“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.”

“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.