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Chapter 990 They Are Terrifying!

Just as they arrived, and as I was busy watching them and getting over my inner shock, many exclamations of disdain and anger came from many.

I was shocked not because of the colour or nature of suits, not by their fierce appearance, but thanks to that faint layer of energy that appeared covering each single one of them.

These energies were in the colour of their suits, giving me the impression of being one formed out by spiritual energy.

They looked faint, but I knew they were strong! I now realised what old Gan told me earlier, that these Hescos were invincible against any other race depending only on the system.

"Oh, you take me for a weakling thanks to my race? A book can't be decided by its cover, they say. Let me show you my true might then… Come out!"

Without waiting for any of them to say anything, I called for my warriors. I left them back to secure the first training ground.

But who said these were everything I got? Just soulers alone were in the tens of millions!

In front of me, and in front of everyone of these Hescos, a grand army of my warriors appeared. They were led by my soulers, and in the forefront stood Lucas with his eye catchy and dreadful orange fire.

I called forth for a grand army of fifty million or slightly more. They lacked stat points, making these not as strong as they should be.

Yet their lack in stats was compromised in numbers. Not to mention they all got cultivation bases.

Just by standing there, with Lucas and his strong one hundred thousand soulers at the forefront, with me and my fallen gods over my chariot in the sky, surrounded by many dragons and flying monsters, gave anyone looking a scary feeling.

"Do you think I'm a weak lord now? Just a weak and powerless human?" I raised my eyes to the sky and sucked in a deep breath, "in fact, I just needed a fight to know your abilities then you are useless to me. Thinking that you are special and mighty won't do. I know from where your strength came from, and I can assure you my army here and much more scattered in this world can hit you painfully where it hurts at these strong points of yours."

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I wasn't bluffing, I wasn't showing off… I was just stating facts. They were strong indeed. Against any normal army of mine, of anyone, they could crush them without breaking a sweat.

But against my special forces here, they were nothing!

I heard many noises coming from their direction, without being able to ascertain any of what they said.

I didn't need to hear their words or see their covered up faces to know how shocked they were.

I got used to this. Anyone knowing that I was a human would get shocked when he got to see my real power.

"Now, if you just want to die, then you'll serve your purpose here first. Then after satisfying me, I'll kill each and single one of you using the contracts. Even if you are armed up with spiritual energy powered suits, you are still part of this universe, traitors!"

"F*ck you!"

"Do you think these weak flies can stop us?"

"Screw you!"

"Let's kill them! Let's kill them and torture this foul mouthed idiot next!"

"Attack!"

Just as I said who really they were, they all changed and started cursing and shouting like mad dogs.

And like dogs, they started to act.

"Here it starts…" I did this on purpose. Indeed having five million of them was cool and such, but this wasn't the sole purpose of having them.

I first needed to see them in action!

My eyes fell and focused mainly over the high grade suits. Starting with dark gold suits, I kept watching how they were fighting.

Well… To be honest, this race was really a headache to deal with!

The first thing that they did wasn't to just run forward. They sent a large number of them to fly in the sky. Something appeared around these flying suits, looking like metallic ores or something.

They formed wings that had globular structures at their middle and tip. These balls emitted fierce glows of different colours matching the ones of the suits, before pushing those inside high in the air.

And with this group flying in the air, another started to grow grand scissors like extensions around their arms, making them enlarge by many folds.

Then they hit the ground, creating deep tunnels in mere seconds, before vanishing in there.

Damn! They weren't just going to fight from the ground and air, but from underground as well!

I had one single experience in dealing with underground enemies, the great worms! It was a very scary and bitter experience that I didn't want to see repeating again.

But as I got worried and intimidated, I also got excited.

It was my luck indeed to get such a terrifying group of this race before the grand war erupted. Like this I'd not only gain insights about how this race used to fight, but also could train my forces.

"Stand still… Don't attack for now…" when I noticed that few of my fallen gods looked intimidated by this and wanted to take part in the fight, I had to stop them.

Hescos were strong? Well, they didn't meet my fallen gods yet, didn't meet any of the ten ancient races whom I brought here from that pocket world.

Hescos were the strongest among the current universe races, but that didn't mean they were ever one of the strongest in the entire history of our universe.

But I wasn't aiming to crush them. I just wanted to see how they'd fight against such a myriad of warriors here.

Not to mention I already got my soulers scattered among the warriors I got.

"Use only cultivation based attacks," as the first clash happened, things didn't look that great for my forces.

Soulers only escaped the carnage at the front lines when my forces' attacks landed and were deflected by the shield of energy around the Hescos' suits.

Chapter 991 A Terrifying Battle Tactic

I saw it, and it looked like a really intriguing ability without doubt. That shield was able to stand against any kind of ability or skill used by my warriors.

And they didn't get a single damage! Or even the Hescos gave me the impression they got pushed back or even stopped by such attacks.

All this happened because my forces didn't use any spiritual energy in their attacks. They just used their innate abilities and skills of their races and systems.

"Use spiritual energy, mix them with your attacks," I shouted again while holding my horn and trying to keep track of everything going on down below.

"Lord… Shouldn't we summon more?" from the side, and after the initial clash that ended up in utter defeat of my forces, old Gan seemed startled.

"No need to," I said while turning my eyes towards the sky. The deadly attacks coming from the Hescos came mainly from the aerial forces.

Those ground forces didn't show up their faces yet, making me wonder about their real purpose.

Were they sent down below to scout the other side's strength? Or to seek stronger ones and try to take them down?

Or were they acting as firefighters? Acting at times of distress to relieve the pressure over their forces?

I didn't know the answer yet, but soon I'd know.

When I gave the order for my forces to attack using their spiritual energy and cultivation techniques, things started to shift to my side.

[岡山1泊2日モデルコース]幻のブランド牛"千屋牛"と「森の芸術祭 晴れの国・岡山」を満喫!岡山県

The Hescos' suits lost all of their invincible shields' advantage. I saw many get crushed under the sudden wave of attacks injected with spiritual energy.

And those who stood erect showed a fainter layer of their shield, with fine cracks flashing from time to time.

They got beaten into their game! Using spiritual energy to form such a shield and protect oneself was a nasty trick without doubt.

Yet when countered with spiritual energy attacks, this advantage shattered and Hescos started to get pushed back.

At this moment, I started to see how special and terrifying this race was.

When my forces started to push those on the ground back, their suits started to shine in different colours. Most of the attacks landed got negated, and those who managed to reach the suits left only a few scratches over them.

From these fine cuts I could tell that these suits were formed by condensing many layers of this durable leather material. I didn't know what it was, but it had the ability to defend, absorb damage, and even get damaged layer by layer.

That helped to buy those at the forefront time, enough for other forces in the air to come and target my forces on the ground.

"Hit those flying bastards," as I got how hard it was to conquer this army of Hescos even with such numerical disparity, I had to stop the incoming aerial attack by giving the order for my fallen gods to act, "don't kill many, just scare them away."

*Rumble!*

Luckily the Hescos in the sky were scattered already and didn't group up. And many wore dark gold suits and higher. So when my fallen gods' attacks landed, they started to resist, surviving most of the attacks.

They used the same way as the ground forces, shining all in bright colour all of sudden. They managed to negate most of my fallen gods' attacks, especially when my fallen gods didn't concentrate their attacks over any specific target or region.

It was remarkable though. Only those wearing silver and lower coloured suits ended up in a miserable state, falling from the sky like dead flies.

Even if they managed to negate my fallen gods' attacks, they couldn't follow what they intended to do at first.

They shielded themselves and defended the attacks, ending up getting thrown back for miles!

And that made their ground forces in a more risky situation.

Until…

*Crack!* *Crack!* *Crack!*

All of sudden, and just when I thought my forces were going to crush the frontline of these Hescos, a terrifying grand cracking noise came from all over the place.

Bellows of dust rose high in the air while the ground started to show visible large and thick cracks. The cracking lines started to merge and diverge, until almost all of the frontline zone got enveloped into this.

"That's not good… Come back!" As this happened, I got a bad omen about this. I didn't wait for the cracks to cover up the entire area and called back millions of my warriors into my inventory.

I could tolerate losing tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of them. But losing millions? That was quite unacceptable.

*Rumble!*

Just as I called them back, I could see the grand structure that appeared at the ground where they stood. It was like someone kept digging under the ground, creating such a fragile layer of dirt that started to collapse!

And when the dirt fell, a thick layer of energy flared up from down below, forming a gigantic wall of energy that rose for hundreds of metres high above.

It was a mix of colours, and didn't last for more than a minute. But I could tell that if my forces were there when that attack landed, then I'd end up losing them all.

"Quite fierce indeed…" as the light faded and vanished, I got to see what caused all this. It was the Hescos who went deep down the ground, and started digging there for such a time.

They stood down there in lines, raising up their huge arms and forming a grand canyon formation that launched that wall of energy from before.

Quite scary! This race didn't just come from one direction, but it aimed to come from air and underground!

If the aerial intervention failed, then another from under the ground would follow.

That was indeed a terrifying tactic. And it told me to reach such an understanding, they got to train for a long time already in such situations.

Chapter 992 Meeting Oglak

One had to realize that they were fighting without preparation, against enemies they didn't know, and in a terrain they weren't familiar with!

They just had such confidence in how effective their tactics were, even to the extent of crushing any enemy even in such disadvantageous situations.

It was quite impressive! But it was far from enough to deal with me.

"Keep firing at those high up," I knew this was a good tactic, but it had one fatal flaw.

It depends on the collaborative work of the three parts of their forces. Whenever one part was threatened or cornered, the other two would step in.

But if one part was taken away, prevented from intervening to help, then the other two would be at great danger. And when that part would be the aerial and most agile part of their army, then the other two would be like sitting ducks.

After all… Who said they were just the only ones here who got flying forces?

I pointed at the direction of their flying forces and ordered my fallen gods to keep them away. Then it was time to show them my retaliation.

"Go, rain down your fiercest attacks down at the ground forces," I pointed towards the direction of the ground force who thought they were separated by the deep trench that them from my forces.

"Come out!" then those who I called back were summoned again, "push forward! Don't stop until I say so."

Just when they thought they created a tough situation for me and my forces, they were faced with such fierce retaliation from my forces.

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The fallen gods kept their flying army busy and away while my dragons started messing with their ground forces. As for those who dug such a big trench, they were attacked fiercely by my forces.

Soulers flashed and kept killing them, while those on the edge of that deep trench kept attacking from far, creating more havoc.

During the next one hour, I estimated their losses to be in hundreds of thousands. I didn't stop the attack, even when my forces controlled the trench zone completely and pushed the underground forces of theirs to escape.

The ground forces took most of the heavy hammer from my forces. As their flying units were cleared off the board, the rest was just a simple carnage.

"Lay down your weapons and stop fighting and you'll get spared," after one more hour, I echoed through my horn, "or else I'll keep tearing your forces to shreds in cold blood. I already got what I needed to know, and nothing else can be added of value by leaving you alive."

I wasn't totally honest here. Well, I got to know how they fought and which tactics they used. It wasn't an easy one, and I needed my forces to train on such tactics and better for many Hescos to be leading them in that.

However, if they didn't follow my orders, it was better to get rid of such annoyance and dangerous forces before they'd create trouble for me.

But luckily they got a little logic inside their minds. When they saw there was no way out of here, and my forces kept crushing them at all fronts, they finally took office to their fate.

"We surrender!"

It just came from one direction, the direction of those forces at the sky, the ones that kept pressured by my fallen gods no matter how hard they tried to get away from such pressure.

And with that simple shout, all of the forces down below started to lay down their weapons and stop fighting.

"Stop and retreat!" and with such a move of theirs, I matched it with my decisive order for my forces to retreat.

I didn't call my warriors back yet. After all, I still had to see what they had in their minds.

To be honest, the way they stopped fighting and listened to that single shout was worthy of admiration.

They weren't just well trained, they were also well organized and respected their chain of command.

Such organized and well behaving forces was something I looked at and wished my entire forces would grow up to be like them.

"Whoever spoke, step forward now," I held my horn and said to those Hescos.

They lost close to one million during these past hours. My side lost much more, but in general I didn't feel that bitter about such losses at my side.

It was a price worth paying. I got the chance to see those legendary Hescos in real fights. And I had to be clear, they were really quite terrifying.

Without proper preparation before facing them, dealing with these would grow to be a headache. Even if they came into my turf and fought my forces there, they'd still get the upper hand.

"So… A human? Are you sure?!!"

In the next few minutes, a group of almost a thousand came closer to my chariot.

They were all from the flying legion. Their suits all got scars and wounds, tears and cuts here and there. I even got to see faint yellow drops of some sort of liquid oozing from a few deep ones.

It must be their blood.

"I'm Hye, your new lord," I said without caring about that remark about me being a human, "from now on, you are going to serve me."

"A human? Tsk! How did we end up serving a mere human?"

"Oglak, please stop this madness right now and let's all die in honour!"

"Serving a weakling will end up making us weak!"

"We are going to die anyway, so let's die with honor and with our heads raised higher than lowering it to such a weak and pathetic human."

"Silence!"

All kinds of comments came, and they were all ugly. Most of those who came with Oglak seemed to adopt the idea of ​​rejecting my offer and dying instead of serving me.

But with a single shout, all of them went into silence. A remarkable respect to the chain of command indeed.

Chapter 993 It's Still Not Enough!

"I'm sorry about that," the one named Oglak spoke. He got nothing special about him, not bigger than others, not having anything special about his suit except for its red colour.

But one had to note that all the suits coming with him were red in colour as well.

"No problem, I used to get such an impression at first," I waved my hand at him, "but soon they all got to change their minds."

"And what will change ours? This show of force?" Oglak shifted so damn fast from being humble to overbearing and quite rude, "you do know that we are a fierce race. Facing strong foes is nothing to us, it's just another normal day in our life."

"Hmm… So you are saying that being overbearing for someone who came from such a lowly race isn't enough?" I laughed, "then how about I tell you all this… I'm going to clash with all your forces inside my apocalypse trial."

"This… Is bound to happen sooner or later," one of them shouted, "we are fierce! We are mighty! We are domineering! We don't wait for our enemies to come at us, instead we seek them out anywhere they are!"

"I'm glad about your excitement and pride for your people, but this time you got it all wrong," I didn't take such arrogant words to heart, and just laughed in a light way, "this time I'm the one bringing the fight over to your people."

"This…"

"What does this even mean?"

"Coming at us? That's unheard of!"

"You mean you are going to face our forces invading your world! Interesting twist in words, nice try!"

"Silence!" Oglak was one of the few who remained silent. I could feel the pressure of their gazes on me, as if they got to understand what I meant.

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"Did you use a passing ticket to join another world?" Oglak indeed got the real meaning of what I said. But he got it in such a shallow way.

"Not only one," I shook my head, "I got access to all the other nineteen worlds in my apocalypse trial, meaning that I'm going to invade every single world your people got at and fight them down to victory."

"…"

The first reaction was such heavy silence. I could feel more gazes changing, falling over me in such a serious and dreadful way.

"No way! No one ever did such a crazy thing before!" and this time, Oglak saved everyone the trouble of speaking and expressing their thoughts as he said in loud and strong voice:

"We are Hescos! Every single race in this damn universe fears us! Even Toranks… Even those who call themselves our nemesis and enemies, our rivals, didn't ever dare to do it. And yet some human kid is daring to claim that!"

"I'm not claiming anything, I'm just stating facts," I showed an evil grin over my face, speaking in such calm and demeanour, "and as a result, your race had to interfere. They sent three more worlds to take in my trial, activating what's known as the scorching ground plan."

"Scor… No way! We only learn it when we face a deadly and dangerous enemy!"

"You… You are weighing too much of yourself!"

"Yes, he can't be the one who made our people do such a move! He must be bluffing!"

"That's if he is telling the truth!"

"Silence!" This time, Oglak's shout was more loud and heavy, showing how deeply affected he was by my words. "Toranks, is it?" He was smart enough to guess who helped me do all this.

"That's correct."

"So you are their underdog? Quite an impressive feat for someone who came from such a race with no reputation."

"Underdog? Hahaha! I'm their equal, not follower," I laughed, not even thinking about the rude remarks he sent throughout his last comment. It looked as if he was praising me, and yet it was an insult in disguise!

"Equal? Are you out of your damn mind or what?" Oglak laughed when he heard my words, making me laugh in return.

"Then explain this to me, how come you were all brought and delivered to me?"

"This…" Oglak paused, "it may be part of their help to you."

"Then they should have sent you with someone of their folks, a sovereign perhaps, to lead you and keep you under check, right?"

I didn't change the smile over my face, instead I let it grow wider.

"This…"

"They sent you over to me, and even delivered your contracts over for me. You belong to none but me, and there is no one of them here. So…"

I waved my hands around before adding with such an irritating laugh, "you are all in my world and place, following my orders around. I'm your lord, and from now on you are part of my people and forces. How come an underdog, one who came from a low race, has such treatment from a mighty race? Or is it that you are now going down to the point that a bunch of you are worth nothing in Toranks eyes?"

"F*ck you!"

"Let us kill him now!"

"That's an unforgivable insult!"

"Oglak! That's enough! Let's fight instead of getting humiliated like this."

"Can you all shut the f*ck up?" This time, Oglak had to turn and face them while shouting in such anger.

He seemed enraged, not lesser than any of them by what I just said. However he also got the meaning behind my words.

Indeed if I was an underdog, then delivering such precious goods over to me couldn't be done without tight security from Toranks.

Yet there were none of them here. They just sent them over and didn't even care about following their actions here, or even mine.

What did this imply? I wasn't their underdog, but their ally. They were dealing with me on equal grounds, with both of our heads at the same height.

"I have to give it to you… You did such an impossible feat, one that I never imagined it could happen!" Oglak then turned to me, while taking such a deep sigh. "So… You are really going against our people? Getting the support of Toranks? As shocking as this may seem, it's still not enough to gain our respect and loyalty."

Chapter 994 Taking Them In A Tour

"Then what do you need?" I felt a little puzzled. I used fame, power, and proof of my ability to gain their trust. Yet nothing of this managed to change their thoughts.

"Prove it…"

"Prove… What exactly?"

"Prove that you got what it takes to face my people and win!"

"Oh… That's going to be easy then," after a few seconds of silence, I broke out in laughter, "will the bunch of you be enough or shall we take all of you out on a wide tour in my world?"

"You seem quite confident!" that Oglak laughed, "then the few of us here will do. What will you show us? Your human armies? Or more of these warriors?"

"You are curious… That's good as a start," I laughed before taking out my staff and thought for a long moment. I got many places here to demonstrate my power.

Fearing they might leak out my secrets? It was easy.

"First… You are forbidden from speaking with anyone outside me and my trusted generals and leaders, or else you'll die. This is an order, got it?"

I gave it as an order to ensure not a single word would leak outside. And I also said this using my horn, speaking to all of them and not just a single group.

"You don't need to do that, we got an honour to protect."

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"You should care more about your lives," I said while sizing up and down this Oglak.

He… Was indeed an old sly fox. Expecting me to believe and trust the words of traitors? Not a chance!

After settling this matter, I started to think about the first place I'd take them towards.

I got my two training grounds, the densely packed cities and towns in between the mountain paths and beyond. I got that marvellous piece of heaven, that nasty almost empty pocket world, and the continent of research department.

I got my little Qi playing with other monsters, making them evolve. I also got the continent for the residence of the ten old races of the other universe, plus the place where my ten ancient race folks stay.

There were too many to show, too many dazzling surprises that would shock them.

If they wouldn't get satisfied by any, they'd get shocked to see the extinct old ten fierce races of our universe living in front of their eyes.

Yes I came from the weak and powerless human race, yes I was dealing with the fiercest race in my universe, but that didn't mean I was without confidence in convincing them.

"Let's go," and at first I decided to go and take them on a grand tour at the first training ground.

A portal appeared and I let them all pass through before following. I left instructions for Lucas to lead things here.

If anyone has a funny thought, they have the order to fire without showing mercy. As for my own safety, I got my chariot and fallen gods… Not to mention I got the power of the system on my side.

If any of them tried anything, I'd smash his life without having second thoughts.

"This…"

"What the heck is this? Is this part of the apocalypse?"

"All these monsters… And those… Aren't these armies of different races?"

"Look, they expand to the other side as well!"

Once I passed through the portal, I found all of them flying high in the air, dispersing over a limited space while checking the current situation down below.

And for my good luck, they appeared just when a monster outbreak was going on.

"This is part of my forces," I said, moving my glaive to north and south, "this training ground extends for hundreds of miles in both directions, and it's also the same on the other side. In between mountains, you'll find cities and towns with lots of races living inside."

"This is impressive," Oglak said but from his tone I got that this didn't really impress him, "but this isn't good enough."

"It's just the beginning," I grinned, "do you want to see more of this place or shall we move to the other site?"

"Let's move," I felt like I was acting as their local tour guide or something. I opened a portal, and this time it led directly towards where the ten ancient races lived.

They weren't living far off, just in the depths of the second continent opposite to where we appeared first. When we arrived, the place here looked quite different than when I left.

Tons of towns and cities extended towards the horizon. I could see lots of different races interacting with each other. After all, they lived together for thousands of years before. They weren't like the races I recently bought over alongside my humans.

And when we appeared there, the first impression I got was utter and heavy silence.

"What's the meaning of this?" one of the red suited Hescos near Oglak spoke in a deep tone, "do you think illusions can work on us?"

"Illusions? Sorry, I didn't get what you mean," of course I did, but it was better to fake ignorance.

"This… All this is an illusion! And done on such a pathetic level of skill as well!" that dude pointed towards the direction of the ground, pointing at all the races down there.

"These races went extinct! Only a few remained and they are considered just poor and cursed warriors!" another spoke, and at this point I couldn't hold my laughs back.

"Go, go down there and speak with them. See if they are real or… Fake! Hahahahaha!"

Hearing their comments made me regret not being able to see their faces. They should be all shocked, and it would be a sight to see!

"Go, what are you standing here for? Just go down there and speak with them," I waved my hand at them while holding my horn, "here is your lord. I'm going to send a few of my new forces to speak and get to ask you a few questions. Feel free to answer if you are asked nicely. If you feel insulted, don't hesitate to kill."

Chapter 995 Getting Them Shocked

I said these words while gazing up at the nine eyes on that plain looking head of Oglak's suit.

He was their leader, and this was a simple warning for them to behave quite nicely or else… My people down below would tear them to shreds.

And these weren't just normal races! They were the mightiest ten races who vanished a long time ago from our universe. And they were in such great numbers to scare even those arrogant Hescos.

"You heard him, let's go and check if this is an illusion or not!" the one who spoke first shouted and Oglak couldn't help but nod.

Yet he didn't leave.

"Aren't you going to check things out?" I raised one eyebrow while asking.

"They are more than enough," yet he refused to move an inch.

"Aren't you worried my illusion skill is very mighty to trick them?" I said and when I heard my words, I couldn't help but laugh.

It was a real joke indeed.

"The way you say it, and such look on your face makes me want to recall them back before anyone does anything stupid and regrets on it later."

"Hahahaha! No, let them have their fun. After all this is all for your sake to get convinced," I laughed, before my face turned all vicious and serious, "but the moment this little play is over, you'll all pay with blood and sweat for all this."

"We'll see about that," this jerk didn't admit he was already cornered. If seeing vast armies of mine wasn't enough, then seeing these ancient races was enough indeed.

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But I knew he wouldn't give his full approval before seeing everything. And hey, my magician hat still had many tricks inside.

I turned my attention towards those who went down there. I saw them do weird stuff, even many tried to touch my people down below, before freezing in place out of their shock.

Of course they went down there while holding the thought of the ridiculous illusion thing in their minds.

So when they figured out that all this wasn't fake and was real, they couldn't help but get shocked beyond their imagination.

I watched all this in content and satisfaction. The only regret I got was that their faces were all covered, making me wonder how they looked right now.

I still couldn't get how they looked. Once this little play was over, they'd all get to show me their bodies.

I was curious about what I heard about them. They were weak, all weak and powerless like my human race. But in the end they got to get extra help and gain such formidable power and terrifying fame all over the universe.

Putting aside the source of their strength, they still did remarkably great by taking up such chances.

They were organised, very well organised. And that might be the real reason behind their current status.

One day… My human race would reach such a stage one day.

"It seems you weren't lying," Oglak waited for almost an hour before all of his people gathered around. They spoke with each other in a low voice, and a weird tongue that I didn't recognise.

"And?" I was leaning over my glaive, watching him over in such interest and confidence.

"That's… Indeed something that's quite remarkable…"

"Don't tell me it's not enough," I rolled my eyes and didn't give him any room to say anything as I hurriedly added, "I won't listen to your words for now. Let's continue, there are lots of things you need to see before I'll hear your final decision."

All I got back was deep silence. It seemed they thought after showing such a big thing, I'd ask for their approval to follow me.

But who said this was everything I got to show? "Let's go," I opened another portal, and this one led to the research department.

From the side, old Gan was all silent. He was watching in vigilance such little play and praying inside for sure for my win.

"Go, bring those who invented cool wide range stuff to come and show the might of their weapons again."

Of course I was going to ask for a brutal shocking show this time. During the next few hours, many came and showed the might of their weapons.

One massive and deadly explosion after another rumbled and shocked the world. I took them towards the direction of the ocean and let them see with their own eyes the devastation caused by my genius minds' inventions.

"What do you think?" I laughed, before raising a hand to prevent anyone from saying anything, "let's go… There are few other interesting places for us to explore and have fun at. Let's go…"

I opened a portal and this time I led them towards the location where the ancient ten races of the hostile universe were.

"These…"

"They aren't from our universe!"

"Damn! I have never seen such races before!"

"Before anyone would jump and shout like an idiot that all this is an illusion, go down there and check things by yourselves," I said while laughing.

This was an intended insult, one that was backed with everything I showed them so far.

As I did with the ten races of my universe, I also held my horn and asked these folks to cooperate and kill if they felt the need to.

This time Oglak sent only a few of his one thousand people. A small group of twenty went down there, and they didn't stay too much before returning in less than ten minutes.

"This… Who the heck are you?!!!" and when they came and explained to Oglak and others in a whispering voice what they learnt about down below, Oglak couldn't prevent himself from asking in such shock.

"I'm a weak human, right? Hahahaha!" it was fun, really fun and amusing to get looked down upon when you were such a mighty and formidable figure.

Tsk! If only for their plain masks covering up their faces, I'd have more fun enjoying the look over their faces right now.

Chapter 996 We Aren't Traitors!

"Satisfied?" I asked while opening another portal, "let's go, there is one more location left to see."

"Lord… This… This is more than enough," Oglak couldn't help but interfere to stop me. He called me lord, and that meant he already acknowledged me as their boss.

Well… There was no point in doing all this to be honest. If they just refused, then I'd just use the power granted by the system and contracts and kill those who oppose me.

Yet it felt fun to jump around and explore places like this. I looked at him and others before saying in a cold tone, "you shall announce your loyalty to your lord in a more respectful way, don't you think?"

At this moment, I wasn't that nice and easy going human, but the mighty and scary lord they'd serve from now on.

They thought they were special as they came from a mighty race? I was then the exception to such rule and was the scary prodigy coming from such a no name race.

No matter what, they should behave themselves and amend for all the foul words and bad attitude they showed me before.

I was kind and easy going indeed, but in terms of dignity, I wasn't any worse than any hegemone in the entire universe.

"Lord…" Oglak seemed puzzled and confused, not knowing what to do or say.

"Let's first return back to others," I waved my hand and that portal I called for vanished and another appeared, "I'll let you know what you'll do from there."

I went first into the portal while they followed. This time they all acted respectful and knew their limits.

Not a single one of them spoke or said anything until they all came back to where this all started.

"Go and spread what you saw among everyone," I waved, before pointing my glaive towards two; Oglak and that dude who kept questioning and doubting my ten races from earlier, claiming they were an illusion.

"You two… Stay behind."

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"You heard the lord," Oglak shouted when others delayed in their response, "go and spread what you saw. Also deliver my final decision, we will follow this lord till we are dead or went to another lord."

I watched them leave and scatter among the huge number of Hescos waiting here.

"Sigh! This will all change soon," it seemed they followed the leadership of Oglak for such a long time already to consider him as their true lord.

"Now… Let's start with removing these useless suits off you," I turned in cold gazes as I sized up and down these two, "let's start with you."

I selected the rude one, aiming to humiliate" him first.

"Lord… This…" yet once I said this, the one I pointed at turned to look at Oglak and me, seemingly hesitating to do it.

"What? Are you going to disobey the first order your lord gave?" from my side, old Gan interfered and shouted in such a loud tone.

And I kept my silence, gladly accepting the small help from this old man.

Of course this order wasn't just for me, but also for him. This suit would be delivered for him to study, alongside many others coming either from alive or dead Hescos.

"Lord… It's not that we don't want to do it, it's that we can't," Oglak had to interfere before adding in explanation, "since our birth, and these suits are born with us. They are part of our bodies, and can't be removed until we are dead."

"This…" It was way more complicated than I expected. I turned to old Gan who shrugged, pointed towards down below as he said:

"Lord, these are more than enough! I dreamt about getting just one suit, and I got tons of them, hahahaha!"

"Fine then," I nodded, "go and start working then."

We already wasted lots of time dealing with this silly game.

"Lord… What do you plan to do with… Our people?" Oglak watched old Gan jumping towards the ground and land without any trouble before running towards the densely packed dead people of the Hescos.

"We are going to do a little research about them," I paused, "what? Don't tell me I can't do it!"

"No… It's just…"

"Quite insultive? Then try your best next time and don't die," I didn't take to heart any of their objections of dissatisfaction.

A loser had to endure fate worse than death itself.

"So…" and as old Gan was having his long life wish getting fulfilled, I looked at these two before adding, "kneel!"

"Lord…"

"If you can't remove these suits and let me see your faces, then you shall show your respect in the utmost sincere way. Kneel!"

*Plop!* *Plop!"

As I didn't give any room for negotiations, the two fell on their knees on my chariot. And as they did, I could feel how heavy such suits were.

They bowed their heads and didn't say anything. Leaning their heads to someone from such a weak race was something that never crossed their minds from the moment of their birth till now.

"Good, spread the word then… All of your people here will kneel or get killed by the laws of the system," I waved my hand for them to stand, while speaking these words to the rude dude.

As for Oglak, he was left behind for me to have a nice little chat with him.

"Tell me… Are you really traitors?" This was one of the many questions I had about them.

I got nothing much out of this race. So as I got such a formidable looking figure, I got to squeeze him for answers.

"No lord, we are not!"

"Then that old story about you being a weak race and such…" I paused and Oglak suddenly sighed.

"Does lord believe in fate?"

"I believe in facts!"

"Then what if I told lord that we were just like your race a long time ago… a weak race that no one would put in their eyes."

"And?"

"One miraculous thing happened, one of our race was a prodigy, a genius who led our race into all the glory we have right now."

Chapter 997 Was She A Hero Or A Traitor?

"Only one person did that?!!" I had to admit, what he said was simply unbelievable.

Yet when I thought about myself, and what I was doing for my race, I couldn't say this was totally impossible.

"She… Was a legendary figure, one who seemed to look further beyond the limits of our minds and imagination," he sighed again before adding, "she gave us all these blessings and gifts, led our race in harsh times to come on top of all the races of the universe, even the strongest ones!"

"So… This betrayal thing…"

"It's just a made up fake rumour told by our dreadful rivals and enemies, the Toranks," he paused, and it seemed the look on my face told him I didn't buy his silly story.

"Lord, our hero did many things including researching the other universe's energy. It was in ancient times, where knowledge about that universe was still vague and mysterious."

"And?"

"Thanks to her contributions, what all races here enjoy as a chance to step into the cultivation world came from what she discovered," he said of such shocking news, "lord can check it easily. You can just open your profile, check your cultivation, and then click for the credit page. You'll see the name of her and her race glowing in glory for eternity there."

I didn't buy what he said. Yet when I did as he asked, I found a name there with the credit given for her contributions to discover many secrets about the hostile universe, allowing the system to implement this knowledge into our universe.

And next to her name, the name of a race was… Hescos!

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"Lord… I know this might seem impossible to believe, but our hero wasn't a traitor! She never was! She did great things, made many contributions for our universe, and ended up dying at the hands of those dirty people from the other universe in one of the great wars that hit our people."

"…" Well, I had to admit, hearing just one side of the story was always wrong.

But that also didn't convince me of their innocence. I was quite sure the Toranks kept their eyes over these Hescos for a long time already, investigating everything about them.

The Hescos' ancient hero might be really a prodigy, an anomaly just like myself. But she could also be a traitor, and this was easier to believe than to be honest.

"I know there is tons of wrong info about our race, but that can't be helped. Any great tree will always be the target of those down below. And we are enduring rocks falling on us from all directions."

"That won't change anything," I sighed, "I can't confirm the truth of this as it happened a long time ago and I lack all information about it. Also your race is quite brutal and cheating!"

"You don't mean the apocalypse trial? Come on!" Oglak shook his head as if this was some form of misunderstanding, "we are playing by the rules. What's wrong with that?"

"Nothing! It's just your play that affects me and my race's future, so it has to stop at my trial," I didn't get fooled with what he said. His race being innocent or not had no relation to their dirty methods in the apocalypse trials.

If I didn't do what I was doing now, taking such great risks, then things would have been nice for me and my race. At least I'd have lots of free time to compete at my apocalypse and rule over the entire planet.

"Weak ones don't have a say in what mighty powers decide."

"But this time you hit another powerful one, not just a weak lord," I met his arrogant words with another. "Now your people shall show me respect. Then we will start our work."

"What work?" He seemed to have the wrong idea here.

What old Gan was doing was something extra. The real work would start from now on.

"You will all get arranged into a few thousands, each group will fight against my people," I paused before seriously adding, "you'll also select a few capable ones to teach my forces how to deal with yours."

"This…"

"You'll spill out all the secrets you got. I also will take those bunch of thousand leaders, the strongest and finest, and let them lead my forces at the training grounds."

"You… Want us to lead armies?!!" This came as another surprise for him.

"Don't take me wrong, I may be going against Hescos, but I also have lots of powerful races fighting in my world. For example Hectors are here, Dragons and Selvators as well."

"This… What the heck is wrong with you?!! Going against two of the big races at one go?"

"Believe it or not, I never intended it this way," I was honest, "but I take what comes at me with a big smile and a hard fist. But it's better to have a sharp sword instead of a bare fist, right?"

"Yet… Facing all these… Are you insane?"

"Hahahaha! Consider me one then, hahahaha!" I liked his shock and doubt from what I said.

Of course the enemies weren't easy to handle, weren't few even. I was going all out this time to make sure to win it all.

The thought of losing never crossed my mind. What would be the worst thing that'd happen? I'd lose against Hescos in many worlds? Lose parts of my kingdom?

It wasn't that bad. Comparing it to losing everything I got so far when the trial would be over was really nothing.

Even if it looked like madness, it was the most logical and profitable approach in my eyes.

"Go down there and start arranging your people after they finish saluting me," I shifted my eyes towards the ground. These Hescos seemed to have trouble accepting bowing their heads and kneeling to someone like me.

"Ok, lord," Oglak turned around and left. Yet before he'd fly away, I shouted from behind:

"Finish all this and come to my side. You are going to be one of my trusted generals and friends."

"…"

Chapter 998 Gaining One Thousand Generals

Of course he would be conflicted about this. We didn't meet and get to know each other on friendly terms. He was a servant serving a lord who just told him he was going to smash his race forces and kill his people.

Putting that aside, he was a treasure trove in my eyes. I witnessed how Hectors revolutionised my training grounds, training great forces in such a brutal way.

So what would such a race bring to my forces? Hopefully a much more brutal and more effective way of training.

I watched Oglak go down there. In less than ten minutes, everyone knelt and bowed, taking me as their lord.

They still believed too much in Oglak. That was expected. But gradually I'd change that.

I stole a gaze at old Gan. He was busy taking out a suit off one of the dead bodies, gaining him too many eyes of hatred.

"You should take all these back," when I noticed this, I knew this situation couldn't continue like this. He had to relocate his working place and also use the help of other geniuses back there.

"Go," I opened a portal, summoned my Bulltors and shield bearers, letting them carry all the dead bodies through the portal.

As they'd take a few hours to complete this task, I got another one to solve.

[I'm done! Come and get me! I want to see and meet these legendary Hescos!]

Just as old Gan vanished through the portal and my warriors started their work, I got his message from Lily.

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[Coming] I opened a portal and appeared where I left her.

She was really impatient, eager to meet these Hescos. And once she came here, she started jumping over, seeing all of these Hescos on the ground and flying with much interest.

She even laughed from time to time before coming at last towards me.

"This… This is amazing! Hahahaha! We got Hescos! The Hescos!! Hahahaha!"

"Stop playing, you'll get tons of time to do so," I turned to the Hescos, "we need lots of things to be done to get the best use of them."

"What did you learn about them? I see dead bodies, and that means lots of fights happened."

"It did," I didn't hide it from her, and gave her a brief summary about what I went through with them, "so we need to prepare not only our forces to come and train, but the terrain as well."

"Hmm… Interesting battle tactic… But letting our forces deal with such a formidable one head on isn't right."

"I know, that's why we need to arrange suitable training grounds for this…" I started speaking about my own thoughts, and she kept adjusting a little here and there.

My idea was simple. These Hescos could fight anywhere. We got training grounds that cover up ground and aquatic battles.

We lack any training grounds dedicated to fight against the aerial army of theirs. Not to mention that underground force and their huge impact at any battlefield.

So we needed to remodel this continent here, building up a new training and more sophisticated training ground than the two we already got.

"We don't need to trouble Isac with this. We have lots of talents who can do even better, remember?" Lily proposed to ask the help from the newly acquired talents she found before.

And I couldn't reject such an offer. After all, Isac was getting pressured all over the large projects my kingdom currently had. She alone wasn't enough as she was doing the job of planning, arranging workers, and following their progress.

Angelica would have stepped in to help, but she wasn't in the right mood at the moment.

Besides… As my kingdom was growing at such a fierce speed, I had to find other people whom I could depend on. Having just one or two trustable aidees wasn't good in the long run.

What if something happened to them, just like what happened to Angelica? What if we got tons of work to do, just like the case with Isac and Lily?

Yet finding trusted people was easier dreamt about than done. I had Legend as a suitable leader to lead training grounds. But I had no replacements for Isac or Angelica.

"Go and bring a few here then," I opened a portal leading towards the research department continent, "also find me talents that are good at handling internal affairs, dealing with lots of workers and can take over any big projects without any problem."

"Just like Angelica perhaps?"

"That's correct, find me other Angelicas, Lilys, and Isacs out there," she was smart enough to guess the reason behind my request.

"Well, I'll take an hour then."

"Don't forget to send a word back to the towns and cities… We need tons of workers as well."

"I got it," she said while vanishing inside the portal.

"Lord… What shall we do now?"

Just as I watched Lily vanish through the portal, Oglak came with a bunch of thousand leaders of his.

"You are going to get some rest for now," I paused, "think about how to train my forces at the training grounds. I can take you there to inspect these grounds closely and get ideas about what to do."

I said my last words to the group behind Oglak. They didn't comment or say anything, meaning that Oglak already informed them about what they had to do.

"Come, let your people rest here for now," the task I gave to Lily wasn't easy. It would also take a long time to be done.

So instead of waiting here for her to come back, I opened a portal towards the second training ground first.

This place was new, but it was the new harbour that would receive all the newly arrived races.

"This place comprises three continents," I started explaining how this training ground worked. I showed them the place where new races were delivered each day, took them on a grand tour around the three continents before leaving one third of them here.

Chapter 999

I left instructions for Lily to inform those handling this training ground. They got three hundred more generals, and they had to let them start their work when we were ready.

The construction process of the entire three continents was almost close to being done. Soon we could start operating this training ground, with the different purposes of each continent.

I then took the rest towards the first training ground. There the situation was hard to describe to them in words. "Stay here for a day or two, get used to the process of my forces training and then one of mine called Legend will come and appoint you to your armies."

I had to let them scatter and inspect different places here. Saying that we got our forces shrank with each big monster attack wasn't correct.

That was the case before that recruitment order back at the heaven zone of my people was established. I could see lots of forces flooding this training ground from the direction of the portal zone.

Not to mention most of the forces we called were sent back after getting recorded by Angelica's men.

It seemed Angelica was doing a fine job back at the heaven site. I knew if not for all the fresh blood that came from that place, I'd have to relocate more forces from the second training ground.

In time this might be needed to keep things here under control. I could use the help of my little Qi and control the influx of monsters towards this training ground, but it would be hard to do this and not affect the echo system produced over a long time.

My soldiers here got used to such intense fighting situations. All they needed was more new soldiers for the old one to lead and allow them to ascend rankings without losing too many of them during the continuous fights everywhere.

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"Lord… This place is really interesting," as I watched the seven hundred leaders of Hescos, Oglak said from the side.

I took his words as a praise for my training ground down there. "It took us lots of time to get to such a result," I said, "but we lack enough forces to arrive and replenish our lost ones."

"Lord can go and buy them from those impacts."

"That's what I'm currently doing."

"How many impacts does lord deal with? I know of few who can satisfy the needs of my lord."

"How so?" I had to admit, I was just depending entirely over Silverlining's impact and race. It was great as they were sending forces with cultivation over, but that wasn't enough.

Just right now I got three big training grounds, one operative, one close to get functional, and the third was about to be established.

Considering all this, and with the mighty weapon I got thanks to my little Qi, it looked regretful to use little Qi to just limit the amount of monsters coming at each training ground.

If it was up to me, I should ask him to increase the magnitude of monsters coming, expand the reach and distribution of these monsters over the entire shores of all the continents I control in these training grounds.

Like this, I could train not just the armies I got right now. I could even arm up the new generals I just acquired.

Thinking about the one thousand generals made me crave to arm each with tens of millions of soldiers. Of course dreaming was great and such, but executing these dreams and seeing them turn into reality was a different story.

Even if the Petal impact and Toranks race were helping, they were far from enough at this point.

"There are different ways to get races from our universe," and when I asked, Oglak didn't hurry to respond. Instead he started by explaining such a concept, giving me the impression he was going to tell me a huge secret.

"One of them is by kidnapping races taking part in different apocalypse trials. This has the advantage of a grand pool, but its main drawback is that you'll get only weak races with weak stats and almost zero cultivation bases."

"That's correct," I nodded as this was the case when I dealt with the Bringold impact.

"They also have the advantage of numbers. Many impacts operate in such a way. And they aren't that pricey."

Well… That nymph girl did extort lots of bones out of me for almost nothing in return! Don't say it wasn't pricey… For me it was!!

"Then comes the ones who deal with the betting grounds," he continued, "they grab the losing races from these betting worlds and sell them. Of course this comes from the winning lords. It's a fact that not all seek power using numbers, and many prefer getting wealth instead of spending theirs to nourish strong and massive armies."

"Shortsighted greedy dudes, that's more I like it!" I got his point.

"These races are all soldiers, all have cultivation, and usually they are sold in great quantities. However their price is the main issue. And the one dealing with such has to have big impacts, meaning their number is quite few."

"Hmm… Do you refer to them from before? Do you get any contact with any?"

"I got a few in my head," he nodded, "but no…"

"No… What?"

"I wasn't referring to these when I said that… What I was speaking about was rare impacts, very dangerous to deal with, but they are effective."

"In what way?" I got my interest piqued when he said it was so dangerous to deal with.

"Lord knows that there is a huge war going on between our universe and that alien one, right?" he paused and when I slowly nodded, he continued, "and this war kept going on for ages! No one even knew the exact date of its beginning except for those system higher ups."

"Your point is…"

"Let me give lord an example from what I saw here," he didn't hurry to answer me, and this made me get the feeling that I wouldn't like what he was going to say next.

 Chapter 1000

"Lord got his hands over a large number of races from that universe, correct?"

"And?" I didn't comment on his words. That was indeed a fact, but I didn't get his point from sharing it.

"Lord keep them here and I'm sure you are thinking how to better use them in the future. You did this because they mattered to you, right?"

"And?" This was also a fact that didn't need me to comment or confirm. My curiosity and doubt grew by what he said. And they skyrocketed when he added:

"Lord did this because these races got something you need, everyone in our universe actually needs. But think in their stead for a moment. What you experienced here many, tons of warlords of the other universe experienced as well. They got our universe races as hostages over the long course of war…"

He paused, and I got what he was trying to say. What I had here, others had since the start of this war.

This was the nature of any war. Both sides would fight back and forth, with few winnings here and there, few defeats at some point. With each victory, the winner would gain lots of other side forces as hostages.

And when losing, the loser would have to leave behind many things, loot in the form of gears, treasures, and forces.

"To us, any gains from that universe is beneficial. But to them, we won't give them anything they can use. So…"

"Are you telling me there is a trade going on between our universe and theirs?!!" I could see where this all led to, and that made me deeply shaken.

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"Well, it's a long trade that started a long time ago since the start of this war," he carefully said, and at this moment I deeply regretted not being able to see through his eyes directly, to ascertain his real intentions.

What was he trying to do here exactly?

"If we get nothing of use to them, then on what basis will they trade with us?" That was the most important question now.

It went without saying that this trade held lots of potential for anyone, not only I. Any loot coming from that huge war battlefield would be literally burdened with treasures and great loot.

Not to mention the forces gained from there would be all elites!

But… Getting that was… On what cost exactly?

"Well… In fact there are few things that interest those enemies," Oglak seemed to notice my hostility towards this matter, towards him, towards whoever was doing this, and yet he seemed not to bother with it.

It was as if he knew what he was going to say next would make me change my mind or convince me to accept such a thing.

What did I think about it? Well, there was only one thing I could think of that might interest these enemies of my universe… Which would by selling one's soul to them, turning into a traitor!

And on my dead body I'd accept or even consider such a thing! No f*cking way!

"Did lord hear about the concept of magical artefact before?"

"What? What does this even mean?!!" It was my first time hearing about this concept.

"Sigh! If the lord doesn't know then… Forget about it then," he shook his head, making me want to hear more about this new thing.

"No, tell me about it," I demanded, "even if I didn't hear about them, that doesn't mean I won't be able to get my hands on one or more in the future, right?"

"Well… Lord got a point indeed," he paused, "they are a collective of natural born treasures, measured to be on the level of artefacts created by races in our universe. However… These artefacts have the advantage of having a great concentration of our universe's energy. Lord is aware of the difference in energy concentration between our universe and theirs, right?"

"Sure, that's why we got such suppression when being there, right?"

"That's correct. And these magical artefacts are the only way our universe races to negate such negative effects."

"This… Damn!!!" I couldn't help but scream in excitement and shock, making him misunderstand my reaction.

"Lord has all the right to get surprised. These things… Are naturally born and can be used in different ways. But one of their magical effects is to relieve most of the pressure our people get when being in a hostile universe."

"So… You're telling me they want these to weaken our forces?" I didn't expose any of what I was thinking about right now. And instead, I focused on better understanding what he meant by all this.

"No, lord got it wrong. They are interested in something else," yet he kept shaking his head again, "these treasures got another use, one that could be used inside our universe. Some will create worlds, others will even destroy worlds… But to all great forces, they mainly use them at the grand battlefield out there. Yet…"

He paused before his tone turned all serious:

"Lord… If you ever got your hands over one of these, never ever throw their benefit away and use them just to negate the pressure on the other universe."

"But without it, our forces will be greatly weakened!"

"Not if they had high cultivation bases, the higher we climb, the weaker that negative effect will be."

"Then… You are advising me to use these treasures in my worlds? What's that has to do with what the other universe powerhouses want from us?"

I kept faking my ignorance about what he was speaking about, aiming to get more information before exposing everything to him.

"Lord… When you get such treasure and use it, you'll be shocked by what you'll see… There are lots of marvellous creations that will appear thanks to using these treasures. Of course the best are the ones that destroy worlds. They can constillate any world's energy into great things. But the ones creating worlds aren't that bad, yet they just need time, lots of time to give birth to something valuable."

Chapter 1001 Giving Him A Scare

Ah, I see," I paused, while looking at his nine eyes, "I have a weird question… How do you… Marry each other and give birth to kids while wearing these suits all the time?"

"This…" he seemed to be taken aback by what I asked. Of course that was just a flash of an idea in my mind, one that I didn't tell any about it later as I said:

"Forget about it. So these folks are after these artefacts' creations?"

"Yes, lord. They seek the price by using a currency produced by these worlds. Even tree leaves have value, and each artefact's products are different according to their grade of maturity and the density of energy inside."

"And who gets to determine all this? Don't expect me to work my ass off to get such valuable and priceless things and in return I'd just throw away the products over ones that aren't bound by the system!"

"Lord, I did mention before that there are rare, extremely rare impacts who act as middlemen in such dealings. To us, we can use the power of the system to do the trade."

"And how come the other universe guys trust these folks?"

"They got a few of their people also working as part of these impacts. And they got their own ways like ours to ensure they wouldn't get conned by them."

"Ah, I see…" I paused while thinking about all this, "and you do know of such weird and special impacts?"

"I know of one, as I dealt with them before. But… Lord has first to find such priceless treasures and…"

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"Tell me then, are these magical artefacts close to this little crystal of mine here?" I didn't give him time to continue his words, took out something from my inventory and raised it high and close enough for him to see.

I took out a crystal, one that was oval in shape, and in the length of almost my forearm. He looked at this crystal clear white crystal with blue and faint orange fog swirling inside from time to time.

Looking at it would give anyone the impression that it has a bottomless pit inside, like an entire miniature world that was shielded from our sights by this fog.

"This… Lord… This…" and when I took it out, I saw the body of Oglak trembling out of immense shock for the first time ever.

"Hahahaha!" I stored it away. It was one of the artefacts I got recently from the twenty-five sovereigns, the most precious one to me, the one that could bind anyone and turn him into a warrior. "If this is what they need, then I can supply their demand, hahahaha!"

Of course I was damn excited! It was a great deal and trade, even if it was done with the enemies. They got something they didn't need, and I got something I wouldn't use that much of.

So what was the problem in exchanging both together? The things they got and were useless to them were very crucial to my survival and ascension to glory.

Forces that were captured at the outer battlefield? They were all strong! Not to mention the treasures looted from the dead bodies of these forces.

Anything coming from there would be priceless to the current me! But the question was… What was the value of the things born from my artefacts?

I only used two so far, one to build a world for my necromancers, and the other was that ancient life shrine world.

The former was already growing on Earth, and the latter needed more time to grow up in the pocket world.

"Lord… Do you really have it? Damn! I can't believe my eyes! Damn! Are you really a human?!!"

"Hahahaha," I laughed, while waving my hands around, "I'm a human race descendant and a prodigy, what's wrong with that?"

"N… Nothing… It's just…" I got that he had such a deep shock deep into his bones. He said it himself, he did this kind of trade before.

Was he the one having such artefact? I doubted it! He must have been serving a mighty overlord of his race.

And what did that mean? I was already at a level close to that mighty old lord of his.

And that was why he looked in such a shocking state when he saw my treasure.

What if I told him I got more, lots more of these? Hahahaha! I bet he might get a heart attack or something.

"Come on, tell me," I suddenly said amidst my laughs, "how the heck do your people sleep with their ladies?"

"Lord… It's not appropriate to speak about this! And… Right now what's more important is… Damn lord!"

"Hahahaha!"

I was just teasing him. Of course I wasn't just joking, as I got some sort of use for this little piece of info.

They have to have something to use to let part of this suit vanish, or some way to get past the suit when sleeping together.

Or just sleeping with each other while wearing such thick and heavy suits would be a torture not a pleasure.

"Let's talk business then," I returned to the main point, "can you contact that impact and get me this deal?"

"Well… Lord… I know it's awesome that you got such a treasure and such… However it's not just about magical artefact possession…"

"Who said this is the only one I got?" I said, and for an entire five minutes he kept shaking and silent without saying anything. "Hahahaha! It's damn unfair to get your face covered with that mask, hahahahaha!"

It was a real regret to not see his face at the current moment. Damn! Couldn't it be removed? How come they fall in love or admire someone of the other gender?

Or they didn't have other genders and were only mating with themselves? Damn! Don't tell me this was the case with such a weird race!"

"Lord… You are really… Can't be read from the cover at all!"

Chapter 1002 The Price Of A Single Bottle Of Water!

"I know, and it's awesome, right? Hahahaha!" I was in a great mood right now. "Come, let me take you somewhere else, a place where we can discuss this deal in a more appropriate way."

I had nothing much to do here anyway. My Lily was getting those geniuses and selecting the ones who would help me in various tasks later on.

Then we'd have lots of time to wait for the third training ground to get ready before sending the strongest forces with cultivation out there to train with the Hescos.

In my estimate, this would take roughly a week to get done, if not more. The requirements this time were the ones who were going to delay our progress.

The ones dealing with this mess had to create suitable terrain for aerial and underground battles. Not to mention mimicking other scenarios like attacking forts, towns, and cities secured by Hescos, or defending against their invasion.

I opened a portal towards Earth as I motioned for Oglak to follow. Before leaving, I left a detailed message for Lily to know what she had to do while I was away.

After all, one hour there was close to twenty here.

I had to secure this deal. If what Oglak said was true, and things back in my necromancer world were good, I could get lots of forces out of nowhere.

And these ones would be elites, elites of elites. They'd have strong cultivation bases, vast battle experience, and even appointing them as leaders would be an understatement for their true potential.

I appeared on Earth at my capital. The sight of it didn't change that much, it was still echoing with noises.

"This… We are in a different world?!!"

好奇心を刺激するコンパクト NEW 日産ノート AUTECH クロスオーバー日産自動車株式会社

It hit me when I heard the shocked words of Oglak. He didn't know that we were in a secluded world of mine.

"This is the world taking part in the apocalypse," I said while motioning my glaive towards the direction of the capital, "and this is the capital of my kingdom."

"Capital? Apocalypse world? Then… What about the one we just came from?"

"It's mine too, but without apocalypse."

"This… You own a world already? Damn fierce! May I ask how long has it been since the arrival of the apocalypse? What quest are you on right now? Quest seventy? Eighty? Or perhaps ninety?"

"No, I'm waiting for the fifth quest to start," I laughed as I knew hearing this would leave a deep impact inside his heart and soul.

And as I expected, Oglak's giant body trembled once again, making me laugh once more.

"Don't get surprised, I'm full of surprises so get used to it, hahahaha!" I didn't know why, but getting such a strong figure of a mighty race shocked was interesting and fun.

"Let's go," I opened a portal and passed through it. The moment I passed to the other side, I found the great ball of my necromancer world.

"This… Is this…"

"It is what you guessed," I flew towards that world, "it's better if you stayed on my chariot for now."

"Sure…" he was still shocked to see my necromancer world. What? Did he think I was joking or something?

The moment my chariot passed, a new world appeared in front of my eyes.

It was bigger, much bigger than the world I saw last time I was here. I got to use my necromancers and called them out from this world. And till now I didn't get a chance to let them come back here.

"Lord… May I ask what a peaceful world is? What kind of magical artefact created it? Is it a peace kind magical artefact or what?"

"Peace? No, it's an artefact that used death as fuel to thrive."

"This… Death fuel… No way! There isn't a single speck of death or even war energy here!" I heard him sniffing as if he could tell the nature of energy in this world this way.

"Stop bluffing," and seeing him do that made me laugh, "it's really a world made out of death energy."

"But… Can I take a look?"

"Be my guest," he was inside my world and bound by my contract. So I let him fly around while I also started roaming around.

Well… This world grew by at least five folds than last time I saw it! It was filled with green grass, towering trees, huge flowers, and many small rivers running here and there.

If I didn't know the true nature of this world, I'd have the same idea as Oglak. I might even consider it a place of heaven or something.

"Lord… This can't be a world built by death energy… Besides…" After a few hours, Oglak came back while holding many things in his thick hands.

I saw gems, leaves, flower petals, fruits, and even bottles filled with water. "Lord… These things… They are of good grade, and have a dense amount of energy within."

"Are these the products of my world? He is the one the other universe people look for?" This was what mattered right now.

According to what he was going to say, I'd be able to measure up such chances. Would it be really a valuable chance for me to gain more forces and power? Or was it just something left for later time?

"Lord… Their grades aren't bad, but it's not to consider them priceless."

"Your meaning is…"

"They can be traded, but… For example this bottle of water here. It has a medium amount of energy stored within. I didn't feel any death energy at all. However, from the amount of energy stored inside, and judging from my previous dealings with these people, I can say this one can be exchanged for a group of hundred alive hostages and the loot from two hundred dead."

"Oh… This bottle can give me that?!!" He said it as if it was a big loss or something. Damn Oglak! You were holding a small bottle that didn't contain more than one litre by most.

Chapter 1003 Looking For Gems

Couldn't you see how many rivers I got here? How many litres are running through this place? Dammit Oglak! How much exactly your old lord was getting from each trade then if this was considered a big loss in your eyes?

"Lord… Don't get me wrong. But taking too much from here might affect the entire world's stability," he seemed to notice my weird gazing at him, making him say these words.

"What do you mean?"

"Any magical artefact world had to absorb some sort of energy from the world outside. It transforms this energy and condenses it into such things here. They aren't just for show, they play a role at stabilising the world when there are times with a thin amount of energy in the outside world."

"Oh… You mean so then," I got his point, "don't worry then. I can simply empty this entire world, even take away the dirt and clouds, and it won't crumble or collapse."

"This…"

"Come out!" the next moment I summoned the one thousand necromancers I got, plus more that I received from the sovereigns and Silverlining.

Their count has doubled by now. "Let the new ones get a proper introduction from the rest of you," I said to the old ones, ordering them to act as guides to the new ones.

"These… Are the cursed necromancer race!!"

"Indeed, after all this world is made from death energy. And guess what? In time of the apocalypse, we got nothing more than death energy, right?"

"Well… Considering what I saw at your training grounds, you could have established it there, right?"

[岡山1泊2日モデルコース]非日常に没入!心ほどけるアート＆映え体験旅岡山県

"…"

Just when he said it this way, I realised that I totally missed this point!

It was true that inside the other world of mine, lots of killing and death were present. It could have worked!

But considering the time I established this world at, the training grounds inside my other world was still rudimentary. I established this world in the path of controlling the Hector continent, something that looked like it happened ages ago.

"Death energy here is still higher, and will be like this for a long time," I didn't see this as a bad decision from me.

Training grounds might look bustling with activity, yet once time came, I'd have to empty most of them and send my forces away.

Unlike the second world, Earth was going to be filled with killing and fighting for long years! I still got most of the quests left, not to mention the merge of other worlds with mine to expand Earth's size and add more forces and races here.

And that would keep the fight going on for a much longer time.

"Anyway, lord can't take lots of things from here. It's not a problem of energy supply, but most of these things came from the artefact lord used. Taking too much will affect the balance of this world, and in best cases it will affect the growth and expansion of this world."

"And worse it will collapse, right?" I got his point and couldn't help but sigh. Looking at this small bottle and then at the huge number of rivers here made me regret not emptying everything.

"There are different things with more value than water," when Oglak saw my dejected look, he said, "like this crystal here. I found it at the core of a few flowers I saw, and these… Each single one of them can be exchanged by one hundred times the price paid for this bottle of water."

"One hundred times… That means ten thousand… Not bad…" I looked at the small gem that he showed to me. It was in the size of half a finger, emitting bright silver-white light, and was filled with dense white fog.

"Ok," I resigned to his warning, "how much can I take from here without affecting the world?"

"This…" yet it seemed he was speaking about a vague concept, one that he didn't know much about or something, "we have to try until the earliest signs appear."

"Signs… Like what?"

"The earliest signs of affecting the world will appear in the form of a few shakes like faint earthquakes. When that happens, the lord has to stop."

"Ok," I got what he meant, "but that means I'll have to do it myself."

"Did lord plan for someone else to do it?!!"

He seemed surprised. And of course I was thinking about doing that. Just look around, this world was already spanning hundreds of miles!

"Start contacting that impact people then," I sighed, "let them get in touch with me. Send them the samples you got and let me know the results. Come here…"

I added him as a friend before starting the mission of collecting treasures from this world.

I went down first towards any flower region and started to look for the gems like the one he showed me.

I found them, not that common indeed but they were there. Each big and small flower got a gem inside in a ratio of one to hundred.

I also found different coloured gems. There were the silver white ones like that gem he showed me before.

And there were also green and blue ones. For a moment there I got that the ranking system of these was similar to the ones I had for my bones.

That meant these new coloured gems were much higher in value than the silver-white ones.

I started a wide spree of search, and even summoned my Bulltors and shield warriors to help scan the world and bring me these gems.

I didn't ask for anything else but these gems for now. And I made sure my warriors spanned in a small area. So at any given sign of affecting this world, I'd just call them back and not add more damage to the world.

But for hours we kept working diligently, amassing thousands of these gems before we covered one third of this world.

Gradually all my tense and anxiety were gone, replaced with the weird tranquillity that being here provided. I kept working for ten more hours until I finally cleared the entire world off any gem.