Chapter 1318 Full Detailed Report
"I wish you could see your face right now, hahahaha! You really feared it wouldn't work, hahahaha!"
The jumper was this close from falling on the ground. This bastard was the most amused one among others by this silly joke.
"You played me this time… Good, very good," I clenched my jaws before adding, "forget about the promise I gave to all of you. Let's see how you'll fight without my warriors!"
"Come on! We were just joking!" Sara said amidst her laughs, not appearing any sincere at all.
"That's not funny!" I put a cold expression over my face, "let me first hear everything you got before deciding how to punish all of you."
Of course I was joking and toying with them. They dared to pull such a prank at such a time. And something told me the jumper was the one behind this silly move.
"Well… We tested and found these results…"
As I demanded, Lily started to give me a full report on the results she found.
First the merging theory worked! And the results weren't as I expected, but they were close.
Using two blue bones was equal to using one group of silver bones at one star array. But the energy consumption rate was much higher than when using the silver bones.
For example, the silver bones could remain for days while the blue bones would last for one day only. However when combining two arrays together, the duration wouldn't exceed two days.
Like this the other grades worked. I didn't care that much for the increased consumption rate. I craved the combined effects of the bones, and that was what I got.
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As for the high consumption rate, it didn't matter that much to me. I had tons of silver, blue, and green bones in my inventory.
At the same time, trying to merge more than two star arrays also worked. But the consumption rate kept increasing to make the increase in the bones' duration not that significant after merging two arrays together.
That meant if I wanted, I could use four or even five star arrays with green graded bones to yield the same results of the silver grade bones. And if I merged ten of the star arrays, then the effect would be equal to the fine gold bones.
To bring the same effects of the dark gold bones, Lily said that twenty arrays made out of green bones or fifteen with blue bones would be enough.
This news was great for me. First the green and blue bones were endless and seemingly quite useless to me right now.
Aside from the times when I needed to increase my energy and started to absorb bones for energy, green bones would be left to dust in my inventory.
So when I heard about a way to use these bones in my star arrays to yield better results, I wasn't sad or depressed.
Even if I had to, spending one hundred times on blue and green bones wasn't an issue for me.
As for the problem of short duration of combining the arrays, it didn't matter that much as well.
For me, such a thing wasn't even considered a problem.
The second most important piece of news was the effectiveness of the tattoo idea in activating the five layers of the star array.
According to Lily, she tested a lot and realised that a sequence of order should be followed to yield better results.
The first and second layers techniques didn't need to be activated in sequence. But if they wanted to activate the higher layers effects, they got to activate layers in order or else it wouldn't work.
I got a detailed report filled with many numbers and data regarding the time each layer would consume from different bone grades.
I couldn't keep track of such complicated things, and decided to leave such stuff for my generals to handle.
Then it came down to more detailed reports about the expected effects of each layer on the Silence race.
Of course such results were just hypothetical, but they just built their estimation on the old data I received about the percentage of effect of my silver bones over them.
I got tons of detailed data about the reach, duration, expected damage result of each layer used, and on top of that the expected amount of bones of each grade if we decided to go all out and defend the entire places using these star arrays.
In addition to that, I also learnt about the time needed for each star array to get activated based on different bone grades.
The shortest for sure was a star array built using green bones. They only needed three minutes and would be activated. The blue bones would take five minutes and silver bones would take fifteen.
To me, using green and blue bones proved to be quite worthy.
"Ok, we will do it this way then…" after thinking about everything, I made up my mind and told them about my decision.
"We are going to use the green and blue bones first," I slowly said, "I want you to train your soldiers to make up and use the combined arrays in the shortest possible time. I will provide each general with enough blue and green bones to activate these arrays for many years to come. As for you two, you will be equipped with different grades of bones, enough to satisfy your needs in your vital role."
"What role?" I just realised that I was the only one who knew about the role I selected for these two generals of mine.
"You will lead your forces and crush the enemy," I slowly said before adding the most serious part, "and you'll push your way towards the enemy's main worlds."
"This…"
"Do you mean the worlds they sent forces from?"
The two faces slightly changed when they heard my words. I didn't feel fear, but simply surprise and shock.
They asked me before to take their forces and start heading towards the enemy backline. However the thought of going even towards the enemy worlds never crossed their minds before.
Chapter 1319 I Want To Come!
"Do you want them to stall the enemy reinforcements?" Lily asked in greater shock. If these two were blinded by their ferocious nature, Lily still thought with logic about this, "are you trying to send them to their demise or what?"
"Just do as I say," I slowly said before adding, "we have to do that. Or else when the time would come for the worlds to open for us, we wouldn't have enough forces to free these worlds from their curses."
"If so…" Isac looked at Lily as if to get her confirmation before adding, "we need to change our entire plans regarding the two places and worlds of theirs."
That was precisely why I told them part of the plan. I didn't need them to just stall the reinforcements at these worlds, but to clear a path and establish a portal out there, to allow me to invade these worlds and crush the enemies at the core.
Doing so would place enough pressure for the enemies to reveal more cards. And that eventually would add up to my final plan.
"You surely need to do so," I nodded in confirmation, keeping such thoughts to myself, "I want capable soldiers to lead the places of these two."
"From what I saw," Lily was still not agreeable to such a risky and crazy plan, "that souler dude is great. Do you have more?"
"What? Do you think these are like common cabbage?" I laughed before adding, "General calibre warriors are rare to find. However I got five slightly weaker leaders who served under Lucas. They are capable dudes and can serve quite well as replacements for these two."
"Five… Interesting…" Lily paused before adding, "are you going to send more generals out there? If so, we can replace five at one go."
"No, use these five to replace these two," I knew the five elites under Lucas' lead were great and such, but I'd never trust them the same way I trusted Sara and Legend.
I tested Lucas many times already, and I got what he was capable of. But I couldn't say the same about these five. So it'd be better to just replace these two with those five.
In return, none of those presented here noticed the little trick I pulled here. I used Lucas to replace me while I got busy dealing with my tasks. And right now I was free, but I didn't move to replace him or something.
This little detail was missed by all, or that was what I thought.
"Fine, I'll make them take over their territories," Lily paused for a moment before adding, "but they didn't train on using the star arrays nor got to know the general layout of defences or their forces even…"
"Don't worry, they are smart and will grasp such things fast enough," I said to reassure her before taking the five out, "follow the orders of Lily to the letter."
"Sure lord," the five bowed in respect before moving to stand beside Lily.
"Ok, I'll brief them about everything they need to know," Lily could only sigh before adding, "about these two… Are you really going to do that?"
She pointed back at Sara and Legend. Even if she showed such concern about them, the two never showed any fear or doubt about doing what I asked.
"They will be fine," I said with a mysterious smile, "don't act like being their mom or something."
"Stop it!" I tried to joke with her but she was taking this matter quite seriously. Her face never broke the tension it showed. "I'm just worried about losing two capable generals and friends like this."
"They will be fine," I said. And from my strict attitude, she didn't have anything to say anymore.
She only gave me a long gaze before leaving with everyone else, all but one who remained with his eyes looking at me in a weird way from his mask.
"Don't think I missed that little thing you tried to hide," he said once everyone else left.
I looked deeply at his eyes and couldn't help but inwardly sigh. That dude was truly a pain. "What do you want?" he wouldn't stay behind and say such hidden words without a reason.
"Take me with you!"
"I didn't say I'm going anywhere!"
"Come on! Stop bluffing and just agree."
I could tell he read through parts of my plan. Even if he didn't get to know everything, at least he knew about my intentions of going out there and taking part in that invasion plan.
After my two sent arrows would hit their marks, establish the portals between the worlds, I'd start to take over and start out a great invasion movement.
Even if the enemy knew about my intention to send Sara and Legend out there to their worlds to keep their forces busy, they would never imagine my real intentions.
So their knowledge about this part of the plan was pointless. And the main source of my confidence came from the merged star arrays and the deadly fifth layer.
I planned to equip these two armies with endless green and blue bones. They'd just start a spree of unleashing the deadly swarms of fifth layer deadly techniques and would render whatever the enemy prepared for them pointless.
"Why?" I couldn't risk taking this bad omen with me without a proper reason.
pAn,Da n<0,>v,e1 There was nothing for him out there to do. His main goal of coming here was to meet up with that angel that gave him his ability from before.
So what was the point in sending him all the way to the enemy homelands? It didn't make any sense to take such a risk in my eyes.
"It's my god," and just when I was feeling puzzled, I heard such an ominous reference to that dirty god. "He said that the one I'm looking for is locked up inside one of these worlds. I came here specifically to ask you to let me go there."
"This…" Just hearing the mentioning of that twisted mind god made my heart fell to my feet.
Chapter 1320 Playing With A God
Should I tell him? Tell him about how bad his god truly was? For a moment there I got tempted to tell him everything I knew about.
"I need to go," but before I'd say anything, he added in a firm tone, "I have to!"
Tsk! That god was really a thorn in my back! I never expected my old hesitation about telling the jumper about the truth of this dude would come back and hunt me down right now.
I was quite sure that the intentions of that god were nothing related to any good. He might have pulled such a trick to make the bad omen of this jumper stick with me and end up messing with my entire plans.
Or perhaps he was right and the person that jumper was looking for was trapped inside one of the worlds of the enemies.
"Fine," if he wanted to play this dirty, then I'd comply, "tell your god this, if he wants you to go, then he has to give you more details than just this."
"What do you mean by that?" The jumper's tone came dignified. He sensed something was wrong with me, but he didn't ask more about the reason.
"I mean he knew about the presence of that angel in a prison. Which world is he kept in? How many worlds are out there? What is the location of this dude in this world? How about telling more about the forces you are going to face out there? Such type of information."
The more I spoke, the more I felt the mood of this jumper change. "Don't expect me to send the best general I have to such a deadly battle without getting more intel about the enemy, right?"
"You never considered me as such a person," he said in a low tone and I smiled evilly.
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"To me you are irreplaceable," I slowly said, "our relation goes way down to the early days for me in the apocalypse. You may be a pain, but if it comes to send you to such a dangerous place without enough preparations, then I won't comply!"
I made my stance firm and added more reasons for such a decision for him to not be able to revoke any. "But you are sending the other two out there without enough preparations."
"Who said so?" I calmly smiled, "I already have my plans for these two. But to be frank with you, I can only protect these two and not anymore. Or else I'd not just send just two out there."
I put out a strong front, cutting any path over this dude or that dirty god behind him to find a way to get out of this trap I placed.
"You have only one way out of this," I strictly said, "either you'll abandon the entire idea and pray that your man is locked up in one of the two worlds my two generals will invade. Or you provide me with enough intel about the enemy forces and worlds before getting my approval on going."
Now it was time to see how serious this god was about tormenting my jumper and all of my plans.
The jumper remained quite silent and I didn't try to speak any further. I already said everything I wanted, and it was the turn of that god.
"Damn! Why are you this stubborn!" and when I expected him to spill out a lot of information, he suddenly exploded in such rage.
Dammit! The worst possible scenario happened! That god decided to raise the stakes and bet everything on the resolve and feelings of the jumper.
That god refused to play with me, and instead he smashed the entire board by refusing to give the jumper any detail about the enemies.
"What happened?" despite already knowing what went wrong here, I still asked and feigned ignorance.
"F*ck you Hye! He refused! Now what shall I do?" he exploded in my face. And if not for my higher strength, I was sure he'd jump and clench my throat with his hands while spitting on my face while saying these words.
"I won't send you without making sure you aren't going to your death," if that god decided to play this way, then I'd also help in smashing the entire board without fear.
No matter what, that jumper wouldn't have access to any world without my permission. And even if he managed to slip alone through my forces, he would be all alone out there and I'd not send anyone to back him up.
Without showing such resolve, I wouldn't be able to contain this time bomb!
Dammit! I now got another time bomb on my side. Screw this damn god! I swore if I ever met him, he'd better prepare his coffin before that.
"F*ck you! F*ck both of you!" As expected, that dude exploded in rage, kept cursing while he moved away without even saying anything else.
I let him be. After all, he'd try to sneak into one of the worlds of the enemy on his own.
But even if he was deadly serious about saving that dude and following the luring words of that damn god, he still needed my help.
I knew he amassed a large amount of treasures and gears throughout his past apocalypse runs. However I doubted he even got a single artefact in his hands, nor enough warrior tokens to help him do what he wanted.
Or else, he'd never come here and try to convince me out, or leave in such rage.
Despite knowing that I could always step in to save his ass, I still hoped he'd feel more despair than determination, ending up saving both of us lots of trouble.
As for that god, the debt he owed me kept getting bigger!
"It's not the time to get distracted by this," I knew this god had many ulterior motives in doing so. And one of them was to keep me busy before the big war.
Chapter 1321 A Meeting I Didn't Want
Even if I assigned most of the tasks for others to handle, I still got important tasks to do.
One of them was to keep getting warriors out, give them stat points, and let them get stronger.
Another was to keep bothering Silverlining and forcing this dude to send what he promised on a daily basis.
In fact, I didn't need to do that. Silverlining was more willing to do so. I got what he wanted to convey, as he wanted to stress over the importance of keeping the deal with them running.
Of course if compared with other races in the universe, I'd not easily find another equal for the Toranks this easily.
The only ones who could match them in terms of wealth, knowledge, and influence were the Hescos. But I still didn't want to give away my current golden chance in securing a good deal with them and get what I wanted.
If they thought they got the upper hand thanks to all these trades, they'd be greatly mistaken.
When I exchanged with Silverlining, he tried to cut the price low. Yet I insisted on working on the old prices for now.
I didn't want them to use this as an example of my agreement of lowering the price of my bones. So suffering little loss for now was better than losing much more later on.
Yet this all paled in comparison to the most important and difficult task I still had to do.
"Tsk! I kept postponing this meeting until there is only one day left for the big war to start," I finally had no other excuse to not do this task.
I tried to keep myself busy during the past days, trying to avoid such meetings. However there was no time right now. I'd either do it right now or not do it at all.
I took in a long breath, prepared myself for what I was going to face, before stepping on my chariot's stairs and headed to the lower levels.
And there I went to the room where I locked Hilary up for all this time before finally removing the seal and opening the door.
"You finally remembered to come and pay me a visit?"
This was a meeting I tried to delay as long as I could. I saw Hilary's face, and from her eyes I could tell the two personalities merged together.
Yet I couldn't tell who was dominant, the evil demoness or the cute Hilary.
"I was busy," I looked around and found lots of things in the room.
First the room itself changed a lot! The rooms in my chariot weren't that spacious. But this room was looking like a big hall and not a simple tight room.
I didn't know what she did, but the room changed and got filled with tons of things. There were many paintings held on the walls. And these walls were now made up of black swirling fog without showing the usual shape of my chariot's walls.
The ground was covered up with thick and luxurious looking carpets. As for the furniture, in such a vast place there were many good looking pieces, including bed-like cushions and big seats.
Everything in this place was filled with lust. The drawings in these paintings described different races f*cking each other in different positions. And there were even some who showed only the face of females screaming in pain and agony while their hair was scattered and floating in the air.
Without the need to ask, these paintings described ladies in the apex of their entertaining moments. If these drawings could depict sound, then I'd hear endless moans and huffs coming from them, in addition to pleading for more fornication and pumping.
The carpets showed the same kind of images sewed on their mattress in a fantastic and artistic way.
And the furniture just provided the perfect atmosphere for the two of us to start doing what all these drawings implied!
Even the fog swirled to show people hugging, curdling, kissing, and doing various things together. Damn this girl! It was clear now who got the upper hand in this personality merge; it was the demonesse.
But that wasn't totally bad for me. At least I'd get what I hoped for from this visit.
I was going to face different races and forces that served the true hidden enemy. But my main goal from all this wasn't just to clear the quests and save the twenty worlds.
I wanted to force the hidden enemies to reveal themselves to me. Like this I'd learn more about them and gain more experience in how to perfectly deal with these hard to find enemies.
As I wanted such a goal, I didn't like going to meet up with such enemies without any preparations. And to prepare for them, I needed more info and Hilary was just the perfect source of such intel.
She was, after all, once part of these enemies.
But knowing that she could help and getting such information out of her tight lips was another different matter.
I knew what she wanted, and I didn't totally reject the idea of satisfying her for getting such information. But I'd love to sleep again with my fiery and explosive Hilary than this lustful and sexy demonesse.
If I could get more intel without the need to explore her sexy body, it'd be great.
I looked up and down at her. She was wearing a tight black dress that was filled with little sparkling star shaped jewels.
It had a long cut starting from her belly all the way down to her heels, exposing a great deal of tempting white skin.
She didn't wear anything underneath such a tight and sexy dress, and that was why almost all of her chest was exposed with that huge V shaped neck line of that dress.
She wore a dark blue veil to cover up her face, giving her much sexier image than ever.
Chapter 1322 Getting Tempted
For some reason, I felt like she was expecting my visit. And that meant she was aware of what was going on outside without the need to even step out of her room.
When I looked at this modified room again I couldn't help but inwardly sigh. She did all this to my chariot's inner structure, and I never felt anything weird at all.
She was dangerous! And she had many weird techniques and methods that I wasn't aware of.
If others like her existed in the enemy ranks, then that fight was going to be much harder than I ever thought.
"Quite busy man you are to leave your girl behind for such a long time without a single visit," she slowly said, taking her time to say her piece while taking a few steps, moving her hips right and left, before slowly sitting on one of the big bed-like seats.
She placed one leg over the other, letting the smooth silk of the black dress take its time and fell slowly over, revealing more of her long and perfect looking piece of white pie.
Just from such simple moves, she managed to stir up a hard to quench fire in my chest. But I controlled myself and cleared my throat as I said:
"You did a great job in remodelling the room," I shifted my eyes with much difficulty away from her sexy body, trying to erase the image of her slow moves from my mind and yet I miserably failed.
"I was lonely, but I'm glad you liked it."
I didn't know when she moved from her seat and came in front of me, but I realised that when I felt her soft body leaning onto my chest while her hot breaths were lashing over my neck.
I looked down, and what met me was these two bottomless blackholes which one would call as eyes.
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Seeing her face from such close distance, feeling her softness and body in such a way shut all my defences.
"Ahem!" I tried to pull a distance away from her, but instead I ended up placing my hands over her body, slowly moving my fingers across hers.
It felt great! And that greatly terrified me.
I knew how toxic this new Hilary was. Up till now she never placed herself apart from the origin she came from.
She was mine, took over my girl, and yet she didn't swear allegiance or showed loyalty to me.
Instead, she was trying the opposite, making me become hers and follow her orders around.
I wanted her to be mine, and she wanted me to be hers. And in the middle of this, I was the one who got tormented in such a way.
Hell didn't need me to get tortured with fire and metal. Sometimes the sweetest things in the world would be the most painful and torturing things in one's life.
I wanted to devour her, and my desire was irresistible. So I stopped resisting it and tried my best to focus over what I came here for.
I let my fingers enjoy themselves to their fullest, hoping that might put down the fire inside me a little. Yet instead the fire didn't die down, and turned into an inferno with each touch.
Right now I felt like facing endless Hescos armies was much better than facing this demoness alone!
For a reason, her skin felt different and her body was much softer than before. I could even smell a very nice fragrance that came out from her, enticing me up and driving me crazier.
I had to exert much effort to control such a situation. I didn't want to end up giving her what she desperately wanted without getting what I wanted first.
"I never thought you could change my chariot interior without getting my permission," I tried to say the first thing that came to mind, trying to distract me with anything to not slam her to the ground and devour all these delicacies with my fierce beast.
"Who said I can't do it?" she winked, and tried to paint a soft kiss over my neck. I hurriedly placed my palm in between her lips and my skin in time before saying:
"If you want to head down that path, you have to pay a fee first," I finally collected myself and returned to the topic I wanted by coming here.
"Mean Hye!" yet she didn't even ask about what I wanted from her as if she already knew. She pouted with her lips, put up a childish expression over her face, making her look cuter.
"After not seeing me for a while, you come here and ask for something like that? I thought you missed me and we stayed together for a long time."
"Long time?" I raised one eyebrow. If she guessed what I came here for, that meant she wanted to stop me from fighting her people.
No matter what her reasons were, I wanted something from her and she also wanted something. If she didn't want to trade, then there was no point in being here.
So without saying a single word I pushed her to the side, and started to take firm steps towards the door.
"Hey, I was just playing with you," and like an agile cheetah, she jumped and appeared in my arms again, stopping me from taking a single step further.
"What?" I didn't change my face, "didn't you want to keep your lips tightly closed?"
"You are free to open them with your tongue if you want," she tried to seduce me, and for a second there she succeeded.
My face softened before it changed again to show a serious look. "No more games! Either you show me your worth, or you better prepare to lose your life."
"I'm prepared to die for you, you do know that?" Even after threatening her like this, she didn't stop her games.
"Fine," I pushed her away in a harsh way before taking out my glaive next. "If you want to forfeit your life for your people then I won't stop you!"
Chapter 1323 Fighting A Demonesse
"Come on! I'm Hilary, your little girl! Are you really serious about that?" she squeezed her face with both hands, as if she was trying to show off her face to me.
"You may have the same face and body, but you aren't my Hilary," I didn't show any softness towards her. Instead, my cold voice was what welcomed her words. "My Hilary is dead! And if you don't prove yourself worthy, then forget about living any longer. I'll kill you with my hands better than letting you live a single more second!"
"Humph!" and just when she realised how dead serious I was, she finally showed her true colours to me.
The cute and pretty looking Hilary changed. Her body grew a little bigger, her skin changed colour to dark redness, and even two horns appeared from her forehead.
The air she emitted was quite different from before. She seemed much stronger and far more dangerous than before.
"Do you think I stayed all this time here without recovering my former strength? Humph! One way or another, you are going to submit to me!"
Her tone seemed like it came from the depths of hell. At the same time, dark red fog came out from her body, and the fog that covered the room from before turned into redness as well.
When that happened, I felt my connection with the chariot and outside world got severed. "Interesting! I thought the world that bastard lived in before was something prepared before long. I never thought this would be an ability related to your race…"
I didn't feel any panic. Instead I appeared calm, while looking around at all these changes as if I was watching something amusing.
"This is our born ability," she said while the fog started to swirl around her hands, to end up forming long and curved dark red daggers.
They were more like swords than daggers. But compared to the big hands they had, I was sure they were daggers.
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"Transforming your energy into something physical and real… That's awesome!" and unlike what she expected, I never showed a speck of fear.
All I felt was more excitement. I came down here to know more about my enemies. And fighting her in such a way seemed to satisfy my questions.
"Don't celebrate too soon. You were just lucky to escape the clutches of that careless dude. If not for getting him unprepared, you wouldn't have succeeded in getting out with your life intact."
"Oh, and what about you? Are you prepared?" my eyes shone in bright light when I heard her words.
I had to admit, she got a point. My kill for that fiend back then was out of my luck and his carelessness.
She seemed quite prepared to deal with me. However if she thought she got a chance to harm me, then she had to reconsider again.
I didn't come this prepared for a fight with her. But if she thought that I'd be that easy to handle, then I beg to differ.
"Watch and decide for yourself!" the moment she said that, she seemed to increase the output of her energy, turning the entire world into a dark red fog world.
Then the entire room vanished and the two of us seemed to float in the middle of dark red clouds.
"I won't show you mercy until you submit," she waved her two daggers, and I felt like the entire world was answering to a call, forming two huge crescents of dark red energy that came so fast towards me.
"I won't stop until you submit to me as well," as she started using her weapons and energy, it was time for me to use mine.
The next moment I took out my pillar and instantly activated its shield skill. The shield got formed in one second, but it seemed to clash fiercely against the swirling fog around.
The shield which could expand for miles stopped only at tens of metres. And from its surface, I could hear loud sizzling noises as if it was getting eaten away by fire.
Then her two attacks came and landed fiercely over my shield.
"Do you think such a thing can help you? Humph! Just look at how pathetic it is! With two simple waves of my daggers, your shield ended up in deep cracks!"
Yet as she was busy speaking, I kept using my shield skill over and over again. When she finished talking, the look on her face was priceless.
She stared wide -eyed as my shields combined started to show another level of strength.
"You can belittle anything, but not my pillar's shields please," I calmly said, taking out tons of bones, before starting to absorb their energy and gush these into the shields.
And the next moment, the shields that pushed the fog away for one hundred metres seemed to grow berserk and started pushing the fog for half a mile.
And the distance it covered grew up quite fast and didn't show any sign of stopping.
"This world is mine! You can't do whatever you like here!" she woke up from her momentarily daze, groaned as if she was a wounded beast.
I watched the entire fog swirl and placed much pressure over my shields. At the same time, many dagger-like shapes appeared.
When I thought these daggers would come at my shields, they waved themselves as if they got all controlled by her hands.
Endless slashes came towards my shields, and that attack looked quite formidable.
"Let me teach you how strong your man is," against such a brutal attack, I didn't hold back my strength anymore.
All the energy absorbed from my bones went into the shields. At the same time, I took out more bones, filling the gained space and covering the ground with bones.
Then without any hesitation I activated the shocking counter attack of my shields. And as these slashes drew faster and closer, my shields shone brightly and released a fierce looking shockwave.
Chapter 1324 Binding Her At Last!
This shockwave didn't get separated from my shields, as if they were waterfalls coming down from a high point.
And when the two attacks clashed, the entire world shone in bright white and red lights for long minutes.
Yet I slowly felt her attacks to fail against mine slowly getting pushed back as my shockwave started to gain more momentum and space.
I saw my shockwave getting broader until at one point it exploded and covered the entire world around. I felt the world trembling, but it wasn't enough to tear this place down.
"If this amount isn't enough, then let me show you my full strength then," I laughed out loud before using more shield skills, taking advantage of this moment of weakness from her, and pushed the shields all the way to their former true might and space.
Then I covered the entire ground with my bones, ending up sending a mighty wave of energy into the ongoing attack of my shields.
If my shockwave managed to shake down the world earlier, this time I could see wide cracks spreading all over the place. The shockwave was testing the world apart, and I could hear her hopeless screams and angry roars.
No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't stop my shockwave or touch my shields anymore. And after a few minutes of such desperate struggle, I heard a loud thudding sound before the entire world cleared again in my eyes.
We returned back to my chariot's room. The room looked like the normal rooms in my chariot, just small and not that spacious like before.
Everything she did was crushed by my shockwave that was currently pinning her body against the wall opposite to me. There was the simple looking bed standing in between the two of us, while the entire energy I unleashed was suffocating her.
Her body was suspended away from the ground by a metre. Yet from the swollen look over her face, I knew she was already losing against my power, unable to even keep her airway cleared and open.
"If you don't submit, then tell your prayers inside your mind. You are going to fall to your knees and surrender, or fall down and lose your life," and without giving her any chance to do or say anything, I kept my energy gushing out and pressuring her while saying these words in an ice cold tone.
If she didn't yield at this moment, then it was better to get rid of her. I just got part of what I wanted to know, and saw a mere taste of how such a race fought.
I was now sure that I was the only one in my entire forces who was able to compete against them. Perhaps the star arrays would prove useful, but I wouldn't hang all my hopes over such a possibility.
I'd rather leave my elite generals and friends with these arrays as means to save themselves if they ever faced such scary folks. Other than this, dealing with such enemies should be done solely by me.
I was now quite sure that she knew much more than she just showed to me. So I didn't try to kill her on the spot despite having the ability to do so.
Instead I took my time to suffocate and torture her at her last moments.
"You… Are… Quite… A man… To… Do… Such… A thing… To… A weak… Lady… Like… Me…"
Against my crushing energy, she couldn't even speak properly and had to say every single word as if she was struggling to do so.
And indeed she was!
"Weak lady? Hahahaha! What quite an amusing nickname you are calling yourself with," I laughed and didn't even show a speck of understanding or comprehension towards what she just said.
I wanted to hear her speak, but with totally different words with different meanings.
-n0ve1,com "You… Win…" she finally said something I'd like to hear.
"Yield or die, I don't want to hear such useless words from you," and as she said these words, I didn't show any tolerance towards her.
Instead I pushed more energy to suffocate her, speeding up her end if she didn't hurriedly act.
"Fine… I… Surrender…" At last she said it. But I didn't lower my guard yet.
A contract appeared right next to her when her body slammed heavily on the ground. I had a contract before with Hilary, but not this Hilary.
When her soul changed after the merge, she ended up breaking the contract between me and her. I felt that during our little chat and fight, and so I took out a new contract and asked her to sign it with a cold gaze of mine.
"F*ck you, cough cough!" and when I waited for her to sign the contract, her energy started to gush out once more. Yet just when she did that, my energy came back again, clashing fiercely against hers.
I didn't truly cancel my skill from before. I simply controlled it and let it retreat back.
And when she tried to resist, my attack came fiercely without warning, putting her back to her rightful place.
"I… Yield… Truly… Yield…"
"I hope you are sincere this time," I waved my hand and my energy retreated as it appeared, quite fast. "Or else, next time I won't listen to any bullshit coming from you."
This was her second chance. If she ruined it, then she'd end up dying no matter how sincere she pleaded for mercy.
As my energy was retracted, her body fell again to the ground. This time she kept coughing for a few minutes, struggling to take her breaths.
I didn't say a single word and just watched her. If she tried anything funny again, she'd end up dead.
"Here," yet she didn't try anything. After five minutes, she finally took the contract and signed it, "satisfied now?"
I felt the effect of the contract getting activated and couldn't help but inwardly sigh in relief.
Chapter 1325 Her Soft Spot
The first step was done after little hiccups, but it was done eventually.
And now it was time to squeeze her dry of everything she knew about her race.
"Tell me everything about your race, your people, and everything about the enemy."
"You have to be more specific than that," she slowly stood up, while her face returned to look rosy and alluring like before, "you have to know that inside my body, inside all of our bodies, there is some sort of restriction that will prevent us from delving any vital information to outsiders like you."
I frowned when I heard what she said. "Are you telling me the power of your restriction is much greater than the power of the system?" I asked in doubt, and she snorted in response.
"Don't forget I came from outside," she shortly laughed, "so this pathetic toy you are calling a system can't do much to me anyway."
"Oh! Then kneel!" I ordered her to see if the contract would be effective or not. If not, then it'd be a problem.
"I'll kneel for you without the need for any contract or system," and unlike what I expected, she slowly knelt in obvious obedience that I couldn't tell if it was sincere or not.
This troublesome lady! Now I couldn't test if the system power worked on her or what! Damn!
This was the first time ever for me to meet up with such trouble when using my contracts.
"Tell me everything you know about your people then," I paused before adding, "this is an order!"
"Ahhh!" Just when she tried to open her mouth, her body shook violently. I saw a copious amount of red gas coming out from her body before it got vaporised in the next instant.
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In my eyes, she seemed to be struggling against something. From the look of it, something inside her got stirred up in response to my order and her desire to speak, and started to fight against something intangible.
Was this the power of contract enforced by the system over her? I looked at her agonising twitching face for a long minute.
Then a thought crossed my mind.
I couldn't tell if she was the one struggling against the system's restriction or that thing she proclaimed inside her body.
Tsk! I couldn't tell if she was the one doing this or she was prevented from saying anything. And that truly sucked!
"Don't tell me anything yet," I said, ending my force imposing on her and putting an end to her suffering.
After all, I wasn't that type of sadist.
"I told you before… Cough, cough… Be more specific for such restrictions to be much weaker… Cough, cough!"
She coughed and I saw drops of dark red dots falling out on the ground amidst her coughs. She was bleeding internally, and that clash seemed quite fierce.
But from my interaction with her so far, I knew how sneaky b*tch she was. I couldn't just believe anything I saw, not even when she'd cough out blood.
That blood came as a sign of how brutal such a clash was, yet it didn't depict or tell what caused that clash in the first place.
Seeing such a state she was in made me feel little sympathy towards her, a feeling that got crushed instantly by my will.
She wasn't my Hilary, she was my enemy! And I shouldn't feel such feelings towards her, not at this crucial moment at least.
"Then tell me what you know about the people behind this scheme here," I thought about what I should ask. And frankly asking her about yet to come enemies to fight wasn't going to help me a lot.
What if she took an excuse of getting exhausted from being tortured and asked for a leave and rest? Tsk! Against such b*tch, I had to be more attentive to what I ask or say.
So I decided to ask about what I truly desired most right now, the enemies I was going to face.
"Yes, I know about the ones orchestrating all this," and this time no clash happened, "after all, you are going against what you can describe as one of the royal families of my people this time."
"You got ranks and families? Royals and commoners?" I calmly asked to make sure of what she just said.
"Any community anywhere will have lucky bastards and cursed ones."
"And you? Are you one of the commoners then?" from her tone of disdain and selection of words, I could tell she wasn't one of the wealthy or authoritative dudes in her people.
"Of course I was! Who do you think I am! Your girl isn't just nobody!" and unlike what I thought, she seemed to come from a very strong and famous family back there.
And when she spoke, she looked quite enraged and pumped up about this. I never thought she'd be such a kind of person, one who placed too much importance over her background.
"Do you think anyone can know the information I have? Humph! If I was a commoner, then forget even knowing the most basic intel about the vast operations going all over the cosmos!"
And when I remained silent and looked at her in such a weird way, she blurted out. She seemed to have a weak spot towards such a thing, her pride!
Great! I could now start exploiting such a thing and see if I could push her to speak further about her secrets of her own volition.
"Ahem! I just thought you are someone normal," I started pushing on her weak spot even further, "you never gave me such a vibe at all."
"You… How can someone like me be a commoner? Huh!"
She pointed at her body, and I couldn't help but gulp in response. "It's just you who took over my girl's body. Besides, you never showed any sign of being a royal before."
"I… Good! That's just great, Hye!" she fumed in rage, and I was now sure I found her soft spot.
Chapter 1326 The Holy Ones
"Sorry but don't take it on me," I shook my head, "even when you said it, I couldn't believe you… Don't stare at me like that! If you are in my shoes, how can you believe anything said to you without any evidence? Right?"
I paused for a long moment when she glared fiercely at me. I intentionally said I didn't believe her so I'd push her to spill more beans.
"Good… Then let me tell you things no commoner will know…"
And like an obedient little girl following a wolf, she started to speak up for hours!
I didn't even try to stop her, not even once. I attentively listened, and focused on memorising everything she said.
"Huh! What do you say now? Am I a commoner?" After saying too much, she crossed her arms and said in such a prideful tone.
"Sure, you got little capital to say such a thing about yourself," but I didn't give her the satisfaction she desired. If I said she wasn't a commoner and I believe what she said, how would I exploit her later on for more info?
"You…"
"Sorry but I got an urgent message right now…" just before she'd try to do or say anything else, I hurriedly ran out of the room and closed it behind.
"Let me out! You don't need to lock me up anymore!" she fiercely yelled at my back, yet I never stopped for even a single second and shut the door tight.
I knew if I delayed for even one second, she'd find her way out and then lots of problems would happen.
I wasn't in the mood to deal with the trouble she'd bring. From what she said and revealed in the middle of her rage, she proved to me that there were no such proclaimed restrictions inside her.
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She was the one resisting my system's contract power all this time. And during these hours of her talk, she never showed a single resistance against anything.
If such restriction existed, then she'd have gotten punished not only once, but many times already.
Yet nothing happened to her. And that meant my earlier doubts were true.
I didn't want to waste more time on taking care of her. I just heard tons of valuable intel, and I had to thoroughly think about this.
I didn't try to think about anything when she was speaking fearing that I might miss details or anything.
As I left her room, I felt like a long time had passed. But I knew just no more than ten hours passed since I went in to meet up with her.
"Sigh! Meeting up with her was very stressful on me," I shook my head when I returned back to the top of my chariot.
There was less than a day before the start of the all out battle. And to be honest, and after putting aside all the troubles and pressure I felt after meeting her, this meeting was indeed crucial and very important to me.
If I didn't get to hear what she said, and that was just the tip of the iceberg of what she already knew, then I'd have to face lots of trouble later on.
Just going fast through what she told me made me realise how hard it was to deal with those bastards.
According to her, the people who were standing behind all this mess were calling themselves the Holy Ones!
Despite having such a grand and majestic name, they were agents of chaos, the apostles of disaster and death.
Their aim was just like I exactly expected before, to take down the entire cosmos, ruin endless universes, and kill everyone.
In fact they weren't just a single race, and she didn't tell me what origin they came from or where they lived.
We didn't reach that point in our little talk. What she focused mainly on was the enemies I was going to face in this golden quest.
By her words, she said that in each universe similar golden quests situations were present.
She said that a long time ago, the powerhouses in the Holy Ones scanned and studied most of the universes in the cosmos. They ended up marking a few potentially threatening races in each universe.
And then a grand plot was made, and many bad events happened thanks to such a decision.
The Holy Ones aimed to clear away all the marked races as highly dangerous from each universe. They managed to wipe out lots of races, but there was always a group who proved to be so hard to crush.
And these folks were dealt with by the same method, trapping them inside inaccessible places like what I got here.
If the Holy Ones couldn't wipe out a race, they'd make use of many treasures and push those folks with their worlds to a certain region.
That region was already prepared to seclude and trap such races in either closed loops or sealed spaces.
However to make the universal supreme rules comply and accept such great interference, some rules had to be placed. And that was the origin of the golden quests here and at other universes.
Per her words, the Holy Ones made sure to place many layers of obstacles, to force anyone trying to free any of these highly dangerous races to fail in their attempts no matter how hard they tried.
Along the course of endless years, there were few universes who managed to free their trapped races from the clutches of the Holy Ones. and These universes were branded as the Grand Evil Ones.
How ironic! These Holy Ones were thinking themselves as gods, and those who opposed them as evil! But in reality, they were the true embodiment of evil.
How funny their shamelessness level was! They taught me a proper lesson in how to be truly shameless.
As for the current golden quests I was facing, I was depressed to learn that what I was going to face was just the first layer of defences set by the Holy Ones.
Chapter 1327 The Second Layer Of Defense
There were four more layers, adding up to five total layers of defences protecting the golden quests region from getting unsealed.
The first layer was led by the Silence race. As I learnt from Silverling, she repeated the same words and told me a little more.
This race was immune to physical damage, and also incapable of causing physical damage to anyone or anything.
As for how such race used to fight, I was surprised by her explanation. This race depended entirely on energy, either to live, to attack, and even to take lethal hits.
The fire auras coming out from explosions could harm them as Silverlining said, but it wasn't just the sole type of attacks that could kill them.
Any energy could. And for a moment I thought about what my shield's new offensive skill could do to them. If what she said was true, then my shockwave attack skill was enough to bring these Silences big trouble.
As for how they caused damage to anyone or anything, she said they targeted the flow of energy inside their foes or targets.
Even dead objects got their own flow of energy. Messing with this and huge damage would happen.
They played on a cellular level, interrupting the energy flow in a way that couldn't be easily detected, or countered against.
The only thing that could stop their attacks would be by using a shield that was formed entirely out of energy.
Any physical shield would fail to stop their attacks. So gears, defensive shields, and even shields that used ores as part of them were ineffective and pretty much useless.
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And this made me think about my pillar's shield, my chariot's shield, and my sacrificial defensive shield.
All of these were based entirely on energy. That meant if I went solo against these Silences, then I'd end up crushing them without suffering anything.
Even when realising this, I knew doing such a thing would be quite impossible. After all, such a race was coming from ten different worlds, and not just one or two.
She said that these worlds were considered the main bases for the entrapment grand array that the Holy Ones prepared for the dangerously marked races.
So if I tried to go solo against them, I'd miserably fail. And when I thought about jumping around between these worlds, I recalled that I planned to send two generals and their armies to two different worlds and this wouldn't work anymore.
If I wanted to take such grand entrapment down, I had to target all the ten worlds at the same time. Or else the forces at other eight worlds would move out to reinforce the two attacked worlds.
From what I learnt from her, there was a dense net of portals between the ten worlds. And even if we invaded these two worlds successfully, it was impossible to tell where these portals were to stop them.
That meant if I wanted to follow through this plan I'd need the help of eight more generals. Thinking about this made me recall the jumper.
"Did that son of b*tch knew about the presence of ten worlds before and was aware of all this?" I couldn't help but see through that god's scheme.
That bastard knew about all this and was sure I'd be forced to use more generals if I wanted to see this plan through. So he didn't need to comply with my threats, simply sat back and watched me with a grin on his face.
Damn that bastard!
Sending the jumper there was out of the question. Besides, taking eight more generals would prove to be threatening at other levels.
According to the demonesse's words, the other four layers of defences were also on these worlds.
That meant by sending forces there, they wouldn't just contend against the Silence race, but against the five layers combined.
The Holy Ones prepared these five layers in a stepwise manner. But she also stressed that if things went wrong and the worlds were this close from getting overwhelmed, they'd start a full out war, using the other four layers at the same time with the Silence race.
The Silence race seemed to deal with enemies in an energy based way, but the second layer of defence was totally the opposite.
From her words, I could see lots of similarities between the zombies and the second race that took the role as the second layer of defence.
This race was a swarm of flying locust-like races, using the human wave tactic in crushing their enemies.
If Silence couldn't deal direct physical damage to anything or anyone, such locusts like race could. They were ferocious, and were so bloody and brutal.
Not only that! If they attacked any living creature, be it a race or monster, or even zombies, they could lay out their eggs into the bodies of their foes.
These eggs would grow on consuming the bodies of the wounded or killed targets, ending up consuming everything and releasing more of such races out of these eggs.
So they were acting slightly similar to the zombies. And that made me wonder if the system higher ups were aware of the presence of such a race from the beginning, and if they used the zombies in the fifth quest to train us on fighting this race.
According to the demonesse, if any living creature got infected by these eggs, then there was no other option but to kill or incinerate the dead bodies using deadly waves of energy.
If this race could deal tremendous physical damage to their foes, their weakness was mainly in the energy aspect.
One race excelled at using energy based attacks, while the other had its deadly spot at the energy aspect... Both seemed quite complimenting each other but in other ways they both shared the same point of weakness.
And that was why the third layer of defence focused on dealing with energy based attacks!
The third layer wasn't a race, but some sort of technology buried deeply into these ten worlds.
Chapter 1328 The Third Layer Of Defence
According to the demonesse, the Holy Ones got tons of tech from the endless races they devastated over the years in many universes.
So it was hard to try and grasp their full knowledge or learn more about them as they'd always got a way to deal with any kind of powerful foes.
This tech released strong waves of energy that were able to take away any strong armies threatening these ten worlds. In addition to that, these waves were able to deal with any energy based attacks.
They reminded me of my pillar's offensive wave skill, and my chariot's pulse wave cannon. But the latter was much smaller compared with that kind of scary attack.
Per her description, the waves emitted from this tech were fierce enough to change the entire layout of the ten worlds.
Thanks to their energy nature, the Holy Ones would never tend to use such a deadly weapon until they were quite sure of the level of threat endangering their worlds.
After all such an attack wouldn't endanger the enemies, but also the other two races, the Silence and the locust-like races.
Using the third layer of defence meant losing and wiping out the first two layers at these worlds. But there was a silverlining in the middle of such bad news.
This tech capacity is limited. Only one thousand consecutive waves would be used. And once the Holy Ones activated the tech, they'd lose control over it and the one thousand attacks would come at the worlds without pause or interruption.
After the release of these one thousand waves, the third layer would be gone as well.
I thought deeply about what she told me about this tech. The weird thing was that despite the Holy Ones knowing how to use it, they didn't get to understand the concepts behind it.
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That tech came from a race that refused to lower their heads to these invaders. And when the Holy Ones tried to entrap them as usual, that race used such tech in a scary way, ending up killing lots of the Holy Ones forces and also the race with it.
So the Holy Ones only found relics of this tech, without any guidance or details about it. Even after such a long period of time passing, their scientists and genius minds couldn't find a way to solve such a mystery.
All they got was a limited amount of crystals that could be arranged in a specific way to release the devastating energy wave attacks.
That meant they had a limited amount of resources to use this tech, and that was the sole reason behind limiting the use of such scary attacks in the golden quest-like zones.
On another hand, the attacks coming from these crystals were unstoppable! Even the Holy Ones wouldn't be able to defend themselves against such an attack.
So it was futile to try and fight against this kind of attack using anything like my pillar's and chariot's shields. In the end, everything would turn into dust in the face of such a deadly attack.
But there was something great about triggering this kind of attack. After it got done with, the entire three layers of fierce defences would be totally lost!
That meant the Holy Ones would only have two remaining layers as the last obstacle before breaking the seal on these twenty races.
According to the demonesse's analysis, she believed that the universes who managed to break this seal before must have survived the third layer of defence.
As for the last two layers, they weren't that easy to handle in return.
The fourth layer was handled by a race that directly belonged to the Holy Ones. The demonesse that took over Hilary's body and soul came from the demon race of the Holy Ones.
As for the race who took over the fourth layer of defence here, she claimed they came from the silver winged fiend race.
They were like angels, but fallen angels. They got three pairs of wings on their backs, with silver feathers that gave them such a name.
They were quite strong! They used speed and the fact that they were airborne to tear any enemy to shreds.
Their bodies can't be easily damaged thanks to their wings. According to her, they used various ways to fight including one that would allow two pairs of wings to cover up most of their bodies and protect their vital spots.
As for these vital spots, they weren't fixed! In such a race, there were many variations and subclasses which had different weak spots.
In brief, taking them down had me and my forces to attack their bodies in general. And that would be hard to achieve thanks to their sturdy feathers.
And these feathers weren't just used for defence, but also for attack.
These fiends had the ability to separate their feathers. Unlike what I expected when I heard that, these feathers wouldn't fall once they got detached from their bodies.
I thought they'd use these feathers as rain of arrows or daggers. But the detached feathers would still keep some sort of link with the bodies of these fallen angels, ending up totally controlling them as if they were part of their bodies.
They could use these as swords or knives, and fight head to head with my forces. They could also control these feathers and let them stab, slash, and even fall like rain if they wanted.
They could control them to gather up and form a defensive shield, or move around in a torrent-like tornado-like attack.
All in all, this friend race wasn't that easy to handle. They were strong in every possible way. They excelled in defence, offence, and even against energy based attacks.
As for their hiding places, she explained this in a more thorough way.
According to her, the third layer of defence was cruel enough to wipe out anything in its path. So how come another race would remain alive in full numbers without getting a single speck of harm?
But when I heard her explanation, I got to know the reason behind this.
Chapter 1329 Bad News!
They weren't actually living on these ten worlds! They got secluded pocket worlds where they remained and lived their normal lives at.
That meant if the third layer wasn't triggered, such races would keep living peacefully like they weren't doing something terrible or anything.
Realising this made me feel quite sick. Such a race was worthy of being called fiends and not Holy Ones.
According to her, each world had around one hundred attached pocket worlds. Detecting these worlds' openings or entrances wasn't an easy task at all. And without the activation of the third layer of defence, they wouldn't reveal themselves at all.
She said that when this fourth layer had a standard code of action. When this entrapment zone was established, the fiend ancestors brought out ten billion race members with them.
They scattered these over the one thousand pocket worlds attached to the ten worlds. And when I heard such a number again, I couldn't help but link it to the one thousand wave of attacks from earlier.
Was it a coincidence? Or was it needed so that each pocket world would take a few hits to survive?
I couldn't tell, and the demoness didn't say anything to explain such a coincidence.
As for the total number of this race, even she couldn't tell. That was like any race in any universe, had the ability to reproduce and increase their numbers over time.
So that meant I had to face a race that took long years to gather up their endless numbers.
Trying to fight such a race which excelled nearly in everything was quite hard. And when considering their great numbers, I found such a task to be quite impossible.
When I asked about their weaknesses, she said if I managed to force them to unleash most of their feathers, then they'd be quite vulnerable.
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After all, they used their feathers in the form of defending against any attack. But when I recalled what she said about their ability to control the detached feathers, even to gather them around to form some sort of shield, I realised this wasn't really a point of weakness at all.
She mentioned something else regarding the energy limit of each member of this race. According to her, they couldn't keep controlling the detached feathers forever. And if they got fierce hits, the time they had to control these feathers would be shortened as well.
But I didn't place any much importance over this part. After all, she didn't give me any detailed numbers or stats about such a time limit.
pAn,Da n<0,>v,e1 I placed all my bets over another thing; my technique!
If nothing could harm them so easily, then instead of struggling about fighting and killing them, why wouldn't I try to recruit them to fight alongside me?
Such a fierce race was something I craved for. And even if the contracts weren't that binding to them just like how the demonesse could resist the power of the contracts, I'd still aim to acquire more of them.
[I want a type of contract that can bind fierce races] and whenever I'd face such difficulty, I'd not hesitate to contact my broker.
For any problem I got, my broker always got a solution.
[Hmm… You can get such contracts from the market]
Silverling responded in what I didn't want to do. The market only had common goods, and I wanted something quite special this time.
And yet his way of responding to me told me a lot of things. It seemed the Toranks didn't like my attitude towards them, and decided to show some sort of coldness.
But I didn't care about their feelings. This thing was crucial for the success and failure of dealing with those fiends.
[I want high grade contracts, ones that can bind any of the races I'll meet up in the ten worlds]
[You have a way to deal with them? Oops! Bad me! I forgot that you can already force other races to follow you around…]
He was trying to play silly tricks here. But I totally ignored what he said. Even the Hescos knew about my techniques and how they could bind anyone under my control using contracts.
If my enemies knew it, how come my long term allies didn't?
[I'm going to try my odds against them] I didn't directly tell which race I got my eyes upon, [But without strong contracts, I'd not be able to do anything]
[Hmm… I see. Let me see what I can do then]
[Don't take too long] I warned him, [The war is going to start quite soon]
[I'll return in one hour with good news I hope]
I now didn't take his words for granted. He promised me many times before and failed to meet his allocated timelines.
I knew this wasn't his problem as he never got delayed before. This was all the sovereigns' fault.
If not for them trying to get more than I promised them, then things wouldn't have reached such a cold stage between the two of us.
During my wait, I thought about the last layer of defence. To be honest, it was something not even I could handle.
According to the demonesse, the last layer of defence in any entrapment zone would be detonating the entire zone out!
It wasn't just detonating the ten worlds taking charge of this zone, but the entire zone in its whole!
It was quite a scary thing to think about. Even when they used such unknown tech to deal with any invader, there was still a possibility and way out from such hell.
But when talking about detonating the entire zone, there would be no way out from such a deadly attack.
"There were many universes who managed to get intact from such an attack… That means they found some sort of weakness to exploit such a devastating attack…" I thought to myself, trying to find a way to deal with this kind of disaster.
Chapter 1330 The God Of Contracts
I calmed myself down first and thought about different ways to handle such a situation. If there was such a deadly way to detonate the entire zone, then that meant there were explosive things scattered across the twenty entrapped races worlds, the ten controlling worlds, and the thousand pocket worlds.
I didn't care at all about the pocket worlds or the controlling worlds. But the twenty races' worlds shouldn't be allowed to be touched.
They were going to be my spoils of war. Not to mention these worlds were a safe place for me and my forces in the face of such an overwhelming attack.
"If others manage to do it, then why can't I do it as well?" I kept telling myself this in an attempt to find a way to solve this problem.
"That means I'd never allow them to use the last defensive layer until I'll join the worlds' wars and see what they know about such a thing."
I refused to believe that those living in these worlds were oblivious to any of this. Either it was a time trap or space trap, these races would be aware of such entrapment.
In addition to that, if the Holy Ones took out their worlds and entrapped them here, then that meant these worlds belonged to these races in the first place.
That also meant if the Holy Ones did anything there these races would be aware of it. I couldn't force the races belonging to the Holy Ones to tell me about the places or the mechanism of detonating their worlds. But I could ask this from the races whom I was going to save.
After all, without knowing such crucial intel and finding a way to solve it, none of us would walk out from here alive.
"So taking down the first three layers shall happen during the first year. As for the fourth layer… I can take my time and handle them properly and slowly before risking annihilating them."
pAn,Da n<0,>v,e1 There was still the risk of the enemy finding themselves losing out on all fronts, so they'd not wait for their race to get wiped out before activating such a plan.
That meant even if I got the chance to do so, I shouldn't push them too much. I had to let them feel hope in conquering me all the time, and that added another point of difficulty to my task.
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I could handle any enemy face to face, but it was hard to control my power to keep the enemy feeling they got an advantage over me.
If I did this, I'd risk losing everything thanks to any unforeseen events. I hated such a possibility, but couldn't find any other way to handle the fifth layer's attack for now.
So out of fear of this last hit, I had to cautiously advance and thoroughly calculate everything before killing or forcing that fallen angel race to switch sides.
This couldn't be considered as a solution, but a contingency plan.
I still didn't know how to solve this crisis, and all my hopes depended entirely over people I never met before.
[I got what you wanted] and just in four hours, Silverlining returned back to me with the good news.
He took slightly more than one hour, but at least he didn't delay for too long. So I dropped the idea of reprimanding him, knowing that he wouldn't be able to get such contracts without the help of the sovereigns.
[Cool! How many did you get?]
[I got one contract that's considered as an artefact in itself] he sent such a weird answer before adding, [Don't worry! It can be used to produce tons of presigned and predetermined terms contracts. And as it's an artefact, it can work on those aliens]
I got what he meant, and for me it worked much better than normal contracts.
After all, I took a lot of time writing and signing these contracts. But using such artefact would make my speed in recruiting more forces much faster.
[How much shall I pay? A redbone?] I knew such an artefact wouldn't be sold cheap.
[Nothing] but what he said made me raise my eyebrows in response, [We only need part of the forces you'll gain]
[Oh… What quite an appetite you have this time] I shortly laughed before adding, [How much do you want?]
[Fifty percent!]
They indeed have quite the appetite! They knew I needed such artefact and so they got greedy about my yet to come forces.
They heard everything that demonesse said. And so they knew how ferocious the races I was going to face were.
Besides, they have no equal in the entire universe. And they were strong enough to be considered one of the top races and forces in the entire universe.
Their greed was understandable, but that didn't mean I'd agree.
[Five percent is fine]
[F… Five? No way! We can't accept that!]
Of course I knew they wouldn't agree. This turned into a long bargaining talk for the next five hours!
At last we agreed that for twenty percent of any race I'd take control using this artefact here, I'd get to obtain that artefact.
And that percentage would turn later on into ten percent of any future races I'd take control using this artefact.
It was like a long term investment from their part in me. But for me, paying such an amount wasn't too much at all.
I wanted to not only take control of the first two races in this forsaken place, but to take control of the mighty and formidable angels as well.
After getting out of here, I'd not need to use such an artefact unless I found a way to go to the outer battlefield.
So I'd not lose that much in return for getting another artefact for free.
[Send it over] after signing the contract of our deal, I got the artefact.
And just like what Silverlining said, it was a contract artefact that was able to create endless variations of any contract and force anyone no matter who he was to follow me.
Chapter 1331 A Shocking Assault
What was scary about this contract wasn't the fact it could create many versions of contracts and create endless numbers of these, but its level of authority.
This contract didn't need any help from the system. It worked by using the universal energy around and forcing the content of the signed contracts on the soul level.
That meant even if I went to another universe where the system didn't exist, I could still make use of these contracts and bind anyone with these.
It was scary! And I realised the endless potential of getting such artefacts. And it deserved its name; the God of Contracts!
[Where are you now? It's happening!]
pAn,Da n<0,>v,e1 And just when I was reading through the content of that artefact, played a little with it and created different versions of contracts and signed them, I got such a message from Lily.
The first line of defence was here, and the one month honeymoon period was over!
[I'm coming! Where are they coming from?] I moved my chariot through a portal path and appeared at the first place I arrived at.
[They are coming from the outer regions… They are surrounding us!] she sent me such news, and it wasn't that much different from what I expected.
I thought about where the Silence race armies would come from. And I have two options. Either they'd come from the outside, like they did just now. Or they'd sprout anywhere inside the zones, or even everywhere.
I was lucky that they came from outside. Like this, the defences we painstakingly built would show up their worth.
[Coming!] I never explored the entire zone here or in other regions. I let others do such a task. And I had to travel now using my chariot's top speed.
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[Keep me posted about the updates of the initial clashes] I paused before adding, [Tell me reports about all the regions]
[Got it!]
I knew the initial clashes were the most important to determine the effectiveness of our entire plan.
If the defences we built and the star arrays we learnt failed to contain and stop the invasion of the Silence race, then I had to interfere personally in all the regions.
Of course trying to take over all the regions solo would be impossible. So I'd lose at least half of the regions, if not more.
But the reports I sought took quite some time before arriving. As I travelled fast using my chariot, and during my wait for Lily's next messages, I thought about something quite weird.
"The notification mentioned that anyone in this quest can message other contestants… But to do so we need the final list showing the ones taking part in all the twenty trials to be released first…"
Up till now, such a list hasn't appeared yet. And that made all of us unable to get in touch with each other. I thought the system higher up would release this list faster and much earlier than the arrival of the first wave of Silence.
Like this, we could have shared our knowledge together, worked with each other to form a strong front against the Silence invasion.
After all, the Silence race wasn't going to just solely focus on my region. If I had a way, I'd teach others about the right way to fight against these enemies.
This way they'd buy lots of my bones, and in return they'd put up a much fiercer struggle against the Silence race.
And that would result in lowering the pressure over my forces. But that didn't happen. And when thinking back about how the system higher ups agreed to my plan, such an action didn't add up.
"Don't tell me they aren't the ones taking control over the entire thing…" This was the sole explanation that could make this weird thing logical.
According to the demonesse, the Holy Ones were the ones to establish the golden quests. I thought they established the place and competition, and the system would take control over everything.
Even if the system was limited in actions by a set of rules, it was still possible for exploiting the gaps in these rules to make few things happen.
Especially if we were talking about such trivial matters as the earlier release of the final participants list.
The only ones who would find it quite harmful to prerelease such a list would be those angelic fiends.
And that meant they were the ones taking control over the entire rules and competition.
"If so… Then can they do anything more?" I never thought about such a possibility before. If I did, I'd just have used that moment of weakness from that demonesse and asked such a question.
But now, I have to think about much worse things. For example, could they control which regions would be targeted first by the Silence race? Could they even delay other regions and focus mainly on a few?
If such a thing was true, then the end result would be quite disastrous. That meant my forces would be forced to face swarms of endless enemies.
Even with the help of arrays, that wouldn't help in stopping these enemies.
"If that happens then I have to drop the idea of saving up my warriors…" During the entire month, I got an endless supply of warriors coming from my warrior den.
Endless tokens were added during this period, and many of them were different forces I got from my kingdom. I only scattered out the old warriors I gained from Silverlining, and left the newly gained ones in reserve.
I also gained lots of warriors from Silverlining, but they weren't as important as the ones I gained from my kingdom.
In addition to the zombie race members Loran sent before, I gained tons of the newly acquired seven stars race members.
And those were the ones I desired to store up till the moment of facing up the deadly fourth wave, those fiends.
"I can't risk exposing them to the enemy…" I knew these fiends were closely watching my actions.
Chapter 1332 Damage Control Plan
If I took these forces out, then they'd be more prepared to face them in the end. "I can use other warriors as fodders," I thought and decided to throw out warriors without any stat points to act as meat shields.
But that was all in the worse case scenario. And to my luck…
[The initial reports arrived…] After half an hour of constant flying and thinking, Lily finally sent her long awaited message.
[And?] I needed to know the current situation so I could decide which action I should do in response. If my forces didn't face much of the Silence race, then my fears and doubts were groundless and unneeded.
Nothing would change in the entire plan. However…
[There is lots of pressure everywhere] she paused before adding, [All the fronts are getting crushed from just the initial clashes!]
[All? In all regions? How so…] even in my worst expectations, I never expected for my forces to crumble this fast.
[They say there are another race coming out to help the Silence forces]
[What?!!!] This time I felt like my heart fell to the rock bottom.
They didn't just focus their Silence race wave attacks over my regions, but they also decided to add the second layer of defence as well.
Damn! They were much more decisive than what I ever thought!
[What shall we do now?] she asked, jolting me awake from my disturbed thoughts.
[Make the ones controlling the star arrays at the forefront activate them!]
[This… Shouldn't we first recall our troops back?]
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[No time! Just do it now!]
[Explain it first! I won't send my soldiers to their demise without a reason!]
[Fine… This is a much fiercer race than the Silence…] I knew she never got to know the details that I learnt from the demonesse. I never got time to tell anyone anything.
So I told her a brief summary about that locust-like race.I spoke about the main points, the ones that would interest her in such a situation.
[So there is nothing like sending them to their demise. All those at the frontlines are considered dead and potentially threatening over the rest of our forces]
[This… Then what shall we do? This way we can't stop both races! And from what I received, their numbers are too much to handle!]
[They want to get rid of us first] I didn't hide such bad news from her, [So you shall expect hundreds of millions or even more coming at us]
[This… Shall we concede?]
[Concede? No way!] I knew this was the most logical action anyone in my position would think of. And that was one of the reasons the enemy moved in such a way against me.
They wanted me to lose any hope in competing against them and think about running away with my life.
However, I'd prefer to die than to let them have it the way they wanted!
When did they decide to come at me in full force? Was it when I met up with Hilary and forced that demonesse to spill everything out?
That was quite unlikely. I knew they were closely watching me, so it was good I met up with her just at the last few hours before the big war.
I thought they'd have anyway to do anything big against me. However it seemed they already placed me as their top target long before that.
When did this all start? Was it when I learnt about the Silence race? Was it when I found out about the star array?
No… This must have started long before that! Don't tell me it all started when I spoke with the system higher ups!
There was no other explanation for all this! It seemed the system higher ups got moles inside, ones who relied these news fast to the enemies out here.
As they already got me under their watch list, it made such decisive and quite daring move logic.
I pushed aside all these useless thoughts. No matter when it did start or why they decided to move against me like this, I had now to think about what I should do.
I knew that Lily and others were freaking out right now. And after learning what I knew, their level of fear would be quite unimaginable.
So waiting for them to come up with a plan wouldn't work. If there was anyone that could help me out, it was none other than myself!
I put myself and everyone in such danger, and I was the one responsible for getting everyone out of here safely.
No, not just getting out of here safe… I should take back everyone with me while we ended up victorious!
"I have to first stop their advancement…" I knew that my chances would be slim if I didn't work hard to stop the enemy's initial advance.
If they gained momentum, then forget about winning, just keeping five world regions would be quite hard to achieve!
My first response was to activate the frontline star arrays embedded inside the dense defences. This would bring enough trouble for the initial waves of the enemy. But it'd also take out lots of my defending forces.
It reminded me of the third layer of defence the enemy had, the one which was deadly enough to wipe out all the forces, enemies and allies.
[Change of plans] dire situations required strict decisions, [Make Legend and Sara distribute their forces into twenty parts. Each part will take responsibility of stopping the advance of the enemy at one world]
[This…] She knew I already planned for these two and their armies to invade the ten homelands of the enemy.
[They'll start to work from now on to train more forces on using the star array] I sent more instructions.
[They won't take part in these fights?]
[No, they have more work to do] I planned to use the help of these two into training more forces, [Let them keep the most experienced soldiers in executing the star arrays with them. The rest will be sent to the twenty worlds]
[What for?]
Chapter 1333 A Messy Frontline
[They'll take the frontline from our forces] I added more instructions about my damage control plan, [They will detonate the outer zones over and over, killing all the enemies that'll arrive]
[And? You do know this isn't going to work, right?]
[Just do this and buy me more time] I knew she got a point here, [I'm not sitting idle, right?]
[Ok] it wasn't like this was the first disaster we faced together!
[Where are you now?] and after closing the chat with Lily, I turned to my next target.
[I'm at ground zero] I contacted Isac this time, and she seemed to get the bad news during my talk with Lily, [What do you want me to do?]
I liked how practical she was. She didn't waste a single moment in complaining or freaking out.
[I want you to start changing the entire layout of the central zones in all the regions] I paused for a moment, arranging my thoughts before adding, [I want you to turn these regions into a living hell there]
[Will that stop these forces?]
[I got a plan! Or part of right now] I had different thoughts about what I should do. And no matter what idea I got, there was one simple common thing about these; I had to separate the two races from each other!
If I had to select one race that I would like my forces to face solo then they'd be the second race not the first one. Those locust-like races were much easier to handle than the Silence.
My forces were experienced at fighting endless forces like the second race. The zombie fifth quest trained all of my generals on how to deal with such tricky situations.
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As for my warriors, they were killing machines. And if I let them fight the Silence race, such killing machines would turn pretty much useless and would become mere fodders.
"How will I do it?" I knew separating them was going to make things much easier on my forces. Even with the threat of spreading over the infection from these locusts, it wasn't that hard to counter compared with the Silences.
Yet even if I took such a decision, I lacked the means to execute it.
"If I went out there, jumped between worlds, I might have a chance to stop their advance alongside the ones using the arrays…" I knew my presence there and using my techniques, I'd be able to stop the advance of these two races.
But I lacked a means to really separate the two races. From all the artefacts I got, there was nothing that could do such a thing.
"If I don't have any means to do it, then I have to improvise," I had to do something anyway, "even if I didn't manage to totally separate the two from each other, I'd still take much of those Silences out…"
Before deciding anything, I got to see the current situation first. [Where are Sara and Legend right now?]
I knew these two were in two undeveloped and not properly defended zones.
[Their regions already got enough defences, so don't worry about that]
[I'm not] I lied, [I just want to send more forces to them]
[You should send more forces everywhere! The orders you gave brought much damage already!]
I got that detonating the frontlines using the fifth layer of the star arrays was kind of a blind attack for everyone. Be it my forces or the enemies, both were going to fall under such attack.
Yet I was prepared to receive such losses. If that came at the cost of stopping the enemy in their tracks, then I'd say never say no to such losses.
[I'm going to once I've arrived at the frontlines] I paused before adding, [Did you link the frontlines with portals?]
[We didn't have the chance to do that] she paused for a long minute before adding, [We don't need to do it now either. The frontline and all the regions beyond it will be lost in each zone]
[No, that's not true]
[What do you mean by that?]
[The forces using the star arrays will always use these at the frontline areas] I paused before adding, [The zones they'll clear using the arrays will always be the spots where the new arrays will be activated at]
[This… But we are currently using the star arrays in the existing defences. The forces of these two will still need long hours before arriving at the different frontlines]
[Let them take their time. And when they cleared a spot, let the next wave of soldiers move forward and cross more distance. This way the lost regions will be covered]
[I don't hold much hope for such plan]
I stopped talking with her as I looked at the horizon, [I'm already here. Let me check things out first before telling you what to do]
I closed the chat with her and examined the piece of hell that was now taking the entire line of horizon up front.
I was still miles away from the current frontline. But that frontline was burning fiercely under violent waves of explosions that came from two directions.
From one side, my forces were running fast, heading back to the direction I came from. During my flight here, I was busy thinking about how to solve this problem and didn't care about running for their lives on the ground.
Soldiers would worry about their lives, while leaders and generals should worry about how to win the battle.
And now I had to find a way to solve such a disaster and secure victory for my side.
I watched in silence during the next half an hour. The sounds of explosions kept ranging wildly from out there. I saw the ground tremble and crack, even the sky started to dim and grow reddish black in colour.
It was a very brutal fight! And the other side seemed to use some sort of explosive offensive techniques or weapons to counter my star arrays.