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Chapter 1111 Going Back To Earth

"The altars?!" I looked in doubt towards him. What he meant was the ceremony of allowing others to step into cultivation.

Of course potions used weren't the thing he was speaking about. I got that he meant the arrays of the altars. "When did you get the chance to break these down?" I grew curious.

From my knowledge of Lily's personality, she wouldn't allow such an outsider to take a look at her race's ancient ritual.

"Ahem… The thing is… When we were asked to wait before, I got the chance to inspect things there… Ahem…"

He seemed to realise the deep sh*t he got himself into. I could only give him an empathetic look while sighing. "I won't tell her," I could only say that after a long moment of shock, "this is the best help I can give you."

"Thanks lord," he was surely aware of the deep trouble he brought upon himself. Well, I could try to defend him if things went south, provided that I was present when Lily would come claiming for his head.

"So… These are all prototypes? Right?" I jumped over this troubling point and pointed at the new things he showed to me.

"Regretfully yes. We already broke down the needed blueprints to make them en masse, however we needed lots of time and effort to do so. We…"

Before he'd be able to say anything again about the lack of manpower and land, I gave him a stern glance and he paused in the middle of his words.

"Ah… We also made lots of single unit fighting weapons… Like rifles, rocket launchers, grenade launchers, laser guns, and such."

"Indeed you didn't watch a sci-fi movie before, right?" I chuckled and my joke was grasped by the humans behind him, yet he didn't. "Anyway, I'm going to install portals now and make things ready for your teams to start working. From now on, you'll have to dispatch part of your trusted personnel to supervise over the working process there."

"That's given."

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"Ok, let's get this done," I was a man of actions. So once decided, I started to jump over to the uninhabited continents and installed portals there.

The number of continents I designated for the research team this time reached ten. I installed different groups of portals, linking the continents together then linking them with the research continent and the first continent that I arrived at.

In my eyes, this continent was considered the base, the foremost important continent in this world.

After informing Angelica and old Gan using messages, I knew my work here was done.

"It's time to start heading back to Earth!" I knew I left for too long, but that was just in the time of the places I stayed at.

In Earth time, I didn't leave for more than a month and half. Last time I went there, my forces went south to attack the coalition army of Dragons, Illusionists, and Succubi.

It was long enough for that jerk to complete this task. They were supposed to help Fang and his race in exterminating the invaders.

Of course if Hectors decided to join, things might go a little out of control.

But after all this time, I knew this war was over by one way or another. I left a message to Lily and Angelica, entrusting the work left over the two worlds here over to them.

They had to organise the assembly of armies from both worlds, also organise the training grounds of the newly joined forces.

At the same time, the resource mining teams had to do their jobs. Not to mention the expansion of the world's towns and cities. This was an ongoing process that I couldn't risk stopping.

I also had an army of Hescos that I decided to leave behind. My only special task for them was to go and find the high echelon of the Zombie race.

I needed their help to control the upcoming disaster of the fifth quest. But going to them personally wasn't needed. After all, we already got on terms with how they'd help me.

I entrusted this mission to Angelica. Compared to Lily, she got more free time to wander around. Plus she had the staff as well.

I came outside first, glanced around and felt the desire to go and explore this new world. However I knew this wasn't a priority. And I should just postpone exploring this world for the time when I'd finish all this and return back here.

I opened a portal and passed through it towards Earth.

At last… I was finally coming back!

The moment I passed to Earth, a familiar look appeared in front of my eyes.

It was my capital. And after almost a month and half away, it was giving signs of prosperity.

Many were walking on the streets, talking and laughing. I noticed markets and different places for the capital survivors to have fun and entertainment.

I even saw stadiums as well. It was something from old times. And it seemed the protection and lack of wars for a long time gave them a false sense of security.

Despite being happy to see something like that growing in my capital, I had to admit there was no such a thing as peace in times of apocalypse.

The Apocalypse was chaotic and it wasn't something that could live happily alongside peace and prosperity.

Just the next quest was destined to leave a huge mark over the face and body of my kingdom. I moved my eyes around and felt more responsibility about the happiness and sense of peace these citizens had.

I got to protect them, and even if the world was going on wildfire outside, it was my duty to make them keep this sense of peace, even if it was fake and wouldn't last longer.

[Where are you? Tell me all the updates since my departure]

I sent this brief message to all of my generals. It had been a long time since we were going to have a grand meeting with everyone.

And as I waited on the side, they started to send news from their side.

Chapter 1112 That Jerk...

[Dammit! You are finally back! What took you so long to come? What? Did you find a good lady and spend time with her or what?]

This foul mouthed jumper… He would never grow up!

Lady? What did he take me for? A sexy lunatic or what?

[Just stop such nonsense and tell me the updates of the war]

[War? It ended a long time ago. What? Do you think I'm incapable and lazy as you? Humph! It didn't take more than a month!]

[Month?!!] the corner of my mouth twitched, [Didn't you have the upper hand? The element of surprise? The support from many? What went wrong? Don't hide it, sooner or later I'll get to know everything… Wait, how much of my strength are left?]

This damn crazy dude always had the habit of shattering my armies into nothing once he took control. This was something that became a taboo and a stain that stuck with his reputation.

[This… Don't try to change the subject! You are too late and here you are questioning me about such useless things!]

[Changing topic? Screw you! Don't give me bullshit and just say what the heck happened to my armies!]

The bad premonition I had before when I handed my armies over to him seemed to come true. This crazy lunatic… Did he think armies were grown up on trees or fell from the sky as rain?

However before he'd speak, and he surely took a long time before he did, I got to hear what happened from others.

[Boss! Boss! Thank god you are back! That crazy dude with a mask is scary and crazy! He ended up losing more than two thirds of the entire army! Two thirds! I never witnessed such losses even when we invaded the Hector continent!]

It was a spearhead, and after that he started to narrate in panic what happened.

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It seemed that when things were heading right, that jerk got full of himself and decided to push his advantage even further.

The coalition army led by Dragons were already pushed back by my armies. Yet when that jerk decided to push them further,

That ended up bad, terribly bad! The enemy had a card up their sleeves and got the help from the Hectors. Yet the latter appeared at the decisive moment when that bastard decided to break up the grand army into many smaller ones.

The losses were unbelievable! The first waves of attacks ended up with losing almost one third of the entire army!

If not for Fang's timely change of tactic and started to attack instead of defending made up for such loss. It helped to relieve the pressure over my forces and things started to slowly stabilise from there.

Yet that jerk was still full of himself and decided to keep doing his plan, seemingly mistaking the movement of Fang and his forces, overestimating both his and Fang's forces abilities.

During the next weeks, the two sides kept closing to and fro, ending up with claiming a hard earned victory on the cost of losing one more third of the grand amires.

It was indeed a regret! Such a grand gathering of forces, a foolproof plan was all ruined by the dickhead of a single man.

I was instantly furious and greatly displeased and discontent with that jerk's behaviour.

[Listen to me, just listen… It wasn't my fault! Believe me…]

[Shut the hell up! If not for the intense upcoming quests and battles I'd prefer to lock you up for ten years and deprive you from seeing the light of freedom]

[This is tyranny! Don't embark on such a path or else…]

[Or else what? F*ck off! It's better to not see your damn ugly mask or else I'd rip it off your face and expose your f*cking identity to everyone! Hell, I should be doing this right now! Where the hell are you? I dare you to speak!]

[No way, I'll run as far away from you as possible… You won't find me]

[Do you think you'll be safe anywhere here? Do you think I won't be able to find you? Try it and let's see how you'll survive my attacks next!]

[F*ck you! I'll seek asylum at one of the three other maniacs! At least they won't be as tyrannical as you!]

[Try it then, I dare you!]

I knew he was just pulling a fart to escape my punishment. Let him try, and my punishment would just grow intense in time.

As expected, that dude went into silence while more generals started to narrate the horror they saw under his lousy leadership.

What went wrong in his mind exactly? Why did he miserably fail each single time I tried to let him lead an army? Each single time! Damn! What a f*cking unbelievably trash record this damn bastard had!

Was he cursed by bad luck or what? I couldn't tell. And I hated those who had such bad luck over their shoulders.

It was wise to demote him, or best lock him away in a cell to prevent him from causing more trouble.

Dammit! And here I thought I'd have a very reliable helper in the upcoming grand fight! I ended up with a broken item instead!

Luckily, the rest weren't as useless and trash as this jerk.

The best one acting according to the grand plan was none other than Isac.

She completed the building process of the entire kingdom in time. Even though it might seem impossible, and when I dreamt about covering up half of my kingdom, she managed to perform the job brilliantly.

Comparing her with that jerk, there was a clear difference indeed. That jerk… Damn! Every time I thought about his crushing performance made my blood boil with anger.

Should I reveal his identity? Tell the world that under the mask was the face of a beautiful girl or what?

He deserved it! And it should be done when everyone was gathered to humiliate him further.

Hopefully he'd wake up and reflect on his wrongdoings and severe flaws.

Chapter 1113 One Reliable Assistant At Last!

Aside from this frustrating jerk and his lousy performance, I got a message from Isac. And it brought great news for me.

[You finally returned! The thing you asked me to do is completed. The entire kingdom is now built into an organised net of cities and towns]

At last! Someone dependable was on my side. I didn't know if I should laugh or cry out of joy.

[Thanks for the trouble]

[Not only that, I also had extra workers and let them work over the Hector continent and the ones snatched newly from the enemy]

[Does that mean…]

[The entire eastern part of this continent in addition to all the four new acquired continents are now reformed and look as brand new]

Wow! She even went ahead of what I drew out for her and did such an amazing job!

[However… There aren't enough people to live in these places. Sigh! Even with the workers you lent me before, I could only accommodate ten percent of the entire place. And you know…]

Of course in her eyes this was something troublesome. However, for me it was nothing.

The initial plan we discussed and agreed upon before was to turn the entire kingdom into a beehive of cities and towns. In addition to the security measures in the form of defensive facilities and the army, there was one important chip that must be used as well; population.

To her, a few weeks just passed. Yet for me, years passed. Speaking about population? If I wanted, I could drown this world many times with people without feeling any pressure of doing so.

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My influx of races never stopped. And we were speaking about the supply for almost three years. That was something horrifying if one thought seriously about that.

[Don't worry, in few hours I'll bring enough to suffocate these places]

[You…]

[Just come here while thinking about how to distribute them before the next quest would start. By the way, do you know how long before it will start?]

[At least two days]

[Not bad] I paused before finally asking about what mattered most and was neglected for a long time by me, [How about the stats? Did you guys solve it?]

Of course in my eyes, she was the most capable one under me for now. Even that jerk paled in comparison, and only Angelica and Lily were enough to compete with her on such prestige.

[Well, we killed a lot of enemies and won lots of battles. We massacred many monsters and built many towns and cities. So the stat problem was solved long time ago]

As expected, with a few words she summed everything up and told me the answer I was waiting for.

[By the way, what are we going to do against the upcoming zombie event? You do know how terrible it will be. Even with everything we prepared, even with the population you are bringing out of nowhere, you must have heard of the losses in the army ranks, right?]

I knew she was worried about this. And she got a point in doing so. However, she would never have imagined that solving the army problem was much easier for me than solving the population problem.

I had to go back and inform the two ladies about this. Convincing those who already settled in such a nice world to come here and face dangers wasn't easy indeed.

However, compared to this troublesome situation, the situation of the army was much smoother. With a single word, I could mobilise hundreds of millions here.

In fact, I already planned that.

[Leave these things for me to handle, you only have to work over your side and be ready to welcome the armies and people] I was able to bring tons of these two types here, however distributing them wasn't my specialty.

[Fine! Despite the vast distance we are speaking about, we can barely manage to satisfy the innermost and the middle layers of the kingdom]

[Only these?] I frowned a little before finally making up my mind, [I'll take a journey around and install many portals linking these places to here. The newly acquired continents will be the only one suffering from such danger but in two days time I believe we can handle most of them]

[Oh, you'll interfere to help? Then things are going to be fine!]

I didn't speak with her anymore, opened the market and purchased lots of portals.

I already visited most of the places in my kingdom, even the Hector continent wasn't an exception. Only the three newly acquired continents at the south of Texas were out of my reach for now.

Without wasting much time, I told everyone again to converge at the capital while I started using my staff.

Luckily the habit of storing bookmarks grew up with me in the old days. So there was no problem for me to reach many places in no time.

​ Just like she said, the entire region of my kingdom was already revolutionised. I could see tons of newly built towns and cities, forming clusters around themselves while many defensive buildings appeared there.

Each cluster was determined to work as a foothold for my armies and people. So they had everything one would dream about. Be it walls, defensive towers, sentry posts, and even trenches.

What they lacked in my opinion was the aerial defences. Things like floating forts were missing. But this wouldn't greatly affect my kingdom's performance in the upcoming quest.

After all, the zombies were just a ground threat and didn't have the ability to fly until later stages.

By that time, I'd have tried the theory of dealing with these zombies. If it failed, then it wouldn't be too late to call forth for the flying legions of monsters to help.

Or perhaps I should use the newly designed weapons and suits to suppress those flying zombies. Anyway, these flying zombies weren't rare, but the time needed for each one of them to be born was long.

So in the end, each den wouldn't bring forth more than hundreds at most thousands of them. Compared to my ability, I alone was enough to eradicate such troublesome factors off the map.

Chapter 1114 All Are Present Except For One...

But that was left for later times. First I had to finish installing these portals which didn't take two hours from me to handle.

Then I returned back to the capital before returning back to my second Earth.

[This…]

[Are you sure? You do know that not many will agree. Not to mention the plan of evolving their upcoming generations will be greatly affected]

Lily's response was just a simple word yet I knew she was already surprised a little by my sudden request. However for Angelica, it was a nightmare for her.

[Who dares to oppose me? If I said I want them to move then they have to comply] I already anticipated such a problem. But it wasn't that big.

Aside from using my name and threats, I was quite sure many would just be willing to move out.

[Just start bringing those who agree directly to here] I paused before adding, [In two weeks time I'll come back to escort all of forces and people over to Earth]

[It's your kingdom and I'll follow your arrangement then] she complied and I knew she would. All of her previous complaints were just to advise me against doing this.

After I made sure that Lily got what her role was, as she had to select part of the armed forces and scatter them around the grand kingdom of mine, I finally returned back to Earth.

Slowly and in the upcoming few hours, many familiar and unfamiliar faces appeared as they ascended into my chariot.

The old friends who followed me for the longest came first. With the exception of the jumper, they all came with many new faces.

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I realised that during this period, many of the forces must have brought out many talents. I left instructions before leaving for them to select the promising and most capable ones and appoint them in the vacant leadership positions.

And they seemed to find many great talents. It was expected. After all, we gained control over many of the Hector forces, and they weren't just your normal cabbage.

As one of the three greatest races in the entire universe, and even if they paled in comparison with the other two, they must have a way to keep their forces strong.

Just seeing Lily and her people made me sure of this. And seeing many of Hector 's faces covered with fine and rough looking scales made my guess correct.

"Boss, boss, you are finally back, I miss you boss…" just when that talkative spearhead appeared, he started causing ruckus.

Everyone else came and nodded in greetings, standing in silence by my side. Even the oldest fellows like Isabella and Sara kept their silence as a form of tactic to show respect.

Yet that jerk was already making the place noisy, even jumping at me before greeting his girl. What a jerk!

"Go away! Stand there on the side in silence for now," I gave him a kick in the face, sending him flying over the side of the chariot.

"Boss, don't be mad at me, it wasn't my fault. It was that masked man's fault. He kept insisting on advancing and attacking while I tried to dissuade him."

"Speaking about that, humph!" Just when he was about to jump up again, showing a remarkable increase in his tenacity, Sara harrumphed from the side, "if I recall correctly, it was you who kept supporting him all the time."

"No, no, that didn't happen. Please don't believe her, I tried my best to convince him to stop…"

"Silence!" I frowned when I saw his persistence in faking lies. He already got the reason behind my attitude towards him.

In fact I knew this wasn't any of the one present here's fault. But as generals of my armies, how could they dream about escaping judgement?

Having privilege came with a price. Everyone who came here seemed to accept such fate, and yet this dude here was the only one trying to coat his way out of punishment using useless words.

Didn't I know his personality? Such a sly dude wouldn't move out and place himself in the centre of the light out of his will.

He was sly and scheming, knew that if things went south the one to hold accountable would be that jerk not him.

In my eyes, they both were all jerks. Which reminded me of the third jerk that dared to antagonise me.

"Don't dream about getting out of this unscathed," I didn't say this only to him, but to all the present here, "I entrusted you with a task. You completed it, I give you that. But at what cost? What? Did you think that armed and well trained forces fall off the sky like raindrops or what?"

The worst thing was that most of the forces lost were experienced and long termed ones. This meant the loss this time was huge.

"I do know that," out of the blue, Isabella spoke while giving her man a meaningful glance.

It was as if she was asking him to man up and prepare himself to shoulder the consequences.

Seeing this, the faces of the newly joined generals slightly changed. In fact if they saw me treating my old folks with bias and didn't judge them on the faults they made, how come they'd follow my orders and try to satisfy me?

It was out of the question. To maintain a healthy atmosphere among the generals of my armies, I had to show them the stick, not the carrot!

The carrot would be used to tempt them to join my highest ranks, but the stick was the most suitable way to keep them under control.

"Humph, you all are gathered here but that pathetic fellow didn't show up yet…" After putting the mess of that spearhead under control, I waited for more hours.

More generals appeared, yet that jerk didn't. Without waiting for anyone to respond, I simply sent a message over and it had one simple sentence.

[If you didn't show your damn ugly mask in front of me in the next half an hour, I'll simply tell your life story and your origin to everyone here]

[If you dared to do that…]

Chapter 1115 Despair And Hope

[What will you do? Tell me? Who can shelter you from me? Not a single race here can stand against me. And not a single enemy can risk stirring up trouble with me at such troubling times. Think wise and don't forget… The golden quest is coming up so soon]

[Are you implying that you'll renege on your promises? You promised me this a long time ago!]

[If you plan to act childish then I have no other choice but to discipline you a little… Not to mention you are bound to me by a contract. Going against my direct orders means one bitter end for you, even if you are far away from me it won't make any difference]

That jerk… Did he think he even had the freedom to decide anything on his own?

[Fine!] The next minute I saw his chariot coming closer at fast speed. At some time, I had to show him the aura of a leader for him to know his place.

"You finally decided to come," Sara from the side laughed, while her eyes weren't fixed on him but on spearhead.

She knew the lies the spearhead just said were going to be exposed. The jumper simply ignored her while he kept glaring at me like he was seeing an enemy.

Dude… You brought this upon yourself. Don't blame me for giving you the last kick and letting you fall deep down the abyss you dug with your hands.

"Humph, so you were trying to frame me while getting yourself away from punishment? Nice dreams!" The jumper was furious the moment he knew about what the spearhead said.

"Enough, you all failed in your mission," I already left them quarrelling and arguing in between each other before finally intervening, "I gave you a task and you failed in keeping your armies intact. So from now on, you are going to have less power in the army."

My words made all of them turn to me in weird ways. Only the jumper seemed to be hostile towards me.

"We are going to do three tasks from now on," I took a deep breath before revealing the three big challenges we were going to face in the next two months, "the fifth quest, the golden quest, and more importantly… The invasion of twenty-two worlds."

"Invasion?"

"What worlds?"

The newly joined generals seemed to grow curious and shocked about this while my old mates gave me suspicious looks.

Ahem, it wasn't nice to be this exposed in front of anyone. Come on folks, I wasn't doing this as a form of greed or something. This was to ensure our victory at the end of this trial.

"Ahem, as punishment, all of those who failed before will be on the frontline, acting as vanguard to invade the other worlds."

"Wait a moment, how are we going to invade other worlds?!!" This was the question that lingered in everyone's minds. However Isabella was the one to express it out with a shocking expression over her face.

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"Leave this to me," I confidently said.

"But… Invading worlds… Are you perhaps targeting other races in the apocalypse?" The jumper was smart. Even if he was a jerk, I had to give him that credit for seeing through my intentions all along.

"We have a strong enemy lying inside these worlds…" I started to explain everything about Hescos. I knew that hiding such information might be useful for their morale.

But what was I doing during the past few years? Wasn't I doing all this to face the terrible enemy and make the fight equal and even favourable to us?

"... So you each will lead an expedition force and deal with the enemies there. As for Hescos, I'll provide each with special weapons and legions, specifically designed and trained to face them."

"Oh, so our punishment will be by sending us to explore new worlds? That's amazing!" The spearhead seemed to misinterpret my meanings and gained himself glaring eyes from others.

"Fool! Do you think Hye is someone this generous and kind?" the jumper snorted, "I bet there are tons of dangers in these worlds. Sending us there is just another pit hole he'll throw us at before coming at us later on and condemn us for doing a bad job there."

It was indeed bad to have someone like him by my side, tsk!

"I know of the risks and already prepared lots of countermeasures against these, so stop worrying, alright?"

"Humph, as if words alone can satisfy us," the jumper seemed to be glad that he finally returned to his old role of coming at me at every encounter. "Plus speaking about an enemy isn't enough. We need samples."

"What do you mean?" of course I knew what he meant. But the fact that he could see through me made me annoyed.

"Come on! You planned all this and even prepared such detailed countermeasures against them. Doesn't that mean you already have a few under your command?"

Instantly I became the focus of everyone here. With a soft sigh I opened a portal and without saying anything I returned back to the second Earth world.

"This…"

"Is this a new world?"

"The energy here seems… Much higher than that world we visited before!"

Once we came here, the ones who visited this world before had obvious shocks over their faces. They got the wrong idea indeed and thought that I snatched the right to another world.

Seeing their bewilderment, I didn't correct them. I simply opened another portal, appeared at another location.

And the world underneath us changed to show off a fierce fight between endless streams of monsters against my forces.

The situation was more brutal than the first training ground. And this was just the tip of the iceberg.

If I recall correctly, this place was changed to mimic the unique characteristics of the Hescos.

If dealing with Hescos was feasible simply by the weapons and suits my research department prepared, then I wouldn't have brought anyone here.

But to be honest, it wasn't that easy. This race had many sophisticated tactics that couldn't be easily guarded against.

I even doubted that many of my forces here who kept training with the millions of Hescos I had would be able to deal with such tactics.

So it was necessary for them to come here and see with their own eyes how this race was troublesome and unique.

"Just tag along and keep your eyes open," I didn't need to explain anything to them. I knew by watching the Hescos fighting around, they'd be able to grasp everything.

And as such I spent an entire three days taking them on a wide tour around this continent.

At first, their faces were filled with immense shock. The sightseeing of Hescos and their suits was enough to arouse tons of questions in their minds.

However after half a day and as I ignored all of their useless questions during this time, the shock slowly faded and was replaced with a real sense of fear.

They got all the right to feel so. The Hescos race wasn't something they'd experience or meet in normal situations.

I took them into this world and knew that staying for days here or even an entire week wasn't a problem. So after three days passed, and slowly exposed how the Hescos race used to fight, I finally stopped the tour.

"I know what you are thinking right now," I started speaking while watching the fear lingering on their faces. I couldn't see the face of that jerk, but I knew he must be shocked and terrified by now.

The most bitter one was the spearhead. That dude thought that my punishment was like a walk in the park. Did you see it now? I wasn't joking when I said you were all going to be punished.

But I didn't intend on killing any of them at the same time. Punishing them and exterminating them were entirely two different things.

"I didn't bring all of you here to scare you. And I'm not an irresponsible lord who will throw his people's lives around."

The jumper rolled his eyes and before he'd say any of his bullshit, I simply opened another portal and passed through it.

Without the need for me to speak, I started roaming over the grand armies of mine. Endless streams of soldiers appeared alongside weird looking weapons of my lost human civilisation.

Alongside these, there were a good number of my forces wearing suits. This was the first time for me to see such suits in the flesh. And I had to admit, that old Gan didn't disappoint me.

Comparing the two suits of mine and Hescos, one leant towards being domineering in size and shape, and the other looked elegant and dangerous.

My suits were slim, covering the entire body of my soldiers while emitting fierce gushes of energy from circular openings at it. Each opening was surrounded with circular discs of weird looking ores.

It seemed they worked to facilitate the influx of the energy through the suit. I frankly didn't know the effects and uses of these suits, but in my eyes they looked dangerous.

Chapter 1116 The Plan Of The Next Three Big Tasks

"What are these…?!!!"

The look of shock remained on their faces for more than an hour. This time, I didn't take it slowly and kept flying fast, flowing past the huge number of armies stationed and gathered down below.

I needed them to study the enemy thoroughly. But regarding showing them the true might of his kingdom, I didn't need to take it slow.

In one hour, we passed over almost one tenth of the gathered forces here. And since I appeared here, Lily and Angelica joined the tour using their chairs.

Unlike the generals and old friends here, these two grew used to such a large scene. Their faces were calm, and I could see a familiar face riding in Lily's chariot.

It was Alex!

Seeing the calm look over her face made me sigh inwardly out of relief. I despised that jerk who tried to ruin such a good flower.

"These are what I took all this time to build," I looked at the shocked and curious faces of everyone before slowly adding, "and this is just a tiny fraction of what I really have."

"Are you going to lend all of them to us?!!!" The shocking tone of the spearhead was natural as everyone else would speak in the same tone if they opened their mouths.

"Stop bullshitting! Giving what I painstakingly accumulated for all this time to such losers! Humph! I'd rather lock you all up than do it!"

"Then…"

"This…"

"Come on! You promised just before bringing us here to give us benefits and support!"

Everyone who was suffering from my punishment looked pathetic while only the jumper had the courage to speak back to me.

"I'm not a man without honesty like you," I rolled my eyes before adding, "each will gain part of the cake, but according to your past horrible records, you'll only gain a little compared to others."

"At least we can get some…" Isabella sighed while the others nodded their heads in agreement.

Getting slightly less than others wasn't that bad. And that was my intention from the start.

Just sending them empty handed out there was like a death sentence for all of them. I was displeased with their last actions, but that didn't mean I wanted to get rid of them.

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"As you saw, the Hescos race is really terrifying and hard to deal with. But…" I paused, moved both hands around before adding, "we aren't pushovers. We have the power to retaliate and fight back evenly with them."

"I can see you did a lot of thinking and preparations on that matter," the jumper showed one of the rare moments of being serious, "and that means you already got a plan, right?"

"He does," at this moment, the three ladies jumped over the two chariots and joined others. With warm gazes and hugs they greeted the old friends they hadn't seen for a long time.

In others' eyes, we didn't see each other for more than one and half months. However in reality, and in the case of the four of us, we didn't see them for years!

That time manipulation concept was really frightening.

"I see you shared your thoughts already with them," the jumper kept putting on his facade. If he showed such slip of tongue once then I'd take it as one rare incident.

But keeping doing it meant he was purposely putting on a show. What? Did you think by suddenly growing wise I'd let you off the hook? Not that easy, bud!

"Can't you share these with us then?" he gave me a silent gaze while his mask covered up his face.

"Well, to be honest I know nothing about any of these worlds," first let me shatter that fake pretense of yours. You thought highly of yourself! "I just have the intel about the presence of Hescos in many worlds, that's all."

"That's… All?!" he looked surprised as this didn't match what he thought about. This jerk thought he could add some merits by adding his thoughts out, putting an air of a wise man.

Screw you!

"He really doesn't know anything," with a soft chuckle, Lily said. This Hector girl seemed to read through the jerk's intentions while laughing inwardly at his bad luck.

"This…"

"With might, nothing can stop us, right pal?" I patted on his back, and the next moment his body flew up like a cannonball, slamming heavily against the rail of my chariot.

"Cough… Cough… Don't use this much strength again!" as he stood up, I could only laugh in content from his appearance.

I just used part of my personal upgraded force. Right now my cultivation base soared and I wasn't the same pushover like before.

However, playtime was over. "Now we will discuss more about what awaits up there…" I started to slowly describe again everything related to the three missions in my mind.

The first hard challenge would be the fifth quest. For that, I randomly selected a few of the new faces here to hold down the fort. I also promised for myself to interfere at the early stages alongside many of the armies here.

I wasn't going to let these few greenhorns just take the troublesome task of dealing with the zombies.

Zombies weren't that easy to deal with. Even with such preparations, I knew the upcoming storm was going to be hard to counter.

In addition to that, I needed to test the theories behind the zombies. If what I learnt about was true, then it was going to be a great help later on when dealing with other worlds.

Then I started to speak about the world's invasion. It came second in my priority list. I emphasised the importance of being decisive out there and trying to establish strong footholds there.

"We will need more than just a few reinforcements out there," Sara seemed to be troubled with this task, "just letting the few of us go and scattered across the world won't work."

"That's why we are going to make the best use of the portals," I shrugged as I already thought about this tiny problem a long time ago.

"What do you mean?" The look of many showed puzzlement and I could guess the root of this.

During all this time, and while fighting for our lives in the apocalypse, the concept of these portals was all vague to all.

However, as I knew their true value, I wasn't in the dark like them.

These portals should link to any world controlled by the race controlling them. So in theory, it was like a fixed gateway opened all the time for them to receive reinforcements all the time.

After slowly explaining this vague concept to them and clearing all the doubts, they finally could rest assured and even a few laughed.

It was easy to guess my intentions from what I said. If I said I'd punish them before, then it was just a mere casual punishment.

I'd rather not risk losing my gains just to punish them. So my intentions of sending out reinforcements all the time were clear.

Of course they just witnessed the tip of the iceberg. This world and the pocket world within were like factories producing forces all the time non-stop for my kingdom.

So sending out constant reinforcements wasn't an issue for me. In fact, the longer they managed to drag these early battles at the worlds out there the better it was on the long run.

Last thing I discussed was the golden quest. I knew this was vague for most and even I didn't have such good apprehension of it except for what I learnt from the Toranks before.

From that I could simply say that this golden quest wouldn't start early on. It would get activated in the later half of the fifth quest at best.

"So, I need all of you to work fast in these worlds, expand the territory of the kingdom out there and build lots of forts. Like this, when I ever need any of you to retreat and come with me, you won't leave behind a big gap."

I summed up everything regarding this plan. In fact many factors harboured fog in front of me and everyone else.

But at least I got a plan and a direction to work towards.

"So there is a chance you'll call for us to join that quest?" the jumper asked the obvious, making me gaze up at him in silence for a few seconds.

Dude… You were possibly the only one knowing about me bringing you into this quest for sure. Why did you bother asking?

"Just do your tasks and don't let me down," I totally ignored his question while looking at others, "I made lots of preparations and will be greatly enraged if you messed everything up. Don't let me down, or else even killing you won't quench my anger."

I did on purpose give all of my friends and generals who messed up before a bad time just for these words. The more I harshly treated the old ones, the better the results of my threats would be over the new faces here.

Chapter 1117 Launching Rockets!

"What shall we do now then?" Isabella asked, moving her eyes around the grand forces down below, "we need time to get used to the new armies."

"That's your task from now on," I nodded in acknowledgment. It would be bad to just give them such terrifying elites and weapons without knowing their full capabilities, "I'll leave this over to Lily and Angelica. Both of them will distribute the forces according to my will. Then you are going to stay back here and get used to your new forces before finally returning to Earth in one week."

One week might seem long, but in Earth's time it wasn't. So leaving them here to get used to their forces was the ideal option.

As for how I'd distribute these forces, it was simple.

The main emphasis would be over the fifth quest and the invasion of the twenty-two worlds. That meant we need at least twenty-three groups of armies with different sizes and abilities.

I already spoke with Lily about this before. The group responsible for dealing with the zombies would be like a massive group of different armies.

At first they'd gain support and help from other armies. But once the invasion time would draw near, they'd have to deal with the situation on their own.

The first plan was to arrange for almost thirty armies with each having at least two up to four million troops. This was a considerable force. But considering the new changes in the kingdom and the three new continents being added, it wasn't enough.

I asked her to increase this number by fifty percent. At the same time, none of the specially made suits and weapons would be included in these forces.

The specially designed weapons and suits in addition to the trained forces with Hescos and the ones who opened their cultivation bases would all be assigned in the forces attacking the twenty-two worlds.

And this was like a bottomless pit for me. What was enough to be sent there and control the situation? To be honest, there was no upper limit for my forces sent there.

The more the better. Not to mention the performance of my forces would vary in different worlds according to the enemies and resistance they'd meet there.

So at first we'd send out a group of ten armies each to each world. Each group would be led by a large number of capable leaders and a few generals, with one of my friends and old time generals in the lead.

People like Legend and other Hector generals who were still on the way here with the trained armies would be a good example of this batch.

But that didn't mean these groups of ten armies sent out first would be enough or the last batch sent.

To make sure my plan went on without much hurdle, I had to keep sending armies out. But would I need to go and visit these worlds myself then?

I knew the enemy was aware of my intentions and even prepared a countermeasure for this. But I also had my own counterplans in motion and ready.

These weapons and suits in addition to all the secrets revealed about how Hescos fought was going to help me greatly in suppressing them.

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Yet that didn't mean things would grow out smoothly as planned.

"All depends upon a single factor; the zombies!"

No matter what race it was, dealing with such a zombie disaster was a headache. And fighting amidst all this was going to be a messy situation without doubt.

Not to mention when I'd go and pressure these Hescos, who said they wouldn't leave everything and come and target my land on Earth?

It was an all out war, and it was going to happen just in the middle of a messy disaster. So anything was possible.

Neutralising this unstable factor was a must! Not just for the success of my invasion, but also for the security of my kingdom.

"I also need to prepare lots of workers and materials… Once we control a few cities and towns, a construction project of defensive walls and towers must be done…"

It went without saying that fighting and building defensive structures must go hand in hand in the upcoming invasion. It was just lucky that it'd need more days back at Earth before I'd send out my forces to invade.

So I informed Angelica to make the needed preparations before standing here in wait.

The zombie generals and higher ups were going on the head of the many forces from the first training ground. I needed to make sure they prepared everything we agreed upon.

Time passed fast and in less than seven days, the forces that were gathered here were endless to count.

I grew used to this and left everything for Lily and others. Lily arranged the armies fast into groups, and assigned the leadership of each group of armies to their corresponding generals.

I decided to let Legend lead in the first wave of attack in the invasion. And that little dude was truly excited about such privilege.

As for the jumper and others, they just acted busy trying to get used to their new forces.

Just one simple incident happened that left me speechless and didn't know whether I should laugh or cry.

That small jerk, the spearhead, seemed to take a fancy to the big rocket launchers and decided to try them out and see their effects.

I didn't know why he went down this path. In my eyes, he could have just come and asked me about it, or even requested a test in a remote location.

That thick headed dude judged the old human arsenal weapons by the old standards before my research department intervention.

That meant he had a very wrong estimation about the deadliness of the weapons and even the range of the rockets!

Just as he decided to use it, I only saw a grand release of many small rockets that went at a very fast speed towards the horizon.

To use it, he moved a group of ten rocket launchers to a suitable distance in his opinion. He then launched the rockets and waited to see them fall just a few miles away.

Up to his shock, the rockets penetrated the higher atmosphere at such a scary speed, vanishing in a few seconds from his line of sight.

Seeing this made my scalp numb! That damn jerk just pointed the rockets at the direction of the old inhabited settlements in this world.

These were the first built clusters of towns and cities here. The distance was indeed huge, but with the enhanced capabilities of the rockets, such distance was about to get crossed.

Dammit! Seeing this made me picture the worst possible scenario ever! Why was I surrounded with such jerks and fools?

Without even looking again at the ashen white face of the spearhead down at the ground, I took my staff and jumped directly towards the place of impact.

The rockets were travelling fast, and I saw them drawing closer from the distance while shining like little deadly stars.

"Tsk… If it was up to me, I'd prefer to drag that bastard here and let him deal with this mess himself!" I looked around and knew this place was going to be ruined if I didn't step in and stopped the incoming rockets.

"Let's test your ferocity then… Thundering Might!"

The rockets were indeed deadly, but that didn't mean I wasn't without an option to deal with them. They were launched from a few rocket launchers, but during their travels they started to cover up a huge area.

Trying to hunt these down one by one wasn't going to work. Trying to use a small shield to stop them wasn't going to work either.

The only thing I could do was to use my pillar and activate it. The pillar did its magic and started to cover up the entire region with a sturdy shield.

My shield was enough to stop many enemies since I acquired it. So it was a perfect counter for these rockets. And it was also the best way to measure their deadliness.

After all, I just got to hear the words of the research department about their upgrade success of these rockets, but never got the chance to test them out.

*Rumble!*

The first rocket landed fiercely over the expanding shield of mine in the next few minutes. The impact started first as a blinding flash of light that left me blinded for a few seconds before a thundering rumbling noise erupted.

A huge mushroom cloud of orange fire erupted and rose high from the point of impact. It kept rising up for half a mile distance before suddenly expanding outwards, covering almost a circle of ten miles around my shield.

This was simply enough to cover up to one fourth of my current shield! And when other rockets landed, it looked like more coating layers of orange and red fire were getting added and overlapped over each other, covering up my shield.

That scene was truly breathtaking and deadly at the same time!

Amazing!

Chapter 1118 A Professional Juice Squeezer

In fact I came here while being pressured by that jerk's reckless move. The attack the spearhead launched was something that gave me a headache at first.

However when I saw such a domineering show unfolding in front of my eyes, I couldn't help but get excited. It was weird, but such a wrong step provided me with such a spectacular demonstration of my rockets' explosive power.

The flowers of red and orange fire kept raging wildly outside the reach of my shield. I could feel the pressure obviously over my pillar's shield, something that rarely occurred.

The pillar lost the support it got from the dark shadow world. Without such berserk dark energy, this shield of mine was on a far lower point than the one that I saw before.

However it went without saying that my pillar's shield wasn't made out of glass. Such pressure was genuinely true, and it came from the rockets that just hit it.

Seeing this scene made me hold more hope for the future battles. If such deadly weapons were mass produced, and most if not all of my armies got a piece of it, then things would look much brighter for my side.

And this was just the effect of a single weapon. I was sure the core tech of these rockets were also shared with other weapons as well.

Imagining the grand armies of mine using modified tanks, missiles, and even fighters made my smile wide with no sign of closing my mouth for a long time.

The research department… That risky chip I moved from earlier… It finally started showing its worth… At last!

I stayed in the middle of my shield for almost half an hour. The devastation kept coming, reminding me of part of the hellish explosion I once witnessed when I used a dark realm bone before.

It was similar in nature, aggressive and untamed. It was great that it didn't need bones from me, or else I would regret not being able to fully utilise such a deadly weapon.

Once the atmosphere cleared, I didn't rush to leave. First I removed my shield and pillar before going around and inspected the aftermath of this unexpected confrontation.

One word could describe what I saw… Deadly!

The ground itself was dyed red and orange, even many spots had black deep colours penetrating many layers of the ground.

Holes? Trenches? Speak of these as much as you'd love to. The entire terrain changed drastically and this area seemed to reject life growing up again for a long time from now on.

This created a significant problem… If I overused these weapons then wouldn't that end like me burning the enemy and my future prospects together?

However in short moments of thinking I negated such possibility. After all, even if the enemy didn't have any means to deal with such terrifying damage, who said I couldn't?

I got the fountain of life and the water from it got the highest form of healing to such a situation. Of course I needed to check such things first, but my hopes for it were quite high already.

"B… Boss… I'm sorry… I…" when I finished checking with everything, I moved back to where this all started.

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As expected, that jerk was looking at me with a pale face and trembling body out of fear. Even if he did me something like a favour coincidently, he was still in the wrong.

"I never expected that you'd make such a foolish move once we finished speaking about your last lousy actions," I slowly shook my head before adding, "from now on, your army will act as the firefighters in the invasion. You'll keep jumping between worlds and provide assistance whenever needed."

"Thanks boss…" his face beamed with a relaxed expression, making me laugh inwardly. This jerk didn't get the hidden meaning in my words, so I had to tell him directly about his poor fate.

"Don't celebrate it too soon… unlike everyone else, you'll be left behind in terms of growing your forces and having a territory to rule over."

"This…"

"Is it punishment…" I slowly said, and my tone and face told him enough about my hidden threats.

I also got another reason for this. From all the generals I had, this little dude here was on a whole new level than anyone else.

He had the ability to restrain the enemies. Even if Hescos suits countered his effects to some extent, it was still working over monsters and other races.

And who knew, even zombies might get affected from it as well.

"Go now, and stop making trouble," I waved my arm and put a displeased and impatient expression over my face.

This time I got lucky that he aimed at a place stored within my staff. But if he did it at another location, I'd just stay behind helplessly while watching the devastation brought over by the rockets.

After sending him away, I took a wide tour around. First I checked over the status of the army mobility and still the zombie generals and leaders didn't show themselves up yet.

So I went to the research department at the pocket world and gave lots of praise to them. It was their merit and they had to know the value of what they did.

They were going in the right direction and my words emphasised over this point. I hoped for them to continue developing further. If such results came out after a few years of testing and experimenting, what would be the case if I gave them decades?

Then I went to the lake directly nearby, or that grand sea. After filling a few empty high grade liquor with the fountain of life waters, I returned back to the dead zone and started to confirm my earlier guesses.

"It's miraculous indeed…" signs of life returning back to the dead land appeared all over the areas I used the water upon.

The moment the drops of water landed, the spots it touched started to change colour. Instead of the blackness here, the land started to grow green and even thick bushes of grass and plants shot out in no time.

The effect started to expand slowly, and with it I noticed that new land was formed. This was the other effect of these waters, helping a grain of sand turning into a vast land.

But with the destruction effect still effective, such an effect was slightly hindered and didn't show the same magical effects as before.

Yet it was acceptable.

I sprayed many drops of water to cleanse the damage here. After all, this was a very close area from the grand settlements in this region. Losing such a place and turning it into such a dead zone wasn't going to work at all.

[Make those who are going to stand in defence in the kingdom ready to move out] After finishing all this, I went back towards the location of the gathering near the pocket world while sending this message over to Lily.

[Moving out already?]

[Isac is waiting on the other side with her men] I sent, [Also prepare those immigrants. We need to start working on the other side as well]

[I see… So you are going there for a while, right?]

[I will be away for a few days, maybe a week or so… I need the zombie leaders and generals to wait for me when I return]

[I'll arrange that. By the way, I heard the spearhead complaining about what you did to him]

[That jerk! Don't mention his name for me for now!]

It seemed that the bastard ran around and complained about what I ordered for him. Of course this was something expected from such a crybaby.

[Tsk! I heard he tried to play with the toys you gave to us. It's not totally his mistake as giving fire to a kid will end up burning the house]

I rolled my eyes. Since when you were the spokeswoman for that jerk? [But the fire didn't break out and I saved the house!]

[I'm saying that such curiosity isn't bad]

[Yet he will end up doing what I ordered him to do]

[Hahahaha! I knew it! You were planning for him to stay behind and torture him for that. That's more like you]

[I'm not that tyrant]

[But you always want to squeeze all of the juice out of us, hahahaha!]

[Didn't you like me squeezing your juice before? I recall you moaning and growing soft in my arms before]

[Stop joking! If you won't pursue it, don't ever bring such matter up]

[Fine, fine, just let's get all this done. Who knows, when we are done and become victorious, I'll have the energy to squeeze you again]

With a short laugh I closed the chat with her. I was just teasing her around and yet she seemed to still linger about this matter.

Sigh! If not for that damn curse this big brother here had, I'd have already turned myself into a professional squeezer… Tsk!

I opened the portal to Earth and waited for a few minutes before the early seas of forces and immigrants appeared from far.

Cool, things were going smoothly as I expected. I left the portal open and opened more portals to facilitate such a huge move.

Then I went all the way to Earth to supervise and oversee the deployment of forces and people in my territory.

Chapter 1119 A Talk With Silverlining

"You finally decided to come!"

The moment I returned to Earth, I was welcomed with a snort and the familiar sound of Isac.

She seemed to have been waiting for me here for many hours already. "Sorry, got something to do back there," I said before the hordes of my forces started to gush out from the portals I opened.

"At last," Isac's eyes shone brightly before she started to distribute orders around, "the army forces will be handed over to you. As for people, you will be the ones dealing with them."

She already gathered up two different groups of people, forming a grand sea in front of my eyes. The people she brought over seemed to be very experienced in what they were about to do.

The moment she gave the order, everyone started to speak with those coming out before taking them away.

There was a huge number of portals installed already nearby which would facilitate the movement of the large number of reinforcements coming.

"Where is everyone?" After finishing dealing with this matter, Isac finally got the time to come to me. She looked around as she added, "I believe many will be left here in wait for your return, yet I was the only one at the end."

"Don't worry about them," I waved my arm, "they are all in the other world dealing with matters there."

"I see…" she seemed a bit hesitant, "so what's all this about? I can feel you are preparing for something huge this time."

I smiled faintly before narrating what was going to happen. The more I spoke, the more shocked she became.

"So you are targeting Hescos? The Hescos? And not only in one world, but in all the worlds in the apocalypse trial?"

"Terrified?" I joked. This Selvator girl seemed to grow dull from being used as a good assistant.

"It's not that at all," she slowly shook her head while regaining her composure, "it's just… not anyone in his right mind would try and provoke these maniacs!"

"Easy there," I smiled, "I'm not that impulsive, right?"

"Tell me about it!" She gave me the impression that she never believed me. I looked at her staring eyes at me before sighing.

"I have made my preparations for this, and that's a clash that's destined to happen no matter what. So better sooner than later."

"And you decided to take such a crazy step now? In the middle of the fifth quest out of all quests? Can't you just wait for the tenth quest or something?"

"It's best to strike when chaos exists," I shrugged, "it's dangerous indeed but it's not that hard. After all, the fifth quest will be something that will cause trouble to all of us."

"I see…" she sighed, seemingly resigned under my persistence, "I just hope you know what you are doing, not just dragging all of us into an abyss of hell."

"Have more faith in me, that hurts, you know?"

"Humph, and here I was taking you as a cold blooded monster with no heart at all."

I laughed and then left her to oversee everything here. More forces gushed out from the portals with tons of people.

She had to move them all towards the distant places of my kingdom. I knew this would take a day or two, so I decided to wait and didn't move out at the moment.

[Old friend, how are you doing?] as I got nothing else to do, I messaged Silverlining to inform him and others about my intentions.

They already got confused by my time manipulation ability. In their eyes, years passed and nothing happened.

[Don't tell me you are going to start the plan!] As expected, he was on the edge already and quite impatient.

[Sure, I just wanted to check on things and learn if something happened or anything]

[Tsk! I can't figure out how mere days turned out into years! You do know that many started to investigate this thoroughly and yet they didn't get anything in return! Only frustration and doubt, that's all]

[Oh, I told you this is something normal to happen with me]

[Don't joke around! The time concept in your trial is different from any other place in the universe! We don't know what caused all this and didn't have any breakthrough in our research!]

[Stop doing it then, or else you may all have high blood pressure or something] I laughed. These folks were still trying to get the bottom of my time manipulation ability.

Wouldn't they suspect it? Of course they would. But the answers to all these mysteries were hard to believe in their eyes.

After all, a human like me wouldn't have something heaven defying like time manipulation ability or something. And I didn't care about what they thought.

I just wanted my life to pass in peace and my days to be filled with victories and richness.

[We can't!] but he seemed stubborn, [It's not just us, but even the Hescos are interested in understanding such phenomenon]

[Then let them be. At the end, they'll get only frustration and dead ends]

[Sigh! Why won't you solve all this and explain yourself in plain words?]

[And then everyone else will know? Not a chance! Let's stop here and tell me… Is there any new development about Hescos?]

[Aside from moving tons of troops and war weapons over to the worlds in your trial? Nothing else happened]

[Oh, they are amassing their forces?] It didn't surprise me to hear that. After all, I already crossed their bottomline and was in their eyes the agent of their sworn enemy.

This battle… It was a war of pride and dignity to them, not just a mere trial of the apocalypse.

[As far as I know, they sent tons of forces. The time difference in our world and yours ran to their favour too. They built tons of forts and strengthened their defences. So don't expect an easy sail out there]

Of course he got a point. The time manipulation ability did indeed give me a bonus and an advantage. However at the same time it wasn't exclusive to me.

As I got time, my enemies also did. Even if they were dumb and didn't know what to do in life, they'd still make use of time and make proper preparations.

However in their eyes, I was a mere fly and not someone worthy of their attention. So even if they prepared, I doubted it would be even close to my preparations.

[Scared?]

[No, I'm just eager for the battle to start] I wasn't showing off. I was indeed eager to run there and invade their worlds, putting everything they did under test.

[The upper echelon here hope you know what you are doing] what went wrong with everyone one today? Why did this phrase keep coming to my ears?

[Don't worry, we'll all soon know the answer for that]

[Tsk! Ah, by the way, one of the sovereigns asked me to deliver this over to you]

[What?] I got curious. Anything coming from the sovereigns must be good, right?

[I sent it already to you. Check it out and tell me what do you think]

I got a notification from him. And when I opened its details, I saw a black curtain that didn't give me much of an impression.

It was long enough to turn into a cape for me or something. However reading its description made me understand the meaning behind sending it over.

[Is this a countermeasure?] I couldn't help but frown when I read the description. It was a normal artefact, and it got one simple usage for it.

It was used to cut any connection between two worlds in the apocalypse trial. By paying a hefty amount of energy, this curtain would cut any connection between two worlds.

That meant it was totally opposite to the tickets I got before, working as a countermeasure if things went south.

Were they this hesitant and worried about my ability to counter the Hescos? I couldn't help but inwardly sigh.

[No dire in being prepared, right?]

[Ok] What else should I say? I got a gift that I didn't intend to use and threw it all the way into the depths of my inventory.

Putting such a destructive idea wasn't going to work quite well in the end. One had to sharpen his mind and will, not preparing a safe route out of trouble before even getting his hands dirty.

[When are you going to start then?]

[Well… I still got the fifth quest then I'll start a week later]

[Ok, I'll inform others about this. You do know we did everything in our power to help you, right?]

[And?] it seemed this rash person got some bones at last. He seemed to grow a little wiser after not talking with him for all these years.

[I just pray for your success, that's all] his answer looked weird but I didn't know what the situation over his side was.

He might have been pressured by some to get good results after all this support. They indeed helped me by giving me warriors and races with cultivation, but I paid in return for all this.

Besides, wasn't I doing them a favour by taking this move? Since when were my actions seen as something granted for success? Before I even spoke about it, no one ever thought about doing it!

It was just the nature of people… Tsk! Give them hope and they'd take it for granted. Show them a new way to do things and they'd start asking you for results!

Chapter 1120 Kingdom Grade Quest

I had to wait for an entire day before I finally saw the forces I was waiting for appearing out from the portals.

"Lord… We are here."

I moved my eyes around before stopping over the body of this zombie leader. He was Loran, the one I and he had chatted with before about zombies.

"I hope you are ready," I said while moving my eyes around. This time he came prepared, leading a grand army of tens of thousands and more were still pouring out from the portals.

"We did what we could," he smiled, and his smile looked a little creepy, "we tried to regain our former power but we are still far from our old standards."

"But the plan can be executed, right?"

"Sure, but we will take little time to do it," he shook his head in discontent, "if we have more time and resources, we could do it in much shorter time."

"No worry," I wasn't that confident in his plan after all, "let's just test the theory behind it first before jumping to conclusions."

I then moved my eyes around before deciding something. "At first, you'll all wait here and won't take part in the upcoming chaos. Leave things first for my armies to handle. Then you'll come up and try your method."

"Whatever works I agree upon," he nodded before he started to direct his people around. I gave him a chariot so he'd move fast and easy around. I also left instructions for Isac so she'd accommodate them in the capital.

The first stage of the zombie outbreak would be chaotic and hard to control. So throwing these ancient timers into the middle of it wasn't a nice idea.

Not to mention I'd be busy myself while dealing with these zombies. And their interference wouldn't carry any value before zombies would control cities and towns, turning them into pits and dens to produce their terrifying fighters.

"Long time has really passed, human Hye!"

In less than half a day, and while my forces were all busy preparing, such nasty and familiar voice sounded from behind.

I turned around, and the ugly faces of those damn bastards whom I didn't meet or see for a long time appeared in front of my eyes.

And seeing them made me reflexively clench my fists while resisting the urge to start a battle with them.

Those damn angels… They were back again!

"Oho, nice to meet you all too," I controlled my rage before adding, "I hope you were enjoying your long term holiday all this time. I just hoped you'll die while sleeping or resting but it seems that's not what happened."

"Nice joke, still as funny as always," just while I was sizing up the group of three angels, a new voice appeared from my side and I saw another group appearing.

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"You brought reinforcements?" I narrowed my eyes while watching the new group standing in midair, while giving me a look of disdain and enmity.

Of course we were enemies. In fact they were my first ever enemy to face in the apocalypse since returning back in time. And I could say that I completely crushed their momentum and plans single handedly and quite beautifully as well.

"These?" The first group of three smirked in a way that I didn't like while their leader shrugged, snapped his fingers as he added, "these are what you can call reinforcements."

The next moment, the entire space all around changed. Groups of three angels appeared in batches, filling the entire sky up while expanding over to the horizon.

Seeing this made me uncontrollably look at the sky. As expected, each group brought over one of their deadly star weapons in the sky, turning the sky into a festival of red dots.

"Didn't you learn from before?" Even if they came in such a big move, I couldn't help but laugh, "do you want more of these little toys to explode or what?"

If it was anyone else then such a move would indeed threaten them. But I was different. Dealing with these star weapons became one of my specialities.

Shielding their attacks wasn't a problem with my current level, strength, and abilities. Destroying these star weapons wasn't that hard either.

So what was the point in bringing all of these little toys up front right now?

"Ahem, we aren't bringing them to threaten anyone," the leading angel who appeared first cleared up his throat, "we are just bringing these to ensure nothing wrong will happen to people like you."

"Quite caring and daring indeed," I chuckled, not even buying the tiniest bit of their bullshit, "anyway I'm telling you that if a single one fired, not only I'll shield it but I'll move unhindered and clear all of them for you."

"No need," I could see the corners of that angel's mouth twitch. He wasn't an exception as many already showed the same reaction, "we are acting fair as usual."

"If it's like usual, then I don't have to wait then…" I snapped my fingers, summoned forth my fallen gods and was ready to take down these weapons in the sky.

"Wait, who said these are targeting you?" the leading angel panicked.

"No need to comfort me, let me detonate them myself then… Attack!" I didn't fear these little stars anymore, but it wasn't wise to leave such a variable present.

The next moment the fallen gods shone brightly before releasing their ultimate attacks. Their attacks blended together and merged into a few hellish attacks that traversed the black sky fast and went directly towards the star weapons.

*Rumble!* *Rumble!* *Rumble!*

Just when I imagined the destruction of these weapons, something unbelievable happened.

The attacks stagnated like they were passing through thick sand. Slowly they stopped distance away from the weapons, detonating there in the sky as if they got hit by something.

Seeing this made me furrow my brows. It was indeed suspicious for them to gather up like this and bring all these star weapons together.

So they came prepared. After not seeing each other for such a long time, they finally showed up and brought such trouble with them.

Such nice folks indeed! Not visiting me without bringing surprises and gifts.

"Hahahaha! Did you think we use the same old weapons like before?"

"Just give up already, we already fortified these weapons."

"The star weapons aren't just ours, they belong to the system. You did a grave sin before by destroying the property of the system. This time the system higher ups intervened and made sure these precious toys would stay intact."

I listened to the words of mockery coming out from many unfazed. I moved my eyes around and inwardly sneered.

Did you think this was my strongest attack? Come on! I didn't feed my fallen gods enough energy for a long time already!

This was just a simple test, merging the attacks of all the forces on my side to see what they prepared for me.

And as I expected, they came prepared and had something up their sleeve.

So what if they were using some sort of a shield to protect their toys? It wasn't like I got the lower hand here.

They used such a way to protect themselves, and I could simply use the brute way to overcome it.

Using a shield to suppress my boy's attack? Then I'd give them lots of energy sources and make them combine their attacks together in one single deadly beam of light to crush these little toys up there.

If that even failed, and I greatly doubted it, then I'd simply summon more of these gods and let them increase the total firepower of the final combined attack.

Trying to protect them with a shield? Then watch me use unbelievable power to crush it in front of your eyes.

"What else did you prepare for me?" Unlike my train of thoughts, I kept myself shaken on the surface to satisfy and fool their desire for revenge, "I hope this is all."

"Humph! We didn't do anything, only a little surprise is waiting for you after the beginning of the fifth quest…" as I showed such a shaken front, the general leader snorted before laughing out in mockery.

Well, he was enjoying himself. That was good. After all, I didn't like myself acting like this and soon I'd burst out and crush all of their fantasies.

"Speaking about that…" he suddenly paused before adding, "the fifth quest is going to start in the next half an hour. It's not bad to give you a hint about it beforehand… I know you already guessed it right, it's the zombie stage."

"Phew, I got scared just now," I kept acting and couldn't help but try to restrain my laughs.

People tended to grow talkative when they felt they got the upper hand over others. And that was a bit funny to be honest.

There wasn't a guaranteed upper hand in any fight before the other side would fall and die on your hands. Or else one would risk losing the clash, and even his life along with it.

"And as a kingdom owner and ruler, your kingdom will be subjected to a fiercer form of the quest… The kingdom grade zombie quest will start and you'll have to survive it… Afraid?"

"Oh my… I'm shaking out of fear…" I gritted my teeth while restraining my laughs from exploding.

Kingdom grade or normal grade… It didn't matter. I prepared for so long for this quest, and nothing would stop me from winning.

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Despite having all these thoughts, I didn't hurry up and crush their plans.

After all, I got the feeling that they were preparing something huge and not just simply bringing up their toys to threaten me.

"The quest will start soon, so it's better for you to prepare," the leading angel said with a mocking expression on his face.

It was as if he got everything under his control and I got nothing to do. For a second there I wanted to go and slap him on the face to wipe out such a smug smile.

But I controlled myself. They weren't enough to get me enraged or annoyed. In my eyes, they were just mere flies.

[Get ready for the battle] I ignored these unwelcome guests while sending such messages to everyone.

[Our forces are in place] Isac sent, [But there are still considerable amount of forces inside that world of yours]

[That's true] it seemed like Lily was with Isac, [we only brought out one fourth of our entire forces]

[That's enough for now] I knew my forces were vast and they'd take longer to gather around. But the amount appearing here was enough to control the entire situation over my kingdom.

I waited while looking from time to time at the grand army of angels here. For a reason, they kept themselves visible as if they were doing this on purpose.

I didn't mind that. The moment they tried to intervene would be the end of their arrogant behaviour.

As I got time before the start of the next quest, I started to examine my biggest asset; soul count.

After two and half years training in seclusion, and after the grand battles between my forces and monsters, the number of souls stored inside my class skyrocketed.

Before this, having a few millions was good and tens of millions was great. I recalled that before entering such a long period of training the number was almost over one hundred million.

However the number appearing in front of me wasn't in millions, but billions. It was shocking to see such a number, however this all made sense.

"If not for the time difference inside the second Earth, it would have been higher than that…" I said in amusement while looking at the grand figure of slightly over twenty billion soul count.

I started to calculate the amount of fallen gods I'd form using all these souls. Each fallen god required around fifty thousand souls to be safely created.

It was enough to summon close to one million fallen gods. As for dragons and other warriors, they could be ten fold than this.

Even if such a number looked small, the effect of it was crazy. This was the brutalest weapon I ever had so far. And I could gather up one million of it… It was insane!

Up till now the number of fallen gods I summoned didn't exceed one thousand. As for dragons, they were in tens of thousands.

This was enough to make my personal army scary in the eyes of my enemies. Then how about showing a force that was hundreds of times in size? It was enough to give these arrogant angels a run for their money.

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But I didn't plan to use all of these souls on summoning dragons and fallen gods. I might just push my class up first after dealing with the large number of star weapons in the sky.

I was curious about what benefits I'd get after evolving my class for a couple of grades.

[The fifth quest is issued to you by the angels]

"At last… It's here finally…" I took a deep breath before reading the rest of the notification.

[The swarm of zombies: A deadly tsunami of such plaque is appearing out of nowhere! There is no place to hide, nowhere to run, and you have to show up your strength and fight back.

Quest description: you are the owner of a kingdom, a mighty ruler that never appeared before in the world. Your kingdom used a kingdom heart and controlled a large amount of land.

Your responsibility as a ruler is to ensure the safety of your people against the invasion of the zombies. Fail and your people will die, your land will be lost, and your kingdom will be destroyed.

Zombies can invade lands, establish their territories, and give birth to much more of their kin. You can't allow that to happen!

The current progress: 0%

The current territory size affected: 100%

The current zombie lands: 0%

Quest duration: two months time.

Quest conditions: at the end of two months time, maintain eighty percent of your lands intact and under your control. The total number of zombie lands can't be over 10% of your total land size. Exterminating more zombies outside your land will give you bonus lands as trophies.

Remarks: you can't think of running, there is no where to go!]

At last! I looked over the interface message before the next moment a mighty and ear deafening roar came from one direction.

I turned and saw a thick red cloud appearing out from the ground. It looked like an explosion of red light had just erupted there. And then the entire world shook and more of these clouds appeared.

Here it came… The first wave of zombies!

[It's on… Don't lower your guard and kill those appearing first] I hurriedly sent this warning to others before calling out my entire warriors and formed a grand army underneath me.

Just at this moment I saw many new faces. Monsters appeared in the middle of my grand army of warriors. And that meant the den out there worked.

I didn't feel the addition of warriors to my inventory. The process seemed smooth and without any notification.

"Scatter!" The first order I gave was for my grand army of warriors to scatter.

I was already hovering over the capital. And a general look over the capital was enough to tell anyone how hard it would be for these zombies to cause trouble here.

However I knew how deadly these zombies were. They didn't just come out in small numbers. Instead they appeared in waves, enough to cover up earth and drown the ground.

And the next moment I saw what others didn't expect.

The amount of red fog appeared first, accompanied by roars and howls from within. Then without any warning, a burst wave of a huge number of zombies appeared next, taking over the world like ink covering up a painting.

And this ink looked ugly and deadly!

Each zombie was almost three to five metres in length, with pale and emaciated skin that was filled with blisters and wounds. Their eyes were covered with thick membrane and their mouths were oval and wide opened, showing their yellow and irregular sharp sow-like teeth.

If it was a hundred or a thousand, then dealing with them wasn't going to be a problem. But like a volcano erupted all of sudden, the attack of zombies appeared like an unstoppable tsunami.

Hundreds… Thousands… Tens of thousands… Hundreds of thousands… In mere a few minutes, their number escalated and kept growing up without a pause.

I looked at such scenes that kept repeating all over the world and couldn't help but inwardly sigh.

Zombies were formed from the dead bodies of monsters and races in the past few quests. I didn't know anything about other places, but this region of mine was filled with mountains of corpses.

How many wars have happened so far? How many enemies died in my forces? How many of my men died in return?

Without thinking much about it, I knew for sure that this zombie invasion would be merciless and hard to fight against.

If it happened like any war where the enemy would gather up its forces and come at me then it would be much easier to deal with.

However these zombies… They appeared from the ground everywhere and started jumping at any sign of life around.

Anyone standing on the ground was a target. They didn't follow any tactic and just depended on wave attack tactics.

If this happened at a limited place or location then it wouldn't have been this hard to deal with. However this happened all over the place, all over the kingdom, all over the world.

Seeing this and facing such a tsunami was enough to lead anyone into desperation. I got to know that it was hard to deal with these attacks, especially when they were coming from anywhere around.

Standing on top of my chariot and overseeing such a horrifying attack made my scalp numb. No matter how much I read before about this, seeing such tragedy in front of my eyes was indeed terrifying.

At this moment, it seemed like Earth turned over everyone and decided to punish all of these zombies. The ones that got killed so far were resurrected alongside more of the stored up zombies.

And that wasn't just the scariest part of it. Every single time a new corpse fell from my side a new zombie would appear next. Not to mention those who got bitten and infected with zombies would start mutating in the next couple minutes.

This war… It was so damn hard to control and fight without suffering much losses. Even for my side, even for my well trained and heavily equipped forces and warriors, it was still a nightmare!

"Thundering Might!" however I didn't stand on the ceremony and started aiding my forces. At first I'd work to secure this capital of mine before expanding over the other regions.

But as I did that, a message came that carried bad news.

[The Hector continent… We lost it!]

What the f*ck?!!! Not more than half an hour passed and you were telling me we lost an entire continent? Damn!