“Keep firing,” yet even if I decided to retreat from here and go towards another gate, I had to see how strong this shield of energy really was.

After all, I’d have to come here and fight against this hard to crack opponent.

*Boom!* *Bang!* *Boom!*

The attacks of my boys rumbled in mighty explosions while the projectiles of those monsters landed with bangs over my shield. This fight turned in no time to a war of attrition between our two forces and the two shields.

In fact I knew I would win in the end. After all, even if these attacks kept consuming lots of my stat points stored in the chariot, they soon reached a limit they couldn’t exceed.

That energy shield seemed to have limited area of coverage. At any moment a single monster bypassed the area of its defence, that monster would be instantly annihilated.

So after the tough early minutes, things started to stabilise later on.

But no matter how much my forces attacked, that damn energy shield never cracked open. From what I saw, this shield wasn’t as simple as I first imagined.

With each landing attack, the surface of that shield would show a small pulse wave that would extend outwards. It looked like my attack was in the end a few rocks thrown at the surface of a calm lake.

And that feeling wasn’t good at all. I never faced something like this. But even if it could resist my attacks for a long time, eventually it would crack and crash.

“Just wait,” after wasting almost twenty minutes attacking with my full might, I said, “I’ll come to kill you bastard soon enough.”

I turned my chariot and headed directly towards the next gate. Yet midway there, I had to stop in my tracks.

“Damn! How many gates did they summon here?”

I already was aware that all the gates here overlooked a small lake. But what I never expected was for each lake to produce such an underwater gate.

During my fight against the first underwater gate, it seemed the other lakes produced their gates and released large numbers of monsters.

They didn’t act until I started moving, a smart little move that told me a lot about the real one hiding behind this scheme.

He wasn’t a normal person, but someone with great intelligence and lots of war experience, enough to make him control the monsters and other races and hide their strength until the right moment.

He was patient, knowing exactly what to do and how I usually fought. That bastard… What race did he really belong to?

One race popped into my mind, Selvators. Dragons were vicious and violent, and had such wealth to sustain summoning these extra gates here.

But they never enjoyed anything related to patience. They were also famous for their poor tactic skills. Compared to Selvators, compared to the one mastermind behind this scheme here, they lacked a lot.

But Selvators active in this region were under the control of Fang. What was going on exactly here?

I want to know who is active in a city called Worcester, in Massachusetts state I sent to Fang directly without any hesitation, Are they one of your forces? Are they part of your Selvators?

My boys aren’t active at that place at all he instantly responded, All Selvtator forces in the region belong to me, and I won’t act against you

He was so smart to sense something wrong was going on here. Then try to find out who is meddling with my business here

Why not seek it yourself?

That dude… He is so smart and cunning, vicious, and has strong relations with the Succubus race. He also is very wealthy, enough to call for five extra gates in this city

Five more cities? No way! I want that city! Against what I expected, that dude seemed to be stirred up with what I just said.

No way! My answer was swift. After all, this place was so close to my heart of operations. I would never risk delivering this city to any other race by humans.

You don’t get it, the extra gates here would help in making another mega gate!

And? I sent without even considering his quest, You can’t spend enough to even form one mega gate

I’ll be able to, once that big battle at the centre is concluded

That dude… He was truly aiming towards upgrading his rank through that big war. He believed in our victory and his chances so much that he started putting plans for the future after upgrading his rank.

What a dude… If he was a human, I’d put him really in better use.

Hmm… When time comes, you can always seek me. You know how I do my deals I didn’t close the door in front of his face for now, yet I didn’t say yes as well.

Just don’t tell that Berserker thick headed dude, and promise me to give me a priority

These two were still on bad terms. Anyway I would seek my benefits in any deal no matter what. If you gave me a proper offer, one that won’t let me say no, I promise to give this city to you. But now, I need to know which dude is behind this

Give me ten minutes

I closed the messages and paid my full attention towards the fight here.

Things were escalating at a very frightening rate. During my chat with Fang, the number of monsters coming towards me just grew in several folds already.

And with each lake, I could see a large bubble covering the area. That bastard was making sure to protect the sources of trouble here.

“Alright, let me first take part of the trouble away,” I knew going directly against these monsters wouldn’t do anything good to me. I spent twenty minutes trying to crush the first gate and yet failed. And I wouldn’t repeat that mistake again.

“Keep firing,” even though I decided to go against the gates in the sky first, I still let my forces loose against those monsters.