Chapter 123 - 1591-1603

Chapter 1591 Artefacts

Next time, I'd make sure to not focus over the forces inside, but those at the outside first. Even if the enemies sent their cyclope-Exomachines mix, then my forces would get enough time to deal with this.

And… I truly missed my chariot at this point! The chariot would provide a safe shelter for me while travelling around, even in the middle of such deadly and scary shockwaves.

Even with the deadly shockwave being released like this, I never stopped my fallen gods from attacking everywhere.

They were hitting everything blindly, but their contribution was needed. The Exomachines were there, and they were the ones leading such an attack and causing the most damage.

The Exomachines already proved their abilities to stop my shockwave. In the past, they were able to stop such deadly waves and also my deadly fire at the cost of getting damaged.

But right now… and with all the energy they had from the cyclopes… I couldn't tell if they were going to be damaged in the end or not.

So it was better to hunt them down, add more damage using my fallen gods.

"Only if I could see through all this blinding light…" I paused, while my thoughts drifted towards the market.

I couldn't see anything right now. So I couldn't open the market here.

"Time to get a break," I knew the light out there would last for many days at least. So staying here was going to be pointless.

I just left enough shields behind, and jumped back to ground zero.

I didn't intend on leaving that hot zone and jumping to another. I didn't get done by the enemies there. But I came back to see if the market got anything useful.

"Let's see… Sunglasses… Sun goggles… Sunblock… why the hell there is so much sun related stuff when we didn't get any sun at all back at the apocalypse?"

It was weird though, seeing all these sun related items in the market. But that wasn't the issue. The main issue was that none provided any vision through bright blinding light, only against shiny objects like looking directly at the sun.

I kept looking, and after looking through tens of thousands of pages, I finally found something interesting.

[Owl Eyes: Natural artefact. Found in an unknown place. It can allow the person to see through anything blinding or dark. It can also strengthen one's sight]

I didn't like skills, as they looked useless to me. I only used the Hawk Eye skill from time to time. But my old hunger for skills wasn't lively right now.

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I could recall a time when I thought getting a skill was something heaven defying. I even used to complain about it all the time! And yet when I came here, got the chance to see the world of the apocalypse in its true colours, I finally realised how insignificant my skills were.

They might be important at the early stages of the apocalypse, might be crucial for anyone at low levels, low positions, low life state, to make sure they'd survive the future.

But for me? Skill? Pft! I'd prefer to replace tons of skills for a single artefact! For a single weapon that could truly change an entire war!

I found out that the price of this artefact was one hundred billion coins. I didn't get many coins on me right now, and so I placed one green grade, normal bone, in the auction.

I never tried to do that before, never even thought about it, for different reasons.

For example, I didn't have much of the bones to begin with. There was a time when I struggled to get bones, and bones like green ones were considered one of the highest grades I ever got.

I also didn't know what value or use these bones were. And frankly put, I felt how significantly important the bones were, and didn't want to share any of such important items with my rivals.

But now? I didn't care about any of that! Bone grades? I got not only purple and diamond grade bones, I got dark realm bones and Holy Ones bones. I got tons of bones, and could amass tons over tons if I just took a tour around the world and battles here.

"Let's see what's the standard system price for this… Holy crab! It's settled by the price of a single artefact!!!"

Just one green bone was sold at the crazy price of one hundred billion coins. I looked up, at the sky, towards the imaginary place of the system higher ups, and smiled.

"So you want more bones? You could have asked directly for more."

I didn't get an answer, and that was quite expected. However I was glad such trade was possible and feasible.

I took ten green bones and sold them, getting coins like never before.

I then started to look at the artefact I just bought. It was like a pair of goggles, with owl feathers around the glasses.

I wore them, and next it felt like the world got under a calming tone of light. It was pale blue and green, seemingly something soothing to the soul and calming to the mind.

I didn't hurry to judge it. After all, I got to see if these goggles could see through my blinding attack or not.

As I was here, it was time to look for a good and capable defensive shield.

The market started to sell artefacts, so it was time for me to look for good ones. I got the coins, and now it was time to find a temporary replacement for my chariot's shield.

And I ended up getting a feather!

I wasn't joking with you, I got a feather as my next defensive shield!

[Crown Feather: Naturally born artefact. Can form a shield around the owner, one that can expand to cover hundreds of miles, or shrink down to cover only the owner. It needs energy to perform its functions, and it has only one function: defence!]

"A feather for defence? Interesting!" I took the feather out after paying double the price of the previous goggles. It was a long feather, one that was at the size of my entire arm, my giant arm. And it wasn't just pure white as I thought.

It got a mix of colours like a proper rainbow, with more reds and blues than anything else.

"I got a feather… But how the hell am I supposed to use it?" I looked at the market interface, the feather interface, and then at the feather in my hand.

The only idea I got was to put the feather on the goggles and wear the two together. One would help me see through any blinding light, and the second would help in protecting me while flying.

"I need a strong artefact to help me travel fast…" This was another thing why I missed my chariot. It could travel fast, too damn fast, like being a light shot and travelling through space.

I got a portable and strong shield, as it was an artefact, regardless of whatever naturally born or natural artefact even meant, and I got goggles to let me see through the shockwave.

All I needed now was something like a rocket, something to boost my flying speed, making me cross lots of distance in no time.

This world was so big, and the enemies seemed to adapt a tactic where they'd keep attacking and forcing me to use either my fire or my shields' shockwaves.

In either case, I'd not be able to step forward anymore. So this all got to stop.

I looked into the artefact limited search menu only and found out there were ten pages of these artefacts.

Each page contained at least one hundred items there.

That… That was lots of artefacts to be honest.

"Wait a second… I always struggled and dreamt to get artefacts for my generals… and now? One artefact for one up to five green bones? Cool!"

It suddenly hit me. I always dreamt about my capable generals to get enough artefacts to help against dangerous situations.

I was the only one able to do all these miracles not thanks to my overly oppressive strength, but thanks to my artefacts and bones.

Artefacts were like energy bottomless holes. They got to suck dry lots of bones and wouldn't get satisfied.

I didn't hesitate anymore, and started a wide out purchase. These artefacts weren't just offered to me, but to anyone and everyone in this new world.

And that meant one thing… Anyone could buy any artefact if they got the money. But if I got to clear all the artefact menu clean, then no one could get anything, right?

Without thinking about anything else, I started to purchase all the artefacts I found. I already got a lot of artefacts from the killed Hulk, and other dead or surrendered paragons.

I got a few to use, but got lots that I wasn't that interested in.

Chapter 1592 Going Out Of The Shielded Zone

[I'm going to send you a list of artefacts. Make sure to find the right owners for them] after buying all these artefacts, I pushed aside the one I needed, and sent just twenty artefacts out.

[This…] I sent them through the channel authority. And just when she received them, she rained lots of praising words and messages over me.

[You are the greatest leader ever!]

[I never got an artefact! Only dreamt about getting one! And now you are giving twenty for me? How generous!]

[These aren't just for you] I rolled my eyes. I always felt Lily got a weird taste, and now she just proved it.

Girls would love any sparkling items, especially jewellery, but she loved artefacts, killing deadly weapons, or things to boost one's stats.

How weird she really was! But that made her more alluring in my eyes. At least she was dependable.

[Come on! Give me a little extra, I want more, I deserve more!]

I didn't know why but at this moment, I got very funny images in my head, images from the time when we were once together in a single bed.

[Tsk! Just distribute them and I promise if you did good, I'll give you more]

[For me? Not giving them to me to deliver them to others?!]

[No, they'll be solely for you] I started to see the importance of strengthening people like her in the army. She was the general leader of the armed forces of my kingdom. And such a strong and capable lady needed more artefacts to make her stand out in any battle. And that made me decide to arm up not only her, but others like Sara and Legend with artefacts.

Just imagining Sara armed with deadly defensive and offensive artefacts made me evilly grin. This girl… She was so rash and deadly, only lacking proper defence and strategy.

I couldn't deal with the strategy problem, but could deal with the defence issue using artefacts.

And that was what I decided to do right away. I opened a chat with her and Legend, in addition to Lily, Isac, and Angelica.

These five were considered the core of my armed forces in different categories. One was the general leader, one was a scary tactician, another was a formidable logistics and support general, another was a great offensive general, and the last one was a brilliant architect and planner.

These five were the future pillars of my kingdom. "Why are most of them girls?" I looked at these names, and couldn't help but wonder about such a thing.

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Only Legend was a male, and he was… Still a kid, one who won't rival me over these girls.

Wait… Sorry about that, but I forgot about my curse. So ladies, till later time, till I find a cure to this damn curse of mine.

Hopefully by the time I'd win all this, I'd end up with all of them. Damn! What a wild and crazy dream was that!

Anyway, I just selected five different artefacts, each boosting one stat, and sent these over to each of them.

But for Sara… I made sure to send out two more defensive artefacts, one extra for her close up leaders, and another working on a large and wide spread area.

She was… she was just a headache despite being too strong and outstanding as a general. I just hoped the extra defensive artefacts would be enough for her to survive all this.

And also hoped these artefacts would help the poor fellows who were following and fighting by her side.

[I did all I can for you, make me proud, kill the enemies, control this world] I sent this to all of the five who gained the artefacts, while sending an extra message to Lily, asking her to select capable generals and give the artefacts from the list I just sent to her.

"Time to teach everyone a lesson," and as I did all this, I opened a portal, held my goggles, put the weird looking feather on one side of this, and luckily it stuck there.

Then I walked through the portal, and appeared at the battlefield I just left minutes ago.

The place there was still the same. The world was blindly bright, and I couldn't see anything like before.

But this was no more! Right now I got my goggles! My new artefact!

"Let's see how beneficial you are," I muttered while lowering the goggles from my head to my eyes. And then magic happened.

The world that looked too bright to see a damn thing before changed, turned slightly dim, and I finally started to see little shapes and shadows.

Then these shadows started to appear more, showing more details, and finally I started to see lots of things.

"Tsk! These damn Exomachines… They survived as expected…" I saw lots of Exomachines standing in their place, not affected by the deadly shockwave that was coming out from my shields.

And for the first time ever, I saw what my shockwave really was. It wasn't just as I expected before, not a unified form of wave that came out from the shields.

It was like thin filaments coming out from the shields. And that meant there were gaps in between these thin threads.

My threads were ineffective against the Exomachines, and now I got to know why my shockwave wasn't effective either. How about the fire of my bones? Was it also formed in such a way?

I watched the attacks coming from my fallen gods. Well, compared to the shockwave, my fallen gods' attacks were indeed quite effective. But it wasn't enough.

The enemies were already too many to kill using the little fallen gods I got. Not to mention there were more Exomachines were coming from the far distance.

It seemed all the cyclopes got absorbed by the Exomachines, giving them enough power to resist my shockwave. Before this, Exomachines were vulnerable to my deadly attacks. At least they ended up like scraps of metal.

But now, they showed some sort of evolution, turning from the ones to sacrifice their lives for others, into the ones who were leading the charge.

"I can't be hindered here," I muttered, reminding myself to always focus on the more important goal. I got a defensive artefact, and a speedy one as well. But I got no solution to how to bring and carry my forces around.

Again, another part where my chariot excelled truly at! If I got it now, I'd simply rest my back, watch my girl move fast and unhindered, carrying my fallen gods, and let them kill and hunt anyone around.

But now, I got to move solo, face the enemies and decide to evade them for now.

What was special about keeping this place? Nothing! I came here and built this bubble of shields, attacked the enemies and tried to make a foothold for myself.

But that wasn't the goal, that wasn't the target. I got to go and save the god race from their bubble, that was the target.

And also killing lots of the enemies here, as this was one of the two main bases in this continent. Not to mention finding where the grand portal zone was, and destroying it.

So keeping myself here wasn't going to work. I decided, called back all of my warriors, and started to flap my wings and move.

The god race bubble was just tens of miles away from here. It still looked like a towering pillar of the sky, and now I could see clearly it didn't get a single damage at all.

In fact, and for a reason, I felt like many of my shockwave threads falling over it got absorbed and vanished without leaving a single scar behind.

"Destination is the god race bubble," I shouted while raising my first high in the air before my body flashed like a lightning bolt, heading outside the shield.

The first moment I saw the world flash, as if I was back on my chariot. But then I went inside a very hot place, like I got soaked in a boiling oil world or something.

At this moment, the feather that I got worked and released a bubble that surrounded me and prevented that deadly heat feeling from arriving in my body.

It looked safe, for now. But I knew I'd need lots of bones to keep this going, if I ever travelled for a long distance or something.

But there was a delay in my travelling speed, and I couldn't tell if it was thanks to the deadly world around me, or thanks to the feather.

Weren't feathers famed for helping birds to fly fast or what?

I sighed, but when I looked around, I knew this wasn't a real problem… the enemies who were about to flood me were!

When I came out of my shielded zone, the enemy seemed to finally find his chance to take me down. As I wanted to grab the god race and save them, the enemy wanted to do so, but after killing me first.

Chapter 1593 A Leap Of Faith

The god race bubble was just a few tens of miles away, a distance that I could cross in simply no time. And yet, when I got out of my shielded zone, I ended up taking a few hours to cross it!

The moment I stepped outside, the enemy released tons of their forces, including all the crazy and scary forces I fought against before, including the scariest of all, the armoured worms.

In addition to these special worms, Exomachines, fiends, high zombies, and even cyclopes, I found lots of new races as well.

There was a race that got the wings of a bird, the tentacles of an octopus, and the body of a bull! It was something… Weird!

There was a race who could release thunder shocks through their horns, then vanish, appearing again after one hundred metres, while the distance would explode with fierce and violent explosions.

There was a race who would come like wind, unseen, undetected, then strike like a falling starlight!

I saw lots and lots of new races, lots and lots of forces, all were coming towards me. They didn't just want to block my path forward, they wanted to kill me in the process.

And to do so, they got to lure me out of the shielded zone first, like they did, and then hit me hard with everything they got, like how they did it now. But who told them I planned to stay inside my shield forever?

"Come out!" I didn't have my chariot, but I got another better option here, "create my silver ground!"

I summoned none other than Lucas II here. This scary Avenger could turn air into solid land, and like this I'd not need any chariot at all!

"Yes lord," Lucas instantly summoned the silver ground, and it got formed and expanded for miles, tens of miles around.

It wasn't enough to reach the god race bubble, but it'd get me and my forces towards the closest spot there. And Lucas II would help in linking the two pieces together.

And then it came down to an all out onslaught. But first…

"Thundering Might!"

I got to lay out the defensive foundation first before doing anything else. And once my shield expanded, covering up lots of enemy forces, pushing away the fire that didn't bring any damage to my enemies, I started to take out lots of my warriors.

I didn't use many Kings this time, so I left the stage open for the old guards to show their might.

I spent lots of time and wealth gathering all of these warriors, and so they got to show up, fight from time to time.

As for my Kings, geared up soulers and reapers, fallen gods and Avengers, they were enough to act as the elite and special forces.

I left my forces here fighting against the enemies, and went outside at once. I knew the enemy had a way to kill through my shields, and so it was better to scatter more shields than just strengthen a single spot.

After all, my target was to get to the god race bubble, not to just wait here and defend a spot.

I moved out, crossed more space, used my shield over and over again. The thing that truly sucked was my lack in bringing out any troops to fight in the middle of all this hectic place.

I used a deadly attack to just end up without killing the strongest forces out there, limiting my forces, and binding my hands behind my back.

I should be more conservative from now on about using my deadly bone fire and the lethal shockwave of my shields.

These two strong and scary weapons just got their edges dull and broken. And it was better to find other weapons to use.

Thinking about that made me wonder if the Kings and geared up soulers and reapers would be the best replacement.

"They lack the AOE ability is something that's too hard to replace…" I found that no matter which race or warriors I had, there was still this missing huge gap.

The fire and the shockwave were overbearing in terms of killing lots of enemies and covering up huge stretches of land in a short time, and for a long time.

"I can't just let these two be negated without thinking of a solution…" I started to think about using my shields to trap forces inside, before detonating everything using my bone fire.

I used this before, and it worked. But right now, it wouldn't work. The enemy got the ability to stop the fire, and also the shields.

"What annoying bastards you are…" I clenched my fists, looking at the world around me, before moving forward once more.

This wasn't a problem I could solve anytime soon. And till I found a right way to deal with the resisting forces, then I should use any of my deadly attacks.

"That reminds me… These races never showed such resistance before… What changed?" Thinking about this made me realise something…

These races weren't able to hold a candle before against my deadly attacks. And yet they were able to do it now. It wasn't just one race, but many if not all of them. And that was quite weird.

Was it some sort of gears? But if so, how come the enemies found a way to mass produce these gears? I didn't know but for a reason… There was something that I missed.

I looked around again, but couldn't find any clue for any of this. I simply kept moving forward, but slowly and not as fast as I imagined before.

I kept releasing warriors in batches, while flying over the silver ground of mine. At a point, the world seemed to get blocked by a colossal wall at the front, which was the god race bubble.

I stood at the edge, overwatching the world in between me and the bubble. I let Lucas II form silver ground in midair, and so we were already hundreds of metres, if not thousands higher than the real ground level.

The enemy had no other option but to send out the flying units towards me. As for the ground ones, they seemed to lose hope in stopping me, and went towards the god race bubble to crack it open.

I didn't know if this was possible or not, but from my exchange with the enemies for so long, I wouldn't be one hundred percent sure of their failure to be honest.

Yet that wasn't what I was thinking about right now, the god race trapped inside this bubble was.

I came all the way here to claim the god race for myself. And as I got this close from them, I realised something.

The entire world was filled with deadly explosive attacks. And there were lots of enemies here, surrounding this bubble.

In other words, I got to think not about how to free the god race, but how to keep them alive after doing this.

"The only option I got is what I already used before at those bastards' bubbles… However…"

I was thinking about forming another ring shield surrounding this god race bubble, securing it from most of the deadly circumstances and enemies around.

But just by seeing how colossal and grand this bubble was made me hesitate. Doing this before at the jumpers' bubble took lots of time. And now I had to waste more time than before, at least five folds, or even more.

I still didn't know how really big this bubble was. "I have no other way but this…" I opened my inventory, and took out a few more gears that supported and augmented one's speed.

To do it, I got to fly faster, like a real bolt of lightning. And I got nothing else right now to worry about in terms of artefacts.

I looked and selected a pair of boots, a pair of ear wings, a wing supporting artefact, even shoulders and head feathers to support one's speed.

Now I felt like I was a true bird, a true giant hawk or something. And it was time to start and test things over.

"I think I won't need silver ground anymore," I looked at the gap again, and at my silver ground, before deciding to go down there, to the real ground, and built my shield ring down below.

My silver ground looked useful and strong, and quite dependable. But it has a fatal flaw… It got a time limit before it'd expire and fall.

If Lucas II wasn't left here all the time to repair and form new silver ground, it would fall either on the attacks of the enemies or on its own volition.

So it was much better to build this ring on the ground.

"Roar!* *Boom!* *Boom!*

Just as I decided this, I jumped off the edge, took a leap of faith towards the ground, and fell directly towards the endless stream of enemies down below.

Chapter 1594 Laying The Shield Ring Down

The enemies got surprised, I bet even they got delighted and excited. I heard a lot of weird shouts and roars, calling for arms and killing, before lots of attacks fell over my defensive shield.

"You are indeed quite energetic… Thundering Might!"

The first thing I did, even before I'd flap my wings and stop in midair, just a hundred metres or less away from the ground, was to summon my first bubble here.

The bubble expanded, pushing the fierce and blinding shockwave away. At the same time, it encompassed lots of forces inside.

And as the enemies felt ecstatic to finally have the chance to get to me, I didn't disappoint them. "If only I got my cube working…" I sighed, waving my hands and releasing lots of warriors out.

Many warriors appeared, filling the grand defensive structure here. For a reason, this place was filled with many and very complicated defensive forts and buildings.

Then things turned out to be like the old and good days, the ones where battles were won with forces clashing and fighting against each other, not by my shields and enemy's tricks.

I felt the urge to stretch out my muscles. I got pretty much pressured and exhausted during the last couple of days and even weeks.

I faced a challenge after another, ending up losing a lot of my assets and strength. Seeing the enemies down below, trying their hardest to surround me, wanting to take a bite before they'd fall on the hands of my forces, made me want to honour their efforts.

And so I took out my glaive, waved it in the air, and joined the fray.

I fought left and right, back and forth, in the air and the ground, while my glaive moved unhindered by anything, unstoppable, killing and cleaving bodies in its path.

"That was fun," the rare moments when I tried to fight on the frontline, using my glaive and personal strength, were always so damn fun and amusing.

Unlike the long ranged fights and controlling others, this new way of fighting seemed more fun and exciting. Only if it wasn't that slow in winning wars, very limited in the area affected by my might, I'd have considered using it.

But wars wouldn't be won by my glaive alone, not the kind of wars I was fighting in.

And so I returned to use my old style, moved my wings and went high in the air, looked at the grand battle inside my shield from a high vantage point,

It went without saying that my forces were rocking it. The enemies were trapped inside, with no access towards their allies outside, and we're facing a hungry and deadly wave after wave of my warriors.

No matter how hard the enemy resisted, they failed in the end. I needed to make sure things here were stable, as this was going to be one of the many anchor points in the entire shield ring… If not the most important one by far.

As I planned to go fast, travel as fast as I could to relay the entire ring, I knew I didn't have enough time to deploy warriors and wait for them to crush their enemies.

That meant by the end of the day, when the ring would be established, the entire situation inside it would be quite severe and dangerous.

I didn't want to just relay the ring, but to also control the area inside, before gushing out warriors to kill the enemies in between the ring and the god race bubble.

Without doing this, and by the time I'd free the god race, things would look ugly.

Taking control of my shield ring was something crucial. And that was why I thought about such anchor points.

These points would be on regular intervals, like a real anchor. I'd scatter lots of warriors there more than anywhere else, might even spend a little extra time at each point to make sure things were good.

With two anchor points surrounding a segment of the ring, then this area would be under control of my forces sooner or later.

There was no risk in letting the enemy forces converge and gather up, forming a grander army, one that wouldn't look any much different than fighting outside in the open.

But to build all this, I needed the cornerstone of all this, my first anchor point, the first bubble, this one.

And that was why I took one hour to play and have fun, instead of waiting on the side and watching without doing much.

"Time to get this ring laid," I didn't yet know how huge this god race bubble was. But I'd give it three up to five days for me to wrap around it.

I moved, flapped my wings, used my artefacts to boost my speed, and turned like a ray of light, passing forward at an unprecedented speed.

I was even surprised by this insane speed. I thought I'd have enough time to lay down my shields and forces, but this…

*Fwoosh!*

I had to stop every second, lay down a shield, take out tons of warriors, before going to another jump and then do the same.

Gradually I noticed that the shields weren't just close to each other. My shields were enough to cover tens of miles in radius now. And that meant I was able to cross more than twenty or even thirty miles with each flap of my wings.

I didn't have time to go back and do the repair myself. So I started to summon more shields at the same point, allowing the shields to expand on their own, merge together, and link the missing gaps in between my shields.

Gradually I started to get used to this routine. And as I deployed my shields, I also took out my warriors.

At the anchor points I planned before, I decided to leave ten times the size of forces I left at any other shield. In addition to that, I left also Kings and soulers to help these warriors securing the anchor points.

I thought I'd be much delayed by this, even double or triple what I estimated first in my mind before starting all this. But unlike what I expected, I took one day only to get it done!

"Weird… Why does it seem like a small bubble?" I thought about what I did, and soon enough I got what happened.

It wasn't because the god race bubble was small or something, it was thanks to my insane speed to cover up such a grand distance in just one day.

After all, a single step forward was enough to cross twenty up to thirty miles. And that was the highest speed I ever enjoyed, even in the era of my chariot.

"I have to upgrade my chariot after it's repaired, add these artefacts to it and see the results," I grew curious about what would be the result if I used the highest form of my chariot coupled with all these artefacts.

How damn speedy would my chariot be? Would I be?

I looked at the entire shield ring I just created. It wasn't yet all completed, as there were gaps here and there, but that wasn't an issue.

I used more shields at the spot, adding more area and space to the already connected shields, while crossing the gaps that existed in my ring.

After doing this for an hour, I decided to stop and prepare for the next move.

The shield ring did its part brilliantly perfectly. It shielded the deadly shockwave outside, protecting it and the god race bubble from any damage coming from this attack.

It also prevented the enemies outside from finding their path inside. The only enemies who were here now were the ones left in between the shield ring and the god race bubble.

I knew the enemy had many ways to deal with my shields. And that was why I had to move, and I got to reach the god race fast.

The place where I should use the portals would be better placed inside the bubble. Like this, the god race would simply be teleported without the need to take many risks.

"Time to get things done," I noticed that the enemies out there were trying their hardest to take down my shield ring. And for a reason, my shield ring seemed to have its own resistance at this crucial moment against those enemies.

At least this would buy me lots of time, enough to save the god race.

The shield ring wasn't just the only means of defence I left here, but my warriors were. "Kill the enemies outside, attack from inside, don't go out to take them down!"

I knew the deadly shockwave outside still had a few days left to die out. And so it'd be risky to let my warriors go out there and fight the enemy.

It was better to hunt the enemy's closest forces from the shield ring, using any possible means to do this.

Chapter 1595 The Weird God Race

And to help, I just scattered lots of my research department weapons at every anchor point. I already saved the places of these points, and now they should turn into the deadliest spots for the enemy troops around.

After doing all this, I knew it was enough to stop the enemies, until I'd go to that bubble and save the god race from within.

As for how… how to do it, I didn't know of a way. I just hoped it'd be something automatic, not needing any special means or actions from me.

Or else, all this would be lost, all the effort I did would be gone.

Right now the ring shield was set in place, and the enemies inside were getting slaughtered. The shockwave already stopped at the edge of the ring, protecting the god race bubble inside, and also stopping the deadly attack from arriving at the mid section between the shield and bubble.

In this region, there were still lots of enemy forces. And they were trying to rearrange themselves right now. They got orders perhaps, had leaders in their rank… But I didn't care about any of that.

As my forces were either busy killing the enemies in the ring or killing the enemies outside using the weapons I left in there, dealing with the enemies in the mid section had to be done by other troops.

And at such moments, I truly missed my cube and the forces stored within it.

"Go and kill to your heart's content," I wanted my fastest troops to take down these forces, and this was without doubt my soulers and Kings.

My soulers and reapers were geared up, from head to toe, and were very strong and fast. As for my Kings, they weren't in any way lesser than the soulers and reapers.

Letting these two out, fully attacking the enemies around, not even sparing the enemies in the air, was enough to clear the entire midsection in the next few hours.

"Time to get you out," I didn't hurry and make any portals for now. I got to wait and see what the fate of this bubble would be.

Would it burst open, release all the god race out? Or would it just let me go in and there, I could open all the portals I needed?

*Poff!*

And even before I'd arrived at that bubble, the answer presented itself to me in a loud bursting sound, as if a bubble exploded, releasing what was inside.

What was inside was something I never expected!

"What the heck is that?!! Are those systems higher ups barbarians or what?!!" I watched in daze, even to the extent of stopping in my tracks, to watch this bizarre scene.

The bubble opened and revealed a colossal ball of meat or something. It spanned to form up the entire bubble, the one that covered up thousands of miles in space.

Seeing this made me guess what it was, and yet I couldn't believe how merciless these folks were!

"Tsk! And here comes the god race," I mulled over this, feeling like someone in the higher ups got something against the god race perhaps.

They didn't let them live in an open place or space like the jumpers at least. They gathered everyone up, seemingly put them under a spell of sleep or something, made them stick together, and formed such a colossal ball of meat.

And then they covered it up with the protective bubble, as if no one would ever notice anything.

What a damn bunch of psychos these higher ups were!

The ball of meat, or the entire world of meat, started to peel off at first, releasing lots of god race members.

And then… The ball exploded!

"Take cover… Whatever! Just come back here!"

I wanted to shout and warn my warriors in the mid section, but the scale and magnitude of this ball explosion was something that went beyond my wildest imaginations.

It felt like the entire world collapsed, and only god race members were raining down from the sky.

There was no need for them to take any cover, as there was no place to be suited to be as a shelter or a cover anywhere here.

I didn't even have a place to hide in this mid section. Without waiting to get buried under tons over tons of god race members, I simply took my staff out, escaped here with my dignity.

I appeared back into one of the main anchor points in the shield ring. And when I turned around, I watched something that made my eyes twitch.

The god race members didn't fall as expected and hit the ground fiercely as I imagined. They simply floated in the air!

"Damn! I totally forgot that I gave them blessing points, lots of them, and they aren't the same weak and useless race they were once…"

I sighed, shook my head, while hearing loud laughter coming from out there.

It seemed they did this as a prank, to joke and play with me. These damn fools! Just wait, war was just at the early stages and you were about to face the best days of your lives…

I looked over and saw these god race members looking around, before they noticed the presence of the enemies.

And before I'd say anything, or even move a muscle, they moved and started attacking the enemies everywhere around.

The enemies who just breathed a sigh of relief when I took my soulers, reapers, and Kings away, just got it bad when the god race members attacked them.

I watched many people try to run, but where are folks? There was no other way out of here but one way, the high death way.

As for the god race, they seemed to have fun by doing this. I recalled how long they were suppressed, tricked and played by the fiends, to even make them help the fiends in return for blessing scraps.

They have deep vengeance desires towards their fiends and their allies. And that made me want to throw those folks in the heart of the grand battles going on all over the world.

"Listen up!" I knew they were having fun, starting with me and ending up with their sworn enemies, "we are now in a new world. And like you were trapped, other members of your race, other races are also trapped and surrounded by enemies. I will open portals linking here to the main base of my forces operations. Go there, and follow the orders from generals, kill the enemies, and make all of us proud…"

I paused, thought about something, before adding up, "any generals or capable leaders please present yourselves at the base. I'll leave instructions to such talents and will give you armies to lead, and enemies to crush."

I instantly got out, took the balls of the research department portals, and started to deploy them all over the place.

To shorten time, I simply jumped towards all the main anchor points in the shield ring, then got out and deployed ten portals there, before jumping out again.

Like this, I managed to cross the entire ring and the midsection zone without taking more than five hours. And that was mainly because of the distance I needed to cross from the ring towards the midsection zone.

"Go to these portals, empty this place as soon as possible!"

I kept shouting, but… It seemed these god race members would take longer than I expected.

They were fighting the enemies in midsection, and many seemed to try and go inside the shield ring to kill the enemies in there.

They were indeed quite active and excited. But they should direct such activity towards the enemies in the right regions of the world.

I tried to shout a couple more times, but I failed to make them move faster.

"Fine! If they plan to stay here for much longer, I'd better go back and jump to the second spot in this continent."

In fact without the shockwave surrounding here, I'd perhaps let these god race members loose, fight freely to their heart's content.

But that wasn't something I could do here, at least now with a second base of the enemy presented in the same continent.

I'd first get rid of the second base here, release and rescue the entrapped god race members, and perhaps I'd release them over the enemies, claim this continent for me.

But they got to understand the great chance they were missing, and the big problem they were going to place themselves at.

So before leaving, I made sure to teach them about these two points. The chance was about getting more blessing points from the forces of mine at the other side of the portals.

And the problem was that, once I moved away from this continent, they got no other one to support them but themselves. Not to mention, the size of each continent here was like the size of an entire planet!

Chapter 1596 The Second Bubble Battle

So they got to prepare themselves for a long battle, without any support or help from my side, while facing an endless stream of enemies.

After telling them this, I returned back to ground zero. Whatever the god race would decide, it was up to them not me.

Yet I already could tell what they decided as I heard loud ruckus coming from the direction of the portals opening here.

[Don't panic! Don't panic! These are the god race members I just saved] as things might escalate, I sent this message to Lily, and she responded after half an hour!

[I know! You just could have warned us before sending them by… few hours perhaps?]

[I'm warning you then]

[After they arrived!]

[No, I'm warning you about new batches coming up in few hours]

I closed the chat, and laughed over Lily's reaction and face that I imagined right now.

Hopefully she wouldn't come all the way through portals and try to hit me or something.

"Using fire or shockwaves isn't going to work…" I stood in front of the next portal leading towards the second main enemy base and god race bubble and thought deeply about it, "time to use the old way then, the hard way."

I cracked my knuckles, and started to do something first.

Five hours and five sacrifices, that was what I prepared before passing through the portal.

I even went back to the second Earth, and brought someone back with me.

"Yes! Yes! Yes! At last! Watch yourselves pussies, the mighty Qilin is here to roast all of you! Hahahaha!"

"Shut the hell up and fly!" I went and brought this annoying and talkative kid, the little Qi, and went towards the portal.

Little Qi… Well… It couldn't be right to call it little by now. With a body that spanned for kilometres, wings which spanned for four kilometres, this dude was indeed no way like little. It was colossal, gigantic, massive, say anything else but little.

And this dude was coming with me to fight the enemies. Without my shockwaves, without my explosive bone fires, then it came down to the old school, might against might, fist against fist, and the stronger would be the final winner.

"Let's go!" I didn't just bring little Qi alone, but let this dude bring more colossal beings from there. To the enemy, they'd be scared like hell while watching such a gate opening, and creatures like never seen before except in fairy tales and legends would pop out of it.

And little Qi and its team of friends weren't just the sole forces I'd use.

"Come out!" I called everyone, be it the kraken, the beast, my little dragon, and my little turtle… Anyone and anything I once fought and captured was now released.

These dudes were kept for a long time inside my shadow world, eating and getting fat, doing nothing but sleeping and snoring.

It was time for them to pay for their rent, and I intended to keep using them until they'd lose half of their body fat as a warm up.

"Attack!" with these scary beings, the true apocalypse landed at last in this new world. Fire, thunder, wind, even earth itself collapsed! Nothing looked normal around, and the enemies just found themselves facing not enemies, but natural forces supporting their enemies.

And from behind all this, I started my next move.

Taking out all the shield bearers and Bulltors like warriors, all the geared warriors, and let them attack freely and kill the enemy everywhere.

This time, my aim wasn't to build the useless ring shield and such. The god race members at the other spot didn't hide and ask for protection as I thought. They bravely gushed out of their bubble, asking when and where to drink from their enemies' blood.

And now I planned to do it directly, going towards the bubble, releasing the god race, unleashing chaos and death over the heads of my enemies.

They dared to seal down my beloved cube? Damage my baby girl? Let me not be able to use my shockwave and explosive bony fire? Fine! Let me see how they'd fare against my purest and cruellest mighty army!

and just by watching the early clashes, they indeed sucked in comparison with my army.

"Attack!" I didn't wait for much longer, kicked little Qi on the body with my glaive's blunt side, didn't know if this colossal dude even felt anything or what.

But from the swift response of it, moving fast towards the front, towards the god race bubble, I knew it got my message and gentle glaive touch.

ƥαṇdα-ηθνε|·ƈθm "Keep pushing forward! Let's pass through them!"

The enemies seemed to be prepared to fight me, my shields, my bony fire, my deadly shockwave, but not fighting me and my forces in such a direct way!

They spanned and covered up the place, using defensive troops like Exomachines and high zombies, even the suited giants were also there! But they didn't expect or prepare anything for a direct clash.

So when I appeared, scattered all of my forces towards the enemies in the region, spreading death and destruction all over the place, the enemy didn't retaliate hard against me or my forces.

But the moment I pushed the line forward, aiming to penetrate through the slowly accumulating enemy forces in the air, the enemy started to fiercely fight back.

They knew if they let me pass through, go near that god race bubble, then they'd be gone! It'd be the end for them! And that wasn't just out of their worst imaginations, but out of reality that was just happening at the other base in this continent.

News must have reached their ears, or else why everyone here suddenly turned around, acted crazy and tried to stop me at all costs?

"Little turtle, rain down fire over their heads," I didn't like their suicidal actions. Without any tactic or formation, without even the slightest logic in using the terrain and current defences around to their favour, they kept coming at me.

They didn't gather up! Not even arranging themselves at all! It was like they all got the order to stop me at any cost, and advance to stop me, and they just complied.

It was just merciful of me to ease their passing, using falling burning rocks that rained down next over their heads.

"I'm not a little turtle! I'm a mighty dragon!"

That turtle dragon was still having identity issues! "Just kill them, and don't slack behind!"

If it was a dragon, then how about the flying lizard that I gained from the dead Hector king? I believe this lizard was much closer than this turtle from being called a dragon anyway.

But I kept my thoughts to myself, and started focusing on waving my glaive around, releasing tons of skills at the enemies near and far.

Cone shaped attacks, wide area attacks, single target attack, even cleaving the ground attacks landed. I didn't keep my hands, and kept waving my glaive left and right, up and down, moving at the forefront on the back of my little Qi.

It was as expected, my little Qi was indeed fast and agile, strong and deadly. It kept roaring fire and releasing deadly waves of icy windy daggers all over the enemies around.

The enemies did try hard, very hard, but their miserable fate was set in stone the moment they selected me as their enemy.

I… I was unstoppable!

I got lots of rage, tons of anger that I wanted to vent over those bastards. They tried to take many things away from me, and managed to seal lots of my assets.

I kept waving my glaive around, with an insane amount of strength, before finally seeing the colossal wall in front of me.

It was like the sky and ground itself merged together to form this bubble. And without the need for me to do or say anything; this bubble burst open.

"It's time for revenge," I muttered, looked around, and for a long ten hour period, I kept fighting till my heart content.

I didn't realise how long it passed until I saw myself standing tens of thousands of miles away from the place where all this started! I never thought my little Qi would be this fast, or the battle to escalate and expand to such a terrifying scale.

"Time to wrap things up," I muttered, while looking at the crazy fighting still going on here, "I believe it's best to let this batch of god race members play here till their heart's content…"

I opened a portal using my staff, passed through it, called back all of my warriors and deadly monsters. As for the grand monsters brought by my little Qi, I let this playful dude order them to help my forces and the god race to kill the enemies.

Then I established a group of portals linking here with ground zero, before informing the god race about this way out.

Chapter 1597 A Heavy Liquid

If they wanted, they could just come and fight at another place, blessing others and enjoying the fruits of blessing points.

Then I passed through a portal and appeared back at ground zero.

"As it works, it's better to keep things rolling then…" As I got one continent down, I shifted my gaze towards the other forty-nine continents.

Each continent got two up to five main bases there. And I decided to take these down, saving all the races out there, before starting the mission I should have done from the start; looking for the bombs.

[Make sure to send someone over to other world, ask the research department about the progress of building drilling machines and other weapons]

[Hey! Hey! Who said we got a portal working with that world anymore? Huh?!]

[Oops! My bad… Hold on a second…] I flashed, passed back to the second Earth world, establishing enough portals there, and then returned back to Earth, established the other ends of these portals at ground zero.

[You got them at the portal spot, marked with flying dragons over them] I left lots of dragons there, working to serve in protecting this place and help in relaying orders.

The old dragon ladies riding dragons was something I enjoyed watching a lot. And I wanted such a scene to be revived and be a trend in my new kingdom, of course after all this would be over.

[Got it! Will tell you the news when I get them. By the way, do you want to hear the latest reports about our war?]

[No thanks, I'm quite busy myself at the moment]

[Such an untrusty leader who throws everything back at the shoulders of his subordinates!]

[You forgot to mention that these subordinates are weak and poor ladies and such]

[Screw you!]

I closed the chat while laughing, as she kept pouring her rage over me there. I knew she wanted help if she asked to show me the latest reports of war, but I got my hand tied down.

Till getting at least half of the bases here down, I'd not try to divert my attention over anything else for now.

And now it was barbecue time!

The battle I just won at second base was fun and effective. The new tactics, which were my old ones actually, proved their worth and abilities against the enemies.

Provided that nothing new happened, and the enemies kept using the same losing line up, things would keep heading for the better to me.

This was true for the first five continents I went to conquer. The bases there were the most bustling bases in the enemy entire continents.

I found lots of enemies there, with little challenges or strong foes at all. The strongest were the Exomachines, and they got to be crushed by the swarm of monsters brought out and led by little Qi.

I saved two different races aside from the God race members in these five continents. These two were elites when it came down to melee battles. And I really need them right now.

The god race was really godly and mighty, but they needed capable soldiers to bless. I got tons of warriors, but the experienced and most veteran and capable ones were scattered already all over the entire world.

After getting this map, I was sure Lily started working over to gather the scattered forces of mine. That became clearer day after day, by the appearance of grand gathering spots of my forces on many continents.

These forces were the top and the most elite in my armed forces. But they were far away from here, and that limited greatly from the benefits of the god race members.

That created a situation where the god race got blessed and upgraded themselves, while they just helped the mediocre ones in my armies.

I thought about letting them bless the Kings, the Avengers, and the rest of my soulers and reapers. But these forces were considered busy right now, fighting and killing all the time.

I planned to take a rest after taking down five more continents. Like this, I'd let my elite and top warriors get blessed, and at the same time, I'd start working on my long paused mission.

The enemy was going to get pushed against the wall, and that would turn them into a very dangerous enemy, a desperate one. And such desperate foes would turn their gazes towards one goal; burning this entire world down!

The bomb search and sweep mission! I had to return and look for bombs in the entire eleven continents and defuse them.

And that meant I'd need the research team to get done with the drilling machines and such.

Just as I was lost in my thoughts, while jumping from ground zero towards a new continent, I was faced with a loud bang!

"What is that?!" I turned around, to find myself in the middle of some sort of a heavy lid ball or something. It seemed as if I got trapped, didn't succeed in the jump, failed for the first time ever!

However when I looked closer, I realised that the entire world was in such a state! The entire world was filled with weird heavy liquid, with tons of bubbles inside, and I simply ended up in one of them!

"Thundering Might!"

The first thing I tried was to create a bubble of my own. And it worked, not like how I used it to work actually.

Instead of forming a bubble that could cover up miles or tens of miles, I got one that covered less than half a mile at most.

And even with that, I could see cracks spreading all over its surface.

"Sh*t! This place seemed to isolate the world's energy from my bubbles!!"

I finally noticed what was wrong when I kept summoning and reinforcing the existing shields with others.

Yet it didn't yield any result. The new shields just gave little extra seconds for the old ones to survive, before the same cracks spread all over again.

ƥαṇdαηθνε| And that wasn't all. The shields that were supposed to superimpose on each other, expanding the area of their coverage, ended up without expanding a single inch at all.

"If so… Then…" I knew I got the chance to retreat and jump to another base if I wanted to. But something told me I'd start seeing this weird liquid more often.

This was a bit weird actually. A liquid that looked so thick and heavy was their answer to stop me?

I didn't yet try to use my warriors at it, or my special monster forces. But for some reason, I felt bad about using any explosive thing against this fluid.

The thought just flashed by my head when I kept using the shields and didn't help to maintain their integrity. In situations like these, when the external damage and force were irresistible, it was always my choice to activate the backlash effect of my shields.

Releasing a mighty shockwave to cover the world, or perhaps activate dark real bone or something and unleash fire.

Both options were always used by me in such situations, but for a reason I felt a great sense of danger whenever such thoughts crossed my mind.

There was something different in this fluid. It wasn't just a normal entrapping fluid that was designed to delay or even stop me. It was here to do something else.

Don't tell me it could reflect the damage it'd suffer! If so, then trying to take this fluid down was a futile attempt!

The only way out would be through digging a tunnel or a path in the middle of all this fluid. But first, I got to stabilise my shields. And I got a way to do it!

I simply used my bones, absorbed their energy, and released it towards the shields. But I made very sure that not a single speck of my energy would pass outside, or even trigger any attack from the shields themselves.

"I believe that's enough for now…" I stored enough energy that could last these shields for an entire week! And now it was time for me to see how I would crush this new scheme of the enemy.

Using anything explosive wouldn't work. And that meant any warrior race with explosive and destructive abilities wouldn't do.

Soulers, Kings, and reapers weren't a good choice either. The best they could do was to flash away, fight the enemies out there, and leave me trapped down here.

That wasn't a solution at all, it was just the last minute rescue of any incoming threats.

"This is liquid… And that means my Lucas II can try and change it, right?" I thought about using aquatic races to find a way to solve this. But after taking out ten different aquatic races, and even a few aquatic monsters, they all failed to do anything.

That left me with one option, changing the entire terrain and turning it into my favour.

Chapter 1598 Time For Counterattack

The enemies didn't see me do such a thing before. All they saw was for Lucas II to just create silver land over thin air or in space.

They would mistake such ability with the one of creating stones and land. And if that was true… Then…

"I should not hurry and try it then," I paused, "I should first go and inspect the other bases, establish the bubbles, and make the enemy believe they really got me…"

Well… The enemy was the one who tried to act smart and cunning. So I got my appetite aroused, and wanted to not just crush this base, but crush as many bases as I could in the next wave of attack.

I already cleared five continents of the main bases, unleashed lots of warriors around in each continent to clear more enemy forces and keep the pressure over the enemy at these places.

So I have almost forty-five continents to go to. And I planned to go and visit all of them!

I kept returning back to ground zero, using my portals and jumping towards the enemy's continents.

Doing this didn't take as much time as I feared. As I got to know what I was doing, I just appeared in a place, used my pillar's shields, strengthened them using my bones, and then jumped back to ground zero.

I didn't try to take out any warriors, didn't try to use any explosive bones or my shields' shockwave attack.

In less than two days, I found myself just finished the task on hand. The remaining continents were all now filled with my bubbles, and that wasn't all. I also saved bookmarks of these places, so I could jump in between them at any moment.

"Let's see how you'll react to this," I kept tracking the enemy moves on the grand map. And the enemies didn't change anything at all.

In this map, I appeared to be drifting away from the location of the main bases. I jumped to appear in a fluid world, but it seemed like this fluid was moving and not still!

I'd appear at a location, and after one hour I'd be in a totally different location. That made me realise something… The enemy needed these main bases and wasn't willing to lose any more of these.

And that was simply like music in my ears. "I should get started," I returned to the first bubble I created, and there I saw lots of deep cracks appearing. The shields were about to get crushed if I got delayed by a few more hours.

"My dear Lucas II, I want you to do something for me," I took out my trump card, and it was time to see if it was going to work or not.

"Anything my liege," he bowed and said in veneration and respect that both startled me.

I was about to reprimand him, tell him that he should call me lord, but I realised something.

Lucas II accompanied me in the last adventures and battles, witnessed everything I did and the enemies whom I crushed and triumphed over.

So it was expected why he was acting like this in my presence. "See this fluid? I want you to turn it all into air."

"Sure, I'll do it now!" ραпdα `nᴏνɐ| сom

This was the simplest and yet most effective counterplan I got. The enemy thought he got me trapped in these fluid zones. But with Lucas II, I could turn this fluid into anything I wanted.

I thought about creating land again, yet this wasn't going to work. What was the benefit of turning this fluid into land? It was simply perfect to turn this entire fluid into air.

But this wasn't the issue, the issue was if I took Lucas II back, moved away towards another place, would the air turn back into fluid again or what?

"Tell me Lucas II, what will happen if…"

ƥαṇdαηθνε| I said my concerns out, and Lucas II told me what I didn't want to hear.

"Yes my liege, the fluid will turn back to its original state once my energy gets depleted."

"This… What?" I felt bad at first, but I was greatly disappointed. But in the next second, I realised how great this actually was.

It was like blue land, which would be enough to sustain itself for one day or so, before needing Lucas II intervention.

I asked again to make sure that by his absence, this place wouldn't retort back into its fluid state. And he confirmed that nothing would happen.

"Then start," I turned towards the world of fluid around, "turn this damn place into a puff of air."

And that was exactly what happened in the next few minutes!

The entire world around that was made out of fluid turned into thin air. That wasn't enough of course to stabilise the situation here.

According to the map, my spot on it got changed and drifted away from the main base of the enemy by hundreds of miles. But that wasn't a problem anymore.

"Thundering Might!"

One of the main problems here was gone, which was the fluid. Of course the reach of Lucas II wasn't enough to change the entire world around, but it was enough to clear an area of tens of miles.

And then it was the turn of my shields. The moment the fluid outside got removed, my shields which were on the verge of collapse started to expand in a blink of an eye.

They covered up a huge stretch of land, and I simply kept moving fast, deploying more of my shields, while Lucas II kept turning any fluid we'd meet into air.

"Get ready, we are going to travel now," and the most amazing thing in all this was that it didn't take more than a few minutes to get all this done!

When I left using my staff's portals, the enemies were gathered up front in dense numbers. And a good deal of them got entrapped inside the shields of mine.

Chapter 1599 Time To Sweep Bombs

As for these forces, I already scattered lots of my warriors during the past few minutes inside my shields. By the time I'd visit all the enemy bases, relieve the pressure, and return, I'd start the final wave of clashes against the enemy forces.

And something told me this was going to be the last chapter in this struggle, the first and most decisive big victory of mine over them.

"Let's go," I kept dragging Lucas II behind while jumping from one bubble to another, from one base to another.

He needed bones, lots of bones actually to operate and show the true might of his ability. And that wasn't a problem for me. Yet it reminded me of something…

I didn't claim my bones from the enemies I killed, from the enemies my forces killed, in many places and worlds before the merge!

And that made me wonder if I lost these bones forever or what!

Hopefully not! Please don't take my bones away, not my bones!

I thought about dedicating little time per base to collect bones. However, that wasn't going to work. I might come here after many days or weeks perhaps, by the time many enemies die and collect bones.

So I kept jumping from one base to another, turning all the dangerous fluid into thin air. I asked Lucas II amidst all this about how long his ability would last. And he told me one answer: one day!

Doing all these bases a visit and proper turnover would take more than one day. So by the time half a day passed, and almost twenty continents got visited, I decided to reroll over the ones I visited, let Lucas II reinforce his ability, and check the current situation there.

The forces I left behind were indeed hungry for fighting. I kept upgrading the list of my top warriors over the course of the apocalypse.

I started with Bulltors and shield bearers. Then I jumped into dragons, and then soulers kicked in.

For a long time, soulers kept themselves as my top and most elite force until the appearance of my precious fallen gods. And thanks to their lack of numbers, I was still using lots of common warriors.

But since the day I started to mass produce soulers, got the Bulltors and shield bearers like warriors, introduced the geared troops in my army, and finally got the Kings, I didn't use much of my normal warriors anymore.

They were soldiers, living by the edge of a sword. Take the sword out of any soldier, and he'd eventually die of lack of fights.

So it was pretty much expected to see them fight this hard, even race and compete among themselves to get the next kill.

I liked that! I should get out these boys more often for a walk then.

"Hmm… I believe these bubbles are ok," I scanned the first base I used this tactic at. The warriors got all over the place, hitting and killing the forces inside and outside my bubbles.

Trying to keep Thomas II's ability on and on for these bases would be a nightmare. Doing so would pin me in this place like… Forever!

So plan B kicked in, and I got to take other Avengers to do the job like Lucas II. And to relieve myself from coming here again, I made sure to leave enough stacks of normal bones inside each base.

I soon returned to the base I left from, and continued my march from there.

As I already found a solution for the impending problem of Lucas II ability, I got enough time to not only deploy more forces and expand the area of fighting, but to also start looking for the bombs.

I was so busy fighting the enemy in their playgrounds. And now it was time to relieve a few continents of their bombs.

Of course to do that, I needed drilling machines, and a huge number of workers. And for sure I wouldn't go back and look for all of these.

[You do know how bad the current situation is?] Lily responded back. And for a reason, I imagined her shouting and screaming on my face.

| [And?] I didn't care about how hard it was at her end, [It's all bad everywhere!]

[At least you got your warriors and geared forces that I heard legends about! But us? We got exhausted and tired forces, or freshly recruited ones!]

[This is a war! We don't choose anything in wars. Just do with whatever you got, find a way to win, and stop complaining! Send someone to bring me the drilling machines and tons of warriors to the continent numbered twenty-seven]

[You are indeed ruthless! You changed!]

[I've never changed, the world did instead. If you want any help, why not just ask directly about it instead of doing all this drama?]

[Will you agree to help if I ask directly?]

[No way! I'm busy as hell!]

[Then I'll keep creating drama!]

[As if I'd come to help if you ever did so] I laughed, shaking my head in helplessness. It was indeed quite dangerous everywhere, but it wasn't that bad actually as she tried to describe.

She wanted me to step out of my current business and help the scattered forces around. Of course doing this would secure wins in many battles, and risk losing the entire war!

Yet I admired her effort in thinking of new ways for help. Good girl, you got enough time to think about such stuff, and that was enough to tell me how stable the situation over there was.

[Tsk! You are indeed a cold hearted tyrant! I dunno how I'm still working for you!]

[Yes, just give up, leave and go to rest in… Whatever place you like. I'd make Legend take your position, at least he is a man and won't complain every now and then]

[Screw you!] she didn't send anymore messages, and I got that she was too enraged to close the chat without trying again.

Chapter 1600 Torturing Them A Bit

Was I harsh? She was really funny and amusing. Next time I should lower my tone a bit, and let her keep speaking like this.

Anyway, aside from jokes and futile attempts of hers, she was capable of knowing what I wanted. I just had to wait until she'd send me the machines and people I wanted.

*Fwoosh!*

And just as I expanded the area of fighting in this continent, taking out tons of warriors, and even research department weapons, two hours passed fast.

After these hours, my drilling machines arrived with those of the research department who were trained to operate them. And they didn't come alone, a flood of normal people and workers appeared after them.

The machines didn't appear at first, being stored in the inventories of the dudes from the research department. But soon enough, I started to see true magic!

"These are?" I stood by the side of the leader of this group, "where are my drilling machines?"

I waited, and when they took out things, they took flying balls that floated in the air. I didn't know why, but it seemed my research department got a sudden affection for balls and such.

It wasn't just the first time for me to see such balls, the grand portals they invented also were formed in the shape of balls.

"Wait lord, they are going to transform wherever you want them," that dude said, before adding, "we managed to make gigantic drilling machines, compressed them into little balls, but couldn't do anything beyond this."

"What do you mean?" I blinked twice, turned to point towards these balls as I added, "are they working or not?"

"They are, they do," that dude seemed to get startled by my shout, hurriedly pointing towards himself as he added, "I, Anderliech, swear that they are working."

"Screw you, I need results, not just an empty words!" I didn't like this dude in the slightest. But he was the one who got all the answers, the one that old Gan selected and sent here for me.

"Well… What I meant is that these balls can do the job, take out gigantic drilling machines, but they won't be able to return back to the ball state."

| "Then say it can work and that's it!" I waved my hand, "come on, select a group of my warriors here, teach them how to use these drilling machines."

"Lord, it's just a little reminder… We can't teach anyone without deploying and releasing the drilling machines from its small state. And if so…"

"Stop interrupting me!" I grabbed that arrogant and careless dude from the collar, "you folks from the research department seemed to grow lazy all this time. I want these warriors to be taught, and I don't care how you'll do it! I want my warriors to know how to f*cking use these drilling machines of yours in the middle of all this fighting and killing, got it?"

For the first time ever, I saw that arrogant and smug looking dude's face change. "S… Sure, lord. I'm going to do my best."

I waved him and let him fall on the ground, "F*ck your best! I want results! Anything else but results will end in me taking your life, got it?"

"Y… Y… Yes lord…"

"Damn! What the heck did old Gan and others do? Giving out pussies? What the f*ck is that? Some sort of a joke or what?"

I kept muttering like this, while that dude kept trembling. In fact, I already knew about this big flaw in the research department. When I went there and met their leaders, I got such a relaxed atmosphere from them.

They were creating killing and death machines, but weren't the ones who were going to use them. Coupled with their routine and peaceful life away from any danger and wars, they started to become a very irritating species!

The right way to correct all this was by sending these folks out there to join and witness war horrors, to feel how desperate and deadly it was to survive in this world.

But I didn't have any time for this. "You got one hour, after that I'm coming here and will watch the results."

"O… One hour isn't…"

"Isn't that?" I roared at this pathetic dude's face. Why the heck did he act in such arrogance in my presence before? He deserved all this, even if I was joking with him, it still felt great.

"I… I'm going to do my best…"

"You f*cking best again! I want results! One hour, and if you don't give me results, your head will be rolling on the ground."

I didn't stay here anymore, moved away, before starting to use my dancing moves.

I entered into my dream world, and started to locate the places of any bomb. No matter where the bombs were, I found and marked them using shield bubbles.

I took five hours before finally deciding to return and see what that annoying jerk did back there.

The world around was already filled with lots of fighting, but it wasn't that bad actually. The place I left people from the research department at was considerably safe, in the heart of all my forces around.

They got shields above their heads, and forces on their sides. I didn't know why, but when I went to see them I noticed their bodies shaking with each violent explosion or noises of rough battles around.

"How is it?" I appeared out of a portal, and enjoyed such a funny scene. I decided to let this team stay here for days, training more warriors on how to use these drilling machines.

"Lord, please let us go, please," that dude whose name I couldn't even recall or pronounce correctly hurriedly shouted the moment he saw me.

"What? Keep working!" I knew I asked for workers trained on using these drilling machines. But as most of the bombs were located already in the deep enemy zones, it was better for my warriors to know how to use them as well.

Chapter 1601 The Grand Drilling Machines

I also planned before to relieve these research team members, send them back to continue their marvellous job. Yet I changed my mind when I saw this arrogant dude and his fellows.

"But… Lord… Please… Show mercy!"

"Please lord, show mercy!"

He knelt on the ground with a trembling body, and soon enough all the rest of his team knelt and did the same, shouting and pleading for mercy.

I knew they had weak hearts and wills thanks to the long time they spent living under the umbrella of peace. But seeing them act in this way, not tolerating being in the middle of all this brutal world for five hours made me inwardly sigh.

These people didn't need a wake up call, they needed a miracle!

"Alright, but where are the machines you trained everyone on?" I moved my eyes around, not seeing anything of those proclaimed huge machines and such.

"We got to take them into our inventory," the leader with a name I couldn't even remember said, scratching his head before adding, "we spent lots of time and effort on making these machines. And so we decided to take them back, find a way to turn them into the ball version again."

"Fine," I paused, feeling not that much satisfaction with what they did, "you'll stick around for a bit longer."

"Lord, please show mercy!" they knelt and weep this time, pleading for mercy.

"It's not negotiable," I coldly said, "I have to see with my eyes how capable these machines are. Plus, I needed to see if my warriors and the people you brought can work on them efficiently and perfectly before sending you back."

"..."

From the look over their faces, I knew they didn't like such an end. But what could they do? I was the lord, the one handling everything and holding up the power to kill or let them live.

"Follow me," I opened a portal towards one of the places I saved before using my staff, "let's see how effective these machines are."

I took them towards a new place, where it was located just at the base of one mountain. This mountain was very huge and big, enough to form an entire island on its own.

The place where the bombs were located was underneath this mountain. "Show me your brilliant performance," I stood by the side of this mountain, crossed my arms, and waited to see a miracle.

And soon enough I indeed witnessed one.

Saying that these machines were huge was an understatement! I didn't know how these dudes came up with such an idea, or how they managed to build it up.

However, in front of my eyes, a huge skyscraper-like machine appeared. It stood on the ground using many huge metallic legs, got at least one hundred drilling blades that were so sharp, each were gathered along one huge pillar like rod.

The moment they took these out, people started to work. As these folks promised, the people here were quite efficient and knew what to do.

They operated the machines, ten of them, and in the next few minutes, they managed to clear up a huge crater in the ground.

It reached depths of a few hundred metres in no time. And seeing this made me realise that even grand mountains wouldn't stand a chance against them.

"Good work," I finally said to those scared faces of the research department folks, "you can go back now."

"Phew!"

"Thanks lord."

"Thanks for your mercy."

They shouted, cried, and celebrated getting freed from all this torture. Seeing them hurry and chase after each other out of here made me sigh inwardly.

If these folks considered staying here as the most tormenting experience ever in their lives, then how about my warriors? My generals? How about everyone fighting in this shitty world for a long time like myself?

I sighed, didn't know what to think about any of this.

I threw all these useless thoughts behind, left the people here to do their work after leaving strict instructions to not touch any bomb once found.

Then I started to open more portals, leaving five of each machine with tons of workers and warriors to accompany them and dig for the bombs.

And soon enough I started to see the main weakness of such tactics.

"These balls… They aren't enough to even cover up the places in one continent!" I knew I just worked to cover up around ten percent of the entire continent before I entered my mirror world.

And from the remaining balls after sending five each to every single bomb location, I could simply tell these bombs wouldn't even suffice one continent.

[Send word back to the research department, we need more, much more of these machines, at least one hundred fold]

[One hundred?!! Isn't it… A bit too much?]

[If they can find a way to recycle and move these machines around then it's ok. But they don't have such means right now. And we need to solve this problem of bombs quite fast]

[Got it! By the way, the war here is pretty bad! When are you planning to come and help?]

[In your dreams!] I laughed while closing the chat window with her. I knew the situation back there wasn't that good. But the war here wasn't yet over at my side.

I still got many continents to visit, lots of bombs to find, and races to save. And then I'd return back, and lead everyone to crush enemies everywhere.

All I was asking for was to endure. I didn't ask much of them, and at least they could do this task.

I then shifted my full attention towards dealing with bombs in this continent. I took a day before finishing scattering all the machines and people trained over them all over the continent.

As I expected, the number of machines barely satisfied this continent. And only a few of these machines were left behind. I stored the rest, before jumping to a new continent, towards another base.

And there, I found a grand surprise waiting for me.

Chapter 1602 A Brutal War

I used to jump in and find the world around me filled with tons of enemies. But this time, it seemed much different.

It wasn't like the world was filled with lots of enemies, but felt like even the sky was filled with tons of enemies! It was like the entire world was made out of enemies, like I got into that weird fluid space again, and this time it was entirely made out of enemies.

Everywhere I looked, I found enemies attacking the shields without pause. They seemed to be doing this for a long time already. And by my arrival here, more enemies appeared out of portals that popped out from everywhere.

From just one look, I got that the enemies were after me this time with everything they got. It wasn't a bad move actually. After all, all their methods before didn't yield any result at all. Not to mention the enemies must have noticed what I had done back there.

I started to effectively look for and dig the bombs out. And that made them quite panicked. "Humph! At least you saved me the trouble of jumping over the other places."

I didn't see any of this as bad news. I couldn't use my cube, my shields' destructive attack wave, or even the fiery and explosive dark realm bones of mine.

But that didn't mean I was weak or powerless, it didn't mean I was out of options or cornered by facing all of these forces here.

| If they wanted a direct clash, then I'd simply comply. "You'll lead your people and kill anyone that stands in your way," I took Lucas out, all the geared soulers, before pointing towards the east and letting them handle that frontier.

"You will deal with enemies in the west and south," I took all the hundreds of millions of Kings I got and unleashed them over the enemies in two different directions.

"You go, kill the enemies at north," as for the remaining direction, I took all the geared warriors I got, all the bulltors-like and shield bearer-like warriors, and took all the warriors I got out.

If the enemy got portals, then I got my inventory to match theirs. And I was confident that no matter what they brought, they would pale in front of my warriors.

"Attack at the far away backs," I took even the weapons I had from the research department, pointed everywhere, "don't stop attacking, don't slack and hit all the enemies at the rear. Turn this world into a world of chaos, blood, and death."

I was going to use everything I got as the enemy was already doing the same. I even summoned my scary beasts, letting them join the fun.

As for me, I kept myself for hours confined inside the grand bubble, taking out tons of forces, sending all towards their corresponding battlefronts.

When I depleted all the tokens of special warriors, like soulers, Reapers, Kings, Fallen gods, and geared warriors, I sent normal ones out to act as fodders and soldiers, working under the leadership of all these scary forces.

I knew the enemy had a scary line up of elite forces, but most of their armies were made entirely out of weak fodders. To let these fodders keep my elite troops busy was a mistake. And that was why I spent nearly three days taking out everything I got.

I didn't just stand idle during all this. The first thing I did was to check the map. And there I found the place I was dyed all red, while that red spot was expanding exponentially with more enemy portals and troops coming here.

At the same time, I noticed that in the other bases and continents, the number of enemy forces there was declining at a steady pace. It was clear that they were moving out their forces from other continents and bases to here, aiming to drown me with swarms of their forces.

This was indeed quite an effective plan, provided that they kept the ratio of the elite forces more than the weaker ones. And from what I saw so far, and after three days of fighting, they were indeed doing this!

So many times I saw the scary armoured worms coming from the ground inside the shield, creating lots of havoc before they'd be taken down by my fallen gods.

I kept those brutal forces by my side, working as my elite guards, alongside many of the Kings and soulers as well as Reapers.

Like this, I made sure my safety was guaranteed. But at the same time, there were few annoying forces that kept harassing the shields and creating lots of trouble for me.

There was that weird combination between the Exomachines and one eyed giant cyclops. They kept coming at my shield, trying to break holes there. And they succeeded more than once already.

They didn't come alone, but in a huge group of flying enemies that kept them safe and led them all the way towards my shields. At the same time, my forces retaliated and kept fighting like crazy for a long time, but failed on a few occasions to stop these scary Exomachines and enemy forces.

They seemed to do damage to my shields, opening wide holes in the end, allowing many of the enemy forces accompanying them to flood inside the shields. But a few times of using my Thundering Might skill was enough to repair everything, seal these holes and cut the path over the enemy to create bridges into my shields.

After some time, I started to see this as a good chance to get rid of many enemy forces by entrapping them inside the shields. From time to time, I'd fly away, joining the fight for a few hours, scattering out many shields, disturbing the enemy ranks and lines, entrapping many and cutting their path towards their comrades at the same time.

In addition to that, it also helped in disturbing the scary combination of Exomachines and giant cyclops. They got more shields to deal with, with many already creating lots of trouble to their armies.

Chapter 1603 I Want Your Head

After five more days, I already finished taking out all of my warriors. It was the first time I took everything I got, and I didn't get how scary the amount of tokens I got until this moment.

When I opened the map, I saw a grand green spot that was surrounding my place. Before this, the map was filled entirely with a grand red spot. But that was during the first day of my coming here and starting this hectic war.

Now? That red spot got pushed away, covering almost half of the entire continent by now. However the green dot was still expanding slowly and steadily, and that meant my boys were killing and rocking it.

Since I started spreading out my shields and the fierce combination of the Exomachines and giant cyclops started to vanish from my sight. By the fourth day, not a single wave of these came again.

As for the enemies who were inside the shield, either came through gaps or were here since I created the shields, they were totally wiped out on the third day.

And now it was time for me to personally join this war. But first, I got to do something else. It was time to bring the scary chariot back!

Enough time has passed since I left my baby back there to get healed. And it got completely repaired almost one day ago.

I was still busy taking out my warriors, and so I wasn't yet ready to go and get it. But now I opened a portal directly towards the second Earth world to get it back.

"What's going on?" but just as I opened a portal, that portal opened like a burning dot before it vanished. I tried it again, and again, and yet I didn't manage to open any portal at all.

And that was… A bit weird.

"Don't bother," and just as I was puzzled by this, a weird voice appeared out loud, coming from the direction outside my shields.

I raised my head and saw nothing at all. "I'm the one leading my people's armies to crush you. And as you can see, you are isolated from the outer world. You can't get any message at all, get into contact with anyone, and definitely you aren't able to open any portal at all."

"Space seal artefact? Nice trick," I stopped trying to open my portal. Instead, I looked at the distance, at the direction where that voice came from, "so you are the one who is dreaming to get my head?"

"I will get it!" He was arrogant enough to say such outrageous words in my face.

"I'm dying to see what you can do," I laughed in response, "from what I'm seeing, your forces are all getting pushed back by mine."

"That's something needed to keep you trapped here."

"As if you can," I calmly said, before turning towards the map, looking at what was the general situation right now.

As I expected, the entire map of this continent was now dyed red, with a big green spot that kept expanding outwards. Despite that, the green dot was simply no more than ten percent of the overall surface area of this continent. And that wasn't a small area at all, but it wasn't enough.

I knew such an artefact must have range, limited to fixed distance. And from the map, I could tell this dude was just playing with fire speaking with me like this and revealing his place to me.

Without even thinking about it, I turned around, towards the opposite direction of his voice, and started to fly there with my highest speed.

"What are you doing?" That dude seemed to panic the moment he saw me flying fast towards the opposite direction.

"What do you think? I'm escaping, hahahaha!" I laughed, while feeling more excited about this. This dude seemed to mistake the enemy he was fighting, and just mistook my understanding of artefacts.

Any single artefact would have different limits. Be it energy expenditure, energy requirements, or even strength needed to get activated… All artefacts have such limits.

And for something like the ceiling artefacts, they got a great limit on power expenditure and distance. I could tell this dude came prepared, had enough reserves of energy to sustain the activation of his artefact for a long time.

So the only option I got was to get out of the area of its coverage. This dude wasn't standing near me, and he wouldn't dare to be. And that meant he was back there, inside the grand red dot.

In response to my sudden move, he'd try to circle around and come at me. And that meant he had either to pass through my forces directly, risking himself getting trapped and exposed, or take the longer detour inside his forces, surrounding mine.

If he selected the former, then he'd end up revealing his place to me. I already tested my staff for a long time, and it worked here. And that meant his artefact only cut access of this place with the rest of the world.

So… At any given moment that dude would appear, I'd notice him on the map. He'd appear as a big red dot in the middle of all the green sea, trying to come towards me, closing up the growing distance.

And if he did so, then he'd find me appearing out of nowhere, coming out from my staff portal, and would then claim his life.

But if he was smart to see through all this, he'd try the other way around, taking the long path towards getting me trapped here. And doing so would turn all this into a race, which I was sure I'd win in the end.

After all, I didn't yet use my sacrifices, and didn't plan to use any until it was the right time.

"Dammit! I'm going to rip your limps and wings apart first, before torture you for long time," he roared, and that meant he already saw through my intentions here.

And that meant he was going to take the longer road. That didn't stop me from checking the map. And after ten hours, I knew he wasn't going to take the shortcut.

So it was time for me to start using my sacrifices.