Thousands? Tens of thousands? No, there were tens of millions of them! Damn! That was something that would take tons of time if I did things like I thought before.
Going personally to every single hole and securing things there myself? Humph! I was naive in thinking in such a way.
"Thanks lord," all the leaders here knelt again, including the all anxious Clatinberg. That dude seemed to want to ask me to step in personally for many times, yet he got stopped by others every single time.
This group of leaders truly helped in pushing aside such a headache. "I'll go around, trying to help others for one week. After that, I'll leave," I paused before adding, "I know you all want to remain behind and fight for your people. But you can just leave one person to lead the combined army back there, the rest will follow me."
"Then I'll come!" Clatinberg was the fastest to speak, and the first to get rejected.
"No, you must come with me."
"Where are we going?"
"What are we going to do?"
Others couldn't control themselves and asked. And I simply explained the general situation out there. "... So we are going to help others, prepare ourselves for the final world battle, the angelic world."
"What's special about that world anyway?" Zechin felt how the enemy focused on this world too much. And so he asked, and his words attracted the attention of others towards this point.
They all got silent, looked at me in wait, and I could only sigh. "I truly don't know. But I can tell you this, our enemy isn't simple. They aren't idiots. If they placed such importance over this world, then we have to do all we can to take it back from them."
"..."
"After that, we'll go towards these dirty bastards' homes, and kill them all before winning this quest."
And with my final words, their hesitation vanished. With the urge to give the enemy double and triple what they all suffered, they all accepted such a role to play.
Even if they all cared for their people, they'd also know that without cutting the head of the snake, their people wouldn't be truly secure.
I started to move around, jumping from one portal to another.
Each portal was connected to one of the gods' holes. And the moment I reached there, I'd move fast towards the nearest holes.
The first layer of holes got tons of forces moving there, trying to bypass the walls. So far the enemy hasn't managed to change the wall's structure or open paths there yet.
That made the gods and my sent warriors only face the flying fiends. They might prove hard to conquer to anyone else, but to such combined formidable force on my side, things went quite easy.
When I reached a cluster of holes, I started to test my board. The board sucked my energy and started to emit dazzling lights.
"So to affect time, the two different squares will all be lit together," I noticed that the board shone with the two different lights at the same time when I tried to accelerate time.
One fold… Five folds… Twenty folds… I stopped when it turned fifty folds in the time around me.
That meant what I'd take to do for ten minutes would only take fifteen seconds only. That was something insane, not to me, but to the enemy.
I just waved my arms once I arrived, throwing many bones out to cover up the eight holes around in two minutes.
Death came too fast for the enemy even to realise what happened to them. I watched my bones explode and kill everyone, while I took much less time than I'd take if I activated each bone in the normal time setting.
"Tsk! It consumes lots of bones in just two minutes," and when I cancelled the effect of the board, I realised that the amount of bones consumed was enough to increase the gravity for days!
"But it's worth doing it this way," when I saw the fire exploding in the eight holes here, I was satisfied with such an exchange.
No matter what, time was priceless, even more important than any of my bones.
I moved my chariot next, scanning the entire zone around the hole of the gods, killing any hole filled with enemies using the same way.
One hole… Ten holes… a thousand holes… One day… Three days… A week… I kept jumping around and killing those around the gods' holes, leaving a single hole stretching from the gods' hole to one direction without attacking them with my fire.
This would be the path where the gods and my warriors would take to go there.
When I finally came back to the place of grand portals, I found the battle out there ended a long time ago.
I saw endless corpses of the enemy covering up the entire ground till the end of my eyesight. I didn't hesitate and moved down, starting to replenish my lost bones.
"Lord… This…" the first to notice my weird actions was Zechin. This dude was quite attentive and smart enough to realise I was doing something weird.
"It's something related to me," I didn't delve into any details, "is everyone ready?"
"We selected one of us to stay behind and lead everything here," he paused, while looking in silence towards Clatinberg.
It seemed this dude kept blubbering about his desire to remain behind. But I already stated it was impossible for him to have his wish, and he had to follow me around.
"Cool, give me one more day and then we'll leave."
I was now moving slower than usual as my sacrifices were gone. Each day I consumed two hours to boost my individual and chariot's speed. And by this time, my two sacrifices were gone for hours.
I didn't plan to replenish them as my current speed was enough to let me absorb the bones in fast fashion. Not to mention the turbo mode of absorbing bone ability of mine would need time to clear an entire area of bones.
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