“Invading these worlds can wait but not the golden quests,” she agreed with my thoughts, “it’s good you thought that far ahead. Of course that scenario can happen, and also the possibility of them abandoning revenge can happen as well.”

“They will do whatever they can to take their revenge,” I didn’t believe in the other possibility. The Hescos I knew wouldn’t let their pride get tarnished by someone like me without forcing me to pay back.

“If so… Then we need to make all the preparations we can to prevent their revenge from happening.”

“I’m counting on you for that,” Lily was a very smart girl. She’d know what to do and didn’t need me to elaborate any further.

“I’ll do what I can, but at that battle you have to be the acting leader there” she paused before adding, “I’ll make sure to send the spearhead and his army to that world. I’m sure he is going to be extremely happy about this.”

I knew the spearhead would be flying over the seven heaven when he’d hear about that. As I watched her leave, I recalled Legend who was still entrapped in the previous Hescos world.

I had to go back to the second Earth world first, then receive my deserved rewards from the Toranks, and finally head to fetch Legend back.

After that I’d start attacking other worlds. And hopefully the Hescos wouldn’t act on impulse and try to fight us on another world before the end.

I opened a portal towards the other world while turning to look at Stephen. “Are you ready to see my other world?”

“Sure, show me first before saying anything useless,” despite trying to act rude, he seemed a bit nervous.

I could tell that there was something crucial to him and that was related to the presence of a separate world. I couldn’t guess what it was, he might have important people he wanted to rescue or make them go to a safe haven or something like that.

Or perhaps he wanted some place to run away towards. Or he wanted to hide some sort of treasure or bury a secret where no one else of his race would discover it.

No matter the reason, I was going to know everything soon enough. I didn’t delay any further and led my chariot through the portal to the second Earth world.

The place we appeared at was just next to the pocket world entrance. There I stopped and let everyone of the paragons take a wide gaze around.

“Welcome to my second world,” I extended my arms around in a motion to welcome them here.

“Is this your world?” Matte gave the all silent Stephen a long gaze before adding, “it looks nice.”

“First he has to prove it’s his world,” Stephen said in a tone that told me he was annoyed. I looked at him in a weird way. Didn’t he want to have another world? Was he this pissed off to serve me and leave the Hescos or what?

I felt like I didn’t understand him well enough. “How do you expect me to prove this world is mine?” I calmly asked while keenly looking at him, without a single move of his would escape my eyes.

He kept silent for a long moment before saying: “Take us around the world. I have to go and visit many places first before making sure this world belongs to you.”

“Oh, if that is so then… It’s a piece of cake,” if he wanted a tour around, then he had to prepare himself for what he was going to see.

“Before we start, I have to say something,” I paused, but Stephen seemed to get me wrong.

“I don’t care if there are other races around as long as you have total control over this world.”

“Oh, it’s not about that,” I smiled in confidence, “I was going to say that this world is unique.”

“In what way?” Matte was the one to ask while Stephen kept his silence.

“It has another world attached to it,” I pointed towards the pocket world’s dome and added, “so which world do you want to explore first? This one or that one?”

Just from the confidence and calmness in my words and tone anyone would be sure this world belonged to me. But I never planned to use words to convince that dude.

I wanted to convince him using actions, fair and square.

“Let’s start with here first,” Stephen decided, and then I started a grand tour around this world.

I stored all the important places with my staff. So it was easy for me to take them around in a wide tour without wasting much time.

However most of the time wasted was for the paragons on my chariot to take in all they saw in this tour.

They stopped a lot in front of the training grounds and living settlements around. One by one asked me to move there and asked many questions regarding the way of life of these places.

When they heard about how these places came to exist, I could feel the change of attitude towards me.

At first they dealt with me in an ice cold way. Only Matte and a few others were showing their warm side and spoke to me.

But aside from these few, the rest kept their distance and silence. At this moment, all of this changed.

I didn’t know what touched their hearts and caused such change. Was it the sight of people living in such peace next to the brutal training grounds next to them? Or the way these places came to existence in the first place?

Was it my choice to let people choose between fighting or living happily? Or was it the weird phenomenon that happened to these people living here?

I couldn’t tell, but thanks to whatever reason that touched them, they became more welcoming to me.

But when we reached the place of the third training zone, the place where Hescos used to train with my forces, their looks changed.