It was pretty much expected to see the entire area inside the shields here to be devastated, filled with holes, and an endless number of dead bodies from my side and the enemy's.
The worm battle ended, and the victor was my worm. Out of what I took out, only less than fifty remained, and they were all riddled with heavy wounds.
"Tsk... I took much longer than I planned," I left my worms and warriors here while expecting to be away for a few hours.
But it took much longer than that. Even if I lost most of my worms, I still wasn't feeling any bad.
"This is nothing," I knew how shocked Legend was, but it wasn't time for that, "this region is already secured. We'll consider this as the main base."
"Ok," Legend got over his shock fast, "what shall I do now? Attack? Or wait for you?"
"Neither," I took out my pillar, "we are going to clear the path outside first," I activated the offensive strike of my pillar, releasing all the stored damage through all this time.
The enemies here weren't aware of my way of doing things. And so they kept hammering and coming at my shields without pause.
So it was expected for the ferocity of my shields' strike to be strong and last for four hours.
I didn't leave my shields here for more than half a day, and yet the attack showed a strength also shown at shields lasting for days or even a week.
"Now," after the light subsided, "I'll leave enough warriors out for you here. Gather up the gears, kill any enemies that are still alive around, and leave everything here before going towards the far away shields."
"Ok," he nodded, leaving my chariot on his, before I started to take out my warriors. "Go under the ground, secure the area around for twenty miles," I gave this order for my worms.
To me, these worms were as good as dead. I didn't know how to heal all these wounds, and didn't care about taking such trouble in the first place.
If the enemy used worms here, followed what I expected them to do, then they'd bring a huge number of worms here.
Facing millions or even more of such worms wasn't a dream. And so losing these fifty wasn't going to be that bad.
As I left enough for Legend to lead, I started to roam this zone. The area of devastation spread to cover up hundreds of miles, a distance that was enough to make me feel quite satisfied with such an attack.
I spread a few shields around in that cleared zone. However my main focus was to reach the area where the enemy was active at, and start the real battle.
After flying for a few hours, I finally covered the entire distance and reached a zone that started to get filled with different enemy troops.
The enemy seemed to get taken aback with what happened here. They didn't send lots of their forces, and only the headless locusts lead the entire charge for tens of miles ahead from the main army.
I didn't give a damn about these locusts. They were the easiest to kill. As for others, I started to see a few familiar faces when I passed locusts by thirty miles.
I kept flying and advancing ahead without stopping. I didn't start acting until I crossed another one hundred miles. There I found the enemy gathering up tons of their main forces, and even saw lots of worms slithering on the ground.
"Time to show you another trick," seeing my chariot coming was enough to stir up the hornet nest. Everyone started to act, and even the worms tried to raise their heads, trying to take a bite at my chariot.
I'd not underestimate these deadly folks. Even if my chariot's shield was much sturdier than the shields created by my pillar, I wasn't that sure my chariot's shield would sustain a single attack from these worms.
So in return for their attempts, I rose high up, away from their reach. At the same time, I released a few of my bones, watched them fall like raining rocks on the ground, before starting to absorb their energy and gush them inside the cube.
The cube covered up one hundred miles radius, sucked in everything in that zone. Such a scene frightened everyone around, and if they knew that I'd force a contract on all of the enemies I sucked inside, they'd grow much scarier.
I didn't feel any surprise or shock like them, I didn't feel fear but excitement. The enemy forces here were quite dense, even to the extent that having one locust came at the cost of having hundreds of other races and troops.
And so I didn't stand in my place for even one second. I moved my chariot fast, kept using my cube and bones, clearing thousands of miles off the enemy in every direction.
The enemy tried to respond to such a threat using force. However after ten straight hours, they reached the conclusion that clashing against me was futile!
It was impossible to break through my shields using any means they got. And for the worms they had, they might get a chance in breaking my shield, but they got no chance at touching me.
So after ten hours, the enemy started to ask their troops to retreat away from the chariot. And thanks to my previous experience in dealing with such a move, I kept my chariot flying in fixed long routes for hours, without using my cube again.
I gave the enemy the feeling that their tactic was working, and I couldn't get my hands over any of their people.
After doing this for an entire day, and even after receiving messages from Legend telling me that he is already at the edge of the safe zone, facing tons of locusts while being inside the safe shields I left behind, I didn't stop what I was doing.