Chapter 15: Conqouring the Western Side

I couldn't take part of the colonisation once the other forces arrive here when the other factions arrive on the New Continent, otherwise the other Rank 6 existences will intervene.

While my forces of Forossa are overpowered in their Cultivation level, and I have enough forces to conqour the entire world if i wanted to.

The other Rank 6 Powerhouses of the other Factions would not allow it and would all unite to attack me together.

If that was to happen then their combined might of 5 Rank 6 beings vs me and Lilith would overwhelm us.

In addition, the Powerhouses themselves would directly attack my forces and wipe them out in an instant.

That is both why I brought the number of forces that I did, but also to colonise the specific regions of the New Continent and have many of my Heroic forces guard those territories indefinitely.

• Rank 6 Gaseous - <+2 > (Tallon + Lilith)

• Rank 5 - 125 + 15 Crucible Knights <+17 nammed individuals>

• Rank 4 - 3,325 <+17 nammed individuals>

These were the Forces that I brought with me on the first colonisation of the New Continent before the Utra Nation arrives, since they would be the first, followed by the Empire and Papral Nation. Lastly, would be the Hive but Noah would only take part with their secret exploration onto the New Continent in 4 years time approximately.

I'd say I have two weeks before the Utra Nation arrives.

As for my forces, I have less Rank 5 cultivators than the Empire but I'd say I was on equal terms with the Papral and Utra Nations, only making up for the gap of quantity with quality.

The Black Knife Assasins and the Jarheads make up the bulk of my Rank 5 forces.

The Jarheads were unique as in they can gain the strength and power of whoever corpses and remains that they have stored inside them.

Iron Fist Alexander, a Jarhead warrior, was able to travel to Crumbling Farum Azula in the game.

It was impossible to access unless you were a Ancient Dragon, a Shadowbound Beast like Maliketh, a God or used a Maiden that lit herself on fire.

Alexander must have had the remains of just such a Maiden inside of him which allowed him to travel to Farum Azula.

In other words, if I gave a Rank 7 corpse to a Rank 0 Jarhead baby like Jar Bairn, Alexander's nephew, then he will immediately become a Rank 7 Jarhead warrior. Its as easy as that, however, they will only be of the Gaseous Stage of that rank if they had a large increase/jump in progress. I don't know why that is.

Regardless, I had given many Rank 5 corpses which I had to them, primarily of Human Cultivators than beasts, because whatever remains they put inside themselves will determine the type of warrior they will become. If I gave the magical beast corpses then they would be more akin to berserkers, and I already have enough of those because of Godfrey/Horah Loux's Warriors of the Badlands clan.

I should mention one last note, how do I have thousands of thousands of Heroic Cultivators?!

Simple, for starters they all started out as Rank 3 by default cause I had made their new bodies Rank 3 with the Elden Ring before coming back to this world.

And secondly, I have a Formation that encompasses all of Forossa that can help minimise Breath consumption while refining and condensing and purifying the essence of Breath and bestowing it to the people of Forossa.

This Formation acts similar to how Chasing Demon explained his privately made Cultivation technique since Rank 6 existences require so much Breath to advance, they would eventually drain the entire world's supply of Breath if previous Rank 6 beings had done this.

Thus, if I didn't want the world to end and run out of Breath just yet or within a few years of everyone on Forossa cuptivating all at once, I needed to make the Formatuon to multiply, condense, refine, purify the amount of Breath absorbed by the Formation to give to the Cultivator in question.

That is how I had obtained so many Heroic Rank cultivators and partially how everyone, especially the Demigods advanced so quickly to becoming a Rank 5 being.

Ranni and Melina were both Rank 5 Solid Cultivators at this point, mostly because of their Individualities being permanently active and being fulfilled.

Godfrey's is something related to battle or Endless Battles just like June Ballor, and since I constantly gave him battles to fight against in the repaired great arenas on Forossa and Magical beasts to hunt and fight, he easily became a Ramk 5 Liquid (Peak) Cultivator.

This Breath Formation that i was using for Forossa, which I made using the Elden Ring, had a inferior counterpart.

It was what I created with the joint help of the Nobles and Royals of the Utra Nation.

That is why the Utra Nation has 650+ Heroic Cultivators unlike in the original story where they only had around 200+ Heroic Cultivators.

However, because of my interference in this world's timeline, the butterfly effect took effect and in turn the Utra Nation became powerful using the inferior Breath Formation, which wasn't made and perfected using the Elden Ring, to enhance the Nation's forces.

Also, because I had jointly worked with Nobles and Royals, there was no way in knowing who spread the knowledge and the blueprints for the Breath Formation.

Thus, in order to not allow the Utra Nation to become the strongest faction, since King Elbas is already a monster to deal with, I had secretly and anonymously spread copies of this inferior Breath Formation to all the other Nations to help balance the scales of power to what it once was.

Now, every faction was on equal terms again, whilst also greatly increasing their forces in the Heroic Ranks unlike the original timeline of the novel's events.

But with the knowledge of the inferior Breath Formation, I used the Elden Ring to perfect it and made Forossa the most powerful faction in the world!

But i can't flex too early on how many I have.

The reason being is that the majority of my forces don't have a Battle Prowess that matches their ranks.

For example, the Frost Order Knights may be Rank 4 Gaseous, while I have a total of 12,000 of them but I only brought 1,000 with me. Their battle prowess is actually mostly at Rank 3 Solid.

That is why I brought so many forces with me, because with quality I can match the quality of all the other factions which had carefully developed each individual while I developed most of my forces as a whole than each one being uniquely cultivated.

That is why unique individuals or the Demigods and key individuals of Forossa are of a higher rank since they cultivated in a unique and specific manner for each individual.

Now with that explained to God knows who I'm talking to?

I think I might be going crazy with all my monologues I'm just randomly doing to no one in particular.

(4th wall break at risk of occurring!!! Commence plot progression!)

Anyway, time to get back on track.

Landing on the Western Side of the New Continent, I intended to harvest two locations that had traces of Divine Beings for myself before the other factions arrival.

(A/n Divine Beings or God also means Rank 7+ beings.)

I landed in the location of the Forest Ape Territory that was filled with many trees.

Spreading out my senses I could sense many Rank 4 Magical Beasts that appeared like large Apes, while some was of the 5th Rank.

However, nothing could oppose me now unless it was another Rank 6 being.

Now that I was a Hybrid, and one with a Dragon Bloodline of which I had personally created using the Elden Ring to create a being on par and of similar evolutionary origins like the Elden Beast, the Beast of the Greater Will back in the Elden Ring verse, I unleashed a loud roar which affected and commanded all the Ape Magical Beasts of the 4th and 5th Ranks to simply "die".

And die they did, I didn't expand the range of my roar since I didn't want to affect the other regions just yet.

Since I was here I can effortlessly help in the colonization before the other factions can arrive.

Furthermore, I had sent my mother Lilith to help in the beginning process of colonization of the Eastern Side of the New Continent, which is where the main base of my operations on the New Continent will be.

The Eastern Side will serve as a teleportation matrix that connects the Western Side to Forossa via the teleportation matric Web I would create on the East Side where I am currently.

It was then that I activated a spell which i had created when I obtained the power of the Elden Ring, [Cold Recollection] a Rank 5 spell of both the Water + Earth elements.

Normally one can only use a single element that they have predetermined for them since birth.

However, King Elbas' explanation to Noah in his notes on Higher Energy and the other elements during their trade, explained enough for me to copy the other elements despite me being born with just the water aptitude.

Fire required materials to burn.

Water requires density.

Air requires friction.

Earth requires substance/foundation.

(A/n Air and Earth might be wrong explanation but similar.)

While Light and Darkness was theorised by King Elbas to be able to create their own Higher Form of Energy.

Additionally, Alexander of The Legion in the Immortal Lands had all the Elements despite him having Fire as his original elemental aptitude.

Additionally, one of my Individualities, primarily my source individuality was what helped me in copying the other elements.

(A/n I'm keeping that a secret for now 😉, try and guess!)

Using [Cold Recollection], i had created an entire city using only the water from the sea in less than a few seconds.

The spell allowed me to use my memories to perfectly recreate in detail with no effort at all, anything I wanted.

Thus, I had created a city and base of operations for my forces.

"Spread out and begin Colonization Operations!" I raised my voice making it heard to all.

I proceeded towards the other nearby territories and colonized them as well in less than 5 days.

In those 5 days I had established a secure perimeter and a city in each territory while in the Snowt Mountain I created a larger city than all the other ones. This would be the Headquarters for the Western territories of the New Continent.

I had essentially recreated the kingdom Eleum Loyce from Dark Souls 2.

The territories I had on the Western Side are as follows:

• Lava Lake/Rivers - Trace of Divine Being (Fire) [Volcanic City]

• Forest Apes area - [Coastal City Outpost for Ships to dock]

• Snowt Mountain - [Eleum Loyce]

• Snowy Plain - [Eleum Loyce - extended]

• Close to Spiked Roots area - Trace of Divine Being (Earth Magical Beast Footprint) [City Outpost]

Once I saw that everything was going well on the Western Coast I made preparations to go to the Eastern Side and help the Colonization efforts with Lilith.

Ranni was currently besides me in the Palace of Eleum Loyce at the top of the Snowt Mountain.

"You should go, your only wasting time staying here over needless issues." Ranni said as she placed a hand on my shoulder.

"I know but-"

"Your afraid that the other Nations would arrive and wage a war in the brief time your gone. Your going to have to leave as soon as they come."

"Yes bu-" I tried to speak again but Ranni cut me off once more.

"No 'buts'! Did you forget that I am the daughter of the Carian Royal Family, a Demigod and an Empyreon. I have ruled with complete authority even before I casted away my Great Rune, when I destroyed my original body. Even Seluvis obeyed my orders despite his planing behind my back to make me into one of his puppets. I've waged wars in secret, assassinated many political families and orchestrated the downfall of an entire continent with only the death of two Demigods. What makes you think that those weaker to myself while going against the combined military force and might of 7 Demigods, and 4 of us are Empyreons with one of them being a Rival Empyreon to Marika herself long ago?"

Hearing her words and all the achievements she had accomplished had shut me up from trying to refute her any further.

I wanted to say I had helped her with those accomplishments but I knew that she would have done them even in the original timeline, I simply made them happen sooner than it would have transpired.

"Fine, I will go to mother and sister on the Western Side. She should have used the [City Figurines] I gave her to create multiple cities in numerous territories by now anyway. I will return as soon as I can before I need to return to Forossa with Lilith when the other Factions arrive."

"I'll be waiting my Lord."