I tested and it consumed one dark realm bone in return for covering up an entire area of ten miles radius. And when I used it, I realised something new that wasn't written in its description.
"Oh, so it can take in anything, no matter if it belonged to me or not!" I just tested it around and there were few worms entrapped by the Exomachines.
Everything in that area got sucked dry, and I found out that I could control anything getting inside. In brief, it could force any race inside to sign a contract with me, as their will was bound and limited by the cube.
I saw this as a great method without doubt! Against races like fiends, worms, and Exomachines, I'd end up having all under the tips of my finger once I stored them inside this cube!
And that wasn't all!
"These worms… They were moved inside while getting separated from these Exomachines…" When I poured my consciousness inside that cube, I found out that this cube was like a huge barren world.
This world had no limit, and was surrounded by fog that kept swirling all the time. On the land, cells that kept everything I took inside were kept in an isolated way.
I tried, and when I took out a worm, it roared and seemed to want to revoke the contract I enforced on it. However in the end, it complied and followed my will and orders.
"Roll on the ground… Raise your tail and put it in your mouth…" I kept giving such funny orders, and the worm complied at the spot.
"Hahahaha! This… This is just great!" I knew how huge such a thing was. [Stop everything! Just start fortifying the entire region, and turn it into our turf]
[What about the worms? We only killed a small amount of them!]
[Just stop doing this and focus on fortifying this region!] I would never let such a precious loot slip by my hands. All these worms would end up under my control. And that alone was enough to make my heart jump in my chest!
As for these Exomachines, I'd simply leave them inside that cube. That cube… Hahahahaha! I got it cheap while it had such a heaven shaking effect!
[Fine! You are the lord, and you surely know what you are doing, right?/]
[Don't question me. Just do as I say and everything will be fine] as such matters got solved, it was time to prepare to leave this world, [Make enough defences here. I'll give you five days, after that we'll leave here and jump to another world]
[Ok]
I gave her five days, which wasn't enough indeed to fortify such a place. However it was enough to see what my enemies had in mind.
If they were dead fixed at dealing with me here, then they'd move more forces and come at us. All their forces in this territory and at a grand area around got wiped out successfully.
Using the cube made my task quite easy and fast. I only needed to pour dark realm bones inside it and it'd work like magic. I once tried and placed one thousand bones into it, and yet its area of coverage didn't exceed a hundred mile radius.
I knew this was its limit. And it wasn't quite bad actually. I kept working and travelling around for one day, and I got everything covered. At the end, I got a large pile of loot inside the cube.
The number of Exomachines was in the tens of millions, exceeding fifty million easily. As for my worms, I got almost a thousand of them.
It wasn't that much indeed, and wasn't even one tenth of what the enemy released on my forces here, but it was still quite great.
A single worm was enough to bring headache to my enemies back at the apocalypse. I didn't plan on using these worms here, but back on Earth.
These one thousand worms would be my deadly weapon against all my enemies. With them, my confidence in controlling the entire world grew to a new level.
After finishing doing this, I still have four days left. And so I started to first roam the region, looking at what my forces were doing. And they were doing just fine.
"Time to scout this world," I knew leaving behind forces in this region wasn't going to work if the enemy decided to take it back.
Just seeing these Exomachines and worms was enough to make me realise how quite resourceful the enemy was.
Trying to underestimate them might backfire at me. So as I had almost four days left, I started to move my chariot outside the region.
The same sight of cleanly swept ground was present for tens of miles around the region. The first different thing I spotted was at least two hundred miles away, and it was a remnant of what was a huge fortification base here.
"My attack this time didn't just affect a fixed zone, but expanded and affected what lied beyond," as I flew for tens of miles more, I spotted such a scene quite frequently.
It seemed the attack either released a weaker form of it around, or exploded before vanishing, affecting regions it never covered before.
Seeing all this made me quite relieved actually. If an enemy came, we could spot it from hundreds of miles away.
Besides, the enemy lost all the huge fortifications that kept causing trouble to my forces from time to time. And the enemy would be totally exposed without anything to support them in their offence.
They couldn't hide, sneak on my forces here, and had to fight like they were naked! That was the perfect result I'd dream about.
But after flying for almost one hundred miles, I finally spotted an intact base of the enemy.
And there I found tons of forces starting to gather up, seemingly ready to do something.