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Chapter 960 Controlling The Qilin

"Speaking with it is considered an insult! If it didn't invite you to a chat, you should start a fight with fists and not with words!"

"…"

*Roar!*

And just as I didn't get exactly what she meant, a mighty and fierce roar came from that monster, startling me.

Then the entire world all around changed!

With its roar, every single monster in the entire continent turned its claws and fangs, worked their wings and legs, and started to come at me in such intimidating waves.

Dammit! Did it plan to lead every single one of them to die in my hands to just escape?

No way! No f*cking way! Do you think you are fierce? Do you take yourself as the king among beasts? Let me show you then my might, the might of a true formidable king of humans!

"Come forth!"

And just like this, the fight between the king of humans and king of monsters kicked off in such a grand opening.

"This is bad! It will try to escape!" from the side, Isac screamed in warning.

"Girl, stay put and watch how I'll capture it!" Who said it could escape when it was just right in front of my eyes?

Humph! Keep dreaming, idiot!

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I summoned my grand roster of warriors. I got a few soulers left before, but who said I didn't get replenishment?

Just in mere seconds, the ground got covered with soulers alone. They weren't as strong as the ones I personally trained before, fed them with stat points, having them unlock their fog.

As I summoned these soul eating warriors, I pointed my light glaive at the direction of the ground, then at the sky, and gave one simple order to my warriors:

"Kill!"

I called forth dragons, called forth my fallen gods next. "You two, keep the sky clear and protect my soulers," I knew soulers weren't that good at all against flying beasts.

And like this, a grand battle erupted.

The fiercest monsters weren't as I expected, not coming from the sky. Unexpectedly they were the ones at the ground.

My soulers were just fresh ones, without any boost from stat points. But for them to hit a single target for over a hundred times to kill wasn't a normal thing as well.

"It's trying to escape!!!" and just as I arranged down my forces, Isac shouted, grabbed even my shoulder to notify me about the sudden movement of that Qilin.

It seemed strong, but it also seemed not ready to fight me head on. What I brought gave it a scare it seemed, and it tried to slip past my soulers tight encirclement.

But who said I'd use soulers to pin it down?

"Watch," I called forth for my technique's threads, and released them all to surround this bastard.

This was the real plan from the start. What I called here was just to scare this little dude and force it to move carelessly.

It fell into my trap and when it realised it, my threads already enveloped it in a huge ball.

There was no way out of this!

"Damn! It's really fierce!" but even if it got surrounded and attacked by all these threads, taking control over it wasn't an easy feat!

It kept resisting, releasing mighty roars that broke open earth and brought many rocks to stop my threads. However there were too many of my threads, and I was attentively controlling them.

So even if they were met with rocks, they simply smashed them to pieces and kept coming at Qilin.

When the threads infected it, a long process of wait developed. And during which, that monster kept roaring and ordering others around to come at me at any cost.

Under such fierce movement, even with the help of my warriors, many monsters slipped by and reached my chariot.

"Foolish bastard! Do you think I only have my warriors here? Pulse wave!"

Without waiting for the monsters to arrive at my chariot's shield, I called forth this ability. It swept many monsters away, and those who resisted it were hit by a few of my threads, getting under my control.

Unlike before, I didn't keep them safe. Instead, I turned them against their fellows and let them kill and feast over their flesh.

A brutal battle erupted in its highest intense moment from the start, making even Isac next to me tremble in doubt and shock.

"You… You are really a single man army!!!"

"Hahahaha! I like that nickname, and will keep it for myself then, hahaha!"

"Believe me, I doubt the presence of anyone who can compete with you over it," she rolled her eyes and I kept laughing while waiting for my threads to do their magic.

Even if that Qilin was special, against my technique it was nothing. What? Need an hour? A day? An entire week? So what? I got all the time in the world, and eventually it would end up being mine.

"It has no end!" After ten hours of constant fighting, Isac couldn't help but sigh from the side, "it's still impressive. How the heck can monster dens produce such vast and huge amounts of monsters in such a short time? Are these high grade dens or special ones or what?"

"They are low grade dens," I muttered while bringing more bones. Since hour three of this fight I had to use my bones to accelerate this process.

I felt that it would take days to get things done with that Qilin. However, it didn't stop bringing more monsters here.

I didn't reject free souls, but those flying monsters held another use for me.

Killing them like this was a big waste! Not to mention many of the ground monsters were really strong.

"This doesn't make any sense! Besides, how many dens did she use? I counted over three thousand monster types, with many seeming to be a mix of many others!"

Well, she was surprised by this. I knew this was thanks to this world of mine. It helped monsters to evolve and mature fast. But I didn't explain this to her.

Chapter 961 Little Qi

After all, it was just my own theory about the reason behind all this. Who knew, there might be a totally different theory behind such changes.

"It works fine for us," I shrugged, "we got lots of forces to train, and they kept getting stronger fast. So if they were acting like what normal monster dens should, I doubt this will satisfy the needs of my forces."

I wasn't making up excuses, as this was the bare truth. I got tens of millions each day, and part of them would be used as fighters while the rest would live in the towns and cities, helping do other stuff here.

If we didn't have such scary monster growth here, I doubted even the first training ground would be enough for half of my current army.

Besides, having the chance for these monsters to evolve was great as well. It would add new variables for my soldiers, just as if they were facing different enemies each time.

I had no other choice but to keep killing those monsters for hours until Qilin finally fell under my control.

"Order them to stand down!" the moment I got it under my control, I didn't yell in joy or something. I just gave it this simple order.

It could control other monsters, so what if I used this to make these monsters retreat?

[Yes, master]

*Roar!*

A childish voice echoed in my mind before a mighty roar came. The next thing that happened was for all the endless amounts of monsters on the ground and air to stop all of sudden, before hurrying to retreat.

"Stop fighting," I also followed suit and gave the order for my own forces to stop this bloody fight, "come back!"

I called back all of my warriors, only leaving behind my fallen gods and dragons.

I wasn't yet sure this dude was able to control all monsters or what.

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"You can speak?" I asked, just to make sure it wasn't just a coincidence.

[Yes, master]

"Cool," I drove my chariot over. After the retreat of monsters, the world looked much calmer and more spacious than before, "let me know your name first. And call me lord not master."

[Lord… I have no name yet… I was born…]

I felt his voice shaking, just in the same way kids would show before crying.

"Fine, I'll give you one…" I wasn't good at giving out names, "I'll call you little Qi."

[Thanks lord, I like it] I knew it sucked, but this was my limit in giving names.

"Tell me then, can you control monsters?" This was the million dollar question.

[Yes lord. I was born out of this world, and so I can control all monsters living here]

"Wow! Are you sure of that?" if he wasn't lying then all the problems we were facing got solved!

[Yes lord. I can give orders to any monster and he or she will follow my orders to the lettre]

"That's great! Please give orders then and let monsters not attack the three continents here. Let them all retreat for now and I'll let you know when they'll come and how."

If I had a way to deal with such a mess here then it would be great. My forces here never got a chance to take their breaths.

So, I'd let him control the monsters in the three continents, not allowing a single one to come here. Then I'd only focus for now on the ground and aquatic monsters, leaving the winged monsters for later.

I'd leave the flying monsters to expand their numbers and evolve freely, then I'd use them to turn them all into my forces. Like this, I'd secure a stable source of flying legions, and I'd control losses of my forces.

[Great news! Monsters are retreating] and just as I heard my little Qi roar multiple times, I got this message from Lily.

[I know, I'm the one who did this to them]

[Damn! Don't joke with me]

[I'm not!]

[This… Then…]

[Don't worry anymore about monsters. I have total control over them for now. Once you are ready, I'll give them the order to come and I'll also control their types and numbers]

[Wow! It's like we can control everything, hahaha! That's… Simply great!]

I knew it was. [Just start working fast. Arrange your forces and I'll let Isac finish up her planning. I'll let her come to meet you later. You two will work together and when you are ready, just let me know]

[Sure. I'll start arranging the mess we got here first]

"Is it over now?" as I closed the chat with Lily, from the side Isac asked. And I nodded.

"Phew! This… It was so damn intense!"

"It's the normal thing at such times," I knew she was away from the frontline for such a long time already, making it look weird for me to hear such words.

I had more stressful times than these. This was intense? Give me a break!

"Oh, is that hard at the apocalypse?" she seemed to really not believe my words.

"When you are done, you can go back and check the first training grounds. It will give you a deeper perspective about how the apocalypse truly looked like."

It seemed my first training grounds would play a different role from now on. In fact the fight there was brutal and continuous.

I didn't even consider my little Qi here to do anything to change the situation over there. It was so perfect, and very suitable training grounds without doubt.

And hopefully with its help, this place would also turn into a good training ground as well.

"Promise to take me there," she said as if she was asking for a tour or something.

"Sure, but now let's get it done," I moved my eyes around. Only the monsters controlled by my contracts were flying all over the sky, alongside my dragons.

"Oh, that task… I totally forgot about it," she seemed to get absorbed in this fight and forgot about why we came here in the first place.

Chapter 962 I Want To Play

"You can go now on a tour," I motioned for her to call out her chariot and start roaming this place, "make sure to put into consideration the different monsters here."

"Are you planning to let them fight all these monsters head on?!"

"Well, they have to adapt to different fighting styles. Be it ground battles on open grounds, siege battles at city walls, or even attacking walls with densely packed enemies all over the place… They have to adapt to different situations."

I paused, thinking about my first training grounds before adding, "my first training ground is for brutal defensive battles. I need this place to be prepared for offensive ones, brutal battles on open grounds, and battles to conquer walls and such."

"Oh… To do that… I can arrange for scattered forts, with walls and towers. You can let the monsters get stationed around these, and our forces had to get them cleared and control these forts before retreating and doing it again."

"That's… A nice tactic. Fine, let's go with it then," I nodded in satisfaction as this was a very good idea without doubt.

"Also I can leave one continent for open warfare. They can fight ground monsters alone there. As for aerial ones… I don't have any ideas for them right now."

"I don't plan for them to fight any flying monsters at this moment," I said, "let's focus only on the ground and aquatic monsters."

"Sure," she nodded and as she left to do her task, I got one last thing to consider.

"What shall I do with you?" I asked while looking at my little Qi.

[Lord can leave me out here to play… If possible]

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"Play?!!" I raised one eyebrow, "how so?"

[I lived my entire life inside an egg. I didn't get anything to play with. I want to play, if lord permits]

"What kind of games do you like?" I grew curious, and wanted to know what he would consider a game.

[Leading monsters into battles, watching my enemies die and scream in deep pain is a great pleasure for me]

"This…" I expected something different.

[Lord, you got such a large number of monsters following your orders. I don't know what you did to them, but they refuse to follow my orders. Can I kill them?]

"Kill them?!!" I looked at the direction this bloody baby monster looked. It sat its gazes over my controlled flying monsters. "No, they are untouchable!" and I firmly declined.

[Can I lead them? Kill other monsters?]

"Well… This can be done, but I'm afraid they'll get killed and I'll lose a lot."

[Lord, monsters here get stronger by devouring each other] and just as I was worried about the losses I'd get, he gave me such an interesting piece of info that I didn't know.

"Are you sure?"

[They devour each other at the dens, and that's why they evolved and became stronger fast. This is encouraged by the world here. Like this, letting them fight isn't a bad thing]

"If so… Then you got my permission to do it," I paused, "but you'll only play with flying monsters. And you'll have one simple task… Let as many as possible to get stronger and evolve. Also whoever gets stronger must be spared for me to control."

[Then I can lead them to fight and devour other monsters? That's great! But can't we add a few ground monsters to the mix? Without ground monsters their evolution will be slow]

"Hmm… Fine! But you'll need me to look for a separate continent for you then. You'll play in a separate place away from here."

If I allowed it to play here, it would be very dangerous. I didn't know how fierce this little dude here was. Yet something told me it was very bloodthirsty.

So it was safer to waste a few days or even a week, look for another continent before letting it have its fun there.

[Sure, I'll wait for lord to take me there]

"Don't worry," I took a single disc out, and placed one of the twin discs at the ground, "gather up the monsters you wanted to play with you. When this disc turns into a portal, lead everyone through."

[Thanks for the lord's generosity and kindness. Little Qi won't forget such benevolence]

I didn't know if it was acting like this as an act or if I was really grateful. "Don't cause any trouble while I'm away," I had to warn them before leaving.

Who knew such a childish minded fierce monster would do it if it grew bored or something.

As I got this messy situation here solved, I started to look at the maps. The closest continent was already far away from here.

It served my purpose quite well. If that continent was close by, then it might affect the situation here.

I wanted all the flying monsters to come to this continent and get the chance to devour each other and become stronger.

It was just like what I expected. This world here affected the monsters and allowed them to evolve.

Letting all the flying monsters play with my little Qi wasn't a bad idea. But adding ground monsters seemed like one.

I wanted to focus more on ground monsters in these three continents. We got enough aquatic monsters at the first training grounds.

So taking ground monsters from these three continents and sending them away wasn't the best thing I wanted to do. However, if this was something needed for the aerial monsters to evolve better, then I'd understand it.

I just hoped this little Qi wouldn't be too damn fierce, or else I'd end up having many losses and little gains.

As Isac needed time to finish her tour then go and work with Lily over building this entire zone over, I had enough time to go to this continent.

I estimated that I'd take almost two weeks to arrive on that continent down in the far south.

Chapter 963 Your Bones Is The Reason

The journey towards this continent was kind of boring. But just after a few days, I started to receive interesting messages.

[I have all the Hescos you need. Do you want them now?] The first message came from Silverlining.

[Not now. Just wait for me to tell you when and where] I paused as I got that I also needed to prepare that continent over for Hescos.

It was so damn far to the north east from the way I was heading. For a second I thought I turned into such a traveller, jumping over from one place to another without having time to rest or train.

It all started with that journey to the pocket world, one that ended by getting two universe races. Then It went hectic from there.

I didn't get a chance to go to my shadow world. And I had to. I wanted to train, elevate and strengthen my spiritual energy which was stagnant for a long time at pale blue grade one.

I also wanted to raise my cultivation base a little more. And I wanted to start exploring the world beyond my shadow world limits.

Something told me that the world wasn't simple at all. I got the feeling that tons of adventures and interesting stuff were waiting for me out there.

But first I had to sort out everything here. Hescos were a chance I'd deeply regret if missed. Also adding the second training ground with different monsters there was a good chance as well.

And just after five more days of flying over the open ocean without any piece of land there, I got another message.

This one was quite interesting.

[I got the things we agreed upon] It came from the crazy sovereign. And I first thought this was everything he'd say to me.

[Send the warriors over to me, and the forces and gears to Silverlining. He'll know what to do]

[Ok. But I have a little piece of news that you'll be interested in]

[News? What news?]

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[It's about your soon to be enemies…]

He paused and as he expected, he managed to pique my interest almost at the moment he sent this message over to me.

[What about them?] I got that he was speaking about Hescos.

[Somehow they got the whim of what you are going to do]

[This…] I felt sudden danger from his words. If this news wasn't grave, he wouldn't be interested in sharing them with me.

[Sorry about that. But as we got eyes inside their different families and worlds, they also got many]

[I see…] Of course this wasn't my fault, but the nature of this universe. There was nothing called a one hundred percent loyal people, no matter how strong or successful these people were.

In every community, a bunch of bad weeds would be present. I didn't pick at him or at his race for such failure. But I was more interested in the aftermath of such a thing.

[Tell me more…] I demanded, and he was ready to share everything with me from the start.

[They are now making an all out investigation about you all over the universe]

[That's not bad… I got no such reputation] I shrugged. If they planned to do it this way, then they were deemed to fail.

[You got no reputation? Are you kidding me or what?]

[This…] I was surprised by what he said.

[You have a name for yourself. Sigh! I never thought you would know such a thing! You got some fame under your name. Yes it's not that huge of reputation, but it's quite enough]

[But why?] I was surprised indeed. I never thought in the entire vast universe I'd have a name or even a reputation.

[Your bones of course]

Oh, so it was my bones… [What's special about my bones to cause such a mess anyway?] As I got such a reputation for my bones, my old curiosity about the uses of my bones got revived.

[You are selling something you don't know its uses?!!! Damn! Then how come you set the price?!!!]

Well, as it might seem pathetic, but it was the bitter truth indeed. [Dude, I'm just from a weak race with no such vast knowledge or backing at all] this was indeed the reason behind this.

[And yet… Sigh! Alright, let me tell you something about your bones… They were called the new trend in the entire universe. Will this help in telling you how much your bones are worth?]

[Won't tell me more?] It wasn't enough, not even barely enough.

[If Silverlining didn't tell you all this time then it must be for a good reason. Sorry kiddo, but you have to figure this on your own]

[Damn! How about I pay something for you? A diamond grade bone perhaps?]

[Well… I have to say I'm intrigued to accept your offer, but I can't]

[Why? Want a higher bone then?]

[Damn! Do you have a bottomless pit of such bones or what?!!]

[I just got lucky sometimes] I wasn't in the mood to laugh at his response.

[Hmm… Let me first speak with Silverlining. I got to see why he didn't tell you about this despite it's a known knowledge at big forces]

[Common knowledge? Fine! I'll issue a grand quest at the universe so I'll get my answers]

[Try, and you'll fail, hahahaha! Only those high up in the big race know how to properly unlock the true might inside your bones. Do you think you can get such knowledge easily? No way! Hahahaha!]

[Then tell me and I'll give you a higher grade bone]

[No thanks. The more I thought about it the more unsettled I became. Who knows, you might grow greedy and raise the price over my people]

[I won't]

[I don't buy any of what you say]

[I can make an oath]

[Not buying it]

[Fine! I will sign a contract then!]

[Hmm… Let me talk with others before giving you my answer]

[Come on! No need to make a scene out of nothing]

Chapter 964 You Are A Dead Man!

[Nothing? You just don't know how great your bones are! No way! Let me speak with others or else I'll become public enemy number one if you decide to change the price list later on.

[I said I'll sign a contract!]

[As if I'll buy the words of such a sly young fox! No, let me return to others. This decision… It's not up to me to take]

I gritted my teeth. How frustrating it was to have something precious that everyone knew about and you didn't!

It was damn frustrating!!

[At least tell me how this will affect my next operation] I sent, [I don't want to get surprised by something nasty by my enemies]

[Don't worry, this knowledge won't affect you. All they'll get will be news about how fierce your bones are]

[And? That's it? Nothing about the way I fight and such things?]

[Well… I heard they even sent for those enemies in the other universe to get knowledge about you… So I can't guarantee such thing]

[They did even that?!!!] I was shocked by what he said.

[Kiddo, it's not just you. They got that we got your back, so… You can guess how frantic they became about you]

[This…]

[It's the price of dealing with big forces. You are going to get collateral damage in this quest of yours. So get ready as they are preparing big for you]

[Sigh! Why has things reached such a dangerous level?!!]

[It's because… One of us leaked the news over to a huge betting impact. And you know… These people are slaves for money and wealth. They did their task and spread the news all over the place]

[Damn! Who did it?]

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[Well… Your middle man did, hahahaha!]

[…!!!]

This came as a big surprise for me. I never expected Silverlining to make such a grave mistake.

Going to betting impact and do something like this? What did this moron expect? Damn! I'm going to kill him!

[Don't get surprised. This jerk changed since getting out of prison. He got suddenly wealthy and had overconfidence… I don't know why!]

[It's thanks to the bone I gave him, sigh!] I shook my head in regret. If I knew giving him such a reward for his trouble would bring me disaster, then I wouldn't have done it!

But there was no point in regretting what I did.

[Anyway, prepare for the worst. I heard they even bought one of those world addition unique tickets in an extravagant price in the past couple days]

[What ticket?] I didn't get what he meant.

[You know that in each apocalypse trial, only one world is allowed to take part in, right? But using this ticket, they can add one more world as well]

[You mean to add the twenty-first planet?]

[Yes. And you have to know such tickets are rare, but in each big race, few do exist. So it might not be only a single world coming at your direction]

[Dammit! Why did things get this complicated!!!]

[It has turned into a battle of face between us and them. And you, my poor kiddo, is just the one who has to take it all]

[Then… I may need extra help]

[This… You are already getting tons of help from us]

[I'm paying back for everything I got!]

[And yet you won't find anywhere else to provide you with such a large number of forces and weapons in such a short time! What did you think? Silverlining's pathetic impact can do it all? If not for our help, you won't even get one tenth of what you are!]

[…!!!] I was surprised by what it said. It seemed they did their part and provided me with help. [Then I need eyes over them. At least help me with intel]

[Then what do you think I'm doing here? Wasting my time and having a chat with you?]

[But…]

[Solid information takes time and holds great risks… Especially when the enemy is dealing with this matter in such a fierce way. Not to mention, I heard that your apocalypse trial is going to be a hot piece at the broadcasting agencies]

[This…]

[Tons of eyes will be over you, over the fight between you and them. In the eyes of many, you are our man. So make sure you won't fail]

[Failure means death to me, so I won't] I didn't need to promise him this, [But if you got anything else… If anyone else got any news…]

[Don't worry, I'm heading towards the big ones here. This thing turned into such a hot topic and I'm the first to know, and you are the second]

[Thanks for letting me know first] I got that he came looking for me once he got the news.

[Never mind. Prepare well. I don't know what else I can do for you except for adding little more in our little deal]

[Thanks for that] he increased the delivery, and that was something I had to thank him for.

I closed the chat with him and then opened another.

[I'm going to kill you!]

[What? What for?!!]

[You don't know? Just wait and listen to the news! I'm going to kill you, do you hear me?] I was on the edge here, on the verge of exploding on his face.

[But… Wait… I didn't do anything wrong!]

[We'll see… I'll send a message out for your race. You'll get locked up until I'm done with the sh*t you caused for me]

[This… Can you at least explain?]

[You'll hear about it soon enough. You are a dead man, got it?]

I closed the chat with him and didn't respond to any of what he sent to me. This jerk… Goddammit!

I tried to reward him and this was what I got! Damn! Why the heck did he even think about doing this? What went in his goddamn mind before spreading such news over?

Getting extra wealth? Getting more relations? Damn! He just screwed up! And I had to deal with a much deadlier situation and a much more prepared enemy.

Now… What should I do then? I thought, and I got nothing in my power to do.

Chapter 965 The Scorching Ground Mode

Doing much more than this? How? I got tons of races, and they were training at two grounds. I got my little Qi and was going to form mighty flying armies of monsters.

And I was waiting for the second training grounds to be prepared before starting to meet Hescos.

How could I improve this? I spent the next week squeezing my brain and tried to find answers.

"This is all I can do…" but after all this time and effort in thinking, I only found one way to help.

"I have to buy more time… This is all I can do for now…"

I thought about one thing, expanding the time I'd spend before the start of the next quest.

Time was my greatest enemy, not Hescos. That's what I reached after thinking for all this time.

I got this world here, but it wasn't enough. I got another way to increase the time spent here. And it was through staying inside that pocket world!

That world had a time difference implemented in it. It wasn't that great. If I recall it right, then it would be three to four times faster than the time here.

But that was enough. At least I could spend two months there, and only one day would pass on Earth.

Raising the time difference from twenty folds into sixty was the only thing I could do for my forces. Hopefully by the time of the quest, I'd come back and find lots of great surprises waiting for me.

I didn't like that world. It held too many bad memories thanks to what I saw inside. Not to mention I lost Hilary thanks to this damn place.

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But I had to suck it up. This was what I could do for my forces.

During this time, Silverlining got the news and started to panic. He tried everything to make me calm down, even to the extent of promising double delivery of our deals.

Yet I left him hanging up like this. This jerk… He met my kindness and empathy with such a rude attitude.

[I heard you are mad at our little boy] and just as I was seeing the outer border of the continent I was heading towards, I got this message all of sudden.

[Sovereign Ludak, I hope you aren't here to speak up for him] Silverlining tried even to speak with that mad sovereign as he knew the two of us were getting closer.

But that didn't help. Even the mad sovereign didn't speak that well about that jerk. He stood by my side, and supported me in my intent of killing him.

[Well… I have to say… That kiddo is just as terrible as any son you may got, but he is also kind hearted and pretty damn loyal]

[He showed his true loyalty by selling me out!] Even after all this time, thinking back about what that jerk did still pained me and got me on the edge!

He was loyal? Tsk, I didn't want such loyal jerks who end up harming me.

[He didn't expect all this to happen. He just got an offer and he didn't think much about it]

[I don't care about his reasons. I got myself into this deep sh*Thanks to him!]

[In a way or another, this was bound to happen. Even if he didn't open up his mouth, you were bound to face such retaliation from Hescos]

[How so?]

[Do you think finding grand armies like yours flooding at all of their worlds in your apocalypse trial will go unnoticed? If anything I can say about these enemies of ours, then they are quite meticulous and pretty damn organised! If we got even one tenth of their abilities, we would have been on top of the universe for a long time already!]

[What does it have to do with me?] I was interested in hearing anything about my next enemies. However, I couldn't understand how this was related to what that jerk did.

[They will notice you thanks to their tight surveillance net and system. Once spotted, they'll investigate you heavily as they did this time. Do you think this is something special? This is how they used to do with any enemy of theirs]

[Your point is…]

[Our relation was destined to be discovered the moment you sat your gazes on them as your enemies, and on us as your allies. So, one way or another, this was going to happen]

[But…]

[I know he did something bad, and he should get punished. But putting such fate and reasons into consideration will make you lower his sentence, right?]

[Hmm…] he got a point indeed. If this was destined to happen, this Silverlining great sin just got lighter.

[Don't worry, he is already freaking out and learnt his lesson quite well. He even spoke with us, all of us, and reached to increase the delivery of your deals. You are going to have double delivery with the same price, and that will all come from us]

[You are going to stand by his side?!] I had to admit, I was a little surprised about what he said.

[Not all of us, but most will do. In one way, we are giving one of ours a little hand. And from another, we are helping you as well]

[Thanks] I got what he wanted to say.

[So… About this jerk…]

[I'll let him off for you this time, for all of your sake] I had to give him and others little face here. Especially after what he said.

[Great! I'll let him know then. Ah, by the way, I heard rumours about the joining of three more worlds to your trial. So your trial won't have only twenty, but twenty-three]

[This…] I expected this a long time ago thanks to the mad sovereign words.

[You got to know that the system higher up will only allow for even number worlds to exist inside a trial]

[And…]

[If a trial got an odd number, the system will run what we call a scorching ground plan]

[What does this even mean? Is it bad?]

Chapter 966 How Overlords Are Decided

[Instead of letting two worlds compete together at each point, they will do a ranking. According to the ranking of worlds and their greatest figures ranking in it, they'll give those in higher up ranks the chance to invade more worlds according to their ranks]

[And who is on the top of the list? What can he do?]

[He can invade all the worlds freely, and even add any if he conquered it]

[What's the difference then?] I didn't get the difference between the two settings.

[It's a huge difference! In the old regular way, each world would have a stepwise approach to get stronger and compete fairly with each other. But this way… You know that not all the worlds have strong figures and races, not to mention prodigies like yourself]

[So… It's a good thing for me, right?] I wanted to get this point clear above anything else.

[Hescos never make a move without having one hundred percent guarantee in winning]

[What does that even mean?]

[If they allowed your trial to enter the scorching ground mode, then it means they have someone who is at least better than you in all terms]

[…]

[If they didn't, then making this move will only benefit you. You have to know that whoever comes second in that ranking will only invade five worlds!]

[But… I'm going to invade them all!]

[But you won't be able to merge with any until the system allows it, right? Yet who comes on top can merge with whatever worlds he desires]

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[This…] I finally got what this meant. It was like pressing on a fast forward button for the one who got on top, making him escape the wait and merge with whatever world he got total domination at.

What did a merge mean? More lands, more races, and more troops and resources. Like this, and at the end, I'd end up facing the same fate I was trying my best to evade.

[You… You have to come on top of that list no matter what, or you won't have any chance at all]

[Then… How can I do it?] This was the most important question right now.

[It's easy, you got to dominate the largest area among the entire trial at the end of quest ten]

[Quest ten? Isn't it…]

[A bit too soon? Indeed it is, but don't think the rating will be fixed. Each ten quests, the system will run an analysis and will determine who is the new overlord of the entire trial]

[But the first one will have a huge advantage, right?]

[That's given. But don't think about it this way]

[What do you mean?]

[They got the upper hand as they have access to almost twelve worlds according to the news spreading. But you are going to play in twenty worlds, right?]

[They just added three worlds, so they got fifteen]

[You also still have the upper hand]

[And my forces are going to crush into the people dominating the world for the entire four quests!]

[That's not a big advantage actually. Besides, I doubt there is someone like you in any of these worlds]

[Not to mention paragons already unlocked most of their powers!]

[I heard you killed lots of them already, mostly from Hectors, right?]

[This… This doesn't count! They were weak and without their power]

[You still got us on your side. Come on, don't tell me you don't believe in your victory]

[If against those races, then of course I do. But you said it yourself, they must have something up their sleeves]

[We'll get to know it in time, and then we can discuss the best countermeasure. Don't forget, this clash will span over the next six quests]

[Sigh! I never expected things to grow in such a way!]

I wasn't acting out of confidence, or trying to behave in a weak spirit. I was just stating facts, and he kept arguing with me about each single fact.

The overall fact was simple, whoever got the stronger stick would win! So it all came down to the might of each side's forces, generals, and overlords.

I was confident in my ability to handle anything. My generals were growing in number and experience. And I got the support of the ten ancient races besides the ten clans of the hostile universe.

I got many things up my sleeve. However my enemies aren't that simple either. He said it himself, they never went into something without full confidence in winning it.

They must have done their homework quite fast, and got to know my current abilities. So coming at me in such a way meant they got to realise my biggest advantage.

Give me time and I could turn a group of weaklings into mighty and massive armies! They read through my cultivation and knew everything about its techniques.

They knew if they gave me time, even ten quests, they'd allow for a fierce beast to get born.

So the best thing they could do was to seek a fast and decisive battle, one which would deprive me of my best advantage; time!

It came down to this, a battle between two mighty races ended up to become just a race against time.

Whoever got prepared faster would win. I thought deeply about this. Did they know about my second world presence? About the time difference I got here?

I doubted that! Even if they knew, this wouldn't help that much as there was a simple variable they knew nothing about; that pocket world.

I prayed they made such a fatal mistake in their calculations. But I also had to not fall into such one as well.

The early invasion must be witnessed and monitored by me. Like this I'd get the chance to interfere if things went south.

If the early days of invasion didn't result in controlling a vast piece of land, and if we didn't move fast to build our forts there, then the later days of quest five would be quite stressful.

Chapter 967 Zombies Are The Key

"Hmm… If that dude didn't lie to me, then I might have an advantage…" I thought about everything I learnt about Zombies.

If I managed to control this infestation, then at the areas my forces would control out there, I'd only have to worry about other races' forces.

If not, then my forces would have to diverge and fight on many fronts at the same time.

I thought about it. There were many variables here. If I managed to perfectly prepare my forces to handle these, and the zombies theory proved to be right, then everything would go my way.

If not, then I had to prepare for a fierce and long fight, one that wouldn't just stop by the end of the quests.

I had part of my forces and generals fighting in the south right now. That fight south of Texas held a great role in securing the south.

Like this, the southern and eastern parts of my kingdom would be secured. That would leave the north and west.

"I believe it's time to commence a grand human race meeting," this was the only way I thought of to get my lands here secured.

It wasn't wise to go all out against many enemies outside while my home was on fire! I had to leave part of my forces to secure the situation here, stabilise that zombie thing and be ready to counter any hostile race.

But if I got the help of other humans, things would grow much easier. At least we'd enter this brutal fight as one race, and I'd be the one leading them.

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Yet I knew that such a thing was easier said than done! Not to mention I already got one troublesome for the west. The overlord at north had a weird tie with my jumper.

The latter tried more than once to go up there and cause problems. I didn't know the reason actually, but I hoped this would be a one -sided conflict.

Or else, I'd end up having more enemies than allies!

There were tons of things I had to deal with. Luckily, my kingdom was in good hands as Isac was leading the reconstruction process out there.

I just had to stress over this point's importance before sending her back.

As for here, I'd buy my forces more time to train. And hopefully by the time the fifth quest would be on the run, the war in the south would be long over.

"I have to ask for these two help as well," I knew that Fang was already tied up with me, but Wryly was slightly drifting away from my grasp since the start of that big war up north.

I needed these two races to start preparing as well. At least they'd get a couple of worlds to help at, and also would be ready to help me here.

Securing more lands by the end of quest ten? This might seem an easy feat for me, but I felt it wasn't. On paper, things were heading in my favour. Yet this was the sole reason behind my doubts.

If I could see my advantage clearly like that, then my enemies could. Then why the hell did they seek to do it this way?

They didn't just do it out of their fear of my cultivation and way of fighting. They got more confidence in their ability to crush me in a direct clash right now.

What was special about the one coming to lead them? Was he also someone related to the other universe? Did he have any time or space abilities?

He must be special. And these three worlds must have something I wasn't aware of. I had to counter for such unforeseen factors, place these variables in my grand plan or else I'd end up screwing up everything.

"I have to meet these Hescos brought over by the Toranks and see what they are capable of first," this was the first thing I had to do after finishing all the tasks at hand.

Despite not liking it, I had to push thinking about this grand plan until I got to meet these Hescos.

Even till now, I was thinking about a race that I didn't know anything about! I didn't even know how fierce their mechas were! Or how capable they were.

I first had to assess them before jumping over conclusions.

"This continent will do…" As I was flying while speaking with Ludak, I finally arrived at that continent.

It was a huge one, with many forests, lakes, and even mountains. It was enough to inhabit any kind of monster, be the playground of that little Qi.

"Come," I installed the portal then passed through it back to see little Qi standing in wait for me. "It's all ready," I said while moving my eyes around.

This entire region could be best described as the base of monsters! I saw hundreds of thousands of monsters flying in the air alone. Not to mention the grand number on the ground.

[Thanks lord! I will have my fun]

"Be sure to remember what we spoke about," I hurriedly shouted in warning when that kid jumped at the portal before vanishing through it.

And with that, oceans of monsters started pouring through the portal, heading towards the other continent.

I shook my head without knowing if he heard me or not. I was curious to see how it'd play, but I got no time to waste on that.

As I kept flying towards that continent, I wasted slightly over two weeks. It was enough time to make Isac finish her tour and planning for the three continents.

I got to see how things were here before bringing Isac back and then came here to finalise things with little Qi.

It would order monsters to come in certain ways and waves, attacking specific places other than others. But which places they'd attack, and what role they'd play there would depend on the overall planning of Isac.

Chapter 968 The Second Training Grounds

[Where are you now?] I sent this while letting my chariot fly towards the direction of the western continent.

The place looked too damn calm and peaceful compared to what it looked like weeks ago.

The sky was clear and the ground was void of any monster. The ocean looked calm and peaceful, just the kind of peace before the storm.

Just as I flew past the eastern continent, I got to see lots of people working. They finished digging the ground, and were now laying foundations and I got to see parts of walls, forts, cities, and various structures.

It seemed they were halfway through.

[I'm at the western continent] Isac sent, [I've already finished drawing everything and waiting to tell you about what I did]

[Good. Is Lily over with you?]

[She is at the south continent, dealing with her forces arrangement there]

[Cool! I'm coming]

I didn't jump and kept flying to see how things were going on. The building extended to the many islands in between the two continents. And it seemed everything was going smoothly without the harassment of monsters.

As I crossed the trail towards the western continent, I got to see the unique building outlay of this place.

The eastern continent got filled with the regular towns and cities clusters that I was familiar with. There was a huge wall getting built there, alongside many towers and forts.

But the western continent showed a different arrangement. There were not many towns and cities here. Instead, there were islands of forts, walls, and in between there were empty places.

Such a weird and unique arrangement was enough to make the building process here go at a faster rate than the other continent. After all, the area people here had to work on wasn't that big compared with other places.

Seeing this made me realise what Isac intended to turn this place into. She would let this continent be for offensive warfare, where my forces had to fight on open grounds and try to claim forts and crush walls and defensive structures.

The more I flew inside this continent, the more I became surer of my earlier guess.

The central part of this continent was an entire empty place, without a single structure being built there. I spotted Isac's chariot flying on top of the continent, while lots of people were standing on the ground.

"We got a new batch just hours ago," she motioned her head towards the ground.

"Is this only the ones who arrived?!" I moved my eyes. There was a lot, but not that much actually. It felt like it was just one fourth of what I used to get.

What happened? Didn't Ludak say they were going to double the amount sent?

"Oh, about that… Lily decided to take all the forces away, leaving only workers here," Isac pointed towards the place of portals in the distance, "the first thing was to shout for those who will be soldiers. They'll move at once towards the other two continents, to get familiar with the structures there."

"I see… And this one here will be for the offensive battles?"

"Yes, you'll have to ask that Qilin to make monsters stationed around the forts we are currently building," Isac took out a big piece of paper and stretch it over my chariot's floor, "I arranged the forts on different circles and layers here, here, and here…"

She pointed at the outer part of the continent, while the centre was all empty. "Monsters will defend, and our forces will come through the portals to form armies and try to take the forts down."

"They will have to conquer forts only?"

"Conquer and then retreat, letting monsters take them again. Then the ones who succeeded will be sent to the southern continent where they'll fight to defend and conquer forts at the same time."

"This… What about the eastern one then?"

"It will be the first training ground any fresh forces will train at," she took another map, filled with many towns, cities, walls, and forts, "they'll deal with it like they were defending the kingdom. Those who will train for enough time there will be sent here. And once they succeed in conquering forts, they'll be sent over to the southern continent where they'll fight the same way we do at the apocalypse."

"Interesting… I like this…" I said in praise, "great job!"

"Thanks. But Lily asks you to change the location of the receiving force. We have to leave a great deal of space just to receive the newly arrived races and humans. Not to mention the ruckus caused by arranging them."

'Does she want to do it now?" I asked in doubt. Of course I got the reason behind Lily's demand, but right now they needed all the workers to help in finishing the building process here.

"Well… We are only two days away from completing building here. But on the other two continents, we still need lots of workers to get it done in less than a week."

"I see…" I opened a chat with Silverlining to see him sending me tons of pleading messages before finally rejoicing over what Ludak said to him.

This jerk… Sigh! Every time I recalled what he did made my blood boil!

[Sure, I will send it to the place you desire. But you have to arrive there first]

[Give me a moment] I said, opened my staff bookmarks and selected one on the eastern continent. "Let's go," I passed through the portal, arriving at the eastern continent.

I appeared at the mid zone of this continent, the place where the fierce battle with my little Qi and its endless ocean of flying monsters erupted before.

"This is a good spot, right?" I turned to Isac and she took a few minutes to make up her mind before nodding. [Send them over to my current location. And send me the things you got from that crazy sovereign]

[He… Didn't deliver yet]

Chapter 969 I Have A Bad Feeling

[He told me he got everything ready!]

[He did… It's just… It was me who didn't go and receive them]

[This…]

[Sorry man, but you turned my life into hell just during the past couple of weeks!]

I sighed! This jerk… Fine! "Go then and get my things from him. And then send what you got with the next batch] I closed the chat with him, turned to Isac as I added, "go back and make everyone come here. From the next delivery, this will be the point of gathering up all races and humans."

"Cool! Can I go back after that?"

"Getting bored already?"

'No… It's just… I still have a ton of work left!"

"Speaking about that, I need you to prepare to receive all the workers from here after they are done."

"At last! I need them for sure," she gave out such a tired sigh, making me realise things were more stressing and harsh on Earth.

"I'll also try to send more… We need to get things done before the start of the fifth quest."

"I know… But the scope of work is really massive. Besides, we are running low on materials."

"I'll solve this as well," it wasn't that hard to get materials. This world was filled with tons of materials, and I could simply purchase all I wanted from Silverlining's impact.

"Go now and get things done here, I'll solve the problem of materials for you during that time."

"Cool!"

She looked more joyful than before. I watched her pass through the portal I opened for her before I opened a chat with Silverlining.

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[I'll get them done for you]

[Send them to me. I need as many as possible in the next few hours]

[Sure]

He didn't complain about the shortage of time. It seemed he was trying to get to the better side of me once more.

But that wasn't an easy task to be honest.

During the next few hours, I kept revising the plans in my mind. The scope of this plan was really massive.

[They are sent to you, and this time it's on me]

[Oh, acting generous… It seems the income from that betting house deal is really rich]

[Don't bring that name again. I don't like remembering such a place or what it caused to me!]

[Hahahaha! It's your fault not them. Who told you to sell me out to them?]

[Didn't we… Get over this already?]

He got scared when I brought up that topic again.

[We are cool… For now at least…] I didn't give him a definite answer. This dude would live in such torment for as long it'd take.

I got tons of materials sent directly to my location. I simply took them inside my inventory, emptying hills and mountains of materials in a matter of minutes.

[I'm ready, where are you?] I sent it to Isac the moment I got everything for her.

[I'm ready as well. I'm just revising the drawings once more with Lily. you can come and get me at the western continent]

[On my way]

I simply used my staff and jumped directly over. I found her standing not too far from here, surrounded by many workers, seemingly telling them her last orders.

I knew she could be entrusted with this task. After all there wasn't a better person in my entire kingdom but her to do it.

"Let's go," I waited on the side for an hour while she kept spreading out her orders. "Here, these are the materials you'll use," and as we arrived there, I got out tons of materials that I received from Silverlining.

"Thanks… But they won't be enough for the entire process."

"I'll make sure more will be delivered to you," I said before pointing at this place, "this will be the central gathering of all the materials I'll get. Also it will be where your workers will come. So prepare people to be stationed here all the time. And take these with you…"

I gave her almost thirty discs, making her puzzled as she inspected these.

"What are these?" she asked.

"They can open portals between two places…" I explained the general concept of these discs and how to use them.

"That's… Amazing tool indeed. It will help us a lot!" She got the great implications of these discs. And to be sure she got enough, I bought fifty more and gave twenty of them to her.

"Our deadline is a week before the start of quest five," I said in warning, just to remind her of the time schedule we had.

It was a tight schedule so we couldn't risk going past it at any cost. That was why I pushed it further forward, giving ourselves one week as margin of error.

"Got it! With all the workers and materials, what can possibly go wrong?"

I didn't know why but when she said it, I felt like something bad was going to happen.

[How are things going?] As I got this feeling, I sent a message over to the jumper.

[Pretty nice actually. The two continents are filled with weak forces and they weren't prepared for us. Hahaha! Our forces are smashing them like fire eating up weed]

[That's great. Can you spare an army or two?]

[Spare? For what? Is there another enemy coming?] He got me wrong.

[I want two armies to stay inside the kingdom lands, just near Jersey and New York areas]

[This… Are you sure? There isn't anything to kill up there!]

[I just have a bad feeling]

[Oh… So you are taking two armies away based on… Your assumptions and feelings?!! Interesting lord indeed]

[Don't start… I'm not joking! There are many variables that you don't know of]

[Fill me in then]

[Sigh! You'll get to know soon anyway. It's like this…] I started to explain everything related to the Hescos getting to know what I was going to do. Also I told him about the scorching ground thing.

Chapter 970 [Bonus chapter] I Got A Nice Idea

[So you are telling… That someone sold you out? Hahahaha! Damn! Why didn't I ever think about doing something like this before? Hahahaha! It's fun!]

[Damn bastard! It's not that funny at all! We got such a mighty race setting its eyes over us! What's funny about that?]

[I'm siding with that sovereign… What was he called again? Lucid?]

[Ludak!]

[Yes, that dude has a point. If we are going to bring trouble for lions, we need to prepare to get bitten and hit fiercely in return. We aren't just going out there to have a nice party with them. It's war!]

[But we could have a better start]

[Start isn't what matters, the end does]

[Ok… Anyway, be on guard. Even if your enemies are weak and unprepared, they still have a massive army in the Selvator's continent. Also these Hescos are a variable you have to watch out for]

[I'm on my guard. But taking these two away… What is for again?]

[Screw you!]

[Hahahaha! Don't get stirred up like this. I'm just trying to understand the reason. So, what about this… I can send that arrogant and talkative bastard, the spearhead, alongside his girlfriend]

[You seem to hate couples]

[I hate anything related to love. It gets on my nerves]

[Fine, leave them with you then and send another two, hahaha!]

[Screw you!]

I closed the chat with him while laughing. This jerk… It seemed he was in a good mood and things were going nicely out there.

But… This feeling… It kept bothering me and didn't get relieved even when I spoke with that jerk.

[Do you get any contact with the armies at Hector continent?] As I didn't get settled, I sent this to Isac. The latter moved away to handle her things and get to know the latest development while she was away.

[I have few friends through the jumper. But why?]

[Ask for two armies to move from there and get stationed near the gathering place]

[What for?]

[Just… As a precaution]

[Hmm… You got a hunch about something? Then I'll do it!]

Unlike that jerk, she was more practical and didn't come at me for what I felt.

I had little relief when I arranged a couple more armies to get here. Should I bring more from my other world? Or should I stay here for much longer?

The lack of communication between the two worlds was a pain in the as*. I had to find a way to solve this later on, like the same way Silverlining and others could talk to me from their faraway worlds.

Staying here was a waste of time. So I returned back and decided to get a grand tour over the training grounds.

The first training ground was still in fervent battles. Yet as they lacked fresh blood, I felt they were lacking enough force.

[Can you spread words over… Start recruiting from all the towns and cities we got so far] I sent to Lily. Depending on the influx of races and humans from Silverlining wasn't going to help all the time.

I needed to start digging for more fighters out of all the large people here.

I got that when they came here, they were traumatised to volunteer. This was especially the case of my humans.

They lived their entire lives as slaves. However, a long time has already passed and this feeling must have gotten washed away.

So it was time to start recruiting from this grand pool we had. Tens of billions or even more were living just near the first training grounds. They saw how fighters fought each single second to protect their lives.

This might inspire many to join my armies.

[Sure, why not? Let's try this out then] and Lily got my point without the need to explain anything further, [Do you seek to support the first training grounds?]

[It seems without fresh forces, the ones here are getting thinner in time]

[I got it! I'll also send a few to support them while we wait for the construction process here to be done. By the way, Isac told me about your intention to move everyone towards Earth. What about that Hescos continent? Shouldn't we save enough to build things there?]

[No need. We are going to train with Hescos, not fighting them to death] She spoke as if I'll handle Hescos the same way I was treating monsters.

[Oh… Then it's fine] she got my point, [I'll go and supervise over things. Give us one week and we can get the training grounds here rolling]

[Good luck] I closed the chat with her and started to roam the first training grounds for an entire day.

The situation here was slightly risky and unstable in some zones. Yet in just a few hours, I witnessed oceans of people flooding towards here, coming from the direction of the mountains and beyond.

[What's going on?!] This scene startled me. I knew this recruiting process would get us a good number of forces, but this was simply too much!

It was like we added another bulk of forces, at least in the size of the forces fighting on the frontline. And the stream of those people didn't show any sign of stopping.

[Hahahaha! It seems we underestimate our folks living here! They all got the urge to come and fight! I even didn't accept all of them]

[You are there?]

[My trusted men are. Anyway, I decided to place part of them at the first training grounds, another will be sent to the second ones, and the rest would remain seated as reserve forces]

[Reserve forces? I like the sound of this word.] I was impressed with such results. I never expected my sudden inspirational idea to bring such results.

[I left instructions for the generals at the first training grounds to deal with the fresh soldiers. However, the best is the second training ground. Here we have a stepwise system, one that can allow them to train and grow stronger fast. Ah, we lack gears]

Chapter 971 They Are Making Progress

[You need oceans of gears! Sigh! Tell me the number you want and I'll see what I can do]

She sent me such a frightening number! "Damn! Five hundred million gears? That's…" I stood in daze while seeing such a great number.

After almost ten minutes, I regained my composure. I started first by inspecting my inventory.

Of course I got tons of gears, yet they weren't even half enough. She asked for full body armours, different weapons, and also stat points!

Reading stat points reminded me of what I asked Silverlining about before. That damn incident got in that arrangement, making me forget about it.

[I need gears, lots of them] I sent over to him after checking the market. If I went by the current prices there, then forget about going broke, I'd need one hundred times my current wealth to just supply what I miss.

And that without including stat points in the mix!

[And I need my stat points!]

[Ah, I got them here but forgot to send them over] he also forgot amidst that stressful time he lived through, [About gears… How many do you need? What grade do you want? And what type?]

I sent him the number, and for an entire half an hour he didn't send a single message.

Damn! Just this number alone was enough to scare the sh*t out of him.

[Damn lord! Didn't we send forces to you with gears and weapons?]

[I'm building new armies]

[Don't tell me you are dealing with others? Hye, others will trick you! Giving you races without gears is a cheat!]

[Jerk! These people came from you!]

[Oh… I see… It's normal, after all we only arm up those who used to serve as fighters and soldiers before]

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[Stop bluffing! You said it yourself, these things should have come with my delivery! I want them free of charge!]

[This… Come on, get easy on me] who told you to get heated up and target others when you were the one to blame? [We just arm up those fighters, not everyone. What about this, I'll secure whatever you need, half price offered, deal?]

[One tenth]

[Dude… I can't… This will force me to take up the costs myself!]

[At least you'll pay from the money you got by selling me out!]

[…]

I was just pressuring him and venting part of my anger over. [Can't we do it for one third of the price then? I can shoulder any extra expenses this way. Please… I beg you…]

Something told me if he was here, he'd end up on his knees, crying rivers of tears for me to agree.

[Fine! But make sure more of my people will get armed next time]

[I will, I promise you I will…]

I knew he would do his best to make it happen. Who told him to open his mouth early on before understanding everything about what was going on here?

As I closed the chat with him, I regretted not asking about the current status of that crazy sovereign delivery.

"Next time then," I looked at the direction of the sea of forces coming up. [Make these forces hold back for now. Let them watch and learn]

[This…]

[We'll have to wait until I'd get enough gears for them] I sighed, [I'll leave all the gears I had so far at the portal zone]

[You mean at the bomb site? Great! Those armed up can join and those who aren't will wait and watch]

[Cool] I didn't like that bomb name. Thinking about the bomb, I thought about my research department.

[Tell me you are delivering materials to the research people] I sent this over to Angelica. She should be leading the great mining process at the grand mine continent.

And she also had to deliver materials over to the research continent.

[I'm, do you think I'm this slacking?]

[I'm just asking]

[Where are you now? I want to see you]

For a moment, I had a doubt about why she wanted to see me.

[Relax! I missed you indeed, but I'm not calling you over just for that] as if she read through my thoughts and doubts, she sent before adding, [I found higher and special forms of ores in the deep layers of these veins. I want to give you these]

[Are they this special?]

[I didn't dare to try anything out. They are giving me a bad feeling, especially with all these energy wisps and thick fog coming out from them as if they are burning!]

[Ok, I'm coming] I paused, [After I'm done with few things here]

[Dammit! Why is it so hard to see you alone?]

[Admit it! You want to meet me, hahaha!]

[Sure! I'm not the one running away as if he is chased by a deadly viper!]

[You are the viper, so it's easy for you to say this]

[Come on! Am I not a sexy viper? Admit it!]

[Tsk! I have to go now]

[Damn you!]

I knew she was trying her best to lure me to her bedroom. But girl, the more you tried, the more I'd resist.

After all, I was cursed with my girls! Or else you'd be already inside my bed.

I went first to fulfil what I promised. I emptied out all the gears and weapons from my inventory, leaving a grand series of mountains behind at the portal site.

I didn't wait for long here. I inspected how the fresh forces here armed up part of them before heading out towards the brutal fighting grounds.

As they were the newly arrived forces, they joined the frontlines fast. Those older soldiers of mine acted as their leaders.

Well, at least this routine got engraved deeply inside their minds. After staying here for a few hours, I jumped towards the research continent.

Things there weren't that much different than the first training grounds. Loud noises of explosions kept ranging all over the world, coming from many big guns getting tested.

I saw many fire deadly waves of energy pulses before they exploded. Few ended up with thick bellows of smoke, without much damage like others.

Chapter 972 A Talk With Old Gan

At least they were making progress. My appearance didn't attract any attention. These scientists would lose themselves when they got interested in something.

I took a grand tour, noticed that the planes and bombers brought over by the two big corp people were getting dissembled. Many people were gathered there, seemingly working on modifying their parts.

Well… They were working fast and in such diligence, making me feel a little optimistic about the end results.

I hoped they'd have ready weapons to use when the fifth quest would arrive. Using our human weapons would bring a nice surprise to the enemies without doubt.

My next stop was at old Gan's place. That old man said many great things, however he had to show me what he was made out of.

"Lord… You are here to check on us or something?"

Just as I kept looking for him, a sudden appearance of a chariot came from my back with such a familiar voice.

It was the voice of old Gan!

"Oh, you spotted me," I stopped and turned to him to find that he was standing far away from me, yet using some sort of a skill or an item to speak to me as if he was standing nearby.

"Don't be surprised, you're not the only one with that horn, hahaha!" he laughed and I got how he did it.

So it was an item then.

"How are things at your end?" I flew directly towards his far away chariot while asking, "have you managed to upgrade the weapons I gave to you?"

"It's not an easy task," he shrugged, while pointing towards the ground, "we are already halfway through, might need around one or two more weeks to get things done."

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"Two weeks? Not bad," I nodded, "do you lack anything? Need anything?"

"No lord, we got what we need, but if we are going to mass produce the weapons, I might need more materials."

"Send me a list… Ah, come here and add me as a friend to do it."

"Sure," he came and despite his old age, this dude was very agile. He just jumped and showed a fierce side of him.

"So you aren't just a brilliant mind, you can fight!" I said with shining eyes, and he smiled as if this was part of his life he didn't want to mention.

"Inventing new toys is more fun, lord."

"I agree."

"Ah, there is another question. These weapons are mainly good against air enemies. Do you need to add anything extra?"

"Like… What?"

"Like anti ground ammunition or the ability to attack water foes."

"Well… I still don't know our enemies, so…"

"I can make it all happen… But I have to give it to lord, you are quite heavily preparing for an enemy you don't know of yet."

From his tone and eyes, I got that he was suspecting I did have an enemy, and was doing everything in my might to prepare for it.

"If you want to say something, say it directly."

"Then I'll be rude," his face changed and got coated with a series mask, "who is it? Who is this scary enemy that makes lord this scared?"

"I'm not scared!"

"Let's say you are trying to prepare for the worst then," he paused, "I know lord isn't simple. You got me, got many out of the mighty Toranks. Toranks are cute and kind, but they are The Toranks after all. How come having them by your side didn't help at all? Is this enemy… A bit stronger than them?"

"I told you to speak directly…" I looked directly in his eyes, and he didn't even blink.

"Are they… Hescos perhaps?"

"You have a dangerous mind indeed," I paused for an entire minute before breaking out in laughter, "I can see now why you decided to make such a career shift."

"Damn!" just all the strong front he put changed when I said my words and confirmed his doubts. "Dammit! Lord… This…"

"What? I know they are strong…"

"No lord, they aren't just strong. They… Is lord aware that their suits, these mechas, are working on alien tech?"

"Alien tech? How…"

"Lord, the core of their technology doesn't belong to our universe! Tens of thousands of years ago they were nothing! Just a weak race, no more stronger than yours. And now? They are the overlord of the universe! Lord! You can't go directly at them, or else you won't just fight a single race, but a group of others, scary and armed with things we don't know."

"This…" What he said made me instantly terrified for a few minutes before I managed to grasp a better hold over myself.

"I will deal with them and win," I said in a fierce way, "I won't let them have their own way!"

"Well… Without getting to know how their suits work, we won't be able to do anything! Their mechas can fly, work under water, and even have such an invincible layer of shield that can sustain any of system provided attacks."

"What are you speaking about?!! The Toranks, they managed to compete and conquer them. How come they did it then?"

"They have to use cultivation," old Gan said, such bad news, "they dealt with them as you deal with alien races."

"This… How so?!!!"

"I already said, they got such tech from out of here," he shrugged, "in brief, dealing with them won't be this easy and all of this…" he pointed at the world around, "won't be enough!"

"Then… What do you need?" I knew that he was saying all this for a reason. Or else, why would he say such things to me?

He wasn't trying to scare the sh*t out of me, right?

"When I was with the Toranks, I tried to get my hands on one suit. But I couldn't. Can you try? Ask for one? Only one will do!"

"What do you plan to do with it?" I didn't try to bring the great news over to him. I had to see first what passion was driving this old man.

Chapter 973 Shocking Truth Got Revealed

"What will I do? Hahahaha!" he suddenly broke out in such crazy laughter, "I once was a general, a fierce one to be honest. I was harsh, treated my forces in a way that no one can imagine. However… At one war I met them."

"Hescos?" I asked and he slowly nodded.

"I got a record at my race, a legendary record… One that was supposed to last for thousands of years. However, in this battle… I got defeated… Utterly defeated!"

"Then…" if he got defeated, how come he ended up in the hands of Toranks?

"I got chased for a long time by them. Yet when they were this close to get me, Toranks army came and stopped them," he motioned with two fingers to describe how close it was.

"And then it hit me… Even if I got a legendary record, I was such a fierce general, and had such mighty forces… I was doomed to lower my heads against such a tyrannical enemy. And since that day I have taken a vow on myself…"

"Turning into a scientist from that day then?" I got what made him change to become the man he was now.

"I devoted my life for the Toranks on one purpose, to get my hands over one of these damn suits and study it."

"So… You only have hope and dreams, not real plans, right?" I liked his personal struggle, yet it wasn't enough to convince me to let him see one suit.

"Of course not! I studied, did many things for the Toranks and exchanged my contributions with one thing; all the secrets about Hescos."

"And?" It was an interesting story, but it wasn't enough yet.

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"I got to know lots of secrets and things about their suits. They ran on energy that came from the outer universe in the form of weird capsules. They needed long life training to adapt with these suits and let them grow with the one wearing them since he was a kid…"

"You mean… It's like a living thing?"

"Close to… It has a heart, something that has let it grow with the person wearing it since he was born."

"Interesting… So you're telling me that the younger their people are, the weaker they are?"

"That's a fact, but for any rule there are exceptions."

My mind thought about the enemies I was going to face. They were supposed to be all youngsters, and that meant they got weak suits.

But they started this entire plan with the belief of winning. That meant they got someone who broke such a rule, a prodigy, an exception.

"And my luck ended up with that exception… How great is it?" I bitterly smiled.

"You bring what you deserve to yourself," he shrugged, "and to rise another step, one has to conquer one who is far better than himself."

"I got it," I stopped him before turning all wise and boring, "so you got lots of info, but no plans, right?"

"I got plans," he paused, "better to say theories."

"I hate scientists," I sighed, "so you have some sort of ideas to turn this situation around, right?"

"You can say that, but these are just ideas. They might be right, and most likely they'll be wrong. And I have no way to test any as we don't have any suits. Toranks has these and…"

"I got them," I stopped him right here before repeating everything he just said, "I got Hescos with suits coming to me anytime I want."

"This…" His eyes turned all wide open while his body started to tremble. I didn't get how shocked he was, but I had to admit he was showing the most shocking reaction in his life for sure.

"You are not kidding me!!!" he suddenly held my two arms with his big two, making me look like I was a little kid in front of him.

However I wasn't weak, and his strength didn't cause more than a little pain.

"Just calm down," I said, "I'm not joking. I'm the lord!"

"S… Sorry…" as I reminded him of my status, he slowly retreated his arms, yet his face kept that shocked expression, "but… Toranks refused to give me anything even after all the years I worked for them."

"Money can unlock any closed doors," I patted on his arm, "and I'm not like them. I don't need many years of your life to get these. I'm asking for your contribution, the one that is yet to come, as a prize for this privilege."

"Lord…" all of sudden he fell on his knees, lowered his head until it hit the ground of my chariot, "I'll be your slave forever! I won't forget such benevolence, ever in my life, I swear."

It seemed that the old incident didn't just contain his reputation and dreams shattered. Something huge must have happened back there. And he had to make such a decision with such a heavy heart and mind.

"Stand up," I said, and even helped him to stand when he didn't listen at first, "let's not celebrate it too soon. You still have theories and not real plans."

"Lord… I will make it work," he said in such decisiveness and belief that made me infected with his confidence.

"I'll depend on you then," I patted on his arm, "I didn't get them yet. I planned to train my forces with them when they arrive. But…"

"Training with them won't work. Fighting enemies you can't harm isn't that nice. Without using cultivation power, none of this will work."

"About that…" I suddenly recalled an old project of mine, one that I put into hold when I let many of my forces back then get baptised by the Hector guardian beasts' blood, "I might have a solution."

I bought something that could help anyone unlock cultivation. Yet it took lots of time, tons of preparations, and the result wasn't quite satisfying.

And yet… didn't that happen back at Earth? I suddenly looked around, before getting my eyes fixed over one direction.

Didn't I have that pocket world? With such a grand time difference, don't tell me it wasn't going to work!

Chapter 974 My Counter plan

However… I never thought about this before. If I had to do it, then I had to keep taking forces and send them into that pocket world.

Doing so meant I'd always suck forces away from the training grounds.

[We have something we need to do] I sent to Lily, the one who was responsible for such a project.

It was that ancient recipe of Hectors, the one that would form potions and let my soldiers step into the world of cultivation on top of pyramids.

I witnessed how hard and challenging it was. But it was the only way.

[What?]

[Where are you now?]

[At the second training ground, at the southern continent doing things… Look, if it's not urgent, then can we postpone it for later?]

[No, it can't be delayed] delay? We already delayed it long enough, [I want you to wait for me. And during this, select capable generals to lead all of your tasks here]

[This… Why go so far?]

[Also leave orders to always select capable soldiers and prepare to send them away. I'll prepare portals at each training grounds for them to be sent away]

[Hye… You are scaring me!]

[Don't worry, it's just something urgent and we have to deal with it] I looked into the old Man's eyes, [Prepare yourself. I'll come in less than an hour]

[O… Ok!]

I had to give her time so she'd get everything done properly. The leading general? I already got a name in mind, one that she'd entrust with this task; Legend.

"Lord…"

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"Not now," I pointed to old Gan to remain quiet while I opened another chat.

[I need you to prepare lots of workers, lots of materials and gears and be ready to gather up at the portal site]

[You mean the bomb site? Hahahaha! You are still thinking it's a portal site, funny]

[Just do it as fast as you can, ok?]

[Is… Something wrong?]

[Nothing, just a small hiccup and we'll get through it indeed]

[Tell me…]

[Not now. Just do as I say for now, ok?]

Well, I had to admit, I panicked a little here. Facing an enemy that only cultivation based energy and attacks would work against?

I got lots of my forces to step into cultivation, but right now they were fighting a brutal war in Texas!

Even if I tried my best to replace them, it was pointless. Lots of time would pass and also that war needed to be solved.

I had to suck such losses, and prayed that the jerk wouldn't end up killing most of them.

Or else… I might go and kill him myself!

"Lord…"

"What?" I wasn't just scared, but I got a ton of anger.

Toranks… They knew all this and didn't let me know about any? Why? That was a question that kept banging in my mind since I heard what old Gan said.

Was old Gan lying? But why would he? And the way he told his tale… Everything told me it wasn't just a fabricated story, no way!

"There is a way to get lots of force with cultivation," he paused, and I looked at him as if I was looking at a crazy old man. "Lord is amassing races, many races from all over the universe, right? Humans don't have any experience at cultivation, or even potential. But other races do."

"You mean…"

"Lord is using the assets under his control in just a simple way… If lord asked, he'll be surprised by the number of people with cultivation under his command."

It suddenly hit me! How didn't I think about such a thing before?

"Lord has just to arrange for people…"

[Send out a large number of your people… Ask around, make every single one of our people and soldiers answer this simple question: Does anyone have a cultivation base?]

I didn't wait for old Gan to complete his words. I wasn't acting rude, but I was too damn excited about what he said.

I suddenly recalled something… Many of my acquired races and humans looked like they just came out of brutal war.

I once had a theory about their origin… I linked them with the betting worlds and the fierce wars going on there.

And what was the main condition for any powerhouse to send forces there? His forces ought to have cultivation bases, right?

It was a simple piece of knowledge that passed through my mind without linking it with anything yet.

But right now… This simple little piece of news is great to be something that would save my life, many lives.

[Ask them about what?!!] Angelica must have been thinking that I went insane or something, [Can't you tell me what's going on?]

[Are you free? If so then come to the portal zone. I'll be there in one hour. I'll explain things when we meet, but first…]

[I know… I know… And what about your first request?]

[I need that too] I knew I had a way to get many forces with cultivation, but that wouldn't include my humans.

And right now I got to realise how bad it was that I neglected such an old project of mine for so long.

If I kept working on it, moved it here as I planned earlier, then things would have gone for the better.

I once asked Lily to move everything here, and she did. But we didn't have time to start that project as big wars kept raging on, one after another.

"So…" as I got finished, old Gan was still having his shocked face, yet from his voice I felt immense excitement.

"You'll start gathering up whoever you need," I said before raising one finger on his face, "but don't take too much to affect people working here, got it?"

"Yes, lord. But… When can I get one?"

"Soon," I intended to bring them in a few days, but right now it was better to bring them once I was done with all these urgent things.