As for why that b*tch kept herself shelled inside that continent and didn't get out even once to stop me, I already got a theory for that.
It was either she didn't get anything from her superiors and brilliant minds yet. Or she got something, and that thing required lots of planning and preparations, and couldn't be activated and used anywhere on a whim.
And for a reason, I leant towards the second scenario. And for a different reason, I felt like the upcoming three continents would be very hard to conquer. And my intuition proved right in the end.
I moved towards the next continent, seeing nothing more than a few scattered enemies there. It wasn't even worth taking my pillar out, wasting my time and energy over spreading lots of bubbles here.
But out of habit, I took the pillar, but didn't spread the bubbles.
I didn't grow tired, or bored, or anything. In fact, the moment I took the pillar out, some weird feeling of foreboding disaster overwhelmed me.
I put the pillar back, and that feeling was gone. Then it came back the moment I took my pillar.
"Sh*t! She must have found something to turn the pillar against me… But what is it?" I muttered, looked around before deciding to change tactics.
It would delay me a lot without my pillar and bubbles, but it wasn't going to stop me here. I needed these bubbles right now to just make places for my digging forces, to secure them until they'd take the bombs out.
Aside from this, taking over the entire continents wasn't a stressing issue. The moment all of these enemies would be killed, things would be easy to handle. Even if they got scattered remnants, I'd take my time to chop their heads off.
But now, I needed to kill them first. And I have lots of options to be honest.
I could simply use the rough way, the same way I did before when I fell into the grand trap of that lady. On the other hand, I could simply roam the world and release my explosive bones around.
I got a way to save myself lots of trouble and time. Using the mirror world wasn't just a way to look for bombs, but also to let me travel across huge distances inside that place.
So I could use it, travel around the world, spread my deadly bones there, and let these take over the entire army that was about to arrive.
Of course that lady wouldn't just take such trouble turning my pillar over me without preparing a follow up move.
And without the need for any speculations or suspense, a grand gathering of portals opened up next, filling the entire sky in every direction with portals.
Endless number of forces appeared and gushed in here. I didn't need to check the map to know they were coming from the place they were gathered at before.
But they came without their leader, that lady.
"If you didn't show yourself up, then you aren't that confident in such an attack…" I paused, thinking that this wasn't a chance, but a trap!
If she knew this wasn't going to stop me, then she was aiming perhaps at trapping me here, wasting my effort, forces, and time, while she'd do something else.
So if I was going to fight such a battle, why would I waste my effort and time doing this here then?
*Fwoosh!*
Without even waiting for a single second, I returned back to my ground zero, and went towards the portal leading to the second continent.
I didn't head directly towards her continent for now. If she wanted to desperately stop and entrap me at one location, then by going to another continent, chances of spreading out her forces thin was higher.
She wanted to waste my effort and forces, then let me show her how the pros play!
I arrived there to find a place devoid of forces like the last continent. Then as I walked around, leisurely even whistling while flying on the deck of my chariot, a similar scene appeared just after a couple of hours.
The sky grew dimmer as tons of portals appeared out of nowhere. I watched in calmness while the floods of forces appeared here.
"Trying to bluff a bluffer isn't a nice move," I didn't hesitate to take out my staff, open a portal towards a bookmark I recently saved, and jump back towards the previous continent.
And there I saw the number of forces growing thin, while portals were sucking people away, not bringing them over.
I didn't need to take a tour around the entire continent to know what she was up to. I wanted to trick her, and she ended up aiming to trick me back.
I wanted to force her to thin out her forces, dividing them up over three continents instead of just two. And it seemed she read through my intentions, ending up to shift the forces from this continent over to the next one.
Like this, she'd still distribute her forces in two continents. And the next move of mine was expected to be at her continent, where I'd face a huge army of enemies.
Instead of that, I thought to return back here and check over the situation. And my doubts were proved right. She was trying to trick me indeed.
I grinned evilly, did nothing but take advantage of the confusion happening here. I entered my mirror world, kept looking for bombs. But this time, I didn't use my bubbles to mark them. I simply exited the mirror world, detonated a bone there, then returned back to the world.
If we kept playing this silly game all day long, then we'd end up with nothing but wasting my time. She wanted to do that, and so I decided to turn all violent.
I'd turn this entire world into a living hell. And I spent a day doing so.
