No matter how I racked my brain about it, this wasn’t even close to two and half years the system just spouted to me!

Dammit!

“Is there any other way around? Can I ask for the merge to pause, return to do my things back on Earth, before coming back?”

If you left, you’ll end up losing the remaining worlds in the merge

“F*ck you!” without holding anything of my rage I added in deep rage, “what do you take me for? A fool? Who the heck devised such a damn crazy quest? If you want me to fail my quests back to Earth and ruin everything I did, you can just tell me directly in the face! Have balls and face me, cowards!!!”

I was fed up already. Saying that I was on the verge of exploding was an understatement for sure.

Exploding? If there was something even beyond this then it might fit me better!

Don’t insult the system! We are fair and impartial!

“Impartial and fair my ass!” I harrumphed, looked around without knowing what I should do right now.

What the heck was that? I got forced to forfeit my fifth quest and my golden quest simply like that?

Having to wait here for two and half years? That meant almost forty-five days back on Earth!

I got twenty till the start of the two quests… And until I’d return back, I’d just appear after the passage of twenty-five more f*cking days!

How could this not be called injustice, unfair, and partial treatment to me?

Do you think I’d go down simply like that? Hell! Even if I had to ask help from everyone I knew, even if I had to seek your damn filthy headquarters and burn it down over your damn heads, I’d do it!

You thought I showed enough craziness already? Let me show you how crazy I’d really be!

“What the heck is that?!!” amidst my anger and frustration, I didn’t notice it until almost an hour passed.

Even during my fume of rage, I noticed that my eyes were fixated over my left hand without looking at anything else.

A fierce beast wouldn’t lose its sense of danger and alertness even if he was heavily wounded!

“This…” this time I cooled off my mind, while something insane flashed past my mind.

What was I seeing right now? My left hand, it all turned into a shining bright arm. It was like a group of stars were stacked there, shining in their brightest light, masking my left arm entirely from my shoulder down to my toes.

This… A simple and yet crazy theory appeared in my mind when I regained my composure. “The cubes… Don’t tell me…”

A frightening idea flashed past my mind. So this was the true use of these damn cubes! Dammit! They were just something that got me into such a deep and bottomless abyss of hell!

Why the heck don’t you come and shoot me in the head instead, relieve me from such a pathetic fate as a failure?

“Hold on a second…” and just when I got my mind back to work, and when I finally uncovered the truth behind these mysterious cubes, I realised that I did this to myself.

Partially it was true. Who said that the system wouldn’t step in and help me accelerate the process? Who set the rules? Those motherf*ckers did!

They just needed an excuse, and I just gave them one on a golden plate!

Dammit! F*ck me and f*ck you all, son of b*tches!

Yet when I was about to take another roller coaster down the hell of despair and rage once more, something flashed in my mind.

Something I planned to do before, something I decided on prior to discovering all this mysterious shadow world of mine.

“Hahahaha! Did you think you could frame me? Get rid of me? Hahahaha! You damn fools! What a regret! I wanted to see your f*cking faces right now and pissing on all of you, hahahaha!”

Like a madman, like a man who was on the verge of dying in the middle of a boundless stormy ocean, and finally got a rope thrown at him to survive from drowning, I was!

I stood up, arched my body and kept laughing, laughing for an unknown period of time. When I ever recalled these moments, jumping from the depths of despair directly into the highest summit of glory, I knew I looked like a crazy man at the moment.

But I got all the right to laugh until my strength failed me and fell on the ground, panting for breaths, while tears of joy ran down over my face.

motherf*ckers! Whom did you think you were messing with? I wasn’t a mere ant, thinking that you could stumble and crush me anytime you wanted.

I was Hye! And I’d accept this challenge and crush all these dirty schemes of yours.

Trying to force me out of the competition and lose my edge by manipulating time? Trying to outdo me in my own game?

Manipulating time? Humph! Let me show you how, the lord of time, I would manipulate time and crush this hurdle while reaping all the benefits in return.

“Krishn world’s will, I risked my life for you, risked everything just for your progress. Don’t fail to know this, I expect a reward like nothing before! Or else, such a rich meal wouldn’t be delivered for you again, ever again!”

And for unknown reason, I felt the entire world tremble as if it was resonating with my will and threatening words.

Yes, engrave my words deeply into your heart and soul, whatever you were. I wouldn’t let you take advantage of me. I paid a hefty price already for you to get such a rich meal.

And such a meal wasn’t for free. As I suffered all this, you had to present something that would let my jaw drop for a long time out of amazement.