In mere minutes, a huge area around was cleared from enemies. And more were getting killed nonstop. No matter how much the Hescos threw at my face, my soulers killed them with much ease.
At the same time, the Bulltors who got trained for days over handling the weapons started to operate them. The weapons started roaring, sending deadly attacks towards the distance without any pause.
The entire place turned their guns and weapons towards my shields, turning it into a glistering ball of light that kept flashing endlessly by the incoming attacks.
At the same time, I kept repairing the shields by adding more. Once things stabilised here, I didn't stop in my tracks, boarded my chariot, and started moving towards another region.
Even if this spot got under my control for now, the entire edge of the hole extended for a hundred mile radius at least.
So taking control of an area of five miles off it wouldn't make any difference. As things started to stabilise here, I started moving to the nearby region.
The moment my chariot got out from the protection of the shield, the Hescos seemed to be startled by my actions for a few seconds.
Then deadly attacks started to rain down my chariot, blinding my sight as usual.
I waited for two minutes before suddenly stopping, used my pillar and activated the skill again and again. Once the shield appeared, I started to see things clearly.
I seemed to fly for a little longer than I wanted, ending up with a buffer zone in between the two shields formed right here. As the second group of shields appeared, the incoming attacks had to be divided between the two zones.
That greatly helped in decreasing the pressure over my shields. I did the same here as I did at my first zone.
I took out weapons and ammo, Bulltors to operate them, soulers to kill the enemies here, and then returned back to the first zone.
I reinforced the two zones with shields for ten minutes straight. At the same time, I started filling these zones with many warriors and left behind enough stat crystals for them to use.
Before moving to lay out the third layer, I made sure to take back all the strengthened warriors.
I got hundreds of millions of soulers in my inventory after all these years. But just depending on them to clear the zones I was going to create here wasn't going to work.
So instead of worrying about that, I started to take warriors out and use the time needed to strengthen the shields to fill their stat points to max.
This time I flew for a single minute before stopping and using my shield skill again. As I flew for a small distance this time, the new shield merged with the old ones, making the second zone expand in return.
Like this the newly added zones would be covered up by the old shield layers. This might end up weakening the preexisting layers, but it would save me the trouble of travelling in between layers.
I first added many shields while waiting for the Bulltors and weapons to get ready to fire. At the same time, I let my soulers do their work and clear the newly added enemies in the new zone.
Once I managed to make the newly formed shields merge with existing ones, things started to be smoother.
All I needed to do was to fortify the shields again and again, let my Bulltors handle the weapons and fire them at a distance, while the soulers dealt with the enemies appearing inside these shields.
As for my warriors, I kept fortifying them using my stat crystals without any reserve. When the zones started to merge together, the area I could manage to strengthen warriors increased as well.
I didn't need to jump around to collect these warriors. I just needed to take as much as I could, throw stat crystals in mountains like groups, and then leave the warriors to feed over the crystals.
Then I'd take the warriors back into my inventory again before taking more out. Whenever I couldn't see the heaps of stat crystals I took out, I'd simply take more and leave them behind.
Slowly this process started to be easy and natural. No matter how hard the enemy tried, the shields kept standing erect like immovable mountains.
I didn't know for how long I kept doing this, but it seemed my sudden move startled the enemy and even scared them.
After a long time of doing this, I managed to finally connect the entire shield circle together. I didn't need to interfere and link the first gap that appeared in between the first two shield zones.
My shields have the ability to absorb the energy from the world around them, strengthening themselves and expanding little by little. By the time I linked the entire circular shields together, the gap was already gone.
The strengthened warrior count was already beyond counting. I lost track of how much I took and strengthened so far. But when the entire zone got linked, I was able to take out a hundred million warriors at one go and strengthen them at the same time.
During all this, the enemy kept sending forces in a futile attempt to stop my invasion. However no matter how many they sent, they all ended up killed on the hands of my soulers and warriors.
At some point, the hundreds of million of soulers didn't seem enough. After all, the shields never stopped expanding outward. By the time I got the entire shields connected, the area initially controlled by the shields got doubled or even tripled.
I looked at this with delight. The more the shields expanded the better.
"But this is going to be a slow process," I knew if I solely depended on this, then the shields would take forever to reach to the degree I wanted.
Without hesitating, I moved my chariot forward. Without taking a single moment of rest, I went outward, welcomed the enraged attacks from the enemies and embraced them.