Chapter 104 - 1303-1317

Chapter 1303 Lucas Is A General

"What about the time of war? Who is going to invade us?" Lily jumped over the honeymoon period and asked about the impending war crisis.

"I don't know who is going to come at us," I partially lied. Despite knowing the identity of the enemy leading such attacks, I still didn't know what forces and races they'd use to crush us.

"Then..."

"Trust in yourselves more than that," I seriously said, "no matter who will come, we will crush them and prevail!"

Everyone kept his silence while giving me a matching look like the one over my face.

"So we are going to defend for an entire year?" Sara suddenly spoke up. And I got why she was this upset from such a situation.

"It's not necessary to be an all out defence," I paused, without exposing much about what I expected, "in the middle of this, you'll have many chances to strike back."

"For real? That's cool!" her upset vanished and instead she became quite excited and pumped up.

I wasn't just making up things for her to feel better. In fact I was telling her the truth, or what I expected to happen.

After all, the forces coming to invade us must come from a place or a world, right? If I guessed things right, then a huge amount of portals would pop up in our zones, all would be connected both ways.

That meant the enemy could send forces to invade us, and we also had the ability to go over their worlds and invade them.

Of course to do such a thing, a brutal spree of killing and fighting must first happen. And such a situation wouldn't work on all these portals without doubt.

If the enemy had tons of such forces on his side as I guessed, then trying to get access to these portals would be quite hard.

The chances of doing so would be very low. Besides the ones sent over there wouldn't have lots of support.

I'd expect the enemy to try and close our access to these portals. So the ones going there should be considered as kamikaze units. And I planned to send Sara to one of those worlds.

​ I wasn't wearing anything over her life. She was more than capable of keeping herself alive. Besides, I planned to keep strengthening my warriors during this one month period.

Before that month would be over, I'd start spreading tons of warrior tokens for everyone in my team, especially people like Legend and Sara.

These two were suited to act as my thrown out arrow towards the enemy's heart. And even if the line of support got broken at some point, they wouldn't get strangled out there.

Not to mention they'd start linking these worlds with my place here using the teleportation devices.

Of course there was a limit to the range of using these devices, but that wouldn't greatly impact my plan. I was quite sure these worlds that belonged to the enemy were all close by, just like the twenty sealed worlds we were going to free.

Or else my portal devices wouldn't have worked perfectly fine like this!

"Let's start discussing what to do then," I urged everyone to move while I stood in my place motionless. My part according to the following round of discussions was to get out everything they needed.

Would it be resources, materials, gears, stat crystals, weapons, up to warriors, I was responsible for all of this.

In brief, I worked as their logistic general, while Isac took charge as the construction grand general.

Others took missions assigned by Isac. As for the general designs of these defensive zones, I left it for Isac to handle for now.

I already informed her about the expected defensive blueprints. And she said she'd use them when they'd arrive, integrating them in her way with the designs she was already using.

We took roughly three hours to discuss such things. Isac was ready with her defensive designs even before coming here.

So she simply took out her blueprints, gave them to everyone while taking most of the time explaining things over to them.

As for myself, I started taking out the warriors from my inventory. The first type of warriors I took out were the common folks who joined this campaign using my den of warriors.

Their number was around ten million, but they were the most efficient and experienced in building tasks.

So Isac made sure to equally distribute these over the twenty zones, while stressing over the importance of making them leaders over other warriors.

It might seem crazy, but she got a point here. I didn't speak to object, and everyone got her point after rounds of discussions.

`There is still one problem we need to solve,'' as I left them to speak and discuss, and went to one remote place to take out the warriors and materials, Isac came to me as she said that.

"There is one world without a general, right?" I already guessed her problem a long time ago, "Lucas here will serve as a replacement for that missing spot."

Lucas, who was standing next to me, stepped forward and slightly bowed.

"I heard all of your words, and knows what to do," he simply said, and Isac moved her eyes between him and me in question and clear doubt.

"He is considered the most capable warrior I have," I paused before adding, "besides, he is already a general ranked warrior. So he is best suited to such a task."

"I hope you know what you are doing," Isac was left behind back at my capital for long time, long enough for her to forget about how deadly and efficient my soulers were.

But I also understood why she was worried. Someone might be a genius in fighting, but sucked at leading others to do simple stuff like building and such.

However I had absolute trust in Lucas. In fact the one who worried me the most wasn't him, but that big jerk, the jumper.

Chapter 1304 I Will Tell You Everything I Know

He was a magnet to disasters and bad news. I didn't know how he'd cause trouble right here, especially with that one month safe period, but I expected trouble to come from him.

"Great," as Isac got my confirmation, she nodded, "I'll let him handle the remaining world then. By the way, these portals are nice and such, but they have limited capacity for their teleportation each time."

"Install more then," I paused before adding when her face turned slightly grim, "we need as much capacity as we can provide for later."

"What about now?"

"It's simple," I smiled, "I'll just jump in between these places and take out warriors there to help."

"That will be very helpful," she nodded before turning back to the world that was getting slowly filled with warriors and tons of materials, "also don't forget to leave enough material to each world."

"Don't worry about that," I kept working while adding, "go and supervise over the entire project. I depend on you."

"And since when did I ever disappoint you?" she laughed before turning around and jumped over her chariot before leaving.

And Lucas said goodbye to me before following after her.

I finished taking out enough warriors and materials here before taking a grand tour around the other worlds and did the same. During this, I made sure to take out the warriors without any stat points.

In a way, I'd let them get stronger by consuming stat crystals while they kept working.

[I got what you want] and after two days of the start of the quest, Silverlining finally returned back to me.

[Finally! Dude, I'm beginning to doubt your ability to do such a trade!]

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This wasn't the first time for him to get delayed in such a way.

[I'm just at my race homeland] he sent such an excuse before adding, [To make things work, I needed to work hard for the past few days. Don't give me this face, please]

[Oh, you are watching me right now?]

[All of us are] he paused, [By the way, many sovereigns can't get what you are doing]

[What do you mean by that? And first let's get this trade done! And tell me, when will be the next exchange?]

[Don't worry, I've already arranged things to get this trade going on daily basis]

[That's great] I got that he used his impact this time and not the help from his sovereigns.

These dudes were either too busy watching me, or just as he said, they didn't get what I was doing.

[Now, how about telling me little information about what you are doing?]

[As I said to my people, I'm going for the twenty worlds at one go]

[That's… Quite insane, you know that?]

[I have my reasons, but thanks for the compliment] I laughed when I read his answer.

[Dude… Tsk! It seems you don't know what kind of sh*t you got yourself at] I knew he was speaking like this out of worry and concern for my safety, [You are taking part in the ultimate golden quest scenario! It won't be this easy, won't!]

[Ultimate? Do you know this type of quests then?]

From his words, I got the feeling that he or the sovereigns behind him knew about this kind of quest.

If so, then it was a good chance to know more about what was going to happen.

[How can't I know about this? It's the standard end game golden quest scenario used for all the apocalypses since its start!]

[This… Then why didn't you say something before?] I frowned when I read his words. If he knew this quest this well, even going to say it was the standard quest for the golden quest scenarios, then how come he never spoke about it before.

What was going on here?

[Don't take it on me like that, who knew the system higher ups would push all the quests to the last and end game one?]

[What do you mean?] I didn't get what he said.

[It's the system's fault, not ours! You are taking part in the first quest in your apocalypse. And yet the system merged you with folks from other apocalypses who are about to get their quests there done!]

I read what he sent and felt weirder about this.

[You should start by doing easy quests, and then we can never imagine the scenario you should have. But you simply jumped all the way to the end, and got that scary endgame quest. Not to mention you are playing in all the worlds at the same time, and the rules are quite different than what was known before. Sorry pal, I don't know what to tell you but you are in grave danger!]

I ignored his words about the changed rules or things related to my safety as I took part in twenty quests at the same time. What I cared most about was that part related to me going towards the end game scenario.

Did the system consider the scorching land system that my apocalyptic trial was going through right now as the end of the entire apocalypse there?

If so, then it'd make quite sense for such a weird decision. And then what about the people taking part in this quest who came from other apocalypses?

Were they much stronger than myself? Damn! If I played by the book and instead tried to compete with them, then I'd have ended up losing pretty much badly.

[Can you tell me all you know about the dangers I'm going to face here?] if he knew something, then it was better to listen to him than to think about such matters.

After all, I was already here and this quest already started. No matter what I knew, I'd never be able to change anything.

[Hmm… I can tell you what I know. After all, knowledge about this kind of quest is considered as classic knowledge in our universe. However, I have to advise you to strongly try to limit your actions to as few words as possible. If you can, throw away the rest and just focus on one world]

Chapter 1305 The Terrifying Silence Race!

[Thanks] I knew he was truly concerned about my safety, [But I can't do that. As I told you earlier, I got my reasons]

[Which are?]

[It's not suitable to tell you about them for now] I would never tell him or anyone else about my true intentions, [Just tell me what you know, alright?]

[Tsk! Are all humans this stubborn or what?]

[I'm just the only stubborn one in my race] I wholeheartedly laughed, [Now let's not waste more time. Tell me what you know]

[Alright...]

He started to speak about what he already knew about this kind of quest. As he said, it was a known type of quest for all the big races at least.

In their race, and more big races, such quests had the name of the grim reaper quest. The fatality rate out here was going off the roof. And no matter how many generations tried, how many quests had been made, not a single one ever managed to ever succeed.

It was quite shocking! But when I heard about the types of dangers I was going to face, I instantly got the answer to that.

The people coming here weren't just like myself, at the start of their apocalypse. They were all considered getting done from their apocalypses.

They got their stat points all maxed out. And they were very strong, wealthy, cunning, and smart. They were considered the top of elites in their races, and they got everything to make them the next possible sovereigns in their races.

As a start, all of those taking part here were paragons, already appointed paragons at their apocalypses. Few were even considered kings, the ones who got their entire apocalyptic trials under their control.

They weren't just nobody, nor weak. They were strong enough to make me even feel the pressure.

However even with all this, none ever managed to get this quest under their control.

No matter how they tried, they always ended up either giving up, or getting killed before having the chance to do so.

From there, another nickname was given to this quest as well; the sovereign kids killer!

And the main reason was that when they'd face their enemies, most of their abilities and powers would be gone!

The enemies anyone taking part in this quest would face was a weird race. No one knew about their origins, and they never appeared at any place outside this end game golden quest.

From his description, there were different types in that race, which went by the Silence race.

The members of this race had different physiques and shapes. The first type was small in size, looking as small as mere foxes back in my Earth life before the start of the apocalypse.

They were so damn fast! Able to flash away like they were teleporting. Their bodies were covered in a thick layer of black fur, which would shine and then this type would explode.

The explosion would release a shockwave that would encompass anything in its path. Weirdly enough, this blast would affect only living beings, not buildings or defences.

This blast wouldn't cause any damage or harm to those affected by it. Yet anyone who got touched by that aura would get his strength greatly weakened.

For example, if someone with maxed out stats got affected by this, they'd end up having stat points equivalent to anyone at the tenth quest.

As for someone like me and my forces, Silverlining couldn't tell how much we'd get affected.

"Getting lowered to the tenth level of the quest? That means even if these dudes got weakened, they'd end up much stronger than us!"

Even if the weak effect happened, it'd make my other competitors much stronger than I. And when I recalled what Silverlining said about no one ever succeeding, I held my doubts about my own success rate.

The ones who lost were thanks to this weakened effect. And when they were weak, they were much stronger than what I and my forces were currently at.

That meant even without that weakening effect, we had no chance at all from the start!

The next type of the Silence fearful race was much bigger than the first type. They were like melee soldiers. They walked on their six long and arched limbs, looking like giant spiders or something.

They were ferocious! Anyone of these was at least ten metres in length, seven in height. They got three long tails that looked like the tails of scorpions.

According to Silverlining, nothing could stop these tails nor the legs of such melee fighters. They could smash through any defences, penetrate through any armour or shield, and kill any foe they'd meet.

They got their sole weakness which was their weak defences against fire.

The third type was a flying type. They looked midway in the size between the first two, with two large wings spanning from a large protruding bone that extended all across their backs.

They got six limbs as well, and these ended up with sharp three claws in each limb. The claws were very sharp, able to tear through anything.

Alongside their sharp teeth, that looked like razors and not normal teeth, they were deadly to all flying and even ground troops.

[Then the fourth and most deadly type, the annihilators! These are slow moving, huge behemoths who move towards the densely packed battles, swell up, and explode their bodies. The blast is big enough to cover up miles, wipe away anything and any force in their path. They are merciless, and never cared about getting their own kin killed in the middle of such explosion]

That was indeed terrifying! When I thought again about what he said, I realised how tough and nearly impossible the upcoming battles would be.

[Do you mean that no known defences can stop them?] That was the first crisis I had to solve.

My people were busy working their asses around to build grand defences. Yet from what Silverlining just told me, I could tell all of this was pointless.

Chapter 1306 Bones Is The Answer

These defences couldn't stop the weakening blasts, nor could they stop the sharp limbs and tails of the melee or the flying types of Silence.

Not to mention the last type was just like the nuclear bombs humans used to make before the apocalypse, just like the type of bombs the research department developed before coming here.

In brief, all the current defences and gears were considered useless.

[Well… To be honest, you got something that can help] but the words he just said made me curious about what artefact I had and could stop these folks.

Was it my Libra? But it was a single target use artefact. Was it my pillar? Was my shields enough to stop these scary folks?

[Don't think about it, I bet you'll never guess what it is]

[Oh! You got my attention dude! Tell me, what is it?]

[It's your bones]

[...]

To be honest, I never expected such an answer. My bones? How were they useful?

The only thing I thought about was using my dark realm bones to bring out a deadly fire and kill these enemies off.

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However that wasn't what he was talking about. We were talking about defences and how to stop these enemies from breaching them.

[Your bones are special, I believe you do know that. If you use them in a certain way, then you can activate their hidden energy and form some sort of an area that will be lethal to these enemies. In addition to that, you can use your bones in the same way to boost your defences, turning them into something that can withstand the attacks of that race]

[You mean they release an aura around, affecting the enemies and also my defences? What about my forces?]

[The energy released from your bones can only interfere with the type of energy running through the veins of the Silence race members] he paused before adding:

[In fact this way was considered a theory for so long that others considered it as some sort of a myth or something. But when your bones appeared, they became hot cake for many reasons, and this reason is one of these]

[Hmm… I see…] If the ones taking part in this kind of quests were considered potential sovereigns, and many of them lost their lives during these adventures, then it'd make sense how crazy the big races would be to get their hands over my bones.

[Then tell me about this way] All of this talk was great, but I needed to know the recipe before cooking the food. If he refused to tell me, I'd end up with nothing but a useless bunch of bones.

If what he said was true, then I could use my bones to augment my defences. However, something told me things weren't that easy at all.

[I'll send the way over to you right away, but there is something you have to know first…]

As I expected, there was a catch to such an awesome solution.

But when I heard about this, I couldn't help but smile.

"So the bones will keep releasing their energy for a limited period of time. They have to be replaced all the time, and so that method consumes tons of my bones… Hahahaha!"

I couldn't help but laugh when I heard about such a catch. It might be something hard and challenging for anyone else but me.

After all, the source of the bones in the entire universe came solely from me. And I got tons of bones stored in my inventory.

Thankfully I followed my guts feeling and gathered up all the bones I could get before coming here.

I wasn't worried about depleting my seemingly endless reserve of bones over these battles. After all, the span of such a war was going to last for an entire year.

According to Sliverlining, using one hundred green bones would protect an area of ten miles in radius and would last for almost one day.

That might seem like little time and short distance covered by such methods. However these stats were related to my green grade bones.

For blue grade bones, using one hundred would cover a distance five times larger, and the duration would last for three up to four days.

Then my silver grade bones would cover up a distance of thirty miles in radius and would last for an entire week.

If I simply used my low grade bones, the silver grade ones, then I'd need close to four thousand and half silver bones during this one year time to protect an area of thirty mile radius.

That might seem like a crazy rate of expenditure, especially when putting in mind that the places here spanned for a million miles.

I already sent scouts to check over the places here. And I got to know that each place was like a grand square shaped area, spanning for one million miles square in surface area.

And if I thought about the worlds I had to rescue later on, then such an expenditure rate would seem insane!

However, that was correct for anyone else but me. This was a big war, and my enemies were folks of higher grades and much stronger than any foe I ever met before.

So I should expect tons of high grade bones from them. If that was true, then all I needed was for my forces to stay their ground during the early weeks of clashes, killing as many of these enemies as possible, then I'd start gathering up my bones.

If that happened, then my supply of bones would never come to an end. In fact, I even suspected I'd come out of such a war with a richer harvest than I never had a chance to get before.

As for the stats regarding the higher graded bones, Silverlining didn't have any of such data. After all, the highest grade bones I used to trade in large batches with them before were the silver grade ones.

Chapter 1307 Can I Merge Them?

"If I followed the same pattern, then the fine gold grade bones would cover up an area of one hundred mile radius, and would keep running for around ten days up to two weeks. As for the dark gold bones, they'd cover up a few hundred miles and last for almost two weeks to one month."

If I thought about using my black, red, or even diamond grade bones, then I could just expect much more results than these. But I'd never waste my precious high end bones for just protecting these places.

Such bones would be left to use at crucial moments, when the fate of the entire war would be decided.

[Thanks man, I truly appreciate all this help] I honestly said. Even if he kept trying to persuade me to focus only on one place, he still gave me valuable intel.

If not, then by the hard way I'd end up learning about the scary nature of these enemies. At the same time, I'd still be powerless against them.

It'd never cross my mind to use my bones to compete with them. And under no circumstances I'd never have thought about that way which he sent over to me next.

The way was simple in fact, but it was still quite hard to come up with. It used five different arrays that overlapped over each other and ended up augmenting their effects using my bones.

The five arrays took the shape of stars, overlapping over each other, while my bones would be buried under the ground in the spots of these star heads.

These arrays expanded over an area of a hundred metre in radius, and they had to use the blood of the one who was going to control these arrays.

The blood would be left over the bones before getting buried. And that meant there must be someone standing in the middle of such arrays, not moving an inch, and controlling this array.

I couldn't tell what other benefits these arrays had. And I planned to start experimenting over these and get to know more about their usages.

Silverlining said that these arrays just augment the defences against the Silence race attacks and weaken the Silence race in return.

But when I looked up at the data he sent, I noticed that the higher the grade of the bones used, the more the boost of the defences became. Also the weakening effect would also increase.

The highest was the silver grade bones, as these would augment the defences for fifty percent against the attacks of the Silence race. They also weakened them by fifty percent.

That meant if I used the higher grade bones, like the dark gold for example, the defensive boost would increase up to eighty percent and so the weakening effect.

"I need to test this out before deciding anything," I knew this might look awesome, but I doubted that by using silver grade bones things would look good.

The only regret is that I lacked any of these Silence races around, or else I'd test the effects of using different types of bones before deciding which type of bones I should use.

I started first by examining my bone reserves. I got tons of bones up to fine gold grade. As for the dark gold grade, I got a few tens of millions of them.

That figure would decrease drastically the higher the grade of the bone became. So trying to use any bone higher than the dark gold grade was going to be quite difficult.

"Hmm… I got twenty zones, and each spanned for one million miles… If I used the dark gold grade bones, and they remained for one month, and they covered up to three hundred miles, then I'd use around four million pieces of bones to cover up the entire area."

So if I wanted to cover up the entire twenty zones with my bones, then I'd need around eighty million of the dark gold bones.

I might swap this easily with fine gold, or even silver grade bones. But in return, the effects other lower bones yielded would be much lower than the dark gold bones.

When I looked again at my inventory, I doubted I had enough to cover up my needs. At most I'd have around fifty up to sixty million dark gold bones inside.

"Hmm… If I can merge two arrays together and make their effects overlap and merge, then by spending double the silver grade bones, I can weaken the strength of that race by almost one hundred percent…"

I kept thinking of my options here. I knew Silverlining told me most, if not all, of what he already knew.

But I also knew the Toranks, and any other race who was fortunate enough to get my bones, didn't have the ability to experiment a lot using my bones.

Such actions would be considered extravagant in their eyes. Yet to me it was nothing.

If I didn't make use of my endless bone supply of such lower tiered bones, then I'd be considered a fool.

In theory, such a thing would work. The method itself used overlapping arrays that augmented each one's power.

I didn't know why the one who devised such a genius idea didn't try to increase the number of bones used, or add more stars over the five ones he planned in this method.

I might try and experiment on this too. But for a reason, I felt this wasn't going to work.

If there was such a possibility, then the inventor of such theory would have thought about this. Using the fixed number of one hundred bones each time even with the increase in the bone grade meant there was some sort of balance that had to be reached using that number.

My only option that held a high percentage of success was the attempt to use two arrays combined to cover up the same region.

Even if merging the two arrays together failed, I could try to use different anchor points for the two arrays and try to make them overlap slightly at parts of their regions.

Chapter 1308 Delivering The Bad News

I wanted to test the effect of such theory, but the real results would have to wait until later. The real test would be left when the enemy would strike.

Even if it failed to lower most of the enemy's strength, it'd be enough to make them stop in their tracks.

Another dilemma I had to find a way to solve.

According to the Silverlining, this race wouldn't get killed using normal methods.

Using arrows, swords, or other weapons would fail if they were used in their pure form. Even using cultivation energy wouldn't work as well.

This was the first time I heard about the failure of cultivation energy. I always considered cultivation energy to be a cornerstone of my future strength.

Even against the hostile universe's enemy forces, the cultivation never failed. But this time it proved to be pointless.

"Weird…" I muttered when I thought about this, "they have real bodies, but only the fiery auras can harm them. Is it related to fire itself, or auras in general?"

From what I got, the enemy was vulnerable to either fire or the energy coming out from using an element.

And that issue made me question my threads in taking over the enemies. "My threads are formed of pure energy, if so then my threads will be fine," I reached such a logical conclusion after long minutes of thinking.

I stopped doing anything for now, and just sent an urgent meeting message to Isac after returning to the first world I appeared at.

That world was considered now the home base of this entire operation. As I waited for her to arrive, I kept thinking about the different problems I had.

My bones would be used to stop this enemy, and wear its strength down. That meant they wouldn't be able to greatly harm my people, or destroy much of my defences.

However my bones wouldn't directly kill them. If I didn't use my dark realm bones and armed them into deadly bombs, then there was no way to kill such enemies.

When I asked Silverlining before about ways to harm and kill such enemies, he said only fire explosions would work. And the ones who took part in this quest before had to use tons of explosions to keep the endless enemy forces at bay.

That wasn't going to work! And for the first time ever, I felt this one month period of peace was a hindrance to me and not a help!

I had to find other ways to kill these dudes, or else my earlier plans about invading their worlds and bringing the fight to their lands would drastically fail.

Tsk! If I had a way to find these folks and test things over them, then I'd not be in such a dilemma from the start.

But it wasn't that bad actually. We got one whole year ahead of us. So I'd rather tweak little changes in the overall plan set by Isac and others, using the first month as a test period for different theories and see which would work better than others.

"What happened?" Just as I got lost in my thoughts, I heard Isac's voice coming from my side.

She arrived here without even detecting her presence. Which was the first time to ever happen.

Seeing me like this must have told her about what was going on. And she didn't come alone, she brought over Lily, Sara, Alex, and Legend as well.

I didn't know why they arrived with her, but it seemed she was meeting up with them when I sent her a message.

"Well… There is new information about what we are going to face…" I didn't keep anything hidden from all of them.

I didn't need to think about inviting all of the generals over. After all, I was pretty sure the news would spread like wildfire after my meeting with Isac would be over.

And with the presence of others, I knew the news would reach the ears of other generals much faster now.

I told them about everything I learnt, shared my doubts, thoughts, and theories with them.

The more I spoke, the much gloomier they became. Once finished, a heavy silence prevailed over the entire place with such a suffocating atmosphere.

"Damn! What made us fight this time!" The first to speak up was Lily, and for the first time ever she complained about my decisions.

"We have to do this," I wouldn't explain much about my real reasons behind doing all this, but I knew she had a point in what she just said.

"Then…" Isac looked at others before adding, "does this mean these folks are immortals or what?"

"They are hard to kill," I nodded, "but there is a way to kill them…"

I explained in further details about the theories behind fire and energies. When they heard it, Sara was the first to speak up this time.

"I need as many bombs and missiles as you can give me, and let me go to those bastards and kill them alone!"

This girl… She totally missed the entire point of all this!

"It won't work this way," I shook my head before adding, "we have enough ammunition to secure our places, but not enough to kill our way into the enemy's backlines or further."

"We need to test out these theories before deciding anything," Legend said something that finally made quite sense.

"But we don't have any of these folks around," Lily sighed, "we have to wait for this peaceful period to pass before doing anything."

"That's true," I nodded, "and we need to start modifying our entire plans based on this information."

Isac slowly nodded before I handed over the defensive plans Silverlining sent over to me.

Once I finished speaking with him, he sent over what we agreed upon. In return I paid him full price in bones. But I never checked the things he sent as my mind was busy thinking about all these issues.

Chapter 1309 Trying The Arrays Out

Many things depended entirely over Isac. and from the look on her face, I got that she was well aware of how heavy such a task was.

"What about the defences we are currently building?" Alex spoke at last. Since that accident with her boyfriend, she has remained more quiet than ever.

"We are going to keep doing these," I said, "but Isac will plan for places to use the method of the arrays. After all, the bones need to be buried around ten metres below the ground to work."

"And we need to select capable soldiers to take over these arrays," Lily added, "do we need anything in particular? Like offensive, defensive, or tactical mind based soldiers?"

"I frankly don't know," all I knew about this method was related to just activating the bones using the arrays. However the condition that someone must be in the centre of these arrays to control them made me doubt there were many other uses none knew about.

Or at least Silverlining wasn't aware of any of them.

The only way to know about that was for me to use this method personally and try to see if I could exploit more of it.

One thing was worthy of note about these arrays, they looked just like the techniques of mine. For a reason, both used star shaped drawings to get activated, and both also worked over my bone energy as well.

If my guesses were right, then I could merge the two together. I didn't know what effect doing such a thing would cause, but at least it could boost my threads and let them affect the Silence race.

That if my threads couldn't deal with them in the first place.

"This..." Lily frowned when she heard my answer.

"We need to test many things first," Isac said as she added, "I'll handle the designs of the entire defensive plan, and you deal with other things."

"I will handle the test of these arrays," I added in agreement to her words, "as for you, go on and start selecting the capable soldiers from your armies. Select soldiers with different abilities, and let's delay the final decision until later."

"Shall we inform others?" Legend asked, and I nodded.

"Tell them everything you learnt," I paused before adding, "make them keep working on the defensive project. After Isac's modifications would be over, she'll take care of the already built defences."

"Sure," Isac nodded, "I'll go back now and start studying these things."

"Can I stay?" just when I thought everyone would retreat with Isac, Sara suddenly asked.

"For what?"

"I want to see how to make these arrays," she explained before adding, "and I also want to know the real effect and possible implications of these arrays."

I got what she wanted to do. She wanted to go into the enemy's deeper lines and crush them. So knowing how to build these arrays in person was a must.

"You also can stay behind and learn," if I'd allow her to stay behind, then

Legend could stay as well.

The two were the sure candidates to be sent into the deep lines of the enemy. Unlike what the two expected, they were going to invade the enemy's main bases and worlds.

And that task required lots of courage and also preparations.

"Don't forget to keep supporting us with warriors and materials once done," Isac didn't forget to remind me about this. And I simply nodded.

I just started doing this over many worlds, and yet I only finished from five worlds so far.

The rest were waiting for my return. And that perhaps was the reason behind the gathering of all these generals without any regard to their places and assigned tasks.

"Let's start doing it," per the drawings sent by Silverlining, I took out a few strong warriors with full stats and let them start digging the ground.

They just needed to dig the lines marking out these star shaped arrays for around one metre below the ground. But the heads of each star needed to be at least ten metres deep.

They took roughly half an hour to finish drawing the five intersecting arrays. Then they moved to the side, clearing the entire place for me to start my tests.

"Wait for me over there," I said to the two generals and other warriors before taking out my bones.

I decided to start up using the dark gold grade bones. I wanted to see how long such bones would last, and how far their energy would cover.

I followed the same instructions in what Silverlining sent. Each bone was bound to me using one blood droplet, then I dropped these bones each in one hole.

Each hole was around five metres radius. After doing so, there was one bigger hole left at the centre.

This hole was exactly at the centre of everything. And the moment I dropped it there, the entire array suddenly shook.

The lines that got dug began to show weird flowing dark gold fluid. I didn't know how it came, but it was related to my bones.

As for the various star heads, dark gold lights started to shine from each hole. In no time, the entire structure shone brightly in dark gold, and the lines looked like thin streams of water.

I got curious about this fluid and thought to go and try it. But the moment I moved one leg, I felt the lights coming out from these arrays start to dim.

Once I returned back to my spot, that fading disappeared and things returned to normal again.

"Tsk! That's quite a harsh requirement," I was now sure about the warning left in the information Silverlining sent. The ones controlling these arrays couldn't move, or else the entire thing would crumble.

If so, then it was time to see what was so important about having someone in the centre of these arrays.

When I first tried to sense or control anything in this array, I ended up without doing anything. The arrays around were flashing in bright golden lights, but nothing else happened.

I looked around and couldn't see any change at all in the surrounding world.

Chapter 1310 You Need To Wait!

"It's still not active yet…" I realised that I was too impatient in testing out these arrays.

When I tried to move and got restricted, I took it as a sign for the completion of these arrays. However the arrays were still absorbing the energy of my bones.

"Is everything alright?" Sara shouted from her far spot as she noticed my sudden move and retreat.

"Take note that the arrays take some time before getting activated," I shouted back while examining the area around.

The fluid was still flowing from the holes, but the holes themselves didn't show any sign of getting filled with any fluid.

This kept happening for at least an hour, before the holes started to get filled with fluid.

I got now that by the time the holes would be filled to the brim, the arrays would be activated and ready to use.

[Dude! What grade of bones did you use in the holes?] and just when I was waiting for the holes to get filled by the dark gold liquid, Silverlining sent a message over.

[Why?] I wasn't caring about his thoughts or hidden intentions at all. My focus was over the arrays and how to control it to do other things than just boosting the defences and weakening the enemy.

[Because when we used your silver grade bones, the arrays will take almost fifteen minutes before getting activated]

And when he sent these words over, I couldn't help but stop what I was thinking about and focus entirely over his words.

[Are you saying that by using silver grade bones, the time to activate the array will take fifteen minutes only?]

[That's true! And if we used green graded bones, it won't exceed five minutes!]

Hmm… That was quite interesting! It seemed the bones and their effect over the array functions wasn't related in a predictable way.

I thought the fine gold bones would bring double the effect of the silver ones, and the dark gold would bring four times the effects of the silver bones.

But even after the passage of one hour, the holes were still being filled in slowly. I predicted at this rate, it'd take almost close to half an hour for the holes to get fully filled.

The activation time taken by the arrays was related to the strength and effects of the arrays. And if that was true, then the effects brought up by my dark gold bones would be much stronger than what I initially thought.

[So, what grade was that? All the sovereigns here are having a big debate. Are these the red bones you gave us before?]

[No, they are dark gold bones] I knew they mistook the dark gold fluid to come from the red bones. However their red bones were destined to bring more effects than my dark gold bones.

That was, of course, if they managed to claim one hundred red bones from me. Which was something they didn't get yet.

[Ah! So you do have lots of these bones then to try them out, right?]

[After this war, I doubt I'll have any bones left] I faked bitterness, not revealing my ability to claim more bones out of the dead bodies of my killed enemies.

Even if they watched, all they could see was me touching the dead bodies of the enemies. They'd not realise what I was doing until I'd explain things over to them.

And of course, this was impossible!

[Ah! You really plan to fortify the twenty zones…]

I knew he was still concerned about my safety. However I didn't say anymore and returned to wait for the holes to get filled up with that fluid.

As I expected, after half an hour the holes were all filled to the brim. Seeing this made me look around.

"What's going on?" I thought the moment these holes would get filled would be the moment of the entire array's activation.

But even after the holes got filled up, nothing else happened.

"Shall I wait for a few more minutes?" I thought before realising something, "or should I interfere and control the entire structure to get activated?"

I tried to sense the power of these arrays, tried to push them to work and show up their magic. However I couldn't feel anything at all.

[Just wait, the holes once finished will need little time to start activating the entire thing] and when I was puzzled, the words of Silverlining appeared in front of my eyes.

[What's the sign of it getting activated?] I didn't know why, but I was already quite impatient to try the different potentials of these arrays. I didn't want my hopes to get to the roof and once again fell to the deepest abyss.

[Look at the ground] he sent before adding, [When the ground starts to shine with the same light like that fluid, then it'll be the sign for the arrays getting activated]

[Cool!] I looked around, and the ground didn't show any sign like this. I waited, and during the next half an hour, nothing changed.

"Wow! The effects of the dark gold bones are way beyond what I expected!" After the passage of two and half hours, the ground finally started to show signs of change.

The ground began to faintly get dyed with dark gold colour. It didn't shine yet, and that meant there was still time before it'd get fully activated.

That meant at least three hours would pass before the full activation of the entire structure. The silver grade bones just needed fifteen minutes, and that made my hopes rise to a new level.

However there was a catch! If the bones take such a long time to get activated, that means in the middle of any battle, changing the already exhausted bones must be done before the expiration date of the previous bones.

"I have to try out and test throwing bones at the holes to know if they can get stored inside or add more time for the entire structure."

Chapter 1311 It's A Pagoda!

That meant more tests needed to be done. But I didn't have to do this myself. I could simply order any of my generals to do it and tell me about the results once done.

But that wasn't what was concerning me right now. I was very excited about this! If the effects I estimated before would be doubled, then the amount I thought to use to cover up the entire place would get halved.

Not to mention the effect of the arrays would grow stronger, might reach close to one hundred percent.

If so, then I didn't need to think about using any lower grade bones and keep using my dark gold bones.

"But if that's true, then using any higher grade bones would take much longer…" I planned to keep the higher grade bones to these two generals when they'd lead their people into the enemy's territory and worlds.

When I thought about that, I decided to not use the dark golden bones from the start. The silver grade bones were a more practical option.

But I needed to first test and see if using two arrays would work or not.

*Boom!*

It all happened all of sudden. I kept watching the ground getting darker in golden colour for an entire hour before a loud boom happened.

The moment it appeared, the entire ground shook and shone brightly before finally the entire structure got activated.

The moment that happened, I felt a stinging pain that reached all the way to my brain. It made me feel dizzy for a moment, which was something unbelievable!

"Damn fierce!" I didn't know that by using these bones, such a thing would happen. The connection was simple, and I could feel the bones that were placed in the holes.

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I could feel the amount of energy coming out from these, the flow of energy throughout the entire structure, but couldn't control anything.

I was like a bystander, watching the scenes happening around me without getting any chance to take part in anything.

But for a reason I never believe such a thing to be true. There must be a way to change everything or at least control that flow of energy running through the entire structure.

I knew the connection with the bones aimed for me to know when I should change the bones.

From the amount of energy I felt here I could frankly tell that the bones would keep running in these holes for at least two months.

That was more than double what I expected to happen. And that meant the effects of this array would also be doubled.

If it got doubled, how would the strength of that race be?

"Tsk! Don't tell me I had to remain here for two months!" I suddenly realised that.

The entire structure limited my movements. But I never planned to wait here for any second longer after getting my tests done.

"It's time to see how I can control this entire thing then…" I could feel the flow of energy, and that was enough for me to have few thoughts about what to do.

First of all, if this was an energy that came out from my bones, then I could at least add my bones energy to it.

My spiritual energy always was compatible with my bones' energy. If so, then I had an idea I wanted to test.

I couldn't move, but with a simple thought lots of bones appeared all around. The bones didn't interact with the structure and they just were on top of the ground without showing any change.

Then I controlled my energy and started to absorb this energy.

My body felt like it was getting on fire! The energy I absorbed circulated inside my meridians and two dantians before I started to control it and move it towards that mysterious connection with the entire structure.

The moment the two energies got connected, I felt like a dam was broken and the two floods of energies merged together.

When I felt that, I couldn't help but heave a deep sigh of relief. "It works!" I muttered to myself while I tested out my control over the entire structure.

As my energy got merged with the one from the arrays, I started to control the entire closed circuit loop of energy and explored that array structure to the fullest.

"It's as I thought," I muttered after a total of one hour of testing and experimenting.

The structure was like a layered pagoda, with only the basic and lowest layer activated by the flow of energy and my bones.

To access more layers, something else was required.

The energy of the bones in the entire array formed five layers on top of each other. I now realise why there were five stars in this design.

Even if the inventor got his theory based on energy balance, I suspected even himself knew about the presence of five different layers, and thus for this design he created.

After all, he never got a chance to test it out. Despite not knowing any details about the circumstances of creating such a genius design, nor anything related to its journey before it was used here with my bones, I now knew much more than anyone in the entire universe about this.

"Hmm… So the key to everything lies in the one controlling the entire structure… That's why the arrays won't get activated or keep themselves activated without the controller standing in the middle of this…"

I opened my eyes while feeling more excited about what I found. I didn't just test out the presence of these layers, but also managed to decipher the mechanism behind opening them.

From what I found, each layer had its own way to get activated. To give the person standing in the middle the control over the entire five layered pagoda structure, that person had to first start his preparations before starting the entire thing.

Or else once he stood in the centre, he wouldn't be able to move or do anything at all.

Chapter 1312 Testing The Pagoda's Layers - Part 1

The key to all this was the structure of the pagoda itself. The entire pagoda was formed of the energy drained from the bones.

That meant no matter what grade of bone used, the five layered pagoda would still be formed.

The energy formed some sort of a maze structure for every layer, and each maze had the same repeated symbol to it. I saw the first layer to have the symbol of five stars overlapping over each other.

I never thought that the structure layout of this entire structure would be the key to activate the first layer!

As for the symbols of other layers, they were star related as well. One described two seven headed stars, looking identical, with one having a circle in the centre and the other having a diamond shaped inside.

The third symbol was a circle with a five headed star inside.

The fourth was a star that had a string of five smaller stars coming down it like it was a thread or something.

The last one was a group of small stars, looking like they were forming a small galaxy by themselves.

Their number was one hundred, just the same as the number of the holes in this structure.

I had two guesses related to how to allow anyone to activate these layers. The first one was to draw these symbols on the ground when making the entire structure at first.

However for some reason I felt this wasn't going to work. If this was going to work, then the entire structure wouldn't work without these symbols.

The second method was by using tattoos drawn over the body of these people to allow them to control the arrays.

These tattoos should be either drawn using the energy of bones, that fluid flowing right now, which was literally impossible to do for anyone.

If they tried to move a single step, the entire structure would crumble.

So the other option they had was to use their own blood to draw these symbols before stepping in and activating the entire structure.

As for me, I didn't need any of this at all!

When I first felt the connection with that structure, I got to feel the energy inside the pagoda spread out to cover a huge stretch of land. I didn't get how far it'd get as I hurriedly interrupted this by injecting my energy inside.

And when I was examining the structure of that five layered pagoda, I simply crushed the doors and was able to activate each layer at a whim.

"Time to see what this pagoda can do…" once finished exploring everything of these layers, it was time to see what each layer could do.

I instantly ran my energy and activated the second layer. And the moment I did, I felt a different flow of the energy coming out from the arrays.

If the first gush of energy was like a flood, then this one was like waves at the shore.

I looked around and saw waves of energy coming out from the structure, fiercely slamming against everything around.

I felt instant shock and hurriedly stopped the activation of this layer. "Are you alright?" I shouted as I couldn't see anyone from the released waves from before.

"We are alright!" The sound of Sara came but slightly weaker than before.

"What happened?" I asked while seeing the two coming from two different directions. Before this, the two stood next to each other. But it seemed they got slammed by these waves and were thrown away.

"We got hit by these waves," Legend said in a weak voice as well, "but aside from slightly feeling uncomfortable and a little weak, but we are fine," he looked at Sara who simply nodded in agreement.

"So you only felt weak?" I asked, "nothing else?"

"No harm, physical at least," Legend responded.

If that was true, then the second layer would affect the forces around with a sweeping wave that'd leave everyone weakened.

But I didn't know if that effect would be the same for my forces like my enemies. It'd suck if it was the same for both forces.

"Step back then," I didn't want to risk activating anymore layers with them present here, "get far behind, stay away from here."

I waited for half an hour before trying to activate the other layers.

During this time, I checked and found out that the rate of energy expenditure increased when I activated the second layer.

If the expenditure was one percent before, it grew up to three. It wasn't that much of an increase, but it was enough to cut the bones by three times already.

If the bones would last for two months and more, then right now it'd last for only less than one month, almost three weeks.

It was a big decrease to be honest, especially when I'd think about using this structure with silver bones.

I didn't jump to conclusions fast. I had to first let others try activating the layers with different grades of bones and let Isac or Lily draw out the data of this test.

After realising how complicated and important this was, I decided to appoint such a task to someone I'd never doubted.

So it was either Isac or Lily, and mostly it'd be Lily.

Isac was still busy dealing with the defensive problem we currently had.

So out of the two, I'd select Lily. If she was that busy, then Legend would be the third option for me.

"Time to activate the third layer," I had much hope to find an offensive attack out of the remaining three layers.

But the next layer didn't produce an offensive attack.

What happened was for the flow of energy to change direction and rhythm again. Instead of flowing out like before, it started to get separated into endless smaller number spots, each acted like a bubble and gave me the feeling of sealing ability.

"So the third layer is a sealing ability… That's interesting…"

Chapter 1313 Testing The Pagoda's Layers - Part 2

It was a very useful ability to trap the enemy inside the area of effect of this structure. It also meant this layer should be activated after activating either one from the first two layers.

The first layer swept the entire area with the energy flood from the structure, and the second one changed the shape this energy came out with.

So the one controlling this structure had to take note of that.

The second thing I thought about was the amount of energy expenditure. Activating the third layer jumped the energy expenditure up to five percent.

That meant if the dark gold bones gave me over two months time after using the first layer, then by using the third one, it'd only last for around twelve days.

That was a big decrease in the time provided by my bones. And I knew such time would greatly be lowered when using the silver grade bones.

"Tsk! And that's just by activating the third layer. What will happen when I activate the fifth layer then?"

Even if this looked bad, it wasn't! After all, such layers would be activated to do an instant effect before getting stopped.

The first layer would act as the base of all this, weakening the strength of the enemy and strengthening the defences of mine. Then the second layer would act to destabilise the enemy forces, forcing them to lose their ground.

Then the third layer would kick in and trap them into these bubbles.

I knew by logic, the next two techniques would do something based on this. And that meant if anyone was going to use these layers, he or she would just use these layers in succession to cause an immediate effect.

Then the controller would either stop using these layers, or just return to the basic layer and use its technique as the base.

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That meant no matter how scary the expenditure rate turned out to be, the bones would still stay for a long time.

And that was the silverlining hope I had. Of course I needed to test this theory out first, and also try to see what the effects of these layers over my defences would be.

The first layer affected my defences and weakened the damage received, and the next layers would have more effects on my defences by logic.

However I couldn't tell what such effects would be without testing.

pAn,Da n<0,>v,e1 And then I started to activate the fourth layer.

As I guessed, the fourth layer once activated, the bubbles that took shape before started to change.

First the energy coming out from the structure began to be like threads. These threads were similar to my threads, and they went all the way towards the bubbles and surrounded them tighter.

From the surface, nothing more happened, but I knew that wasn't the case. As I was the one controlling everything, and my energy was connected with the structure energy, I could feel everything that's happening right now.

The moment these threads encircled the bubbles, the space inside started to experience a great increase in pressure.

It was like the threads were squeezing and pressuring the bubbles and making the space compressed.

I was sure if anyone was entrapped inside right now, he would feel immense pressure and get harmed quite badly.

But it wasn't enough! It might be considered an offensive strike, but it wasn't that strong to take down the strong enemies.

What it could do would only be limited to heavy wounds, but not even close to being life threatening wounds.

But as the fourth layer started to show such change, then I got my hopes off the roof for the fifth layer.

With such expectations, I started to activate the fifth layer.

The moment I activated the fifth layer, everything around changed!

First the energy expenditure got a sharp increase without any warning. The fourth layer got the energy consumption rate up to fifteen percent.

However the moment the fifth layer got activated, I felt like the energy in the entire structure was sucked out at an alarming rate!

Without the need to check, almost half of the energy got sucked dry by this layer!

But that didn't matter. The energy that got sucked was done by the threads surrounding the bubbles. And then the entire bubble structure felt like it got attracted to fire, and exploded all without an exception!

It wasn't a simple wave of explosion. What happened was for the entire compressed space inside to get shattered!

It didn't just explode, it simply got annihilated! As if it didn't even exist in the first place!

I could tell that quite well as I was feeling every single change happening out there. But when I looked around, the entire region showed a scary change.

First came the explosion. It was so fierce to create a shocking shockwave. But that didn't even affect me as the entire structure seemed to be proactively protected.

Then after the explosion a scary thunderous noise appeared followed by all the dust, rubbles, and fire that emanated from these explosions to retreat back to where things started.

I saw everything get compressed into something like black balls, looking like black holes. The balls kept sucking everything around and compressing it before another explosion appeared.

And that one was much fiercer than the first, and it expanded for a much wider distance.

"Damn! That was very cool!" I couldn't contain my excitement anymore. The overbearing offensive attack finally appeared, and it wasn't just targeting the ones trapped inside the bubbles.

If anyone from the enemy got freed, or they just came in from outside as reinforcements, then they'd get smashed with such shockwaves and the following compressing and exploding actions.

That was what I'd call a perfect offensive attack! No matter what, even with silver grade bones, even if my forces went all the way to the enemy backlines or their worlds, nothing could pose a threat to my forces this way.

Chapter 1314 A Tough Talk

"I have to test the tattoos theory out," I couldn't help but send an urgent message for Lily. but she wasn't in this world, so instead I sent a message to Isac and asked her to send someone and fetch Lily back.

Then I stepped out, ending the entire structure.

The energy expenditure of the fifth layer seemed scary, but it was worth it.

If my calculations were right, then the bones would only allow for two times usage of the fifth layer attack.

After that, the entire structure would crumble on its own. I knew this would limit the use of this structure for just a short time, but the two attacks would be enough to clear a great area off the enemies.

And as I waited for Lily to arrive, I saw the two watching friends draw nearer.

I didn't need to ask anything as signs of immense shock were appearing clearly over their faces. They witnessed it all, and seemed to stand near what happened.

The fifth attack was quite formidable and scary. The scariest thing about it was that it couldn't be countered. How could someone defend against the explosion of air and space itself?

In my eyes, the moment this fifth layer's brutal offence would be used, the enemies would be considered as gone.

"What the heck was that?" Sara was the first to speak up. This fiery and explosive girl couldn't contain her emotions anymore and shouted from far behind, "I want that thing, I want to use that last technique or skill or whatever it was!!"

"Hahahaha! It's something related to the structure here. Don't worry, I plan to teach you and many of your forces as well," I didn't just speak up to Sara but also to Legend as well.

The two were going to lead my armies and invade the enemy's worlds. I just needed them to stabilise a place before using a previously half activated teleportation device before I'd start moving out my forces in full power against the enemies.

The five layered pagoda's techniques wouldn't just help in doing that. They'd also be the cornerstone in any offence and defence against the Silence race armies.

Just before I could speak more with the two, a long line of the same message kept flashing in front of my face!

[Holy Cow!]

[Holy Cow!]

[Holy Cow!]

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I looked up at the seemingly endless messages sent by none other than Silverlining.

Of course he had all the right to get such a shock. After all, he and other sovereigns of his race were also watching this.

I expected them to get their minds blown up by what I just did. However, that didn't stop me at all.

I knew if things worked out in this quest, then this legendary and unbeatable quest would vanish. I planned to save the twenty locked up worlds and races, putting an end to this quest.

So what if they knew about the other uses of this arrayed structure? They wouldn't make any use of such knowledge.

The Silence race wasn't in our universe, wasn't in the hostile universe even. It was only here. And that made me consider them a race from a far away universe, away from the two universes known to everyone.

The only effect such performance would have was to raise the stakes and prices of getting my bones.

I knew the Toranks were watching, and also the Hescos. After all, the latter would be watching my performance so they could estimate how to edit and tweak their plans for the better.

Other races had their sovereign potential kids participating here. So there was a chance for them to watch me.

Even if the first two races in the universe were the only audience I had, it was enough. The news would soon spread over the entire universe, and might even reach the other universe as well.

The price tag of my bones would get elevated to a skyrocketing level. And I'd gain a lot just by what I did here.

[Hey buddy, stop freaking out, hahahaha!] I didn't know what Silverlining looked like. But right now he must be pretty much shocked.

And that was enough to make me laugh at his and others around him expressions.

[Dude! You are a legend! You truly are! How come you find such awesome ways to use this antique structure and show such a fierce way of attack?!! That attack is enough to make any army piss in their pants!]

[Don't get too excited, this is just useful against those Silence races. Other races will find it easier to handle this attack]

[No, you don't get it! That attack can work on anyone, even my race's elites won't fare well against it!]

[For real?] I doubted what he just said.

[I'm not kidding! All the sovereigns here just agreed on that! If our top fighters were met with such a ferocious attack, they wouldn't be able to survive it!]

[Oh! That's new to me] I was shocked by what he said. Didn't that technique only work against the Silence race only or what?

[Don't belittle that combined form of arrays! We used it mainly to face off the Silence race members in this quest, but that was mainly due to the limitation of its usage. Right now, and with the four other uses you showed so far, this theoretical design just got levelled up to a new whole level!]

[Hmm... If so then my bone prices and value shall increase, right?] If that was true, then the value of my bones just increased by a crazy margin.

[Dude, come on! We have been friends for a long time already! Are you planning to increase the prices even for us?]

[Bro, I only deal with you for the time being] If he thought I'd grow shameful thanks to his words, then he was mistaken! [Or do you want me to deal with other races as well? Like the Hescos for example?]

Chapter 1315 Doubling The Price Won't Work!

[You and the Hescos are like fire and water!]

[There is nothing like eternal enemies in the universe, right?] I knew he depended on the conflict currently happening between me and the Hescos.

But if I didn't end up getting a good deal out of this, then even if the Hescos asked for my bones, I'd satisfy them.

[What do you need? Everything you need is delivered to you, right?]

[Yes, just like my rewards that are still on hold, right?]

[This… This doesn't count!]

[Dude, if you don't give me a good price for my bones then forget about it!]

As I said my last piece, he remained silent and didn't return back with anything. He got what I meant, if he didn't raise the price, then I'd go global with my bones and accept offers even from the Hescos.

Of course I didn't aim to just increase the price. If I ended up getting that, then I'd tarnish the huge value of my bones.

I wanted something else! But to get it, I had to push them this hard first.

"Lord, is everything alright?" When I chatted with Silverlining, the two in front of me stopped talking. But when I went silent after I said my last phrase, I got an evil smile on my face.

I was indeed scheming something bad for the Toranks. And they got no one to blame but themselves for that.

"It's ok," I responded to Legend, "now let's speak further about the most important thing… You saw how deadly effective this structure of arrays was. So I wanted you to start taking this matter quite seriously."

"What do you want from us?" Sara was direct, and I liked that part about her.

"I want to do many tests first," I paused before adding, "and I want to use your people for such a thing. After all, by doing such tests, your soldiers will get to know this structure better."

I planned for Lily to supervise and lead so many tests over these arrays. However the soldiers used should better come from the two generals' armies.

Like this, their soldiers would grasp the concept behind these arrays and how to perfectly do and execute them in a much deeper way.

Just when I said these words, I saw the chariot of Lily coming from far. She didn't take long to come.

"I heard you are looking for me," she said before jumping over my chariot. She looked around first, examining the devastation that happened everywhere before adding, "what exactly happened here?"

I started to explain everything related to the structure of arrays. I told her about how these arrays had more than one effect, and I explained each and every layer's effect and how to activate these.

I also spoke about what I wanted her to do. When I finished, the look on her face was filled with excitement and hesitation.

"I know you got too much on you," I slowly said, "but I need you to supervise over these experiments. As for the ones truly doing them, these two can help in that."

"I can handle that," she made up her mind before adding, "however the general construction project shall be handled mainly by Isac."

When I gave her a questioning look, she added, "I want to personally supervise over all the tests. Sorry guys, but I have to see the results of each test and confirm the results myself."

"Sure."

"No problem."

The two accepted what she said. And by that I had nothing else to say.

I transferred tons of bones over to Lily. I selected bones starting from the green grade up to the dark gold grade.

"I want you to test the theory of combining two groups of arrays together and see their results," I paused before adding, "I want to know if this theory will work or not. If it works, then I want to know if the five effects can be merged together or not."

"I got it," she nodded in confidence, "leave this matter to me. I know what you expect and what truly matters."

"Thanks," I knew she was a dependable person. Or else I wouldn't just go and ask for her to come.

"As for you two… As we agreed before, your soldiers will take the task of doing the experiments to make themselves familiar with these arrays. Also try to educate everyone when the results are done and we get to know everything about the true potential of this structure."

The two nodded and Lily asked to use a different place for the test. This region got totally devastated, and that came just from one time usage of this structure five techniques.

She wanted to use one of the yet to be developed places. And I agreed with her point.

After all, if they started to experiment with this structure on a wide scale, then there was a risk of affecting the ongoing construction at that place.

It was better to just select an empty place and take it as a test zone.

In return for that, the construction plans of that place would have to be postponed for later. Until they'd finish testing, not a single brick would be built there.

Lily decided to use her own place. After all, she hadn't started building anything at that place yet.

That reminded me of the delayed task of distributing workers, warriors, and materials over many places. I got pretty occupied with testing this structure of arrays and forgot about that task till now.

However before I'd move a single finger, a message came in.

[Can I know what you have in mind? How about we double the price? Like a single bone can purchase double the amount of goods you previously were receiving]

At last they decided to negotiate! As long as they were willing, everything was possible.

[Well, doubling the price won't work. You do know that my bones turned out to be some sort of strategic weapons, right?]

Chapter 1316 Using Only Walls Won't Do!

[Ahem…] I wasn't going to accept whatever they'd throw at me, [Then what price range do you have in mind? I need to get what you have in mind before relaying this over to others to make a final decision about it]

I knew he was trying to use sovereign interference to scare me off. However he totally underestimated me!

Pal! I precisely wanted those sovereigns to interfere, or else what I wanted couldn't be done by just your word.

[Are you telling me such a decision will be taken by the sovereigns, and not by you or your impact?] I had to ask, to make sure I got them where exactly I wanted.

[Such decision isn't related to the impact I work for] he paused before adding, [This matter is related to the future of my race. So it's better for them to handle such a matter, right?]

[And what did they say?] I didn't give him any answer, and just threw the ball back into their playground.

[We are willing to satisfy any needs of yours, as long as they aren't overboard]

[I see…] That meant they were willing to accept the raise in the price tag, or accept any other form of compensation. However they wouldn't just accept anything.

That made me quite hesitant. What I wanted from them wasn't in their best interest actually. And trying to ask them to do it now would have a low chance of success.

[Let me think about this deal for much longer then…] I took the excuse of the sovereign's interference to buy myself more time.

I didn't need time to consider anything, I wanted them to take their time and feel the pressure of losing dealing with me.

Right now they might be shocked about my bones, but not too many races had heard about what I did. So if I waited for long enough, long until the news would spread all over the universe, then the Toranks would find themselves in a position they wouldn't like.

Right now they knew I only got them as the sole customer for my bones. But after some time, many would start competing with them and try to give me many offers.

Like this, the Toranks would find themselves in a race against other capable races, able to give me whatever I'd want.

So their attitude would change from just giving me the chance to raise the price to a reasonable range or asking for things in return that wouldn't cost them a lot, to any demand of mine would be answered.

And that situation was precisely what I aimed for and hoped to happen.

[Hmm… Why is that? I know you for long enough to know that you have a plan in mind already]

When I read his words, I couldn't control my smile to appear on my face.

So they already had seen through my plan and knew my real intentions. They saw through my desire to use time against them. What a bunch of old men they were!

[Sorry pal, this time I got my mind busy with many things] But did they think by reading through my plan they could stop me? Humph! As if that was possible!

I was the one they needed, not the opposite.

It was me who could call out the shots here. So if I wanted to postpone the talks, then I'd be able to do so.

[But…]

[Dude! Just tell them I'll consider their offer once I'm done with this quest.] I used the quest as an excuse, [You do know how hard and risky this quest will be, right?]

[I see… I'll relay your answer back to my sovereigns]

I got how disappointed he became, but that wasn't something I should worry about. It was their misfortune that I wanted from them something very important and crucial for my race and kingdom.

I could already guess how fierce the talks in the Toranks main homeland would be about this matter.

They knew what I wanted to do, but they couldn't stop me. They already used the excuse of the sovereigns to put pressure over me. And such a move failed.

If they wanted, they could sincerely offer a rich offer. And that's what they'd be busy thinking about. What exactly would be rich enough to make me stop going through this kind of plan?

Of course I knew the answer to that, but they didn't even read my mind to know what I was thinking right now.

They got nothing to blame but themselves. They were the ones who cut down any negotiations by trying to use hidden threats to achieve their goals.

Such a high ranked race would never truly consider someone like me as their ally, nor their equal!

But that wasn't bad news for me. If they didn't comply and offered what I wanted, then I'd go for plan B. Other races would be available in front of me, including the Hescos.

I would never select friendship over the fate of my race and kingdom, especially if it was such a kind of fake friendship.

After closing the chat with Silverlining, I finally got time to return back to my initial task. I started travelling across the remaining worlds, leaving behind the warriors, workers, and resources needed to build up the complicated set of defences.

In the middle of all this, Isac sent and discussed with me the modifications she had for the defensive designs.

When I heard what she had, I couldn't help but refuse them on the spot.

From what she said, she wanted to throw away most of the defensive structures and just be satisfied with the normal and simple defences.

Using walls alone wasn't going to protect my forces from the Silence race. Not to mention the enemy never got pushed hard enough to be forced to use their full force.

I had to make plans for other races to join the battle. I'd hardly believe that such an enemy who could get such a race from another universe, a race that wasn't known in the two known universes, couldn't get other races to help.

Chapter 1317 Falling For Their Little Trick

If the deadly Silence race failed, then normal races would appear next. And so building the entire defences only to stop the Silence race using the arrays would end up quite bad for my forces in the end.

Isac was puzzled and didn't know what to do. By what she said, she was trying to make up spaces for the ferocious nature of the deadly attack of the star arrays.

I liked the name she gave to these arrays, star arrays. However I reassured her that using the fifth and deadly type of attack would only be when the enemy was crushing our defences.

Trying to activate the fifth layer anytime the enemy would appear meant the entire defences would be quite useless.

It wasn't just impossible to build defences based on the range of effects of the star arrays, but also it'd exhaust tons of bones without getting any in return!

From the fierce nature of the fifth technique, I knew without the need to test that nothing would be left behind to collect.

No loot from the inventory would be collected, neither bones.

That meant my plan to collect an endless supply of bones to replenish what I'd lost would fail.

Putting everything in mind, I told Isac my decision about the fifth and deadly technique of the star array. That technique would be left as the last resort, some sort of our mass destruction weapon.

After knowing this, all her doubts were removed and she returned to her work again. And also I returned to do my task.

After almost ten more days, I finally managed to place everything into nineteen places. As for the last one, it was left empty for now, as Lily was still testing everything.

I didn't rush her out. There was still half a month left. During which I decided to start taking out warriors, strengthening them using my stat crystals, while thinking about the general strategy of the upcoming battles.

I now have a way to stop the Silence race. And so I didn't need to throw my warriors away.

First the ones who would be appointed to control the star array would be the soldiers not the warriors.

pAn,Da n<0,>v,e1 I planned to use the warriors as fodders, and that greatly pained me. If I got the choice, I'd not send my warriors to their demise without having a way to fight.

And so after thinking thoroughly about that, I decided to keep the warriors behind for now. They'd keep helping in the construction project all over the place, but they wouldn't take part in any upcoming battle against the Silence race.

When the enemy would see his precious and unstoppable troops get crushed by my star array, then new races would appear.

And that would be the moment for my warriors to step in and help.

I sent out to Isac to inform all the generals about this plan. Each general was allowed to select only ten million warriors to use as soldiers. They would follow their orders and become part of their armies.

Aside from that, all the remaining warriors would be withdrawn. Lily worked to take note of all the warriors each general selected, and made sure these warriors would be trained over the star arrays in return.

Trying to fight the Silence race using just these tens of millions might look crazy. However they were enough.

I spoke with Isac again before I finished my task. She managed to plan a grand scheme of defences, using the fifth layer technique as the last resort in such plans.

From the look of it, she used tons of towers to make the basic structure of the defences. Towers wouldn't take much land, wouldn't take that much time to build, and would enable the many weapons and gears I and my generals had to be allocated on top of these and be used efficiently.

As for the star arrays themselves, they had places for the holes and general structure lined up in the middle of all this.

But that was just a general layout, one that I didn't approve of until Lily finished her task first and gave me the results.

And that happened just two days after I finished my task.

[Lily is looking for you!] I was taking a tour at one place when I got this message from Alex.

[Where is she?]

[She is waiting for you back at ground zero]

Isac, Lily, and others agreed to name the first place I appeared at as ground zero. The name suited the importance and value of that place.

I returned back to ground zero and found Isac waiting with Lily, Legend, Sara, and the jumper.

During this time the jumper kept himself all silent and hidden. For a reason, I felt like this little dude was trying to do something that he kept to himself.

When I saw his ugly mask again, I couldn't help but feel more inclined to ask him about what he was doing this far.

I didn't visit his place for so long. And his place happened to be one of the earliest places I visited before I shifted my attention towards the star array matter.

But it wasn't yet time for me to do so. I needed to listen to what Lily had to say first.

"I tested that star array…" She started speaking by saying that. Even before saying hi she went directly into the topic.

From her tone, I realised that there was good and bad news to share. And I got prepared to have many of my hopes shattered at the spot.

"And?" I slowly asked, and got myself prepared for the worse.

"After doing many tests, and using different grades of bones, we reached this conclusion…"

I held my breath and waited for her to continue her words.

And after long minute, she finally added:

"The merge theory between two star arrays worked!"

"You… Damn you!" I knew I got played by her and others. The moment I cursed in such a way, everyone present couldn't help themselves and started to laugh.