"It's alright," I now understood how this technique of storing balls into one worked. This one ball was like a grand inventory in itself, storing up all the balls and only broke apart when one got enough energy to get activated.
I stored the one that was lying on the ground and stored it inside my inventory. Then I turned my attention towards the golden shining one.
It felt a little hot, and kept getting hotter the more energy I pushed inside it. I knew it was close to getting activated, but that took roughly one hour to do so.
"Damn! Don't tell me we are at the outer edge of this world!" This was the only explanation I got for all this. Or else how come even with the energy of thousands of blue grade bones, this ball took all this time to get activated?
*Rumble!*
But the moment it finally got enough, it broke free of my hand like a rebellious bird, flew high in the air, before it started to rotate around in big circles all over the place.
"What is it doing?!!" Lily was surprised by this ball's weird and lively actions, the same reaction I got.
"I frankly don't know," I didn't lie, and when she gave me a weird glance, I added, "this is my first time using this wonderful and amazing invention."
"What does it do then?" she puffed her lips, as if she was tired of getting herself here to witness such an acrobatic show.
She felt like I was wasting her time on purpose, losing my grip and was losing my calm or something.
"Just wait for a few more minutes," I was bluffing. I didn't know how long it'd take for this ball to form the promised portal, but it wouldn't take long, right?
And thanks to fate's mercy on me, this ball finally stopped at one spot, started to fiercely expand, forming a gigantic black ball that finally exploded like a bubble, showing off a grand portal.
It was a little different from the one I saw and used before in the pocket world. This one was truly massive, with lots of little words on its edge, making me wonder from where did old Gan come up with this idea.
It didn't seem like it was his genuine idea, and I felt he was just mimicking an ancient race lost's tech, the same case of the bombs I left back for him and others to study.
And yet that didn't make me look down on this thing, or belittle old Gan's and others' accomplishments. In fact, thinking about this made me more confident in their ability to copy the bomb's technique, and perhaps add little touches here and there, transforming it greatly, and giving me a surprise.
"This… It's a portal!" Lily looked at the new portal in shock for long seconds, before she turned to me, pointing at it, as if she was accusing me of something.
"It's any normal portal," I winked while adding, "it's The Portal!"
"What the hell does this even mean?!"
"It means…" I paused, smiled, then laughed, "using this portal, you can point at any point on the map, open a portal there, and send troops towards it."
"This…" her eyes went all wide, turning into full circles, "are you joking? Please tell me you aren't!"
"Hahahaha! Since when did I lie or joke about anything? It's true, this one here can be used to do this," I opened my hand, where a little ball lay there, "and this is the key to control it."
"This…"
"Listen… To use this, you need to do this…" I started to explain the right way to use this new portal and how to send troops in it.
"Damn! Are you telling me we don't need to let our forces crowd in lines, wait for their turns to pass through it? All we need to do is to let them stand around it in a certain area of miles, tens of miles, and it will work?"
"And if you let someone with a strong cultivation base use it, then it will work over a much wider area," I laughed over her stupefied look and amazed reaction. I got satisfied with that, feeling all these mysterious actions from me did bring a good result in the end.
"It's… Awesome!" she even jumped in the air with her fist raised high, "this… This… Hahahaha! We can win this! Hahahaha!"
"No, we are going to win it, that's what I know from the start," I calmly smiled, "now go back, arrange armies, and send them here. I'm going to establish portals on every continent out there."
"This… but…"
"Don't worry," I patted her shoulder as I guessed what got her worried, "I'm going to select the most secure places out there and start linking portals there first. Then after we send forces there and slowly expand, and we get enough extras to send over other regions, I'll expand the portal net to reach and cover up every corner in each continent."
She looked directly in my eyes for a long minute before slowly nodding, "I believe you," she paused, "I believe in you."
"And I won't disappoint you, like I always did," I laughed, before motioning for her to roll on and start doing her tasks.
As for me, I started to activate more portals all over the place. I took little time to examine the map, select the next places to open the portal at.
No matter how high standards I got, the detailed map in front of me coupled with the vastness of the world was enough to let me spot at least one place suitable for the portals.
And at many occasions, I didn't just end up finding one place, but two and three. Even on three occasions I found five great spots, and on one continent I found eight suitable places.
This was all enough for me to open portals at and send my troops out there.
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