534 A Single Room For All Humans!
I watched the girls descend and then Hilary stood with Isac while Angelica went to bring the miners.
As they were going to do a big remodelling of the capital, I had just to watch and do nothing else.
*Rumble!*
However just as the miners came, got their tools, and scattered all over the world around to do their job, and just before the workers would do their job here to undermine the earth, a big and frightening loud rumble came from one direction.
"What… Is that?!!!" I could hear the exclamation of many people standing around the capital. As for me, I could only sigh.
The thing I tried to push back for as long as possible, the big thing that I hoped would be delayed further, the merge between the worlds of the apocalypse was just about to happen.
"Did you see that?!!" The three girls came on board again while Angelica pointed at the direction of the ocean.
There, and at the direction of the south west, a big and frightening looking pillar of green light descended from the sky and vanished into the horizon..
Even in such times, when the world was lightened up with the group of suns in the sky, the pillar looked quite flashy and so damn bright.
"It's happening, right?" Hilary knew what was going to happen, the same as Isac.
"What's going on?" Angelica's face was ashen white. She was so terrified. According to the tales in the records I read, those who witnessed such a phenomenon from such close by got such a deep shock and impact of fear.
"The merge between the worlds," Isac said in slow tone, "it's about to happen with your world acting as the centre of all this merge."
"Merge? Worlds' merge? Is that… Possible?!" Angelica turned to the three of us, as she felt we all saw this coming.
"It's something we had to experience," I slowly said, "all of us actually."
"It's not supposed to be this close up, right?" Hilary turned to me, and I could only nod.
Indeed… That thick pillar of green energy came so damn close to my kingdom.
It was supposed to appear at the shores of New York. but it seemed to be much closer to here.
"What are you two talking about?" Isac didn't know about the little secret of Hillary and I.
"So we have to prepare for an impact, right?" Hilary ignored Isac's question while focusing on me.
"We should," I nodded, "I'll go and see what I can do… As for all of you, go down there and lead everyone to prepare for this impact."
"Are you… Sure?" Hilary was well aware of how deadly the upcoming impact would be.
"Tsunami waves won't be like the one you faced before," and Isac dropped the issue of Hilary's and my secret, and spoke referring to the big battle against that monster from before.
"I know," of course I read how deadly and scary these waves were. Spanning for hundreds of metres above ground, coming in succession as long as that big pillar was there, not to mention the impact of the arrival of the alien lands here…
I knew how serious this situation was. But in this entire place, in this entire apocalypse, no one else but me could say he could do it.
"Ok," Isac said.
"Take care of yourself, ok?" Hillary also said while I simply smiled without saying anything back.
I knew it was going to be bad, but I had to do my best to stop what was coming.
I specially selected this area as it was away from such a disaster. I didn't know what changed, perhaps the addition of the Hector world changed the general merging map from what I knew about.
Anyway, it wasn't time to look for reasons. I had to act, and I got to act fast.
So once the girls descended, I started to control my chariot and moved in the fastest speed possible, flashing away, getting directly towards the source of that disaster.
The merge process wouldn't come at one wave. It was a long process that would span for months. However the places that got hit with the pillars of light would be cursed to be attacked all the time with such merge.
But the fiercest and deadliest waves were always the first ones.
When I started to move towards the source of this calamity, I got to know how really far this pillar was. Even after half an hour of flying like this, I didn't feel I was getting any closer.
Comparing this pillar with the red beam of the star weapon, it was the real deal. I knew this pillar was the collection of the alien world energy, getting poured forcibly here to allow the planet to grow larger and become wider.
Also it was needed so the continents of these alien worlds would get to start the merge here. And this process was the one which would take months to complete. And once it was done, the true kingdom age of this apocalypse would shine.
[I got what you wanted!]
Just as I was flying towards the pillar, I got this sudden message.
[Damn! Just in time!]
[Watch your language, human Hye!]
[Sorry, but this just came in the perfect time]
I didn't know if this was a coincidence or this came by the arrangements of the higher ups. But the message I got now was the one from the higher up I had a deal with from before.
[You now owe me one hundred million souls]
[I know, but I have time to pay them, right?] I rolled my eyes. This greedy bastard was asking for the price even before delivering, [When will it go online?]
[In the next five minutes] he said, [Just figured to let you know]
[Great, now we can message each other properly. Ah, how does this thing work?]
[It's easy, you can select people of your race to add as friends, or chat generally in the general chat room designed for your race]
535 A Ticket Pass For The Golden Quest
[Just a single room? Isn't it…]
[You can purchase rooms and have many features using coins] that dude said. Damn! Even when they were trying to honour a deal, they were still looking for profit.
[How much will this cost me?] I asked, while feeling the price tag would be astronomical.
[One hundred million for a room that can have a million people. With each extra million, you have to pay another two hundred million coins]
[Damn!]
[Don't blame me for that, but blame yourself. After all you are like an endless pit in regard of coins]
This… I couldn't find any suitable answer to these words. They were true, but why was it my fault that I was so outstanding.
[What about sending general messages there? To reach everyone I mean]
[That can be done only by the heroic calling].
[Ok]
I knew this was a limitation forced by the higher ups thanks to me. But who said I lacked heroic callings? I got enough to issue many of them.
[Thanks man, I truly appreciate it]
Now my human race finally has a chance to fight in this damn apocalypse. With such a system, we could share each other's experiences, tips, and even ask for help.
Not to mention I'd be able to truly spread my dominance over the entire human race that survived so far.
Even if I got a way to get more humans from outer worlds, I still cared for those folks living here. I knew this wasn't going to be easy, especially with such new changes to the entire planet, changes that I wasn't aware of yet.
But I'd do my best to help, and do my best to acquire as many humans as I could from any possible way.
I didn't hurry to use the heroic calling now. I had to first arrange things before doing this.
But I didn't stop my chariot from going towards the direction of that pillar. Before I'd arrive there, and even long miles away, I met the first waves.
They were… Really scary! A group of ten waves chasing one after another, trying to reach the ground first before others.
Each wave was a few hundreds of metres above the ocean level, making me know they would keep getting altitude the more they moved forward.
"Come forth!" I stopped my chariot once I saw them. "See these? Blow a hole in each of them."
I took out my deadliest weapon, my fallen gods. They have the power to rival such natural disasters. Even if they weren't able to crush and stop these waves, they could at least breach a hole in them.
A small hole would grow exponentially and turn to wide space, giving my kingdom a safe pass. The bigger the holes created here, the better later on.
*Boom!*
But when the first wave of attack landed, I knew how hard this would be.
The waves weren't thin. Just from the first fierce clash with my boys' attacks, a tiny hole appeared to be soon closed.
Damn fast! And in this place where water was the last thing these waves would lack, they could amend themselves fast.
"Keep hitting," I shouted, "come forth! Use anything on this damn chariot and break a hole in those damn waves!"
I summoned all of my dragons, flying monsters, and even Bulltors and shield warriors. I had to use anything to crush a hole in these waves.
Then during the next minutes, a barrage of attacks came to finally break a small hole there.
"Expand it, target the behind waves through this hole," I started spreading orders around, not giving that wave any chance to heal itself.
I wouldn't dare to say all these attacks came fruitless. In fact the first wave decreased in height for almost one hundred metres during this time.
That meant the wave kept burning its waters to heal itself until that hole appeared. If I kept doing this, it might grow weaker.
But this wouldn't help. In the end I wasn't facing a single wave or couple. This was just the early start, and much more would pour in.
So focusing on a single or few waves wouldn't help. It was better to accept such loss caused by these waves than to kill a few and gain the wrath of the rest.
Just as I watched my boys attack through the hole as I said, slamming their attacks fiercely against the next wave, I got a message.
[General System Notification: Human race has now a worldwide communication system]
[Any human can now gain access to it through their profile pages]
[Good luck and thank human Hye for his contribution for his race]
I was surprised that my name was mentioned in this official statement. Damn, that was so cool!
[Congratulations! Your efforts paid off! All the human race will enjoy a communication system thanks to you]
[As a human who did such a grand feat, you are rewarded with a ticket pass to the yet to come golden quest]
[The golden quest will start during quest five. You will get notified couple of days before its start]
[Keep the good work, human race Hye]
For a moment there, I felt like the last messages were sent by those higher up dudes. Anyway, he did his part and gave my race such an opportunity to catch up with other races.
And now… It was my time to teach my humans how to use such a feature.
But damn! I secured a golden quest ticket so early on! Now I wouldn't have to worry about such a thing.
I knew that the top in the list of assessments of everyone in the apocalypse would get such a valuable chance. The top ten I suppose? Or was it top hundred?
Anyway, I got my ticket, and would wait to learn more details from Hilary.
After all, she went through such an experience before. I got to ask her about many things, like how many I could bring with me using this ticket? And what was it like up there?
I promised the jumper to help him find his friend.
536 The Kingdom Of Heaven Room
As my boys were handling the situation here, I had time to check over the new communication feature.
It was there as that dude told me, inside my profile page. There I found a screen that was filled with many words sent by many humans.
Next to each message sent, a name was there. No one was still aware of the features here, so they were just trying to get to know how to use this.
There was an option at the lower bottom for me to send any message here.
Above it, there was an option where I selected.
It was the place of special features. And like that dude said, everything here was ruled by coins.
"Create a room," I said without any hesitation.
[What's the size of your room?]
"Make it enough to accompany one hundred million," I knew I had to start big. As for money, I got enough from the dead bodies of those mercenaries, enough to let me even add more..
But starting with a hundred million was enough for me for now. I still didn't know how many humans were there.
[Do you want to make this room private or public?]
"Public," private room with one hundred million capacity? What a foolish question this was!
[What's the name of this room?]
"Name it… The Kingdom of Heaven room."
[Name is available]
[Name is assigned]
[Do you want to issue a general announcement in the general room? You can select to either send a public notification there, pin your notification for one hour, pin your notification for the entire day, pin it for a week, pin it for a month…]
It kept going for options like this, making me roll my eyes in helpless ways. Those damn bastards… They seemed to wreck their minds to get as much coins as they could from my humans, from me.
"How much is the cost to pin the post for one month and send a private message to all?"
This was an option similar to a heroic calling. Instead of sharing a single video to all of them, it was better to send them a private message that would last until they deleted it.
[The price for pinning the notification for one month is one billion coins. The price to send special message to all is ten billion coins]
[Do you want to proceed?]
"Why not? Let's do it!" I had enough to cover even more than that. If the price for sending a single message was one hundred coins, then this meant we had only one hundred million humans in the entire world!
That wasn't possible! But if the price was just ten coins, then it meant we had one billion humans left.
Well… I couldn't tell but hopefully there would be a way to know how much we have in this apocalypse.
[Setting up your room]
[The room is now ready!]
[Anyone can just search for it, or just click on the pinned notification to have a link sent to them in private message]
[You also will send private message with a short video introducing your room with a link to join]
[Do you want to proceed now?]
"Proceed," I looked around. There was no more perfect setting than this one for this message.
Shocking scenes would be the most effective way to attract everyone's attention. And right now I was going to use this adversary here to my benefit.
[Get ready… The video will be recorded in ten seconds. The duration won't exceed one minute. Good luck!]
A countdown began and I cleared my throat, took out my two glaives to add more to the scene, and moved to stand amidst my strong looking gods and forces.
[Start!]
A ball of red light appeared just hovering a few metres above my head. It seemed the way the system used this time to record this video.
"Hello my human fellows, this is Hye speaking to you. As you can see behind, as you can see around your places, pillars of deadly energy are falling and tearing our world apart…]
I started narrating what was going on as short and precisely as I could.
"… Of course there is too much to talk about, too much to do. I have created a room, it's called the Kingdom of Heaven room. You can join it freely at any time you like. There you will find me and other elites under me waiting for you and will do our best to help. See you there."
I ended this video with such propaganda for my room. Just as one minute passed, the red ball of light flashed thrice before vanishing in thin air.
I opened the communication room and there I found a pinned post, written in glaring red and golden colours. It looked very eye catchy, hard to miss, and hard to resist.
"Good," I also found an option linking directly to my room. Once I entered there, I found more options regarding assigning rules, comment regulations, and other stuff.
I didn't think about doing anything right now. Right now I had my hands busy dealing with these waves.
But just before I'd closed, I found a sudden flashing number appearing in front of my eyes.
"A hundred… Five hundred… Three thousand… Eight thousand…" the number kept flashing with each passing second. And with each flash, it would jump at such frightening speed.
[Help! Help! I'm near the coast in India and there are scary looking waves coming!]
[I'm in Japan, and the situation here is disastrous!]
[I'm in Africa, and I always heard stories about how this continent will survive the apocalypse. But now I can see sky high towering waves coming fast at my direction from that scary red beam]
Many messages like these kept coming in my room. The more the number flashed, the more distress messages that popped up, making me unable to close an eye over this situation.
I had to let my team handle this room later on. But for now, I had to do something to help humans in need.
537 [Bonus chapter] Trying Everything I Can
But I was too busy dealing with things here. The situation was getting any better even with all my boys trying their best.
"Ah, there is a voice option… Interesting!"
I found in the big list of options to control this room a choice to send a voice recording. I didn't hesitate to use it at once.
And as usual, I had to pay one million coins to just send a voice recording to the entire room.
"Listen up, I'm not in the middle of fighting against this disaster so I had little time. But I can tell you this, as long as you can see the pillar, then you will get hit by its aftermath…"
I heard a loud rumble coming from the direction of that pillar. Mentioning the devil, the devil made a move! I could see a second series of waves getting birth and coming towards here.
My boys just broke a hole in three waves so far. There were still seven remaining. At such a rate, they wouldn't get this done before the next series of waves would link..
And if this continued, then in the end we would face a connected series of waves linked to the pillar.
That wouldn't bode well. I had to think about anything else to solve this disaster.
"The pillars hitting the water surface will create series waves of devastating tsunamis. If they hit earth, then shattering earthquakes followed by violent volcanoes will erupt at your location. If you are near any of these, then search for a tall place and stand at, preferably a mountain. Leave cities, and towns, go as far away as possible, as fast as you can, without even looking back. This wave of attacks will last for almost five hours then it will settle down. The aftermath will last forever, especially with the merge of the alien worlds with us."
As I finished talking, I selected to send this recording to the room before finally closing it.
I had to sort out my sh*t first before going out to help others.
"Now… What shall I do here?" I looked at the mighty waves that were moving unhindered towards the lands.
The waves that got hit already showed an obvious decrease in height compared to others behind. That made the world here look like a staircase, with each wave being higher than the one in front of it and lower than the one behind.
Just now my boys pierced a hole in the fourth wave. Good! Now four were down and six remained.
But far behind all this, another series of waves were coming at here. I counted twenty or something waves there. That meant with each rumble, the pillar would release more waves.
This couldn't continue or else I wouldn't be able to do anything.
However, thinking about stopping the pillar itself was impossible. This pillar had energy coming from another world. It couldn't be stopped by any force on Earth, not even by me.
"So…" I started to think about my options here. I thought about everything I had, even quickly checking my inventory.
It was… A total mess inside my inventory. But I had at least one thing that could delay and help.
"Thundering Might!" I held my pillar with my right hand, and used the mighty skill of it.
It was a defensive one that would create a shield around my place. It was also one that would continue absorbing energy from the world, strengthening and repairing the shield while doing this.
*Rumble!*
The pillar broke free from my hand, expanded to connect heaven with the water surface before a big shield appeared around me.
It spanned for ten miles around, pushing the waves all of sudden and prevented them from moving forward.
"It's working… No it isn't!" At first glance, things seemed to be going towards the result I wanted.
The shield managed to sustain the pressure coming from these waves. Faint cracks spread all over it, but they were healed in the next seconds thanks to the energy absorbed from this part of the world here.
As this pillar of green light came down, the level of energy in this zone got elevated and became more dense than before.
Yet when I looked closer, I saw that the shield didn't actually stop the waves. It just delayed their advance, making them merge together into a much mightier wave that started to circle around my shield, covering it up.
My shield was already covering a big area, but the waves coming were spanning over a much wider area than my shield.
It looked like I held a ball and pushed it through a thick curtain. The curtain wouldn't be pushed back, and its mattress would only circle around my ball until it covered it wholly.
Then the waves would continue marching forward like nothing happened! Not even a single hole would be left by my shield.
Damn! Should I try to repeatedly use my pillar? Linking the shield together with the one at the capital? Should I start roaming my kingdom and use the skill to create shields there?
What about the areas that were void of any city or town? What about the crops fields that I just created?
If I went towards such a solution, then my kingdom would end up like islands in the middle of ragging ocean waves. It wouldn't be a kingdom anymore. And everything I did here would be pointless!
So even with my pillar, the Hector race artefact, I couldn't make things better. In fact, I made it worse!
"It's not working… Next…"
I didn't lose hope and started to search inside my inventory for anything that might help. But the more I searched, the more depressed I became.
Until I finally found something that attracted my attention. It wasn't inside my inventory, but it was something that I owned and could use to change the situation here…
"Hopefully… This might work!"
I took out my glaive, used its sharp edge to create a deep wound at my left hand before I started to draw a circle and write a word in its centre; Portal!
538 Finally Getting Things Under Control
I was going to use my second cultivation technique, opening a portal between this world and my shadow world.
I planned to suck away all these waves and move them all inside my shadow world. For a moment there, I got the feeling that I treat my shadow world as my own backyard, throwing anything and storing everything in there.
After all this, I had to pay a long visit to my world. I had to sort things inside, see what was the current situation inside, and also try to upgrade my cultivation base as well.
But would my technique be able to devour all these waves? That was the question I was going to answer very soon.
My technique was formed fast while I held the pillar with my right hand. Even if I was going to absorb waves, I had to make use of the temporary effect of my shield here.
It was currently dividing up the waves into two parts. Despite the two being connected, they sent two ends to envelop my shield.
And I wanted to aim at these two parts..
If I did, then I could try again and use the same skill to expand my shield. I'd have to pay lots of coins for that, but it was worth it.
I just had to see how my technique would do in front of these waves.
My portal appeared as big and wide as it used to be. Once it appeared there, tentacles came out from it, twisting around and trying to get attached with anything.
Like thick arms, the tentacles spread around without much control of mine over it. I didn't hurry to try merging the first and second technique together, waiting for the result of this one.
"It's working…" I watched a few tentacles getting in touch with the waves that were covering up my shield from all sides. Once they touched water, they started to absorb it madly, emptying a zone from water in a blink of an eye.
This worked! But the scale of its effects was still little to cause a desired effect.
"Time to merge the two together then," I stored away my pillar, and started to make my first technique with my right hand. Then I started merging them together, ending with a grand black ball that was connected to my first technique's circle by threads.
And with these threads I started to own total control over the tentacles.
"Come out!" I felt the lack of energy to expand the present tentacles and create even more.
If I needed energy, then my bones were the answer.
I filled my chariot with bones, before going all out and started to absorb their energy. I channelled them to go to my right arm, where they bypassed my secondary dantian and sphere energies there to go out towards the first technique.
I also spared part to go out to my left hand to support the second technique.
Like this I managed to create much more of these thick tentacles, and expand each to reach anywhere I wanted.
The shield covered an area of ten miles radius around my chariot in the centre. So I had to extend the tentacles close to five miles in each direction.
At first things looked hard and stressful over me. But gradually I managed to get used to such tasks, making a better job in controlling the tentacles.
I controlled them to work as spears, but then I thought about broadening their ends and letting them sweep the shield outer surface off water.
This helped in increasing the speed of absorbing salty water and making these waves lose most of their momentum and destructive powers.
Yet just when things started to stabilise, the second series of waves arrived with a big rumbling noise coming from the direction of that damn distant pillar!
A third wave was launched at this moment!
I controlled my technique and tried to release more tentacles from it. Standing in wait and trying to absorb any wave coming proved to be slow and pointless.
In the end, the series of waves would link together and I'd be trapped in such a dangerous situation for so long.
The little change here was that no wave would manage to bypass my shield and technique and go towards the land.
It might be a small detail but it made all the difference here. At least I wouldn't have to worry about my kingdom getting buried under water.
Now I had to focus on how to end these waves in the most efficient and fastest way.
As I created more tentacles, I didn't just stop at the edge of my shield like before. In exchange, I sent them like vanguard spears, moving towards the incoming waves and vanished deep in them.
I kept pushing them to exceed ten miles in length before I stopped, controlling them to start twisting fiercely around, as if they were big and mighty fans.
The effect of this didn't show up early once I did that. But I was sure they were decreasing the amount of water in each coming wave. That would help my defending tentacles to clear water as fast as they could.
The effect of my vanguard tentacles showed after half an hour. When the fifth series of waves were created, and the fourth wave linked with my shield, the intensity of the waves became small and weak.
I could see the fourth series merging with what remained from the first three groups of waves. But even so, the waves at the front didn't show the same fierce and roaring nature, looking much smaller and calmer.
My vanguard tentacles were finally showing results. Like this, the waves wouldn't last until the arrival of the fifth wave.
As I anticipated, before the arrival of the fifth series of waves, the previous four crushed down and fell into the raging ocean surface.
And with this, I only had to deal with the fifth attack of waves. It meant I would be able to clear one wave at a time, relieving lots of pressure over my shoulders.
[How are things going?]
539 Let's Say Hi
From time to time, Hilary sent messages to me. It seemed this girl went way outside the blockage region to keep in touch with me.
Before this one, I kept telling her to wait and hold on. But this time I knew the danger already passed.
[I'm close to controlling the situation] I sent while looking at the fifth series of waves, composed of thirty gigantic tsunami waves, slamming fiercely against my shield and creating faint cracks in it.
But when they came in contact with my tentacles, they began to show obvious signs of weakness. The water was getting devoured as if they touched fire.
For a reason, the speed of my tentacle absorption just got elevated. I wouldn't complain about such a thing. After all this was what I needed most at this moment.
So even thirty mighty tsunami gigantic waves couldn't last more than ten minutes before crashing down to the ocean surface.
This time, I cleared the waves just when the sixth series of waves were getting born at the pillar's end.
[Everything under my control] I finally sent this to her, to reassure her about the current situation.
[Great! I always know our valiant lord is capable of doing such miracles, hahaha!].
This chick… She never felt this way! Or else why did she come all the way outside the blockage seal to speak with me.
Don't tell me she was worried over my safety! She might not believe in my ability to control the situation, but she knew very well that I had my own ways to survive.
Even if things got worse, I could simply select any bookmarked place in my staff and jump away whenever I wanted.
I never thought about doing this, of course, but this was the last resort to save my life.
So she wasn't concerned about me. She was just worried about her life. And I couldn't blame her for that.
[Are you sure?] this chick… Didn't she trust me at all?!! [You know this is the merging pillar, the one that drives energy from another world!]
[I know, and I'm not saying that I'm going to crush it. I'm not that crazy!]
[Then… How do you plan to control it?]
[I already controlled the situation it created, so there is no danger on us for now]
[O… Ok!]
Just as I closed the useless talk with her, another came from someone that I didn't hear from for a day or two!
[I got that damn pillar sending unstoppable tsunamis towards me!]
It was the jumper. And he seemed to hit a fierce rock this time.
[Retreat!] The solution to that dude's situation was much different than what I did here.
[Are you sure?]
[A great part of the land will be lost, I get it. But we can't risk losing you or the mighty army of monsters with you. Fighting this is futile! Just retreat to a safe place and let the waves crush and die down first before doing anything else]
[Ok!]
I wasn't worried about that jerk. He was that kind of badass to survive through hell without dying.
As I closed the chat with these two, I started fighting against the waves without pause. The more series of waves coming, the higher the number of waves in each series becomes.
But all were shattered on the face of my techniques and shield. At the end of a fierce six hours of fighting, the waves finally stopped coming and that pillar in the distance dimmed.
It didn't fade away. I knew it would remain here for the next months until the entire merging process would be completed.
*Rumble!*
Yet just before I could heave a sigh of relief for all of this to end, that pillar issued another mighty rumble.
This time only a few scattered waves appeared. They weren't as big or fierce as the old ones. So I didn't struggle to keep them in check.
Just my vanguard tentacles were enough to smash these waves to shreds. I watched the waves coming one after another, until something started to loom from the distance.
At first it looked like a ray of light appeared there. But soon I realised it wasn't anything else but a new land.
The new land of the alien world that caused all this was already here.
I used my Hawk Eye skill, but it seemed I was too far away from that land. I didn't hurry to go there. After all that pillar was still present, and I wouldn't risk getting attacked by it for any reason.
So I waited, while more waves came during the next few hours. After twelve hours, the merge seemed to stop or slow down, as the waves started to die down.
After two more hours, the waves stopped coming, and the world started to grow silent and calm.
"What race is it?" I didn't take any clue from the colour of the pillar. I didn't have any relation with that colour and any race here.
I just hoped it would be Selvators. If so, then this piece of land would be technically under my control.
The land grew in size and expanded to cover hundreds of miles around. I could see a faint green soil expanding everywhere, with many trees growing there.
That land… It didn't show any sign of the apocalypse my Earth had since the start.
Yet before I could move my chariot closer, A shining green light appeared, circled the entire land it seemed, and created some sort of a hindering wall.
It was a protective shield, spanning around this piece of land, reaching the height of five hundred metres.
It looked strong from far away. But who said such height was enough to stop me? To stop my chariot?
I estimated that this new piece of land was almost less than one hundred miles away from my kingdom. It wasn't that much of a distance, so I needed to know which race was there.
"Let's say hi then," I concluded my second technique, but kept my first running. Whoever I'd face, I'd be prepared to handle them without risking anything.
540 A Sly Higher Up!
Well… I had to say that I didn't need to go to this new small continent to know which race it belonged to.
Just as I controlled my chariot to move forward, and before it could cross ten miles, I saw something coming up from the distant land.
It was a small piece of land seen from my spot. Just seeing this familiar scene made me inwardly sigh.
"Hectors!" I narrowed my eyes. As the saying went, enemies would meet each other at any corner!
"Hello friend from another world, how may I help you?"
I stopped my chariot while that floating island stopped just a couple of miles away. Yet the voice of Hector was strong and loud, enough to hear it as if he was standing near me.
Unlike most of those I met so far, this dude was an old Hector. Wrinkles appeared on his face, while his hair was grey and scanty.
"Who are you?" I didn't feel like speaking with him, "you don't like someone who will fight in the apocalypse.".
"Nice senses… I can now see why all of our promising kids lost in your hands."
His selection of words to speak about the paragons I killed made me sure of my earlier hunch. This dude here didn't belong to this apocalypse. He seemed too old to fight in such chaos.
He gave me the impression of being someone with high authority and power. He must be someone of the higher ups of that race.
"You aren't saying anything?" he asked while seemingly waiting for me to comment or say anything.
"I asked a question, and you didn't answer it yet," I shrugged. After all he commented on his feelings, didn't introduce himself.
"Why wasting our precious little time with things you already are aware of? Right?"
Well… He seemed to hate speaking directly and out loud, the type who loved to go around things without taking a direct route towards any matter.
A sly and hard to deal with kind indeed, the kind I didn't like to deal with at all.
"So you are a higher up of the Hectors?"
"Correct."
"And what are you, a prestigious and authoritative person, doing here?"
"Of course to meet you," he said with such a smile that made me feel more nervous.
"I'm honoured," I said without any speck of honesty in my tone, "and we already met. Why not turn around, open a portal and return to your high and mighty seat?"
"Not so soon," he shook his head slowly, "I'm here to either force you to follow us or kill you."
"Pretty sure of your odds, aren't you?" I knew he wasn't bluffing or boasting or bragging… He was indeed capable of hurting me if he wanted.
A higher up in such a mighty race? What did that mean? Frankly I didn't know the exact answer to it or all the details.
I could guess a few things. For example, he must be one of those mighty paragons who succeeded in controlling their worlds and even ruled over an entire group in an apocalypse.
He also would be someone who fought on the frontline and garnished many victories.
If I, and I didn't live this much in the current apocalypse, got all these chances, then what about him?
He was a scary figure, and he was here in front of me. Fighting wasn't an option. Running away wasn't either.
I had to talk my way out of here, and try to reach a sort of agreement with him so he would stop nagging me later on.
But how? That was the question.
"You can't blame me for this, you just did too much for our race. Why did a human kid, a kid from such a low race, dared to raise his head high and dream about challenging the heavens? You could have lived your life as other humans, lowering your head and serving others."
"I'm pretty much sure you are speaking out of experience."
"Indeed."
"But such a mighty figure like yourself being here must be on a price, right?" I said before evilly grinning, "I bet you don't have your full power, not even close to one tenth of it."
"Kid, don't test my patience!" once I said it, his face slightly changed, "even if I don't have my full power, I'd still be able to crush you."
"If so, then what's the use of these walls?" I pointed towards the direction of his land, "if you are so sure about crushing me, why do you bother and prepare defences then?"
"That's precautions against the apocalypse and other races in it, not for you."
"I bet they are solely for me," I showed a vicious expression on my face, "there is no other race here who can challenge your people's authority. Only I did that, and I succeeded so far."
"Everything has an end."
"But mine won't be here," I took out my heavy weight glaive and pointed it towards him, "if you are here to force me to succumb and lower my head then you will fail. If you are here to kill me, you'll also fail."
"You can't tell without trying, right?"
"And I'm pretty much sure of my odds," despite him putting on a strong front, something told me this was all a bluff.
He didn't have the power to force me to do anything. Or else, why would he bother with talking and trying to persuade me with this show? If so, why would he lean towards establishing defences here?
I thought initially to bid my time and leave from here using words. But right now I had the feeling I didn't need to.
This dude was here to scare me away, as if I'd simply do it without a fight!
"Last chance human kid. Even if you cost us so much, I took special interest in you."
"Bullsh*t!" I waved my glaive in the air, "let's fight and settle this. I fought paragons and killed paragons… I fought higher ups before, but never killed one."
541 A Troublesome Shield
I never forgot the fight against the illusionist bastard from before. That time I was much weaker than now, but I managed to clear my way out using brutal force and even ended up chopping two arms off that higher up who showed to help.
This wasn't the first time for me to face such a higher up. I didn't know if they got ranks, but at least he wasn't that terrifying.
If I was facing him in his world, then things would be much different. But right now he stood in front of me, in my world.
He wouldn't be here without getting great restrictions from the system. Even if the system was biased, it wouldn't close an eye over such a thing.
"Kid… Listen…"
"Attack!"
I simply waved my glaive and gave the order for my boys to start attacking. I just ended a stressful fight against such forces of nature.
And that didn't mean I was weak or vulnerable!
"F*ck you!" Just as I gave the order and my boys started to attack, that bastard flashed fast and retreated to his land..
As I thought… All this time he was bluffing! Damn! I was this close from getting fooled by his perfect act!
"Pretty damn fast for an old man," I laughed when I saw him run so damn fast. But when the attacks of my boys reached the new continent, a thick shield layer flickered and absorbed the hit.
This shield was really strong! It came from the wall that stretched around that place, making me want to go down there and crush that damn wall.
"Hahaha, it's just pointless for you to try and do it," his voice rang from far, "this shield is enough to sustain a direct hit from a god! Not from such a mere mortal like yourself."
"A god…" I muttered, knowing how damn hard it was to crush that wall.
"It's regretful… I thought I got you there for a moment. How did you manage to find out?"
"If you got the strength, then you should have aimed at my head from the start," I said while moving my eyes ceaselessly around.
"Don't bother, this wall is really something not the low race you came from can hear of," the old man said before puffing his chest, "I've been summoned here just to build this wall. You shall feel the honour, after all my services aren't any cheap at all."
"I'm flattered," I said with zero honesty, "but I'd be more grateful if you told me about this shield weakness."
"It has none!"
"A liar won't let his tongue grow cold, isn't it?" I knew this time I wouldn't be able to lay my fingers on that point of weakness. But soon, a time would come when I'd find such a thing.
"It's pointless… This shield of mine…"
"I know, I know," I interrupted his words, "it's all mighty and invincible."
I said it in such a mocking tone.
"Are you mocking me? Humph! I dare you to try and break my shield! If that ever happened, I'd kill myself instead."
"I hate the idea of the universe losing such a big talent as yourself," I laughed while not commenting on his empty words. Of course I didn't have the power to tear this shield to shreds right now.
But who said I wouldn't be able to do it in the future?
"Why not do it this way, the day when I bring down that shield of yours will be the day when you will serve under me, got it?"
"F*ck you! I won't serve someone like you!"
"Aren't you confident in your shield?" I said it as if this was such a disappointment.
"It's my shield! No one, not even a lowly god can break a hole in it!" he shouted, and he got a laugh from me as a response.
"Then it's a deal," I waved my glaive and without the need to say anything, my boys here stopped their attacks.
It was just a simple waste of ammo at this point.
"I'll keep trying until I succeed," I said as a farewell.
"Keep dreaming!"
He seemed a little pissed off with what I said and did. That jerk… He thought he could fool me with empty words and no actions.
But his shield was really something. He was indeed a higher up, excelled in his abilities and skills, not his strength.
That didn't mean he wasn't someone special or dangerous. Not all danger came from pure strength. Just my spearhead was a living proof for such a theory.
Having a higher up coming here to establish a protective shield? I must have scared the sh*t out of those Hectors.
But that shield would make their lands always secured and untouchable. That wasn't the case regarding my kingdom.
So they would keep harassing me, while I would stand idle and watch without being able to do anything.
Would I be this passive? Should I go all out and cover up the entire coast with my shield?
I had such an idea before to do that. But the question wasn't if this would be feasible, but if it was going to work.
Last time my shield faced a challenge, it ended up doing nothing. That bastard who I knew nothing about wasn't the sole special being in the universe.
If he could do it, then I had to assume that others would. Leaning only on the shield wouldn't work.
I had to focus on my human race uprising plan. It was the only guarantee and solid card I had to face off any challenge like this.
Gaining humans, training them, and using all the different abilities of humans to my benefit; this was the human race uprising plan.
My kingdom getting stronger didn't mean I was going to be stronger alone. My entire race would also be stronger.
It was a long road indeed, filled with many rocks and not that smooth. Yet I had to endure and keep trying, not succumb to any failure.
542 Planning A Countermeasure
The first step… The first step was my capital. I had to let my boys finish digging and building, training and getting stronger… I had to start building up my kingdom starting from such a small zone here.
As for the Hectors… I had to assign watching guards along the coastline. They were so damn near my capital backyard. And I had to make sure any attack coming would be detected way before it reached my shores.
According to Isac's blueprints, the side of the shore was protected with a series of defensive posts. They were enough to secure against single raids.
However the situation had now changed.
I went back to my capital. The situation there was best described as waiting on their toes, holding their breaths to see the results.
It seemed Hilary didn't spread the word about my success to stop the incoming waves. As I appeared there, I sent a few to look for Hilary.
All the humans in the capital and around it started to cheer the moment I appeared, and kept even shouting when Hilary came back with Angelica and Isac.
The three girls were together, seemingly in the middle of discussing their plans to rebuild the capital..
"You weren't lying," the first thing Hilary said was this. She ran, threw herself onto me while adding, "I was sick and worried about you."
"Liar," I said with a chuckle while surrounding her with my arms.
"You are mean," she complained, but I didn't comment on her remark.
"We need to talk," I turned instantly to Isac.
"About… What?!"
Isac seemed surprised by what I did. If there were people here knowing the full scale of this disaster then they would be Hilary, the jumper, and Isac.
These three, alongside anyone from any other race other than humans, would know how deadly the merging process was.
"The Hectors are the ones holding that land," I said, pointing towards the direction I just came from.
"As if you didn't kill many of their strong powerhouses so far," Angelica said in such a light tone, telling me she missed the whole point.
"That's not the case here," I slowly shook my head, pushing Hillary aside to fully concentrate on what I was going to say, "they got someone to help them establish a strong shield. We can't breach it for now."
"That means… They can get to us fast, can't it?" Hilary's wide eyes told me she got what I wanted to say here.
"They can take up to three hours to arrive at our shores," I said in rough estimates.
"That's… Too close," Isac said, "I didn't plan the eastern defences that much."
"That's why I needed to talk to you," I nodded, "you have to go back and revise that region's drawings. Also try to tighten the security at the northern and southern borders until we expand the rebuilding process across these parts."
"Understood."
It wasn't just a remodelling in the eastern part of my capital, but also modifying things at the entire grand setting and planning of the eastern coast of my kingdom.
Once we secured this part, we would sleep assured at night from the risk from getting attacked by Hectors. Yet such a goal wouldn't come true so fast, at least it would take months to get done.
"Why not focus on rebuilding the eastern coast first?" Angelica proposed, "we have to relieve ourselves from their nuisance as fast as possible."
"I agree, " Hilary said in agreement, and Isac also nodded.
"I won't say no," I sighed, "but to do that, we have to work fast and also have to guard against any interruptions from the Hectors."
Of course those bastards didn't endure such a big price to bring that higher up here to just stay within their lands.
I could feel their eyes falling over my lands, wanting to attack it day and night.
This was going to be a really challenging period. But once the eastern coast got secured, we would get rid of their nuisance for a long time.
"We have to do it this way," Hilary took charge of this, "Isac here can work on his drawings and plans. Leave the rest for me and Angelica."
"I got more humans to come," I sighed, "I can't let the two of you work on this. Also we need strong fighters to help secure and defend our workers."
"We can… Use help from you, right?" Hilary hit me with the elbow, but I didn't nod in return or agree.
"I might not be available most of the time," of course we were talking about a long time commitment here, one that would last for months, not just days or weeks.
"Then…" she was startled for a second.
"Didn't you get fighters from the previous human batch? Let's do it this way then," I thought of a solution, "let's face strength with numbers. Send a word for Lily and her group, we need elites strong and capable to lead strong armies to be sent to you."
"This isn't going to help in solving any problem," Hilary said, but I shook my head.
"They will lead all the fighters we got from those batches," I said, "I believe their number is in millions, even in tens of millions later on. Such force will be enough to secure our eastern lands without doubt. With the help of those elites, we could survive this."
"What if…"
"If things went south, I'd just come to help," I shrugged, "and don't forget, all of our top forces are here. So if anything happened, and I was away, you could ask for their help anytime you wanted."
"If so… Then it might work," Hilary could only accept such an arrangement. Of course human forces we could get from the slaves wasn't going to be much.
The human forces we got this time weren't that good. They got experience in fighting great battles, but they lacked good stats and with no cultivation.
543 The Betting Heaven World
Sigh! That cultivation problem… I had to find a solution for it soon. If I solved this, it would end up for the best.
Turning all these humans to cultivators was going to be the strongest boast I'd give to my forces.
I got Lily and her boys ready to do it, but still lacked the secret recipe. I hoped the Bringold impact wouldn't keep it hidden off me for any longer.
We agreed for Hilary to lead the rebuilding process at the eastern side first then expand it towards the entire eastern coast.
As for Isac, this girl had lots of work to do. She stopped planning the entire kingdom when she went with the other two girls.
So she had to speed up and try to finish as many plans as possible within a short time.
Angelica was left behind to organise the new humans coming here on a daily basis.
"But we still have the problem of ores to solve," Isac sighed, "we can't possibly lay the foundation of any building using dirt and normal rock!"
"The miners are working hard to achieve that," Angelica was more aware about the status of this than Hilary and me.
"They will take much time to do it," Isac turned to me before adding, "can't you buy them?"
"Constructing materials? From the market?!" I saw many ores indeed, but they were just special ones that were used in making gears or something..
But I never saw large batches of such ores used for construction before.
"I didn't mean that," she gave me a weird look before sighing, "come on! It's not that normal for you to get all these human slaves without the help from someone in another world."
"Oh… You mean…"
"The ones who help you to get humans can help you get materials, right?" her words made quite sense, "we can just use this for now. Later on, and when we secure many mines, we can depend on ourselves."
"Smart dude," Hilary pointed at Isac before adding, "yet he is… A soft kind of a dude."
"Yes, he isn't anywhere like that cold jumper, the harsh spearhead, or even the foolish Leo," Angelica added, and I could only inwardly smile.
These two… They got what was wrong in Isac, but luckily their minds gave an excuse for this.
So the idea of him being a girl didn't even cross their minds, and hopefully it wouldn't anytime soon. Or else I might get a beating from Hilary for that!
"I'll try my best," I didn't ask about the types of ores she needed. After all, the Bringold impact was such a magical place for me.
I only needed to ask for the best building ores out there and I'd get heaps of them. As for the price tag, I didn't get myself worried about this.
With my bones… Nothing was impossible.
"When?" Hilary asked as she was the one responsible for the reconstruction process.
"I'll go and get our next batch of humans. You can start leading your people to follow me towards the same location as before."
"Got it!"
"I'll go then to start preparing the people," Hilary looked at Angelica before adding, "when you are done, send all the workers and normal people over to me."
"Where will you be?"
Hilary hesitated and I knew this damn seal thing was causing more trouble than I expected.
"I'll let a few of my dragons work as messengers," I said before adding when the three girls gave me a questionable gaze, "just assign a team to do this task. They will get on my dragons' back and start flying all over the capital."
"Great," Hilary seemed relieved from a big burden by such a solution.
"Damn! Why do I feel envious towards those messengers?" As for Angelica, her eyes shone in obvious envy, making all of us chuckle at what she said and truly felt.
I waited until the three left before I went towards the location outside the sealing blockage.
[Tell me you got my humans]
[Sure, I was just waiting for you to speak with me]
I sent this to the lady, but somehow I felt she had more to say here.
[Send them then. Anything else?]
[What you asked for is getting ready]
[The recipe?!!!] My eyes went all wide, [Is it ready now?]
[Not right away, but it will be ready in couple of days]
[Great]
[But… This recipe must remain hidden or else…]
It seemed the higher ups of her impact were hesitating about delivering it to me for that reason.
[Don't worry, only trusted ones will get to see it]
[Can't you keep it to yourself?]
[Are you joking? I need to use it to strengthen my boys!]
[Fine! But make sure you select your trusted people well]
[Don't say it like this, after all I trust you]
[Hahaha! I'm different, right?]
[You know better]
[Just if you were near me… Sigh! Such a tycoon like you are playing in a rudimentary apocalypse. That's unfair!]
[To whom? To you?]
[At least… and to the people fighting at your apocalypse]
[Hahaha! Leave them alone. They are doing just fine fighting me]
[I can hardly believe it!]
[Just send this batch over, I'll pay the price now]
[Wait… I also got another thing…]
She paused and I didn't say anything back. If she has anything to say, why hesitate?
[You know… There is a place in the universe… A world known as the betting heaven]
Betting heaven? What was that? And why was she mentioning it to me?
[And?] I asked without much interest in that place.
[Well… It's considered a grand fighting arena between races. Big names bid there with their forces, and the winner takes a lot of things]
[Sounds interesting] I paused, [But how is it related to me?]
[You have to consider joining it]
[Joining… Damn girl! You just said it's a place for fighting and bidding! And big names are there! How am I supposed to fight there? And why would I even risk it!!!]
544 The Magical Pill
[Just listen to me… This place… this world… It's not a simple world at all! The system doesn't support or intervene there, as it's actually a border world]
[And?] what she said didn't even make me consider joining that crazy place!
[Many forces take part in the fights, but there are rules. One of these is that no stats are allowed there, only cultivation bases work]
[That's worse! I don't have forces with cultivation!]
[Yet! You are going to have that secret thing. And considering how rich and decisive you are, you will make all of your forces start cultivating]
[Sigh! Such a thing will take months, even years!].
[Not necessarily! After all, that world is on the border between our universe and that hostile one. So the energy there is dense and will help anyone with cultivation to breakthrough]
[I won't send my boys to a slaughterhouse hoping they will become butchers and not butchered!]
[You don't get it yet! Let me explain… That world will grade cultivation based on the big realms. Your boys will only start, right? That's a chance not another force or race is able to get!]
[What chance?!] her words didn't help at all! She was just throwing random sh*t here and there without any link to any.
[See, this world is arranged into zones. Each will allow only those within a certain big realm to enter. Your boys are going to start their cultivation, and their age will be over the needed lowest age limit. They will fight weak forces there, and not that much as well! Even if there is a slight gap in strength, with numbers they can prevail! Not to mention their bases will gain a good boast, a considerable one. Not to mention the winning gains]
[This…]
She looked pretty much enthusiastic about this. Sending my boys over to another world to fight and train? The idea in itself wasn't bad. But I still didn't see what was the real point behind telling me this.
[The gains are what mattered!] she seemed to read through my line of thoughts, [Any winner won't only gain coins and gears, they can get one hundred percent of any dead inventories. Not to mention the lord of such a force can claim equal size of his forces in any race he asks for!]
[This…]
[Some bids will be over entire worlds! You have to take this chance pretty damn seriously! Do you think other races are this fervent about getting their hands on your humans for what? Do you think they lack slaves? Workers? They needed such people to participate in this world!]
Her words made me realise something… many fighters here said they survived through hellish battles. But didn't they say they didn't have any cultivation bases? Or were they lying about it?
[But my human race is famous for not having an affinity with cultivation] I tried to get to the bottom of this.
[Not when they use the magical pill] and just from this line, I could tell there was a cheat way to make my humans grow. [It's temporary of course, but it's made from the rich energy in that world. It works only there, letting any race without cultivation to have a base enough to participate in the lower battles]
[This… Won't this let the enemies there have a large number of forces?]
[That's true, but comparing the tens of millions I'm sending over to you, their couple of hundred of thousands or even few millions won't matter, right? After all such pills can't be acquired unless from the main market inside that world. And its price isn't that cheap]
[I see…] I could see what she was trying to convey here. Looking at the large number of humans I was amassing, in a short period of time I could prepare an army of a hundred million and send it over there to train and win trophies for me.
But were the rewards really that rich? She said everything was related to bids. How rich were these bids in normal days anyway? Also I didn't know anything about such competition or the world.
[I can send you the details of the last thirty challenges in the first stage of cultivation] This girl seemed to be ready for this topic, even reading my mind for the second time right.
[Ok, send these over] I sent before adding, [How long did these bids last?]
[Each challenge will only last a single day. The last survivors will be counted. The force with the largest people there will be the winner and gets all. Also there are ranks for the top ten, each with different rewards]
It was a complicated setting. Then she kept sending lots of data throw messages.
When I saw these messages, I couldn't help but inwardly sigh. There was lots of information there. And it looked quite messy and gave me a little headache.
"We are here," Angelica's voice came at this moment to distract me, "where are our boys? And Hilary also sent a group to work as messengers. So where are your dragons?"
I tilted my neck and saw a group of fifty humans cladded all in armour. They were all females, and looked pretty much excited about this experience.
[Can you start sending the humans first while I scan through all this?] I sent first to the lady before taking fifty dragons out.
"Listen, from today you will answer to these girls and treat them as your secondary masters," I pointed at the small group of girls who were wearing a unified red coloured armour, "follow them and do as they say."
"Roar!"
My dragons were disciplined and followed and fought with me for such a long time already. They were one of the closest forces to my heart, and the most impressive thing about them was their obedience.
In the next few minutes, each dragon selected a master from these girls. Fifty girls with fifty dragons formed a small squad of dragon riders.
545 Ticket Passing To Worlds
If I had the opportunity, I'd expand such force later on. Just seeing the girls fly in the air while their laughs filled the atmosphere with such joy made me want to see more of this in my entire kingdom.
[Ok, I'll also send the soulers and other races you wanted as well]
[Send soulers for now, as for the other races, keep them with you for now] I totally forgot about other deals with her.
I always lacked soulers. But other races would only cause more chaos than help at this moment.
[Are you sure? We have over a hundred million of them right now!]
I knew this was a big figure, but that was a more reason for me to delay receiving such force.
I needed to rethink their role here. After all, I didn't lack any force at the moment with the help of my monsters.
I first thought about capturing these races as a revenge against those hostile races to humans..
But then I gradually sought their help to increase my understanding of the current apocalypse. Then it turned to fodders to help me in big wars.
At this moment, I didn't need any of that. So I wouldn't risk bringing them here without planning for their proper use.
[As you wish]
The next moment, many portals appeared and then the gush of the new batch of humans poured out. I saw the system message about the price to pay for them, and that gave me a sudden fright.
[Damn girl! I left you for a day and you brought over a hundred and fifty million humans here?!!!]
[It's not my fault that we won a bid in that world] I didn't know why but I imagined her laughing at this moment. [We asked for humans to be paid, and we got such a rich income this time]
[You… You didn't pay anything for this batch then?!!]
[Don't try, we have a contract, right?] I could only bitterly smile. I always suspected they were getting my humans at such a lower price than I was paying, but not like this!
This… it was like they were getting this for free!
[Don't think we got them for free! We paid a large price in terms of our lost forces]
[I know] of course I never bought any of what she said. Even if they lost troops to secure this win, they were destined to fall in any bid or fight for their sake.
So in other words, they just exchanged what they were planning to get for my humans. That might be the only loss they really took. And that made me inwardly sigh.
This… If that place was like what she just said, then it made logic how they got all these items for me and other customers.
I now recalled that each time I asked for any big deal, they would ask for a day or two to secure it. Did that mean they waited to win a bid before stating what they needed?
So what I got so far was taken forcibly from other races? And things like my current chariot main big weapons were sought over many battles before acquiring them?
Damn! Not knowing certain details about many things would add a layer of magic over it. Just knowing this small detail made all the efforts they did look pointless in my eyes.
Sigh! I shouldn't get myself concerned with their ways to do things. They were a big impact who would do anything to secure more profit for them.
But didn't that mean… Most of the humans if not all coming here had already witnessed this world?
First let me check the messy messages she sent before deciding what I should do next.
As I was doing that, Angelica and her boys started their tiring work to organise things down below.
Things were going smoothly down below. But at my side, I could only sigh. The amount of data she sent was just too much.
She didn't send just a few bidding options per day, but too much. It looked like she gave me all the bidding details of each day in that place.
But the more I read, the more shocked I became!
"A kingdom… A kingdom heart… No f*cking way!!!" I stopped at one bid and couldn't help but suck a cold air of breath.
What I lacked to truly announce my kingdom as a true one? It was a kingdom of hearts!
I got to go to the golden quests frequently in search of such a precious item. However it was simply won over a bid in that place.
"Cultivation big realm eight… That must be too high for me…" But when I reread the details about that bid, I got to know it was impossible for me to get this thing for now.
It was a bid over such a high grade cultivation fight. It seemed only logical for such a treasure to be bid at such a stage.
Gradually I started to see weird names with a title of being a race artefact or even godly treasures in the reward list.
Most of the bids were done over a high cultivation base. Their reward lists were so big and rich, making me realise why the lady suggested I go there and take part in this.
It was like a big cake, with shares for anyone wanting to join. As for the lower grade bids, they weren't that much compared to the higher ones.
Most of the rewards there were about getting races and strong warriors. It seemed all the big names taking part in these low grade cultivation bids were interested in amassing many races and warriors.
There were also lots of gears, special requested items like ores and materials. I even saw ticket passes for races to join the existing apocalypse either in the same apocalyptic twenty world group or outside it.
This was the way Hectors used to come here then. And just seeing this made me realise my world here wasn't safe.
546 Truth Behind The Bringold Impact
At any time, any race in any ongoing apocalypse would join here using that pass.
But it was also a chance for me to go and visit other worlds, not only here but anywhere in the universe.
These passes… I had to get a few for myself then!
[Tell me how to participate and what are the rules for the bids] I got interested after an hour of going through all this data.
In fact I got hooked just from the first ten minutes. From what I read, the rewards were really something I couldn't close an eye towards.
[It's easy, you can join by using an invitation from a previous winner] she said and I got to sniff the scent of her high price coming next.
[How much will this cost me?]
[Not that much… We don't ask for any payment for such a deal]
[Then…] From her words, I could tell this wasn't the first time her impact did such a deal. And that meant this was a customised way for them to gain profit.
But what was that profit then?
[We ask for a percentage from anything you'll get. No matter what, materials, races, and even gears. We will get small percent out of everything].
[How much?] I didn't hurry to celebrate such a deal. After all this impact had a bunch of greedy bastards who wouldn't just accept loss or small profits.
[Twenty percent of all] as expected! Just by lending me a pass, they'd gain twenty percent of everything!
Just thinking about how much this would bring for them, it made me sigh. They… Didn't need to go by their own selves and risk their forces.
Why would they even do it when they could simply let others work for them? Me and other customers would turn into their suppliers, slaves for their gains.
[You…]
[Just think about it, without us you won't get any foot there]
So she wasn't just advising me before out of good will or care. She did it for her own sake. Dammit! Those merchants… were really sly and cunning bastards!
[Let me think about it then]
[Come on! It's as if you didn't see many great things there!]
[But they all are way above my reach, right?]
[But we can provide some to you]
[You couldn't deliver the kingdom heart before, so I doubt you can get what I need]
[Sigh! That was when we first met! Do you think I can give such a precious thing to you? On our first date?]
[Meeting, not date] I rolled my eyes, [besides I also asked you later about it and you said it's impossible!]
[It was also in our first dealings! You can't blame me for being cautious on our first dates, darling!]
[You… Stop playing around] this girl… She sometimes loved to get on my nerves by saying such things.
[I'm not that half bad for you to keep rejecting me like this!]
[Old hag! You should look for someone in your calibre!]
[I'm, and you are such a good boy suitable for me]
[Damn! I won't respond to any of your bullsh*t!]
[A man shall select his path wisely, while a girl shall select the man who will carry her on her path more wisely]
I didn't respond and she kept sending such useless words before she finally returned back to the main topic.
[Anyway, one way or another I'll find a way to your heart and life. For now, do you need an invitation?]
[If you will secure a kingdom heart in return for this, then yes I'd agree]
[That… Kingdom hearts aren't that easy to find!]
[You… Didn't you say you can get it?]
[Not me, but the boss can]
[Then ask for his agreement]
[That will take days!]
[I won't accept that invitation before you give me your answer and a contract with it]
[Sigh! Why is it so damn hard to get any profit from you?]
[Just make sure to give me offers I can't refuse and I won't]
[Ok… Ok bad human boy… I'll talk to my boss and see what I shall do]
[Keep me informed]
I closed the chat with her while feeling a little dizzy. I read through lots of information this time. And above all, they weren't organised or anything.
But at least I got to know of a way to get my desired kingdom's heart. That extremely precious item was something I'd do anything to get.
I looked around. The process of sorting everyone was a long and tiring process.
Like before, this giant batch of humans were all slaves who lived their lives in poor conditions before. I could only sigh and bitterly watch while Angelica followed the same routine like she and Hilary did before.
Well… for now things were going to settle down inside my kingdom. The threat coming from the Hector small continent would be left over for later.
They might have a death feud with me, but that didn't mean they would just focus everything on my face.
They had to fight for themselves in the apocalypse. I doubted this was the only continent they brought here from their world.
As for other races, they'd get busy dealing with these merge consequences and sort things out. I had Selvators in my pocket, and Berserkers on the same path.
Mentioning this race… Why was that talkative Wryly all quiet recently?
Last time I spoke with him was when I asked for his help to get to know what was going on in my capital.
I recalled he said something about fetching a group of his fastest fighters over here. But I didn't see any glimpse of them, or hear from him for such a long time.
This… Was weird! Was he that damn busy fighting those monsters in this quest or what?
[How are you doing, pal?] I sent this message to him, and waited for his answer and explanation.
[Hey bro, sorry but I'm busy fighting right now. Anything serious?]
[Fighting? I never thought you'd take interest in fighting monsters!]
547 Dragons Vs Berserkers Big War
[No, not monsters. Those damn Dragons! They left all the races here and came at our continent at the north]
"North…" I thought about what he said. Before the apocalypse, Earth had the northern parts of this continent covered in snow and ushered in cold weather.
But when the apocalypse hit, two more giant continents appeared up above it. The northern pole wasn't located near the northern lands from here. And one of these two continents belonged to the Dragons.
And the other one belonged to the Berserkers!
"Damn! This is the start of the brutal, decades-long war between the two!" I patted my forehead. How did I forget about such a thing?
The winner? It was the Dragons of course. Even if the Berserkers were mighty and brave, they lacked the deep pockets of those Dragons.
And with deep pockets, Dragons managed to purchase the allegiance of the Selvators, making them join this war in the last years of it as their allies.
And this changed the course of this long war, ending it by the loss of the Berserkers and the division of their continent up north between the two allied forces.
Then the Dragons betrayed the alliance and came at the Selvators, winning the entire continent and starting another long war with the Selvators.
The latter tried their best to ally with the Berserkers, to get back at the Dragons. But the Berserkers were never such a wise race. They only cared about taking revenge. And in their eyes, Dragons and Selvators were two faces of the same coin..
So the attempts of the Selvators to amend the broken trust with Berserkers ended with a big failure. This led to a big three races war that extended even to my time.
In the middle of such giant fights, mediocre races like humans, Illusionists, and Succubi had no saying or actions in it.
So our three races started to fight among themselves, trying to get anything from each other.
But all this changed by me. The Selvators weren't the same mighty and scary race. Humans weren't the weak link in the entire race chain. And Berserkers wouldn't fight the Dragons alone and lose like before.
[The fight started already?] I asked despite knowing the answer.
The fight started after the arrival of the two continents up north. And that already happened.
[We have our land here. It's under my paragon's protection. So we can't lose it]
More reasons for me to help.
[Try to stall and secure that part until I'm ready to come for your aid] I didn't hurry to decide to go and participate in such a long war.
After all, fighting Dragons needed more preparations. Even if I got rid of the Selvators out of the picture, Hectors were here.
And those annoying dudes would make a perfect replacement for the Selvators.
[Thanks bro. I believe we won't need any help as we are going to crush those bastards and invade their lands soon]
That Wryly… Sigh! The berserkers were just exactly like that. They over trusted their abilities to fight and win wars, thinking wars were won by might alone.
[I have faith in you] I lied, [If you ever needed help, just message me]
[Good. but about my lands…]
[Don't worry about it, I'll send my forces there to protect it]
I had to make sure the western borders weren't in any threat. And I just had the perfect man to do this task.
[Where are you now?] I sent it to my lone wolf, my dear jumper.
[At the south, trying to gather up the scattered monsters]
[Good. gather them and go up north]
[What for?]
[Dragons are fighting Berserkers at the northern continents]
[The big war between the two started already? Damn!] This jerk seemed to know what was going to happen. [But… Do they need help? They lost it big at the early battles]
[I know, but first we have to secure our lands to the north] I paused, [first control and stabilise things there. Then you can go up north to kill Dragons]
[I hate Dragons, and hate Selvators even more]
[Selvators are our allies, not Dragons]
[Selvators are your slave workers, not allies]
I laughed when I read this. I closed the chat after making sure that bastard would move up north once he finished grouping his monsters.
And now what?
[The southern lands are now soaked with water. You can control lands close to this]
[We are already working to dominate that region. You do know that our continent appeared there, next to one of the Hectors, right?]
[You got Hector continent there?!!] That was truly surprising. As far as I knew, each race would bring one continent to each big continent of ours.
[Yes. did they bring more?]
[One to my East]
[Damn! Let me check if they brought anything anywhere else]
[Make sure to send your boys to control the undrowned parts of Texas] I made sure to remind him of doing that. As for Hectors. It would be a nuisance if they brought over more continents around here.
They brought two for now. How did they do it? They should be able to bring one continent only, expanding it with each merge process.
Damn! They must have something to use to allow them such privilege.
If they brought a continent up north… Things would be much more chaotic than I thought.
Would I join the fight in the north right now? I felt a little hesitant about this.
I had to first let my boys start cultivating. Opening the base wouldn't take much time, but would consume lots of resources.
Then levelling up would be a long and tiring process. Also I wanted to send a big part of them over to that bidding world.
Recalling this, I wanted to go and ask humans here about this world. But seeing how Angelica and her men were busy handling things here, I decided to not act right now.
Well… As everything was calm for now, it was time for me to pay a visit to my shadow world.
I brought many things inside, and had to see what things inside looked like.
548 Inside My Shadow World
I sat down on my chariot, closed my eyes, regulated my breathings, and started my journey into my shadow world.
Once I entered there, I found many changes.
The world was before pitch black, expanding to a very far distance, looking like a real world and not just a simple shadow of mine.
In the base, there was that land looking part where that scary thing lay there. In the middle was my new dantian, with its grand structure that looked tiny and small from the general look.
But getting focused on it made it look like it was huge. I knew this was the wonder of my cultivation with the buildings and towers scattered across it.
That was all normal. What was new was that clump of energy that looked like it was moving all the time.
It was made out of threads, thin and thick, moving all the time like they were breathing. They moved slow at times, fast at times, giving me the feeling I was looking at a living being and not just a gathering of energy.
"This…" I slowly muttered while looking around this energy. It didn't take a large place here, but when I concentrated, it gave me the same feeling as my cultivation base..
It was huge! Its threads looked like thick arms and pillars moving all over the place all the time. The centre of it didn't look like other parts of it. It had some sort of a dense mass of black blue energy that looked in a semi-solid status.
But I didn't see anything related to the massive ocean waves I sucked in. also there was no trace of any creature here.
What just happened?
I didn't hurry to get near that clump of dark blue energy. I scanned the parts I could reach with my sight, feeling only void and darkness was there.
This world… It looked more mysterious than before in my eyes.
"Let's see what this… Thing is!"
I now was more certain than before of the nature of this cluster of energy. It was the source of the black energy, the one I used before in my recent battles.
Was it the one that gave me energy to control and tame that monster? I recalled the itching wound at my back, the glove that covered my arm, and couldn't help but feel more curious about this energy.
But how should I examine it?
I started to control the secondary dantian of mine here, moving its energy around its dense circuit of meridians.
Then I let a small thread move out from it, moving slowly towards this thing.
*Crunch!*
The sound that came from this energy was the sound of a mouth eating something. The thread of my energy was eaten away without leaving behind a trace.
Seeing this made me frown. This thing… Was it able to devour my energy? Damn fierce! Then…
"It must have devoured all the creatures and waters I brought over here," I reached such a conclusion, especially when I sucked all of this using this cluster of energy's help.
But how would I get connected to it without even getting eaten by it?
I stood there for a long time thinking of solutions. The energy here was controlled by me to some extent. Or else how did I borrow its help using my techniques?
"My techniques…" Suddenly my eyes flashed with a realisation when I recalled my techniques. I was able to borrow and slightly control this energy to some extent using my techniques.
Didn't that mean the link between me and this energy was based upon techniques?
I was in my shadow world in spiritual form, not my real body. So I was unable to use my real blood to create a technique here.
I could create an imaginary form of blood, and that was, in fact, just spiritual energy, much denser than usual of course.
I didn't hesitate then to summon my glaive here and injure myself. Then I started making the first technique.
My first technique was one that would allow me to attack and control other beings. But when my threads came out and tried to control this thing here, they got instantly devoured by that stupid clump of energy.
"Damn fierce!" I even felt severe pain in my heart when that thing devoured and crushed down my threads.
"One technique failed, then the other…"
I didn't get only one technique after all. And one failure wouldn't stop me from trying.
Next was my portal technique.
But when I formed it, the portal that appeared here created such a fierce tsunami of energy that poured from my real world to this one.
All the energy was gushed in and sucked dry by that thing. Its threads started to vibrate and move faster, shrinking and expanding like never before.
It looked more excited to devour this energy than mine. But would it be safer to do that? And how would that help in letting me get in touch with that energy?
I didn't know… And I didn't hurry to close that portal. I left it for more than an hour, while closely watching from the side the changes that happened there.
The portal used to appear before with thick tentacles. But these came from this clump of energy. This time I was doing the opposite, connecting this world with the outside real one.
So there were no tentacles, or to be more precise, the tentacles were devoured fast to not have the time to take shape.
This cluster of energy looked so damn hungry for energy, any form of energy. Of course my world's energy was getting upgraded by the merging process of alien worlds.
And letting this thing keep absorbing it wouldn't harm me in any way. But I wasn't here to feed it. I was here to get to know more about it and try to control it as well.
So… My second technique failed… Should I try with my third and newest one then?
549 Creating A New Technique
But my third technique was used to seal and bind any creature with my power, just like any system contract would do.
I depended on this energy to do it. Would it be possible to do the same? Use the same kind of energy to bind the same energy with? Damn! It didn't make any sense at all!
Think… I kept telling myself this. I was lost in thoughts while looking at this energy. It gave me the impression of being a living monster.
But how would I bind it to me? Using its own energy against itself? Would that even work?
"I… Built the entire thing on the concept of words holding energy… But won't that also mean I can change it to do other things? Like… Getting a connection stable and secure with this energy?"
I thought out loud while considering all my options here. Just thinking like that made me realise the third technique wasn't just one limited for binding. It could be changed to form lots of other effects, endless possibilities.
Well… I had to test it out first before deciding anything. So, what should I focus on here?.
"First I shall focus on words to ease the connection between me and it… Like Channel, Meridian, Connection, and Bond…" I thought before thinking about words to make me feel secure.
I knew I had to compose thirteen words, and in the end I'd use my name to bind these together and form my final technique.
I kept thinking about words to make this connection pass in both directions. I felt like this energy had its own conscience, and it would be a waste to just force my will solely upon it.
I also needed to slowly integrate my energy with it, adding my own to this berserk and violent one to make it much gentler towards me.
Also I made sure to add a few securing words, like Safe and Ally. I also added a word, Slave, to make sure it wouldn't get out of control at any moment, plus Obedience as well.
"It's ready," As I finished selecting the words I wanted, I started making this technique.
At first I controlled the two first techniques of mine together. Then I controlled one thick tentacle to write down these words using my blood.
When the merged technique was formed, I noticed the mass of dark blue energy getting berserk all of sudden. Its threads shone brighter, creating an easy to see bright blue lustre that illuminated the area here.
I knew it was responding to the call of my merged technique. After all I was using my blood as the medium, and this dark blue energy as the fuel to run this technique.
Each word written was surrounded with tentacles from the merged black sphere. The first word took thirteen, down to the last word that took only one.
Then the last word written was my name, and that didn't absorb any tentacle. It just hovered in the middle of all the different sized spheres, acting as its centre.
And once the entire spheres coalesced together, they formed a new bigger ball that hovered in between me and that mass of dark energy.
"Now… What?!" I stood in my place, not knowing what else I should do. I looked at this final version of my technique and felt a little at loss.
The previous time I used it, the technique worked on its own to grab that damn monster to it. But this doesn't happen now.
"Maybe… It's waiting for me to take a move…" I thought this wasn't a technique to bind and seal but to link and connect.
I looked up at my merged technique. Should I use these tentacles to do it?
If I did, then I'd end up gaining nothing. This energy would get connected and linked with my final merged technique, which was something that was already present.
So… I had to think about other solutions. There was another way to do it. I could use my own energy here, moving a thread from my secondary dantian and trying to link it to this ball.
If this worked, then I'd be linked to this energy all the time. Or would it be limited only when I used the third technique? I hoped this wouldn't be the case.
Last time my technique ended up with a mark over my back. This time I hoped it would do the same, creating something that would last and be active all the time.
"Come forth!" I controlled my secondary dantian, moved the energy in it to form a thin thread and moved it towards the ball.
Last time I tried to do something like that, the black energy here devoured my threads, leaving no trace behind.
I hoped this time this new technique wouldn't do this.
As the thread got closer, it started to twist in a weird way. At first I felt like there was some sort of resistance to it. But later on I felt it wasn't just a resistance.
That ball was pushing my thread aside, not letting it get closer.
I was this close from giving up when I felt something different. This thread… It wasn't pushed away, but towards a certain direction, towards me!
"Come!" What was there to be afraid of? This was my energy, and if that technique wanted it to come to me then let it be.
I didn't push the thread again towards the ball, but around it to reach me. And just as I did that, I saw a change in that big black blue ball.
Two thick protrusions came from it, one towards me and the other towards the dark energy. It appeared first as if something inside that big ball was trying to break out.
Then it started to grow thinner and looked more like a thick pillar. Once the thread of my secondary dantian came to me, that pillar also arrived with it.
I looked at the two pointing at me and took a deep breath. It was clear what was going to happen, and I felt I had to prepare myself first for the deep pain I'd feel.
550 Losing Consciousness!
"Come!" I knew these two looking as raised daggers in front of my face weren't going any easy on me.
But if that was the only path, then let it be done!
"Ahhh!"
All I felt was such a scorching pain that I never imagined or felt before. It felt like all cells in my body got burnt and blazed like they were being baptised with fire.
I screamed, screamed for a long time that felt like a decade. I didn't know what to do but to try and endure.
But would anyone be able to endure such pain? It wasn't a pain any living person should experience.
Just after long minutes, and when I started to feel I was enduring this, the pain showed that it had another level I never knew of.
It started with dissipating towards my heart and mind, then my soul. I could feel my soul getting chopped to pieces, big ones, then smaller, and smaller.
It was so damn painful! I felt like I was dying, one time after a time, like thrown alive into a boiling oil container..
This pain kept assaulting me fiercely without any rest, like it would never stop. But I did my best to remain alive, dropping any hope of enduring the pain.
After an unknown period of time, my body started to feel numb. The pain started to grow dull, gradually fading away.
It stopped! It finally stopped! I didn't know if this was something worthy of celebration, but all I felt was for my knees to touch the ground.
I was thrown out from this world, or perhaps I lost concentration and was awakened outside. I felt no power, so damn weak to even stabilise my body and prevent it from falling.
*Thud!*
"Hye!"
I heard this scream that was filled with concern and deep emotions before the world turned all dark from around me.
And the next second I fell unconscious.
I didn't know for how long I slept like this. But the moment I opened my eyes, I recognised the ceiling of one of my chariot's room.
"Hye!"
The second thing I noticed was the deeply distressed voice of Hilary. Then I felt a body thrown over me, while sobbing and crying.
"Hilary… What are you doing?" I felt like my voice was stripped off its vigour and came coarse.
"You… You were sleeping for the entire three days… Without waking up…" she said amidst her tears, while her body shook from time to time.
Three days… I slept for three days straight?!! This was…
And it suddenly hit me. I recalled what happened in my shadow world, making me unable to sit anymore.
I slowly and gently pushed her body aside, sat erect on the edge of the bed to be welcomed with the worried and concerned eyes of those standing at the door opening.
Lily, Angelica, the spearhead, and others were here. Even the jumper appeared here as well with his ugly cold mask.
Yet from under the mask, I could tell his eyes carried lots of worry and concern, and tons of questions.
"You… Are you… Alright… Sob?!" Hilary asked amidst her tears, and I could only pat on her shoulder, trying to reassure her.
"I'm alright," I said, "there is nothing to worry about."
"But…"
"I'm fine," I grabbed her tighter to come closer to me. Her body shook for a few times before she finally grew calmer.
"You are really a master in making people worry," the voice of the jumper came next with a deep sigh, "they brought me over from the frontline and I had to stop my invading plans to the north."
"I'm good."
"I can tell that," he rolled his eyes, "but you were… Really in such a deep sh*t this time. What? Did you meet a formidable enemy you couldn't overcome? But I didn't see any wounds on your body at all."
"You… Look at my body?!!!" I was baffled by this.
"I had to," he shrugged, "after all she never stopped nagging me until I did."
"I told you," Angelica stepped in at this moment, showing a weird look to that dude, "he was practising over his chariot when he suddenly started screaming and twitching like he got seizures or something!"
"People in seizures won't scream," Leo's voice came before adding when all the people here looked at him, "I just had a friend with such a case before."
"Angelica is right," I tried to stand up but hit violently with a dizziness that made me return to bed.
"Easy… Easy there," Hilary stood up and helped me return to bed.
"You look like sh*t my friend," the jumper said while I bitterly smiled.
"You finally called me your friend, fantastic!"
"Don't get used to it," he rolled his eyes, "folks, he is good and alive. So let him rest and let's return to our business. Hilary…"
He said and Hilary seemed reluctant to leave my side. But when he said her name again, she had to leave me behind.
Everyone left, leaving me and that jumper alone.
"Sigh! You know you gave me a scare just now?" That bastard showed a soft side of him that I never thought existed.
"It's not that easy to get killed."
"I know, and that is what made it scarier!" he sighed, came to sit by my side before adding, "it's not that easy to find someone like you in this world."
"Speak more like this and I'll start suspecting your identity!"
"Hahahaha, it's just you gave me such a troublesome three days," he laughed before adding, "anyway, the kingdom affairs are good. The building process has started and we are going to see the results soon."
"And? Ores?" I asked as this was the most important missing item here.
"Our boys found a rich mine nearby and managed to claim lots of ores while you were asleep," the jumper said before adding, "that Isac dude is a workaholic! He came only once to check on you, knew you were alive, and returned to oversee the rebuilding process."
551 My Right Glove!
"He… Is something," I sighed, shaking my head as this girl seemed terrified to get her cover blown so she decided to stay away from all of them.
"He decided to go all out in the digging process, saying that it would take time anyway," the jumper explained, "and after one day, our boys found a good mine filled with a good grade of ore suitable for the underground process."
"Did he start laying foundations already?" I asked with concern, as this process was very important.
"Not yet" the jumper thankfully shook his head, "he will start it the next day I believe."
"That's… Relieving…" I couldn't help but sigh out loud. I just didn't want her to use any available ore in this world. I planned to purchase lots of ores from the Bringold impact.
But it seemed things got a little out of my control here. It seemed I got severely tortured to lose conscious once that technique ended.
Did it end well? I had to go in to know the answer.
"By the way," just when I was lost in my thoughts, the jumper pointed at me as he added, "what's wrong with your right arm anyway?".
"My right arm?!!" I was surprised when he said it before I looked and there I found a faint layer of glove covering up my arm till above the elbow joint.
It was just similar to the one which I used before in my fight with that scary monster. It wasn't that different except it was much thinner and fainter than the one I had before.
I touched it, and weirdly it felt like it was part of my skin. I felt my left hand fingers moving over it like they were moving over my skin.
"This…"
"Angelica was the first to come to you," the jumper said, before adding, "she said this thing here was much denser and thicker, looking more corporeal than now."
"I see…" It was my glove from back then. But why did it appear like this? Why would it feel like it was part of my body?
I didn't get any answers right now. But everything pointed at my technique, or else why would it appear when I just finished my technique?
Did this mean my technique was a success? Last time I used this technique, I got a mark over my back. This time I got this glove. What would happen if I kept using this technique?
Would I end up looking like a freak or something? Damn! It was a fierce technique!
"Are you sure you are… Ok?" the jumper asked again and I had to admit… This side of him was really annoying and getting much more than ever on my nerves!
"I'm good," I said while trying to stand up, "help me… I want to see the outside world."
"This…" the jumper was about to say something to stop me, but I simply grabbed him by my right arm.
Just this simple grab made him fly in the air and hit the wall! Damn! It wasn't an intended move from me. But it ended up making me realise how fierce my right arm was.
"Hye! Why did you do that?!!" the jumper stood up as he shouted in faint anger.
"You know I didn't mean it," I sighed, "come, come and let me come outside."
"You should rest" the jumper came, but avoided my fierce right arm by going to my left side. I surrounded his neck with my arm, and started to walk step by step with his help.
Things looked like I was starting to learn how to walk! I was so weak to stand alone, not to mention walking.
But when I face the fresh air up there and the bright sunny light, I get more energised and can stand on my own for now.
I stopped walking just on the edge of my chariot. I was still in the same place my chariot stopped at. But the large number of humans who were filling the world here before were gone by now.
"They were taken away by Angelica," the jumper said before I could even ask.
"Stop it! I'm not that weak or dying or something!" I rolled my eyes when he showed a caring side that I didn't like.
"Ok," he cleared his throat before adding, "I stopped fighting in the north. If you are fine, I can return back now. The journey will take at least ten hours to arrive at my boys."
"How is the situation there?" I started to control my chariot to move around and take me on a tour around the capital.
As he said, Isac led everyone here to start digging the earth. Everywhere I saw piles of dirt were there, while deep lines were present all around the capital.
From high above, I could see the general layout of the capital as it would be in the future. I could see the designs of buildings, the residence and administrative blocks, besides wide streets and the places of the walls surrounding the capital from the horizon.
"I got nothing to stop my progress," he bragged, "my boys are fierce!"
"They are my monsters, not yours," I reminded him.
"They are serving me now!"
"Don't say it again or else I'd give them the order to kill you on sight," I laughed and he shook his head in regret and envy.
Dude… If you are capable, then try to mimic my actions. That if you dared to do it anyway.
"I'll push my way to the north," he said, "I want to join that big fight anyway."
"It's not going to end anytime soon," I said while using my Hawk Eye skill to see closer.
Just when I activated it, I felt heat in my right arm before my skill became much sharper.
It showed things much clearer, letting me feel like I was standing just on top of any place I looked at.
So… This technique also affected my skills? Interesting!