Chapter 345: 345

Ibro glanced at the cultivator while an idea began to take shape in his mind. He had nearly 2000 cultivators, in addition to the cultivators of Maya. 

If he used them properly, he could form air legions. This idea tempted him, but it needed some preparations.

"Deliver this message to Erond, I want him to gather all the cultivators above the nascent soul stage from all of our forces. Let him take help from Maya's cultivators too. 

Let him make flying legions of those cultivators. Each legion would compose of 10k cultivators at the least. 

I want them to roam all the northern lands and clean them from demons. Don't attack cities, yet; this operation will be postponed to a later date."

"Immediately, my king," the cultivator replied with respect, then he moved at once returning to the city. 

Ibro didn't care about him, as he looked towards the south. It was time to wrap the net around the big fish, so he checked his pocket space in a hurry. 

He was surprised to see his armies didn't lose count, instead, it gained nearly double its numbers. That credit was for his death kings without a doubt. 

Ibro then felt more confident about his next plan. To kill a snake, you must cut its head first, so Ibro set his eyes over the southern empire capital.

'Move half of the skeleton armies from my world now.'

Ibro ordered his system without a second thought. He first needed to create a suitable distraction. The system didn't delay as it began to release the skeletons in patches. 

Each 1 billion skeletons summoned, Ibro gave them the mission to go and attack all the demons around cities. Each army was assigned to a certain direction, but they were all around the territory of the southern main city. 

Ibro wanted to stimulate the southern emperor and drive him to take action. He hoped his armies would create enough provocation for this emperor. 

If he failed to take the bait, then Ibro would gather all his armies to focus on this city. He would lose a lot in the process, but he wouldn't have any other choice. 

Ibro didn't depend on the emperor's wisdom, as he was sure this emperor was already controlled by the demons. 

After a few hours, half of the army in his pocket world had been released and moved towards their destinations. He left the rule of commanding these armies to his best aides, the death kings. 

Ibro took his time to explain the missions he needed from his armies. He stressed not to take cities by force and wait for the city gates to open from inside. 

After he finished all these preparations, he was free again to look for any altars in these lands. 

Although rain was stingy and didn't tell him the places of these altars distributions, Ibro concluded that there must be a pattern for these altars. 

Such important heritage places wouldn't be set without some kind of rule. Ibro tried to guess this pattern. If he succeeded, he would find these altars easier in the future. 

That would help him here in this world, or later on when he moved to other worlds. Ibro started his search again, this time he tried to avoid the locations near the emperor main city. 

He knew its place from before when he got the map of this world. His search didn't last for long, as after nearly three hours, he spotted a huge gathering of demon gates and endless demons. 

The presence of clustered demon gates had become the beacon for him to locate these altars. Ibro headed straight towards that region with haste. 

Once he reached there, he used his ultimatum sword strikes to eliminate most of the demons in this area. When he reached the locations of demon gates, he didn't destroy them as he moved them in his pocket world. 

The presence of more demon gates wouldn't hurt, as his pocket space has been already immense. The system kept its silence all along as it wasn't convinced with Ibro's madness. 

Ibro didn't care about that, as his goal was to create formidable armies, he could use any time, anywhere. As usual, he entered the altar cave and managed to acquire another soul shard and a piece of heritage. 

This piece was also useless to him, as it was concerned by the right use of his PSR energy and how to control its flow. This manual would have been useful if he got it a few months earlier. 

Ren didn't speak a word with Ibro this time, as he just glanced towards him with praise silently before disappearing. After this alter, Ibro started his journey again. 

He never stopped summoning more skeletons or death kings. He needed larger armies to send them to different worlds. This routine continued for another 5 days until he noticed the approach of another cultivator. 

Ibro knew Erond would keep an eye on his skeleton army's movements, so the presence of this cultivator only meant the emergence of some variables. 

The only variables he could think of were either the emperor or the fiends behind him.

"I carry a report from Lord Erond for you, my king."

Ibro gestured silently to him to speak, while the cultivator continued:

"Our armies had managed to control huge territories and many cities in the southern and northern lands. There was a reaction from the southern emperor and the northern powerhouse. 

Both sent out huge armies to subdue the cities that fell under our control. Lord Erond asked for instructions regarding our response to these threats."

'At last.'

Ibro sighed with contentment and relief. He was worried the emperor would be so afraid to even move a single soldier from his main city. Ibro was surprised to hear about the movement of the northern powerhouse. 

If this was true, then the other powerhouses would also move. That would create a huge siege over his territory and might pose a threat to it. 

The solution was simple, a force must be met with an equally imposing force. Ibro then asked for further Intel:

"Do you know the numbers of these armies?"

The cultivator replied without delay:

"Yes, my king. The southern emperor sent out 20 armies each composed of 1 billion NPCs. The northern powerhouse sent out 10 armies with the same amount approximately."

Ibro understood the two powerhouses' intentions, they moved only half of the armies they had. 

They were afraid Ibro would take this chance and retaliate against their main cities, and they should be. They were intelligent and careful, as this was exactly Ibro's plan. Ibro then asked:

"What about the demon armies? Did they send out demons with them?"

The cultivator shook his head as he replied:

"No, my king, they only sent these armies."

'You want to create an ambush for me, that's interesting.'