I took it out and examined its description again. I recalled there were lots of conditions to be met before using this artefact, and so I had to read through it again.

Damn! All the conditions were really so damn hard to fulfil!

First I needed to have a territory of my own to use this artefact at. Well… This was a hard thing to do, especially when I had no time to do anything major.

The second condition was about the state of the place used upon. It must be a big battlefield, one that had tens of millions of souls sacrificed in hellish fight.

I didn’t know if this place had such battles or not, but from the grand death count of my universe races at the higher ground, I got this condition was already fulfilled.

Then I had to spend lots of energy activating this artefact. One hundred billion energy equal to stat points were needed to make it start its magic.

Then it would take six months to give birth to such a marvellous world filled with life and peace.

Unfortunately, I’d have to give up seeing this piece of heaven as this world would soon collapse.

But that wasn’t a totally bad thing. After all, and out of the three artefacts I got so far, this one was the only one that could be repeatedly used.

What did that imply? I could use it here, and could use it later on at another place. I could always use this artefact as long as the conditions were met.

Ok… I looked at this statue in my hand. It wasn’t that big, only at the length of my arm at most. It didn’t give me any feeling of being heavy or anything, making me wonder how this little statue of a girl wearing a cape and holding a torch in her right hand, and a ball made out of white marble like material in her left hand.

It gave me a pure impression, especially with such an angelic face and the realistic features of that statue.

If I wasn’t truly holding it in my hands, I’d mistake it for a little girl wearing such a custom.

“Ok… It’s time to solve this territory problem…” I placed the statue over my chariot, before taking something else out.

“Lord… They are getting near… We have to deploy our forces right away,” Lucias was anxiously watching me do all these weird things and didn’t call out any fighter.

He grew anxious. Did he think I lost all hope about fighting this battle? Did he mistake me for losing my mind and succumbing to the fate of death?

“Lucias…” I slowly said as I raised my right arm high in the air.

“Yes my lord…”

“Don’t ever think I’ll lose hope,” I muttered, while the next moment I said, “Thundering Might!”

I took out my pillar, the one artefact that could bring me an area and make it belong to me. “I never lose hope, not even when I’m standing alone against hundreds of millions of scary and terrifying enemies just like now.”

“Y… Yes lord,” his tone changed out of my domineering gazes and tone. I wasn’t giving up, I was planning a hellish fight back at these enemies down below.

Even if there were too many to cover up earth and eat away the sky, I wouldn’t lose hope… Never!

As expected, the effect of my pillar was just too damn weak. I got that it was affected by the negative energy of the alien universe.

But… That was soon going to change.

“Are we going to fight inside this shield? It might be good but…” Lucias mistook my actions, but what I did next made him freeze out of shock.

I just put the pillar away, grabbed the statue from the floor of my chariot, before jumping off it towards the ground!

I held the rope and crossed a few hundred metres off the ground before landing safely there.

“Lord…” and from behind, Lucias screamed out in such shock and fear!

Damn general! Man up! I told you already, I didn’t give up! Never did! And I didn’t have any suicidal wish!

“Stay up there!” I had to shout at him, to make him stay there and not follow me down below.

“But lord… I…”

“I’m not going to sacrifice myself against all of them all by myself, idiot!” I gritted on the statue in my hand before I placed it on the ground.

Now two conditions were met, and only the last one remained. And this one… I knew it was going to hurt me.

“Please… Please work…” I got crystals, too much of them. But I doubted their ability to make the energy reach such a terrifying number.

So I had to use something else to help… My bones!

I got one of my green bones, and just looked at the statue before throwing it towards it. I didn’t know if this would work or not, but before doing this I already left a big red mark of my blood over this statue.

Well… In my universe things were activated and linked to anyone using one’s blood.

Just as the bone came closer to this statue, it seemed like the statue got invisible hands. It suddenly stopped a few inches away from the beautiful face of this lady, before it started to burn and turn into dust.

“It worked!” I shouted in such joy, one that must have given Lucias watching me from my chariot high above a scare.

Well… He wasn’t to be blamed. If I was in his place, I’d seriously think I lost my mind and would get the same kind of scare as well.

As the test succeeded, I gushed out tons of green bones. And like a bottomless pit, this statue kept devouring them all within seconds.

“Keep eating,” I didn’t know for how long this statue would keep eating, but I got little time here. In my estimate, the enemy would arrive in less than fifteen minutes.