And just as I was puzzled and couldn’t even open my eyes slightly to see what was going on, a familiar sound shouted in such fright, giving me a fright and a storm of rage!

“You… You dare to come!!!” I gritted my teeth, “good… It seems even with all my will and power, I can’t change what’s written in the annals of destiny! It’s your fate then, and you have to take responsibility for your presence here yourself!”

*Thud!*

Yet just when I was in the middle of my enraged words, I heard a thudding sound as someone landed on my chariot!

“I’m here, so accept this,” the jumper’s distasteful voice rang in my ears, much louder than any explosive noise from around, “I’m dead serious about saving him! And you do know that!”

“Tsk!”

I knew it was too late to do anything right now to him. That jerk managed to find his way in, and I didn’t know how he managed to pull such a feat!

I knew he was going to act crazy about coming here, doing anything in his power to come. But it never crossed my mind that he’d actually succeed!

I jumped to another zone, and got into a brutal fight against those shields around the portal. Don’t tell me he found me during the delay I suffered from that fight, and even managed to slip through the portal I passed through?

I wanted to ask him how he arrived here, but it didn’t matter much. He already fell in the deadly trap of his cursed god!

I did all this for his sake, and yet that god eventually emerged victorious! For a moment there, I felt deep regret to not show the true colours of that damn god to him.

But the next moment I knew even if he knew, it wouldn’t make much difference. This mad dude was driven insane by his desire to meet that man of his.

Even if the intel of the location of that man came from his sworn enemy, that jerk would still fall into the trap.

Tsk! From the start, that god had the absolute advantage and knew he’d win!

And now the jumper was already here. What should I do about that?

“Welcome on board then,” this was the only thing I could do, “but to your knowledge this is a suicidal mission. I can’t guarantee your safety, nor can I promise you to help save your man.”

“I know,” I could hear his voice not too far from me, “all I want is to help me scout this world and worlds beyond. Leave the rest to me.”

It was one of the rare moments when he showed such resolve and determination. I couldn’t tell if he was faking it, or he really meant to throw away his life to save a man who was rumoured to be kept in one of the ten worlds.

And the most frustrating thing about that was my feelings towards him. I felt a great deal of sympathy towards such a pathetic dude.

His life was cursed, and he still lived through the ups and downs of this curse without even realising what he was suffering from!

What a real poor dude!

“Stay here until I’d deal with these enemies first, then we’ll talk,” I decided to tell him everything about his damn god.

Even if he fell into such a trap, I wouldn’t let him fall in such a place. He was one of the earliest friends I got. Being a jerk or a bad luck magnet, he was still my friend.

I didn’t say anything about my real intentions to help him, letting him endure such pressure all alone for now.

He dared to take such a step, and he had to suffer a little to know the price of going against my words. Even if I went against his will, I was doing this for his own good.

After closing the page of his sudden arrival, I returned to focus more on the enemy. Fueled by such rage, I started to summon more bones around.

Even if half were gone, I still had the chance to use the other half for my benefit. Gradually the amount of energy accumulated in my body started to get to a scary point, a point I was quite familiar with.

And when I felt that excruciating pain, I knew I was going to crush all the enemies here without exception.

The more I kept releasing my attacks, the weaker the enemy explosions became. At the same time, I felt like the number of the attacking enemies decreased at a rapid pace.

In less than one more hour, the enemy stopped attacking at all. And so I stopped taking more bones out.

However the amount of energy I accumulated was too much to abruptly sever my connection with the pillar right now. So I kept releasing such an attack for three more hours until the entire absorbed bone energy inside me got depleted.

With that, the world turned from such a blinding state into one that I could clearly see.

And what I saw made me wonder if I was seeing things right or what!

“What the heck is this?”

“Where are we?”

“Didn’t we arrive at the home base of the enemy?”

All of these questions appeared from my people around. They were quite puzzled, just like myself. And I didn’t have any satisfying answer to any of these.

Once the blinding light vanished, the entire world around appeared in my eyes. I looked around, trying to get the head and tail of what was surrounding me.

I expected to see a devastative state of the world around, lands filled with deep holes and rising thick tongues of smoke.

I expected destroyed forts, dead bodies scattered everywhere, and even explosions still hanging out at different places away from here.

However none of this was present around. In truth, the world around me was just filled with dense layers of clouds, and nothing more!

Clouds! Thick orange coloured clouds that were miles away from the chariot, with an emptied area of nothing between me and these clouds.