Chapter 102 - 1273-1287

Chapter 1273 The Weird Trees

"What's going on?" I didn't like this. But Stephen wasn't in any shape to answer any of my questions. He arched his body, roared faintly and hoarsly as if he was in torture and immense pain.

As I watched these clouds, I felt something echoing there. It was like thunder and lightning happening out there. And then rain started to fall.

Wind came abruptly and the entire world around changed. It was like something grand was going to happen.

When I extended my hand towards that rain, I was shocked to see that the drops falling weren't like water. They passed through my hand as if they were in illusion form or something.

But that didn't make any sense. The clouds were there, the rain looked real, and the ground was getting soaked by the falling rain.

What was going on?

I couldn't tell exactly what was wrong. I tried to move my chariot around and feel the falling rain, but failed.

"Don't try," just as I was puzzled, Stephen spoke up while gritting his teeth, "this is a holo rain coming from this seal."

"Do you know what's happening?" I turned to him and he couldn't speak properly for the next minute. All he did was to faintly roar, like a wounded beast.

"I got a message recorded by my race's ancestors…" he took another long pause before adding, "my race isn't stored inside any world, they are stored up in my genes!"

"Genes?! What does that even mean?!!" I didn't get exactly what he meant, but had my guesses.

"The seal, it's the seal," the more he spoke, the weaker his sound became, "the seal modified my genes and attached coded genes of my race entirely inside my body! And that rain is releasing what's inside…"

He couldn't keep talking, and I didn't need to listen to more to know what was going on.

His ancestors found a way to code the genes of his race inside that seal. Once the seal found a host, the genes would be coded on his genes and allow the genes of their race to survive.

When the host died, the seal would wrap the genes again and move to another host. In other words, it was like a parasite working over a host body.

I looked up at the rain and got what was going on here. That seal was now using the rich environment of my world to grow up the seven stars race like plants.

I saw small green sprouts growing up from the ground that was touched by that rain. It was weird as these sprouts looked exactly like real plants!

I didn't know if there was some sort of trick inside, or these plants would change when grown up and change to what a race would properly be.

I looked back at Stephen. He was in immense pain, not allowing me to ask him anything. I realised that I didn't know what his race looked like.

If that race was plant based or resembling plants in shape, then all this would make quite sense.

I had to wait and watch in silence, while that red cloud up there kept expanding and raining nonstop for long hours.

After the first hour passed, Stephen couldn't endure it anymore. His body looked loose and he seemed a bit like he lost his consciousness.

Yet under the effect of the seal force, his body arched and kept releasing the energy out of it.

I turned my focus entirely after that over what was happening to the world around me. I didn't try to jump or move around in a large area or else if what was happening here was limited to this region then I'd spread such a phenomenon over other regions.

After a few hours, a new change happened at last.

The plants kept growing like what normal plants did, yet at a very rapid pace. In just these few hours, the small and tiny sprouts grew up to be towering trees.

Each tree had a thick trunk that needed at least five men to surround it. At the same time, all the trees looked quite similar in their outer shape and growth, expanding for almost twenty metres high in the air.

They got a thick and rich crown of branches and green leaves. And after all this had grown, and from the central part of the tree, a slightly thicker branch grew up and rose high in the air for five more metres.

Then something like a diamond shaped fruit was formed. It had a faint red colour and thin lines that gave it an irregular surface.

Then that fruit started to grow darker red in colour, while a faint glowing appeared in silver white colour.

Something was growing in there, and I couldn't help but think about that race. Was all this dedicated to growing such fruits? What would come out from these?

Each fruit was around five metres in length at least, with three metres in breadth at its thickest point.

A crazy thought appeared in my mind, one that I couldn't easily believe.

-n0ve1,com If that race had their genes stored up inside the bodies of their guardians like Stephen, then these fruits should yield their people at the end.

I looked around, and there were an endless number of these trees. I got tempted and went down there to touch these trees, but I couldn't.

Something stood in between me and these trees. I tried to touch many, yet my hands stopped just a metre away, touching something soft and cosy, yet it was sturdy enough to stop my hands from passing through.

"Interesting," I got that something was protecting these trees. But I didn't stop there. I took out my heavy glaive and used it to slash against one tree shield.

*Clang!*

All that happened was a loud clanging sound, as if my glaive hit something made out of metal. I even saw sparks of fire coming out from such a clash, and I felt a strong rebound force that pained my arm.

Chapter 1274 The Fruits Are Ready

Damn! I was strong enough to forget about the feeling of pain at this point. And yet not just my glaive failed to cut through the shield, but I also got hurt instead.

As I repeated such a process at many trees, I failed to do anything to these shields. In the end I had to accept such a result and returned to the seat of spectators and watched what was going on without doing anything else.

In the next few hours, all that happened was for these fruits to grow darker in colour and show more lines as if they wrinkled.

If my guess was correct, then these fruits were getting ripe and soon they'd fall out.

I imagined many scenarios for what was going to happen next. I pictured that race to come out from these fruits the same way baby birds would come out from their eggs.

Or perhaps they'd act exactly like any tree, and let these fruits cut off and fall from such height to the ground.

Would they crash after landing? Would they get hurt from the fall? Or that fruit would protect the ones inside, and would break apart later on?

I had many guesses, but none of these happened.

After five hours of waiting, these trees suddenly showed signs of ageing. The all green leaves started to grow pale, turn from green to yellow before shrinking and getting smaller in size as if they were dying.

This wasn't just exclusive to the leaves, also the branches and the tree trunk showed the same signs. The branches and the trunk started to grow thinner and smaller, showing lots of wrinkles over its outer surface, while turning into black in colour.

It was like these trees got into a wild and long fire, turning them into something close to charcoal.

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The before tens of metres in height trees turned into mediocre trees of around seven or eight metres in length. As for the rich and thick canopy from before, all vanished by this point.

All the leaves turned dark brown in colour, fell to the ground and became ash after that. The branches that appeared after the fall of the leaves had the same changes the entire trees had.

Instead of the proud crowns that previously expanded in dignity changed and turned into weak looking thin branches that pointed towards the ground, as if it was kneeling down to someone.

Amidst all this, the only branch that didn't show any changes yet was the thick central one that extended from the top of the long gone canopies into the sky, carrying the fruits.

Then in the next couple hours, this branch showed a new change. Instead of shrinking down and getting weakened, these branches started to grow thicker.

It seemed under the work of the increased weight of these branches the entire trees began to shrink again. Or perhaps it was another sign of ageing or something.

In the next four hours, the entire trees became so tiny and small, not even exceeding three metres in height. As for the thick branches carrying the fruits, they also got shorter and were only one metre in length or even shorter.

I knew it was almost this close for these fruits to show up what was inside. The fruits kept getting darker until it turned from pale red in the beginning to pitch black in the end.

They got many deep running and densely packed lines that alternated between silver, red, and white in colour.

I waited on the side and watched attentively what was going to happen. I stayed for long hours there, and it was time to see what all this was about.

As things become this close from ending, I was ready to call out my personal army of warriors at any given sign of danger.

I couldn't tell if the ones appearing from these fruits would be friendly to me and my people. If they weren't, then exterminating them would be an option.

I could also take Stephen's thoughts into account, try to dominate and bind these with my threads and contracts instead of killing them.

After giving it more thought, it was better to take them under my control instead of wiping them out.

To make things easier and faster, I spread tons of bones around. I also activated my first technique and used both hands to make things a bit faster.

I didn't want to get forced to kill these folks here. Before doing all that, I made sure to use my pillar's skill and created a grand and growing shield that was enough to prevent those inside from going outside.

But as my moves were quite limited by the light that was still coming out from Stephen's chest, I decided against moving around and expanding that shield for now.

*Crack!*

A single crack echoed in the middle of the world before lots of cracking sounds erupted in succession like waves.

I looked around and saw the tons of fruits showing deep cracks all over its surface. It was like an egg going to burst open, and what was inside was about to come out.

It finally started!

I was all tense, waiting for either a blessing or a disaster to happen. The fruits kept issuing loud cracking sounds. Then parts of it started to fall like it got peeled by a knife or something.

Small pieces began to fall off, and I instantly used my HawkEye skill and looked closer to a few fruits to see what was inside.

What I saw was a thin semi-transparent red membrane that enveloped what was inside. It looked like a sac surrounding an embryo, but these embryos were indeed huge to begin with.

Parts kept falling, and sacs began to appear. I could see some sort of fluid filling these sacs, with silver white light shining from what was inside, turning these fluids into red torches.

It was a weird scene. And I stood on my chariot motionless, attentively watching such a miraculous event.

*Flop!*

Chapter 1275 Another Shocking Secret!!!

As the last piece of fruit fell, the entire sacs left behind fell to the ground. Once they touched the bottom, they burst open with a muffled flopping sound that came together as sort of a weird chorus.

Once the sacs got opened, the fluid exploded and covered up a large stretch of land around, soaking the ground pale red in colour.

Something came out from these sacs. They were curdling like real babies inside their mothers' wombs. I couldn't see any face at all, and weirdly enough they were born with some sort of a suit covering up their bodies.

They looked the same like Hescos, even in body size and the shape of their suits. The only difference was these suits were silver white in colour, with symbols drawn over these suits in pale red colour.

These symbols were circular, lines, and even shapes of stars. They looked weird and chaotic, but for a reason I felt like these symbols carried out some sort of a meaning.

*Thud!*

Once these sacs burst open, and the fluid came out, the ones in these fruits fell to the ground and started to twitch.

Seeing this, I knew they were about to get born. I didn't know if I should consider such huge bodies as babies or what, but I'd never underestimate such a sizable force.

"Don't… Worry…" in the middle of my caution, Stephen's shaky voice came from behind, startling me.

I totally forgot about this dude since he lost his consciousness. And it seemed the moment the fruits started to open and reveal what was inside, his task was done.

I looked up at him and found his body twitching in the same manner as the ones coming out from these fruits.

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"Are they safe? Can you talk and reason with them?" These were the main questions here. In addition to that, there was one I kept to myself for now.

Was he able to control and lead them to follow me and listen to my orders or what?

If not, then a big war would erupt for sure. If he couldn't handle and control them, then it would turn into an all out war.

My techniques were ready, my shields were ready, and I was also prepared to take out my warriors if things went south.

"They might seem like babies as they just got born, but they are the stored up elites and adults of my race," his tone started to show obvious signs of recovery with each passing second.

"So?" I was slightly surprised by what he said. I never heard of a technology that'd allow an entire race to get sealed in their adult form and turn into gene codes.

But this was happening in front of my eyes. And I had to admit, the universe was too vast for me to even grasp its full potential.

No matter what race it was, I should never underestimate anyone. Even if it was a weak race, or one on the verge of extinction, they still had their ways to do things and survive anything no matter what.

"They just need time to adapt," he paused before adding, "I got some sort of connection with them. I can't explain what I'm feeling, but it's like I can connect with them and give them orders."

"The most important thing is for them to follow such orders of yours," I slowly said. It was great to have such a connection with them, but there was no guarantee such connection would even work.

They had to listen up to him or show signs that they'd obey his words and orders. If not, then I'd expect riots if I left them unattended and not under my control.

"They will," he paused for a long minute, "I can feel that I have such privilege to lead them."

"Cool," I evilly grinned, "then make them gather up here and let them sign contracts with me."

"This…"

"Don't expect me to lend you my world without having total insurance that nothing bad would happen, right?"

He went into silence before slowly nodding. It seemed he didn't like my way of doing things, and I didn't care. This was my world, my home, my back up plan if things went wrong back at the apocalypse. I'd never let such unpredictable variables roam freely inside my world without having a safe fail plan.

I waited and didn't cancel any of my techniques. I'd first see these folks listen to Stephen's words before deciding anything else.

"By the way, why are they looking like Hescos?" This was a weird thing. The newly born seven stars race members were still in the middle of a confusion and general weakness.

Their bodies kept shaking up, and they couldn't yet stand up. They got themselves free from the embryo-like stance, but they were still lying on the ground.

As there was enough time before they'd become a potential threat to me, I started to ask questions to better understand their nature and powers.

"I know it might look weird, but the suit thing of the Hescos came out from my race," he said with such shocking information indeed.

I looked at him, then at these newly born members of his race. They got suits just like the Hescos. So his words made quite sense actually.

I didn't know how this happened, but if the Hescos ancestors got their eyes over Stephen's race thanks to these suits alone, then I had to admit they got a far sighted vision without doubt.

And when I thought about this, I couldn't help but wonder about how the Hescos looked before mating with these seven star race members.

The most noticeable and worthy to mention ability of theirs was their suits. Without these suits, they looked quite normal in my eyes.

What made them quite unique then? If I removed these suits from them, what would they have?

I got curious to know such an answer. I recalled the grand and majestic looking legendary Hescos. They got a huge build and had lots of skills up their sleeve.

Were these skills what made them unique or what?

Chapter 1276 Dealing With The Seven Star Race

Before I could think of any idea about the Hescos' true powers before mating with all these races, I saw the newly born dudes out there show signs of movement.

They started to sit straight before standing up. It was the moment of truth. Either they'd follow and listen to Stephen's words, or they'd revolt and then I'd start acting.

Luckily they showed weakness and weren't in their top form yet. If so, then taking control of them wouldn't take much effort from me.

I waited and anxiously watched those seven stars race members stand up with shaking legs and trembling bodies.

And they started to move.

"Phew! They decided to follow his orders... It's still too soon to celebrate, but it's a good sign nonetheless," I muttered softly to myself, while watching more of these newborns walking in unstable steps towards my direction.

The real test would be through signing contracts of loyalty with me. If they refused or resisted, then I'd start sending out my threads.

Slowly they came closer, and more of them began to show up from a far distance. It was a good sign, but I didn't know how many of them were out there.

"Go and check over the various continents and this one situation," as I couldn't move yet, I brought out a few of my dragons and let my Lucas and a bunch of his soulers ride over them.

​ I motioned towards the direction of the portal zone nearby. They could go out there and start wandering the continents.

It'd be great if such a phenomenon happened in this continent without affecting the entire world. However I still recalled what Stephen said before about his need for an entire world for his race.

If that was true, then such a phenomenon would have appeared all over the world, not just in this continent.

The members of his race in this continent would find it easy and simple to come here, but others on other continents wouldn't. If so, then I'd have to take him on a grand tour around the world, gathering up his race members and making them sign a contract with me willingly or by force.

Soon enough the scouts I sent came back with bad news. As I expected, that phenomenon happened all across the planet.

"Go and check the pocket world," If such a thing happened there, then the situation would look much worse than now.

It wasn't just the problem of controlling these dudes, but the fear of chaos erupting. Imagine the appearance of these dudes all over the place, even in the middle of training grounds and such places.

My people would consider them as invaders and enemies. So without even waiting for the next report to arrive, I held my horn and sent a general warning about that race to all of my people living in this world.

At such times, the horn would show its true might. And as I watched more of the seven stars race members coming near my chariot and filling the entire world till the horizon like a flood, I got the next report.

"Stephen, you have to control your people," I sighed when I heard that report. I turned to Stephen and added, "your people appeared everywhere in this world! Even in my sealed up pocket world!"

"What do you want me to do?" he instantly complied and I told him to control his people everywhere. For those on this continent, they had to come here. As for others, they should evade any trouble and stand motionless in their places.

After he did what I asked, I went instantly towards my pocket world. I spread the same warning at the two layers there before returning back to the surface.

"Give them the order to sign my contracts," I started to purchase loyalty contracts in huge batches. Just from this mere visit, I saw tons of such races everywhere.

They were like weed, appearing everywhere and anywhere. He did as I told him and then I started to spread my contracts using my chariot's insane speed.

The number of such races in this continent alone was in the tens of millions! And those were the ones who were closer to my chariot. Up to now, many more were still coming from far, and I doubted that each continent would carry at least one hundred million of such races.

If such force worked for me diligently then it'd be great. Yet I didn't know what their abilities were. Still the good news was that they signed the contracts.

It seemed from now on, Stephen would act as their lord, and I'd be Stephen's boss and lord, which technically would put me as their king as well.

In addition to that, and with the binding force issued by contracts, I could also control them just like how Stephen did.

Stephen didn't know how the link between him and these people of his race worked. But I got my guess. His ancestors might have used something like the binding force of the system's contracts to make them listen to his words.

Or perhaps as they were living inside his body and genes, they might have ended up with soul marks linked to his. With such a link, they were forced to listen to any order he'd give.

No matter what the reason was, they listened to his words and that was what mattered.

It took roughly one day to cover up the entire continent and I used the fastest speed of my chariot. Then I started going to other continents and did the same.

They all listened to Stephen's words on every continent we visited. We first waited for a few hours before enough numbers gathered up there, answering the call of Stephen before I'd spread my contracts over.

This process grew dull with time passing, and it took a long time to cover up the entire continents in both worlds.

After over one month, I finally managed to bind the last group of seven stars race members to me.

Chapter 1277 Arranging Things Over The Second Earth World

And after doing this, I felt a lot of achievement. Yet it was too soon for me to celebrate.

I first needed to know how this fresh blood to my kingdom would work better for me.

But I already wasted enough time here. During all this, a month or more passed here which was enough to more than one day out there on Earth.

"We need to talk," I said to Stephen before adding, "let your people stay here and I'll make people come and build settlements for them to stay at."

"Thanks lord for your generosity and support," he bowed, but my face's serious reaction never changed.

"Don't thank me yet," I paused, "select a group of a thousand to come with us. I need to see how capable they are and what they can do."

"Sure," I thought he'd object to this, but he didn't. During all this time, these people ate almost anything and everything that grew on the ground.

Their strength returned partially but I felt they could show more progress. I didn't know if they needed stat points like anyone living under the sky of the system.

I waited on the side while Stephen didn't take much time to gather up a group of a few thousands around my chariot.

"One thousand is enough for now,'' I didn't accept such a large number of forces. After all, my chariot would crumble and be crowded if I received all of them.

I just wanted to know their abilities. And for sure I wouldn't deal with this matter myself. I'd deliver them to Lily and she'd test them thoroughly or find someone else to do so.

As for building settlements, it'd be a grand project indeed. However I trusted the ability of Angelica to do so.

Before leaving, I sent a word to Angelica and informed her about the work waiting for her in this world.

[At last you remembered to speak to me!] she sent this word first, and I couldn't help but smile bitterly in return.

Many months must have passed over her alone in this world, and yet her passion for me never died down.

She was responsible for handling the marriage issue and taking control over the settlements in this world and the pocket world as well.

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[Sorry for that, but the war is still going on out there and I can't even come and sit with you for now] I apologised, more than ever took this as an excuse to not meet her.

[I saw that battle, it was good!]

[I got another one recently] I knew she must have seen one of the recordings of the first battle that I left here.

[Oh! Against them?]

[Yes]

[And the result?]

[I personally led that war, what do you think will happen?] I laughed while writing these words.

[Sure it's our win, you are a bully to others when you fight]

[Who said so? I'm a kind hearted and gentle guy]

[Yes, keep lying to yourself like this and you might believe your lies one day]

[Ok, ok, let's stop joking] I laughed more at her words.

[Who said I'm joking? It's all true!]

[Ok, ok, I'll leave that race up to you, ok?]

[Do you want me to let them marry others?]

Her question was sudden. I paused while thinking about this.

This was a gift by the ones living in this world. And per Stephen's words, his people had the ability to do something similar to the altars to the new generations.

If both effects were added together, what heaven shattering effect would appear? I couldn't even imagine what was going to happen.

[Proceed with this plan then] I agreed on her proposal, and didn't tell Stephen about that.

I didn't know if he held grudges against Hescos to force his race to marry their people or not. If so, then it'd be for the better for him to not know anything about that.

"Let's go back," I was impatient to go back and start invading more worlds.

I wanted to cover up most of the worlds before the fifth quest would start or the big battle between me and those Hescos.

The moment I appeared back at Earth, I found a large number of armies stationed and aligned in neat order.

They looked great like this. I was like watching some armies that belonged to mighty forces or something.

"That's cool!" I couldn't help but say to Lily the moment I saw her approach my chariot.

"You told me to prepare for a large battle," she laughed, "and that is just the tip of the iceberg. I arranged the armies to be stationed in lines from each other, with each wave made up of five armies."

"You adopted the same tactic of last battle?" I noticed what she did, "that's nice."

"I just want things to be done in a more orderly manner," I couldn't say no to such logic and planning.

"Are you ready then?" I looked around and she just pointed towards a direction and said:

"Right now twenty-five armies are ready, and many more are still getting in line. You can start any moment you want."

"Cool, but I need you for something else," I started to tell her about the one thousand seven stars race members I brought with me.

When she heard that there were tens of billions of them out there, her eyes shone brightly in excitement.

"If they can fight… Then this will turn out for the best… But do they have cultivation bases?"

I got what she had in mind. She wanted to use them in the fight against Hescos later on.

"You'll find this out," I pointed at them to step out of my chariot and stand in lines on the ground, "you also try to find what other skills and abilities they have."

"I expect too much from them."

"Don't put high hopes or else you'll get disappointed," I stole a gaze at the all silent Stephen.

Chapter 1278 Going To Get Legend Back

When he noticed my gaze, Stephen cleared up his throat before saying:

"If they got enough stat points, then you can consider them equal to any grown up and elite Hescos."

"This..." I sized this group of seven stars up and down before adding, "I hope what you say is true. If so, then this will be one of the best things that ever happened to my kingdom so far."

"They will," Stephen spoke in such confidence that made me think highly of this force, "may I ask to speak with them?"

"Sure," I waved my arm and left below many stat crystals for this one thousand's use.

Once Lily went down below, I reminded her to find Isac and inform her about the ongoing grand construction project in the other world.

I left Angelica to handle that project, but I knew it'd be asking too much out of her to let her lead that project alone.

Besides, Isac didn't have much to do here anyway.

After I got done from all that, I was finally free to resume invading the other worlds.

"First I have to go and get Legend back," I recalled Silverlining. That jerk promised me more than once to send the rewards once he received them.

But even after all these days, he still hasn't sent me anything.

I went towards the world where Legend was. After that crushing defeat, the Hescos evaded my forces out there.

Yet they never left behind a single working portal. I didn't know how they managed to do so, but that didn't stop me.

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I'd waste one more ticket to get him back, but it was worth it.

The moment I appeared there, the scene of ruins and marks of that brutal battle welcomed my eyes. I looked at such grand defensive structures all over the place before opening a chat with Legend.

I asked him to come here as fast as he could. Also I let him know about what was awaiting for him. He said he'd need a few hours before coming, and I didn't hurry him.

He was acting as one of the leading generals in this world. So I waited and during this time, I started gathering more bones.

If I was going to wait, then it was better to make the best of my wait.

I also sent a harsh message to Silverlining.

[I know you are pissed off, but believe me, it's out of my power. There are few sovereigns here who wanted to give you something grand]

[I need lots of support, forces, warriors, treasures, and above all tickets] I sent to him, [Send these over and leave that last gift for later]

[Ahem! But I don't dare to do that!] He sent such a message that instantly turned my rage metre to max. [Sorry pal, but I'm forced to not send anything before that great gift is ready]

[Damn you!] I closed the chat in frustration. I tried to ask about this mysterious gift, but even he didn't know what it was about.

All he knew was that such a gift would change the fate of an entire race per the words of his sovereigns.

I released my anger over the bodies around, moved fast and claimed tons of bones while waiting for Legend.

If what Silverlining said was true, then I'd wait for this gift. But I still lack support in many places.

The last battle glared up on my top weakness. It wasn't just the weakness of elites, but the lack of enough artefacts.

I knew trying to get such treasures would take a long time and tons of resources and wealth. I got my bones to use, but I lacked means to get my hands over these artefacts.

Aside from the auctions that belonged to the famed merchants and auction houses out there in the universe.

Gaining tickets to such events would be hard, and fighting tons of people over the small number of artefacts was going to be much harder than winning a battle against the Hescos.

Yet I knew there was no shortcut for such a dream to come true. I had to get prepared, accumulate all the bones I could and start storing them up.

I didn't explode in rage in the face of Silverlining as I'd need his help later on in such matters. Aside from him and his sovereigns on my side, I didn't know of anyone to help as much.

He and his people wouldn't just help me secure such tickets, but also might exchange artefacts for my high grade bones.

"Sorry for such a late lord," he shouted from afar. That little kid seemed to be unable to control his excitement over his next role.

"But we never managed to find a working portal around so far. How can we return?" He stopped his chariot just a distance away from mine, while I was busy collecting bones.

This battleground wasn't any lesser than the one I personally led. The number of bones I gathered so far was enough to make me want to continue.

And I planned to do so.

"Just use this portal," I simply took one ticket out, activated it, before returning again to work on collecting my bones, "go back and seek Lily. she'll give you enough armies and lead you to that world. You know what to do next, right?"

"Sure, leave this task for me," he patted his chest while his face told me how excited and eager he was.

Seeing him reminded me of Sara. The two might be considered fighting freaks, but one was absorbed in full offence and the other used his brain and tactics to fight.

I couldn't tell who was better than the other, but I'd select Legend anytime over Sara.

I watched him vanish through the portal before storing up this place in my staff and then resumed my work here.

I took almost half a day to finish collecting all the bones.

Chapter 1279 The Strong Seven Stars Race

Once done, I looked up at my inventory and couldn't help but grin. My gains from these two worlds this time was beyond my wildest dreams.

If I just got access to more worlds like these two, I'd not worry about going into any auction and winning any artefact no matter how fierce the competition over it was!

It was time for me to go back.

Once I returned, I saw the same sight welcoming me. In addition to that, I didn't find any trace of Legend.

"These people you left for me to examine are real monsters!" Just when I was looking around, I heard Lily's voice coming from far away.

"Are they this good?" if they were this good to make even Lily speak up for them like this then I'd expect great things from them.

"They are monsters! But they need tons of stat points to exert their powers," she stopped her chariot next to mine, jumped over my deck and added, "each time they use one of their skills, they'll exhaust part of their stat points."

"This…" it reminded me of the fallen gods, they also work in the same way. "Does this mean you already consumed all the stat crystals I left behind?"

"That was something I couldn't help with," she bitterly smiled, "I needed to test their full potential, and they were indeed quite excited to do that."

"I understand," I paused while thinking about this new problem. If they'd consume energy like bones or energy crystals, then it'd be much easier to deal with this problem.

But if they'd only use stat points, then I had to start amassing an endless supply of these. And that wouldn't be enough to satisfy the needs of most of them.

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"I need to find a way to get my hands over something that can make stat points for me all the time," I was sure Silverlining and others in the universe had some sort of artefact or mines that produced such strategic things.

"Let them be on the standby for now," I paused, "but make the best use of Stephen."

"He is good," she nodded in agreement, "I plan to let him lead an entire expedition alone."

"I'm sure he'll do perfectly fine," I agreed.

"Are we going to start invading new worlds?" she asked, and I simply nodded.

I was thinking about ways to get my hands over such mine or artefacts. If it was an issue of mine, then I had to depend on none but myself here.

I'd ask Angelica to start looking for stat crystal mines. But I had first to make sure such a thing existed. If it was acquired using artefacts, then I'd ask Silverlining directly for one.

[They are acquired through mines] and as I asked Silverlining about that, he sent in more explanation, [The rich energy worlds only have such chance of developing these mines]

[I searched but didn't find anything like that before in my world] I was puzzled more than ever right now, [Is there a way to find out if a world has such mines?]

[It's not a guaranteed thing] he paused before adding, [these stat crystal mines are only found in high energy worlds as they require lots of energy to produce such crystals. You have to know they always are situated deep below the ground, at least one mile or two below the surface]

[This… Do you expect me to dig the entire world looking for them? There must be a way to find these, right?]

If I had to dig the entire world randomly to find these crystals then it didn't make any sense. I didn't believe all the races and impacts who provide such crystals used such a rude way to get them.

[There is a compass you can use] he finally gave me something I could work with, [Let me look for a good number of these and provide them to you with your reward]

[Don't bring that matter up again] every time I recalled my delayed reward I got all worked up.

[Sorry, but I'll try to rush them up] I didn't believe a single word he said, [By the way, I got the recordings and devices for the last battle. I'll send them over right now]

[Humph! As if this will be enough to conquer the Hescos!] I didn't have much expectation for these recordings. After all, the effect I desired already happened by the recordings of the first battle.

My forces got the confidence and got stirred up after watching the recording of the first battle. Adding another recording might boost their morale, but that effect wouldn't be as grand as the first battle recording.

[Mentioning that, when are you going to fight the Hescos next?]

[I expect them to lay down for now] I didn't want him to jinx me, [I expect them to keep themselves low and gather up their forces for a single and final battle]

[Hmm… They might do that] he paused, [But don't be too sure. This race is too hard to deal with]

[I know, they are the number one race in the universe after all]

[Don't mention that matter! They are only on top thanks to the stupid rules of the universe!]

He got pumped up when I mentioned that, and I did that on purpose. After all, I was so mad from delaying my reward for all this time.

After closing the chat with him, I started to use my tickets and open new worlds for my forces to invade.

And from the first world I opened, something new happened!

All the worlds we invaded so far were either ruined worlds filled with zombies, worlds without any sign of life except for strong shaped monsters, or worlds with endless Hescos waiting for us out there to fight.

But as I opened the first world, I found a new thing waiting for my forces out there.

Lily adapted the last battle tactic including sending off a vanguard and scout units to check out the worlds.

Chapter 1280 The Trap

When the vanguard arrived, I saw a grand gathering of a race waiting for us there.

They didn't have the same complicated and dangerous looking defences like the Hescos had. But they didn't pale in comparison in regard to numbers.

The place my forces appeared at was like a normal place in my world. It was filled with many cities and towns, with working portals in their skies.

This might be something good. After all it wasn't that easy to find such a gathering of cities and towns with working portals in the worlds I opened so far.

Yet the race waiting for us out there looked like they were prepared for my arrival.

They gathered up tons of their forces, took refuge in the cities and towns. They had some sort of shield protecting these towns and cities, and they had many big guns out there as well.

They were standing in positions as if they were ready for a big war. My first guess was that our timing was bad and we arrived just in the middle of an ongoing brutal fight in that world.

It was either this race was prepared for an incoming hostile race, or they were just resisting zombies.

But after sending out the five armies formation and many weapons to help, I didn't see any zombie or another race coming.

"Weird…" I didn't hustle much about it, and simply let Lily and her capable generals lead that battle. Then I opened another world using a ticket, and there I found a similar situation waiting for my forces.

The part of the world my ticket opened at was filled with many towns and cities. They were heavily defended like before, and the race there was standing in wait as if they expected us.

One happening might be considered a coincidence, but two in a row wasn't! This time I closely watched the fight for an hour or so, compared it with the fight going on in the previous world.

"They have weapons suited to long defensive battles… They can't have arranged such weapons on a whim… That's fishy!"

I muttered to myself while thinking about this. The first and only explanation I had was for the Hescos to interfere and pull strings from the shadows.

If this was true, then I'd expect just taking down one town or a city would cost my forces a hefty price.

"A battle of attrition then… That's expected…" and after opening five worlds afterwards and they all showed the same weird scene, I knew the real aim of the Hescos.

I was now sure this was all planned by the Hescos. There was no other race or power in the entire apocalyptic trial who would target my forces like that.

In addition to that, seeing this confirmed my earlier doubts about their ability to foresee the opening places of my tickets.

And that wasn't all! They must have the ability to change the places of my tickets to land in the middle of such densely packed hostile races, towns and cities.

After opening seven worlds in a row, it was clear what their goal was. Just sending five armies to each world wasn't enough, it wasn't even close enough.

The five armies sent in the first world just managed to claim their first town. And they lost a lot in the middle of this.

If I wanted to just control the entire landing places there, then forget about sending five armies, sending twenty wouldn't even be enough!

The main issue my forces faced was how tightly packed these towns and cities were. If they tried to target one, the others would retaliate. And if they tried to target all, their forces would get stretched and be in danger of losing too much and accomplish nothing.

My generals out there tried everything. Some tried to send little forces to each surrounding town and city, to keep the forces inside occupied while focusing on taking down one city or town with the rest of the forces.

On the surface, it looked like a good idea. But when these generals tried this method, they failed.

And the reason behind this was that the enemy didn't stand idle and watched my forces execute this plan smoothly. They sent out large armies from the far away cities and towns, and these armies landed on my big army and made the entire plan fail.

pAn,Da n<0,>v,e1 When the generals retreated and tried this method again, but left behind more forces to stop any incoming enemies from far, the remaining force they amassed wasn't enough to take even a town down.

The sole town that fell into their hands fell after paying a huge cost. The generals there had to throw away any tactic, and went with everything they got towards a town and took it.

They paid a hefty price for doing so, but eventually they managed to claim this town. The defending forces there weren't as big as those in a city thanks to the difference in size.

And the first thing these generals did after seizing up that town was to send for an urgent request for reinforcements.

"This can't go on like this," I turned to look around. My armies seemed endless, but I knew this wasn't true.

If this kept going on like this, then before reaching the final battle with the Hescos then most of my forces would be lost or being occupied inside these useless battles.

Tsk! Dealing with these Hescos was indeed a pain!

[What shall we do?] Lily sent after her repeated messages for the request of sending more troops to these worlds, [They won't last long this way]

[Don't send anyone, I'm going there to reinforce them myself] if they wanted reinforcements, then I'd simply act as one.

I left behind the recordings and the gears needed to operate them to Lily. I asked her to distribute them all over the two worlds I got for everyone to watch the might of their lord and their kingdom.

And then I passed through the pillar of light and vanished through it.

Chapter 1281 Stepping In

I knew by doing so I'd waste lots of time. But I had no other choice but to do that. If I dared to send armies to help, then I'd fall into the trap of my enemy.

The Hescos realised that I survived the blackhole they prepared for me at the second battle world. So they started to move and turn the remaining worlds into traps enough to do the same effect or even better.

I had to admit, they were indeed geniuses! Even when I didn't fall for their trap back there, they didn't think too much about this and jumped over such failure.

And this idea alone was brilliant! They didn't have to send or expend any forces of their own and in return they managed to stop my armies and even prepared such a trap for them.

To crush such a scheme, I had to step in personally and take charge. I was alone enough to change the outcome of such battles.

Weren't they using fortified towns and cities to stop me? It was a piece of cake for someone like myself.

But in return for that, I knew I had to get entangled in these seven words for a long time.

So this battle turned from a battle to trap my forces and consume as much forces as possible into a battle against time.

And so the moment I appeared there, I started to summon my personal army in full force, and gave them orders to start attacking these towns and cities.

Before that, I paid a visit to my second Earth world and spent hours there sacrificing souls to strengthen myself.

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I spent over five hundred million souls this time for the healing sacrifice alone! I wanted my forces to not lose too much, or else joining this battle would be pointless.

I came here mainly to stop adding more forces to these worlds. And so I didn't keep my hands from the start.

I used all the warriors at my disposal, even those monsters I kept amassing for such a long time. I also used the pillar's skill, and let the shields take out lots of damage before firing them back.

I used my bones to power up these shields with enough power, enough to take out the shields of these towns and cities.

These shields might pose a challenge to my forces, but not to me. In less than a few hours, the shields were cracking open like eggs shattered against rocks.

My shield's explosive attacks were enough to sweep these shields and crush many of them in a short time. And once the shields were gone, the forces stationed inside were easily killed by my forces.

Not to mention I kept using my technique in the middle of all this. These shields might stop physical attacks, but not my threads.

So when any shield was brought down, the attacks came not only from outside but from the inside as well.

Powering up my shields and releasing deadly attacks all over the place took quite some time. After all, my shields released a wide range of attacks, not focused on anything.

At the same time, these attacks also swept my forces away. But it didn't bring much damage to them. I kept my hand and controlled the ferocity of these attacks to not harm my forces.

I had to stack up many attacks to wear the enemy shields down bit by bit.

Once the first towns and cities got controlled, it became easier to handle the rest.

"One world is down," I had to admit, in each disaster an opportunity also was present.

Just like here, this battle looked quite difficult to win at first. But the moment my forces started to control many cities and towns, things started to roll in my favour.

I didn't only gain many towns and cities that were situated near to each other, suited to be considered a mighty defensive base for my forces in this world, I also gained tons of the race fighting us here.

This race had huge buildings like Selvators and Berserkers, and they were quite efficient at military battles. As I recognised their openings of cultivation bases, I started to aim to control more of such races.

I spent almost one day there, and ended up gaining the allegiance of tens of millions of them. At some point, I stopped helping my forces to take away more towns and cities, and instead led my chariot around to take in more of these race members.

The ones I controlled were ordered to move out of the defensive shields of their towns and cities, go back and join my forces.

By the end of that day, my forces didn't end up losing too much of their numbers, their size even swelled by five times at least.

After one day, I reached the end of this gathering of towns and cities. I took ten more hours to sweep clean the far away from the ongoing battles, towns and cities, and turned them all under my control.

These towns and cities were located at the periphery in such gatherings, and they surrounded the entire region in huge circles.

I didn't just end up solving this problem here, I not only gained tons of more forces who would work for me here and in other worlds, I also gained control of the shielded towns and cities.

Right now this zone was surrounded by at least ten layers of heavily fortified circles, filled to the brim with forces belonging to that race.

In brief, I secured this battle and provided my forces with such a heavily defended place to consider a good base for future invasion.

I spoke a little with the generals leading this campaign and made sure they'd make the best use of these forces. They also had to speak with them and gather more intel about the world here.

These folks were the native of this world, and so they could save me tons of trouble if they were used in the right way.

Chapter 1282 The Golden Quest Notification

After taking care of things here, I returned using one of the portals back to Earth before going to the second world in the list.

If things kept going on like this, then I'd waste ten more days in controlling these worlds at least. And that would mean one month passed since the start of this fifth quest.

"I believe I won't be able to do that final battle before the golden quest," I knew this would be an impossible feat right now.

Despite not liking such a result, I soon accepted it. This was the best result I could get from such a trap. Or else wasting more force would have brought more headache to me.

Accepting such a result, I started to focus entirely on taking down this worlds. If I couldn't get to fight the Hescos at the final showdown between the two of us, decide the final victor of this apocalypse trial, then I'd make sure to take any benefit I could from these battles.

To make sure I'd spend either my forces or my time in dealing with these worlds, the Hescos seemed to select the strongest race in each world.

Each world I visited had tons of elite forces of very interesting races. And in one of them I found a flying race whom I deeply desired.

Once I spotted this race, I instantly ordered my forces to entirely withdraw from the fight. Each and every single one of these flying race members was like a gem in my eyes.

When I saw the entire world filled to the brim with such a race, I couldn't help but be deeply grateful to the Hescos for such immense help.

I lacked nothing more than flying units in my armies. And right now the biggest aerial force came from the monsters, zombies, and Hescos themselves.

So the moment I saw such a treasure trove, I didn't stand seeing my forces killing them. After withdrawing all the armies back, I stepped forward alone, and dealt with this entire place using my threads only.

I'd spend much more than expected, but it was worth it. Besides, trying to speed things up wouldn't help anymore.

I was quite sure that the golden quests would start any time soon anyway. So spending more days here wasn't a big deal.

My most feared thing was for the golden quests to kick in before I'd rope most if not all of this race. And so I used my bones, accelerated things up, and didn't mind suffering pain from the immense energy entering my body.

I used my two hands to cast the technique of mine. At first, I flew past all the cities and towns here, letting a few threads invade a small portion of the population inside.

Doing that took me roughly half a day. And in the end I looked like a spider king taking control over an entire cave using his sticky threads.

By this time, the threads mostly took control over their hosts. And then I pushed things over to the max, and started an all out recruitment process that lasted for days.

I didn't favour a single territory over the other, kept my threads working all over the place equally and invaded the people living inside. After some point, I couldn't tolerate the insane suction rate of these threads even when using my bones.

So I started waves of making these folks sign loyalty contracts with me.

It took me the entire five days and six nights to get it all done. And when I saw the endless number of forces I gained here, I couldn't help but widely grin.

And then evil intentions developed about this entire world!

"Don't forget, know everything related to this world from them and draw a detailed map of the flying races in this world," I gathered up the all speechless generals and gave them such strict orders.

"But lord…" one of them looked at the others before adding, "we can do that for sure. But about the other thing…"

"Don't take a single step outside this place, do you hear me?" I didn't give them any room for negotiation here.

In my eyes, this entire world was like a hot cake, something I deeply and crazily craved for. If I finally found a way to solve the great problem of flying units, then they had to listen to my orders.

"But…"

"If you can't do it, then feel free to come back and help others in other worlds," I knew asking this from them would be too much. I didn't know what was the relation between my generals, but it seemed to be a bit competitive.

If they didn't achieve something here, then it seemed they couldn't face up to their comrades in arms. I wanted this world to be left for me to deal entirely with it after the golden quests. But I wasn't that stubborn and selfish person to let others suffer for my decision.

Besides, other battlefields also needed more armies, especially that fateful last one.

"Sure, but what about here?" one of the five generals asked, not refusing my proposal to leave here.

"Just select a group of capable general candidates from your armies," I paused before adding, "this world isn't filled with flying races only. So fights are destined to happen. This is a good chance for them to prove how worthy they are."

After dealing with this matter, I left this world to them to handle before heading towards others. I left my last instructions to make use of the entire forces they got, and take over the entire zone here.

As for these flying dudes I gained, they'd be sent back to Earth. I informed Lily about them, asking her to start amassing them in separate armies and appoint capable generals to lead them.

I asked her that if they weren't on par in strength with our people, which was something I couldn't tell as I didn't fight them, then she was free to send them back into the second Earth world to let them train there.

Chapter 1283 I Know Nothing!

I also asked her to inform Angelica and Isac about this as well. I wanted the people in that world to mate with these folks if possible, to bring me more winged new generations, and much stronger than their former parents as well.

[I'm speechless!] Once she learnt about what happened in that world and listened to my instructions, all she said was that.

[Don't give me that response, I'm just doing this for our sake] I laughed when I imagined her face right now. It must be epic!

But that didn't prevent me from confirming my orders again with her. Even if I acted shamelessly here, I wouldn't stop any possible gains from such an opportunity just to look nice.

After finishing doing this, I started to take control over the other worlds as well.

Unfortunately for me, the other worlds were only filled with ground races. They were elites and looked quite strong. But I never lacked strong ground forces at all.

During the remaining time in taking over these worlds, I made use of the place and time and started to get out tons of my warriors, giving them tons of stat crystals I had in my inventory to strengthen up themselves.

I did have an endless number of warriors in my inventory, but without filling up their stat points, they weren't as useful as it might seem.

At the same time I talked with Silverlining, and got another huge order of stat crystals. These folks didn't prepare the rewards for my two battles yet. And I had a hunch about the reason behind that.

They weren't going to give me the rewards until I'd fight with the Hescos in the last and final battle. I didn't know why, but it seemed they were either linking everything together, or they were preparing a really shocking gift that required an immense amount of contribution to be given out.

Either way, I didn't have any say in this. I just have to work out with things I had so far.

Yet there were still important items I needed, just like these stat crystals, and just like the tickets.

I almost used up my reserved tickets. All that was left were seven other worlds, and I only got five tickets.

He sent me the tickets, the crystals, and many other items like energy crystals and different seized weapons in the last purchase. In return for that, I paid a hefty price for my bones, and most of that went to the stat crystals.

I didn't just need stat crystals for my warriors, I also needed them for the seven stars race members as well.

Even if I paid such a hefty price this time, the gains weren't enough to make me feel secure enough to use them over the entire population of that race.

I knew what it was like to have such formidable race members who needed consumables to show up their true might.

So I didn't hurry and placed these folks in my plans. And by the end of the seven worlds, I was ready to invade other worlds.

But I got two pieces of news that made me unable to move to any world next.

The first piece of news I got was the announcement of the golden quests! At last this quest was about to start up!

[The golden quests are going to start in one day!]

[As you have a golden quest ticket, you are receiving such notification]

[To access the golden quest world, you have to be in the main world of yours by the time of the start. Or else you are going to miss the portal leading to that world]

[You are free to bring out any twenty members of your capable people. Your inventory isn't limited by anything. And you can still use any artefact or treasure you have]

[Good luck!]

The moment I received such notifications, I stopped what I was doing almost instantly and started to read through these messages again and again.

"Hmm… So I'm only limited to twenty members of my team… But the inventory isn't limited, which means others can bring warriors out like myself…"

I started to think about these messages and the limited information I got from them.

I thought when the official notification would arrive, I'd have enough information to judge the upcoming situation.

But right now I was totally puzzled by all this.

First of all I didn't know what was the type of this quest. Would I be required to defend or invade some place? Would I be placed against other contenders and fight to death or what?

I literally know nothing. And as such I couldn't even think about the people I'd bring with me.

My warriors were out of question. They were my indispensable force. But what about the other twenty?

Should I call Legend, Sara, and the spearhead back? I also promised the jumper to come with me, so bringing him back was out of the question.

Should I ask Lily, Stephen, and Angelica to come? Should I bring everyone? Would I be asked to build something in a barren land, and would it require the genius mind of Isac?

Dammit! I knew nothing about this round of the golden quest.

As for asking Silverlining, it was out of the question.

I once spoke with him about this golden quest, and in the end he told me there were many scenarios that each time the system would randomly select from.

Trying to know these scenarios and cope with them wasn't going to work either. There were too many of these scenarios, and he even mentioned that the system higher ups would think about something new from time to time.

Should I try and speak with that higher up whom I didn't get in contact with for such a long time? I hesitated but tried to speak up to him the same way I used to get in contact with him.

Chapter 1284 Go Back Right Now!

I spoke like a crazy dude to no one, and in the end I didn't get a single answer. That option seemed out of my list of options as well.

For the first time since coming back, I stood in my place without any clue about what I should do.

This feeling wasn't totally new to me. In my pathetic life before coming here, I always felt the same. Every single day was a challenge to me, trying to survive without knowing how.

This was the same feeling, and I hated it deep down to my bones. I clenched my fists and made up my decision.

"It's better to be safe than sorry," I decided to enlist all my capable generals and people who will be useful in this trip.

[Prepare yourself to come with me] I sent over to Lily first, [The golden quest is on and you'll have to come with me]

[For real? Will it start now?]

[No, we have one day to get ready] I paused, [Inform Alex. She is going to come as well. Select a good replacement to you, and prepare things as if we are going to never come back anytime soon]

[Got it! Who else will be coming with us?]

[The two jerks, Angelica, Sara, Stephen, Legend, Isabella, Loran, Isac, and any capable one you know about from the generals we have]

[Hmm… That means we will select another eleven to join us, right?]

[That's correct]

[Then what conditions or traits do you want from them?]

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This was the question! [I frankly don't know anything about that quest. Just select those with different abilities and powers, enough to support us in that adventure]

I thought a little about that before adding, [Find good replacements to the jumper, Sara, the spearhead, and Legend. Also spread my orders, inform those paragons I got from the Hescos about this trip. If anyone wants, he or she can volunteer to come]

I needed every capable hand possible in this upcoming quest. [Also make sure to send a few hundred millions of the Hescos and seven stars race members each at least to the pocket world second layer. I'll leave a portal linking directly to a special place there. Let them stand into that place and wait there]

[What's that place?] she got curious it seemed.

[A place that can turn anyone into warriors] I didn't know if my connection with the dens of warriors would get severed once I went there or not.

But in case it still worked, it was good to have such people inside my inventory as I lacked these. [Also send many of the winged race I finally caught]

[What about zombies?]

[Send those as well! There are many orbs which turned into dens back at that pocket world. Make sure to arrange these things before the start of that quest]

[Hmm… It's difficult to do all this in just one day, but I'll try my best]

[Good luck!] I closed the chat with her before thinking about my next move.

[I want tons of resources, things that can be used to build an entire kingdom in a barren world] I opened the chat next with the Silverlining, [I want these to be delivered in less than one day. Not a single minute after that, do you get me?]

[What happened? Did you find a new world or what?]

[No, it's the golden quest. It's going to start]

[Oh! I'll let everyone know about that then] he got the wrong idea! But I didn't say anything to stop him.

After all, telling those sovereigns or others in the universe wasn't going to be a big deal. I was sure the Hescos already knew about this. And if they got plans about my kingdom during this quest then they were busy handling such things.

That was one of my main concerns about participating in the golden quest. If the Hescos decided to activate their hidden pockets here, then things would turn quite ugly for my side.

I knew the best moment to use these hidden forces was when the final battle would erupt. At that time, I'd be strangled fighting their forces out there.

But there was still a possibility that they'd use their forces during the upcoming golden quest time. And so I had to do everything I could to stop them.

The most important thing I'd use was the zombie orbs. During all the past days, the number of the ready orbs to be used escalated to be in the tens of thousands.

[I'll bind and activate the zombie orbs. Make sure to scatter around the kingdom borders to strengthen the defences there] I went towards these orbs and sent them to Lily.

She had to take care of such things as well. She complained about that, yet I closed the chat after sending one piece of advice to her.

She and Isac was the best two to deal with this matter. So it'd be great if she asked the help of Isac in this matter.

Binding these orbs by my blood and activating them took a couple hours before I finally got freed. During this time, Isac came with many people who took care of these orbs.

She looked quite excited about the next adventure, and proposed sending common people who could help in mining, building, and doing different common things over to the place of my warrior den.

And I didn't reject her suggestion. She got a point there. Using the elite warriors in such stuff was going to be hard.

I still wasn't sure if I'd ever need such help, but I'd never reject having more chips up my sleeve.

After getting done from these, I started my travels across the worlds outside.

The first world I went to was the world of the jumper. That dude was still unable to find a single portal, and the entire world was now filled with sand and zombies.

Even after fighting for such a long time, and even after sending Loran's men out there to turn the discovered dens under the ground into orbs, the situation there was still quite risky.

I went there and what welcomed me was a wild sand storm.

Chapter 1285 Getting The Jumper Back!

[Come back to the portal location right now!] I sent this message over to that jerk, [And arrange things behind, you are going to leave this world]

[At last! I thought I was going to die here!] he seemed pretty much stressed over more than I expected, [But why? Did you meet up with Hescos and need my help?]

Help my ass! That jerk was still thinking high of himself! He didn't even doubt his bad luck or his bad influence at any place he'd be at!

If not for giving out my word to him before, I'd never think about bringing such a bad luck magnet with us.

[It's the golden quest, it's about to start in one day]

[Damn! Wait for me! Don't go without me!] he freaked out the moment he learnt about this. And I couldn't help but inwardly sigh.

As I didn't know where he was in the middle of this forsaken world, I started to examine the entire place around.

Brutal signs of deadly battles were everywhere. The ground that was filled with sand was showing deep gaps where signs of mighty explosions existed.

At the same time, dead bodies were filling the entire world all around!

The jumper and his forces managed to survive the first impact against the zombies and started to push through. They got used to the sneaky nature of these zombies, and the places they cleaned were secured by Loran's men.

I didn't know what scale of expansion they reached, but even after the passage of over one month, they didn't find a single working portal here.

That meant the entire place was void of a functional city or town. It was like a world without life, a world filled with zombies, a similar occasion to the world filled with monsters, the dark realm monsters.

As he wasn't here yet, and there were tons of dead zombies all over the place, I didn't feel any shyness and started to gather more bones.

Something told me these bones were going to be handy in some way out there in that golden quest.

As expected, that jerk took his time to come. After ten whole hours, he finally showed up.

During that time, I moved to far distances as I kept gathering up my bones. I didn't feel any stress from his delay, after all I still had lots of hours left.

And I left gathering up the other elites of mine to Lily, and she was a capable person.

[I'm here, where are you?]

[Coming over] I didn't hurry to come back using my staff as I wanted something else from him to do here before leaving his world, [Bring all the orbs collected so far. We are going to take them back]

[This… The people you sent to do this are already far away! How do you think I can do it?]

[Just make them move them over to here] I paused before adding, [I'm going to open a portal back home. They can keep moving the orbs they gathered so far to Earth world]

I was sure they'd arrive just before going to that golden quest. I planned to bind and activate all these orbs, letting my people back there put them to use when needed.

I wanted to create one more defensive zone inside my kingdom just in case things went south. I planned to speak with Lily and Isac about that, putting up a ready to use plan if the frontline collapsed for any reason.

So having more orbs as a reserve was a good thing. Not to mention I planned to store enough and bring them with me to the golden quest.

If the quest asked me to defend some place, or attack another, then these orbs would be quite useful.

I planned to take one thousand orbs with me, linked already and activated, ready to be deployed.

It took roughly one hour to return back to the portal region. And there I used another ticket to open a portal back to Earth.

It didn't hurt nor worry me this time as I got enough tickets to invade almost double the number of worlds I had in this apocalyptic trial.

"It's already here, hahaha! At last I'm going to meet him, hahaha!"

During all this time, the jumper kept laughing like crazy and saying similar words. I first tried to speak and chat with him, but soon enough I decided to keep my silence and let him act as crazy as he wanted.

I knew how this matter was sensitive to him. His entire cursed life was going to an end by meeting up with that dude from the angels, and trying to save him.

I didn't yet know how he'd be able to meet up with him, nor did I know if I was going to meet any angels at all or not.

But the words the old man once told me before sending me here were clear… The golden quests must have a relation somehow with the angels and their hidden closed circuit world.

From the intel I learnt so far, I knew they were living inside a closed time loop world. Would I be sent there to do something or what?

I didn't even know what made them enter such a hellish life. All I knew was that they were met with an enemy, an agent from the other universe.

But this news might be false or not totally true. The ones who might have targeted them would be from that mysterious faction who was pulling strings from behind the curtains.

No matter who did that to them, I had no guarantee that I'd be able to access their world, nor would I be able to save them if I went there.

Who knew what their current situation was. From what I learnt, they selected the moment of their destruction and sealed their life in a closed time loop.

Not to mention the other threat that was in the form of the jumper's god. That jerk had a twisted minded god supporting him and wanting to see him suffer.

Chapter 1286 Can I Send My People Over?

I didn't tell the jumper about that, or else it'd be like informing that damn god about this. I could only keep such news to myself and keep an eye over the jumper.

Up till now, and since the move that bastard did on me when he sealed my channel, that god didn't make another move yet.

But something told me that the bad luck that jumper had was related to something that bastard did. And I got a feeling that that god wouldn't let the jumper meet up with the one who gave him that gift from before.

After all that god was also sponsoring that angel dude. If I was that god, I'd make everything in my hand and prevent the two from meeting up.

Anyway, I knew the upcoming golden quest was something I had zero control over, and many risks were related to it.

"You actually brought him back, sigh!" When we arrived at Earth, many familiar faces showed their disappointment by seeing the masked dude next to me.

"What? Did you think I'd die out there or what?" he laughed when he heard Isac's harsh words.

The two were females acting like males, and I didn't know if this tension was due to their nature as ladies or their sharp six senses or what.

I ignored all that, turned to Lily as I asked:

"Is everything alright?"

"We are here," she moved her hands around, "I gathered up the nineteen we spoke about earlier. And with that masked dude here, we are ready."

"Good," I nodded in satisfaction, "how about the tasks I asked you for?"

"I let the people you wanted back to that place," Isac said while glaring in some hostility towards the jumper while speaking, "and I also sent normal folks out there to help later on."

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"That's great," I was happy with their efficiency in doing what I asked them for. Not a quarter a day passed and they finished almost everything.

"Will we go out now?" The jumper joked a little with the spearhead while the two shared some stories while Isabella asked.

"We have to wait," I shrugged, "I got no control over this matter."

"No clue at all?" Isac asked in doubt.

"Believe it or not, I only got a notification about going there without any other explanation."

"I heard each quest has its own scenario," the jumper suddenly started to pay attention to our talk, "so it's no use for you to try and gather any intel about this."

"I know," I bitterly smiled, "we have to wait and see what the system higher ups are planning for us."

"At least we and everyone else in this trial has the same chance, right?" Sara said, referring to the annoying Hescos.

She was the one who got the best of the Hescos, and suffered from them the most as well. So she seemed to hold her grudges quite well. And I hoped she'd be ready to repay such kindness double in this quest.

"That's the basic theory," I wanted to give an affirmative answer, but couldn't.

"Don't underestimate those Hescos," Lily said in a gloomy tone, "they might look weak and vulnerable right now. But don't mistake them for pushovers! They have deep connections and many ties with lots of high figures in the universe."

"Do you mean…"

"That's possible," Lily nodded, answering Isabella's unfinished question, "they may know what this is all about. So we have to be ready for anything."

"They are going to target us? I truly doubt that!" the jumper paused before adding, "I know none can tell the next golden quest scenario, but I know that no matter what scenario was, we won't start up next to each other."

"How do you know that?" It was my turn to speak and express my surprise. Even Silverlining didn't tell me anything about this at all.

"My god told me…" he paused, seemingly hesitating about something, "and a certain someone told me before."

I got what he meant by that person. It must have been the same angel dude who gave him such a gift and a curse.

"I see…" I spoke, cutting the way over to anyone to question him, "so we aren't going to face each other early on… Do you have any clues about what we are going to face?"

"No clue," he slowly shook his head, "all I know is that no one will know about the content of this quest until it starts."

"I hope so," I honestly said, before turning over to Lily and spoke to her about the arrival of more orbs soon from the jumper's world.

As we got nothing to do for now, and everyone was already gathered up, I asked everyone to spend their wealth and buy different gears that might help.

As for those who didn't have enough money to buy what they wanted, I allowed them to go towards the last world of Hescos battle and collect one tenth of the inventory of the dead Hescos out there.

I asked Lily then about the Hescos paragons. But she gave me a negative answer.

"They refused to come," she simply said as if this didn't matter.

"Good, it's time for me to collect my rewards from them then," if they weren't going to come, then there was no point in leaving their wealth, items, and most importantly their artefacts to rot in their inventories.

The only Hescos dude that came was Stephen.

"Lord, I want to send part of my people to that place of yours," just before I'd go back to the second Earth world, Loran stood up and stopped me.

And when I looked in a weird way towards him, he added, "if we met zombies out there, then I alone won't be able to help."

"Sure, send enough people then," I got his point and agreed with him.

I thought I asked Lily to make him send part of his people over there.

Anyway, I watched him go and select ten thousand of his people, sending them over the portal leading to the second Earth world.

Chapter 1287 The Second Piece Of Bad News!

"Shall we send more armies to the remaining two worlds before we leave for the golden quest?" and before I'd step into that portal, Lily came and stopped me.

What was wrong with these people?

"We have time, and we have nothing to do for now, right?" when she saw me frown, she mistook my pause for something else.

"Sure, let me open two tickets and you'll arrange the armies sent there," I knew she got a point.

I planned to stop invading the last five worlds if I didn't have time before the golden quests. And now I had seven worlds remaining.

So it was safe to open two more portals and let my armies control them. The only side effect of this would be my absence from such battles.

But who knew how long we'd be absent from here. So it was safe to send more armies out there and conquer the two worlds. After all, I had to conquer these worlds after my return.

I'd pay more armies in this way, but would also buy myself a lot of time.

Least did I know that by following what Lily said on a whim would bring me the second piece of bad news.

And it also revealed a lot about the enemy's future plans.

I stood in my place like usual, watching the vanguard unit march into the newly opened world. Once vanished, I opened the feed to that world without expecting much.

-n0ve1,com However the moment I watched what that feed brought over, I couldn't help but freeze in my place motionless.

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I expected to see the same image that got repeated over and over already. I thought I'd be welcomed with a world filled with shielded towns and cities, covered up in bubbles, filled to the brim with tons of forces.

There were tons of forces, but what I saw was something different. The place my ticket opened was at a weird place, where signs of construction were present.

The earth was getting dug by lots of gears and tons of ground digging Hescos members. Their numbers looked endless, as this sight extended to reach the end of my eyesight.

And what was weird was that the moment my vanguard forces arrived there, they didn't get killed at the spot. The Hescos took a few minutes to realise what was going on, before finally moving out and killing them.

It seemed the Hescos thought I wouldn't take the risk and come to knock on their doors. And to my luck I ended up opening the world they chose for the last epic battle between the two of us.

The feed didn't last more than ten minutes before it got cut off by the fall of my last vanguard soldier.

Yet these ten minutes were more than enough for me to get a glimpse on what they were doing.

It seemed they didn't start long ago, and that limited my ability to predict the final picture of this grand defensive zone.

Yet it was enough for me to get a few valuable intel from there. First, that defensive zone was different from the two I previously visited and conquered.

It got places dug under the ground, but the main defensive structure relied over the floating islands out there.

In the air there were lots of flying massive lands, and they were getting modified at the time being.

Just from the size of this project, I expected them to take roughly two weeks to get it done. And that gave me a glimpse about how long I'd take out there in the golden quest.

As Lily expected, the Hescos got inside news and knew more than anyone else about what was going to happen.

Aside from that, I also saw lots of alien forces helping them. The Hescos were going to use everything in their power to stop me at this world.

"Mark down this portal," I said in a deep tone, "it's the portal leading to the final battleground with the Hescos."

"This…" Lily's face wasn't the only one that changed, everyone else around had the same look over their faces.

"Don't be this shocked," I bitterly smiled, "at least we now know what they are up to."

"Did you see anything?" the jumper hurriedly asked. Out of all the people here, he was one of those who were eager to face the Hescos. And yet his dreams came to an end with that sand world he ended up at.

"I saw a colossal construction place…" I started to describe in great details what I saw. And when I finished, a bizarre silence prevailed around me.

"Why won't we keep sending forces out there to hinder their progress?" Sara suddenly asked, breaking that weird and heavy silence.

"It's no use," I slowly shook my head, "even if we managed to delay their progress at the portal zone, they'll be able to finish building everything around."

"But we will have a slight advantage that way," she persisted, and I could only bitterly smile.

She had her brain cells focused mainly on fighting and moving forward. She had no tolerance to consider something thoroughly, or think deeply about something.

So she couldn't get how scary these Hescos were.

"If we did so, then they'd modify their plans a little to negate such gained advantage," I paused before adding, "not to mention our top forces will be out there with me at the golden quest. Even if we got a slight advantage right now, we won't be able to further exploit it."

"Then what shall we do then?" Isac interrupted, preventing Sara from going down such a meaningless argument.

After all, once I made up my mind about something, I wouldn't listen to other opinions. Especially when I already thought and considered such options before and ditched them away.

"I noticed at least ten different races helping them out there…" I didn't instantly answer her. Instead I said such weird words first.