The haven of ores was just like what its name described. It would create a large world where thick veins of different ores would appear and grow higher in grade.

It’s only harsh requirement was for me to provide the different types of ores I wanted this artefact to produce at the start. Considering that my world here and at second Earth already got high grade ores made me hesitate to place great value over this artefact.

However who would say no to more wealth and power? High grade ores wouldn’t just serve my kingdom in the yet to come expansion, but they could be sold at any market for a high price.

In exchange for them I could ask for anything in return.

But the condition of gathering all the ores I needed to have before activating it was a sort of limitation in my eyes.

If it could produce other ores later, it would go without any hesitation in that list.

After a long time of contemplating, I decided to enrol it in my highly valued list of magical artefacts.

Of course if not for my hand being tied here with training, and then would grow busier later on thanks to the fifth and the golden quest, I’d prefer to use my technique over all of these artefacts.

However, waiting for that would make me lose a lot of time. Any artefact needed a great deal of energy and time to produce effects.

And who said I wouldn’t be able to get my hands on more artefacts later on? For a reason I felt that there was a stable and reliable source to provide such artefacts to these sovereigns.

I wasn’t a fool, neither were they. If they just got one artefact, they wouldn’t give it away in return for anything.

After all the main use of these artefacts would be for the outer battlefield.

That meant these sovereigns already had more magical artefacts. And considering the high number and the fact that they weren’t the only formidable beings in the universe made me quite positive about my earlier guess.

I just had to be patient and keep digging for news about the source of these artefacts. Then as they managed to get their hands on these, I also could get my hands on more.

Either by using wealth or power, more artefacts were destined to fall in my hands.

As I decided, I went to the next continent and started by the den of warriors first.

I simply selected one hundred million warriors and sacrificed them at the small statue of the altar that represented the artefact.

Then I made my technique while dropping a single blood drop of mine over the artefact.

Like magic, the statue shook and started to glow in black light thanks to my giant black ball formed by my technique.

As I got experience from the past attempt with the den of bones, I knew this would take days before stabilising itself.

The one hundred million warriors just stood around the altar in circles before their bodies got enveloped under a thick layer of black fog in a few hours.

I knew their fate and couldn’t help but anticipate what this would bring me in the end.

As this artefact would take time to give results, I saved the bookmark of this place and started moving towards the next continent.

I decided to appoint four entire continents to the four top magical artefacts of mine. Then other less useful artefacts would have to share single continents together.

I took almost two days to cross the continent before heading towards the next. The next artefact to use was the den of heroes.

It wasn’t that important for me right now as I didn’t have any good warriors that I’d regret their loss. But it was still a good artefact that might be useful later on.

After executing my technique over it, I saved it’s bookmark before taking a wide journey over the surrounding continents.

I saved their bookmarks, took almost ten days to finish all that, before finally jumping back to the continent of bones.

I knew the two techniques I formed would take time till entering a stage of autonomy. So I started training right away, hoping in the next few months I’d get freed from controlling them.

It took two sessions of training before these two techniques broke free from my control. I jumped to the other two nearest and empty continents to them and used the mine of crystals first.

As the haven of ores couldn’t be used yet, I decided to use another artefact and power it up using my technique.

It was the fire of magic, allowing anyone living there for a certain period of time to gain a single elemental magic.

It might seem strong, but it wasn’t that domineering. It has many limitations. First it needed people to stay and live inside this world for a fixed period of time, at least three months.

Second, the boost wasn’t permanent. It would wear down slowly over the course of six months. Third, no one could tell which elemental magic they’d get. And lastly, it needed tons of energy to keep it running.

Putting all these cons against pros made this artefact little useful to me and my forces.

However as I got a free spot for my technique, I decided to nourish this one. Who knew what my black shadow energy would have as an impact over this artefact in the future.

As I was done with these two artefacts, putting aside the haven of ores for now while asking Angelica to start gathering up different ores from this world, the outer one, I started a spree of activating the rest of artefacts at the nearby continents.

I left one large continent for the haven of ores.

And now all I had to do was to return, resume training, and wait for the remaining eight months to pass before finally getting out of here.