604 The Jumper Is Here
Each group would take around a quarter to get controlled. Then I’d turn my eyes towards another group. I kept doing this until all the flying monsters got controlled at last.
“Sign the contracts,” I said amidst my laughs. Before this battle, my aerial dragon force was so little that it did not even come closer to ten thousand.
But now they were over a hundred thousand, mostly formed from the strong hybrid monsters.
They were much better than my flying beasts I got from the dungeon testing grounds. These monsters from the dungeon test were considered mainly defensive types of monsters.
Compared to my dragons and the newly acquired monsters, they were best serving at the back.
But before this, my low number of dragon forces limited their actions, making me to use them in offence more than defence.
That ended up with them getting more losses than needed. But now this is all going to change.
These hybrid tiger and eagle monsters would form the main bulk of the army, the dragons would be the elites and generals, and those defensive flying beasts would act as the shield.
Like this, my first aerial army was given birth to, setting a standard for the rest of the yet to come flying armies.
This took almost four hours to get done. During this time, my ground forces did a great job at pushing back most of the monsters and forcing them to limit their activities around the pillars and portals.
As I got this close, I finally saw the portals. They were really unique. Unlike other portals I met before, these ones were surrounding the ground horizontally, as if they were drawn on earth.
And in their centre, the pillars existed. That made it hard for my boys to close the portals.
I gave them the order to not attack the pillars. So they couldn’t attack these portals as well.
“Hmm… So to take down the portals I have to crush the pillars?” I pondered while examining the current situation. “Who said I can’t hit the ground without harming the pillars?”
I turned my eyes towards the ground monsters gushing out from these portals. There were hundreds of pillars under my sight, with hundreds of portals surrounding them.
“As I controlled the water and air forces, it’s time to control the ground ones as well,” I was still activating my technique. With a single thought, I moved my threads towards the monsters coming out from these portals.
In fact, this wasn’t my way to crush those portals. I didn’t plan on taking control over these monsters and turning them around to hit the portals.
If that bastard thought I had no way to deal with these portals without harming the pillars, then he was mistaken!
But first let me add more forces to my army. I didn’t like the idea of using the forces I bought from the Bringold impact.
These races had a much better stage to perform at. My second Earth world needed them to rebuild.
I started controlling and forcing contracts over the ground monsters, then led them to go and stand by my forces’ side.
As for my forces, I gave them the order to stop fighting. They aren’t needed anymore. I, alone, was more than enough to deal with these forces.
I noticed that some of the monsters were sent in the opposite direction of mine. They were going to harass the jumper.
Even if their numbers weren’t even close to the ones I was facing here, I did my best to control most of them as well.
This way, the pressure exerted over the jumper would be relieved, letting that jerk break through that tight encirclement and join me.
I kept doing this for a couple of hours until I finally saw the early signs of the jumper’s army.
They were in chaos! No stable formation, retreating in easy steps like they were running for their lives.
This… It looked much worse than what I thought before.
But with their approach, it meant the jumper wasn’t far. “Time to wrap things up,” I turned towards the portals and pillars, looking at them in a cold gaze.
“Portal!” This time I used my second technique using my left arm. The second technique formed a big portal, with thick and long arms that moved to grab the corners of these portals, forcibly extracting them from the ground, and lifting them high up towards the portal.
And in the middle of these portals, the pillars stood there.
“Come here!” as the portals were extracted in such a way and were heading towards my portals, I acted and merged the first and second technique together.
The merge yielded in a big black sphere, more thick arms that were under my total control now. I controlled most to go and grab the remaining portals around, while the few left moved to harvest the pillars.
It was just a simple task of pulling the pillars out of the portal’s centres. There was no resistance thanks to my black energy encompassing these portals now and permeating them.
The pillars rested in my inventory for now. As for the portals, they ended up being absorbed into the black sphere, sent to my shadow world, and let them merge with my black energy clump to add more energy to it.
This didn’t take more than half an hour, and all the portals and annoying pillars were gone.
“Come on board,” I spotted the jumper running from far. That dude… He always looked calm and collected.
But he looked in a totally different image at this moment. His hair was dishevelled, his armour and gears were broken at many spots. Even his mask had two deep grooves, showing a porcelain white smooth skin underneath.
He didn’t even have time to repair his mask! That meant only one thing… There was a mighty foe coming after him.
But he didn’t say anything! Was his pride and arrogance standing in his way for asking for help, admitting his shitty situation?
I moved my eyes further away, looking using my Hawk Eye skill towards the hordes of monsters attacking the monster army.