I’d go and smash that big army of elites from behind. Instead of me getting surrounded in the end, their forces would be the ones to be surrounded.

Wiping out that army would leave only the aquatic forces and the smaller army at the central zone untouched.

Against my forces, I doubted they could do anything worthy to worry about.

So I moved towards the heated up frontline at the far distance while summoning my last batch of warriors.

I knew using just one million of them against the enemy forces of tens of millions and even more would be insane.

So I had to use my technique again.

“Wow! It can also affect that!!”

I used my first technique as usual, created the black circle and held it with my left fist from the centre to release my threads.

The first new thing I noticed was the size of this circle. Before this, it could only reach ten metres in radius at first before expanding later on with the influx of my energy towards it.

But now? It went way beyond this! At least a circle of five hundred metres in radius appeared in front of me. This was insane! I didn’t do anything new, didn’t get any advancement to my cultivation base, or elevated the grade of my energy.

All I had was my sacrificial boosts, and they seemed to affect my cultivation and energy in one way or another.

“At least it’s not a side effect,” I laughed while trying to release my threads.

And there was the second new thing that happened.

My threads were just threads, thin and looking weak compared to the thick arms of my second technique.

But now? Each thread coming out was like a thick arm, and once they got out from the circle, they started to emit many threads like my old ones.

“It’s like… A tree with branches…” I looked at my evolved technique with daze and admiration.

This… Would only continue for a day and would stop. I had to find a way to keep this effect longer… Like forever!

“I have to get my base upgraded,” I got the bones from my little turtle when I sealed it. They were dark realm monster bones, the ones needed for me to elevate my cultivation base higher, to reach a level enough to turn this effect permanent.

But now I got to taste the true might of my evolved technique.

Before this, trying to control any elite would take roughly five minutes. I knew these forces were slightly better, so I prepared for a six or even seven minutes wait.

But when my new threads infected a large number of forces’ bodies, the thicker arms started to shine for the first time ever for such a thing to happen.

And with it, I felt the consumption rate of my energy got doubled, tripled, and kept rising so damn fast!

“Wanna suck me dry? You should try harder then,” I got nothing but bones to use and replenish my energy.

But as I got the chariot filled with the green bones, the technique didn’t stop showing me new surprises.

Thorns were thrown out like an army stood inside the circle and kept attacking the forces down below. Anyone who got hit by a thorn would pause, his body would tremble for a few seconds before I felt my control over him.

Damn! This… This was fierce! Was such a stage possible? Could I evolve my technique and let it show such scary attacks?

Thorns kept venturing towards the enemies at the same time that my threads kept controlling them. At a point, I felt like this technique was holding a scyth, reaping their souls in heaps and adding them all to be my slaves.

A number of tens of thousands which would take me almost fifteen minutes or so to control didn’t take more than a couple of minutes!

“I… Gotta work on contracts then,” after long minutes of standing there in pure daze, looking at what my evolved technique was doing, I decided to work over the contract part.

In fact, I felt like the technique didn’t need this. It was just doing fine on itself.

But I had to do something, right? I got to control them and release the pressure over my technique, if there was one.

I got curious while forcing them to sign contracts. What was the cause of this change in my technique?

Was it the strength bonus? Or was it the speed? The magic effects might be the reason as well. I got no clue here, but I had to look deeper and try to find anything that might help.

Knowing what brought such an effect to my technique would help me in my future cultivation base evolution. After all, my base was unique and like nothing else.

As I freed my threads by contracts, I released them to infect more others. At the same time, my circle kept throwing thorns all over the place, controlling more than what my threads ever did.

“Attack!” As I got all these forces in less than half an hour, I didn’t let my warriors fight alone anymore. An army of million or more moved to help them, and they also sent threads over to infect others at the same time.

The road towards the distant battle at the walls was filled with many living blocks. I couldn’t help but smash many using my chariot, while others got destroyed by my forces and the brutal fights going everywhere.

Slowly the fight started to spread out from being an army fighting an army to a street fight. And street fights were always bloody and messy.

The buildings here were made of a special kind of ore, one that would take lots of hits and endure the attacks for a good duration.

However in the end, I and my forces left a long trail of destroyed buildings, giving me a familiar sight I saw many times on my Earth.