“It was… You!!!” she glared at me in deep shock. Her body trembled violently and I didn’t know if she was acting like this out of shock or rage.

“You are mine, mine!” she opened her fist and closed it while giving me such a vicious smile.

Damn! How the hell did I end up with such a girl? Ok chick, if you wanted to challenge me then fine… I’d show you how a true man would honour your beauty and body later on.

Just before I could say anything, another piece of bad news came glaring in front of my eyes.

You have scored higher than anyone else in your race in this quest

Three paragon candidates in this quest paid a price and used their entire reward for implementing a punishment over you

What the f*ck…?!!! I didn’t need to ask about the identity of those races. Of course they would be those damn Dragons, Succubi, and useless Illusionists!

Punishment? I got punished when I got such success in this quest? What logic was in that option? Damn you system, shame on you!

You and your forces are prohibited from participating in two quests starting from now

See you in quest five

“F*ck you!” I shouted in a weird way, a way that made everyone look at me in doubt and surprise.

“Are you crushing the sky or the suns?” The jumper tried to be funny, but dude… “Just stay the hell away from me at this moment!” I roared at him like a wounded beast.

“Babe… I’m not that mad at you getting this rank from me… After you what are you but my man?”

“Shut up!” I shouted at her before turning around, “go and do what I told you to do. Stop contacting me for now…”

“Hye…” Karoline tried to speak but I gave her a warning gaze to shut her up.

Damn! A punishment for two quests? What the f*ck those higher ups behind the system thought when they created such a thing?

I thought to abandon my share of rewards from this quest to punish them back. But just as I felt the cold breeze of air on top of my flying away chariot, I started to slowly calm down.

“This won’t do,” I shook my head while feeling more frustrated than before. If I just got a way to pay them back then I might feel a little better. But now? I had no idea about what to do to get my revenge.

Besides, I always thought about paying them back double! Triple! Or more times than that!

“If I did that… Then it will be like burning my own house to kill thieves,” I took in a deep breath before slamming my fist against the side of my chariot, “think… Think you stupid… What can I do to turn this around?”

You might ask why I was acting this mad. First of all, I wasn’t alone in this! If I was only punished then it wouldn’t matter much.

But I got punished with my entire force. So even thinking about sending my forces around to complete the quests wouldn’t matter.

The first impact over me and my forces would be the sealing of our stats. We only got chances to upgrade our stats when the quest started.

But now? I had enough stat points for myself and my top elites. But what about the grand army I led? What about the more humans I planned to add to my forces during this time?

Two f*Cking quests!!! Man! That was brutal punishment!

If I thought about laying low and trying to fight monsters during the quest, then my forces wouldn’t be able to get anything from these monsters.

As long as there were quests running, anyone could claim monster materials easily. But if we were excluded from the quests… then doing this wouldn’t gain us anything in return.

So even trying to push my forces to gather materials and sell them in exchange for buying as many stat points as possible wouldn’t do.

The option I thought about was to use my coins and buy stat points for them. But even with my coins, I wouldn’t be able to buy even enough stats to cover up the needs of one tenth of my current forces.

So this wouldn’t do…

“Just calm down… there must be a way out of this…” I started to slowly regulate my breathing, trying my best to chill out.

Just after half an hour, the first idea flashed in my mind.

“Damn! I totally forgot about that!” I opened my inventory before finding two things lying there.

I felt they got dust over the long period I left them there.

“So I got one solution… But I must think about more options as well,” even when I found a way to solve this stat problem, I didn’t stop thinking.

“According to the general order of the quests, the next one will be a test from the apocalypse for anyone holding any city…” I muttered to myself before thinking about the current situation in this area.

“The punishment didn’t say anything about me sitting around or preventing me from doing anything,” this was the first thought that popped up in my mind.

My earlier plan here was built over my extension to the East. the entire land East from here to the ocean must fall within my reach. So what if I couldn’t participate in the upcoming quests?

I’d shift my place from a player in the apocalypse into an agent to the apocalypse itself. I’d act as monsters, attacking cities and claiming the lands I needed.

Plus that chick told me that the dragon archlord left behind vast areas of lands unclaimed. It would be a big loss to leave this area untouched like that.

What I feared was the intervention and limitation from the system. For example, the system might prevent me from dominating any castle or emblem, or even taking control of entire cities.

If that happened, then I’d let my allies step in and help me in that. As for the reward for this, hmm… Didn’t that dragon archlord leave behind vast territory? Why wouldn’t we work together and divide it in between ourselves?