department did a brilliant job without doubt. Seeing such magical results in the other world made me smile.
The effort I exerted to have such a department running in my kingdom was worth every single speck of sweat I experienced while forming this department.
I looked at my old and forsaken human weapons and felt prideful from this. Without these weapons, without being stubborn in turning these useless weapons into apocalypse friendly ones, such a result I was seeing right now wouldn't exist.
I took the risk, made a crazy bet, and now it was time for me to harvest the fruits of my impossible gamble.
I recall all the times when many trials failed, many experiments went south or didn't yield the expected results. I remembered the first time I thought about this, and my decision back then to go all the way north and look for the MIT guys and try to secure them to serve me.
My attempts to go there, my battles, my crazy fight to secure Boston and its surroundings, my dealings with the big names in the arm corporation world before the apocalypse, the failed trials to make a sort of energy that could be used in the apocalypse, the joy over the faces of the youngsters when they managed to make a half-successful product, trying to secure talents from outer universe, getting old Gan and others, the tries that followed after to change the human weapons, the pride in their little success in changing the rocket launchers despite lacking enough firepower, the movement of the department to the second Earth world, the movement of the entire department again into the underground world of the pocket world, ending up by the amazing results I now had.
It was a long path! Too long to even remember each and every detail of it.
But it was worth it!
Seeing this amazing result made me laugh in pride and happiness. See this, mighty Hescos? See the fruits of my patience and long sighted vision? These were all my ideas, plans, and machination.
As a father proud of his sons' success in exams, coming on top of the entire class, I felt the same.
I turned around, and the sight of millions of flying monsters in different sizes and shapes felt my heart with more happiness.
This is what one would call an OP presence. Hescos the first race in the universe? Who said they weren't beatable?!
Chapter 1176 Time To Prepare For The Next Move
Watch me crushing their forces and strangling all their efforts and rendering them useless.
I could now move and open more tickets to other worlds, but I refrained from doing so. This battle was intense, and victory should be dealt with more respect.
I'd first wait to secure this win, then move tons of forces to strengthen this fort. If I was one of the Hescos leaders, I'd always try to snatch this fort from my hands regardless of the cost.
This wasn't just a mere battlefield, not a usual fort. This was a symbolic place for my kingdom and my forces. As long as this place was under my control, my forces would never lose hope in fighting and crushing more Hescos.
The Hescos' pride was going to be severely damaged. A nameless leader from a weak race who managed to crush the Hescos would turn the entire race into a laughing stalk for many, if not most of the universe.
Not to mention their sworn enemies, Toranks, wouldn't stand idle and watch. I was sure once the battle ended, the Toranks would use all their might to spread my fame far and wide.
This battle was going to be heard and known by most if not all citizens of my universe.
I stood my place watching the Hescos trying desperately on all fronts. They never stopped sending aerial Hescos, underground Hescos, and ground troops composed of different races and their kins to all the three battlefields of that world.
But try as hard as they might, their efforts ended up failing in the end. The battle kept grinding troops on both sides like it was the real doomsday.
I watched many of my warriors fall, to be replaced by much more sent out from my Earth. I never stopped bringing more warriors out, feeding them with stat crystals, and sent them there.
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At some point, the Hescos knew they couldn't take over the regions controlled by my forces. So instead they retreated their Hescos out there, left out only useless races, and started fortifying the outer walls and defences with densely packed forces.
They were preparing for the final battle, and so was I.
I watched the Hescos stop sending more fodders to the frontlines. At the same time, the outermost ring of defences showed abnormal activities there.
The walls became heavily boarded and well protected with tons of races.I never had the chance to examine the walls before. And when I looked at them, I found out these walls were at least one hundred metres in height, and almost the same in width.
That made them look like giant cubes placed at the border of this region.
Behind these walls lay dense structures, just the same as my capital defensive layout. There was no ground for tens of miles from the walls outwards. Instead the ground was filled with elevated and depressed landscape, formed out by densely packed stone blocks of special ores.
Just looking at the place outside the walls gave me the impression I was looking at a beehive. And that beehive was filled to the brim with wandering bees, sorry, races and Hescos.
In the middle of all this, an endless number of defensive towers were built. Putting the grand layout in consideration, I knew this wasn't just a mere defensive layout someone with no knowledge about such a thing like me would do.
Seeing this made me feel a little familiar. It had the same pattern and crazy thoughts of Isac. I turned to the all working hard Isac next to me, still pouring endless workers and materials to the sand world, and sighed.
She had to see this layout to give me ideas about how to control this. I was sure such a dense and complicated layout was built based on novel ideas of defence.
And the only one able to break such a thing would be Isac. or else my forces would have to pour every ounce of strength, sacrifice tons of their elite forces to claim this region.
And frankly speaking, I felt even after pouring so much out there, my forces might not be able to control everything out there.
I could see the layout for tens of miles away from the walls, but the defensive structure was really grand and colossal. It didn't show any signs of stopping, and I knew these defences would keep going for god knows how long.
"Isac, come here please," I shouted while holding a coloured brush and started to paint over one corner of my chariot's deck.
My chariot was now filled with many drawings. I used it before to draw the detailed maps of the US former country, and even the entire northern continent here.
And now I was drawing on another side to show Isac and others what lies beyond this curtain of light before us.
For a moment there I felt like a mad artist who would draw on anything he might find without any regard for anything.
"What?" Isac's tone was filled with her frustration, but I didn't mind that. She was very busy already with the previous task I gave to her.
"Assign a few of your entrusted people to take charge of that task and come here," I shouted without even lifting my head as I kept drawing.
I learnt from her how to draw tiny details over a large piece of paper. And I used this method right now to show her all the details I could see about the complicated defensive structure out there.
"What? I was just doing my job... What the heck is that?!!!" just in the middle of her rain of complaints, she was shocked when her eyes landed over what I was drawing.
Anyone else might think I was just throwing the brush around to draw something without concept or logic. But in Isac's keen and well trained eyes, she knew I was drawing a very complicated defensive layout.
"Who is mad enough to combine all these tactics in one region?!!" After watching me draw for close to half an hour, she finally grasped a little of the concept behind this damn thing.
As expected from my girl!
Chapter 1177 Waiting For Isac
"This isn't something hypothetical," I slowly said, stressing over every single word I was saying, "this is what lies in front of our forces in that world."
"Crazy! Whoever did that is crazy!" Isac kept repeating herself over and over again while I was copying everything I saw in the other world.
When I was done, two more hours passed and the fight out there was still hot. Even when the Hescos decided to pull back and bet everything on the hectic defences at the rear, they still kept pouring out endless armies of other races.
This was to keep my forces busy, buying time and creating opportunities for the entrapped Hescos in the middle of my forces.
They even used the huge holes to send many forces to fight with mine. That kept my boys busy, and the fight never ceased for one second.
But the good news was that the grand general out there was indeed special. He seemed to read what the Hescos wanted to do, and so he made plans to focus on the Hescos in the middle of my forces.
That led to many Hescos falling through such dense fights.
Even so, many Hescos managed to escape. The main route for their retreat was through the same holes they used to pour my forces before.
If they tried to retreat all the way across the vast battlefield, then they'd be hit by the unceasingly firing weapons from the central zone.
After clearing the central zone, and aside from a buffer zone of hundreds of metres, the entire zone was filled now with weapons firing nonâ€"stop at their enemies.
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It was a wise decision to retreat using the holes. But it also gave me some sort of an idea.
I watched in silence while Isac was bent over the entire drawing I just left over the back of my chariot.
She was in deep concentration, studying this entire layout without saying a single word. I stood on the side, while many other curious generals came to inspect and check over these complicated defences.
I just gave them a warning glance, warning them from saying a single word.
I estimated that my forces would take almost ten more hours to clear the hostile forces in the region they controlled. Then the real bloodied battle would start at the distant walls and defences.
Without taking down that region, the victory my forces secured so far would be pointless.
Also thinking that my forces would have time to go all the way to the distant walls and defences without fierce struggle and resistance from the side of the Hescos would be foolish thoughts.
These defences must be filled to the brim with many deadly tricks and traps. I didn't need to send anyone to test the region out there, but I was sure the area close to the walls would be filled with mines, deadly traps, and maybe even a trench would be there.
Aside from outer defences, there must be some sort of big war defensive weapons installed over the walls and the inner zones beyond.
That meant what Isac was doing right now wasn't just to break down the tricks laid in the defensive zones beyond the walls, but also to formulate the right tactics needed to assault these colossal walls and dense defences with the minimal losses.
And above all, this would help to secure my win even more, and perhaps give the spectating races and mighty figures a big surprise and even a fright.
As I got nothing else to do, I examined the preparations all around. The warriors were still poured out from my inventory like running water. I started to grow used to it like I was doing something normal or a habit.
Aside from the warriors and their consumption over the hills and mountains of stat crystals, I saw a growing number of flying monsters being prepared or already finished their modification.
As the fight inside that world started to shift towards my favour, I gave the order a few hours ago to stop pouring anymore reinforcements on the other world.
I wanted to give the Hescos the false impression that I was running low on my fighting forces. Besides I wanted to build up an immense force of high end forces of mine, enough to enter another scary battle like this and win.
Aside from these two, there was the place where Garry started to gather up the weapons brought out from the second Earth world.
These weapons were all similar to the weapons used so far in the battle in the other world. The good news was that the number of apaches and other models of fighters was increasing unceasingly during the past hours.
My orders that I gave Lily and Isac before seemed to show results right now. The research department focused more on developing these aerial monsters, making me feel more confident about the upcoming battle.
"Are these Howitzer cannons?!" In the middle of the large number of weapons lying on one side, I noticed something new.
It was a grand canyon with huge wheels, scary looking built and armour, and looking more like the frightening Howitzer cannons of the old human era.
These cannons were able to fire at much longer range, fire much more deadly ammunition than tanks or even rocket launchers. I moved to one edge of my chariots, and inspected the growing number of these little toys.
These cannons were bigger, much bigger than what I used to remember about the Howitzer cannons. I recalled a myth I read before about a crazy leader who once wanted to build colossal cannons to wipe out his enemies but ended up failing the project and war.
If that leader was alive right now, I got the impression he'd be thrilled by seeing his dream coming true.
Without the need to test these cannons, I knew their destructive power was scary. If the research department used the same tech used to build missiles and rockets, then the hits coming from these cannons would be enough to shake the world.
Chapter 1178 Figuring It Out
If they did a great job and invented a much scarier form of ammunition for this cannon, then I was sure the defensive structure that looked so intimidating would crumble in the face of these cannons.
Yes! Show me, show the world the value of the genius minds of my kingdom. Scare the Hescos, scare the universe, scare everyone and let this battle be eternally engraved in their minds as the start of my human rising.
"Are these… Drones?" amidst the dense weapons packed and waiting to get deployed, I noticed something new amidst them.
They were small in size, compared to the gigantic pieces of arms around. They had different shaped bodies, not bigger than five metres in length, width, and height, with eight arms extended and rising up from their bodies, holding rotors with sharp and short blades.
They looked like planes, fighters but in small size. I looked over and couldn't see any cockpit place for anyone to drive or board.
The only thing I could relate with the old human arsenal was drones. The drones I saw before in the records were smaller in size than these ones. But they were similar in lacking any place to pilot, and they were filled with rockets and missiles.
Considering the old fashioned drones, these ones were bigger. Compared to the modified weapons here, they looked like babies to them.
"They even modified drones… That's amazing!" I was gladly surprised by this new creation from my genius department.
These drones were once known as silent killers in the lost human civilization. The drones could fly silently, stealthed themselves over a large distance from their target, and land precise shots over them without getting noticed.
Zero margin error and one hundred percent success rate, that was the famous phrase I always read about these drones.
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But that was in time before the apocalypse. As for now, I honestly didn't know if they could play any role at all.
I looked over but couldn't find any surprising weapons. I wasn't that disappointed as the weapons they already modified were great.
More weapons were getting transported from the second Earth world. More monsters were getting modified and strengthened by different weapons. And at last the warrior count was growing steadily as they kept consuming stat crystals.
Everything was perfect. And what we lacked now was just the genius ideas from Isac.
I turned to look at her. Even after five hours of deep contemplation, she didn't raise her head off the deck of my chariot.
She was lost in reading and understanding the complicated defences of the other world. Seeing her like this made me feel respect for the ones who were behind doing such a thing on the Hescos side.
Even if they were my enemies, I wouldn't be stingy to not show them respect.
But that didn't mean Isac was worse. She just needed time and I was sure she was going to break down all this and come up with a genius idea for counter attack.
As she seemed lost in her thinking, I turned my eyes over the other world. The fight over there was still continuing, but it lacked any intensity like before.
The main reason behind this was that the only enemies coming at my forces there were formed of different races aside from Hescos. Even if these races were strong, they weren't enough to challenge my elite forces.
After the passage of ten more hours, I started to be suspicious. The enemy could have just thrown the towel and dropped the attempts over this part of the world.
Hescos were already amassing a large number of forces at the distant forts and walls. They didn't need to send more races to kill my forces as that proved futile.
Yet they kept sending races, and even increased the number of forces sent over to my side.
That was weird. And one thing might be the reason behind this. They wanted to exhaust my forces by continuous fighting and not give them any chance to rest.
Using useless races to wear down my forces might be a silly idea. But if they were ready to keep pouring out such races endlessly for long hours, even days, then perhaps they'd get the result they wanted.
"Who told them there are only these forces? That's nonsense!" I laughed over their naive thinking. However I didn't think too much about any of this.
After all they didn't depend entirely on wearing down my forces. For them, it might have been one small plot they used, and they didn't even place any importance over it.
It felt like someone was trying to get his way out of a maze, and he kept punching the walls and rocks of the maze, with little to no hope of crushing his way through it by his force.
Seeing this made me feel a little relieved as well. Isac seemed to be on the verge of discovering something. Her face kept twitching and switching between happiness, frown, and depression from time to time in the past couple of hours.
That meant she was this close from grasping the main concept of this grand complicated maze. And hopefully she'd gain insight about how to deal with this maze as well.
But my wait for her solution had to last for an entire day. During this, I didn't even consider for one moment to open another portal to another world.
My forces were all going to serve one purpose now; crushing down these Hescos before doing anything else.
So I had to wait. And after all this wait, she didn't disappoint me.
"I figured it out!" she blurted this out after an entire day and half of waiting and utter silence. I already revised and memorised this design by heart. Yet I couldn't tell a head or tail about it.
What made it all a mystery to me was all these ups and downs in the grand design of the defences beyond the walls.
Chapter 1179 Insane Defences
I could tell these parts had to play a role in defending this zone. But as long as I couldn't tell what they would do exactly, and how dangerous they might be, I couldn't understand anything about this place at all.
"Tell me then," I was jolted awake from inspecting the other world's useless fight and turned to her in anticipation.
She cleared her throat for a second before saying:
"Whoever did this is really nuts! I believe it's not just a single person, but a group of crazy folks who may be considered as grandmasters in defence."
"Did you break it down?" I knew she was impressed by who built this complicated defence. But that wasn't the time to waste time complaining about them. It was time to show them we also had monsters on our side.
"Of course," she puffed her chest and acted in a rare moment of arrogance. I nodded at her without saying anything. She deserved to enjoy this moment.
"This layout is a mix of over one hundred ancient designs of defence. Using any of these alone may be useless," she started to point at several points at the drawing without me getting any of what she was saying.
She seemed to sense my confusion so she added in much simpler words, "to learn this kind of craft, I had to read through tons of ancient techniques and ways to make defences. You can consider them classics, the old textbooks that would give anyone reading and studying them an overall view about how building defences work."
"Are you saying that these old defences are used here?" I pointed at the complicated defensive drawing and frowned.
"That's true," she nodded, "if we are talking about using one or two in the middle of modern designs then things wouldn't be this hard. But the ones who designed this made use of over one hundred classic designs and turned them into something I never saw or even imagined before."
"But you broke it down, understood everything about it, right?" from what she said I could tell that whoever did this layout made sure to mix commonly known designs into a brand new one.
Thinking that by using the old and well known designs might make understanding this grand layout easier was a mistake.
Whoever did this was indeed a real genius. He used what was known and turned it into something brand new, unknown to anyone else.
And that was why even with prior knowledge, Isac took all this time to decipher the meaning and real concept behind this grand layout.
"I told you I did," she gave me a soft chuckle before adding, "the main trick isn't by combining all these layouts together. The trick lies deeper than that."
My eyes shone as I got what she meant. "They used all these layouts to mask the main concept behind this? Does this mean there is another defensive layout underneath all of these?"
It was a crazy idea, but seeing her nod made me realise my wild guess was correct.
The ones who devised this layout aimed to make use of the ancient designs to not create something brand new, but to mask the real threatening defensive layout underneath.
I thought about it a little and got to realise how scary the minds of those who planned all this. They knew that any mastermind trying to read through their layout would be preoccupied by the grand design in front of their eyes.
So it seemed safe to mask the presence of the real defensive layout underneath all this. And to be able to think about something like that and successfully use it was a sign of how scary these folks were.
"They did that indeed, and the good news is that layout is the one controlling all these defences," she leant over the deck of my chariot, and started to draw something using a brush of her own.
When I looked at what she was drawing, I figured that she was drawing the same general design of that dense fortified zone beyond the walls.
But when I looked closer, I saw that her drawings weren't that concentrated or complex like mine were.
Hers were simple, formed mostly by flat lines and few dots. There was nothing special about this, but weirdly enough it extended to cover the entire region.
"This… It looks like a spider web…" I muttered while seeing a repeated pattern over and over again.
"These dots are the towers responsible for controlling other defences in the region," Isac pointed at one of the dots she drew and scattered all over her drawing, "each one of these are considered as a main control room. Using the lines of walls around, they can control everything within their range."
I looked closer and could see now what she meant by this. The entire structure was like a massive spider web. But taking into account the dots scattered all over the place and the thin lines coming out from these, I could now see a picture of many small spiders weaving their lairs all over the place.
The lines extended to connect with all the defensive structures in the region. When I compared the two drawings together, I could clearly see how these lines controlled and connected everything with the main control towers.
At the same time, there were few lines connecting the towers together. And that meant these control rooms were all connected and working in tacit understanding.
"They are connected," I pointed to a few lines as I added, "will taking down a few towers affect the entire defensive abilities of this damn place?"
"You got it right," she sighed, "the ones who designed this made sure that even by taking down part of the main defensive towers, the entire defensive functions of the area wouldn't get affected."
"This…" I felt a cold shiver down my spine. This was something insane to think about, and that meant my forces had to take down the entire place if they wanted to demolish the defensive functions of this grand layout.
Chapter 1180 I Can Help
"But I got something to solve this problem," as I was growing a massive headache about this, she finally said something nice, "each region is controlled tightly by a group of one hundred towers…"
She leant over the drawing of her and started to draw circles. Each one contained one hundred towers, "if we dealt with the entire structure as a whole, we won't be able to do anything to it. But if we arranged it into different zones, each containing one hundred towers, then we could easily crush the defences there."
I looked at the circles she drew and at the entire drawing. To be honest, I didn't feel much about what she just said. Everything looked like a big puzzle in my eyes.
"I don't get what you mean," I honestly said. And she smiled as if she expected this.
"The ones who designed all this didn't have the ability to build a sophisticated layout expanding over hundred of miles as this one here. So they had to divide the entire region into zones, each controlled with one hundred towers."
I looked at the drawing again and when I thought about her words, I felt the drawing became simpler than before.
Even the complicated design of mine began to be much easier to understand.
"They aren't gods after all," I muttered, feeling much relieved that the scary ones who did all this were still suffering and struggling like normal beings.
Even if they got something novel like this layout, they still couldn't be this overbearing. And I was lucky to have someone like Isac by my side.
"So we need to attack that place zone by zone?" I asked, but unlike what I expected she shook her head.
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"Doing this will put great pressure on our forces. After all, other regions won't stand idle and watch us dissemble the layout built near them."
"That's a good point," I nodded despite the lack of any happiness or enthusiasm, "but you have a solution for this, right?"
"Thinking about taking the entire zones out is crazy," she didn't directly answer my question and instead she started to draw smaller circles inside the bigger ones she previously drew, "I bet the ones who devised all this wanted any army coming at these defences to commit such a mistake."
"And?" I still didn't get the answer I wanted.
"In the smaller zones, taking down one third of the defensive towers would weaken the entire zone defences. And taking one half down would paralyse the entire zone defence."
"This…" I paused while looking at her drawing again, "according to your words, we need to take down at least fifty towers from each zone, right?"
"Either this," she didn't answer me directly again, "or we find a way to determine the main key points in each zone. Taking down these key points would bring the same effect."
"Aren't both the same?" I didn't get what she meant by this.
"No, the number of key points is smaller than the fifty towers…" she looked at me and I didn't say a thing. So she added, "if my guess is correct, then there are five main key points in each zone. Taking these down will turn the entire zone useless."
"That's great news!" I clapped my hands in excitement. Taking down fifty towers was indeed a hard task, and many of my elite forces would die doing this.
But if we just needed to take down five towers, then things would be much easier for my forces.
"I don't have a way to determine these key points…"
"That's bad news!" I frowned and my excitement vanished the moment she said this.
"The ones who designed everything are the ones who know where these key points are," she sighed, "even if we managed to ascertain a few key points location in a few zones, that wouldn't help."
"Why is that?" She seemed to read my mind. I was thinking about sending armies out there as a test, determine the location of these key points at a few zones and then aim towards the same locations at other zones.
"If I was them, and I admit I'm not even close to one tenth of their mastery over defensive arts, then I'd make sure the arrangement of these key points will be random. Even if few have the same places of their key points, this will be aimed to fool us and won't give us any help at all."
I listened to her logic and found it acceptable. Such great minds able to think about something this complicated and crazy wouldn't commit a newbie error like this.
But that meant learning all this didn't help at all. My forces had to deal with each zone as if they were exploring new undiscovered lands. With one hundred towers out there, only five of them would be the key points.
And that meant my forces had to attack all to determine which ones were the key points. Doing so would place my forces at greater risk, and the total loss count would escalate.
When I thought about it, I didn't find any benefit from doing this either. It was the same trying to attack the towers and determine the places of the key points and trying to damage fifty towers from the start.
At least the second way had the fixed goal of destroying fifty towers, which would be much easier to accomplish.
"Is there a way to determine the key points without the need of sending everyone to all the towers?" I held little hope for this, and when she shook her head I knew this was going to end up bad.
"I got something that may help…" just when I was lost in thoughts, trying to accept the grand loss awaiting my forces out there, a voice appeared from behind me, attracting my attention.
When I turned, I saw Garry walking towards me from the direction of my chariot's stairs.
"Do you have a solution for this?" I asked with anticipation.
Chapter 1181 Drones
"I have to first ask," he came closer, stopped in front of the drawing and looked in awe towards it. I could get what he was feeling, as this was exactly what I was feeling hours ago.
"What question?" Isac spoke as she felt she was meant by Garry's words.
"How can we tell a key point from a normal tower?" Garry motioned towards the drawing before adding, "in my eyes, they are all the same. And I believe the ones fighting out there won't feel any difference."
"There is something well known for any key point in any defensive design," Isac paused as she attracted all of our attention before adding, "the ones who hold the key to the entire structure will be heavily defended by the enemy."
Her words landed and I frowned. What she said was true to some extent. The enemy wasn't like us. They must be already aware of the presence of these key points.
So when my forces would target these towers, the enemy would show changes and move out to strengthen the defences around these places.
That was a simple way to detect these key points. "But what if the enemy tried to play smart and nasty, moving around to fortify false towers?" Garry asked the same question I had in mind.
"That would be perfect," she laughed before adding, "if they didn't guard the key points, then we can make sure the probing attacks are enough to demolish these towers."
She didn't explain more and I already got a clue about what she meant by this.
If the enemy tried to act smart, then if we applied enough force to destroy the ones we were probing, the enemy would lose many key points.
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"Besides," as she watched the expression over my face and other generals around, she added in clear amusement, "the key point towers are supposed to be wielding a higher amount of energy than other towers. Destroying them will release a devastating wave of energy, enough to destroy more towers around it."
Her meaning was obvious. If the enemy moved to safeguard a few towers while the ones we attacked didn't release such a shock wave, then these towers the enemy defended were most likely to be the real deal.
But if the towers got destroyed and released such devastation, then the enemy was trying to act smart, ending up shooting themselves on the foot.
"So what do you plan to do to help?" as Isac answered his questions, she moved her eyes around him up and down as she gave him a deep glance.
Garry cleared his throat, turned around and pointed in a direction before saying: "I'm planning to use these."
My eyes followed the direction he was pointing towards and couldn't help but wonder in amazement, "drones? Are you going to use these?"
"Don't underestimate them, lord," he mysteriously smiled, "these drones can be quite deadly if used right."
I tried to recall the few records that spoke about these drones before feeling weirder. These drones were known for their long ranged control, but I never heard of them having such heavy fire ability, enough to take down any tower with few hits.
Garry noticed my weird expression, so he added, "drones can be remotely controlled, attack targets from a distance. But that isn't everything they can do."
He then pointed again towards another direction. There I saw hills of small balls with different colours. I once spotted them before and took them to be like the mines I once saw before.
"Mines?" I asked in confusion, but he shook his head.
"These are grenades," he paused before adding, "these are very explosive versions of grenades. Few are able to flatten mountains and bring down any strong defence."
For a moment there I got a vision of these drones flying around, throwing these grenades like the old times bombs in ancient human wars.
But when I thought thoroughly about it, I felt something was amiss. "You said these are grenades, not bombs, right?"
"Bombs are tricky to make," he seemed to get what I meant, sighed as he added, "every time we tried to make bombs, we failed. The mixture of the highly explosive ores didn't work. And without mixing different ores together, the end result is quite disappointing."
"Then…" I knew he understood my point. Grenades might be as devastating as bombs per his words, but there was a major difference between the two.
One didn't need anything but to be thrown from high altitude and let them detonate upon contact with ground, and the other needed to be triggered.
If these balls were grenades, then trying to detonate them using the drones wouldn't work. Throwing them would be like throwing rocks at the ground, yielding no result at all.
If no one was there, activating these bombs before throwing them, then this plan would fail.
"I didn't mean for them to be thrown," Garry shook his head before adding, "I plan to fill the drones entirely with these grenades, then remove their switch and link them together with the main control system of the drones. And using the direct impact of the crash, the grenades will explode at the same time."
"This…" I suddenly got the general idea behind his words. This dude… He was ruthless enough to decide using drones as bombs, sending these drones to crash with the towers and defensive targets, exploding the grenades hidden within.
I didn't know how grenades worked. But from his words I got the overall idea behind that. These grenades would need some sort of a shock to be triggered.
"Are you going to sacrifice these drones?" Isac and Lily shouted at the same time, while Legend and other generals raised a thumb up in salute towards Garry's boldness.
"Drones are being manufactured in large quantities already," Garry shrugged, as if doing this to the drones was something not worthy of our sympathy.
"But…"
"This idea sounds good," I interrupted Lily from saying anything pointless. This idea was indeed crazy, but it wasn't that bad if it actually worked.