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Chapter 855 [Bonus chapter] We Are Soulers! We Eat Souls!

It wasn't a smooth journey, and it didn't have an end! Finishing the quests wasn't the end. Ruling the world wasn't the end. Even conquering the entire apocalyptic cluster wasn't the end.

There was no end to this! And when I thought about it from another angle, under a different light, putting in mind what that dude just left behind, I got a scary image.

My universe… All the worlds in it were getting scorched under the brutal and merciless fire of wars! It wasn't wars between all the worlds there, but in each apocalyptic cluster all the races there would fight and kill to live.

Looking at this cluster as if it was a single warzone and looking at how persistently and stubbornly the system higher ups were spreading these clusters all over the universe, I got a scary picture of a long and deadly war all over the universe!

Wasn't this also the aim of these evildoers from the universe of that dude? Damn! There were too many similarities to be just a mere coincidence!

What was… Going on exactly here? What was the real face of the system and those higher ups?

I… Had to keep these thoughts to myself then, never share them with anyone until I got foolproof evidence and unveiled this grand mystery shrouding my universe.

I gulped, looking around for the first time in hours. My soulers were standing idly there doing nothing, waiting for my orders.

"Lucias… Come here right now!" I got out my horn and used it, but it seemed I didn't need to.

Lucias was already close by, and in less than a minute he stood by my side in obedience.

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"Lord, we got done with our task, but I found you standing in daze and lost in thoughts. So I didn't dare to alarm you or interrupt what you were doing."

Once appeared, he provided an excuse for him staying there with his people without doing anything.

"No problem," I slowly said, while focusing my eyes over that dome at the centre of all this. "Make your people ready, at my mark you will cover up the entire stones with dirt and rocks once more."

"Bury them?!" Lucias was shocked by my sudden order it seemed. And he got the right to feel so.

His men took all this time and effort to unearth these stones. And yet I decided simply to cover up these stones with dirt and rocks, like they never do anything.

"Just wait for my signal first," I said while waving my arm for him to go down and deliver my orders.

"Sure, I'll let them wait for your mark, my lord," after going into silence for a few seconds, he said before leaving in an orange fog of fire.

As he left, I opened the market and bought lots of papers and a brush to draw this technique over.

Then I led my chariot high in the air, to have a better overall view over the entire design.

Well… That design was simply in the area near that dome. The more I looked outwards, the more complicated it became.

I started to draw, draw circles first, then triangles later. After that, I went down below, and started to draw each part on a separate paper, dividing this entire design into twenty smaller parts.

I didn't want to miss anything. Perhaps being high up there made me miss a few details here and there.

I did that to make sure I didn't miss anything. I decided to forget everything related to this place, bury it under heavy layers of rocks and dirt, and not tell anyone about this.

As for my soulers, they wouldn't speak. They were my loyal warriors and wouldn't do anything without returning back to me.

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It took ten hours to do it, twenty more to revise the drawings more than five times, to make sure I didn't miss anything here.

"Start," I held my horn and gave the order to all the soulers down below, "make sure to not touch the stones or cause any damage to them. Bury them underneath a thicker layer of dust and rocks."

And as I gave the order, they started to move and work.

It took them two days and slightly more to dig these stones. But burying them did not take more than half a day.

It was just easier, and they had dirt ready near the stones. As for the extra dirt and rocks, they just went around to dig at areas not close from here, and returned with the rocks and dirt before leaving them near the design to be used.

Many teams worked like a hive of bees, and I was their king. I watched them for hours, making sure they didn't touch a single stone or dared to move one from its place.

Even the first stone to be found, the one close up from the dome, was also buried and a small hill of rocks was formed around it.

"Come back!" I didn't delay and called the soulers inside my inventory, all but Lucias who came and stood by my side.

Everything was ready, and now all it was left was to go inside that pocket world and see things on my own.

Golane said that to enter there wasn't an issue, but getting out was. I got my time ability, and I'd find no problem at getting out.

Yet who said I was going there to just run away later? I was aiming to kill all the souls inside, and wouldn't leave until I brought down this entire thing and destroyed that weapon lying underneath.

"You are sure of your abilities to kill these souls, right?" Before I'd move a muscle, I had to ask again and be sure of this.

"Lord, we are soulers! Eating souls is our specialty. Even if there are billions upon billions of them down there, we will eat them all and thank you letter for the happy meal."

"And… You don't lack anything? Don't need anything? Once we are inside, I might lose my connection with the market."

Chapter 856 [Bonus chapter] The System Is Sealed!!!

"Thanks lord, we just need to open our mouths and flash through these souls to eat them up."

"Cool," as he was this confident, it was time for me to go there, "get ready… Here we go!"

And in the next moment, my chariot flashed fast and headed directly towards that world.

Like falling from a high cliff onto the depth of an ocean, I felt the same. And the water there wasn't warm, it was such icy cold that gave me shivers.

Even the shield of my chariot failed to stop such coldness. And luckily, it didn't last more than a few minutes before it vanished, and a bright new world appeared in front of my eyes.

"What the heck… Is that?!!!"

The first thing I saw was a bright flash of white light before the world around me started to dim. When I got used to the light, I saw that I wasn't inside the world I saw from outside.

I was standing in a vast rocky place, looking like a huge arena made of brown stone. There were lots of torches with blue fire, dancing with thick tongues that extended for a metre in length or more.

"What… Is this place?!!!" I moved my eyes around to find myself standing right in the centre of this huge place.

The ceiling was made all by red rocks, forming a colossal dome that covered up the entire arena.

"At last… Someone with that cursed bloodline dared to enter my lair, kekekeke!" and just as I was lost and puzzled, such a hideous voice appeared, ranging all over the place.

A gigantic dark shadow appeared, dancing over the wall from the effect of the fire. It stood there for a few moments before starting to walk towards me.

*Boom!* *Boom!*

Each step taken caused a massive booming sound, accompanied by the fierce trembling of the ground all over the place. I even saw a few torches fall off their spots at the wall out of the heavy steps.

"Kekeke! They promised me a tasty meal one day, and they didn't disappoint me. Come, come son of the cursed bloodline clans, come and let me have a delicious meal of your body."

As it said this, its body came into my vision. It was… Colossal! Not less than my little turtle or that lizard in size!

I know why this place looked so vast and huge. It was to accommodate the colossal size of this beast.

Two thick and curved horns coming out from his head, arching upwards, branching at some point to look like a gigantic tree of dark red material.

Its head was like a bull, with two bulging fiery eyes that looked like they were made out of the most precious scarlet red gems.

Its neck was short and thick, its body was covered in a thick layer of coarse black hair, emitting dazzling sparks of red fire every time it moved or spoke.

Its body was robust, filled with thick bulks of muscles. It has four pairs of arms, four pairs of legs, and four pairs of tails!

Each step it took was done by four legs at the same time. They rose up, paused midair, and then fell heavily, slamming with such unbelievable weight over the ground, causing such fierce reaction, leaving behind deep marks there.

I looked at its arms, each holding a different kind of weapon. A gigantic sword, a curved sword, an axe, a hammer, a spear, a knife, a broadsword, and a glaive.

It was armed up, totally armed up with that thick armour that covered its huge belly, arm guards that added more to its fierce looking muscles, and even a long dark red cape that extended for hundreds of metres behind it.

"Who the hell are you?" If he came prepared, then I should also do the same.

"Don't bother," yet just as I was going to call my chariot, he laughed, "kekeke! Such pathetic descendants of these foolish clans! Do you know that all the time and space powered clans came from one universe? My universe! They ran, ran away from my kin, thinking that they could survive. But right now they are killed, going extinct in most universes, and like you and me, many of us are scattered and lying in wait for such foolish descendants remaining alive to come and get eaten."

"Damn! It's not… Working!" I tried to call my chariot but failed! The last thing I recalled was that my baby was there when I went into this pocket world.

I didn't recall it back, so where the heck was it?

"Don't try, it's futile, kekekeke!" that bastard! It seemed like I was enjoying what was happening right now, standing just a thousand metres away from me, watching in such amusement my puzzled face.

"Terrified? You should be. Just for the record, my kin is the nemesis of yours. Any ability you have will be nullified in my presence. You can't summon anything using your space power or use anything related to time ability. That's of course if you are one of those damn cursed geniuses, kekekeke."

Yes, it was enjoying its time. "Humph! I don't use any of what you just said. I'm just a mere passerby," I said while trying to open the system.

But for the first time since my birth, I got no response from the system at all! The system would always work by just thinking about it. However, anything I tried failed!

"I told you, this is pointless! That thing you depend too much upon is the reason for your demise. Passerby or not, you know it or not, you carry the filthy bloodline of these clansmen, and you are going to be my food for tonight, kekekeke!"

"F*ck you!" I would never fall without a fight. But… I got no proper weapon except for that light glaive. It wouldn't be enough, not even enough to make this behemoth feel any pain or even leave a mark over its body.

Chapter 857 My Technique Is Quite Scary!

"Pathetic! Kekekeke! I told you, you can't use that useless toy called system. Do you think it was built on magic? Hahaha! Foolish descendant of these clans… It was built on a grand time and space ability, done by the real powerhouses of your clans."

I paused once I heard what he just said. Was this… True? I never questioned the origin of the system before, but this…

"Kekeke! There is no harm to tell a dead corpse such secrets. You are going to die anyway, and won't be able to get any benefits from knowing such secrets, kekeke!"

'It's not the time to worry about such things,' I said to myself, waking my mind and freeing it from what this bastard just said.

What if the system was related to the time and space clans? What if it was just a natural born powerful being in this cosmos? I had to live! That was all that mattered right now.

For a moment there I got such doubt… Why did that bastard start blabbering all these things the moment it came here? Something seemed a bit off.

As I freed myself from what I considered a spell of confusion, I ignored what that bastard said and kept saying, and tried to open anything.

I called onto the system, tried to open my inventory, open my profile, and even my channel! But all were dead! Just like… They were never there!

"Kekekeke! I love it when you get in such a panic! Nothing from your universe will work here! You got nothing but that power, and it's now gone! Do you know why? Because this system trash isn't your power to begin with! Shocked? Terrified? You should be, kekekeke!"

I got nothing but that power? Just as I heard this phrase, I felt an immense shock deep down my soul.

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I didn't only have this power. In fact, and for a reason I didn't know yet, the system kept encouraging anyone to open his cultivation base and walk down this different path.

I never got it! But right now, I realised that if I survived here, it would be thanks to this puzzling move.

Yes, I got my cultivation power backing me up! I wasn't just a system dependent as this bastard thought, I got a cultivation base.

And dude… My cultivation base was… Quite scary!

"Are you feeling terrified now? Can you feel it? Such hopelessness seeping deep inside your soul? Asking yourself; what was all that for? Kekeke! Let me tell you, you just grew up, fought and survived, just to come here and turn into my dinner. Miserable? I know, you are all weak and useless, just fated to lie in a lower food chain than me, kekeke!"

"Shut the f*ck up!" I got fed up with what he was saying. And… What was with that weird and creepy laugh?

The moment I shouted, I stopped, turned around, and did my first technique. I did it so many times already to make me able to execute it in mere seconds.

"You…" and once my black threads appeared, that colossal beast stopped and seemed quite shocked. "Kekekeke! You are more amusing than everyone else. Do you think mimicking that universe's huge power is easy? Is it enough to stop me? Kekeke!"

Damn! This… didn't scare it!

And how would it be? I looked at my technique, the circle that gushed out lots of threads. It wasn't… by any means terrifying compared to the enormous body of that behemoth.

Just when I was this close to losing any hope, a miracle happened.

*Rumble!*

It happened just like the world recognised me. I saw a flash of light, coming from my technique, at the centre, just at the place where my fist was there.

It started like a small speck of light, so small to even be smaller than the tip of a needle.

But this tiny speck of light caused a massive rumbling inside my soul. It was like a dam was there, and got shaken fiercely, cracked, and collapsed under the might of this speck of light.

A speck of light, all it took was just this speck of light before this entire dark rocky wall started to change.

Dots of light started to appear, like holes coming from machine guns firing at a wall. I looked around, and from these holes, thin pillars of light started to fall down, all getting bent and attracted to me, to my threads, to my technique, to my circle, to my hand.

And like a magician, I felt like I could control the entire world here, bend it under my will, and give any order I wanted and it would get executed by the world.

Things went all the way from rock bottom to the biggest top here. The one who was supposed to be eaten, was going to eat up his predator!

"No, no, no, the world… My world… My beloved eternal hall… What the hell did you do to my baby?!!!" and when that happened, the monster started to roar, showing a fierce side of itself, so damn different from the all confident and arrogant side it showed so far.

"I'm going to kill you," I said, and I meant each single word I said. I turned my attention towards my technique… My threads… They were threads anymore, they were thick pythons!

They got thicker, stronger, longer, and much fiercer. They weren't weak like before, not looking weak compared to that behemoth at least.

All of sudden, that gigantic son of b*tch, that colossal sack of meat turned into such a mediocre ant in my eyes.

I could crush it! And I was going to do it right now.

"Bind it!" I said, ordering my threads like they were living creatures. And with my words and thoughts, they plunged in the direction of that beast, surrounding its body like it was nothing.

"You damn beast! Leave me alone! I should be the one killing you! Stop! Stop this madness right now!"

Oh, it turned into such a crybaby! I looked at it and for a moment there, I got another idea.

"Keep it pinned down," I pointed my right hand down, "to the ground!"

*Boom!*

Chapter 858 Attacking The Pocket World

Its body slammed heavily by my will as it fell forcibly at the ground. I didn't care about it, and didn't give any heed to what he kept screaming and cursing.

In my eyes, not a single beast was spared from getting into my shadow world, and becoming one of my pets!

"Damn you! This… This is the legendary power of that damn universe, dark shadows! How the hell did you get it! No, no, don't drag me there, don't let me inside that world…"

For a reason, that beast knew about my power. It came as a slight surprise, but that didn't stop me at all. I got what to do, and now all I had to do was to let my technique work its magic.

"Damn beast! You are the beast! A real beast! How come they let you in? No one from that damn universe shall enter here, especially one like you…"

The last thing it said was such a weird thing. Wasn't this pocket world made up by the people of that universe? If so, then how come they were prevented from getting access here?

I touched my back again, feeling the new mark that appeared there by sealing that beast. I had no time to test summoning it, after all once this beast was sealed, the entire place fell down.

I didn't know if this place was part of the beast or was fueled with its power, but once the beast was gone, the world started to fade away and collapse on its own.

And a bright new world appeared in front of my eyes, one that I instantly recognised.

"The world of souls… I finally came…" I turned around to find myself standing on top of a huge green peak, overlooking a grand city, bustling with life.

"Profile page!" The first thing I did was to check if the system was working here or not. And luckily, it resumed working again.

"Come out!" The first thing I did was to call out for my chariot. Once it appeared, I saw Lucia standing there, like I just departed from him a few minutes ago.

And from the turbulent orange fire around him, I got that he was slightly puzzled. But I didn't have anything to tell, or explain what happened.

I still couldn't get the head or tail of what just happened to me.

"Lord… I felt like… I got into some sort of sand or something…"

Once I got up there, he couldn't prevent himself from asking me about what happened. But I got nothing to say except to tell him that everything was alright.

And that was the most important thing right now.

"Tell me, what do you think of this world?" as I closed this page over, I turned my chariot and let it fly higher in the air.

The world here… It looked just as peaceful and prospering, just like my second Earth world.

"I feel tons of souls… But lord, there is something weird…"

"Tell…" the world looked boundless! I rose so damn high in the sky, even exceeded the layer of clouds and overlooked the world from such a high vantage point.

All I could see was a green world, filled with many cities, towns, and villages. People looked like ants down there, and there were tons of ants.

At the horizon, the world kept going, but my sight was blocked by the meeting of the sky and ground all around.

"These souls… They are like getting attached to some sort of a chain… I can't describe it, but these souls here are like slaves, working for something or someone… I don't know…"

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"Lucias…" I got part of what he was saying. From what I learnt from the leftover message of that mysterious dude on the stones, I got that all the souls here worked to serve the weapon.

They weren't enslaved, they were just treated like fuel to an engine.

"Yes, lord," as Lucias responded, I led my chariot down to the ground at a fast speed.

"Get down there and feast," I said, "lead your forces around, consume all the souls here, leave none behind. And during this, don't miss my two girls, and keep searching for more clues about this chain thing."

"I will do as you command, my lord," as we reached the ground, I instantly summoned the entire army of soulers.

"If you found anything weird, don't hesitate to get back to inform me. Take these dragons with you…"

"No need, my speed is on par with lord's great chariot," Lucias stopped me from bringing out my dragons. And what he said seemed true. His speed was indeed so damn scary!

"Go!" as I summoned the army of soulers and gave the instructions for Lucias, I finally gave the order to unleash them upon this looking peaceful fake show in front of my eyes.

All I could see were living people, moving around, talking and laughing, working and walking around, just like they were living their normal lives here.

They looked like many races I met, and many I didn't. I saw Hectors, Selvators, Berserkers, and even humans. I saw much weirder races, saw many like the ones I bought over for a long time already and became part of my power and kingdom.

But all this was a mere act! None of this was true! Not this world, not this people, and not these cities, towns, and villages.

"Let's do it!" and as I gave the order, Lucias also gave his. And during the next hours, a one-sided massacre erupted here.

The first thing I noticed was that these people never noticed me, my chariot, or my army. My soulers just landed over them, swept the souls clean, leaving behind nothing.

I thought that once the souls got absorbed and eaten by them, the dead sacks of meat would start to fall on the ground, filling this entire world with such trash.

But this didn't happen! They left nothing at all! My soulers just flashed past the people here, and once they flashed past anyone, only thin air remained from him or her.

Chapter 859 We Found Real People!

I watched, and the more I did I got to realise that this place wasn't real. These people didn't have bodies, they were mere souls wandering around, trapped inside such endless hell.

Their bodies were fake. It might be just a projection of their souls, or some sort of magic done by the technique here to let them live fully in this dream.

"Sigh! I hope this will be a good end for their misery," I knew living like this wasn't any much different than living in hell.

So I hoped what my soulers were doing would bring peace at last to these tortured souls.

The once bustling with life and activities cities, towns, and villages turned in mere hours into such deserted places of ghosts.

Even ghosts were no longer living there anymore!

At the first couple of hours, my soulers expanded outwards like a locust. I tagged along, flew over them and watched what they were doing.

Gradually things started to get boring and dull. Nothing new happened. For the first time, I missed the big fights, the resistance anyone would put against my soulers.

It was futile but it gave time a more interesting touch.

After six more hours, I started to lose interest in following them around. There was literally nothing new happening down there!

They just kept flashing, killing and eating souls, adding such an astronomical number to my soul count.

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After three days, I started to grow dull and quite bored. I tried to fill my time during the past days, going from one point to another, trying even to go down there and inspect the empty cities and towns, the empty houses these people left.

There were photos, memories of things that weren't even real! People got born, grew up, loved and married, gave birth to new kids before dying and returning again in the form of newborns.

This was endless hell! None of this was real! And gradually, my interest grew dull from seeing all these fake memories and lives that didn't really exist.

Whoever designed this pocket world made sure souls here would never suspect it! They were living such a lie, and never suspected it for even a single second.

Quite… Terrifying!

The first thing to happen took almost one week! I didn't know if time here ran at the same pace of the outer world or not, but luckily this all happened inside my second Earth world.

Even staying here for months wouldn't be a big problem for me.

"Lord… We found something…"

The first new change happened after one week when I spotted the great orange fiery fog of Lucias as he was travelling fast towards my direction.

"What? Did you find some who tried to resist you? Or someone who saw you?" I was already deadly bored. So coming here and telling me such a thing failed to stir any enthusiasm inside my soul.

"No lord, we found real people!"

"You found them? Lily and Angelica?" I jumped and asked in such anticipation. He managed to stir the dead heart of me, making me tremble in enthusiasm.

"No lord, these are other people… And they came from different races," he didn't find my missing two girls, but found a group of other people?

Don't tell me… There were people trapped here all this time? Did they come here by mistake? Or were they like Golane?

"Where?" I asked, "tell me where to go!"'

"There lord… But you have to get wary of them. These people… They managed to resist the attacks of my souler army."

"Idiot! Didn't I tell you not to touch any living ones?"

"They aren't the lord's girls so…"

"Damn! Go and tell everyone, finding a single living person is a big deal! They aren't allowed to touch them, or else I'll make sure whoever does this to die in my hands, and a terrible death as well."

"O… Ok lord," Lucias got terrified and instantly he vanished for half an hour before coming back. He seemed to take my words in the wrong way, and I wasn't tolerant towards such deadly mistakes.

Having living people here? This wasn't just a big deal, this was great news for me! These people would know what was going on here, and might even have a clue about the weapon and the deep foundation of this entire pocket world.

And how come they were still alive here? I was quite sure that the second Earth world of mine was void of any living souls. Were they the old inhabitants of this world? The ones who brought death to it?

Or were they something else? I couldn't tell. But from the words Lucias delivered, these people weren't simple.

Resisting my soulers? I saw strong races resist the attacks of the soulers for a few times, before they'd finally fall dead under the hands of my soulers.

There wasn't a single occasion where my soulers failed to kill their foes as far as I could remember. Killing my soulers happened but failing to kill never happened before.

The only exception might be what happened back at Albany city. Yet the enemy there was just a projection of the monsters controlled by this city magic.

Other than this, I couldn't find any other instance like this.

That mean? These people were either special, having the ability to resist souls or anyone who was related to souls.

Or they got some sort of a treasure to protect themselves.

That also explained how they managed to survive here. Being in such a world where souls were all over the place, who knew if one or many of them started hunting these people down.

"Which race are they from?" I asked, "and how long before going there?"

"Two more hours, lord," Lucias first answered my second question before speaking about their nature, "I recognised a few races I met before, ones that grew extinct alongside us many years ago. For example, there are lots of necromancers there. Ah, there are those groose zombies, ones that were once a mighty race in the past."

Chapter 860 A Special Terrain

"Z… Zombies?!!" My shocking delight about the presence of necromancers turned instantly upside down when I heard about zombies.

Just mentioning this cursed name made me feel goosebumps all over my body, and cold shivers as well.

What the heck was wrong with zombies? It was like the universe waited for the fifth quest and started to let them appear all over my face!

"Do you know such a race?" I asked, while trying to control my natural reactions and feelings towards such races.

"I once lived in a time where the last powerhouse of them was still alive," Lucias nodded, "they were mighty, quite terrifying actually. And yet, just like us, just like many formidable races, they got a weird curse and ended up dying and going extinct."

"I know about that," this seemed to be the fate of any formidable race, making me wonder… Where are the races right now? Or they survived because they weren't the strongest?

As Lucias said, it took two hours to arrive there. The first thing I spotted before arriving was the special terrain here.

The world was formed entirely of green hills and spacious open valleys. There were many rivers, few forests here and there, but the place up ahead was quite special.

It was filled with mountains! For the first time I spotted mountains! And they weren't just any normal mountains!

They were huge and made entirely of dark red and brown red ores, but that wasn't what made them special.

Their arrangement was!

Mountains used to get arranged in packs, sticking to each other, while each one respected the space of the other, forming narrow and bumpy paths in between them.

But these… They weren't allocated in that way, or even randomly allocated; they were arranged in a large circle!

It was like they were placed there on the purpose of defending the space inside! Seeing such a scene made me question if these mountains were here from the start or they were added later on by these people here.

From my high position, I spotted the area in between these guarding mountains. There were towns, cities, and life inside this place.

"Where are these survivors? The living people?" I asked when I couldn't tell from this far who were souls and who was a living real person.

"Lord, all of them are living people," and just like this, Lucias gave me such a shocking answer.

"This… Didn't you say they were few?!!"

"I was talking about the ones that stopped us," Lucias knew he made a terrible mistake, "but they aren't the only ones here… They seem to protect those inside."

"You…" I didn't know what to tell him. He just missed such a vital point! "Ok, let me handle things here then," I looked again and tried to see through the narrow gaps of these mountains.

I couldn't see that much, but I was sure the area inside this circle was more than a couple of hundred miles in radius. It wasn't huge, but enough to take millions of races.

Millions… That was interesting. I took back everything I thought about the origin of these people after seeing such truth in front of my eyes.

They might have come as few at first, but they settled in, started to live here, and grew their numbers over the long course of years to reach such a terrifying figure!

How long did it take for them to reach such a scale? A thousand year? Ten thousand years? I couldn't tell. But whoever was living here right now wasn't the one who trespassed this world.

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So the truth was destined to be lost, and I wouldn't be able to get what I dreamt about.

I wouldn't know why they came here, or what they were trying to do by staying here. I wouldn't get to know the old stories and facts about what happened in my universe. I wouldn't get anything but rumours from distant away times, not reliable, and not useful.

I came closer, slowly to not stir any more hostility from these people. As I got closer, I could see people standing over the scattered mountains.

They looked all in good shape, holding weapons, and there were even lots of siege big weapons. There were many spots.

In my eyes, this was what a real fortress should look like! Without getting an aerial way to get inside that secluded and well protected land, no one would have a chance to get inside without risking big losses.

I saw groups like my necromancers, groups like my Bulltors, and even saw fallen gods! Damn! What was this place? A gathering for all the cursed races and mighty warriors?

I also saw many others that I didn't know.

"These are necromancers, these are Bulltors, they are the fallen gods, and those big boys there with bulging and pulsating veins all over their bodies are the zombies…" Lucias took the charge of introducing them to me, the ones he recognised, and he recognised just more than I did.

"Hi, I'm Hye. I came from a world in our universe, the same universe as all of you," I got out my horn and thought about talking to all of them, "I'm here not to fight you. I never expected to find survivors here. Can I talk to your leader or leaders perhaps?"

I spoke with such honesty, while stopping my chariot just five hundred metres away from the nearest mountain to me.

At first, I didn't see any response at all, as if my words didn't reach them. "F*ck! Don't tell me they came from ancient times, that my tongue looked weird to their ears and alien!"

It suddenly hit me! If they were the direct descendants of those ancient races, then they might not understand my words.

"Do you know any ancient language? One they can understand?" and getting to this point made me turn over to Lucias, asking him for help.

"Well… Lord, I came from old time indeed… But for me your words are excellent!"

Chapter 861 Are You A Fool Or What?!!

"Damn! I didn't ask you to praise my words! Do you know old languages or what?"

"Ahem… Studying wasn't my real forte, you know…" for the first time, I felt hesitation and anxiety coming up from him.

Damn! Don't tell me he wasn't that interested in studying and thought about it as a disgrace!

Well, for a general of his calibre… I could consider it a stain indeed.

But that wasn't the issue right now. The issue was that these folks wouldn't get to understand anything from what I just said.

"Sigh, I hope the market has something to help," I opened the market and started to look for any item that could help translate my words into one of the ancient tongues of my universe.

What I thought to be an easy task turned out to be quite challenging!

The Lukakol ancient language? The Godkaen ancient language? What the heck are these?" I turned to Lucias, and like before, he stuttered and seemed more anxious than before.

"Forget it," I decided to buy all these items, and they were almost over a hundred. I took one out, and it was just like a real horn, small in size and faint red in colour.

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"Hi, I'm Hye. I came from a wor…" and again I repeated my words, introducing myself, and what I was doing here. At the same time, I held my first horn in front of the new red one, to let what I'd say deliver to those here.

"It's not working…" but that ended up with not a single response from their side. So I started using one horn after another, until I exhausted the entire over hundred horns without getting a single response!

"Goddammit! What's wrong with them? Why can't they understand a single word of what I said?!!" I got stirred up with all this. I hated it when I'd try something and fail, not because I didn't try hard enough, but because I lacked something simple.

Just like here, I lacked the knowledge of an ancient language to make them understand my words.

"Hi, human race Hye…" and just as I was getting over the edge, I heard such a loud and clear voice, coming from the direction of the mountains upfront.

Then a small flying rock appeared. It was no way close to the flying islands I saw before. It was simply a huge rock, close up to one hundred metres in radius.

"We already got your message and understood it perfectly fine. But it was a really nice touch from you to try and speak in other languages, languages of our lost forgotten races. Despite your words being a little rusty, that was something I respected."

"You…" I narrowed my eyes and for a second there, I thought about going towards that middle aged fallen god and punching him in the face!

But slowly I controlled my frustration, and jumped over it to see the good news.

They got what I said! And they were just taking time for their leader to come to meet me.

"Are you the leader here?" I asked, while moving my eyes over his small piece of rock. Despite being small, it has two short watching towers, a medium sized wall, and even a big gate!

There was also a shield flashing from time to time, as if it was electrifying flies flying through it.

"We… Don't have a single leader here," that fallen god said, "but other tribes entrusted me with this task. So, what brings you here, human race Hye from far away?"

"I'm here to get this damn pocket world destroyed and get everyone out of here," I said again what I came here for.

"Sorry about that, but if your purpose was to destroy the world and kill all of us then we won't stop you. But if you wanted to take us out, back to the same universe that killed our ancestors, drove us all the way outside of the universe, all the way to here… Then we will end up killing each other."

"You…" What the heck this dude just said? Did I get it wrong? "Are you sure you are sane enough to handle this discussion?"

"I'm the wisest person in all of our tribes," he said in such arrogance, one that made me feel he was either a very formidable foe or just a fool.

"Fine!" As I lost any clue about what he meant by his words, or about his true power and status here, I decided to ask someone who could explain this to me, "come out!"

*Flash!* *Flash!* *Flash!*

And the next thing happened was for many flashes of light to come forth. I called all the fallen gods I had in my inventory. And this added a more terrifying image to my single chariot in front of all these people.

"You… This…" it seemed seeing such a number of fallen gods coming out, answering my call, came as a shock for that dude.

"Listen, I don't know if you are crazy or a fool, or something who got addicted to power and being the ruler of his people, or just a mere coward… I don't care about any of that. I only want this world destroyed, and your imprisoned people living in such hell to get freed. If you want to do it voluntarily, help me as well then you'll get my gratitude. If you will stand against me, then I'll crush you and anyone standing on your side with everything I got, just like I crushed many and much stronger foes than all of you."

I got fed up with this pocket world. It wasn't just this world that was wrong, even the living people who miraculously survived inside for so long were crazy and lunatics!

"Damn tyrant! Such a person shall not be left to live for even a single more second! Spread the word, the tribe is going for war!"

"Oh, sorry about that…" yet just as he finished speaking his nonsense, I already completed my first technique and sent tons of threads towards those up front.

That dude, and all the forces stationed around him on the mountains were all hit. I saw him lean over his chest, touching the black thread penetrating it before laughing.

Chapter 862 [Bonus chapter] Fighting Ancient Races

"Do you think such cheap methods of soul attacks can work on me? On any of us? We got a gift once we got in this world, a gift against any soul. Even those mighty soulers, the one who once ruled a large piece of our universe with their formidable powers, won't do any harm towards us! You are pathetic! Just like any useless human I ever met! Your race is just rodents, nothing but weed or even lower in my eyes! Listen up, attack and don't stop at anything! Kill this impudent intruder and get his forces inside for interrogation after that."

Oh… This damn leader seemed quite full of himself! Did he mistake my threads, my technique, to be something related to the souler race?

Sorry pal! But you messed up, pretty much huge this time!

My technique… Was quite scary!

But my technique would need a few minutes to control these bastards. So just as I waited, the forces over the mountains started to act.

First I saw many starting to move at the mountains in front of me. Then I spotted many flashes from the nearby mountains.

This bastard was summoning everyone here. To cling up to power, he was ready to let everyone die for his sake, for the sake of his greed.

I was quite sure now, he was doing this to keep his power and authority. Letting everyone go outside would be the end of his reign, of all the leaders' reign.

But who said they got a say in this?

I watched these big siege weapons starting to roll, releasing such mighty waves of fiery attacks towards my chariot.

The soulers already went elsewhere under my orders. And now all that was left was for me to take over those fighters, then force them to work for me.

*Bang!* *Bang!* *Bang!*

Wow! These attacks were quite impressive indeed! Each one splashed over my shield, crashing into such a huge mushroom shaped fire, leaving behind a few marks on my shield.

That was just a sign of how strong such attacks were. At the same time, a shield appeared enveloping this immense area, surrounding all the mountains and protecting those inside from my retaliation.

However… I didn't let anyone on my side to attack. Even when the races started to fire their attacks.

The fallen gods were really fierce! I noticed they were weaker than mine, but they weren't that weak.

In numbers, they compensated for their lack of strength, making my shield tremble frequently under the heavy fire they launched.

And that wasn't all! I watched the ground underneath the mountains get soaked in a white sea of fire. That was the signal that the necromancers joined this fight.

But they were weak. In big fights, against massive armies, they might be a great threat without doubt. But against me? The sole me and my chariot? That was pointless.

At the same time, many attacks started to come, weird, filled with different kinds of energy and holding lots of power. To be honest, I suspected my chariot's shield would sustain all this for a long time.

If this was a grand war, without any means for me to control them, then this fight was going to be brutal and deadly.

And that told me how big the difference was between the current races of the universe and the ancient ones.

Those ancient races… They were fierce!

However…

"Yes, come to poppa! Follow my orders and sign these contracts, shall you?" Just after the passage of ten minutes, the first wave of forces getting controlled appeared.

I simply gave them the order to sign a contract with me, but didn't order them to stop. If I wanted, I could easily order a massacre here.

But from what I saw, and the hellish pressure I just experienced with forces that were void of any system support, with no stat points or any source of power, they were great!

I felt greedy here, greedy to get all of them, even those greedy leaders, get all to be on my side.

So I didn't give them any order to stay back. Instead, I filled my chariot with many green bones, and used them to push my technique further.

I couldn't see clearly through the thick layer of attacks landing over my chariot. I didn't try to evade, and let them have their fun. As soon enough, I'd have mine.

The shouts that I heard before and filled the entire camp on the mountains were growing faint with each passing minute. The first step was the hardest, but once I started to pour more energy into my technique, and with the first few waves getting controlled, more started to fall under my clutches like dominoes.

In less than two hours, not a single sound was heard giving a single order from their side.

That meant all the leaders, at least the big ones, were all under my control. I was sure that bastard was already under my control for good.

"Give the order to stop," I said, "let all of your forces stand down!"

It was time to take control over this mess. I didn't plan to stop my technique, but the stage of depleting my shield's energy was over.

In a flash of a few seconds, and just like a magic spell fell over their side, many shouts came to stop them from attacking. And with this, all the forces there stopped.

But soon enough I heard a loud ruckus coming from deep, deep behind the wall of rocks standing in my path.

"Go inside, scatter into the big open space inside," and with this, the second stage of my attack came.

I didn't plan to just fight on a single front. I knew if I waited, then a lot of forces would flock here and things would come out of control.

Whom I was dealing with? They were all brutal and mighty races, ones that could cause much devastation if two armies were allowed to have an open fight.

Chapter 863 The Fight Spreads Inside

Instead, I'd control the frontlines, then send them all the way deep inside their lands to spread my threads there. Each single one of them would be a good focus to spread my threads, allowing my control to expand.

Then they'd clear the place for the incoming forces to come and attack me. Then I'd use my technique to control them as well, repeating the same.

Of course the time when I was getting hammered down wasn't that nice and everything. I suffered, and had to replenish the stock of my chariot with more crystals, reminding me to buy more from Silverlining later on.

This fight kept going in such a smooth way for almost an entire day! Then things started to take a turn to the south when I heard loud booming noises coming from the inside.

"Damn! Those son of b*tches! They will kill their own people just to keep themselves in power!" I clenched my fist controlling the technique. Right now, the consumption rate was best described as being scary!

I had to replenish my bones once per minute. At some point, I started to use my blue bones just to keep up with the increasing demand on my energy.

"Listen up, scatter and find the big leaders of the resisting forces. If you can, just stand beside them for as long as you can. If not, fight them to the death," after an hour of hearing such loud bangs, I grew tired of this.

If they wanted to fight, then I'd fight them in my own way.

The thing that created all this pressure over my energy was that I didn't break a single connection with anyone. Not even when I controlled such a massive number of forces, I knew they were going to help increase the area of my control.

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So I had to sacrifice more bones in return for more control, shortening up the time needed to infiltrate the inner zone to not exceed a day or two at most.

But with the sudden eruption of war inside, I didn't know how many of them would be left.

Their number? To be honest I didn't have time to check the controlled ones yet. I started using the big contracts, the ones that could sign tens of millions for this operation.

So it was hard to know exactly how many I controlled so far, but at least they were in hundreds of millions.

And that made me think about something… How would I take all of them out?

I was going to smash this world into pieces, collapsing the entire world. But what would that end up at? Would every single living one be able to get out? Or were they going to fall here and die with the world?

If so, then it was better for me to find a way to open a gate to the outside. The outside world was the one controlled by me, with nothing there to fear about.

Would they run away? Humph! They were controlled with the power of contracts. So they had no chance of running away.

Even if they did, I'd just order them to come back and they'd comply or die.

Well… even if I ended up with one tenth of their original number, the number I got in my mind, then I'd be satisfied.

The fight inside got intensified for the next few hours, as a sign of the retaliation of my forces. I kept sending out my orders, asking those controlled to stop ordering their forces to kill their people.

This was the simple order I could give, followed by my order to get near the generals and leaders of the opposing forces and try to control or kill them.

Gradually, the sounds coming from the inside started to calm down, alongside the calmness over the frontline.

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Reinforcements started to grow scarcely since the sounds of fight erupted inside. Yet I couldn't go inside and get to see what was happening there myself.

After all there was that big shield stopping me. Trying to take it down with power was feasible, but I refrained in fear it might cause harm to those inside.

So I had to wait, give orders to those under my control to try and find the source of the shield once the fight inside started to grow calmer.

I asked them to take the shield down, a thing that happened only after ten more hours.

"Let's go," I led my chariot to move towards the inside, not caring about the remaining forces that kept firing their big guns and attacks at me.

I flashed past over their heads, ending up entering the inner zone at last.

And once I got myself there in a span of a few seconds, I got to see all the devastation caused by the war going on here.

There was once a prosperous cluster of big cities, towns, and even villages here. But now? Only a similar image to the apocalypse, places filled with rubbles and ruins were left there.

Many dead bodies lay on the ground, dying the ground red with their blood.

I looked at this grand place. It was much bigger than I initially thought, at least triple in size. Fights were still going on, as one side amassed their forces to form five big armies that started to kill and hunt down everyone else.

They even dared to kill normal people, who weren't yet infected or controlled by my power.

"Fine! Retreat!" I controlled my threads, recalling them all of a sudden back. At the same time I moved my chariot, heading directly towards the first group of them.

Each group was formed of a coalition of all the tribes here, with lots of others standing back, not joining the fight and just tagging along.

My best guess? They were their families. It didn't make any sense for them to kill their people, or risk doing this.

So they brought their people behind, to make sure they wouldn't harm them.

Chapter 864 Hearing The Story Of The Pocket World

This explained why they took such time before they started such a big move. However, everything was going to end right now.

Once my chariot appeared, like a magnet it attracted most of the fire over it. I was expecting that, and that was a small part in my contingency plan for this rogue attitude.

The real plan? It was simply by using my threads, attacking all of them in one go, and taking out their threat in the shortest time.

It didn't take one hour for me to take over their forces in one army. After all, I got tons of my threads ready and eager to take over anyone in front of them.

"Next," I controlled the forces, but didn't control their families behind. If their big guys were taken down, then others wouldn't cause any trouble.

I'd come back to control them later on. But now I was racing against time to limit the damage caused by these armies.

One by one they fell until all the sounds of battling stopped. The place returned to its peace, not quite entirely for sure.

Sounds of screams, wails, and heart curdling cries erupted from all over the place. These people lived their lives in peace. They never experienced wars, and I doubted that for a long line of generations they ever saw the ugly face of war before.

So this time it was uniquely different. They saw how war was terrifying. Getting killed on my hands, on their leader's hands, on the hands of their forces who were supposed to help and safeguard them didn't matter.

They all ended up losing someone precious to them, ending up losing any will to fight or resist while my threads spread all over the place.

If I could give them a hand here, then I'd just try to prevent more deaths. As such, I started to look for any hidden or running away forces and hunted them down when found.

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This took four hours before I finally cleaned the area around. All this time, Lucias stood by my side, asking repeatedly to bring forth his forces here to help.

Yet I refused.

First of all these forces were immune to my soulers. And if they were effective, I'd end up losing more of them on my hands, the last thing I wanted to see here.

"Time to get answers," I wasted all this time to control such a hard battle not just to get these races on my side, but to know what the hell was going on here.

They lived in this pocket world for so long already. If anyone knew what was going on here then it would be them.

"The leader of the races here, please step forward and come to my chariot," as the last batches of the powerless folks here were getting under my control gradually, I gave the order for that arrogant leader of theirs, the one I met before, to come to my chariot.

The first time we met we were enemies. And this time he was serving me.

"You called for me, mighty one?" he came and bowed, greeting me in such a traditional way of his race.

"Call me lord," I took my time looking at him. If not for his greed, not that many people would have to die.

I seriously considered killing him and other leaders in retaliation for what they did here. It seemed just, but it would make me lose capable generals without doubt.

So I closed my eyes. It was war, and casualties were expected as such.

"What's your name?" last time I didn't get the chance to ask him about his name. He acted all mighty and arrogant, not even introducing himself.

"I'm Johnathon," but this time he had to comply with my wishes.

"Great, a name that I won't remember anyway," I got lots of forces, lots of capable generals at the moment. I didn't like him or the others here, so I doubted I'd ever remember their names.

"As lord wishes," of course dude you got no say here anymore.

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"Tell me everything you know about this place," I moved my eyes around, "how did your race end up here? How did you survive all this time? And do you have any info about what happened before you came here?"

"Lord, we are ten different races…" he started to tell me a long, very long story. In brief, there were ten different kinds of races here.

I got to know about fallen gods, Bulltors, necromancers, and zombies. He also said there were soulers, but they got separated and left for another place.

"There are more people here?" This came as a surprise for me. I thought this was the only place where surviving races were.

But it seemed I got it all wrong!

"There are many places actually. I know of twenty other places like here."

"That's… Quite too much," I never expected my visit here would end in such a harvest, "are they also part of the ten races?"

"Yes lord," he nodded, "they are all part of the races. But some chose to gather up at one spot or more, forming their own kingdoms there."

"Interesting…" knowing that there were many of these races made me quite eager to go there and see them, "do you know where these people are?"

"Sure, I can draw a map of this entire world," and that was the thing I wanted to hear the most.

"Do it," I took out many papers and a brush, letting him start working, "draw the entire map out for me."

Getting such a map would save me tons of time. Like this I'd just spread my souler armies around.

Not to mention I was going to get more soulers as well.

"Speak about the condition of this world as you work," he started to draw such a big map, making me quite impatient about hearing the truth about this world.

"Well, there isn't much to say. This world was created to keep us inside and kill us slowly. All the souls lord can find here came all from our people, dying during the long course of time we were imprisoned here."

And just like that, the first thing he said was quite shocking.

Chapter 865 The Core Of The Pocket World

So this pocket world was created for them? All the souls here came from their people? Damn! Just how many people died during their stay here? I could say there were billions over billions of souls here!

But that wasn't the end of shocks he'd given to me it seemed.

"The world was created when our coalition army of the ten races was fighting a very huge war against forces of another universe. Then all of sudden, a seemingly endless dark cloud encompassed the entire battlefield, making everyone get sucked into it."

"You speak as if you saw this yourself," I couldn't help but question the integrity of his stories.

"We have a race that can record events in their bloodline. So we can see and even experience the terror of these moments, as if we were actually there."

"Interesting, what's the name of such a race?"

"The Krogs, my lord," he mentioned one of the names I didn't recognise, "they got power of time running through their veins."

"You got the power of time here and didn't use their help to get out?" I asked in doubt. After all, using either the power of time or space would end up for them breaking free.

"It's… Not that simple, my lord," he sighed, "we tried, our ancestors did. But all they had was such devastating defeat after defeat, losing lots of our strongest forces in the process, making us stop trying in the end."

"Why is that?" After all, I planned to get out of here using my time abilities. If using such an ability would fail then I had to know the reason.

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I would never accept failure. Any problem they got would be solved by me in the end.

"There… Are a group of terrifying beasts at each path leading out from here," he drew the world in the shape of a circle. When he said these words, he paused, shifted his attention from the inside to outside, and drew twenty-five lines getting out from the circle.

"We found twenty-five paths, each blocked by a terrifying beast. They… Can devour our time and space powered clansmen, with the power to seal all the stat abilities for us."

"Ah, I see…" I got to know what he was speaking about. They were just like the beast I enslaved before coming here.

There were twenty-four more of them? Wow! Would I have a free space at my back after ending enslaving all of them or what?

"Why didn't you use your cultivation power then?" This was a question I had to ask.

"Cultivation? What is that, my lord?" but he gave me another surprise here.

Damn! It seemed the initial races didn't enjoy the blessing of cultivation bases. That meant the system developed these later on, mimicking what the other universe got.

I understand many things now. The message of that mysterious dude from the other universe spoke about our universe ancestors using rudimentary and weak forms of power compared to them.

That meant the old folks did use the power of system and stats only, with their best strength coming from their bodies and bloodlines, unique abilities like these races.

That explained why the hostile universe, or the dirty dark people controlling it now, focused first on eliminating these races off the board.

But the system then used a brilliant move of borrowing the power of the hostile universe, creating cultivation bases for our people, giving us a chance to survive much longer.

"So you decided to stay here, and succumb to the fate of turning into souls?"

"We got nothing else to do," he sighed, "if we can't get out, then what else can we do?"

I couldn't find any other solution other than trying again and again until they either would get out or die trying.

"Getting out of here is impossible. No one can do it, it's futile!"

"Don't place me in the same spot as you lots of people," I harrumphed, "continue about how you all came here. I see only ten races in our universe. Where are the other universe people? Staying in other places or what?"

"They got killed the first moment this world was formed," he gave me such weird news, "don't get surprised lord, after all this world was formed by the bodies and the immense power inside the other universe people. Whoever did this created the world in such a way, making the world get in shape by sacrificing all the other universe fighters at the spot, leaving us to turn into souls and become fuel for what lies underneath."

"What lies underneath? The weapon?"

"Weapon? I don't know, no one ever knew… But lord, there was once a group of our elites went down to the core of this world, and only a message was sent from them before they all died."

"What message?"

"Never dream about leaving, never attempt to get here or else all of us will die… That's what they sent."

"Interesting," I muttered, comparing what this message said with what the mysterious dude left on the stones as a message for me.

How ironic! Two different opinions about what happened, and yet they both came in the form of messages from ancient folks.

Who was right? Who was wrong? I couldn't tell. But as there was a core, and they sent people there once, then I could simply go there and check things out.

It seemed… My journey here wasn't that simple or going to be short as I expected.

But it was worth it! I wouldn't only get rid of such a weapon, but get more races, ones that went extinct or grew scarce to form warriors at my current time.

Not to mention… Those twenty four other beasts were a big harvest indeed.

"Continue…" I urged him to continue speaking.

"Well… Aside from that, there isn't much to tell. We resigned to our fate, living in this world where each year few of us would die and turn into souls."

Chapter 866 Sending Everyone To One Path

"This isn't a life," I couldn't help but bitterly sigh. Even if I got resentment towards this dude and other leaders like him, I couldn't bring myself to totally hate them, and even started to grow empathy towards their poor lives.

Such mighty races, once sat on the throne of my universe, turned to live such a miserable life. It was a sad story.

And that made me feel more resentment towards the ones who did all this. I thought before it was the big races in the hostile universe.

But it seemed everyone was acting like mere puppets, getting played and forced to do what those mysterious enemies behind the curtains wanted.

These dirty people… They were my true enemies, the real ones. Without aiming at them at some point, bringing the fight over their lands and killing their forces, none of this would matter.

All the sacrifices of all races in all the universes in this cosmos would be wasted.

Yet that was for another time, another tale for me when I'd grow to such extent to play on such a grand stage.

For now I had to just get stronger while securing my strength and getting stronger with each trial I'd get through.

I was weak, so weak to even think about raising my head and take a grand look at the scale of my universe. Thinking about entering the big cosmos battle would be just a foolish dream for me right now.

"So… This is the grand map of this world?" as I got lost in thoughts, I left him work on the map until he was done. It took him roughly an hour to draw such a detailed map.

It was full of details, but… It was quite small!

"Are you sure you didn't miss anything there?" I crossed my arms while examining this map. No matter how I looked at it, even with all the details here, it looked like it was missing a lot!

Only big landmarks appeared here, with the twenty places where the ten races lived. Other than this, there was nothing.

"There isn't anything else to add."

"Don't you feel like… You missed the cities, towns… Everything that is filling the entire world here?"

I looked at him, and he seemed like he was surprised by what I just said.

"Well… These are just empty cities and towns, filled with souls, not real life."

"I know," I nodded, "but I want to know everything about this place so…" I motioned for him to continue drawing, and he reluctantly returned to complete his task.

I got to know everything, the entire layout of the cities and towns here, the map of the different zones, not just an overall view like this.

It felt ok, but also not ok. I didn't know why, but something seemed missing and I felt it would be found in the much detailed map.

As he started to work on much more detailed maps, I started to examine the map he gave to me.

First… I couldn't tell how really big this world here was. I couldn't decide how long it would take my chariot to go from one circle to another. And there was this little thing that made me ask for a more detailed map, the number of these inhabitant zones.

He said that there were twenty zones inhabited by their races here. On the other hand, there were twenty-five paths leading out from this world.

What did this mean? There was something missing. Five zones were missing.

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My best guess? There were twenty-five zones but only twenty were inhabited. However in the map he drew before, there were only twenty zones there.

So where were these missing five? I had to know. Something told me I had to find those missing five.

As he kept drawing, I sent Lucias' away. He had a fight to supervise. Before sending him away, I made him study and memorise the map, something that seemed a bit troublesome for such a mighty general.

However there was already a map of this world. So why should his people move around, blindfolded, when there was a better way to explore this world?

As he went away using his fast speed, I started to give orders to the people I got.

I had to organise them. "Gather up in different groups, each containing the same race," I sent while checking the number of contracts I got recently.

Well… I saw a long list of names there, and that made me unable to count them. From the look of them gathering up outside this zone, I estimated to get tens of millions of them.

That was incredible, especially after that last desperate struggle the leaders here pulled.

As they gathered here, I considered what to do with them. I should take them out, but how?

The first thing that popped in my mind was to use my floating castle. This one was enough to take tens of millions, with its own pocket world inside that ran on a time difference.

But when thinking about the other nineteen zones, I knew this solution wasn't feasible.

I looked at the map and there was one way out, these paths. The twenty-five paths should lead all out. When I came in here, I was teleported towards one of them. And that meant they stood in the middle between here and the outside world.

"See this path?" I had to wait for this fallen god to finish what he was doing, "lead your people there and wait for me. Do not enter that path until I give you the order to do that, get me?"

"Yes, lord," he bowed before leaving. I also made sure to leave a similar order to everyone.

And then I returned to check the many maps he drew for me.

They were describing the world in great detail. It was a much detailed map, but it lacked the five zones I was looking after.

Chapter 867 The System Evolved During These Years!

"This…" and as I was puzzled by this, I found a symbol in the centre of this world.

The twenty zones were marked in big circles, and they were aligned to form a huge circle, surrounding a central zone.

And in the middle of this zone, he left behind something like a door mark. "Is this… The path leading to the core world he told me about?"

I looked at this door for a few minutes, "if there is a core, then it should be underground… If the missing five zones aren't on the surface, then they should be underground."

This was the only explanation I got for this. I looked at the maps for one more time. Aside from the twenty zones, the central door, there was nothing important aside from terrain landmarks.

Cities and towns weren't marked or drawn at all! I sighed. Even if the souls came from their people, they didn't place any importance over them.

They simply ignored these souls, considering them as being nothing of value.

"Time to go to the next zone," after clearing things here, and the people I gained started their big march towards that path, it was time for me to start my zone hunt.

Each zone was formed in the same way as this one. There were such huge mountains circling a centre zone inside. I fought and conquered each zone in the same way like the first one.

Not a single zone had a decent group of leaders, all decided to fight and resist, and all failed in the end.

I gained tons of races, all were unique and formidable. The ones that made me laugh greatly were the soulers.

They were indeed inhabiting a single zone, numbering in hundreds of millions there.

The only thing that would prevent soulers from growing in numbers was the lack of enough souls to keep them alive. And here? This world was just like a paradise to them.

Fighting them was really funny! Soulers were mighty against huge armies, creating a great threat.

Yet against me? Against my chariot and shield? Well… They couldn't do anything! Even the siege weapons and shields I saw at other zones weren't present here.

Soulers fought using different fighting tactics than any other race I met before. Using siege weapons and shields? That was hilarious in their eyes, and that made their fall faster than any other region.

Plus I gained all of them without missing a single one! They couldn't fight me, didn't kill each other, and that was all thanks to their lack of shield.

My chariot was invited inside their living zone, just like inviting a wolf in the house. All I did was to roam around and my threads did the rest.

The second zone that didn't cause much trouble to me was a zone controlled by necromancers. They used a wave tactic, using a great number of skeletons to fight their foes.

But they had no way to deal with me. Even if they had such elite skeletons, archers and mages, able to attack my chariot in the air, they ended up doing nothing at all thanks to my shield.

Then came those zombies. Well… They were fighting in a similar way like necromancers. They controlled a large number of infected zombies, forming a great wave like a tsunami.

But against aerial targets like my chariot, they couldn't do anything.

Yet these last two races used siege weapons and shields. Unlike soulers, they were controlled after losing almost two thirds or more of their numbers.

I gained a lot! And kept jumping from one zone to another while laughing.

There was a ton of good news by getting these races.

First they were formidable ancient races, ones that were taken out of the picture for such a long time. Who remained were either seen as cursed and untouchable, or were treated as warriors.

Then their lack of cultivation was another big harvest. I could now train them to start cultivating, and send them to many betting worlds and conquer these places later on.

They came from ancient times, when the system was simple and rudimentary. I doubted apocalypses even existed at their time, with quests and stat addition things.

They lacked good gears, lacked good stats, and definitely lacked skills. They got their abilities, but it wasn't that much without stats and skills.

I formed a theory, a theory about why and when the system started to form the apocalypse scenario and spread it all across the universe.

It must have happened after the fall of these mighty races. The universe was well protected by these formidable forces. And once gone, the system and its higher ups must have felt a real threat.

So they started this apocalypse sh*t, training all the weak races and finding new ways to make them stronger.

What would that imply? Such races were already formidable, enough to make them the top target for the hostile universe and those dirty people who caused all this mess.

Giving these races the ability to raise stats, get quests, and even start cultivation was like giving a copra wings to turn into a dragon and soar to heavens.

But taking control over each zone took at least a couple of days. Besides, I had to go and meet with the leader of each zone, speak with him about the state and history of the world.

Their stories didn't differ that much. They all repeated the same, and all didn't know anything about the missing five zones.

They warned me about the same things; don't try out paths or go to the core of this world.

I didn't give any heed to what they said. I had to go to the core to get rid of this world.

But first, I had to go and clear these paths. Then I'd send all of these races to the outside.

Fearing to cause a traffic jam, I scattered the twenty groups of them over the twenty-five paths. Like this, their departure from here would be faster.

Chapter 868 Going To The Paths

As for Lucias, aside from giving me news about the locations of each zone, there was nothing else to say.

It took almost sixty days to get all the zones under my control. The travel time between each zone took the same amount of time.

This world… It was really huge!

If not for the presence of a deadly weapon down below at its core, I'd have left this pocket world for my people to use.

It was vast, all green, and didn't have any threat aside from that weapon thing and the sacrifice quota each zone paid every year.

Sigh! I just hoped I'd find a way to preserve this world after destroying that damn core and weapon thing.

One hundred and twenty days passed… That was a hell lot of time indeed. It was four months, and I just kept fighting and travelling all this time.

It was possibly the longest period I spent away from my Earth! I knew there was that twenty times factor in time, making these four months equal only to six days!

It was crazy! Just thinking about this made me realise the importance of my second Earth world more.

I estimated that by the time I'd be out of here, the fourth quest would be about to be over.

This was thanks to the vast space of this world. I started to travel towards the outer region, heading to clear the paths first.

色覚異常かどうかがわかるテストです.丸の中に何の数字が見えますか?TOPSSEEK

This journey alone took close to half a month! I didn't have anything to do during the journey but to eat and sleep.

I didn't consider training or cultivating. After all, I had zero control over the time I'd spend on this.

Instead I started to think about other stuff.

What should I do with all these races? Would the system add its evolved features to them? Or this would fail?

I placed another importance over the new races I got. Fallen gods, necromancers, Bulltors, and even soulers were all old friends of mine.

But the other five races were like a mystery for me.

I watched them during the fight. Two races used weird abilities related to time and space to stop my chariot.

One kept opening portals that enveloped my chariot and sent it far away, and the other affected my movement speed and even managed to slow down time for me.

Aside from these two, the other three used pure natural element attacks; fire, ice, and lightning.

They were deadly, especially if they gathered up a large number of their races together, forming some sort of combined attacks.

But in the end, they all failed to stop me. And during the fight I got to see the vast difference in their strength and the current mainstream strength of the top races in the universe.

They were strong, had strong abilities, but they lacked any backing to make these abilities fiercer. They had to stick together to perform stronger attacks, and that was much different than what their remaining people in my time could do.

Just putting a single fallen god of mine or one souler against their fellow kin from this pocket world would clearly demonstrate this point.

The addition and evolution of the system so far had a great impact indeed. And that was great news considering that all of them would get the chance to unlock the system.

I thought then about when and where I should deploy them. Such races were going to be a real game changer.

Using them at the current apocalypse running on Earth was a grave mistake. Instead, I should wait for the Toranks to help me get to other worlds.

The stage of fighting Hescos would be the right one for my races to take part in and shine. In the meantime, I'd give them time to adapt to the new system, unlock cultivation, feed them stat points and crystals of power, and leave to train and get stronger.

After half a month, I finally reached the end of the world. It was a true statement. There was a huge wall that encompassed this world, looking like a great end for such a huge world.

It was much bigger than the mountainous wall I saw before surrounding each zone.

According to the news I heard from all the leaders of the zones, these mountains and these zones were present when the world was formed.

No one made them, and they just came to live inside as these were the best places to live in this place.

"Time to see the next dude," after five days of flying around this great wall that reached too damn high towards the clouds, I finally spotted a gigantic door.

There was an ocean of people gathering around it. And so I knew this was the gate leading to the path.

A general look and I could tell how deeply terrified they were from that path and the beast inside. They gathered at the path entrance, yet left a distance of almost a couple tens of miles away from that door.

This… Looked a bit weird, and pretty much expected.

Without saying anything, I moved my chariot and let it land on the ground. I tried to come inside with it and ended up losing it somewhere I didn't know about.

I wouldn't risk losing it somewhere and not return back after clearing that path.

As I walked towards that path, I was holding my heavy glaive. I already used my sacrifices, added more strength to me before going in there.

I knew the power of the system would be sealed. But who said my class would be? The beasts living here came from such ancient times, where there were no classes or such powers like mine.

My soul class… I bet it was something devised by the system, inspired by the lost souler race.

As I traversed the distance of a mile to that gate, I could hear the ruckus coming from behind. Without the need to look, I knew everyone was standing on their toes, looking at such crazy weak human race descendants going to the path.

Chapter 869 Unbelievable Bone Harvest!

They knew they were bound by a higher power, the power of contracts. And once I was dead, this bond would be severed.

In their eyes, this was just a mere dream where they'd wake up soon and return to their zones and continue their pathetic lives once more.

However little they knew… I already cleared one path and was going to clear the rest.

Standing beneath that gate made me feel great awe.

I felt like a tiny ant standing in front of a gigantic mountain! But that pathetic little play would affect anyone else, but me.

"Oh! I can't believe I ended up on the path where I killed its beast!" I couldn't help but laugh when I found the hall inside void of anything but a dead corpse of a colossal beast.

"Wait… That body wasn't here last time…" it suddenly hit me. Once I sealed that beast inside my shadow world, I was taken out and entered the world.

I even thought this hall was crushed, collapsed before. But this seemed to be a mere illusion or the effect of some sort of magic or something.

In front of me lay the colossal body of that behemoth. It was cold dead, as my battle with it was more than four months ago.

"Don't tell me I can't get its bones… No, it works! Yes!" I was terrified that after all this time, the bones would be lost.

But I worried for nothing! My system worked, my class worked, and I started to gain tons of bones, all were in high grade!

[You gained two hundred and twenty black bones]

[You gained one hundred red bones]

[You gained thirty diamond bones]

Damn! This… This was what a treasure trove would look like!

I kept getting such scary messages often, and also messages of the lower grade bones as well.

[You gained ten thousand dark gold grade bones]

[You gained one hundred thousand gold grade bones]

[You gained three hundred and fifty thousand silver grade bones]

Damn! Damn! This… This was the best harvest I gained so far! The lower the bone grade became, the much higher the number I got was.

I kept jumping over this colossal body, dissecting it using my glaive. Aside from the bones, I found the flesh of this beast quite interesting.

"It should be a high form of meat or something… Should store it, store all of it!" in front of my eyes, all the flesh and organs of this beast were shimmering with intense light like they were gems!

If they weren't for eating, then they'd be treasures. I didn't have time to think or experiment over these things, so storing them up for later time was the best approach.

But that turned the simple task of getting bones into a longer work of collecting everything.

I took roughly three days to wrap things here, and even had to use the help of my Bulltors and shield warriors. When I saw Bulltors, I thought about scattering them over their kin, teaching them about the new brand world awaiting for them.

But I refrained from doing so. I felt the core place would be filled with much deadlier foes than the beasts here.

So I had to keep all my strength to myself, to not regret it later on.

"Phew! I never thought the first path would be the one I cleared before, and I'd get such a great harvest as well!" I muttered to myself while moving back to the opening.

When I returned to the light, I couldn't help but sigh. My entire gears and body was stained with thick dark green and red liquids from all the cutting I did inside.

Each day I'd replenish my strength sacrifice for one hour to be able to use the dragon glaive once more. Using other weapons slowed me down.

But when I got out, all I heard was a loud awe inspiring shocking gasp coming from those races standing around, waiting for news of my death.

Instead, they were shocked and not disappointed to see me coming out alone, in one piece!

Least they knew… If they knew that I didn't even break a sweat inside and didn't even have a single clash, spent all this time collecting my loot, would they become mad or petrified out of shock?

"Listen up… That terrifying beast inside is now dead! I killed it! And now the path to the outside world is open…"

I held my horn and started speaking directly to all of them, "The world you are going to is mine. It's quite peaceful, but don't try to walk around as you might pump into my people and misunderstanding can happen. Also… The system you are aware of is now something else. So don't get confused if new stuff appeared in front of your eyes. Just go there and wait for me, don't move around too much, and stick to the place around the pocket world. And… No matter how long I take here, don't doubt that I'll come out."

Well… to be honest, I expected something else here. I thought they would shout, yell out of joy.

But what I saw was totally opposite to this… They all wept! Many even fell on the ground in such a weak and powerless way, and the rest started hugging and crying together.

What did I say to make them feel this sad? I was lost for a moment there. But after considering how long, terribly long, they lived inside such a nightmare, I could slightly understand their emotions.

This… this might be the long lost dream started up from the times of their ancestors. However, after the passage of all these years, after living under such tyranny and injustice for so long, getting the chance to be freed came to make all the suppressed emotions of despair and powerlessness to surface like this.

I even doubted that most of what they were feeling didn't come from themselves, but from their bloodlines. It was like all the ancestors who lived here and left part of their souls in their bloodlines were weeping from such news.