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552 Changes In My Meridians And Dantians

I didn't have that many skills anyway. But I was planning to get much more from the dungeons. Recalling the dungeons, I realised I didn't have time to check the dungeon I cleared before.

It had to be opened and I had to let my boys enter it. My army had to get skills from there.

"So, can I leave now?" As he finished speaking about his own plans to join that big fight and how he felt envious of those who took part in it before, he declared his intention to leave once again.

"Go then," I had no role for him to play in this construction process anyway, "just don't risk it too much. I have a reason to believe there is a Hector continent up there."

"Are you sure?" He looked at me in such a serious way.

"It's just a hunch," I didn't have time to know if there were more Hector continents here or not, "but make sure you don't move recklessly."

"I'll keep that in mind," he paused before adding, "you know the third quest is over. And now it's a rest time before quest four.".

"This soon?!" I didn't imagine one week would pass this fast.

"Who told you to sleep for three days," he rolled his eyes while sighing. And I could only sigh as well.

"Ok, you can go back now," I waved my right arm, making him startled as he jumped at once back to evade it.

"Stop waving that dangerous thing of yours at others out of the blue! You might get someone killed this way!"

"It's only meant for you," I laughed, and he had to retreat and leave while mumbling words about how lunatic and crazy I was.

I watched him leave, and got on one of my dragons that I left for girls. That bastard… He went and bullied one of those poor girls and took one of her dragons by force or trick.

I decided to replace that dragon stripped off that poor girl with another. But now I had to first see what went wrong in my body.

I was too damn weak, and that wasn't going to do me any good.

"I have to see what happened inside," I supported my back to the edge of my chariot while sitting on the ground.

Just when I started regulating my breath, I felt something weird.

My dantian was the same, but my secondary dantian at my right elbow changed.

Before it looked isolated from my meridians, but now it wasn't. My meridians merged with those dantian meridians, looking much thicker and had a weird lustre to them.

The meridians weren't like mine, looked much upgraded and stronger than what I had. Yet this came at the price of having too dense a net of meridians.

The number of the meridians in that part of my right arm decreased by a lot. Comparing my left arm with it, it lacked a lot.

But that wasn't the issue. When I closed my eyes and regulated my breathing, I let the outer energy enter into my body and started circulating through my meridians and dantian.

Before, when I ever did this, it didn't cause any difference. The amount of the energy absorbed from the outside world was scanty in the first place.

But this time… It was different! I felt like I was the centre of the world, and every single speck of energy was racing up to come into my body.

As for my body, the energy started to enter first through my right arm. I felt much more heat than before when I used my skill.

It felt burning, stinging like I was holding a burning piece of iron. But soon I got used to this feeling, or that burning thing started to cool down for a bit.

What attracted my attention next was how my secondary dantian dealt with the energy absorbed. To be honest, I felt the change in the energy absorption rate came from that dantian.

I had the feeling that if I looked at my arm at this moment, I'd see a tempest forming around it. It happened before when my right arm was covered with the real version of that glove.

It made a great tornado out of bone energy. But this time it was dealing with the real life energy, making me feel more desire to devour more.

And that was what I did.

I stayed there, closing my eyes, regulating my breathing, while letting my secondary dantian do all the work. The energy absorbed from the outside world turned into a thicker spiritual energy with a darker grade of green colour than my energy.

It started to slowly circulate through my meridians. When it reached my real dantian, I could now say my entire body had such dark green energy inside.

Then out of the blue, the secondary dantian shock vibrated thrice. With it my main dantian shook and vibrated as well. Then the energy that was dark green started to change colour slowly until it became a pale blue grade.

"This…" I opened my eyes after a long time of sitting there. My body now had pale blue energy all over it. I didn't know what caused all this, but if it was my new technique, then I'd be thankful for it.

"Wow!" Just as I tried to stand up, I ended up jumping high in the air out of the blue. I just pushed against the floor of my chariot, and when I did I ended up flying like this.

"Watch out!" I jumped for almost a hundred metres in the air before falling towards the ground. There were people working, digging the ground and getting dirt out.

So I shouted before I summoned one of my dragons, landed on its back and planned to fly away.

But just as it appeared, I leant over its back using my right hand out of habit. Just as I did that, the dragon fell towards the ground like a cannonball, slamming fiercely against those workers, killing few in the process.

553 Meeting Isac

"Dammit!" I didn't get used to the abnormal strength in my right arm. I didn't plan for any of this to happen. And I ended up summoning another dragon, landing over its back with my left hand, trying to not harm anyone this time.

"Phew! That was… Damn close!" as the dragon took my body away from the ground by just a few metres, I could finally heave a sigh of relief.

"Come back," I called back that injured dragon which I hit out of coincidence.

Underneath it, a group of smashed bodies soaked in their blood was left there. I could only look at them and inwardly sigh.

Such an accident wasn't intended, but I had nothing to say here but to wait for Isac to come running from far when she heard the news.

"You… Woke up already?" she raised an eyebrow, as if she expected me to sleep much longer or something.

"What? Disappointed?"

"No, it's just… I knew you were going through a cultivation breakthrough and that usually takes a week or so to end.".

"A… What?!!" This time her words shocked me. I never expected it would be such a thing. I thought it was just an upgrade in my energy level thanks to the technique I mastered.

But it seemed it was much bigger than what I thought.

"What? Don't tell me you got such an upgrade by coincidence?!!" It was her time to get shocked by what I said. And I had nothing else to say but to smile.

"Damn! You are damn lucky! You know that?!"

"Luck has nothing to do with what I achieved so far," I rolled my eyes, "it's determination and ambition."

"It's luck, don't try to cover that up," she chuckled, "anyway, it's great to have such a lucky boss, right?"

"Boss?! Girl! I'm your lord!"

"A lord who spends most of his time sleeping, right?" She laughed and I couldn't say anything back even when I felt a little insult from what she said.

I wasn't that lazy kind of lord. I was just… A bit unlucky actually at the recent events.

Unlike what she thought, I wasn't considering myself anything near lucky.

"What happened here then?" she started to look at the chaos created by me down below.

"It's just… an unlucky event," I sighed and didn't delve into anything of what happened. "Can you handle this? Ah by the way, I'll bring much better ore. So can you wait until I bring these here?"

"Ore? We already have a nice grade one," she said in a weird tone, "what's the point in spending too much over this? We already have a nice grade here."

"Not enough," I knew this might seem a trivial matter, but against the yet to come natural disasters that would hit the world fiercely, I had to be sure my capital would stand erect and had no harm in any possible way.

Plus the higher the grade of the ore, and if it contained energy absorption and concentration properties, the better it would be for my people living here.

The foundation process wasn't just related to the buildings in the capital, but it could also help in accelerating the cultivation progress of everyone.

Not to mention some ores had a role to play in strengthening defences and even aiding my shield.

"But I already gave the order to prepare to lay the foundations!"

"Delay such a process then."

"You know you are going to delay us? I have a tight schedule, do you even know that?"

"I don't know," I laughed, "I was sleeping, did you forget?"

"You now know! And you can't come back and delay my work in such a way!"

"This is for the better, just trust me on this," I patted her on the shoulder with my left arm, acting more cautious to not harm her with my right arm.

"Sigh! What a troublesome dude you are!" she rolled her eyes, making me laugh again.

"You are mean," she punched me on the chest, before turning around and leaving. "Don't forget, I won't wait for you more than one day! Do you get it?"

"Who is the boss here?" I said amidst my laughs and she responded with a childish act of sticking out her tongue.

"I'm the one who is doing your reconstruction anyway, so don't try and play with me as I'm a serious Selvator dude!"

"Girl, you aren't even close to any dude I know," I teased her, making her stick out her tongue again before hurrying to leave.

I watched her act and control the messy situation down below before taking my leave.

I had to reach a place away from the blockage here.

But just before I left, I recalled something.

"Damn! I forgot about my room!" I slapped my forehead, while hurrying to open it.

"It reached… Over sixty-seven million in just these days… Impressive!" I looked at the number before sighing.

I had no time to care about this place. And as I opened the room, I was met with lots of messages.

I feared that the atmosphere here would be cold and filled with negativity and anger. However when I read through the latest messages here, I got to see how I was deeply wrong.

These people… Sigh! They dealt with this as a place to get to know each other, have new friends, and even try to find lovers.

I looked at all this fun and closed it. "I have to find Hilary and start appointing everyone as mods there," I got no patience to deal with the simple questions there.

I created this room to act as a means to communicate with others and recruit them. I planned to expand my authority over the world of humans using it, but I never planned to do it myself.

I had trusted subordinates. They might be busy at this point, but who said they didn't have their trusted aides under them?

554 Next Time Then

They could assign the tasks of dealing with the room and those people to their trusted subordinates. From what I saw, humans took this as a chance to have fun in such dark times.

So my team and their trusted teams might have fun as well while doing it.

"Hilary is at the coast," I recalled the previous arrangement before I lost my consciousness. So I moved my chariot up to the coast and went north from there.

It was good that Hectors didn't come and attack my capital during this time. It seemed they got their own problems to handle, or were just preparing their forces.

Either way, my capital passed through this critical moment of my absence. Even that mysterious bastard who kept nagging at me didn't appear all this time.

I hoped he would stumble while walking, fall on a rock and break his neck or something. I'd call that pure luck, pure damn luck.

Just as I reached the coast, I noticed the presence of a large number of people up there. They were working so hard, digging the ground and clearing the dirt..

A series of long deep lines extended on the ground, looking like scars from high up. As I flew forward, I saw more workers digging, as they were forming circular big holes, seemingly for posts and defensive towers.

I didn't know what Isac exactly planned for this part, but she seemed to do a nice job here. The walls in this part weren't triple, but they were formed in groups, each had three up to five walls lined side to side with narrow spaces in between.

Each group had a wide street separating them from each other, looking like paths for armies to march through, reaching almost twenty up to forty metres in width.

Each mile I saw a group of big circular holes in the ground. So she arranged the defensive towers and posts to be situated in such regular intervals.

Quite organised and well prepared to face any attack indeed. Hopefully I'd find some nice ballistae and other cool war stuff to secure these parts with their mighty power.

"Here you are," after flying around for half an hour, I finally got to see Hilary. She was standing in the middle of a big group of her elites, seemingly listening to the updates that happened during her absence.

From her intense reaction when I woke up, and the dark circles around her eyes, I got to know that this girl didn't sleep during the past three days, kept standing on the side of my bed.

"Come on board for a sec," I saw how busy she was, so I had to make it quick.

"You missed me and came to see me this soon?" Yet when she came up, she hurriedly ran and jumped into my arms while saying that.

Giving me such a line made me unable to say anything I had in my mind. I could only pat on her shoulder while keeping her in my embrace for now.

"Did you see the new communication system?" I asked after long minutes of holding her within my arms and caressing her gently on the back.

"I got the notification, but didn't have time to check it."

Her tone came so low and weak, as if she was sleepy or something.

"You should check it, I created a room there with the name of our kingdom."

"Really?!" she sat erect while looking at me with half closed eyes. "You… Don't tell me you are the one behind this?"

"Who else?" I laughed and she smiled.

"I had to know it was you when I heard the notification," she sighed, "you… I dunno how you get to do all this, but I'm glad you really took over my power and came back here."

"Is that so?" I touched her face, gently with my fingers while she closed her eyes as if she really wanted to sleep.

She was so tired, and I could only sigh. She… Just got herself tired and exhausted, letting me feel more guilt for her.

"You can go down there and have some rest," I proposed, despite knowing her answer.

"I can't," she yawned while stretching both arms in a lazy way, "I left my boys down below working for three days straight. I had to check over their work first before doing anything else. Ah, about that room of yours…"

"I want you and others to be assigned as mods," I said, while feeling more guilt to assign more work to her.

"What do you really want from it?" she asked, while resisting the urge to close her eyes and sleep, "I know you, you won't do anything without a big benefit from it."

"I just want to recruit any human we can get," I shrugged.

"Regardless of location?" she started to regain her activity as she asked with a much stronger tone.

"Accept anyone," I said before adding, "one day we will get a means to travel large distances, you know that."

"Yes… but…"

"It will happen later on, I get it," I nodded, "but let's lay the foundation for such a move from now."

"Pretty much meticulous and scheming dude you are," she stood up from my lap, swaying for a second there before I held her body with my hands.

"Easy there," I said and she could only smile.

"I have to go down," she slowly said, while touching my chin with her delicate and smooth fingers, "or else… We might end up leaving me wasted like always."

"Next time then," I painted a soft kiss over her forehead, making her body shiver for a second. She hugged me tightly for a long minute before finally releasing me and going towards the stairs.

"Next time," she said before vanishing through the stairs.

I watched her walking back to her boys. I knew I'd depend on her for that task in the room. I just had to search for her name and give her a higher role than a mod, like an admin or something.

555 Assigning An Admin To My Room

Like this she could control the room, assign people as mods, and also organise things. She was my girl, and if our relationship developed further, she would end up being my queen.

So it was just normal for her to be an admin over this important room. Hopefully she'd do a great job with everyone back there.

As I finished here, I realised that I was already outside the blockage zone of that seal.

And I got to know it in a very simple way.

[Hey! I kept messaging you all these days and you never responded! You know we have a deal!]

[Sorry, told you I'm in a sealed place] I responded to the nymph lady.

[You told me you'd check on me once every day]

[Sorry, was sleeping]

[With whom?]

[Alone!].

[Sleeping alone for three damn straight days! Come on! I'm a grown up lady and won't get any embarrassment from adult stories]

[I told you, I slept alone!]

[Damn liar! Anyway, I got an answer to what you asked before. Or did that girl make you forget about what we spoke about?]

[What girl?]

[The one you were sleeping with!]

[Sigh! Ok lady, believe whatever you want. Anyway, is it a go or what?]

[They agreed on your terms, but securing a kingdom heart will take long time before it's done]

[Just say you will garnish profit first before giving me what I want]

[It's not like that! You know, we deeply treasure you]

[Yes, deeply treasure my deep pockets and bones] I rolled my eyes before adding, [Anyway, send the contract over. I'll accept your invitation after I'm done with my things here]

[Ok, also about your humans… Won't you take them? And the races? What should I do with them?]

Damn! I forgot to think about a solution for these races!

[How much did you bring to these races?]

[Over two hundred million]

[Damn! That's big!] I never imagined their numbers would reach such a staggering scale.

[Wanna me to stop?]

[No, keep working] even if they were in billions, I'd still take them all.

But what should I do with them right now?

If I had a choice, I'd start letting my humans have their own followers and slaves. My humans lived as slaves for their entire lives. So it only felt fair to repay this debt in such a way.

In order to do so, I had to first finish arranging up my humans and letting them have their cultivation bases opened. Then I'd give them the chance to have their own races bound by contracts.

[Are you sure? You know you need to pay me for all these then!]

[Send me the number and I'll pay you now with everything else]

As she sent the bill, I paid without batting an eye. I got a large statue of bones in my inventory, enough to let me pay all this without feeling any bitterness.

[Don't send humans over right now] I had to stop her from doing so, or else things would get chaotic. [Just wait until I tell you]

[You paid, so feel free to tell me when to send them]

I closed the chat after chatting a little about her suggestions of the right time to go into that world.

Of course I asked for the recipe for the cultivation, and she promised to bring it to me in a day or two.

"Ok, it's enough for her to join," I opened my room and searched for Hilary's name. Of course that name was common, and I got tons of Hilarys in front of my eyes.

But only one was my friend, and she came on top of that huge list.

"Go baby, do your magic," I muttered while assigning her as an admin role. A notification was sent to everyone in my room it seemed when I did that, as I got a general one notifying me of appointing Hilary as an admin.

I closed my room and controlled my chariot to return back to the capital.

I had to find Angelica and let her follow me outside so she could take care of the newly acquired humans.

This batch was big enough to make her and her boys busy for the next few days at least. According to the bill, that nymph lady prepared over two hundred million humans this time.

Finding Angelica took little time in the middle of all the chaos here. The capital city was filled with many humans working, so I had to ask for the help of one of the dragon female riders to find her.

I also got one dragon out and handed it over to that girl to replace the girl who lost hers.

"Are we ready to deal with another batch?" Angelica came to my direction at the western zone where I stopped my chariot at.

As I sent her a word, I moved my chariot towards the location of her work. And she came with a slightly larger number of people than before.

"I see you gained more fighters," I motioned with my head towards the ground while she stood by my side.

"We got lots of people, so why shall I work short handed?" she chuckled, "I selected enough to make handling the work much faster."

"I doubt this will be the case here," I had to pour a cold bucket of water over her dreams, "we have lots of people this time, very much."

"I'll handle them," she said it in such a good spirit, but her tone betrayed her as it showed her disappointment.

She seemed to dream about finishing the work here so fast, much faster than before. But this wasn't going to happen.

"Get ready," I said while she left in silence without saying anything back. She was really depressed from this, sigh!

[Send them over] as Angelica returned down there, I gave the lady the signal to send the humans over.

Like before, lots of portals appeared around and a huge number of humans gushed out from them. As things here were under Angelica's control, I had no intention to stay here.

As I got to sort small matters out, it was time for me to go and enter my shadow world again.

I wanted to see what changed inside. I knew my technique worked, but I had to see the result myself.

556 I Want Special Ores

I sat on my chariot, closed my eyes and started regulating my breath. Like last time, energy gushed out from the outer world in torrents through my right arm.

Sigh! This right army secondary dantian of mine was acting like a beast! It showed no bottom to its absorption, not even after my energy got upgraded into pale blue.

This time I was mentally prepared. I ignored the suction of energy and focused onto my feet.

From there, I entered my shadow world. The moment I appeared, I instantly saw the changes that happened here.

My dantian here was the same, but from the central part of it, a thick thread of dark blue energy linked it with the clump of energy nearby.

That link was firm and rigid at my dantian part, growing restless and looking alive-like when it came closer to that energy. It ended up merging with the entire bulk of energy, where its threads kept expanding and shrinking, moving all the time like they were alive.

"So… This is what it ended up like," I looked at this scene while feeling content from this result. The technique succeeded, creating a bond between my dantian and that bulk of energy.

It was a secure type link, shown clearly from the difference in the two ends of it. I controlled my energy inside my dantian, circulated it and started to absorb the energy from that dark energy.

Once I tried to do it, that energy shone in blue lustre, and its threads movements grew fiercer and stronger..

It seemed like they got startled and stirred by my attempt, yet that didn't cause any problems. The next moment I felt an immense gush of energy towards that dantian.

The energy that came was dark blue, yet once it mixed with my own pale blue, a new blue appeared for a moment before it turned into pale blue.

Yet when the energy circulated inside the huge structure of my dantian here, the entire dantian started to shine in blue lustre just like the energy itself.

The scene was really amazing. However I didn't continue doing this.

After all this would be like cutting one's flesh to cook meat. I wouldn't do that. I wouldn't deplete this energy even for a little.

It was better to go out and concentrate on absorbing the outer energy and turn it into mine. This way I'd add more to my energy here, eventually.

Everything was connected. It seemed like a very big structure with complicated nets connecting everything, but they were all connected.

I opened my eyes, thought about what I had to do here. In fact I had nothing that urgent. Everything was handled with all, except for one simple task.

[I need ores, special ores that can be used to lay foundations of any city and town. I want ores with special effects, you know what I mean, right?]

I recalled what I read before about this kind of ores. In fact humans never had the chance to build their cities and towns using such ores.

But Dragons had! Those bunch of rich folks had the chance to build five of their cities using a special kind of ore.

When humans learnt about it, many regretted not having such wealth or power to do the same. I once read about a city that caused the biggest losses during the three races war.

This one stood against two direct attacks from Selvators and Berserkers. It was rumoured that the ones leading these two armies were paragons, and that just showed how big such a battle was.

Yet the two forces didn't manage to break through this city's defences. It wasn't thanks to the valiant efforts of the defending Dragons, but thanks to the boast gained from the ores lying underneath the city.

Since that battle and the fame of the ores skyrocketed. The other two mighty races in my time managed to get their hands on such ores and started to build strong forts and cities using it.

However for humans, this was just a mere dream, a fantasy one that I decided to turn into reality right here.

[You know these are pricey]

[Not for me]

[And so damn hard to get large amounts of these!]

[Not for you]

I knew she was just putting out a front to ask for a high price. I was aware now of how this impact was doing business. And to be honest, it was such a good and profitable way to run such a business in such a way.

[Also there are lots of such ores, what do you have specifically in mind?]

[Something that can boast defences and work to facilitate cultivation]

[This… You know double attribute ores are pricey and rare!]

[Then you can gather two ores, each with a single attribute helping in doing one of these effects, right?]

[Hmm… What's the size of your city we are talking about here?]

[City? I'm speaking about a kingdom!]

[Damn! Why does dealing with you always get on my nerves like this?]

I laughed when I read her response. [I'm just a human, I love to do things in its best way possible]

[The first human to ever do such a thing actually]

[Everything must have a start, right?]

[Ok, give me a minute… I'll check our stores and see. But damn! Entire kingdom! That's a sh*t load of ores we are speaking about here!]

[Let's start a small delivery, with whatever you got. Then you search for such ores for me, and when you get some, you deliver and I'll pay]

[Without even asking about the price? So damn fierce human you are!]

[Hahaha! I just hate wasting time on hustling and bargaining]

[Fine, it's more profitable for me this way. Let me check the store and return back to you]

[Cool!]

I knew she was capable of bringing me lots of ores from the first time. But what would I do later on?

Securing a stable supply route of these ores was important for me, for my kingdom. However I knew this wasn't going to be an easy task for her and her impact.

557 Blueprints For Aerial And Aquatic Cities And Fortresses

I closed the chat with her and waited. I had to solve this problem first before starting my cultivation session.

I planned to keep absorbing energy until that right dantian would get full and satisfied. It might take days to be honest, but it would bring me good rewards without doubt.

[The price will be high if you want everything!]

As I expected, she didn't take much time before returning to me. In less than ten minutes, she sent this message to me.

[How much?] I knew she was trying to just raise the price. But girl, if you got a chance to see my inventory, you'd slap your face out of regret to deal this kindly with me!

Bones? Green grade bones? I got heaps of them to count!

[For a group of a thousand, you'll pay one bone]

[A group of a thousand? What's their size exactly?] I didn't get her meaning. She could just bring small pieces and count them as large ones! I had to know the size or else this deal would be a theft!

[Let me send one over to you now to check, consider it a gift].

*Fwoosh!*

*Boom!*

The next moment, a portal opened, and a large piece of rock fell from it to cause such a scary sound. It was in the size of ten metres length and five width, faint red in colour with thin lines of blue colour running deep within it.

[This is the Reckol ore, one that could boost the strength of anyone present near it in one hundred metres radius. This is the standard size we are dealing with here]

Damn fierce! Just as the rock landed, even I felt a change!

It was like my blood boiled, as if adrenaline ran through my veins at this moment.

This feeling… It was a familiar one that I always felt during epic battles. But it wasn't that easy to feel when fighting small ones. And I also felt it in the heat of such battles, not even from just standing next to this ore.

This ore… It was really wondrous! Having tons of these would be perfect!

[Deal!] I didn't hesitate for a second, [How much can you prepare such ores?]

[Let me see… You want it all, right? Even the ones used to build water and air cities and fortresses?]

[What… Are these?!] It was a new concept even for me.

[What? Don't tell me you never heard about this!] she seemed to be surprised by my ignorance, [What do everyone use to build underwater and midair cities and fortresses? They use a special type of ores for that! Anyway, do you want them? They also have the same price as well!]

[Bring me all] I decided to not let such a chance slip by. Ores used to build underwater structures? That was simply perfect!

I didn't know if Isac could draw such blueprints or if our people could do such a thing. But still having such ores would help.

[Also if you have drawings for such fortresses and cities under water and midair, add them to the deal]

[This… Do you think these are cheap?!!]

[Just state your price, I only needed one drawing for a city, town, fortress, and defensive post or tower underwater and in the air]

[Ok… Let me check these and return to you… By the way, about our current ore deal…]

[Just let me know of the price and I'll pay. But you have to deliver these as fast as you can]

[If you paid it now, I can send them now. After all, I'm speaking to you while standing in the middle of the store]

[How much?]

[I got… Let me see… Ten different ores, each with single attribute]

[How much?] I wasn't interested in knowing such details. I just wanted to get this deal done and provided the ores to Isac and her people to use.

[Well… I got a thousand groups of each, meaning… That's ten thousand bones. Can you pay such a price now?]

[Deal!] I started moving, controlling my chariot to fly towards the central part of the capital. There, much digging was going on. "It's not suitable here!"

I knew such an amount of ores would take up a huge space. Also I wanted to let her send ores in different places, so Isac and her people wouldn't mistake one for another.

"There!" on the coastline of my capital, I found a large open space that people didn't go there yet to dig.

It was slightly twenty miles south to my capital. It wasn't a part of the planning of Isac it seemed, or else why was no one there working?

[I want you to send these ores in different locations] I sent, [each single type will be sent to a place. I also want you to send a briefing description about each ore]

[Sure! Just tell me when you are ready to receive one kind and I'll open a portal for it]

[Send one now!]

I was standing just near the ocean at this point. As a portal appeared, a gush of large sized faint red ores appeared, like the one she sent before.

[One ore is sent, nine is waiting]

[One sec…] I moved my chariot towards the south, [Send the second one now]

I flew almost three to four miles to the south, enough distance to let the ores gather up and not get near each other.

Once she opened a portal, I'd move for three to four miles again and let her send another. I kept moving like this in a big circle.

Once finished, I looked around and saw big piles of rocks of different colours appearing everywhere.

"They need to start moving and sorting them out," I looked at the long description of each ore before turning my gaze towards the city. "She has to move these rocks inside the city and start working on them."

According to the nymph lady, these ores couldn't be used in their raw form. They had to be melted first, and if few materials were added, their effects might get doubled or tripled!

558 Are You A Magician?!!

But according to her, such materials were in low quantity even in her impact's store to not satisfy even a small part of these ores.

So I had to drop using such materials here. It was just nice to use this different set of ores in building the capital foundations.

"Find Isac for me," as I went into the inner zone of my capital, I stopped one of the dragon rider girls and asked her to fetch Isac for me.

In less than five minutes, I saw Isac coming back on the back of a dragon with that girl.

From the look on her face, I could tell she was surprised by the fast arrival of the ores.

Of course ten big portals letting out grand rocks of weird looking shapes wasn't going to be missed by anyone. Even from far away, such a scene would attract anyone's attention for sure.

"I see you got the ores you spoke about," once she jumped off the back of the dragon and the girl riding it went away, Isac said with an envious look on her face.

"Come, let's check them first," I took her on a ride over my chariot to check the ores..

During these minutes, large quantities of these ores appeared here from the portals. They were all cut in the same size, as if this was done by experts.

As we passed by each type of the ores, I started to tell her in detail the things the green nymph told me about.

All the ores were single attributed as that lady promised. Ten types of ores shared three different effects in general.

The first effect was boasting the defences of anyone standing in a hundred metre radius from the ore. The second was increasing strength in the same way. And the last was a magically healing effect.

That effect looked weird as it didn't affect any stat, but it accelerated healing of any wound for the forces nearby.

I loved this effect! However only one ore was created, and it was called the angelic breath ore.

"The angelic breath ore must be distributed all over the capital," I stressed over it, "if the amount isn't enough, you can focus more at areas near the walls and the defensive towers."

"Hmm… I got it! But there is a problem… Many actually…"

She sighed, and I could guess a few of the troubles she was thinking about.

"The blacksmiths? We do have lots of talents here. Plus we don't need experienced ones to do this."

"But it's better to have people knowing what to do… Blacksmithing isn't that easy, especially when dealing with such ores."

Of course she was a Selvator, and she was a paragon, so she knew what she was talking about.

"Any suggestions?"

"Sigh! We can ask Fang, but I doubt he will have time to find good blacksmiths," she sighed and I suddenly had a flash of an idea in my mind.

But to do it… I had to first see and check what they lack here, not just doing it for blacksmiths.

"Aside from that," I slowly said, "what else do we lack here?"

"Big trucks and gears to help move these big rocks around," she waved her arm in a depressed way, "and we need lots of these, plus lots more workers."

"I didn't mean that," I already guessed this problem. We might lack gears, but not numbers. Just the last batch of humans brought here and left for Angelica was enough to make humans rise in number to be close to four hundred millions here.

That was… A very good number! I even believed we would need to start fetching a few groups inside my territory to start occupying towns and cities.

Anything away from the coastline would be much safer. So sending large numbers in many places wouldn't bring any harm.

But Isac here had to finish planning everything first. Once she finished laying out a few blueprints, I'd send groups to each town and city nearby to settle in and start rebuilding.

"What do you mean then?"

"I mean any missing talent in the entire rebuilding process, people we lack and need most."

"Well… Aside from blacksmiths, it would be better to find good miners. We can't just depend on these ores to lay the entire foundation. We can mix ores together, build the foundation in blocks, one from these and many from common ones."

"You are the boss, so what you say works," I shrugged, "anything else?"

"Hmm… To build here and out there faster, we might need giant races. Humans… Your race is just too tiny to do things like these."

"Giant races, noted," I nodded, "what else?"

"Speaking like you can extend your hand and bring forth anything I wanted!" she rolled her eyes and I could only laugh in response.

"Girl, after seeing all this with me and you doubt my magical abilities? Hahaha! Just wait, wait and see… I promise I'll surprise you!"

"I have no doubt in that," she pointed around, "just getting all these ores… Damn! You even have one more that's suitable for aerial cities and two for water structures."

"About that… I'm going to buy blueprints for cities, towns, fortresses, and defensive structures to be built in air and water."

"Really?! You are not kidding me, right?"

"Come on! Just give me a second…"

As she was saying this, the nymph lady sent it to me and told me she got what I asked for.

Each blueprint was very pricey. The cheapest of them was sold to me for one hundred green grade bones. But I just paid ten thousand green bones to her, so this price didn't matter.

"Here," as she just said before, I waved my arm like a real magician and viola! The blueprints appeared landing over each other, forming a small pile in front of the two of us.

Seeing this made her startled and frown for a few seconds before she jumped around, checking them like she was seeing a delicious large piece of cake.

559 The Alien World's Access

I watched her checking each blueprint with shining eyes. I never took this girl to be like this. But she seemed to enjoy such a gift more than anything else.

I stood on the side without interrupting her moment. After half an hour, she raised her head and sighed in such a tiring way.

"It's more damn complicated than I ever thought! How did you bring these? They all have the stamp of the refined hammer impact!"

"Refined what?" I didn't know what this name implied.

"It's one of the most famous designing impacts in the entire universe," she rolled her eyes as if this name was supposed to be known by me, "their designs are all unique! They never did the same design twice!"

"That means…"

"These blueprints are one of a kind in the entire universe, can you believe that?" she grinned, "and just having one is considered a blessing and a chance for anyone like me. I'll learn a lot from studying these blueprints. Thanks, I know you must have paid a fortune to get these dozen designs!"

I looked at her taking away these designs without knowing what to say. Paid a fortune? I didn't feel like that!.

But it was worth it anyway. Such designs must be something good. "Can we do it?" I asked, "especially the water defensive structures."

"Theoretically speaking, yes. But we need aquatic races to help us build and maintain these things," she sighed, "such races aren't easy to find! Plus you have to force them to sign a loyalty contract to not betray you. They will handle such critical structures at the frontline with those damn Hector."

She got what I wanted to do. But finding an aquatic race wasn't a problem. I refused to believe that in the entire army of races that lady prepared, not a single aquatic race would be there!

"Is that all?"

"Races that can fly won't be an issue," she pointed at a distant dragon rider girl, "we can always use your dragons."

"My dragons aren't for daily labour!"

"Then find us real Dragon race dudes and let them be our workers," she laughed, and her comment made me laugh as well.

"Will work on that, it's a nice idea indeed," I said amidst my laughs, "anything else?"

"Aside from tools and a long list of materials? Nothing really…" she paused for a second before adding, "but we will need inscriptors, those who can write old runes to add magic effects to anything."

"Is there something like that?!"

"There is," she nodded, "but it's not a common trade, so…"

"Will look up for them," I promised, "what else?"

"As we are talking about rare breeds, we can look for array makers as well. Also anyone who can form magical cores will be needed as well."

"Noted," I kept nodding while taking note of all these weird professions she kept mentioning.

"I'll take another look at these papers later on," she promised, "if I found anything we might need, I'll inform you about it."

"Cool. go off now and start your work."

"Not here," she shook her head, "drop me back there, how should I cover that distance with my body?"

She pointed at herself and I could only sigh.

After dropping her, I turned to leave towards the crops field.

Few days have already passed, and I wanted to check the current status of these fields. Then I'd ask that lady to bring forth her races after paying Angelic a visit.

What Angelica and her team did with humans would also work at other races. I was looking for many talents, races with special traits. So with their help, I can control things more properly.

But what should I do with the extra races?

Leaving them here wouldn't do any good! Humans brought over lived as slaves, ending up with deep grudges and hatred to other races.

Who knew, there might be a race who had tortured my humans or something like that! This would end up bad, and fights would erupt, leading me to lose most of these races.

That wouldn't do! I had to find a role for them to play. What should they do?

Aside from talents, and killing them to get souls, I didn't have any better idea yet. Sigh! If only I could bring them to a place and leave them there to breed and train for future uses…

Wait… Didn't I have such a place already?

I thought back and yes, I got access to a world!

It was the same world where I fought that bastard paragon back at the right of the pillar.

I recalled I gained access to that world. But would I be able to open a portal there and lead people back here? Could I do it?

Getting the races there wasn't a problem. After all that lady could send these races to wherever I was.

But taking the selected people from there to here was the problem. Before I didn't have time to explore that world.

I had access to it, and that meant I could go there and extort any resources and bring them back.

I never thought about doing this before as I was busy with many things and also didn't sort out things here.

But with my current large human supply, I could even start inhabiting that world with them. An alien world, pure and without any inhabitant, was a good chance that I shouldn't miss.

This world… It was my chance to get many things! Earth here needed many decades to just reach a close level from that world, or even centuries!

Ok, I'd try to first check the information about that reward from before. I recalled something related to my profile page. I didn't recall the exact notification that I received when I returned from that world.

And it wasn't really feasible or logical to go through all the messages the system sent to me from that time! I opened my profile, and there I found an icon related to that world.

560 The Krishn World

Once I opened that world's icon interface, a row of messages popped up in front of my eyes!

[Congratulations! You got the acknowledgement of the destroyed world, Krishn]

[A portal option is now available to your profile]

[You can access that world by paying a certain price to open that portal and get there]

[The world map is now prepared and will be available for you to scan]

[The current world state information is being piled up and will be available for you in your profile]

[The world's past main events are going to be piled up for you to access at your profile]

[The world's will is going to issue you quests according to your actions later here in your world and there in that world. So pay more attention to your actions or else you'd get nothing in the end].

[To unlock all these features, you have to pay with a currency that the world's will will accept]

[You have to select your best currency and send a single piece of it to the world to evaluate. If it's good, the world's will will unlock all the features for you in exchange for a regular fee]

"Regular fee? What the hell is that?!" I looked at these messages, feeling uncertain about it.

The first rows of messages were the ones which I gained before. Once reading these, I recalled the intense fight over the ownership of the pillar, making me inwardly sigh.

I crossed a big distance in such a short time in terms of power and authority. Anyway, I didn't need to think about any currency, as I decided to use one once I read these messages.

"Take a single green grade bone and send it to that world's will," I muttered and the next moment, the messages that came made me grin in satisfaction.

I knew it! No one would ever reject my tasty bones.

[The currency you selected is being sent to the world's will]

[The world's will answered… She accepts your currency]

[The price is set… You will gain access to the world as a sole person and be part of the the Krishn world for paying one hundred currency per month]

[If you want to be the sole lord of the world, granted access to the world with you and any of your forces, then you have to pay ten thousand currency per month]

[What do you say, human Hye?]

I didn't know what to say but this:

"Deduct a fee enough for one year," I paused, "and open up all the records of that world for me to check."

I got access to all the records of the main events that ever happened in that world during its history. If I was going to take advantage of it, I had to first thoroughly study its history.

[It's now available at the part of the world in your profile]

[You can check anything you want from there]

[Good luck, human Hye. Your countdown for the world's wars is going to start in three months time]

What's the world like? I didn't get what the system just said. But I was instantly baffled by the long records that appeared when I selected the world's records icon.

Damn! An entire list of over a thousand pages! How would I go through all this!

"I hope there is a way to search for what I want… Here it is… Let's write then… World's resources," I muttered while checking that big list of records.

At the side, in a lower corner, I found an icon meant to look for anything. After I wrote the world's resources, the list shrunk, but not that much.

"Damn! Even in such an alien world, wars were ragged over resources!" I was surprised when the list only lost a couple of hundred pages this time.

"Ok… Let's write then… The world's most important places."

If the search for the materials and resources failed, then this search wouldn't. "Bingo!" just as the result of the search came, I only found ten pages of records in front of my eyes.

Each item in this list was named with a war word in it. The war over the Rolam heights, the war over the Gorgantal capital, and such weird names.

But almost most of the names held the names of big cities and capitals. I skipped all these and focused on the wars over plains, fields, mountains, and any terrain.

A war over a big city was surely a famous one. After all, capitals and big cities would give more importance to any place thanks to their political importance.

But screw politics! See what happened to this world in the end and you'd know why I hated politics.

At the end of the world, and after all the living races became extinct and died, the world only remained and nothing of these useless cities and capitals remained.

Only these plains, heights, rivers, basins, and mountains remained long after the extinction of all sane lives in that world.

In the end, the world prevailed. And that meant anything these races in that world fought for was pointless and meaningless.

I started my study, feeling more informed about the previous situation of that world. After many hours of reading through these important records, I started to grow an idea about what brought the end to the race there.

"So… It was a world that was destroyed by its people, not thanks to the apocalypse? What a regret!"

I read through many records of big wars, and one of these spoke about the end of battles between the dominant three races on this planet.

They fought really hard over dominance and race superiority. I even read that the main reason for this war was a love story between the three races, and the hero of this was a common dude from the weakest race.

That dude was really something! He managed to let two direct princesses of the other two stronger races fall in love with him and even declared him as their husband to the masses.

561 Paying The Price To Become Krishn World's Lord

This, of course, wasn't accepted in the political big circle of these two races. As that would mean a common dude from a weak race would inherit the throne of their two mighty races.

In other words, the weakest race would be in control over the two big and mightier races. So the higher ups of these two races decided to wage war, wipe out the weakest race off the planet!

But that came at a hefty price to pay! After all, weapons of mass destruction weren't just a sole trait of foolishness of humans. Even if that race was the weakest, they still got weapons of mass destruction.

And when they were on the brink of extinction, they decided on a whim and in the middle of the heat of war to lead everyone to extinction with them.

In the end, a world was left behind, void of any inhabitant, and ready for anyone to claim just like I did.

It was a new concept for me. I thought before this world got smashed hard during the big wars of the apocalypse, ending up losing all the races in it and being filled with monsters.

But that explained why I didn't see a single monster in that world when I was chasing that damn paragon in it..

Monsters were one of the three races ruling that world before. Only the green life survived at the end, and after many millenia, the world revived itself, and was filled with nothing but vast trees.

That might be nothing to anyone, but for me… That was just the best news ever!

Trees… during the apocalypse that hit my world here, and in the first ten years from now, not a single tree would survive!

Even when other races came here, they monopolised the farming secret for a long time. Also they kept their tree resources for themselves.

Having something made out of wood? That would be a fortune back at my time! Only the wealthy and rich people would end up having few wooden furniture and even statues.

At some point, a single wood piece would turn to be weighed in precious ores and high grade gears!

Of course not all the wood was gone from my world, not yet. The apocalypse was just focusing on us, humans and other races, for now.

But later on, the apocalypse would try to hit the world pretty damn hard, trying to turn our lives into misery.

Of course I know why this all happened. The ones overruling the apocalypse wanted to train warriors, strong and mighty races who could join the big fight with the alien universe.

I mistakenly thought they did that for the sake of evolving us, letting all the races in the world get a chance to live a better life after evolution.

But that was all wrong!

And now I had this chance. An access to a world that was void of any life, filled with trees, filled with resources that were nourished for all this time by the world's concentrated energy… Damn! It was so damn great!

I exited the records pages and went back to the main interface.

"Opening a single portal is free… Opening a portal with a single direction is for a hundred bones each time used, and it will last for one day. Opening a portal double way will cost five hundred bones… Isn't it a daylight steal or what?"

I didn't mind the price tag, I just didn't like the way things were going with this world's will.

The system called it her, and that explained why she was this greedy with me.

But that solved the problem I thought about before. I could now move forces to and fro, making that world my backyard place.

"I have to wait for her to finish then," I knew that I planned to send the extra humans to the outer zones to occupy them. But now, why would I ever do it?

There was a world, filled with resources, rich in energy, and had zero danger in there. In time, I'd turn that world into a human paradise place, where humans would be mighty kings and other races existed only to serve us.

I looked outside. Angelica and her men were almost half finished sorting out humans here.

"If I'd do that, I have to find a suitable person to lead them out there," I thought, and instantly two faces popped up in front of my face.

They were the least contributing two in my team. And luckily, they were lovers.

So I had two leaders now, two I could trust. I also had enough humans to inhabit that world. I also had lots of races to work as workers under my humans, helping them turn that world into our backyard.

All I needed now was to announce it and start the portal. But shouldn't I go there first and explore the world?

"Open a portal," I decided to go on my own first and take a tour there. Also I had to select the perfect place for the humans to settle in.

Not all the races I'd get from the Bringold impact would be left there. I had a list of required talents and races to find.

Before I left, I gave Angelica and her men a last glance. They were still busy, so it wasn't a good thing to disturb her and tell her about the work I needed her to do later on.

As for the humans next batch, I'd let them be in the Krishn world. I might even change its name, call it the second Earth or something like that.

The humans we got here so far were enough to fill a good part of my kingdom. I'd let Angelica finish here first before taking her with me to the Krishn world.

I opened the portal to that world, which wasn't any different from any portal I saw before. It was so large, and that was the only special thing about it.

562 Exploring Krishn World

It hovered over the ground for a few metres, and covered enough space to let my chariot pass through it without any trouble.

The next moment, I came out into a colossal world of thick trees. Everything around was green, dense and thick, giving me the impression it was a thick green carpet that covered earth not trees.

I recalled how I felt when I first came here, how I struggled to find that bastard, ending up with a big fight and a short chase before finally killing him.

I appeared just a small distance from the tree crowns. I led my chariot to fly higher, and there I got to see the old human world before the apocalypse hit it.

I got to see a glimpse of such a beautiful world before everything crashed down. This world had the same feeling of tranquillity and peace, especially with its clear sky and bright sun.

Just as I was breathing the fresh and clear air that would wash away any fatigue or exhaustion, I received a message here.

[Welcome to the Krishn world!]

[The world's will issued you a quest].

[A lord is judged by his first decree. The quest is to do something, and based on it the world's will shall determine if you are going to be a good lord or just like those who perished before you]

"Just like this?" I raised one eyebrow, "what's the reward?"

[According to the assessment, the world's will shall determine the appropriate rewards]

"No need," I sighed, "let her know that if I did something great here, I'll have one simple request answered by her."

[The world's will asks about this simple request of you]

"I just want her to mark out any resources placed in the entire world on the map," I pointed at the small circular map at my lower right corner before adding, "let her flash the places in different colours, based on the resource grade and type."

[The world's will says this might be extravagant quest from you on the first meeting]

"I'm not asking for your pants, girl!" I rolled my eyes, "and who said I'm going to do things on a small scale here? Huh! You just don't know me! I will return life back to your world, and make sure peace and harmony exists forever here."

[The world's will is curious about how you are going to do it!]

"Come on girl, don't tell me you don't like surprises," I evilly grinned, "besides… This is my quest. There is no fun in spoiling it, right?"

I got no response from the system, meaning that this world will get the message and decided to wait and watch.

However I didn't start doing anything but to roam the world around and look for a suitable place for my big plans here.

But I had to admit… this world was made out of pure forests! Trees were tall and mighty, towering and densely thick so as not to make me even see the ground.

I didn't need to go down there and check the ground. After all, I fought with that jerk before down there. I knew there were rivers, water streams, and even hills.

According to the map, there was a stretch of big mountains just nearby. The map was just simple, looking rudimentary in my eyes.

It only showed a general planning of the world here, while zooming in at my location.

"Let's try to zoom it out," I led my chariot towards the location of that nearby series of mountains while playing with that map.

After zooming out a dozen times, I finally got to see the entire map of this world.

It was… Really filled with green! In the middle of all these green spots, a stretch of big blue surfaces were there.

"So… It has ten big continents, and almost seven big seas or oceans… Interesting," I muttered to myself while feeling how big this world was.

From the general estimates, this world was simply five times the size of Earth, if not more. Such a big world, rich in everything, and untouched so far… It was my own heaven!

Just the distance that was this close on the small map took me almost one hour of full speed flight by my chariot.

When I came closer, a series of mountains appeared in front of my eyes.

I heard stories before about how the Himalayan peak was the highest peak on Earth.

But this series here had many peaks that extended at least double of that Earth's top peak. Half of the mountains were hidden from me under a thick veil of clouds.

"What would it be like up there?" I had such curiosity and decided to give such a place a visit.

But just as I went closer to this layer of clouds, thick tongues of silver blue thunder echoed. This wasn't just a normal layer of clouds, but a thunderous one.

However I trusted my chariot and led it towards the clouds, penetrating it without any problem.

My shield protected me from any lightning strike. But the higher I went, the thicker and denser these lightning attacks became!

"Damn! This isn't a place suited for anyone to live in," I cursed after ten minutes of flying under such an intense atmosphere. However the next moment, my chariot broke through the thick cloud layer, reaching a place that made me change my opinion at once.

"This…" the world all around was all pure and spotless. The ground was replaced with a thick layer of greyish black thunderous storm clouds. But the clouds looked all peaceful at this moment.

And at different distances, the mountain peaks appeared, looking like iceberg tips floating in the middle of a big greyish black ocean.

There was no single cloud high up here. The sun looked a bit bigger, and despite that the world felt colder.

I didn't know how. Wasn't I closer to the sun? Shouldn't I feel more warmth? Then how come I felt so cold?

This didn't make any sense!

563 Wood Experts Secured!

It was such a pure and secluded place in this world that I never imagined to ever exist in the chaotic world of apocalypse.

Just looking around, taking breath in and out, made me feel refreshed.

"This place… This is where my main base will be!" I decided, this place would turn out to be my capital in this world.

From here, everything would begin. My tale here would start and my people would rule.

This wasn't just a pure and secluded place, but I felt power from its hard to access route. This wasn't just any place, it was a place that only giants could reach.

And I was a giant!

"Wait here, baby, I promise I'll come back soon with my people to turn these peaks into big cities."

The top of each peak wasn't just tippering and narrow as I expected. Each peak had a flat surface that spanned for over a hundred mile radius!

And there were dozens, if not close to a hundred peaks here. This place… It was really suitable for my capital!.

I wouldn't just build a small city over each peak. I imagined cities built over these mountain peaks, linked together with thick and sturdy floating bridges. I even imagined a few floating islands to give more allure to the sight.

Floating islands like the ones the Hector paragons used to summon during their fights with me. Of course I wouldn't go for such a narrow dream to have a limited space floating here.

I'd work to have my flying cities and fortresses. If I succeeded in making any of them move around, then I'd use these fortresses as the main means of transport between here and the world down below.

This place… It would be the symbol of power for my human race in this world in the eyes of other races. They would look at the sky, dream about breaking through the clouds and reach heaven here.

They would look at the flying fortresses with envy and admiration.

Damn! Just thinking about this scene made my blood boil! I wanted to do it! I wanted to make it happen!

And I swore at this place and in that moment that I would make this a reality one day soon.

But it was too early to come here. I returned back down to the green world, while the thick thunder strikes shielded that heaven off my eyes for now.

As I returned back, this world lost all the majesty it had before. That place high up there was enough to make me look down on the world down below.

"This world is all green and filled with trees. My people can't come here and work on such terrain. I have to bring first those races and let them work here and prepare the world for my people."

I decided to bring the big number of races here first. I'd make them work for me. With their great numbers, clearing enough space out of trees wasn't going to take much time or effort.

As for the trees cut, I'd turn all of them into wood suitable for my future plans. I'd make entire cities out of wood, I'd make this precious material look as common as humans looked at it before the time of the apocalypse.

[Are you here?]

Last time I was here, I was deprived of any means to contact the outer world. I didn't know if this limitation was just a quest limitation or it was a general feature of this planet.

[Sure, what's up?]

Luckily it was a quest time limitation.

[Send me all the races you got here] I sent, [Also provide enough wood cutting tools for them]

[Wood cutting tools? Anything specific?]

[No, the common ones will do] I replied, [But make sure you provide enough for all of them]

[You… Don't tell me you got your hands over a treasured forest place!]

[Why? Interested?]

[If the grade of the wood is above average, then indeed I'm interested]

[I dunno about the grade, yet] I honestly answered, [But if you can send me a group of wood experts to supervise over them, then I can give you an answer pretty much soon]

[These… Aren't like the common races we have been capturing for you]

[I know, but they will be mine from now on]

She went into silence and didn't answer. [Think of it as paying an up investment in such a big project] I tried to persuade her.

[Do you know much resources spent to just nourish a single expert? Do you know how many years it takes for a single prodigy to appear? Do you know how fiercely we fought to secure them?]

[Just name your price] I grew used to her way of doing deals. No matter how hard or complicated she described the situation, she always did that to ask for a high price.

The only thing that would make me worry would be for her to directly refuse, or say the impact didn't have what I needed.

As long as they got what I needed, she would provide it for me. The only thing she grew the habit of was to play such lame tricks with me.

Little she knew… My inventory was bulging with low grade bones that I was using to trade with her. Paying thousands and even hundreds of thousands of green bones in a single deal wasn't that high of a price for someone like me.

I was the only one providing these bones in the entire universe, making me hold the entire monopoly of such trade and set the price.

And the price I sat at was the lowest and most affordable for me.

[We can let go of five, each will cost five thousand bones… No bargain is allowed…]

[Done!] I didn't even wait for her to continue her words, [Let's finalise the deal and send these over after I tell you]

[You… Sigh! Was it this cheap for you?]

[Did you decide their price based on my pocket? Come on! Don't let me search for another impact!]

[No, no, I'd never do such a thing!] Liar! She was lying, and we both knew that.

[Fine, send the races first. They need to start working here. Ah, the price of the tools will be on you]

[What?!!]

[Consider it your show of interest towards this deal between the two of us]

[But… You don't know if there is any good grade wood out there!]

[Girl… When did I disappoint your expectations before?] I laughed at her hesitation and shock.

564 [Bonus chapter] Bringing Races Here

Of course the price of such tools wasn't that much, even if they had to prepare enough for the two hundred million races coming here.

Comparing it to the big gains they got from me through the last deal, they would come out with lots of profit without doubt.

[Sigh! Ok, let's do it this way then… We'll state in the contract that if there isn't enough high grade woods in quantity that will serve our purpose, you'll have to pay for the fees of these tools. What do you think?]

[Pretty much meticulous and careful in doing business] I shook my head in helplessness, [Fine! Send the contract]

It was as if the price of these tools would be something big anyway. In the next few minutes, she sent a contract and I read through it.

[Damn girl! One thousand bones for mere wood cutting tools?! What do you take me for? A fool?!!]

[They aren't low grade tools, greedy humans] she sent before adding, [The tools the races will take are all high grade. Besides there are much big tools there that will clear many trees and cut them into the standard size acknowledge by all the impacts in the universe]

[Fine!] I knew this was a losing case from the start. She made sure to milk me of any bones, but hopefully she will deliver what she promised..

[If I found low grade tools or nothing of what you just mentioned, I'll look for other impacts to deal with later on]

[Humph! Since when did we cheat on you? Don't treat us like those low grade impacts]

I signed the contract and waited for her to deliver.

I was hovering over a large stretch of plain field that was filled with towering and thick trees. It stretched for tens of miles around, expanding even more than that according to the map I had.

It was a nice place as a start. Not only was it close to the series of mountains, but it was also so spacious, enough to accommodate the incoming big races.

*Fwoosh!* *Fwoosh!* *Fwoosh!*

*Bang!* *Bang!* *Boom!*

Yet when the portals appeared, the entire scenery changed! Tons of races appeared on one side, while portals that delivered huge sized tools appeared at another.

The tools… They looked like big war machines! They had steel tires, sharp edged horizontally placed cutters, looking like big and mighty swords.

Just looking at these tools and machines made me realise she wasn't bluffing about the price. It was just appropriate for all these high grade and effective tools.

So… Let's start then…

"Listen up!" I led my chariot and appeared on top of the heads of those races. Their numbers were getting bigger with each passing second. I looked and saw a myriad of races here, with a good number of giants here.

I had to sort them out, but not for now at least. However even with my chariot, they looked like they weren't listening to me, or even looking up.

They appeared in such a greenery world, something not anyone living in the hellish times of the apocalypse would see in such a way.

So they were busy looking around and checking this new world they came to.

I looked at them and sighed. "Come out!" I summoned my fallen gods and dragons. "You, circle in the air, and you… Release an attachment there!"

I gave the order for my dragons to fly on top of these race heads. As for my fallen gods, I ordered ten of them to attack a distant area.

*Rumble!* *Boom!* *Boom!*

The attacks came and landed fiercely over that distance, causing enough destruction to silence everyone here.

"Roar!"

And in the next moment, my dragons roared and flew on top of these race heads. If they wouldn't listen to words, then they would listen to my fist.

"Listen up!" this time they were attracted to my chariot and forgot about the world around them. Or else, what just landed at the distance would land at them and claim their lives.

"I'm Hye, your new lord," I was signing the contracts delivered with their arrival, "from this moment on, you will all listen to my orders!"

*Whisper!*

When a group of thousands whisper, the sound would become a little loud. But when millions, tens of millions, whisper, then their voices would turn into a chorus of noises.

"I know you all came from different places and worlds, and were fighting desperately in the apocalypse. But hey, this is over now! Since this day onward, you will start living here, in such peaceful and calm world, away from the apocalypse and its terror."

*Whisper!*

Of course few shouted to say something, but in the middle of such chaos, I couldn't hear anything. And I didn't want to.

In my eyes, they were just useless races who came here just to work and serve.

"See these tools out there? Go and get familiar with it. From this moment, you will work on cutting the trees around. Clear enough space for all of you to live in happiness and peace. Ah, I forgot to tell, I'm a human, and my race will come here later on and they will be your new masters."

*Whisper!*

The shouts came this time louder, but I also couldn't make any sense from these.

"I'll handle your contracts for them. So when that time comes, you will listen to whatever they say. And in such a calm world with no danger in, I doubt you will even suffer like before. Now… Go there and start work!"

I turned my chariot and went to the tools and machines location. I stopped my chariot there and waited. Few started to come as they listened to my words.

But the majority didn't! They just started looking for their own kin, gathered together in big groups, as if they were announcing their defiance.

"Sigh! Why every time I have to kill a few of you to listen?" After ten minutes, and when I finished signing and finalising their contracts, I looked down at them and shook my head.

565 Meeting The Experts

Only a few came here and listened, and they were all part of the weak races. Either their bodies were small, or their numbers were.

"See that place?" I leant over one of my fallen gods, pointing at a densely packed race member, "hit it once!"

"Affirmative!" the fallen god responded, and the next moment a brutal attack landed.

*Boom!*

A big cloud of dust and fire emerged and expanded fast, enveloping almost half of that race's members.

In just a single hit, tens of thousands died! And with that attack, the entire world ushered under an ear deafening silence that was soaked with stress and tension.

"Move out, now! Or stand there and die!" I shouted, waved my glaive high in the air in a couple rounds to add more to this scene.

Under such irresistible force of mine, and with the promising calm world around, no one was fools to resist. They knew they were bound to me by contracts, but they thought with their number they could make a difference here..

But who would stand a chance with all my forces here?

Under the threat of death, they all moved. In less than an hour, they all got to select their best suitable tools and machines, and started working on the trees around.

The first minutes of their work, they chopped lots of trees, leaving behind equal sizes tubular shaped woods piled in big heaps.

[I'm sending the five now] at this moment, the lady sent this message, making me know the experts were finally coming.

*Fwoosh!*

A single portal opened, and five silhouettes came out from it. Three old men and two middle aged ones, with no youngsters in this group.

They were all giants! I didn't even recognise the races they all belonged to.

But the moment they came out, their eyes shone as they were instantly attracted by the world of trees here.

An expert of fire would find the depth of hell interesting and magical! I signed their five contracts, while giving them time to appreciate this place.

I watched the five go and check the chopped woods by my men. I saw a look of surprise and shock over their faces, a reaction that told me things were much better than I initially thought.

"Come on board, let's have a talk first," after leaving them for half an hour moving around and checking the woods, I moved my chariot and brought the five on board.

The five stood in front of me, looking with a look of doubt that they couldn't hide. Of course seeing such a weak race dude standing in front of them and acting like a mighty lord of a mighty race was shocking indeed.

They might be thinking I had someone backing me up, or I was just a front for a mysterious dude with a sensitive identity and history.

But I wasn't! I was the sole ruler of this world, and I owned everything here, even them.

"Welcome, I'm Hye, and I'll be your lord from now on."

"Hello lord," they bowed in fake respect without expressing any of their doubts towards me.

"What do you think of my world here?" I moved my hand around, pointing at the distant world filled with trees.

During the past hour, my boys here worked and cleared a big zone of trees. It felt like this part of the world got barren all of sudden.

Just looking at such change that happened fast made me inwardly sigh. Races… They were like locusts and cancerous beings in this universe, turning anything green into ruins.

"It's… A paradise for people like us," the oldest one said with such a long sigh, "it's a waste that it ended up in the hands of such a hum…"

*Snap!*

*Thud!*

I only snapped my fingers, and that rude dude fell dead. A look of horror appeared on the other four faces, while I said in cold tone:

"I don't care how you look at humans, but when you look at me, always remember that I'm your lord. And if I wasn't that mighty, you wouldn't have ended up serving me."

"…"

The shock of losing one of their groups was immense to let them even speak. They looked at me in respect, doubt, and obvious fear.

"I know you were treated like kings at the place you were at, and you will be treated as such if you keep working well for me. However… Defy me, or show any sign of disrespect and you'll end up like that jerk here."

I kicked that dead body and in the next moment, it went off flying. I didn't forget to claim my loot from his inventory before throwing him away like a useless bag of sh*t.

"And now, let me ask you again… What do you think of this world?"

"L… Lord," the oldest one of the group right now spoke in such a shaky tone, "we… Examined a few of the wood and they are really of high grade."

"All of them?" I raised one eyebrow in response to his surprising claims.

"Yes, lord. And that's why we were excited and…" he paused, and I got what he wanted to say. Seeing such a treasured world in the hands of a weak human might be a waste in their eyes.

But I didn't focus on what they felt and jumped over their assignment.

"I want you to supervise the entire process here. This world is covered with trees, and it's very huge! Arrange the woods into grades, with the rare and very high grades being stored aside. The rest will be prepared to be given to the Bringold impact."

"Lord…" that dude that I didn't know his name and didn't care to know, said while looking at the other three, "these woods can bring you a fortune! Don't sell them cheap to those greedy folks."

"Lose a fortune?" I knew these guys were judging me by the outer surface, by being a human. But who said I was even concerned about payment coming from this trade?

566 Bringing Isac Over

"Fine, just state the suitable prices in exchange for each group of woods. I'll leave this task to you," I waved my hand, "go down now and start working. The races down below have cleared lots of trees already."

"Yes, lord!"

I wasn't lying. During this short period of time, a vast space spanning in tens of miles were cleared off trees. If this continued, then in less than a day, an area suited for all my humans to come here would be ready.

I wasn't a nature nemesis dude. So I didn't plan on continuing chopping trees in such a way or pace. I just would do that to clear spaces for my people to live in, build roads, and look for ores.

This was a pure world, it didn't have only trees but also ores.

I watched the group of four get down there and start examining the woods. I didn't need to stay here any longer, flew high up and started to see the races work with such diligence and speed.

Most of their high speed in work came from the tools they got. Thanks to these, they could cut trees down and chop them into equal sized logs of wood and even store these into one place.

Then a group would come later on to move the logs back to the centre of this zone..

Thanks to such organised efforts that I didn't know they all pulled this fast, the size of logs took up a small area in the middle.

From above, it looked like fire was spreading outside and eating away trees at a fast pace. With each passing minute, a new area would be cleared in all directions.

"It's enough for my boys to come here," After twenty hours of watching them work, I decided to go back.

Being here and watching these races work had a soothing effect on my nerves. I didn't feel the passage of time until the cleared area exceeded a hundred mile by now.

The empty zone looked very beautiful with the pale pink and green colours expanding in the underneath soil. There were streams of fresh water running in many places, and I even saw a couple river branches in this region.

It was a rich place, suitable for our boys to come and inhabit it. This world… It would be my crown jewel where humans would rebuild their lost civilisation and culture.

I opened my profile page, selected the option to open a portal for me before passing through it.

"What is… That?!!!"

But once I came out, I was shocked to see Angelica and her boys were still working with the large number of humans here. Twenty hours ago, I left here and went to the Krishn world, while Angelica and her team were almost half finished.

Twenty hours were more than enough for them to end their task!

"Damn! I forgot about the time difference thing!" I patted my forehead when I recalled this.

When I fought that paragon, my forces were on the brink of extinction. I fought him for many hours, chased that bastard all around the world until I finally killed him.

When I returned back, I was worried that my forces were gone, yet to be surprised by what I found. The time difference was in my favour, and I thought it was just a single incident related to that quest.

But it seemed it was a feature of that world! Damn! That was so cool!

"That's… A bit problematic!"

I realised that the time difference was so high between the two worlds. That would work better for my humans there. But if anything happened, anything bad, I'd take long hours in that world's time to get notified by it.

By then, interfering would be too late and pointless.

And like now, I had to wait for more hours for Angelica and her boys to finish before moving them towards that world. That… Would days pass there in that time?

"Sigh! I have to get back and give an order for them to do something… Hmm… Why not bring that girl with me then?"

I decided to get the best benefit this time. After all, I wasn't sure for how long such peace would last.

"Hey, find Isac for me," I soon found one of the dragon rider girls flying around and gave her such a task.

Well… Such riders didn't only add to the scenery here, but they also did a great job and helped a lot.

Isac didn't delay and came in less than ten minutes.

"What?" She gave me a weird look. Of course to her, we just met a few hours ago. But to me, it looked like half a day had passed.

"Come, I want to show you something," I said while opening a portal and then led my chariot through it.

She didn't notice anything different about this portal. Yet when we arrived at the other side, she couldn't help but loudly gasp in immense shock!

She placed her palm over her gaped open mouth, looking with widened eyes around.

As for me, I just sighed. I stayed back there for no more than half an hour. And yet the time here seemed to pass for many hours!

The size of the cleared zone increased by fifty percent! Damn! I stayed only for half an hour, and almost ten hours passed!

What a terrifying time difference this was!

"H… How?!! Just… You…" she stuttered while looking at me in disbelief.

"It's my world," I shrugged, "don't ask about how I got it. In fact I still didn't get it myself. But I want you to plan things here."

"For… What?! And what are these… Are they yours?!" she pointed at the races at the far distance, working to clear trees.

"They are mine," I nodded, "they are clearing a space to build cities and towns here. I want you to plan this as well, can you?"

"Of course," even when she was shocked like this, she still answered swiftly and without any hesitation. "But these trees… What do you plan to do with them?"

567 The Eye Of The Storm

"I'll leave them for now," I said, "we are just going to chop what we need, and leave the rest to grow and keep thriving here."

"I don't have anything to say against that," she smiled, slowly her smile turned into a grin, "but this place… Is it a world?"

"It is," I nodded, "and there is something I want to show you."

The next few minutes, I led my chariot towards the distant series of peaks. When we arrived there, I penetrated the thick layer of clouds, giving her a scare by the fierce response from the lightning.

But when my chariot broke through that thick layer of clouds, her expression instantly changed from fear and doubt, to show admiration and appreciation.

"This… This place…"

"Here is where my big capital will be," I started to tell her my thoughts in detail. The more I talked, the brighter her eyes became.

When I finished, she couldn't help but sigh..

"You… Aren't you just lucky, you are the son of the goddess of luck, do you know that?"

"Hahaha! I don't consider myself lucky at all," I laughed, "so, what do you think? Can you do it?"

She didn't hurriedly answer, as she first examined the place around. Under such peace and calmness, she couldn't help but close her eyes, take deep breaths before saying:

"It's doable, but it will require lots of resources and preparations… For example, we won't take a single step here before we finalise making enough of those flying fortresses with shields strong enough to endure the thick lightning from earlier."

"I see," I nodded in support, "then we will first work towards building those floating fortresses."

"That's a must," she said as if she was stating her conditions, "Also the size of this place is massive! You mentioned you want bridges, but we have to make sure first this place is just like this all year long."

"Fearing of lightning?"

"Of anything, who knows… Who said there won't be falling meteorites from time to time here? Earthquakes? Even volcanic eruptions!"

I knew she was just overthinking about any possible scenario that might endanger my capital here. But girl… If there was such a thing, then all the trees down below would be ruined and left with traces of immense fire.

"Ok," but I didn't say out loud my doubts, "let's do it your way then. Ah, there is only one simple thing you must know about."

"What?"

"There is a time difference between here and our real world," I bitterly smiled, "it runs for this world's favour. Staying here for ten hours will only equal half an hour in our real world."

"Damn! You can't be serious!!" from the look on her face and her intense reaction, I knew she got something from what I said.

It felt like she was already aware of such a phenomenon, and it wasn't just a normal occurrence in the universe.

"Sigh! An ignorant man having such a precious and extremely race gem that he doesn't appreciate or know anything about is a waste!"

"Don't speak like this!" I said in warning, despite I was just joking, "what do you mean I'm ignorant? What's the benefit of having you then by my side?"

"Speaking as if you were aware of me knowing about this."

"It doesn't matter," I shortly laughed, "as long as you know, it means I know."

"Mean lord!"

"Come on now, tell me what do you know about this world?"

"It's one of the rare singularities in this universe," she had no other way but to explain what she knew, "the world is one of few, very few, who are located in the middle of black holes."

"In what?!" I knew few things about black holes, and all of these came from pre apocalyptic human knowledge.

"They are places with immense gravity that can even distort time," she explained, "in their hearts, and in rare occasions, a singularity occurred where a place is void of any negative effects of the black hole."

"Like the eye of the storm?" I tried to get what she was talking about, "the eye of a tornado?"

"Something like this," she nodded, "and in these regions, a world usually is present. Accessing it is very, very difficult. But once one gets there, he will get a very secured world that won't get into the turmoil of the apocalypse or the system tests. Also… As you noticed, the time factor is a bonus as well. And that's thanks to the effect of the black hole surrounding this place."

I looked up, but all I could see was a big sun that was going to set. "Are you sure? There is a sun here!"

"It's not a real sun," she shook her head, "it's just the accumulation of all the light absorbed by that black hole, focused into a single point, to form something similar to a sun."

"This…"

"It's not only that, as the black hole is absorbing light from all directions, nights in these worlds are considered very short. Just a few hours and another sun will appear from another direction, and it might be a different colour, like red or blue."

"…"

This world… It was more complicated and far more unique than I thought!

"Ok, so we are done here?" I asked and she hesitated before pointing at a single peak, "take me there. I want to take samples from the rocks here to examine and study them."

"What for?" Despite asking this, I controlled my chariot to go and land over the peak she selected.

"I need to know if there is a source of water here," she rolled her eyes, "you don't expect to build such a big capital here without a stable source of water. Also I needed to know if there are special ores here or what."

I got that she wanted to see if we could depend entirely on this place or we had to go down there and look for resources.