It didn’t matter that much to know about this early on or right now. I had no control over what was going to happen, and knowing a bit earlier wouldn’t have helped me that much.

I jumped over this point and started to appoint my team members over the twenty worlds. Of course I’d never let Hilary go, and I filled up the last remaining spot in that list.

The names of my team appeared in front of my eyes and I simply and randomly allocated each to one world.

The selection is completed

The final list of participants will be available after one week

You have a safe period of one month. During which, not a single enemy will step into your zones

Good luck champ!

The previous swirlpool appeared again and this time I didn’t hesitate to pass through it.

The golden light flashed and blinded my eyes like before. Then after some time, I found myself standing in the middle of a totally ruined world.

“Tsk! Even when coming all the way here, the apocalypse has to leave behind its fingerprint,” I shook my head as I examined the world around me.

That piece of land was vast. I thought it’d be limited in size, but even from my current high altitude, I couldn’t see the end of it.

That meant this land was at least over one thousand miles in radius, and I felt it was much wider than that.

I appeared on top of my chariot, like I never left that platform at all. I looked around and found myself all alone. All the others must have been sent to their designated locations.

Attention! You are now in a zone that’s controlled by me. You will get a piece of device for teleportation. Install them at your places and wait for my arrival

I sent this message copy and paste to everyone in my team. I knew they got tons of questions, and I planned to first get this task done before explaining everything to all.

As for how I’d send them the other half of that twin device, it was easy.

Before coming here, I made those new to the team as members in my channel. I didn’t just limit this to my twenty team members, but also to all the members of the general council and also many generals leading different armies in the kingdom.

I made this as an arrangement to keep an eye on things happening back at my kingdom if my channel was still functioning.

And to my luck it was!

Using the link of my channel with everyone, I sent one half of these devices over while installing the other at the spot.

I solved this problem in such a simple way. In a few moments, the devices got connected with their other halves, and started to open their portals.

“What’s going on?”

“What happens here?”

“What shall we do?”

“Lord, what are your orders?”

As I went to other places, I was welcomed by tons of these questions. However I didn’t answer any and just started installing more portals in each place.

I didn’t want to just link the twenty places together to one spot, but I planned to link everywhere together. Like this, and if the need ever demanded, I could send out forces from any place to support another.

“Come with me,” that was all that I said to anyone I met from my elite team. When I finished linking all places together in a grand network, I returned back to the first place I started from.

“The situation is as follows…” I started to tell them everything related to this adventure, skipping important parts like my role in changing out the rules, or even mentioning anything related to that hidden enemy or my grand plan.

I was sure my every move was watched closely by this enemy. So it’d be bad if I ended up delivering such information about my scheme on such a golden plate.

“That means we are going to build forts in each place?” Isac was the first to speak up, and she got the crux of our task right now quite correctly and fast.

That was expected. After all, I planned to leave such work over to her.

“I already have tons of resources, and you also have much,” I said, and before Isac would object, I added, “you can use the warriors for now to do the task in addition to the growing number of workers joining my inventory.”

“These resources won’t suffice!” she jumped over her answered questions to another dilemma.

“I’m already working to solve this,” I paused, “as for others, we have a one month safe period. Make the best use of this time and help Isac in her task.”

“Are we going to the angelic world?” The jumper seemed to care only about this point. And I already mentioned the name of the angels in the many races we were going to visit.

“Sure, they are in the list,” I nodded in confirmation. If not for his mask, I was sure I’d see a look of delight and excitement over his face.

But I never expected his next question.

“Which place of these is connected to their world?” he paused, and when my face slightly changed, he added, “you said that each place is connected to one world, right?”

“That’s correct, but I don’t know which belongs to which,” I was honest here, “however after one year, the barriers blocking our connection with the world will be gone. By then we will be able to tell.”

He remained silent, and I stopped caring for him for now.

He had to take control over himself much better than that. I knew he waited for a long time, and we were already this close from going there and meeting up with his man.

As for the jumper race, I decided to keep this issue as a secret for now. I didn’t know what relation he had with such a race, and couldn’t tell how he’d react.