Chapter 98 - 1213-1227

Chapter 1213 Fighting For Half An Hour

Seeing the flying Hescos attacking my ground troops, I instantly summoned part of the dragons. The moment these dragons appeared, they started devastating the unprepared flying Hescos and killed lots of them in the process.

It looked brutal, but the more hectic it was the better. I knew this might bode unwell for my side, but in chaos I found the best opportunities to make my best performance.

Instead of trying to do something different, I simply flew higher and summoned another wave of warriors out there.

These warriors didn't just appear at the first layer like before. They appeared at the few layers which got most of the hits so far.

The moment this happened, more chaos broke out. I watched all this in cold blood. No matter how many my warriors died, I still didn't flinch or feel bad about it.

I kept summoning more warriors, adding them to fight these Hescos without any shred of guilt or regret.

When my warriors covered up ten layers, I started to do something different.

By then, almost half an hour passed. I still got half an hour more, and so I got to speed things up.

I might have half an hour, which wouldn't amount to much. That was why I had to be a little selective here.

I looked around, and without much hesitation I selected a target. The next moment I activated my first technique, drew the circle out and controlled it using my bloodied left fist.

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The threads coming out from this technique got little boost, turning many into thick arms and not threads. The moment they appeared, they jumped at the bodies of the flying Hescos.

If I had to select one big crisis here to solve first then it'd be without doubt the flying legions of the Hescos. And if I controlled enough during the next half an hour, then things would be much easier for my forces when they'd arrive.

The moment my threads appeared, I felt like a hive of bees got stirred up all of sudden. The flying Hescos spread all over the sky, kept flying as fast as they could, trying to evade the incoming threads.

The ones who were attacking me were doing better than those who were in the middle of attacking my warriors over the ten layers.

These Hescos might be away from my chariot, and yet they were the first to fall off under my technique. That simply was thanks to lowering their guard, focusing over the warriors underneath them, without paying me much attention.

They didn't believe that from such a distance, my threads would target them. And unlike what they expected, my main goal was these Hescos.

Despite the distance, the speed of my threads proved to be unstoppable. They moved and in the next blink of an eye they appeared in front of these Hescos.

Seeing that many fell under my threads made me feel quite contemptuous. However the next moment I felt like things were going wrong.

The threads were connected to my technique, and they fueled from my body. The moment these threads penetrated the bodies of these Hescos, I felt like a black hole just got connected to me, sucking my energy dry on a scaring rate.

"Tsk, trying to compete against me in terms of energy? Idiots!" I waved an arm and the next moment lots of bones appeared, filling out my entire chariot.

I couldn't tell what these Hescos did, but for a reason they increased the rate of energy expenditure. If that was the problem, then it wasn't a problem for me.

The moment the bones appeared, I instantly started sucking their energy. However even with that, the scary rate of expenditure was on equal par with my absorption rate.

I could absorb energy from tons of bones, however at the same time I was limited by my body's absorption rate.

It was something I never took interest in before. The main reason behind it was that I never faced such a situation before this battle.

No matter how hard the enemy was, I always kept myself on upper hand using my bones. But this time things looked different.

Even with my bones, the energy I absorbed almost matched the scary expenditure of my enemies.

"It seems I have to find a way to hasten the speed of absorbing bone energy," I muttered while still attacking the flying Hescos.

Even if adding more Hescos added more pressure over my shoulders, I knew I could still do it. Even if the energy expenditure slightly overrun my energy supply, I could still keep it running.

I bet they did something to their suits to make it harder for my threads to control their bodies. But even so, they never managed to lower the speed of my technique taking control of the Hescos bodies.

That meant even with the scary expenditure, the speed of taking control over these suits didn't change. I'd still be able to control them in a few minutes, ten at most. And I even doubted that spending ten minutes would be the case here.

As expected, after supplying energy for five minutes, I finally controlled the first batch of my Hescos. This was just the start, as more threads appeared out from the controlled Hescos, invading more bodies around.

Seeing this I knew it was just inevitable for the Hescos to evade my clutches. I turned my eyes over the annoying ones, flying all over the sky under my shields.

I never stopped creating more shields till now. The attacks coming from the outer Hescos forces were indeed scary.

The sky was filled with endless brightening lights, giving anyone the sense that a true apocalypse was happening out there.

The Hescos underneath it were indeed hard to catch. I tried my best and in the end, only a small portion of them got controlled.

Half an hour passed fast. My warriors who were scattered all over the ten layers were still fighting brutally against the enemies.

Chapter 1214 The Arrival Of Sara

Even with my elite warriors, things didn't look that good. I felt like my warriors weren't enough to take the enemy down. And that was a true statement.

During the past hour, the warriors I sent were able to control different regions of the entire ten layers. But this wasn't even close to claiming the entire layers.

My hands were now tied down with controlling Hescos. After half an hour of trying without pause, I ended up controlling hundreds of thousands of these Hescos, and much more were this close from being added to this list.

But when one hour passed, I saw the pillar of light flashed and the incoming armies appeared.

And in the first batch, I spotted Sara coming out on her chariot. She looked deadly, like a queen from hell that just got to this world.

I didn't know why she looked like this, but I suddenly realised that it was my first time ever watching her fight in a long time.

Or was it because I never watched her fight from such a close distance? I couldn't tell...

As she appeared like that, I knew it would end up bad for the defending forces at the lowest layers of this fortress.

And that sounded like music in my ears.

I didn't need to worry anymore about the fight at these layers. My main focus should be over the flying Hescos who were still in millions.

Just when the new army appeared, the entire situation grew at a very alarming rate.

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The flying Hescos seemed to sense danger, started abandoning their earlier strategy of running around like scared mice and started to come down like a flood of ferocious tigers at my enemies.

This change was sudden even for me. All this time, the Hescos tried their best to evade my threats, and now they seemed to not care about them at all? This was weird.

Yet I didn't stop releasing my threads to take control of the Hescos. If they wanted to deliver themselves over to me, then I'd simply not say no.

Just as the endless soldiers of mine kept appearing from the portal, I sensed something wasn't right.

Without waiting for long, the sky that was already flashing with blinding lights started to quake. Something big was coming, something scary was attacking the shields of mine.

I looked up and couldn't tell what was coming. That stupid shield of light kept things happening out there off my sight.

Whatever it was, it was big enough to tear through many of my shields at one go. I looked around and knew I had to make up my mind for this.

Either I should select attacking the flying Hescos around and ditch the defending shields, or I should work over my shields, preventing what was coming from taking down the shields.

In fact both options looked unfavourable to me. I clenched my fists and made up my mind.

I'd go for both options until I got no option left in front of me.

I was already doing this before such an attack arrived. Even if it was scary, even if the ones releasing it kept doing it for a long time, the large number of shields I already formed would take quite some time to be brought down.

Instead of feeling confused or something, I started to focus more on controlling the Hescos. The moment the shield up there would be close from destruction would put an end to my efforts to control these Hescos.

The Hescos I already controlled signed a contract with me. Their number now was exceeding million, close to two actually.

If I got another hour, then I could easily double or triple such numbers. However the attacks coming from high above wouldn't give me such a chance.

As I kept casting more skills and controlling more Hescos, I also kept an eye over the ongoing battle at the layers around.

Even if I got millions of Hescos, I didn't let them join the fight against other Hescos. I just made them fly away, faking their attempt to evade my threads without taking part in this battle.

If other Hescos tried to fight and kill them, they'd be faced with great resistance before they eventually would change sides forcibly.

Any Hescos daring to come near my controlled ones would end up getting attacked by my threads. So after many failed attempts, the Hescos decided to give up taking down their controlled comrades.

When they shifted their attention over the ground battles, they got much worse by then. The armies that came out from the portal weren't just soldiers. Many weapons also appeared here as well.

Many anti-aerial forces weapons appeared. Even without the need to use any suit forces, the weapons were enough to cause enough headache to these Hescos.

In addition to the dragons that kept harassing the Hescos all the time. So in the end, the Hescos were squeezed between my forces and my threads.

At the same time, the ground Hescos troops who were hiding deep inside the underground forts started to gush out en masse.

Their numbers kept increasing by hundreds of thousands each passing minute. In just ten minutes, I estimated that tens of millions of Hescos were fighting my few million forces down below.

It looked dangerous, but even with such a large disparity between the two sides, my forces were doing great by facing the Hescos at many layers already.

Only four layers looked on the verge of being lost. Seeing this didn't make me feel any worry at all. My earlier plans depended on controlling just two up to three lowest layers after all.

Taking control of six layers was something much better than what I initially expected. Even if I got strangled by fighting the incoming attacks and controlling Hescos, unable to step in and summon more warriors to help, more of my forces were coming out from the portal with each passing minute.

Chapter 1215 Reinforcing The Shields

The Hescos weren't the only ones who were adding more troops to their side, mine also did. As for Sara, since the moment she appeared and the fight took a really sharp twist towards being overwhelmingly reckless and scary.

This girl didn't know anything about tactics! She just led her forces to compete with others head to head without any regard to anything else.

Even if many of her forces fell, it didn't make her pause. She kept flying over the heads of the ground Hescos, using her chariot to attack them using deadly weapons.

It seemed the research department already installed and modified her chariot, turning it into some sort of flying fortress. Just the attacks coming from her chariot was enough to take down tens of thousands of Hescos in each passing minute.

That was quite scary. If I got all my generals here, using their chariots like Sara did, then killing millions of these Hescos wouldn't be an issue.

But I just had one general now. As for the other four, I couldn't tell when they'd appear.

I just hoped they'd not be too late in their arrival. The hitting landing over the shields up there was getting fiercer by each passing minute. In my estimate, in the best case scenario, the shields up there could withstand these attacks for twenty more minutes at max.

I decided to give it fifteen minutes before focusing on using the skill of the pillar. If the pillar was an item I could lend, then it was better to lend it to Sara or another general to help.

Casting the skill repeatedly while concentrating over absorbing bones and trying to hunt down the hard to catch Hescos was already getting me cornered.

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So during the next fifteen minutes, I tried my best to increase the number of controlled Hescos. At the end, around three million Hescos were under my control.

Then I shifted my attention away, letting the controlled Hescos help me in controlling others. It was a passive way to control others, and it came with the drawback of it being limited by range.

Using this method was the only thing I could do right now. All I needed to do was to get more bones out, absorb them and use the energy to replenish the lost ones.

Just stopping caring for controlling more Hescos I had enough mind power and focus to make much more shields. I started to cast the skill almost each second, ending up forming lots of shields to support the sky.

The sound of the incoming hits was getting closer before I finally ditched controlling Hescos. Then by the addition of the new shields, this sound started to gradually become distant.

It was happening at a slow pace, but I was sure this method worked. The new shields kept covering up the sky, supporting the already existing shields and stopping the incoming attacks successfully.

I had to wait for a few hours until I finally returned to hear the sounds of these scary attacks coming from far away. It meant the shield layer grew to enough thickness to stop the incoming attacks without losing too much.

As I reached this point, I had the power to start up another thing. The first thing I did wasn't to return and control more Hescos, but to summon warriors.

After all these hours of fighting, the number of forces on the side of the layers was getting crushed by the still increasing enemies.

I didn't know how they did that. But for a moment there I doubted that these underground forts were linked with the outside world beyond this fortress.

Or else how could the Hescos keep throwing out tens of millions constantly for hours? Even I, who had a portal in the centre of this place, wasn't able to achieve such a thing.

No matter how many appeared out of the portal and joined the fight, the biggest number I ever got on my side was a few millions. The death toll was high and much of my forces were getting wounded or killed pretty damn fast.

Part of this was thanks to the scary offensive nature of Sara. This girl was just a fighting maniac, reminding me of the reckless Berserkers.

If Sara was with Wryly, I was sure she'd be pretty much loved and respected by the Berserkers out there.

Seeing all this made me realise if there was a breaking point in all this then it'd come from my warriors. Without adding more warriors, the incoming troops wouldn't be able to change this annoying stalemate.

Summoning warriors was easy peasy for me, but they'd end up being too much of a burden as they wouldn't be at their full strength.

So I had to wait until I enforced the shields enough before taking hills of stat crystals out alongside many warriors.

I started to summon the warriors I got from Silverlining, who reached a frightening figure in my inventory. I got many warriors from my warrior den, but didn't intend to use any of these yet.

These monsters were all strong and mighty, with many with wings. I decided to leave these till the most dire moments, hoping they'd be enough to deal with any urgent situation out there.

As I took my warriors out, I gave them the order to start consuming the stat crystals. Batch after batch started to fill up their stat reserve, ending up being in the best form to fight.

Yet I didn't throw them directly at the fight. I kept summoning forces out, adding more stats to them, then stored them in the midzone.

After all this time, the central zone was the only place controlled safely by my forces. Even the first layer didn't show any sign of getting under my control anytime soon.

I waited, gathered up millions of warriors while using my skill at the same time. From time to time I'd replenish the exhausted crystals, allowing more warriors to get their fill.

Chapter 1216 Grand Cannon

Luckily many of these warriors were flying races. That meant they could help in restraining the berserk flying Hescos or add more pressure over the ground Hescos.

Once the number of the warriors hit the ten million mark, I finally gave them the order to move out. "Take down the first layer," this was the order they gained.

I got ten million warriors but decided against spreading them out. If I did so, then the impact of their arrival wouldn't be as much.

I grew tired of watching my forces die for nothing. Even if we got the upper hand at six layers, it wasn't enough to consider this as my win.

So instead of spreading them around, I decided to throw all of them at one layer. Taking control of this layer would be the start, and the forces fighting there would have the time to move to the next layer to control it.

If it went right, then things would start snowballing out from here onward. Even so, I didn't stop taking out more warriors or feeding them crystals.

The shields up there were getting mercilessly hammered by whatever these Hescos were using. Even after long hours of fighting, such scary attacks never ceased to come nor got weakened in strength.

It was weird. But I knew I wouldn't get the chance to really see what was coming unless I'd allow the shields to get broken.

First I had to take these layers down, then I'd start climbing up there slowly, forming new layers of shields, and might get a glimpse of what was threatening my shields up there.

Just as I was preparing for the second batch of warriors, I saw the first batch I sent stuck in a very weird situation.

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The Hescos that were controlling the first layer didn't amount to more than a few millions. They were facing almost a million of my forces at most, and that seemed to be the reason behind their earlier stagnation.

But when ten million troops appeared, a weird scene occurred in front of my eyes. Almost ten more millions of Hescos appeared as well from the depths of the underground forts.

It looked weird. The Hescos should be already exhausting their strength fighting me all this time. So how did they find more forces to send out?

If they already have such a method, why didn't they use it before this? What exactly happened to let them obtain such a large number of forces at this layer?

While I was looking, I kept checking other battlefields. And after half an hour I got my answer.

The other layers stopped gushing more troops at this period. It seemed like my earlier guess about the Hescos was true. All these underground forts were connected somehow to a unified ground, a place where many forces were stationed.

If that was the reason, then it'd explain how the Hescos managed to gush out such a large number of forces to meet mine.

"If so, then taking one layer would have a domino-like effect on other layers," I evilly smirked, considering the entire scene after sending more batches to help.

The fight for this place turned weirdly into the fight over the first layer, or that was what I thought back then. As I got such an idea and inspiration, I resumed taking out warriors in greater spirit and let them strengthen themselves using stat crystals.

If one batch couldn't take it down, then five would do. If five wouldn't be enough, then a hundred would do. No matter what, this fight seemed to go towards my win.

The second batch was done and the third. As I sent the two to join the ongoing brutal battle at the first layer, the Hescos matched mine with more forces on their side.

Sending just equal numbers didn't work. After all, many of the warriors I sent were flying units. That made the fight more disadvantageous to them, and they ended up quite bad after the first batch was sent.

After sending the third batch, I had to stop. The banging coming from the upper shields became much fiercer than ever, meaning the enemy was just getting closer from smashing all the shields.

So I had to stop taking out warriors and focused again over strengthening my shields.

During the hours it took from me to return the shields to their best shape, I noticed the fight on the first layer wasn't going anywhere.

The Hescos kept sending out forces like they got no end to this. Seeing such a scene made me wonder if they brought out all the Hescos in this entire world here to fight against me.

Seeing that the battle for the first layer wasn't going as smoothly as I expected, I knew the next time I'd summon warriors I had to do it in a grander way.

Sending ten millions out seemed to be a good thing, but it didn't work eventually. So instead, it was better to gather up more, forming a grand batch of thirty million warriors or something before sending them out to fight.

This way the impact of my forces would be much better, and they might claim the first layer at the end.

So I went down again to summon warriors and let them strengthen themselves using stat crystals. However in the middle of doing this, a new change happened.

Something weird came out from one of the layers up there. At first I didn't notice it. But soon I was able to see what it was.

From what I counted as layer thirty, I saw a grand cannon protruding itself out from the depths of one of the underground forts out there.

It looked weird, just like a futuristic version of human cannons. The cannon was a few hundred metres long. The body of that grand canyon didn't appear yet, but I was sure it was so grand.

If the barrel alone had such a grand appearance, then how about its body?

Chapter 1217 Scary Weapons

Seeing such a thing coming out from that high up layer made me frown. I got too absorbed in dealing with the lowest layers, thinking everything was under my control.

But seeing such a unique weapon appearing from that layer beneath the protection of my shields, I knew things were going to take a fast roll down the mountain.

And just as I watched that grand canyon appear, more scary things started to come out in light.

They were all huge, sharing what I could describe as a threatening presence. One was like a huge machine gun, with many smaller barrels than the first cannon.

They were grouped together in groups, forming almost seven big groups of many smaller barrels.

Another one was like a rocket launcher. Another was like a flame thrower. More weird things appeared, forcing me to stop what I was doing and rose to the sky.

I rose to a level close to these layers. All these scary weapons came from the highest layers under my shields.

These layers were far away from the reach of my forces. Up till now, not a single battle erupted here.

What was weird about all this was the fact that all these weapons were just like my lost human arsenal. They looked much grander in size, but they kept the same appearance of the weapons of my humans.

"What's going on?!" I rose to a high point enough for me to see through everything these Hescos brought out. They didn't just bring these weapons alone, as they shielded them with tons of forces, even including many of the flying Hescos.

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The scene out there looked quite scary. I felt like all I did was for nothing. And seeing such scary weapons made my scalp numb.

I didn't even think about how they managed to copy my human's weapons. All I thought about was how to stop such scary weapons from shredding my forces down below.

If these weapons just kept part of my modified human weapons, then things would end quite badly.

The first thing I thought about was to retreat. Facing such unstoppable weapons would turn things upside down.

No matter what I did, even my chariot's sturdy shield seemed to pale in front of such grand firepower. At this moment I knew what was hammering all this time against my shields up there.

I couldn't help but sigh. This battle was indeed something I wanted to desperately win. But seeing all this made me regret not taking such a race more seriously.

It wasn't all my fault. I never knew such a race was able to do what my research department took years to accomplish. If they just started to mimic my human weapons from the last battle, then this race was quite scary in the form of talent.

I didn't know how they did it, but that didn't matter. I saw these scary weapons moving closer to the range of fire, making me want to give the order to retreat now more than ever.

Yet just before I'd do anything, I saw the ground Hescos forces all stirred up. They moved like unstoppable lions, lunging at my forces without any care for anything.

"Damn! Do they have a death wish or something?" I frowned when I saw this. It went without saying how scary these weapons were. Just by taking them out, the entire atmosphere changed and became so tense.

Hescos were a smart race, they'd easily expect my next move. If they wanted to try and stop my forces, then they simply could do so using few of their forces.

But the way I saw it, it looked like the entire Hescos fighters in the entire layers here moved in unison to take down my forces down below.

Swarms of flying Hescos moved and filled the sky with different dim colours. I spotted many ground Hescos using some sort of elastic ropes to jump in between layers, looking like agile monkeys, climbing down the layers to the lowest ones.

This was weird. Why were they doing this instead of retreating back? Did they have something to help them better aim at my forces and take them down without hurting much of theirs?

This didn't follow any logic! Just from the face of it, even if they managed to take us down, they'd end up suffering huge losses as well.

It'd end up as mutual destruction, a situation where we both we'd end up losing and suffering. It didn't make any sense, especially when there was a way for them out of this.

Something was wrong, quite and deeply wrong about this. I watched the Hescos flood the lower layers without showing any signs of slowing down.

They acted like crazy, as if they had nothing else to lose.

When I turned to look at the weapons, I found out that these weapons were moved to the edge and stopped there.

From their outer appearance things looked quite bad. The air these weapons emitted was scary. But when I looked closely, I was shocked to realise something.

"They didn't adjust the barrels towards the ground, but to the sky!" This was a shocking discovery, one that made me feel more bad omen.

If these weapons were let to attack the shields, then forget about the grand number of shields I made, or the ones I'd be able to create using the skill right now, nothing could stop in the face of these weapons.

Danger lurked everywhere around, coming from every corner without any mercy. I now realised why these Hescos never bothered about retreating when they brought such scary weapons out.

They never intended to use these against my forces, and that was quite scary and suspicious.

If I got such weapons on my side, I'd just need to stand on the edge of the fortress and start raining down the world down below using these weapons. In the end of the day, and no matter how many times I'd fire, not a single living soul would be able to survive such hell.

Chapter 1218 A Trick

In fact this was the most logical approach I'd think of, anyone would think of. But these Hescos aimed to do something different. They wanted to hit the shields and release the barrier standing between their forces up there and my forces here.

The more I thought about this, the more unsettled I became. Something was wrong here, terribly wrong without doubt.

If they got a way to send out tons of forces through the forts, then why would they bother linking the entire battlefield together?

All they had to do was to just send more forces from out there and let them come and join the fight. Was it the rate of their forces that made them make such a decision? Or was it something else?

I couldn't tell.

And when I thought about these weapons, I still grew more suspicious about them. They were enough to take down tons of armies without blinking.

So why didn't they just use them? Why did they just aim at the shields?

Even if I got all these thoughts, I knew I wouldn't be able to get the right answer right now. All I wanted to do was to stop these weapons from turning my shields into a useless pie.

Without hesitating any longer, I moved my chariot fast. There were tons of threats everywhere right now, but the greatest threat came from none other than these weapons.

If the Hescos thought that I'd sit by the side, watching them devastate my shields without doing anything, then they were wrong.

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Most of the armies they brought out to protect these weapons were already on their way down to the lowest layers. They wouldn't be able to step in and help in defending these weapons in time.

"Take these down!" Since the addition of Sara and other generals to the battlefield, I didn't need to use the sharp edge of my fallen gods.

They were left on my chariot, working as watchers on the side. But now it was time for them to shine.

I pointed in cold blood towards all these grand weapons, giving the order to destroy them in one fell swoop.

The next moment the entire world shone brighter and the entire higher layers were bathed under flickering blinding lights.

The attacks landed fiercely and without showing any mercy to the weapons and Hescos protecting them. The entire place shook violently and I couldn't tell what the result of such a brutal attack was until a few minutes passed.

During these minutes, the entire battleground spread and expanded, turning into some sort of life and death fighting between the two sides at the lowest layers.

The enemies didn't look quite well, as did my forces as well. Both sides were entangled in such a bloody fight, and I couldn't tell who was winning and who was losing.

Amidst such chaotic battle, I knew without using grand weapons or formidable forces, a victory or loss wouldn't be decided this fast.

I wanted to help, wanted to use the rest of my fallen gods to stabilise the situation. I wanted to take out the insane amount of monster warriors lying in my inventory alongside all the warriors I got from Silverlining.

This was the moment in which many of these forces would be put to good use. Or else what was the benefit of having such grand force without having the chance to use them at such deadly and crucial moments?

But before I'd make up my mind, I had to wait first to see the result of that grand attack over these weapons. They were the imminent threat my forces were facing at the moment.

Unbelievable sounds of explosions started to wreak havoc across the world, all coming from the places of these weapons. This was a good sign indeed, but I couldn't celebrate before seeing the result with my own eyes.

After a few minutes, the blinding light at these zones started to fade slowly. I finally started to see the result, and what I saw truly shocked me deep down to the bone.

"These… They are all fake weapons? Dammit!" I gritted my teeth the moment I made out what was left behind the scary attacks of my fallen gods.

The weapons that looked like nothing could challenge them turned into scrapped and melted metal. The remaining of these weapons got scattered across a grand zone, making it like these weapons were made out of cheapest ores in the entire universe.

I couldn't believe it! Was all this just a fake front? A play these Hescos performed to force me away from the ground battle? Force me to retreat?

The moment I realised this my blood started to boil in rage. I got fooled! I was well played by these damn Hescos.

Just thinking about my sense of fear and desire to retreat and take my forces away made me close from coughing up blood.

"Good… Great Hescos, that was indeed great," I found myself laughing without the ability to control my rage. All the weapons around were smashed into nothing. And most of the Hescos who came out here were already back in the underground forts, shielding themselves from the scary blasts of my fallen gods, or on their way down to the lowest layers.

They might have thought I'd be shitless scared from these weapons to the degree of trying to run away. And I was truly going to do so. Luckily for me I didn't.

I coldly turned my eyes towards the swarms of Hescos flying or climbing down towards the lowest layers. I now realised why they were on such an urge to get down there, join the battle despite bringing out such scary looking weapons.

They were fooling me! And the thought of being this close to getting tricked by such a cheap one made me much angrier.

"Attack," without any prior hesitation, I led my chariot down while giving my fallen gods the order with a voice that came from my locked up teeth, "don't stop firing, attack, attack everywhere and anyone of these damn Hescos!"

Chapter 1219 Taking Soulers Out

My rage had no limit at this moment. With such order, I also took out tons of warriors. They all were flying monsters, and they moved fast with my simple mind orders to hack these Hescos into shreds.

The entire place looked so chaotic at this moment. Fighting was going everywhere and anywhere. I didn't stop my chariot, took it all the way down, before summoning tons of my warriors.

This time I didn't keep my hand back. I called out for soulers and evolved soulers. I called for millions upon millions of my warriors before sending all to fight Hescos.

The warriors I first summoned were the ones strengthened by stat crystals before. They might not amount to much, but led by the soulers made them quite scary.

As they forced their way amidst the endless Hescos everywhere, I took out tons of stat crystals and left them without any care at the ground.

My summoned warriors weren't that strong to take down Hescos on their own. So as my forces were taking down more of these Hescos, keeping their main forces preoccupied, I wanted my weaker warriors to get this chance and use it to strengthen themselves.

I also summoned my other fallen gods and the rest of my summoned warriors through my class. They were the strongest even amidst the rest of warriors I had.

I let them fight freely, with one goal in mind; keeping the warriors down below safe until they'd fill their stat points to max before moving out to join the battle.

The enemy got their reinforcements, bought out precious time by this trick, and I also had my own ways to deal with this. If it was a grand contest on who had more elites than the other, then I'd end up being the top winner in such contests.

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Humph! These damn Hescos were already getting on my nerves!

*Boom!*

Just as I was in the middle of this madness, and when I thought I saw everything already, a new change developed fast.

It was a frightening exploding sound, coming from no other direction but the shields high above. I raised my head and saw the shields I painstakingly created getting smashed fast.

A rumbling noise was the first, then much more followed. I missed seeing the first hit, but the other hits appeared like ink dots falling on a sheet of paper.

Each hit thundered and rumbled the entire world around me. I could faintly make out the shape of a gigantic fist, hitting the shield one time after another.

No matter what was up there, it was just a single foe hitting the shields fiercely and without any pause. Each fist was like a giant mountain in size, giving me the impression whatever was coming here was something majestic and grand.

It was a foe that my forces here wouldn't stand a chance against. I clenched my fist around the pillar. No matter what, I shouldn't let such scary friends come here.

Or else no matter how much I got out from my warrior reserve, they wouldn't be able to stop it.

I was in a big dilemma right now. The Hescos came from all the layers, gushing out an endless stream of enemies towards my forces.

Even with the combined efforts of everyone here, they weren't able to stop such a flood alone. I had to keep taking out many warriors, yet if I did that I'd miss supporting the shields up there.

If the shields got broken, then not only such scary fiends would be allowed to trespass here, but also more Hescos as well.

Both choices were a must, and yet I had to select only one. "Screw it! I'll just summon warriors and let them go and try their luck," I tightly clenched my jaw, feeling the pressure over my shoulders.

I wouldn't be able to keep the technique running with my will. The threads had to find their foes coincidently from now on. Even if they managed to claim little Hescos every now and then, it would still amount to something in the end.

As for my warriors, they weren't half bad actually. Silverlining and Toranks made a great contribution to me before by selecting warriors with cultivation bases.

Of course a warrior with and without full stat points wasn't the same. But I wasn't in a position to even complain about it.

Taking out warriors was a simple task that didn't take much of my mind. But trying to take more stat crystals and give them the order to consume these to level up would consume more focus.

I took a deep breath and accepted such a trade. It wasn't a fair one, but it was the only way I could use right now to deal with this mess.

Luckily for me the warriors in my inventory seemed endless. So it wouldn't matter much to waste much more than expected here to win this battle.

I started to madly form my shields, not thinking about anything else. Even if I knew taking down these thirty something layers here would be great, I also knew after doing that I had to climb higher.

At one point, dealing with that grand fiend would be inevitable for me.

I had a few more cards that I hadn't put to use yet, but I refrained from using them for now. It'd be better for these to be kept to a later time, until that grand battle with the colossal fiend out there would erupt.

I summoned warriors while doing this. I stood in my chariot in the middle of the crazy onslaught going on all over the place, holding one pillar in one hand, controlling a technique in another, while summoning tons of warriors around me without thinking too much about any of these.

I didn't know even how many Hescos were controlled, or how many warriors appeared around in every summon. I didn't even know what type of warriors were summoned. All I did was to madly do all this while focusing on casting the skill of the pillar all the time.

Chapter 1220 A Scary Foe

This was a position I hated. I always thought that no matter who my enemy was, I'd always be able to turn the tables.

I took myself as a single man army, a person able to flip the ground and crush the sky with a move of a hand. But this battle opened my eyes wide over how naive I really was.

Even if we were all standing on an equal ground thanks to the low quest of the apocalypse we were currently at, it was still scary going against the number one race in the entire universe.

I considered myself a prodigy, but right now I realised I wasn't the only prodigy out there in the universe. These Hescos must be led by someone frightening, no lesser than me without doubt.

Just trying to defend against that scary fiend out there took me hours! And even after the passage of ten hours, the entire situation didn't look that great to me.

The shields were barely resisting the incoming attacks of that fiend. Not to mention the battle that kept raging on for many hours already between my forces and these Hescos.

Even with my warriors, the Hescos seemed to bring more forces as well. We both looked like two eternal beings, fighting a battle where no one was able to kill the other.

Two rich folks were contending on who had more wealth than the other. It was a scary and crazy way to fight, and I wasn't getting the upper hand even after all these hours.

I took such a way of fighting as a guaranteed win for me. No matter who my enemy was, he or she couldn't contend with my deep pockets no matter how hard they tried.

Of course I knew part of this was thanks to the fact I was strangled and nullified from this fight. If I was the one fighting them without the trouble of the shields, things would have been much different by now.

I hoped that after all these hours, I'd be able to form enough shields as a buffer. Then I'd find a chance to join the fight.

But even after ten hours, nothing much changed in the status of the shields. For a reason, I felt like whatever was hitting the shields was doing this on purpose.

There was some sort of unspoken balance between my shields and that fiend. No matter how I tried, I always failed to score an advantage against it.

And if that fiend had such immense and inexhaustible power, then why didn't it try to smash my shields into nothing? I got this weird feeling that this fiend was holding back on purpose, not trying this hard to take down my shields.

It looked like whoever was leading the Hescos right now wasn't trying to smash the shields. His main goal was to move me aside from this battle, forcing me to just be a watcher from the side.

"Screw it then," as I grew more suspicious about that, and seeing how futile my forces were currently doing, I decided to risk it all.

I could always form shields anytime I wanted. And it wasn't like I didn't have a way to deal with whatever lied on the other side of my shields.

The moment I decided that, I instantly stopped what I was doing.

[Be aware, the shields may get destroyed soon] I first sent this warning message over to Sara. This girl was still recklessly fighting all over the place, not stopping at a single point for more than an hour before jumping over another battlefield.

She looked crazy, but she was doing just great in stopping the Hescos at many layers already.

Her armies were the ones taking the toll of this for sure. They had to follow up with her, or try their best to do so. They jumped around like monkeys, moving from one layer to another, ending up scattering most of their forces amidst many layers.

But as she was taking such a risk all over the place, I had to warn her about what was going to happen.

[Let them come, I'm tired of fighting these pussies!]

Pussies? I looked over and couldn't see any weaklings amidst the Hescos.

[What do you mean? Aren't they elites?] I was feeling puzzled by this.

[Elites? No way! They are all chickens! At first there were elites, but then when the doors of these annoying forts opened, all who came out were just weaklings]

I was surprised by what she just said. [If that's true, then why didn't you crush them hours ago? Why didn't we take out a single layer yet?] her words didn't make any sense to me.

If that was the case, then it'd be easy for my forces to claim these layers a long time ago.

[You don't get it, they are weak but they are endless! No matter how many of them we killed, much more will just pop up]

I looked at her words before turning around and tried to focus over the ongoing fights. I selected a layer and inspected things there.

"That's true then…" I was shocked to see how easily these Hescos got killed in the hands of my forces. But just as Sara said, the moment many of these Hescos fell, much more appeared from the opened doors of the underground forts.

It seemed like an endless cycle, one which my forces couldn't break. Realising this made me look high up to the sky.

"So… That's why you tried your best to keep me away from this battle?" I muttered in a deep tone. Dealing with that leader proved to be troublesome again.

He was this close to tricking me before. But this time I had to admit, he got me just right in the place he wanted me to be at without me realising anything wrong.

Scary! Such a foe was indeed formidable and scary.

If there was a single person here capable of ruining such a scheme then it'd be indeed me.

That dude seemed to know his stuff very well, even knowing the weakness of his plot and the people who were able to exploit such weakness to the max.

Chapter 1221 Going All Out

Even if he was my enemy, I have to admit that he was indeed strong. He gained my respect by what he did so far, and it was time for me to gain his in return.

I shifted my attention away from the sky, not bothering with it anymore. If the sky even fell, I wouldn't budge an inch.

From this fight I learnt a valuable lesson. It was always bad to be on the passive side.

Trying to deal with the enemy plots and plays has cost me a lot so far. I was wrong. I shouldn't have been too much focused on what the enemy wanted to do, I shouldn't have busied my mind with what my enemy wanted to achieve.

I should have focused only and mainly over my own strength, on what I could do to win and crush my enemies. It was indeed my fault, and now I have started to correct it.

I kept taking out warriors without any regard for anything else. In addition to that, I also took out tons of stat crystals and left them scattered all over the ground.

Where did my strength lie? It was a tricky question. If I'd say it was in my own strength or my wealth, then it wouldn't be wrong.

But my real strength lay in my unique way of fighting, in my ability to turn any enemy no matter how strong he was into my ally.

I now realised why the enemy granted their people suits that were able to delay the speed of my techniques. The Hescos were wary of my technique, and they wanted me to think it would be pointless to use it in this battle.

My strongest fort lied in my techniques, taking these out meant I was fighting a losing battle. So after I took out tons of stat crystals, it was time for my technique to shine once more.

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I pushed my technique to the limit this time. I was just using my first technique, but it was best suited to this kind of battle.

To push it to the max, I didn't just fill my chariot with bones. Instead I filled the entire ground with bones.

The ground was already filled with warriors. But the moment I brought my bones out, they filled every single gap it was out there between my warriors.

Everyone stopped moving in obvious confusion. They got all the right to feel so. But without explaining anything to anyone, my energy gushed out, touched all the bones out there, turning them all into a form of energy.

I didn't just summon low grade bones like green and blue grades. I summoned silver and gold graded ones, even dark realm monster bones that I truly cherished were summoned as well.

The bones were all turned into balls of light, sending out their stored up energy into my body like an unstoppable tsunami.

I felt an unbelievable amount of energy entering my body. It looked like my body was going to explode if I didn't hurry to do something. And what I did was simple.

I let the energy move into a direct path towards my left hand holding the technique. "One technique isn't enough!" I felt my body ache under such immense pressure.

All the absorbed energy from the bones had to go into my body first, turning into my personal power.

If it was like before, then the amount of energy absorbed would be enough to counter the scary expenditure rate. But right now I was going all out, doing something I never did before.

Absorbing bones from an area of miles was insane indeed! Even with the scary expenditure the Hescos placed over my shoulders, and even with my increasing speed of sending threads out and attacking more enemies, it still was far from enough.

If one technique couldn't do it, then two should be enough. Without further hesitation, I put my pillar away, used my right hand to form another technique circle in midair before controlling it using my blood.

​ The second technique kicked in and sent tons of threads at once. The right hand was slightly different than the left as it got that weird blue glove over it and had another dantian out there.

So when I used the technique with that arm and sent most of the energy I absorbed towards it, the threads coming out looked quite scary in number and shape.

The threads looked like dragons let loose, moving in a blink of an eye to reach the enemies before finally taking them down.

This happened too fast, and with it more threads appeared and started controlling more Hescos.

I was even shocked by such a scene. The left hand technique never showed such scary power and ability before.

My right hand threads only needed a few seconds to take control over Hescos. Before this, the threads of my left hand technique needed minutes to control a single Hescos.

This change ended up forming tons of new threads, coming out from the bodies of the controlled Hescos, adding more paths for my energy to be spent at.

Before this, I tried my best to match the terrifying expenditure speed. But now I was hoping the rate of depleting my power would keep growing unceasingly to match my absorption rate.

After struggling for an hour, I finally reached a balance. The threads coming out from the controlled Hescos bodies helped me in doing this.

I finally got time to check over the amount of Hescos I controlled. All this time I was very busy with matching the expenditure rate with my bone energy absorption speed, so I didn't get a chance to inspect my gains yet.

When I turned and looked, I couldn't help but open my mouth agape!

The Hescos I controlled so far got a simple order from me, to get away from the battle and wait. I thought after one hour at most I'd gain control of one million.

Chapter 1222 The Shield Got Broken

When I looked, tens of million of Hescos were already standing apart from the ongoing brutal battle. Few Hescos tried many times to attack them, but they always failed and ended up turning sides at the end.

Seeing such a scene made me even more shocked and delighted. It was indeed a scary ability, and now I have enough power to change this entire battle.

"Not now," but against my desire, I controlled myself and kept these Hescos at wait. I simply started to bind them first using my contracts, releasing the threads controlling their bodies before releasing them again against other Hescos.

At the same time, I checked the current status of the bones. To my surprise, I realised that the balance didn't just happen thanks to the increasing number of threads formed from the controlled Hescos.

Many of the bones I took out were exhausted already, turned into piles of dust on the ground. Thanks to that, the pressure over my body vanished after one hour.

"Should I take more out or what?" I was a little hesitant about that. If I took more bones out, then the old pressure would resurface once more and make me feel the same struggle.

If I waited, the bones might all get exhausted at one point, making me face great danger.

Both options weren't that great actually. And after pondering it for a few minutes, I decided to go with the choice of having more energy.

Having more energy was always better than just expending my own energy and ending up with nothing.

I took out lots of bones and started to absorb them again. As expected, I felt the same threatening pressure of immense energy coming from these bones.

However, just when I was about to endure and make my best to invade more Hescos, I felt an earth shattering quake that came from the high above.

I raised up my head and saw my shields showing massive cracks, giving me the impression of being on the verge of collapsing at any moment.

This was pretty much expected. After all, once I stopped following the enemy's play, the threatening hits paused all this time.

But it seemed they made up their minds. They were going to break through the shields and join this battle.

Even if that meant my forces would end up facing tons of elites, including the frightening colossal fiend waiting behind that shield layer, that was something I could live with.

My techniques were doing great right now, and more Hescos were going to be under my control. My only disappointment and regret was that the Hescos controlled here were all weak.

If the enemy was this generous to throw the elites towards me, then I wouldn't say no to such a thing.

I knew at any moment now, the shields up there would be demolished into nothing. Instead of staying down below, I controlled my chariot and moved high towards the sky.

I kept my concentration over channelling the scary amount of energy through my body and towards my right arm mainly. Yet I kept little focus over the shields up there. Once destroyed, my right arm threads would sprint up there and invade the incoming Hescos.

I thought about warning Sara and others, but figured out that wasn't needed. Such grand changes were perceived by everyone here, and I already gave her a head up warning before.

*Crack!* *Crack!* *Boom!*

Just before five minutes passed, the shield high above was crushed into nothing. The deep cracks expanded and filled the entire surface of the shield zone, turning it into specks of light before turning into nothing in the next second.

And then doors of hell opened on its fullest from both sides.

Once the shields got smashed, I didn't hesitate to throw all the threads up towards the zone above the broken shields. And at the same time, tons of forces descended, attacking at the same moment.

I saw bright flashes of light falling from high above, meeting up with my chariot's shield, ending up blinding me from seeing anything for long minutes while my chariot's shield began to tremble and show cracks as well.

Yet unlike the shields produced by my pillar, my chariot's shield was constantly supplied by the energy stored in my chariot. The cracks that developed were healed almost the moment they appeared. And the attacks that came down were being repelled again and again without any risk of truly crushing my shield.

The price I'd pay for that would come from the stored energy in my chariot. But to me it was nothing much. If my chariot's energy reserve got near depletion, then I'd simply add more energy crystals to it and keep it running.

As the shields got destroyed, I didn't stop in my place anymore. I made my chariot rise higher up, up to the upper zone of this immense and complicated defensive fortress.

I wanted to see everything they got, wanted to see and assess their offensive and defensive abilities. If the Hescos kept something secretive at first, then at this stage of the fight they'd have to use most of their fighting abilities.

The moment I decided to rise up with my chariot, I felt like the entire world was coming against me. Even if the shield of my chariot was still unbreakable, it was getting hit with fierce powers enough to impact its ascending speed.

For long minutes, I couldn't see anything through the thick veil of lights covering the entire world around me. Even my threads and techniques didn't help me see anything at all.

If not for the scary suction speed of the threads, I'd suppose that my threads got smashed into pieces at some point.

After ten minutes of struggling and seeing nothing, I finally stood up to some point away from all the incoming attacks.

To my shock, I found myself standing over the ground for almost a mile. It meant the enemy down below kept attacking me even when my chariot ascended way above the level of the ground.

Chapter 1223 Scary Plan

When I looked around the world, I got another shock.

The fortress built here was built over the concept of digging out ground. The depth of this hole was more than a mile down to the lowest bottom.

I thought the enemy would surround this region for a few miles and focus on supporting the defences down below. But to my surprise I saw the ground covered up with dense and complicated defences, resembling the ones my forces crushed before at the other Hescos world.

It was the same type of defences, filled with walls, towers, and underground holes. For a moment I imagined these holes on the ground getting connected with the underground forts through the long and complicated design of underground tunnels.

If that was true, then the Hescos didn't just depend on one type of defence to face me. They used two complicated and very advanced defensive designs to deal with me and my forces.

It instantly darkened my face. I thought by crushing the hole filled with many layered defences things would be over. Yet I truly underestimated the resolve of my enemies.

They made it like hell for me. Even if I took control over the hole filled with defences, it wouldn't be over.

In fact… It would be just the beginning!

Realising this made my heart palpitate in worry. Could my forces be able to crush this place and take over this world? Could we win this?

Of course if I used everything I had, allowed most of my stored up forces and armies to come here and join this fight, then crushing this place would be possible.

But if I did that, I'd risk losing my ability to invade other worlds. Besides, if the Hescos were able to do such awesome work in a few days, what would they do if I waited for a few weeks or even months before invading them?

Such a thought was scary. Such an enemy should be crushed early on or else things would end up pretty bad for me.

Aside from the terrifying scene of defences stretching over tens of miles in radius around here, the entire place was filled to the brim with Hescos troops and their supporting races.

When I fought before against Hescos in that deep pit, I thought I was doing great in kiting their forces down. But seeing such a scary scene in front of me made me have a wry smile on my face.

I truly underestimated such foe without doubt. Even if I killed ten times the forces I already killed and controlled, it wouldn't be enough to shake this grand force down.

I needed to do something else, I had to take down much more of their forces or else nothing good would end up in this fight.

I thought about taking out forces and sending them to fight these Hescos out here. Doing this would force the Hescos to divide up their forces on two fronts, and it might help in reducing the pressure over the whole fight.

But in return, the forces I'd send here would end up isolated and killed at the end. No matter how much I took, they'd end up dead. And in the long run, this would result in a great loss without getting much advantage.

The other way I had was to keep fighting at this pit until I'd emerge victorious. However, this would prove to be quite challenging.

In my eyes, this was a very hard to crack nut. But from my enemy perspective, the pit was like a grinding place, a trap formed to keep my forces at bay and at the same time, stop my forces from stepping outside and control this world.

It was indeed a strike of brilliance. And without any doubt, anything I'd select would place me and my forces at great disadvantage.

"Wait a minute…" I looked around and couldn't see a shadow of that supposed behemoth I thought I'd face, "where is that dude then?"

During all this time, the shields were hammered fiercely by a scary fiend. But when I got to this point, I could only see Hescos, weapons and gears all over the place, and supporting races as well.

There was no trace of that scary thing. Where did it go? I looked around, used my Hawk Eye skill and kept examining the entire place one time after another.

Yet after half an hour of constant search, I couldn't spot it. I looked everywhere around the pit, inside the pit, and even flew for tens of miles around trying to find it.

I even flew higher, thinking it might be obscured from my vision by the sky. Yet after flying and searching for an entire hour, I failed to find anything.

"That means one thing… That thing never existed in the first place…" it was such a strange thing to think about, but it was the only thing I could think of.

If such a scary thing was here, it'd be fighting my forces in the pit or at least standing on the edge of it. Right now I moved towards the edge of this pit, looked over the forces stationed there and the built up defences while being lost in thought.

If such scary things weren't here, then that meant the ones who took my shield down were the paragons and leaders of this grand army here.

I watched the weapons and gears installed all over the opening and sloppy edge of the pit. Nothing there was enough to pose a threat against my shields in the way things happened at.

It meant the paragons and leaders of this race in this world used priceless treasures to tear up my shields. And from the look of it, these treasures were limited in usage or got a flaw against me.

If not, then these folks would keep hammering the forces of mine down below after breaking the shields. But they didn't. All they did was to send out a flood of enemies down through the opening, fighting against my forces there.

Chapter 1224 Taking One Layer Down

During the time I took to look for that nonexistent fiend, I never stopped controlling Hescos using my threads and techniques. Right now the entire world around me was like a spiderweb, filled with traces of my threads everywhere.

Lots of forces got entangled into my threads. But there was something that forced me to stop my tour around this region. My energy reached a balance at last inside my body.

This was a mark and a sign of the depletion of my bones. I had to go back and take out more bones or else I'd risk losing the energy at once, ending up in a bitter state.

Just as I passed through the opening, two things came into my mind. First I noticed how thick the attacks that landed over my chariot the moment I got near the opening.

These attacks returned the state of blindness again to my eyes. All I could see was flashes of bright lights that kept my eyes away from the world around me.

The second thing I noticed before becoming blinded was the dense number of forces in the hole. It looked like the entire hole got turned into a world of sand, filled with forces instead of air particles.

Without the need to think much about it, and even if I couldn't see anything, I gave the order to my fallen gods to return, attacking everything around again.

The previous time it took me almost ten minutes to come up from the bottom up to the highest point in the sky. I was moving slowly back then, and this time I also forced my chariot to fly slowly.

In theory, descending should be much easier than climbing up. But I didn't want to rush things up, giving my fallen gods the chance to devastate and kill as many of Hescos as they could while I was going down.

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At the same time, I wanted my threads to keep doing their magic. Up till now, and after hours of controlling Hescos, I never gave an order for them to fight.

As I was taking my tour around the grand base of Hescos over there, I got a flash of insight about a crazy and scary idea that I could implement.

It might be a crazy one, but if succeeded, things would end a bit better than they should be.

As I went deeper, I finally got rid of such dense attacks and my vision returned back. The first thing I saw was that I was at the level where my shields were before getting broken.

I looked up and found out that the world was filled with deadly explosions and many dead bodies falling down like moths dancing around fire. The bodies of hundreds of thousands of Hescos or even millions were coming down like endless rain, crushing against anything and everyone in their descent.

I saw many of the Hescos up there getting hit by their dead and deeply wounded comrades, ending up bringing more down. These Hescos were brought down thanks to the devastating attacks of my fallen gods.

A single attack of my fallen god was enough to clear an area of any sort of life. And the scary thing about these attacks was the fact that they'd sustain for a longer time after the explosion.

That was the reason behind the constant death count increase even after descending all this down. The enemies were still trying their best to come down below and evade the devastated region.

But that was harder to do the closer they got to the bottom. The distance they could operate at was getting squeezed up and narrowed, depriving them of any chance to evade any deadly zones up there.

Their suits might help slightly in reducing the impact of damage of a single zone. But after passing through more zones, their suits were broken and they ended up being heavily wounded or even dead.

At least the end result would be for their suits to be decommissioned, stopping their ability to fly or easily jump down to the bottom.

Most of the Hescos descending were flying elites, and only a small fraction were normal ground forces. So this loss was meant to be heavy for the enemy.

Seeing this made me smirk evilly. Without thinking much about it, I asked my fallen gods to raise their weapons towards the direction of the opening, and release their deadly attacks non-stop.

At the same time, I took out lots of stat crystals and filled the entire chariot with it. If their energy got depleted, they could simply recharge up and resume attacking.

Doing this added more pressure over the descending Hescos. The entire place was at least five miles in radius in its strictest part, so it was still hard to stop the descent of everyone.

But doing so added a boost to the death machine going up there. As I did that, I turned my sight and looked down below and around.

Before leaving here, the forces were having a hard time containing the layers. I sent out many of my warriors before, attacking the first layer.

When I went up there I knew how futile doing this would do. I hoped before to take control of the layers one by one using my warriors and captured Hescos.

After going up there, I knew there was a slim chance for me to win this fight using such tactics. But to my surprise, and during the couple hours I was away, Sara led everyone and managed to clear the first zone for us.

And now she was leading everyone to fight over the second layer, aiming to get it under your control as well.

She was a daring girl indeed, one that I truly loved to have by my side.

But what was strange though was the fact that even after taking over this layer, the Hescos stopped showing up from it.

From what I saw up there, I knew Hescos would never run short on forces at this point. They got hundreds of millions up there, and I was sure the structure up there was connected with the layers down here.

Chapter 1225 Things Aren't Quite Right

So why did Hescos stop showing up? I looked closer, and the doors of the underground forts were still opened and not closed. I thought Sara found out something and managed to block the entrance of these forts, or even blew them up.

However this didn't happen. And I couldn't tell what made the Hescos stop coming out from this layer.

I first took out lots of bones, filled the flat space down at the bottom with many warriors and left tons of stat crystals for them to consume. As for the ones who were already here, I sent them out to help Sara control the second layer.

There were close to forty million warriors, mostly with filled up stat points. They were a strong force, and I didn't hesitate to send them over to help Sara and the other five generals.

The armies were still coming from the portal till now. They were helping to fill in the gaps created by the lost forces on my side.

At the same time, many legions of big guns were sent here from the research department. They joined the battle early on, since the coming of Sara and her army. But in such battles, their contribution was still low.

If they wanted to show off their might, then they had to switch places with those forces up at the highest point of this fortress.

If I managed to do that, then this battle would have a frightening turn over.

I just took a wide glance around before shifting my attention towards another place, the second layer.

[What happened at the first layer while I was away?] Before deciding what I should do next, I had first to understand what happened back at the first layer.

What the Hescos did there didn't make any sense to me. I smelt something fishy, and so I wanted to know more about how they conquered this layer.

[What? We came, we crushed them, and we conquered that layer] she replied in such pride before adding, [And watch while we are going to take the second layer and layers beyond]

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[I didn't mean that] I knew she misunderstood my point, [I want to know how you managed to stop the outflux of the Hescos from the underground forts]

[Oh, about that… It happened so sudden. Once we took over the entire layer, I led people over these forts and found no one there]

Found no one there? My heart clenched the moment I heard these words.

As I feared, there was a dirty plot behind this. [Did you send anyone to scout these forts?]

[I did, and all they found was empty tunnels and deserted forts]

Interesting… I paused for a long minute, thinking more about this weird incident.

There was one simple and dangerous explanation for all this… The Hescos wanted us to lower our guards and go for higher layers and then they'd come to backstab us.

Such a nasty plan was scary. Luckily for me, I got a glimpse of how huge their forces up there were.

If I didn't, I might have suspected they ran out of forces and couldn't keep up with mine.

As I figured out their plan, what should I do then?

I have many options in front of me. First I'd leave behind forces to take over the defences at these forts, making the best use of these.

Doing this would alarm the enemy and make the Hescos realise their plot got exposed.

It would be safe to do so, but it would also be quite passive. I didn't like such an option and instantly discarded it.

The next option I got was to play alongside them, feign my fall into their trap and continue doing things as if I never suspected anything.

Doing this meant I'd never leave behind a single soldier to keep an eye over these forts. It'd make the enemy lower their guard and continue building up their plans over this one.

This option was quite risky, as the enemy would come in large numbers the moment they decided to move out. Trying to stop all these forces up there from coming here was pointless.

It'd be a losing battle, and my only hope would rely on one simple factor; my warriors.

I could take out tons of warriors and let them get stronger using stat crystals. This would end up perfectly well if I managed to raise tens of millions, hundreds of millions of warriors even and stored them away in secret.

I could do that. In such a chaotic battle, doing such a thing wouldn't be noticed by the Hescos. But it had another drawback.

I should station myself all the time here, or I should store the location of this place using my staff and jump here when needed.

But if they sealed the space here, or the space up there, then I'd be strangled and wouldn't be able to arrive in time to deploy my forces.

I wouldn't fear storing up warriors after filling their requirements of stat points. But my biggest fear would lie in the second variable, my presence here when the Hescos started their counter attack.

I sucked in cold breath and decided against doing this plan. If I did so, the enemy would always have the upper hand and I'd be on a more passive side all the time.

"I should be more daring," I clenched my fists while considering my third option.

The enemy wasn't the only one capable of drawing plans, I also could do that. The enemy also wasn't the only one able to make a counter attack, I also could do that.

I took a long and deep glance over the deserted forts at the first layer. "If they want to do this, then they'll wait until my forces claim more than half of these layers…"

I knew doing this would take days, and that was enough for my crazy plan.

After all, doing what I planned would take a couple of days to get accomplished.

Chapter 1226 A Third Option

The idea of that plan came when I thought about the counterattack of the Hescos. If they were able to plan this far ahead, why wouldn't I aim for such a goal?

Better than foiling the enemy's plan was to use it for one's advantage. That's what I planned to do.

The idea was simple. I opened my chat and sent a message to Sara.

[Select capable soldiers and a bunch of good leaders for a secret mission] That was the first part in my plan.

[What mission?]

[You don't to need about it for now] I didn't want to speak too much about this, [Just select ones who are quite resourceful, able to perform well under pressure and threatening situations]

[Ok, it's not hard to find these amidst our armies right now] I knew such harsh battles were the birthplace of many heroes and outstanding talents.

[Add them all as your friends] This was the second requirement I asked for, [And make sure to send them down without getting spotted]

[Sure. Give me an hour or so to do that]

I didn't say anything about the one hour she asked for. Even if she asked for ten hours, I wouldn't say no to it.

My plan required many things to be done before starting it. After I finished speaking with her, I flew directly towards the grand gathering of weapons on the ground.

"I want you to give me all these weapons," I gave such a crazy order out of the blue. They might have thought I came down there to ask them to attack some place or start moving up.

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But I wanted to take all these weapons inside my inventory.

"Lord… This…" many faces changed when I said these words. But I waved my hand to stop them from saying anything.

The next moment, a large group of warriors appeared. They were my Bulltors. "Train these over the weapons, make sure they grasp how to operate, move, and fix them."

The large group of research department people looked at each other and at the Bulltors I took out in silence. They didn't get what I wanted, and I never intended to explain anything.

"Don't attack much from now on. Just focus on training them and defend these weapons," the battle was growing more hectic by now. So it was better to keep the weapons intact and in one piece.

At the same time, these weapons might be scary and formidable, but they had a grave weakness; the ammo.

If they ran out of ammunition, then all of these scary weapons would turn into useless scrap of metal.

I didn't want to see such a result at all. If I had to choose, then stopping the minimal impact these weapons had over the grand battle going on now was better than ending up without ammo in the middle of executing my plan.

After doing this, and after creating more Bulltors to keep up with these weapons, I moved towards the first layer.

Before fully immersed into this plan, I had to first examine that layer's defences and forts.

I moved towards the first layer after scattering most of my fallen gods around the central bottom of this pit.

I gave them one simple order, keep firing all the higher up Hescos and kill as many as they could.

As I went towards the first layer, I found the layer was in the form of a grand circle. If I didn't know this was a layered fort, I'd take this place as being in the depths of a grand mountain.

The edge of this circle was formed by sturdy looking stone ore. They formed a good background for such grand defence.

The entire circle was massive, extending for tens of miles around. I noticed the openings of these underground forts lied at regular intervals, and they all shared the same layout.

"So they built these forts and the tunnel system inside over a single design…" This was a piece of good news. I didn't want to keep checking all the layers cleared out by my forces. Checking this one was enough to give me a grander view over what was like at other layers.

I randomly selected one fort and decided to check it out.

The opening was almost half a mile in length, barricaded by semi-circular walls that extended for ten metres in length.

From far, they looked like small towers, covering up an area of one hundred metre radius.

That was a good space to place lots of defences over them and forces. I went to one tower and examined it. The tower was hollow from the inside, enough to be filled with many weapons.

There was a central spiral stone built ladder inside that went all the way to the top of the tower. I climbed it and after climbing for three metres, I found a stage and preparations for weapons and forces to be stationed there.

When I kept going up, I saw two more stages before reaching the top. This meant each fort would have three inner levels, allowing for more forces to be stationed inside.

There were holes enough for weapons like grand bows or even simple bows to be used. On the top, I didn't find a scrap of a single weapon left behind by these Hescos.

When they retreated, they seemed to claim everything with them. That wasn't just to prevent giving me free stuff, but also to prevent giving me ideas about the full powers of these towers.

If anyone told me these towers were just used as stations for defending forces, I'd not believe him. Whoever took the trouble to build such towers in such a way meant something else.

Thinking about the grand complicated defensive design my forces fought against, I grew suspicious about these towers.

"I have to make sure the Hescos will never take these towers back," I muttered, while thinking of the best weapons that could be used in this situation; the mines!

If my forces here had mines and planted them inside these towers and around them when needed, then if we failed defending these towers, the Hescos would fail to claim them.

And if the research department had a way to detonate the entire towers, things would be much better.

Chapter 1227 [Bonus ] Exploring The First Layer

After checking the top of the tower, I knew placing a few weapons here would be great. I didn't do anything yet, and simply kept checking more towers to be sure they were the same.

And that's what I found. All the towers were built like a copy of each other. When I looked at the grand design of these towers from my chariot again, I knew they weren't placed here out of coincidence.

There was a grand circular wall inside, separating these towers from the inside. If the Hescos wanted to better defend this place, then it'd make sense to build the wall outside, circling the towers inside.

The entire wall inside had only one main gate to it. The wall was almost one hundred metres in height, with another hundred away from the manmade rooftop of this place.

The gate was fifty metres in width, not allowing too many forces to pass through it. It might serve as a challenging point to any invading forces, but it'd also prove difficult for any trapped forces inside to pass outside and escape.

The doors were wide open as if the Hescos were inviting me inside. I looked at this gate for a brief moment, checked the entire walls around before deciding to bring all of this down.

Leaving such strong walls and narrow gates behind might serve quite well to my forces at the upcoming battle with Hescos. But at the same time, it was dangerous to let them stand intact with the possibility of the Hescos crushing down my forces here at the first moments of war.

It was a double edged weapon, and I decided to bring it down.

"Strengthen yourselves first and then take this entire thing down," I didn't need to summon anyone as I got tons of souls from this battle.

I simply created a thousand fallen gods, gave them enough stat and energy crystals to consume, before giving them the order to tear the walls down.

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I didn't just point towards a single wall, but at all the circular regions around. "Take the walls down, don't touch the towers for now," even if I wanted to remove such a risky factor, I wouldn't remove all the defences.

If I did, then it'd do more harm to my forces than good. I decided to leave the towers behind and demolish the walls for now.

As I left my fallen gods behind to execute such an order, I started to walk inside the underground fort.

The fort was slightly dark inside, but that didn't stop me from seeing everything. I saw the fort inner zone to be built as a simple open space, without any traps inside.

The only thing that was inside was for many towers, similar to the ones outside, to be present there. They seemed to form lines of defence, all the way towards the inner tunnel.

The tunnel was vast and spacious, almost equal to the size of the opening of this underground fort.

Seeing this tunnel made me sure about my earlier guesses. The Hescos would use these tunnels to send tons of forces in a short time. As for defending such vast space, it was a challenging and hard feat to achieve.

I didn't stop in my tracks and kept moving inside that tunnel. After walking inside for half an hour, the place looked quite dark and gloomy.

Air current was coming fast and fierce down here, and it felt quite damp and cold. I walked in a straight line, but for a reason I felt like I was going up.

"This is enough," after I realised how this was made, I decided to stop walking through the tunnel any further.

I didn't want to end up appearing at the upper complicated defences on top of the ground. I knew whoever dug this place made sure to have a stable ground and angle, making anyone feel like they were walking over a flat ground.

But with my speed, walking for half an hour meant covering up tens of miles. The only explanation for this was for the tunnels to be built in a circular way around this entire fort, making it possible for such tunnels to rise up without changing much of the angle.

If that was true, then things would turn out to be quite awesome! That meant not only this tunnel was in this region, but almost all the other tunnels as well.

"It's a shame I couldn't use that portal to send forces back, or else I'd have sent envoys to look for digging machines and bring them all the way here," I shook my head, not wanting to use my strongest and scariest trump card for the time being.

I had a way to solve this problem for sure, but I decided to use this at the most suitable moment, which wasn't indeed now.

As I stopped walking, I didn't hurry and did anything. I first listened and stood there quietly and patiently for long minutes.

Yet after all this wait, I didn't feel like anyone was watching me or coming here.

This meant the Hescos were so confident about their plan. Or perhaps they feared to leave anyone behind just in case my forces sent patrols inside these tunnels.

If their forces got discovered hidden here, then they'd risk exposing the importance of these tunnels to me.

Either way, I was now sure there was no one around or coming to disturb my plans.

And so I started to make the next move.

"Take all these crystals and be stronger," I took out tons of warriors from my inventory, and left behind enough stat crystals for their use, "don't leave this tunnel, keep yourselves hidden. If anyone comes, kill him without asking questions."

I started to retreat all the way back to the opening of this tunnel. I kept leaving warriors and stat crystals behind till the vast space inside the underground fort.

Then I stopped what I was doing, fearing anyone of the Hescos coming at the opening from outside and seeing these warriors by accident.