Chapter 1394 What To Do?
My technique worked against races' souls, and that Exomachines gave me the impression they got no soul at all. Or perhaps they got one that was like the AI humans invented, something that couldn't be accessed using the normal methods dealing with souls.
These two were bad news for me. Not to mention that wasn't the real trouble here.
Sara told me that she felt as if these Exomachines were trying to prevent us from getting out, entrapping us inside. But she was wrong!
I got why the enemy wanted to desperately kill her in such a way. The crux of this all lay in the deep holes which were lined up by the Exomachines.
The Exomanchines weren't trying to entrap us, but they were defending any assault at these holes.
And these holes weren't that weird or alien to me. I already saw and met the ones who created these before. In the early stages of the apocalypse, and just while I was trying to get out of Manhattan, I met these fierce and scary creatures.
The Earth Worms! The grand worms which were enough to turn any continent into a beehive filled with holes and devoid of any life!
This was supposed to be a far away quest, one that wasn't any less than the impact of the zombies in the fifth quest.
These worms were quite scary! And the deadliest thing about them lied in the inability to detect their presence until they'd emerge from the deep layers of the ground.
They could penetrate through anything, literally anything! No defences could stop them, even my Avengers' silver ground wouldn't be able to stop them.
Even the mighty shields that looked eternal would experience its first failure on their hands! This was how scary these dudes were.
And the scariest thing about them was the fact that the enemy brought huge amounts of them here. Just in the zone I could see from my high vantage point, and I could see for tens of miles in both directions, I saw endless holes neatly arranged one near the other, one in front of the other.
They turned an entire zone of tens of miles into something that looked like a beehive. And that meant the number of these worms was beyond anyone's imagination.
Damn! What were the weaknesses of these worms? That was something I once read about in the ancient records, but it was something from a long time ago.
I squeezed my brain while trying to get the right method to deal with such a terrifying enemy. I didn't care how or when the enemy got such terrifying and formidable worms.
All I cared about right now was how to stop such terrifying monsters from foiling my plans.
"I recall they were vulnerable to elements… Fire and ice were the deadliest things against them, and Earth was their turf and weakness as well…"
I finally started to recall news about these monsters. But my intel stopped just there.
"Tsk! If I got to use something to stop them, then I'd use my Avengers then…" I got Avengers II as my magician who can control different elements.
Per their words, I got to know that they could use any form of element as long as I'd give each five bones to use.
That wasn't the problem, the problem lied in their number. I only got two hundred thousands of them, and that was indeed something not enough to stop these worms.
Two hundreds of thousands against tens or even hundreds of millions of worms? That was insanely suicidal!
Not to mention the enemy already got the help of his Exomachines to defend these worms.
For now these Exomachines were standing here, protecting the holes and allowing the worms to dig their paths under the ground freely and without my notice.
But when the worms would strike, it'd be a total disaster! The enemy would open the gates of hell, send everything they got at my forces.
And for a reason I felt that these Exomachines would be tasked with defending the worms. For a point, the worms would find more space to kill and spread their chaos under the protection of these Exomachines.
And from another, the worms would provide perfect support and protection for these precious Exomachines against any forces of mine.
Tsk! How come things turned this ugly all this sudden? I couldn't tell how the enemy found such a scary tactic to begin with.
But this alone changed the entire plans of mine, the entire progress of war.
I thought taking down this zone would be easy, and then my forces led by Isac would lay down a foolproof series of defences.
However, that proved to be quite wrong! I greatly underestimated my enemy. And right now, if I managed to clear these threats and established a base here before the opening of the twenty worlds then I'd be quite lucky.
It wasn't time to freak out, I had to count down my strength points and deadly weapons, and try to find the suitable forces to use against such scary enemies.
Putting my limited number of Avengers II on the side for now, I got the star arrays as a start.
These arrays were quite deadly. Not to mention the shields of mine couldn't stop the worms alone, but if I activated the offensive ability of them, then they could kill a good number of them, or heavily wound them at least.
I got around sixty million soulers and reapers, armed up with full sets of gears. If I added the entire gears I got so far, including the ones coming from the tens of millions of fiends fighting Sara and her soulers right now, then I could double this number while using a strong melee race like Hectors and Berserkers.
When I thought about this, I knew it was better to use Hector's, not Berserkers. Despite the latter were war machines, addicted to fighting, quite strong in that regard, but they lacked any skills related to any element.
Chapter 1395 A Counter Move
Not like the Hectors who could manipulate elements if they got enough power. If I summoned Hectors, and armed them up with gears, then they'd turn scary.
A much better choice was to try and merge the Dragon bloodline with the Hector's. The two could use element based attacks, and both were quite strong in their own regards.
Of course this was something that I needed time to test and see its results. However for a moment there the idea tempted me greatly.
I checked on my soul count, and it kept rising compared to last time I checked by almost twenty billion. I now got close to one hundred billion soul points, enough to make twenty million of either races or a new one merged between the two's bloodlines.
Tsk! That was barely enough… I looked again inside my inventory and thought about what I should use to deal with the impending crisis.
Aside from the artefacts I got from the paragons from before, there wasn't that much to use against these worms.
These artefacts might look quite useful, but the main weakness about them was their limited range of action.
I could deal with enough worms in a limited area, but wouldn't be able to help the forces on the grand battlefield.
I wanted to have something to change the entire course of this fight. I thought about many things and tactics, and without withdrawing my forces back, then things would end up quite bad for my side.
I could handle losing many warriors, but couldn't handle losing this region. I wanted this place as a base for my forces and that required me to clear all the enemies and threats from here if possible.
The presence of these worms changed the entire game. How many of them did the enemy get? Could they call more to help their forces like I was getting out my warriors?
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"My techniques…" for a moment there, and just as I pushed aside such tactics thanks to the Exomachines, my technique was supposed to be effective against these worms.
Was this their tactic from the start? To use the Exomachines to stop my threads or what?
If so then they greatly underestimated my threads. Even if Exomachines stood in front of these worms, my threads would still find a way to deal with them.
If I managed to get my hands over a large number of worms before the crisis would befall, then things would turn quite for the better.
My technique alone would be enough to change the entire course of this battle. However, to do so, I got first to find these worms out.
These worms were deep under the ground. And god only knew where they were right now.
For me to go around and seek them would be quite futile. The only method I got was to go towards these holes and either delve directly inside or use my threads to do the task for me.
Yet again the problem of these Exomachines glared up once more.
How could I go to these holes, act freely while such annoyance was waiting on guard on the entrances of these holes?
For a moment there I realised why the enemy stationed them around the holes in the first place. As for why they kept these holes, it was something related to the nature of these worms.
Wait a second… Just when I was randomly thinking about this matter, something crucial popped up in my mind.
These holes… They got to be preserved open for the worms to remain alive!
Until the worms would start their attack, they'd still need the holes they dug to be connected with the surface. And that was usually present at the beginning of these tunnels.
These hoes… They were crucial for the survival of these worms. How come I never thought about this point of weakness before?
The enemy didn't scatter these Exomachines to safeguard against me. They didn't come this hard against Sara for discovering the Exomachines or for her to see these holes.
The sole reason was the holes themselves. If I managed to close them, then the worms deep under the ground would end up suffocating and dying!
What a twist! Damn! I got lots of information, and yet missed such a glaring weakness, a fatal weakness of such formidable worms.
[Pay close attention to the ground] and just as I decided to act, I didn't forget about my scattered warriors around, [I'm going to attack something scary…]
I started to tell them the basic information about these worms, warning the generals about what might happen next.
I'd start a big bang against those worms and Exomachines. The fight would be hard to control, and after the deaths of the early batches of these worms, others might get informed and find a way out to the surface.
They might not be in location to attack everywhere yet, but that didn't mean my forces weren't in any danger.
To be safe, I warned the generals and asked them to scatter their forces around. Sticking around was going to end up quite bad if a group of these worms came out from the spots they occupied.
In fact, and even if it might seem quite crazy, I described the insane tactic Sara used so far and advised them to use it.
Despite it being a crazy tactic, it greatly suited such a situation. I gave them ten hours to arrange their forces before I'd start acting.
I didn't do that out of boredom or something. Trying to rearrange their forces wouldn't take that much time indeed.
However I wanted to take some time to do something else.
"Before hitting them, it's better to take down these free gears first," I muttered in greed, while eyeing the endless stream of fiends coming from beyond the area of the holes.
These fiends were pouring here endlessly as the enemy decided to use the worms as the final weapon against me. So it didn't matter how much of these fiends they'd lose here, at the end they'd crush me and my forces.
Chapter 1396 Fierce Battle
I needed these sets of gears, needed them to form much scarier forces. Even if I couldn't summon enough warriors, I still got tons of them inside my inventory.
Arming these up might not be as deadly as arming Hectors, Berserkers, Dragons, or a mix from Hectors and Dragons.
As I decided, I acted in a decisive way.
"Lord, your orders?" Lucas appeared, flying just near me with his berserk orange fire.
"Lead everyone, kill and leave none alive," I pointed towards the direction of the fiends before pointing towards the direction of the Exomachines, "don't get near them for a few miles. Kill anything else beyond."
"Leave this to me," he flashed, and in the next half an hour, I kept taking all the soulers and reapers from my inventory.
They got to gear up themselves before. And I summoned them back during my journey around this piece of the world.
And now it was time for them to show me their worth. I waited on my chariot, doing nothing but to watch two directions.
I watched Lucas leading the grand number of soulers, flash over the seemingly endless sea of fiends, crushing them in such a fierce shocking impact.
The soulers were real beasts against any foe! They just needed to flash through their bodies, and then the enemy would fall.
I watched this before turning to watch the Exomachines. "As expected, they got orders to protect the holes, nothing else…"
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I guessed such a thing before. However I also knew the leaders of the enemy armies were watching closely my actions at these moments.
Even if they gave such orders before to the Exomachines to stand on guard, they might get a change in their minds.
That was why I decided to take the full force of my soulers out. Doing this might seem as overkill to the fiends down below, but it was needed to deter the enemy from sending their Exomachines out.
As long as these scary folks kept watching in silence, nothing bad would happen. But if they decided to act, then I was ready for them.
At least I'd gather up more intel about them than just those I gained from watching them from far.
Using my tens of millions of soulers to kill the slightly over one hundred million fiends in this area was indeed an overkill. My soulers took much more time travelling to each fiend than the time needed to kill them!
In less than half an hour, the ground was filled to the brim with dead fiends. However the enemy didn't even stop sending them out.
In fact, they started to send locusts as well. It seemed the enemy wanted to crush the scary ability of my soulers and nullify it using numbers.
Well… They were quite determined to keep Sara's forces busy here away from these tunnels. Tsk! What a loss for their forces in the end!
Trying to stop my soulers using such lame tactics? That was nothing special at all!
I kept watching for a few more minutes, and my soulers proved to be real killers. I was quite sure that Lucas was laughing right now while having his fun and such a rich meal.
After seeing such futile attempts from my enemy get foiled, I summoned lots of normal warriors. "Collect the gears, arrange them here until I come to collect them," I gave them such an order, opened a portal and vanished hurriedly through it.
I already had a big pile of gears waiting for me back at the central zone. I went towards the first ring and found my warriors there had finished doing their task a long time ago.
"Go and help others in various battles," I got lazy to call them back, leaving enough stat crystals for them on the ground before collecting all the loot.
As I got done with this, I got close to twenty million or more full sets and almost the same as incomplete sets or slightly more.
I returned back, and found out that the enemy mistook my intentions.
They thought I left out my soulers here to keep their fiends and locusts from reaching the deeper lines of my forces. As they watched me retreat and appear back at the central zone, they increased the rate of their offence.
And they ordered part of the Exomachines to aid their forces, in addition to Silences as well.
Well… They finally sent out their Exomachines! I wasn't gone for more than half an hour, and yet the battle showed such a hot clash between the two sides.
The Exomachines were real killer machines! Even against the fully armed soulers, they proved to be quite the foe.
Soulers didn't need more than one flash to kill a single fiend. But against those Exomachines, a thousand of my soulers were needed to take down just one of them.
The main reason behind this lies in the weird way these creatures were made out of. Their bodies and inner organs were all formed of metal. I even doubted they got a soul.
But when I saw they fell under the concentrated assault of my soulers, I realised they indeed got souls. Or else how come my soulers were able to kill them?
My soulers were deadly killers against any living creature with a soul. But they were unable to cause any physical damage at all, and all the damage given would be soul based.
So if they managed to kill these Exomachines, even after using a thousand flash to achieve that, and after losing almost tens of them in the end, that proved these creatures got souls.
"Time to see if my techniques can work," I used such a chance to learn everything possible about such scary foes, and see what was the best way to kill them fast and with the lowest losses.
After all, killing one of them at the cost of a few tens of my precious, fully armed, soulers wasn't something I wanted to see!
Chapter 1397 Using My Technique
[I need more soulers] And as I decided to let this bloody massacre go on, I sent such a message urgently to Silverlining.
[Dude! You are rocking it! I didn't want to disturb you before, but man! Oh man! You are my idol!]
[Stop wasting my time and get me more soulers]
[But I can see you got enough!]
[No, they aren't enough! I need more, all the soulers you can get me]
[Hmm… That can be possible but the price…]
[See this first and decide later] I didn't have the mind to play such games with him or with his race sovereigns at such moments.
And so I sent one dark realm bone over, a grade green one.
It might be the lowest one I got, but it was also quite terrifying compared with a fine gold grade bone even.
[Man! This… This… What the heck is that bone?!!!]
[I can give you enough of these, in return for enough soulers] I paused intentionally, put a serious look on my face before adding, [But if I got an unsatisfying number of soulers, then forget about any of these bones. I'll cancel the deal]
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[No, wait! Don't be this rash, let's talk…]
[Sorry, I had no time nor the mind to talk] I closed the chat, raised my head to the sky and pointed one finger towards it. "You got one hour to give me a response. One minute later and the deal is off. And find me a good number of Bulltors and shield bearer warriors or equal in strength and value warriors in large numbers as well."
If I didn't have any other way to get my hands over such grand and unique warriors, then I'd use my bones instead of my soul points.
I wasn't lacking in any bones, even the dark realm bones. Just a single visit to any place in such a grand battlefield and I'd end up getting tens, if not hundreds of millions of such bones.
I wasn't limited by my soul points, I was a rich tycoon! If my class wouldn't solve my crisis for now, then using wealth would be a perfect solution then.
I warned him about delaying as this dude started to grow such a habit with me. I got that it was all thanks to his stubborn and sneaky sovereigns, but I got fed up already with that attitude.
If I wanted something, it was better to get it delivered to me on time. After all, I was the one needing these goods, but I was also the one paying with such hard currency, one that couldn't be found at any other buyer in the entire universe but me.
After I got done with him, I turned my eyes towards those Exomachines. "Let's get started with test number one then…" and while muttering these words, I made two techniques, one at each hand.
My threads jumped off my techniques, and went directly towards the big bodies of these Exomachines.
Each Exomachine was at least ten metres in height, looking like a ladybug in itself. They got a perfectly cut and placed together oval shaped shields that got arranged in different layers, going deep down to form up their entire bodies.
Yet I could see a few big wheels with teeth that interlocked with others, rotating slowly and regularly as if these creatures were some sort of giant watch.
They got four pairs of strong, thick, and short limbs that they used to move and fight with. Each limb was formed of oval shields arranged together in layers to form a cylindrical shaped large tube as their limbs.
And each limb ended up with a fierce looking ten claws, each got surrounded with some sort of yellow halo.
These black, red, and golden oval shaped shields extended to form what one could call a head. These heads had faces that showed human-like expressions.
But that was when they stood in watch around the tunnels and holes. Right now, and in their fighting mode, their faces got covered with two thick oval shaped layers of shields, making what I could describe as a fierce looking helmet.
Five pairs of oval shaped eyes glared fiercely in red, black, and golden lights, giving them ranks, and adding more intimidation to their appearances.
As for their way of fighting, aside from crushing the enemy with their deadly bodies, tear the enemy apart using their sharp claws, they also were able to hold weapons, mainly double-edged great axes.
But that wasn't the thing who took away the lives of my precious soulers. In the middle of their fight, their helmet would suddenly open, showing a muzzle like the end of a big cannon, and they released an energy concentrated attack from close distance.
Each attack was like a deadly ray of energy, slamming fast against the close by soulers, tearing parts of their bodies apart.
Something in these deadly rays were the nemesis of my soulers. And after taking a few more hits, the souler would be killed.
Even with the insane speed and reaction of my soulers, they couldn't evade or act against such a deadly ray of energy from such a close distance.
There was no pattern at all for such an attack. These Exomachines wouldn't use these attacks on regular intervals, or precede by some sort of a move that could be called as a trigger or a preparation for such attack.
They could use it anywhere, anytime, and for any number of times they wanted! And that made them quite formidable foes against my soulers!
"If you brought out your locusts to deal with my forces, then why won't I follow suit and use my warriors and zombies to counter such scary Exomachines of yours?"
And this would be the first time I'd use the zombie dens I got from the apocalypse here.
But first I watched how my threads got rebound over their shields. It seemed as if there was some sort of an isolation layer, one that would isolate any energy away from their bodies.
Chapter 1398 [Bonus Chapter] Using My Glaive
Yet that didn't totally stop my threads. Such hiccups just delayed the progress of my threads, reminding me of the same thing that the fiends showed from before.
But this was on a totally different scale, much stronger than what I experienced at the fiends.
At least my threads weren't that useless against these Exomachines. However, if it took a couple of hours for my threads to penetrate the shields of the fiends, they'd need much more than that to break through the shields of these Exomachines.
If I just depended on my technique, then things would go south for me. And so I stopped the technique of my right arm, and started to consider my next move.
My technique failed as expected, and now it was down to the use of brutal force to take these Exomachines down.
The first thing I thought about was nothing else but my glaive. However I first needed to activate the strength sacrifice to be able to truly show its true might.
"Take these," as this would take an entire hour, and I wouldn't be able to move through this time. I flew away from this battle, went deeper into the area lined up by these Exomachines, and then took one warrior out.
They were added thanks to the den of warriors; the zombies. The moment I took all of them out, I left behind lots of my zombie dens, around one thousand, before leaving more warriors to safeguard them.
"Release the zombies," I gave them such an order, before opening a portal and returning back to the central zone.
Right now, this place is the safest zone in the entire world. As I wouldn't be able to move a muscle during this sacrifice, I had to do it at a secure place.
And I didn't forget to leave behind a warning for Isac and others, notifying them that I wouldn't be available for almost one hour.
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I took one hour to activate my sacrifice, and during which I kept thinking about these two impending bombs; the worms and the Exomachines.
"There is no way these dudes would deploy such killers without more hidden traps," I reached such a conclusion after activating my sacrifice.
The Exomachines might look as the acting guardians for these worms, but they were indeed quite the killer in themselves.
pAn,Da n<0,>v,e1 I saw how they killed my soulers, something no one else managed to accomplish for a long time.
Such a force would be unstoppable once the worms started spreading death all over the place. So it wouldn't make any sense for the fiends' leaders to just use them without any other supporting forces or hidden traps.
If there was such a trap, then it must be around that line formed by these Exomachines. And to get the bottom of this, I had to spare a little of my time and try out this line of defence myself.
The one hour passed fast, and the first thing I did after finishing it was to ask about the updates from various fronts.
"Nothing big happened aside from these Exomachines… Interesting…" I muttered to myself before returning back to the frontline again.
There I saw the fervent fight going on without any change. The area of this fight spanned over to cover tens of miles already. And the number of deaths on both sides was still growing non-stop.
Yet comparing the two losses against each other, my soulers lost quite miserably against these Exomachines.
"Time to start test two," I muttered, jumped off my chariot, and personally joined the battle.
I didn't know why, but all the things I inwardly complained about Sara ended up doing them all! Even when she went off her chariot and personally joined the battle, I thought it was quite foolish of her to do so.
And now? I ended up doing the same, which was quite ironic.
The moment I landed, my glaive met its worthy nemesis at last! The glaive stopped just a few inches away from the bodies of those I aimed for.
I waved my glaive in a semi-circular way, cutting through many of the Exomachines, and yet I never managed to slash any of them.
The shields managed to not only stop my glaive, but they diverted its path, as if it was gliding over a surface of ice or something.
But who said my glaive's attacks lied solely on its sharpness?
Once my glaive moved and met with the shields, another force seeped deeply inside these shields. It was a force that left the Exomachines hit stand in daze, without moving a single limb or shield.
They got some sort of paralysis, one that was enough to crush their inner running wheels. I watched these giants stop, and couldn't help but wave my glaive again, jump high in the air, embed huge amounts of strength into my arms, and waved the glaive again against these Exomachines.
"My soulers would need a thousand hits to take one down, and I simply needed two to take down tens of them… Interesting!" I saw how this clash ended, and was quite satisfied with it.
I didn't mind clashing twice at these things, as long as it was enough to bring them down. The first strike paralysed them, and the second got to crush them into tiny pieces.
I didn't know what in my glaive that made them freeze, but it was great to see them get such an end at last.
After confirming such a result after many attempts, I moved fast, didn't care about even delivering the second hit, and focused only on paralysing them.
As long as they got paralysed, many things happened at the same time. First, these Exomachines stood like status, not attacking my forces at all.
And that wasn't all! They didn't attack, and for a reason their defensive shields lost part of their powers!
The first thing I noticed was for my technique threads to go much easier through their shields. And soon enough I noticed how my soulers became faster to bring these Exomachines down.
Chapter 1399 Increasing Energy Output Makes A Difference
Seeing all this made me stop my soulers from hitting those I froze with my glaive, and made them focus more on taking other Exomachines down.
Even if they got somehow paralysed, they'd still be great experimental specimens for my research department. And who knew, they might even find a way to solve such a problem.
As I arranged things here, I kept hitting the Exomachines, leaving behind a long trail of paralysed ones. I didn't know how to move them, and even tried to give those I controlled using my threads orders to move around.
But that didn't work. And another thing slightly bothered me. If not for that contract artefact, any other contract wouldn't work with them.
I tried, and all the other contracts I had got crushed into nothing after trying to activate them against these Exomachines.
Yet that proved they got souls, and that proved they might be considered some sort of a unique race.
However no matter how I looked at them, they couldn't be related to any race at all! They were more like AI machines, and that was the best example I could find that was close to them.
Aside from that, things were going on quite smoothly around. My side was crushing these Exomachines better thanks to my effort.
I wasn't just attacking these Exomachines randomly. I was doing it in a way to paralyse the actions of much more than those that got hit by my glaive.
If anyone could see the entire battlefield from above, the sight of all standing still Exomachines, forming sort of separating lines in between dense numbers of other Exomachines would be quite noticeable.
I used my glaive to demarcate tight zones around the still active Exomachines, making them unable to move easily, and even isolating many of them totally inside rings of their immobile folks.
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I thought they'd react like any other race if placed under such a situation, crush other Exomachines and extricate themselves from such entrapment.
And weirdly enough, nothing of that happened!
I wanted them to do that so in the middle of such a common push, they'd harm each other, or even end up killing a few.
However as they didn't even budge an inch towards their all silent folks surrounding them, nothing of that happened. Another remarkable thing happened instead.
I got lots of these Exomachines entrapped inside, without the ability nor the intention to break free from this.
Once I noticed such a weird thing, I didn't care about the reasons behind this. I simply gave the order for my soulers to ignore the ones entrapped, and focus on the far away and freely moving Exomachines.
After a few hours, the entire battlefield looked a bit weird! Almost half of it was a grand number of Exomachines, standing still, either paralysed or entrapped, while the other half showed a fierce fight between my soulers and theirs.
As my soulers got relieved from dealing with almost half of them, they moved with their entire forces out, hitting the enemy without fear or hesitation.
If before one thousand hits was needed and took almost ten minutes to get done, now it doesn't take much longer than two up to three minutes.
The soulers flashing at a single Exomachines would be in tens at the same moment.
That didn't happen without the help of my glaive and its miraculous effect. As many soulers got freed from dealing with half of the enemies, the rest joined together and made this possible.
I kept moving forward, yet my speed of advancement got slowed by the widely increasing area of the battlefield.
As I wasn't going to crush them fast, I started to shift my attention towards controlling the free Exomachines.
"Tsk… This is going to take forever," feeling that nothing changes in their defences after getting entrapped. I left the task of handling the rest of the Exomachines to Lucas and retreated to the entrapped Exomachines, and then took tons of my bones out.
If it'd take such a long time to deal with them, then there was one simple and guaranteed way to cut such time shorter, using my bones!
I took enough to make me feel the same old pressure that I felt before at many occasions. I endured, gushed all of these into the two arms of mine, powered up the threads coming out from my technique, and that showed a great change in everything!
I thought only speed in crushing the defences down would get affected. However I was gladly surprised to notice that even the number of my threads got multiplied by many folds, and that increased the span of Exomachines affected by my threads.
The already thick threads were quite fierce! Before using my bones, taking control of a single one would take roughly four hours from normal threads, but less than two from the thickened threads.
And now? It'd take roughly one hour to take control over the Exomachines using normal threads, and almost ten minutes using the thickened threads!
If that was before, it wouldn't be so great. My threads could control at most fifty thousand of the enemies at one time.
However after the sudden increase in energy influx towards my threads, the number increased to be in the hundreds of thousands.
And that made it quite worthy!
"It seems the energy I pushed into the threads can't affect these shields quite a lot… So the number of my threads increased…"
After two hours of doing so, I finally started to get a handle on what truly happened.
I injected tons of my energy through the two techniques, and the threads seemed to not be able to use the energy properly for a reason.
So the threads started to multiply on their own. I noticed that the threads kept increasing in number, breaking into two or even three threads once they touched the shields, invading other Exomachines around.
When I noticed this, I tried to do something and controlled my threads for a long time.
Chapter 1400 Using Something They Taught Me
It felt quite weird doing so, especially with all the large number of threads I got. At the same time, I got a ton of energy gushed into my body, needing my full attention to control and endure it.
However it proved to be quite natural to do what I wanted. As threads kept breaking up once they met the shields, it wasn't a good thing to let them densely close to each other.
I started to give them space, and when I managed to do that in a small region, I noticed a few changes.
First the number of affected Exomachines by my threads increased as I imagined. However, that came at the cost of speed.
It seemed by more threads attacking the same target, the speed of cracking down the shields increased. But I didn't know how much this change would affect the speed of controlling these Exomachines.
So I waited, and it turned out that instead of taking one hour, it took two. "Tsk, no matter how I spinned it, I'd end up getting the same amount in the same time," I shook my head while realising that I got almost the same number of Exomachines controlled at the end.
"But that's just by changing a small number of my threads' area of activity," I decided to go all out, control all of my threads to scatter around and control more of these Exomachines.
Just in the middle of me testing these things out, the enemy seemed to grow restless by what went wrong with this battle.
So more Exomachines stepped in, much larger than the earlier batch that attacked my soulers.
"Retreat!" After I tested out my technique, I knew it was time to go all out. Despite the difference in the total number of Exomachines wasn't that big when I scattered a few of my threads over, it was something totally different when I did it on all my threads!
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They have the ability to control one million at one go! And such a number would take me long hours to take down, and yet it'd take only two by my normal threads, one and half by my right hand normal threads, and thirty minutes by the thick threads.
My only regret was that the total number of thick threads I got wasn't that great to begin with! And that made me decide to nourish them later on, add more of these to my techniques.
As I could attack one million of them, I released my threads first and took control of that million before giving out the order to Lucas and others to retreat.
My plan was simple, the enemy sent close to ten million of these Exomachines. And that wasn't a small number of enemies to deal with.
Not to mention they pinned me down here by doing that! If I dared to retreat, then all of the forces led by Sara would be killed, and she might even end up dead.
And there was a much worse case here. If I decided to bypass them, recall all of my soulers and go directly towards the holes, then these Exomachines would simply retreat and entrap me with a number of enemies I wouldn't have the ability to deal with.
During all this, my zombie warriors activated the dens, releasing an endless stream of zombies all over the place.
Against Exomachines, this would be an overkill for them. But against any other race fighting here, zombies put on a great show, even giving the fiends quite the trouble.
The fiends kept coming from all directions, bypassing the area of activity of my soulers, fearing them. Despite that, trying to fight Sara's forces wasn't that easy at all.
She got her own souler army as well. Not to mention the newly arrived zombies who didn't stop when the fiends flew high in the sky.
These zombies gathered up like crazy, forming great hands that started to hunt down these fiends. The fiends had to unleash all of their deadly attacks and gears, but that was futile.
Zombies never felt fear, never even thought about anything at all but to eat the flesh of those living nearby.
So trying to scare them away wasn't going to work. Despite having a similar breed on their side, the locusts, these fiends showed weird moves that would be best described as stupid mistakes!
They only depended on their gears and ability to fly to get away from these zombies, and yet they failed!
To counter zombies, they needed to use their zombies, the locusts. If they pushed an endless number of locusts against my zombies, then the entire situation would have changed.
I calmly watched my soulers retreat, dragging behind a scary gathering of these Exomachines towards me. However, no matter how scary they were, they wouldn't do anything in the end.
My plan was simple. I didn't intend to use my newly controlled couple of million Exomachines to stop the ten million coming at me.
Doing this would end up quite bad. Instead, I'd use something they intended to use a weird phenomenon they showed to me before.
"Stop," after waiting for half an hour, the entire soldier retreated, passed by my chariot, and ended up a mile behind.
Then I gave them the order to stop, while starting my next move.
During this retreat, the Exomachines ran with all their might after my soulers. They didn't manage to reach anyone, as my soulers were moving quite fast.
Even when they used their weird energy beams, the best thing they managed to get was to slow down my soulers, forcing them to flash to the side or even forward again to evade the incoming beams.
During such chaos, and while the enemy was focusing over my soulers, I infiltrated my one million Exomachines within the grand army of them.
And without realising this, I managed to create many cells surrounding tons of these Exomachines.
When I used such a method before, the Exomachines didn't dare to touch their folks. However this time I was doing it on a large scale from the start, and when they were running fast, chasing after my soulers.
Chapter 1401 The Trans Race
So I made my soulers stop, using the large number of Exomachines traps from earlier to slow the incoming Exomachines out and spread them into smaller groups on their own.
And as their speed got lowered enough, I gave the order for my Exomachines to stop.
The moment they stopped, the entire grand scene changed in a very shocking way. Most of the Exomachines army got trapped inside the cells I created using my controlled Exomachines, and the entrapped ones acted quite docile as usual.
"Tsk! If only I got time to deal with you…" I know that I had to use this chance and move the entire battlefield towards the direction of the holes.
The enemy had to move a large number of his Exomachines to stop me. And that might have put pressure over my forces, it also cleared a huge area off many of the Exomachines.
Even when the enemy decided to send more of these, they left behind a single row to protect the holes. And yet that wasn't going to cause me any trouble at all.
"Lucas, I'll leave the free Exomachines here to you," I said using my horn, cancelling out my techniques after binding all the Exomachines controlled by threads using contracts, "then go and support Sara."
I didn't need any of them to help me out there, not all of them at least. Sara was still acting as a good source of distraction for the enemy, and it would be stupid to relieve the enemy from her annoyance.
Instead, I'd send Lucas out to free her forces before coming back here and helping me together.
As I decided to act, the first thing I did wasn't to move towards the holes, but back to the places I scattered warriors there and asked them to gather up gears there.
I had a plan in mind about how to deal with these holes. However, to do it, I needed lots of warriors wearing gears.
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I asked Silverlining before to bring me lots of soulers, Bulltors, shield bearers, and warriors alike many hours ago. That dude complied and in less than one hour, he returned with a good offer.
And still I turned him down!
[I need at least five times that amount] I sent over, [Any amount lesser than that and I won't make the deal!]
[This… But we have no time to look for more warriors!]
[You got ten hours then!] I ended the chat with him saying this, not caring about anything that dude sent later on, or bothered with any of his complaints.
The bone I sent him was quite unique and a new breed of bones to these greedy folks. They realised I got more of such unique bones, and they wanted to gain as much as possible from my dark realm bones.
Using such hunger while waving the bone in front of their opened and drooling mouths, I decided to get as much as I could from them.
Before this, whenever I asked for soulers, Bulltors, or shield bearers, Silverlining would always complain about how hard it was to find a large number of them.
Yet this time they brought over hundreds of millions of them! And in the middle, there were at least tens of generals, ones who were on the same calibre as Lucas!
Imagining having tens of these generals made me drool in return. However I controlled myself and never showed any of that on the surface.
Instead, I showed that I was satisfied, but not that quite impressed. And I wanted to be impressed this time.
Giving them ten hours wasn't out of a whim. I already noticed how long the battle against the Exomachines and other races would take, and estimated ten hours as a feasible timeline for him and me.
pAn,Da n<0,>v,e1 Out of these ten hours, nine have already passed. And now it was time for me to collect my loot from the fiends, gather up more dark realm bones and Holy Ones bones, while waiting for that dude to send his final offer to me.
This time, I expected to get hundreds of millions of such great and deadly warriors, even dreaming about getting billions wouldn't be an exaggeration!
As for the price tag, I left such hustle to when he'd deliver his final offer. By then, they'd already paid a lot, and wouldn't accept losing such a deal out of their greed.
I went to find my warriors still in the middle of gathering more gears, yet the ones they got were already too much!
The enemy seemed to send fiends like they were grains of dirt caught from the side of the road or something.
And that spoke clearly about their desire to keep my forces here trapped, not able to step ahead and push forward towards the holes.
I didn't care about any of that. I was ready to welcome my new warriors, the grand army that would be the major piece in my plan.
Waiting for Silverlining, I kept collecting gears. Just as I finished the batches left behind by my warriors, more batches were collected.
They weren't close in size to the gears I collected, but they were quite rich nonetheless. So I kept gathering them, while checking my messages from time to time.
[I've got an offer that will make it impossible for you to say no] just as I finished collecting the second batches, and was going towards the third group of gears collected, Silverlining finally responded.
[Tell me the details then]
[It's like this…] He kept talking without pause for a few minutes and I didn't try to stop him at all. I attentively listened, while he kept telling me the huge numbers of what he got.
First of all, he said something that took me by surprise… He was one of the ancient races that went extinct as tokens, and their number was close to five hundred million.
This race was new to me, called the Trans. These Trans were like the Hescos, even though I thought they were related in some way.
Chapter 1402 Getting Generals!
But he confirmed later that they weren't related to these Hescos.
[These Trans aren't related to the Hescos despite having suits covering their bodies. What's different is that these suits are made entirely by the members of this race. You can consider them as mechanics, people experienced in turning ores into great machines. They are killers, and nothing can stop in their face]
That was part of what he said about such races. He kept talking for almost five minutes about this race's abilities and powers.
They could fly, swim, dive, and fight even underground. There wasn't a single terrain these folks couldn't venture, and their weapons were quite deadly.
[However…] I knew there must be a catch for such a fearsome race, [They require tons of energy to operate and move around. If not for your bones, my sovereigns wouldn't have thought about giving them to you]
[How much do they need?] I asked before adding, [Using the last kind of bone I sent you as a measure unit]
[At least a hundred…] he paused before adding, [One hundred of your bones per six hours]
"This…" I couldn't help but frown. If what he said was true, then just using these dudes for a single day would be enough to empty my entire dark realm bone reserves!
What a damn race was that?
I thought for a second about killing one and using his soul later on to form a perfect warrior. However when I recalled back my fallen gods and soulers, they would still require tons of energy regardless.
My class would solve any huge problem lying either in one's soul or bloodline. However, solving what their entire being needed wasn't possible.
Without such an insane amount of energy, they wouldn't be able to function properly.
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[Scared? Don't want them?]
[No] however who said I only got my dark realm bones as the highest grade bones in my inventory? There was still that new breed, the Holy One bones! [Send everything over! And tell me the price]
[That's my boy] I imagined him laughing, despite not knowing what he truly looked like. What he sent was much more than just those Trans.
He sent half a billion of Trans, and sent ten billions of other races. The most were races equal to the Bulltors and shield warriors, satisfying my needs about these two races.
These two were the earliest I got since coming back to the apocalypse. And yet they still were few in number.
I seriously thought about killing these Bulltors and shield bearers, gaining their bloodline, and mixing it with other formidable races later on.
But that would consume tons of my soul points, which was something I couldn't do anytime now.
It was better to use bones to pay for all this. And I paid a hefty price of a few hundred million bones. The main price went for the Trans dudes.
These dudes were monstrous in energy consumption, and got such a high price as well. I didn't bargain with Silverlining, as I got enough bones to cover up ten more of such trade.
And there were still lots of bones left there all over this world for me to collect.
[Thanks] I closed the chat, and with it closed the entire page of dealing with Silverlining for the time being.
Such a colossal amount of warrior tokens was enough to satisfy my needs for most of this quest anyway.
The first thing I did next wasn't to continue collecting gears. I left my boys here to do their job, and went back to the centre of this entire region.
If I needed bones, then I should work hard to gather them first. It would be bad for me to release such scary monsters without having enough fuel to run them.
They would be like Ferrari standing on the side of the road, unable to move as it ran short of gas.
I collected tons of dark realm bones and Holy Ones bones for the next ten hours. I kept jumping in between places, visiting almost all the zones dozens of times.
In the end, I returned back to the frontline where I saw heaps of gears waiting for me to collect.
"Hmm… So I got close to three hundred million complete sets, and almost double this number of broken and incomplete ones… That dude is crazy! He sent out one billion fiends just to stop me, and yet he failed!"
I muttered in disbelief while releasing the huge number of gears I got from just this battle. What would be the case when I'd invade more worlds? What would be the case after crushing the entire ten worlds?
Damn! I was thinking before about entrusting these gears to my research department to copy their tech. But now I don't even need to do that!
I was sure by the end of this quest, having close to one hundred billion sets of gears wouldn't be a dream or fantasy!
After gaining all that, why would I think about making more of them?
I might only give the research department these gears to study them, understand more high tech and try to impede them into the existing weapons I had.
As I got all these gears, I didn't keep my hand anymore. I started to take out tons of soulers, and gave them gear sets.
Amidst all of them, I got close to one hundred generals. And that was quite the number indeed.
I didn't just get generals in soulers, but also generals at other races I got. However I wanted first to satisfy the needs of the two hundred million soulers I got from Silverlining.
I took out these generals, gave them stat crystals to consume, raising their level to the allowed max in my apocalypse.
Their fire turned orange, with tinge of different colours in the middle. Few had red, others got yellow, some had green, others had golden, and the rest had silver white colours in the middle of their orange fogs.
Chapter 1403 Attacking The Holes
This gave them quite the scary appearance, making me smile in content. I didn't bother asking them anything and simply ordered them to lead the soulers and make them arm themselves with all the gear sets I got.
After that, I took out my shield bearers like races first. I armed up five hundred million with broken sets, and the rest of complete and incomplete sets were given to Bulltors like races.
At the end, I got two hundred million soulers armed with complete sets, two hundred million Bulltor-like races armed half with complete and the other half with broken sets, and the last five hundred million shield bearer-like races who got themselves armed with broken sets.
Doing this took roughly one hour, which was a very short time in my opinion. I just spread all of them over a large stretch of land, filling the deeper parts of this region entirely with my warriors.
After everyone got ready, I called them back and didn't care about any forces the enemy sent during this hour to stop my crazy actions.
As I got everything ready, I started to move my chariot fast towards nowhere else but the holes.
I noticed the enemy had already moved tons of his forces from other regions to here. It was clear that I was going to attack this region, and I didn't care if the enemy knew my intentions or not.
In the end, I was going to bury these holes no matter what the enemy tried! And the source of my confidence came from my genuine plan.
I saw all the races the enemy used so far stacking in dense numbers around the holes. Even the sky looked dim by the densely packed forces of friends there.
However I calmly moved towards the first group of holes that I decided to wreak havoc in.
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The moment I got close, all the forces stationed there started to stir up and move, ready to meet me. However I simply stood a mile away from the group of holes up ahead.
The holes were aligned so close from each other, to make sure the number of worms taking part in this operation would be guarded easily by the number of forces the enemy had.
And that meant in a single mile square, at least one hundred of these holes were present.
I stopped my chariot in front of all these alarmed forces. One chariot was against tons of enemies on ground and in the air, and yet I never felt a single speck of fear.
I took my pillar, and calmly muttered:
"Thundering Might!"
My formidable shield appeared all of sudden, surrounding a few miles in an instant, covering hundreds of holes inside and tons of enemies.
This wasn't new. This might be considered as my signature move. However, what came next was new!
I moved my chariot outside, not moving anyway close to the holes. At the same time, the enemy forces seemed quite restless. However, as I didn't follow my opening move with any attack, the enemy thought I was going to take out my forces away from theirs, and start a bloody fight around the holes.
That was indeed logical, as all my actions before pointed out towards such a move. However what I did was nothing close to that!
Once I reached the edge of the shield, I stopped, took out one bone, and started to touch it in a pattern that got this bone activated.
It was a dark realm bone! And the moment I activated it, I threw it far towards the inner zone of my shield, and went outside without any delay.
"Take a taste of what you generously gave me before," I snorted, evilly laughed while watching my bone flesh into the shield, and started its fierce explosion.
Seeing the sea of fire appearing and filling everything inside, I nodded in satisfaction, headed towards another group of holes, ready to do the same.
My plan was simple! I always used my shields to defend my forces inside from the hostile enemies outside. However this time I used it to entirely trap the enemies inside, using my deadly attack of dark realm bones to kill each and every single one of them.
At the same time, this fire would do the same trick needed to close up the holes! The fire coming out from a low green grade dak realm bone before was enough to cover up tens of miles, and kept running wild for many days without any sign of getting weaker or exhausted.
I planned to use fire to close the holes. Even if part of this fire went into the holes, filled parts of them, it wouldn't make any difference at all.
The worms were vulnerable to fire, and they wouldn't dare to come near mine. At the same time, the thick layer of fire filling the entire shield would form a foam like layer, blocking all the holes and suffocating the worms inside.
This meant one thing, by the end of this, the enemy would lose tons of their forces, and would also lose most if not all of the holes.
The army of worms would be rendered powerless and would end up dying in the end. But this wasn't realistic.
The enemy wouldn't stand idle in front of my moves. He would start to take countermeasures, and might even release the worms early on as I expected.
Either way, I'd end up foiling the enemy plans, killing lots of their forces, and the enemy would come out from this battle with heavy losses.
I went towards the next group of holes, not caring about anything else. The enemy was taken by surprise and terror, standing idle without moving until I did that twenty times!
Then the enemy started to respond. The early response came from the forces around the holes. They started to move out, trying to get away from the range of the holes.
At the same time, a great part of these forces came towards me.
Chapter 1404 Make Everyone Retreat
"Finally they started to react," I already read through all this, and just seeing them coming forced me to retreat.
I trusted my chariot's shield, but that was against a normal number of enemies. Against such a densely packed, seemingly endless sea of enemies, with fiends leading everyone, I wouldn't dare to test how long my chariot's shield would survive.
Even if it managed to sustain pressure at first, eventually it'd crumble down. The shield ran on energy, and I didn't want to deplete my energy for nothing.
Especially when there was already a way out of this, one that I had already prepared for a long time.
I retreated fast, pulled a huge distance between me and these forces before releasing the endless stream of warriors.
The enemy had tons of soldiers and I also got tons of mine. I took out a few million shield bearers like races, and shouted using my horn:
"Use your combined defensive skill!" This was why I focused more on supporting those folks. I knew they didn't get the same combined shield skill, but they got something quite similar indeed.
The enemy was stopped abruptly, and yet that alone wasn't enough.
"Kill them all!" I took out a few million soulers and Bulltor-like races and released them over the incoming enemies.
That might seem quite an impossible feat, considering the huge number of enemies coming from far away. However I didn't intend to use just these ten millions to stop the tens of millions coming at them or even more.
As I left them to deal with the early waves of the enemy, I instantly flashed, appeared back at the spot I last reached before retreating, and simply used my shield and activated my bone.
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My shields could cover up a few miles in radius, giving me enough space to move freely around the holes. Even if I didn't get close to the holes by one mile like before, using the shields at a distance of three miles away was enough to cover up most of the holes.
Even if part of the holes escaped the coverage of my shield, most would be covered. As for those who got lucky to escape, just adding one more shield to this one would expand it enough to cover them up.
I released my deadly bone and let it explode with deadly fire. I didn't return back to my forces, instead I went towards the next group of holes, as if there wasn't a deadly fight going on behind.
The same thing happened. The enemy seemed to choose to save most of his forces from my fire. So he moved the forces around the holes all at the same time.
When I got close to the next group, the number of enemy forces close to the holes was already smaller than the earlier holes. But that didn't mean I'd not take their lives away.
However I retreated first as many of the retreating enemy forces tried to move ahead to intercept my chariot.
As I pulled enough distance, I took out ten million mixed warriors and left them to deal with the enemies like usual. Then I jumped again, used my shield, activated my bone, and let my fire do the rest.
I kept doing this over and over again. Even if the enemy moved his forces away from the holes already, formed thick layers of forces to stop me from getting close to the whole region, that didn't stop me.
If taking out ten million wasn't enough, then I added another ten of soulers to clear out a gap for me to pass through.
And at this moment, using the chariot's shield wasn't a bad idea at all!
The focus of the enemy was mainly over my warriors. And that made my chariot attract less fire. Even if the enemy tried later to form a special army to stop me, that didn't stop me.
They got their special forces, and I got mine. I used my Avengers whenever such a situation appeared. Even used my soulers, Bulltors, shield bearers, and all the races resembling them.
Trying to fight me using such a tactic was indeed a foolish thing. But if the enemy wanted to use such a tactic, why would I bother?
I kept moving around, spreading chaos and death using my deadly bones. The enemy might have seen lots of my tricks, however there were still more that they didn't know.
Using such deadly attacks was enough to kill any enemy no matter how strong he was.
[Something is happening back there] and just as I was in the middle of doing all this, absorbed totally in the hectic battle going on, Isac sent this message, asking for help.
Without the need to ask, I knew something bad happened regarding the worms.
[What happened?] and even if I guessed what happened, I still asked for more details.
[The worms! They appeared out of thin air! They came from everywhere! And the current situation is quite bad!]
[How bad?] I asked as I already knew how deadly these worms were. It was expected for them to bring death to my warriors. However at least I kept those scary Exomachines busy dealing with my forces.
Even if the enemy dared to move part of these Exomachines out, things would still not shift to the better for their side. The worms didn't get into their planned place, and I already killed lots of them.
[They are coming out from the ground surrounding the central zone! They are everywhere, killing our forces without having a way to even stop them]
I got what happened. It seemed the worm plan went on for much longer than I initially thought. [Make everyone retreat back into the shields]
[The shields didn't work! They got to smash the shields open]
[Just make everyone retreat, I'll give you half an hour to do so] I knew what she was speaking about.
Against such worms, no defences would work. That was given. And reading her freaking out words didn't move a muscle in me.
Chapter 1405 A Weird Happening
I already anticipated this all, and I got the perfect plan to counter such a hectic situation.
[We are ready!] After the passage of just ten minutes, and while doing the same even when the worms had already gotten out of their holes, she sent me this message.
"Tsk, she isn't as calm and collected as Lily," I shook my head once I read her message.
[Watch the magic then] I sent just this simple response before activating my shields' offensive ability.
This was what I planned to do from the start. And that was part of the reasons why I used my shields in the plan to bury these holes.
After all, my shields would stack all the damage taken, either from inside and outside. And by using my deadly fire, and on such a large scale of shields, it made things quite deadly for my enemies.
Even if they were worms, they would never have enough defence to block what was coming.
The moment I activated the offensive ability of my shields, the entire world shone brightly like never before. A terrifying shockwave erupted from the shields nearby, releasing such tons of stored up energy from the fire stored inside.
The flash of light this time was different. And even if I couldn't see everything happening as I was so close from the centre of such a scary blast, I could tell there was a difference in the quality between blasts coming from nearby and those coming from far.
But in mere blinks, the entire world became blindly bright, making me unable to do anything for long hours!
I didn't actually need to do anything. After all, the enemy got scared of my shields and bones and decided to take out all the worms from the ground.
pAn,Da n<0,>v,e1 That was why I kept doing the same thing even when I knew about the appearance of worms. The enemy might try to act cunning, releasing a few worms to scare me away.
So by persisting in doing what scared them was enough to give them another fright. If they thought to act smart, then it wasn't time for that after seeing me continuing my actions.
And so it made quite logical for them to release most if not all of their worms off the holes. And even if few remained under the ground, it wasn't going to do me any harm.
After the end of such blinding light and scary attack, I'd resume what I was doing before. I couldn't tell if what I was doing was enough to seal the holes and kill the worms inside or not.
But just in case, I should do my part and keep my plan going.
This time, the light kept flaring up for five days! This was too long, and quite scary. The world around was first filled with loud screams, fierce roarings, as the enemy tried to use everything in their power to stop and defend against the incoming attack.
As for my scattered elite warriors here, I already called them back with a single whim of mine before activating such a terrifying attack.
"Damn! These dudes…" After five days, the light was gone and the world returned to its normal state again. I looked around, and instead of just seeing piles of dead bodies and ruined ground, I saw tons of giants standing in their place, surrounding colossal beings inside.
These were the Exomachines. And right now I realised what role these giants were selected for.
They weren't just here to take the role of offence and be the sweepers, killing who remained of my forces and luckily escaped the worms.
They were here mainly to defend the worms! And just from seeing the worms lying on the ground like colossal snakes, while their bodies were covered up by the giant bodies of these Exomachines, made me realise the enemy didn't miss such an attack from their plans.
They seemed to realise how deadly the offensive ability of my shields was. And so they selected these Exomachines as they were able to stop and shield against such a terrifying attack.
Even I wouldn't say for sure I got the ability to shield against such an attack of mine! I had to use my pillar's shields, releasing tons of them during the past days!
If not for that, even I wouldn't have survived such an attack.
And yet, these Exomachines managed to sustain such pressure and unstoppable force! That was a first! And that opened my eyes wide over the true might of the fiends leading this quest.
They weren't just pushovers as I took them for. They were mighty and scary figures, enough to make me question what they would take next out of their hat.
However… no matter what they devised and planned before, it didn't work out quite well this time.
I forced the worms to come out earlier than they expected. And as for the Exomachines, they already lost lots of their forces against mine. Not to mention a much larger part of them was already entangled with my forces.
Even if my deadly rebound attack from my shields failed to crush these Exomachines, they wouldn't have the chance to step in and save lots of worms in time.
So the scene that was appearing all over the place wasn't that terrifying actually. And that didn't mean the enemy escaped such an attack without getting harmed.
"Oh, and these Exomachines are paralysed… It's just like how my glaive did against them…"
I noticed that despite the end of such a scary attack, these Exomachines didn't move away from the bodies of these worms. Instead, what I thought before as the worms twisting in pain from such an offence was wrong.
They weren't slithering on the ground out of pain, but trying to push the Exomachines away.
Don't tell me these Exomachines were able to harm these worms! Damn! If that was true then…
I knew taking control over the scattered Exomachines wasn't going to work. These were already considered malfunctioned, and wouldn't help me at all.
Chapter 1406 A Problem
Instead, I called over the ones I gave prior orders to break free from all fights and go back to the nearest shields to take cover and asked them to come here.
These dudes seemed to not need my help to sustain the scary attack of mine. However it was also great that they got themselves inside the shields before the start of everything.
Or else I'd end up losing all of my Exomachines, and that would be quite the loss actually.
For a reason, and while waiting for my Exomachines to arrive, the current situation seemed a bit weird.
"It seemed they never expected my attack to be so overpowered!" That was the only explanation for the current situation.
These worms tried their best to get themselves freed from the stupefied and frozen Exomachines. But as these Exomachines were already covering most if not all the body of these worms, the latter couldn't move them away no matter how hard they tried!
They just managed to shake a few off, ending up having deep wounds on their colossal bodies. "So these Exomachines can really harm them… Hahahaha! Thanks for the help dudes, thanks a lot!"
If this kept going on, then these worms would be dead long before they got freed from my Exomachines.
And just as I was watching all this, my personal army off Exomachines came at last from many directions.
"Kill them!" I gave them such an order, ignoring the messages sent by Isac, asking for what to do next.
She already noticed, like others, the same weird situation I noticed. It was the first time for my attack to not kill everyone bathed under it.
And that made them quite puzzled, fearing to get out and end up getting crushed by these worms again.
It was quite expected. Such terror these worms left in their souls was enough to make anyone hesitate to move and meet up with them again.
I didn't send her any orders, and simply watched silently as my growing army of Exomachines hack the bodies of these worms.
And by using their bodies alone, these worms didn't have any chance in front of their brutal strength. Not to mention that weird soul based attack which managed to take a big bite off my soulers, which also dealt a huge damage to these worms.
Seeing this made me confirm my earlier guess. And even so, I didn't hurry to respond to Isac or give her any order.
I moved my attention towards something else. If the worms got themselves wounded while trying to break free, then would it be possible for my normal warriors and forces to take them down?
So I moved my chariot away from the area of activity of my Exomachines, and found a far away group of worms who were trying to escape like others.
Many places of their sturdy bodies were hacked as deep wounds appeared all over them. I summoned my warriors, normal and elites, and asked them to try these worms out.
"So it works! Hahahaha! It works! Hahahahaha!" Just from the early attempts of my warriors, things became clear in my eyes.
These worms had such sturdy defence and indestructible bodies, but once they got wounded, they became like any normal race.
They could get hit, damaged, and their wounds would get deepened. I watched my warriors deepen the already existing wounds, turning them from being deep into being deadly.
[Spread out my order by word] once I confirmed this, I instantly opened the chat with Isac, ignored all her questions and messages, and added:
[Everyone move out, go towards these worms. They are entrapped and can't move. Aim at their wounds, make them deeper, hit them where it really hurts. Don't worry about anything, these worms are already dead]
[Are you sure?!!!] She wouldn't believe what I said without trying. Even I didn't dare to believe such a thing before I saw how the worms got wounded without any way to retaliate.
[Just try and you'll see by yourselves] I knew using words wasn't going to convince her of anything.
And then I closed the chat with her, thought about the entire situation here.
After such great development, the worms were going to get killed. Those who managed to survive the deadly offensive wave of mine were going to get killed thanks to the same thing that saved their lives before.
"Now it's time for me to collect all these sitting ducks," I knew all the tens of millions of Exomachines were now rendered powerless. They got paralysed from the deadly attack of earlier, and thus taking them down wasn't going to be a problem at all.
However there was a main problem here… If they couldn't move, how could I move them around?
[I need something to help me move these Exomachines] I instantly opened the chat with my henchman, Silverlining.
In my eyes, he was like a magician holding his staff. And with waving it around, he could solve any problem without the need for me to worry too much.
[Give me a few hours, I'll find something that can help] He sent, and I got to use this time in dealing with these Exomachines all over the place.
I'd take more than twelve hours to take control of all of them. As for Silverlining, if this dude couldn't help, then I'd simply use my ball technique and absorb all of them into my dark shadow world.
However, taking them there was a bit risky. Anything I sent there would get absorbed into the world if it wasn't already a special item or being.
Exomachines might be special, but I wasn't that sure to take such a risky move. In addition to that, there was another solution as well.
"If I brought my castle here, then I'd use its suction beam and store these things there. It'd be easier to take them around as I can store the castle inside my inventory. However…"
Chapter 1407 A Cube Artefact
I knew such a method would be great, and would solve everything. But there was a catch. The castle had a huge role to play out there in the pocket world. And taking it back would ruin everything.
I was fighting here, but my forces were also fighting back on Earth. If I did such a thing, god only knew what the implications of such a thing would be.
So I had to keep myself from taking back my castle and hope that Silverlining would find me a good way to solve this problem.
I started to move around, using my technique to take all the Exomachines. As for my warriors, I took them out and asked them to kill these worms.
Killing these worms wouldn't just accelerate the speed of controlling this entire region, but it'd also help in another way.
"If I merge these worm bloodlines with my other warriors, then a good thing will come out of this, right?"
This was what I had in mind, and that simple thought made me pretty much excited about doing such a thing.
I worked for five hours straight while receiving constant feedback from Isac.
The first message she sent after five minutes was expressing how excited and shocked she was.
She wasn't the only one feeling like that. Per her words, all the other generals also felt the same.
The result of releasing their warriors over the worms came to shock them pretty much. Such scary and formidable creatures like the worms ended up in such a sorrowful state. That was quite an unbelievable twist in events for all of them.
I could understand what they were thinking about and feeling. These worms were just quite scary to be honest. And it was lucky for me and them to have the enemy plans backfiring at them like this.
If not for that, then a bloody fight would have erupted, one that we would lose too much in and get few in return.
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[I got what you want] And just while I was absorbed in my task, Silverlining sent this message over.
[What did you get me this time?] I was genuinely curious to know what he prepared to solve this problem.
[It's a cube]
[Cube? Are you sure it can help?!!] I asked in doubt, while feeling more confusion about what he said.
[It's a storage artefact, one that can act like an inventory of its own. However…]
I knew there must be a catch for such a thing. [What? Don't tell me it consumes tons of energy!]
[Well, anything in the universe needs energy to properly operate, right?]
Well, I had to admit that he got a point there. And frankly speaking, such a thing didn't matter.
Even if I didn't get a single scrap of gear or bone from all the dead races thanks to the brutal nature of my last attack, I still got tons of bones left.
This attack wasn't like any other attack I released before. It was on a whole new level, not only killing the races, but turning their bodies into nothing.
So I couldn't find a single dead body, nor a gear that I could use. The gears vanished, as if they never existed in the first place.
[Ok, how much will it cost me?] I got over this point and focused more on closing up this deal.
[Well, the price isn't an issue here] he sent such weird words before explaining later on, [The sovereign who owns this artefact wants part of your loot]
Again! Damn! These Toranks are really greedy! Were they merchants in their past lives or what?
[How much did he ask for?]
[Fifty percent]
[No deal!] I didn't even take a single second to drop such an offer. It was too much to begin with. And if he sought out such a high opening price to bargain, he got to know I wasn't that desperate or clueless to begin with!
Starting with fifty percent? What? Did he want to get thirty or forty percent of my Exomachines like this? With just paying me a single artefact?
Even if such an artefact would solve this problem here for me, it wasn't enough at all to accept such a staggering offer from him. If such artefact would be used later on, then I'd consider giving him a good piece of the cake.
But this was like a one time usage artefact! I would never accept such an offer.
[He says you are out of options here] it seemed that dude was next to my dude.
[Tell him this, I got a perfect solution for my problem. Even if I had to suck these into somewhere else, where they might get scrapped in the end, then I'll do it instead of just giving others more than they deserve!]
It was my hard work, pal! And he just wanted to get such a high amount without even breaking a single bead of sweat!
[This…]
[I'm not bluffing!] I put a serious expression on my face, [Tell him this, either he'll accept my bones, or this deal is off]
[Give me a minute] I didn't want to call back my castle, not when there was a solution for such a problem already.
However if that solution would cost me too much, then screw it! I kept controlling the Ecomachines before finally that dude compiled.
[He agreed]
[Fine] I sent the agreed payment of my dark realm bones and in return got that artefact.
Silverlining wasn't lying, it was indeed a small cube. Its method to use was simple, as I should pour energy into it and it'd either suck in things in a certain radius that was related to my energy input, or release stored things from inside.
It'd take energy to keep it running and holding things inside. The good point here was that such an artefact didn't have any limit to the number of things stored inside.
It was like a portable inventory, and it worked on my energy instead of the energy of the world.
Chapter 1408 The Miraculous Effect Of The Cube
I tested and it consumed one dark realm bone in return for covering up an entire area of ten miles radius. And when I used it, I realised something new that wasn't written in its description.
"Oh, so it can take in anything, no matter if it belonged to me or not!" I just tested it around and there were few worms entrapped by the Exomachines.
Everything in that area got sucked dry, and I found out that I could control anything getting inside. In brief, it could force any race inside to sign a contract with me, as their will was bound and limited by the cube.
I saw this as a great method without doubt! Against races like fiends, worms, and Exomachines, I'd end up having all under the tips of my finger once I stored them inside this cube!
And that wasn't all!
"These worms… They were moved inside while getting separated from these Exomachines…" When I poured my consciousness inside that cube, I found out that this cube was like a huge barren world.
This world had no limit, and was surrounded by fog that kept swirling all the time. On the land, cells that kept everything I took inside were kept in an isolated way.
I tried, and when I took out a worm, it roared and seemed to want to revoke the contract I enforced on it. However in the end, it complied and followed my will and orders.
"Roll on the ground… Raise your tail and put it in your mouth…" I kept giving such funny orders, and the worm complied at the spot.
"Hahahaha! This… This is just great!" I knew how huge such a thing was. [Stop everything! Just start fortifying the entire region, and turn it into our turf]
[What about the worms? We only killed a small amount of them!]
[Just stop doing this and focus on fortifying this region!] I would never let such a precious loot slip by my hands. All these worms would end up under my control. And that alone was enough to make my heart jump in my chest!
As for these Exomachines, I'd simply leave them inside that cube. That cube… Hahahahaha! I got it cheap while it had such a heaven shaking effect!
[Fine! You are the lord, and you surely know what you are doing, right?/]
[Don't question me. Just do as I say and everything will be fine] as such matters got solved, it was time to prepare to leave this world, [Make enough defences here. I'll give you five days, after that we'll leave here and jump to another world]
[Ok]
I gave her five days, which wasn't enough indeed to fortify such a place. However it was enough to see what my enemies had in mind.
If they were dead fixed at dealing with me here, then they'd move more forces and come at us. All their forces in this territory and at a grand area around got wiped out successfully.
Using the cube made my task quite easy and fast. I only needed to pour dark realm bones inside it and it'd work like magic. I once tried and placed one thousand bones into it, and yet its area of coverage didn't exceed a hundred mile radius.
I knew this was its limit. And it wasn't quite bad actually. I kept working and travelling around for one day, and I got everything covered. At the end, I got a large pile of loot inside the cube.
The number of Exomachines was in the tens of millions, exceeding fifty million easily. As for my worms, I got almost a thousand of them.
It wasn't that much indeed, and wasn't even one tenth of what the enemy released on my forces here, but it was still quite great.
A single worm was enough to bring headache to my enemies back at the apocalypse. I didn't plan on using these worms here, but back on Earth.
These one thousand worms would be my deadly weapon against all my enemies. With them, my confidence in controlling the entire world grew to a new level.
After finishing doing this, I still have four days left. And so I started to first roam the region, looking at what my forces were doing. And they were doing just fine.
"Time to scout this world," I knew leaving behind forces in this region wasn't going to work if the enemy decided to take it back.
Just seeing these Exomachines and worms was enough to make me realise how quite resourceful the enemy was.
Trying to underestimate them might backfire at me. So as I had almost four days left, I started to move my chariot outside the region.
The same sight of cleanly swept ground was present for tens of miles around the region. The first different thing I spotted was at least two hundred miles away, and it was a remnant of what was a huge fortification base here.
"My attack this time didn't just affect a fixed zone, but expanded and affected what lied beyond," as I flew for tens of miles more, I spotted such a scene quite frequently.
It seemed the attack either released a weaker form of it around, or exploded before vanishing, affecting regions it never covered before.
Seeing all this made me quite relieved actually. If an enemy came, we could spot it from hundreds of miles away.
Besides, the enemy lost all the huge fortifications that kept causing trouble to my forces from time to time. And the enemy would be totally exposed without anything to support them in their offence.
They couldn't hide, sneak on my forces here, and had to fight like they were naked! That was the perfect result I'd dream about.
But after flying for almost one hundred miles, I finally spotted an intact base of the enemy.
And there I found tons of forces starting to gather up, seemingly ready to do something.