I had to wait for an entire day before I finally saw the forces I was waiting for appearing out from the portals.

“Lord… We are here.”

I moved my eyes around before stopping over the body of this zombie leader. He was Loran, the one I and he had chatted with before about zombies.

“I hope you are ready,” I said while moving my eyes around. This time he came prepared, leading a grand army of tens of thousands and more were still pouring out from the portals.

“We did what we could,” he smiled, and his smile looked a little creepy, “we tried to regain our former power but we are still far from our old standards.”

“But the plan can be executed, right?”

“Sure, but we will take little time to do it,” he shook his head in discontent, “if we have more time and resources, we could do it in much shorter time.”

“No worry,” I wasn’t that confident in his plan after all, “let’s just test the theory behind it first before jumping to conclusions.”

I then moved my eyes around before deciding something. “At first, you’ll all wait here and won’t take part in the upcoming chaos. Leave things first for my armies to handle. Then you’ll come up and try your method.”

“Whatever works I agree upon,” he nodded before he started to direct his people around. I gave him a chariot so he’d move fast and easy around. I also left instructions for Isac so she’d accommodate them in the capital.

The first stage of the zombie outbreak would be chaotic and hard to control. So throwing these ancient timers into the middle of it wasn’t a nice idea.

Not to mention I’d be busy myself while dealing with these zombies. And their interference wouldn’t carry any value before zombies would control cities and towns, turning them into pits and dens to produce their terrifying fighters.

“Long time has really passed, human Hye!”

In less than half a day, and while my forces were all busy preparing, such nasty and familiar voice sounded from behind.

I turned around, and the ugly faces of those damn bastards whom I didn’t meet or see for a long time appeared in front of my eyes.

And seeing them made me reflexively clench my fists while resisting the urge to start a battle with them.

Those damn angels… They were back again!

“Oho, nice to meet you all too,” I controlled my rage before adding, “I hope you were enjoying your long term holiday all this time. I just hoped you’ll die while sleeping or resting but it seems that’s not what happened.”

“Nice joke, still as funny as always,” just while I was sizing up the group of three angels, a new voice appeared from my side and I saw another group appearing.

“You brought reinforcements?” I narrowed my eyes while watching the new group standing in midair, while giving me a look of disdain and enmity.

Of course we were enemies. In fact they were my first ever enemy to face in the apocalypse since returning back in time. And I could say that I completely crushed their momentum and plans single handedly and quite beautifully as well.

“These?” The first group of three smirked in a way that I didn’t like while their leader shrugged, snapped his fingers as he added, “these are what you can call reinforcements.”

The next moment, the entire space all around changed. Groups of three angels appeared in batches, filling the entire sky up while expanding over to the horizon.

Seeing this made me uncontrollably look at the sky. As expected, each group brought over one of their deadly star weapons in the sky, turning the sky into a festival of red dots.

“Didn’t you learn from before?” Even if they came in such a big move, I couldn’t help but laugh, “do you want more of these little toys to explode or what?”

If it was anyone else then such a move would indeed threaten them. But I was different. Dealing with these star weapons became one of my specialities.

Shielding their attacks wasn’t a problem with my current level, strength, and abilities. Destroying these star weapons wasn’t that hard either.

So what was the point in bringing all of these little toys up front right now?

“Ahem, we aren’t bringing them to threaten anyone,” the leading angel who appeared first cleared up his throat, “we are just bringing these to ensure nothing wrong will happen to people like you.”

“Quite caring and daring indeed,” I chuckled, not even buying the tiniest bit of their bull**, “anyway I’m telling you that if a single one fired, not only I’ll shield it but I’ll move unhindered and clear all of them for you.”

“No need,” I could see the corners of that angel’s mouth twitch. He wasn’t an exception as many already showed the same reaction, “we are acting fair as usual.”

“If it’s like usual, then I don’t have to wait then…” I snapped my fingers, summoned forth my fallen gods and was ready to take down these weapons in the sky.

“Wait, who said these are targeting you?” the leading angel panicked.

“No need to comfort me, let me detonate them myself then… Attack!” I didn’t fear these little stars anymore, but it wasn’t wise to leave such a variable present.

The next moment the fallen gods shone brightly before releasing their ultimate attacks. Their attacks blended together and merged into a few hellish attacks that traversed the black sky fast and went directly towards the star weapons.

*Rumble!* *Rumble!* *Rumble!*

Just when I imagined the destruction of these weapons, something unbelievable happened.

The attacks stagnated like they were passing through thick sand. Slowly they stopped distance away from the weapons, detonating there in the sky as if they got hit by something.

Seeing this made me furrow my brows. It was indeed suspicious for them to gather up like this and bring all these star weapons together.

So they came prepared. After not seeing each other for such a long time, they finally showed up and brought such trouble with them.

Such nice folks indeed! Not visiting me without bringing surprises and gifts.

“Hahahaha! Did you think we use the same old weapons like before?”

“Just give up already, we already fortified these weapons.”

“The star weapons aren’t just ours, they belong to the system. You did a grave sin before by destroying the property of the system. This time the system higher ups intervened and made sure these precious toys would stay intact.”

I listened to the words of mockery coming out from many unfazed. I moved my eyes around and inwardly sneered.

Did you think this was my strongest attack? Come on! I didn’t feed my fallen gods enough energy for a long time already!

This was just a simple test, merging the attacks of all the forces on my side to see what they prepared for me.

And as I expected, they came prepared and had something up their sleeve.

So what if they were using some sort of a shield to protect their toys? It wasn’t like I got the lower hand here.

They used such a way to protect themselves, and I could simply use the brute way to overcome it.

Using a shield to suppress my boy’s attack? Then I’d give them lots of energy sources and make them combine their attacks together in one single deadly beam of light to crush these little toys up there.

If that even failed, and I greatly doubted it, then I’d simply summon more of these gods and let them increase the total firepower of the final combined attack.

Trying to protect them with a shield? Then watch me use unbelievable power to crush it in front of your eyes.

“What else did you prepare for me?” Unlike my train of thoughts, I kept myself shaken on the surface to satisfy and fool their desire for revenge, “I hope this is all.”

“Humph! We didn’t do anything, only a little surprise is waiting for you after the beginning of the fifth quest…” as I showed such a shaken front, the general leader snorted before laughing out in mockery.

Well, he was enjoying himself. That was good. After all, I didn’t like myself acting like this and soon I’d burst out and crush all of their fantasies.

“Speaking about that…” he suddenly paused before adding, “the fifth quest is going to start in the next half an hour. It’s not bad to give you a hint about it beforehand… I know you already guessed it right, it’s the zombie stage.”

“Phew, I got scared just now,” I kept acting and couldn’t help but try to restrain my laughs.

People tended to grow talkative when they felt they got the upper hand over others. And that was a bit funny to be honest.

There wasn’t a guaranteed upper hand in any fight before the other side would fall and die on your hands. Or else one would risk losing the clash, and even his life along with it.

“And as a kingdom owner and ruler, your kingdom will be subjected to a fiercer form of the quest… The kingdom grade zombie quest will start and you’ll have to survive it… Afraid?”

“Oh my… I’m shaking out of fear…” I gritted my teeth while restraining my laughs from exploding.

Kingdom grade or normal grade… It didn’t matter. I prepared for so long for this quest, and nothing would stop me from winning.