Chapter 101 - 1258-1272

Chapter 1258 Letting Him Think Alone

I just wanted everyone to live happily. Even for me, a human who was struggling to build up his kingdom and make a name for himself, I never lacked strong and capable soldiers.

Even generals, even if I ran low on them right now, I was sure in the next couple years I'd have a large roster of them to even make up reserves and leave generals behind without armies to lead or work to do.

And that was my situation while I was still growing my strength and fame. Just thinking about such a mighty race like the Hescos or others, I couldn't help but wonder about the reasons that led them to force their unwilling kids to do such things.

I had to find a chance and ask Silverlining about this. I was sure I was lacking many pieces of the whole story.

"Shut up! Even if the race isn't fair and wasn't nice to us, I won't betray them!"

Stephen seemed to be lost in the dilemma of his loyalty and his anger towards his race. Even when he said such strong words, his tone was weak and wasn't like anything he said before.

I stood in my place in silence, watching this interesting show in front of me. I hoped Stephen would change his mind after all this talk. If what Matte said was true, then there was a good chance for this good dude to join me.

"You are just lying to yourself," Matte didn't stop, "you were always like that, focusing on your main goal to become a powerhouse in the future without caring about anything else."

"I won't reach my goal by joining this useless human!" Stephen pointed at me, and I didn't feel any offence from what he said.

He didn't know me, and my race's fame wasn't that great to begin with.

"You know nothing," Matte snorted, "you are just speaking about this lord without knowing him well enough. What bullshit you just said? You won't reach anything with these damn ungrateful cold hearted bastards! And above all, if you die, you will die without making any name for yourself. You'll die and your name will be forgotten! Is that what you want? Tell me, is that what you live for?"

I saw the body of Stephen tremble faintly for long minutes. The words Matte said didn't stop there as he started to speak about things that were considered mere facts.

He spoke about how their race wanted to stop and kill me, and in the end I crushed everything they made and even got my hand over this entire defensive zone.

He spoke about how I fought the war till now, which was something well known for him and Stephen for sure. But Matte didn't find it weird to narrate things that were known to everyone.

In the end he focused again over the legendary Hescos I made out of thin air. "If you have a little brain in that stubborn skull of yours then you'll understand what I told you. These are all facts, and you know them pretty well already. You can't refute these, and you can't refute the fact that by your death you will achieve nothing! Why be loyal to those who never cared and won't care about people like us? Wake up, and don't miss the chance in front of you and end up dying for nothing!"

As Matte said these words, he turned around and started walking away towards my chariot. "I won't say any more to you. It's your life, and you know better than anyone what goals you have and why you selected them in the first place. If you don't want to achieve any of these, then don't blame anyone else but yourself for what will happen to those you care about."

I didn't get what Matte just said, but from the fiercer trembling of Stephen's body I knew this must be some sensitive topic of Stephen's life.

I wanted to know everything about Stephen, but it wasn't the right time to ask about such things. I stood my place motionless, calmly watching the purple suited Stephen standing in silence as well in front of me.

I knew his mind must be like a storming ocean, thinking about many complicated and conflicted things at the same time.

Saying anything right now wouldn't do me any good. In fact I admired Matte.

He just showed a side to me that I never thought it even existed. That dude… These paragons… They tricked everyone with their act… They even tricked me!

If I didn't see by my own eyes Matte lecturing Stephen like this, I'd never have believed that Matte wasn't a coward and was faking it!

As for leaving Stephen at the right moment, it told me a lot about his mind.

Matting wasn't easy. I stole a gaze at his back and couldn't help but inwardly sigh.

I was right. It was impossible for the number one race in the universe to produce a bunch of cowards and useless brats like these paragons here.

Even if they didn't like to fight and compete, it didn't mean they were weaklings and losers. In fact, I just regretted this dude and others didn't like to contend in this apocalypse.

Or else I'd gain not only Stephen, but a bunch of scary dudes who would greatly help my kingdom.

I tried hard to resist my urge to force these kids to work for me. I just saw what the end result would be if I tried to force them to do something they didn't like.

'I have to find a way to make them take the initiative and come to ask to work for me,' I decided to take this matter quite seriously. I didn't need to take things directly and with such a harsh approach to them.

Instead I could just be patient and wait for them to change up their minds. The main reason behind such talents not wanting to do anything to their race must stem from the ignorance and lack of belief in their race.

Chapter 1259 Why Do You Fight?

If I could attach them strongly with my kingdom, if I could plant the seed of loyalty and belonging in their souls, then this problem would be solved.

Such a plan needed much patience and a long time to give good results. Trying to rush things up would end things up backfiring at me in return.

I didn't have any good ideas for now. But I noticed something. Matte kept speaking about the legendary Hescos. It seemed these Hescos had a high place in his heart, and hopefully at others' as well.

If so, then I could use these legendary Hescos to rope these talents in. I still didn't know what I should do, but I'd try to come up with a good idea to make these talents mix with the legendary Hescos I got.

"I want to ask about something…" just as I was lost in thoughts about what I should do to rope in these talents and make them believe in my kingdom and me, Stephen suddenly asked.

"What do you want to know?" This question was just a sign of his mind changing for the better. He seemed to be moved by Matte's words. And even if he didn't agree yet, he wanted to ask about my kingdom it seemed and that was a good start.

Instead of absolutely refusing to join my side, he was now considering this.

"I want to know why you are fighting?"

"Excuse me?" I looked at him in a weird way. I expected him to ask about anything regarding my kingdom, my strength, my military forces, or even my dreams and plans for the future.

Yet what he asked was such a weird thing.

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"I know people fight for different reasons. Some aspire for more strength, others are trying to protect their families. Some may aim for wealth, and others are seeking fame. What are you fighting for?"

I realised that simple looking question held behind tons of things. When I thought about the weird words Matte said before leaving, I couldn't help but take this question quite seriously.

"You do know that I came from the human race, right?" I didn't directly answer him, and instead tried to get more of his reasons behind asking such a question.

"And?" but unlike what I expected, he just used one simple word to answer me. Moments ago he was speaking a lot, and now he just used one word. What a dude!

"If you want a direct and simple answer then it's simply because I wanted to live."

"You can just lower your head, run deep under the ground, and keep yourself safe," he shrugged, "why risk fighting the number one race in the universe? Why risk fighting big races in the first place?"

"It's easy for someone like you to say that," I sighed, bitterly sighed, "you were born in a mighty race, didn't know anything about fear of death or something like that. You always had your life secured, nothing can threaten you or your race. But that's not the case regarding me or my people."

"Go on…" that suit he wore didn't show anything about his reaction to my words. I didn't know if he was interested or bored. But I didn't care at this moment.

If I wanted him, then only honesty would be the sole path to secure him.

"If I did as you said, then in the middle or at the end I'd find myself not just fighting monsters, but mighty races including yours. Don't tell me you don't know about the rules of the apocalypse, and the end result of all the worlds merging together into one colossal world. If I didn't fight you at this moment, if I didn't take all the risks I could take when the gap between the two of us isn't this big, then if I waited for longer, I'd end up fighting a losing battle and will die or serve as a slave in the end."

"Slave or not, you'll keep your life in the end!"

"A life of slavery is worth than death to me," I raised up my head before adding in arrogance that I deserved to show, "I'd rather face death million times and live as free as a king than lower my head and live a life of a slave later on."

"Interesting claims, but without enough strength this is all bullshit."

"I just crushed your mighty forces and took all of your formidable generals and paragons. Sorry, but what strength are you talking about here?"

If he got all the right to show such confidence in himself and his race, then I also got all the right to act arrogant and confident regarding my strength.

I didn't need to speak about anything, just telling the end result of this war was enough. "Buddy, I didn't just crush your race for a single time, but this is the second war I won against your race," and this was also a fact.

I didn't even exaggerate or try to boast. If I wanted, then I could have said much more than these few words.

"You do know that this is just the tip of the iceberg of our might."

"I don't care if it's the tip or the entire mountain, I crushed you twice, and nothing you might say can change that," I didn't like his tone.

"You should expect fiercer wars from now on! After all, once the apocalypse ends, any race can come here without any restraint."

"I don't care, it's something for the far fetched future," I waved my hand before adding, "I only care about things happening right now. And right now I'm winning. When I conquer the entire apocalypse worlds and merge them together, then I can say I can compete equally with your race."

"Nonsense! Our race has many formidable monsters whom you can't compete with!"

"And who said I'm alone? And who said I'll be the same after unifying the entire universe? And who said I'm not a monster myself? And who said you aren't going to be one in the future?"

I looked at him and he seemed to be shocked by my answer. What did he expect? For me to feel fear and get terrified and intimidated of his race's name and powerhouses?

Chapter 1260 A Weird Message

I didn't need to say that I already got the backing of the Toranks. After the end of the apocalypse, it wouldn't be just Hescos coming here, but also the Toranks. If the Hescos wanted to tarnish their name and further embarrass themselves, then they were welcomed to come here and try out my might.

And right now I was able to crush their offspring fair and square. I knew alone I wouldn't be able to compete with them. But with the support of Toranks, and with the mighty effect of the time boost in my second Earth world, I could build up enough armies and powerhouses to keep my kingdom safe.

"You are including me in your plans, isn't that quite an arrogant move from you?"

"I'm not a generous person," I shrugged, "if you don't serve a purpose to me, then you have no value at all. If so, then killing you is better than wasting my breaths over talking with you."

"What about Matte and others?" he paused for a long moment before adding, "they have no value for you. Why are you taking them with you then?"

"First they are paragons of Hescos in this world. Believe it or not, this title is enough for me to take them in," I smiled before adding, "and to be honest with you, if they wanted to fight for me I'd gladly welcome them. If not, then their wealth and artefacts they got will be enough as a farewell gift before letting them live peacefully in one of my worlds."

"One of your worlds? What nonsense is that? Don't you know we already investigated everything about you? You have no control over any world, including your home planet, yet!"

"That's just a mistake of your part," I laughed, "I already got not only one world, but it also has another world in one of its lands," I paused and knew he wouldn't get my point, "later on, if you decided to live and join me, then I'll take you there to see for yourself."

"Take me now then," he acted stubborn, but he soon delivered me a good piece of news, "if you really have one world under your control then I'll swear my allegiance to you."

I didn't know why he said these words. What was the relation between having a world of my own and lowering his head to me?

Was this a sign for one's might in this universe or what? I looked at him in a weird way, and he noticed my looks.

"Don't ask, I won't answer any of your words before swearing allegiance to you," he paused as my face didn't look that great. I wanted to know the reason behind this, as what he said before didn't add up to any logic I had about strength in the universe.

"I can tell you this…" after a long minute of silence where the two of us didn't say a single word, he added, "I can tell you that I'm in desperate need of a world that doesn't belong to my race. In fact that's why I'm fighting here and risking my life. If you have a world of your own, then you are eligible to be my lord."

I couldn't say I fully understood his reasons, but at least I had many ideas about them. "I can tell you this in return," as he kept speaking in riddles, I decided to match him, "this world is a safe haven, one that even the first race in the universe can't touch."

"There's nothing my race can't touch!"

"My world is an exception to such a rule, and I'm not acting arrogant here."

"How so then? Enlighten me!"

"Hahahahaha! Let's say when you swear your allegiance to me, then I'll let you know the reason behind this," I laughed before adding, "from now on, you'll board my chariot and not leave my side. If you move a single finger, believe it or not, my glaive will be faster than your thoughts."

"I already gave you my word," he started to move towards my chariot, "I'll wait with you until you go to that world. Once I see it, then I can decide my fate."

I watched him walk towards my chariot without even asking about what my future plans would be. It seemed like this man had himself detached from the Hescos, as if their rise or fall wasn't related to him at all.

I sighed. I got enough surprises from this encounter with him.

[Are you done?] Just before I could move a finger, I got this sudden message from Sara.

[I'm coming!]

[Good! We are now entrapped in the mid layers. Hescos are trying to kill us but we are holding up quite well actually]

[How so?] the last time she spoke with me, she kept crying and pleading for me to come and rescue them. And now she was saying that they were holding up quite well. It was weird.

[Oh, that's weird…]

[What's weird?] She was the one acting weird right now.

[Didn't you send for reinforcements earlier?] she sent this message and I suddenly recalled something, [Tons of forces came out from the pillar down at the bottom. Not to mention more came out from the surface as well. With their help, the Hescos couldn't exterminate us as they wanted]

[Oh… About that…] I recalled what I did and forgot about it. When I opened the second and third portal at the surface area, I sent someone to deliver a request for a reinforcement message.

I simply described everything to the messenger I sent to Lily and others, leaving the decision to rescue Sara in their hands.

And it seemed they didn't disappoint me. They sent troops from two directions, and that helped to relieve lots of pressure over Sara and her forces.

[What? Did you send them and forget? Hahahaha! That's funny!]

[I was busy, totally busy dealing with tons of things] I didn't get angry from her words. If she was in the mood to laugh, that meant the situation over her end was really better.

Chapter 1261 Going To Sara's Rescue

[Alright! You can come then and help our forces from the outside to break through the densely packed Hescos]

[How long can you survive on your own?] I thought about going to the surface first, leaving behind something as a gift for the incoming Hescos armies from outside.

[What? Are you planning to let us suffer for much longer? No, I take back what I said! We are dying! We need help! Help!]

Reading her words made me laugh uncontrollably. [Fine, I'll come now and help you before doing anything else] I closed the chat and started to look around.

This main base fight was almost over. I got all the big names and many of their elites. The remaining forces of Hescos were now surrendering to my side, and were escorted towards my chariot.

As Sara wasn't in a very dangerous situation anymore, I stayed for much longer and welcomed the incoming surrendered enemies.

Even if their number wasn't that great, they were elites. If I started turning all of them into warriors through the dens of warriors, then I could have a great number of elite forces under my disposal at any moment.

I got the ability to create the legendary Hescos, but the cost was still too much for someone like me. I'd take my time in expanding the mediocre number of these legendary Hescos, and that would take at least one year if not more.

Having these elite Hescos would fill in the gap of the legendary Hescos for a long time. But that, of course, if I didn't get much more of these Hescos in the later battles.

I wanted to fill my entire military force with these Hescos. From this battle, I learnt how weak and vulnerable my generals and elite circle were.

I couldn't give them artefacts easily as most of these were bound by blood, and they weren't that easy to find in the first place.

Even out of the paragons I got this time, I doubted the number of high grade artefacts would be more than ten. And among those, I desired that artefact to seal other artefacts too much.

That was a very low number to begin with, and wouldn't help at all in filling in the gaps between my race and others.

My only way was to start attending big auctions and spend tons of bones over such treasures.

Thinking about bones... I had tons of dead bodies in this world. "I won't return before collecting all my trophies," I decided and waited for two more hours before the last batch of Hescos signed the contract with me.

"Stay here and take control of the defences," I didn't want to lose any of them in the next battle. First I didn't want to lose to such elites, and second because that battle wasn't that intense or dangerous like before.

It could be said to be a very easy fight right now. Once I'd appear, things would be literally over for all the resisting Hescos.

"Lord, do you want us to step up for you and order our people to stop fighting and surrender?" Once my chariot moved and Matte didn't stop talking and asking about where we were going.

At the end I did tell him. After all it wasn't a secret anymore and he'd soon realise where we were heading.

And when he knew, he gave me such an offer.

"No thanks," this dude was overestimating his influence.

In the eyes of his people, he might be a high figure, known and respected by many. However, that all changed the moment he surrendered to me.

Just recalling the fierce reaction Stephen showed the first moment he spotted Matte made me reject such an offer decisively.

Besides, I didn't need anyone to step in and speak up for me. I used his tongue to soften the hard to crack head of Stephen because I doubted my ability to make him join my side.

But against others, even generals, I'd prefer to let my threads speak doing the speaking instead.

When I got out from the deep pit my legendary Hescos dug before, and as I called back every single one of my warriors inside my inventory, I started to head towards the bigger pit.

When I was on top of the hole, I was welcomed with a very weird scene.

The entire upper section of this hole was controlled now by my forces, then the Hescos, then my forces again led by Sara, then Hescos, and finally my lower most troops.

It was a very weird arrangement to be honest. But thanks to such a weird arrangement, none of those Hescos fighting here got the news of the fall of their head base yet or the loss of their generals and paragons.

This bizarre lineup made it easier to deal with the Hescos. And I knew why Sara's position became better.

The Hescos planned to surround my forces inside from all directions, yet ended up getting encircled without any means of retreat.

When I started to use my threads and managed to get past many layers, I noticed the fall of the tunnels around at these layers.

It seemed when my legendary Hescos dug the ground they brought down the tunnels, cutting any path of retreat for these Hescos.

I kept controlling Hescos for hours, until I finally took over most of the ones at the upper layers. The ones who didn't fall under my clutches were the ones who died in the middle in between my forces.

"At last!" When I cleared all the Hescos from the top layers, Sara finally managed to break free. She came with a bunch of her entrusted and capable leaders, in addition to only two generals.

"Where are the rest?" I noticed the two generals by their chariots I gave to them before.

"They didn't make it," she shook her head and that gave me a clear image about how terribly bad their situation was before sending out reinforcements from Earth.

"It's good you all made it alive," I didn't stop much at the loss of the three generals. I got much more generals from the Hescos, and they would be much better replacements than those dead ones.

Chapter 1262 Planning For The Future

"Let's end this war and leave forces here to control and defend this base," she seemed unaware of the big danger coming up.

I knew she didn't ask for a retreat to get some rest. She was a fighter, and she didn't like to be in a position of laying down and waiting for the enemies to come.

And on top of that, she hated defending too much.

"You won't go back," but unlike what she expected, I didn't give her the green light to return back to Earth with me.

​ "Why not?" she paused in shock then she seized me up and down as if she was seeing me for the first time, "I don't want to take any rest."

"I won't give you any even if you asked for one."

"Then why?" she looked more troubled than before, "I got that there is a way between this world and ours. So we can move in between the two worlds without any problem, right?"

I knew she was referring to the problem Legend was now facing back at the first battlefield with the Hescos. It seemed after their first loss, the Hescos feared sending this general back to my side.

So they tried their best and destroyed all the portals in any town or city. Even after all this time, Legend didn't get out of there yet.

"It's not about that," I shook my head, "it's like this..." I started to explain the current situation to her. The more I spoke, the more her eyes became wider.

"No, don't send me back, not yet," as I expected, she was the one who retracted her earlier request on her own volition, "and added more force to me. I want to crush all of them."

"I will see what I can do," I knew this turned out to be a huge war between me and the entire Hescos race members in this world.

Such a battle would take a long time to get concluded. Not to mention the endless number of forces needed from my side to keep our advantage here.

If I complied with the end trap the Hescos laid for me here, then I'd send out most of my stored up forces to fight here.

In the end, this world would turn into a moving sand trap, swallowing most of my entire military force like a black hole.

I learnt from Matte that the Hescos higher ups got in contact with the angelic race and gathered up tons of information about me.

If they could get information about my artefacts, then it'd make more sense for them to know about the real size of my military forces.

I doubted their knowledge about my second Earth world. And even if they knew, they had no way to peek over there and know how much force I got.

But they could make a rough estimate. And so they designed this world here to consume most of my forces even if they lost this world.

After all, losing one world didn't have that much of an impact over the overall course of the ongoing apocalyptic trial. Not to mention they already activated the scorching land plan, making all the world's fight against each other right now and anyone could claim any world for themselves if they got the might and ability to do so.

Losing one world on the price of making me lose most of my forces was a very good deal indeed.

So my main goal right now was to limit the expenses of my forces here. I had to put use of generals like Sara and Legend in this world. Even if I had to waste another ticket, it was worth it.

Legend proved to be a cunning general. And Sara was a very fierce offensive oriented general.

Using the two together would give any enemy a headache. And if I added to them my trump card, things would be much better here than what my enemies initially planned for me.

That trump card was a general and a friend of mine they'd never thought it'd make such a difference in such types of battles; the second jerk, the spearhead.

If the spearhead came into such a war and used his heaven defying ability, then things would turn out to be quite smooth for my forces.

Spearhead's top importance lay in such battles. If the enemies were endless and we had to defend, then things would turn out quite good when that jerk would use his ability.

Adding him to the other duo, Legend and Sara, then the trio would make up a great team. The enemy would face trouble even with much difference in numbers between my side and theirs.

By sacrificing three capable generals and throwing away three valuable chips like that would cost me a lot. But in return I just got more capable generals from this journey, and hopefully Stephen would join my forces without any surprise.

Just him alone was enough to match the loss of the three unique generals I'd use here in this world. As for the common generals and armies, I planned to send twenty armies in total.

That might be a lot, but to me it wasn't that much. As my forces would keep fighting their enemies in the new worlds, my soul count would keep growing nonstop and I'd be able to create more legendary Hescos and fallen gods.

This was the best plan I could think of. Not to mention the battle here must have been watched and recorded by the Toranks.

I didn't get my previous reward for the past victory. And I was sure they'd reward me more.

I needed their support in terms of warriors and races. The more they'd get to me the better. After all, if I used the second Earth world's time difference then at the later stages of this grand war, the number of my forces would keep growing without doubt.

I planned to finish the Hescos down below, go on a spree to collect my bones before returning to Earth. I'd send a message then to Silverlining and ask about my rewards of the two battles, and also take Stephen back to the second Earth world.

Chapter 1263 You Are A Legend, My Friend!

Then I'd resume attacking other worlds. Recalling this, I had to get more tickets soon. I spent two unneeded tickets to win this war, and was going to lose another ticket to bring Legend back.

I also wanted more tickets as an insurance against any hard to crack world just like this one.

After losing twice in a row, I was sure the Hescos would be totally mad right now. And if I added the Toranks propaganda to the general picture, then things would be more hectic than right now.

I'd expect another fierce battle from the Hescos, especially when they'd realise their plans including the last trap had failed.

They upped the game this time and that caused me a headache.

If not for my intervention, then things wouldn't have been that good. If other generals led this battle, then nothing good would have come from it.

"What are you going to do next?" This is the most important question right now.

If they wanted to really put great pressure on me, then they'd have to activate their hidden chips on Earth. I didn't fear fighting on more than one front, especially when there were those special orbs I got from the zombies.

I was away for a long time already. It'd make more sense for my forces to gain more of these den seeds.

If I used these in the upcoming world conquering battles, and if my luck was good enough to visit many worlds with zombie dens, then I'd gain more of these orbs.

If I was Hescos, I'd not risk a battle again without preparing enough. That meant they'd wait for the last world for me to visit, strengthen the defences there before starting to confront me.

It'd be one single and last battle, and it'd be a hellish kind of battle. I had to finish all this before the beginning of the golden quests. Or else I'd have to wait until I'd finish the golden quest and come back before doing the last battle with them.

Out of all the worlds I'd visit, the last added ones to my apocalyptic trial would be the ones who'd be more prepared to welcome such a battle. And if I guessed it correctly, then the Hescos higher ups had a way to not only foresee where my forces would appear at the worlds, but also the order of these worlds.

That meant they'd be able to know which world of theirs would be the last one for me to visit. As for me, I wouldn't know such a thing.

To be sure, I'd assume that one out of the last five worlds would have the final place of that epic battle between the two of us.

It'd be better for me to not give such a scary race enough time to prepare. If so, then they'd end up preparing something terrifying.

They just needed a few days to turn this place here into such a complicated set of defences. They put a large amount of thinking into this place, and that made me fear giving them more time to prepare.

It'd be better for me to face them before going to the golden quest. I wasted at least one week in the fifth quest, if not ten days by now. I'd give myself another ten to fifteen days before the start of the golden quest challenges.

These days I had to wrap things up in these worlds. I'd have to go all out and do everything in my power to invade all the worlds before going to the golden quests.

As I kept thinking about my next steps, my chariot kept going forward while my threads reaped the loyalty of more Hescos.

Once the upper Hescos armies got under my control, the entire war here was about to end. I didn't let Sara and her forces who survived such a deadly trap join the fight.

Instead, I sent them out to recuperate, get themselves used on the defences out there and start organising their troops. I also asked Sara to see how much force she needed, and asked her to send scouts to get more intel about the incoming Hescos armies.

The armies must have crossed the outer regions of this grand defensive zone. So their first task was to form a grand defensive line and fight the incoming Hescos and try to push them back.

Once they reached the end of this defensive zone, then the defences would be left over to common generals while the top three would lead the offensive duties.

I told Sara about my plans before sending her away. I assigned Legend as the acting top general in this world. For me, his presence as the top general was enough to make me sleep nice at night without any worry.

As for her, she'd be responsible for penetrating deep inside enemy lines. As for spearhead, he'd work as a firefighter, the same rule he was best suited at.

Of course he could help Sara if Legend wanted such a thing from him.

As everything was about to get wrapped here, I sent a message over to Silverlining, asking for my postponed trophy.

[Dude, you kept saying a lot about the incoming rewards and I didn't get anything yet. Besides, did you watch my last performance?]

[Damn cool! We are all watching the fights live and recording it. You, my friend , are my idol! You are a legend! Truly are!]

I received tons of praises and nothing about my rewards. I wouldn't say no to any compliment, but I needed to know what my rewards would be.

[Just cut it and tell me what will you give me in return? I'm sure you all know about how bad my losses in this fight were. I lost a lot and I'd still waste tons of my forces to keep this base under my control]

[Don't worry legend, since when have we ever mistreated you? We were about to send you rewards before noticing the new war you started. So we stopped and watched, and still watched the magic you are pulling over these Hescos. Damn! That's too cool! Hahahaha!]

Chapter 1264 I Can't Reach Sara

[Then hurry up! The war is almost over! I want to know what I'll get so I can plan things for the future]

[You are so impatient! But you are the legend! You have all the right to ask for whatever you want and need. Just give me a couple of hours, at most five, and I'll give you the good news]

[Ok, I can wait for five hours. Don't forget to send me the recordings of this war and the devices to operate these. Also I want more tickets, I spent two and going to spend more to prepare more for the upcoming wars]

[Don't worry, I already have five of such tickets, and will try to secure more for you]

[Great! Will wait for your message in five hours then]

I closed the chat and returned to watch the dull end of this war. It might have started with a big bang, but right now it was void of any suspense.

I took a glance around, in my chariot where many promising figures of my kingdom were. I got enough generals to give at least one hundred army generals with ease. At the same time, my biggest gain was in these faking weakness paragons.

Matte gave me a wake up call and made me realise how capable each and every single one of them was. But to make the best use of them wouldn't be easy.

Aside from them, the biggest gain ever was Stephen. He looked like a statue, standing there without any reaction on his face.

I thought such a fierce person would be unsettled and uncomfortable when seeing his people get slaughtered and enslaved like this.

But he didn't show any speck of emotion on his face, just looking around in a calm and collected way as if nothing happening around was related to him.

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I admired such a mindset. And that meant he was ready to make up his mind and join me.

I feared once I took him to my second Earth world, he'd still feel conflicted and guilty about joining me, and might end up taking up his life.

If he decided such a thing, even someone like me couldn't do anything to stop him.

I returned to focus on ending this battle here for good. Even with the absence of any ability to harm me, the Hescos were acting crazy like moths attracted to fire.

They tried to hit my chariot but got stopped by my shield. No matter how hard they tried, they failed.

Seeing this made me realise my earlier rejection of Matte's proposal was right. Such ferocious fighters weren't that easy to convince using words. Only by forcing their backs against walls would they'd submit to me.

This battle lasted for ten straight hours. I was surprised by the great numbers of Hescos hiding in the tunnels. I thought the Hescos were only inside the hole, but the more I took under my control, the more who came out from the tunnels.

By the end of this battle, I ended up having at least ten million Hescos elites. The last stretch of forces gained here were all good fighters. I couldn't wait to bring them back to my second Earth and turn them into warriors and tokens.

​ But first I had to see how the situation was up there.

[Did you make contact with the enemy?] Since I sent Sara and others out, I didn't get a single message back from her.

She kept her silence, while this was indeed something strange.

[Hey! Are you busy fighting or what?] yet I didn't receive any response from her. That made me a little worried.

I fought here for ten hours, and just right now I cleared a path for my entrapped forces at the bottom to go up.

As she didn't respond to my messages, I took out my staff and opened a portal towards the surface.

"Oh! There is someone blocking the space out there then... Interesting!" I thought I got every paragon here. But it seemed that wasn't the case.

Only paragons would have artefacts. And from her weird silence all this time, I got the feeling that there wasn't just a space locking artefact in the play, another artefact was used to cut any connection between me and my forces.

But even if that was the case, then Sara wouldn't be in any danger. The surface was already filled with tons of my warriors and forces, with many places covered with my eternal shields.

Not to mention the central place around the hole opening was covered up with many shields.

If she faced a threatening situation, she could have easily retreated all the way to these shields. And if things were quite bad, she'd have sent me messengers to warn me about what was going on outside.

There were only two explanations for this; first the enemy only tried to stop my forces advance by cutting any means of communication between my generals and leaders, including myself.

If that was the case, then that meant the battle high up there was already in my favour. But the second option wasn't something nice for me.

It might be the total opposite to the first scenario. Sara and others might have gone forward too deep into the enemy lines, and got trapped again.

If I thought about Sara's nature, then such a scenario was the most possible one to happen. If she got entrapped again, then by cutting communication and sealing space she and her forces would be isolated.

And if they were surrounded like this, then they wouldn't be able to send any messenger for help. I clenched my glaive tighter while leading my chariot to the top.

"Something is wrong, lord?" From the side, Matte seemed very attentive to my facial expression and mood.

He noticed that I became a little nervous and quite angry. I wasn't enraged about missing a few fishes from such a hunt. After all that would make quite sense.

Chapter 1265 One Man Changes Everything

If the Hescos gathered up such a formidable force outside and planned to turn this world into a black hole for my forces, then they must have left behind capable generals and might even have left behind a few paragons.

That move was expected and didn't make me nervous or angry at all. However I was mad at Sara. This girl knew nothing at all but to venture forward and fight without any care about anything else.

I liked her ferocious nature, but I didn't like the fact that in each battle I had to babysit her like this, acting every single battle to save her neck and life.

She had to start reading the general image, and know when to step forward and when to stop advancing and act quietly.

I didn't say anything to Matte, but that didn't stop that talkative dude from sharing his opinion and thoughts.

I totally ignored him. I learnt from what he unintentionally exposed that doing that was already doing him a great favour.

Instead of wasting my breaths over him, I decided to give him space to speak as much as he liked without even trying to interrupt or respond to him.

After all he didn't want any answer from me, he just wanted to speak and express his opinions out loud. His life in the Hescos before was like a prison in my eyes. What would it be like if I was prevented from saying what I had in my mind all the time?

As my chariot went out of the pit hole, I finally saw what was going on.

Using my Hawk Eye skill made me see far away and as I expected, Sara and her army was strangled in the middle of an ocean of Hescos.

That girl… Tsk!

"Follow me!" I held my horn and without any hesitation, gave such an order to all the forces around, "go and kill the enemy out there."

The place Sara was entrapped within was at least five miles away from the edge of my grand shield here. It didn't take that much to cross that distance by my chariot, yet my forces had to spend at least twenty minutes to arrive there.

The moment I arrived, I didn't say anything and simply started my barrage of attacks.

First I started using my pillar's shield skill and created isolation spaces in between the densely packed enemy forces. Such shields might not endanger the forces entrapped inside, but they messed brilliantly with the enemy line up.

As making these shields didn't take much of my energy, and as they became eternal after the last upgrade, I could easily scatter them around while flying with ease by my chariot.

The Hescos didn't stand idle though and watched me do all this without trying to stop me. They sent tons of flying Hescos, and even used long ranged attacks at me.

But all was futile in front of my invincible chariot's shield. As I was moving unhindered like this, I started laying out the base for the upcoming battle.

Since my approach, I released my threads around and took over many of the Hescos. If I got a chance to add more Hescos to my roster, why would I refuse that?

I scattered enough shields in the direction where my forces were coming from. Then I started to move deeper and mess more with the enemy tight formation.

Gradually I got near my entrapped forces. Sara might suck at defence, but she got other generals who were helping her at the moment to keep her forces alive.

Seeing the nearly perfect circular line up her forces adopted made me smile. This girl learnt something from the past entrapment inside that pit hole. And she seemed to learn a trick or two about how to arrange her defences.

At the same time, she listened to the opinions of the other two generals by her side. She wasn't as stubborn as that jerk, the jumper, at least, and knew where her weakness and soft spots were.

When I looked closer, I was surprised to see an isolated group of soldiers passing in the middle of the tight enemy lines, killing everywhere they went.

Looking more closely made me recognise her face leading everyone around her to kill the enemies entrapping her.

This girl… Even in such a deadly situation she never gave up on attacking! I smiled and if not for the urgency of the situation here, I'd even laugh.

As I got to them, I started to summon shields in succession. With each summoned shield, they merged together, and added a perfect covering for the entrapped forces.

I didn't cast these shields to be precisely next to each other, or to just cover up my forces. I acted randomly as in my eyes, this entire battle was practically over the moment I joined it.

My shields expanded and even covered part of the enemy forces. In return, my entrapped army got the chance to retaliate.

When I got done from securing the entrapped forces, I noticed another battle not far from here.

It seemed when Sara got surrounded, the other troops here on my side tried to help and relieve the pressure. So they gathered up and came to attack the Hescos, but the Hescos were ready for them.

The span of this battle was huge! It expanded for miles in every direction while smaller groups of battles were happening in scattered places around as well.

It was a bit chaotic, but all this was going to stop right now. I kept using my shields to spread chaos in the middle of the enemy lines. Then when I reached the other battlefields, I used my shields to change the entire course of these fights.

In less than two hours, the entire situation changed. I didn't stop in my tracks and went towards the broad and endless stream of forces coming from the far away places to here.

Chapter 1266 The End Of This War

The Hescos already linked a deep and thick line of reinforcements between here and the outer zones. And it was my task to sever such connections as fast as I could.

And I didn't even need to dirt my hands or do anything but keep using my pillar here and there.

The shields were enough to disturb the enemy lines. As for killing and cutting this line entirely, it'd be left for my forces after getting out from their entrapment back there.

This might have started with the Hescos having the upper hand. But right now they were facing the totally opposite situation. They got entrapped, isolated by seemingly endless shields they couldn't crack or escape from, and they had to walk for miles around to escape my shield obstruction.

If there were just a few shields around, then they wouldn't have to suffer a lot. But I scattered hundreds and even thousands of my shields during the next few hours, making it literally impossible for the enemy to find their comrades that easily.

In return, my forces found it like heaven to them. They could pass through the shields easily, and so they didn't need to waste time passing around my shields in endless circles.

And by cutting the line of reinforcements for Hescos, my forces found it a lot easier to kill their foes. Once part of my forces got freed, a snowball effect started to happen.

My forces began a wide hunting mission while the Hescos tried desperately to flee with their lives. The battle expanded in no time to cover tens of miles in radius, and was still expanding with each passing hour.

As I saw things were stabilised here, I tried to look for the paragons and generals leading this army. But I failed.

"It's not worth it," I knew these paragons and generals might bring trouble to my forces here, but this was still acceptable.

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And I still have tons of things to do. So wasting more time here wasn't going to do me any good.

I left a message to Sara using my horn, letting her take charge of this entire battle and promised to send more reinforcements back to help.

I didn't hurry to leave. I still had one left task to do. I started to roam the vast battleground, including the lowest bottom point of the pit hole fortress all the way up to the furthest point of this war at the surface.

I started to collect my trophies, bones and my loot from the killed forces' inventory. I gained tons of wealth and an endless supply of bones that replenished my reserves.

This took almost five hours to get done. If not thanks to my turbo mode of gathering bones then it'd have taken much longer than that.

Then I called all the legendary Hescos and soulers, all the Bulltors, dragons, and useful warriors back before heading towards the pillar of light and vanished through it.

The moment I appeared next on Earth, the Hescos paragons and generals in the chariot looked around in curious gazes.

It seemed they heard a lot about my kingdom yet didn't have any picture of it. I looked at their reaction and smiled, took my chariot around the capital while sending a message to Lily.

I planned to bring the paragons to my second Earth world. The surface world there wasn't suitable for them. And trying to show off my military might wasn't going to work.

I intended to take them towards my pocket world, let them live in the deepest layer of that world, the second layer that turned entirely into a new world.

There they could see for themselves how truly awesome to be part of my kingdom. Also I wanted them to find suitable places for their talents and suited their desires.

If they wanted to be researchers, they could join my research department. If they wanted to play with monsters, they could join my little Qi.

If they wanted to live in peace, then they could join my town and cities out there. But there was also the temptation of that weird phenomenon out there to mate with other races and have heaven defying kids.

As for Lily, I watched her come fast as I told her about the large number of capable generals I got from the Hescos.

I planned to go easy and plan slowly for the paragons. But for the generals I didn't need to do any of that.

Even if they didn't like it, they were ones who grew up from being soldiers to generals. If they didn't like fighting and being generals, they'd never have reached such a prestigious rank in the army.

As for their future deployment, it was left for Lily to handle.

"I don't know what to say," when she arrived and saw all the generals I caught, her face beamed with a wide smile.

She was happy, and surely was I.

"Just take them and don't be gentle with them," I eyed all the red suited generals, "they are all capable and have vast experience in leading and training armies. Make sure to use them in anything you want."

"Sure," she laughed, before returning to her chariot and leading the generals there. After the last general boarded the chariot, she asked: "When do you plan to invade more worlds?"

"Give me half a day at most," I said, "I'll do a few things first and prepare more for the upcoming battles."

"Are we going against tough Hescos like that world? Didn't they learn from what happened or what?"

She laughed, but to me this wasn't a funny thing. I started explaining what I expected to face at the last Hescos world.

I didn't need to explain anything related to what happened back in that world. Just from her words and reactions, I could tell she already was aware of what happened back there.

I just told her about what I believed it was going to happen, the brutal and hard war waiting up ahead. I spoke about my doubts regarding the time of going to that world, and the upcoming golden quest.

Chapter 1267 Taking Them Into A Grand Tour

"Invading these worlds can wait but not the golden quests," she agreed with my thoughts, "it's good you thought that far ahead. Of course that scenario can happen, and also the possibility of them abandoning revenge can happen as well."

"They will do whatever they can to take their revenge," I didn't believe in the other possibility. The Hescos I knew wouldn't let their pride get tarnished by someone like me without forcing me to pay back.

"If so… Then we need to make all the preparations we can to prevent their revenge from happening."

"I'm counting on you for that," Lily was a very smart girl. She'd know what to do and didn't need me to elaborate any further.

"I'll do what I can, but at that battle you have to be the acting leader there" she paused before adding, "I'll make sure to send the spearhead and his army to that world. I'm sure he is going to be extremely happy about this."

I knew the spearhead would be flying over the seven heaven when he'd hear about that. As I watched her leave, I recalled Legend who was still entrapped in the previous Hescos world.

I had to go back to the second Earth world first, then receive my deserved rewards from the Toranks, and finally head to fetch Legend back.

After that I'd start attacking other worlds. And hopefully the Hescos wouldn't act on impulse and try to fight us on another world before the end.

I opened a portal towards the other world while turning to look at Stephen. "Are you ready to see my other world?"

"Sure, show me first before saying anything useless," despite trying to act rude, he seemed a bit nervous.

I could tell that there was something crucial to him and that was related to the presence of a separate world. I couldn't guess what it was, he might have important people he wanted to rescue or make them go to a safe haven or something like that.

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Or perhaps he wanted some place to run away towards. Or he wanted to hide some sort of treasure or bury a secret where no one else of his race would discover it.

No matter the reason, I was going to know everything soon enough. I didn't delay any further and led my chariot through the portal to the second Earth world.

The place we appeared at was just next to the pocket world entrance. There I stopped and let everyone of the paragons take a wide gaze around.

"Welcome to my second world," I extended my arms around in a motion to welcome them here.

"Is this your world?" Matte gave the all silent Stephen a long gaze before adding, "it looks nice."

"First he has to prove it's his world," Stephen said in a tone that told me he was annoyed. I looked at him in a weird way. Didn't he want to have another world? Was he this pissed off to serve me and leave the Hescos or what?

I felt like I didn't understand him well enough. "How do you expect me to prove this world is mine?" I calmly asked while keenly looking at him, without a single move of his would escape my eyes.

He kept silent for a long moment before saying: "Take us around the world. I have to go and visit many places first before making sure this world belongs to you."

"Oh, if that is so then… It's a piece of cake," if he wanted a tour around, then he had to prepare himself for what he was going to see.

"Before we start, I have to say something," I paused, but Stephen seemed to get me wrong.

"I don't care if there are other races around as long as you have total control over this world."

"Oh, it's not about that," I smiled in confidence, "I was going to say that this world is unique."

"In what way?" Matte was the one to ask while Stephen kept his silence.

"It has another world attached to it," I pointed towards the pocket world's dome and added, "so which world do you want to explore first? This one or that one?"

Just from the confidence and calmness in my words and tone anyone would be sure this world belonged to me. But I never planned to use words to convince that dude.

I wanted to convince him using actions, fair and square.

"Let's start with here first," Stephen decided, and then I started a grand tour around this world.

I stored all the important places with my staff. So it was easy for me to take them around in a wide tour without wasting much time.

However most of the time wasted was for the paragons on my chariot to take in all they saw in this tour.

They stopped a lot in front of the training grounds and living settlements around. One by one asked me to move there and asked many questions regarding the way of life of these places.

When they heard about how these places came to exist, I could feel the change of attitude towards me.

At first they dealt with me in an ice cold way. Only Matte and a few others were showing their warm side and spoke to me.

But aside from these few, the rest kept their distance and silence. At this moment, all of this changed.

I didn't know what touched their hearts and caused such change. Was it the sight of people living in such peace next to the brutal training grounds next to them? Or the way these places came to existence in the first place?

Was it my choice to let people choose between fighting or living happily? Or was it the weird phenomenon that happened to these people living here?

I couldn't tell, but thanks to whatever reason that touched them, they became more welcoming to me.

But when we reached the place of the third training zone, the place where Hescos used to train with my forces, their looks changed.

Chapter 1268 Shocking Them Again And Again

"Damn! How come you already have part of our people here?" Matte couldn't help but ask. And the others looked at me in a weird way.

"I got them from Toranks," I shrugged, "aside from training with my forces, I didn't force them to fight for me. I just asked them and those willing joined my forces out there to invade other worlds."

I did tell a little lie, but it was worth it. Seeing a large number of these Hescos here doing nothing but training with my newly arrived races made me look cool.

"The Toranks? You don't possibly mean the same Toranks in the universe, right?" another paragon asked, while Matte kept speaking to himself about something I couldn't get.

"Sure, they are my allied race," I said it like it was something simple. Yet from the reaction on their faces I knew my words left the desired impression over them.

"You mean you belong to the Toranks, right?" Matte asked after snapping out from whatever he was thinking about, "the Toranks never get themselves allied with anyone, not someone who came from a no named race like yourself."

"Hahahaha! Don't give me that look, I'm not lying and they are indeed working with me on equal grounds. We are friends and allies, and I don't belong to anyone."

Despite what Matte said amidst his doubts and shock might be considered rude, yet I responded with a hearty laugh in return.

I wasn't lying right now. Toranks might be a mighty race like the Hescos, but we were working together as collaborators, not a relation between a master and a servant or something.

"Are you for real?!!" Matte screamed before adding, "you can't possibly be speaking the truth, right?"

"Why not?" I calmly smiled, "I have something they desperately wanted."

"What? Fighting us? No way! They were fighting us for a long time! They used many races to work for them and fight us on countless occasions!"

Matte seemed to speak what others had in mind. I noticed everyone nodding or silently changing looks with each other without saying anything.

"I'm not lying," I took something out from my inventory, "they just need my stuff, and so we are working together as friends and allies."

"This…" It was Stephen's turn to speak. He looked quite shocked, while the rest of the paragons were confused, "isn't this the legendary bones? The ones who created a ruckus all over the universe not long ago? They came from you?!!"

"Oh, so you have heard about my bones already?" I matched his shocking gaze with one filled with doubt from me. After all, only the higher ups in strong races and rich folks got to know about my bones.

"Sure," Stephen bitterly smiled, "I tried to get my hand on one of those but failed. Their prices… They are sky high! And it's not easy to find them to begin with. Who knows you are the one selling them… This… This is quite unbelievable!"

He seemed to know a lot about my bones and their value. Yet when I asked him about what these bones were used for, I got disappointed as I got the same answer as before.

"If you want one, you can have this," I flipped the blue grade bone in my hand and threw it over to him. He caught it with a shocked and disbelieved expression on his face, before lowering his gaze and started checking the bone like it was a real treasure.

"Lord… Can you give me one?" Matte didn't know anything about my bones before Stephen spoke. Yet from Stephen's words, he and others seemed anxious and eager to get my bones.

I wanted to rope them in. "Sure, one for each and every single one of you," So I took out enough bones and gave them out for everyone.

Their faces showed a weird expression. It wasn't easy to get their hands over a treasure it seemed. And they saw my bones equal to these treasures.

"Don't give me this look. These bones might be precious and rare, but I'm the source of them. So it's fine," I laughed when they eyed me with envy and admiration.

"Let's go to the pocket world then," despite the fact that I already took them all over the world here, I didn't speak about this world that belongs to me solely.

I wanted to leave a much better impression than the one I just left. And my pocket world was going to do this trick.

Once we went to the pocket world, their faces were filled with shock.

What they saw first was the grand flying fortress that was left hanging over the endless altars in the ground.

"What are these things? Why are many people going there? And why do I feel like they move in a blurry way out there?" Matte and others were surprised and couldn't help but rain me with tons of questions.

At first only Matte was the one speaking to me. And now most of them got used to me and started to speak up their minds as well.

That was a good start indeed.

"These are my altars, and they are used for a very important reason…" I started to slowly explain what was going on here. The more I spoke, the more surprised they became.

When I spoke about the ability of these altars to make anyone a cultivator, the look on their face was a mix between disbelief and envy.

"You do know that such a thing is considered impossible in the universe," Stephen expressed what everyone was thinking as he added, "even in our race, only by spending long years in training, no one can open a cultivation base this easily."

"I'm not like your race," I evilly grinned, "I was lucky enough to find tons of useful artefacts and lost technology of many races. I made the best use of this one here. Besides this takes lots of time actually to produce a single cultivator."

Chapter 1269 Last Places To Visit

I knew that for Hescos, the issue of cultivation was like a taboo. After all, their suits were immune to most attacks and damage except from those who had their cultivation bases opened.

"If that takes lots of time, why do I see people get in, stand over there, and then come out after so little time?" Matte asked in doubt as he pointed at a group just getting out from the dome shaped encirclement of the flying fortress, "like this group. They just came in the moment we appeared here and they just got out in less than an hour!"

"That's normal, after all my chariot has a time acceleration ability," I calmly said, and my words landed to leave everyone petrified in their shock.

I was sure that if a needle fell to the ground at this moment, I'd be able to hear its clanging sound clearly in my ears.

"Ah I forgot to tell you about this, but the worlds here are unique. They all have a time acceleration effect, in different degrees of course…"

I started to speak about my unique time ability, and the more I spoke the more shocked and silenced they became.

"Are you saying that if we stayed here for an entire two month's time, only one day would pass in the outer world?!!!" Stephen couldn't help but show a rare emotion of shock over his face.

And he wasn't the only one showing such a reaction, everyone else did. "Hahahaha! How did you think I managed to gather up such formidable forces to contend with you?" I laughed and let their shock get deeper.

I wasn't bluffing or exaggerating. I was just speaking the truth.

"Damn!" Matte cursed out loud, "this is crazy!!"

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I was satisfied by their reactions. And yet I didn't hurry to say anything. "Let's go, there are other places here to visit."

I took them around the surface layer of this world. After seeing many training grounds, we arrived at the entrance to the lower world.

And when we reached there, they looked around and felt how unique this place was.

"This world… It's filled with weird energy…" Stephen was the first to speak, "what happened here?"

"This is a long story…" I didn't hide anything from them. In fact I knew if I wanted to rope in these talents, then a long talk about what I did before was needed.

And I got nothing to fear about them knowing everything like that. First they were bound to me and their fate was in my hands. And second this world was inaccessible by anyone without my sole permission.

I planned to let them live here without letting them go to Earth world for now. They wanted a life of peace and rest, and I needed them to take their time before deciding what to do next.

"A force that wants to take over the universe?" Stephen muttered to himself before adding, "are they related to any race here?"

"No, they are the ones who started the ancient war between us and that other universe," I paused, "and from what I learnt, they wanted to see the entire world burn into the fire of chaos."

My words left a heavy silence behind. I didn't know if such information was known to those deciding matters at the big races including Hescos or not. But I had the feeling such a thing wasn't a mystery to those holding high power.

Aside from these mighty and formidable people, people like these paragon candidates wouldn't get to know anything like that.

So their reaction was expected. And I wanted to deliver such a message for them; I wasn't fighting for my own benefits, but also fighting for the sake and safety for everyone in the entire universe.

That mysterious faction that I got to know one part of, the demons, wanted to see everyone die. In my eyes, they were the top enemy of everyone in our universe, and in other universes as well.

Fighting such a faction was indeed a crazy act. And yet I just fought and won them here. As Stephen's face was dark enough to rival the pitch blackness of a moonless night, Matte noticed something while my chariot was on the move.

"Who are they? And what are they doing?" he pointed towards a direction, and it was the same direction I was heading towards.

"Oh, that's my research department, the ones who created the awesome weapons I used in my recent wars…" I started to explain how I thought about this and how my department was doing right now.

As I spoke, the earlier heavy presence from that mysterious faction vanished slowly. Everyone started to get immersed in watching my research department folks work and test their various weapons and innovations.

I placed great importance on this department to attract many of these paragons. But to my disappointment, not a single one asked to join the department on the spot like I thought.

"I have to be patient," I kept telling myself that. If I grew impatient and rushed recruiting them, this might backfire at me.

So I remained silent and kept taking them around the department. Then I went to other places and showed them more of the training grounds.

"I have to admit, you have lots of forces and training facilities than anyone from a famous race would have," one of the paragons sighed, and everyone nodded in agreement.

I showed them lots of training grounds that I lost count for. But next in the tour was the zone of my artefacts I got from the Toranks sovereigns.

When they spotted these, they showed a weird expression over their faces.

"You even have such a large number of outer battlefield artefacts?!!!" Matte shouted in shock as he recognised the artefacts used on many continents around.

We were flying at high altitude, enough to see many parts of the surrounding continents.

"And you are using them in such a place, that's an extravagant attitude of yours," Stephen shook his head in obvious regret, "people will fight to death to get their hands on a single artefact and may even consider it a family heritage. And here you are, using them like they were nothing!"

Chapter 1270 Ending The Tour

I laughed when I heard his words. It was expected for him and others to feel so.

"I don't have access to the outer battlefield wars right now," I said amidst my laughs, "besides, who said I only had these artefacts? Don't belittle your lord please."

They gave me long gazes that carried many unsaid words. I laughed more at their reaction and didn't say more.

-n0ve1,com I flew slowly over my various artefacts, and let them have their curiosity filled up before heading towards another interesting place.

"This…" the moment the chariot passed through the portal, these paragons sucked in a cold air of breath.

I took them towards the continents where my little Qi amassed tons of scary looking monsters and trained them in his special way.

But the impact of seeing such a grandiose gathering of scary monsters in the air, ground, and water made everyone shocked.

I inwardly laughed. And before I'd say anything, my little Qi came in with a grand gathering of much scarier monsters.

"Lord, you came to check on my progress, right?" That dude looked happy as he laughed next and added, "I'm trying my best to raise my little babies as you can see. What do you think? Am I doing it in a good way?"

"You are doing fine," I said in compliment, but that dude seemed to take my words in the wrong way.

"No, I wanted to be doing great!" he roared, and without saying anything he turned around and flew back, "I'll make my lord more impressed by me next time, I promise."

He vanished without giving me a chance to explain my point to him. When I saw him far away, and lots of monsters were attracted to his seemingly angry roars, I shook my head in helplessness.

I didn't mean to belittle his achievements. He was doing great already. But that dude seemed to be quite rash and wanted to truly impress me.

"Who was that?" just when I was feeling helpless from his attitude, Stephen asked while pointing towards my little Qi.

And weirdly enough, I noticed that the finger he used was slightly shaking and trembling.

Weird!

"It's my pet," I simply said, "he is the one leading the grand army of monsters here. With his help, I can control all the monsters in this world and the world above."

"This…" I couldn't tell what Stephen was feeling or thinking about right now, but it seemed meeting my little Qi left a deep impression inside his soul and others' as well.

After that I took them around the rest of the training ground in this world before finally stopping back at the first continent.

It was one that was designed for my research department. But next to it, an entire continent was dedicated to various settlements.

"You can go and live here if you wanted," I paused before adding, "or you can select to live at the other settlements back at the world above. Anyway, the tour is over and you saw everything related to this world."

Despite telling them that, the paragons kept their silence and didn't speak at all. I noticed they were looking at each other before Matte suddenly asked:

"Can I join them?" he pointed towards the research department before adding, "if I joined, will I be forced to fight?"

"Fight? No, the research department is responsible for making up new weapons and gears. Besides, I don't lack fighters as you can see."

I waved my arm around, referring to the grand number of forces training at different training grounds.

"Can we join the training forces? I mean as generals training them, not joining in any fight?" another paragon asked, and I slowly nodded.

"Sure, I lack lots of capable generals at these grounds after all," I paused before adding, "but those wanting to join these training grounds had to wait and come with me to Earth. The general leader of the training forces is someone called Isac, and she is the only one knowing where we need generals the most."

"Sure, count me in," that paragon said while a few others selected between the training grounds and the research department. But most of them decided to stay behind and live peacefully for some time.

And I didn't refuse their requests, even those asking to join the settlements and live peacefully out there.

After all, as few of them took the initiative to join me, others would seriously consider this. I also planned to speak with Isac later on and make sure she would allow for these paragons to visit the ones living in the settlements.

Using the words from their mouths would be the best method to lure more to join my forces here. As for Stephen, I waited for him to tell me his decision after delivering the others to their selected places.

The ones joining the research department looked the happiest and most excited among others. Matte was truly impatient as he jumped off my chariot before it even landed.

I got scared over this kid, fearing he'd end up hurting himself or something. But to my surprise, he gracefully landed without any problem, making me take a note of this.

These paragon kids might have faked weakness and cowardice, but they were indeed capable and unique talents.

Not a single one of them was weak. And I should stop underestimating them, stop taking them for the fools they took as a front.

"I recall you mentioning that this world of yours can't be touched by anyone, right?" When I delivered paragons to the research department and settlements, I turned to look at Stephen.

And that dude already knew it was time to give me an answer.

"I indeed said these words before," I slowly nodded while controlling my chariot to fly towards the exit of this world.

I could easily have used my staff to jump back to the surface world and then back to the outside world. But I wanted to give Stephen more time to make up his mind.

Chapter 1271 The Seven Stars Race

"Explain to me why," he said and when I gave him a long gaze without saying anything he sighed and added, "I admit, this world is yours and you didn't lie in a single thing you said to me before. If you explained this to me, then I'll swear my allegiance to you."

At last! He finally made up his mind. My worst worry was for him to not get convinced or his torment between loyalty to the Hescos and serving me would force him to claim his life.

Thanks to my luck, he didn't consider or decide such a thing.

"It's easy… This world is known as a singular world…" I slowly explained as this term seemed new to him.

When he heard my words, he sighed before finally saying:

"I'm yours from now on," he paused, "give me a contract to sign."

I didn't act polite or say any more. I took one of the highest grade contracts and wrote its content before giving it to him.

And he signed it before cutting off one arm as a price he had to pay.

"Tell me then, why are you so fixated on such matters?" I asked, referring to hanging his future over my possession over a separate world.

"Well… I guess I can safely tell you about this then…" he paused for a long moment before suddenly raising his intact arm, touching his blood and drawing something on his chest.

It was a crescentic symbol with few stars drawn in the middle of it. I looked and counted seven stars before he finally drew a large circle around, and started to explain:

"This is the gate to the sealed seven star race holy land," he paused and I didn't get what he meant by this, "you do know that our ancestors had low production rate. The race was going extinct if they didn't do something to stop this."

"I heard your ancestors mated with other races, and that was why the pure blood vanished over the passage of time."

"That's right," he nodded, "that's why seeing the legendary Hescos again is considered a dream coming true to most if not all Hescos."

"Then…" I motioned with my head towards the symbol he drew over his chest using his blood, "what does this race and symbol mean? And what does that have to do with your persistence over having a separate world to join me?"

I still didn't get his point, but I had a few guesses already.

"You can consider me a descendant from that race," he said something that confirmed one of my guesses, "the Hescos back in the day didn't just mate with a single race, but many others. Of course only one race had the most favorability among others, and that made other races' blood get fainter and thinner compared to that race."

"And?" till now what he said matched what I guessed, and yet that didn't explain much yet.

"My seven star race is one unique race," he paused before adding a shocking piece of news, "you might consider them an equivalent to the altars thing you showed us before."

"You mean…" my eyes shone brightly and I didn't dare to jump to conclusions before hearing what he had to say first.

"Any race who mates with my seven stars race will get the blood of the next generations purified and strengthened. It's like a boost to any bloodline, making anyone have more chances at opening a cultivation base."

"That's quite heaven defying ability," I went into silence before adding, "but why have I never heard about such a race before?"

"That's because my race got in the middle of brutal wars, and they lost most of their people until they went into seclusion and lived at a secret sanctuary."

What he said made me link the dots. "So you are considered the guardian of that place? And you wanted to link this world to theirs?" I paused before adding:

"But to your knowledge, despite the fact that I'll welcome adding more people to my world here, I would never risk exposing this world to the outside universe. I can't allow that to happen!"

​ "You got me wrong," he shook his head. What I said was an indirect rejection of that generous offer.

From what he said I could say he wanted to link that place where the remnants of his race were living. And as he was desperately seeking for a separate and free world from the clutches of the Hescos or any big force, I could say the place these survivors lived at wasn't a nice or spacious place.

If I linked such a world here, even if that world was hard to find and managed to stay secretive for all this time, it was still risky to do so.

This world of mine was impossible to get into from the outside. And I couldn't say the same about that world of his race. If others found out his race's world and discovered the connection between them and my world here, then things would grow out of control.

My world would be at risk of getting invaded, and I'd never allow for such a thing to happen.

"That place… It isn't in any known world at all," but just when I was ready to directly refuse his deal and close this page, he said such weird words, "if that sanctuary was in any known world here in the universe, then it should have gotten exposed, right?"

I remained silent and didn't say anything to him, allowing him to continue speaking.

"It's here," and as he was saying weird stuff, he added another unbelievable thing. He pointed at his chest where the symbol was.

"Is it a gate to link you with that sanctuary?" I asked, trying to understand better what he wanted to say.

"No," he shook his head in a decisive way, "the sanctuary is here," he hit his chest with his fist, making me gaze up and down at him without knowing what to say.

Chapter 1272 Releasing The Seal

"What do you mean by that?" I couldn't help but ask after a long minute of silence.

"In each generation, a single descendant of my race will carry the holy mark of our race. In that mark, and with an unknown method to me, that place is hidden."

"Is it there?" I screamed out in shock while pointing towards his chest. And he nodded.

"When the last guardian dies, another one will be selected by the mark. He will get that brand over his chest and carry it for the rest of his life. Only by using his blood can this seal be broken. And once broken, what's stored inside will be released."

"Your people are stored in that mark?" I couldn't help but eye that symbol in puzzlement and disbelief.

"I don't know what's stored in there," and he just exposed such a shocking piece of news, "I only got a message when I was six years old. I have to find a world, safe enough to not get discovered by anyone else and then I can release what's inside that mark. At the same time, if I couldn't, then the mark will find someone else after my death. This kept going for a long time already, as I learnt from that message."

"This..." I looked at him again. A single man was shouldering the troubles of an entire race and carrying its fate on his own was something shocking and admirable.

In one way, he wasn't that different from me. We both were carrying the fate of our races. But in his case, he was trying to help his race survive, and I wanted my race to strive.

"So that won't violate your rules, right?" he asked in anticipation and hope, and I couldn't help but inwardly sigh.

If it was just like what he said, then it was indeed safe to bring his people here. But the issue still remained in that he didn't know what was sealed inside his mark.

Could it be a weapon of mass destruction? It couldn't be that, right?

If so, then why was such a mark handed from one generation to another with the request of finding a good place for their people to stay?

His race couldn't be such maniacs to create a weapon to destroy a good place like mine indeed, right?

It was a possibility, yet a very low one. So I hurriedly threw it away from my mind, and started to consider other things.

If his race was living in that mark, how could they do that? The most acceptable possibility was for that mark to be linked to another world.

What if that world was already discovered and crushed? What if I linked my world here to it and ended up inviting scary folks to my place?

I stood in silence, weighing down the benefits and risks. "Fine, but you will come with me towards the surface first," I decided to link his world to mine at one of the most formidable places in this world; my first training ground.

Even if I ended up inviting enemies, I'd be confident in crushing them using the forces there. And by then I'd hurry and find a way to seal that link or even shatter it to pieces.

"It's all ok to me as long as we are still inside this world of yours," he completed and didn't show any sign of rejection.

But doing such a great thing couldn't be done in front of other eyes. During this time, he kept whispering to me on a far corner in my chariot.

Yet I planned to bring the paragons first to Isac, leave them with her, before returning back to this world.

The trip didn't take that long. I told Isac about these dudes, left them with her to deal with their future arrangement.

Then I made sure to warn everyone there to be ready to start conquering other worlds. I wasted lots of time dealing with that last world and war. And since then I took my time to show paragons around.

Even if I didn't take that much time thanks to the time difference between the two worlds, I didn't want to come later on and find my forces still not ready.

"Let's go," after getting all these things done, I led Stephen alone with me back into my second Earth world.

Then I jumped towards the first training ground, and there I selected the spot close to the portal zone.

If things went south at any moment, I'd fetch many messengers and ask for reinforcements from everywhere else.

"You can do it here," I pointed at that place and waited for Stephen to do his magic.

His gruesome looking wound at his left shoulder was still oozing blood. I knew that such a price would have to be paid in full, and such would take a long time to heal.

He touched his wound without any care or hesitation, then started to draw the same symbol again.

During the time I took to get my things done, that symbol vanished fast and without even noticing it.

This time his finger didn't stop after drawing that symbol. He kept drawing smaller ones around, forming another crescent around it formed out by tiny stars.

Once done, he clenched his fist and placed his bloodied fist over that symbol as if he was triggering something.

And then he punched his chest fiercely enough to make him stumble a few steps to the back.

I was sure if his face wasn't covered up, he'd indeed look quite pale.

Just before I could ask him anything, that symbol seemed to absorb his blood. And then it got all shiny all of sudden, before releasing a thick pillar of red light that expanded to envelop the entire sky.

When I looked closer, it felt like red clouds were taking shape out there. And these clouds started to expand and reach places away from here in mere breaths time.