The cube already got enhanced, and the limit of its area of coverage got increased by many folds. By using the same ten bones, the cube would cover up an area of a thousand miles. And if I increased the amount to fifty bones, it could increase this to a hundred thousand miles area.
However, increasing it beyond the one thousand mile coverage would require an additional ten bones per every mile, to create enough space inside the cube, suitable to store whatever it'd absorb inside without any worry.
I got enough bones to do such a risky and crazy move. So I took enough to sustain the area of one hundred thousand miles, and started to infuse the energy into the cube.
The cube shone brightly and started to emanate different lights while increasing in size at a fast pace.
In a few minutes, the cube that I could hold with my hands easily changed and looked at least half a mile in length, width, and breadth.
It grew to become a giant cube, and then it went flying high in the sky.
Seeing this gave me an instant scare! That wasn't a stable sky, and the world beyond was filled with spatial turbulence, lots of storms, and deadly traps and holes leading to the depths of space here.
Yet before I'd move a muscle, the cube shone brighter and its light expanded to cover up almost everything around me. The flash of its light was so bright to blind me fully for ten minutes, during which I never lost my connection with it.
I kept gushing the bone energy into it, and I felt like it stopped just a couple of miles on top of my head.
Luckily it didn't grow berserk, didn't go towards the distant parts of the sky, into the deadly zone between the two halves of this planet.
As I got reassured about my cube, I waited for it to finish its magic. After ten minutes, the blinding light vanished, and I could easily inspect the world around me.
And what I saw was just emptiness! It was weird, as a few minutes ago, this place was filled to the brim with fighting forces from both sides.
"It sucked dry even my forces... Not bad," I didn't care much about such a result, and simply watched that cube retract in size, returning back to its normal size, falling into the palm of my hand.
It looked so peaceful as if it didn't do anything heaven defying just now. Another thing that got added to the cube functions was that I didn't need to use any contract artefact anymore.
The cube in itself was like a high grade contract artefact, instantly forcing anything stored inside to get bound to me without any need for me to do anything.
In addition to that, the cube's internal space got separated into two halves. One half was dedicated to storing the absorbed races and creatures inside, and the other half was like an open world for my forces.
I could now store any amount of forces I'd like inside, let them live in peace while I carried them around without any worry.
This would be very helpful once I'd return back. I could store any race that I didn't turn into warrior tokens inside this cube and carry them around.
The only limitation I got was that I got no control over the size of this region. It was just identical to the other zone with cells, and if the cell zones got increased, the other free zone would instantly expand.
That meant to add up more land inside, I got to use the cube more frequently just like what I did here.
I cleared an area of one hundred thousand miles around me, making the free zone increase by the same size.
It wasn't time for me to care about such things. The enemy forces sent here got the fiends as their top fighters. And gaining such a large number of them made me grin.
Even if I didn't get gears from them, I still got capable and experienced friends to work under me. In addition to those I gained before, my current friend force wasn't any less than ten million.
As for locusts and Silences, I got close to billions of the former, and a hundred million of the latter.
I didn't really care about these two for now. The Silences might have caused tons of problems to other contestants over the long course of time, but they were nothing to me right now.
Even the time I spent trying to solve their disaster seemed like a wasted time and effort to me. At least I gained a good array to use, at least I could let my forces train and muster up such an array.
That was the only benefit I gained from all this time of preparation. I sighed, and decided to forget about that issue.
I turned my attention towards the empty place around. There were a hundred thousand miles free of any forces, either mine or the enemy.
It might seem like a grand piece of land, but compared to the vast and gigantic looking piece of land floating hundreds of thousands of miles away from me, it looked like a tiny portion of that giant boulder of rocks and dirt.
"Come out," I controlled my cube, took out my warriors. They were going to take control over this spot while I'd travel across this part of the planet.
I planned to use the cube again at least five times before going towards my next risky trip.
Just as I travelled, I took out tons of my forces, let them fill the entire emptiness around.
They didn't need to take any orders from me. They just got to the higher grounds, and remained there in vigilance.
For sure I didn't want them to go and fight any other enemy forces. Their top role here was to stay on guard and defend the portal zone for me.
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