Chapter 63 - 701-715

701 The Seed Of Necromancers' World

If they asked for blue or green ones, then I got tens of millions inside my inventory.

Such wealth made me feel great! Even when dealing with such mighty figures, I still had the capital to ask for everything without batting an eye or worrying about anything.

[I'll take a few hours to prepare these things for you. But I got the rest of treasures promised for you in the contracts]

I knew he was talking about the seed of necromancers' world, the black liquid of death, the den of heroes, a blood fountain of the mightiest heroes, the fountain of life, and the golden breath of life essence.

All these were promised to me per contract. I had to pay nothing to get them.

In addition to the last kingdom heart lying in my inventory, I now got everything they promised before.

[Send them over] I said, [Also what did you do about the races and warriors?]

[I had early batches ready to be delivered. Do you want them now?]

I looked around. It was better to summon them on my second Earth. From now on, my second Earth would be my real base..

But before that, I needed the monster's dens first.

[Did you bring me the dens?]

[They are with me already. It's you who took much longer than expected. But…]

[How much?] I knew he paused as the price given by the three sovereigns must be higher than what he expected, higher than what I even expected.

[It's not the issue of the price, but the grade]

[What do you mean?]

[Well… You know we are asking the help of sovereigns here. They are mighty figures and they never look over anything common]

[You mean… The grades of these monsters are quite high?]

[Precisely!]

Damn! I wanted to train my troops and make them stronger, not to throw them against fierce monsters and hope they would survive!

[You know using such high grade dens won't help!]

[I got a few low grade ones, but the most are high grade. If you can wait, I'll ask them to order normal grade one's for you. But this will take at least one week]

[One week? Ok, send me what you got and ask them to buy me low grade ones]

[I'll send the list I got over for you to check…]

[No need, just send them and tell me how much I'll pay]

[Ok!]

If the green nymph lady was here, she would have commented over how rich I was and blah blah. This dude was more practical and conserved compared to her.

He was a pro, and she looked more like an amateur to me.

I paid ten thousand silver grade bones just for this deal alone. I got five hundred dens, telling me how pricey these things were.

I looked at the dens, mostly they were ground monsters. I got ten of each kind of dens, meaning there were fifty kinds of different monsters in these dens.

Out of them, forty monsters were ground ones. Seven were aquatic, and three were flying.

As funny as it might seem, out of the forty ground monster den kinds I got, only five were weak and common grade ones.

The rest were higher grade monsters, making me place them on the side for now.

As for the rest, the aquatic monsters got three common grades, and flying ones got two.

This was weird and funny to me. I got lots of ground monsters, and only got five out of them. It was a very low percentage compared to the other two types of monster dens.

So I got ten common grade monster dens out of the fifty I got. I didn't know if this would be enough or not, but for now Lily had to deal with this.

After one week, I'd get much more dense.

As I'd waited for a few hours, I went towards the direction of the Hector continent.

Out of my three main artefacts I got from the sovereigns, one could be used here; the necromancers' world seed.

And I decided to plant it over the Hector continent.

This seed would form a secluded world here, one that would absorb all the death energy from this world. I didn't know how far the seed could absorb, so I decided to be safe and use it near an ongoing war.

The fight with Hector's world lasts for months, might even extend for years. So this place would be rich in death energy for a long time.

I didn't know how long this world would take to mature. So it was best to use it right now while waiting for Lily to come back and for Silverlining to bring my things up.

I passed over the capital and then crossed over the bridge. The forces inside the capital looked fewer, but they were enough to secure the place for now.

For tens of miles up ahead, I saw no one. All the forces were fighting at a very far distance from here.

I didn't stop after crossing the ocean and kept flying over the Hector continent for half an hour. I crossed enough distance to allow the seed world to grow and become vast.

"Time to see what's all about you," I took out the seed and started to closely examine it.

The seed wasn't like any seed anyone would imagine. In fact I'd call it a star shaped gem instead. It had a ball-like centre that was the size of a closed fist.

It was dark red in colour, with thick black lines covering it.

From this ball, many black short and sharp spikes came out. I didn't know what would happen if I got wounded by these spikes, but I carefully held it as I examined its description.

[The seed of necromancers' world: A high grade artefact. Was owned previously by Lurdan of the Toranks race. Now it's owned by Hye of the Human race.

Using it will create a world, secluded from the world outside, following its own rules. It will be a pocket world, covering up one mile radius area from outside with one hundred mile radius from the inside…]

702 Creating A Pocket World

[… To grow the pocket world size, you have to use death energy related treasures, or wait for the world to absorb energy from the world around.

The rate of absorption depends on the overall size of the pocket world outer surface. For example, the one mile radius pocket world will absorb death energy from one hundred mile radius around it.

The wider the area the pocket world can absorb death energy from, the faster it will take for it to mature.

With a basic area of one mile radius, the pocket world will take from one up to three years to mature. Increasing its area will shorten this duration.

The seed can be transferred between owners, but if used it can't be moved again.

The owner determines who will enter and exit this world. No matter who, no one can enter the world without the owner's permission.

To use it, the owner has to donate his blood before planting the seed deep into the ground. The planting process will take different times according to the density of the death energy around]

Well… It was such a long and detailed explanation of this seed. I held it in my hand and thought about the information I just read..

So planting it would create a pocket world, with much smaller surface area from the outside than its true space.

But that wasn't the big news, the last part was. This world would be impregnable, meaning no one could trespass it no matter what!

Leaving it here would be the best backup plan I'd have right now if things went wrong in this war. Like this, and with the necromancers inside, I could leave behind a thorn in their backs.

I held it and looked around. "I'll move a bit forward then."

I flew for another half an hour before stopping at a wide basin in the middle of a series of mountains.

There was a river running in the middle of this place, and the basin kept expanding for some distance, covering an area of hundreds of miles at its centre, before closing up again at the horizon.

It was a great place to have my pocket world. At least I'd let my necromancers have a good sight.

But what with my blood? I was giving out my blood recently as if I was dealing with vampires!

I held the seed and without further hesitation, I stabbed these spiky thorns of it at my right palm.

"Damn! It hurts!" I felt a great deal of pain for a long time. Since I started my cultivation path, pain started to vanish from my world.

Yet when I used this seed, its spikes brought me such an uncomfortable feeling.

But that wasn't the issue. The moment these spikes went through my skin like they were knives cutting through butter, they started to crazily absorb my blood and energy!

They didn't just take my blood, but also my spiritual energy, stirring up my right arm dantian first before my central one in the next few seconds.

"Damn fierce!" I felt drained like never before! And this happened so damn fast! Without any hesitation, I took out lots of green bones and started absorbing their energy.

Once the energy gushed into my body, it started to replenish the lost energy. It really felt refreshing doing so, and with that Established such a threat fast.

As for the seed, once it started to swallow my blood and energy in such a way, it began to shine in weird pulsations.

It emitted black colour in regular rhythm, while the spikes kept shining in fierce red light.

This kept happening for half an hour! And just by then I felt this seed wanting to break free from my hand.

"You dare to eat up my energy in such a rude way and now want to leave? No, keep eating. I brought tons of bones for you. Let's see what your limit is!"

I knew it got enough to start building the pocket world. But why the rush then? If it wanted energy and blood, I could provide lots of it!

My blood was getting purified by my spiritual energy. I liked this feeling and so kept the process running.

As for my spiritual energy, I simply kept it at balance while using the help of my useless green bones.

Since it started to try and break free and I felt more suction force coming from it. This seed seemed to try and punish me in return for my refusal to let it go.

"Keep absorbing my stuff, I can handle even more," I laughed when faced with such a response from this seed.

For a moment there it felt like I was dealing with a naughty girl, grumping over not letting her go out or something.

This kept going on for another half an hour. During this period, the suction force coming from this seed grew exponentially, letting me finally give up.

"Go now," I knew this seed must be planted deeply in the ground. So during the time I took to let it absorb my blood and energy, I let a group of thousand warriors out and let them dig a big and deep hole.

Once I reached my limit, I summoned them all back before throwing this seed deep into this hole. Once it touched the deep bottom, a rocking reaction occurred.

The weird thing was the area affected by this trembling. It spanned for one mile before stopping, as if this piece was separated from the entire world here.

"I shall get back then," seeing this scene made me realise the world was coming to shape soon. So I retreated back, beyond the area affected by this trembling.

And once I got there, a new change occurred.

*Fwoosh!* *Fwoosh!* *Fwoosh!*

It looked like this one mile radius zone was sucking air from all over the world. It started first with a gust of wind, all going towards this zone.

Then it started to grow fiercer, forming small then big tornados.

703 Toying With Lily

The air wasn't transparent, having lots of black wisps dancing around. I knew this was the death energy getting absorbed by this seed.

Yet after another hour, just the magnitude of this process made me retreat even further to the rear.

And as this process kept going on, I spotted Lily leading out a large number of Hectors, marching towards my direction.

She was on top of her chariot, moving out as if she was leading a fierce elite force or something.

"I heard there is a big thing going on here, and I betted my scales over it being related to you," once she came on board my chariot, she said while shaking off her head.

"I'm not a troublemaker," I rolled my eyes in response to her comment.

"You are, but you are ignorant about the true nature of yourself," she said with a short laugh before pointing out the direction of this pocket world, "what sorcery are you using here this time?"

"I'm not using any magic! I'm just doing something good."

"I bet on my scales it's something bad for your enemies.".

"Hahaha! Who told them to be this stubborn? They should lower their heads and follow my lead."

"Arrogant, but I like you," she said in such a soft tone that made me clear my throat to break free from her feminine spell.

"I see you got lots of Hectors this time," I shifted the topic over to the big army she was leading.

Before this war, the total size of Hectors in my kingdom wasn't exceeding a couple of thousands! But the ones standing down below were in hundreds of thousands.

It was a big increase indeed. I never thought I controlled so many during this war.

"It's thanks to you, and me," she said such weird words that made me look at her in doubt, "Sigh! You still don't realise what this continent is!"

"Tell me then," I shrugged. I have nothing but time right now. It seemed the process of making the pocket world would take longer than I expected.

"This is our world," she said in a different tone and attitude, as if she was defending her people, "this isn't just a random continent, it's part of our world."

"And it became part of mine."

"You are missing the point," she shook her head before adding, "this is our world! It means it's not just filled with fighters and armies. There are towns and cities, families living in all of them."

"And?" I got her point, but didn't see how that was related to her Hectors getting larger in number in such a way.

"The ones you controlled and forced to follow you have families out there. I just let them bring them over, and that is what made the army look this huge."

"You mean…" I turned my eyes towards the large number down below. And for the first time, I spotted many kids down there.

Yes, there were families! Damn! This Lily… She found such a brilliant way to increase the size of Hectors in my kingdom, a way that I never thought of before.

"What? You got any objections about what I did?" she mistook my silence for being annoyed.

"Not at all," I said, "I like what you did! But all the new folks must sign a contract first."

"Sure, as their men did it, they would also do it," she simply said before asking again, "are you sure this is ok for you? I know you quite well, and this isn't something you might encourage or welcome."

"Why?" I looked at her in a weird way, "as long as they are useful to my kingdom, then they are welcome to join."

"Really? Kids and pregnant women are going to be useful for you? How?"

"You just don't know what I have in here," I pointed at my head. For sure getting more of any race without having a good use for them wasn't my style of doing things.

But Hectors? The ones who were responsible for the entire process of making potions? The ones who had such a fierce style of training? The ones who were strong warriors?

I would never say no to such a race.

But give me succubi or illusionists and I'd refuse even hundreds of millions of these useless trash races.

"Something is telling me you have crazy plans for us!"

"Bingo!" I laughed, "you are going to be lost in work during the next months, I can guarantee you that."

"Bully!" she said in such a funny way, making me laugh even further.

"Alright, go down there and spread these contracts over the ones without any," I started a spree of purchases, buying almost one million contracts. I started signing them while handing the ones I finished to her.

"Do you think I'm your servant girl or something? I have my own people to do such dirty things… Snap!"

With a snap of her fingers, a group of Hectors appeared cladded in similar armour.

"You even let them dress in such a way, you went way too much ahead than me," I laughed and she just waved aside her hair in a showy way.

"That's the perk of being the general of them."

"And that's the perk of being the lord."

"You are a bully, but I'm a kind general."

"It depends," I laughed, making her pout her lips in such a funny way that made me laugh again.

During the next couple of hours, her boys led everyone to sign contracts with me.

"How can you know if no one here missed signing the contract?" After we got it done, she asked such a hard question.

"Watch and learn," I simply opened my profile page, selected the contract section, and selected all the Hectors under my contract authority.

[Go south for ten miles and then walk in a circle before coming back here!]

"This…" just as I sent the order, the face of Lily changed before she forcibly moved out as everyone else.

704 The Silver Grade Monster Den

As everyone moved, not a single one remained behind. I knew she was joking, but I showed her how things could be done if I got any doubt.

I wasn't without a solution for such a problem. If anyone thought he was smart enough to fool me, then he would get caught and punished by my glaive.

It took almost an hour for such a huge army to complete my order. During this, Lily sent me curses in our chat, only making me laugh at her comments.

"Don't give me that look," as she returned back, the look over her face was priceless, "you asked for it."

"You are a bully, a damn big bully!" she shouted, turned around and left.

"Hey, we didn't finish our talk," but before she could reach my stairs, I stopped her.

"What talk? You are just bullying me and my poor race, ruthless human!"

"I thought we were weak and useless before," I laughed at her comment, and that made her turn to leave once more. "Wait, I'm not joking. We have lots to discuss.".

"Then speak," she stood there, crossing her arms in frustration.

"First, come over here," I summoned two of my Gollems, letting them work as our cushions and seats.

"Humph, pretty annoying lord," she came in such a way while stomping her feet with each step. "Tell me then, what's the big deal?"

"We are going to transfer everything to the second Earth world."

"Hmm… By everything you mean… The process of producing potions and opening cultivation bases? This can be moved easily. But the training part is quite tricky. You know, your world is damn peaceful to let a single fighter be born out there!"

"I got the dens," I said while taking out a small pearl that was the size of one metre radius.

"This…" her eyes shone brightly when she saw it. It wasn't that heavy for me as I held it with my right arm.

"It's a damn silver grade den!" she jumped on her feet while saying that.

"Is it bad?" I knew it was a silver grade of a common rank den. "I got higher than it, dark gold is the highest," I said while thinking about the other nine dens I got of the common rank.

"Damn! It's too much! Your boys are just weak! Didn't you see how they struggled while dealing with the weak monsters here?"

She shouted like that, making me sigh.

What if she saw the higher grade dens I got? She got this pumped up because of the silver grade den. Sigh!

"You can't work with it? It's the lowest grade den I got!"

"Damn!" she started walking back and forth before suddenly stopping, "we can do it this way… Let the training ground here for starting the training for everyone. Then those who can pass the two training steps here can go to the world of yours to train."

"This…" I knew she was worrying over my boys, but like this I'd lose lots of time!

My boys used a few days to train, yet the number of them bypassing the first two hurdles wasn't that big to make me feel good about her idea.

"Either we do it this way or risk your humans against such a fierce breed of monsters," she shrugged, as if this was something up to me to decide.

"Let them risk then," I made up my mind, "the time difference is something I can't risk losing. If we did it your way, we won't get much benefit out of it."

"Fine," she said, "it's your kingdom and they are your people."

"We aren't that weak," I said in defence, "and I won't allow my fighters to have it nice and easy."

"I like this way better," her eyes shone brightly before adding, "but don't come later on and regret such a decision."

"I won't," I shook my head, looking at the going berserk wind all over the place, "let's go to the other world for now."

"Right now?!" She seemed surprised.

"What? Do you want to do anything here before leaving?"

"Hmm… I thought about bringing the boys who helped me in making potions and building altars to the other world."

"I'll bring them myself later on," I said while opening many portals around, "but let's first find a good place for your people to live in before looking for a good place to build training camps."

"Cool," she suddenly ran towards the edge of my chariot, jumped off to arrive at hers, "let's go," she said while laughing, seemingly happy to pull such a move.

As for me, I stayed behind, looking at this childish nature of her while shaking off my head in helplessness.

Next thing was for the big forces here to move out with their families. As we arrived on the other side, the world looked much livelier with all these people coming here.

"Go there," I selected a new city built further to the east from the first cluster built here, "let them live there and get used to the place. We will move out later on to look for a good place for the camp."

She didn't need to do anything but to give the order for her trusted subordinates to do what I asked. This reminded me of what I asked the other five to do.

"You want me to select capable people to become generals under my leadership?!!" she shouted in surprise when she heard about this idea, "but what are they going to lead? Not my army for sure!"

"You won't only train my humans there," I said before motioning towards her chariot flying on my side, "take it back. We will travel at a faster speed that your chariot can't have."

"Ok," she hesitated, but took away the chariot before returning back. "You said we won't just train humans? Are you going to train in other races?"

"Races, warriors, anyone who can fight will be trained here."

"Ah… I see…" she paused for a long minute while I started to examine the big map of this world, "but why?"

705 Talk About The Three Mighty Races

"For the upcoming plaque quest," I simply said, and without the need to speak more she seemed to get what I was talking about.

"This place… It will do!" As I kept studying the map for half an hour, I finally found a nice place suited for the training camp.

"What place?" from the side Lily tried to sneak over my map, but she wouldn't be able to see anything but thin air.

"It's a big archipelago situated just between two big continents," I said while closing up the map, pointing in a certain direction while adding, "and luckily one of these two continents is the one we are on right now."

"An archipelago? That's interesting… We can use aquatic monsters there."

"Not only that," I started to operate my chariot to fly with its fastest speed, "on both sides, a large group of mountains lie there."

"And?" she didn't seem to get my point..

"Using such terrain, we can add ground and aerial monsters as well," I knew she was all into aquatic monsters. But wars didn't depend only on aquatic fights.

"This…" as expected, she seemed not that much interested in this part.

"Just use everything we have to form strong armies, ok?" I said without even looking at her. My only focus was on the map and the path in the air I was flying through.

"But I lack any training experience in ground fights, not to mention the aerial ones," she confessed, and I admired her honesty. "If only we had mighty trainers from big races, this would be easier."

"We got you," I laughed and she shook her head.

"I'm only experienced in aquatic training, just like my entire race."

"It's weird that such a big race of yours only focuses on aquatic fights."

"We… Have most of our worlds covered in water," she started to give me more intel about her race, "in fact, if not for your world being covered mostly in water, we wouldn't have come!"

"You didn't come here to answer my actions?!" I raised one eyebrow and she nodded.

"Not only for that. In fact the world we are fighting at right now in this cluster is weak. We already ruled over most of the area. It was boring, not like your world here."

"Interesting," this was the first time for her to speak about the world she was in before coming here, "then you are here to have more fun?"

"Fun in fighting strong foes is the best," she laughed, "you might consider us crazy folks, but in our race only the strong and mighty ones have a chance to advance to higher ranks. And without good foes like you, how possibly our people will evolve?"

If I said I understood what she said I'd be lying! In my human race, nothing like this existed!

"I know it's hard for you to get it," she seemed to understand where I came from, "but hopefully one day your race will rise up and reach such a point."

"Thanks," I said in gratitude for her good feelings, "but I want to ask you… Why are you hoping this will happen for my race?"

"Because it's a waste that such a prodigy and talent be wasted in such a lowly race," her words turned upside down so damn fast! "Don't be offended, I'm just stating the facts. If you are in another race, in mine, I'm sure you'd have been nourished and supported heavily and trained to become even a sovereign."

"I'll become one for my race," I said my belief and she nodded.

"I'm also hoping for such a day to come. But you have to know, the road won't be this smooth."

"I know," I already got a glimpse of how big this entire universe was. Not to mention this wasn't the only universe that was in this life. It might be shocking, but I wanted to become a real powerhouse in the entire multi-verses one day.

"Your race is experienced in aquatic fights, what about Toranks then?"

Despite our talk deviating from this point which we started from, I never lost sight of what she said.

If what she said was true, then I could use the help of those Toranks. In the end, I got good relations with them.

"Come on! As if you know one of them!" she said it as if such a thing was impossible.

"Humour me," I didn't explain myself and just asked for her answer.

"Well, it seems you know the famous saying of the big three races in our universe. However this is just a fake statement. Compared to those Toranks, we are like your race to us."

"That means…" I Was surprised by what she said. I thought there was no difference between the top three races in the universe.

"The strongest race out there is those damn Hescos! They are very strong. Not only that, but they are damn wealthy, controlling enough worlds to equal the worlds we and Toranks have!"

"This…"

"You got to know that owning worlds in the universe is the standard way to assess any race's value and strength. After them comes Toranks. They are competing fiercely with them, but they aren't yet close to the Hescos level of might and dominance."

"So you come third, right? Competing with Toranks then?" I tried to get a better understanding of the general situation of these three mighty races.

"Not even close," she bitterly sighed, "you can consider us the big boss of all the other races in the universe. We are third because we are stronger than the rest, not because we are close in power to those two behemoths at the top."

"I see…" I nodded in understanding. From her words I got that Toranks were a different breed than others.

It was just my luck to meet Silverlining, ending up closing such three deals with the three sovereigns.

Knowing how high this race stood changed my entire attitude towards them. They showed signs of their desire to become friends with me. And I didn't really consider such a thing seriously before.

706 A Crazy Idea!

But if they were this mighty, then I could find ways to help them to deepen our relations.

"So this cluster was supposed to be yours, right?" I asked, while preparing my piece, if it was mine.

"Not even close, there are many worlds with Hescos race fighting there," she said such shocking news, making my eyes wide open.

"I've never had such a race before," I said as the green nymph lady never brought a single Hescos race from this cluster before.

"I know you got your people helping you kidnap other races, but… no matter who they were, they'd be scared to touch a single hair of the Hescos."

"This…" I paused, while my mind was stirred up thinking about something.

"Don't try to push them. No matter how big you'd pay, they won't help you in this matter," she mistook my silence as thinking about forcing the Bringold impact to do this task for me.

I wasn't even considering this! I was thinking about something different!.

I needed to deepen my relations with the Toranks. And just when I thought about a chance, a chance presented itself to me.

The Hescos were here! But wait, she said something weird just now.

"What do you mean by them playing in more than one world?" This was a weird point indeed. The Hectors came here just because of me, partially. But what about those Hescos?

"They are invaders," she sighed, "think of them like Berserkers, yet with brilliant minds like Hectors, and wealth rivalling all the races here. Why not send their boys out to fight at many worlds in one cluster? This way they'd train more offspring, and even dominate any cluster they'd enter. Not to mention, they'd end up increasing the number of worlds they control."

"But… Aren't the worlds supposed to merge with each step of the apocalypse?!"

"No, it's just the case when there are different races controlling worlds. But if a race controlled a group of worlds, then they don't need to merge. They will just send forces from these worlds over to one world which is undergoing the merge."

"This… Isn't this cheating?!" this was what it was like in my eyes! Such a mighty race was bullying other races using big support from their higher ups… Wasn't this unfair?

"The universe is unfair, so what's the problem in doing everything you can to secure better results for you and your race?"

Her logic wasn't that righteous indeed, but it was true nonetheless. I couldn't find any argument to throw back at her, not to mention we were talking about the current state of the universe.

It wasn't a hypothetical talk, it was a serious talk about what was happening in the universe for a long time already.

But thinking about this made me find another reason to execute the plan I had in mind. It wasn't just to get to the better side of the Toranks, helping them stumble over their rivals. It was also helping me and my race.

If this was left untouched, then in the end I'd face many worlds controlled by the Hescos. Endless armies would appear hammering the doors of my kingdom.

And in the end I'd be either crushed like a mere fly, or had to go to each world and crush the forces there.

So why the wait then? If I was supposed to end up going there, why wouldn't I start this right now?

Of course I needed lots of help to do that. And I got the right race to ask for this big thing.

Just as I decided, I opened a chat with my man.

[I want to ask something, how is the relation between your race and the Hescos?]

[Don't bring the name of those son of b*tches again please. I know you don't know much, but this is a very sensitive topic in our race!]

As expected! His answer was so aggressive when the name of their rival race was brought up.

[I'd like to help, if it's allowed]

[Help? How?!]

[Do you know that they are in my cluster?]

[Your apocalypse cluster? Damn! Man, you know I like you so much. Why not abandon your world and come to join my race? I'm sure the higher ups will generously support such a prodigy]

This was the second time I heard this word in just one hour! [Isn't it better to crush that arrogant race and dominate the cluster instead?]

[This… You do know we are speaking about the Hescos, right? Even if I hate them to the bones, I have to give them just here]

[I heard stories about them] I nodded, [But I want to see their might in the flesh]

[This… Are you sure? This is a crazy path to tread on]

[I thought you might help. After all they are cheating to become on top while you are playing fairly, right?]

[That's true! Those son of b*tches just use anything to dominate more worlds than us! Even using such dirty means to send their folks into many worlds at the start of any apocalypse!]

[I heard] I paused for a second, [Here is my offer. I don't know about other clusters, but in my cluster, I'll be the one ending up as the supreme ruler of it. So I want help from your race, providing tickets to let me join other worlds of the apocalypse cluster]

[This… Are you already ruling over the world you are in?]

[I'm not the type to play it safe] I got what he wanted to say here, [If I wait to dominate my world here, then it will be too late to come to the Hescos! Right now only three quests have ended and the fourth is underway. I want to join their worlds by the fifth quest]

[That plaque quest? It's a very tricky one]

[In danger lies opportunities, right?]

[Sigh! You are more ambitious than what I even thought! It's a regret that you weren't born in my race, or else… Anyway, such a big decision can't be decided by me or by anyone rashly. Let me speak with the sovereigns first and see their thoughts about your crazy idea]

707 I Will Go All Out To Achieve My Dreams!

[Don't tell me you never tried to fight them on their turf before!]

[We always waited for them to finish and then we used the final winning world from a cluster against their top world. It didn't end up well as in the end we can only fight one world and not the rest. They always lost, but in the end they lost a single world, not their entire controlled group of ten]

[They control ten worlds?]

[From eleven up to fifteen in each cluster] he said such shocking info, [that way they'll secure the cluster, gain more worlds, even if they were challenged by us like I said]

[You are playing fair against such dirty folks]

[That's how our race is]

[But I'm not part of you, I'm from humans, I'm the underdog of this universe and cluster]

[What do you mean?].

[Even if you have a reputation and name to keep, I don't! I don't mind doing anything to get what belongs to me. Anyway, go and see what the sovereigns are thinking about and let me know]

[… Ok!]

I knew he was taken aback by what I said at the end. But this was the truth. Weren't humans looked down upon from the entire universe? Then what was the problem in matching dirty tactics with the same way?

At least I was fighting the top race in the universe, the one that hailed over everyone.

I just hoped they'd agree. In fact I knew with my current strength, I'd not be able to do anything like that.

But with their support, not to mention bringing tons of races and humans here, they'd help with lots of things as well.

And one of them would be by sending strong trainers to train my armies. That was indeed the root that started all this.

I wanted strong armies to be born here. With the advantage I had, with the time difference value, I'd be able to train lots of armies if given a constant supply of races and humans, enough resources, and experienced trainers to train them.

I feared if I asked directly for it, they would refuse. So I thought about deepening the relationship between the two of us first.

I thought about using my bones and making more deals with more sovereigns. However when I heard what she said, I knew this was my chance.

Like this I would end up helping them, and helping myself. Such a fierce enemy that was destined to fight me in the end shouldn't be given the chance to play according to his rules.

I thought the Toranks had tried to do so before. But it seemed they were like Selvators, caring more about their image than anything else.

That was also good news for me. It meant not a single race tried this method before against Hescos. So what I'd do would be a novelty for them.

They were a mighty race, the mightiest race in the entire universe. If they got outplayed in their own game, then they'd act rashly and aggressively, committing lots of mistakes.

The only path for them would be by using brute force against me. If they did, then they'd fall in my trap.

Their turf was the dirty games they excelled at. If they decided to play fairly, then they'd face many defeats before learning their lessons.

Thinking wisely about this, I should start with only one world before expanding over to more. But from what Silverlining said, the number of worlds they aimed at from the start was more than half of the worlds in any cluster.

That was smart indeed. Like this, this race would guarantee the cluster, and hold lots of worlds in the end.

To ruin their plans and make them feel the pressure, I had to aim at all their worlds!

Leaving a single world out there untouched would leave them with a hope of retaliation later on.

I wouldn't risk such a thing with such a race. I just wanted to know if worlds outside the cluster would be able to intervene or not.

If they could, then this plan was doomed with failure before it would begin. They would simply call forth forces from other worlds, turning this into a hopeless battle in numbers.

But if they couldn't, then the best they could do would be by sending more forces from their world over to the remaining worlds of the apocalypse.

Of course I'd follow them anywhere they'd go. In addition to that, they'd end up scattering their forces among a larger number of worlds, weakening their entire force this way.

As for me, if I got to secure what I wanted, I'd get much stronger the more time passed. Controlling one world? Dude, I already had two worlds under my control.

Risky? Of course this was a dangerous gamble. But I had to take it. After all, I'd end up fighting those Hescos as the apocalypse would progress.

So it was best to start this destined fight early on, while they weren't ready for me. This way, I'd fight them on my own conditions and rules.

"You are… Crazy!" Lily was on my side when she heard what I said, "Sigh! It's a real regret you aren't part of my race. Why not marry me and this way you can get the support of my race?"

"Stop dreaming," I laughed, "I'm already taken."

"A lord can have more harem than his own forces!"

"Not me," I shrugged, "anyway, here are the aquatic dens I have. Study them and think about how to use them in training."

I took out the three dens of the common rank aquatic monster dens. They were silver, gold, and dark gold grades.

"This… They are fierce!" she sighed, "but if you have such a scary ambition, then your forces should live through hell to match your expectations."

"That's my point," I nodded in agreement as she finally got what I was thinking about.

708 [Bonus chapter] They Got Mechas!

We took almost an entire day to cross the entire continent. It was damn huge! On the mini-map, it looked small, almost considered the third smallest continent here.

But in fact it was much bigger than what I thought! One had to know that the place I moved from wasn't initially that far from the coast I was going towards.

At some point, and after flying out for six hours straight, I ended up crossing over the border between the dense green forest and the empty zone created by my people.

Then the entire world turned all green from this point onward.

At first it looked interesting. But with time passing, it began to become boring.

"We are finally here!"

After the passage of one day, and during the deep concentration Lily showed towards the three dens I gave to her, we finally reached the zone where towering mountains were blocking the path up ahead.

"This… These mountains are really something," even Lily found it impressive.-ɴ(0ᴠᴇ)ᴠᴇʟ.

"You didn't see anything yet," I looked at the top layer of these mountains. The higher parts were lost in the middle of a thick layer of black clouds, resembling the area I once visited and selected as the main residence of my capital here.

"Let me show you something interesting," I evilly grinned while deciding to visit the world high up first.

I moved my chariot high towards the thick layer of black clouds. Just as we passed through it, densely packed bolts of lightning came at my chariot.

"Damn fierce!" she exclaimed in shock as all the lightning crushed on the sturdy shield of mine.

The sight all around us was flashing fast between dense darkness and bright silver blue light. The world kept like that for an entire three hours.

I was flying with my highest speed, yet it took much longer than it took when I tried to reach the top layer at the central plains.

"Where are we going exactly?" After the passage of the first hour, Lily was curious to know where we were heading.

"You will see, it should be something interesting."

After two more hours, we finally reached the final layer of these clouds. For me, it looked like we were moving against a strong force that came from all this lightning and clouds.

I knew it was impossible for my chariot to fly through tens of miles or even hundreds of miles during these three hours. Something was off here, and I had only the clouds and lightning to blame.

Just as we crossed through the last layer, we finally reached a world that looked like a real piece of heaven.

"Wow! Hye, I never knew you got that side in you," when we arrived there, Lily kept moving slowly around, seemingly taken by the beauty of this place.

I had to admit. This part of the world was more beautiful than the other places I visited in the central plains.

It was the same, thick layer of clouds forming the ground while the sky looked pure and breathtaking.

The tips of the mountains scattered all over the place, with a broad surface that was enough to build clusters of cities and towns over it.

The surface of each mountain top was much broader than what I'd seen before. But that wasn't all.

At some places, large pieces of rocks were floating in the air, without any attachment to anything down below except for thick branches of tree roots.

These rocks flew on higher levels than the top of mountains. And they appeared in large numbers at certain places, and scarcely presented at others.

"Let's check these," I led my chariot higher in such peace and quiet, going high up towards the nearest cluster of these flying rocks.

When I got near them, they looked more like big islands than small pieces of rocks.

They got flat surfaces, enough to accommodate a single town, a single city, or even a cluster of both.

They got connected with the lower mountain tops with long and thick tree roots, and they were connected to each other by the same roots, forming thick broad bridges, enough for anyone to cross safely upon them.

"These islands… They are floating against the gravity…" Lily looked at these islands and felt more impressed, "I heard about the legendary flying lands of the Toranks race, but never dreamt about seeing such a thing in person."

ɴ[0ᴠ)ᴇʟ "Does the Toranks race have such floating islands?" I looked at her in surprise as this was the first time for me to know such a thing.

"Their first home land is filled with flying lands. I even heard that they were flying in oceans and rivers."

"That looks like a nice place to live in," I said in honest admiration.

"That's why they got so much experience at training flying legends. Actually if not for their mighty and valiant huge flying legions, they wouldn't have been stronger than Hescos."

"So your race excels at aquatic fights, Toranks at aerial battles, and Hescos? Ground fights?"

"No, it's not even close," she sighed, "only my race excelled in one area. The other two are really experienced at any kind of battle."

"Didn't you just say…"

"I just spoke about the deadly legions of the Toranks. For Hescos, their deadly legions are mechanics."

"Mechanics? What does this mean?!" I didn't get what she meant. I thought they would excel at the ground battles. But mechanics? What did that even mean?

"They form legions made of big machines, things they call mechas."

"Mechas?"

"They are mighty machines, covering up the entire bodies of their elites. They could fight on ground, under water, or even in midair! They are deadly, not easily destroyed."

"They look… Really scary to me," I honestly said, "how come Toranks are stronger than them then?"

"Because such fierce machines take a really long time and lots of resources to be made. So even if they got the upper hand in terms of strength, they lack in terms of numbers.

709 Exploring A Piece Of Heaven

"… Also the destroyed mechas would take a long time to repair, or even wait to be replaced. Not to mention training elites over driving such behemoths of metal takes a long time, a really long time."

"So they can't widely use it in any world? Right?"

"Sure, if they have such ability then they would have become the true lord of our universe."

This was reassuring. I didn't get what these mechanics were for. But from her words, I got a scary idea about this legion.

If they could use it freely, then trying to aim at them here would be pointless. Fighting against such scary things? Humph! That would be suicidal!

"What do you think of this place then?" I turned my attention to the beauty around me. Comparing this place with the other places I visited, this was much suited to be my capital.

"Don't tell me you intend to build cities here!" She looked at me in a weird way, and my silence gave her the answer.

"Sigh! Can't you see? The journey to here wouldn't have been possible if not for your chariot! Even mine won't be enough!".

"I have a way to solve this," I knew this wouldn't be possible using the chariot I bought for them. But the flying forts would help in solving this problem.

"Enough of sightseeing," After we flew around for almost an hour, examining this vast piece of beauty, we finally reached a place where the clouds ended abruptly and started to rise up, forming some sort of a big wall of clouds.

It started black, then kept fading and turning towards white. The wall rose up for hundreds of metres, giving this place a new sacred touch of beauty.

"Are we going down the same way or…" without the need for her to continue her words, I controlled my chariot and let it rise higher, going over this wall.

"Yes, I know you are crazy enough to do it!" Just as we crossed the top of this wall, we found ourselves hanging freely in the air, seemingly losing all the power operating my chariot.

And like we were riding a rollercoaster, the chariot fell freely from such height, crossing the thick layer of clouds fast enough to give me a real scare.

"Come on!" I kept trying to make my chariot fly again. The early attempts failed, and until we got close to the big ocean down below, I finally succeeded.

"Dammit! This was really fun! Hahahaha!" I didn't know what was fun about this, but Lily kept laughing for a few minutes.

I ignored her while looking up there. It was the first time for me to experience such a thing.

"It seems like a defensive natural mechanism, protecting such beauty up there," this was the only explanation I got for now.

As for the world we descended towards, the ocean here was more violent than the oceans on Earth.

In brief, it was filled with huge tsunami-like waves, coming at the shore as if they were normal waves.

The only thing that protected the land was its high altitude from the surface of the ocean. The water level down below was almost a hundred metres away from the shore.

Even with such massive and frequent big waves, the shore stood mighty and tall against the ocean.

"This place… Are you sure of using the dens here?" she turned to ask when she freed herself from that laughing spell.

"We have no other option," I looked left and right, "as you can see, this is the nature of the oceans here."

"It's just much riskier than the oceans in your world."

"I know," I got what she wanted to say here. But the harsher the environment, the better. "The shore has a wide space, enough to construct camps there."

"But the route through the mountains will be a problem."

"Not in a world void of any monsters," I shrugged, reminding her of how special this place here was. "I'll also bring people directly here. So you don't need to worry about the journey from here to the central plains."

"But…"

"Whenever I'd need an army, I'd open a portal directly," I pointed at the wide shore that spanned for tens of miles in width, "just the initial period of building the camps will be the hardest."

"It's not," she confidently said, "If they can't even build their own residence, how can they try to challenge themselves to get better? It's a standard thing to let soldiers build the camps as part of their training."

"Ok," she was the expert, and she knew what she was talking about. "But the real deal is out there."

I didn't select this region because it was close to the ocean. I did because there were lots of islands scattered in the middle of this raging part of the ocean.

Just as we flew for a few minutes towards the horizon, we finally met the early islands there.

They were like the shore, and had higher altitude grounds than the water down below.

Few were big to accommodate many cities and towns, and others were small to have a town or even a small village.

"This place… It's really good for training," Lily finally said her opinion after flying around for half an hour, "but…"

"I'll make sure to bring the forces here myself," I knew what she wanted to say, "each island has enough trees to have a source of food and wood for them to live. But the question now is, where will you throw the monster dens?"

"Preferably at the depths of the ocean," she pointed towards the horizon.

"Ok," I kept flying, and in the next ten hours, we crossed over lots of different sized islands.

"This… It doesn't end by the big ocean," as we flew for ten hours, we finally ended up at another big piece of land.

"It's the other continent I told you about," I watched another image of the same high shores, towering mountains in the distance, and the tsunami waves crashing against the land.

710 Using Monster Dens

This part of the world looked weirdly identical to the part we departed from. I got the feeling that if I went up there, I'd find another piece of heaven beyond the thick layer of the sky.

What would happen if I tried to link the two parts together? Could I get the secret behind having floating islands and dense clouds to form a bridge of heaven between these two parts?

Just thinking about it made me smile.

"What now?"

"We will go either east or west," I shrugged, "it's up to you."

"The two have oceans there?"

"Big wide surface of oceans," I nodded, "which one do you want to visit?"

"Let's head east, I like east.".

"Ok," I didn't have a preference between the two directions. So I took East and started flying towards there.

[The sovereigns responded]

Just as I flew for five hours straight, crossing over lots of islands in different sizes, I got this message from Silverlining.

[And?] I grew curious about their response. Would they agree to have such a bumpy ride with me? Or would they prefer to play safe and refuse?

[They see your plan to be crazily ambitious, but they liked it!]

The words he sent made me worry at first, then grin in satisfaction. [But they have no control over such a decision. So they are calling for a grand war meeting, where they will propose your idea and try to get a go for it]

[Thanks my friend, and relay my thanks to the sovereigns as well]

[No problem. They said they'd agree on anything to make the life of Hescos in any part of the universe bitter and misfortune. They also thank you for such a brilliant and courageous idea. They promised even if the race didn't support you, they'll do what they can to help]

[Thanks bro, I'll pray for the Toranks agreement]

I knew getting the help from the three sovereigns might be useful, but not enough. In such a big open war, I'd need all the help I could get.

But it was great news nonetheless. Like this I got the support from the three sovereigns. Even if the three were on my side in the eyes of many, and many other sovereigns had the envious look towards the three, there were still much more with the vision towards the benefits of the race.

[You know what… It's better if you spoke about the idea instead] After thinking about this point for a few hours, I sent it to Silverlining.

[For what?]

[I fear that the envy of many sovereigns towards the connection between me and the three will stand between their vote for supporting my decision] I was slightly frank with him.

Part of my reason was this, and the other was related to the desire to support Silverlining. The three sovereigns were connected to me via the contracts.

But the man who was dealing directly with me was Silverlining. If he got elevated in the race, it meant more chances and support for me as well.

[I get it] he didn't get anything to be honest, [I'll speak with the three and try to see what I can do] I knew the three sovereigns were smart and cunning enough to get what I wanted to do here.

And so they wouldn't disagree over what I proposed.

If they didn't get it, then they would allow their pride to stand in the way. One way or another, and if this race was as mighty and wise as I thought, then they'd agree on my terms.

I closed the chat and looked at the broad stretch of water lying after the last islands here.

It looked like the islands formed a rocky edge, closely packed together. If the other side was like this, then it explained why the tsunami waves appeared in this region.

With such narrow space for the calm ocean water on the outside to enter there, such turbulence was expected.

As for Lily, she got herself busy using the three dens I gave to her. She selected three different zones to use these dens upon.

The use of each den was simple. She just needed to throw the den into the water and wait for it to mature and explode.

The first den released aquatic beasts, just resembling the old whales on Earth. They got feathers with different colours on their backs, as Lily told me the colour determined their grade.

The most common colour was silver, as this was the silver grade den. But there were also few green and blue feathers, meaning there were few of the weaker grade monsters as well.

But there were no higher grade monsters than silver.

The second gen released monsters looking like sharks. They got strange horns on their heads, giving me the impression of being a hybrid.

"They are killers," Lily said this, "see the colour of their horns? The highest grade is dark gold. But they got other grades as well."

I could spot what she was talking about. She released this den so damn deep and far away from the other two. But few of the monsters of this den went towards the other two and started hunting the weaker monsters there down.

As for the third, it got two long flat wings that gave them the impression of flying in water instead of swimming. They were in gold grade, having gold scales all over their big bodies.

They were the biggest out of the other two kinds of monsters. The smallest ones, the green grade ones, were double in size compared to the whales' monsters, triple compared to the sharks' size.

"Are they going to be ok?" I pointed at the other weaker two kinds of monsters in a worry. I didn't want for a single breed to survive while the other two would die out.

"Don't worry, it's normal to be a hunter or a prey in the wilderness. Nature has its ways to stabilise things, so stop worrying already."

711 Dude... I Need Materials!

"Ok," I didn't get what she meant by this, however I trusted her decision and turned my eyes towards the two sides of the continent and the large number of islands here. "What do you have in mind for the camps and training here?"

"I planned it to have one training camp at that side," she pointed at north where we came from, "but as we spotted a similar zone down there, we can have two camps then."

"I don't have any objections to that," I nodded in agreement, "what about these islands?"

"I'll arrange them according to the level of difficulty, with the central ones having the easiest difficulty, and the outer ones having the highest level," she said before adding with a sigh, "it's just a regret that we don't have more dense to use."

"I'll bring more quite soon," I said.

"You should bring races and humans first."

"I know," I opened the chat with Silverlining and asked him about the races and humans I asked for..

[We have the first batch ready. Do you want them right now?]

[Send them when I say] I decided to wait until we'd arrive at one shore first. The closest one was the southern shore, so I headed over there at once.

[Send them over] After six hours I arrived at the southern shore and sent this message to Silverlining.

[On the way] as I paid for their price, many portals started to appear at the flat area down below.

At least a couple hundred portals opened, with tons of races gushing out in packs.

Humans also appeared. I knew that not all of them would turn into fighters.

"They are under your control now," I started signing the contracts while giving them a single order; follow Lily's arrangement. "But for those who aren't suited to fight, they should build cities and towns on the other side."

I pointed across the mountains, and she nodded in understanding. "I'll turn this entire region into a training camp," she pointed at the flat zone before adding, "as for the areas around mountains, I'll turn them into normal cities and towns. But the designs…"

I got what she meant. This area was lined by a vast wall of mountains, but the mountains didn't closely line this shore.

When we went to the open ocean zone, it was clear that these mountains stopped tens of miles offshore. The flat shore area extended in a wide route in between mountains, linking here to the depths of this continent.

She meant to allow the normal people to live in such a route and through which they could expand towards the behind terrain. "I'll get you people well versed in building cities and towns," I said, as I intended to ask Isac for people to do so.

"I also need my people," she said, referring to the grand number of her race we left on Earth.

"Leave this to me," I said before pointing at the portals around, "I'll go and bring your boys here. You can start right away."

"Cool."

I opened a portal and returned to Earth. The process of signing contracts or giving orders to anyone under the authority of my contracts could be done from anywhere.

Despite spending more than a day out there, only a few hours passed here. The world didn't show much change at all. And my pocket world was still raging wild with fierce torrents of air.

"Come, pass through this portal and go towards Lily," as I returned, I opened a big portal linking here to the second Earth world and ordered the Hectors here to go through.

I didn't need to wait here for them. I knew they'd take long hours to arrive at Lily's place. So I went directly back to the capital, intending to bring more experienced and skilled builders from there.

The most experienced builders actually would be the ones who were at the second Earth world. But those were hard to find right now, as all the races and humans in that world were brought over here.

This war… The biggest losses I got weren't in the ranks of my armies but in my talents and people.

So my only hope was that Isac still held a few capable personnel beside her. And as I met her up, I found my guesses to be correct.

"Take this group," she selected a small group of a hundred humans, "they already trained under me and helped in the building process of the capital, the forts and defences here, plus the cities and towns back in your second world."

"Are they enough?" I knew the size of the building process I wanted this time was big. Only a group of a hundred wasn't even close to being enough! Not at all!

"Don't belittle my boys," she rolled her eyes, "they are few but each one is capable of teaching tons of builders and leading them to build anything you want. In fact I thought about sending a group of thirty or fifty with you, but a hundred is more than enough."

"Ok," I liked her confidence and hoped it wasn't misplaced, "come, go into this portal now and look for someone called Lily. tell her I sent you to lead over the building process."

"What about the resources? Talents to help them?" As her boys went through the portal, she asked as if she was a mother caring about her kids getting away.

"I'll bring these now," we had lots of materials and enough talent to work over them in the capital. All I needed to do was to go there, select a group of tens of thousands of blacksmith disciples at most, with enough high grade talents to lead them, before sending them over.

As for the resources needed, I didn't think about taking anything from here.

[Dude, I need materials] I went to ask Silverlining for help. And this dude was the right choice as expected.

712 Selecting Generals And Officials

Just the size of materials he sent over for the next half a day was enough to build an entire continent from the ground!

I just asked him to send the materials to the same place he was sending races and humans to.

As for dealing with all this, I left it for Lily to handle.

Now my operation to replenish the losses in both people and armies started. I left this task over to Silverlining, who promised me tons of races and humans each day.

I told him to save the place of my capital. By this, he had three spot saves, two at my second Earth and one here.

The only problem left was in Angelica. She was the most experienced one in dealing with new races and humans.

But she was now at the forefront, fighting with everyone else at the frontline here.

"I need to find more capable generals," this became a must right now. I had to ask for Angelica to leave, and also ask Isac and Lily to keep themselves busy doing other tasks..

Not to mention I'd need a supreme general to lead all my scattered forces, ones to lead the western borders, and leaders to rule over different regions in my kingdom.

Leading everything alone was feasible now thanks to the low number of people living in my kingdom. But this would change soon enough.

I believed in less than a week, the number of people of different races living under my kingdom banner would grow to reach a fierce number.

The best to rule over my citizens would be Alex. But I demoted her for now. So I had to look for other capable talents to use.

I needed more capable and trusted subordinates. [Have you selected promising talents from your people?] As I reached this decision, I sent over many messages to everyone.

[I'm busy fighting!]

[Do you want them now?!!]

[Can't we wait for a couple more days? The fight is very hot here!]

Such messages came from everyone. Only Angelica and Sara selected a few of their people as I asked.

[There is no time! I need to select generals and send them to train with their armies] this was part of the reason. Of course the real reason would be to relieve Angelica now.

[I heard you promised Angelica that cosmic relic, is that true?]

Out of the blue, Hilary sent this message over to me. I gulped, feeling the threat hidden in her calm looking question.

[Dire situations require innovative decisions, right?]

[Screw you! I hate you! You knew I wanted this place and let her have it in the end!]

[As if we won't find more relic sites of its type out there]

[I still hate you!]

[Just get over it] I knew no words could explain myself here. I had to improvise, give Angelica such a motive or else the eastern frontier would be lost by now. [Just select capable people. She already selected hers]

[What does this even mean? I don't care about selecting anyone! I'm quite mad at you right now!]

[Selecting talents that will fruit into future generals will help in expanding one's dominance and authority in my kingdom] I rolled my eyes. This girl would lose all reason when she'd turn mad.

I didn't add anything. It was up to her to decide what to do. In fact this was a chance for anyone wanting to build up his future reign and power in my kingdom.

What did having generals who served under you meant? Of course such a selection process wouldn't be the last! I'd keep selecting people. If the generals I'd select here came from just two names, then these two would have the most influence in my kingdom later on.

They only knew I wanted generals. But in fact I was going to select even officials from them. My kingdom was built in times of war. So having officials with military experience was a must.

It was a once in a lifetime opportunity. Those who would fail to seize it would have to exert much more effort later on, and wouldn't even get closer to the ones who seized it first.

[I'm sending few over]

The weirdest message came from the jumper. That dude… How come he selected people when his armies were raised to the ground twice and had mostly monsters there?

[What? Will you send me a batch of monsters to become generals?]

[Funny! I've keen eyes and a vision in the people I meet. So I've selected a few capable people who will satisfy your needs]

This bastard! He already saw through what was going on here. Don't tell me he just selected random people?

[You do know I'm going to test them, right?]

[Test them as much as you like. I have complete confidence in this one hundred group of prodigies]

Damn! He didn't even select ten or a dozen, he selected a hundred! Damn! Did he walk through his army and selected those he liked?

[Send them over to the capital] I didn't express my disapproval over his actions. I also sent such an order to everyone else.

I intended to not hurriedly select all of them. I'd first deliver them to Lily, asking her to start a hellish round of training for them.

Whoever would succeed would become generals. Whoever would fail would become officials. This was the best way to do it.

I decided to wait for them near my pocket world. I went there and waited for a few hours before they appeared from afar.

"Damn! The jumper wasn't the only crazy one then!" I saw a group of a few thousands coming in my direction. I even mistook them for a group sent to deliver some orders or ask for assistance.

"Lord! We are the people sent by Lady Hilary!"

"Lord! We are the people sent by the spearhead general!"

They started to salute me in groups, each speaking in the same breath, saying the same line. I watched all them in puzzlement before sending the same message over to their generals.

713 Helping The Frontline

[Do you randomly select people or what?]

[Boss, I selected only the best!]

[It's the most promising talent during the past war. You asked for them, and they are at your place]

[I won't fail in terms of talents to that b*tch!]

Everyone gave their reasons, making me sigh inwardly. The funniest answer came from the unexpected Sara.

[I told them whoever got selected will have his own chariot. So I selected those willing and sent them over] she gave me such a funny answer, making me not know if I should laugh or sigh.

If not for me knowing how brutal this girl led her people, I'd have asked the ones she selected to turn around and get back to her.

"From now on, you will train under Lady Lily's guidance," I shouted, while opening a portal to the second world, "go through this. Out there you will be subjected to a special round of training. Succeed and glory only awaits.".

I went there first, looked for Lily and told her what I had in mind.

During the past hours I spent on Earth, she led her people to start building great camps. I also spotted lots of races and humans working at a far distance, seemingly building cities and towns on the big path in between the mountains.

She told me that the path we spotted before wasn't the only one here. Her people found lots of such paths, and she decided to fill them with cities and towns for the races and humans to live in.

I didn't have any objection towards such an arrangement. And she had another request from me.

"I want the people who worked at the altar region to come here. I've already selected a few paths for this process. I just lack people."

"Ok, I will send them over," I said, while looking at the grand place of construction here in admiration.

This time difference… It was my biggest advantage in this life. This world couldn't be risked at all!

Such training zones here must be repeated. This continent had two other places like this. Of course they lacked archipelago like here, but they had narrow traits with nearby continents.

Like this, I'd secure the necks of this continent, hopefully would repeat this all over the world. Even if things went bad at some point, I'd have confidence in defending my world against any invasion.

I went back to Earth, looked for people who were stationed at the altar zone and moved them towards the second Earth world.

After doing this, I'd get most things done. All I needed right now was to wait, hopefully things would go as planned.

As I got finished from all these tasks, I had time at last to check on the ongoing fight at the eastern frontier.

It was a hellish war at all fronts! According to the reports I got from each of my generals, they were facing lots of Hector armies in every city and town.

The forces they were leading were already exhausted. Not to mention the lack of good reinforcements.

The only forces arriving there were the remaining people from my second Earth. They weren't fighters, and they couldn't help a lot in such a war.

I knew I had to wait for days before I'd ask Lily for good forces to be sent here. I knew a few days passing here would mean months out there.

"I have to go out there and help," but to ask for such tired forces to keep fighting for days would be insane.

Even with all most of my generals fighting on the frontline like this, I knew the situation didn't look that promising.

We even were losing ground at many frontlines! That was bad!

[Do you have any warriors for me?]

I went directly towards the frontline after checking over the condition of my necromancer world. This pocket world seemed to need more time to get matured, almost one week at least or so.

It was still absorbing death energy from all over the place. I knew it would need the treasures I paid for, but I had first to stabilis the frontline.

I planned to have my technique there to help. But I also had another way to help. Using warriors would be a great reinforcements to all of the fighting armies at the front.

[I had a million right now] he sent me such a message that made me feel he wasn't satisfied with such a number.

[Send them over] but they were enough for now, [And keep collecting other warriors]

I paid the price using my blue bones. After all this deal was done through his impact.

My green bones would be left over for my technique.

The first battlefield I visited was Sara's frontline.

This girl was quite fierce! Even with her exhausted army, she kept pushing forward. She discarded the fact that other frontlines were already on the back foot except for Hilary and the jumper.

So as she advanced like this, she got herself isolated and surrounded. It was a grave mistake in my opinion, turning such a fierce sword of mine into such a poisoned dagger at my back.

I went directly to her location, and once I arrived I saw a similar scene that I once saw when I came to this continent for the first time.

Her army was big, fighting fiercely all over the place. But it got surrounded from all corners, with no way out at all.

[Keep fighting, I'm here to help] but even with her bad situation, her army showed no signs of breaking down. They were fighting and crashing against enemies in admirable bravery.

Even with the punishment they got from the quest, and the fact that they were fighting the mighty race of Hectors, they showed no weakness at all.

Sara's army was the real embodiment of strength in my opinion. She never used any tactic, seemingly not believing in strategy and such things.

She just used brute force to come down at her enemies, pushing forward with everything she got, trusting her ability to crush any tactic with supreme force and might.

714 [Bonus chapter] The Jumper Evolves

The most admirable thing was her ability to take over her entire army and infect it with her personality and aura. They all looked the same in my eyes, almost seeing her shadow behind each one of them.

That was a remarkable talent in leadership in my opinion. She would perform better if she got a supporting army nearby, helping in covering up her shortcomings like this situation here.

And this time, she got me as her supporting army.

I started with creating my technique then I started to control as much of Hectors as I could.

This time I wasn't pressured like the last time I fought Hectors with the same technique. Even if Sara's army was surrounded, she was doing great.

It wasn't like the situation of the four armies from before.

[Sorry about that] just in the middle of the process, and when I controlled enough army to start impacting this fight, [I know I shouldn't have let myself get surrounded like this].

[No problem. You are a fierce fighter, and I have the right battlefield for you to shine]

I knew she was blaming herself for such a mistake. But I was also aware she wouldn't learn her lessons.

This was her nature, and no one could fight against his nature.

As her lord, I was obliged to find a way to solve this weakness of hers. And I got the right role for her to play.

[We are going to change the order of the fighting armies here. I'm going to visit each battlefield first, help to add more fresh forces to you before doing the change] I sent this to all the generals fighting here before adding:

[Spearhead and Sara will break free from the frontline. Both will work as a single army, with Sara acting as the tip of the spear and spearhead acts as her shield]

This was the arrangement I had in mind for her. She was fierce, but she needed a supporting army for her to show her real abilities.

Such a role best suited the spearhead. His ability played a great role in supporting any army, weakening their enemies, and turning the tide of any fight for our favour.

I could use Sara as the frontline vanguard. When she would get surrounded like this, the spearhead army would come in picture to help.

[But we lack enough armies to hold the frontline!] Hilary asked in worry.

[I said I'll come first to add more forces to each army, right?] She missed this point and my ability to turn any Hector army into ours.

Just like here, I managed alone to shift the tide of this battle towards Sara's favour in five hours.

I managed to control lots of Hectors, turning them against their friends and allies. In the end, the remaining Hector army had to hastily retreat, while Sara's army tripled in size by this point.

"Thanks for the timely help," as she came on board my chariot, she said in honest gratitude.

"You are a fierce fighter who discards any sense of tactic or defence," I said while stating her strong and weak points together, "so it's better for you to act as a supporting army from now on. You will roam the entire battlefield, helping others to relieve any pressure over them."

"I… See…" she seemed a bit disappointed when she heard that. She was a fierce tigress, who craved battle on the frontline.

But she had to adapt to her weakness as well. Besides I didn't remove her totally from the frontline. She would keep fighting, but not her own battles.

"The spearhead will help you in twelve hours. Just stay here and hold this place for the time being."

"Ok."

She returned back to her army before I gave the order for the Hectors to follow her orders. I didn't forget to follow Lily's example and asked them to bring their families and friends here if they wanted.

Like this, I'd not end up getting hundreds of thousands of Hectors, but millions each time. I just left tons of signed contracts with Sara to give to anyone coming from the Hector lands.

Then I turned my chariot and went towards the nearby battlefield. It was led by the jumper. And this dude was acting more cautious and cunning than Sara.

He led his army smart this time, not falling in any enemy trap. Even if he lacked enough numbers to crush the enemy, he didn't let his boys die before taking lots of the enemy in return.

When I arrived there, I saw him retreating with his forces, creating a gap while luring part of the big army of his enemies to chase after them.

Then he gave the order to attack, letting his boys kill a good deal of the enemy with the least losses.

"He is evolving," I said with a big smile on my face when I saw such a nice tactic.

[Are you going to stand there and do nothing? Won't you do your thing and add more force to me?] As I stood there watching for ten minutes, he finally couldn't control himself and asked.

[Ok] I wasn't doing this on purpose, I just wanted to see how much he progressed since his last failures.

I started my technique and controlled many Hectors. It took me less time than Sara's to route the enemy.

This was thanks to the difference in the overall situation between the two armies. Sara was surrounded and already in a dire situation. But the jumper's were just fighting normally.

So I just asked the ones I controlled to move to one side before joining the jumper's army. Like this I didn't need to let them fight early on to relieve the pressure over the jumper's army.

I was done in three hours, forcing the enemy to retreat.

"You really are pushing us over our limits this time," as the battle was over, he finally came on board with the ugly mask of his.

"We have no options but to do that, right?" I rolled my eyes, "you do know we lack armies and generals."

715 Turning Elites Into Generals

"At least do your thing and add fresh forces to us like this," he motioned his head towards the outside army. The size of his army was doubled by the Hectors I added.

Compared his army to Sara's, he got much more force than her. She lost a lot during the encirclement, letting her army gain triple and not double like the jumper.

"I'm not that free to do that," I sighed, "you just have to hold on for a week."

"A week? Damn Hye! You think we have enough force to stop those maniacs?"

"I'm training a big army as we speak," I slowly said, ignoring the loud shout or his rude attitude, "one way or another you have to sustain the pressure during this time."

"Then either keep helping us or let us retreat," he shrugged, "if we are going to get a new army, then we can accept small losses for now and take the lands back later on."

"Not an option," I knew that dealing with such a mighty race was troublesome. Trying to do it his way was meaningless, as they would let these lands turn into formidable forts during this period..

"Then you should stay here and keep helping us!" he glared at me, and I knew I had to help.

I didn't have much to do anyway. The necromancers' world would need more time to mature. As for Lily, she was handling the training process at the second Earth and leading the reconstruction there.

Isac was handling the construction here. She might need more hands later on, but for now she could do with whatever she got.

I had nothing else to do but to either train or help my forces here. Out of the two, helping my forces was the top priority.

"Ok, I'll stay here and help," I resigned to his demands, "also Sara and the spearhead will act as supporting armies."

"They will create a vacant space, you don't expect us to fill their places, right?"

"I'll let my boy handle it," I pointed at Lucias who stood next to me as I asked him to come, "his forces will fill the gap."

"Are you sure?" he knew how fierce Lucias and his soulers were. But what he was referring to was the fact that he was already fighting at the frontline.

"He will have more forces as well," I said, without explaining much. I knew he mistook my intention as to add more Hectors to my Lucias' forces.

But what I intended was to add the newly acquired warriors to his forces. I got a million fresh warriors, enough to support a frontline on their own.

"Do as you see fit, after all this is your kingdom," he shrugged before leaving while saying, "I'll ask for a long vacation after this war is over."

"The golden quest comes next, do you want to take a rest and not join me?"

He paused for a long moment, while his body trembled a couple times. He didn't say anything else while moving down the stairs.

I knew he got shaken from the inside. The golden quest was his way to meet the man he was looking for.

He tried to run as hard as he could away from this meeting. I just hoped things would turn out fine for him in the end.

"Are we going to cover up the space of two armies?" from the side, Lucias asked when the jumper went down.

"I have one million warriors for you to handle," I turned to Lucias before adding, "and I'll add more Hectors to serve you as well."

"Can we eat their souls in the end?"

This dude… He was very hungry towards any soul! Or did he like the taste of the Hector souls or what?

"Don't touch any soul serving me," I said in a serious tone, "just select two of your five elites, each will lead an army. One will lead the army of warriors, and the other will lead the army of Hectors."

"Ok, lord," he bowed, moved away in his usual orange fog, before vanishing off my sight using his superb speed.

I like him. He was very professional and loyal. Of course that was thanks to all the souls he got from me.

I'd ask for more generals later on. I just had to gather more soulers first before asking for a general and a bunch of elites to lead them.

I didn't know if the elites were good enough, but I was sure they wouldn't be as good as Lucias. They would handle the frontline well, I hoped, while I and the other two would help from the side.

"Time to go to the next army then," as I finished helping the jumper, I left while that jerk started to lead his forces forward. He wanted to control as much land as he could while the Hectors were on the run.

I let him do whatever he wanted, and went towards the next army. It was Angelica's.

She wasn't as fierce as Sara, or cunning like the jumper. She was simply fighting the Hectors head on while using the normal war tactics.

She arranged her army in three parts, left wing, right wing, and middle. The fight was brutal on all fronts, while each side was grinding his enemies without any mercy.

But thanks to the difference in stats, her side was getting pressured and gained more losses. "If she kept doing this, her army would get ruined!" I sighed while starting out my technique.

This time, it took roughly eight hours to control Hector. Even when they started to run away, I kept chasing and controlling them until I was met with another army which I worked on.

After getting finished from two more armies this way, I led all the Hectors I gained back. I took control over a couple million Hectors, and asked them to send it to their people as usual.