Like this, the enemy would lose access towards the races as well. And I'd also have more time to handle the situation in the other parts of this world.
It was like creating a situation where no one would emerge victorious, or would be able to move a single step forward. This wasn't the most perfect situation for me, for the enemy, but it was still advantageous for me.
Instead of rushing things on all fronts, while losing a lot in doing that, it was best to stabilise one front, and focus on other battlefields.
I wasn't just buying a few days' time for me and my forces, but long weeks and months. That was enough to make me handle the battles on the mainland here, check the new status of the world, and establish the reign of my kingdom here.
After all, even if I won this apocalypse, this golden quest, won the ownership of this world, it wasn't going to mean anything in the end if I didn't fully control the entire world, conquered all the races and forces here, and dominated everything.
So I decided to go around, and before that, I first started to do something else.
I strengthen myself using my various sacrifices. After all, I didn't have my chariot for now. And I'd have to first spread fire and death around, before repairing my chariot.
I wouldn't try to heal it right here, not in the middle of the enemy's deep lands. I knew I got the enemy cornered by this fire, but I'd not be that confident that they'd have something to handle this fire.
Just recalling the armoured worms made me feel that the enemy got many cards prepared to handle my worms. And as such, I left enough forces behind at this bubble zone, strengthened it by adding more shields, before finally flashing back to the ground zero point.
"You are finally back! Did you find these races? Did you give the enemy a hard time?"
The moment I appeared at ground zero, I found Lily waiting for me there.
She wasn't indeed waiting for me, but it was just out of pure coincidence that she was here when I arrived.
Weirdly enough, she was all alone, standing on her chariot, while tons of forces were coming out or towards many portals here.
"Wait… Where is your chariot?" she looked at me, up and down, sizing me up, and asked the most painful question right now.
"Not the right time to speak about it," I said, waving my arm, "now tell me what's going on here? Why does this place look like a circus!"
"This… Don't tell me you lost it? Damn lord! You lost your signature chariot? Wow! That's…"
"Just shut up!" I roared at her, while my heart was already deeply hurt, "tell me what you are doing here?"
"Well, if you want my chariot, just ask for it, no offence but I got it from you."
"..." the corners of my eyes twitched while I glared at her. She said good and kind words but in a way that told me she was mocking and making fun out of me.
Her face told me how much she enjoyed this, acting totally against what her words really meant.
"Well, we are just facing hard times everywhere… Didn't you read my messages?"
"I read a few," I didn't change my serious and threatening look towards her, as she didn't change her amusing looking expression over her face.
"This… Sign! Was it this bad?"
Her words only lacked a cruel long laugh to suit her face and attitude. For a moment there, I wanted to go and punch her in the face, give that little face covered with fine scales a remodelling tough and a puffy eye or something.
"Ok, fine, I'll speak," she seemed to see through my intentions, and hurriedly shouted as she retreated her chariot for tens of metres back, away from me.
And I simply followed.
"Stay back! I was just showing empathy for you!"
"I'm going to repay this kindness then," I kept flying and chasing her around, and she felt how dangerous it was going to be if she kept her attitude going.
"Sorry, I apologise, I won't make fun of it anymore. Please, let me free, let me go."
"Tsk! Why did you place yourself in the face of danger in the first place then?" I cracked my knuckles, "just a single punch, one punch and we can call it even."
"No, go and find some bullshit fiends and punch them to your heart's content."
"I was going to do so, until I met you."
"Then make it like you never saw me," she kept running and screaming for help, while I kept chasing her around.
During this, I opened her last messages, and there I found many things that I didn't know about.
I was totally busy and absorbed in fighting the enemy, retrieving my chariot back, and paying the enemy triple for their unforgivable insult and crime.
But things didn't look that great at other battles.
"What the heck? Even the stupid Berserkers turned their backs on us?!" I stopped chasing her, while reading the shocking news she sent over.
"Not only them, but even the Selvators did! Everyone is now turning their blades at our people!"
"What did these two do exactly?!" I paused, while feeling more enraged about Wryly and Fang's actions.
"Well… These two… They…"
"They are what?" I wasn't in the mood to listen to her sputtering and hesitating words.
"They are dead!"
"..."
"Their races captured them. And they tried to run away, but they ended up getting killed," she sighed, "the ones we left behind had it hard in the past few weeks. We lost most of our kingdom's lands. And if not for the many defensive setups we left back there, if not for the large armies we stacked in the other world, we'd have lost all of the kingdom by now."
This 𝓬ontent is taken from fre𝒆webnove(l).𝐜𝐨𝗺