I had to wait. I let my dagger get a taste of his blood and energy. I just needed to call back my dagger with a snap of a finger and then let it go and look for that bastard.

Once I would be done here, I’d do that!

I could have brought my dagger back. But I feared if I did that, it would lose the effect of tasting that bastard’s energy and blood.

So I planned to get it back once I was sure that bastard was here in this world. Something told me he was able to hide inside outside worlds.

It wouldn’t make any sense if I tried to track him to an alien world! I had to wait, wait for a chance when I’d be sure of his existence in this world before trying to find him.

And this chance was getting near, but not today.

My souler heard the order and executed it at once. They were standing idle, feeling bored indeed and probably frustrated.

And now there was such a good chance for them to vent out such frustration in the field.

They ran fast, going outside the city and off my sight in mere minutes. I didn’t worry about them. After all, I’d go and join that ground fight once I ended up here.-(0)ᴠʟ.

I turned my attention fully to the big underwater fight. This lake had a vast space underneath it, giving me the same feeling I had when I went after the Hector portals from previous battles.

As my threads got constant energy supply from me, they kept controlling more monsters per each minute. However as there was a new enemy nearby, I had to get this done fast.

“Let’s work on full power then,” I waved my left hand and instantly lots of blue grade bones appeared.

Up till now, I was only using green grade bones in fueling my techniques. Yet at this moment I had to use these blue bones, to get a much bigger amount of energy than the green bones could provide.

As expected, once the blue bones turned into specks of light, I felt a sudden increase in the amount of energy passing through my body. I simply controlled all this to pass through my right arm towards my technique and form much more threads than before.

This time, not only the already formed threads got a boost and started spreading out in a frenetic way, new threads began to form fast, expand in a flash and look for targets to hit.

This increased the pace of me controlling monsters, and that made the water battle much worse for my enemy.

*Roar!* (O)ᴠʟ

After an entire hour, I started to hear the roars of monsters coming closer to the city. I didn’t know what would happen if my soulers to stop them.

But the result was clear, they failed! And that meant I had to intervene soon.

“You used your pillars, let me use mine then,” I took out the Hector race pillar and used its shield skill.

The moment the pillar broke free and expanded to reach the clouds, I knew the enemy plan this time would fail.

The shield would protect me and the city from any damage. The enemy could stand outside, watching helplessly as I killed their water brothers.

However, just as my pillar expanded, a new thing that never happened before happened!

My pillar used to go up there, and boom the shield would be formed. However just as it reached a certain height, a boom came but not from my pillar.

Many booming sounds came from all the pillars in the distance. Just seeing their bright light made me realise I made mistakes here.

These pillars… they weren’t the portals that brought these monsters here!

I… Got outplayed! Once more! Damn! I grew tired of this!!

These pillars… They weren’t just for show! They weren’t different kinds of portals as I imagined… They were here to seal my shield skill from my pillar, depriving me from using my shield to protect my city.

So, my shield wouldn’t get through, and the soulers weren’t able to hold monsters back… What should I do then?

“Let me see what caused all this first,” I turned around and started to examine the world outside of the city using my Hawk Eye skill.

And once did, I got to spot what went wrong and caused all this mess.

It wasn’t the doing of the monsters, but flying monsters that kept hovering in a far away distance from my city to be hard to be seen by naked eyes.

That damn bastard! He meticulously thought about this!

So he was pushing my souler back and keeping them in check using this method. I scanned the place, and saw the number of those flying beasts did not exceed ten thousand.

But I didn’t have enough dragons to compete with them. And I was busy dealing with the monsters under water.

What should I do then?

I thought about summoning dragons, but my soul count was as low as twenty million for now. The dragons I’d summon wouldn’t help at all!

“Well, if I have no other way, then I should use fodders to buy me time,” I opened the chat with the nymph lady before sending:

Do you have a batch of races ready?

Sure! I told you I have a lot this time!

I forgot to accept her offer back then. And luckily I didn’t.

Send them over here right now!

In another fight?

I have a troublesome foe that keeps annoying me

A foe? That’s hard to believe, hahaha!

Just send them over, I got little time to spare

Ok, on the way

I knew I had to sign their contracts before anything else. As she sent this batch over, I realised how much she gathered for me.

(O)ᴠʟ The biggest delivery so far was two hundred million. But this one… She sent a bill for five hundred million! Damn fierce!

I knew most of them would be lost in this battle. But I had no other choice but to do that.