Chapter 1529 Thinking About A Plan
"You are right," I nodded in agreement, "I'll do my best then."
It came down at the end to me. I got to solve all this and lead everyone to victory.
It was just like what she already said earlier, it was all down to me to carry them all towards the end. And for a moment there, I couldn't tell if she was joking or telling the truth from the beginning.
Or she just got a bit lucky or something.
"I'll go now tiger to do my stuff. Make sure to give them hell. At the end of all this, we can all sit around the fire and celebrate our victory, laughing to our heart's content about all this."
"Sure, good luck," I didn't know why but for a moment there, she changed. She looked a bit mature, more mature than what I initially thought or knew about her.
For a reason, I felt like she got something taken off her chest when she heard about what I learnt. She looked as if what I said gave her a final hope, a glimpse of hope of getting freed from all this hell.
And such hope made her look and act like this, like someone totally alien to me.
But I liked this version of her more than the old one!
"Ok, time to think about what to do," I rubbed my hands while looking at her shadow getting far away.
I knew more of my forces and generals would arrive here with the merge. And that alone was enough to stabilise everything at the early clashes.
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I wouldn't just get my forces and generals back, but also my capital, my kingdom, my allied races, and also my enemies.
I get lots of things in one package. And no matter how I looked at it, losing this war was going to be damn hard for me to do, even if I wanted to do it on purpose, I'd eventually fail!
So there was no need for me to worry about my forces here or scattered at the worlds and zones in this universe. I got to worry about something else.
The enemy made sure to select one of his home base worlds as the one to be the centre of the merge.
So it was safe to assume that the forces coming here, the ones that would be at the worlds getting merged, would all have tons of forces.
And the enemy must have a way to link all these worlds together, helping in moving out his troops and armies, the same as me.
In other words, the real fight was going to be between me and them, my forces versus theirs. If it was just a battle of numbers and armies, then I wouldn't have any need to worry.
But if I was the enemy, then the first thing I'd make sure to do was to gather up most of the incoming forces, let them all get focused and stationed at the worlds that had the bombs.
The enemies weren't fools. They already noticed how my forces looked and acquired parts of these bombs.
And so I was going to aim for these bombs from the start. And they would move all their forces to safeguard these bombs from me.
I didn't know how big their reinforcements were going to be, but I got to assume the worst.
"I shall expect lands and skies filled with endless enemies and forces I never heard of before," I took a deep breath, while considering my options here.
With the cube, my beloved and magical cube, I could suck in any forces and turn them to my side in no time.
I also got my techniques, my warriors, and even the long missed access to my second Earth world.
All this was enough to make me enough to face them and fight evenly with these folks. But for a reason there, I felt like the enemy wasn't going to let me have my chance to do any of that.
"They saw me do lots of things here. And they always came up with something to negate my abilities and powers. If they found a way to stop me from using my cube, interfering with my threads, then things would be on the shoulders of whoever got the most force here."
It was something that I didn't want to see. After all, I wasn't aiming to annihilate all the enemy forces out there. I wanted to infiltrate their forces, go deep into their lands, and look for these bombs.
"Looking for the bombs is another headache that I have to solve as well…" I realised that even if I did infiltrate their heavily fortified lands, everything would end up quite bad as long as I didn't come up with a way to detect these bombs.
"My mirror world helped in revealing the secrets of these bombs… Can it also help in detecting them?"
I looked around, and decided to give such a theory a try.
I got more than two days left before the merge would be over. If I could find a way to solve this problem, then things would shift for the better for me.
At least I'd know where these bombs were, target their locations, kill the enemy out there and fortify the area around.
As for how to get them out, well… I would get the help from another card I missed all this time; my research department.
Up till now, I didn't need to use any of the weapons this department invented. And when the merge would be over, I'd give them the task of making gigantic drilling gears, enough to dig deep and fast into the toughest rocks and any kind of terrain.
[Make sure after the merge is over to send someone over the research department at the second Earth world]
[And?]
[Let them make out as many drilling gears as they could. I want the biggest, strongest, the fastest gears they can ever make! Let them take this matter as top priority!]
[Got it!]
Chapter 1530 [Bonus Chapter] The Bombs Dilemma
I knew if I let them think things over and take their time in making these gears, then they might need a week or so to get what I wanted.
But when I recalled the time difference between the second Earth world and any other world I was in, I couldn't help but heave a deep sigh.
"I truly missed such a thing!" I muttered while feeling like I was a grandpa who was about to see his long missed and beloved grandsons and daughters.
As I thought about my second Earth world, I couldn't help but think about everything I got prepared out there.
I worked for a long time to turn that world into a formidable military base. There were tons of races there, with many forces of different origins. Hell I even got monsters under the lead of that playful dude, little Qi!
I got lots of things out there, and I prepared them for the last battle to win the apocalypse. But right now things already changed, and that assumed battle got moved up front, ending up happening in such a way that I never expected.
But that didn't mean I wasn't prepared. Hell no! I got all the things that anyone would need to win any war, no matter who the enemy was, no matter how long it took.
I sucked in a deep breath, thinking about everything under a new light. Yes, I wasn't that powerless, and this war came out of the blue, but that didn't mean I got nothing to do about it.
If the enemies thought they were well prepared, if they thought they'd take me out by surprise, then I beg to differ!
All I needed to do now was to wait for this merge to get over, and then start receiving intel about how the new world looked like.
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"The merge will happen on different stages, and that means I don't have to wait for it to get over before moving out… Unless my luck is bad, and this zone ends up being the last one to join the merge…"
I knew this was a very low possibility. There were many worlds getting to merge here, more than one hundred worlds including the worlds here.
That meant the chance of my ground zero zone to be the last to join the merge was less than one in the hundredth. And that made me resume my work again, defuse all the bombs my forces brought over here.
It took me roughly half a day to finish doing this. And after doing this, I got to find time at last to test things out.
"I have to find a way to find these bombs fast," I muttered, while looking at the bombs around.
*Bang!* *Bang!* *Bang!*
As I decided that, I started to dig the ground using my glaive. I wanted to leave a few bombs scattered under the ground, and try to find them using my mirror world.
In my mirror world, these bombs started to show few changes for the first time ever. And that meant something there must have resonated or triggered something at these bombs.
I hoped these bombs would show a change when I got into my mirror world. If so, then finding these bombs wouldn't be an impossible issue like before.
It took me roughly five hours to dig twenty different spots, leaving the bombs there at different depths, with the deepest one out there reaching to a few thousand metres.
Then I buried these holes and left the bombs down there. I didn't need to dig them out, as they were already inactivated for the time being.
"I can ask Lily later to dig these places and take the bombs out," I muttered when I considered the possibility of reactivating these bombs at some point.
I already deactivated these bombs, and so anyone could store them inside their inventory if they wanted to.
So there was no risk in leaving such a task over to my capable people.
"Time to see if this will work or not," I closed my eyes, took in a deep breath, before finally starting my dance, entering into my mirror world.
And their things looked quite the same.
"I shouldn't go and look for them personally," I knew I could just move around, let my mirror world cover the region these bombs were.
Inside my mirror world, the physical presence of anything was gone. And that allowed me to move freely even in the depths of any ground, at any depths I wanted.
But that also meant I had to look personally and search manually for these bombs. I didn't want that. I needed something to help me find these bombs without the need to take too long to do so.
So I ignored such a way, leaving it as my last resort, one that I didn't want to end up using after all. I looked around, and no matter how I looked, I couldn't find anything.
The ground all around kept fading away slowly before recondensing again. I grew used to how the world here worked and looked like. And despite that, I couldn't see any bombs at all.
I knew where I buried these bombs, but I didn't want to go directly there. I wanted to see if I could do something, instigate anything at these bombs, ending up getting them shining or releasing something like a beacon for me to see.
If I managed to do that, then I could see the place of any bomb no matter how far it was from me, no matter where it got buried at, no matter how deep it lay under the ground.
I started to think deeply about things here. The bombs got to show a change the moment I took them inside this world… Why?
Why did they act in this way? The first answer that popped in my mind was related to the nature of this world.
Chapter 1531 The Secret Gets Uncovered!
"Is it time? Is it time that affected them? Or something else?" I was confused, and lacked lots of intel to make even a single guess.
But if it was time, then I should think about a way to extend time from here and reach the world outside.
How could I do it then? I was confined inside my world here. How could I let the time ability here affect the real world outside?
"These cracking lines… They got to expand at the mirror surface… Do they have something to do with that perhaps?" I thought about the cracks spreading all over the world from my body when I got to move. These cracks spread out like long and irregular lines all over the mirror surface.
So… Could I use these to do it? And what function did all these cracks and thread-like lines have?
-n0ve1,com I felt like I was missing something important here. And in less than a few minutes of deep thoughts, I finally got to link things together.
"Damn! It's just like my technique threads… Does that mean I can control them using my technique? Don't tell me… These threads aren't naturally formed here in the first place, and it was all linked to my technique!"
I came to such a bold conclusion. My technique was based on my shadow powers, my access to the shadow world.
Shadow world was a unique world that was weirdly similar to the mirror world here in general basics.
If the two were the same in general principles, would that mean they could affect and impact each other? Would the cracks here get formed out of the threads of my technique?
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I didn't hesitate anymore. And instead of thinking about this, I started to test things out.
In the next moment I started to do my first and most basic technique. Once the technique formed, things started to greatly change out here.
The cracks that appeared as if they were some sort of an anomaly or something started to change. Instead of being cracks that spread out of my body moving around, they changed and formed lines, the same lines that appeared on the surface of the mirror.
And the ones that spread over the mirror surface started to show changes as well. They began to twist, shift in shape and appearance, looking like thick arms, snakes that were crawling over the surface of that mirror.
And that wasn't all! The moment I activated my technique, I felt a deep connection with all of the threads, lines, and arms all around.
If I wanted, I could easily manipulate them, change their shape and size, either condensing them together or breaking them into many smaller threads and arms.
I could also control their movement, making them turn right or left. And when I tried, they failed to penetrate through the mirror and go to the outer world.
However…
"Damn! It worked! Hahahaha! These threads can't go through the mirror, but they can merge with it! And this… I can easily feel anything out in the real world!"
It was a feeling I never felt before. It was like I was a god, a real god, looking down on mortals in the outside world.
I tried to let my threads go through the surface of the mirror. But they failed. And in return for such failure, they blended and merged with the mirror, giving me the power to feel and sense everything outside.
It felt like I got two minds at the same time, one that was present here, and the other was connected to the world outside, seeing everything happening there.
The range of my new perception expanded to cover up hundreds of miles in radius. That made me like I was standing on thousands of miles, ending up overseeing the world down below like how real god should do.
Damn! It was such an awesome feeling, one that I didn't want to lose at all!
But… This was still not enough!
"I need to see if I can find these bombs out there or what…" I tried to look around, to spot these bombs. I already could see through anything out there, like I got millions of eyes, millions of ears, and tons of sensing tentacles to feel everything out there.
I precisely knew where these bombs were, but tried to not go directly and look for them out there. I wanted them to stir up something, give me something to notify me of their presence.
"Tsk! It still doesn't work… What am I missing here?" I tried, but no matter what I couldn't see anything different or special about the areas these bombs were buried under.
I tried to think about everything I knew about these bombs, to finally spot what I missed here.
"How come I forgot about this? Anything related to these bombs must include energy! A shocking amount of energy was needed either to activate or defuse them… Then a similar amount of energy is needed to stir these bombs and let them show themselves, right?"
I slapped my forehead when I reached such a conclusion. It was a pretty simple thing, but I totally missed it.
I looked at the world outside, to the threads connecting me with that world using the mirror surface… Then my eyes shifted towards the threads coming out from my technique… And lastly I stopped over my technique.
"So… It's all connected together, and all came down to my technique… Interesting…" It was very simple for me to control my technique and gush lots of energy inside. It'd just take me a few bones to do it, and hopefully things would turn out quite good in the end.
I filled my chariot with my bones, dark realm bones, and started to absorb them. I felt the gush of pure energy getting inside my body, before releasing all towards my right hand holding that technique of mine.
The energy went into the technique, then into the threads, all the way to the mirror surface and beyond. The moment that happened, the moment the gush of pure energy arrived beyond the mirror, new things appeared!
Chapter 1532 Finally Finding A Way!
It was as if I was looking at the world in the middle of the night, and then morning came out fast and the sun rose high in the middle of the sky.
The world around started to look shinier than before, with new colours appearing and many sparkling items all over the place.
"This… Don't tell me these colours refer to the ores and gems hidden inside the ground!" I couldn't help but think back to one of the trivial comments Lily mentioned when I spoke about leaving the homebase worlds of the enemy.
She told me that they found lots of ores in these worlds when they dug the ground to look for these bombs. And from the different shimmering colours that appeared in shining ways all around the world, filling my eyes with a myriad of lights like it was a festival of something, I couldn't help but think about that comment of hers.
There was another thing that I noticed. These lights came from different depths in the ground, as if the ground out there turned all dark and translucent, showing things deep down it, things buried deep below the surface.
I could finally see new stuff in the world out there. But that didn't mean I was happy.
"It's f*cking glaring with lights! What the hell does this place get formed of? Lights and nothing else or what?" I got frustrated, as everything was shining brightly in front of my eyes.
I could see lots of things at the same time, and yet couldn't differentiate which belonged to what! Without knowing what was special about these bombs, then I got to do all this for nothing.
"Ok… Ok… I need to think again then…" I took repeated deep breaths, before finally deciding to think again about everything.
I did everything right so far. I used an immense amount of energy, gushed it through my technique, and that instigated such change all over the outer world.
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But that didn't end up helping me at all. I have to find another way, or modify things here.
"Wait… I shall go to these bomb locations and see if there is something special about them," it suddenly hit me. I already buried lots of bombs under the ground, and I knew precisely where these locations were.
So why should I think about another method or even modify this one when I didn't yet check on their locations?
I moved my eyes fast, and focused over the spots I buried these bombs at. And like I expected, something looked a bit different out there.
"These bombs… They are shining brightly like pure stars in the sky!" I couldn't control my shock, while looking at these bombs on the ground.
They didn't look like any bomb at all, but like real stars shining blazingly bright in the middle of the night.
Such a discovery made me quite excited. At last! At last these f*cking bastards showed something unique about them.
However… when I looked at these stars shining brightly down there from close up, I could easily identify them. But when I shifted my gaze upwards, I missed them in the middle of all the blazing lights around.
It was like a total wreck of lights, a mess that would blind anyone and lead me astray.
"Hmm… I hope this can help… Hawk Eye!" I got just this skill out there to see through things far from me.
"Agh! What the f*ck…?!!!" However, the moment I activated my skill, things didn't look any better at all. They looked much worse actually!
This skill magnified everything in my eyes, making the lights shine brighter, blinding me deeper, and bringing immense pain.
"Dammit! I have to find another way then," I instantly deactivated this annoying skill. I could feel that my overall coverage area expanded after using it, but the cost it brought was something I couldn't control or handle.
Now what? I finally managed to spot these stars, find something quite special about them. But that didn't solve anything in the end!
The bombs would be easily missed amidst such a tsunami of lights out there. I got to find a way to guide my eyes out there, find only the lights that mattered, the ones related to the bombs only.
"Wait a minute… I can bring bombs back here… Can I use my threads, and try to use them as a guide?" I suddenly thought about this, and couldn't help but instantly cancel everything, get out, and bring a few bombs back.
I never tried to do such a thing before. However these bombs were already deactivated, easily to handle and deal with. So there was no risk in trying this out.
I left the bombs on the deck of my chariot, and activated my technique next. I got enough bones out, and started to absorb them.
This time, I didn't hurry to merge the threads with the surface of the mirror. Instead, I moved them carefully like tentacles, touching these bombs, and trying to avoid places where the bomb could detonate from.
Even if the bombs were all inactive, they were still bombs. And to not risk anything, I didn't try out my luck and avoided all the dangerous spots over these bombs' surfaces.
"This…" and the moment I did that, nothing actually happened. But when I sent more threads out to the mirror surface, ending up merging with it, things started to change abruptly from there.
The lights that were filling my entire vision seemed to suddenly pale greatly. This time, my eyes weren't blinded like before.
And that came at the same time when I felt a few blazing lights, brightly shining stars that were situated back inside the mirror world.
It was weird, but for unknown reason, the lights all over the world dimmed compared to the lights coming from these stars.
"They actually are affecting the outside world… Dimming anything and everything that isn't a bomb like them… Yes!"
Chapter 1533 It's Going To Be Hard
I shouted in triumph! After a long time of testing, after many repeated failures, at last I managed to find the right formula, the right way to do it!
In front of my eyes, and all over the world down there, all the lights faded and dimmed, all but the ones coming from these bombs.
And they didn't just come from the ones buried underground, but also from the ones that were on the surface as well. I could clearly see all of them, every single bomb of the ones I got out there.
I laughed, laughed from the bottom of my heart. This might look like a trivial breakthrough, but it meant a lot to me.
It meant a lot in the entire course of this war! Like this, I could finally enter this war without any issues or worries at all.
The most terrifying thing I feared, the most important chip in the enemy's hands… It got simply negated, simply deleted, just like that.
All I needed to do was to infiltrate the deep enemy lines, go where the enemy homelands lied, and start using this method.
I could easily pinpoint the places of any bomb in a zone of thousands of miles. No matter where these bombs lay, be it tens of thousands of metres underground, be in the deep layers of oceans and seas… Not a single bomb would get away from my clutches, not a single one, hahahaha!
This… It was my indisputable win!
As I finally solved such a problem, I kept playing a little, testing how I'd see these bombs from far away.
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So I exited my mirror world, started to travel thousands of miles away. Every now and then, I'd stop, enter my mirror world, and start to test things out.
I could always see the shimmering like bright stars in the middle of the dark night even from this far. I didn't even need to use my HawkEye skill to see up to five thousand miles far from the places of the bombs.
And then I started to find it hard to spot them.
"My Hawk Eye skill… Yes, it can help to increase the reach of my method…"
I didn't hesitate and activated my eye skill. As I guessed, the moment it got activated, the hard to spot stars from far got much clearer. It looked as if a thick grey cloud just hovered over the sky, blocking the light of the far away stars. And then by using the skill, this cloud got pushed away.
I didn't stop there. I kept travelling, crossing hundreds of miles, testing everything every one hundred miles.
"So… This skill adds one thousand miles of distance for me… It's not that bad…" I finally started to find it hard to notice the far away bombs after crossing one thousand extra miles.
That meant that by using my skill, I could scan the world in front of my eyes for a six thousand mile radius.
It was something great indeed. And I kept doing and pushing my method to the limit thanks to a single purpose.
I knew right now I got all the time in the world to do whatever I wanted. But in the middle of a hectic and brutal, bloody battle, doing this would be risky.
I wouldn't get many chances to do it, and the moment I'd try it out, I was sure the enemy wouldn't give me just the time needed to check everything slowly.
So I got to increase the coverage of this skill no matter what. And six thousand miles might look like some big distance, but in fact it wasn't!
Considering the colossal sizes of any world before the merge, I knew this was just like one hundredth of the entire world's area, or worse than that.
So that meant I got to try this method at least one hundred times in the middle of all the fighting I was going to have.
And to do this over almost seven worlds? Damn! That was some kind of over pushing thing.
However… I got to do it. And once I finished testing and playing, I returned back to the central area of ground zero, started to think about the best strategy to attack the enemy later on.
The enemy already saw most of my tricks. They weren't stupid, and as I took advantage of this few days' time to prepare for the bomb threat, they were also going to prepare for me.
I experienced how they analysed my way to penetrate through the portals and antagonised this using shields. I also saw them bring forth scary troops to defend against my technique, my explosive bones, and even my soulers and elite and top forces.
That was enough to let me think they were going to prepare some kind of hard to crack and fight against countermeasures for all of my strong points.
"I have to deal with it like they have a way to stop all of my killing moves, even the cube…" when I thought like this, I got how it was going to be hard to fight against them.
"Wait a minute… Who said I have to kill them all?" and for a moment there, I totally froze in my place. My eyes shone brightly when I realised how deeply wrong my thoughts and plans drifted away from the real target I should have focused on.
"I have to infiltrate them, not take all the trouble to fight and kill them… And that changes everything!"
I knew the task of me here changed from having to fight and kill, to just defend and keep myself alive while pushing deep inside their ranks.
When I thought about this, when I saw things under new lights, everything changed!
Instead of focusing on how to use my cards and shuffle them to invent a new offensive tactic, I got to think about how to defend and keep alive.
"I got my chariot's shield, my pillar's shields, and these two are enough to keep myself alive in front of any enemy…"
Chapter 1534 I'm Not Your Secretary!
The more I thought about it, the more I saw hope. I also got my board artefact, and my other cards like my technique and cube.
"I can use my bubble tactic, either by throwing inside explosive bones to keep the enemies inside busy or killing them. I also can use my bubbles to disturb the enemy lineup formation, breaking any strong and formidable armies into shreds… And in the middle of any mess, I could just wait on the side, hunt for chances and opportunities the moment they'd present themselves to me…"
This was a very good tactic to be honest. Like this, I'd start off using defensive measures, either to trap, kill, or even disturb the enemy ranks.
Then by doing so, the enemy would lose their cool, and the end result would be quite expected for sure. The enemy who thought he got me in his fingers would panic and lose much of control over his plan and forces.
And when that would happen, mistakes would present themselves. And all I got to do was to just lay in wait, and take advantage of any chance once it presented itself.
I got many offensive cards, and they were enough to cover up most if not all scenarios that would pop up at such a battle.
"The only drawback of this is the time consumption… This plan is good but it will handle things slowly for sure. But… I have no other choice, right?"
I wanted to strike like lightning, quite deadly and fast. I planned to land over my enemies, hit them hard, seek the bombs, and extract them as fast as possible.
But with this new tactic, doing things this way wouldn't follow such a set up. I got to accept a major delay in doing all this. And in return for that, I got to do this on two different steps.
The first move shouldn't be to look for bombs, but to look for the ways the enemy would use to trigger and activate them. I didn't need to take down everything, but destroying most of their preparations was enough to delay them greatly.
And like this, I'd buy more time for me to do the second task, looking for bombs and extracting them.
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*Rumble!*
Just when I was lost in my thoughts, a weird flashing light appeared, before a loud rumbling occurred.
And this was just the first sign, and then many rumblings and explosions started to come one after another.
"Damn! It's starting already!" I checked, and the entire ground was shining in a weird golden light. It seemed like something was about to happen, like a volcanic eruption that would sweep away the entire zone I was in.
[It's happening! The merge is happening!]
[Chill out already! Aren't you old enough to not get surprised by such things?] I sent it in response to Lily's message.
Of course I knew the merge was happening at this zone. And that meant I could start moving out once it was done.
[I'm just excited about the start of the big and final war, dummy!]
[Humph! As if you are the one who is going to do the most troublesome task here] I turned my eyes towards the bombs that I defused before, and started to store them inside my inventory.
[We are also going to fight! And it will be an epic one, one that would make great tales for our kids]
[Your kids! Girl, don't add me to your family!]
[Tsk! As if I'm interested in you or something!] I knew she got something for me, but she was still acting aloof and arrogant, refusing to admit it, [You already got your girls! Hilary! Angelica! What do you want me for? Just adding one more girl to your long list of admirers and lovers?]
[Let's continue such talk later on] I had to avoid speaking about such a topic, [As if we didn't even try each other out before!]
[Bad boy! You are indeed a bully! I'm going to do my stuff, better than speaking to someone like you!]
I closed the chat with her while laughing. If she was in front of me right now, I was sure her face would grow all red out of embarrassment.
This girl… What a fine girl she was! If not for my curse, I'd go and secure her for myself without any hesitation.
However, as she got her stuff to do, I also got mine. I first checked on the situation inside my inventory.
"I got tons of bones… But I never got dull or bored from these. More bones meant more power, more opportunities… I hope to have some spare time, go around and collect bones from all over the place at some point…"
I got not only bones, but lots of other stuff that I never found any use for. Things like gears were pretty damn useless to me. Aside from these, I also got tons of useless monster materials out there.
I used to crave for these materials when I was at the early days of the apocalypse. Damn! It felt like this happened a long time ago, as if this was another lifetime, for someone that didn't belong to me.
Putting these aside, I looked at the more useful tokens. I got tons of these, and despite seeing such an insane amount of them, I still felt like this wasn't enough.
"Hey dude, how long is this merge going to take?"
[Why are you asking me? Do you take me for your secretary or what?]
"Clever higher up, big shot dude indeed," I laughed, teasing that dude, "I want to know how long I have before the start of the big war."
[Tsk! I don't know why fate decided to give us such an annoying dude! And from a no named race on top of that!]
"Can't you just simply answer me and let the two of us handle our things then?"
[Alright, it will take ten hours]
Chapter 1535 I Got A New Race!
"Cool!" I constantly shifted my attention towards something else. "My soul points… Damn! Since when I got three zeroes beside the billion? Hahahaha! I got rich! Just in time for a crazy experiment!"
I got ten hours, and during which I'd not be able to do anything much.
So why won't I use this time and start doing something useful? For example, I'd start merging a few bloodlines together and see the final result. For example, could I summon a new army of terrifying races, be it an old one or a newly formed one from the merge?
This time I got to consider the upcoming battle up ahead. "I got the Bulltors and shield bearer souls… If I merged both with the soulers, then what kind of races I'll get?"
I wanted a race that was strong at offence and defence. Soulers were already hellish killers, one who was enough to take down any enemy no matter who it was.
Even if they faced a hindrance or an obstacle, they were enough to kill this dude after flashing for many times attacking him.
But that didn't mean they were invincible. In fact, they got killed many times already, ending up losing too much of their numbers on many occasions.
The battles I was going to get into were going to be quite bloody and brutal. If they were left to fight without having any defensive cards added up to them, then the loss I was going to have was going to be quite severe.
My best choice was to merge them with a race that was adept and quite special in defence. That put the shield bearers at the top of my choice list. And then the Bulltors came next.
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These two were considered as hellish defensive troops I got. If the end race was having the best out of these bloodlines, then things were destined to end up quite great for me.
I wanted to roam the entire enemy lands and look for bombs, but that also meant I needed to establish strong bases at the places I spotted, leaving behind my forces out there to dig the ground and take out all the bombs hidden underground.
To do so, I needed to leave tons of troops alone for a long time. And to be honest, I didn't trust any troops to stand their ground without my presence.
It was impossible and quite impractical for me to babysit any forces I'd leave behind. Or else this was going to take a long time without doubt.
I should just focus more on strengthening the forces I'd leave behind, or else things would end quite bad in the end.
The only other option I got was to just ask Isac to join up and help me in building defences all over the places I spotted bombs at.
But that wasn't even possible.
To do so, I'd need to move tons of materials, working hands, and also provide enough protection for all these to build up fortresses and defences.
And even if I managed to do all that, in the end things would end up quite bad. After all, we were going to do all this in the heart of the enemy mainlands, their territories, where tons of forces would be present, alongside hellish amounts of weapons and offensive and defensive preparations.
That was indeed quite illusional if I wanted this to work. Not to mention it'd consume lots of time in the end.
So I had no other option but to throw away an endless number of warriors in these zones and pray this was going to work.
-n0ve1,com And that was why doing this merge, finding a new breed of warriors, a race that could handle both offence and defence quite efficiently was a must.
"Please… Let it succeed…" I prayed while starting to merge the soulers and reapers bloodlines with the shield bearers and Bulltors in many attempts.
The initial attempts all failed! The end result focused more on either one of these bloodlines, not taking the best of each race and adding these up into the new one.
For example, I ended up having a new race that could flash and pass through opponents. It was just like the soulers, but not as deadly and lethal as them.
They could just pass through things, then use the brutal physical strength of Bulltors to fight the enemy.
They didn't affect the enemy souls or even impact them in any way. Another failed attempt gave me the deadly nature of the soulers, by absorbing the enemies' souls, but they lacked any defensive or high speed movement.
They got slightly better in overall physical strength, but not enough to satisfy my high standards. And in return for that, I kept testing, doing this merge one time after another, even trying out new souls.
I got the Hectors and Dragons souls and bloodlines stored as well. And so I tried out everything, even trying to merge more than two bloodlines together at many times.
"At last!" and after many failed attempts, after close to seven hours of doing so without getting a satisfied result, I got a race that suited my needs.
It was the result of merging the Soulers, Dragons, Bulltors, Shield bearers, and Hectors together in one race. The new race got many benefits, like it got a sturdy layer of shell like beads that covered almost their whole bodies. And underneath this, another muscular layer came, covering their bodies and adding another layer of protection.
Not to mention this added more strength to the overall power and might of this race. They could flash forward, pass through anything, absorb the souls of their enemies, and kill them.
This meant they got many weapons up their sleeve, ones that could take down any opponent using pure might or the unbelievable soul absorbing ability of the soulers.
On top of all that, they got wings! That meant they could fly and fight in the sky, making them the quiet force that I needed.
Chapter 1536 The Kings Race
The only drawback of this was their price… "I have to spend fifty thousand per single one of these… But what shall I name them?"
The system gave me the option of naming such a new race. And to do so, I got to think of a nice name, suiting this scary race.
They got a myriad of skills, ones that gathered up all the good traits of all the races merged together to form this new one.
For example, they could use fire and wind elements in attack, moving fast, plus defence. They also got some sort of a combined skill, just like the shield bearers did.
They could roar, and their roars got a stunning effect for a certain radius. They even could use their fire and establish a trap that could trap inside many of the enemies.
"They can attack, defend, set the setting to trap enemies inside for others to come forward and kill them… They can fight on the ground, and in the sky… And who knows… They may even fight underground and underwater!"
I couldn't help but think that this race should be the cornerstone of my future formidable armies. And thus I got to think of a name, one that suited their might and terrifying abilities and strength.
"I should call them the Kings!" I muttered to myself, while finding such a name quite irritating for the enemies. Imagine they were going to fight against Kings! Wouldn't they be a little intimidated and scared by the name?
[Do you want to call them the Kings?]
"Sure, why not? Let's name it the Kings!"
[You got a very bad taste in naming things!]
"Just use it, I love it!" I didn't listen to any of the higher up complaints. He wasn't the one inventing this new force, and I just liked the name.
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[Ok! You are the one who owns them. So they'll be named as the Kings]
"Thanks," I laughed, "now let's summon as many of these as possible…"
The initial high price of them wouldn't stop me. Right now, my soul count reached a staggering and terrifying figure of three zeros after a billion. That meant I could summon around one billion of them!
"Five hundred million is enough," I decided to just consume half of my soul points and summon a terrifying army of these, "let's see what the first warrior of these Kings look like."
*Fwoosh!*
The next moment I summoned just one, and called him out. In front of me, a bellow of wild fire appeared, one that wasn't any lesser than the fire surrounding my Lucas.
"White fire surrounding a giant of ten metres in height at least… Bulging muscles like Dragons and Bulltors, a naturally formed shield like the shield bearer… That's what I call a f*cking elite force, hahahaha!"
In front of me, a terrifying giant appeared, surrounded by a massive amount of white fire. He held a giant shield, one that looked like a giant wall or something.
He had shimmering silver eyes, face covered in fine scales like the Dragons. Despite being surrounded by fire, I could still see lots of his features and details.
His chest was covered with naturally formed armour. It was covered in fine lines that seemed to draw out something, but I couldn't tell what it was. It wasn't really a picture, but a mix of many tree branches coming together to cover the surface of that armour.
He stood there, motionless, while floating on the ground by a few inches. He didn't have wings, but he could still float, and that meant he could fly without wings.
"God… Thanks for creating me!" and as I checked him, he also checked me for a few seconds. Then he knelt to the ground, saying these words as his greetings to me.
"I'm not your god, I'm your lord," I corrected him, "let me grant you a name… Arthur! You are going to be King Arthur, my King Arthur."
"Thanks lord," he knelt again, expressing his gratitude about granting him a name, "what can I do for lord?"
"Pretty anxious dude you are, I like you, hahahaha!" I was excited to use this new force out, send them all over the incoming grand battlefield, and make all of my enemies tremble in fear.
But first… I have to solve something…
"Tell me, do you need stat points to raise your power?" I knew such fire meant he was at the lowest grade. And so he would need stat points to rise in ranks and show up his real power.
But against what I expected, he shook his head and said something I never expected!
"No lord, I don't need that thing to evolve. What I need is souls, souls of the enemies I'll kill under your orders."
"This… Are you going to take all the souls you kill? Not give me a penny?!"
I was shocked and a little enraged by this dude. If he needed souls to evolve, then that meant he planned to suck dry all the souls he and others would kill.
This race… I thought they were going to be my ace, the weapon that I'd not need any other after using it.
However it seemed I underestimated the power of fate!
"Sorry lord, but we need to either use the souls we kill or donate them to you. But…"
"Then take half and give me half," I scoffed. This was a very bad situation indeed. I wanted to overuse this race in my future kingdom armies. However, if they were going to act stingy and absorb all the souls they killed, then they would become pretty damn useless!
"Sure, I'll do per lord's orders."
"Make sure to give such orders to everyone of your kind later on."
"My kin?!'
"Sure, I'm preparing to summon more of your race," I waved my arm, "just stand on the side and watch for now. I'm going to finish summoning all of the others and take all of you inside my inventory for now."
Chapter 1537 The Old Earth
"Inventory?"
"It's like your home," I started to feel a little annoyed by this dude. Tsk! I never expected for a race to show up and compete with me over the souls.
Without enough souls, I wouldn't have been able to summon you in the first place! What a dumb race these Kings were!
Next I started to summon five hundred million of the Kings. Summoning them was quite easy and fast actually. I just told the system to take all the needed amount of my souls, give me my Kings in return. Just simply like that!
"Now that army is ready… And now all I need to do is wait for the merge to get done," I stretched my arms, and felt the urge to sleep.
The merge would take more hours to finish. And I lost track of when it was last time I ever slept.
Sleeping wasn't something essential for me right now. My power increased by a significant margin, and my body evolved and was blessed by the gods.
But it felt like a mental habit, something I needed to do from time to time to feel normal and human. So I went into the deep champers of my chariot, randomly selected one, and slept inside.
I didn't miss to look at the closed door off the room which had Hilary. Every time I recalled what happened to her, how she ended up being a totally different person, one of my enemies, I couldn't help but feel bad for her, for Karoline, for anyone who fell in love with me.
I got such a weird curse, and didn't know how to remove it. Such a curse was something that wouldn't endanger my life or something, but it was a thing that made me feel frustrated every time I thought about it.
Why the heck did that happen to me? Why couldn't I have girls like any other hero, enjoy little time with each, and have fun?
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Tsk!
I got the feeling that this time would be the last free time I'd ever had for a long time. I couldn't even guess for how long the upcoming war would last. Would it take weeks? Months? Or even years?
I wasn't feeling any nervousness at all. I got lots of forces on my side. And even if the enemy called for reinforcements, I also was waiting for mine to arrive.
Even if there was a new player in the game, like the Hescos and other races coming from different worlds at my apocalypse, I didn't feel any pressure at all from them.
I only had one problem to care and worry about, the bombs. Once I'd clear away that threat, then I got zero worry at all.
I slept for long hours, and when I woke up, I felt the world returned back to the same.
[Are you here? Why aren't you replying to me?!]
And just when I opened my eyes, feeling a little headache for unknown reason, I saw the messages sent by Lily flashing one after another in front of my eyes.
She kept repeating the same content with different words.
[Sorry, was sleeping a little] I stretched and yawned, while looking around, [is the merge done?]
[Sleeping? Right now? I can't believe how calm or cold hearted you are!]
[I'm just human] I laughed, [Tell me, did the merge end?]
[Our zone already merged with the new world ten hours ago! And I tried to reach you many times, and yet you never answered!]
[Sorry about that, but it's a common knowledge that when one sleeps, he won't be able to hear or say anything]
[Tsk! You want to give me a stroke or something? Hurry up and get up! The war has already started!]
[Did all the world's finish merging?] I yawned again, got my body off the bed, and started to walk up to the deck of my chariot.
[Almost half of the entire zones and worlds we have got merged already. And the enemy had most of their worlds merged. Not to mention many new worlds are already here as well]
[And?] I already expected all this. And that wasn't the answer I wanted to hear.
[The enemy didn't stay idle and wait for the merge to get done! They already moved against our worlds and zones, clashing against our armies]
[Don't tell me we are losing!] I raised an eyebrow, not from her words, but from the new world that appeared in front of me.
Sun! We got some sun at last! It was a damn big orange circle in the middle of the blue sky! This wasn't a dream, right? This was totally like the old Earth!
Bright and clear sky, with faint white clouds occasionally appearing here and there. Pure and clear wind bellowed from the north, bringing a fresh cold feeling to me.
The sun felt warm, not that kind of burning heat that I always felt when the groups of suns appeared before on the new Earth after the apocalypse.
This… This was just like the Earth I heard all about in legends and old records. It was just like the couple peaceful hours I accidentally lived through when I got sent back in time to Earth.
[We aren't! It's just the scale of the battles that extends beyond what all of us anticipated! Not to mention there are new races, and most started to turn their weapons and armies towards us as well]
[You know this is quite expected] I sucked in a deep breath, feeling the clean and refreshing air that went into my lungs. "This is… Just awesome!"
If I wanted before to win this quest and control this new world out of my desire to get done of all this sh*t and have my long desired rest and life of my dreams, then right now I wanted to do it one hundred times more!
This world… It was quite worthy to be my own world! The world which I'd spend the rest of life at without getting even bored.
Chapter 1538 Terribly Bad News
[Yes, but we never expected that the zones and worlds would get separated!]
[What do you mean?] she finally managed to attract my attention away from the beauty of the new world.
[The zones and worlds didn't merge in their full size. They got segmented, separated into lots of smaller parts, which each merged away from the other]
[This… Is it that bad?]
From what she said, each world and zone got into many smaller parts, each merged in a location away from the rest. That meant the final merge would be like an ugly picture of zones and worlds overlapping together and scattered in between themselves.
That was bad! If this was true, then all the forces here, either those who belonged to me or the ones that belonged to other races, all would be separated and segmented into smaller armies without any organisation or planning at all.
It was all based on pure luck, and on the other hand, my enemies would have their full forces ready.
Even if their worlds suffered from the same fate, something told me they already got to know about this, were quite prepared for it.
[It's… A bit hectic and messy! Everyone is fighting against all of others. And the enemy is just fishing in muddled waters]
[That's normal for them to do this] I sighed, [Listen, anything related to the war in the zones and worlds is left over to you and your people. I got already tons of things on my hands to do]
[I know! I'm not asking for help, I was just informing you about the recent updates]
[Cool!] I had to directly and clearly state this issue, [What about Earth? Our forces in other worlds there?]
[They didn't join us yet] As expected! The merge wasn't just happening in random order or anything. I was now surer than before that the enemy got total control on everything related to the merge.
Even the order of the worlds merging here, they got to determine such a thing. And if I was them, I'd make sure my enemies wouldn't get their hands on any reinforcements early on.
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[Listen, make sure the top priority of our forces is to combine and meet each other. Kill anyone and anything that dares to stand in our path. And wait for the final merge to happen. Then by the arrival of our large forces, launch them all towards the enemies without any hesitation]
[How about you?]
[I'm going to travel through portals, go towards the enemy homelands for now] the war has already started. And as the enemy began to unfold their schemes, it was my turn to show them my scheme as well.
[Portals are messed up!] and just before I'd close the chat, head towards one of the portals leading to one of the ten enemy worlds, she suddenly sent this.
[What do you mean by that? Aren't they working?!] This was one of the worst case scenarios I thought about before.
If the enemy managed to deactivate my portals, then it'd be a great blow to my side.
[They are working, but they won't lead you towards the same places they got linked to]
[What does this even mean?!] I didn't get her point, [Are they working or not?]
[They are! But if you took a portal towards the second zone from here, you'd end up at zone five! Or even in another world, not even in a zone!]
[This…]
[It's all thanks to the weird allocation I told you about. Tsk! The worlds and zones are now scattered over a huge stretch of land]
[I got it!] I paused, [let the forces first work to come together and meet up. Then we'll establish new portals using the devices I gave you before. You distribute them already, right?]
[Sure, I did that. That reminds me, how come you knew something like this would happen?]
[I got a hunch!] I didn't know for sure about anything. All I could feel was doubts and thoughts, ideas about what the enemy might and might not do.
It was just pure luck that I ended up with such an idea, and much luckier that I prepared for it a long time ago before it happened.
Or else, my forces out there would be left alone, without any means of communication or the ability to get reinforcements later on.
And to establish all these portals from now, it'd take a long time to do that! I knew by the time my forces would deal with this mess, we'd be lucky if we lost only half of our forces.
I expected chaos to happen at the early days of the merge, but never expected this to be the reason for such chaos.
The enemy… He played his cards quite brilliantly this time. And that made me more eager to go out and show them my cards.
[I will try my best then] Lily paused, [How about this… why won't you take a tour first, try to help in establishing new portals or something]
[So you are asking for my help, right?] I froze for a few seconds in front of her message, before laughing out loud.
[Well… I won't say no to any help at this moment, right?]
[Hmm… At least help me back]
[What do you want?]
[Send troops over to the enemy side] I paused, [I want to know what they are going to do there. If you can, get me information about their defences and such]
[Will try my best]
[No, you'll do it] I laughed, [Or else it's better for me to go out there right away and do it myself]
[Tsk! I will try my best! I got little forces left to move freely, you do know that?]
[Not my problem!] I laughed, [You aren't the grand general for nothing, right?]
[Tsk! Ok, I will try and find a way to contact that jerk then]
[The jumper?!] I raised my eyebrows when she suddenly mentioned him.
[You want answers. And I got no one crazy enough to take on such role but him]
Chapter 1539 The Merge Is Halfway Through
[He isn't capable! Not that dependable to do such a task! Not at such a crucial time!]
[He is the only one we got, the best if you want my opinion about it] she seemed to fully believe in her choice, and decided to support selecting the jumper, [Not to mention he is already there, in the heart of the enemy lands]
[He didn't retreat?]
[He refused, asked to remain there and he is still fighting the enemies at their homelands]
I paused for a second, feeling what this jerk did might be something good at the end.
I advised Lily to recall him and other forces at any enemy homelands when the merge would happen. The earlier plan was to leave him there. But it all changed when I learnt about the new worlds coming to merge here, after knowing that Earth was going here as well.
It seemed this jerk lost all association with Earth and humans, got totally fixed on finding and saving his dude.
What a jerk!
[Fine! But make it clear to that bad luck magnet, we aren't in any situation that will allow us to send any troops over to him]
[Well… I already contacted him before, and…]
I didn't like where this talk was going, [And what?]
[He was the one who asked to do this task in the first place]
[That jerk? No way! He won't do anything without expecting something back from it]
[Yes, he also spoke about something, about reinforcements that he needed]
[I told you already, we are running short on any troops right now. How come you are still saying his request and you know how dire our situation is?]
[I didn't say what kind of troops he asked for]
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[Will that make a difference?]
[He wants you!]
[What the heck… Girl, I'm very busy worrying about that jerk!]
[No, you don't get it. He said you are going to come here eventually and hit the enemy where it hurts. So he decided to remain there, acting as our eyes out there, waiting for you to come to his rescue]
[I won't rescue that piece of sh*t!]
[But… He is the only dude out there to take care of this task. And any information we'll get, will eventually lead you towards him]
[In other words… I don't get a choice, that's what you want to say, right?]
[Well… You have to admit he isn't half bad, right?]
[He is an asshole! How come I let someone like him live for this long? I'm going to kill him once I meet him up]
[Hahahaha! In the end you are going to his rescue, hahahaha!]
[Stop laughing! This isn't funny!]
[He was right, he knows you more than anyone else like he said]
[He said that? For real?]
[He argued that he knew you better than any of us, and you won't have a choice and will come to save him out of your kind heart]
[I can be cold blooded jerk like him sometimes]
[Yes, go and argue with him about that, not with me, hahahaha!]
[Tsk! I'm going to close the chat. Go and gather valuable intel, and try to send out more spies out there]
[I will try, but I can't promise]
[Screw you!] I closed the chat while she kept sending laughing emojis that got on my nerves.
That damn jerk… That damn jumper… Did he think he could control my actions like this?
Who said I should go and find him? What obligation did I have to go and rescue him?
I knew he'd collect valuable intel. After all, that dude was a magnet for bad news. And for sure he might end up fighting the leaders of the enemies head on or something on the same level.
I wouldn't be surprised if he ended up strangled in the middle of the main enemy forces, or lost most of his troops and ran for his life in a hectic chase.
That dude… He was a jerk of bad news! I grew used and tired of such a thing already so it didn't surprise me at all.
[Don't forget to go and check over other stressful places. We need your help]
[Sure]
She seemed to get tired of teasing me, and feared that I might not step in to help as promised. After closing the chat again, I started to look around.
This world… It was still so magical to make me believe it was true! And the most amazing thing about it was that it was going to end up soon enough and fall in my hands.
I looked at this mesmerising peaceful sight for long minutes, took a long and deep breath, then went towards one of the portals around.
As long as I didn't go directly towards one of the enemy worlds, any portal here would be fine.
[Let them start establishing their portals once they gathered together] I paused, [I'm going to take a huge tour around through the old network]
[Do you want to get lost? To not be able to help that jerk?]
[Pray that will happen] I closed the chat with a big laugh. I didn't aim to do that to this jerk. However I was just trying out something just now.
I already passed through one portal, ending up in the middle of a new place that I never visited before. I appeared inside a big canyon, with huge mountains that lined the world on both sides.
I managed to jump and reach a new place in this new world. And so I wanted to test things out, see if this was going to work or not.
And the connection with her worked, meaning that this was indeed one new world, one world where we'd all get in contact with everyone without any problems.
The first thing I did was to let my chariot soar high in the sky and reach the clouds. It was a fantastic feeling, like I went back in time, for real this time, back for many years, even decades, before any of the apocalypse happened.
Chapter 1540 Starting The Big War
When I took my time in having fun, I finally spotted many places where lots of fights were going on around.
"Time to see if these dudes are up to the task or not," I didn't hesitate and summoned my new Kings, took out one million and gave them a single order, "kill any hostile forces here, save my people. And don't forget, you'll get only half of the souls you'll absorb."
"Yes, lord!" everyone bowed midair, before starting to move fast towards several directions.
The one million I took got divided into seven smaller armies, each headed towards one of the hot zones here.
As I had nothing much to do, I started to take a wide tour, examining the current situation here.
It was simply disastrous!
This was indeed new land, but it got filled with many of my forces. Even if they were inside the same region, each was fighting on their own without having a chance to get to other forces around.
They weren't blind nor deaf, they were just deprived of any chance to do so. In front of each force, a huge army of different races were fighting against mine.
There were few that I already recognised like the fiends and high zombies. But there were lots of new races here. And that meant the enemy already had total control over the merge as I suspected.
pAnD a(-)n0ve1.com "They made sure to bring forth their allies and send them to many places to kill my forces… It's like a big hunt festival for them…"
I saw how bad the current situation was, and couldn't help but think of other places. If such a situation got repeated, then most of my forces would get annihilated in such a way.
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However, that all changed the moment my Kings joined the fight! They were quite domineering, cruel, and unstoppable!
They moved and flashed through the bodies of the enemies, just acting like my soulers. Nothing stopped in their path, and no matter how the enemy tried, they couldn't break through their layers of defence.
Be it the shields, the armours, even their combined defensive techniques… All stood in the face of the terrifying attacks of the enemies.
The moment my Kings joined this battle, the enemy lost their edge at once.
"Run back and join other forces, merge together and start taking down the enemies as one whole army," I took out my horn and shouted at my forces. They got a chance to breathe at last. And they got to use this chance in doing what they should have done a long time ago.
Seeing the armies all around starting to move inwards and merge, killing any enemy stopping in their faces, I knew this battle here was going for the better eventually.
And so I didn't stand there for another second, used my staff and jumped back to the land of portals.
This was a whole single world, one that would solve lots of my earlier problems and headaches. I didn't forget to save the location I just visited, as I did with many others later on.
I started to pass through portals, going to new places that I never saw before. Each time I visited a place, I found the same situation happening over and over again.
I did the same, took one million of my Kings out, let them stabilise the situation before asking everyone else to regroup. On many occasions, I didn't just find one group of forces in the region, and spotted lots of other fighting places around.
I didn't hesitate to move fast and interfere to help them as well. But as I knew how huge this new world was, I was sure even by all this, I'd not be able to save even one hundredth of my current forces.
I kept jumping and helping my forces for a few hours, until I visited the last portal at last after ten more hours.
[Please tell me they already established the portals I asked for] After getting done from all this, I didn't stay idle, calling back all the king's I scattered before, while asking Lily this.
My Kings already did their part, bought enough time for my forces to regroup, killing tons of the enemies. I knew they were going to grow stronger, but I didn't care about how little they improved for now.
If they were going to eat up souls to evolve, then such a process seemed to take a long time. The good news was that they wouldn't be limited by anything, not like other forces that got limited by the current level of the apocalypse I was in.
Thinking about this made me question what stage my current apocalypse was.
[Yours is still in the fifth quest] and when I asked the higher up, he instantly responded like this, [You need to win this entire thing for all the stages to get cleared and you'll be on the same level of power as anyone else who managed to clear their apocalypse before]
"Ok," I knew this wasn't good news, but it was something good after all. The moment this quest would be over was going to be the moment the entire apocalypse would be over.
And with that, all of my forces and races would get the ability to increase their levels to the max. According to what I knew, the highest level was ten thousand levels, which was something quite scary and formidable for sure.
But this was an idea for another time, a thought for later not now.
[The portals are already established… But the current situation doesn't look that good]
[I'm trying my best. Let others try theirs too]
[We are! But the enemy… They are endless and quite prepared!]
[I saw them] I paused, [Let's hope we'll end up with half of our initial forces]
[I also pray for that]
Even she had the same pessimistic vision about all this. I sighed, closed the chat and looked in a certain direction.
Chapter 1541 Terrible News
I already established lots of twin devices in a zone close to here. The portals that finally linked this spot to other places were at least in the hundreds. And that meant I got too many places to visit, not less than the ones I just finished, or even a bit more.
I didn't hesitate or delay, and went directly through the portals there. The places I arrived at looked much worse than the ones I visited before.
These places got more of my forces there. After all, these were the places where my generals were, alongside lots of forces, many of these were elites.
But that didn't make any difference. In fact, I felt like their situation was much worse than what I already saw before.
They weren't just fighting fiends and high zombies, but many other elite enemy troops, including worms!
Those damn worms appeared everywhere and kept swallowing lots of my elites everywhere. The ground was filled with tons of holes, looking like a grand and ugly beehive.
I instantly took my Kings, taking five million this time. I didn't know if they could deal with these worms. But if they failed, then my cube would be the answer.
However, to my surprise, the Kings showed how brutal and deadly they were. They didn't get stopped even by the Exomachines that stopped my soulers before. And these worms didn't even stand a chance against them.
They just needed to flash more than ten times to take a single worm out, working together in large groups to cover up the worm's grand bodies.
I watched all this from high above, while seeing how hectic the current battle was!
There were lots of scattered forces here, extending beyond the horizon, filling the entire world around for tens of miles. I knew this must have been one of my great armies, one that was responsible for taking down a world or something.
I couldn't just stabilise this situation using Kings. And if I wasted much time here, more forces would be lost. So I took out my cube, and activated it to the fullest, sucking in all the troops in a thousands of miles radius.
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Be it an enemy or ally, I sucked everyone in. and then I let my cube work its magic, turning everyone into my forces.
"Go and secure this region and regions beyond," I didn't keep them confined inside the cube, took them out, and let them loose over the enemies, "save others, and kill any enemy you find! Especially you, damn worms!"
I knew how scary and formidable worms were in such battles. The more hectic the situation was, the better and scary these worms would be.
I released everything, called back my Kings, and instantly took my leave.
This was just one of many places I visited. I didn't take out my Kings anymore, and just used my cube to switch the tables here.
Even so, I knew there were just too many of my forces scattered all over the new world without a way to reach or save them. I had to accept such loss, and see the new forces gained by my cube as the pay back for such losses.
But deep down my soul, I knew this wasn't enough, not even close from enough. The enemy started off this final war with a big blow towards me, and I had to admit they played their cards quite brilliantly this time.
However… This didn't mean I lost the war or something. It was just a big loss, that was all. I was going to have tons of forces coming soon enough, the moment this entire stupid merge would be over.
Just wait… The moment my forces would come where, everything would change for the better.
[Tell me, did that jerk send any valuable intel?]
[He… He sent a lot, but I didn't know how to tell these to you]
[What do you mean?] I didn't get what she meant by that. I thought the moment she'd receive anything from that jerk, she'd just send these over in a hurry or something.
I was still in the middle of helping my forces through the new portals. However, that wasn't an excuse for her to hide such a thing from me.
So there must be something that prevented her from doing so, and that would be something quite bad. [Come on! Tell everything to me]
[Well… didn't you already notice something weird going on here?] and unlike what I expected, she didn't start off by telling me anything of value.
Instead, she asked such stupid and useless question. [What does this even mean? Everything around is quite hectic and weird!]
[I mean… Something big is missing from the entire picture]
[Missing? Hmm… If we are speaking about missing things, then I have to admit I miss my forces from Earth]
[Not that! I mean something that should have been present and it's not!]
[You don't mean… Other races?]
[Yes! Them!]
I paused for a long minute without saying a single word. I already felt how weird their absence was. [I thought they were missing as we didn't establish direct portals between our ground zero and their worlds… Don't tell me there is another reason out there for this]
[Well… In a way your theory is correct. I also thought the same, thought they got scattered all across the entire new world. As we didn't have any portals linking directly to their worlds, it meant there was no way for us to reach them, right?]
[Right!]
[Wrong!]
[How come? What do you know? Wait a minute… Did that jerk send something unbelievable again? Damn his bad luck!!]
[Well… It's not that bad luck actually. He discovered something huge going on]
[What is it?]
[Everything we did… According to the intel he sent so far, everything we did was for nothing]
[What do you mean by that?!!] I felt my heart clench when she sent these words. Other races were missing, and she linked them with that jerk and the news he sent over.
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He was deep in the enemy lines, and that meant he must have witnessed something big going on, something related to the enemy and the races I saved before at the same time.
A wild and crazy thought popped in my mind. And as it was a very gloomy and bad one, I didn't dare to take it any serious at all.
Or I hoped I'd be wrong, totally wrong, and my hunch this time would be proven wrong.
pAn,D a-ɴᴏᴠ ᴇ1,c-o-m But what she said next shattered such fragile hope, as she confirmed the bad news.
[That jerk claims that the enemy has built giant bubbles, and inside lots of the races we rescued before are trapped inside]
[Trapped? All of them? How come…?!!]
[He didn't get lots of intel yet, but he believes it's not the actions of the enemies. After all, they couldn't get any access into these bubbles, and the races inside can't get out]
[Give me a minute…] I felt this was some shitty and weird situation to be honest. "Hey, you, higher up big shot, what's going on here? What's happening to the races I rescued?"
[It's just as you heard! The races are all separated from their worlds, trapped inside huge bubbles]
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"Why is that happening? I already saved them!!! Who did this? And why?"
I was this close from cursing out loud this damn higher up and other higher ups for their incompetence! I paid a hefty price to save all of these, and also suffered hellishly for them to be saved, and for me to gain part of them as agreed.
[Well, it's partially our doing]
"What the heck?!! Have you lost your mind or what?!!"
[No, it's just per the rules, these folks are going to join the final battle. However they have first to select a side to work next to. And frankly speaking, these bubbles are just temporary holders for them before they'll make their minds]
"I don't get it… Isn't it supposed to be the final prize of the golden quest? Did things change or what?"
[Things didn't change! The races surviving this will be in the list of rewards of the golden quest. But it seems you forgot about something, the golden quest didn't end yet! It's still going! And even if it got little addition thanks to the worlds and apocalypse thing added to it, it's still the golden quest. And it's not over!]
"I… I'm really at a loss here…" I was frank with him, this was some bullshit! I didn't get any of what he just explained. And to be honest, it felt like what he said added more puzzlement and confusion to me, not helping at all!please visit panda-:)ɴᴏᴠᴇ1.co)m
[It's like this, the enemy tried to snatch these races in the middle of the merge. As a hurried countermeasure, we just did our best and entrapped them in these bubbles, with the choice made for them to decide which side they'll join in this battle]
"This… But they are all entrapped inside the enemy lands!"
[This… We couldn't solve this problem at that time. The enemy already paid the price to move all of them away from any place you can reach, and kept them inside their lands]
"For what? They are already inside these bubbles! And are these bubbles safe? Can they withstand the attacks from the enemy? Why didn't you tell me about this earlier? Huh?"
[One question at a time, we got our hands busy here, so we didn't get enough time to inform you about anything]
"Bullshit! You are just covering up for something big, something bad, something against our prior agreement!"
[Our agreement states that you'll get the rewards once you save all the races. And dude, they aren't saved yet, and the golden quest isn't over! Don't blame us for this, we just tried to save what we can in response to what these enemies already schemed and planned for!]
"In my eyes, you are all incompetent! The enemy is always one if not more steps ahead of you! And since the start of all this sh*t, you are always in the defensive and passive position, always taking the second step, never taking the initiative!"
[That's because those damn fiends are the ones controlling the entire thing! Do you think we are doing this on purpose? Do you think we got the choice? Come on! If we got even a say in any of this, we'll surely have made things better and more favourable for you and others!]
"Humph! Excuses!" I was really enraged by these higher ups. They failed, failed to keep their part of the bargain. And right now their failure placed more pressure on my shoulders.
[Things aren't that bad actually. These bubbles are protected by the same rules this entire place runs on! The enemy can't break through these, and the only way to open these bubbles and release the races inside is by letting them accept joining one side!]
"Which is my side, right? What would happen if they did? Will the bubble get released and the races will be open for the enemies to kill?"
[Well… We can't change the universe alone]
"Bullshit!" I knew that he was trying to get a way out of this, "you just left them out there, in the middle of the enemy ranks and top forces. Do you expect me to go all the way there, care and protect these races and secure their departure away from the enemy's deep territories? Bullshit! I dare to challenge you to come here personally and show me how capable you are to do such a thing!"
This dude… All these dudes… They reminded me of those arrogant and useless bosses in the old human world work system. They always sat in their high seats, enjoyed comfortable situations, and just demanded the impossible from their employees every single day without even feeling shame!
I couldn't get it. Why the heck all this happened?
Chapter 1543 Explosive Discussion!
Were these higher ups this useless? Were the enemies this strong and authoritative? For a moment there, I felt like all I did was childish play in the eyes of the enemy.
They knew even if I managed to claim many gains in the past clashes, all this would vanish the moment they activated such a procedure!
They didn't only control the merge, they didn't just scatter my forces around, breaking apart my strong and formidable armies into shreds to hunt and kill them down, but they also aimed to get and kill all the races!
The twenty races I paid a hefty price for free, painstakingly suffered all this time to save all of these, and that ended up in a naught!
What a troublesome lacking in capabilities and abilities these higher ups were!
[We just did what we could. Accept it or not isn't our problem]
"Yes it is! You promised me a reward, and now you are asking me to start all over again to claim what I deserve? I'm asking for a refund and compensation!"
[Compensation for what?!]
"For all this! I'm going to risk it all again, go into the deep enemy lands, risk everything to rescue them again!"
[You already planned to go there in the first place. Why ask for compensation then? It's just little extra work]
"Little extra work? I swear if you are in front of me right now then the cold taste of my glaive will be the only thing you'll get as an answer! If you see it's a little work, then move your fat as* from your high throne and come down here to do it yourself!"
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[Stop being rude and arrogant! Just do your job!]
pàпdá-ňᴏνêι.сóМ "I won't! I'm not obliged to save anyone anymore. Did you forget? The entire goal of this golden quest changed. I don't need to save anyone, I just need to kill everyone to win!"
[You…]
"Sorry dude, but the rules changed. And you were the ones who changed them! Don't blame me, after all you are the one who placed me in such a tight spot in the first place."
[What do you want?] After a long ten minutes of silence, which I was sure that dude spent cursing and smashing things over his side, he finally said the question I wanted to hear, finally succumbing to my desire.
"Any race accepting to follow me has to stick to me forever."
[No! That's not possible nor acceptable!]
"It's the least compensation I'll accept!"
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"I won't! Come on! You are throwing me out to the wolves again, in the open world, without any means or advantage at all!"
[That doesn't give you the right to ask for everything! Let others also gain little as well! I can't accept or agree with such insanity!]
"It's not up to you, dude. You're Not the one fighting here for the sake of the universe."
[But I'm the one giving out the rules!]
"No! You don't even control anything here! Just look around you, look around and see what kind of mess you caused thanks to your inability to do anything at all! If you can, then change this damn situation for the better, move the races back to their lands and worlds, let them fight properly for their lives and future."
[This…]
"Of course you can't! You have zero control here. And so you have to force people like myself to go through hell over and over again to make up for your failures!"
[I didn't fail! I didn't do anything wrong! It's your job and responsibility to compete and fight, to get the rightful rewards!]
"And I already did! And I swear to god, if you didn't give me what I deserve, then forget about saving any race. It won't be the enemies who are going to kill them, but me!"
[You can't do any of this. You are just bluffing! You need every ounce of strength and help to survive this]
"I can use them for now, trick them to follow me, bind them with contracts, then kill them all later on. What's the difference? Even if I killed them right on the spot after meeting them, it won't make any difference in the general course of this damn war! I'm still going to end up the winner, even if I had to kill every single one other than my forces and people!"
[I dare you to try it!]
"Or what? What can you do, incompetent bastard?"
[I'll remove all the privileges you already have, leave your world open and available for any race out there in the grand universe to invade and kill. Can you fight the universe? Can you fight everyone?]
"Surely not alone, but I will respond by changing sides! I'll do everything in my power to let the fiends win, and you'll lose the entire place here forever! Tell me, damn arrogant bastard, what can you do about it? What will you do about it"
This time, his silence lasted for one hour. I knew he was going crazy about what I just said. Our last conversation was least described as an explosive argument, one that was closer to be a fight and quarrel, not a civilised talk at all.
But I would never let that son of b*tch get away from this without paying full price double! I was going to risk everything again thanks to his and other higher ups' failure and incompetence.
These damn bastards! They were sitting far away from all this, feeling nothing but amusement to watch all of us suffer for them.
They didn't even study the enemy well, not even studied the rules of this damn quest. They let the enemy do everything they wanted, and always were the second people to move.