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.

“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 bull**, 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.