I watched the shields flicker with silver lights under the constant attacks of the Hescos before everything returned to normal. Even the faint cracks that appeared vanished without a trace.
I looked at the shields for a few minutes before finally stopped watching them. They were just doing great on their own. And all that was left was for me to deploy more shields and scatter around enough warriors inside.
These shields weren't connected like the ones I made before. I didn't need to do that anymore, and all I focused on was to form these shields and scatter them around to cover as much distance as I could.
I wanted to use these shields as base zones, letting my forces freely use them to attack the surrounding regions. As the enemy couldn't attack or crack open these shields, they simply had to wait outside until my forces would come out to meet them.
The moment I summoned warriors in any shield area, they first scattered around and started hunting down all the Hescos forces they could find. As the Hescos were cut off their reinforcements, taking these scattered forces down was a piece of cake.
Then my warriors would start moving out, attacking the outer Hescos and kill them without showing mercy.
The outer Hescos weren't that hard to deal with either. After scattering lots of shields, the remnants of Hescos had limited areas to operate in.
They couldn't get away from the clutches of my warriors easily. And when more warriors came out from more shields, things turned for the worse to them.
After a couple hours, I felt satisfied with everything I did so far. Instead of pressing forward with these shields, I took out my staff, opened a portal and vanished through it.
I didn't jump back to the pit, but back to the grand gathering of my shields where most of my forces here were.
Even if I planned to use the grand five armies to attack the Hescos and control the surface region, they needed time to arrive here in full force and demonstrate their might.
I recalled that Sara and other generals took almost two days to bring forth their entire forces.
Taking out warriors wasn't going to work as well. After all, I exhausted all of my warriors whom I gave stat crystals to before and now I had only raw strengthened warriors who needed stat crystals to show their might.
So my best option was to go back and move the grand army stationed inside the shields.
The moment I arrived there, I found the entire zone filled with weird calmness. They killed all of their enemies a long time ago it seemed.
I summoned Lucas and listened to his side of the story. Linking the dots together, I knew that the Hescos stopped sending their troops here the moment they started attacking the pit.
That made quite sense actually. After all they seemed to finally run short of forces to use on all these frontlines.
"Bring everyone you got, and lead them forward," I simply said to Lucas after he finished his tale, "kill the Hescos remnants and keep going forward beyond the new shield zone up front."
The Hescos might be shocked and terrified by the newly arrived forces and the shields I made so far. If I were them, I'd lose sight of such grand forces here and not place them into any of my plans.
By using the forces stationed here for a long time already, the enemy would get another shock that they'd never be able to handle.
As I finished my business here, I returned back to the frontline, and resumed deploying my shields.
The Hescos were already losing this war. And it was my responsibility to add more wounds to them.
After returning back, I didn't just start making shields and fill them with warriors and stat crystals. I also started my technique, and began controlling many Hescos outside and inside the shields, and also while I was flying to deploy more shields.
These Hescos got a single order once controlled, to turn around and start killing any of their comrades.
I didn't want to form a big army of them. I already got enough armies coming here. I only wanted to escalate and snowball the chaos I painstakingly created as much as I could.
"They are finally here," after ten hours of spreading chaos over the surface area, the distant Hescos forces finally arrived here.
The first to come was the flying Hescos. They didn't come alone, as they led a grand army of flying races and monsters as well.
Seeing all this made me grin evilly. They came in a grand wave that covered the entire sky with blackness.
However in my eyes, they were fresh elite troops delivered to me on a golden plate.
The Hescos must have sent the weakest forces to stop me and invade the underground layers. As for the elites, they must have been stationed in the distance, away from any danger.
The Hescos would keep them fresh and healthy till the last moment of need. They didn't do that for fear of their elites, but to secure the paragons and big shots of their races in this world.
This war was led by paragons and big names for sure. And it only made sense for them to place great importance on these figures' safety.
However things developed out of their plans and worst expectations. If they delayed any further, then the entire war would be pointless after one day or so.
As I saw the grand incoming party, I flew towards them and issued a warm welcome. I used my pillar's shield first. Then I used the techniques of mine on two hands, scattering out bones and started absorbing their energy.
I was going all out! It wasn't just for fear of such formidable force, but also for my greed.
I wanted them, most of them, if possible then all of them to serve me from now on.
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