But that all stopped a few minutes ago. Just when I spotted him, I gave the order to them using my contract to shift their attention and move to close the path over that bastard.

They looked like a great dark cloud blocking the sky itself. Even in such a dim world, their presence was much darker than the world itself.

And with their presence, they scattered to fan and form an arc, closing any possible path of retreat over that scared Hector.

Then the deadly waves of attacks came from all sides.

*Boom!* *Boom!* *Boom!*

“Wait… Wait… I concede… I surrender…”

Just as the explosions fell, I heard such loud shouts coming from the direction of that bastard.

At the last step from trespassing the door of death you decided to ask for mercy? Humph, you should have done this earlier, pal.

“I can pay, pay anything you want… Don’t kill me… Just wait and listen…”

The explosions kept ranging and flashes of bright lights kept appearing around him. He was surely burning anything that could help him stay alive for more seconds, while shouting with many empty promises to me.

“I have tons of humans, vast armies of other races… All can be yours, just let me live and… I’ll serve you, even calling you my lord… Please spare me!”

“Kill him! Don’t even stop for a second!”

Trusting the words of a snake on the verge of dying? Humph, only a fool would do so.

Even if I ended up believing him, signing a contract with him… What would give me a guarantee that he would still honour that contract and not look for anything to break it?

Giving me everything he got? Only a fool would believe a king would ditch his kingdom out of his will. Even if the king was on the verge of dying, he would just give any empty words of promise, trying to buy himself another life chance.

And then that kind would turn into a deadly thorn to the one who tried to kill him before.

I wouldn’t fall for such a trick, I wouldn’t get allured with such promises no matter what.

“Keep attacking!” my answer came swiftly as he kept pleading for mercy. It seemed the amount of treasures he got were declining like running water from his fingers.

It was a real regret, losing such treasures in such a way. That bastard should leave few for me to use later on, better to leave that island treasure or that suit or something similar.

I didn’t hold my boys back, and that paragon just kept weeping at the end until his voice grew hoarse all of sudden.

Then all the lights vanished and with it the world returned to its peace again.

*Crack!* *Shatter!* *Bang!*

Just with his death, that big portal that stood erect and hard to touch for all this time got cracked and shattered in a fierce explosion.

A mighty shockwave erupted from its direction, even pushing my chariot around for a few metres before stabilising.

Everyone standing on the ground at this epic battlefield fell. The fights were stopped for a few long seconds, with a deafening silence prevailing over the world.

It was clear what happened. Cutting the head of the snake didn’t only let loose the entire body, it literally killed it.

The portal was just the beginning. As the rest of the forces here realised what happened, they turned around and started running.

Don’t let anyone escape I knew I killed a paragon, one for real this time, but that didn’t mean these forces were harmless.

If another paragon came and took charge over them, another disaster would befall.

So I gave the order to all of my elites, and I released my entire technique threads loose.

I didn’t hold anything back at this moment, even took two more bones to supplement my hunger for energy.

I used pale golden graded bones this time. After all I knew this was just like reaping rewards thrown on the side of the street, way much easier than the hard battle I just experienced.

*Thud!*

Just as I was busy doing this, I heard the muffled bang of that dead paragon. I knew it wasn’t time for that, but this was my first paragon to kill ever in this apocalypse.

Even the previous paragon I faced and defeated before at the pillar challenge, he wasn’t really dead. He just got cursed and lost his right to use the pillar, nothing more.

“Come here,” I didn’t leave before going down there and grabbing that dead body and crushed and burnt treasures or what remained out of them into my chariot.

The area around that dead giant body was covered with shining things for hundreds of metres already.

I gave the order and my Bulltors and shield warriors did the cleaning job on my behalf.

Even if they were all lost, I was sure they wouldn’t be that useless.

As I gathered everything into my inventory, and placed that giant dead body leaked and bleeding from many holes onto my chariot, I started to focus on finalising this battle.

The enemy army was routed, running amok in all directions possible. I controlled my chariot and flew towards all the directions, claiming control over any enemy I could get.

And with the killing of their master, all the forces here were ownerless. Just buying out normal contracts in tons was enough to match my controlling speed.

My threads were spreading like plaque! Jumping from one person to fifty, then to hundreds, then thousands… none could escape from my threads no matter what!

And all those trapped here were forced to sign a contract with me. Like this I didn’t only compensate for the big losses my forces suffered so far, but I also added enough to form three more major armies.

This battle… It started in such a dire and dark gloomy future on the horizon to end up in such bright victory and rich gains for my side.

But this was just the beginning… The real battle wasn’t really here… It was at the centre of the former US country.