Chapter 108 - 1364-1378

Chapter 1364 Fighting Fiends

The combination I made by my Avengers was enough to block any offence, stop any enemy, and kill anyone standing in their face.

I wasn't worried about losing part of them in such a battle. After all, soldiers were meant to fall in any battle.

My aim for now was focused on trying to find a way to deal with those fiends using my threads. My technique performed by my left hand was weaker than the one used by my right hand.

That was thanks to the dantian already present in my right arm, and my right arm glove.

When I used my technique with my right hand, the threads coming out caused a reaction at last.

The fiends were covered from head to toe with gears. The gears emitted an aura that seemed to work like some sort of protective shield.

It wasn't like the fire surrounding my Lucas or my Lucas II, or even the Avengers V. It was in fact transparent and only appeared half a metre away from their bodies when my threads approached.

The aura stopped my threads in place before. But when I used the technique with my right arm, the threads started to emit sparks of electrical flashes that showed how fierce the clash between the two was.

And slowly my threads started to push their path through the aura shields. Yet the fiends didn't stop in their place and waited for their demise.

For a few moments there, they did nothing. It looked as if what happened just now was beyond what they imagined, and rendered them speechless and quite shocked.

But that only lasted for a few seconds. And then they started to fly fast in circles, trying their best to evade my threads.

If I was on the ground and they were in the sky, then this might work. But they were already entrapped inside my shields, and I was chasing them on my fast chariot.

I had to admit, their speed was indeed scary. They moved like bolts of lightning, flashing from one spot to another.

But my chariot didn't show any point of weakness in the same regard.

If they could move like bolts of lightning, then my chariot acted like it could instantly teleport! They were fast, but they weren't as fast as my chariot.

There was a visible difference in our speeds. And that helped me to keep the sickle over their necks, while my threads kept penetrating through their aura shields.

At the same time, and as I chased down tens of thousands of these fiends, my forces clashed against the enemy.

The first waves that came in contact with the enemy were the warriors led by all my generals.

Each general took a few hundreds of thousands and got to a direction and started the battle. The fiends once knew they were trapped, so they decided to bring us with them.

And so a brutal war started from the first moment, one that the fiends showed how truly scary they were.

Their gears weren't just for protection. Their gears acted like mobile weapons, reminding me of my Avengers.

Their gears separated, turned into deadly weapons that spread chaos and death among my fighters.

At the same time, the warriors on my side had to face great trouble in attacking these fiends. After all, what was coming at them were the gears and not the fiends themselves.

The fiends stationed themselves away from the reach of most of my warriors. And that made my warriors fight desperately against an endless stream of gears, and not real enemies.

It was a very desperate fight, one that my side almost lost half of their forces during the first ten minutes of it.

If this continued, then the entire few million warriors I gave to my generals would be killed. And next it'd be the turn of my generals.

I didn't give a damn about these warriors, but my warriors were something else. I painstakingly worked my ass to get these generals over the past few months of the apocalypse.

I would never allow a single harm to come to my generals no matter what.

"Move out now!" As such, I gave the order for my Avengers to step in and relieve such pressure.

And the moment they joined this battle, the entire situation got flipped in a shocking speed.

The teams I formed proved their worth from the first few minutes of this clash. The Avengers weren't just working in weird tacit understanding, showing a scary level of cooperation between each other, but they also could fly!

The enemy was too focused on taking down my ground troops as I planned. But the extent of such tactics went beyond my wildest expectations.

And that was all thanks to the initial crushing advantage the enemy held over my ground troops.

They thought they could wipe out my forces in less than an hour. And that made them focus more on killing my warriors and trying to hunt down my generals.

So when my Avengers arrived, none reacted at the right time and that cost many their lives.

I watched my Avengers move across the entire vast battlefield like an unstoppable fast train. They swept clean any enemy forces they met. And even when the fiends tried to retreat, pull away enough distance from them and regroup, they got mercilessly hunted down by my Avengers.

The AOE Avengers brought down lots of the retreating fiends, preventing lots of them from getting away.

When the fiends realised that running away wasn't an option, they went totally berserk and fought desperately against my Avengers.

And that slight change in their mindset managed to cause damage to my Avengers elite forces.

The gears of those friends were really killer! They took them off, and arranged them away from them before they added their feathers in the mix.

Just as that demoness said, they could control their feathers and make them either shield or attack. And I saw them use both moves almost at the same time! Quite an impressive race indeed!

Chapter 1365 Analysing The Enemy

They used part of their feathers to form a shield, protecting them from the deadly attacks coming from my Avengers. And the other part moved to giant shaped big swords, axes, and knives that kept taking away my Avengers' lives.

Even with the use of the Avengers I as tanks, they managed to penetrate through their shields and kill many of my Avengers.

Yet that didn't just come without paying a hefty price from these fiends. Even if their feathers worked in tacit cooperation with their gears, the attacks coming from my Avengers were too much to handle.

Especially those AOE and melee Avengers. Both worked to bring down most of the fiends.

Yet seeing those fiends in action made me heave a sigh of relief.

If I didn't take the initiative, take them when they were least prepared, then trying to win them in a fair direct clash would be quite hard.

If I got tens of millions of my Avengers then dealing with these fiends wouldn't be an issue. However I couldn't get my hands over such a number or even part of it.

"It seems later on I'll have to rely on other warriors to stop them…" using the legendary Hescos was an option, but it wasn't enough.

The number of fiends here was around two up to three millions. Against my one million or less Avengers, they got crushed.

Yet that was all thanks to the element of surprise that helped in killing and wounding at least one fourth of their numbers in the early few minutes.

And when they tried to pull the distance away, another one fourth got killed.

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If not for that, these fiends would prove to be much harder to deal with, and my one million Avengers would barely be enough to stop them.

I thought about other situations, where the enemy would be more prepared for my Avengers. They'd try everything first to keep my Avengers busy handling the vanguard troops, before sending the main bulk of their forces to hunt down my Avengers.

Thinking about such a simple and easy to execute tactic made me realise the dangers my precious Avengers would be at.

"I can't let them take the lead anymore," I realised. And despite my earlier plans to use them as the tip of the spear, I decided against that at the moment.

These friends proved to be much stronger than I took them for. And I had to adapt or else the end result would be quite severe.

Luckily for me this battle here would take a few hours to get concluded. During that time, I just focused on three things; trying to crack the defensive shields around these fiends, watch the ongoing fights everywhere and learn more about these fiends' abilities, and finally to find different tactics that could be used in different situations.

If I got to learn something as a fact about these fiends, then in addition to them being strong, they were cunning.

They studied me thoroughly, analysed all the methods I used in my fights, and came up with ways to counter these.

My techniques got negated by these annoying shields, my pillar's shields got stopped by the clouds, my ground forces of soulers and other mighty warriors got nullified by using the aerial terrain here, and finally they stopped my offensive shields' strike back at the portal zones using the weird red shields back then.

Not to mention my teleport devices could be never used in such terrain here. Even with the silver ground formed by my Avengers V terrain changing team, I would never risk establishing such a connection at a temporary land.

Except if the situation went south, enough for me to need more help from my zones, I'd never open a portal to this world over my silver ground.

"Hmm… In addition to their special and deadly gears and feathers, they have such a brutal speed that augments their movements and attacks…"

As I kept chasing those tens of thousands of fiends all over the entire battlefield, I kept analysing the enemy as they were doing the same to me.

"Some have instant teleportation ability, and few have the ability to shield others… They have different abilities then, just like my Avengers…"

The more I looked at them, the more I knew how difficult it was to deal with such an enemy.

They weren't straightforward like the locusts, but they had different abilities like my Avengers and like those Silences.

Unlike the Silences who got their body shape changed according to their type, I wouldn't be able to tell which ability these fiends got until they started to use them.

"Tsk… That makes it harder to deal with them with only my legendary Hescos… Shall I summon dragons then or what?"

I checked my soul points count. During this time, it increased by one billion only, reaching a total of fifty-three billion.

"If I used these to form normal dragons, then I'd get ten million of them. However they'd just act as simple fodders, flying fodders…"

I kept thinking about my earlier idea about merging both dragons with soulers.

The single souler wouldn't cost me any extra. I'd just need to spend soul points to keep them alive every day.

I didn't try to summon soulers before, as I never killed one. But I always had a way out of this, one I just recently discovered.

"I can kill one to gain their soul," this was the solution for such a problem. All the soulers were following my lead, and the reapers as well.

If I just called one over and killed him, which was something I never did before, then I'd store up their souls inside my class soul list.

Like this, I'd be able to summon and merge them with any other soul. However thanks to their unique nature, I knew it'd be slightly higher in price than the normal five thousand.

"If they ended up costing ten thousand per merge, then I'd be able to summon five million by my current soul count…" I was lost in thought before deciding to give such a method a try.

Chapter 1366 Breaking Their Shields At Last

I instantly summoned one of my soulers and one of the reapers randomly before giving them the order to stay still.

I took out my dragon glaive, and with a single swing I killed each.

At last! I got myself souler and reaper souls at last!

I hurriedly opened my soul list and there I found the souler and reaper souls presented at the top ten souls in the list.

The highest soul was the legendary Hescos, followed by the five Avengers souls, then the reapers, and then the fallen gods, and then soulers.

It meant the level of my Avengers souls came below the Hescos and higher than the reapers, fallen gods, and soulers.

That told me about the Avengers race I got. But it also meant the price of the reapers and soulers wasn't going to be as low as I imagined.

"How much will it cost me then?" I opened the selection of forming a soul out of the souler and reaper accordingly.

And both showed the same message that reminded me of the one that once appeared before when I got the fallen gods for the first time.

[You got two options to select from. Please select which option do you want to follow]

[You can pay five thousand souls and form a single souler. The souler you will get will need to consume one soul per day to survive. Failing to fulfil such a condition will take your life as a price]

[You can pay fifty thousand souls and form a completed version of the soulers. These soulers won't need to consume any souls to survive]

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The same two options with the same price tags appeared when I tried to summon my reapers.

That meant I could solve the problem of soulers once and for all. However it also meant if I tried to merge these two souls with dragons, the price might increase beyond the ten thousand mark I estimated previously.

"I have to test this yet," I knew I couldn't get the final answer without testing. So I selected first the souler and dragon souls to see how much I'd have to pay.

[You selected the souler bloodline and dragon bloodline to merge]

[You'll have to pay twenty thousand souls to get this merge done]

[Do you want to proceed?]

"F*cking no!" I instantly tried the merge with the reapers. But I ended up getting the same result.

I finally closed the merge page and decided to wait until my soul points count would hit the one hundred billion mark once again.

At this stage, I'd not care that much about the new price rise. After all, it was going to give me five million new species in the end. Even if this was something not much, it was still enough to make things better for my side in the upcoming battles.

As trying to get new species out of these souls failed, I turned my attention towards my next option; the seven stars race.

They needed stat points to work efficiently like my fallen gods. Yet I knew before even testing that I could use my bones instead.

As for their numbers, then during all this time I ended up having a few billions of them inside my inventory.

And that was enough to make me feel more secure and confident in using them.

I planned initially to use them in the final battle. But right now it proved impossible to avoid using them here.

"At least they can fly," I didn't try to take them out right now. First, this battle didn't need them to join. And second I didn't want the enemy to get triggered by their presence.

And above all, they needed to consume bones and absorb energy to execute their deadly attacks.

I decided to wait till the end of this battle, before sending them out to form a separate army for each general. I'd give each general enough bones to keep these dudes active.

I wouldn't give my dark realm bones to them yet, only the normal grade bones. After all these dudes weren't as brutal as my Avengers, and wouldn't take the same kind of treatment of course.

As I decided all that, I finally got time to focus on the last task in hand, taking down a few of these friends and making them serve me.

I also got their souls, and they came after the soulers, meaning they were still one of the top ten strongest souls I ever got.

If I had no other choice, then I'd try summoning a few of them out. It wouldn't match the speed or the number of forces I could control using my technique, but it was also a viable solution for desperate moments.

The chase kept going on for two more hours, before their shields finally couldn't control my threads or stop them. As a result, the threads finally penetrated through their bodies, and started to control them.

The speed of controlling them was surprisingly fast. In less than ten minutes, all of them were added to my side without any more hiccups.

However, taking them down came just before the end of the entire battle.

I watched while the fiends were now getting beaten down and killed while a few of them were now left in the entire place.

"Surrender and you will live!" I was still quite annoyed that I only got my hands on a few tens of thousands of these fiends after all these hours of running and chasing them around.

There were at least a few hundreds of thousands of the fiends scattered all over the huge battlefield. If they tried to regroup, then they'd pose a great threat to me and my forces.

But they were dispersed. And despite their large number, taking them down wasn't going to be a big problem.

Despite giving them a way out, none took the initiative and knelt down. In the next half an hour, all of them fell on my silver ground, ending up this crazy battle with my victory.

Chapter 1367 The Holy Ones' Bones

"Tsk! At least they didn't kill that much of my Avengers," I looked at the remaining Avengers and heaved a deep sigh of relief.

Out of the eight hundred thousands I sent, only one hundred thousand got killed. And a big part of them fell at the initial clash from these fiends.

"Time to collect my rewards," I didn't dwindle much over such a loss. I knew if I persisted in using them in all the upcoming battles, then the end of them would come quite fast.

I went down to the silver ground where tons of the fiend's dead bodies scattered all down there.

The first clash that happened when I arrived here, the one I couldn't even tell if we were fighting clouds alone or clouds with friends, ended up with zero bodies.

If there were dead bodies, then they'd end up falling freely to the far away ground.

But this battle ended up with all of the killed fiends falling over the silver ground. So it was time for me to add more bones to my collection.

I was curious about what type of bones I'd get. Would it be a dark realm of bones, the same the locusts gave me? Or would I get common bones? What grade and how many of these bones would I get?

However the moment I went to touch the first batch of these dead bodies, I ended up getting distracted by something else.

The gears these fiends wore!

These gears left a deep impression on me. But for some reason, I never thought about getting any of them before.

But when I was in front of the first pile of dead friends' bodies, I couldn't help but notice the large number of intact gears accumulated all over their bodies.

"These should be good stuff, right?" I evilly and greedily grinned, before taking a large number of seven race members. "Go and collect these gears off the dead bodies of these creatures," I pointed around, giving them the order to go and collect the gears from the dead bodies of a few million fiends here.

They instantly started to work, and I also started to do my part. The moment I touched these dead bodies, the turbo mode of my ability got activated and a large number of flashing dots appeared racing towards my arm.

​ I waited for a few minutes before the first attempt was done before I started to check out the newly absorbed bones.

And there I found something new for the first time in a long time.

The dots that passed through my arm weren't that much different than other dots I absorbed before this. So I never expected to see those beautifully shimmering bones inside my inventory.

They were shining in bright lights, starting from white and ending up with orange.

Even when they were inside my inventory, they still kept shining over and that told me how special and much different they were.

My bones never show such signs, not even the dark realm bones.

Seeing the newly added group of bones inside my inventory turned it into some sort of a festival.

I took one out and started to examine its description.

This bone was orange in colour, supposedly the highest grade in all the bones I got from the fiends. When I got it out, I noticed that it was a small version of a femur bone, or a bone that looked like a hammer.

It was all orange in colour, shining brighter than it did when it was inside my inventory. When I held it, I felt like it was still inside my inventory or something.

And the description of this bone left me speechless for quite some time.

[The Holy Ones grade orange bone: Special form of bone that contains immense amount of energy and lots of memories and secrets belonging to the one you obtained the bones from. By using the right method, and having more bones of the same fellow, you can experience everything he lived through]

This… Damn!

First this bone got a separate classification of its own. It was the first time ever to get such a bone related to a single faction or group of races.

And what was that thing about experiencing everything the fellow I got the bones from lived through? Would this also apply to others?

If so… Then damn! However I didn't get the right method to do such a thing. I had zero clue about what I should do to get such memories.

Would this be an ability of my future soul class or what? If so, then… Damn! That was quite a fierce ability!

If this ability applied over the rest of bones, then I couldn't simply lend these bones to my warriors and soldiers, letting them experience what the elites of any race I killed lived through.

It was like saving time for them to get stronger and experienced. It was like a cheat code for me to train a hellish force, hellish armies, formed entirely of elites, without the need to spend them in endless battles or go through vigorous training.

It's just the right solution for everything I struggled to solve so far! But that was on the premise that my class would grant me such ability one day.

"Tsk, if my class didn't, then I'd spend a lot to get my hands on the right method," I decided, taking this step as a must to accomplish my goal of mine.

I held the miniature version of this bone in my hand, fiddled with it for a little time before storing it back.

Whatever this memory thing was, it was something for the future. As for now, I'd keep them stored and wouldn't dare to use them unless I was in a desperate situation to do so.

These bones were different, and that meant they got much more energy inside. I thought about trying to activate one in the same way I learnt before.

However I didn't try this out now. I had to continue gathering these bones first.

Chapter 1368 Treasure Chests!

As I knew I was getting a new breed of bones, my excitement grew to a new level. I kept taking a few bones out from time to time and checked things about them.

The highest I ever got was the purple and orange grade bones. As for the lower ranks, I also got many of them.

As for the number of bones, I noticed that each fiend gave me at least one hundred different types of bones.

That meant by the end of collecting bones from here, I'd get at least hundreds of millions of bones, if not a billion.

During my collecting spree, the generals amassed their remaining warriors and came to see me.

However as they found me busy handling the bone issue, they didn't dare to interrupt me. My old friends used to see me do such a thing from time to time after the end of any battle.

As for the new generals, they kept whispering about what I was doing. And I didn't care about what they thought about me. I felt like I was standing in the middle of a huge treasure trove at this moment.

"What shall we do until you get over this?" from the side, a single dude wasn't patient at all to wait for me to finish.

It was that jerk!

"Go and explore the world down below," I shouted, "go around to the end of this silver ground. Try to spot any gathering of enemy forces and see what type of forces they got there."

"Cool!" The jumper didn't issue any mean or rude comment to him like usual. Instead he simply moved with the remaining few warriors he got, and others followed his suit.

I needed them to see through the enemy plans down below, explore the world underneath, and get an idea about what the hell this world was like.

I was curious about the current state of this world, but I had far more important tasks at hand right now.

After collecting the bones for two straight hours, jumping all over the wide battlefield, I finally had time to finish another task… Examining the mountains of gears I gained from these dudes.

My loyal warriors gathered all the gear during these two hours, piled them up in huge mountain-like gatherings, and they waited for me to arrive and check them out.

The gears were all huge in size, enough to arm up my giant warriors like dragons, bulltors, Hescos, and even soulers.

I held what should be an arm guard gear and started examining it.

[The Holy Ones arm guard blue frost grade gear: A gear that was designed and forged at the grand ancestral forging lands of the Holy Ones. They have five different skills…]

I read through the long description of this gear, and found out that these five skills were very brutal. All of them targeted defence, by creating a layer of aura around the arm, protecting it from any incoming attack.

It worked slightly like my Avengers and pillar's shield in the concept of absorbing part of the incoming attack and using it to replenish the lost energy.

This gear used the warrior's energy to get its five skills activated. At the same time, the first skill was like a passive skill that didn't require any form of energy to get activated.

However there was a catch… This piece of gear was part of a set. And without wearing at least three parts of the same set, then these skills wouldn't work except for the first skill.

It was a good concept and I admired the blacksmith skills of those who made it. I went through other parts around, and unluckily all of them belonged to different sets of gears and pieces.

They all were forged by the same people at the same place. After going through at least a hundred different gears, I got tired and bored.

First I couldn't personally use any of this. And second I had to find and match the different gears together in unified sets. And such a task required tons of time and effort, a thing I couldn't afford to do right now.

"I'll store them for later," but they were a great thing without doubt. So even if I didn't make use of them here, I'd just store them for the time I'd return back and try to see if my warriors and armies could use them.

However the moment I started storing them inside my inventory, I noticed something new happened.

When I randomly checked my inventory out of habit, I saw that each set of gears got stored together, forming a miniature image of gears gathered up as if they were a big suit waiting to be worn.

And when I checked closer and with more attention, I noticed that each slot had a number next to it, one that kept growing without pause.

I saw lots of sets stored inside, and more were still getting added. There were still a few incomplete sets. And that meant there were still missing pieces I didn't store up yet, or these were the damaged gears from that battle.

Seeing this made me smile, then laugh. Damn this system! Sometimes it worked in an unreliable way, and other times it worked as my best buddy and friend!

Right now this little help saved me tons of effort and time, and made me able to arm up my warriors right away without the need to do anything or wait for anyone to help.

Realising this, I didn't stop my hands and kept jumping around, storing up everything. When I finished, I took almost one hour to do so, and the end result made me grin.

"This… Hahahaha! I want friends! I want to fight those treasure chests flying in the air, hahahaha!"

I first didn't like fighting these hard to deal with race. However after getting my bones, my gears, and even gaining tens of thousands of them under my wing made me desire to battle them more.

Chapter 1369 Testing The Sets On Lucas

I looked again inside my inventory and could see millions of sets waiting for my warriors to use. There were still missing pieces at many sets, but that didn't affect my mood.

All these gains came from just a single battle. And I was sure much more would come up later on.

These gears weren't just used for defence. Few parts of each set were used to augment speed, others augment strength, and the rest were used like weapons.

All of these gears had the skill to be separated and be remotely controlled, ending up with exploding up and bringing much damage to a wide area.

However the main catch here lies in the amount of energy used to do so. The more energy poured into them, the stronger the explosion would be.

That made me think carefully about whom I should arm these sets with first.

My seven star race got their suits already. Of course adding such gears to them would make them much stronger, but not giving them these gears wouldn't be a problem as well.

In fact I thought about using these gears for another type of my warriors, ones that I couldn't use at the moment.

"At least half of these sets have wings and gears that can enable any race or warriors to fly…" my eyes shone brightly as I decided on which type of my warriors I'd use these.

What was the biggest advantage of the enemy? All of them could fly! And most of my warriors couldn't!

"Lucas… Take these sets and arm up your army with," I instantly summoned the souler general. He was supposed to lead a zone out there. However before my departure, the number of zones under fire was reduced to nine.

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So taking him out wasn't going to affect anything. Instead I wanted him right here to do this important task for me.

I wanted to give my soulers the ability to fly! Adding these sets of gears to them would arm up at least two million of them. And in return, they'd be able to fly, defend themselves pretty damn well, and even get a scary boost in their strength and damage.

I'd turn my scary soulers much scarier using these gears. And when I recalled the tens of millions I got from Silverlining inside my inventory, I couldn't help but crave for more battles with these fiends.

Giving these gears to another race wouldn't be as giving them to my soulers and reapers. Not to mention I'd save tons of my soul points this way.

If I wanted, I could use the remaining half of sets which didn't have the flying aiding gears to my dragons. I could summon ten million of my dragons and arm them, adding a formidable defensive and offensive abilities.

Having such two forces lined up and working together was just like a dream to me that came true at last.

"Lord… These…"

"Just try them out first," I just took him out and let him try out one set of gears.

I couldn't see his body clearly from that orange fire surrounding him. However I knew his body was giant enough to wear these gears.

All the soulers were giant dudes.

Standing on the side and watching him take in the set gears one by one, I could hear clicking and clanging sounds coming from his body.

The gears suited his body it seemed. And the moment he wore the set, I felt like his aura changed and got a boost.

"These are good… But…" I knew what he wanted to say but couldn't express it in words.

"Here," I simply waved my arm and took out a bunch of dark realm bones, "try absorbing these and see if you can activate the powers inside these gears."

I didn't want him to just become stronger, I wanted him to execute the skills attached to the gears, start to fly and use the different offensive and defensive tricks of this set.

"Thanks lord…" he didn't say much, accepting the one hundred pieces of green grade bones I took out, which were the lowest grade I had right now inside my inventory.

The moment he received these, they got engulfed with his orange power, and ended up turning into dust.

Then something that least could be described as a miniature nuclear explosion erupted from his orange fire!

The fire shone brightly from one spot, before a violent shockwave erupted. I got pushed back for half a mile before I stopped. And when I raised my head to look at Lucas, I found him like an orange sun in the middle of the sky.

He was flying! At last my soulers got the ability to fly! Hahahaha! Thanks fiends, you are truly generous.

But the changes didn't stop there. For the first time ever since getting Lucas, I finally saw that dude's body.

To be more precise, his body swelled and grew fast to become much bigger than before. I saw his bulging muscles, tough chest, and sturdy and damn serious looking face for a brief second before everything got covered up again with much denser and wilder orange fire.

If his fire looked like a mighty wave that never stopped raging, then this time it felt like a sea of fire was surrounding him. That dude turned himself into a blazing sun in the middle of the sky, in everything that word meant.

If Lucas looked like a beast before, then right now he was like a ferocious beast, one that would eat you up and turn you into shreds.

I didn't know what or how many skills he activated, but if I got an army of one tenth of this strength, then I'd be unstoppable!

"Come down here," I shouted and he instantly moved. Yet it looked like he flashed and teleported himself here, not just flying at high speed towards me.

"Lord… Thanks for your generosity," he knelt down, controlled his orange fire, and made sure it wouldn't get out of a ring of five metres around his body.

Chapter 1370 [Bonus Chapter] Exploring The Fiends' World

That made me see how huge he became. This dude was now at least fifteen metres in height, and I couldn't tell how truly big he was with all this orange fire around him.

"Perfect!" That was the first thing that popped in my mind the moment I was jolted awake from his awe inspiring presence, "if I can turn all of your kin into formidable beings like yourself… Damn!"

I clenched both fists and Lucas said in response:

"Lord is humble. It's all thanks to the lord's generous gifts and support."

"I'll leave this task over to you then," I started to take the sets of gears in order. I took the same batch of gears to the same location. And as they were recognised as a set by the system, they appeared like a single entity, floating like surrounding an imaginary person inside, while being suspended in midair.

"I will do my best," Lucas knelt again and I simply waved my hand, and tons of the strengthened soulers and reapers appeared in batches.

My long dream of a brutal army was now starting to take shape.

And now all that remained was for me to find more of these fiends, and start hunting them down.

I didn't want to control them, I wanted to kill them all! I wanted their bones and gears.

So the next step was for me to move towards the edge of my silver ground, and start exploring the world down below.

I already gave such a task to my generals. However as I got done from everything quite fast, it was time for me to move on and see things by myself.

I took my chariot, left behind enough green grade bones for this army's need.

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I took close to two million sets of gears, and so I matched this with the number of soulers and reapers I took out.

I thought that crossing the entire silver ground wouldn't take more than ten minutes with my chariot's ultimate speed. However in the end it took me one and half hours to reach the nearest edge.

I didn't know how, but the silver ground here seemed to grow beyond what I expected. And that came just from a single terrain changing Avenger warrior.

If I used the rest, then would I really be able to cover up this entire world with my silver ground? Or would I cover half of it?

Just thinking about this was insane!

But the moment I reached the edge, I couldn't help but frown!

I knew we were high in the air, but never thought we'd be this high! I could only see the ground like I was watching it from deep space!

There was a mountainous range, one that looked like small pyramid shaped protrusions on the ground.

When I used my Hawk Eye skill, things got a little better. But the distance was so far away that even with the skill that enabled me to see through tens of miles away, I couldn't still see the ground clearly.

"There are strange brown dots on the ground… Are these the gathering places of the locusts? Or are they the ground bases of that race?"

I couldn't tell. And I now realised why I didn't receive a single intel from any of my generals.

They didn't inform me about anything because they didn't get to see anything at all in much detail.

[Stay put and don't leave here] I sent it to Isac before controlling my chariot and letting it fall.

If I couldn't see anything from here thanks to the high altitude, then I'd simply cut down this distance and control my chariot to go towards the ground.

At this moment, I didn't fear anything. Be it the fiends, the locusts, or even the Silences… Nothing could stand in front of me with all these formidable warriors on my side.

So I didn't even put any danger in my eyes and went directly towards the ground. My chariot didn't need to do anything, as it simply fell on a growing pace towards the bottom.

I kept using my Hawk Eye skill, focusing on the ground underneath until I reached a spot where I could clearly make things out down there.

I controlled my chariot and started to slowly inspect the ground. The more I fell, the smaller the area I could see.

But even so, I could now see for hundreds of miles around without any difficulty. Of course I couldn't see the details except at a radius of almost fifty miles below me, but it didn't matter much.

I inspected this area thoroughly for half an hour, made sure that what I thought earlier of black dots were just bases of the enemy.

Tons of forces assembled around each base, and slowly I started to see a general pattern in their arrangement.

I thought I'd see only ground forces down there, but I saw lots of friends as well. I could tell that the number of fiends wasn't any lower than those of Silences and locusts.

The more bases I saw, the more I frowned.

The number of bases in the fifty mile radius area I could clearly see wasn't more than ten bases. That meant each base would have an area of five miles radius to control.

It wasn't that much actually, but what was too much were the number of forces down there. After watching for half an hour, I felt like there was no ground and everything down there was covered in a layer of races, nothing else!

The forces seemed to cover everything up, and the bases were just placed there later on. After taking my time in asserting things here, I started to fly around, take a much thorough look over this region.

It was either we were lucky enough to fall at such a high densely packed area of bases and forces, or the enemy took his time here in this world and transformed it entirely into a grand fortress.

I kept flying for a few hours, and everything I saw wasn't that much different than what I initially saw.

Chapter 1371 Getting Attacked

At first, I was flying while the sky was replaced with my silver ground. But later on, and after flying for three hours, I finally reached a place where the normal sky existed.

After flying for two more hours under the normal sky, I finally reached the conclusion that this entire planet was a grand fortress filled with endless enemies.

I never met something like the weird clouds that entrapped us when we first arrived here. And that meant no matter what these clouds were, they got formed by the fiends and not naturally present.

But I never saw such an effect from any skill in all the gears I scanned. Of course there was simply too much to scan, but I felt like this wasn't that simple.

It reminded me of the artefacts only the elites of elites would have in my universe.

As the world turned out to be in this condition, and the fiends got themselves mixed up with the other two races at such bases down below, then what should I do about them?

Just when I was wondering about this, I felt like the world around me changed. Thick bellows of fog started to swirl and gather up everywhere out of nowhere. And in the span of few breaths, the familiar old cloud scene resurfaced again in front of my eyes.

"You should have stayed there at that silver sorcery you summoned!" and just when I was checking what was going on, a very thunderous booming voice erupted, as if it was coming from everywhere.

"And you should have stayed down there and not come out like this," I laughed in response, and with a simple wave of my hand, I summoned a single Avenger.

It was the Avenger V. I could tell which one of those belonged to any unit I selected if they were arranged in front of my eyes. However as I just randomly called on back before summoning him, I couldn't control which unit he belonged to.

And that didn't matter! All the Avengers V could do any trick once I asked them for it!

"Scatter the silver dirt over the entire sky," I said in a vicious tone, "let me show this arrogant dude what it is like to try and hunt me down!"

"Don't try to use any cheap tricks, you are tens of miles away from your forces and…"

*Fwoosh!*

Just before that mysterious dude would complete his words, the entire world shook and in the next second the silver beams of light appeared and penetrated through these clouds.

Did he think I couldn't summon my forces here? What a funny dude he was!

"Come out!" and just as the silver particles were getting denser and forming the vast silver ground around, I took out my soulers and let them get in shape under the leadership of Lucas.

If they thought for a second that they got me trapped all alone here then I had the obligation to correct their mistake with actions.

The enemy seemed to tag along and keep an eye over me for a long time. I could tell that from the confidence that dude spoke with.

"Let's hope you brought tons of your race here," this was something I prayed would happen. Just fighting a few millions gave me tons of rewards. So if I fought against ten million or more, I'd consider sparing that dude's life once.

"Lord… Your orders…" Lucas knelt in front of the grand number of soules who appeared standing on the silver particles.

However I knew they weren't! The ground didn't take form yet, and thus they were appearing like that thanks to their gears.

This simple trick would trick even the experienced eyes of the enemy. With all the fire that wrapped their bodies, the enemy wouldn't see through and detect their gears.

If they did, I couldn't imagine what kind of shock they'd have.

"Even if you called part of your forces here, these couple of millions wouldn't be able to stop the army I brought to kill you!"

Yes! He brought a large army! Hahahaha! I tried my best to control myself from laughing in excitement and did a great effort to show a look of bitterness and helplessness.

The next moment, the silver ground took a solid form. Then I noticed the clouds swirling once more, rearranging themselves, condensing the parts above the silver ground.

"Go and take these things down," I didn't hurry to order any of my soulers to do so. Instead, I took out all my fallen gods and let them work again to devastate these clouds.

[We heard loud boomings coming from the distance… Is that you? Do you need help?]

And just after a few minutes of the start of this clash, Isac sent this message over. I realised that the sounds of this battle reached their ears, and they couldn't think of anyone else but me to do such a ruckus.

[Stay put! I can handle this] I didn't even think about asking them for help. Instead, I thought about a way to increase my gains from this battle.

The enemy had great confidence in himself. He'd never think I salvaged their gears and made the best use of them.

If I used my soulers from the start, then the enemy would get scared and might even run away.

When I thought about such a possibility, I couldn't help but feel a little panic. I shouldn't scare the cat away, right?

So I started to think about how I should run this battle. I didn't want things to end up with big losses, and instead I should find a good way to lure the enemy to bring more forces here.

To do such a thing, I had to exert a balance over the total battle, one that would make the enemy feel he was this close from crushing me but he wasn't.

Having such a feeling would make the enemy try his best to crush me, call off more forces here to try and wipe me out.

Chapter 1372 Fighting Fiends

To do so, I shouldn't rush things out and send my soulers out. I stood in my place motionless for long minutes while the entire world was filled with tons of explosive noises.

My fallen gods were tearing everything apart, creating gaps all over the dense cloud layer. However no matter how many holes they created, the clouds still looked like an immovable mountain.

"Wait a second… I don't need to try and wipe out the entire cloud layer…" it suddenly hit me. Back at that battle from earlier, I was forced to kill my way through everything as this was my entry to this world.

But right now I don't need to do any of this. In fact, it was silly to think this way.

"Come back," I called back all the soulers I summoned. I didn't leave my fallen gods back there as well and called them back before summoning them again.

"Create a path in front of us, enough for my chariot to pass through," I declared my intentions while a plan took shape in my mind.

The next few minutes, the fallen gods concentrated all their firepower over a narrow area. It was supposed to be an easy task to do. However it proved otherwise.

As I recalled my forces and focused on a single point, the enemy did the same. More clouds swirled and moved, joining others at this spot and reinforced the entire structure.

So it took roughly ten minutes for my warriors to create an enough gap for my chariot to pass through.

I didn't even stand a single moment and moved my chariot in its full speed towards the outside.

During these minutes, I wasn't just standing idle and watching what was going on. I kept repeating the same words over and over until I lost count of how many I said!

"Thundering Might!"

It was the skill related to my pillar. And I planned to use my concentrated shields to prevent the escape of the enemy.

This would be the first step in my grand plan.

And the moment I passed through that hole like a bullet, the hole closed back as more clouds came in and filled that defect. But it was already too late.

*Boom!*

The moment my chariot came out, a fierce explosion erupted before many followed. The enemy didn't even wait to test me, and used everything in their capabilities to bring me down.

Yet everything they threw at me got stopped by my sturdy chariot's shield.

"Thundering Might!" I didn't even care to spare such a usual thing at a glance and started to use my shield skill again and again.

At the same time, I kept moving my chariot in a zigzag course, not caring about anything else.

"Don't bother to try and escape, we already got this entire zone locked down!" and after ten minutes of doing so, the same voice came again but this time it looked as if it was coming from a single direction.

It wasn't as grand or scary as before, which told me that he was the one who casted such cloud ability here in the first place.

"Humph! Let me see how you plan to stop me!" and even if I knew he was the one playing within my fingers, I didn't show any of that on my face or tone.

Instead I tried to look like a ferocious beast that was about to get cornered.

"I'll show you what true might mean then…" and just as he said that, the world around me changed for the second time.

Well, that dude looked more like a diamond grade treasure chest to my eyes or something like that!

He used another artefact, one that made the entire world turn into an inferno or a place of hell.

The sky changed and the world turned all red. I saw the world burn under blazing red fire, one that looked as if it was forming a grand sea around my chariot.

I didn't know if he could control such an ability to not harm his allies and soldiers, or if they were fine just because of the gears. Either way, the fire just kept coming at my chariot's shield, rapidly consuming its energy reserves.

At the same time, the old explosions kept coming and banging all over my chariot. And that meant this fire wasn't deadly or even that harmful to these dudes.

"Tsk… You are really strong," I muttered, faking my weakness and fear. This kind of fire wasn't enough to bring my chariot's shield down.

Even if it was strong enough to deplete the energy reserves like running water, they weren't enough to force me to add more energy crystals to my chariot's furnace.

The energy reserves before were enough to sustain the consumption of my chariot's shield for months. But with this fire and explosions, the shield could last for half a month at most.

That made me not worry at all about my chariot's safety, and thus mine. Even if the enemy had another card up his sleeve, some sort of deadly penetrative weapon to target my chariot, I was still able to add more energy crystals to support the shield.

​ So my only focus now was over the next step of my plan. I moved for many minutes and used countless shield skills to count! I was sure now that the enemy forces would be totally encompassed inside my merged large number of shields.

And now it was time for the second phase of my plan!

*Rumble!*

The shields would expand to cover miles, tens of miles even. But for some reason, I had the feeling that the shields didn't cover up all of the enemy forces and trapped them inside.

And so, I used the offensive attack of my shields. And as I expected, a mighty rumbling occurred before a fierce wave erupted, expanding for tens of miles in seconds, killing tons of these fiends.

"Damn you! Do you think you can get out by just killing those far away from you? I'll make sure to torture you personally after cracking that damn shield open!"

Chapter 1373 Using A New Move

As the rumbling noises kept coming from far away, adding a scary touch to the background of this battle, the voice of that fiend leader came again.

This time he wasn't that confident like before, and didn't act arrogant. Instead he showed a tinge of worry, and tons of anger.

And that was where I wanted him to be!

Rage was the nemesis of rationally decisions and logic planning. If he fell into my anger trap like this, then it'd be just the success of my plan.

That attack would wipe out all the far away forces, not the ones closest to me. He got a point at saying that. However that also meant there would be no reinforcements coming for a long time.

And now he was the one entrapped inside my shields, getting ready to be outplayed with my next move.

But I was patient to not use my soulers and reapers right now.

"Thundering Might!"

Even if that dude used his offensive fire to smash over my chariot's shield, he underestimated my pillar's shield's real power.

My shields would pass through any living thing and expand. But in front of attacks and something like this fire, it worked fiercely against it, and pushed that fire back while slowly expanding outwards.

And I didn't just create one shield, but many until that fire got pushed all the way for miles away.

Then it came down to my next move!

"Let's go and fight together," I took out a huge number of warriors, warriors who got their stat points maxed. The number I took was in millions, and I kept taking more until I got ten million at least.

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"Pathetic! Do you think they can stop us?" and just as my warriors started to take their positions, endless deadly explosions rang all over the place.

The fiends used their feathers and gears. But from what I could see, they learnt their past lesson, kept themselves slightly away from the reach of my warriors.

They used their far ranged attacks while keeping themselves at a good distance away. That was indeed a lethal strike to my army of warriors. However that also meant the enemy was totally focusing on dealing with my warriors.

I took these out to test something, and it turned out that dude wasn't able to use his cloud or fire supreme attacks whenever he wanted.

Or else he'd simply reuse any of these two, or the two together, to wipe out my army of warriors in a few breaths.

However he simply didn't use any of that and let his forces join the battle personally. And that meant he was unable to use these two attacks.

Did he need time to charge these attacks up again or what? If so, then it was best for me to find that dude and give him a kiss on the head before sending him to his grave.

But where was he?

The span of this battle was too vast for me to scan normally. Not to mention there were now two layers of shields, separated from each other by a ferocious sea of fire.

If I tried to go out there and look for him, I'd be endangered again by this fire. Not to mention I needed to do something here first.

"Let me show you what true might is…" I threw his previous words back at his face before taking something out.

It was one of the artefacts I recently acquired, one that perfectly suited this kind of situation.

A weird looking chess board appeared in my hand and next I took out tons of bones and scattered them on the ground.

This was the gravity changing artefact, the one I got from those Hescos paragons from before.

I didn't hesitate and absorbed the tons of bones, feeling the excruciating pain next assaulting my body.

I shifted all this towards the board, and directed all the energy towards the red diagonally arranged squares.

The moment the energy entered the board, all the red squares flared up and a huge amount of gravity appeared next.

Didn't that dude think his forces were invincible because they could fly and mine couldn't? Then what about changing the gravity then? What would he do about that?

*Rumble!*

The world all around changed and rumbled, before the gravity started to kick in. tons of flying fiends started to fall, and I didn't plan to hold back my hands or power even when all the fiends fell to the ground.

I kept exerting more power, increasing the gravity even more to the extent that everyone standing here was already pressured on the ground, including my forces.

"Idiot! You have such a weapon to take down not only your enemies but also your forces! How do you expect them to fight? How do you expect to kill us? This gravity sucks, but it's far from enough to smash our holy bodies."

"Then watch this…" I knew he got a point there, and I didn't just use this board without proper calculation.

I forced even my warriors to the ground, alongside the fiends. None was able to move a finger except for me, and that was thanks to my chariot's shield.

Yet even my chariot couldn't help but fall to the ground eventually under such immense pressure.

"Hahahaha! Even your mighty chariot fell, hahahaha!" and when my chariot touched the ground, that dude seemed to find it amusing.

Yet from his words I felt like he wasn't getting affected by my gravity, which was something quite alarming.

I exerted all this energy not just to increase the magnitude of the gravity, but also to widen the area covered by my artefact's effect.

Right now I was quite sure the artefact's range exceeded even the outer shield. Even that sea of fire started to clear out, as all the fire was pressured to the ground like anything else.

And yet that dude wasn't affected, and that was something I couldn't get the heads or tails about it yet.

Chapter 1374 His Decision

But that didn't make me hesitate to take another artefact out and instantly use it.

It was a tripod, and when I gushed my energy inside it, it started to shine and buzz, releasing massive waves of energy around.

This was another artefact I got before, one that could boost the strength of my forces.

If gravity was such domineering power, then to counter it my forces needed much equal or even more domineering power.

As the two artefacts were powered by my energy, the one I got from my bones at this moment, so it was easy for me to achieve such balance.

I left the amount of energy gushing out through my left hand holding that board stable and fixed, while delivering everything else towards my right hand.

From the start, my right hand would show a change to the energy passing through it than my left hand. Even when using my techniques, the ones executed by my right hand were much stronger than those executed by the left.

And that was why I assigned the tripod to be held by my right hand. And as the tripod kept shining and buzzing, more waves of energy kept coming out from it, expanding all over the area around, covering up my entire forces.

In the first few minutes, nothing happened. But slowly I could see my forces stand up from the ground, straighten their backs, raise up their arms, and then start to move.

"Kill!" I simply muttered this simple word, and then the entire world got dyed by the blood of those friends.

"F*ck you!" and just as my tripod augmented everything on my side, my chariot started to regain its former power and prestige, rising up slowly in the air, while the enraged voice of that dude came from far away.

He was a fast runner indeed. From the tone and direction of his uncontrollable shout, I guessed he was far away from this place already.

Tsk! I thought he'd stick around and wait to see me fall. But for a reason, that dude acted in great caution, and didn't stay here for a single second after executing his fire attack.

I hate fighting against vigilant foes!

But even if he ran away, right now his forces were facing such risk. I planned everything so it'd end up this way.

If he decided to keep his hands away then all his forces here would get killed and I'd get away unscathed. Yet he could see that I was struggling against my own technique, and that meant one thing.

I couldn't keep such a thing going on for too long! That was the idea I wanted to insert inside his mind, and I planned to make it more believable by a few acts later on if he decided to follow through with my plan.

And so it was now his turn to make a choice. Should he let such a golden chance slip by or he'd act brave and come to hunt me down with everything he got?

If I left the outer area unblocked with my shields, then he might have suspected something. That was why I reinforced this place with my shields in the first place. And that was why using shields was my first step.

And I ended up having two layers of shields and not just one.

If I thought such shields would stop him from sending troops in then he'd not be worthy to be my opponent. He already found a way out and escaped my shield entrapment.

That meant he got something up his sleeve to use and bypass the blockade of my shields. Of course such a thing would be on the same level of my artefacts, and that meant he had to pay a price to use it.

pAn,Da n<0,>v,e1 And it would be better if he had to pay a great price to let his forces in. this way he'd end up being weakened, and wouldn't be able to use any of his two annoying techniques anytime soon.

I didn't fear that fire, but the clouds. They were enough to buy his forces precious minutes to run away from their demise and my trap, regroup and come again later on or try to escape.

I didn't want to see my sheep run away just when it was time to reap their wool. So I hoped he'd end up diverting most of his energy to bring his forces here.

That if he decided to do that in the first place.

And so it came down to waiting for his response, which didn't take longer than half an hour to come.

During this period, my forces were killing him without any mercy. I kept gushing all the energy I absorbed from the bones into the two artefacts I held, while adding more bones if part of the old ones got depleted.

I wouldn't allow for the enemy to catch his breath even for one second!

And then a loud rumble appeared.

It came first from one direction, far away where my outer shield was. Then another came, and another, and their noises became much louder and getting closer.

I didn't need to be out there to see what was going on. Huge tunnels were formed in between my shields, forcing the shields to open paths for lots of enemies to arrive.

However that wasn't distressing, as these holes were short span and didn't live for longer than one minute.

Then these holes would get closed while others would open up.

"So you decided to fight," I felt real excitement when I noticed this. The enemy started to penetrate the two shield layers, adding new blood to this carnage.

Of course the enemy didn't do that out of impulse. It was clear that I was struggling to keep the energy pouring out. And during the past half an hour, I slowed down the speed of replenishing my bones, giving my forces a little headache from time to time.

Chapter 1375 Playing Weak

These little details didn't miss the keen eyes of the enemy, and tricked him to decide to send more troops here.

Even if my way was overbearing, I still had trouble keeping it going for a long time.

And that is what I tried to show using such small and little details.

I didn't aim towards showing this off quite clearly, or else that dude would suspect my actions. Such a cautious person was so damn hard to deal with!

I had to show him that I was struggling to keep my technique running while trying my best for him to not realise that. And he indeed fell so damn deep inside my trap.

Seeing the large number of fiends appearing out from the holes made my heart palpitate. All of these… All of them were simply walking treasure chests in my eyes.

I didn't see people flying out of these holes before getting smashed hard against my brutal artefact's effect, but valuable bones and priceless gears flying with wings!

Bring more! Send everything you could!

As he already fell, I didn't hesitate to give him a push with all my might.

During the next hour, I showed many frowns on my face while struggling to keep up with the current consumption rate.

I even cut off the energy supply for the gravity artefact on a few occasions, breaks that didn't last more than a few seconds before I returned the energy running towards the board I held.

This resulted in the enemy forces regaining their composure for brief seconds, flying and running, and even fighting back against my warriors on many occasions.

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I didn't care that much for the losses on my side. I did that to fool my enemy, and soon enough the results showed that it was worth the trouble.

The enemy increased the number of holes he created, and sent much more fiends towards the inside.

And now there was a single flow in this plan… There was no more space!

The fiends were now lying on top of each other, so close from crushing their peers to death under their weight.

At some places near the holes, there were many layers of these fiends falling on top of each other!

"Tsk! I have to increase the number of shields again," I frowned when I thought about this. And this time my frown was genuine and real.

If I wanted to cast more shields, then I had to hold my pillar. And that meant I had to stop using one of the two artefacts I was holding with both hands at the moment.

Why the hell didn't I have more than two arms? There were many races who had many pairs of hands and legs in the universe! And right now I couldn't help but envy them for that!

If I had to choose, then I'd select the board. But to do so, I had to put out a show.

I waited till almost half of my bones got consumed. By then, the amount of energy gushing into my body got halved, and that insane pressure reduced.

It was time then…

"Ahhh!" I suddenly screamed, threw away that board on the ground of my chariot like it was a cursed item or something.

I put on a struggling expression on my face and the next instant I replaced it with fear.

I jumped over to catch my board, yet again I screamed the moment I did so. I frowned, looked at the board, then the world around, then the board again.

"Tsk!" I bitterly smiled, while inwardly was laughing to my heart's content. I hoped my little act wouldn't get seen through.

I looked again at the world, while putting a struggling expression and hesitation. Then I took out my pillar, and started to execute my shield skill over and over without a moment of pause.

Hopefully this little act of mine would fool him, making him see this as an opportunity to send more friends here.

The moment my board's gravity was negated, the fiends on the ground stood up fast. Then a brutal fight erupted the next moment.

​ The number of fiends here was already too much for my forces. So I took out lots of warriors, while flying around, trying to form more shields.

"Time to get this fire killed," The fiends weren't the only ones who got freed, that fire was as well.

The fire raged wild and returned to its berserk state. But there was a way to put it down once and for all.

I activated the offensive attack of my shields. During all this time, the shields suffered tons of damage coming from this fire.

Even if it got crushed to the ground by my board's insane gravity, the fire kept attacking and harming my shields.

The moment I released the attack from my shields two layers, a bright light appeared and blinded my sight. This came at the intense moment when everyone was fighting for their lives.

I couldn't tell what was going on anymore, and for sure the enemy couldn't. This kind of attack would take at least ten minutes before it'd die down. So I kept using my skill without pause for almost eight minutes.

And then I put away my pillar, scattered tons of bones around, and held the board on the ground before activating the gravity effect again.

During such chaos, it was hard for the enemy to see through anything. I just hoped that dude would have a suitable counter for my shields' deadly attack.

Even if he didn't, the end result would be the same for me. I'd just have to wait for the latter after the end of the battle, go out there and gather up the dead bodies of those friends outside the shields.

Or perhaps it'd be better to secure my loot and keep using the same tactic from time to time.

After the passage of almost fifteen minutes, the blinding light all receded and the world around appeared at last.

Chapter 1376 It's Futile To Fight Me With Numbers!

And what I saw made me smile despite trying not to.

The fire got extinguished, and the two layers of shields merged together. This just didn't add more lands to me, but also helped in expanding the outer shield zone outside for miles.

If before the space was limited and the fiends were piled over each other, then right now the place could accommodate too many folds of such fiends.

Not to mention during the time I stopped using my board, the fiends fought desperately against my warriors. The two sides suffered great losses. But I didn't care at all about my warriors.

If I lost even all of them, then I'd simply summon more. And that was exactly what I did here.

As my board got into action, the fiends were now bound to the ground once more. As for my forces, they first got suppressed before they slowly started to adapt.

And then another wave of brutal killing started. As for that dude, he seemed to lack any way to defend most of his forces against my deadly shield strike.

Few holes kept gushing out fiends inside for almost an hour before all the holes started to get busy again.

Seeing such a stream of walking treasure chests towards me made my heart throb fiercely while I exerted great control over my expression to not show such excitement.

This was simply great! I estimated to have tens of millions of sets of gears out of this battle alone. Not to mention the endless number of bones.

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I kept repeating the same move once every two hours, and slowly started to decrease the time interval to one hour after two days.

This battle kept raging on for an entire week. By the end of this week, the time interval was as low as once per half an hour.

The number of shields I summoned was beyond count right now. The amount of ground I controlled increased by many folds, adding more space to accommodate more fiends.

During this time, Isac sent a distressing message about the changes that started to happen at the ground back there. I simply gave her the order to ask any of my Avengers V to replenish the ground ability again. And I even asked her to start adding more ground and come closer to the direction of the big noises.

After one week, I felt it was enough. I planned to put an end to such a long battle, kill the enemy and claim my victory.

During this time, the enemy never stopped sending out his fiends. He even tried to stop my shields and bring them down by using that fire and even the cloud abilities at least five times in this period.

I used the attacks of fire to light the spark of my shields' fierce attacks. Even if the clouds wouldn't trigger that strike, I waited for a day or two before releasing the offensive skill.

I waited each time for the fire to be used and left enough time for it to hit my shields and accumulate damage there.

One time that dude seemed to grow impatient and came here in person. He used the fire skill all over the place, and that made me lose almost all of my warriors.

I simply countered it by stopping my board artefact, then used my pillars to form another layer of shields.

Then after two days of doing so, I activated the berserk attack skill of my shields, exterminating the fire down and merging the two layers of shields once again.

When the enemy realised this was a futile endeavour, he didn't use such a method again. Or perhaps he felt scared by the great effect of my gravity artefact, or got feared of being too close to me.

His first time succeeded as I never expected such a move from him. But after he used it already once, it was easy for me to detect his position once he tried again. And that would endanger him once more.

As he was frightened from coming near me, I got nothing else to do about him for now. However that didn't mean I ended up with a loss here.

Just the number of entrapped fiends was enough to make me feel satisfied about this battle. Not to mention the number of dead fiends who fell under the weapons of my warriors.

I had to replenish my warriors here dozens of times already. I grew numb from doing that, and I never felt a speck of regret or pain from such a loss.

Mourning the loss of warriors I gained with few bones? And feeling so while I was about to get an endless number of Holy Ones bones? Not to mention the gears... No, I wouldn't be this bitter and greedy.

I looked at the tens of miles covered by my shields and thought about the number of fallen fiends outside my shields and that was enough to make me jump up in delight.

Up till now, all my actions led the enemy to believe I was getting weaker. But as I decided it was enough, and made up my mind to wrap things up, I didn't show any sign of weakness anymore.

Instead I kept supporting my board with my energy for hours without a moment of pause. Even when I replaced my bones, I made sure to not waste a single second in doing so.

The previous show of me struggling to do so was gone. I got enough to arm up tens of millions of soulers and reapers, enough to make a formidable army on my side.

Fearing these fiends? Humph! That was an old tale now.

Just by using my soulers and reapers with gears would be enough to face such a grand army and crush it without the need to use any of this.

And on top of that, with each passing battle, I'd end up gaining more gears and bones. As for the dead soulers, I got enough in my inventory to cover up such losses.

Chapter 1377 Hunting His Forces Down At All Costs!

I even started to consider what I should do the moment the entire millions of soulers ended up with gears and I got extra.

What race should I arm next? Should I create more soulers and arm them up? Or should I just look for a suitable melee type race I faced already and summon it using my soul points?

If I summoned Hectors or Berserkers, then a single one would only cost me five thousand souls points. And these two races were brutal in their own melee terms, especially the Berserkers.

I killed tons of these before, not to mention the dragon race as well. By these three, I could create tens of millions of them, arm them up, and create another terrifying force by my side.

Thinking about all that made me see my future here in bright light. Even if the fiends tried to stop my armies in many spots, I would be able to arm up tons of warriors and use them to face them off gradually.

As for the other races like locusts and Silences, they'd be left for my generals and the warriors I planned to arm them with.

All these gains just came from a single world, which made me crave to invade more.

"To do so, I need to first stabilise a base down there and return back," I muttered, knowing such a goal would take quite some time.

After all, I got less than two months before the opening of the grand entry to the twenty worlds. And I had to be present when such a thing would happen.

If taking over a base here and establishing my armies would take roughly a month, then I could at most invade two worlds out of the ten the enemy controlled.

That might seem like a little progress, but it was much more than that. In fact by winning a few more battles, my gains would snowball and I could accelerate invading these worlds.

If not for the deadline I was struggling to meet up with, I'd have taken less than that to take the second world down. However I had to plan something different.

Instead of just focusing on invading more worlds and stabilising my stand there, it was better to use these two worlds and strengthen my forces.

After all, the enemy already mobilised all of his three races stationed here. And it'd make no sense at all to not send the three to wipe out any forces of mine reaching the twenty worlds out there.

When that'd happen, it'd be another perfect chance to secure more bones and gears. Yet the scale of such battles would be quite vast and the brutality of the fights out there would be severe.

If I didn't prepare enough strong forces to contend with these fiends, then I'd end up losing a few generals in the end.

I wasn't just depending on my warriors wearing gear. I still had my seven stars race, my legendary Hescsos, my Avengers, and on top of that the still unused weapons from my research department.

As for the other two races, I planned to use the zombie dens to keep these two races busy and not interfere with my grand plans.

The grand picture looked much better than I initially thought it'd be before coming here. The trap the enemy prepared for me ended up to be a grand opportunity, one that'd end up making me much stronger than ever!

All these upgrades wouldn't just impact the fight here. Once I got done from here, I'd move back to my apocalypse and home.

And starting from there, I felt like crushing and unifying the twenty-three worlds out there would be a piece of cake.

Hescos? Humph! Just wait, you bunch of weaklings… Once I got done from here, I'd show you the true might of my kingdom!

The end of this apocalypse was drawing near, I could feel it!

Just as I increased the rate of killing and didn't give my enemy any chance to take their breaths, that dude seemed to sniff that something was wrong.

Instead of stopping all the forces coming, he sent more! And that startled me at first before I realised what he was trying to do.

"This dude… Tsk!" he felt something was off, but he didn't guess it right. He guessed the total opposite situation here.

He thought I was one hair breadth away from losing control over my bones and artefacts. And so I used such an all offensive show to scare him away.

Well… That dude was quite meticulous and cautious that he felt under such a grave call in such timing.

Would I refuse more friends? More gears and bones? No way!

If my enemy wanted to give me more treasures this desperately, then I should honour his generosity and receive everything he sent me.

But I held my hand over summoning my soulers for now. It wasn't yet time to scare the cat away.

And so I kept just using my normal warriors, and didn't hurry to use any souler yet.

After ten straight hours of doing this madness, that dude seemed to return finally back to his senses.

After ten hours of sending an endless stream of fiends, all of sudden the holes around stopped giving out any single fiend.

It seemed as if the world got dry up from these friends or something. But I knew why.

"Do you think I'll let you retrieve your forces quite easily? Humph!" and without flinching, I activated the offensive skill of my shields, releasing a deadly wave of offence outwards.

There was still fire assaulting my shields for a day. It wasn't enough to release the same scary attack like usual, but it'd be enough to hunt down and kill all of the fiends around my place.

Even if that dude tried to withdraw his forces, I'd not let him have it this nicely.

After I released such an attack, I had to wait for a few hours before the blinding light vanished. As expected, this round of attack wasn't that deadly and didn't last long enough like before.

Chapter 1378 Trying To Stop Me

But it was enough. These hours meant the attack covered tens of miles. If it didn't kill all of the forces around, then most of them would surely have fallen here.

As he already knew this was a trap, and decided to call off his forces and save them, it was time to wrap things up here.

"Lucas, I'll leave things here to you," I summoned the two million soulers and reapers with gears, and let them be led by Lucas.

"Leave things here to me," Lucas said in a rare excited tone, which reminded me how deadly this dude would turn out when he smelled souls.

It was like vampires smelling the scent of blood in fairy tales.

I didn't plan to stay here. As I left things here for Lucas to handle, I started to fly towards the distance.

Even if I had tons of fiends out there to collect their bones and gears from, I still wouldn't entrust that bastard.

I still needed at least a day here to kill all the fiends and gather everything up. But if my treasure was secured inside my shields, and I got someone like Lucas to lead things here, then why should I remain inside and not go out there and collect everything?

I moved my chariot at its fastest speed, and in less than half an hour I managed to finally cross the edge of my shields.

The world outside was still covered by my silver ground. And as I expected, the ground was entirely covered up by the endless bodies of these friends.

"I should start working then," as I came out, I instantly summoned lots of warriors, held my horn and shouted, "go and gather up all the gears from this race. Pile them up inside the shield zone, not outside. Go!"

I placed great importance over bones, but the value of gears was much higher than bones in my eyes.

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I could get lots of bones from the fiends inside the shields, and also could use other types of bones that I had.

But gears had to be replaced, and their number was limited. I had to move out, scatter tons of warriors at many spots, and give them the same order.

I took almost three hours just to cover up half of the battlefield. The area affected by the deadly waves of my shields spanned hundreds of miles.

It was far wider than I initially expected. And all these lands were covered up with dead bodies.

Just when I planned to keep doing this, something happened! That jerk watched me and realised what I was aiming for.

And as I expected, he sent tons of forces out there to stop mine and retrieve the dead bodies of the fiends.

He didn't send fiends this time. If I was him, I'd never make such a mistake. He sent the only race he would accept losing, the locusts!

They were ferocious, daring, knew no fear, and would keep coming until killing everyone.

They were bloodthirsty, and that made them the ideal troops to face mine.

But as he made his move that I anticipated, I also used mine.

"Kill!" I summoned a large number of warriors and let them move to intercept the incoming locusts.

If he used a race that had such great numbers, then he selected the wrong foe to test these locusts against.

He got his locusts, and I got my normal warriors... And shields!

I scattered warriors who didn't have any stat points inside bubbles of shields and left them to take care of these locusts.

Even if the locusts brought up here weren't any lesser than the ones I faced before at the twenty zones of mine, they were still not enough to stop me.

I used what the enemy considered as one of the strongest traits of the locusts to turn tables around and make them lose much of their efficiency.

I left these bubbles and warriors inside to attract the attention of these locusts, acting like I was using small magnets to collect an endless amount of metal powder.

As I flew over, I let warriors appear in the middle of these bubbles. These were the ones with stat points maxed out, enough to kill any locusts no matter how strong they were.

Most of the locusts were already attracted to the bubbles I created, and so the work of these warriors was simply easier than ever.

I kept doing this for almost twenty more hours straight without having a single moment of pause or rest. At the end, the seemingly endless locusts were now gathered up in between the bubbles and were either trying to breath the shields or fight against the experienced warriors.

As I saw this, I grinned evilly. "Time to show you what it means to be fighting someone like me," I muttered, knowing that my words would be picked by the keen ears of the enemy's leader.

"Go back inside," I held my horn and gave the order to all the warriors outside the shields, "kill your way through and enter the nearest shield zone."

I waited until all the zones outside the shields were void of any of my warriors. And once that happened, it was time for my counterattack.

The offensive skill came and all the shields here which got totally surrounded by locusts and endured their attacks for long hours finally started their retaliation.

The world turned all bright once more. It wasn't just threatening to my warriors here, but my warriors back there.

When I realised this, I started to call everyone back. It wouldn't be good to end up losing my soulers to such a brutal offence.

As this attack lasted for a few hours, I waited patiently on the side while a plan was formulated in my mind. If this would keep happening more often, then it was better to use a different tactic then.

Once the light faded and I could freely move, I started another round of spreading my warriors at the ground behind. Yet this time I didn't just use such a method alone, and also focused on using my shield skill more often.