With its presence, any aggressive plan would fail. As I decided that, I led my chariot and headed towards that city.

I didn’t go south at first. I needed to take a closer look over that shield. When I arrived in less than twenty minutes, I realised it wasn’t just a single layer of shield.

“Interesting… Using several layers of energy to form that shield… In addition to a layer of water to absorb any attack… They really did something good this time.”

I knew from the first glance that taking down this shield would prove to be as hard as taking down mountains. It also was evident that this shield was the sole thing standing between me and crushing these damn Hectors.

I didn’t hurry to leave. “Attack,” I had to see how good this shield was at taking down energy and sending it back.

After all, I called back all my dragons before seeing what happened in the end. I sent out a small group of ten Albany city monsters, before moving my chariot a little away before sending out a group of a hundred dragons to attack.

The dragons used their breaths before I called them back. The first thing I noticed was that the shield took much longer to absorb and gather up the energy in the dragons’ breaths.

Then with a loud rumbling noise, that shield unleashed a torrent wave of attack towards the direction where my dragons initially were.

The attack landed and caused enough devastation to create a small crater there. I wasn’t concerned about losing my Albany monsters and instead started to better analyse this attack.

“The energy isn’t totally repelled… I can sense that shield can mostly repel fifty percent of any attack landing on it.”

It wasn’t apparent at first, but with the hundred breaths combined together, it was clear to my eyes. The dragon’s attack wasn’t that weak like the attack that shield launched back.

Also I got to see lots of the area behind that shield. As far as I saw, I noticed the presence of familiar faces inside.

There were Illusionists, side by side with the races I once fought against and linked them with the Succubus race.

So the two joined the Hectors… Pretty much typical of such parasitic cowardy races. As for the dragons, they seemed to hold themselves back thanks to their arrogance.

So that explained how Hectors controlled the three cities this fast. It seemed the two races betrayed the alliance with the dragons and threw themselves into the embrace of their new lord.

They delivered their gates on a silver plate for the Hectors to link directly with their world. Anyway, more insects added wouldn’t make much difference.

“Roar!”

Just before I could think about my next move, a rumbling roar came from within the shield. Just as if the shield wasn’t there, a large number of monsters gushed out like a hole in earth just opened.

“Are you this eager to kill me?” I snorted before I snapped my fingers, letting out all my forces.

Two big armies clashed violently against each other. The shield didn’t show any opening when these monsters came out from it. It was like they simply passed through it like it wasn’t even there.

The fight looked meaningless to me. They didn’t send their big forces or even their special hybrid monsters. Only common monsters and races came out from this shield.

“What’s going on here?” I was greatly puzzled with that, looking at this one sided fight with a big frown and much doubt.

“Come back,” just after the passage of the first ten minutes, I grew tired from this childish play. No matter how they threw at me, they got crushed almost instantly thanks to my big boys.

But that didn’t stop them from sending more. It looked pointless. What would I gain here except reaping more souls?

If they are dead fixed over killing me, then let them chase me down towards my targeted city. Plus I felt their actions to be weird and suspicious.

For a second there I doubted they were doing this to just halt my tracks here and delay me from going to that city. But what for?

Anyway I called back my forces, let them just stand around my chariot, and started flying again.

This time the entire shield released mighty wave after wave of these useless monsters and races. It looked more suspicious the more I went closer to that city.

Yet I didn’t hold back my boys, letting them kill as much as they could. After all I’d gain souls here and my enemies would lose a big chunk of their forces.

Yet their persistence to stop me made me sure of my earlier guess. They weren’t trying seriously to kill me, yet so damn seriously to stop me in my tracks.

They even sent troops towards the city, aiming to make each metre I’d take much harder.

Ok… You wanted to play like this? Then let me show you how I could adapt and respond then.

“Come back!” this time I called all the soulers from the ground in addition to any ground warriors I got. I only left behind the six thousand Albany city monsters, as I didn’t know how to take them back.

Then I let my dragons attack from air, and my fallen gods attack from the chariot. The Bulltors and shield bearers kept the machine guns roaring all the time.

As for my chariot, I let it fly higher, reaching almost the height of some of that shield at the distance.

These forces were all ground troops. Trying to stop me using them was pointless. I simply used the flying advantage of my chariot and flew on top of such big armies of monsters and races without breaking a sweat.

Yet as I ascended high there, I spotted a new thing up there.

It was something like a big ring. At first it reminded me of the epic portal that appeared before.