“Are they useful?” The jumper kept asking questions about the shards of essence my boys were gathering. I simply had to wait for an hour before I got all the essence inside my inventory.

“They are nice,” I said without delving too much about these shards. “Let’s go.”

We were now ready to take the road to the next target. However I was too wasted to keep travelling in that state.

“Are we going north now?” Isabella asked while I leant over Karoline, feeling the urge to sleep more than ever.

“We’ll go first to that city called Albany,” I pointed to the map she drew before, “then we will head east to Massachusetts state.”

“Is there something special about that?” the jumper asked and others gave me deep wandering gazes that exposed their agreement on his question.

It seemed they all had the same question in their minds as well.

“We have to go there,” I said while pointing towards the east part of Massachusetts on the map drawn by Isabella and Leo, “from there we will control the entire region and claim this as our base.”

“It’s bordered by the ocean,” the jumper’s eyes were showing how doubtful this dude was, “you know we will be trapped there, right?”

“It’s a good spot,” I shrugged, “the ocean is always a nice place to stay, right?”

“From the moment I met you, you never did something based on beauty,” the jumper rolled his eyes, “come on. Tell us what that is all about.”

I knew they had to know, but not now. Now wasn’t the right time or else those angels would hear us and prepare a counter plan for me.

“First make all our forces come towards the north,” I said while turning to the spearhead, “make your boys come and bring all the ore they collected.”

“Are we withdrawing all of them?” Angelica asked while the spearhead joined her as he said in astonishment:

“They still didn’t even scratch one third of that mine. They need more time.”

I knew they couldn’t get most of the ore but it was ok. One third of such a deep mine was enough for us now.

“Just bring everyone,” I yawned while extending both arms as I added, “we will stop at Elizabeth city and have some rest. This fight was so intense and we all needed to have a good sleep.”

“And have more meat,” Leo said, “I’m very hungry.”

“Just bring the chiefs from Jersey City,” I said without much interest. I took out a piece of meat and ate it while adding, “make them turn all the monster meat around into a good meat reserve. Who knows when we’ll have time to cook again.”

“Alright,” they said and I added while holding the all red Karoline from the waist, “just don’t overdo it and have more rest. The area is well secured by the Berserkers so don’t worry about that.”

I descended while the chariot was going at a very fast speed towards Elizabeth city. I planned to control it until reaching there before stopping and having a good deal of rest.

“What … us?” a soft murmuring voice came from Karoline who kept her head all lowered all the way to our room. I selected the same room we previously had our first night there.

“What?” I didn’t hear her quite well so I asked while opening the door and drawing her inside from her shaky hand.

This girl… Even now she was still feeling shy and embarrassed! Come on, this wouldn’t be our first, right?

“What about us?”

I looked at her and when our eyes got in contact, she couldn’t help but move her eyes aside. I slowly pulled her face back towards me and kept looking at her for long seconds.

“Say it again,” I demanded and like an obedient little girl she was about to repeat before I shut her with a deep and hot kiss that I led with my tongue paralysing hers and preventing her from even breathing.

Time seemed to freeze at this moment and before I knew it, I already got rid of all of my clothes, carried her with my arms and landed her on the bed before slowly removing her clothes one by one.

And without much hurry I took a deep gaze, feasting over the delicacies she hid under her clothes. My eyes were so daring and penetrating to her that made her face turn redder.

Then like a hungry beast I started to devour her, and all that remained of her were just loud moans that started slowly to turn into whispering and interrupted screams from time to time.

We were already at Elizabeth city when we both finished. Yet instead of just sleeping, I took a short rest before taking another tour into her body without feeling any tiredness at all.

After the third time, I felt so full. She ended up in a ragged condition, not even able to raise a voice or even a finger.

I held her deeply into my embrace, left a couple of soulers and Bulltors outside to defend the room from any intruders like that annoying jumper, closed my eyes and went into a deep sleep.

I had to admit it… Sleeping after such a delicious meal was something I really enjoyed. I had to admit, my previous life before coming here was really the life of a dead man.

Without the warm embrace of a girl by your side, how could someone live in this world?

By the time I woke up, things looked much different before I slept.

The world was literally ignited by a flashing light, something that seemed to be missed from this world since the apocalypse started.

I looked around and couldn’t help but feel panicked. I found many messages coming from everyone in my team. They were panicked as well but the content of my message made me smile and feel reassured.

“So it’s about time the new suns are about to be born…” I closed the messages after sending a reassuring message to all of them. I told them this was a normal thing, just like what the jumper said to them it seemed.

But they didn’t believe that crazy dude and looked for my answer. I looked at the piece of jade sleeping like an angel in my arms and couldn’t help but smile again.

After putting on my clothes, I didn’t leave before painting a soft kiss over her lips. When I went to the roof, all I could see was flashing glaring spots in the sky, totally illuminating the entire world.

The darkness that prevailed before became now absent. The world was even shinier than the bright sun in the middle of a sunny clear day.

“You finally finished toying with your little pet,” the jumper was standing in the middle of everyone. When he spotted me, he couldn’t help but throw such a mean comment.

“Do you want to reveal your little secret, pretty boy?”

“Do you want to die?” he glared back and I simply laughed.

“Is that really ok?” Alex pointed at the sky while others looked at me in much doubt and more fear.

They had to feel that way. After all, there wouldn’t be a single sun in the sky anymore, but a group of tightly packed stars that would look like pearls in the middle of the sky.

“It’s what the world will look like from now on,” I simply said as if this was something expected. Despite their shock and fear, they all nodded and started to slowly accept this fact.

After all this what would our world look like from now on.

“So we won’t have that dark gloomy world again?” Leo asked and I shook my head.

“These suns will rotate in the sky,” I said before adding, “in cycles, we will have long days of bright sky and long days of darkness.”

“How do you know that?” the jumper asked and I smiled back.

“I just know,” I said as I also knew that dude was familiar with what I was saying.

The suns that would shine over our world would also have strange phenomena. Each shining star would have a twin dark star that wouldn’t emit any light.

Each five days, the stars would shift places with their dark twins, forming fixed regular circles of five days and five nights. It might seem absurd, but till my time no one knew a better explanation than that.

“So what are we going to do now?” Angelica asked, “will that affect our actions?”

“Monsters will become fiercer at times of darkness,” I said before adding, “but before long they’ll adapt to the suns and will also come to attack us during the five days of light.”

“So we will have time to rest from now on?” The spearhead asked and I shook my head.

“We might have a smoother time against monsters, but that will only apply for one to two quests from now. So don’t place high hopes on that.”

“At least we will have some rest,” unlike my words, the group seemed to be happy about that. I looked at the jumper who shook his head, motioning to me it was pointless to try and speak again.

“Have you gained some rest then?” after I left them to celebrate and enjoy this delusion, I asked.

“We had a few hours before this happened,” Isabella said.

“You slept for ten hours pretty boy,” the jumper added and before he could throw another mean comment as usual, I glared in warning towards him.

“Have everyone moved to the north?” I asked again and this time they gave me a hesitating look before the spearhead got the courage to speak.

“They needed some rest as well.”

I understood what happened. “Alright, let them wake up and start moving now,” I waved my hand at them. We weren’t the only humans needing rest here.

Despite knowing that the forces at New York ad Jersey cities weren’t as stressed up as our forces here.

But it was alright. We didn’t have a tight schedule for now.

As I watched, they started to spread the word all around. At least the chiefs came and worked during my sleep. The entire city was turned into a vast place filled with ovens.

The smell of meat was already filling the place. “Here,” Isabella came and took out a large pile of meat and a little liquor, “we also found a few lakes that we turned into clean water.”

“Good job,” I said in praise before taking everything into my inventory. “Are they ready?”

“The total number we have is simply too much,” the spearhead said. That dude was the second one getting on my nerves after the jumper.

He didn’t say anything but his eyes told me a lot about his envy. Dude, if you were this capable, try and show your girl how manly you were just like I did with my girl.

Or stop giving me such toxic gazes all the time!

“Your point?” I asked while giving him a warning gaze. He seemed to be startled by my eyes, and looked around for a couple moments without knowing what to say.

“He meant the march will be too long and very dangerous,” Sara said from the side.

“I won’t act as a babysitter to anyone,” the jumper spoke first even before I could say anything.

“We are warriors, we don’t need any babysitters like you,” I responded and he glared at me, getting the hidden meaning inside my words.

“So we will march without any protection?” Angelica asked, “this is just wrong! After all, I heard rumours from those berserkers about that dragon archlord.”

“What about him?” This piqued my interest. I got a few messages from Fang and Wryly while I was sleeping, but was too lazy to check them before.

Just as I opened them, Angelica continued:

“They mentioned something about a big defeat for a strong human girl. Do you know anything about that girl?”

“Yes boss, I heard legends about her!” Leo jumped in and I simply waved my hand to make all of them silent.

The messages I got were slightly disturbing. It seemed something unexpected happened and that human girl who was chasing the dragon dude down experienced a mysterious defeat.

The tables were shifted and now she was the one running away with her life while the dragon archlord was leading a grand army chasing after her.

In the middle of such bad news, there was something good. From the words of the two, I knew the direction she was heading towards; East!

Finally! It was my chance to go and meet up with her! At last!