They’d be more focused on either fending off other lords around, or trying to fortify their lands by any means by biding their time.

This would also buy me valuable time.

Two days passed so fast before I finally felt something amiss. It started as if my body suddenly got exposed to extreme heat.

As if standing naked directly under the sun on the hottest days of summer, I felt my body warm up all of sudden before the sight before me started to change.

It felt like moving around was futile, as if my legs, hands, and even my chariot was moving inside dense layers of sand.

I didn’t need to ask or speculate about the reason as one simply jumped into my mind.

“This is bad!” I instantly recalled something. And without a single moment of hesitation, I called back my chariot and all the souls IN scattered around.

From the words of Berry, she told me that when the time was up, and one month would pass, then every single lord would be propelled back to his world.

As for his forces, they’d remain here until the world would be accessible again. And then these forces would appear inside each lord’s homeland.

This might be good, but just as it was happening, I got a scary thought.

What if my chariot, Lucas, and my soulers didn’t return back with me? What if I lost all of their support? In addition to that, Lucas got my staff already!

Damn! Losing my chariot was like losing a leg! And losing my staff was like losing my car!

As a result, I instantly acted and retrieved the chariot and Lucas first, other soulers later.

The world around me started to grow blurry. The light itself started to distort and it seemed like a glass that was cracking all over and was on the verge of shattering.

I have never experienced such a situation or feeling before. While I was standing in my place without the ability to even move my eyelids, I heard a booming explosive sound before everything turned dark as if someone stole the light away.

“Hoof! Hoof! What the heck… Was that…?!!!” It took me roughly a few minutes to be able to catch my breaths and open my eyes.

Yet every single cell in my body was aching. It felt like my body was stabbed with daggers and needles, getting tortured.

Damn! F*ck this! Who is this psycho who devised this brutal nature of that damn universe? I hate him! No wait, I curse you and your entire family up to your great grandfather, motherf*cker!

It took me an entire half of an hour to be able to just sit. And when I did, I felt something amiss almost instantly.

“This…” I didn’t notice it at first as I was laying on the ground. As expected, my chariot was gone, and I flung on the ground like a dead rock.

I was still in the continent which I granted for those ten clans from the other universe. Yet I knew many of them were gone to the shadow world of mine.

Taking a single glance around, there wasn’t a single one here. It seemed I took everyone into my world, and there was no one left here.

That was indeed surprising, but this wasn’t what gave me doubt and fright.

It was the sky!

Looking at the sky told me something wrong was there. Before, the sky of my second Earth was purely clean, with few normal clouds and shining bright light that would change from time to time.

I got used to this. But right now that sky was showing something bizarre.

It showed flares of light, thick arcs of light that danced all over the sky while flashing off in different colours.

It was weird, amazingly beautiful and mesmerising. Not to mention it made me frown.

This was my world, my secluded world. No one had any access to it if I didn’t grant him one.

This phenomenon wasn’t like the one that happened when I cultivated, or when others cultivated.

It was a totally new phenomenon, one that left me bewildered after seeing it.

And just before I’d regain full control over my body, a weird message flashed in front of my eyes.

A message was sent from Krishn world’s will

This is the message: Well done human race Hye. You outdid what I expected from you and all the worlds you gave to me are going to merge in time

“Worlds I gave? They will merge in time?!!”

I never got a system message here. System was active inside my Earth. After all, the apocalypse scenario of that trial was undergoing there.

There was no need for the system to contact me in such a way. Even when I got to know that my world was indeed inside my universe, meaning it was under the reach of the system, I didn’t receive any message about this except when I first came here.

Wait… Didn’t I get something like this before? This world’s will, or whatever it was, issued me a quest back then.

What was it? For some reason, I felt quite dizzy and heavy. It was unlike my normal days. And before I’d ascertain anything, a new message popped up in front of my eyes.

The number of worlds undergoing the merge process is: 227

The Krishn world’s will is starting the merge now

The percent of merge completion is: 0.0001 %

Don’t attempt to leave the Krishn world before the merge process is over, or else you’ll risk losing all the remaining worlds

The estimated time before the merge is done: 2.5 years

“What the heck?!!!” I looked with widened eyes and disbelief towards the scary number that appeared in front of me.

Damn! Two years and half? Was this for real?

I had almost twenty days left for the fifth quest to start. Give or take a couple of days, and putting the frightening time difference I got from being here, I got around four hundred days left.