“I’ll take you,” just as I had no aerial resistance, or even any fight from the ground forces against my chariot, I reached the side of the first gate easily.


    Yet just before I could get close enough to touch it, I felt a weird pulsating energy waveing from a direction to my side.


    It wasn’t a simple wave of energy, but something so strong to even make me frown. Still I didn’t keep my chariot and moved closer, enough to touch the gate by just stretching out my arm.


    And at this moment, a change happened so fast.


    This energy pulse appeared again, this time it wasn’t a wave but like a torrent. It came from the direction of theke nearby, making me feel like tens of thousands of eyes were focused over me.


    *Ssh!* *Ssh!* *Ssh!*


    The situation started to evolve so damn fast! From the direction of the calm surfacedke, a series of giant and shing waves erupted out of nothing.


    Then I could see many dark spotsing up from the bottom of theke. I looked closer and this time I was pretty much sure… There was something shing in the depth of thatke, something bringing forth such dense numbers of monsters in such a short time.


    A gate! A sixth gate appeared here out of the blue, and in no other ce but the depths of thatke.


    A ce that was way out of my reach!


    “First youe to papa,” even if I had such an unexpected development, I didn’t hesitate to shut down that gate in the sky.


    At least I’d get rid of one of the threats, leaving the gate under theke forter.


    *Roar!* *Roar!* *Roar!*


    Yet my actions seemed to enrage the monstersing from theke. They seemed to expect my full attention focusing on them. Monsters with pride? That was nothing rted to any normal ormon monster in the apocalypse.


    Taking the gate would require at least half a minute. It wasn’t much time to be honest, butpared to the closely packed hostile forcesing from theke, it was too much.


    *Fwoosh!* *Fwoosh!* *Fwoosh!*


    Just before I could control half of the gate, I heard the whistling air before lots of projectiles hit my chariot’s shield.


    *Crack!*


    I looked in surprise to the deep and rapidly spreading cracks of my shield. I never expected such things to hold such violent power, enough to even bring my sturdy shield to such a state.


    “Activate full power,” but I was only using a medium powered version of my chariot. I didn’t even think for a second and activated the fully powerful version of my chariot.


    And with it, the shield that was on the verge of copsing amended itself in a sh of light, returning to its fully intact and all powerful state.


    *Bang!* *Bang!* *Bang!*


    Yet the attacks never ceased for a single second. From my ce I spotted thousands of octopus-like monstersing out from theke. Each had six arms and two thick and curved arms that acted just like the tail of any scorpion.


    “Hybrid monsters?!!” It soon hit me when I saw the attacksing from these two arching thick arms of these monsters. Each arm shone in a dangerous looking ck and red way, releasing even a small cloud of dark red gas with every attack.


    They looked like cannons, firing their missiles without a moment of rest. With the arrival of the first thousand hybrid monsters to the border of theke, much more dark spots appeared from the depth of theke,ing up as well.


    The surface of theke kept trembling, showing many holes as the monsters from down below didn’t even wait to reach the surface to attack me.


    At some point, theke surface churned and rolled up, forming giant pirs of waves that extended for tens of metres.


    The scene looked weird and dangerous. The attacks that were enough to crumble my medium powered shield were nowing in many folds in numbers, and it was also getting more with each passing minute.


    Even if this wouldn’t pose any threat to my shield and chariot for now, I couldn’t keep going like this. I knew if this was under my control at this moment, after five or ten or even thirty minutes, the situation would be really threatening.


    “Unleash everything at those bastards,” the gate was now closed, and I was relieved from one problem for the time being, “hit thoseing from water as well as those on the surface.”


    Theke was now hardly described as one. It turned from the pure blue coloured waters into all dark, filled with endless monsters.


    And with my orders, my forces unleashed their deadly strikes over theke and the ground around it.


    The first ce I expected to fall was the ground around theke. The attacksnded there and wiped outrge numbers of monsters in the early few breaths.


    But just before I could be totally relieved, I felt a sudden pulse of energying from no other ce but the centre of thatke.


    That gate… Something or someone was trying to intervene in this battle. All I saw was a gust of energy that stopped just a few metres on top of the remaining monsters, protecting them.


    My boys’ attacksnded, and I saw that energy shielding the monsters down below from their attacks.


    This couldn’t continue! If someone was trying to secure these monsters, then I should y safer and fly away for now.


    I got one gate sealed. But that gate in the depth of theke would prove to be hard to get. Yet I never expected to see a sixth gate in any city.


    To summon this gate, someone had to pay a considerable price for that. I never expected someone to be ready to pay such a price, but it just happened here.