“I… Will handle this task then,” Angelica sighed. She knew that with her help, this task would be easily done. “By the way, many already are adopting the idea of mating with other races. In the time we spent here, we’ll have at least two new generations with cultivation.”

“That’s good,” I nodded, “prepare many teams ahead to scan these new generations and seek for their talents. We need lots of good people to help.”

“I will see what I can do,” even if she managed to control her anxiety, she didn’t regain her full self confidence yet.

“Fine, go out and start preparing then,” I said to Angelica before turning to Lily, “start organising things here. I will activate the castle ability now.”

“Alright,” Lily paused before suddenly adding, “we will need lots of hands to build those altars fast. How about this, I’ll accompany Angelica out and seek for them. If that’s fine with you.”

Something told me she asked this to reassure Angelica. She seemed to be behind Angelica’s new state of mind.

“Fine,” as she could help, I wouldn’t refuse. I watched the two leave before turning to the castle.

“Let’s activate that time boost then,” I spent twenty million death units and as such I activated the full throttle of the time boosting ability of my castle.

I also spent one hundred thousand extra death units and let such effect encompass over one hundred miles.

The castle stood in the middle, and in a grand circle around it a huge bubble appeared. I couldn’t see clearly what was going on inside, as flashes of light obscured my line of sight.

Yet I knew if anyone went inside, time would change.

Before doing this, I moved all the people in the castle. It was better to let them train here instead of wasting time on the castle doing nothing.

I wasn’t interested in these Hectors now. They were strong, but not that enticing to me.

Soon my forces would have cultivation bases one way or another. So this advantage Hectors held by birth right would be negated.

Also I was about to clash with a far fiercer race than them; the Hescos.

Then I shifted my attention towards the research department personnel. I found a group of them and asked them to move everyone from their side and get stationed at some point.

I knew this place would grow hectic and crowded soon. So I asked them to form banners and hang it high, so it’d be easy for me to recognise them.

I didn’t explain anything to them. I’d wait for their leaders to arrive first before explaining everything up to them.

“I don’t know if it’s completed or still needed time,” finished dealing with these, I recalled one magical artefact I left back in the second layer.

This was the fountain of life magical artefact. I used it before to turn the tables back there, and it gave me a great surprise back then.

Thinking about the combined time manipulation, I got that this artefact got the time to get done.

I was going to send the very important research department into that place. So it wasn’t good to just send them to where unknown circumstances lied.

I had to give that place a visit first. I instantly jumped off directly towards the entrance of that layer.

The opening was still there but the threatening burst of energy wasn’t. It was gone alongside the removal of that seat weapon from the heart of this pocket world.

As I simply jumped down below, I thought about not saving a bookmark there. I planned to do so and even to open portals between that layer and the entrance of the first layer.

The research department would need tons of resources, and there was one way to get them. So they needed quick and reliable access to the outer world, and using the twin device to do that was the most logical thing.

However… When I landed there, I was welcomed with a shocking scene.

“This… What the hell happened here exactly?!!”

When I landed, what welcomed me wasn’t the old harsh and cruel place of this layer, instead something lively and a great pleasing scene to the eye.

I landed on a shore of a giant sea that spanned a huge space in front of my eyes. I couldn’t see any end to it. And that meant it was a huge sea.

A sea? In this forsaken place? How come…?!!!

That wasn’t the only weird phenomenon here. Before, and after my meeting with that mysterious lady, I ended up having a giant phantom of that statue of hers in the middle of this place.

I should have landed in the middle zone, right? But when I looked around, I found a green world waiting for me.

Open space of greenland, signs of distant forests, and even the sound of running rivers could be heard.

What the heck happened here exactly?

It was supposed to be a world that would boost one’s stats, not to revolutionise the world.

Under my shock, I soared high up. The previously limited and ugly looking ceiling that covered this world like a gigantic cave dome changed and was replaced with a bright and cool looking sky that didn’t pale in comparison with the one at the first layer.

When I soared higher, I could get a better view of the world here. To my shock, it was just like the world at the first layer or even the second Earth I came from.

I couldn’t see the end of this sea, yet its water was weirdly calm. It lacked the racing waves of the seas I knew of.

From it, few rivers moved and penetrated the green land like wide serpents. They twisted and vanished into the horizon while enriching the ground.

As I lacked any explanation, I hurriedly opened my inventory. There I found the statue of the fountain of life residing calmly inside.