It was a risky move that paid off very well. Just as the insane amount of energy entered the pillar, I could feel the pillar shaking in my hand fiercely just the same when it got sealed.

Aside from the booming thundering explosive noises that erupted from it as if a mighty war was undergoing out there, and the rich amount of fog that emanated from the pillar, the seal started to get broken one symbol at a time.

Seeing this made my heart clench. I depended over my pillar to venture like this in the middle of the enemy. If I didn’t have the pillar, then I couldn’t keep myself safe nor my forces here or back there.

Aside from the unimaginable importance of my pillar, I had to find a way to crack this seal. The one behind this was able to use this dirty method more than once.

So after sealing my pillar my chariot came next. And who knew what else might get sealed in the same way.

It was terrifying how the enemy properly analysed my way of attack and pinpoint the crucial artefacts I was using and targeted them in order.

First would be the pillar, then the chariot, then my glaive, and might even extend to my Libra. All my artefacts were priceless to me. And my main advantage came from these artefacts.

In less than one minute, the entire structure of the seal got broken into tiny pieces. My pillar shone in a sudden flash of bright light, broke free from my hand, and weirdly it stood up there in the air without doing anything else.

More strangely was that my energy output kept attached to the pillar. I could see a thick line of myriad of lights connecting my left hand to the pillar.

I felt worried that something bad might have happened to this pillar. My connection with it came after many ordeals and quite hard challenges.

If that connection got revoked at this moment, then I’d have no time to reconnect again with it.

But time proved that my worries were groundless and unneeded. The connection didn’t grow weaker, instead it became stronger.

I felt like my link with the pillar got upgraded, as if the pillar was moved by what I did to keep it. Of course I’d not let anyone bully you, buddy!

As the pillar kept absorbing energy madly, new changes appeared to it.

The sacred pillar of the Hector race just got upgraded to the next level and without expecting it, a notification came to startle me.

A new passive skill is now added to the pillar

A new active skill is now added to the pillar

My eyes went wide when I read these notifications. I hurriedly checked the pillar interface that was all this time greyed out, and there I found the two added skills.

Stubborn As Ever skill: Passive skill! At any time the shields produced by the pillar get attacked, ten percent of the damage will get absorbed and stored inside. If the amount stored exceeded one thousand times the defensive capacity of the shield without releasing it, then the energy will automatically be converted to a self repair energy for the shield

Lethal Strike skill: Active skill! You can unleash the stored energy inside the shields at any time, releasing a shocking wave that will go for as long as the energy’s capacity. You can connect to the pillar and add as much energy as you want to increase the lethality of the attack. Attack duration, extend, and damage output depends entirely on the amount of energy stored inside

I looked at these two simple and yet deadly skills with much delight. Damn good! That was all I thought about!

“If that’s true, and it applies to the shields I used so far, that means with the first passive skill my shields back there can sustain themselves for a long time. That repair function will ensure that my shields won’t need me around anymore.”

pAn,d a-n0ve1 Even if there was a lethal attack landing on my shields, the shields would store up the energy and instantly turn them into repair energy.

As I used many shields already to defend that grand zone behind, it meant that its storage capacity would be more than just using a single shield.

And now my shields I used to create and sacrifice would sustain themselves here. Damn! That was enough to give Hescos a great headache.

If that dude who used this sealing artefact knew about the great help he did for me, he’d slap himself in the face, hahahaha!

As for the second skill, it was a brutal one. But I didn’t intend to use it rashly at this battle.

It was better to turn the stored energy into repair energy.

Just as I was lost in my thoughts and happiness, the pillar that was suspended in midair started to show a new change.

It absorbed tons of my energy and right now it seems to be full. The pillar shook and released an immense wave of energy that started like a small ball before expanding widely all around the place.

I stood just in the centre of this and saw the explosion growing in size and magnitude. After a few breaths, it covered an area of tens of miles around, sweeping everything and anyone in its path, leaving behind piles of dead bodies.

The only regret was that my forces I scattered or controlled here got hit as well. And even after covering such a grand area, the explosion seemed to keep going on.

But the best news was that it also affected the defensive structures around. All this time, my forces were struggling to fight the Hescos appearing from underground.

The defensive fortress here was indeed something else. But after the explosion swept everything clean, I could now see what lies below the surface.

As I initially expected, the tunnels extending from the underground forts at the pit back there were linked to the defensive structure here. The explosion swept the ground for a hundred metres or so.