Chapter 1604 A Hectic Run
I knew just racing that dude using nothing but my normal speed would fail. He came prepared, was the leader of the entire enemy forces. And that meant he must have lots of ways to increase his own speed.
I stopped, started activating my sacrifices. I just increased my speed and my artefact's speed. And the next thing I experienced was a scary increase in my overall speed.
It was like I got my chariot back! I kept pushing forward, flying towards the horizon, until I finally arrived at the end of my green zone.
All that lay up front was an endless ocean of enemies, filling both the ground and air.
"Time to start the show," I didn't even lower my speed when I arrived there. Till now I couldn't see where that jerk was. He just shouted hours ago, and went radio silent since then.
For sure he was racing the wind to arrive at me. But that idiot didn't know he perfectly fell into my trap!
The moment I stepped out of the green zone, I instantly got welcomed with tons of highly aggressive enemies.
The entire situation was already on fire. And I knew that without my chariot, no one would be able to guess who I was.
I didn't think about using such a way to trick that bastard and get rid of him. For a reason, it felt like he had a clear vision of me using anything, even artefact was possible.
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| So trying to trick him wouldn't do. And the only way I had was to simply try to trick him using another method.
"Time to stretch my muscles for a bit," I didn't even think about using any of my signature moves. I didn't take out my pillar, or even summoned any formidable army of warriors.
All I did was to take my dragon glaive out, wave it around, and started fighting head on with the enemies.
One hit, one kill. One wave, and the enemies around would get either chopped into two halves or got sent flying to the ground.
I didn't just boost my flying speed, I boosted my entire speed. And that meant moving the glaive around came with a high speed, one that made my glaive leave lots of afterimages while I kept flying forward.
The enemies roared, shouted, screamed, but nothing worked. No matter what they tried, be it directly surrounding me with their huge numbers, or try to even submerge me with their deadly attacks; nothing worked!
In fact, the more they did that, the more I laughed. I didn't need to worry about anything right now thanks to my weird feather shield. It could sustain the damage of my pillar's shields' brutal wave attacks. So it was expected how it stopped these.
My speed didn't get lowered no matter how hard they tried. They even tried to fly directly at my face, detonate themselves using some sort of grenades or something, but they failed.
With such a strong and sturdy shield, passing through all these attacks was nothing for me. And in the end, they got to stop such suicidal attempts.
Yet they never stopped trying. The hardest enemies I fought so far were those damn armoured worms. They appeared all of sudden, out of nowhere.
The area they appeared at looked as if it turned out to be filled with colossal thorns, huge spears that appeared from the ground and flew high to the air.
If not for my insane speed, I'd have ended up stopping in my tracks and fighting these damn worms.
Just stopping meant the end for me. I already wasted two hours in my sacrifices, and I was trying to make up for the lost hours.
These worms were indeed quite scary, but luckily for me, the enemy didn't have many of them. They had to return to using normal fiends and flying suited troops to stop me.
They couldn't use their insane amount of forces at the ground. After all, I was flying at high altitude. They had to use their flying forces to get me, and that limited their abilities greatly.
Yet they really got lots of flying forces. I even saw new creatures, ones that looked like giant eagles with feathers that were made entirely out of fire. I even saw birds with dragon scales and tails like dragons.
Despite feeling the urge to use my technique and subdue these new races, I didn't. I didn't want to waste anymore second, I wanted to keep pressuring that idiot and force him to travel as fast as he could to catch me.
"Hahahaha! Don't even try! You are still within my grasp!" After half a day of doing so, I tried to use my second Earth portal function without succeeding.
And in return for that, I heard that damn bastard's voice coming from behind. Just locating his general direction made me realise he already passed the grand gathering of my forces, and was now travelling inside his armies.
Unlike me, he got to just fly forward and all the forces around would part ways for him. They'd even accompany him in a great gathering, heading towards me.
And that meant the place that dude was had lots of enemies than other places around. So I waited patiently for the next refreshment of my map, and there I spotted where this dude was.
"Not bad," I muttered when I noticed the distance between me and him. It wasn't that big, but not that short, at least a hundred miles at least.
This wasn't a big distance actually, considering that I could cross them in less than ten minutes with my current speed. And if he had used artefacts to up his speed, it meant he was flying at least on the same level of speed as mine.
The next few refreshments proved to me that he was flying a bit faster. Or was it the effect of facing all these enemies and crashing through them? Did they slow me down a little? I couldn't tell.
Chapter 1605 Meeting Her
But with each refreshment, the distance between me and him became closer and closer. I estimated that in fifteen hours, he'd be able to catch up to me.
Despite knowing this, I didn't feel any pressure at all. In fact, I was looking for the moment that dude would catch up with me.
When that'd happen, I'd give him the surprise and shock of his life. And till then, it was my task to keep pushing forward.
The chase kept going on for long hours as I expected. From time to time, that jerk would say something as if he was mocking me.
Taunting or teasing me wasn't going to work. That stupid one didn't even realise he perfectly fell into my trap. And hearing what he was arrogantly shouting at me made me laugh inwardly on him. But on my face, I still kept a look of seriousness.
The enemies started to look harder to kill. The percentage of the armoured worms was growing exponentially with every hundred miles I passed through. And that told me that this jerk was getting closer.
The world around started to look like a gigantic forest of worms, coupled with many big flies in the form of flying races and fiends. Going forward after ten more hours became a hurdle for me. But I wasn't any bit worried.
I already got that jerk in the spot I precisely wanted. I knew that anytime soon, that jerk would show me his ugly face.
He'd think he got me where he wanted, but he was going to get scared by what was going to happen.
I kept fighting in the middle of a raging ocean of enemies, and didn't even summon a single warrior to my side. It looked as if I was on a wooden raft, in the middle of a thunderstorm alone, with huge and giant waves hitting me from all sides.
And yet, despite my poor and weak looking wooden raft, I managed to survive and even crush lots of these waves. The enemy might have arranged such an attack based on old intel, back when I was just a normal human.
But now? I was a giant human! And I was using my deadliest weapon, my glaive, without feeling any restrain or limitation.
If I got my chariot, then I could have kept fighting like this without any worry. I could have summoned my deadly fallen gods, let them deal with all the enemies around. I could have even used my bones to release deadly fire all over the place.
But right now I couldn't do any of this. And all I could do was to just wait and bid for time, wait for that bastard to show up.
Unlike what I expected, that jerk didn't show up soon. He spent close to six hours trying to arrange an inescapable trap for me.
I saw all this clearly over the general map. The redness around me was getting thicker, forming a grand circle of blood like gathering. I didn't care about any of that, and simply kept moving forward despite knowing it was a trap.
"You are indeed an idiot!" Just after five hours, that jerk finally showed up. He came with giant guards, those who looked new to me.
They had such a giant head, with a knife-like tapering end of their heads. They wore strong looking gears, something that I never saw before.
I knew without the need to ask that these gears were the top grade ones I ever saw the enemy using before. And seeing this made me crave to get my hands over these gears.
These guards were in huge numbers, millions even, surrounding him and me in a grand circle.
At the outer zone of this circle, I could see tons of armoured worms rising up. They formed something like impregnable mighty walls, ones that made me know if I tried to force my way out, I'd end up dead for sure.
"Why is that?" I laughed, didn't show a single speck of worry because I never had any.
"You moved out fast at first, taking me by surprise," that dude got long red hair. And to my surprise, when he removed his helmet, I saw a beautiful face of a lady in front of me.
"Who are you?" She looked human, more human than any other race I ever met before. She was giant, not anyway less than me in size. But that wasn't enough to make her look nothing but human in my eyes.
"In this world, in this universe, humans are considered trash. But out there, in the vast cosmos, humans have great stands among other races."
"This…" I was surprised by her words. If she meant what she said, then she was part of my race, a human.
Why would a human fight this hard against me? If she was one of the overlords of my former Earth, then I could slightly understand that. But now? She was part of the scary enemy, the ones who kept spreading death and chaos among the entire cosmos.
| "No, don't take me wrong," she waved her long red hair, showing off her bright blue eyes as they shone slightly in a dangerous way, "I got a slight connection with your race by blood. But it seemed my genes focused more on showing off my human features to others. Yet I'm not a human."
"You are indeed a talkative lady," I sighed. She could easily say she wasn't a human. But she didn't. Instead, she kept using long words to say the same thing over, "to me you look like a human. Then why fight me then?"
"Because you are dangerous!" she said it as if she was speaking to the most dangerous man in the entire cosmos, "you never follow rules, never follow any logic. And your actions are all unpredictable. On top of that, you placed yourself as an obstacle that we have to remove at all costs."
Chapter 1606 My New Chariot
"I see you spend a lot to just entrap me," I laughed, while moving my eyes around, "do you think this is enough to stop me?"
"Let's see if you can have such a smile on your face when I'll crush your arrogance."
"Oh, such a fiery lady! Just my type," I laughed, "I love those arrogant ladies. Do you know that I got a curse? Perhaps if we dated, you'll get cursed and be gone from my sight forever."
"You are trash! And you are just nothing but a mere fly that I'll crash! Attack! Whoever brings me his head will sleep in my tent tonight!"
"Tent? Come on girl, why isn't it a suite or a fancy villa?" I kept laughing. But unlike my words, the entire world around me started to move, all heading towards me at the same time.
And as they moved, I also started to act.
I raised my staff high in the air, and without any doubt or delay, I activated the bookmark I kept saving all this time.
"Hahahaha! What an idiot! Do you think you can run away…"
Just before this b*tch would say whatever she wanted, I jumped!
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I wasn't going to a continent out from here, but went directly towards the furthest point opposite to my current place.
That was the plan from the beginning. If the artefact that b*tch had got such a limited distance as a weakness, then with my jump right now I managed to evade the area of coverage of that sealing artefact.
That was why I kept pushing into one single direction for all this time despite knowing that I'd end up getting caught! I didn't care about escaping by this way in the first place, I just wanted to lure the owner of that artefact away from the places I saved before in my staff.
Doing this made me easily select the right place to jump at. And without even waiting for any response from the swarms of enemies that I appeared in the middle of, I opened my second Earth portal.
Wait there, b*tch, I was going to get my ride and come to ride you with it!
My only regret was that I missed seeing the look on her face. And I was sure it was priceless!
"Phew! My girl… My precious girl… You are finally back! Hahahaha!" like a father who missed his daughter, I ran towards my chariot and even gave it a kiss. My chariot was back, at last!
It consumed all of the energy I left in the bones, and now it looked bright new. Not only that, it also looked a bit bigger, as if it got a new level or something.
I flew over and landed on its deck. Feeling it under my feet again made me feel more powerful. At last I got my legs back!
"Hmm… You indeed got stronger," I opened and checked the content of the chariot. As I thought, it got lots of upgrades and advancement, including not only size or speed, but also defence and offence.
The furnace of my chariot, the heart that started with me placing energy inside to work, grew before to be harnessing energy from the world powerplant. But now, it has grown to be able to produce energy on its own!
That wasn't just like before, not like when I got blessed. The chariot wasn't going to just form its own energy from the world around during battles, but it'd be able to absorb energy all the time.
And on top of that, it'd be able to condense this energy in times of peace and low expenditure, accumulating some sort of red gems, in the size of my fingernails, spreading all over its hulk, just like how it looked right now.
That was why it looked a bit different, thanks to all these tiny red gems scattered all over it. The chariot didn't just take time to repair itself, but also absorbed and stored energy from the world here.
And next to this, there was a new weapon on board, a cannon! My chariot finally got a giant ship cannon on its deck!
When I looked closer, I noticed why the chariot got bigger. It got a new level added, where this big cannon expanded under the deck. Now my chariot has four levels, not just three.
Without the need for me to go there and inspect the new level personally, I knew that it needed warriors and workers to make this cannon operate and such.
"I hope it's not that complicated down below," I took out my bulltors and shield bearers, the earliest batch of warriors I ever accepted. And even after all this, they were mostly still alive! What a journey for them this was!
"Go down there and see if you can handle the cannon," I knew I could control the firing of the cannon, but these folks had to help me with arming up the cannons before launching it.
As for the missiles used to launch this cannon, they came from the chariot itself. The energy it harnessed was partially turned to form missiles and explosives, to be used as ammunition for the cannon.
"I believe the new shield is able to sustain anything, even my explosive bone fire," I muttered when I read through the section regarding the newly developed and highly advanced shield.
It wasn't just a normal shield, one that'd form a bubble around me in a limited area. This time, it could grow and shrink in size according to my will, without losing any much of its defensive prowess.
At the same time, it wouldn't consume anything at all. This was what made my new chariot a deadly weapon. It didn't need any single energy stone or material from me to work.
Its speed got accelerated, and its offensive abilities got enhanced. All this came on the cost of harnessing energy in torrents from the world around.
Chapter 1607 Fighting In Full Power!
"Time to go back and pay back that b*tch double," I evilly grinned, opened a path back to the real world, before passing through it using my new chariot.
When I appeared there, it seemed like a black hole appeared in the region. I could visibly see thick mist swirling around my chariot, until a dense layer of white fog appeared, covering my chariot entirely, and turning it like a big cloud or something.
This happened fast, and didn't take more than ten seconds. And the area I appeared at was the same I vanished from, just in the middle of densely packed enemies.
"Time to see if it'll work," I took out a green grade dark realm bone, activated it while the enemies around got stirred up by my sudden appearance.
And before they'd try and attack my chariot, or the cloud that appeared in the middle of them, I released my bone.
The bone exploded with fierce fire that engulfed all the enemies around. But this time I wasn't worried about anything. I got my chariot back, and its shield was quite scary to handle any fire of mine.
The fire that was before so deadly and scary, was now stopped just half a mile away from me.
| I controlled my chariot's shield to push and protect me in such a zone. And then I started to move.
The enemies didn't get all killed by this fire. I knew they already had enough preparations and experience in dealing with my fiery bones. And so I wasn't surprised to see lots of the enemies standing alive, either flying or on the ground.
They had to gather around, using some sort of a grand metallic shield to protect all of their forces from my fire. I didn't need to investigate this shield to know it was formed from the Exomachines.
As I moved in the middle of all this ocean of raging wildfire, I could already see the ones guarded from my fire using the Exomachines' shells.
They appeared like isolated and floating islands in the middle of all these fires. The moment I spotted even a glimpse of these, I instantly controlled my chariot to drive directly towards them.
And then they got hit by my chariot's shield. that slightly helped in pushing them forward. But it wasn't enough to crush those Exomachines or make an opening in their tight and hard shells.
"Time for me to stretch out my wings," I waved my glaive in the air, before flapping my wings and directly flying towards these enemies.
As my chariot was in the air, and I expanded my shield for half a mile around, the safe zone was like a giant ball with my chariot in the centre.
And just looking around this ball made me spot at least twenty gatherings of these bastards.
"Let's see how you'll deal with my glaive! Eat this, bastards!" I landed my glaive using many skills at the same time. My glaive instantly increased in heaviness and weight, got its attack boosted, and released a mighty wave all over the mechanical shell.
And just like it happened before, my glaive managed to dismantle many metallic pieces, before a gap appeared. Then fire followed with loud screams from the enemies inside.
I moved again, and this time the world behind was filled with agonic screams and dying shouts. I didn't care about any of that, and started a wide spree attack against all these folks.
At the same time, I controlled my chariot and let my baby expand its shield to cover up a distance of ten miles!
When that happened, all the shielded gatherings of the enemy got pushed away, looked as if they were glued to my chariot's shield's outer surface or something.
As I expanded the shield to reach such a degree, it was expected to see my shield around as if it was glittering with pieces of metal as decorations.
I didn't care about any of that, and started to hunt down the enemies like before.
No matter what, be it falling under my bone's deadly fire or under my glaive, it was the same end for anyone here.
My area of activity was limited until I got a nice idea. I used to fight solo for a time now thanks to my chariot being damaged. But as I got my chariot back, it was time to return to the all deadly line up.
Without any moment of hesitation, I called forth all the fallen gods that my current bubble could hold. As the bubble was flying alongside the chariot, my fallen gods didn't need to do anything but to stand inside and it'd take them away.
"Scatter around, attack the damn metallic balls whenever you spot them!" as I accidently filled the entire bubble with my fallen gods, I controlled the bubble and let it expand over fifty miles.
Doing so made it cover the ground as there wasn't enough space up there for the shield to expand over.
That made any ground metallic shielded enemy forces get exposed. And with increasing the area five times, my fallen gods got a space at last to act.
As I did this, I didn't need to move and cover up the entire region around. I just took care of a small portion there, and kept killing and creating gaps in those metallic shells.
My fallen gods, oh how lovely and beautiful they were! They just stood there, released their hellish supreme attacks all over the enemies, and even a scrap of metal wasn't left behind!
They weren't like me, they were the real deal! A single attack was enough to wipe out all the appearing parts of these Exomachines!
It seemed thanks to my fire, the brutal defensive abilities of these Exomachines had decreased a lot. And so it was expected their attacks worked like magic spells.
Seeing this made me grin evilly. I was already controlling my chariot's speed to be the lowest. Yet after seeing all this, I didn't need to restrain it anymore.
Chapter 1608 Scaring Her Away!
"Full speed forward! Attack like hell! And consume these stat crystals if you ever need energy!" I shouted, while throwing tons of stat and energy crystals to fall in the middle of my bubble.
That was the greatest advantage of my chariot. It made anywhere look like home to me, no matter where or what.
Even if I was flying in the middle of all these enemies, this deadly fire, and in the middle of a huge red dot on the map, I still got a place to be called home, a place that was enough for me to deploy anything as if it was my backyard.
"Keep attacking!" when my chariot was going slowly, it felt like my fallen gods were just slacking around, lazily attacking.
There was no challenge at all! Just one hit and it was done? How come this even be called a street fight? A kids fight? No way!
So when I increased my speed, the chariot started to flash like it was a ray of light. Accordingly, the entire shield got stacked with tons of metallic shielded gatherings of the enemies.
And then a real massacre occurred.
These enemies were already hard to deal with. The Exomachines got such sturdy external layers of hard metals. But against the new shield of my chariot, the deadly fire raging wildly out there, it seemed like they got their defences exhausted.
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So it wasn't a surprise to see lots of these hard to crack shells getting slaughtered either from me or my fallen gods.
I kept opening the map, and checking it with every update. The places I flew through seemed like it wasn't big at first. But when I checked the map, it proved that I really crossed large areas during the past few hours.
I could see my place, but that wasn't the point. What I saw was for the entire areas I passed through to be emptied from any red dots.
"I have to return," I kept flying at top speed for ten hours, crossing over a thousand miles. But once I came out, and as I checked the map, I realised that I had to return.
There were lots of forces here that could be easily killed without the need to trouble myself or my forces with any direct clashes. So I turned my chariot around, letting it spur into the ocean of deadly fire.
The ones who escaped the reach of this fire weren't just the Exomachines and the ones protected by them. Anyone with wings or the ability to fly, like the suited troops for example, managed to rise high up, higher than the reach of my fire, and evade the disaster.
But flying that high didn't save them from me, or from my chariot's shield. As I expanded the chariot's shield to reach a very wide range, then even the ones who thought themselves smart and ran high to the clouds were also caught!
With me here, not even a fly would dream to run away. And unlike my recent battles, this one was the start of a new trend, the total annihilation war!
| I didn't need to run to save something, or battle in another place, or another enemy. This time, it was the right time to start putting an end to all of this.
And so I'd not leave a place here without making sure to kill every single one of my enemies in it. Like this, I started to roam this region, the area filled with my deadly fire, and kept circling it until I finally covered everything.
The fire was still raging wildly, but on the map a small white dot appeared there in the middle of all this redness. The enemies in this region got all exterminated. And without even a single moment of pause, I took out my staff, jumped back to the edge of the fire area, before activating another bone and releasing it!
Fire spread, enemies got trapped into my shield, and my forces and I never stopped killing all. I kept moving and clearing one place after another, while a certain person didn't show her face up to me yet.
That leader of the enemy forces was missing. She was either too shocked and scared to meet me right now, and decided to run as far away as possible from here, praying that I'd not end up meeting her at some point.
Or… She was scheming something new, something that'd topple my current fighting tactic.
To be honest, I leant more towards the second scenario. Such a fiery lady wouldn't let her grudges down, especially against a man, especially against me.
But no matter what she was cooking, I didn't care. Even if this tactic got foiled, I'd find another way to crush these forces. I wasn't without options here.
As she didn't show up for days, I kept moving from one region to another, spreading death like cancer, expanding the white zone on the map even further.
After some time of doing this, my fallen gods became experienced in doing this. They even arranged themselves in different lines and levels, so they'd all hit the densely packed metallically armoured enemies, before others would pop up and get killed as well.
Everything was going just fine until I noticed something…
"A tactical retreat, huh?" I started to notice that the redness around me began to fade away. It wasn't that clear at first, but after six days of continuous battling, I started to see it clearly.
That meant she decided to call back her forces, not make the last standing battle here. "So you are really up to something? Fine, you run away and I'll just start digging the bombs out!"
I didn't mind this move. Even if she tried to do something, using the map, I'd be able to see where she was scheming all this.
I didn't need to search for long. In the next two days, I spotted a far away continent that was filled with lots of growing red dots.
Chapter 1609 An Army Of Engineers!
As I knew where she was taking her men, I started to locate all the places with bombs all over this continent in the next two days.
[Please tell me the research department made new digging gears!]
[You! Long time no see, Mr. busy man! Didn't you promise to update me once every two hours about the map? Huh?!]
Lily was indeed fiery and mad! And she got the right to feel so. [Come on! Didn't I send the new shots for you once per day?]
[Once? You are lucky you aren't here right now or else…]
[Or what? Do you want a kiss or a soft spank perhaps?]
[You…]
I laughed, not taking any of her storm for real. Of course the frontlines were doing bad thanks to the huge pressure they were facing from all fronts. But come on! Didn't I spend all this time nourishing and gathering these armies just for this moment?
If they didn't prove their worth, suffered and struggled to keep my territories and lands safe, then they got no value at all!
Not to mention, putting aside the fierce fights going all over this new world between my forces and lots of enemies and races, my forces were still winning at most of these clashes!
Lily might be worried about the high loss rate my forces were suffering. Or perhaps she was worried about the slow rate of progress these forces were adopting. But in either case, it was still a victory and continuous advancement for my troops.
[Keep doing a good job! At least we are winning]
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[On what cost? Huh? And how come we make the best use of this victory if they secured it by losing too much and taking too long?]
She was indeed complaining about the same two things I got in my mind.
[Girl, don't forget your real purpose here]
[Which is? Throwing the lives of my forces away like this?]
[No, it's to stall for time, keep the enemy busy without letting them advance and take away most of my lands!]
[This…]
[As for the main offence, the real killer, it will be me, it's always me. So just chill out, do your job as you are brilliantly doing, and find me what these damn researchers did all this time! I want the f*cking drilling machines, and I want tons of them right now!]
I closed the chat without even reading his answer. I just told her what her and all the armies scattered here's role was.
They weren't the ones who were going to win this war, it was me. All they needed to do was to keep the enemy's main forces occupied.
[They are ready to send more than what they delivered before] after an hour or so, she sent this message over, [Where do you want them to go?]
[Let them be at the ground zero main portal place, I'm coming over]
[Great! I'll prepare my knuckles for your face then!]
I snorted, closed the chat and instantly jumped back to ground zero. As I appeared, it was the first time for Lily and other generals by her side to see my new chariot.
"Damn! You brought a cloud this time?!!" I heard her shout even before I saw her. And what she got in return was a wild and playful laugh of mine.
"Like this, baby, we can have all the fun in the world without anyone seeing anything."
"Screw you! Come out now! I dare you to come out!" she was still feeling mad. But I didn't care. I shifted my eyes over the ones from the research department. And this time, they sent new faces, and around ten thousand of them.
These were all engineers. And I couldn't help but ask: "Aren't you supposed to store the machines inside your inventories? Or did you make such a crazy amount of them?"
I flew over their heads, ignoring the roars and fierce promises of Lily.
"Lord, we came to dismantle the already used machines," one of those down below spoke up. And I got their value of being here in such grand numbers.
"So you can recycle the machines into orbs again?"
"No lord, we just can dismantle and reassemble them every time."
The answer I got wasn't satisfactory, but at least the research department thought about a solution for this problem.
It was a temporary one, but still was a solution. "Follow me then," I opened a portal back towards the continent that I wanted to clear the bombs at, "See, this is a fresh continent. I'll open portals now leading towards places with bombs to dig. Also I'll open a portal back towards the continent with the digging machines."
I used my horn to make sure everyone heard me, before opening a portal first towards the previous continent with digging machines. Then I let these mechanics do their work, and started to jump all over the continent, linking places there with here.
"Go, dig the ground and get me all the bombs out!" I shouted at them, before recalling the continent that I left my workers there to dig bombs out. "Enough time has passed, so it's most probable for me to find lots of bombs lying in wait."
I knew taking down these bombs and deactivating them wouldn't take much time per bomb. However if I was going to do it for tons of bombs, then I'd better start doing this right away.
Not to mention this continent lacked enough people with experience in using these grand machines. Even with around a thousand engineers standing behind, it was still hard to teach my warriors from scratch.
I decided to use the initial warriors taught the craft before and bring them with me to every continent.
And if I started working over many at the same time, then they'd lead others, teaching and supervising them in operating these colossal digging machines.
As I expected, when I returned back to the same continent I sent the engineers at, I found already lots of warriors standing in wait inside the main bubble.
Chapter 1610 The Grand Scheme Of Mine
I already linked this place with the entire continent's bombs' locations. And it seemed the warriors returned back after doing their task.
"Oh, they even spent some time and taught many warriors here about this… interesting!"
I didn't control this continent the same way I did with the last one. I just killed all the main forces at the two grand enemy camps. As for the places with bombs, I covered these with bubbles to protect from any enemy.
So it was expected for me to see tons of enemy forces around. Seeing this made me think about an evil thought.
"I already had my forces inside the bubbles, rescued the entrapped races here in this continent, and got the bombs out. So why not turn the entire continent into an oven?"
I just wanted to scatter explosive bones all over this continent while jumping between portals. And if these weren't enough, then I'd use all the scattered bubbles to release a mighty and scary offensive wave, one that would be the first ever to cover a grand continent in a whole.
It would be a great idea, right?
As the idea spurted in my mind, I started to do it at once. My troops were all confined and protected inside my bubbles, and so there was no risk at all.
So I started distributing the explosive bones all over the continent. It took thousands of dark realm bones to cover up the entire continent, turning this part of the map into a totally yellow spot.
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As the entire continent suffered under deadly raging fire, I returned back to the central spot in this place, and let my warriors move over.
At the same time, I decided to not activate the deadly offensive wave of attack now. I had to wait, to get a better devastational result when I'd release the stacked damage.
And then I started a grand round of deactivating the bombs. And my team already got tons of bombs out, and that took me a few days to detonate.
"Hopefully the research department folks can make the best use of these deadly stuff later on," I knew dreaming about weaponizing these bombs and copying their technology was going to happen, but it wasn't happening anytime soon.
It was something for the far future, perhaps a decade or two would pass before the research department would crack anything inside these bombs.
"Damn! I can't even wait to see the entire continent tremble under my fierce attacks, hahahaha!" I laughed, before heading towards a new continent.
I didn't go towards the one filled with the enemy forces for now. If that b*They wanted to protect her forces and limit the casualties, waiting for something to happen or arrive to stop me, then let her be.
I'd prefer to take my time wearing one continent after another. That wasn't all. I even planned to leave behind a couple of continents, letting the fire die down there and not activate the offensive deadly shockwave.
When the enemy would hit a wall again, they'd run. And if I just left one continent for them, they'd suspect something wrong. So I planned to leave around two up to five continents, making them a grand graveyard for the enemy.
That b*tch already showed me her true essence. The moment she'd see defeat as a certain fact, she'd prefer to retreat away, run and regroup, buying herself time before a solution for the problem she met would arrive to her.
And I simply planned to use this against her, laying these continents as deadly traps. The moment she'd move away her forces towards safety, death would lie and wait for them.
And so I started to hit another continent, releasing my warriors out there first, shielded by my bubbles, before finally starting to look for bombs.
As the enemies already retreated their main forces away, this continent and many others that followed weren't that filled with enemy forces. So it was easy to invade all these places, a lot easier to take them down.
But I didn't plan to spread my forces here. Even back at the continent which the enemy already got pushed away from, and was filled with my warriors, I didn't plan to keep them there.
From now onward, there would be a single tactic to deal with all these bastards, the burning grounds tactic!
I called back all the warriors I scattered in the various continents when I reached just the latest three.
One of these was the one filled with lots of enemy forces. I didn't hold back and turned all the continents I visited before into blazing yellow and orange spots on the map.
It was expected for that b*tch to come seek me trouble after doing this for a few continents. But here I was, even after devastating more than ninety percent of the continents here, she didn't even send a single army to stop me.
It felt like she never held any value or attachments towards these continents. If it was a pig, it'd have held more belonging to this place than her and her people!
"The latest three… Before that, I have to check over the first few I already burnt…"
It took me roughly half a month to do all of this. Of course I kept taking down bombs whenever I got bored, but there were still more than half of these continents here without a single bomb getting defused.
I didn't fear the enemy to hit any of these bombs, as they were all guarded and safe by my bubbles. Not to mention, at the earliest signs of trouble, and if I spotted a single red dot on the map, then the entire continent would usher under a deadly and scary shockwave attack from my shields.
But for now I didn't want to do any of that. I wanted to take the enemy by surprise, and that made me want to hold on releasing any shockwave for now.
Why would I alarm the enemy when I could simply launch all the devastational attacks in one go? It'd be cooler this way, right?
Chapter 1611 A Trap
As for why that b*tch kept herself shelled inside that continent and didn't get out even once to stop me, I already got a theory for that.
It was either she didn't get anything from her superiors and brilliant minds yet. Or she got something, and that thing required lots of planning and preparations, and couldn't be activated and used anywhere on a whim.
And for a reason, I leant towards the second scenario. And for a different reason, I felt like the upcoming three continents would be very hard to conquer. And my intuition proved right in the end.
I moved towards the next continent, seeing nothing more than a few scattered enemies there. It wasn't even worth taking my pillar out, wasting my time and energy over spreading lots of bubbles here.
But out of habit, I took the pillar, but didn't spread the bubbles.
I didn't grow tired, or bored, or anything. In fact, the moment I took the pillar out, some weird feeling of foreboding disaster overwhelmed me.
I put the pillar back, and that feeling was gone. Then it came back the moment I took my pillar.
"Sh*t! She must have found something to turn the pillar against me… But what is it?" I muttered, looked around before deciding to change tactics.
It would delay me a lot without my pillar and bubbles, but it wasn't going to stop me here. I needed these bubbles right now to just make places for my digging forces, to secure them until they'd take the bombs out.
Aside from this, taking over the entire continents wasn't a stressing issue. The moment all of these enemies would be killed, things would be easy to handle. Even if they got scattered remnants, I'd take my time to chop their heads off.
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But now, I needed to kill them first. And I have lots of options to be honest.
I could simply use the rough way, the same way I did before when I fell into the grand trap of that lady. On the other hand, I could simply roam the world and release my explosive bones around.
I got a way to save myself lots of trouble and time. Using the mirror world wasn't just a way to look for bombs, but also to let me travel across huge distances inside that place.
So I could use it, travel around the world, spread my deadly bones there, and let these take over the entire army that was about to arrive.
Of course that lady wouldn't just take such trouble turning my pillar over me without preparing a follow up move.
And without the need for any speculations or suspense, a grand gathering of portals opened up next, filling the entire sky in every direction with portals.
Endless number of forces appeared and gushed in here. I didn't need to check the map to know they were coming from the place they were gathered at before.
But they came without their leader, that lady.
"If you didn't show yourself up, then you aren't that confident in such an attack…" I paused, thinking that this wasn't a chance, but a trap!
If she knew this wasn't going to stop me, then she was aiming perhaps at trapping me here, wasting my effort, forces, and time, while she'd do something else.
So if I was going to fight such a battle, why would I waste my effort and time doing this here then?
*Fwoosh!*
Without even waiting for a single second, I returned back to my ground zero, and went towards the portal leading to the second continent.
I didn't head directly towards her continent for now. If she wanted to desperately stop and entrap me at one location, then by going to another continent, chances of spreading out her forces thin was higher.
She wanted to waste my effort and forces, then let me show her how the pros play!
I arrived there to find a place devoid of forces like the last continent. Then as I walked around, leisurely even whistling while flying on the deck of my chariot, a similar scene appeared just after a couple of hours.
The sky grew dimmer as tons of portals appeared out of nowhere. I watched in calmness while the floods of forces appeared here.
"Trying to bluff a bluffer isn't a nice move," I didn't hesitate to take out my staff, open a portal towards a bookmark I recently saved, and jump back towards the previous continent.
And there I saw the number of forces growing thin, while portals were sucking people away, not bringing them over.
I didn't need to take a tour around the entire continent to know what she was up to. I wanted to trick her, and she ended up aiming to trick me back.
I wanted to force her to thin out her forces, dividing them up over three continents instead of just two. And it seemed she read through my intentions, ending up to shift the forces from this continent over to the next one.
Like this, she'd still distribute her forces in two continents. And the next move of mine was expected to be at her continent, where I'd face a huge army of enemies.
Instead of that, I thought to return back here and check over the situation. And my doubts were proved right. She was trying to trick me indeed.
I grinned evilly, did nothing but take advantage of the confusion happening here. I entered my mirror world, kept looking for bombs. But this time, I didn't use my bubbles to mark them. I simply exited the mirror world, detonated a bone there, then returned back to the world.
If we kept playing this silly game all day long, then we'd end up with nothing but wasting my time. She wanted to do that, and so I decided to turn all violent.
I'd turn this entire world into a living hell. And I spent a day doing so.
Chapter 1612 Valkyries!
I didn't need to waste more time, so I used the high grade dark realm bones, dark gold and above grades, to bathe the entire continent in an ocean of fire.
Then I turned my attention towards the next continent. I jumped there, and without even waiting to check the place around, I spent the next day taking down this place, filling it with my fiery bones.
The two continents she thought she'd turn them into a trap for me and my forces ended up being put down to fire. Her forces might have partially escaped, partially survived, but most of them just died on my fire.
And now… It was time for the final showdown, the final battle between me and those bastards.
I went towards the last continent. And there I found new things that I never expected to see.
First of all, I imagined she was taking all this time to do something big, something huge against me. But when I arrived there, all I saw was something similar to pits and holes, giant ones, spreading all over the continent.
These holes weren't empty, but filled with lots of weird liquids. On the edge, lots of the enemy forces were there. But they weren't standing there without doing anything.
They gave me the impression they were doing something, praying to some sort of a god like existence or something. They all were sitting cross legged, closing their eyes, and muttering in weird tones and alien language lots of words like a universal prayer or a song of some sort.
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But I couldn't get what they were doing. And the moment my chariot appeared there, I saw that lady appearing from a far distance, flying towards me on the back of a grand floating island.
"Welcome to the place of your demise," she didn't drop such an idea even after all of this. I shook my head, while waiting for what she prepared for me.
"I know you are feeling great and mighty right now. To be honest with you, if I was in your stead, having all these victories one after another, I'd grow intoxicated with all this. However…"
She paused, waved both arms as her island just stopped a few miles away from me, "I'm going to show you what true might means… Rise, rise up my valiant Valkyries, rise and teach this bastard a proper lesson… Kill him for me!"
The next moment, something happened. I always thought she was trying to do something to antagonise my power, my abilities and gears. But she didn't intend to do any of that.
It seemed she just planned to fight power with another. All the pits started to show the same changes over them once she said these words.
First the fluid inside kept releasing bubbles, like they were boiling or something. Then the level of this weird fluid started to decrease, as if something was absorbing all of them.
Then the soldiers standing all around the pits started to die, one by one, in batches, ending up releasing fountains of blood towards the pits.
This was insane! Just to defeat me, she had to sacrifice all of her forces like that! Even if she had absolute trust in what she was doing, it still felt stupid and brutal!
This gave me a new insight about these enemies. They were indeed merciless, wouldn't stand at anything at all to take down their enemies, even to the extent of sacrificing their own forces.
And that made me wonder what the forces she was calling forth were going to be like.
*Roar!*
The first thing that happened was for a single roar to occur. And then many started to follow. These roars were simply quite noisy, enough to shake the ground and make the clouds in the sky tremble and fade away.
I looked at all the pits that I could see, and something told me she turned the entire continent into such a grand and crazy gathering of pits and holes.
Then the form of my new enemies started to show up.
Calling them flying demons from hell wasn't an exaggeration. Each one was like the size of a grand dragon, and each pit kept releasing them like they were shooting bullets or something.
Each was covered in a thick layer of blood, one that I knew where it came from. Their bodies were black, their eyes were shining red in a vicious way, and their wings were filled with holes.
I didn't know how they were able to fly like this. In my eyes, they defied any logic behind flying.
But that wasn't the main problem now, their weird powers were. When they came out from the pits, it felt like the entire world got dyed black red. That wasn't thanks to their black bodies or the red blood covering them, but thanks to the weird fog they started to sprout all over the place.
"Dragons breathe fire, and these weird things breathe fog? Black red fog? What a weird ability it is!" I looked around, and the entire blue sky changed and turned slowly into dark red. At the same time, things started to change in weird ways.
Clouds that were scattered all over the sky started to change. As if they got infected with such fog, or as if the fog formed clouds of their own, these clouds started to turn black red, grow in size, and soon enough rain.
The drops that fell down weren't water, but pure blood. And the moment they touched the ground, the ground absorbed them, and weird plants started to rise from down there.
It looked like a forest of black red bones or something. Small plants appeared, started to grow abnormally before taking the form of trees. They got no leaves, all barren black red branches.
Then in each tree, something like a cylindrical fruit appeared there on the highest branch. I didn't need to go there and examine these fruits to know that they were growing something inside.
Chapter 1613 Capturing Her
"Don't tell me they are more of these creatures… Tsk!" I shook my head, not getting affected in the slightest by any of this. Thanks to my chariot's shield, nothing dared to come close or touch me.
"Now perish while trying to fight my unstoppable army, hahahaha!" she laughed as if she already placed her sword in my chest or something, "as for me, I'll go to another place, and do something nice about all the bombs you kept hunting all this time, hahahahaha!"
This b*tch! She intended from the start to entrap me here and go all the way out to activate the deadly bombs. Of course the devastation these bombs would bring wasn't enough to threaten this new world in total. But things would turn quite ugly for most of my forces, and even myself.
I tested it at once, and found out this weird fog got the ability to seal me here.
"If you sealed me here, then you aren't going anywhere," my eyes shone in dangerous light, and a hectic chase erupted while my fallen gods kept killing those weird creatures like taking down flies!
She tried to escape, while I kept chasing her like mad. If she wanted to entrap me here, she'd better be trapped with me then.
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It seemed she never expected me to come after her. What did she think? I'd act obediently like a kid and follow the Valkyries around with myself? Trying to take them down using my own hands? No way!
I called back my strongest warriors, and luckily what she did here didn't interfere with the system's power. The valiant warriors on my side started to come out, filling this damn place to make it look more crowded.
I didn't even consider using my staff. That bubble method was for another time, but not now. It was now the time for brute force, to show her and everyone else that I wasn't weak to begin with.
"Stay away from me, damn lunatic!" she kept shouting like this as if this was going to stop me or something. Instead of answering her, I kept pushing over the limits of my chariot until I finally found a chance.
She tried to evade my chariot by doing a sharp turn. It seemed like she was able to do it, until at the last second I flapped my wings, and personally appeared in front of her.
"Come back here!" I grabbed her from the neck, twisted her over like she was a useless bag of trash, before throwing it towards none other than my chariot.
And at this moment, I cancelled the shield around my chariot, letting her pass inside, before closing the shield again.
"You damn freak…" She wanted to shout something mean, but trapping her inside my chariot was the end of her tale.
"Phew! What a noisy lady she is! Reminds me of the old tales I heard about before, about human girls and how they were quite noisy and such.
Seeing her vanish inside my chariot was enough to make me feel much satisfaction. She tried to do something bad, ending up entrapped in one of my chariot's chambers.
For a reason, it felt like my chariot was slowly turning into a grand prison for my deadliest enemies. It got this fierce lady, and also Hilary, the demoness Hilary.
Recalling Hilary made me feel a bit annoyed. She started all this by falling in love with me, ending up to be an enemy, one that I'd never dare to come closer to or touch, at least for now.
Perhaps when this is all over, when I'd control this world, things might change for the better with her… Or not! I couldn't tell, but now it was time for me to start a big fight.
I took the enemy leader out, but there weren't any grand armies for her to lead. All she left me was tons of these Valkyries, endless trees that started to give birth to more of them, and weird rain that kept falling all the time.
This wasn't something great indeed. But to me, it was nothing. I'd just use my warriors to slowly tear all of this apart. And the first target I sat my eyes on wasn't these Valkyries, but the trees.
Valkyries seemed vicious and hard to deal with, but they weren't the main problem here, these trees were. Letting these trees take their time to bring forth more fruits, grow more Valkyries was a grave mistake that I'd not make.
So as I took lots of warriors to handle these Valkyries, I also took more ground forces, monsters I tamed before, even the zombie dens that I didn't get a chance to use before, threw everything at the face of these trees and watched them burn.
At the same time, I took the different weapons made by the research department, or what was left from these. Then the entire world kept shaking violently like it was the end of the world. And it truly was, not the end of the world, but the end of all this suffering.
As I took everything I got out, even summoned my dear little Qi, little turtle, little dragon, and such freakishly strong monsters on my side, the grand and epic battle to conquer this continent began.
During which, I started to finally shift my eyes towards the rest of this world. I lacked the ability to travel anywhere for now. But that didn't mean I wouldn't be able to do so soon.
Once I'd cleared enough space from these Valkyries and their weird form, clouds, and rain, things were going to get back to normal again. And so, I started to check over the latest updates from all over the world from Lily.
And frankly… It was way worse than I even imagined! All the races in this world, all the races that came from the same universe as mine, seemed to unite together and fight against a common enemy, a single enemy, humans!
Chapter 1614 One Month Period
Everywhere all the races were fighting against my forces in deadly and desperate battles. Even if they were losing at many frontlines, they kept trying to take down as much as they could with them.
But on the bright side, the second Earth world kept giving more troops for Lily to use. If not for that, things would be much worse by now.
The bad news was that we were losing in almost seventy percent of all the battles that we were fighting. The hardest enemies we were facing were the Hescos for sure, followed by the Hectors, the Drags, and Berserkers.
These included two of my former allied forces, and they seemed to hold lots of grudges against me to fight this hard and in such brutality and determination. Or perhaps it was the allure of more gains once they took me down or something.
Anyway, I kept giving instructions for Lily to try and limit our losses. At the same time, I asked her to start gathering up more forces in the second Earth world or even here.
It was time for the final showdown of all this once I'd clear things here. But only me wasn't enough, or it was enough but it'd take lots of time to do so.
This world wasn't like Earth, it was like a hundred times the Earth. So it was better for me to have grand armies at my disposal. That'd help me a lot in clearing lots of battles and controlling many continents.
Thinking about this made me feel ironic. When I was starting to grow strong, building up my kingdom down the first brick, I always had the problem of having too many armies without enough generals to lead.
And right now it felt totally opposite! I got lots of free generals, capable and good ones, but without enough forces for them to lead.
If not for the second Earth world, the time difference there, the magical effect of breeding new generations with each passing year, if not for Silverlining and his constant help by providing endless supply of warriors to here, I'd have ended up in a very tight spot.
Not to mention the help gaining nineteen races and adding them to my forces. I didn't yet clear all of the continents, but almost saved one third of the total population of these races.
They were strong, unique, and valiant. They held tons of grudges against my enemies, endless veneration and respect for me. If not for the damn jumper race, then I'd be scoring a perfect twenty out of twenty here.
But that didn't matter. Those jumpers weren't that trustworthy race to begin with. Just watching the jumper and how he was messing things over at his end all the time made it clear how good it was to not add these untrustworthy folks to my side.
The only way to bring balance again to the outer battles was by starting to store out more warriors and armies on my side. I gave her a one month period, a most reasonable timeline for my mission here.
I knew that once I stepped out of here, I'd have to struggle without the help of my warriors and deadly fighters. So I wouldn't be able to get out of here before clearing everything first. Then I'd be able to fight freely out there without worrying about this place.
"She mentioned something about bombs… And from my understanding, she has to prepare some sort of hellish energy source, enough to shake all the fifty continents together and detonate the bombs… But where is that damn thing then?"
I knew such a thing of such calibre wasn't going to be hidden at all. In my best estimates, she must have prepared a secured place, one with sturdy shields to sustain fire on the other continents.
I already left all of the other continents belonging to the enemy under merciless fire. And as she intended to leave here, it meant she prepared something for a long time on one of these continents.
But what was it? I couldn't tell. All I could do for now was to warn Lily, tell her to send folks over to these continents once the fire died down.
I got the power to trigger the shields' brutal attack wave once I cleared a spot here. But I didn't plan to do that. It'd delay the efforts of seeking this hidden place much longer.
What if she prepared a time trigger for this weapon? Like if a month passed or something without her returning back then her people would activate that weapon?
I thought about going in my chariot and interrogating her, and I really tried. But this attempt ended up with a big failure. If I got anything from her, then it was to confirm my early doubts.
From the confident look on her face, the one that looked like someone was accepting the fact to take down his deadliest enemy down with him when I met her, told me a lot about her plans.
Damn this lady… Damn those enemies… They really are hard to deal with!
So I left this task over to Lily while spending the rest of my time killing those Valkyries. I tried once to use my deadly bones, to find out that they weren't that effective at all.
The Valkyries seemed to be made out of hellish sort of fire. And so using another fire against them was like giving them a warm bath or something.
As this method didn't work, I knew trying to use the bubble plan would fail. I tried and it indeed was quite useless. And that left me with one option only.
I held my glaive, controlled my chariot, and started to roam this continent, killing all the Valkyries and trees that I could find.
The good news about these Valkyries was that they were weak against physical strength and attacks. But the bad news was that each time a few of them died, it triggered something like some sort of big explosion.
Chapter 1615 Karoline Appears
I personally got hit many times with these explosions. And I could tell you with clear conscience that these explosions really did hurt!
I was safe thanks to my chariot's shield and my personal sacrificial shield and defence. But my forces weren't that safe at all. Once an explosion got triggered, and that happened frequently and without any clear pattern to me, many of my forces would die.
But that didn't stop me from continuing this hellish battle. If anything I lacked, then it wouldn't be warriors for sure.
I started to change the overall tactic a little bit, depending more on those gifted with deadly long ranged attacks or hellish defences. My Fallen Gods, my Avengers, and even my Kings and geared soulers and reapers were all good candidates for this.
Not to mention the long ranged weapons of my research department that created havoc all over the place.
I tried to let Lucas II try with his folks to change the world around, push away these weird clouds and turn them to ground or anything else. But they failed. For a reason, these clouds were resistant to anything they used.
"It will all be solved once I take down these Valkyries and trees… But this continent is a bit huge!"
I sighed when I realised that one month might not be enough. The more I killed, the more that would get out from those trees. And in the middle of all this, I visited the mirror world, trying to do something different as I got bored from killing those Valkyries.
Who would even imagine that the moment I went there, I found something weird. "Oh, that's new!" my eyes shone brightly when I saw the grand gathering of bombs at a single location. It was deeply situated in the deep areas of this continent, buried tens of kilometres down the ground.
And these bombs were alone, there were lots of enemy forces there, in something that looked like a grand bubble underground.
"I found you!" this went without saying, this was the place the fierce lady tried to reach. She didn't try to jump out of this continent, but to a well hidden place here.
This was the first time for me to see something like this. And that meant whatever the way she decided to use to detonate these bombs, it was situated there alongside her forces.
"Things changed now!" I returned back to the real world, appearing just on top of the normal looking ground which covered up all this. "I have to use the spot I cleared and bring forth those diggers…"
During the past ten days, my forces killed tons of these Valkyries. Right now there wasn't just a single empty area off them, but at least a hundred spots, appearing like white stains in the middle of a big black red dress or something.
I didn't hesitate and moved at once through one of the cleared areas here using my staff. I returned back to ground zero. And before I'd send a message over to Lily, I found her standing just near the spot I arrived at.
I appeared in the portal area, a place which was normal for her to be in. However, what she said to me next made me pause in shock.
"Here you are! Where the hell were you?" she screamed at my face the moment she saw me appearing here.
"I was busy dealing with a troublesome enemy," I didn't get why she was so hyped about, "what happened? This is war, and it's normal for me to vanish for a period, handling some serious stuff like I plan to do right now."
I was about to ask her about the drilling equipment from the research department that got sent here. I stayed in that battle for almost two weeks, and that was more than enough for old Gan and others to produce more machines for me.
"No time for that! There is a huge thing going on here, a very huge thing!!"
"Easy there," shouting at me in such a way wasn't going to help at all, "tell me exactly what happened first."
"Karoline.. It's Karoline… She is back!"
I paused for a long moment before finally realising what happened. "Holy sh*t! Tell me everything, but first…"
I wanted to hear everything about my missing girl. She went missing for a long time without any news from her except my last explosive conversation with her.
Since then, she went off radar, not even showing any sign of being alive. I considered her dead or something, or perhaps she went far away from Earth.
But it seemed things turned and took such complicated turns, and now of all times this had to happen.
Even if I wanted to go all the way to her and save her or find out what happened to her, I knew I couldn't do that. Right now, there was a grave danger awaiting me, for my forces back at the enemy continents. And I got to stop it.
"This is what happened…"
And as she sent people to the second Earth world, to fetch the newly constructed digging machines over, she started to narrate what happened.
Weirdly enough, Karoline appeared just when I got entrapped with that fiery lady. It wasn't coincidental, I was sure of it. Especially when she narrated what Karoline did since reappearing again.
She didn't just show up and come to look for me, she appeared leading a grand army under her banner, one that got formed of different races.
It was weird. The army was colossal enough to take over ten continents during the past two weeks. And that wasn't all, the strength this army showed, the weird tacit understanding and teamwork told Lily that it wasn't an army that was pulled over on a haste.
"Are you saying that this army is formed of tens of billions, and even more?!" I was shocked when I heard the number she estimated of Karoline's forces.
Chapter 1616 [Bonus Chapter] Screw Girlish Stuff!
"Yes! And they are quite strong! On top of that, they are fighting everyone, literally everyone, not only us!"
"This…" she said Karoline came back with grand armies made entirely of different races. The thing that was worthy of note was that all these races were already part of the apocalypse, or part of the worlds that merged with my Earth to form this new world.
All of this seemed wrong, totally wrong. Why did she come back now? And why was she leading such armies, fighting everyone here?
If she was targeting me, then I could understand it. I didn't know what happened to her, but I could tell now she was a sworn enemy of mine.
A girl of mine ended up in such a state… What a curse that I got over me!
I listened more to what she said. It seemed that Karoline planned to control these ten continents as she started a grand project of building there. Fortresses, tight defences, and even towns, villages, and cities were getting built there.
"What shall we do now? For two weeks we were trying to stop her, but we failed! I lost lots of good men thanks to her!"
"Don't give me that look, she stopped being my girl a long time ago!" I rolled my eyes when I felt like she was blaming me for all this.
"But she was still your girl!"
"That's why I didn't take any more girls to my side," I gave her a meaningful look, "anyway, let's do it this way… Withdraw!"
"What?!!!"
"Yes, withdraw, what's that hard to grasp from this?" I saw how shocked she was. And I understood her stance. However there was a much higher danger that I needed to deal with first, these bombs.
Not to mention Karoline's situation was a blessing in the form of a curse.
"But… Are you sure? This is Karoline in the first place. Not to mention she is going to establish a strong foothold for her here."
"What if she did?" I calmly smiled, "she is going to give us a great service this time. Why shall we stand and oppose her?"
"This…"
I knew Lily didn't get it. And even if she couldn't, that meant even Karoline or anyone else would. The idea was simple. If Karoline brought together such a bizarre army, fighting everyone and making enemies out of all races, then why would I stand against her then?
In fact, being there, sending our forces to stop her, was the most foolish thing I'd done.
Instead, I should clear the space out for her, let her fight the enemies and keep them busy. Just like this, the two sides would keep wounding each other. And that would weaken them.
Not to mention the other races would have to dispatch lots of forces to this new battlefront. Doing this would relieve the pressure over our side, and that was something good.
As for her, even if she managed to keep the ten continents in the end, heavily fortify them, then what was the point in all this? In the end, the entire world, all the races and enemies here would be crushed. And alongside this, she would be all alone in the middle of an endless ocean of my forces.
Even if she built the strongest fortresses out there, heavily fortified these continents, nothing would change. In the end, her armies would get crushed, and she'd get captured by me.
She wasn't more formidable or much scarier than the strong enemies I faced and conquered so far. And she wouldn't be an exception to such a role.
A king shouldn't fear anyone else, not even his strongest and most vicious enemy. If anyone wants to be a king, even in a small apartment or house, then this person must first have the qualities of being a king before claiming such a title.
For me, I knew my abilities and strengths quite well as I did know of my shortcomings. And that made me not fear her, not fear anyone actually.
No matter whom, no matter how the odds were, everything would end up rolling to my favour by the end.
"Just do as I say," I paused before stressing over this, "retreat! Call back all the forces there, and leave these continents for later time."
"..."
I turned at this moment to see the portals flash. Many folks from the research department arrived at last. "Sorry, but I have a much more stressful matter to handle right now. Don't let me down on this, and let her have all the fun, even clear the nearest continents from our forces as well."
"No way! We fought like hell to claim many parts around her ten continents!"
"It's a tactical retreat! Can't you get it? We need to place the two forces against each other. Like this, the races will focus more on handling her. And by retreating, we'll clear direct paths between their turfs and hers. What went in your head today? Why are you acting like this?!"
I gave her a stern look, and for a moment there she kept trembling without saying a single world. She clenched both fists, and soon I got something from her attitude.
Don't tell me she was envious and getting her female emotions stirred up against Karoline! That wasn't right, Lily was always a dependable and capable general, the most I valued so far!
"Don't disappoint me on this," I gave her this as the last warning before moving towards the newly arrived folks from the research department, "I won't tolerate anything going wrong on this plan, got it?"
I didn't turn to look at her when I said these words. Instead I kept walking, leaving her behind. Then I kept myself a little busy explaining the simple and yet crucial task I wanted these people to do for me.
They needed to dig the ground, not just for a few thousands metres, but for tens of thousands of metres! I got the place of that hidden cave marked already, and all they needed to do was to dig, keep digging until they'd reach that very deep point.
"Follow me," after making sure they got what I wanted them to do, I led them back towards that continent.
Chapter 1617 The Clone Enemy Attacks Again
I wasn't gone for a long time actually, and so the current situation was the same. But right now I had to establish a safe place for these people to work in.
And so it took me a few hours to clear enough space for them, mobilising lots of forces to safeguard against anything these Valkyries would try.
At this point, I didn't want to see anything going wrong. I was this close from crushing the deadliest weapon of the enemy, and then I'd be free to crush the rest of flies filling the entire world.
In other words… The moment I'd deal with this cave and whatever lies within, I'd win this entire battle.
I moved the people from the research department to work there. I didn't stand idle, and kept fighting the Valkyries all over this region. I wanted to make this zone totally safe, void of any trees, weird clouds, and the ferocious Valkyries, a guard against anything that might go south or something.
And in the middle of doing all this, I kept checking on the current status of the digging team. They were doing just fine, digging an area of tens of miles in radius. They weren't just digging a small hole or a tunnel, it felt like they were going to penetrate the entire planet with their machines!
Just as I was busy doing all this, something bad did really happen. And it came from someone that I didn't see for a long time, that mysterious dude who could travel back in time!
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He kept trying, sending clone after clone, trying to mess up all of my plans. But eventually he vanished, and I thought he lost hope about doing whatever he wanted to do. It never crossed my mind that he was lying in wait, anticipating the moment when things would be quite dangerous to land his strike!
He started to appear on continents where my forces were scattered and weak. Just like how Karoline did, he also came with huge armies, monster armies, and managed to kill lots of my forces on many continents.
But unlike Karoline, he didn't stand in his place and occupy continents. He just kept moving from one continent to another, spreading his monster armies everywhere he went.
I didn't know how he could move the monsters with him. But I could guess he either used portals or had a way to mobilise and summon new monster armies.
He aimed at the continents where my forces were struggling against the various races. He didn't touch a single race but my humans. And when I got the news, I asked Lily to start regrouping my forces, so the situation wouldn't end in a much worse state.
She asked to counter that jerk and send lots of armies there. But our forces were already struggling and stretched thin in the first place. She wanted to send the forces we withdrew from the continents surrounding the ones of Karoline. And I rejected such a suggestion at once.
It wasn't wise to open new battlefronts at this moment. The top priority now was to get rid of that impending threat of the cave and the bombs underground.
So I asked her to just move the new forces to fortify the continents we already controlled. Also she had to rearrange the forces fighting separately at other places, so we would limit our losses.
Then I shifted my attention towards the digging process here.
Damn him! If not that he was a clone and killing him wouldn't make any difference, then I'd be happy to get rid of him once and for all.
His real body wasn't here, not in my timeline at least. I even didn't know if he came from the same universe or not, if he came from a parallel universe or something.
But that didn't matter. Right now, that annoying enemy of mine appeared just after one week.
During that time, the digging team managed to reach deep depths, taking out tons of rocks and dirt. At some point, they even hit a lava river, ending up releasing a scary fountain of deadly lava that had me intervene to contain it.
Many machines got damaged in the process. And the research department requested to take these back to get repaired. I didn't refuse such a request, after all they got lots of machines to replace those damaged ones.
I got the situation under my control. Valkyries kept trying to stop me, but they were all killed with tons of force on my side.
When I saw this, I felt relieved that I did my preparations before. If not, then I'd be under immense pressure right now.
From time to time I'd go into the mirror world, take a look at the underground cave. Of course the enemies lying down their noticed my activity on the surface. And so I started to notice many weird lights shining brighter than before, filling the entire cave underground with a myriad of lights.
That meant one thing… The forces down below were trying to activate these bombs. So it ended up to be a race, a race against time. Whoever finishes first, reaching their goal faster, would end up winning this clash.
So when I saw this, I returned to the real world and started giving orders for the research department to send more machines. They didn't get enough time to make much, but they indeed sent lots of new gear.
I even took out my glaive and started to activate its skills in succession. At some point, I even gathered my fallen gods, and let them release their deadly attacks combined.
All was for one goal, to deepen the hole that the research department was working on. In the end, we reached a very deep point, where there was just little space between me and the forces down below.
"Scatter around, dig horizontally, expand this place to cover hundreds of miles!"
Against what logic would dictate, I didn't order my digging team to keep digging downwards. Instead, I asked them to dig around, expanding the area here to be enough for a grand army to be present.
Chapter 1618 Reaching The Cave
I could tell how limited space that cave down below had. It wasn't spacious enough for a grand army of mine to be present alongside the densely packed enemy forces.
Besides, whoever got the higher vantage point in attacking the other would have it much easier. So I let my digging team expand this area, while leaving my fallen gods to keep devastating the ground, expanding the hole downwards.
Of course their digging speed wasn't like the speed of the digging team using their colossal machines. Not to mention my fallen gods ran all the time on fuel, needed lots of energy to operate and keep using their ultimate skills.
But I had to expand this entire place and renovate it to be suitable for the grand upcoming battle. So I let my fallen gods work as grave diggers this time, while waiting.
The digging team could dig and expand this place to cover up the entire continent even if they got time to do so. But I didn't want to carve out another continent here. And I didn't get enough time to begin with.
In fact during the past ten hours, the light coming from down below expanded and intensified. Right now looking at this cave made me feel like looking directly at the heart of a star, from a very close distance to it.
"Enough!" after twelve hours of digging, the entire space here was enough to accommodate tens of millions of people, "start digging at the hole. And be prepared to leave the moment I give you the order."
I knew the moment that hole reached the level of that cave, a deadly fight would erupt. These machines were priceless to me and my kingdom at this moment.
After all, this cave didn't have the rest of the bombs in the world. There were still tons of bombs scattered all over the other continents of the enemy. And waiting for the research department to make new digging machines wouldn't do.
So I wanted to not suffer much. The moment the hole reached close to the cave level, even cracking its surface, I'd give the order and they got to retreat.
The hole was getting closer from the level of the cave fast. I got to enter my mirror world from time to time to check on the distance remaining from the cave. In the next few hours, I started to enter the mirror world once every ten minutes.
"Retreat! Stop what you are doing right away, collect your gears up, and move fast!" I shouted the moment I knew it wouldn't take long before the cave would be breached.
The next few minutes were really hectic here. The workers and research team members all started to leave. In fact, I didn't like them trying to climb all the way up, and simply summoned a gate to lead them back to the ground zero area.
"Wait for me there," I said to those leaving, "and make more digging machines, train more workers on them, got it?"
They left after confirming they would do what I said. I even sent a message over to Lily, to make sure things were going according to my will.
Then after waiting for one hour, the entire place returned calm again. "Go, dig the last part out, and don't stop when you reach the cave level," I waved my arm towards the fallen gods, while controlling my chariot and flew above the hole.
To make sure nothing wrong would leak out from down there I started summoning my shields. The moment I took away that b*tch and imprisoned her inside my chariot, and all the limitations enforced on me were removed.
I could now use my pillar freely, in addition to my precious cube.
I thought about using the cube and sucking in everything and everyone inside the cave. But something warned me against doing this. If the enemy had a method to let the bombs get activated anywhere anytime, then taking these away wouldn't help at all.
I got to find that mechanism, destroy it before doing anything else. So I just limited my actions to summon these shields, not even thinking about using my explosive bones.
*Crack!* *Boom!*
The moment my fallen gods reached the bottom, a loud cracking sound came from down below. Then a violent explosion occurred, and it was just the first.
The entire place rumbled and trembled under the fierce explosions that came next. It seemed that my fallen gods were fighting against something horrifying coming out from that cave. And it seemed the clash between the two sides was enough to shock the entire world even.
I didn't hesitate anymore, entered into my mirror world and there I saw it. The energy inside the cave was trying to gush out, to be stopped midway in that hole. I didn't need to go down there myself to see what was happening right now.
"Whatever they were doing down there is trying to get out… And something tells me letting it come out is a big mistake…"
I muttered this for a few seconds, before finally controlling my chariot and headed directly towards the hole. I had nothing to fear as long as my chariot was on my side.
| My baby took me all the way down to the midway in the hole. And there I saw my fallen gods struggling to keep that immense and blinding light coming from the cave with their ultimate attacks.
"Come back!" I knew my fallen gods were strong enough to crush anything, but they had a fatal weakness. Their energy was limited, and they got to replenish their lost energy from time to time.
Seeing tens of thousands of fallen gods struggle to keep that energy at bay was enough to let me imagine what would happen when they'd lose energy. So I didn't hesitate anymore, took one dark realm bone out, activated it, before releasing it at the hole.
At the same moment I threw it, I called back all of my fallen gods inside my inventory. And then two mighty forces erupted, clashed against each other, eating up all the rocks around.