459 Taking Control Of Monsters
I didn’t delay anymore. Once I stabilised the situation in the city, I started to make my circle and held it from the centre.
“Go… Control everything and everyone,” I said as if my technique had a will of its own or something.
At the same time, I took out many bones and started to absorb their energy. I didn’t want to simply control a few hundreds or thousands, but the entire army here.
The densest place with these monsters was the areas around the three portals. These areas were getting devastated now by my fallen gods’ brutal attacks.
“Stop the attack for now,” as things reached this point and I released tons of my threads towards the enemies down below.
Things started chaotic at first. By the sudden stop of my fallen gods’ attacks, the monsters gushed towards the city in huge numbers.
It looked threatening, and it looked like I was going to lose control over the city again. However there was something interesting.
“These monsters… They didn’t even struggle to stop my threads…” that was the pleasant surprise I got when the first waves of threads came in contact with the monsters.
Controlling a single enemy before took a few minutes, but now it doesn’t take a few seconds. Once the first batch of monsters got under my control, things started to grow much easier for me from this point.
Each monster released a gush of threads to the nearby ones. Like a tsunami washing away anything in its way, my threads started to expand in a fierce speed that even startled me.
The good thing was the energy consumption, it wasn’t that bad like before. In fact I felt one of the reasons behind this hasty expansion of my threads returned to the big amount of energy I was gushing towards my technique.
I didn’t feel any regret about consuming such a large amount of bones. As I saw it, I was going to take control of most of the monsters here soon.
And once the threads took control of the monsters around the city, part of it started to expand inside the city, controlling the aquatic monsters inside.
In less than ten minutes, this brutal fight turned to my favour. “Stop attacking!” I had to give this order as all the monsters nearby were under my control for now.
All that remained was the monsters coming from the three portals. I wanted to go and control them, but I first needed to do something.
“Buy!” without wasting any moment in thinking, I opened the market and selected the most basic and cheapest contracts and bought them in huge batches. ρꪖꪕᦔꪖꪕꪫꪣꫀꪶ
The number of monsters I controlled during the past fifteen minutes was really scary! Saying they were more than a million isn’t an exaggeration. And there was still much more waiting to be controlled.
As I got these, I forced the controlled monsters to sign the contract with me. Of course they, normally, weren’t able to sign any contract as they weren’t sane enough to decide such a thing for themselves. But right now it was me who was in their heads, it was me who signed the contracts with myself.
Weird, right? But it was also amusing.
In the next half an hour, I turned all the monsters here into my loyal fighters. Then I released the threads, expanding these towards other monsters.
During this time, the monsters coming from the portals didn’t stand idle and watched me doing this. They kept coming and fighting, yet to be stopped effectively by the combined forces of mine.
The frontline was formed by the monsters I controlled, aided by my soulers and flying monsters and dragons, with the help of my fallen gods and the attacks coming from my chariot, and lastly they were supported by the human army here.
Once I started to expand my threads, the situation kept turning to my favour. The monsters coming from the portals were controlled fast, even before they would reach close to my forces.
As a result, the size of my army kept growing on such a terrifying scale while the hostile monsters didn’t have the chance to pose a threat to my forces again.
After one hour, the situation ended up like this: any single monster coming through any portal was instantly controlled, and then it would sign a loyal contract, turning into my dog for eternity.
This made the size of my force here grow to an unimaginable scale. I had to disperse them around, sending many to the nearby regions for help.
From this moment onward, this quest would be controlled by my new loyal dogs. And the great thing about it was the more they fought, the stronger they would become. That meant by the end of this quest, my forces would be a real powerhouse that could handle the defences of my kingdom efficiently and without the need to get help from me or anyone else.
*Fwoosh!* *Fwoosh!* *Fwoosh!*
However this paradise and dream didn’t last long. In less than six hours, and after I controlled a sh*with a ton of monsters, the three portals paled all of sudden and started to fade away.
“Interesting,” seeing this made me realise these portals were controlled by someone. And that person decided to close them and stop me from gaining strength.
“Do you think this will stop me? Humph! Quite pathetic!” I rolled my eyes when the last portal closed and no more monsters appeared again in front of me to control.
I didn’t finish my technique. After all, the sheer size of energy running through my dantian and meridians was too much to handle.
I had to keep gushing these out towards the technique, creating more threads even if there was no target to control.
“Follow my chariot, let’s roam and dominate these lands,” as the well of dreams was closed here, I had to move on to the nearby cities and towns to replenish my forces.