Chapter 76 - 900-914

Chapter 900

She was still standing in the middle of this place, shining all bright with its energy, while I couldn't see anything through this thick veil of light about her face.

Yet I knew she was safe and was going to continue her work here for me. There was now no danger at all with that weapon sealed inside my inventory.

"I have to go back and get some rest," I looked around before sighing, "lots of rest."

I kept myself alive all this time using my energy. But it wasn't close to traditional sleeping and eating.

I craved a good nap, a good long nap that would extend to days. Yet first I had to check over my forces, the ones I sent back to the second Earth world.

I hoped they didn't get into a fight in between themselves or something. Or else this would make me feel lots of regret about sending both to the same place together.

I returned to my chariot, opened a portal there before appearing in front of one of the big gates leading out from here.

During this time, not a single one on my chariot said anything to me. They didn't even look at me, except for my two girls who looked at me in a way that someone was looking at his guardian angel.

I could only sigh and accept such a result. After all, I planned for them to take a long time to rest inside my second Earth world alongside those alien races.

I have tons of questions to ask them. They weren't just normal folks, they were supposed to be their universe's elites and heroes.

People like them were like treasure troves to me. I got to learn a lot from them, learn about their experiences in their worlds.

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Did they have apocalypses there? Systems? Or cultivation power? Or something totally different?

I got to listen to their side of the story, learn from them about the path towards hegemony.

I opened a path leading towards one of the big gates. Once I appeared there, the green world that appeared here made me feel like all this was a dream.

It was a long adventure, yet I gained lots of things from it. And I also lost some.

I hoped during all this time, Silverlining would have worked diligently and provided Legend with enough people to train large armies.

Not to mention people who would be selected to build and live in my towns and cities there by Angelica's men.

It was a blessing that Angelica trained people, as well as Lily. Both played an important role in my grand plan, and luckily they got people entrusted with their tasks, making me quite relieved.

If I had to add a third person to them, then it would be Isac. She was also one of the big players in my growing kingdom.

She got men to supervise the building process, yet drawing blueprints and creating new marvellous pieces of art maps was a skill that she only got.

Aside from them, everyone else wasn't that special, even the jumper, even my girl; Hilary.

When I recalled her, I couldn't help but sigh. During all this time, I got busy fighting and forgot about Hilary being unconscious inside my chariot.

She got hit hard by that soul thing. Recalling this made me wonder what this soul was all about.

Was it part of the general setting of this world? Or was it part of that damn weapon? Or was it related to those who did all this and stood behind the curtains.

Sigh! All I got was only questions without answers. "Time to go back and take care of things out there…" I decided to leave all these questions behind and not care too much about them for now.

I took a last gaze towards this world. According to that shrine lady, she was going to build me an entire growing world, one that was like my second Earth.

I hoped it would also enjoy the same time difference as well. Like this I'd end up having two gems.

Not to mention the worlds that lay in the stored space of that throne.

The moment I went out, I instantly called for Lucias.

I had bad thoughts about what happened here. I wanted to know what happened here from him directly before doing anything else.

"Lord," Lucias bowed the moment he appeared, "everything is alright. The two sides are living far apart, but nothing major happened."

"Major? What do you mean?"

Lucias was smart enough to guess what I wanted to ask when I called for him in such a way.

"Some skirmishes by those who held grudges and with no brains to think wisely," he said, "but all is under our control. The leaders of each side helped greatly in controlling the situation."

"That's… Good," I expected something worse to be honest. It was a blessing that only such a few small battles erupted between the two.

"How long have I been gone?" This was a question I had in mind for all this time.

Was the time speed inside that pocket world the same as here? Or was it a bit different? Was it faster? Or slower?

"Well… Since our lord sent us away, almost one week has passed."

"Just one week?!" there was indeed a time difference. I spent lots of time inside. After sending them away, I had to fight against that orb and then I took a week or so to deplete the last bones from the den of bones artefact.

Then I went inside that hall and dealt with that jerk for another week.

Well… the time difference wasn't that big, almost one to three or four. That meant the one and half year I spent there was close to six months time here, around nine to ten days on Earth.

Well… I didn't spend too much inside by Earth standard. Just enough for the fourth quest to get finished.

Chapter 901 Quite Intense Meeting

Now I have to wait for the next quest, the fifth quest, to get unleashed. And that one was a pain in the ass.

"I didn't take that long then," I looked around. The world here was as peaceful as the surface world inside that pocket world.

The dome was still there, and I was standing just outside it.

Looking at this place made me recall what I did before getting inside. I found stones, lots of them. I drew the arrangement which aimed to seal this pocket world.

What was the real aim of these stones actually? Selling what? The entry? The exit? That wasn't possible. I entered and my two girls did without any trouble. And we all got out without any problem.

So the seal didn't aim at any of that. In my guess, it aimed towards sealing that weapon.

I had this doubt for a long time. This pocket world was inside my second Earth, which was inside that black hole. It was unreachable, making it impossible for anyone to get here and stop the weapon from taking down my universe shield.

Then why didn't it fire all this time? The people living inside the pocket world lived there for a long time already.

If the problem was lack of energy, then it was solved a long time ago by the people sacrificed inside for such a long time.

It wasn't the problem of power, it was the problem of inability to fire.

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This weapon was sealed by these rocks, making it impossible to damage my universe shield.

It was all thanks to that stone sealing technique laid by that mysterious person.

I got to thank him if he was alive, yet I doubted he'd be even alive after all this time. And as he came here and did this to this pocket world, it must mean he went inside to try and destroy that weapon.

I looked at all the scattered people. As Lucias said, the two universe people were gathered at two immensely huge groups, one at the north and the other to the south, placing the dome entrance to the pocket world in between the two.

They were wary of each other, seemingly afraid even from saying hi. My universe people were oblivious to the deep hatred and grudges these folks from the alien universe held for them.

But that didn't mean they couldn't feel such enmity. That made the two sides not try to get in touch except for the few battles that erupted at first by Lucias words.

"Go and get me the leaders of the ten races of my world," as I arrived here, it was time to start arranging the house, "and bring me the leaders of the alien universe ten races as well."

"Yes, lord," Lucias moved in his big orange fiery fog and started to roam around the two groups.

I waited for almost two hours before a large number of people, of different races, came towards my chariot and ascended it.

I asked for the leaders of the ten races from each universe. The alien universe had ten leaders before, but this time lots of them came, led by Oliver.

The two sides seemed to come in the same number of people without prior arrangement, each had around one thousand.

I looked at such a large group of people of different races without knowing what to say. Lucias did bring lots of them indeed. And that wasn't a good thing.

"Damn you brutal bastards! You enslaved our people, killed them right in front of our eyes for years!"

"Damn sick son of b*tches! You enslaved our people and turned them into living ghosts! What sick mind you really had!"

All of sudden, groups of the two started to shout these accusations at each other without warning. I got this was a bad idea when I saw the two groups eyeing each other like they were sworn enemies.

"Silence!" *Knock!* *Knock!*

I had to intervene before a bad situation would erupt, one that would only escalate things and not make things better.

I held my glaive, knocked over my chariot a couple of times while shouting at them.

I didn't act humble, only domineering at this moment. To add more to my image, Lucias suddenly flashed and came to my side, giving everyone a bitter wake up scene that reminded them of my power and status.

I was their lord, and they were all here serving me.

"I didn't bring you here to fight. Your grievances are welcomed, but don't direct them towards the wrong people. Your enemies were there, inside that pocket world, and I killed them all."

"Lord… They entrapped us!"

"Lord… They killed our people!"

The two sides got the balls to shout back at me. I knew this wasn't going to be easy. It wasn't easy to remove such deep running hatred from them. But I had to do it.

After all this hatred was planted in their souls by the dirty schemes of their enemies. If they weren't able to see this at least, then it was better to cut the throats of those troublemaker idiots before they'd cause more trouble.

"They weren't the one to entrap your people there," I turned to the ones who spoke from my universe's races, "you heard about the beasts blocking each exit. How come they belong to them? They were beasts from a hideous enemy, one who built this entire world to fuel a weapon, a weapon to devastate any universe shield, our universe shield…"

I then turned towards the other side and added, "and they weren't the ones to kill your people. You saw those one-eyed guys down below. They are by any means similar to those races here!"

My universe didn't get anything but the old stories of those terrifying beasts. But the other universe races got to see their enemies in flesh.

If even after all this they still mistook their enemy to be my universe's races, then these leaders were idiots, and the ones behind them were much worse than them.

Chapter 902 [Bonus chapter] They Sought Hard Redemption Path

"Lord… But…"

"Lord… We gotta see and fight them. But they must have a leader, right? Someone to control them."

"What weapon lord? What was it used for?"

"How can a weapon be fueled with our people's souls?"

"How can a weapon be fueled by torturing our people?"

"Don't look at me, you are the ones who did it!"

"Us? Our people got enslaved there, watching our folks turning into souls! It's you who did it to us."

"No way! It's you who did this to us!"

"Shut the hell up or else I'll kill you all myself!"

I grew tired of all this. What were they? Kids? Retarded kids or what?!!

Once I shouted, everyone stopped this nonsense. Looking at them acting in such a way made me realise how hard and long this task would take.

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Yet I craved those races. They were strong, not to mention the ones from my universe were already extinct and considered cursed. Yet these races here weren't!

As for the other universe races, they got tons of knowledge that I craved for. Just these shadow cultivators were enough to make me want them badly.

I had to solve this situation first before doing anything else.

"Living under the shadows and tricks of your enemies is a mistake, a grave mistake actually. You got to accept everything you knew, correct everything that happened to you that were all caused by what your true enemies did. Having deep hatred and grudges is something nice and all, but it's not right to target them to the wrong people, to yourselves, towards those who suffered the same fate as you."

I knew words alone aren't enough. "I pledge on killing those enemies, on condition that you stand by my side. I can't do it alone, even if I'm the mighty lord who saved you from all this, alone I can't do anything. You saw it yourselves, I lost most of my powerful armies to just save you. Don't make me regret doing it."

I said what I got and now it was all up to them.

"In this world, there are lots of empty places. I'll go towards one continent and open a path there for your people to follow. You live there, build cities and towns, live peacefully there and try to think about what I said."

"Ok… Lord…" they got nothing else to say but that. I thought after knowing and seeing the truth with their eyes, they'd all change and accept it.

Yet it seemed it was a harder task than I thought.

I watched them descend, one group at a time. They glared at each other until each side went to their own people.

"Lord… I gotta say this might not work…" Lucias wasn't optimistic about this. Neither did I.

But that was everything I could do for them, for now. I got lots on my mind at the moment. The fifth quest, that infestation of zombies, and the golden quest.

Zombies!

Just as I thought about that, my eyes flashed. I got zombie races from my universe, real zombies, the ones whom my necromancers spoke about before.

"Lucias, find me the leader of the zombie race among our universe group," I said with a cold tone. I got to use this chance to know more about that race and those zombies who were going to invade my kingdom later on.

What were their true weaknesses? How to kill them properly? How to cure their infection and curse? Many questions started to line up in my mind while Lucias went to bring that dude over.

The ones I met before weren't that scary. They looked like any normal race in the universe.

But from the words of the necromancers, I got to know there was some sort of curse, blood related, something that made them act in such a vicious way.

And I was about to discover everything soon enough.

"What about us?"

Just as I waited for that zombie leader to come, one of those who broke free from the statues asked.

His tone was filled with doubt and lots of confusion, yet it seemed he got a better grasp on himself.

Well, he and others were supposed to be heroes of their universes. How come a hero had a weak heart and mind?

"It's up to you," I looked at him. A giant with a cone shaped protrusion from the middle of his back, seemingly breathing in and out air from.

Yet the air that came in looked like it was sucked with mighty force, forming a little tornado. And the air it exhaled was filled with those little fine dots of red light sparkling all around for a few minutes before vanishing into thin air.

It got two big rounded eyes, ones that were honey in colour. I watched him and knew he was still confused, a little devastated, and much enraged with his failure and losses.

"If it's up to me, I'd take you to fight along my side. But…"

"We need time," he admitted it himself, "can my friend from another universe be generous and benevolent enough to let us live here under his care? We already owe you a great debt for killing that motherf*cker and free us. And letting us live here will make us indebted for you till we breathe our last breath."

"Sure," I didn't find anything unusual about what he said, "stay here and get to know my universe and its rules. When you are ready, let's talk."

"Can we… Live there?" yet unlike what I expected, he selected the pocket world, startling me with his decision. "I know it might seem weird, but we have to live in the place where we failed, to learn and get over this for good."

"Ah, I see…" they didn't want to get time for themselves to reflect on what happened, they wanted to torture their souls with their failures.

I wouldn't say I liked such an ending for them, but I got no say here. If they chose such a harsh way of redemption, then they had to be prepared for it.

Chapter 903 Meeting A Zombie

"Go now, the entry and exit are always open all the time," I pointed in the direction of the dome. And yet before they left, each one knelt on one knee, announced their vow to serve me after getting their thoughts straight.

They weren't that many, but I got that they were strong enough to help at times of distress. Not to mention the knowledge they got must be huge!

A new world was waiting for me after they'd returned to their true selves.

"System, can you give them your power?" and as they went down there, I asked the system, hoping for it to do it.

Even if they would stay behind and not do anything major, they should at least get the power of my universe system.

Like this the first step in letting them into my universe would be done. As they'd get to know the system and its various and marvellous different options and abilities, they'd start to point out differences from powers at their universes.

Like this they'd be ready with a long list of knowledge long before our talk. And if they were half the men and women I was expecting, they'd be smart enough to see through my real intentions here.

[The system will link them but we need more time to assess their abilities. They use different forms of energy that the system is getting to know for the first time]

As I expected, they came from different far away universes. Well, if this was going to help then it was great.

If the system managed to recognise new energy then things would be nice. The system could add more features and even things like cultivation if possible.

Recalling cultivation made me think about mine. I slacked a lot and had to start my cultivation.

Not to mention I wanted to check what changes happened to my shadow world by the pure energy I sent there.

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That explosion didn't cause any damage there, right? Or so I'd have to feel changes in my dantians already.

I checked, and my two dantians were just doing perfectly fine. I didn't get a backlash or any sort of damage whatsoever.

That meant my shadow world was ok, right?

How could it not be? It was… After all, the world!

As I watched the group of saved alien races vanish inside the dome, I knew it was time for me to do what I had to do; roaming the world and select two far away continents for these folks to stay at.

"You two can go down there and rest," I said to Lily and Angelica. The two kept uncomfortably close distance from me all the time, "and if you got time, can you check on Hilary for me?"

"Hilary?"

"What happened to her?!"

The two looked at me in weird ways and I just realised they weren't here when my chick got controlled by that soul.

I had to explain what happened to them. And when I finished, I saw a gaze full of regret and pain, with lots of self blaming there.

"Girls… This wasn't your fault."

"Yes it is! If I just didn't ask for that damn cosmetic thing! What was special about that cosmetics anyway to drive me crazy?" Angelica said and I couldn't help but nod.

"I kept asking you this all the time without getting any answer at all."

Well, she was controlled it seemed, she and Hilary. I got to realise this when I saw what happened to Hilary. And it seemed Angelica just realised it now.

"Anyway, let's go down there and check on her," Lily pulled Angelica's arm, "and let you work."

"Take good care of yourselves, will you?" The last thing I wanted was to add more blow to the already shattered self esteem.

As the two girls descended through the stairs, the visitor I was waiting for finally arrived.

Lucias appeared first by my side. Yet the newcomer took his time to walk in such a calm and steady way, as if he wasn't fearing me, fearing anything.

I got to read a detailed description about zombies coming to my world on the next quest. They were merciless, they were bloody, and above anything else they weren't this sane or had any mind at all.

They were described as hideous species, deformed from the races they infected. They got such pale white and grey skin that gave anyone the impression it was covered with mucus.

It was gross, but it didn't apply here. Even the words talking about how their bodies got soft bones, could twist and not die didn't apply here.

This dude was skinny, as the description of the zombies at the fifth quest told. But he was standing erect, walking on two and not on four. He got eyes, not eyes covered with a thin layer of white opage tissue that would turn them blind.

He got normal teeth, normal features, not those saw like teeth or deformed features I read about.

He has thin muscles, and seemingly strong bones. With each step he took over my chariot, I could hear a soft bang coming from the weight and might of his steps.

He got two blazing scarlet red eyes with vertical pupils. The first thing he made me feel when he stood this close was strong.

He was strong! And I didn't feel such a thing except from my soulers and fallen gods.

"I'm Loran, at your service, my lord," he bowed and greeted me in such courtesy, making me wonder if he was really honest about it or not.

"At ease," regardless he showed his respect, and I had to show him my appreciation, "I see that you are quite different from the current zombies in our universe."

"How so?" he seemed a little puzzled, "what changed?"

"A lot changed," I sighed, "don't forget, you vanished from our universe for tens of thousands of years or even more."

"This…" he seemed to not realise the magnitude of such tiny detail.

"Your race is considered extinct in our universe."

"But lord… You just said there are zombies in our universe."

Chapter 904 A Way To Handle Zombies

"These are… Quite different than you are…" I started to explain what differences were between him and the ones I read about.

And the more I spoke, the more trembling his body became.

For a moment there, a faint red mist appeared from his body, before it vanished inside like he inhaled them back.

"This… My lord this isn't our race. They are the variations we created when we conquered any race. They are deformed and twisted souls, without mind to control, and only a vicious desire for flesh and blood."

"I can vouch for that," I bitterly smiled, "those ones are really vicious. But I heard such an interesting story about the presence of hope for your race."

"The den you mean, right?"

"You know about it?" I felt a little surprised when he said the same thing as my necromancers.

"Well, it's easy to guess. After all, for such deformed lowly creatures to be created, we have to leave behind a few of our people inside a huge den."

"What for?"

"To exert control over these twisted souls. If not, then releasing them in any world would end it in ruins."

"I agree," I nodded, "so you are saying that these dens are the key?"

"That's correct. But our people shall be in deep slumber. If they were awake, none of the atrocities you mentioned would have happened."

"How can we awaken them?" This was why I called for him. I wanted to find a way to cure this infestation. But he said they could be controlled, and that was my second best answer I was looking for.

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If I couldn't manage to clear such infestation and cure it, then controlling it would be my best available solution.

"To awaken a zombie from our sacred deep slumber, you'll need another zombie to call for them."

"You mean…"

"I must come with lord," he said in a firm way as if he just made a great decision, "I can't stand by and watch my people get slaughtered and kill others without restraint. This isn't how our people live by."

"What will your people live by then?"

"Surprisingly for peace," he really said something surprising, "we live not to kill or feed on other races. That's quite barbaric! We are a civilised race. We feed on animals like any other race. We own… Owned our own worlds filled with cattle stock, enough to feed our people for generations to come."

His words conveyed how arrogant this race was. Or else why would he act in such pain when he heard my side of the story?

But this… It made quite sense, but it was also quite surprising still. They fed over animals and not races?

"Then what about those who are carrying your name now?"

"They are just low creatures, slaves for us. We only used them at wars, to kill our foes. And as I just told you, we didn't let them loose and kept them always under our leach. We can't form them without using our people supervising them. That's the unbreakable code and system our ancestors placed to make sure we would never go berserk or bloody."

"Your ancestors are wise," I paused, raising my head to the sky, "not like some crazy folks behind the system."

I was talking to the system higher ups. After all, they unleashed this plaque while removing the safety button the zombie race's ancestors created and left behind.

"Can it be cured?" and this was my top question, "the one infected with your blood."

"It's not our blood, it's just an aura we release using some sort of our race's ancient ways," he said to correct me before adding, "and yes. It can be cured. And the cure is easy. We just need to wake up those in control, and ask them to reverse the process."

"This…"

"Do you think we were just this bloodthirsty with no mind or wisdom? Lord, we are… We were once one of the mightiest races in our universe. We would have never reached this stage with might or terror alone. Yes we are scary folks, but that doesn't mean we aren't civilised."

Well, the more he talked the more I liked the way his race did things back then.

"So… We just need to wake up those in deep slumber and then ask them nicely to follow our orders?" I couldn't help but raise one eyebrow, making this Loran laugh shortly before saying:

"I will handle the task of waking them up. But lord will have to do the rest."

"You mean…"

"Just like you subdued me and my forces, you can also subdue them, right?"

He got a point indeed. Controlling any race wasn't an issue for me. But they got to be awakened first.

"What do you need then?"

"Nothing much. I lack enough power after all this time inside that damn prison."

"You need to feed?" I realised what he wanted, and couldn't help but feel a little vigilant here.

I would never allow him to feed on others, not on my people!

"Not races, lord. I just told you, we can feed on animals. Aren't there any here?"

"We got monsters," I motioned my head towards the far away ocean, "can they do?"

"Not as tasty as animals, but they can do just fine."

"Great. You can stay here and wait until I'll go to the monster's place."

"But lord… I may need a few of my elites."

"How many?" I didn't hurry to respond. I was still wary about this damn zombie thing. My old fears about zombies couldn't be swept away just by the simple words of him and others.

"A group of a hundred will do," he paused as if he was thinking about something, "we got a fierce waking up technique of our race, one that requires one hundred to get executed."

"Good," I nodded, "then you won't have an issue to show me this before leaving back to my world, right?"

Chapter 905 Silverlining Crisis

"Using it here?" He seemed a little surprised. But I had to be sure they weren't just going lunatics or having funny thoughts.

"Do you have an issue?" I asked, while my gazes were fixed over his face, watching him in such a fierce and vigilant way.

One wrong move and this dude here would die.

"I don't," yet he calmly shook his head, "I just have to tell lord that this technique is used to wake up our race folks in deep slumber."

"You mean it won't work?"

"The technique will get activated, but it won't do anything at all."

"No problem."

"And once we are done, we will need to replenish our energy again."

"That's not a big problem," I shrugged, "we already got tons of monsters in here. You can feed on them after each attempt, here or back in my world."

"Thanks lord."

"Go now and make them prepared," I waved my glaive for him to move away, "just wait for me until I'm done with these folks here. Then we will move out."

I watched him leave my chariot before starting to move my baby towards the west. I checked the map of this world and sat my eyes over my first target.

There was a big continent there, away from my main continent with another one in the middle, one that was smaller in size than these two.

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I planned to leave the alien universe races there. Such a huge distance would buy me enough time till my people would inhabit my main continent and the one next to it.

[How are things going?]

And as I got lots of time, at least half a month in my estimate, I sent a message to Silverlining.

The last messages between me and him were related to this pocket world. He warned me tons of times to not touch that place, and yet I did.

I proved again that with will and might, with clear heart and mind, I could get through any tough challenges and survive. Not to mention I got rid of that damn weapon for good.

[You… Good… You are very good… At least you aren't dead yet] and what he sent were these weird words. I got that he was mad, confused, and must be pressured during the past months by the sovereigns.

[Please tell me you kept sending forces here] I sent, [Or else I'm screwed]

[What? Do you have something after you? Dammit Hye! I warned you! Never go inside that damn stupid pocket world!]

[Man, chill out first and take a deep breath. I got in, screwed whoever was inside, and won that place over. Now I'm out, and I'm fine. I just lost tons of forces in there, and need new blood right now]

This time he took lots of time to respond that even made me slightly worried.

[I heard that you got yourself out]

The next message didn't come from Silverlining, but from that crazy sovereign. [Getting into such a dangerous pocket world and getting out… That's something only happened to a few, you do know that?]

[Thanks. Did silverlining tell you?]

[Tell me? That jerk is running naked all over the capital, shouting your name and what you did!]

What the f*ck?!! I just sent this to him almost half an hour ago. Was he in his race's capital or what?

[Don't blame him. He was locked up for the entire period you were gone]

[What the heck happened?!!]

[You didn't know? When he talked to you it wasn't just a simple talk. Damn! That idiot! Didn't he tell you?]

[Well…] I tried to recall and when I did, I recalled that I closed the chat with him, ignoring everything he said.

Did he send something related to what this crazy old man was saying?

I instantly opened the chat between me and Silverlining. And there I found old messages that I missed.

[Dude, please, stop this madness right now]

[This isn't a place you can risk going to and leave without getting yourself killed]

[You are going to endanger all of us! Are you aware of that?]

[Dude… Please respond! Tell me at least you are reading this]

[I'm not speaking to you as your friend, I got a direct order with my neck on the line if I failed. You have to stand down and share this world with us. Let the pros do it]

[Dammit Hye! I'm trying to help and save your life and yet here you are! You messed up your life, and screwed mine… Thanks for that! I'm not going to prison thanks to you]

Damn! [So he didn't send me any forces till now?]

[What? Damn! Are you crazy? He was locked up during this time and just got out thanks to your message. Now you are asked to come here and explain what happened]

[No way! I got tons of things to do] I instantly refused. Going there by my own will? I wasn't that crazy, you know.

Going to the lair of lions with my own feet? No way! I was here the king, but back there I'd be a powerless chicken cornered by wolves.

[You gotta come. Everyone here is deadly worried]

[I'm fine]

[Not on you, arrogant bastard! We are worried about our universe! You read the stones? I found a way to read them and the message there… Damn! Hye, you need to come right now and explain what happened. I don't need to tell you that all of us are seriously considering calling out for a grand meeting with all the big forces here. We even will side with the Hescos]

[What?!!]

[This is our universe, this is our lives we are speaking about. Not only our current generation, but for our future generations as well. You have to come and explain what happened there and let everyone know the truth. If it's bad as we all expect, don't get chicken out because of this. We are on your side, everyone here is on your side]

Chapter 906 Taking Them In A Tour

Why was he acting in such a sane way? Damn! That was… Creepy!

[Dude, tell me what is going on at your race?]

[Going on? I got locked up. And just after a month, someone managed to decipher your stones and then… Everyone started to freak out!]

Damn! It was true then!!

[Is there a way to do a meeting from far without the need to go there? I got something important to do here]

I knew that this situation couldn't be solved just by words and messages. I got what they were feeling right now. Reading an ancient story about an ancient weapon? That was indeed quite scary!

If I were them, I would consider it the worst. Who would believe that such a weak human would get a chance to conquer such a deadly weapon?

I had to show them the truth, without the need for me to go there.

[You do have a channel, right? We can all join your channel and watch what you are doing]

Well… That was quite simple and… Surprisingly easy to do.

[Cool! Search for my name, I got a channel registered by my name] I sent over before adding, [I was going now to do something. But I'll return and be at that pocket world entrance in five hours]

[I'll get everyone following you by then. Don't get surprised when you get your audience doubled, hahahaha! I'm free by the way, thanks for asking]

[I expect compensation, a great one over our missing deals. And my channel isn't that low or pathetic. Doubled? Hahaha!]

[What the hell are you talking about?] he paused for a few minutes, [I made sure someone will handle the delivery. Don't tell me these bastards slacked and didn't do it!]

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[Oh… I thought…]

[Dude, it's you who owe me a great deal of money, bones I mean]

[If so… Then I'll pay you and give you a handsome reward] If he did, if he kept the supply line continuous, then he should get repaid and rewarded for such effort.

I thought as he was imprisoned that everything went down. But this dude proved how kind of a genius merchant he was!

[Oh, are you giving me a high ranked bone?]

[You guessed it right, hahaha!] What else would satisfy you as a great reward then?

[Red grade?]

[Perhaps… Or a little higher one]

[Damn! Damn Hye! I'm damn excited right now! All this time at prison… Damn! It was worth it, hahaha! If every time I went there I would end up with such a handsome reward, then register me as a regular criminal, hahahaha!]

Well, at least he was enjoying his moment right now.

[Ok, deal with it and I'll turn around. Meet you all in five hours] I closed the chat, turned my chariot around, and raced again towards the point I started from.

If not for them needing to see evidence to get secured, if not for the gravity of this matter, if not for their right to know their fate and future, I wouldn't have done it.

But if I was in their place right now, I'd do anything to know the truth. Raging wars and allying with enemies weren't insane actions now.

So instead of waiting and seeing them flocking onto my world and trying to kill me, it was better to solve all this mess with a simple explanation with enough evidence to make them feel secure.

It took slightly six hours to get back to my pocket world entrance.

[Are you all ready?] and just as I arrived, I sent this to Silverlining.

This dude kept silent all this time, making me a bit worried.

[We already joined your channel. Dude! What you did is crazy!]

[What do you mean?]

[We are watching the old videos. That fight against the alien universe people is just amazing! How did you do it? Even our sovereigns got into long debate about this and none managed to get any clue]

[It's not time for that!] if they could get access to my videos, then why the heck was I here? [Can you access my videos from my last adventure to that world?]

[Oh, we checked it first but found nothing] he sent such weird message, [it seemed like once you got inside, all the feed was cut]

[Are you sure?]

[That's what happened. The last thing recorded was you getting into that pocket world after unearthing all the stones and then burying them again. Then it's all blank until you got back with tons of races waiting for you here]

Hmm… that was… Quite unexpected. Why did that happen? I didn't care about this and sent, [Be ready then. I'm going inside and will show you everything in there]

[Hold on, my people need to ask you about something…]

He went silent for a few minutes before returning with tons of questions.

[Dude… I'm not that free to answer you about my cultivation ways] I rolled my eyes when I saw all the questions he sent.

They all were targeting my shadow world and my techniques. I didn't like them to prey on me like this, and also I got no time to waste here.

I had to go into that pocket world, show them everything there before heading back to do the task of sending people to their places.

This might look easy, but it would take a long time indeed. Especially when I got all these curious new visitors to my channel.

[Ok, they will just watch your old videos to get answers] and that made me consider sealing everything from their eyes.

[Make them ready, I'm going in now]

Getting back into this world was an easy task. I simply flashed past the dome and entered the all green and shiny world.

It looked peaceful, not like when I came here for the first time.

"This world is built on three levels…" and I started talking, explaining this pocket world to them in great detail.

Chapter 907 Speaking With The Big Boss

I kept talking while jumping in between the world places using my staff. I didn't have to travel this much when I got my staff. And that saved me tons of time actually.

They didn't get many questions when I showed them the empty cities and towns. Even when I tried to describe how this place was filled with souls, they weren't that interested.

But when I spoke about the presence of ancient races here, they all got tons of questions.

[Can we get some?]

[Can you send a few over?]

[How much will you sell a few to me?]

Many sovereigns got greedy, but my answer was the same for all of them.

[They are all now part of my people. They aren't for sale. But if you ever needed a hand, I'll always be by your side as your friend and ally]

And yet when I went to the next level world, the underground one, they came with tons of questions when I mentioned the alien universe races.

They got all stirred up! Pumped with the possibility of getting the legendary alien races under their control and research.

I could understand where all this came from, but my answer remained the same.

[Hye, you are a really lucky bastard! You know that?] and that crazy sovereign sent, [How about this… I got a few words I don't need. Why not take them and let me come and live with these races for a few months? You do know how valuable experimenting on them is, right?]

[They are my people. How do you expect me to accept this?]

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[This… Then how about this… Interrogate them for us and share information. This isn't hard to do and won't violate your own rules, right?]

[Sell you intel? That's interesting indeed…] At last someone thought of such interesting offer, [But this won't come cheap]

[We will prepare whatever you'll need, but you have to give us reliable intel. I mean things we can use]

[Count on me] I laughed, [But you also have to prepare. What I'll ask for won't be easy]

[I know what interests you the most… Humans, races, and warriors, right?]

[Not just any warriors] I got such thoughts in mind for sure, [I need dragons, soulers, necromancers, zombies, fallen gods, and any cursed race exist in our universe]

[This… Are you this fanatic about getting your hand over cursed races?]

[This is my price. Can you afford it?]

[Sure, anything can be done in exchange for such information]

I wasn't just doing this for myself or them. Such intel would be exclusive for Toranks race at first. Then soon enough many other races would get a few leaked from inside.

That would greatly affect the current state of war. But they had to get prepared. After all, our real enemies weren't the ones in the alien universe.

And that was explained to them the moment I went inside the last level in this world, the sacred weapon hall.

Once I ended speaking about everything I knew about, an eerie silence prevailed.

[Are you telling us that… There is another enemy hidden behind curtains? Doing all this without exposing themselves?!!]

It was Ludak, the one who gave me the necromancer seed.

"Yes," and I simply nodded, "They did this to all of us. Not only us, but to many other universes. They used this weapon to crush through the protective shields of universes. Then they started attacking them in the same way they used over ours and that alien universe."

[That's… Crazy!] The crazy sovereign spoke, [Are you sure of that?]

"Do you see this black fog thing here?" I didn't directly answer him, and instead pointed towards the dark fog that looked like pitch black starry sky, "this is where many remaining worlds of these destroyed universes are kept. As I got from the system, these places are all experiencing the same hellish experience people here lived in."

[That's… Quite unexpected] this time it was a new name that popped up, and he had that prestigious title of being the leader of the Toranks race.

Damn! I was speaking with the direct leader of that race, that mighty race. Damn! That was… Cool!

[And that weapon… Did you destroy it? Or do you still have it?]

"I had to destroy it," I lied, "or else it might fall in the wrong hands."

This weapon was my little secret. As no one got to see what I did here, I could say anything and they'd end up buying it.

[What a regret] and as expected, that mighty figure just thought about controlling this weapon for his sake, [With such mighty thing… We could have crushed that damn universe without losing much]

He… Was thinking about winning the war without caring about the means. It seemed those who were in his place, high and mighty in the universe, had their own perspectives about how things should be done.

Of course that wasn't ok for me. I wouldn't use this weapon to do it.

In my opinion, both universes were victims of the same dirty scheme. It wasn't a nice truth indeed, but it was the truth.

[I get that you don't like my words] and it seemed my face and silence showed that to him.

"I feel like we should have used that weapon against our common enemy."

[The one that can't be found?]

"Yet, because we never tried to look for them. I don't believe with all our might and resources, we can't find such rats."

[Speaking as if they are among us!]

"If you are them, how can you cover up such a deep scheme and lie without having people at the right places?"

[You mean… You don't possibly suspect mighty races to have traitors!]

"Anyone is a suspect in my eyes, yet these will be the least worries we have."

[Hmm… If you are speaking in such way, then there is only one place that can have higher threat to us]

Chapter 908 Did You Forget Our Little Deal?

"A place we can't visit, people we can't inspect, and they can rule over all of us… They are the number one suspect indeed," I kept talking in such mysterious words while silence only prevailed during the next ten minutes.

This leader wasn't stupid. He got what I meant, and he got how dangerous it was to keep talking about them in clear words.

[Ok, leave this matter to old folks like myself. As for you, keep doing what you are good at]

"Killing?"

[Crushing your apocalypse and giving all of us huge surprises just like these]

I grinned. This dude was just my type.

"Cool. Then you got the proof you all needed. Is everything settled now?"

I didn't do all this just to hear a few nice encouraging words from such an old man.

[It's all settled. And thanks for your great deeds this time, your last request is going to be approved]

"You mean…"

[We will grant you access to all the apocalypse worlds at your trial]

Damn! All of the worlds? That meant I'd gain access to nineteen more worlds! That was… Pretty f*cking awesome.

And that also meant I needed tons of fighters on my side. Controlling these worlds, and during the harsh and risky times of the fifth quest? That was indeed a risky move.

[I'll make our middle man speak with you about it. But get prepared, we are going to provide you with tickets in one week]

"Thanks," I knew I couldn't take more of his time. Such a mighty man must have been too damn busy.

He just spared part of his time as this situation was really grave and would affect the safety of everyone in the universe, including their people.

But as everything got settled, and as he got lots of dangerous intel about our real enemies and the current ugly situation of our universe, he had to do lots of things indeed.

I managed to unveil the ugly face of our universe, and it was up to people of his calibre to do the rest.

As for me, I had to do just like he proposed. I got to just fight, keep fighting and ruling over my Earth, and over the newly acquired worlds as well.

I knew that I had tons of work to do here. And I had to get more prepared than I planned to do.

The same hellish period I was expecting at the fifth quest was going to be multiplied by nineteen times now! And at these worlds, I had to go and invade them without having a foothold there.

[The big boss is happy. You seem to leave a good impression on him] and as I was thinking about my next moves, Silverlining sent this.

[He gave orders to agree on your previous request. I'm going to get you tickets in one week time at most]

[That's cool. Can you secure me another thing?]

[More races, humans, and warriors?]

Of course I needed those. But if Silverlining men already worked at our deal throughout that time, then I might not need that much.

[I want soulers, lots of them if you can]

[You and your addiction to cursed races. Alright, leave this to me. But give me few days to rest and recover before returning to work]

He must be hellish tired. Getting imprisoned and his fame tarnished and destroyed like that wasn't an easy thing for him, for anyone.

[I also want the same old deals]

[What deals?]

[The ones with sovereigns]

[Oh, you got more red bones?]

[I got enough] I thought, [I need good stuff like before. And above all, I need kingdom hearts]

[How many?]

[Twenty-five] I opened my inventory and checked the red bones there. Well, I got thousands of these right now.

My harvest from that time, back when I fought and killed those guarding monsters, gave me tons of good grade bones.

Not to mention I got weird grade bones, like those red-purple grade ones.

But I didn't think about using these for now. They looked precious. Even if they weren't that much different in value, their colour and appearance was suitable enough to raise their prices later on.

[Oh, you are going all out then! That's great! Let me check the sovereigns here and will get back to you once I secured what you wanted]

I was going towards new worlds. Without kingdom hearts, my regions there wouldn't be permanent and secure. Using enough kingdom hearts would make me sleep with closed eyes and in peace at night.

[You do know that you owe me something]

As I jumped back to my last point reached in my current task using my staff, I got this message from that crazy sovereign.

Damn! He didn't forget about our deal.

[It was you who deciphered these stones, right?] And instead of answering him, I got to secure a few points first.

I thought that he must have watched a few videos of my old fights and got an idea about my ability.

[Don't try to get out of it using this. You promised me and signed a contract to help me to get that dude with time ability. And viola! It was all you, hahaha!]

[And?]

[You are obliged to come and serve me]

[I'm obliged to come and help, not serve]

[Whatever]

[It differs!]

[Not to me! You are going to come and help me save my girl]

[I will, but as you can see…I'm quite busy]

[You are always busy! You have to make time for me]

[You gotta pay what you promised first]

[No, it's paid after you help me!]

[Nope! It's paid after I find you that dude. Return to the contract and revise it again]

[Screw contracts! I don't care about any price. Just come and save my girl!]

[I will, but after I'm done with that tricky thing waiting for me] I had to buy myself enough time before doing any of this, [I got enough on my mind right now. Besides, don't feel this nervous. You saw how capable I am]

Chapter 909 He Seems Not That Much Confident!

[Don't get cocky because you cracked one pocket world!]

[I cracked what you failed at, hahahaha!]

[Damn you! Do you think you are some special dude? Wake up! This is the vast universe we are talking about here]

[You don't know this yet, don't you?] I paused on purpose, for a long minute, before adding, [I got a race, one special race that can control time just like myself]

[This…]

[So, if you want my help, you can. But you'll have to pay at least double that. If you want just anyone with time ability, then it's fine. Pay and I'll send one to you after ending my business here]

Who said I was the only one with time ability in my kingdom? I got an entire race of descendants who could control time.

Sending just one would finalise this deal. But for a reason, I wanted to start venturing outside the vast universe.

I got enough power and backing to control my apocalypse cluster. I knew it was a hard and long tedious journey, but it was feasible as well.

So why wouldn't I start working on and aiming for a bigger stage?

How was the outside universe? That was a question I never got an answer to.

I got one chance before to get to the Bringold impact meeting. Yet I was too young and naive, inexperienced enough to appreciate such a chance.

So why wouldn't I go out there and help this dude? In return for that, I might gain lots of treasures and forces as well.

But who said me going out there would be the same as sending one of my boys out?

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[Humph! Who said I need you? Send that dude over when you got the payment]

[Ok, but don't regret it later on]

[Regret what? Kiddo, you are speaking with a sovereign of the Toranks race! I'm not that weak or powerless]

[I know, but I'm just saying]

[Screw you! I'll prepare your fees and you got to be ready with that dude]

[As you wish]

I acted in such a way to make him question his odds there. He once went inside and failed. So he knew better than anyone the magnitude of challenges waiting for him inside.

If he had full confidence about doing it, then he'd just settle with one of my boys. And it wouldn't cost me anything much. I'd just have to send one dude over, and that was all.

But something told me he wasn't that sure. And that made me push more doubt into himself.

Anyway, I have lots of time before I'd do anything like this. And during that time, I decided to rest and not care about anything else.

"How is she?" After three days of travelling and constant sleeping, I finally woke up and got a chance to go and check on my chick.

She wasn't alone. The two others seemed to care too much about her, even moving two beds and stuffed the room with them.

There was no space for a foot inside right now. So I had to stop at the entrance and ask while the two were seemingly lost in their thoughts.

They didn't look any better to me. And it seemed they'd take more than what I expected to get better.

"She is still asleep," Angelica said, "how are you by the way?"

"I'm fine," I looked over at my chick. She was sleeping like a real princess in fairy tales, waiting for her prince charming to come and save her.

Sigh! I killed everyone of my enemies in that place, and ruined the weapon. So why wouldn't she wake up yet?

"Where are we going?" Lily suddenly moved as she added, "I want to get back to work."

"Right now?!!" that was sudden, "you need to rest. Your man is doing just fine."

"You didn't go there to check on him yet. How do you know he is doing that good?" She stood in front of me at the door entrance, making me take a step back.

Her words told me she was fine. But her eyes told a different story.

"If you went there and weren't ready, then…"

"Don't worry, only by working can I forget about what I saw inside."

"What did you see?" I moved my eyes between the two girls, "what exactly happened in there?"

"…"

And as I asked, all I got was pure silence.

Before I'd sign in such helpless way and decided to drop the matter, Angelica suddenly said:

"I saw Earth getting devastated, not just like the apocalypse we got. It's… It was something different."

"Me too," Lily nodded in such a weak way, "I saw my people got slaughtered, you got killed, and everything I held dear to my heart got ruined."

"By whom?"

"By invaders," the two said at the same time, "weird looking races that were so damn mighty and violent. All is caused by us, everything started with getting into that damn pocket world! I hate this place! Hate it to the bones! I don't know how I was so deeply enchanted with going there. Cosmetics? Screw that word! I will never put a single speck of makeup on my face ever again!"

"Me too!"

The two girls said and nodded to each other, and I could only sigh inwardly while watching them.

What could I do or say but to let them vent everything in their own way and words?

"Fine, get some rest before returning to work," I said to Lily, trying to cut the path on her to return.

"No, let me get myself busy with work," yet she was quite stubborn. "It won't take much from you. Just drop me back and return to doing whatever you are doing right now."

I glared up at her and she stared back at me. "On one condition though," I paused, "promise to not overdo it."

"I can't," yet she didn't even lie and say she would, "I… I have to lose myself at work. It's the only way I got."

Chapter 910 Monster Outbreaks!

I could feel how deeply devastated and broken she was. I didn't know why, but just seeing and hearing her like that made me decide to agree.

I knew it might be such a bad idea, but what else could I do to help them? To help her?

Everyone had his own way to recover, even if it was just by running away and losing oneself in work.

I slowly nodded before heading back to the rooftop. "Come with me," I said while she and Angelica followed me up there.

Angelica seemed to consider using this way as Lily to recover. But I hoped she wouldn't. The two were different, and I hoped she would be more cautious in dealing with such traumas.

Humans were such a fragile race. If she rushed it, it might backfire at her later on.

*Fwoosh!*

I opened a portal after saving a bookmark here. The moment I appeared over the trait zone, I was met with a magnificent scene.

"What the heck… Is that?!!!"

Angelica got all the right to be shocked. What was I seeing? It was another ocean of forces fighting densely packed monsters.

Just looking at the islands scattered in the trait wasn't enough. Looking at the coast made me wonder for how long these forces expanded there.

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The fight wasn't only at islands, but expanded to the shore side here. Something told me that if I went towards the other continent, I'd end up seeing a similar scene.

"Damn! And you dared to say that Legend was enough?!!" Lily turned sharply at me, "even I might not be enough! We need generals! Lots of them!"

"I'll help," Angelica raised her hand in such a shy way before she straightened herself up when both of us looked at her, "I'm going to help. This place… It looks quite hectic to be controlled by just two."

"And two isn't even close enough! We need hundreds! Hundreds of generals and thousands if not tens of thousands of experienced leaders," Lily focused her eyes over me before adding, "how are you going to solve it, genius?"

"There… Is a way," well they got a point. Saying that there were hundreds of millions fighting down there was an understatement.

I had to change my plans and use help from them.

"Call Legend over," Lily got a way to contact him, but not I. I waited for a few hours, while taking a grand tour here, while waiting for that dude to come.

He didn't have my leader's chariot. Something that made me regret not giving him one. He came on foot, running in the middle of a large group of his.

Taking a wide tour here gave me a general image on how things looked like on the entire place.

First of all, the number of forces was much more than that. Much more to the extent of forming two big camps behind the ones fighting at the forefront.

It seemed Legend decided to arrange them into three groups, give each group a chance to fight and train for sometime before pushing another group forward and letting the first one rest.

It was a nice tactic, one that someone brutal as himself wouldn't think about unless he had to.

The situation forced him to do so. After all, he was controlling everything here on his own, without any proper help.

I felt a little bad about this. I was the one to leave this kid in such a position, all by himself, without any means of help.

As for monsters, it seemed after four months, they grew into such dense numbers enough to occupy a large part of the ocean. I checked till the northern end of the trait, making me see the forces span over the continent shore away from the trait, with many monsters there than at the traits.

Their shapes changed. These monsters kept evolving it seemed. This was good as long as they were under control.

Aside from the training camps here, the citizen zones showed a remarkable growth and evolution.

There were crops planted, trade going on between cities and towns. There was life, life that I lost meaning of, as many humans and races did after the apocalypse hit.

And from the look of it, they built wide roads to connect all these towns and cities together. It also seemed that these settlements went too deep into mountains, even encompassing the regions beyond.

"Lord… Lord… You are finally back!"

And just as I spotted Legend, I lowered my chariot while that kid jumped the stairs to the upper floor.

Once there, he jumped at Lily's embrace first and screamed these words while looking at me.

"Sorry about that, it seemed a bit hard on you," I knew I was belittling this issue.

"No lord, it was great! Awesome actually!"

"Then… Why are you crying?!" I raised an eyebrow while looking at him. His armour was all in tatters, seemingly like he went into desperate fights frequently.

What happened? Wasn't he supposed to be the one leading others and not fighting?

"Oh, about that…" he seemed to notice my peculiar gazes over his armour, "the monsters here seemed to evolve. We found many weird new kinds coming up at us from time to time. And at some point, a monster swarm might happen."

"Swarm?!" I looked around. How could this be possible? With such numbers, any monster outbreak should be contained.

"Lord, don't underestimate them. There are really great behemoths of them under the ocean. When these swarms hit us, they'd come and cause great havoc. I had to intervene and help all the time to kill them."

"Oh, let me solve this problem for you then."

"No lord, please leave it be," yet he suddenly said, surprising me, "these swarms are brutal indeed, but it's a good test ground for our forces. We might lose a bunch of them, but that doesn't matter as we always gain more reinforcements on a daily basis."

"Oh… Then…"

Chapter 911 Sending Generals And Leaders To Help

"Please lord, leave them. Our forces need more pressure from time to time. And with the presence of the towns and villages behind them, it will look exactly like the apocalypse."

I got his point. Damn! This kid really was a war maniac!

"Cool," and under the silent pleading gazes of Lily I had to agree, "but you have to get big weapons to help if things went south at some point."

"That… I won't say no to such an offer, lord," and he finally lowered his ego and agreed to my suggestion.

"Tell me, have you sent people there to train?" I pointed towards the other far away and not clearly seen shore.

"Yes lord, I had to improvise and do it. I also had to arrange people in different groups just to make sure everyone will get proper rest and training chances."

"I see…"

"Also there are many towns and villages at the other shore," he pointed at the direction of that shore, "we had to do so as all the paths in between mountains and a very huge space inside the mainland were already occupied."

"I see," I nodded, but Lily still glared at me, "what?"

"I'm waiting for the promised help."

"I said I'll bring them," I rolled my eyes, "but first I'll leave you here to arrange for things."

"You don't plan to abandon us, right?"

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"As if I did it before," I laughed before looking at Legend. This kid made me feel bitter. He was in a very poor state.

"Here," I took out a dark gold grade full body armour, a strong shield, two swords, and a big axe, "I don't know which weapon you prefer, so…"

"How about a glaive?" he looked at my dragon glaive, making me wonder if he was eyeing it or something, "just to be like lord."

"Then take this," I got him a nice dark gold glaive, "it looks just like mine."

"Thanks lord," Legend showed a genuine happy smile on his face, making me laugh.

"Don't just run away and forget about us," and before I left, Lily shouted this, making me raise my glaive high in the air without saying anything.

I didn't return directly to where I stopped. First I used one of the bookmarks I saved before, leading me to the place where I summoned the little turtle before.

The place should be in the mountains, but right now there were lots of people living here. Seeing such densely packed towns and cities made me admire this place.

This world… I swore I'd turn into a place of heaven for all my people.

No matter where they came from, no matter their origins, they'd all enjoy such heaven with me.

"It's not suitable here," I looked around and the place was occupied already. The building process didn't fully occupy the paths in between mountains, but they got at least two thirds of them covered.

The path I was flying on top of was almost filled. I wanted a very vast region, a place where it would turn to a huge base of my newly acquired people.

That was how I'd solve the problem of lacking generals. I got ten races of the mightiest and most ancient ones in the universe.

Just looking at how the Hectors did things here made me envy them. And these weren't even close to the mightier Toranks or Hescos. Not to mention the ten ancient big races.

Asking these races to give me leaders and generals? I was sure they didn't have a big fight in their lives before, but they hailed from such a fierce army.

So even if they didn't have experience, they still got the ancient teachings of their ancestors. Not to mention they got the same raging wild blood of their ancestors.

And that blood was just like fuel, waiting for a spark of fire to get ignited.

If not for the deep grievances with the ten races from the alien universe, I'd rather prefer to ask them to come here instead.

At least they got rich battle experience, kept training as I saw it myself when I came to the underground world.

The grand formations they formed were still fresh in my mind. It told me a lot about how deeply prepared they were.

I kept flying for a few hours before I finally entered the vast ocean of trees. I looked at this place and decided to keep moving forward.

I flew for ten hours straight before I decided to stop. I saved this bookmark before opening a portal and went back to the place of my pocket world.

"Lucias, spread the word over my ten universe races," I called for Lucias before asking him this, "make them move their people through the portals I'm going to open. Ah, also make them select capable leaders and generals."

"To fight?"

"To train my soldiers and make them also train their forces."

"Oh, so they can also bring their forces to train?" Lucias just proposed such a nice idea that I missed.

"Sure, it will be great," I nodded, "just make them bring such people to one side and wait. I'll open different portals for them… Make them wait there."

I selected a far place deep to the south from their current location.

My universe forces were situated in the south. As Lucias moved, I waited for a few minutes before I started to open portals all over the place.

Moving such a huge number of people would take many portals and lots of time. So I made sure to spread at least ten groups of portals, each had at least one hundred in them.

Then I went to the place I pointed at before, and started opening portals leading to the big military campus directly.

Then I sent a message to Lily notifying her of that when I saw a huge number of people coming towards my direction.

[Make sure to welcome them, and see who is going to be leaders and generals. Use them well]

Chapter 912 Diamond Grade Bone

[Are they this good?]

[They are fierce and much better than you and Legend] I didn't hide this from her, and didn't also miss to mention their sole weakness, [But they lack battle experience]

[This… How come they are capable generals and leaders without having enough battles?]

[You'll see… Genes run deeper than habit and experience] I sent this weird sentence that I knew she wouldn't get right away.

But soon she'd know what I meant.

As I solved her problem by changing my plans for these folks, I had to return to my long journey to the far away continent.

And this journey took much longer than what I initially expected.

I thought it would take roughly half a month to arrive there. But it ended up with a month and half!

During this, I got so much good news one after another.

[I got the tickets to the nineteen other worlds in your apocalypse trial] Silverlining first sent this message a few hours after I returned to travelling again.

[Great! Send them over. How about what I asked for?]

[Working on it]

His next message came one entire week later.

[I got the deals you want]

[It took quite some time from you. I hope everything is alright]

[Don't worry, things are great! I just had to filter through all the offers. After all, not all the sovereigns gave the same kind of deals we got before]

[This…]

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[Don't worry, I managed to push them hard and ended up with twenty great deals and five slightly worse]

[Good! Send me contracts and the details of each deal then]

[On the way]

I got the contracts and the entire twenty-five deals. It took me roughly two days to go through all of them.

As Silverlining said it, I got twenty exactly the same in quality with the other offers and five that were slightly worse.

The twenty deals offered me great treasures, all were used in the outer battlefields. I got to know the real value of these treasures, and so having more of them was something I liked.

They were mostly used to create separate worlds, ones that could give birth to exciting things. Few were directed to talents, like the ones I got before.

Yet the rest were all focused over boosting military might. I loved the moment I read its description.

It was the lair of warriors. It worked in a simple way by bringing any living race and placing them inside for a certain period of time before turning them into warriors that I could summon.

It wasn't only used just for this, as it also helped in increasing their might greatly and physical strength. But I cared too much about these usages.

What did that mean? I got tons of soulers back there. So if I allowed them to stay there, I'd end up having lots of souler warriors.

Also I could do the same with all the other races as well. This… This was just fantastic!

As for the five lesser deals, they offered tons of experienced warriors and fighters. They promised to let them all sign loyalty contracts with me, making me accept such a deal.

After all, I was going to fight on many frontlines, making me need every single sword and fighter I could get.

They also offered generals and leader calibre experts from their side. Yet they offered as low as one thousand from each sovereign, promising me more if I paid with bones.

They wanted bones, and I got tons of them right now. I wanted experienced fighters, and they got sh*t load of them.

So the two of us just were perfect together!

Not to mention all of the twenty-five gave me kingdom hearts! But those five who didn't give much gave me two and three kingdom hearts as sort of compensation.

Well, even if they didn't offer this, I would yet settle and agree on these offers.

They weren't the best offers without doubt, but they were the most suitable ones for me at the moment.

[I signed all of them] I sent to Silverlining, [I'll send the bones right away]

I simply opened the inventory and sent twenty-five red grade bones to him.

[Dude, aren't you forgetting something here?]

[What?]

[My fees, the payment for all those forces I sent to you. Also you didn't get your warriors so far]

[Oh… Send me the fees then. Make it for the future year as well]

[A… Year!!! Are you sure?!! This is…]

[I'm going to be pretty much occupied at work and training. So…]

[Got it! You are going to vanish once more, right?]

[Something like that]

[Good you notified me earlier this time. Fine, I'll prepare the price but…]

[I don't mind. Ah, take this, it's for you]

I sent him a diamond grade bone. It was the next higher grade bone I got. I had hundreds of these, so giving him one wasn't a big deal.

But for an entire hour he kept silent, even when I kept texting him and asking what was wrong.

[Damn cool man! This… This… How come there is such a thing in the universe?!!!]

Oh! He was taken aback with this bone.

[I just showed it to my sovereigns as I couldn't assess its real value. They went nuts! They all asked for bones like these, complaining about your preferential treatment]

[Hahaha! I give such precious bones to you to compensate you for what you went through. Plus, you are my man there. And you should have preferential treatment indeed]

[Damn cool! If I'll get something as this each time, I prefer to be a regular prisoner then]

[Hahaha! Don't dream about that! This is just my one bone of that grade]

[Damn! These sovereigns… They are going to kill me man!]

[It's your fault to show it to them, hahaha!]

I knew how big this bone's true value was. Or didn't I know such a thing? Anyway, I knew they went insane about my red bones. So seeing such diamond grade bones drove them crazy!

Chapter 913 Rejecting All Offers

But this was something I didn't need to deal with, luckily. Of course I got tons of messages later on during the entire month, even promising rich things that I had no clue about.

But I dropped all of them. I had to add the true value of my bones based on their rarity, not just their uses or energy stored inside.

I ignored most of the later messages that kept promising much more stuff. During this month and half, I made Silverlining give me tons of experienced forces, generals, and leaders, sending them back directly towards my military camp.

I notified Lily to be ready for them. And that made her quite happy. She saw how fierce the leaders and generals I brought before from the ten ancient races were.

They didn't disappoint me. Even if they lacked proper battle experience, they got it in their blood. So after just one week, Lily's words about them were filled with pure praise and great admiration.

She was one of the three big races in my universe. So when she rained them with such praise, I knew they must have done a great job already.

I didn't ask about any details. I knew Lily was capable enough to handle things there. As for the incoming forces, Silverlining tried his best to add more than usual after his return.

It seemed money, or my diamond bone, had a magical effect on him. So I just accepted his extra effort with a big smile and lots of bones to pay for the extra fees.

I already paid him a huge sum of bones before. He even dared to ask for higher grade bones like gold and dark gold, and I gave him what he asked for.

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I knew he was closely watched by his people, his mighty sovereigns. And that was a simple show of my wealth and value, to demonstrate without saying a single word how immensely valuable I was to them.

Up till now I didn't get to know what was special about my bones. But one day I'd get to know this.

And even if my bones were used for something ground shaking, I wouldn't regret any single deal done with them. I got lots of benefits in return, ones that were needed greatly by me at the moment.

So even if I did deal with a big loss in value, I knew I gained much more as they brought to me lots of cool things I needed a lot.

One of those for example was a legion of flying chariots. I got one distressing message from Lily after two weeks of flying.

She complained about how hard these monster swarms were. She complained not in her forces ability to stop them, but in the big price paid by the souls of those fighters.

After all, training them was a very long process that took lots of time and effort. So I had to ask for flying chariots, and I got an entire legion of chariots of the same calibre as the ones I got for my leaders before.

I also got big weapons, enough to be stationed on top of mighty city walls and rain down hell upon the heads of any invading army.

I had to go back and deliver these things myself before spreading out my orders. I got a few different grades and coloured chariots, and made sure that all my top generals took purple coloured chariots.

Since getting the red-purple bones, I started to grow fond of this purple colour. It was special, domineering, and quite eye-catchy.

So I decided to ask for special purple chariots, and I got one hundred. Each cost me ten gold grade bones, but they were worth each bone I paid for them.

Of course I got more enticing offers for higher grade bones, even got a few offers to give me chariots much better than my current one in exchange for diamond grade bones.

Yet I had to reject all of them for now. I just had to keep the rarity of my bones above anything else.

One Day I'd get all the chariots I wanted. In addition to that, I summoned ten thousand dragons and delivered them to Lily.

I wanted her to form a flying dragon legion to help her in handling the fastly growing community here.

As for their current state of mind, well they looked much better to me from the surface. But I couldn't say for sure that they were cured or getting any better without speaking with them away from all this mess.

I decided to give them this month and half of the time I'd spend on my journey before assessing them. If they needed vacation, they should get it.

Things were now much more stable than ever. With all the generals and leaders, training the current growing forces of mine was a piece of cake.

As for Angelica, she really trained a great bunch of people to do her task without the need of her.

Yet she still worked as a general, leading forces to kill beasts at the ocean and take their flesh back for those in the cities and towns to start cooking and eating them.

From another angle, these military forces formed such ecological balance with the citizens back at the cities and towns.

I just hoped for this peace to continue and such prosperity to keep growing. Like this, this world would be the core of my kingdom, the one that I'd try out my plans and ideas, hoping they would succeed.

As I got done from all these, I returned to my solitary long and boring journey.

I was quite busy during the first half month. But then things started to get in order. So I got lesser messages even from those sovereigns and Lily.

That made days long and repetitive. The world was covered with dense forests, without anything new to make me feel better.

I had to stop from time to time, and jump back to the training camps. The world there was filled with life and adrenaline.

Chapter 914 Asking For More Big Weapons

On one visit, I got to see one of those monster swarms with my own two eyes.

To be honest, if anyone tried to describe this scene with words to me before, he would fail to make me feel anything like what I felt there.

Seeing such grand waves of monsters coming from the ocean without fear, attacking my men, and trying to get to the back behind settlements made me realise how dangerous this situation was.

Even with all the big weapons I bought, raining fire and deadly attacks over these monsters, it wasn't enough!

This swarm took an entire day to get under control. Even with my help, killing those colossal ocean beasts, it took an entire day and tons of dead and wounded to settle this.

"I have to bring more," this was what I decided, "just these weapons aren't enough."

[I want more weapons, the bigger the better, the more the merrier] I sent this to Silverlining who was glad to accept.

As I got it from him, asking for aerial weapons might be a little problematic. After all their weapons were saved for the mighty Hescos.

But asking for aquatic weapons wasn't that bad. To Toranks, Hectors weren't that threatening or important in their eyes.

So I got tons of anti aquatic monster weapons and gear. I got grenades, nets, traps, and even big guns that could devastate lots of big monsters in no time.

I left all of these for the two military camps, leaving the task of distributing and installing them to Lily and her generals and leaders.

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They were doing just fine, and they knew where they needed these the most. Of course they were happy about such help, especially when the intensity and brutality of the monster attacks became stronger with time passing.

I thought about going deep down there and exterminating those huge folks to relieve the pressure. But Lily refused to do that.

Even if she didn't like the huge casualties coming from these monster attacks, she also shared the same view with Legend.

In her eyes, this was a good chance for training for her troops. She just wanted to better control the situation to limit losses.

I returned back to my journey and kept flying until I reached the ocean. Unlike the ocean at my military camps, this one was calm and didn't have a single monster yet.

I got that this was only temporary. Give these monsters a couple of years of growth and they'd arrive at each water corner on this huge planet.

It took me a week to cross that ocean part separating this continent from the next one. The next continent was smaller in size, filled with many mountains and deep valleys in between.

Yet like the previous two continents I saw so far, this one was covered with a dense layer of trees and forests.

"What do we get here?" Yet after one week of travel, and as I was almost over two thirds of this continent, I got to see something strange.

The mountains here shared the same colour and shape of the earthen mountains. But the ones standing tall in front of me were different.

They were coloured! Few were red, few were orange, few were blue, and even there were few who gave sparkles all over them, fractioning light to give the rainbow seven colours thanks to their diamond-like rocks.

"Are these… Ores?!" This discovery made me forget all the boredom I felt so far. I save this place before hurrying back to Lily and Angelica.

[Come to me] I sent and waited for a couple hours before the two girls came back with lots of their leaders and generals.

They thought I was here for a routine check or something. "I need just the two of you," and yet when they came closer in such a large formation of flying chariots, I had to stop the rest as I said to the two girls, "you are coming with me."

"Where?" Lily asked in doubt, while Angelica didn't have any issue to join me. She jumped over my chariot, swayed her body in her old sexual way while getting her hair in order.

She started to return to her old self, a good sign of her improvement. As for Lily she hesitated for a second before jumping over my chariot as well.

"You will see," I didn't spoil the surprise before opening a portal and vanishing through it.

"Good lord! What do we have here?!!" The first to speak was Angelica, or to scream actually. Her eyes pinned over the mountains made entirely out of diamond like rocks.

"Are these… For real?!!" she turned to me and I just nodded.

"This… This is a treasure trove of high grade ores…" And Lily got over her surprise before turning to me and adding, "we need to shift people, lots of people to work over these mountains."

"I want these, I want them!"

And just as I was about to respond to Lily, an old familiar voice came from the direction of the stairs.

"Hilary!"

"Girl, my girl, you are awake! You are alive! Hahahaha! I knew it! Hahahaha!"

The two girls jumped over my chick, held her in their embrace and even Angelica kept jumping around like she was dancing or something.

As for Hilary, her eyes were glued over me. It seemed she got up not long ago. Yet from her eyes, I felt that something changed.

"Hye, we need to talk," and just as she said it, I knew my hunch was right.

She… Got something inside her mind and personality changed! What was it? Was there part of that damn soul inside her or what?

"Stay here," and just as she said it herself, I said in a serious tone, "I'll keep my chariot moving around. As you can see, these mountains stretch a great deal of distance to the horizon. We need to assess the overall value of these before setting our plans in motion."

"But…"

"Hilary…"