Chapter 87 - 1064-1079

Chapter 1064 A Conflict

"I meant to say we are destined to be enemies," I cleared my throat, ignored the rubbish she said, and made this point clear.

"I did get it, but you are mistaken," she slowly shook her head before adding, "we are destined to be mates, best friends actually."

"Oh!" my brows shot to the sky out of my shock, "you seem pretty confident in that."

She didn't even answer my words with another of the same calibre. She didn't even say we were going to fight or something, or even offered to be allies even.

She said something crazy, befitting the craziness she showed to me since the start of our weird meeting.

"You don't believe me because you know nothing about our relationship. If not, you'll get what I meant and even nod in agreement."

"Girl… I don't know if you like to pull such funny pranks on others or what. However, for me… I hate wasting time over things that don't matter to me."

"The same goes for me."

"Then stop wasting mine and yours and get the hell out of here," I grew tired of her, "I will still stick to my words and let you leave in one piece, unharmed this time."

"Pretty damn arrogant… I love it!"

"..."

What the heck was wrong with her? Was she the same tyrant I heard scary stories about? No way! She couldn't be that tyrant, not even in the slightest had any relation with Berry.

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"Are you a fraud?" I jumped to this conclusion, taking out my dragon glaive and pointed towards her, "I hate swindlers."

"It's me," yet even when faced with my words and domineering aura, she didn't show a single hint of getting fazed, "you can go around and ask about my reputation. Having someone to impersonate me? Hahahaha! That's really a nice joke!"

"I already did, and what I heard isn't at least resembling the one standing before me."

"Oh, you knew!" for a reason, her eyes shone again, "and still you decided to come and attack my armies? What was it? Greed for more power? Or desire for fame?"

This girl… Why the heck she took whatever I said in such weird turns every single time!

"Neither," I shook my head while moving my eyes around. Swindlers wouldn't move solos. And as she said it herself, Berry's reputation was just too frightening for a no named swindler to come and impersonate her.

If so, then the other party was someone strong. And she wasn't alone on top of that.

"What are you doing? Still taking me as an imposter?!"

"Don't blame me, every single detail points out such a fact."

"Then let me show you something and then you'll understand," she suddenly waved her hand, and a red fog appeared just next to her.

"No matter what, I won't get convinced…"

Just when I was in the middle of my words, the thing she brought over appeared in front of my eyes, forcing me to swallow what I was going to say.

"What do you think? Do you believe me now when I say we are mates and going to be best friends? Hahahaha! Just the look on your face, hahahaha!"

In front of me, a seat that wasn't strange to my eyes and mind appeared. It was an exact copy of something I acquired before.

"This… Are you trying to joke with me here or what?!" looking at this seat brought such unpleasant memories to me, driving me mad. "How come having this cursed damn thing can be considered good? Mates? F*ck it! Calling us eternal enemies is better!"

I said it while waving my glaive around. The next moment, a grand army appeared around me.

It was the army of soulers. I called forth for all the soulers I could summon to my place.

Three million soulers filled the slope of the mountain and extended all the way for miles around.

"This…" seemingly shocked by my reaction, Berry couldn't help but take out a crystal and smash it. The next instant, a force shield erupted and engulfed out two rides. "Are you out of your goddamn mind? I came here on disguise so they won't know! And now you are going to invite them here? Are you crazy?"

I didn't get who she was talking about. But I got one thing. She had that damn seat, and that meant she controlled the weapon.

"I fought and risked my life to destroy that weapon, ending up with that damn seat. And now you are telling me I'm the crazy one?"

"Idiot! I also risked my life to obtain it! I did the same things you did! Can't you tell? We are already on the same side!"

"Useless words! This thing can't be controlled or acquired except by those damn demons and their allies! Trying to get me tricked? Do you take me for a fool?"

"You are indeed a fool!" when she heard what I said, her face suddenly eased and the tension there was all gone. "Do you think one of them would come here jumping in joy to show you this deadly weapon of theirs? Such weapons can only appear to tear apart universes and take lives!"

"This…"

"I've also encountered the same thing as you, and ended up doing everything I can to destroy this weapon. Yet I couldn't. All I got was this seat and an ability to sense anyone having such seats like me. And I saw it in you. Idiot! Did you take me for those nasty beings? Do you think I'm like them? Idiot!"

For a moment there I felt total loss. I looked at her in such bizarre way, making her continue her talk:

"This thing… It's not just in your cosmos! It's present in many cosmos! Many universes fell to these deadly weapons, as only few stood up to it and survived. As I can tell, you got your own unique abilities that made you able to survive it. Just like me. Taking me for the enemy? Don't tell me you haven't met one yet!"

Chapter 1065 The Origin

"I met one already!" I couldn't take her haughty tone of superiority. I wasn't lying, I already met and had one major by my side thanks to these enemies.

"Don't lie, I can tell just by a single look at your face."

"I'm not! Just watch it by yourself then… Come out!"

I controlled my chariot and released the all locked Hilary. All this time, she was locked inside my chariot.

The moment she came out, she moved her eyes around. She wore just two thin pieces of cloth, looking like two thin threads of fabric, not a real and proper cloth.

"This… Who is she?" perplexed, she pointed at Hilary with a face slightly reddened, "did you bring your girls with you to battle? Are you this lustful?"

"Lustful my ass! It's her… It's one of the enemies!"

"Enemy my ass! Do you think I didn't meet them? She looks nothing like those ugly and bloody folks!"

"That seat…" just in the middle of our pointless quarrel, Hilary's eyes suddenly show up as her body trembled.

And as she did, a thick and vulgar black aura kept rising from her with such aroma that would drive any man crazy.

"This scent…" the moment that fog appeared, the face of Berry dropped and a blackened face replaced that arrogant one from earlier. "How come… No way…"

"Take it away first," I felt something was amiss. Hilary's body started to twist and something seemed to crawl deep inside her body, "go down there!"

Before even waiting for Berry to cooperate, I moved Hilary instantly inside my chariot and locked the door.

*Bang!*

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Just when I did it, a violent bang occured and my entire chariot trembled. Damn! My chariot never trembled unless it was met with a formidable and scary enemy.

What was exactly inside the body of my Hilary? Poor girl… It was all on me… This curse… Damn!

Who would get cursed with his loved ones? It was a curse that transcended logic and mercy.

"Such might… It can't be false… She is one of them?!!!" the look of shock appeared on Berry's face.

Come on girl! If you were having such a hard time believing it, how would I feel then? She was my girl, and I got her to curse by being with me.

"Cough, cough… She is my girl…" I tried to explain but didn't know how to really tell.

"Your girl? She was like you? But…"

"Her soul merged with one of a demoness, whatever that may mean," I helplessly shrugged before telling a short version of my story.

"Oh… So that means…" her eyes suddenly sparkled in anticipation when she heard my words, "damn! You got such a golden chance and you didn't even know about it! How unfair!"

Like a little girl, she stomped her feet on the edge of her ship, making it all tremble.

Girl… How much strength did you use just now to cause this ship to tremble like this? Or was it a weak ride, only show and no act?

"First…" above everything else, I expressed my sincerity by what I showed and told, "tell me your side of the story."

"Oh, about that… I can but you have to promise me something first."

"Tell…"

"Promise to call me your little sister."

"Little… Sister? Come on! You are older and even more experienced than me in the knowledge of all this… You shall be my senior."

"Senior my ass! No way! Hell no! If you do it, then forget it! Let's be enemies better."

"..."

My scalp went numb for a second when I heard what she said. She was the one going all over the place speaking about how we were mates and such.

And now she was just threatening to go to war with me over such a trivial matter? It was a calling, what was special about it then?

"Fine, you are my little sister then," helplessly I complied.

*Fwoosh!*

And just as I did, she suddenly vanished and all I could feel was a gust of wind on my face.

"Thanks big brother, I never had one, do you know that?"

I looked down and saw her hugging my body. Reflexively I clinched on my glaive tighter, waiting for any trick or ill intended movie to come from her.

Yet after a few minutes, all she did was rest her head over my chest, hugging me as if I was the only person that mattered to her in the world.

"Phew, that feeling… Isn't it great to have a big brother? One who can shield wind and rain for you?" she chuckled, looking up at me with a crescent shaped dark eyes.

"I… Can't tell as I never got someone like that," I honestly said, while assessing this weirdo for the tenth time.

Was she… For real? Was the bloody and scary Berry I kept hearing about?

"Oh… So you are… Just like me…" all of sudden her eyes turned all red and I even saw sparkles of tears forming in her eyes before she hurriedly wiped it. "Don't worry big brother, you got a little sister by your side as well. Even if it was just a calling, I'll also abide by it and will support you."

I blinked twice, especially when she formed a fist and waved it towards me, "I'm not weak, so don't worry about anyone bullying you in this universe."

"This universe?" I managed to pick the peculiar word she said.

"Oh, I forgot that you just arrived," she patted her forehead, "listen big brother. This world you see isn't just a single world, it isn't the only world here. Just like the places we both came from, this one here is a world belonging to a massive universe. And…"

She paused before her face turned serious as she added, "This universe carries an important name, one that you shall engrave deep in your heart and soul. Big brother, this universe is called the origin."

Chapter 1066 [Bonus chapter] Seers!

"Origin? Origin of what?"

"Origin of… Everything!" she blurted out such weird words, "all the universes and cosmos were born from here. And as such, all the universes and cosmos are linked to here."

"This…" I was still feeling hard to get the heads and tails about what she said before. And now she added one more shocking and hard to believe news.

"Everything in this life has a shadow. Unlike what common sense tells, life came from darkness, not the other way around."

"You mean…"

"This shadow universe came first, then life sprouted out of it and formed the massive multi cosmos that we all live in."

"You keep talking about many cosmos, do you mean many universes? From what universe are you from in my cosmos?" I had to first understand your origin, little sis, before I could even understand the origin of this universe.

"Well… This knowledge is only known to a few of us… People who are called Seers!"

"Seers?!" This was the first time for me to hear about such an organisation, "are they special talented people or overall powerful ones?"

"No," she slowly shook her head, "we are… Survivors."

"What?!"

"We are the ones who survived the demise and fall of our universes and worlds. To be a Seer, one had to meet those deadly folks and manage to escape unscathed. For me and you for example, we ended up ruining their plans and their weapons, right?"

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She pointed back at that awful seat on her ship. I took a look and indeed she got a point there.

What better survivor would I describe myself with? It was a light term, yet it held all the meaning and value behind it.

"We, Seers, are people selected by heavens to go against those folks. In the entire set of cosmos known so far, only few of us exist."

"So we got more than the two of us, right?"

"Not that much actually, after all compared to our enemies we are just ants in comparison."

"This… Then what Seers have to do? What is our mission?" To understand an organisation like impacts for example, one could easily do it by knowing their goal in life.

"We… Try our best to grow stronger, assemble all the power that we can uphold, and that's to prepare for the final show off."

"Final show off?"

"It's something… Way too far ahead of you and me, of anyone of our Seers actually," she sighed, in such a tired way, giving me the impression how impossible it was for us to win.

"But we got many perks in return. For example, we have a drive to move on. Just like this world here, most of the lords are lazy and confined to their lands, not seeking others out except for special and lame reasons."

"I can tell…" I got what she wanted to say, "but it's a drive anyone else will have."

"Not like anyone else, we have a far fetched goal that we have to reach. For example, we have to control our universes to deal with the messy situation in our cosmos. You know about how messy our cosmos are, right?"

"I got… Few things to know," I shook my head as I honestly responded, "by the way, from where did you manage to get all this info? Is there a library or a system helping you or what?"

"Library? System? No, there isn't such a thing. But I got this…" she pointed again at the seat, "even if it's a hideous weapon that was used to crush universes, it also is a magnificent tool that can link you with deep secrets of the cosmos."

"This…" I looked in doubt towards that seat, feeling perplexed about what she just mentioned.

"It's still early for you to get access to it," she slowly shook her head, "to do so, one has to first be the ruler of his universe."

"This…" Hearing that made my eyes pop out from my head, "does that mean…" you were a ruler of your universe?

And amidst my shock, she slowly nodded her head.

"I did that tens of years ago. It was an interesting journey. And right after, I gained access to endless knowledge in that thing. Also from there, I got to know about the existence of this origin universe and its value."

"So you came here through that seat?" I still couldn't find this seat to be something good. Hell no! It was a disaster! A calamity of four legs!

"Indeed, when you have access to it, you'll know everything. But first… You have to be the sole ruler of your universe."

"This… It's a regret that such a thing is impossible for me," I slowly shook my head while expressing my feelings and thoughts in such honesty.

I was strong, indeed growing up fast, going against many of the strongest forces in the universe.

But to call myself the sole ruler? That was a joke! A ruler meant that I'd be the strongest dude all over the universe, reigning supreme and mighty over everyone.

Wasn't this… A bit too much exaggerated dream for me or what?

"Don't think it this way," unlike what I expected, she slowly shook her head before adding in an affirmative tone, "I once thought the same as you. But after many decades, I can tell you that Seers aren't weak or follow logic by any means."

"This…" Girl, you just mentioned decades twice in a row! Didn't that mean you are the age of my grandma or something?

Why did you insist on me calling you my little sister? I was still young, not even close to a quarter of the lifetime you lived!

"Don't think much about it and just focus on your work," she paused, assessing me again, "yet I have to give it to you. You managed to find your way here even without the help of the seat. And that means you are special."

"You are special," I sighed. What was she trying to do here? Twist facts around to cheer me up? I wasn't that bitter person anyway.

Chapter 1067 A Shocking Time Logic!!!

"Don't doubt it," she chuckled, "anyway you'll find that fate will always make things work for you. At the same time, you'll find yourself jumping from one bottom to a height you never imagined existed."

"This…" she was like describing my life from a book or something. And yet, she wasn't lying or faking things.

If I had to sum up my life so far, then I'd dare to say that I kept jumping from a bottom to a height I never knew existed until I jumped to it.

For a second, and when giving this matter a second thought, it seemed like I was a puppet that was controlled by someone else.

I kept doing unbelievable things without even realising it! What was it again? That thing she named just now? Was it fate? Does fate really exist?

"Don't linger too much about it or else you'd go crazy," seemingly reading through my mind, she raised her hand to her opened mouth as she laughed for a short moment, "just follow your destiny and keep ascending higher."

"I hate walking in the dark, and much worse to get played!"

"Don't take it that way," she shook her head, "when time comes, you'll get to meet our foes. And truthfully, we aren't even close to being called their enemies, not to mention rivals or even nemesis."

"This…"

"You'll get more info when you do what I said earlier," she shook her head, seemingly not wanting to delve deeper into that topic.

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"So… A universe ruler and such a beauty… What exactly are you trying to do here?" This was the next puzzle that I couldn't solve, "shouldn't you try and strengthen your forces? Go against other universes in your cosmos?"

"I'm doing that as we speak," she returned fast to her cheerful and elegant nature, "but this universe here holds the most importance of anything else."

"How so?" I paused for a moment before hurriedly adding, "and don't give me that sh*t of waiting until taking over my universe. It's like telling a kid to wait until he grows up to see and learn about how cruel life is!"

"Ok…" after hesitating for a moment she finally resigned to my unwavering will. It seemed she was planning to give me that shitty excuse again, "in essence, both us and our enemies will fight on hard terms if we meet outside. But here, we both will fight on fair ground."

"This… Then isn't it better for them to move the fight out of here?" if they were disadvantageous here, then it made no sense at all to fight here.

"This won't do," unlike what I expected, she slowly shook her head, "to reach their goal, to take over the entire set of cosmos, they had to come and triumph over this universe."

"Ah, so they have to fight us here," I said in realisation, "then why don't you just bring your forces over and crush them down?"

"Idiot! Can't you tell? We are bound and limited by the number of forces we can bring forth!" she seemed to want to smack my head or something before stopping when I gave her a warning glance.

"Mind yourself better, you aren't my bigger sister to do it," I added in a warning tone. Yet my mind worked fast to analyse what I just learnt.

So she came all the way here, went on such a spree to claim lands and add these to her so she could increase the quota of her forces?

Looking back at how things were done here, I couldn't help but ask in curiosity:

"The fair ground and terms you mentioned before… Are they this limited quota of forces?"

"That's right," she nodded, confirming what I guessed on my own, "that's why no matter how one is mighty and powerful in other universes and cosmos, here they are all bound by this rule."

"And so we are going to compete in limited numbers and depending on our strongest forces the fight will be determined, right?" I tried to expose more of what I deducted, and she kept nodding.

"But don't take them lightly, they were active here for many years."

"How many exactly?" the corner of my mouth twitched when I learnt about that.

"This world… This universe runs against all logic… Time here flaws much differently than ours," she slowly said before adding after a momentary ponder, "to explain it simpler to you, the oldest I heard about came just ten years ago. I came almost one year ago. Despite that, the one who is older came from the time where our cosmos were just born!"

"This…"

"Don't try to think about it. It's not a direct time relation, I believe it's more like time separation."

"What do you mean by that?"

"Time relation means two places will have time running at a different pace to each other. Yet some sort of relation will develop. For example, if this place is linked to yours through this, staying a day here means a thousand years must have passed in your world."

"This…" I felt cold sweat running down my head once she said that.

"Don't worry, I used to get the same fearful feeling when I read about this matter for the first time. Luckily it's not this case. This universe runs by time separation rules…"

Her eyes got fixed on me before adding in such a serious tone, "that means no matter what, staying here won't affect the time passing at your place by any means. In fact, I believe time will freeze there and when you'll return, you'll find it like you just left."

"This…" I was shocked by such logic this time. "Doesn't this mean staying here, no matter how long, won't affect the time back at our homes? And…"

"That's true," she got what I wanted to say from the tip of my tongue, "so staying here and focusing on this place isn't going to help at all. One has to go back and forth between the two worlds."

Chapter 1069 The Issue With The Demoness

If she was another lord, I wouldn't get annoyed by that. But she was strong, and she stayed here much longer than I did.

Her land was already much higher than mine. Tsk! Just thinking about all this and the limited time I got here made me unable to do anything to her.

"If time wasn't flowing in my world, then how come I could bring troops over?" I pondered about this issue while returning back to my army.

"This… I got a headache again just by thinking about this…" I rubbed my forehead in a tired way, "fine. I'll put these weird universe rules aside for now. At least I got tons of new info, things I never knew about…"

I recalled the weird talk with Berry and couldn't help but focus over the things I understood rather than burdening my mind with things that were too complicated to grasp.

I got to control my universe, but it was an impossible feat. I got first to control my world, then my apocalypse trial, and try to not lose my life while doing all this.

For me, I liked challenges, they were indeed refreshing and able to drive me to higher greatness. However, thinking about such an impossible goal wasn't helping at all.

So I pushed it aside as well, and focused only on the information regarding this universe and the other cosmos.

"So what was happening back in my universe and cosmos happened as well as other cosmos? That means these enemies aren't just a fluke, or an error in the system. Are they part of an organisation? If so, what're their goals?"

Lots of logical questions started to pile up in my mind fast. Just by the time I returned to the army, I could feel another headache.

"Dammit Berry! What are you? A headache maker or what?!"

I never felt like this before, not even when I dealt with the old man when I took him for a madman.

"Is everything alright?"

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Seeing me arrive at the army but stopped at the forefront and standing idly as if I was pondering something, Lordan couldn't help but jump over my chariot and ask in concern.

"It's… Nothing," I shook my head as I jolted awake from my deep contemplation. How in the world was I supposed to explain something I didn't fully or even partially grasp?

"Prepare yourselves," I moved my eyes in between the two, "we are going to invade other lords' lands."

"Now?!!" she looked at me as if I'd gone crazy.

I wanted to explain, give reasons, but girl… Don't force my hands here, please. I had to do it even if I didn't get everything about this.

I thought about asking her for that absence period and such, but I didn't. Just recalling this made the headache come again.

Damn! Why was that headache focusing on me out of late?

"I'll abide by your orders," Lucas was indeed more accepting of my order, and even spoke in a cheerful tone.

"What are you happy for? We just finished lots of battles and we need to rest!" even Lordan noticed his cheerful tone and frowned.

Seeing her like this made me recall what I learnt from Berry. I got to understand why lords here were acting this lazy and accepting their current calm life without the urge to do anything major.

"Just prepare the armies," I waved my hand, "we'll first return back to the homebase land, then you'll go to invade other lands."

"Are we going for that lord? The one who sent out the messenger?" Lucas asked, and I got his meaning.

"No, don't be crazy and do it!" and as Lucas spoke, Lordan's body trembled faintly out of fear, "didn't you reach a good conclusion with that weird dude?"

She was referring to the messenger. If she knew this weird dude was actually Berry herself, how would she react?

For a moment there, I considered telling her just out of pure fun. Yet when seeing how her body kept trembling, I had to drop the idea.

I didn't want her to end up having a mental trauma or something. I hated these mental issues the most, they were hard to deal with.

"We are considered allies for now," I pondered for a moment, "so we don't need to move anything in the north. Let's spread over the south."

From the simple understanding of the general direction of Berry's land, I could ascertain that she was active in the north.

To prevent unneeded friction between the two of us, it was better to move my forces directly towards the south. Like this we'd never meet each other at any battlefield.

"Fine," Loran heaved a sigh of relief, "I'll go and prepare the army to move."

"I'll also leave."

I watched the two leave before turning my gaze down. For a moment there the idea of going down there and talking with Hilary crossed my mind.

But I didn't do it.

It was better to leave her to rest and give me time to think about how to deal with her.

Just the sudden and intense change that happened to her once she spotted the seat made me sure of my previous doubts.

Even if she acted this nice to me, she wasn't my Hilary. She was still working for the agenda of those demons, and no one knew what she was up to.

As she was here, it was better to leave her confined for now. I didn't know what changes happened to gain her such brutal strength to shake my chariot.

But after that incident, she returned to remain calm and conceited, not causing a single sound.

Well, from what happened I could tell there was a huge problem with her and she knew it. So it wasn't wise for her to seek me out or meet me right now.

If I pushed, she might even revolt and things would go out of hand.

Patience… I kept telling myself that while flying fast, heading towards my land.

Chapter 1070 Pale Gold Grade Land!

The distance from Tom's place to mine took almost three hours. I wasn't flying at top speed as my mind was busy revising many things.

The manuals I got from Zangibar were too many for me to read through before. So instead of just thinking about things I couldn't comprehend from Berry's weird meeting, I had to end up revising what was useful to me.

These techniques were all important for the next move. I had to start fortifying my land, turning it into something that could be called a town or a city.

Of course the more I delved into these techniques the more I got the basic concept behind them. They were easy, on the surface, without much hard moves or something.

All I needed to do was to just draw the technique layout using my blood and spend my energy to form the required building.

Towers, wall blocks, and even rooms would be constructed piece by piece.

That might look hard and a long process to do, but this wasn't the problem.

The main problem lay in the energy expenditure that I had to deal with.

The energy was only driven from me. I couldn't use the help of anyone else, nor using the support of my land.

It all depended on me, and that explained why many lands lacked walls and most only depended solely on towers without any grand outlining and construction of a true town.

Lords had to build all this from scratch and depending only on their energy. One's energy was limited, even I wouldn't fare that better in such regard.

Yet I got another thing to help, something that wouldn't break any rules and would be still following the procedures of building in this world.

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I got my bones!

Even here, dead folks killed by me or my forces would grant me bones. Unluckily they got no inventory for me to exploit, making this half harvest for me.

Yet bones were something useful and accepted in this world just like mine. And that made me wonder about the origin of my class.

I thought that system had little authority in this world. I got from Berry that this universe was considered the mother of everything in the entire vast collection of cosmos.

That meant any form of power would be reflected and accepted here no matter what. Yet even with that, the level of authority any power had was limited.

Take cultivation for example. They came from another universe in my cosmos. And I got my cultivation opened. But it didn't grant me superiority over anyone else.

Be it cultivation or system, both showed great limitations indeed. However, my class didn't. I could use my class abilities without any restraints at all.

Even my bone absorption ability that got the turbo mode activated didn't show any signs of weakening at all.

I even used my sacrificial ability usually and without any difficulties.

So it meant my class was placed at a higher level than cultivation and system, right?

I have little intel to judge or even think about this issue. Anyway, my class worked, and my bones were my trump card in this matter.

So I focused only over the techniques, seeing how much different they were.

For example, the techniques for building towers had a large variety based on many factors. How big would the tower be? Would it be just a place for soldiers to stand on? Or would they have a magic crystal shining on top of it? Or would I need to make towers grand enough to place defensive weapons over there like ballistae? Or should I form the towers with the defensive weapons from the start?

Many options were there, and each depended entirely on the amount of energy inside me. I got that in this task alone, I'd end up consuming a big deal of my bone reserve.

But it was worth it!

From the words of Berry, with the repeated expulsion and admission of my forces here, I had to make sure the home residence of them was quite prepared for their long stay.

My land should have a good training ground, also good places for living and such. It wasn't just about building defensive things here and there, it was more like building a grand city.

Just as I got done with reviewing everything and committing them to my mind, my chariot got near my land.

When I left it, it was just a small piece of land that encompassed just a few hundred miles and was of a green grade.

But now? I couldn't help but blink thrice while moving my eyes over the wide open place.

This… The colour changed to be faint gold, meaning that it was a pale gold grade. At the same time, the size of my land stretched to no end, making me think it was over one thousand miles at least.

Such a grand place would take more effort without doubt. I thought about giving it a try for a few days before going out there and helping my boys in their adventure.

Yet plans had to change.

I knew that to gain another territory I had to move by myself and do it. Yet if I had to do so, it meant I'd waste lots of time travelling instead of just focusing on building.

"This… I hope he will do it the way I expect," after pondering for a while, I decided to lean something over to my Lucas.

He was the most trustworthy dude in my entire army. Besides, with a mere thought I'd be able to bring him to my side.

If he performed as I'd instructed, then the task of getting lands wouldn't be that hard at all. In fact, it would cut down the time I'd usually take by almost ninety-percent or even higher.

As I decided that, I was much relieved by now. Again my greatest foe turned out to be time, and time seemed to be my nemesis in this life.

Chapter 1071 Building Walls First

"But… Shall I send someone over there to bring Isac or one of those geniuses here or what?" I frowned upon looking at the grand size of my territory.

For me, if it was just a small piece of land, even filling a couple hundred miles with defensive and living buildings wasn't a big issue.

But this… While looking at my land, I knew this wasn't going to be good if I went head on and filled the place on a whim.

A layout had to be drawn out for me to follow. Or else I'd turn this place into a bizarre and unsightly looking form of chaos.

But sending someone to bring one of those adept at such occupation was a headache. How long would they take? What if this wasted more time?

Besides, Isac was already in my Earth world. Even if Lily got the geniuses from the outstanding mating phenomenon to help, it wasn't a good solution.

They were busy laying out my entire training grounds all over the second Earth world. To just send someone and find one for me was like gambling over a blind man to appreciate a painting.

"Oh, I still got her," for a second I felt distressed and didn't even know what to do. However when I recalled Loran, my state of mind got better at once.

Loran did a marvellous job back at her land. She was able to come up with such amazing structure and arrangement of walls to compensate for her lack of building more.

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Itf this was enough to tell me something, then it would be for her ability to draw layouts and do amazing designs for any city.

Thinking of her, I realised that she was the one to solve my problem. Looking at my land, looking empty and void, barren of anything, I could only sigh and decide to start focusing on something that didn't need any genius to do.

"Let's start out with walls!" It was the part I could do at the moment without the need of waiting for anyone. It was also the only thing I could do on my own without messing up anything in my land.

I just needed to circle my land entirely with walls, right? So I just had to follow the edge of my pale gold light coming from my land, and lay out blocks one on top of another.

There was no other way to build walls but using this long and tiring process. From the surface, I just had to execute a technique for each tile and block I'd place on the walls.

The difference lay in the sturdiness of these blocks, the size of each one, and how tall one wanted his walls to be.

"Hmm… I should plan to build a grand wall, one enough to fend off lots of forces without getting much damage to mine," I contemplated and without much hesitation I decided to go directly for the highest grade technique in all of them.

It was one that'd create a block made out of a steel like fortified material. It was five metres in all measures, making it look like a giant boulder not a mere block.

"Form!" The word used was this, but to make this technique stronger I had to use a writing method as well.

"This…" I expected the produced block to be higher in grade. The one described by Zangibar's words would form silver white steel like boulders in the size I mentioned before.

But the block formed this time was different. It was double in size as a start. And its colour was black with white lines appearing on its sides. And it got something like faint scales appearing on the outer surface as well.

I looked at this and couldn't help but think about the thickness of my walls. If I placed two boulders together, they'd form twenty metres width of my walls.

This might look good, but I knew it wasn't. "It's better to place ten blocks together," I decided after giving this matter a little thought. "Time to execute another tech… What the heck?"

I noticed that the technique I used previously didn't vanish like how Zangibar explained.

It was still working, flashing light from the depths of its circular shaped appearance. I looked at it for a moment and with a thought, it moved slightly to one direction before releasing another block out.

"It worked!" I soon realised the reason behind this. I just needed to control the technique with my mind, infuse my energy towards it for it to produce blocks at places I desire.

And that change was thanks to a mere change in the recipe of the technique by writing the word 'Form' instead of just speaking it.

"Great… But the energy draining from this technique is really outrageous!" I examined my body to feel the energy sucked dry at a fast rate.

If this continues, then forget about building part of the wall here. Just placing a hundred blocks of these would be stretching out my limits.

But who said I initially intended to use my energy alone? "Come out!" in a simple wave of my hand, my chariot got filled to the brim with bones, and I even left behind mountains of bones as well.

This was my land, and I got all the authority to do anything here. Unlike using my bones in the middle of a fight, taking such a grand amount in one breath was a simple and safe thing to do.

And simply like that, a torrent of energy gushed into my body the moment I sent my spiritual power outside and encompassed the entire bones I took.

In return for that, my technique shook and it started to crazily respond to the monstrous amount of energy gushing into my body.

Like a flash it passed over the edge of my territory, throwing out blocks like they were raindrops falling from the sky! I had to keep us at such insane speed and followed behind with my chariot and bones.

Chapter 1072 The Land Layout

The amount I took got consumed fast. In less than an hour, all the bones I took were turned to dust. But that wasn't without a good result.

The walls stretched out to cover a distance of tens of miles. In just one hour, I believed I managed to cover up over fifty miles.

And all the bones I used were just green grade. It wasn't that much of a grade, but it was the most abundant type of bones I got.

Looking at this grand wall, stretching behind for tens of miles, I felt satisfied. "Rising up for three hundred metres, with one hundred metres width… It's indeed something intimidating to any eye," I muttered softly before replacing the exhausted bones with another batch.

The technique I used lasted for two hours before getting exhausted. As a result, I started another technique and it lasted for another couple of hours before someone flashed from far and came directly to me.

It was Lucas and he moved like a gale of wind, hurriedly coming over.

"Is there anything wrong?" seeing him briskly coming at me in such a way told me that something bad happened.

Who dared to do anything bad to me? Even if I was busy building my land, it wasn't an excuse for others to aim at my grand army!

"Lord… This… It's like that…" at first, he seemed struggling to speak before he addressed the problem.

And when I heard what he said, I couldn't help but shake my head in a bitter way.

Amidst my enthusiasm to build a great wall, I totally forgot the gates!

"Fine, you can enter the land by passing by the walls at the end," I pointed in the opposite direction before adding, "I won't add gates for now. I'll add them later on."

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Deciding the places of the gates wasn't something trivial. It wasn't like placing blocks over one another.

I had to consider the place of the gate, its relation with other gates and distance. Not to mention the defensive structures around gates should be fortified, better to arrange an army camp just next to each gate.

A wide and well paved road should be arranged to end up at each gate. Not to mention the need to build check points and even build a trench if possible or perhaps a drawing bridge.

These all needed the entire place inside to get planned first before placing the gates. So I decided to postpone such a tedious task for later, and instead ask the army to find their way in using an alternative route.

"Ah, don't forget to tell Loran this…" I recalled the task in mind for this genius ex-lord, and so I decided to entrust this task to Lucas to deliver her.

"But lord… Shouldn't we go out and start hunting down lands for you?" from the side, Lucas looked perplexedly at me as if I made a mistake or something.

"Don't you need to rest?" I knew they had such a task, but I thought they wanted to rest up their forces.

"These lazy lads got laid out there for days! It's enough rest for an entire year if lord wants my opinion about it!"

"Oh, I see…" I forgot that I went all the way to grab the lords' scattered lands and spent long days there. In the meantime, the forces of mine remained behind and got a long rest indeed.

"Take this first," I took out a staff and handed it over to him, "this is my treasure. It can be used in this way…"

I started to explain things over for him, while addressing clearly what I needed him to do.

Why the heck should I start moving for a long time to gather up the lands they conquered? Wasn't it better to just hand this staff over to Lucas, let him save the bookmarks of different lands?

Like this, I'd just have him do all the hard work for a few days or even a week before coming over and taking the staff back. In just a few hours I'd complete the task that'd take me many days!

"Sure, lord can rest assured… I won't disappoint lord," he bowed while storing the staff away. "What about Loran's task?"

"Make her draw what I asked and come to deliver it over to me," I pondered, "arrange the army while she is busy doing this and leave part for her to lead after getting this task done."

"I will abide by your orders," Lucas was such an obedient and more importantly dependable general of mine.

As I watched him leave at such a fast speed, I knew that everything I entrusted him with would be done without a single mistake or delay.

He was just this capable without doubt.

"Time to continue building the walls," as I got every single task I wanted done, I returned back to focus again at the task in hand.

I executed the technique once more and then started a long spree of building the walls.

To be honest, I thought it'd take long days to get this done. But after using higher grade bones like blue and silver ones, the speed of laying blocks increased by several folds.

At a time, and when I used my silver bones, the speed looked terrifying! The technique flashed in a speed that travelled my chariot's intermediate speed.

That was something! And that cut short the time needed to build this wall by more than half, or even more.

It took me only one day to get things done. I looked at the grand building of my walls once finished. And it was indeed something impressive.

"Like this, even if I was away, a grand army many folds than mine will find it hard to even get past the walls."

I nodded my head in satisfaction. And that was just the simple layout of the walls.

There were still towers, gates, huge defensive weapons and such things. If they were all installed and built, how magnificent and scary would my land look from far?

During this one day's work, I got to receive the drawing layout of the entire land from one of Loran's men.

Chapter 1073 The Problem With The Staff

This girl… She was just so competitive! She knew that drawing the layout wasn't a problem, but delivering it was. She was travelling on foot, and that meant she'd take a long time to reach me and the same to return back to her forces.

So she thought about delivering the drawings to one of her men before hurrying after Lucas.

I held the drawings in hand and started reading them.

From my past experience in dealing with complicated drawings and blueprints, this one seemed much simpler.

"She… Got to be kidding me!" I finished looking at all the drawings and couldn't help but lament my bad luck. "This is all childish drawing! Doesn't she know how to draw or what?!!"

What I saw wasn't that much different from a ten years old kid drawing on a piece of paper. The lines were erratic, the drawings looked too simple than they should be.

Well… putting that aside, at least there was a general direction I could follow. To be honest, forgetting about the quality of drawing, she designed the city in a good way.

"Time to build roads and buildings inside," I moved my eyes towards the grand open space lined inside my land before starting to work again.

In fact this task that looked much easier than building walls brick by brick proved to be otherwise. I had to carefully check the childish drawing from time to time, and eventually had to run my imagination wild to complete the task in hand.

Things weren't that easy when considering a small mistake would ruin the entire grand layout of my base.

I knew my land would grow up eventually, and Loran also knew. So she kept part of the designs for later development as well.

I couldn't tug into the areas outside my land borders for now. So all I could do was to just develop the parts under my control.

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Districts appeared, training camps were built, defensive towers in various sizes and types were formed.

Unlucky for me, Loran designed everything based on her past experience. So she selected the most basic and common forms of buildings and defensive structures to plan out my city.

While I was using the highest form possible to build my city. And that soon created some sort of distortion than the initial layout.

"Sigh! I have to consider this as a grander design for much vaster land," at the middle of this, I had to give in trying to amend her designs to match what I was building.

Take the training ground I just built on the eastern side of my city. It was supposed to be built from rocks that spanned for half a metre square.

But when I used my own way to build it, the size swelled up by five folds! That made the initial size of this training camp that was supposed to cover five miles square to cover up to twenty-five!

Not to mention adding the grander form of the towers and defensive drills here made it much bigger than that!

And that wasn't an exception. It kept repeating at other various buildings I was laying out. And yet, knowing that I was going to mess with what she drew for me, I kept doing it non-stop.

I aimed for power and hegemony. Layouts were just a guidance, nothing more. I kept following the grand design and eventually, what she planned to be situated inside the city of mine was only done by less than twenty percent!

As I thought midway, I had to deal with these designs as designs for my future and huger city.

Just as I was working on the western zone, the last part still unbuilt in my city, I suddenly spotted a fog of orange fire howling towards me from far.

Four days already passed since the departure of Lucas and Loran. I didn't expect to see him so soon. I estimated that he'd take one week before coming to see me.

"Lord," as he landed on my chariot, I just waved my right arm while my left kept controlling the technique.

I was building a grand club place, where my people could come and run, enjoy various sports if they liked, and also keep their physique in top shape while using the gymnasium.

I was surprised that Loran left behind such a building layout, and was even more surprised to discover that there was a technique used to build such a thing.

Well, it seemed various races and civilisations shared parts of their common things, like the club here.

"Are you done?" I asked without turning my head to him.

"Lord, we managed to seize twenty lords' lands," Lucas paused before adding, "we left part of our armies behind to secure them from any greedy lord nearby. But like this we can't progress any further."

"I see," I got what he wanted to say. Stretching out my right arm, I demanded, "give me the staff. We'll head there once I'm done with this."

The building process was almost done. All I needed was to wait for ten minutes and such a grand club that spanned over a hundred square miles would be finished.

"I stored up the locations of the twenty places there. Here, lord can check."

I grabbed the staff before I frowned. I couldn't help but turn to him and ask in serious manner:

"Are you sure you saved them? There are no new entries there at the saved bookmarks."

This was indeed a surprise. I always thought Lucas was capable and trustworthy. Yet he seemed to mess up at such conjecture.

Without saving bookmarks, then I'd have to spend more time covering up the areas they conquered. And with this, I'd end up having less land to absorb than what I initially hoped for.

"This… Ah, I forgot about it," I heard the sound of someone slapping his hand. Was it his face? Or his forehead?

"What?" I urged, "what happened?"

"It's just… When I got the staff from lord and checked the saved bookmarks, I couldn't find a single saved thing there."

Chapter 1074 Loran's Punishment

"Do you mean… This staff of mine wipes out its saved bookmarks when changing owners?" a realisation flashed by my eyes, "take it then. Check if the bookmarks you saved are there or not."

I tossed the staff over and once he grabbed it, he remained silent before a sigh of relief could be heard. "It's saved there, all is there."

"Great," it was something new even for me about my staff, "wait until I'm done. Then you can open a portal for the two of us to jump over."

"Ok."

Lucas stayed by my side silent while I kept working. Just as I was done, I casually asked:

"How big are our losses? Don't tell me we lost a lot!"

"Lord… We didn't have you!"

"It's not an excuse!"

I glared at him before adding, "I can accept losses, but to a certain limit. Exceed it and you two will get demoted! How much did we lose?"

"Lord… We lost ten percent so far," seemingly fazed by my words, he staggered a step or two before adding in a weak tone.

Ten percent? Well… It wasn't that bad.

"Good, try to not exceed this limit," I warned, "I'll give you reinforcements as well as the remaining forces of the other killed lords to help."

"But…"

"What?" I looked at the distance, "open a portal first and let's not waste more time."

Once he opened a portal, I moved through and appeared at a new place. It was a land without an owner, with lots of forces standing on guard and many were standing idle without moving a finger.

"Tell me what's up then," I looked at the remaining forces of the dead lord before adding, "you got enough forces to support!"

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"Well… In my case that's true. But…"

"But what?" I went to execute the absorption technique before grabbing the mysterious cube after gaining the weird mark as long as many bones from the dead were around.

"Loran… She overdid it!"

I turned to him before sighing. "I'll meet her up when we arrive at her main army… Let's go to the next spot."

"But…"

"But what? Why are you growing fond of words all of sudden?!!" I said in displeasure while passing through the next portal.

"Lord… She knew you'd be mad so she took her leave first."

"Did what?"

"She went up ahead to battle another lord, saying that she isn't free to meet lord yet."

"…"

My eyes twitched before my mind found the perfect punishment for such a despicable personality.

"Tell her this, I will only grant soulers and they'll work under you from now on. Only the forces she'd have after killing those lords will act as her support. And in the end, the one who will give me more lands will be promoted."

"This…"

"Just deliver my message over, and tell her I'm not free to meet up with her yet," I jumped off my chariot, went down to execute my absorption technique before taking up all the bones, the mark from the lord's dead corpse, alongside the cube.

Trying to act cheap on me like that? Who was the one serving the other? What a foolish girl!

I was the lord here, the one who'd grant others forces not the other way around. Trying to fool with me? I'd instantly f*ck you over!

"It's done," the mission that'd take roughly a few days to be done before ended in less than one hour. "Come out!" Instantly I summoned five million soulers, to have two and half just appearing here.

"Lead them well," I said to Lucas, "let's return back. Then you are going to gather up your scattered forces before going out again."

"Got it lord…" he opened a portal and I simply passed through it. Just as I was about to vanish, he couldn't help but shout:

"What if she asked for my help?"

"Ignore her!" I decisively said before vanishing through the portal.

Helping someone who acted arrogantly and foolishly with me? That's a joke!

I knew that she was still not used to her new status. And this small lesson would help to wake her up.

"Time to finish this… What the heck?!!" just as I arrived here, and just before I'd start doing anything, I noticed something amiss.

My land… It grew bigger! Damn! I forgot that adding twenty lands to it would increase its size.

Before, my walls were the horizon of my land. But now? Just being close to the western zone made me see clearly that my land stretched outside for teens of miles away from the walls.

If this kept going on, wouldn't I have to keep building forever? Damn!

After accepting such fate, I resumed building again.

Luckily, I used a grander version of everything and that saved me the trouble to look for Loran for now. This girl had to be disciplined, and looking for her and waiting to draw more designs would take much time.

I took half a day to finish up the remaining buildings inside my walls. Then I went outside and resumed building.

I treated this wall as the inner wall of my grand city. More walls would be later added, and that would give a grander look for my land.

I just hoped to be able to have time and ability to build another tower before my time was up. I have less than two weeks left, and hopefully I'll be able to finish everything in time.

It wasn't just limited to the time I needed for building, but also for the size of my land.

And that meant I had to depend as well over the performance of these two out there. I hoped my punishment would entice more energy in Loran, not causing other side effects like getting lazy or holding grudges.

The visit from Lucas was repeated just two days later. It took him five days this time to come seeking me out.

And he didn't disappoint me, nor did Loran. This girl turned fiercer when she heard about what I imposed over as a punishment.

1075 The Purge Plan

They crushed forty-three lords this time, while Loran adapted an approach that helped her relieve the pressure over her forces.

She dealt with the lords as a cluster, while wiping each group of lords out in a single violent attack.

Like this, even if she suffered bigger losses than Lucas, she didn't have to leave behind any forces to safeguard against anything.

In fact, she used her knowledge about the nature of the world here for her own benefit. And I had to give her a few points for that.

Out of this bulk, Lucas only crushed seventeen and she handled the rest. The biggest factor in this was for her to not leave behind any forces, making Lucas wait for her forces to be exhausted and need reinforcements.

"Lord, what about her?" as I finished taking all the lands, bones, and cubes, Lucas asked, "she has little forces left."

"Fine," I couldn't help but bitterly smile at this sharp witted girl, "grant her all the forces we gained as extras this round."

"This…"

"Don't worry," I felt like he was regretting speaking up for her. I knew he did it for my sake, not hers. After all, if she turned out to be weak, she'd restrain the ongoing expansion process, "I'll grant you more soulers now."

Like before, I summoned five million soulers to get surprised to see them all appear.

Wait… Don't tell me my land now could allow me to summon more!

After summoning one and half extra million, I hit my limit.

"Take half and let her have the other half," seeing all this, I knew it would be unfair to give them all to Lucas.

"I'll abide by your orders," and this dude wasn't like her. He didn't care about having grander forces than her, but focusing more on the grinder picture and goal of me, his lord.

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I liked that attitude of his to be honest.

After finishing this round, the smile on my face got wiped out when I returned back.

"Damn! Who is exactly working for whom here? I'm the lord! I should have rest and pleasantries, not working my ass off like this!"

The corners of my mouth twitched when I returned. I was just able to cover up one quarter of the added space outside the wall before the entire space got increased by fold!

Dammit! Should I call them in and end their progress or what?

Even with such an increase, the colour of my territory remained pale gold. It didn't show any signs of changing colour, and it seemed it wouldn't do it anytime soon.

After all this was expected. The grand majority of the lands I conquered were all green and white in colour. Blue only blossomed rarely. I doubted even if I got more than three or four during these two trips.

Trying to push a pale gold territory with greens and whites? That was indeed an impossible feat!

I'd need tons of these lands before dreaming about ascending to dark gold grade.

Then how did Berry do it? I got the feeling that having a pale gold grade was actually restraining my hands. How about it when I got it to reach dark gold grade then?

Tsk! I thought I was doing great, but it seemed she was also doing great.

I returned to resume my work, and this time I summoned Lucas just six days after.

The deadline is already upon us. I focused on building towers more than anything else. I got used to the design layout and the pattern behind it with time.

So I randomly selected places according to my guesses and built towers everywhere.

Even if this design was ruined, it didn't matter. Removing a block or two from the entire city layout wasn't a big deal as long as I said so.

In the meantime, these towers would help the defending forces to protect my land. This way, I wouldn't need to worry about the regions beyond the great wall.

"Lord!" Once I summoned him back, Lucas was flustered at first before greeting me at once in deep respect.

"It's almost time," I knew there wasn't much time left, "let's go and absorb these lands you conquered before letting you loose."

"What does lord mean by letting us loose?" Lucas seemed surprised about my arrangements.

"It's easy, from now on, we won't aim for taking out lords, but destroying their defensive buildings and towers. In other words, you'll commence a sweep clean operation to pave the path for later crush after our return."

"Return?"

"Don't keep asking, and let's go and claim these places first," I knew he didn't know anything about my conversation with Berry.

Yet unlike him, I bet Loran knew what this meant when she'd hear my orders.

Despite being curious, he complied and opened a path. We went through and kept jumping over, while he sent a messenger to deliver my new orders over to Loran.

"Start the purge operation, leave not a single tower behind," my words were decisive and clear. From now on, the two of them would work like this until our time here would end.

During the last hunt, I gained almost the same amount of land as last time. And like the previous two times, I gained one blue territory and the rest were greens and whites.

As expected, this last addition didn't cause any change in my land's colour. It just added more space outside.

Left with little time, almost less than two days, I started to focus on towers again. As for the other two, I trusted they'd do as I instructed.

Destroying buildings, especially towers, was going to deal a strong blow to lords.

From Loran's design, I got that idea. Lords weren't like me, they had limited energy and power within their bodies.

So no matter how mighty a lord was, he'd take a long time to rebuild his lands. And I bet Loran would read through my intentions.

Like that, even if I didn't come here for a long time, the lords wouldn't just try their luck against my land.

1076 What The Heck...?!!!

They'd be more focused on either fending off other lords around, or trying to fortify their lands by any means by biding their time.

This would also buy me valuable time.

Two days passed so fast before I finally felt something amiss. It started as if my body suddenly got exposed to extreme heat.

As if standing naked directly under the sun on the hottest days of summer, I felt my body warm up all of sudden before the sight before me started to change.

It felt like moving around was futile, as if my legs, hands, and even my chariot was moving inside dense layers of sand.

I didn't need to ask or speculate about the reason as one simply jumped into my mind.

"This is bad!" I instantly recalled something. And without a single moment of hesitation, I called back my chariot and all the souls IN scattered around.

From the words of Berry, she told me that when the time was up, and one month would pass, then every single lord would be propelled back to his world.

As for his forces, they'd remain here until the world would be accessible again. And then these forces would appear inside each lord's homeland.

This might be good, but just as it was happening, I got a scary thought.

What if my chariot, Lucas, and my soulers didn't return back with me? What if I lost all of their support? In addition to that, Lucas got my staff already!

Damn! Losing my chariot was like losing a leg! And losing my staff was like losing my car!

As a result, I instantly acted and retrieved the chariot and Lucas first, other soulers later.

The world around me started to grow blurry. The light itself started to distort and it seemed like a glass that was cracking all over and was on the verge of shattering.

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I have never experienced such a situation or feeling before. While I was standing in my place without the ability to even move my eyelids, I heard a booming explosive sound before everything turned dark as if someone stole the light away.

"Hoof! Hoof! What the heck… Was that…?!!!" It took me roughly a few minutes to be able to catch my breaths and open my eyes.

Yet every single cell in my body was aching. It felt like my body was stabbed with daggers and needles, getting tortured.

Damn! F*ck this! Who is this psycho who devised this brutal nature of that damn universe? I hate him! No wait, I curse you and your entire family up to your great grandfather, motherf*cker!

It took me an entire half of an hour to be able to just sit. And when I did, I felt something amiss almost instantly.

"This…" I didn't notice it at first as I was laying on the ground. As expected, my chariot was gone, and I flung on the ground like a dead rock.

I was still in the continent which I granted for those ten clans from the other universe. Yet I knew many of them were gone to the shadow world of mine.

Taking a single glance around, there wasn't a single one here. It seemed I took everyone into my world, and there was no one left here.

That was indeed surprising, but this wasn't what gave me doubt and fright.

It was the sky!

Looking at the sky told me something wrong was there. Before, the sky of my second Earth was purely clean, with few normal clouds and shining bright light that would change from time to time.

I got used to this. But right now that sky was showing something bizarre.

It showed flares of light, thick arcs of light that danced all over the sky while flashing off in different colours.

It was weird, amazingly beautiful and mesmerising. Not to mention it made me frown.

This was my world, my secluded world. No one had any access to it if I didn't grant him one.

This phenomenon wasn't like the one that happened when I cultivated, or when others cultivated.

It was a totally new phenomenon, one that left me bewildered after seeing it.

And just before I'd regain full control over my body, a weird message flashed in front of my eyes.

[A message was sent from Krishn world's will]

[This is the message: Well done human race Hye. You outdid what I expected from you and all the worlds you gave to me are going to merge in time]

"Worlds I gave? They will merge in time?!!"

I never got a system message here. System was active inside my Earth. After all, the apocalypse scenario of that trial was undergoing there.

There was no need for the system to contact me in such a way. Even when I got to know that my world was indeed inside my universe, meaning it was under the reach of the system, I didn't receive any message about this except when I first came here.

Wait… Didn't I get something like this before? This world's will, or whatever it was, issued me a quest back then.

What was it? For some reason, I felt quite dizzy and heavy. It was unlike my normal days. And before I'd ascertain anything, a new message popped up in front of my eyes.

[The number of worlds undergoing the merge process is: 227]

[The Krishn world's will is starting the merge now]

[The percent of merge completion is: 0.0001 %]

[Don't attempt to leave the Krishn world before the merge process is over, or else you'll risk losing all the remaining worlds]

[The estimated time before the merge is done: 2.5 years]

"What the heck?!!!" I looked with widened eyes and disbelief towards the scary number that appeared in front of me.

Damn! Two years and half? Was this for real?

I had almost twenty days left for the fifth quest to start. Give or take a couple of days, and putting the frightening time difference I got from being here, I got around four hundred days left.

1077 I'm Expecting A Grand Prize!

No matter how I racked my brain about it, this wasn't even close to two and half years the system just spouted to me!

Dammit!

"Is there any other way around? Can I ask for the merge to pause, return to do my things back on Earth, before coming back?"

[If you left, you'll end up losing the remaining worlds in the merge]

"F*ck you!" without holding anything of my rage I added in deep rage, "what do you take me for? A fool? Who the heck devised such a damn crazy quest? If you want me to fail my quests back to Earth and ruin everything I did, you can just tell me directly in the face! Have balls and face me, cowards!!!"

I was fed up already. Saying that I was on the verge of exploding was an understatement for sure.

Exploding? If there was something even beyond this then it might fit me better!

[Don't insult the system! We are fair and impartial!]

"Impartial and fair my ass!" I harrumphed, looked around without knowing what I should do right now.

What the heck was that? I got forced to forfeit my fifth quest and my golden quest simply like that?

Having to wait here for two and half years? That meant almost forty-five days back on Earth!

I got twenty till the start of the two quests… And until I'd return back, I'd just appear after the passage of twenty-five more f*cking days!

How could this not be called injustice, unfair, and partial treatment to me?

Do you think I'd go down simply like that? Hell! Even if I had to ask help from everyone I knew, even if I had to seek your damn filthy headquarters and burn it down over your damn heads, I'd do it!

You thought I showed enough craziness already? Let me show you how crazy I'd really be!

"What the heck is that?!!" amidst my anger and frustration, I didn't notice it until almost an hour passed.

Even during my fume of rage, I noticed that my eyes were fixated over my left hand without looking at anything else.

A fierce beast wouldn't lose its sense of danger and alertness even if he was heavily wounded!

"This…" this time I cooled off my mind, while something insane flashed past my mind.

What was I seeing right now? My left hand, it all turned into a shining bright arm. It was like a group of stars were stacked there, shining in their brightest light, masking my left arm entirely from my shoulder down to my toes.

This… A simple and yet crazy theory appeared in my mind when I regained my composure. "The cubes… Don't tell me…"

A frightening idea flashed past my mind. So this was the true use of these damn cubes! Dammit! They were just something that got me into such a deep and bottomless abyss of hell!

Why the heck don't you come and shoot me in the head instead, relieve me from such a pathetic fate as a failure?

"Hold on a second…" and just when I got my mind back to work, and when I finally uncovered the truth behind these mysterious cubes, I realised that I did this to myself.

Partially it was true. Who said that the system wouldn't step in and help me accelerate the process? Who set the rules? Those motherf*ckers did!

They just needed an excuse, and I just gave them one on a golden plate!

Dammit! F*ck me and f*ck you all, son of b*tches!

Yet when I was about to take another roller coaster down the hell of despair and rage once more, something flashed in my mind.

Something I planned to do before, something I decided on prior to discovering all this mysterious shadow world of mine.

"Hahahaha! Did you think you could frame me? Get rid of me? Hahahaha! You damn fools! What a regret! I wanted to see your f*cking faces right now and pissing on all of you, hahahaha!"

Like a madman, like a man who was on the verge of dying in the middle of a boundless stormy ocean, and finally got a rope thrown at him to survive from drowning, I was!

I stood up, arched my body and kept laughing, laughing for an unknown period of time. When I ever recalled these moments, jumping from the depths of despair directly into the highest summit of glory, I knew I looked like a crazy man at the moment.

But I got all the right to laugh until my strength failed me and fell on the ground, panting for breaths, while tears of joy ran down over my face.

motherf*ckers! Whom did you think you were messing with? I wasn't a mere ant, thinking that you could stumble and crush me anytime you wanted.

I was Hye! And I'd accept this challenge and crush all these dirty schemes of yours.

Trying to force me out of the competition and lose my edge by manipulating time? Trying to outdo me in my own game?

Manipulating time? Humph! Let me show you how, the lord of time, I would manipulate time and crush this hurdle while reaping all the benefits in return.

"Krishn world's will, I risked my life for you, risked everything just for your progress. Don't fail to know this, I expect a reward like nothing before! Or else, such a rich meal wouldn't be delivered for you again, ever again!"

And for unknown reason, I felt the entire world tremble as if it was resonating with my will and threatening words.

Yes, engrave my words deeply into your heart and soul, whatever you were. I wouldn't let you take advantage of me. I paid a hefty price already for you to get such a rich meal.

And such a meal wasn't for free. As I suffered all this, you had to present something that would let my jaw drop for a long time out of amazement.

Chapter 1078 Faceslapping Jerks Is Awesome!

[The Krishn world's will tells you to not worry. Something amazing is waiting for you once the merge is done]

"I'll wait for that," and when I finally found my magical solution, it was time to summon my Lucas.

"Lord… This… Are you ok?"

"Stay here," I gave him an order, "you are going to help others in their tasks. Train me a great army, one that will leave everyone in awe."

"S… Sure lord…"

From his gazes, I realised how tattered my armour and clothes were.

I didn't give a damn! Dude, if you were out an hour ago, you'd have seen a scene of your lord that never crossed your mind, even in your wildest imagination.

"Give me that staff," I extended my right hand, as I feared if I did anything with my left this mysterious merging process would face a problem."

"Here lord, but…"

"Come with me first," I opened a portal and passed through it. We appeared at the first training ground. "You'll reside here and help. If you want, you can wander the world using these teleportation gates out there."

I pointed towards the direction of the teleportation zone, while he stood there in silence and doubt.

"If anyone sought me out, tell them I'd be absent for a long time…" I paused before adding, "a long time will pass, so don't let anyone panic and don't disappoint me."

"Yes, lord."

"See you again in a few years," I opened a portal and vanished while he was shouting something about the meaning of my words.

He looked distressed. But dude, this isn't even considered true distress and fear. I just got through the death valley and got resurrected with a miracle of my luck.

"Finally here," I looked up ahead and grinned, summoned my chariot before venturing towards the front.

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"I always took you as a place I didn't want to touch again in my life, a cursed place that gave me lots of bitter memories. But rejoice pal, it's your moment to shine!"

I couldn't restrain myself from laughing while moving my chariot through the huge dome that covered the hidden realm here.

It was the pocket world where that damn weapon was hiding in, the place I gained all my ten extinct races and the hostile world ten top clans from.

And it was also the place where it'd save my ass, literally!

What was the strict and severe conditions of the f*cking system?

I shouldn't get out of this world, and I had to stay here for two and half years.

What about my pocket world? It was indeed part of my second Earth world. So the first condition was met. And it had a time manipulation effect!

I didn't know for sure how long it was, but it was around three up to five folds. That meant staying for three years there would take only one year on my second Earth, less than twenty days on Earth.

This… This was my coup d'etat, motherf*ckers! This was my comeback! And with a single move, I flipped your entire grand scheme over and regained my life.

Your checkmate this time was overthrown through the window by none other than me.

Trying to play smart by using time against me? Hahahaha! Who was that f*Cking idiot who proposed such an idea?

Playing with time against the lord of time himself? Hahahaha! I just regretted the sight of those damn bastards when they'd see me pass through this without a scratch.

As I entered that world which held depressing and bitter memories about, I couldn't help but feel blessed.

Yet before I'd rejoice for true, I hurriedly opened my system interface and there I found the countdown.

It was still the same! It didn't get affected by my time manipulation ability affecting this world.

I checked, double checked, triple checked… And the quest was still valid and going smoothly.

[An advice, don't get over your head because of a fluke of luck!]

"Oh… So you decided to speak with me? Who are you? A f*cking traitor working for others?" I stopped my chariot, and with a wave of my hand, I looked at the sky while something was appearing just next to my chariot.

"Do you want to see how overbearing I am? Then open your eyes and watch! Do you think this is the fullest of my abilities? Hahahaha! Let me introduce you to my lovely little baby here!"

*Swoosh!*

And in a flash, a gigantic thing appeared next to me.

I didn't find it weird for the mastermind behind all this to speak directly to me. If I was him, then feeling the urge to vomit blood right now would be totally normal.

He spent tons of resources and burnt tons of brain cells for him to come up with such a brilliant scheme. He used one simple flaw of my actions, one that I never accounted for, and tried to twist it around, arming it up against me.

He just thought acting fair and just, by using the system rules and binding them against me, would be enough to leave him unscathed and let me fall.

But against his machinations, I triumphed! By being here, it was already my victory.

Yet who said I shouldn't crush him completely and leave him crippled or dead out of his despair and disbelief?

I couldn't go to this son of b*tch and keep slapping him on the face until he'd die. But I got another way to slap him in the face and stab a poisonous dagger of frustration and regret deep down his heart.

And this was by summoning a simple item of mine; my castle!

"Hahahaha! Did you possibly think I was out of cards? Idiot! You should dig a hole and throw yourself in right now, hahahaha!"

I pointed my hand towards my castle before adding amidst my laughs, "this is my girl, the beauty I gained from that king. And thanks to me, it can boost time from two folds up to one hundred per my desire. Don't believe me? Hahahaha, let me open the description interface of it and let you have a read. Just wait… can you see these lines? Hahahaha!"

I opened the castle interface and clicked on its description. A large window opened with tons of information there.

I pointed at a few lines and kept laughing without saying a single word. Why should I say anymore while these lines said everything?

[The Fearful Castle: Heaven grade artefact. Belongs to King Hye of the human race. Can't be dropped except by killing the king by another king.

The current special ability detected by King Hye of the human race: Time manipulation.

The king has all the power to regulate the time manipulation as he wants, with minimum time difference 1:2 with the real world as the passive effect granted without paying any price, and 1:100 with the real world with paying the highest price.]

"Hahahahaha!" and all I did was to keep pointing towards these lines and laugh, laugh from the bottom of my heart.

I never felt appreciative before for this gift from the old man like now. Thanks old man, if not for your time manipulation gift of your race that you imparted on me that day, I'd have gotten screwed over by these jerks!

Chapter 1079 Using The Castle Ability

As expected, the other side remained all silent and didn't send me a single message afterwards.

In fact I doubted he'd even be alive or conscious after what I just showed.

My castle was indeed a scary weapon to use. However it wasn't that useful for me actually.

What was the point in increasing the time spent here? I looked around, and the only empty place was here.

It was nice to stay and have some time to rest. But for someone like me, it wasn't that cool to lay down for such a long time.

Turning months into long years would turn me into an old man so soon! Damn! This wasn't my plan or intention to begin with!

Wasting two or more years of my lifetime confined here doing just nothing? This wasn't my style of play.

As I confirmed that the unwanted enemy wasn't going to say anymore, I returned to think about my plans here.

I had to stay inside for two and half years. Such a long time was indeed precious. Instead of just wasting it in a single direction, why not make the best use of it?

I knew that time would behave differently at places I never went to. For example, Silverlining and his Toranks race personnel would always experience time exactly the same as I experienced.

So that meant I'd have two and half years of their support. And looking back at my large stack of bones, this meant I got nearly not enough to sustain our deals for even a few months.

What should I do then?

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I got only bones from killed enemies. The stronger the better. And as I was inside such a useless place now, I couldn't see it but a huge prison that I couldn't escape from.

"If I can't get out to collect bones, then isn't it better to change the world here into one that will give me tons of bones instead?"

This thought started to grow fast inside my mind. I had to adapt to such a prison.

So instead of just accepting this, I could instead look for other ways to harness bones.

For example, I could purchase lots of monster dens from Silverlining, or use the ones I got already. Then I'd allow many forces to come here and fight against them.

Just like this, I'd have a way to collect bones. They might be mostly low grade ones, but they were better than nothing, right?

Aside from this, I got to think about using this time into something else.

"I can bring them in and let them do their research here," this was another benefit of using such a huge amount of time.

The research department out there was all brilliant and got lots of great ideas. Yet ideas alone wouldn't help.

They needed time. For any researcher, time was their greatest foe.

So instead of letting them work out there, why not lead them here and let them do anything wanted in this pocket world?

I got that secrecy was important, and they needed a place secure from anyone else to test their inventions.

"Why not allocate the second layer totally for them?" I thought and the more I thought about it I got pleased by the idea.

The lower layer wasn't as spacious as this one. Yet it was secluded and separated from here.

So they could work there freely and develop all kinds of deadly weapons as they wanted.

"The problem of resources can be solved by Silverlining and its impact," I thought before placing the final touches over such a plan.

"As for the plan to open cultivation for my humans… I can use the help of the castle then…"

To me, elongating the time spent here was bad. Yet I have a huge problem with the lack of time for such a plan to succeed.

Last time the test subjects used in this experiment took long months to produce reliable results. Months might seem long, but under the help of the castle time manipulation, even with using the standard two fold passive boost ability, such problems would be solved.

I started to look at my castle. I couldn't just allow modifying it or else I'd be shooting myself in the foot.

I checked the entire description of the castle before finding what I wanted.

[…The Fearful Castle has the following abilities that are based and tailored on the current king's time manipulation ability:

-Time manipulation ability at the closed world of the castle: Can be used while the castle is stored inside the king's inventory, or can be halved when used at the real world where it's summoned in a world where the king is.

The passive time manipulation effect is 1:2 of the real world time.

Paying daily one thousand death units or monthly ten thousand death units will increase this ratio as 1: 10, 1: 15, 1: 20, all the way up until it hits the upper limit.

The price for activating the highest time manipulation effect, 1: 100 is one million daily death units or twenty million monthly.

The range of effect is limited to the castle region when stored, ten miles around it when it is in the outside world. The king can pay ten thousand death units daily or one hundred thousand death units monthly to increase this range by a hundred miles each time…]

"This will do," I didn't hurry to celebrate before I turned my eyes towards something important.

The death energy stored within this castle!

Before it was so damn low to activate anything. However after using the castle in my battles, and me joining the massacre of millions upon millions, I knew this record was bound to be good.

"Damn fierce!" Yet when I checked, I couldn't help but suck in the cold air of breath. "Over five hundred million dead energy? Damn!"

It was something unbelievable. Yet when I recalled the strenuous situations I faced after gaining this castle, the deadly fights I took part in and the training grounds at my world out there, I knew this made sense.