Just the loot of worms inside my cube was in millions right now! The enemy seemed to be quite careless and very impatient in killing me here and stopping my advance.
They brought such a grand number of scary worms here to take me down once and for all. They got nothing to blame but their own incompetence, their lack of knowledge, and their arrogance in underestimating me.
If they dealt with me like they should, then things would have ended quite better. However they didn't look me in the eye, and that was their greatest mistake.
They trusted their forces more than doubting the abilities of their enemy. As I took in the last of their forces here, I couldn't help but feel more confidence in taking the enemy here down.
This quest… This quest was mine!
I wasn't underestimating my enemy. I knew how strong and formidable they really were, and that was why I was confident in my victory at the end.
The enemy had many weaknesses, which showed clearly in this zone. The forces in the zones seemed to be entrapped and not aware of what was going on outside.
And if I followed such logic, then it was safe to say that the enemies' forces inside each world were also suffering from the same defect.
"If so… Then I got three weeks to clear the nineteen worlds, or at least clear half of them, before the opening of the last angelic world."
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtI knew it was a golden chance, and I got to move fast and seize it. The enemy was destined to move fast, send fresh troops from the outside, and these might carry the missed intel for the forces in each world.
According to the reports I received, the enemy was already fighting against the locals of each world when my forces arrived. I didn't know if that was part of the quest scheme or that it was a countermove prepared by the enemy thanks to my interventions from the beginning.
After all, the enemy would do such a move in response to my efforts in changing the entire scheme of this quest.
That meant the enemy forces in each world were already tired and exhausted. They had to fight now on two different fronts, and so they were at their lowest points right now.
[I'm going to leave forces here for you to lead] deciding that, I took tens of thousands of worms, left them to secure this grand zone, [I left behind lots of shields. I will leave tons of forces inside to protect this place]
[Am I going to defend again?]
[Don't belittle this defensive role] I realised he was referring to the long time I asked all of them to stay inside the shields and defend, [This defence here is the key to our victory at the end]
[What do you want me to do?] he was smart enough to read through the hints in my words.
I didn't want him to just defend, I wanted him to do something else.
[Give the enemy here a nightmare] I paused, [Make them too much focused on you. Even if you ended up losing most of the forces I'd leave for you, it doesn't matter! I want to see endless enemies here the moment I come back]
[I got it! Leave this to me!] he got my point, and I started to roam the entire grand zone, jumping around using my staff, spreading my shields and forces inside for long hours.
I lost count of how many warriors I took. And I even took warriors without gears or even without stat points at many shields.
I left lots of stat crystals for them to use. [I'm going back now. Don't forget, your role is to defend, and to attract as much attention from the enemy as possible]
[Got it!]
I knew I could depend on this dude here. If I didn't get him, then I'd have left lots of my newly acquired generals, and I wouldn't feel as relieved as I felt right now.
I jumped back to the central area of this zone where the portal leading to my ground zero lay.
The other seventeen zones were already led by one of the contestants. I didn't truly care about these, and I knew Lily and Toramos were going to do great jobs about reinforcing the armies there.
I jumped back to ground zero, and there I found the once before filled to the brim world with warriors was void of anything.
"Tsk… War really requires lots of wealth, and men," seeing this made me sigh. But before doing anything else, I replenished this zone with warriors again for a few hours.
[You came back?] It seems my actions here caught the attention of Lily.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏm[I'm just stopping for a few hours] I said while taking out tons of warriors without stats, [I got warriors that need stat crystals. Let others help in that]
[Good! We just emptied five zones from the endless warriors you left behind]
[Oh! That fast?!] It was indeed surprising to hear that.
In each zone, hundreds of millions or even billion warriors were left out by me.
And hearing that five zones got emptied already in such a short time was something quite unexpected.
[The enemy had tons of forces at each world, so we got to adapt, y'know]
[Ok, I'll refill these zones then… Which one are these?]
[Come back to the centre and I'll guide you to their portals]
[Give me three hours then]
After four hours, I returned back to find her standing with the group I saw before. The spearhead wasn't here, and I got to know that he picked up his girl before heading towards one world to fight at.
As for the jumper, he already was fighting hard at the third homebase world we acquired.
He invaded one world in the past week, and could hardly establish a base there by now.