“Let’s go from here,” I led the group of ten thousand and passed through the time-limited portal of mine.
And when I did, I found myself standing on the edge of my shadow world.
“Lord… This… Are you sure your world is a new one?!!!”
Zangibar was already standing on my side. When we arrived here, he remained silent for a few minutes while more forces were appearing.
But I didn’t guess he was shocked by what he saw! Not just waiting for our small army to arrive here.
“What do you mean? Is it too small?”
“No, no lord… This isn’t the case! Not entirely close to! It’s the opposite! Your world… It can accommodate at least one hundred thousand!”
“What?!!” I looked around, and indeed my world was spacious enough to accommodate even for more.
“This must have happened thanks to that base of yours,” he motioned his head towards my cultivation base which was looking so damn fierce and bigger than before.
Arcs of lightning appeared around my pyramid shaped base.
“Thanks,” I said in gratitude towards my base, “now we can bring more, right?”
“Sure, hahahaha! We can devour more lands this way, hahahaha! The few hundred thousands we brought over aren’t enough! Let me go back and talk with few leaders. We need to bring more forces here!”
“Cool! Bring more of your clan,” I said as I already promised him that.
“Thanks lord,” he bowed and cupped his hand before leaving. Just before he’d jump over my chariot, he turned and added, “Lord, can you make the exit technique for us?”
“Sure,” I wanted to try it, so damn excited about trying this. It was the sole thing that prevented me from taking all the monsters inside.
As he went down below, I took my time to examine the forces coming here. All of them had a shining mark over their right shoulders once they entered here.
It was my mark, and it seemed it was protecting them from the brutality of my world.
As he went down to the leaders of other clans to speak with them about this unexpected development, I went to surf the papers he left behind.
Just like the entrance techniques, I found techniques that could allow for a different number of people to leave my shadow world back to my original worlds.
And the great thing was that I could select which world I’d open the exits at, either at Earth or at my second Earth.
It was amazing! I could just use my world as a mobile fortress!
“I’m ready,” I selected one that’d allow for ten thousand forces to pass by before executing it. This time I did the technique of Zangibar, only saying the word: Exit!
“Exit!”
“We are going to send a few back,” Zangibar shouted, “and then we will arrange our armies into smaller ones, and wait at the edge of the world.”
“I’m coming,” who said I wouldn’t be present when this big war started? This was a great moment, one that I had to be present when it’d happen.
But before moving, and as they needed lots of time to arrange themselves and wait for more force to come, I started augmenting my strength and defence, adding strength, defence, and even healing boosts to me and my forces.
I spent hours and lots of souls to make sure I was in the top form of my power. I also did the healing shield twice, one for me and one for my forces.
Losing a single one would greatly weaken me. So I accepted the price of ten million souls as a way to help them survive further, even if for a few tens of minutes at most.
These might make all the difference between winning or losing.
Just the first battle held such importance to me, and I got to win it no matter what the costs were!
“Ready!” I stood over my chariot, standing on the edge of my world. There was indeed a bubble-like shield that marked my world and protected it.
And beyond it, the world looked hazy and dark, filled with dense black fog that didn’t allow me to see anything through.
“Lord, we are ready!” Zangibar was enjoying the moment while standing on the forefront of everyone.
Before coming here, we discussed the strategy of this battle. According to him, once we’d be out, the shield would fall in pieces, and the vast and open world outside would appear.
He said that any other lord’s territory would be marked in different lights. They were just the same as my bone colours. The weakest was white, and the strongest was purple diamond black in colour.
He warned me that just assessing any world by its colour was wrong. We had to assess it by the size as well. The bigger the area covered by the light the stronger this territory would be.
He advised me to rise high in the sky and take a wide look around, assessing who would be suitable targets, and who would be troublesome enemies we had to watch out from.
After all, in such a dark shadow world, the rules of the jungle were the sacred rules here.
“Let’s start!” I raised my heavy glaive, waved it a couple of times before pointing it to the front.
It penetrated the shield and with this simple move, the shield all over my world shattered.
And all the darkness vanished in one instant, giving me a brand new look over the world outside.
It was a bright world with stars shining on top of the sky. I could see as clear as in the middle of any sunny and clear day, and there were lots of green and beautiful looking scenes all over the place.
“Lord… It’s time to scout!” Zangibar shouted from down below when he noticed my momentarily daze, “we can’t waste any time here. As we appear, all of the lords around us will be able to see us!”
“Got it!” I was jolted awake, rose high up in the air, and started to take a wider look over such amazing world.