Chapter 1228 Sara Is Unconvinced!
This was the first and most important step in my plan. After doing this, I exited the fort, went to another, and did the same.
The entire circular region was filled with fifty forts. After doing all this, I found out that five hours had already passed. And with this, Sara and her armies cleared the second layer and were fighting at the third one.
My fallen gods were in the middle of taking down the walls at the first layer. Even with their large number, they weren't destroying these walls as fast as I expected.
This told me how important these walls were to the grand scheme of my enemy. However this didn't stop me either. I left them to take down the walls at the first layer, and headed alone to the second.
I checked the towers and forts fast before creating another thousand fallen gods. I asked them to do the same before taking a long look at the brutal fight happening at the upper layer.
The Hescos seemed to get easily crushed by my forces. This might be right if the Hescos ran short of their forces. However I knew this wasn't truly the case.
They decided to go with this plan, and so they didn't send much reinforcements to these layers.
If they didn't send any reinforcement at all then things would be apparently fishy. So they just sent a few, not enough to keep the layers under their control.
I was sure the forces they sent were the disposable and unimportant forces. They'd weary down my forces, and at the same time the Hescos wouldn't lose too much by their deaths.
I bitterly smiled. The ones leading this army this time were indeed quite crafty and hard to deal with. Each move of theirs was well planned, and that made me envy their talents.
If I got a chance, then I'd prefer to turn them around and force them to work out for me. If that happened, then I'd end up with capable and frightening generals on my side.
Seeing the Hescos follow through with the plan I just read made me feel more confident in winning this. The more they depended on this plan the better the end would be for me.
After that I went to each tunnel, left inside tons of warriors and stat crystals before finally wrapping everything about the second layer.
By the time I was done, Sara and her forces didn't disappoint me. They already took two layers and went towards the upper one.
It wasn't just thanks to Hescos ' faking weakness, nor thanks to Sara's haste and brutality, but I took slightly longer than before to visit all the tunnels here.
Each layer was built over the one lower than it, taking a much wider space the more layers were built. I estimated that with each increase in layers, at least one mile was added to the total radius of each layer.
That extra mile added at least five more tunnels to each layer. And so I took one more hour to clear these extra tunnels.
Seeing Sara and her forces going for the fifth layer made me smile wryly. If things kept going down this path then the gap between me and Sara's forces would keep increasing.
It'd be ok as long as they didn't get near the top layers here. If they did, then I'd be far away from them to help.
[Slow down after fifty more layers] I sent this in warning without answering any of her subsequent questions.
She felt weird about such an order. And she got all the right to feel so. I didn't explain anything about the grand scheme of the Hescos, and in her eyes she was doing great against the enemy.
Going by logic, one should press hard against the enemy when the enemy showed weakness. And right now the Hescos looked as if they were standing on one leg apart from the doors of death.
But this was all a trap. I didn't care about taking layers, but it'd grow risky the moment Sara and her forces got near the top.
In my estimates, the Hescos would start moving once Sara and her forces got into the last fifth group of layers near the top. The moment she reached there, the enemy would flood the lower layers, sending a hellish amount of armies down there, taking all my forces by surprise.
I needed to fill all the tunnels first with warriors as an ambush. Then I had to move out.
My movement at the tunnel wasn't my entire plan. In fact it was just a small part of it.
So letting Sara go all the way to the top like that wasn't going to work. In fact, her actions would backfire badly at me and at everyone else.
She tried to ask many questions, and all the answer she got was to just do as I said and wait.
I didn't stop in my tracks while talking with her. First I descended to the first layer and examined the situation there. After all these hours, the one thousand fallen gods I left there destroyed the walls at last.
I didn't say anything and just took them back, went to the third layer and deployed them again. I left them to destroy the walls while I went inside the tunnels and did the same thing again.
After doing this for three days straight without rest, my forces already controlled more than sixty layers, with a similar number of layers standing between them and the top.
At this point, I was still doing my business at forty something layers. I sent a warning message to Sara, asking her to start slowing down.
I ignored her complaints, and even didn't read much of her long messages speaking about the advantages we had and the mistake of letting the Hescos off the hook at this time.
In her eyes, it was a golden chance to bring Hescos down. And in my eyes, it was a deadly trap that I wanted to avoid at all costs.
Chapter 1229 Finishing All Preparations
The gap between me and her was growing no matter what I tried to do. Taking down the walls wasn't just the only thing that took much time, spreading out warriors in the tunnels took more.
I couldn't escape such a task no matter what. The only guarantee to counter the Hescos trap lay on the shoulders of these forces.
I didn't expect them to crush the incoming Hescos, but they would at least stop them for enough time. I wanted to buy myself time just in case something bad happened during the next step of the plan.
Sara's forces were marching up fast no matter how many times I warned her to slow down. Per her words, the Hescos were growing thin the higher they climbed, and she had nothing to do but to accept the free gift of layers from them.
Even if she asked her forces to slow down, the enemy didn't give us such privilege.
Getting to know this made me feel more helpless about this. [Alright, here's what you'll do… Take all the layers you want but always make sure you leave a way out from there]
[What do you mean by that?]
[It's simple] If the enemy made sure my troops would sank deeper into his trap, then I got nothing else to do but to do this, [Leave behind enough forces to clear a path for your forces' retreat]
[Retreat?! Why would we think about retreat right now? We are crushing them! We are winning! They are the ones who should worry about retreating and running away, not us!]
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Poor girl… Being scary and formidable in fighting wasn't enough. Just when you'd deal with a strategy genius enemy like the one we got here, you wouldn't even know when you started to lose or even understand why things turned upside down.
Matching a strategy based general against brute force general was the worst case scenario of the latter. I knew trying to explain things to this thick headed girl wouldn't work. And so I refrained from wasting my breaths and time over this.
[Just in case something unexpected happened. Do as I say and stop questioning me at every corner!]
[Ok, but you owe me a long explanation when this is over…] She paused for a moment before adding, [And I'm telling you right now, now matter how hard the enemy tries, he won't be able to find a way to turn things over. We are already on a high speed train heading for victory. Nothing will stop us!]
[I hope things turn out to be like you say, but don't forget what I said either]
[I will do as you say, but I'm telling you now it's pointless]
Tsk! That girl was indeed right about everything, except for the ones who were going to win and lose this battle. If I followed her logic and steps, we'd end up losing, losing bitterly.
Seeing the words she sent made me realise how scary the strategic generals of the Hescos here were. The more I got to know them, the more eager I wanted them to be mine.
After reaching the fifty layer, I stopped filling the tunnels. I left the two thousand fallen gods scattered over two layers, demolishing the walls there. I gave them orders to keep doing this for the remaining layers before finally grouping up with Sara and her forces up there.
I knew the next time I'd come here would be when the final scheme of the Hescos would be deployed. At the same time, I felt the meeting of my fallen gods and Sara's forces would be when the latter would be trying their best to retreat.
At least my fallen gods here would help them to retreat safely and stop any unforeseen dangerous elements and foes from entrapping Sara and her forces.
It was all the help I could provide for Sara and others without alarming the enemy about anything. It might not be the best help, but it was better than nothing.
"Time to make the big move," as I got done with fortifying the lower fifty layers with my warriors, it was time for me to start my big move.
I first headed down towards the bottom of this pit. "Have you taught them everything?" I asked the research department folks the moment I reached down there.
After more than three days, the reinforcements coming from Earth stopped and only weapons and ammunition were sent through the portal.
The five armies were already here. And the other five were waiting for my signal.
It was still early to think about inviting them here. I looked around and saw tons of weapons standing down there, ready to fight.
The Hescos after adopting their plan stopped sending forces from the surface. The forces they sent before were already killed by my fallen gods and other forces. Those who remained fighting here were inside the high up layers.
So the weapons didn't suffer much damage, almost none at all. At the same time, the research department stuck to my orders and didn't use the weapons till now.
"Lord, we taught them everything they needed to know," a group of the soldiers belonging to the research department came and spoke with me, "they learnt how to use all kinds of weapons, even the apaches and planes."
"Great," I didn't delay any further and took back all the Bulltors. Then I started moving around, storing all the weapons and ammo inside my inventory. "You'll wait here and keep gathering up weapons and ammo."
"Won't we join the fight?" one of them asked in doubt and little bitterness on his face and in his tone.
"You will wait," I didn't flinch under such a young guy's reaction, "until the moment when the sky will turn dark and enemies will flood from everywhere coming at us. At this moment, we will depend on your performance to pull out the last stretch and secure victory."
Everyone around had their faces change for a moment. They seemed to mistake their role here and felt they had nothing else to do.
Chapter 1230 Making The Big Move
They were wrong! I didn't explain more and simply continued taking all the weapons and ammo. "I want you to fortify this place, place the weapons here to prepare for a brutal and bloody hell kind of a fight... Got it?"
I needed them to understand what their next role was. Or else when things would turn bad, they might be overwhelmed with confusion and fear, not able to do what they were supposed to.
When Hescos would arrive, they'd make sure my forces would have zero chance at any comeback. And amidst all this, I doubted I'd have time to come all the way down here and give orders to these forces.
So it was crucial for them to fully grasp the entire situation early on and understand their role in it. If they did their part right, then we'd have a good chance at countering the incoming Hescos.
I left behind the warriors in the tunnels as the first line of defence. But if this line got crushed, then the weapon legion here would be the second line of defence.
"We understand," the tone and vibe emitted from these folks changed when they realised they still had some sort of a role to play in all this, "we won't disappoint the trust of the lord."
I smiled in silence while taking the rest of the weapons and ammo. As they said they understood everything, then I'd have to trust their abilities to lay out an impregnable and quite scary lineup of weapons here, one that was supposed to shock the Hescos and scare them away.
Once done, it was time to start the big move.
I didn't say anything to these folks, just controlled my chariot and started heading higher. I went to the core of the chariot, spent most of my energy crystals inside, adding more than enough to secure my chariot in the upcoming ordeal.
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As I passed through the lowest sixty something layers, I met nothing at all. These layers were now looking like forsaken lands, without anyone there except for a few forces left out by Sara.
When I spotted these forces, I heaved a sigh of relief. If such a stubborn girl didn't listen to me, then we'd end up losing this battle for sure.
The moment I stepped over the seventieth layer, attacks started to come at my chariot from above. It seemed the enemy didn't want me to come to the top, fearing I might expose their preparations for their grand attack.
No matter how hard they tried, my chariot passed through them as if it was flying through a scary thunderstorm.
The moment I penetrated through the thick veil of attacks that blinded me for long minutes, I found myself standing one mile on top of the surface.
There the entire world around was filled with tons of forces. The Hescos were amassing everything they got for this final clash. And just seeing these armies would drive anyone crazy.
I didn't stand in my place for another second. I dived my chariot down to the ground while calling out the fallen gods I gathered from the bottom ground before coming here and let them attack freely.
I didn't plan to get back to the hole. I already was aware of the enemy grand scheme. Instead, I headed directly towards the edge of this hole, attacking and destroying everything in my path.
At first I couldn't see anything. Even until my chariot slammed against something pretty hard I couldn't see a single thing around.
I controlled my chariot and decided a route for it to land over the edge of the hole. But as I was blinded by the scary attacks landed on my chariot, I didn't know when I arrived there until I hit the ground fiercely.
Nothing much happened to my chariot or my forces except for many to lose their balance, including myself. Once I stood erect again, I scattered the fallen gods around my chariot while holding the pillar in my left hand.
"Thundering Might!"
I used my shield attack first and the next moment the entire world became clearer in my eyes. The attacks all landed over the shield that got formed, shaking it violently and started to spread cracks all over it.
"Thundering Might!" but I never expected one shield to handle everything here. I repeatedly used my skill and formed many shields overlapping one another.
The shields managed to handle the incoming attacks. And in the next moment, I jumped off my chariot.
It was time to make my big move right now.
"You trained all this time for this," I took out the Bulltors and tons of weapons and ammo, "don't stop firing, aim at everything around. Kill and destroy, that's your task for the time being."
I spread the weapons and Bulltors all over the area controlled by my shield. The entire zone was almost five miles in radius, and there were endless enemies there to be counted.
Just when I landed here and used my shield skill, the enemy started flooding this zone with his forces stationed underground. The number of Hescos and their allied forces were increasing at an alarming rate per minute.
The weapons I scattered here were mostly used for long ranged attacks. Trying to make them hit the enemies right next to them was futile endeavour.
And so I didn't intend on killing these foes using the weapons and Bulltors. Even the fallen gods I got weren't good at such a battle.
"Come out!" without thinking much, I summoned the tens of millions of soulers I got and let them loose over the enemies around.
If I wanted to select a single troop that was so damn good at handling close up enemies, then I'd not find anyone better than souler and the evolved soulers.
The two forces flashed like lightning, passing through the bodies of the Hescos and their allied forces. Just one flash was enough to take down a single enemy, and if not then many flashes would follow until that enemy was brought down to the ground.
Chapter 1231 The Bloody Fight On The Surface
In mere minutes, a huge area around was cleared from enemies. And more were getting killed nonstop. No matter how much the Hescos threw at my face, my soulers killed them with much ease.
At the same time, the Bulltors who got trained for days over handling the weapons started to operate them. The weapons started roaring, sending deadly attacks towards the distance without any pause.
The entire place turned their guns and weapons towards my shields, turning it into a glistering ball of light that kept flashing endlessly by the incoming attacks.
At the same time, I kept repairing the shields by adding more. Once things stabilised here, I didn't stop in my tracks, boarded my chariot, and started moving towards another region.
Even if this spot got under my control for now, the entire edge of the hole extended for a hundred mile radius at least.
So taking control of an area of five miles off it wouldn't make any difference. As things started to stabilise here, I started moving to the nearby region.
The moment my chariot got out from the protection of the shield, the Hescos seemed to be startled by my actions for a few seconds.
Then deadly attacks started to rain down my chariot, blinding my sight as usual.
I waited for two minutes before suddenly stopping, used my pillar and activated the skill again and again. Once the shield appeared, I started to see things clearly.
I seemed to fly for a little longer than I wanted, ending up with a buffer zone in between the two shields formed right here. As the second group of shields appeared, the incoming attacks had to be divided between the two zones.
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That greatly helped in decreasing the pressure over my shields. I did the same here as I did at my first zone.
I took out weapons and ammo, Bulltors to operate them, soulers to kill the enemies here, and then returned back to the first zone.
I reinforced the two zones with shields for ten minutes straight. At the same time, I started filling these zones with many warriors and left behind enough stat crystals for them to use.
Before moving to lay out the third layer, I made sure to take back all the strengthened warriors.
I got hundreds of millions of soulers in my inventory after all these years. But just depending on them to clear the zones I was going to create here wasn't going to work.
So instead of worrying about that, I started to take warriors out and use the time needed to strengthen the shields to fill their stat points to max.
This time I flew for a single minute before stopping and using my shield skill again. As I flew for a small distance this time, the new shield merged with the old ones, making the second zone expand in return.
Like this the newly added zones would be covered up by the old shield layers. This might end up weakening the preexisting layers, but it would save me the trouble of travelling in between layers.
I first added many shields while waiting for the Bulltors and weapons to get ready to fire. At the same time, I let my soulers do their work and clear the newly added enemies in the new zone.
Once I managed to make the newly formed shields merge with existing ones, things started to be smoother.
All I needed to do was to fortify the shields again and again, let my Bulltors handle the weapons and fire them at a distance, while the soulers dealt with the enemies appearing inside these shields.
As for my warriors, I kept fortifying them using my stat crystals without any reserve. When the zones started to merge together, the area I could manage to strengthen warriors increased as well.
I didn't need to jump around to collect these warriors. I just needed to take as much as I could, throw stat crystals in mountains like groups, and then leave the warriors to feed over the crystals.
Then I'd take the warriors back into my inventory again before taking more out. Whenever I couldn't see the heaps of stat crystals I took out, I'd simply take more and leave them behind.
Slowly this process started to be easy and natural. No matter how hard the enemy tried, the shields kept standing erect like immovable mountains.
I didn't know for how long I kept doing this, but it seemed my sudden move startled the enemy and even scared them.
After a long time of doing this, I managed to finally connect the entire shield circle together. I didn't need to interfere and link the first gap that appeared in between the first two shield zones.
My shields have the ability to absorb the energy from the world around them, strengthening themselves and expanding little by little. By the time I linked the entire circular shields together, the gap was already gone.
The strengthened warrior count was already beyond counting. I lost track of how much I took and strengthened so far. But when the entire zone got linked, I was able to take out a hundred million warriors at one go and strengthen them at the same time.
During all this, the enemy kept sending forces in a futile attempt to stop my invasion. However no matter how many they sent, they all ended up killed on the hands of my soulers and warriors.
At some point, the hundreds of million of soulers didn't seem enough. After all, the shields never stopped expanding outward. By the time I got the entire shields connected, the area initially controlled by the shields got doubled or even tripled.
I looked at this with delight. The more the shields expanded the better.
"But this is going to be a slow process," I knew if I solely depended on this, then the shields would take forever to reach to the degree I wanted.
Without hesitating, I moved my chariot forward. Without taking a single moment of rest, I went outward, welcomed the enraged attacks from the enemies and embraced them.
Chapter 1232 The Turtle Shield
The enemy tried all their best to stop me, but they failed. After counting for two minutes, I stopped, used my pillar again, and activated the shields once more.
The newly formed shield got connected with the ones lying behind it. I did the same except for taking out weapons.
I already deployed all of the weapons I got so far alongside the Bulltors. All this time, the weapons never stopped roaring and sending hell over the far away Hescos.
I couldn't see through the thick veil of attacks landing over my chariot and shields yet. So I never knew how bad the damage my weapons dealt was. I hoped the Hescos wouldn't use some sort of cheap method and copy me and use shields to protect their lands.
And even if they did, the magnitude of my weapons was enough to tear any kind of shield as long as it didn't come from any valuable treasure or artefact.
What I wanted to do was to put pressure over these Hescos as they placed some on me. If they thought I'd just lay back and wait for them to finish their plans then they'd be gravely mistaken.
I deeply thought about what I should do to cause them trouble. After going through everything I could do, the best method was this.
Bringing the battle all the way up to the place they least expected to have a fight there was the best. At the same time, the Hescos would end up dividing their forces to stop my invading armies.
And this was just the start. I planned to lay out zones on top of the base I just conquered and fill this entire surface base with my forces.
I didn't use everything I got so far. All I was doing was to bite a small area each time I moved. Until I finally hit a massive obstacle, unable to handle it, I wouldn't stop doing this.
The weapons would keep putting pressure over the Hescos far away from here. I regretted not being able to see anything, or else I'd better let my forces adjust their aim to hit the enemy where it would hurt them the most.
But it was fine. As long as I was causing them trouble, messing up their perfect plan, I was satisfied.
I kept invading and adding more lands to my controlled zones. At the same time, I kept strengthening warriors and increasing their numbers in my inventory.
I didn't know how long I kept doing this, but I wasn't a bit worried about the ongoing battle in the hole. As I just started invading here, I made sure to send a message for Sara.
I asked her to keep me updated about the ongoing battle down there. At the same time, I warned her against any abnormal moves and events happening there.
She kept asking, and I just kept saying less about this. But as things developed this far, I just gave her a head up warning about what she might face.
When she learnt about the possibility of Hescos' trap, she felt furious. She cursed them and spoke about how terrible their generals were, leaning towards the pathetic tactics instead of clashing head on against her forces.
I didn't say much to her about this. I knew what type of person she was. I just comforted her that if that happened, she'd find a much more interesting playground for her forces.
And she promised me no matter how much came to her, she'd end up crushing all.
I knew she was honestly speaking, but at the same time this was indeed a daydream. Against the endless forces of the Hescos, her efforts wouldn't matter much.
I just hoped what I was doing here would relieve lots of pressure coming later on at my forces down below.
*Rumble!*
Just as I was doing just fine, something fiercely crashed against my recently formed shield, stopping the shield from going any further.
I looked at the direction of that sound, and there I spotted something new.
"So the paragons decided to move?" I squinted my eyes when I saw what stopped my shields from moving out.
I knew that paragons were limited and restricted much in their strength before the fifth quest. Back then I was able to easily crush these paragons easily using my abilities and forces.
But right now things are different. The paragons already gained part of their powers back. And that included the ability to use strong and unique treasures and artefacts.
The thing that stopped my shields was nothing else but a special treasure. All I saw was a grand shield like a turtle expanding for miles in front of my shield.
The two shields clashed together and ended up stopping my shield's advance. It wasn't enough to take down my shield, but at least it stopped me from going forward any further.
I closely inspected this turtle shield. It wasn't like the shields produced by my pillar as it was all hard and looking like it was a real thing.
My shields were transparent, only seen after clashing with them. If one looked closer, it would appear like the turtle shield got stopped by mere air.
As it looked like a real thing it meant its defensive abilities were high. I couldn't tell its level, but it was for sure much stronger than a single shield of mine.
The shield that clashed against that turtle one wasn't just a single shield, but a collective gathering of all the shields I summoned and survived this far. And such a number was indeed huge.
To be able to stop all these shields with a single turtle was indeed a clear evidence on how strong this turtle shield was.
Taking down such a shield would prove quite challenging even to me. Yet there was a good thing about it. If the owner could use it freely like me, then he wouldn't have to wait all this time before using it.
Chapter 1233 Spreading Chaos
It seemed that the turtle shield's area of coverage wasn't big, and it didn't have the same ability of my shields to surround a space and defend those inside it.
In brief, this shield was like an immovable rock that stood in my path. I could simply take a detour, turn around it and continue deploying my shields.
But I already grew tired of doing this. I controlled enough space to start my next step in my plan.
So I didn't aim towards deploying more shields around and simply led the enemy to mistake my inability to overcome such obstacles.
During the next few minutes, I reinforced my shields by adding more to them. It was a must to do move, or else my next move would lose much of its value once my shields were taken down.
Such a turtle shield might possess some sort of offensive power in it. If so, then my shields were at a great risk of getting smashed in a short span of time.
The enemy didn't stop their attack for even one second. After using that turtle shield, I noticed the magnitude of attacks landing over my shields getting fiercer.
It was a clear indication that the enemy generals placed great importance over taking down my shields and wiping out my inside forces.
It made quite sense. After all no one wanted to divide up their forces in two fronts, especially when one of them was this close to their grand army.
I stood over my chariot doing nothing but coldly watching what was going on around. After expanding my shields in such a grand way, the attacks landing on it had to cover up lots of areas, leaving behind cracks to expose what lies behind.
These cracks were thin, looking like flaws in the middle of a bright star. But they were enough for me to see the dense number of forces trying their best against my shields.
At the same time, the enemy never stopped deploying forces inside the shields to keep my forces occupied. I knew they were suffering such losses to make sure my forces weren't free to come out or defend the shields once getting broken.
However they were soon destined to get disappointed.
Once I reinforced my shields enough and saw the lands beyond the shields filled to the brim with enemy forces, I knew it was time to make the next move.
The next move was simple. I took out tons of warriors, the ones I already strengthened for long hours before, and gave them a single order.
"Step outside, keep killing until you are deadly tired or really dead," this was the simple order I gave. And the next moment, tens of millions sprinted towards the forces outside from inside my shield zone, attacking the enemies everywhere around, with much more following in their tracks.
The impact that came was indeed quite scary and shocking to the enemy. No matter how bad they thought about the steps I'd take next to counter them, they'd never think about sending out forces to meet theirs.
And the big point of difference lies in the ferocity of my forces coming out and their large numbers.
Every time the area inside looked a little emptied, I'd instantly fill the gaps up with more warriors. I got enough to keep sending these out without worrying about anything for hours!
But who said I only wanted to do that? If I started to attack, it was best to hit the enemy with everything I got without sparing anything behind.
So as I was releasing my warriors here, a storm of forces appeared all of sudden from the hole and invaded the shields without any problem.
The area of my shields encircled the entire hole opening, but it couldn't cover it. As there was no land out there, it was hard to cover up the opening as well.
Once these forces appeared, they ran like mad dogs towards the outer region of the shields. I looked at them and smiled evilly.
These were the tens of millions of Hescos I already controlled before. All this time I left such vast and formidable force stored away from any fight. They lost few in the middle of the attacks between my forces and the Hescos when the Hescos broke the shield.
But that wasn't a big loss at all. Looking at these hungry wolves racing time to go to the Hescos, I felt like a true warlord with invincible might.
Who could stand before me? Hescos? The first race in the entire universe? Humph, no one would stand a chance against me when I'd go all out.
Provided that I got enough time to prepare, I'd turn into a one man army, enough to take down the mighty army of the formidable Hescos.
Once these Hescos appeared, they crushed the fragile resistance stopping in front of my warriors. Comparing the two together, even if I was using warriors with cultivation bases and full stat points, they still paled in comparison to regular Hescos soldiers.
This wasn't just a difference in training and preparation, not a difference in cultivation bases and personal might and such, but it was mainly thanks to the suits the Hescos had and my warriors didn't.
As everything started to toll the same way I wanted, I instantly summoned someone back from the battlefield.
"Lord, I'm at your service," Lucas appeared and bowed to me with his orange fire engulfing his body.
Watching him gave me a formidable feeling. His fire didn't show a change, but I felt like he grew quite stronger since the last time I saw him.
"I'll entrust this region over to you," I knew I couldn't limit myself here no matter what.
If I wanted to create the biggest trouble for my enemies, then it was better for me to step outside and personally lead this entire war.
By doing that I'd not bring much headache to the disarrayed enemy, I'd also add more forces using my techniques. Not to mention going out there would make me public enemy number one.
Chapter 1234 Something Terrible Happened!
My chariot's shield would take most of the pressure falling over the shields right now. I had to do this to make sure my shields wouldn't get crushed anytime soon. Or else such an advantage I got would be instantly affected, or even lost.
"Leave things here for me, I will never disappoint lord's trust in me," Lucas bowed and his attitude was the same, filled with veneration and respect.
"Good luck," I knew keeping this place under control by just using the soulers and a few warriors I scattered before wasn't going to be easy.
The enemy kept releasing more troops from the underground holes as if they were ants coming out from the ground. With the vast space protected by my shields, the number of enemy forces kept increasing as such.
I just hoped nothing bad would happen here while I was away. Before leaving, I stored this place into my staff just in case.
As I stepped outside my shields, what I expected happened. I instantly turned into a lightning moving torch, with blinding lights all over my chariot.
I smiled evilly when that happened. I didn't even need to see anything to use my techniques, and trying to take down my shield was a futile attempt.
I started using my first technique with my right hand. As for my left, I started causing these forces trouble by constantly using my shield skill without reservation.
Even if my shields got broken easily amidst all these attacks, the brief moments they intercepted the incoming enemies would create gaps in their lines, messing more with their already f*cked up lineup.
At the same time, I released my threads freely all over the place, and kept flying around in circles without seeing anything. My aim was to spread as much chaos as possible, even summoning many warriors from my inventory at random places without any care about their positions.
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As for the Hescos I controlled, I didn't bother keeping them this time. I constantly gave them the order to attack whoever next to them, spreading out more chaos everywhere.
They wanted to try crushing me using tactics, and I decided to use brute force to show them who was the boss here.
I couldn't see anything, but I was sure the world underneath me was now ushering under chaos.
If the enemy had to fight my forces from a single or few directions then they might be able to pull a strong frontline and stand their ground against me.
But I didn't do that. I simply kept flying all over the place. I didn't even know where I was heading or where I was right now.
The only moments I was able to see what was happening to the world around me was when I used my pillar's skill.
The shield that got out from my pillar was enough to push all the incoming attacks away from my chariot, clearing the blinding lights and allowing me to inspect the world for a brief few seconds.
The shields I summoned were all singular and thus they never sustained the pressure for longer than half a minute.
But that didn't matter much to me. From what I could see, the Hescos were already in disarray. Fighting against my warriors who appeared everywhere I went was a pain already.
Not to mention each time I used my shields, a gap would appear in between the enemy lines. Gradually these gaps interlapped, ending up creating more chaos down there.
The enemy was cut off their backlines, and reinforcements coming were always stopped in tracks by my shields. No matter how they tried, my forces always had the upper hand here.
I was adopting a guerilla tactic, one that was enough to make any formidable enemy feel scared. And as my forces didn't follow any logic while attacking, only killing everyone and everything that moved around them, the enemy couldn't make the best use of their brilliant tactics.
If I dared to compete with Hescos on the ground of tactics, I'd end up losing quite badly. I was full of myself, but I wouldn't let that cloud my judgement.
My forces didn't lack in many things, but in terms of capable tacticians, my forces lacked a lot. And when comparing them with the Hesocs, I knew we'd lose very badly in that regard.
So instead of playing the enemy in the turf they were the strongest at, it was better to improvise and use something we both stood on equal grounds at.
And with the help of my pillar shields and my chariot's ability to move around unhindered like this, things were going smoother to my side.
Just when I was feeling better, something suddenly happened.
*Boom!*
Just as I was moving around doing the same stuff, I used my pillar like I used to have. But the moment I used the Thundering Might skill, the pillar that was supposed to break free, fly to the sky and release the shield shook in my hand like it was a violent creature.
And the next instant, it broke free from hand with a loud boom, flew in the sky for a few seconds, shook there while releasing strange wisps of black light.
The pillar never did that before. I looked in a weird way towards my pillar without feeling any good about this.
*Thud!* just like a broken kite, it fell to the floor of my chariot without moving. The pillar used to break free from my hand, go to the sky, release the protective shield, then return again.
Such a process never took more than a couple of breaths before ending. And it always happened smoothly without any issue. But for a reason, the pillar felt like it wasn't connected to me anymore.
I went towards my pillar and held it in caution. I was sure it wasn't acting normally as it should be. And the first suspect was the Hescos paragons.
"Hmm… I can't feel it anymore…" I held the pillar in my hand and kept inspecting it closely. I felt like I was holding a cold rod, nothing like the mighty pillar I used to have.
I tried to shake it a little, but didn't get anything happening from it. When I looked closer, I noticed the presence of miniscule layer of chains that was built out from symbols.
Chapter 1235 Even My Chariot...
I narrowed my eyes when I saw such a thing. What I felt was that my entire pillar got imprisoned by these chains or something.
The more I looked at these chains, the worse I felt. I didn't like that, and I had to find a way to save my precious pillar.
The first thing I tried was to store it away in my inventory. I hoped whatever was affecting and intervening with my pillar would get its connection severed the moment my pillar got into my inventory.
But after taking it out again, nothing changed.
"If this won't do, then brute force will," I started to gush my power into the pillar.
I circulated my spirit power in my body, then led them to my left hand holding the pillar. I controlled my energy to pass through the pillar, and not my technique.
The moment my energy touched the pillar, it looked like water came into contact with fire. Loud sizzling sounds erupted and even a thick cloud of black mist came out from the pillar.
"It doesn't work…" I frowned when I noticed that after using my energy for a minute or so, nothing much happened to the chains.
All that happened was the reaction between my energy and this chain. Such a reaction was a clear indication of the effect of my energy over this binding chain.
However my energy seemed lacking in enough strength to make such a chain get broken.
"If so, then it's time to go crazy!" all this time, I was only limiting the use of my bones to my chariot.
I knew how hard it was to deal with the overload of energy coming from tons of bones if I scattered them around. Plus I was constantly moving around, not sticking to one place.
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pAn-d a-n0ve1.com As I lost my precious pillar, I decided to give it a pause. Nothing would be able to harm my chariot at this moment, so my entire focus was shifted over the pillar.
I took out tons of bones, scattered them around the ground underneath me, and then started absorbing them madly.
I felt the same insane pressure assaulting my body again. I tried my best to not take out too much, and yet the same pressure resurfaced again.
I didn't hesitate and moved my energy towards the pillar. This time the sizzling that came was like bolts of thunder hitting in the middle of a thunderstorm.
The mist that came out from the pillar was in copious amounts, enough with each gush to cover up my entire chariot within.
It was a scary sight, and a weird one. The one who used such technique must have used something on the same level as my pillar, or even a stronger artefact.
No matter what, energy was used to seal my pillar and I was going to crush that seal using my energy.
The thick bellows of black smoke kept rising up without stopping, and the echoes of the thundering booming explosions kept exploding in my ears.
All I feared was for my pillar to not withstand such immense pressure. But as I started, I wouldn't stop until I'd free my pillar. pand(a-n0vel.c)om
*Clunk!*
Just as I was in the middle of doing this, a weird sound came from around. It wasn't that loud, but it was weird to make me easily sniff it.
I looked around and the next moment my face changed. "Damn! He is coming for my chariot!" I inwardly cursed and without any hesitation I turned towards the direction where more shocking lights came from and pushed my chariot towards it.
I used the fastest speed to move towards that direction. This time, whoever did this to my pillar seemed to grow greedy and sat his gaze on my chariot.
If my chariot got sealed, then I'd end up like a sitting duck in the middle of the enemy forces. I didn't want to face such a situation. And luckily for me the chariot was much bigger than the pillar so it took him a few minutes before it stopped working.
The chariot buzzed like an angry beast. I could feel it trembling and roaring, fighting against the sealing effect imposed over it.
"Oh, the energy I left behind is working…" as I helplessly watched my chariot trembling in space, I realised what was going on.
The chariot wasn't at the same level as the pillar. It was an artefact, but a low grade one. So it should have been easier for the enemy to seal it.
But reality proved otherwise.
The chariot was already filled with endless energy crystals. For the sealing to work, it had first to consume the shield. And it seemed the shield was fighting perfectly fine against such force.
But when I opened the interface of the chariot, my face changed. The seemingly endless amount of energy stored within the chariot was now running low as fast as running water.
If this kept on, then my chariot wouldn't be able to stay intact for more than ten minutes.
It might seem enough for me to return back inside the protection of my grand shields. But if that happened, I couldn't guarantee that this dude or other paragons would use more artefacts to bring my shields down.
Without my pillar, nothing was guaranteed anymore, f*ck it!
"Fine, let's play crazy together then," once I realised that the chariot was able to hold on for ten minutes, I stopped in my tracks all of sudden.
Before this, I controlled myself and took out a smaller amount of bones. But this time, I took out an endless amount of bones.
If the way to unseal the pillar was by using energy, then I'd flood it with an irresistible amount of energy using my bones.
It was a crazy move, and the moment I started absorbing the energy of these bones, I felt like my body was torn apart by the energy influx.
I gritted my teeth and endured this pressure as long as I could. At the same time, I pushed all the energy towards the pillar without any hesitation.
Chapter 1236 The Two New Skills
It was a risky move that paid off very well. Just as the insane amount of energy entered the pillar, I could feel the pillar shaking in my hand fiercely just the same when it got sealed.
Aside from the booming thundering explosive noises that erupted from it as if a mighty war was undergoing out there, and the rich amount of fog that emanated from the pillar, the seal started to get broken one symbol at a time.
Seeing this made my heart clench. I depended over my pillar to venture like this in the middle of the enemy. If I didn't have the pillar, then I couldn't keep myself safe nor my forces here or back there.
Aside from the unimaginable importance of my pillar, I had to find a way to crack this seal. The one behind this was able to use this dirty method more than once.
So after sealing my pillar my chariot came next. And who knew what else might get sealed in the same way.
It was terrifying how the enemy properly analysed my way of attack and pinpoint the crucial artefacts I was using and targeted them in order.
p-A- n-d-A-n-0-v-e-1,(c)om First would be the pillar, then the chariot, then my glaive, and might even extend to my Libra. All my artefacts were priceless to me. And my main advantage came from these artefacts.
In less than one minute, the entire structure of the seal got broken into tiny pieces. My pillar shone in a sudden flash of bright light, broke free from my hand, and weirdly it stood up there in the air without doing anything else.
More strangely was that my energy output kept attached to the pillar. I could see a thick line of myriad of lights connecting my left hand to the pillar.
I felt worried that something bad might have happened to this pillar. My connection with it came after many ordeals and quite hard challenges.
If that connection got revoked at this moment, then I'd have no time to reconnect again with it.
But time proved that my worries were groundless and unneeded. The connection didn't grow weaker, instead it became stronger.
I felt like my link with the pillar got upgraded, as if the pillar was moved by what I did to keep it. Of course I'd not let anyone bully you, buddy!
As the pillar kept absorbing energy madly, new changes appeared to it.
[The sacred pillar of the Hector race just got upgraded to the next level] and without expecting it, a notification came to startle me.
[A new passive skill is now added to the pillar]
[A new active skill is now added to the pillar]
My eyes went wide when I read these notifications. I hurriedly checked the pillar interface that was all this time greyed out, and there I found the two added skills. pand(a-n0vel.c)om
[Stubborn As Ever skill: Passive skill! At any time the shields produced by the pillar get attacked, ten percent of the damage will get absorbed and stored inside. If the amount stored exceeded one thousand times the defensive capacity of the shield without releasing it, then the energy will automatically be converted to a self repair energy for the shield]
[Lethal Strike skill: Active skill! You can unleash the stored energy inside the shields at any time, releasing a shocking wave that will go for as long as the energy's capacity. You can connect to the pillar and add as much energy as you want to increase the lethality of the attack. Attack duration, extend, and damage output depends entirely on the amount of energy stored inside]
I looked at these two simple and yet deadly skills with much delight. Damn good! That was all I thought about!
"If that's true, and it applies to the shields I used so far, that means with the first passive skill my shields back there can sustain themselves for a long time. That repair function will ensure that my shields won't need me around anymore."
Even if there was a lethal attack landing on my shields, the shields would store up the energy and instantly turn them into repair energy.
As I used many shields already to defend that grand zone behind, it meant that its storage capacity would be more than just using a single shield.
And now my shields I used to create and sacrifice would sustain themselves here. Damn! That was enough to give Hescos a great headache.
If that dude who used this sealing artefact knew about the great help he did for me, he'd slap himself in the face, hahahaha!
As for the second skill, it was a brutal one. But I didn't intend to use it rashly at this battle.
It was better to turn the stored energy into repair energy.
Just as I was lost in my thoughts and happiness, the pillar that was suspended in midair started to show a new change.
It absorbed tons of my energy and right now it seems to be full. The pillar shook and released an immense wave of energy that started like a small ball before expanding widely all around the place.
I stood just in the centre of this and saw the explosion growing in size and magnitude. After a few breaths, it covered an area of tens of miles around, sweeping everything and anyone in its path, leaving behind piles of dead bodies.
The only regret was that my forces I scattered or controlled here got hit as well. And even after covering such a grand area, the explosion seemed to keep going on.
But the best news was that it also affected the defensive structures around. All this time, my forces were struggling to fight the Hescos appearing from underground.
The defensive fortress here was indeed something else. But after the explosion swept everything clean, I could now see what lies below the surface.
As I initially expected, the tunnels extending from the underground forts at the pit back there were linked to the defensive structure here. The explosion swept the ground for a hundred metres or so.
Chapter 1237 Sealing My Pillar Again
After exposing the underground structures, I could clearly see spacious zones, seemingly dedicated to store up the forces here. And from there, huge tunnels were linking these spacious zones, heading towards the direction of that pit.
Even the forces living in these places got hit as well. The impact grew weaker after demolishing all the defences there, and so these forces only suffered little damage after all.
But it was great! Now the Hescos were deprived from their awesome defensive coverage, and I got a mighty shield ability on my side.
Hescos... From now it would be my turn to attack and crush you, and all you'd have to do was defend and run, hahahaha!
The pillar kept releasing its devastating attack while sucking my energy dry.
I checked and it seemed it wasn't going to let go of taking out my bones' energy even when it started to release the attack.
As it was going to take quite some time for my pillar to get freed from this, I shifted my attention towards somewhere else; my chariot.
The same sealing thing affected my chariot after my pillar. During the time I tried to free my pillar from such a seal, the ongoing battle between the chariot's stored energy and the seal energy kept going on.
I hesitated. From what happened to my pillar, I was tempted to let my chariot get sealed and then try to unseal it. Perhaps I might go lucky and get my chariot upgraded or something.
"No, what happened to my pillar was a one time incident that can't be repeated with my chariot," after considering it for long minutes, I realised why my pillar acted this way.
The pillar was a relic that I got from the Hector race. It didn't belong to humans, and so it wasn't compatible with me. I got a low authority level before, and it seemed my actions to unseal the pillar and protect it moved this level a bit higher.
But in regard to my chariot, this thing didn't exist. I had total control over my chariot. And the upgrade that happened to my pillar wasn't related to the amount of energy I poured into it, but related to my actions in general.
"Tsk, what a regret," I regretted such an awesome chance. But when I looked up at the shining pillar, I realised how lucky I was.
At least I got out of this ordeal with something great as the two added skills to my pillar.
As the pillar kept shining and taking out my absorbed energy non-stop, I moved my eyes towards my chariot. "I'm losing energy this way," I hoped for the brutal attack of my pillar to change things here.
But it seemed whoever was using this seal attack on me was staying far behind. Such a cautious and lucky bastard! If he was just near me, then such an attack from my pillar was enough to turn him into shreds.
I decided to act. It was pointless to exhaust all the energy reserves inside my chariot like this. Just during the past few minutes, the energy crystals I threw at the chariot heart got depleted almost by half.
-n0ve1,com I controlled my chariot and the next instant, I sealed all the energy coming out from its heart. The next instant, the chariot stopped flying and fell down like a dead rock. pand(a-n0vel.c)om
I anticipated this. And so I simply jumped away from the chariot once it got closer to the ground, or what was left of it.
The place truly looked as part of a real apocalypse. Everything around me was filled with ruins, giving a very gloomy image to the world around me.
Once I touched the ground, I moved aside to avoid the falling chariot. At this point I knew my chariot got sealed. And aside from storing it inside my inventory, I couldn't make it do anything else.
*Boom!*
The moment the chariot slammed heavily on the ground, I hurried to it and examined its surface. The massive chariot got covered up in layers of seals that turned my precious girl into such a dim and stupid looking rock.
I touched it, and my hands felt like touching something cold. The seal layer that covered the chariot was just like the one that covered my pillar earlier, filled with symbols that formed a chain -like coat around it.
I didn't hesitate any longer, placed my palm over the chariot and controlled part of the endless energy coming towards my body towards the chariot.
At this moment I stopped my earlier two techniques and focused mainly over feeding the pillar and chariot with all the energy I was absorbing.
Even if the amount I was absorbing seemed too much to handle, it was barely enough to satisfy the needs of the two mighty artefacts of mine.
The chariot showed the same reaction as my pillar. Thunderous explosions erupted from it accompanied by thick bellows of black smoke.
I didn't show any reaction to this and kept pouring out my energy towards the chariot. What was different though was that the amount of change that happened to my chariot wasn't like when I tried to unseal my pillar for the first time.
After all, I was using an insane amount of energy from the start to unseal my chariot.
*Clang!*
Just in the middle of doing this, I felt a weird sound coming from the direction of my pillar. When I looked up, the pillar showed a weird thick cloud of blackness around it, seemingly unable to get in touch with my pillar.
"Hahahaha! Do you think you can seal my pillar again?" I laughed in a devilish way when I saw this. It was obvious what just happened.
Whoever sealed my pillar before was trying his luck again to seal it. He seemed to realise that I broke his seal, and that got on his nerves.
But this time my pillar was already acting on its own, using an insane amount of energy to unleash such hell over the Hescos.
Chapter 1238 Getting Surrounded
Trying to touch my pillar at this moment was a crazy act. I could only laugh while feeling as if I missed a chance or something.
If my pillar got sealed again and I managed to unseal it, would my level of privilege grow and reach a higher level? Would I gain more skills or something?
I was tempted to try and let my pillar get sealed again. After all, I wasn't running low on bones at this moment.
If I wanted, I could easily get more bones from the endless bodies of the Hescos all over the place. Not to mention that my stock of bones was already filled to the brim.
The only problem was that my pillar wasn't under my control right now. It kept taking out my energy and unleashing that devastating attack. I couldn't even control most of the energy that the berserk mode of pillar was sucking all this time.
I resigned to this fate while watching the black cloud around the pillar fade slowly away. I returned to focus on my chariot again, noticing that all the symbols sealing it were flashing brightly with weird silver black light.
It was so close to being destroyed. And I only had to wait for a few more minutes before this entire seal would turn into nothing.
*Sizzle!*
Just as I was using my energy to do so, a strange black aura appeared around my chariot. "That damn bastard! Does he never stop or what?"
I gritted my teeth while watching the already shining and on the verge of getting crushed symbols dim.
The symbols were this close from getting shattered. But before this would happen, that enemy of mine reused his seal artefact and fortified the seal imposed on my chariot.
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This made all the progress my energy achieved to cease and even retreat behind for many steps. I watched the symbols become dimmer, as they got layers of seals strengthening them.
That bastard! He didn't just use a single seal to strengthen his initial seal on my chariot, but used too many at a short time.
"Fine! You want to play with me? I'll gladly accompany you then!" I knew he sat his gaze over my chariot and decided to deprive me from my fast moving vehicle.
I knew he wanted to pinpoint me here, let me become a sitting duck.
Of course without my chariot, I'd lose much of my free mobility here, nullifying my ability to control the grand battle happening in this world.
But that wasn't much to me. I simply regulated my energy towards the pillar and chariot, and started taking out tons of my warriors.
Once I filled the entire area around with warriors, I gave them the order to take down my enemies around.
Even with the devastating attack of my pillar, many of the Hescos forces survived the attack. They were the ones living underneath the ground, in the complicated set of defences that got cracked open by my pillar's attack.
The moment my warriors moved, I noticed that the scattered and scared Hescos forces around were already on the move.
I never focused on them. After seeing such a scary and deadly attack by their eyes, it was natural for them to get scared.
Besides I was already too busy dealing with my sealed artefacts.
As my warriors started fighting, I could hear the clamour of armour and weapons clashing against each other all around me. I realised that I was already surrounded by Hescos forces from all sides.
"Do you think this is enough to take me down? Humph!" I knew that on paper, I was in a tough situation. I got deprived from my ride, and my pillar was already out of control.
I was in the middle of the enemy's deep lines. Even after such devastative attack, the enemy still had tons of forces around they could use to target me.
But even so, it wasn't that dire or desperate for me yet. I calmly kept taking out my warriors and let them freely attack.
In addition to that, the fallen gods that I already stored before were taken out. I simply let them join and lead the warriors around and start a massive slaughter.
If the Hescos generals and paragons took this as a golden chance to take me down, then I also took this as a good chance in killing more of them.
After all, the victory of this battle would be decided once the Hescos lost too much to handle. Theoretically speaking, this was something easy to achieve. But I knew how hard it was.
If the Hescos did all this to fight me, then it was safe to consider that they gathered most of their forces in the entire world here to fight me.
Killing a few millions or tens of millions was nothing to me at this point. But I suspected that even by killing billions the enemy would feel pressured.
Yet I didn't stop taking out warriors. If killing billions was what it needed to win this war, then I'd snowball this seemingly disadvantageous fight and turn it into something like a grinding slaughterhouse.
I resumed gushing out my absorbed energy into the chariot and my pillar. After half an hour, the pillar started to show signs of getting under control. The bright light it emitted started to gradually dim, and it slowly started heading towards my hand.
"Time to show them how foolish of them to think about doing this," once I grabbed the pillar in my right hand, I waved my left and a great dragon appeared out of nowhere.
Who said I was out of options here? If using artefacts was pointless in this battle, then I'd use my dragons as rides.
And I got tons of these dragons at my disposal.
*Roar!*
The moment the dragon appeared, it roared in defiance as if it felt the pressure around. I jumped over its back and urged it to fly by my feet.
Chapter 1239 They Got Impatient
The moment it soared to the sky, I checked the energy output towards my chariot. At this moment, all the energy absorbed around was heading solely towards my chariot.
If the connection got severed by leaving the side of my chariot, then I'd face the predicament of the overload of my energy.
Considering such a possibility, then I'd have to wait right next to my chariot, or better take it inside my inventory. I just wanted that bastard to keep his focus over my chariot and not shift his attention to my pillar.
It was very hard to contend with my insane amount of energy fighting to free my chariot.
Luckily for me, when I checked I found out that the connection was still there. Another thick thread of energy extended from my body towards the chariot on the ground.
Then I turned around and took a grander look over the entire battlefield.
It was hectic at this moment! The area around me was already filled with chaotic fights where the warriors on my side were fighting bloody battles against the forces of Hescos.
What made this fight chaotic and hectic was the weird layout of the ground. It couldn't be described as trenches as it was filled with irregular ruins and holes of different sizes and depths.
For any side to cross the borders of these ruins, they must climb and jump. During this, the death count simply increased by a scary rate.
But seeing such a hectic situation made me grin evilly.
The enemy had to jump and climb, but my warriors didn't need to do so!
During the next hour, I kept flying around over the back of my dragon. I scattered warriors all over the place, making the warriors appear just in the middle of the sequestrated ruined sections down below.
The enemy might seem frightening as they got huge numbers. But they were divided into tiny groups, forced by all these ruins. So despite having the upper hand in terms of homeland and numbers, they were pressured too much against my warriors appearing out of nowhere in the middle of their forces.
In addition to that, these Hescos forces were already wounded. Most of them got light wounds, but they were still wounded after all. And on top of that, their morale was low from the start thanks to the scary attack they witnessed.
Facing my forces made them end up in a bitter situation. I watched all this and felt more confident in crushing all of them.
But I was limited by something. When I tried to go after the ten mile mark, the connection between me and my chariot grew weaker all of sudden.
That limited my actions to the radius of ten miles. After finishing this, I returned back to my chariot to check it up.
If after all this time my chariot's seal didn't break, I'd rather store it away and start my fierce retaliation.
The energy coming from my bones started to grow thinner at this point. It was pointless trying to break this seal by absorbing more bones. For me, I'd be able to keep myself alive using my pillar at any given dangerous moment.
Even if that bastard tried to seal my pillar again, which was something I highly doubted, then I'd use my warriors to shield me from any incoming attack.
If things grew worse for me, then I'd use my staff and jump away from any deadly situation safe and sound.
I wasn't out of options. And no matter how the enemy thought and planned, I'd end up with my head on my shoulders.
As I returned, the first thing I noticed was that my chariot was glowing in a weird way. "Sigh! Luckily it's about to get unsealed," I heaved a sigh of relief when I saw this.
I expected the enemy to run short of his attempts to seal my artefacts. I was the owner of many artefacts, and such high level artefacts were always limited either by time of usage, energy expenditure, or even weird conditions just like my Libra had.
The enemy exhausted its times of using his sealing artefact, and that led my chariot to finally be on the verge of getting unsealed.
I checked and found that almost more than two thirds of the sealing symbols here got crushed already.
I took enough bones to crush the remaining symbols and waited for the chariot to get freed.
[It's happening!]
Just when I was this close from getting my chariot freed, I got this sudden message from Sara.
The Hescos generals and paragons seemed to not be able to keep their patience anymore. They suffered more than what I estimated it seemed, or else they'd try their best to take me down, or take my zone back at the edge of that hole first before attacking the layers in the pit.
[Retreat first and do everything in your power to reserve the most force you can. Tell me, can you sustain the pressure for how long?]
[They are coming from everywhere! I can't promise you anything]
It was just like I expected. But didn't I leave behind tons of warriors in the tunnels? How come these forces came out from these tunnels without fighting my warriors?
[Are they coming out from all the layers?] I still couldn't believe this. I knew the Hescos had prepared too much for such an attack, but I expected all my actions here had weakened their forces already.
[Well… Let me check…] I felt weird when she sent this message over, [No, they are coming just from the layers starting from fifty something from the bottom]
Oh, that was it then… I heaved a sigh of relief when I heard what she just sent.
That made quite sense now. Or else I'd doubt I left behind a group of pussies and not full state warriors.
[Beware, they are coming from all layers but I left a surprise for them at the lowest fifty layers] I sent to her so she wouldn't think it was safe up to the fifty layer or so, [Just keep going down even after getting out from the danger zone]
Chapter 1240 The Trick Up My Sleeve
I had to make sure they got it. The entire place down there was a danger zone. And she had to keep running with her forces for their lives without looking back.
[How long can you stall them for me?] This is the most important question right now. If she could stall them for a few hours, I could start progressing the attack here to the next level.
After all, this was just the setup for what I planned for them.
[I can't promise you anything] yet unlike what I expected, she didn't give me a direct answer. It seemed she was facing a desperate situation.
-n0ve1,com Knowing her, I was sure she walked all the way up towards the highest layers without any regard for anything else. So when the enemy appeared, she found herself surrounded from all sides with no way out.
I hoped she kept putting my advice in her mind all this time and didn't just take risks and go ahead without planning a way out.
[Find out how fast you can stall them for me. The longer you can keep them busy, the better]
[Give me half an hour then. I need to see first how many will survive this before seeing how I'm supposed to defend the ground layer with the remaining forces]
[Don't worry about the ground, I already did my preparations there before leaving] that was why I left behind those guys from the research department.
They were assigned to make preparations there for the last stand battle. At the same time, I left many warriors there, led by many fallen gods.
Not to mention I already left two more thousand fallen gods behind to help Sara and her forces in their hastily retreat.
[I just want you to hold out there for at least one day, can you do it?] I needed one day at least to perform the last trick up my sleeve. If she could sustain for that long, then it'd be great.
[I can't promise anything, really not now. Give me few hours before I can give you the final answer]
[Just stay alive for one day. If you can't hold on anymore, just let me know] I still had the staff to use. Before leaving that pit, I saved many spots there for such a moment.
[Deal] this time she didn't give me the crap of not being able to promise anything. I was sure she could live through this for the entire day, if not for more.
I didn't spend all this time fortifying the tunnels and preparing warriors and weapons at the bottom ground for nothing. Besides she got tons of forces on her side, including many warriors, including my deadly fallen gods.
If she behaved well and took the advice of other generals, then things would turn out to be quite easy to handle.
I knew she was an all offensive oriented general. So the turf of retreating and defending wasn't her best point. Yet she wasn't the sole general out there in the army.
After reminding her of this point, I closed the chat and took a deep breath. "It's time to show these Hescos what I'm really capable of!"
I turned my cold gaze around, watching the seemingly endless Hescos trying to come as fast as they could towards my direction.
I took something out of my inventory. When I came here, I knew I wouldn't be able to dominate this place using the five armies, weapons, and warriors on my side.
No matter how strong my warriors were, they needed stat crystals to show their strength. At the same time, my enemies wouldn't let me have it easy to feed my warriors and raise them to the highest level.
So the key to winning this war didn't lie in any force present in this world. I held the item I took before finally activating it.
"Hopefully she'll notice my signal fast enough," I muttered while watching the ticket pass I held in my hand turn into a grand pillar of light.
What I took was nothing else but a pass ticket to another world, the same ticket I used to come here in the first place, or join other worlds as well.
I got enough tickets for the worlds in my apocalypse trial. So using this one ticket would make me run short of one ticket to one world.
And to make it worse, I had to use another ticket to open a channel directly towards here.
"Go there and use this ticket," I handed another ticket to Lucas after summoning him, "go inside and activate that ticket then return here via this portal."
"Got it lord!"
The only solution I tried to get rid of this inevitable side effect was to ask Silverlining before sending me more of these tickets.
He promised to get me more if he could. But that was before the grand battle with the Hescos. After that grandiose win, the attitude Silverlining gave me was enough to make me believe I'd gain not only a few tickets, but a bunch of these.
I just needed a few to make up for situations like the one I had right now. When the pillar of light shone brightly in this world, it could be seen by my enemies.
I knew that long before coming here. The pillars of light produced by these tickets were so grand and eye-catching, hard to be missed by anyone from a far distance away.
That was why I stressed over and over on this point. I asked Lily to be ready to send the other five armies out when she'd get my signal.
And this was the signal I meant.
It would be hard to ignore the sudden appearance of this pillar in my capital. I just hoped Lily had already arranged the other five armies and made them ready to move at any given notice.
Just as the pillar appeared, I noticed the movement of the Hescos had suddenly changed. It was like they were on steroids or something, as they started jumping around like monkeys.
I knew I could have asked Lucas to go and speak with her, but this might lose us precious time.
"I did it, lord," Lucas appeared next and I simply opened a path for him to return back to the base where my warriors and other soulers were.
Then I shifted my attention towards the fight here.
I held my pillar and was ready to use it to activate the shield and protect this pillar for now. But before I'd do anything, I heard a loud clamour noise coming from the direction of the pillar of light.
Then after flashes of light, many soldiers appeared.
Chapter 1241 Spreading Chaos
When I looked at their faces, I could clearly see how eager and ready to fight they were.
"Listen up, you are in the middle of the enemy's deep lines," after just a few minutes, hundreds of thousands of soldiers appeared from the portal, and many more were still coming.
I held my horn and started addressing them. I briefed them about the situation of this entire war, where this place was, and what their missions were.
In general, they just needed to press forward, kill anyone they faced without any reservation. They were going to handle the ongoing battle on the surface, expanding its range to reach further places, and try to take control over the entire defences here.
I knew before coming here I planned to let these five armies take control of the places we already cleared here. But plans were made to get broken, and I didn't care about what they had in their minds before coming here.
They were soldiers, and killing was their way of life. I kept narrating everything to any new batches, before deciding to leave a group behind to educate the newly arrived ones about the current situation.
In one hour, the entire battle here changed drastically after the joining of my five armies. Before their arrival, the Hescos were racing against time, fighting against my warriors, and trying to get to me.
But after the arrival of my forces, they faced great difficulty in doing that. In fact, the Hescos almost lost all the encounters with my newly arrived forces.
They got pushed back, while the path was littered with endless dead bodies. The fight kept expanding without an order, and it was now my time to add more fuel to the fire.
I jumped over my chariot and moved so fast towards the frontline. I passed in no time over there, and kept flying forward.
After flying for a few minutes, I stopped. It was enough distance from my coming forces from the portal.
"Thundering Might!" I didn't hesitate and used my shield skill. The moment the shield appeared, I didn't stop there and started to move fast towards another direction.
In the middle of all this, I took out enough warriors to fill up this shield.
After the upgrade of my pillar, I didn't need to worry over my shields anymore. They could sustain themselves for a long time without the need for my intervention.
Not to mention after that scary explosion from before, the Hescos crazy attacks ceased. The only danger that lurked here came from the ground forces that survived this attack.
The remaining Hescos surviving troops were already so far away from here. They'd need a long time to come, and they had to cross such hard to trespass terrain.
That meant my forces here were safe for a long time. Not to mention the Hescos generals hurried their plans and started invading the underground tunnels and forts.
They had to send tons of forces there to do their desired plan. And that meant they wouldn't be able to muster lots of troops here to threaten my forces.
But that didn't matter to me. I'd never miss this golden chance.
From the beginning I realised how deadly this trap was here. If I focused on gaining control over the underground forts and layers, then I'd be doomed.
Ruling over such a complicated defensive pit was pointless. The forces who had the higher ground would crush those who were lower to them.
So from the first moment I realised this deadly flaw. If I played according to the enemy plots, and focused on taking control of that pit, then I'd end up losing too much without gaining anything.
The end result would be my defeat. And thus I started to shift my gaze upon another point, the surface.
When I first came I got bewildered by how massive the enemy preparations here were. But that didn't stop me.
At this point, I could honestly say that I did a good job. All that I needed was to flip the coin and let my forces stall the Hescos main bulk armies down at the pit instead of the opposite.
The enemy must have planned to pin my forces deep down the pit layers and stop us from coming up here. Yet the enemy fell at last in his own trap, ending up sending most of their forces to the pit hole and losing too much of their forces to stop me.
That was why I asked Sara to try her best and stall for time down there. The longer she bought time for me the better chances I got to control this entire defensive zone on the surface.
Winning this war could be achieved by different ways, including killing me or exterminating my forces. But for me, I could simply take control of the surface defences, and then this war would be my victory.
Even if things went south down at the pit and my forces got crushed by the Hescos, I'd still win if I ended up securing the surface first.
Taking the surface defences as a base, I could easily harass the Hescos remnants inside the pit and clear the entire place of these hostile foes.
That was why I totally ignored defending that pit fiercely and instead shifted my full attention on conquering the surface here.
I had to admit, things went out of my plans. If not for the pleasant surprise of my pillar growing out of control and releasing such a deadly attack, I'd have to say my entire situation here would have been helpless.
I threw away all these useless thoughts and focused on forming more shields, scattering more warriors, and even left enough stat crystals for them to get strengthened.
The shields proved to be durable, able to sustain any attack coming at them from the direction of the Hescos faraway forces and didn't shatter.
The Hescos' leaders once spotted my movements, they tried their best to stop me from deploying more shields.
They seemed to mistake my shields to be like before. Just before I deployed twenty shields down, the attacks came fiercely from the far distance and rained down on my shields.
But that didn't result in anything worthy to mention.
Chapter 1242 I Want Them!
I watched the shields flicker with silver lights under the constant attacks of the Hescos before everything returned to normal. Even the faint cracks that appeared vanished without a trace.
I looked at the shields for a few minutes before finally stopped watching them. They were just doing great on their own. And all that was left was for me to deploy more shields and scatter around enough warriors inside.
These shields weren't connected like the ones I made before. I didn't need to do that anymore, and all I focused on was to form these shields and scatter them around to cover as much distance as I could.
I wanted to use these shields as base zones, letting my forces freely use them to attack the surrounding regions. As the enemy couldn't attack or crack open these shields, they simply had to wait outside until my forces would come out to meet them.
The moment I summoned warriors in any shield area, they first scattered around and started hunting down all the Hescos forces they could find. As the Hescos were cut off their reinforcements, taking these scattered forces down was a piece of cake.
Then my warriors would start moving out, attacking the outer Hescos and kill them without showing mercy.
The outer Hescos weren't that hard to deal with either. After scattering lots of shields, the remnants of Hescos had limited areas to operate in.
They couldn't get away from the clutches of my warriors easily. And when more warriors came out from more shields, things turned for the worse to them.
After a couple hours, I felt satisfied with everything I did so far. Instead of pressing forward with these shields, I took out my staff, opened a portal and vanished through it.
I didn't jump back to the pit, but back to the grand gathering of my shields where most of my forces here were.
Even if I planned to use the grand five armies to attack the Hescos and control the surface region, they needed time to arrive here in full force and demonstrate their might.
I recalled that Sara and other generals took almost two days to bring forth their entire forces.
Taking out warriors wasn't going to work as well. After all, I exhausted all of my warriors whom I gave stat crystals to before and now I had only raw strengthened warriors who needed stat crystals to show their might.
So my best option was to go back and move the grand army stationed inside the shields.
The moment I arrived there, I found the entire zone filled with weird calmness. They killed all of their enemies a long time ago it seemed.
I summoned Lucas and listened to his side of the story. Linking the dots together, I knew that the Hescos stopped sending their troops here the moment they started attacking the pit.
That made quite sense actually. After all they seemed to finally run short of forces to use on all these frontlines.
"Bring everyone you got, and lead them forward," I simply said to Lucas after he finished his tale, "kill the Hescos remnants and keep going forward beyond the new shield zone up front."
The Hescos might be shocked and terrified by the newly arrived forces and the shields I made so far. If I were them, I'd lose sight of such grand forces here and not place them into any of my plans.
By using the forces stationed here for a long time already, the enemy would get another shock that they'd never be able to handle.
As I finished my business here, I returned back to the frontline, and resumed deploying my shields.
The Hescos were already losing this war. And it was my responsibility to add more wounds to them.
After returning back, I didn't just start making shields and fill them with warriors and stat crystals. I also started my technique, and began controlling many Hescos outside and inside the shields, and also while I was flying to deploy more shields.
These Hescos got a single order once controlled, to turn around and start killing any of their comrades.
I didn't want to form a big army of them. I already got enough armies coming here. I only wanted to escalate and snowball the chaos I painstakingly created as much as I could.
"They are finally here," after ten hours of spreading chaos over the surface area, the distant Hescos forces finally arrived here.
The first to come was the flying Hescos. They didn't come alone, as they led a grand army of flying races and monsters as well.
Seeing all this made me grin evilly. They came in a grand wave that covered the entire sky with blackness.
However in my eyes, they were fresh elite troops delivered to me on a golden plate.
The Hescos must have sent the weakest forces to stop me and invade the underground layers. As for the elites, they must have been stationed in the distance, away from any danger.
The Hescos would keep them fresh and healthy till the last moment of need. They didn't do that for fear of their elites, but to secure the paragons and big shots of their races in this world.
This war was led by paragons and big names for sure. And it only made sense for them to place great importance on these figures' safety.
However things developed out of their plans and worst expectations. If they delayed any further, then the entire war would be pointless after one day or so.
As I saw the grand incoming party, I flew towards them and issued a warm welcome. I used my pillar's shield first. Then I used the techniques of mine on two hands, scattering out bones and started absorbing their energy.
I was going all out! It wasn't just for fear of such formidable force, but also for my greed.
I wanted them, most of them, if possible then all of them to serve me from now on.