I didn’t leave any leading contestant behind. These were considered the cream of the crop from all the lots taking part of this quest.

As for my apocalyptic trial, I met two dudes from the Hescos who came from there. And they just kept their side and silence, only standing behind Toramos like he was their leader or something.

Dudes… Cheer up, your leader is working for me, and that made me your leader as well.

“Now it’s time to return to my zones,” once I finished doing all this, rescuing all the eighteen groups successfully, I decided to return.

After all, there was a grand meeting waiting for me with a change of plans.

“What about here?” Toramos was the only one who was used to speaking directly with me. As for others, no matter which race they came from, they kept their distance from me.

“I want one contestant to take over the entire zone battles here,” I paused before adding, “I left behind portals leading to each zone, and others linking these zones with one of mine. Who is going to take this task?”

“Is that dude required to fight in my zone?” Toramos moved his eyes around, looking at others who simply kept their silence.

No one but the two of us and his own nineteen teammates knew about how scary that battle was.

“I’ll personally lead that battle,” I ended that debate before it even started, “the one leading this war will just handle the zones except for yours.”

“I’ll take this task then,” one of the Hescos spoke up. He was one from my apocalypse, and it seemed this dude wanted to see how scary and capable I was.

If he led my entire warriors here, then he’d end up getting to know lots of secrets. I didn’t care, as I reached a stage that wouldn’t be touched by others no matter what.

If I had to deal with scary dudes like the ones who came from ending apocalypses, then I’d get to worry.

“Fine,” I slowly nodded despite reading what this dude wanted to accomplish here, “I left enough force to clear all the hostile forces inside the shields I created. After cleaning the hostels there, try to test the enemy out at each zone. If there is a weak point, use it, but don’t over do it.”

“Ok,” he seemed not convinced with my words, however I was the only one here with rich experience about how to deal with these enemies.

“What about us?” one of the contestants who came from other races than Hescos asked.

“You’ll come with me,” I paused before adding, “the gates to the twenty worlds will open. You’ll lead my armies and get into these worlds. Explore and report back to me what you found. As for Toramos…”

I turned to Hescos with that weird feather on top of his head, “you’ll get to know someone, and you two will lead the entire operations going on everywhere.”

“I like that,” he nodded before I left the one who volunteered behind.

Come back with everyone once I arrived at ground zero, I sent a message to Lily to bring everyone back.

Are we going to start the invasion?

Bring everyone back, there is a change in the plans I closed the chat with her, before starting to take out tons of warriors and left them the gear sets I recently acquired.

“Take out stat crystals,” I didn’t plan to carry them without taking something back, “give enough for my warriors to feed on.”

“Are all of these your warriors?” Toramos was expressing the great shock everyone felt.

Since the first moment they all saw me, all I did was to take warriors out without showing an end.

I didn’t even show any sign to feel troubled with doing this. And that was indeed true.

I got tons of warriors, enough to take them and watch them die without feeling any pain.

Instead, I’d feel pain if I lost full state warriors, thanks to the loss of stats they used.

So it went without saying that by making them take such useless stuff to them right now was doing a great help for me.

I wouldn’t need to worry about doing this again. And when I saw them order their followers to do this task, and watched these dudes take an endless stream of stat crystals, I felt true jealousy towards them.

Could I force them to sign contracts with me? Or should I kill them and go and rob their inventories?

Wait… There was a dude who got eaten by a worm before. I’d go back, find that damn worm, cut its belly and take one tenth of the inventory of that jerk.

I wasn’t the one to kill him, so I wouldn’t get fifty percent. Yet seeing how casual they were while taking tons of stat crystals made me crave more to go back there and get my loot from that dude.

How many stat crystals would I get from him? I didn’t want anything else but stat crystals, if that was even possible.

I waited for almost half an hour before my generals appeared one by one. The moment anyone appeared, they got shocked to see the myriad of different races on my side, and the others on my chariot got shocked as well.

“I thought you were human,” Toramos couldn’t control his shock and muttered in disbelief.

He got all the right to feel so. After all, many of my generals were humans, but there were too many as well coming from other races.

“I’m not a racist,” I shrugged, welcoming my generals over my chariot with a wide smile, “I’m a democratic one, not a tyrant!”

“That means…”

“Anyone with abilities in any race I conquered has a chance to rise up and even be my right handed man or woman no matter what origin he came from,” I used this moment to engrave such belief inside his heart.

If I could leave such an impression behind, then the first step to steal such talent from the Hescos would be a success.