Chapter 118 - 1514-1528

Chapter 1514 Going To The Other Worlds

I spent twenty-two years doing all this, and only close to seven months passed in real world time.

It was a long period after all, and I knew the situation in the quest universe must have changed.

"Time to see what happened everywhere," I stretched my body, feeling that doing this again at the other nineteen worlds would be a hellish experience for me.

Right now, I was sure I was the oldest one among my people, my generals, and most of my forces. That sense of superiority made me feel more confidence, without knowing why.

[Tell me, what's the current situation now?] I returned back to ground zero, and instantly sent a message over to Lily.

[At last! I tried to contact you for many months already! Where the hell were you?]

[Was saving your lives] I didn't explain anything right away, [Tell me, what happened?]

[Nothing much, we just won most of the worlds] she sent this simple and expected, yet shocking and amazingly great news, [We only got two worlds left uncontrolled yet by our forces]

[Let me guess… The jumper and angelic worlds, right?] I didn't need any hint to know which worlds proved to be hard to conquer.

The jumper race world was already a pain in the as*! Those damn ancestors of them made sure to give anyone trying to save them the hellish nightmare in doing so.

These folks never wanted to get rescued! And that was enough to make it hard to control.

[Yes… Wait, how can you tell?!!]

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[I went there, and knew all about these worlds] I rolled my eyes, [Are the other worlds safe? Is everyone rescued?]

[Yes, but we have a problem here…]

[I know, there isn't enough space to take all of them out of their worlds]

[That's what I wanted to ask you about… Even after trying to send more towards the remaining two worlds, we still have a shitload of races and forces, unable to decide where to keep them. Any ideas?]

[Let them be at their worlds right now] I paused before adding, [How about the war against the enemy homebases? How many did we conquer?]

[Just three… And we are still facing a hellish resistance in the remaining seven]

[Focus more on them] I paused, [Make sure to dig the ground and look for buried weird looking devices at the three worlds we conquered]

[This… Why?]

[I told you before, the enemy has a way to detonate all the worlds of theirs]

[Using these devices? Got it! Will spread the word… But how about the other seven? Are they safe?]

[They aren't! The enemy is already losing. And so they will keep trying to detonate everything alongside them]

[Oh… Then isn't it better to retreat? Leave these worlds untouched? It's not related to our quest after all]

[Who said? No way! Keep pressuring them! Or else we might face another deadly situation, far dangerous than these devices]

[This… Fine! Do you want me to accompany you?]

[No, I got a grand mission to do. I alone is enough and the only one who is able to do it. Just make sure the enemy won't get a single moment of rest. Attack all the seven worlds, and keep digging through the other three]

[Cool!]

I already expected such a result. But I thought the jumper world would be finally under our control in the end. Yet after all this time, this world still proved hard to crack.

This wasn't a real problem now. I planned to leave these two worlds to the end to deal with. In fact, I decided to leave the jumper world the last world to clear bombs from, hoping the bombs got triggered and take down that damn place alongside all the annoying and selfish jumpers there.

They deserved such a drastic end. Their ancestors were traitors in my eyes, only working selfishly to safeguard their race without any interest at all in the entire universe they came from.

The universe kept sending its elites to save them, never losing hope in saving any of them. Against that, the ancestors of this race decided against getting saved, established a safe haven for their people, without any desire to get out or getting saved.

They didn't want to return back to the universe, choosing to ditch everything related to that universe and forgot all about its struggle and dark fate looming around it.

That was treason in my eyes. And the only thing that stopped me from going there and killing all of them was that the jumpers right now had nothing to do with the selfish decision of their ancestors a long time ago.

"Time to visit the other worlds," I stretched my body, spending almost two months jumping over zones, collecting bones and gears from all the endless deads of the enemy before going to the first world to clear.

I knew this time I'd take much longer than before, as I decided to roam every world, collect all the bones and gears I could get, before leaving towards another world and do the same.

The first world I visited was already under my control. My forces stood side by side with a ground based race, one that looked quite strong and majestic with their big and strong physique. "They can do as a melee force, one that can rock any enemy," I took note of this race before starting to hunt down the bombs.

This time I didn't focus only on collecting bombs. And for the record, I felt like the amount of bombs in this world was less than what I met before at the zones.

Or was it because they were scattered at a much grander area of land? I couldn't tell.

Before starting doing all this, I took out enough warriors, and gave them two simple missions. First they had to ask everyone in this world to gather up, start working together to do my two tasks.

Chapter 1515 For Real?!!!

They got to gather up all the gears they could find, be it intact or damaged, it didn't matter anymore.

When I first arrived here, I wanted to desperately accumulate all the gears I could get my hands at. I planned to go back to my research department to start working on these, and see if they could reverse engineer the tech behind these awesome gears.

But right now I didn't feel any urge to do so. I got tons of unused gears in my inventory, and I knew I'd get much more of these by the end of this quest.

There were twenty worlds out there, all filled with an endless number of fiends. When I first stepped in this tiny universe, I was faced with few and rare encounters with friends.

But now? Fiends looked just like how zombies and locusts were!

In the middle of taking down the bombs, I made sure to exit the mirror world every month, go out to collect all the gears and bones from the gathered dead bodies of the enemies.

After all, this was the second task I entrusted for my forces here. They got to gather up all the dead bodies, collect them in huge mountains and hills, leave them behind for me to collect bones from.

Doing so saved me lots of time and effort actually. Just taking bones from such gathered bodies was a simple task, one that I easily did without any need to travel a lot.

I only took a week in the real world to collect all the bones and gears my forces collected. Then I left instructions to burn all the dead bodies, before starting to gather up new ones.

I returned to my mirror world again, and kept this routine going. After doing this for six times, I already covered up the entire world here, spending six months in the mirror world, close to one month and a half in real world time.

The sudden increase in my time in doing all this came from my work out there to collect bones and bodies. After the first tour all over the world, I stored many bookmarks, making it easier and faster to go around this world.

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"Time to visit others then…"

As Lily said, all the worlds beside the jumpers and angels were controlled by my forces. Even the hot zones like the god race world and Toramos zone, all got cleared already.

The last world I left was the god race world and also the Toramos zone. I didn't trust her words actually, and decided to give these two places more time to get under total control.

When I went to the god world, I got to see the old honeycomb-like structure of this world. It was now only filled with gods, flying everywhere, showing signs of brutal power like never before.

They got blessed by the forces I left here. And that changed their overall level of strength, making me crave to see them in action when we'd get back.

I didn't say much to them, just did the same like other worlds, and started to do my work. I got absorbed and used to defusing bombs to the extent of growing dull to such actions.

Upgrading more bones, taking down more bombs, and even acquiring tons of gears and bones didn't seem to make me feel anything at all.

It felt like… Emptiness! Weird emptiness, not the usual excitement and happiness like I used to feel before.

I didn't know when this all started, but by the end of all this, and after spending close to ten years this time, I felt like this.

Nothing seemed to pick my interest anymore. Was this the real sign of getting powerful? Or because I felt like this quest was already in my grasp? Was it my win?

Just when I felt like this, I never expected that such a stable situation here would take a sharp and dangerous turn so soon!

"Phew… It's finally over," I couldn't believe I spent such a long time doing all this. But when I got done, I knew it was worth all the trouble and effort I put in even before coming here.

I kept preparing for a long, really long time for this day. And now I could reap the benefits of my earlier hard work.

I came here while facing lots of doubts, only struggling to try and survive. And now I ended up conquering every single world and enemy armies they sent in my face!

No matter what the enemy tried, even the scary grand worms, the elite Exomachines and the all unique high zombies… Nothing could stop me and my forces at the moment.

Or that was what I thought at this moment.

"Time to return back and start a grand meeting…" I paused before recalling how a really long time passed since I last paid a visit to the angelic world.

It looked like it was a totally different life, something that happened to me.

[Make preparations for a grand meeting] But before paying a visit again to the angelic world, or visiting the Toramos zone, I went back to ground zero and sent this message over to Lily.

[Are we finally going to crush the remaining two worlds?]

[That's the plan. But these two worlds are unique]

[I know, I already paid a visit to both when you were away]

[Oh, how are things going?]

[I… I don't know how to describe those jumpers. They are the sole reason behind us not taking control easily on that world]

[How so?] I got a few ideas about what she really meant. But I had to ask and listen to her side of the story.

[They looked… Reluctant to get saved! As if we came in and ruined their peaceful way of life!]

[Hahahahaha! That's expected! After all, those bastards lived really such a nice and cosy way of life for so damn long]

[For real? They weren't struggling like other races?!!]

Chapter 1516 Bad News!

[No, I'll tell you their story, tell everyone when we are going to meet up]

[Fine. But what about the home bases of these fiends? We got to conquer two more worlds when you were away]

[Oh… I totally forgot about them…] I paused, thought about going there and taking the bombs out, before deciding against the idea, [Spread the word, let's just salvage anything we can use. Be it gears, technology, weapons, even books and knowledge… Let's take all and leave back here]

[We are withdrawing?]

[Got a problem with that? We don't need to do anything to their worlds to win this quest]

[I know, but we found lots of ore mines there!]

[It's not worth the trouble] I knew if I went there and did my magic, no threat would come to these worlds.

However these homebases didn't just harbour bombs. There was also that hidden tech deeply buried underneath the ground. And we'd suffer a lot if we didn't find and defuse all of them.

[That reminds me of the request you asked me before… We found many deeply buried weird stuff. Do you want us to bring these back?]

[Sure… How many did you find in each world?]

[We didn't find that much actually. At the first three worlds, we got around ten thousand pieces each. And we are still digging and finding more. But it takes lots of time and effort to find any, as these bastards made sure to hide them in places hard to reach. As for the newest two worlds, we just found less than a thousand piece each]

Her words made my earlier decision firmer. [Then let's retreat. I'll pay a visit to the angelic world, take almost a day before coming back]

[Ok, I'll make sure everyone who matters will be present. The meeting will be at the central area of this zone, right?]

[Yes, let's meet there]

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I closed the chat with her, and was about to get ready to go to the angelic world to check over things there when I got two instant messages at the same time.

[Don't go anywhere! There is something big about to happen!]

[Attention! A participant in the quest applied for a reform. The application is getting assessed, waiting for the price paid for it to get done]

What the heck was that?!!!

The first message came from none but Silverlining. And the other one came from the system.

A participant asked for a reform? Who is that? Don't tell me the system considers the enemy as participants in the quest right now!

And what did that reform even mean?

As I got confused, I shifted my attention towards the first message.

[Dude… I hope you got news to tell me] I paused before adding, [What's happening?]

[It's… I don't know if it's good or bad. But something big is happening! And the Sovereigns here all asked me to hurry and deliver you this warning]

[Then tell… Tell me everything they told you about] I felt more unsettled with this. I was just close, this close from ending up on this page and returning back to my world again.

But when I felt I was going to have it easy and nice till the end, something seemed to come up, something unexpected and seemingly quite bad.

[Prepare for an all out, open war!]

[Dude, are you blind or what? I've been in such a war for a long time already!]

[No, no, this is different, this is something entirely different!]

[How so?] This dude didn't yet tell me anything of value.

[This… Do you recall what happened back at your home planet?]

[Dude! Many crazy things happened back there! Can you be more specific please?]

[Ok… It's like that… The Sovereigns here got a wind of a request that got applied by the fiends you are fighting. They are going to pay a hefty price, in return for merging all the worlds at your place together]

[Merging them together? Do you mean like merging all into one hell planet and world?]

[Yes, crazy stuff like that!] I sucked in a cold air of breath, before suddenly realising the crux of the issue here.

[How come they will ask for such a thing? Will this even help at all? They already lost! They didn't have enough armies left, nothing to help at all!]

[No! That's not true! They got something activated, something called the doomsday gate!]

[The… What?!] I didn't get what he meant, but I felt like it was something troublesome without doubt.

[It's like this… We kept sending our elites to take part in this quest for endless years, while the enemy never did the same. And right now, they finally activated such a right, calling off for troublesome dudes on their side from all over the universes around!]

[Shit! You gotta be kidding me, right?!!!]

[No! This is what this gate is called, and they already asked for it. And from the expression on my Sovereigns faces, it seemed they got to succeed in that!]

[F*ck! So we are going to fight against new and fresh elite armies!]

[Not just that! They are going to bring elites, ones on the calibre of you and other elites who took part in the quests so far since the start of this thing. It's bad! You shall expect something horrible and terrifying!]

[Damn! And when I thought I was going to take a nap and rest! Dammit!] I paused for a long minute, trying to organise my wrecked thoughts, [But that also means my forces and the races I saved will be gathered together, right? It won't be this bad!]

[Well… Tell me, if you just went to your home planet, found thirty worlds merging with it, would it be this easy to handle things? Control everything?]

[Control… Yes, that's the trick behind all this…] my eyes suddenly flashed in realisation, [Thanks dude! You really inspired me with a great idea!]

[What idea? Are you alright? I didn't say anything worthy of such a response!]

Chapter 1517 An Idea

[No, you gave me a great idea… by the way, when will that happen?]

[Well… I guess you have one up to three to prepare]

[Days? Weeks? Or months?]

[No, hours! One up to three hours dude! No more, no less!]

[Damn! That's… That's like not giving me any time at all to do anything!]

[Then start doing what the hell you got in your crazy mind, do it fast, and pray to succeed at the end]

[I will! No one is going to rip me off my victory and gains here, no matter who, no matter what!] I closed the chat with him, feeling the fire of determination blazing wildly inside my heart.

Yes, I spent too much time preparing for all this. And no one got the right to steal such hard earned victory by some cheap tricks!

Trying to get reinforcements to kill me? Trying to stop me? Huh! As you decided to struggle when you were this close from the doorsteps of death, then let me handle whatever you thought might work, and give you the last push over that door.

[Change of plans… Something big is going to happen in the next three hours at most]

[What will happen?] And as I closed the chat with that dude, I opened another with Lily.

[The enemy is going to merge all the worlds together, open a grand portal out, and call in for more reinforcements on his side]

[This… Right now? Can they do it?]

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[They indeed are succeeding in their attempts to do so]

[Tsk! And here I thought I'd get my long awaited vacation]

[Girl! Wake up! This isn't a trip in the park or a school assignment! It's the apocalypse… We will never enjoy a single moment of rest until we'll crush everything and every enemy around!]

[Tsk! Even so we could have enjoyed a few weeks of rest before this all is going to be over and return back]

[I know] I could relate perfectly with what she felt and thought about, [But we got no choice here. Notify everyone, let them gather up our forces, ready them for the incoming hellish battle]

[Do you know which world will be the axis of all this?]

[Ah, forgot to ask!] I paused, [But it won't matter! We will crush our way through anything no matter what!]

[If I was them, I'd ask for one of my home worlds that didn't get under our control yet to be the centre of all this]

[I agree… But still it won't matter]

[Do you know what forces are coming? How many of them?]

[Let's expect the worse and consider we are going to face entire armies, nations, and even worlds in the upcoming war]

[This…]

[Don't fret, never panic! This is going to be the last stand, the last futile struggle of the enemy before finally falling to their knees and dying!]

[Cool! I'll inform others]

[Tell them to get ready to accept something from me… Send people out to the central place of ground zero. I'll deliver these items over and let them distribute them]

[What are these?]

[The second part of teleportation devices] I paused, [The first and biggest challenge we'll have to face and deal with is arranging a stable way of communication and teleportation. I bet the enemy plans to strike hard from the start, using the initial chaotic situations we'll face before we'll sort things out]

[Good point… So they'll just install them at their current worlds and zones? Didn't we get enough of these?]

[No, they'll wait until the merge is done first and then install these devices over] I paused, before adding in warning, [I don't guarantee any tricks the enemy will use. They may cut down any existing communicating portals between the zones and worlds. If that happens, then we'll have to start all over again. If not, then such move won't harm us in anyway]

[Got it! I'll dispatch people over right now and inform others about all this]

[Good girl!] I felt blessed to have someone like her by my side. At such stressful moments, I'd trade a hundred of the useless trash jumpers with one capable one like Lily.

As I waited for her people to come over, I started to buy lots of twin portal devices from the market, not caring about any cost at this point.

At the same time, I started to consider something I prepared for too long and never got the chance to use this far; the research department deadly weapons.

The enemy seemed to have utmost trust in their ability in overrunning my forces and races on my side. Such trust must have come from strong and deadly cards the enemy got.

I couldn't tell what gave them such an impression, but lessons from before taught me to never underestimate this enemy.

If they thought they got a good chance and an advantage against me, in such a desperate situation, then I got to take things seriously then.

Aside from using the chaos happening at the early days after the merge, the lack of support and connection between my vast armies and races, there was also the lack of communication.

That could be solved also by the twin devices I was buying right now.

Then I thought about what else the enemy could depend upon to win this war.

"Dammit! Don't tell me they got such confidence just from this!!!" and just in half an hour, and after delivering the items over to the large number of people Lily sent, and as I watched them flash through portals and leave to deliver them, I got a scary thought all of sudden.

It was such a horrifying idea, one that made me feel truly threatened.

"Don't tell me they want to take down everything with them!" I already defused all the deadly bombs planted in the twenty worlds and zones. But so far, there was nothing I could do about the stolen tech, these damn bombs planted at the homebase worlds of the enemy.

Chapter 1518 Going To The Dome

If the entire worlds and zones got merged together, then would these bombs be enough to take down the newly merged world?

I hoped not! But for a second there I knew the enemy depended on such a possibility.

"There is still a world of jumpers left with bombs... I shall take care of it once the merge happens..." I knew I left out one world with deadly bombs, one that could bring trouble here.

If these bombs worked in limited range and effect, then the devastation brought over by them wouldn't be that deadly or devastating.

But if they were like world nukes, and the enemy just used too many of these bombs to make sure even if someone looked and defused a lot, few would escape the search and detonate to do the job, then it was going to be quite bad.

Tsk! If they wanted to do it this way, then why bother with bringing up new forces here?

For a moment there I got puzzled, and didn't even get to guess a good theory thanks to my lack of knowledge.

"I got to research those damn bombs!" I instantly sent a message over to Lily, asking her about the current location of these bombs.

[Hold on! We got few here]

[Where? Tell me at once!]

[They are just next to your location. You are at the central part of this zone, right? They are situated there, inside a big cave like building]

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[Oh... I saw it! Thanks!] I moved my chariot high, so high in the sky to see a grand view of the entire world down below.

And there I spotted a building similar to a great dome on the ground. It wasn't that far away from me, just less than ten kilometres away.

[Tread with these in caution! Few who tried to inspect them got electrified and lost consciousness for months and never woke up till now!]

[Thanks! I will be careful!] I meant every single word I said. In such a desperate and delicate moment, trying to bring harm to myself would be the most undesirable end and fate I'd ever ask for!

Taking me down would be the best situation the enemy wouldn't even dare to dream about! I was the cornerstone of my forces, the backbone of everyone here.

Without me, no one would get a chance at all to even survive! Not even talking about winning this damn quest!

"I think we took lots of time here," as I went towards that building, I thought about my Earth. The words of Silverlining left an impression on me.

I left that planet and whole things were getting heated up. The Hescos were relentless and hard to predict or control.

I knew the system promised me of a time correction thing, but what if that wasn't enough? What if the system couldn't do it properly? Damn! Just thinking about returning back and finding everything I painstakingly fought to build was gone made me feel enraged!

I was sure, even if I lost everything, with everything I gained from this adventure here, I'd be able to start over from scratch. And yet it still sucked when I ever thought about such a possibility.

I prayed that nothing bad would happen to the time difference the system promised. Or else I'd hold the system and its lousy and carefree higher ups all responsible. And if they didn't take up for what they did, I'd not flinch to start a big war later on with those bastards.

"Time to check on these bombs..." once I arrived there, I found a team of my warriors standing out there as guards. The moment they spotted me coming, they instantly stood upright and saluted me in greetings.

I simply waved back to them with my glaive, not caring about them. I went inside the building, feeling a little curious about why it was built in such a way.

And when I got inside, I finally got the answer to that question.

The inside was a vast space, one that could cover up ten football stadiums and even more. In there, I saw a group of ten giant balls, all were huge enough to reach to the ceiling.

They weren't in the same size, and that made the general appearance of these similar to a colossal semi-circular structure.

"It seems they brought these here before they started to build this thing over them," this was the only explanation that made sense.

I ignored anything related to this building, and focused on these giant balls.

Each ball was in a red colour, with a smooth surface that seemed to get extremely polished. I flew on top of these and examined them closely without finding anything of value.

There was a hole, no buttons, no doors or lids, there was nothing but smooth and natural looking orbs, as if they got formed of the most precious ore or gem.

But I was sure this wasn't true. They were manufactured things, done by a long gone civilisation.

"Tsk! Those friends spent tons of time trying to study and unveil the mysteries behind these balls, but they found nothing... Can I find anything in the little time I got?"

I knew this was unlikely. And so I dropped the idea of trying to understand how these things worked or trying to know their secrets, and started to focus on how to defuse them.

To know this, I got to know how to detonate them first. For a moment there, I thought about using brute force. Any bomb would detonate if they hit something solid, right?

But after banging at their surface with my glaive, and after making sure no matter what happened here, the outside world wouldn't get affected by using my shields, I didn't find anything useful.

"Shall I use energy then?" The second logical idea I got was to use energy to try and see how they'd react to it. In this universe, everything runs on energy, right?

Chapter 1519 Finally Seeing Through The Bombs

I took a few bones out, absorbed them, circulated their energy inside my body, touched one of these balls, and tried to push the energy inside it.

"Not working?! This is the first time for anything to waste my energy!!" I was shocked by such a result. No matter when or where, my energy always was warmly welcomed by anything.

So I felt more puzzled and curious about these balls. My only regret was that I didn't have enough time to do more tests.

"Let me try out something new…" I stopped looking at these balls and started to suddenly dance!

I wanted to see what these bombs would look like inside the mirror world of mine. Inside that mirror world, I could go through time, see things in the past, and even get in contact with another world that I never knew existed before activating this weird ability.

And the next moment, the mirror world appeared, with the same colossal mirror that got the real world on its other side. I looked around, and all I could see was the normal sight of any world and zone I went to.

I could see the ground, see things deep within, and notice how things around kept fading slowly before recondensing again.

It was just familiar, a scene that I grew used to. However I found something weird when I focused more. The bombs, the place where these bombs were, it was all empty!

It seemed like there were no bombs in the first place! I looked again, tried to go deep down the ground or fly in the air, but found nothing.

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"Real told me I can get anything from here out… Can this be done the other way?" I didn't stop at such failures and weird things happening, and thought about something else.

What if I took these bombs inside with me, taking them in my chariot before entering this world. Would that change anything?

I didn't know if this was going to work or not. However I got to try. After all, the time ability I got was quite unique. And perhaps I'd be able to see things that these fiends couldn't.

So I cancelled my ability, started to move one ball into my chariot. It was huge enough to fill in almost half of my chariot and extend for ten metres high.

I started my dance, and the moment I went inside the mirror world, something finally started to change over this ball.

"It has writings and drawings over its surface… Fascinating!" The moment I went inside that world, I noticed that the red ball that kept looking cold and dead no matter how I tried, started to change.

Its surface started to change, just like a ball that got covered with ice and that ice started to melt by warmth and heat. However, it didn't melt and release any liquid or gas, it simply started to change its outer surface, showing things that weren't even there before.

It appeared as if someone carved something on it. There was some sort of writing over its surface, with many small drawings that I tried to focus on instead of the weird language.

I knew I could read this language if I got someone who could decipher and link things together. But I have no such person, nor time to do anything like that.

So I got to find something from these weird drawings, trying to understand what it meant.

"It's telling a story… A story of a race and these balls…"

I saw a weird looking race, one that looked like humans but with a lizard tail and a huge head. Few even had two and even three heads. And they were gathered up around a small circular thing, which I thought was the ball at first.

But later on I got to realise something terrifying… "This… These aren't balls… It's a compressed miniature version of the stars in the cosmos… Damn! What the hell went wrong in these dudes' minds to create something terrifying like this!"

At first I took these circular drawings to be these balls. But later on I noticed that the early drawings showed a starry sky, like a star map. Then the circles that these folks surrounded were all shining with rays.

It was like a star, not these cold and dead balls here. And in the later drawings, these stars seemed to lose their rays, seemingly getting reversed and started to shine inside these balls, not getting released outside.

I also noticed the size of these circles started to shrink, and in the end, these folks surrounded tiny circles like dots, which didn't release anything visible to me.

The drawings were already small to begin with. And trying to see many details took me a long time. I didn't care about spending any time inside my mirror world, after all time here ran differently than outside.

So I used my HawkEye skill, and started to read through the mini-drawings at this ball. The more I read, the more I got shocked.

"They must have used advanced tech to be able to draw such great details in such tiny shapes," I was impressed by such drawings. And at the end, I got to understand much about these balls.

They weren't just bombs, they were the deadliest of bombs. They stored all the energy of any star inside, shrunk in size, and got exposed to many weird treatments and tech from that race to end up in such a state.

That meant they weren't just ticking bombs, they were The Bombs! The ones able to detonate and take away everything in their path.

I saw in the last drawings what would happen if one of these bombs got detonated. It wasn't like what I thought before. They wouldn't just sweep the land and kill anything in their path.

They would detonate and take away the entire planet in a whole, forming a black hole behind or something as terrifying as this.

Chapter 1520 Knowing Lots Of Secrets

"I have to find a way to stop them…" I knew I got to learn a lot about these bombs, but all was about how deadly they were.

I still couldn't find a way to safely defuse them. I reached the end of drawings and felt like I missed something here.

So I returned again, this time focusing for one thousand percent more than before, trying to get to know more about the secrets behind these bombs and how to defuse them.

"It's not here… Weird… How can they make something that can't be stopped if anything goes wrong?!" I read the drawings three more times, failing at spotting what I started all this initially for.

"There must be something… There has to be…" I flipped the ball, tried to infuse energy inside, but failed.

So I returned to study the drawings, and this time I tried to see them differently.

I ignored the weird letters before. But now, I got an idea about these. What if this wasn't a language, but some sort of drawing using lines and weird letters like strokes?

I retreated back, and tried to see the letters from far. And then it hit me! "Yes! That's indeed true! Hahahaha! No one is sane and genius enough to make up such a crazy thing without leaving behind a safe button to defuse them, hahahaha! I found it! Hahahaha!"

When I retreated away, looked at the ball, and tried to see letters as a grand drawing in itself, it worked! The letters weren't a language of any sort, just a cover up to misdirect anyone from outside this race to try and see through their real intentions here.

It looked weird how the drawings just spoke about how scary and deadly these balls were. They seemed like they wanted to instigate fear in the heart of anyone trying to get the secrets behind these bombs.

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And that was exactly what I felt when I read these drawings before. And that made it more unusual in my eyes.

They never spoke about how to even detonate them, not to mention how to defuse these bombs. But the letters, or the huge drawings using these weird lines, spoke about how to detonate and even defuse these bombs.

"So… These drawings speak about a hidden spot which will react to a high impulse of energy. If they get in touch with a high energy source here, then they'll explode. If they touch this energy source there, then they will defuse… Quite an interesting race indeed… The same method is used to either save one's life or end it!"

The new discovery saved lots of things for me. I didn't get everything related to these bombs, but knew lots of secrets about them.

For example, I now realised that to activate these bombs, there was a single way fiends could do.

They had to use some sort of a shockwave, hoping that few of these bombs would get hit in the right spot, ending up detonating.

Even if most of these would end up getting defused and useless, few would get detonated. And that meant the old knowledge I got about how these bombs worked and caused such a devastational quakes and natural disasters was wrong.

These quakes and energy pulses that would sweep the entire world came as a trigger for these bombs to be detonated.

And that meant it wasn't caused by the bombs, but by the fiends.

"They must have something huge to cause such a shockwave on land and release such an energy pulse," I thought about this, while thinking about what the enemy could use to cause such a result.

They got to do something big for such a result to occur. And that meant the first step in safeguarding against these bombs would be in stopping these plans of the enemy.

​ Knowledge was power, and knowing more about these bombs changed everything and all the plans I got for the enemy.

I thought before about absorbing their initial charge, focus on defending and not risk any offence. But now? It was going to be all out offence!

I would ask all of the generals to lead everything they got, smash and kill any forces the enemy would bring, go deep, as deep as they could, and pressure the already pressured enemy to the max.

At the same time, I shouldn't confine myself to a single place. The bombs should get detonated, but that would require lots of time and effort.

The easiest way was to go solo, look for any weird and suspicious gathering of the enemy, and hit them where it hurt.

This might look as a crazy way to do battles, but this was the only way to win and survive this war. I got to act as the sharp edge of the sword of my forces, work solo as the vanguard army, and deal with any threat far away from any help from my forces.

To win this war, no tactic should be used. I should simply spread out chaos, not think about organising anything at all.

That was the right way to do it. And the more I thought about it, I knew this was the only way to do it.

"Let's do it then," I took a deep breath, got out from the mirror world, and started to first diffuse these bombs in the building. I wanted to test and see if things would end up just like what I read and understand from these drawings.

And like I expected, everything went just fine!

I touched the bombs just where I learnt to defuse them. I didn't need to use any impulse wave weapon or quaking energy, I simply used my bones.

I took out a gold grade dark realm bone, one that was filled with tons of energy inside. I pushed it at the right spot on these giant balls, ending up melting down and getting absorbed just like it was a cube of ice that met fire.

*Bang!*

Chapter 1521 Meeting Everyone

Just when the bone got totally absorbed, the bomb started to issue a loud banging noise. It shone slightly, giving me a bad impression and feeling about this. Then all of sudden, that flash of light dimmed and vanished, as if it got extinguished or something.

*Thud!*

During which, the bomb rose slightly in the air, held by an unknown force. I couldn't tell what drove it all the way up, but it ended falling to the ground in the next moment, giving me a deep relief.

"It works!" I shouted in delight when that happened, and couldn't help but look at the other bombs, and started to defuse them in the same way.

The bombs in the warehouse here weren't that many to begin with. And taking care of these didn't take much time actually.

When I finished, I didn't spend more than an hour doing so. And I knew if I taught this method to others, then things would be easier.

However I didn't have enough time to do so. And there was still the risk that they'd end up detonating and arming up the bombs instead of defusing them.

"I shall limit this task for my capable and trusted generals," I muttered while getting out of this place. And a few names popped up in my mind when I thought about this.

I didn't forget to take all the defused bombs into my inventory. They got no value or use by staying here. And I wouldn't risk them getting reactivated again under any circumstances.

From what I understood, trying to take these bombs before into inventory failed. After all, if that could work, then there was no need for me to defuse them in the first place.

[Where are you] and as I flew out from that dome shaped building, I received this message from Lily, [We are waiting for you at the portal place]

​ [Coming!] I closed the chat and controlled my chariot to fly fast towards the distance. There, I spotted a large gathering of many people, numbering in the hundreds.

She called out everyone, including even the race leaders we already saved. What was coming next was going to impact not only us, but everyone. And so it was a good move to invite everyone here.

"Welcome everyone," they were all standing in a big open place on the side of the portal zone. They all noticed me coming from afar, and despite that they kept standing motionless with a dark look on their faces.

"I see that Lily already briefed you about what's going to happen," I didn't need anyone to tell me about this. Just from the look on their faces, I can tell everything. "But… Things aren't that bad actually."

"We heard that our worlds will merge together soon enough, our forces will get apart, and we'll scatter over a newly built world. How can this be good?"

One of the leaders of a race that I saw before at the worlds when I travelled to detonate the bombs spoke in a distressed tone.

"I know what you said is all true, and it sounds like it's the end of the world… But there is hope here."

"What hope?" Legend stepped up and spoke, aiding me in front of all these seemingly anxious and terrified people.

"I'm going to tell you once, the enemy did this to make something crazy in the end. There are bombs installed in the home planets of the enemy. We already dug many out, but there are still too many of them to find."

"This…"

"Come on! How come this is good news?"

"Are you trying to console us at our last moments?"

"What can these bombs do? Can we find them?"

"Yes, we can help to dig everything, pick every single rock out there and see if it has a bomb underneath or what!"

"Easy there," I waved my arms, to calm down the irritated bunch of leaders fearing their races. "I know what I said may seem like bad news, but it's actually great."

"...!!!"

"Just listen to my words before saying anymore," I took a deep breath before starting to tell them everything I knew about these bombs.

I kept the way to defuse and detonate them hidden, also the way I got to know all these. I told them how the enemy planned to activate these bombs, and ended up by stating my counter plan.

"... So, our task is to go out there, pressure the enemy hard, and stop them from doing anything stupid."

"This…" Lily's face didn't look that good actually. She looked at others she knew and trusted before adding, "isn't this a kind of a risky bet?"

"If it was me, I'd like to dispatch another team to search for these bombs and find a way to defuse them!" Toramos spoke, and many nodded in agreement.

Only those who accompanied me long enough, those who knew me better, didn't make a move. They got that I wouldn't take a bet with a guarantee, without a plan to turn on tables at the right time.

"I will lead a solo campaign out there," I loudly said, in a strong and confident tone, "if you want to dig for these bombs, then be my guest. I'm sure no matter how hard we tried, most of these bombs will be hidden in the deep enemy lands. And if we venture there, we won't find everything in time."

"But we can still drive the enemy crazy by doing this," Toramos didn't give up on his idea, "I'm with dispatching teams to search and dig for these bombs."

"Then it's settled," I looked around, not finding the ugly mask of that jump around, "where is the jumper anyway?"

"He…" Lily paused, moved her eyes around, "he selected to be there in the enemy territory when the merge will happen."

"Quite reckless…" I paused, as a flash of an idea appeared in my mind, "but it can also work! Let's dispatch teams to each and every world of the enemy. When the time comes, make sure to establish portals there before doing reconnaissance."

Chapter 1522 Grave News!

"This mission is just perfect for my taste," Sara laughed out of the blue, "let me take part in it!"

"Me too!" Legend also chimed in.

"Good," I turned to Lily, "select ten and send them with enough force to each of the enemy territories. Also each general and race leader here is assigned with the task of making search teams for these bombs. Look, here is what these bombs look like."

I took one bomb out, suspended it in the air, over my chariot. And with this simple action of mine, I felt the shocked gazes of Lily and others who dug out these bombs before and failed to store them inside their inventory.

As for others, they looked in curiosity towards this bomb, examining every piece of it.

"How…"

"Don't ask!" I interrupted Lily before adding, "let's start moving then. Your main mission is to pressure the enemy too hard, take down as many forces as possible, and never give them a chance to breathe. Don't defend, just keep attacking."

"Sure," everyone nodded while few said in a loud tone. I watched while they returned back through portals to their worlds and armies, while Lily stopped by my side.

"Can you tell me now how you did it?"

She wasn't alone, Toramos was also there alongside a few generals of his and other races that the two selected carefully to join here.

"Let's say I have a way to deal with them," I vaguely answered, "but it's not the right time to speak about this right now. We got less than one hour to handle everything. Make sure every single world and race has enough forces to do the task needed. Inform everyone about what's going to happen. And don't forget to move all the bombs here."

"Are you going to detonate them?"

"Sure, if I got time," I planned to do so first before anything else. The task of going out there and acting the role of a hero had to wait until the entire merge would be done and my forces would relay back intel about the new situation out there.

I hoped that my staff saved bookmarks would still work after the merge and wouldn't get messed up thanks to such a thing.

"Ok," Lily rolled her eyes while she led Toramos and others to handle the remaining tasks before the start of the merge.

I didn't know for how long this merge would last. Would it take a long time like what happened back on Earth? Come at stages and such? Or would it be a one full swoop operation, one that would merge everything in a short span of time?

I felt that such a merge would happen in a flash, not taking that long at all. If so, then the enemy would risk giving me and my forces enough time to prepare.

So I had to assume that the merge wouldn't take longer than an hour to happen. During which, I hoped the portals would still be working as usual, and so I could help in defusing more bombs.

It'd be quite risky to move while leaving behind such a gathering of bombs in one place. Not to mention this place was supposedly the heart and base of the ongoing war.

"They are indeed quite fast," just in a few minutes, the portals started to flash, releasing lots of bombs from the worlds beyond.

I knew that these bombs were acquired from four different worlds, but it seemed that Lily and others distributed them all over the worlds we already controlled.

"Time to work fast then," I took a long time before so I'd wait to see if this method would work or end up detonating everything. But now I got experienced in what I was going to do, and simply just had to leave one bone behind before moving on to a new bomb.

I kept doing this for close to half an hour, defusing hundreds of bombs until I was forced to stop.

[Attention! The merge of all worlds is about to begin. A universe wide announcement is going to be done]

[Attention: A universe wide merge is going to happen. The number of worlds merging here is ninety-three. Be prepared, and don't panic. Fight to your heart's content, and make sure to win this in the end by the name of our universe. After all, the entire universe is watching what you are doing right now]

"What the heck? From where did all these worlds come from?!!" I calculated things before, and there were just thirty worlds here.

From where did the new sixty-three worlds come from?

pAnD a(-)n0ve1.com [The enemy paid the price and managed to bring forty worlds that belonged to their elites fighting here. So we decided to balance things out, and decided to merge the twenty-three worlds in your apocalypse and add them up in the mix]

"This… Are you f*cking telling me this right now?!!!" I was instantly shocked and confused by this. I knew that one of the system higher ups was speaking to me right now. But I couldn't tell why he did all this and kept this hidden from me.

And… Did that mean my apocalypse was gone? Ended? Or what? And what about my Earth? What was going to happen to it?

I got tons of questions, shitload of many things to worry about. And I got no time for me to think or even comprehend what was truly going on here.

[We have to improvise at the last second when we were informed by this]

"Informed? By whom? Come on! Don't give me this bullshit as a reason!"

[Sorry, but you got to work with all this mess. We tried to balance things out. After all, the forty worlds the enemy selected were all considered lost worlds to us]

"Lost worlds? Don't tell me all of them are filled with dark realm monsters?!!!" I felt a cold shiver down my spine when such a thought flashed in my mind.

Chapter 1523 I Don't Buy That!

[Well, to be honest, not all of them are considered like that. But yes, you can consider all of the worlds as deadly zones with endless stream of dark realm monsters or forces that belonged to the enemy]

"Forces that belonged to the enemy? What the heck does this even mean?!!!" At this point, I was this close from losing it! This damn bastard! Was he trying to mess with me or what?

[Have you forgotten what I told you before or what? The enemy already sent for outsiders to arrive here, using a loop in the agreement set between us and them in ancient times. We kept sending our elites here, and they never sent anyone in return. And so, they used this detail and were granted to bring forth large number of their elites]

"I know that! But I thought…"

[They'll come from outside the universe? No way! This won't work! They are coming from worlds under their control. And these worlds are the ones known to you, to many in the universe, as the lost worlds, or the dark realm worlds]

"I see… So these worlds don't just harbour dark realm monsters?"

[No, they got forces that belong to the enemy. You must have noticed how the two are closely connected, the dark realm monsters and the enemies you fought here all this time, right?]

I got what he wanted to say. I got dark realm bones from races here, in addition to the all mysterious Holy Ones bones.

But I never thought that I got such dark realm bones thanks to the relation between these enemies and the dark realm monsters! This was something that never crossed my mind before.

[There isn't anything you can do about that. You got to accept such a fact and decide how you are going to use this chance to the fullest]

"A chance? Ok, let me ask you lots of questions then. If you merged my home planet alongside the other twenty-two worlds in my apocalypse, what's going to happen to my apocalypse then?"

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[The apocalypse is already in a Scorching Land mode. So it's normal for this to be the last clash that will decide the final winner]

"What do you mean by that?"

[This war, whoever is going to win it, will be appointed as the final ruler of the entire apocalypse and the sole winner of it]

"This… Don't tell me others can compete with me over this!"

[Of course! They indeed can choose to help you, stand against you, or even betray us and help the enemies. Everything is valid in this case. However…]

"However… What?" I got a feeling that I wouldn't like what he was going to say next.

[The winner isn't solely determined by the one getting more territory or killing more enemies. The final winner won't be decided by this war only]

"Then… How will the final winner be determined?!"

[By the winner of the entire golden quest! After all, and after the success of the merge, the golden quest will take the top priority over the ongoing apocalypse at the world's merged here]

"Oh… Thanks for that!" I couldn't help but raise a thumb up for this dude. Even if he wasn't here, and I just raised my thumb towards thin air, he must have gotten my salute of respect.

This dude… These higher ups… Even when they made such a crazy move, they never forgot about me or about what I did so far for them, for the races trapped here, for everyone in the universe.

"How about my home planet? Will it still be the core of this merge or what?"

[Oh, about that… Sorry but the enemy already selected one of its home lands as the base of all this]

Well… That was quite expected indeed. I knew the enemy would select one of its home planets as the base of such a merge. And that was all to make sure it'd take everything down with them when they'd activate the buried bombs there.

But when I thought back to my Earth, my beloved Earth, ending up getting merged with an alien planet, I couldn't help but feel weird pain deep inside my heart.

I always took this for granted. The Great Nala was going to get formed out of my Earth as the core of all this. And yet it seemed things were taking a sharp turn away from what I always knew.

This was something weird and quite shocking. However this was also what reality was.

And now I have one more reason, a very big reason to win this war.

[Don't worry. According to our intel, all the races in the worlds that belong to your apocalypse are going to step in and work together, help each other to win this entire war]

"Helping each other is great, but I don't think the Hescos will let someone other than themselves win this thing."

[How so? I already spoke with their leaders, and they agreed on working together with you!]

"I don't buy that!" If he told me the sun would rise from the west , not the east, then I might consider what he said, "the Hescos are all arrogant. They are the number one race in the entire universe. And you are telling me this clash is going to be broadcasted all over the universe, meaning it turned from just a high valued quest into something that all the universe will look up at."

[Your point is?]

"If I were them, I'd simply work my best to get my boys to win this war. It's not just a normal clash, not everyday battle or war, it's something that will remain forever in the minds of those who are watching this. And everyone is watching, so it's going to be something huge!"

[Well… When you say it this way…]

"They won't work together, at least these arrogant bastards at least," I scoffed, "as for other races, they may select one side to support. It'll be either me or the Hescos, and it's easy to guess which side they'll support."

Chapter 1524 I'm Going To Defect Then!

[But your accomplishments in the golden quest can't be competed against! They are going nuts if they think they can overcome you after what you did so far]

"Don't forget, I got few of their race in my forces," I was referring to Toramos and others who joined me and belonged to the Hescos race.

[But their achievements are considered as part of yours right now]

"What if they decided to act rogue? Separated themselves from me and announced themselves a separate force? Will their achievements be calculated as mine as well?"

[Well… At least you'll get half of their achievements in yours if that happened]

"This…" I just randomly said these words, never thought this could be true, "why won't I get one hundred percent then? They worked under me, used my forces to get everything they got! If they didn't get saved by me in the first place, they wouldn't even be here to begin with!"

[That's why you'll get half of their contribution points]

"No, that's not fair! I want one hundred percent!"

[No one can get such an amount except for the person himself! You know the rules! You get half of whoever you kill!]

"No, that's in normal situations, not like this one here," I shook my head, "if it was me, then anyone betraying any lord will get to be expelled from this quest forever!"

[This… Come on! Be a little realistic please! These are their races! How come you have the upper hand over them?]

"I'm the one who saved their lives for god's sake!"

[That's not enough to claim one hundred percent. Only fifty-five will do!]

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Bingo! Just as I expected, this dude could be reasoned and bargained with! This fifty percent set wasn't a fixed rule or something. And he got the power to change it.

And from there, I spent close to one hour bargaining with him. During which, the merging process already started. It'd take roughly three days for the merge to get done. And during which, we can move freely between zones and worlds unless it gets merged into the new world.

All portals and means of teleportation got on pause at the merge. That meant they would still be working after the merge got done.

And that was great news for me.

Another good piece of news was that I managed to get a final and much better offer from this dude speaking to me.

[Fine! What a troublesome and annoying little human you are! Damn kid! Are you sure you are a human and not a descendant of those stingy merchants?]

"So, I'm going to get eighty-five percent of their contribution in the quest?"

[Yes, you'll get that. Stop annoying me and start taking care of your issues!]

"One more thing," I wouldn't let him slip by this easily. Even when I was talking to him, I was still throwing out my bones and defusing the bombs.

So I wasn't wasting my time at all. "I want to know after winning all this, will the new world belong to me?"

[That's a very easy thing to guess on your own]

"I want to hear your confirmation, not just a vague kind of answer," I paused in my actions. Such an answer was indeed the last thing I'd like to hear from him.

If I learnt anything about these higher ups, then they were quite treacherous and cunning. If they didn't say it directly, then they'd find tons of excuses to extricate themselves from any promise.

[Don't you trust my word on this?]

"I trust your words of course," I nodded, "but the ones that you clearly say and declare, not the ones that require my poor and tired mind to process."

[You… Good! Go and work, stop wasting time]

"No, give me an answer first," the more he evaded the answer, the more my heart clenched in my chest, "or I swear to god I'd defect and work for the enemy!"

[You… No way you can do it!]

"I will, don't test me!"

[...]

"I didn't hear anything dude. Don't curse me inside, or else it'll rebound on you and end up cursing yourself instead."

[Stop wasting the damn time and start working!]

"No! I want my answer!"

[Fine! The one who is going to win this will get the privilege to lead and control the new world for a hundred years, provided that no other race here challenges him over it!]

"No way! I'm going to defect right now to the enemy!"

[Stop it!] As I just said my threat, I dropped everything I was doing, went towards one of the portals, the ones that connected here with one of the enemy homebases.

That damn jerk! Who did he think he was dealing with? A kid? Come on! I grew old enough in this golden quest to get close to fifty by now!

Trying to trick me using words? I knew there was something fishy going on here. I would never risk everything, risk myself, my forces, and exhaust everything I got, just for another race to come and claim everything and take the new world and its races on a golden plate like this!

Damn all this! I would never see such a thing happen!

[Stop it! I'm warning you! You are going to be the enemy of the entire universe!]

"Screw the universe! As if you already didn't sell me out, bastard!" I didn't even flinch, or slow down my steps, "you made a deal with those damn Hescos already! Let that human do all the work, let him suffer and struggle, work like a slave for us, right? And in the end you are going to get everything ready on a silver plate, take everything I sweat over, to steal all my achievements and hard work from me. Screw you! I will never accept or succumb to any of that!"

[Stop it! Who said anything about stealing what you deserve? You are going to be crowned the winner and ruler of this world when you win it. What made you think you are going to get deprived of such rights in the end?]

Chapter 1525 A Big Shot!

"Stop trying this damn hard to fool me! I won't fall for this!" I roared, like an angry beast who just got severely wounded and backstabbed by its fellow mates.

[What do you want then? Just tell me what you got in mind and I'll do everything in my power to secure it for you]

"Stop wasting your time. You already sold me out, damn jerk!"

[No! I'm on your side!]

"As if I'm going to buy any of that! You are only on your side, not anyone's at all! F*ck it! I'm going to defect, help those poor fiends and help them claim this new world. I'll even be appointed as the general leader of the entire campaign in this shitty universe!"

[I dare you do it!]

"Watch me then!" I was getting closer to the portal while exchanging such explosive words with this damn bastard.

[Fine! Fine! Stop it and let me hear what you got in mind]

"I want one thing only," I said, without even holding back my steps, "I want a clear announcement about this… Whoever is going to win this shitty war will get the total ownership of this world, a kind of ownership that won't get challenged by anyone no matter what."

[This… You do know there isn't such a thing in the entire universe! All the worlds are open for anyone to go and fight for them!]

-n0ve1,com "Then give me a protection period!" I stopped, just a few metres away from this portal, "one thousand years! No one is allowed to touch my world for one thousand years!"

[This… It's too damn long!]

"One thousand years is long? For you, for the universe, it's like a moment passing by!"

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[No, let's make it twenty years then!]

"F*ck you!" I took another step forward, before stopping under his screaming words.

[Stop it! Why are you acting this impulsive? You were never this short tempered before!]

"Try and watch someone stealing your sh*t and tell me how you'll react right then!"

[But that doesn't give you the right to ask for such an insane period of protection!]

"Then tell me, what's the most appropriate period in your opinion?" I raised an eyebrow, waited for his answer.

[Let's say twenty years is a… Wait wait… Ok, fine! Let it be one hundred years. Your world, in case you ended up winning this quest, will be protected by us for one hundred years]

"Why do I get the feeling that you'll start working against me to not win this quest?"

[Stop being delusional! We are the system higher ups! We are neutral and won't side with anyone]

"For real? Do you think I'm a kid or what?" I knew this dude was thinking and seriously considering helping the Hescos against me.

I would never let my own stuff fall into anyone's hands! I came back through time to live a proper life, not one that would end up by me serving others!

[I'm telling you a given fact]

"Fine! Let's see what you'll do from here on. If I sniff anything suspicious, don't blame what will happen to me."

[We won't break our code. However, I have to warn you that such protection is only limited to the inhabitants of the universe]

"Wow! Are you implying that you'll work with the enemy to take my world down or what?"

[Dude! You are indeed quite a promising seed, but you aren't that big at all in the entire picture yet. Don't give yourself a credit for something you aren't even close from]

"What does that even mean?"

[It means you are still an ant! Don't think too highly of yourself! If not for this damn quest, you won't have gotten to speak to me in the first place!]

"Speaking as if you are some big shot out there," I laughed, and the silence that followed made my laugh die down fast.

[My name is enough to give the leaders of any race you are scared of a scare! Do you think I'm a big shot or what?]

"Damn! And you are the one complaining about me being arrogant? Come on! Are you trying to trick me here or what?" I raised both eyebrows when he said his words. I never expected he'd be something important, and my last lousy joke came just to cover up on my shock.

And it seemed I failed miserably at that.

[Interesting kid indeed! Even when you are scared and surprised like this, you are trying to cover up using such cheap methods. You are still a kid after all… I'm just curious, how such a lowly race, one that no one ever placed in the eye before, managed to give birth to such a kid like you?]

"Go and ask my father and mother, if they are still alive indeed."

[Kid, there are methods out there you don't know about, methods that will even let someone like me speak to the dead]

"Damn! I'm going to go before this talk will become creepier than that!" I decided to end my negotiations here. I got what I wanted. And I didn't want him or any other to suspect the fact of me not belonging to this era.

Speaking with my dead father and mother? What the damn nonsense was that?!!

[Just do your job and crush the enemy. Don't let anyone take control of anything here, or else don't blame me at the end of all this]

"I won't let anyone take this quest from me," I firmly said, while opening a chat next, [Bring Toramos and all the Hescos dudes in our circle here right away!]

[What's wrong? Does something happen?] Lily sent back almost instantly. I knew she would be confused right now, but she'd be more shocked when she'd hear about all the new intel.

This… This was something unbelievable! Earth was going to merge here, and this place, the place that got inaccessible by all the races in the universe for endless years, was going to fall in my hands in the end.

Chapter 1526 A Confrontation

The Hescos wanted to try out their luck here? Cool! Let me then open their eyes on the shocking facts. This world… This little universe that was going to get merged with other worlds into one colossal world… It was already in my grasp.

However I should play my cards quite right. And the first move was to secure myself from any of these Hescos in my team.

The last thing I'd want to see was for one of them to defect, join the enemy, and tell them everything about my current plans and strength.

I was in a very solid situation, standing on firm ground, but that didn't mean I shouldn't be a bit wary and cautious. I might have the advantage, but who knew what this war would bring to me.

To take down a mountain, one could use many explosives and deadly bombs to do that, or a weak stream of water could take away the mountain for a very long time.

All it needed for a huge building to fall down was to lose bits of its foundation piece by piece. And so I'd have to safeguard against such a thing, protect my own stuff.

[I'm coming to understand what's going on!] Lily knew that something big just happened. And she decided to come and listen to what I had to say.

[Ok. Don't forget to bring those Hescos with you]

[I'm already bringing Toramos. As for the rest, they are scattered among many places. They'll need more time to arrive]

[Great!]

I knew everyone got the message of the system about the merge. And so it was expected for everyone to be quite busy dealing with such chaos.

As I got to wait for Lily to arrive with Toramos here, I started to work over the bombs others brought over.

The two took one hour to arrive. During which, I defused hundreds of bombs. And yet there were still hundreds more waiting.

普通の犬だと思って救助した１０歳の少年.その正体を知って驚愕した.山田一郎は普通の十歳の少年で,静かな町に住んでいます.buzznext

There was more than enough time for me to defuse all of them before the merge would finally be over.

"What happened? And don't give me a half assed answer! I want to know everything!"

The moment the two appeared, Lily started to speak in such a rushed and impatient tone. She must have realised bits and pieces of what I intended to do.

I asked for specific race members to be brought here to me. And out of all the races we got here, I came asking for the Hescos specifically.

​ Hescos and us had a long war and deep feud back at Earth. But since coming here, not a single one of them acted out of their place. And I never showed any sign of being hostile towards any of them.

They were just tools to me, and Lily got that already. So when I showed signs of starting to grow hostile towards them, she was feeling puzzled.

"First of all…" I didn't directly answer her, instead I shifted my attention towards Toramos, "tell me, do you know why I called you here?"

For a reason, I felt like Toramos and others already got contacted by the Hescos higher ups. And by his slow nod, I confirmed my guess.

"Are you going to kill me? Kill us?" Toramos didn't need to speak about anything, and jumped directly towards what really mattered.

If I knew about what happened between him, his friends, and the Hescos higher ups, then it was easy to guess what I was going to do.

"What the heck are you two talking about? Can anyone explain things to me?!!" Lily from the side grew instantly restless. If she got puzzled before by my sudden switch in attitude, then right now she was feeling more shocked and petrified.

"Will you tell her, or do you want me to do it?" I tilted my head towards Toramos. And that dude looked quite collected, without any speck of worry or fear at all.

"I just want an answer.

"I'm going to lock all of you down."

"You didn't even ask about what we responded to our higher ups with!" At this moment, he raised one eyebrow, seemingly surprised by my swift and decisive answer.

"I don't need you to tell me anything," I shrugged, "you are part of a race, and I'm an outsider. It's easy to tell what side you'll select here."

"What if we selected you? After all, this is possible, right?"

"Yes, but that will make me always wonder if you are truly honest by joining me or you are here to keep an eye on me and my forces."

"Well said," he smiled, one that told me I didn't disappoint him or something.

"Can anyone tell me what is going on here?" Lily kept moving her head and eyes between me and Toramos. She didn't get a single thing from our talk, as we didn't say anything that would give her any information.

"So… Will you take the honour or shall I do it?"

"Before this, there is something I want to tell you about…" he paused, and from his silence I could guess what he wanted to say.

"They already started to flee? Quite fast runners!"

"Don't blame them, they thought you won't know before it's too late. And they feared you."

"They should have come or waited just like yourself," I sighed, "right now they forced my hand to go for their blood."

"At least you won't aim for their heads!"

It was my time to feel surprised by what he said. "Why are you seeking a bit of relaxation?"

"Because I know you," he smiled, "you won't just get impulsive on us. Or else you'd have killed us a long time ago."

"Interesting," I smiled back, "then why didn't you leave with them?"

"I'm not in that threat, right?" Toramos laughed, for the first time ever since meeting this dude, "I did lots of things for you. And that means I've already proved my worth to you."

"That also goes for your men, right?"

Chapter 1527 They Aren't Coming Back

"But you got lots of people like them, right? They can be sacrificed, and don't blame them for fear for their lives and think even about such tiny details."

"I see…" I got what he didn't directly say. It seemed this issue ran for much longer than I thought.

Did they know a long time ago about the merge? About their race coming here? Or was it their race who tried to push them to betray me all this time?

Without the need to ask, they got lots of discussions among themselves about this. And it seemed they decided to leave Toramos behind, clarifying everything to me.

That meant they didn't really want to betray me. But in the end they got to do it. After all this was their race.

This was all understandable by me, but not enough to let them have their own way.

"Lily, spread my orders," I turned towards the all stupefied from all this weird and shocking talk, and added, "make all of our forces hunt those Hescos down."

"You… Are we going to kill them now?"

"No," I shook my head, "just capture them. If they resisted, then yes, kill them."

"They won't resist," Toramos tried to meddle in.

"If you want to help them, then send a message by your means and tell them to just surrender in peace. A single moment of resistance will end up for them getting massacred."

"I… I will…"

リフォームのお悩み,オンライン相談で解決しませんか?TOTO DAIKEN YKK AP

I took out my cube, and Lily got a feeling about what I was going to do.

"Are you ready?" I calmly asked, and he paused for a few minutes before slowly nodding.

"They are going to surrender themselves. There is no need to send armies out there to…"

*Fwoosh!*

Before he'd even continue what he wanted to say, he ended up getting sucked inside my cube.

"Now… Can you tell me what the hell all this is about? What's this madness!!!"

"First make sure everyone is looking for these Hescos," I paused, "they must not be too far away."

"You heard him, they are going to surrender."

"No, they won't," Something told me only Toramos was there to surrender to me. As for others, they already selected their side.

If I was in Toramos shoes, I'd end up in a very tough situation, one that I'd not like to be in voluntarily.

He had his own race and friends on one side, and his desire to follow me on another. I could already guess a thing or two about his reasons.

After all, he wasn't the first Hescos I met, or the first I gained his trust and loyalty.

Before I invaded the other worlds, I met a few Hescos paragons. And from there, I got to learn tons of things about how things truly were in that race.

It was… A bit of a nightmare!

Such worthy and capable kids were doomed from the moment of their birth. They didn't just lose their chances in competing for a better life, or even select the lives they wanted, they got shitloads of others who weren't any worse than them.

Getting raised up in such an environment was quite toxic over anyone, quite negatively impacting any genius no matter what.

That was why Toramos did like other paragons of the Hescos I met before. Once he spotted a chance to free and extricate himself from all this hell, he didn't hesitate to grasp the chance with all his might.

But he was the only smart dude out there. Others decided to defect, return to what they were all familiar with rather than risking things with someone alien to them like myself.

I could understand their reasons. They got a tough choice after all. But if they thought about things quite logically, then they'd end up just like Toramos.

After all, only a blind fool would miss seeing the golden chance here. I alone stood against a scary enemy, changed the fate of many races, and my strength here kept snowballing until it reached a terrifying scale.

Of course I couldn't be compared to those ancient and formidable races like Hescos, yet. But it was obvious that after winning this ordeal, I'd be a shining star in the entire universe and beyond.

It was fortunate for anyone to meet me at such an early stage. Later on, it'd be much harder for anyone to join me and get a good rank in my entire army and kingdom.

As for the last words he just said, it was his last help towards his friends. He wanted to mislead me, to believe his friends were going to come back and join me.

That was all bullshit! The ones who decided to defect and betray me wouldn't even think twice and would never join me again.

So he wanted to delay their retreat, buy little time for them to safely get away, as his last help to his friends.

That was why I took him inside the cube first, before telling Lily everything. I didn't want him to hold a grudge against me, wanting him to feel he truly helped his people with all his power before finally lowering his head and devoted his life for me with unwavering loyalty.

"It's done," Lily was quite impatient to hear my side of the story. So she made sure to get everything done in less than two minutes, turned to look at me as she crossed her arms, "now what? Tell me everything from A to Z!"

"It's like this…" I knew I got to tell her about this, all this madness. After all, she was my right hand, the one I depended on to lead everyone here and back to my kingdom.

"Sh*t! Sh*t! Sh*t! Is this really happening? There is no more Earth?!!!"

"That's what I was told," I sighed, "and we got nothing to do about it. Let's just do our best, win this entire thing out, and claim the new world."

Chapter 1528 Cracking Jokes At The Wrong Time

"You'll call it Earth, right?" and out of the blue, she said something quite weird and unexpected.

"Come on! It's not like you are part of my race or planet to begin with!" I raised one eyebrow, and she responded with a short laugh.

"Don't give me this look. The ones who got to join you seemed to get infected with… What do you call it? Humanity? Yes, humanity's genes or something."

"Stop joking! It's not the time for that!" I laughed at her words, and she laughed as well.

"I'm not! Just ask anyone from another race and he or she will tell you that."

"For real?!"

"Sure," she smiled, "don't you believe me?"

"I do," I laughed, "but we have an issue here. What shall we call you then? A humanoid race or what?"

"Well, you can just name us humans, that will be enough," she winked, "after all, won't everyone joining the kingdom be considered humans?"

"Sure," I laughed, "now let's return to speaking a bit more seriously. What shall we do about all this?"

"Like always," she shrugged, "we'll just cling on your back and you'll carry all of us, hahahaha!"

"Stop joking! It's not funny!"

"I'm not! Didn't you always do this all the time? Take the lead, go forward and meet up with that risk without any hesitation."

"I know, but that doesn't mean I will just keep doing this alone! Right?"

"I don't buy this," she shook her head, "you will always move on your own, take the lead, and do everything your way."

"But…"

"I know this time is a bit different," she finally said something serious, "and that means you'll have to overexert yourself a little bit more than usual."

"Come on!" I rolled my eyes, "stop fooling around!"

"Who said I was? Hahahaha! That's you! Since day one I met you and you always did it this way."

"Ok, I'll just think about a plan and tell you about it later on," as she kept joking like this, I decided to depend on myself and come up with the right tactic.

"Why bother with any of that? You already gave all of us instructions."

"But that was before the arrival of the new worlds and races!"

"That won't differ that much," she shrugged, "more forces are coming to help us. Why shall we bother with them?"

"This… The Hescos are coming…"

"They are all eyeing the big prize in the end, and that prize isn't us, right?" She finally said something helpful. Thank God! "They will either end up trying to save their lives, or do their best to contend with us over the big prize. Either way, we are going to end up getting help, with enemies becoming distracted, and things will get better for us."

"Don't forget the enemy is bringing more forces here," I said just in case she missed this point.

"And we got fresh blood, reinforcements. Don't forget, we came all the way here deprived from most of our entire forces. And right now? All the worlds are going to merge with us. And that means even if the forces we sent out there to secure other worlds are going to join us as well, right?"

"Yes… You got a point indeed…"

Her casually looking words opened my eyes on something that I totally missed. Earth was coming here, and that meant I'd finally get to fight with all my strength.

When I came here at first, I was only here with twenty of my people, with one that I couldn't even dare to release her out.

And just as things got better, I got more forces on my side, to even forget about my initial great handicap that I suffered from the start.

But right now, and with her reminding and helpful words, I got to know this was a chance for me as well.

Just like she said it, even the forces I sent before to invade other worlds would finally be freed from all that! I could now call back any forces from anywhere, let them help me and my side in crushing the enemy.

Even if the Hescos brought their forces here, even if more races joined, and with the enemy calling for aid, I was also getting my full forces at last!

And that alone was enough to make me feel much more confident and secure. This war wasn't that helpless and desperate as I thought before.

"I can also use the forces back at my second Earth world," I also realised this. The moment the merge would happen, my access to that hidden world would also get activated again.

And that would let me get my hands over a very important chip that I honestly missed.

I started to look differently, much differently than before about this merge thing. It was just like what that higher up said, I had to do all my best to make sure things would end up in my favour.

And it was indeed quite hard for anyone to dethrone me. This world… This quest… It was all going to end up mine!

"But I still got that damn threat to worry about…" I knew if I got my hands freed and not tied down by the impending risk of these bombs, then I'd get things done in my way.

I'd slowly chip my enemies and eat them piece by piece, making sure to crush them after adding as much as possible from their forces to mine.

But now I have to first handle this imminent threat. The bombs lying underground were a very annoying and troublesome thing to worry about.

"It's up to you champ," Lily patted on my shoulders, "go out there, kick their asses, and let us have our time in dealing with the arriving races and enemy forces."

"That means…"

pAnD a(-)n0ve1.com "Yes, the initial plan we devised won't change," she nodded, as if she knew this from the start, "I'll make the best use of all the extra forces joining us.

And hell yes we'll need all of them in this war. But everything still relies on you. You have to go out there, fight everything solo, and take down these bombs. Once done, it's our guaranteed win, no matter how long this war took."