Just seeing the emptied cities and towns down below reminded me of something.

“By the way,” I stopped my chariot on top of a desolate city, “when I came looking for you, I noticed that all the cities and towns were emptied. Do you know the reason for that?”

“That…” everyone finally noticed this weird and bizarre thing. They looked down at the city while Sara asked:

“Isn’t it possible to be a limited case in some areas?”

“Yes boss, after all we fought a large number of races’ forces. They must have emptied their lands for their armies to be formed,” the spearhead said, but the two didn’t convince me.

“That’s not possible,” I slowly shook my head before adding, “as you see here, this is supposed to be one of our cities, or at least one we already freed before.”

We were standing on top of a city called Toledo. It was a big city in Ohio state. “We already dominated Ohio during the course of war. Plus not a single time the races ever evacuated the cities and towns like this.”

“Boss, they aren’t defended so it’s great news to us,” Leo said, and others nodded in agreement.

But I still didn’t feel cool about this weird situation.

“Ok, our boys will find it easy to dominate these cities and towns as you said,” I faked my agreement with what he said, but didn’t truly feel any confidence or calm.

Since that bastard appeared in my world and attacked my forces and weird sh*t kept happening.

But as they said, at least these cities and towns would be defenceless. Hopefully another disaster wouldn’t befall us.

“Are we going to wait for them here or go back?” Isabella noticed my stop without any intention to move.

“Let’s wait,” I was still not feeling great about leaving behind the entire army like this.

“So we can get down there and rest?” Alex suddenly asked, and I mistook her meaning for the inner rooms in my chariot.

“Sure, you can go down there and have a rest, the rooms are mostly empty.”

“No, I meant the city down below,” Alex pointed at the city, “I want to walk in a city that didn’t have any monsters to kill or any threats against my life.”

I looked up at her. Since day one I’d heard about her and she was always in dangerous situations. “Ok, but make sure to keep in touch with me if anything happens.”

“Don’t worry boss,” the spearhead said, “I’ll make sure to keep an eye over them.”

“Over who?” Leo gave him a cold gaze and I couldn’t help but inwardly sigh.

It seemed the spearhead saw himself senior in these matters as he hooked with Isabella earlier than Leo did with Alex.

I let my chariot descend in the centre of the city, letting them disembark and leave.

The city was just a stretch of ruins without any sign of the old human civilization. Seeing them see beauty in such ruins made me inwardly sigh.

“I had to consider a total rebuilding plan for all the cities and towns under my command,” I muttered, recalling how better the cities and towns in my past life were.

Of course that was the result of human efforts for long decades. But that didn’t mean I couldn’t start doing this, at least the zones I knew for sure were well protected like the areas adjacent to my capital.

“As I have time…” I paused, raised my head up as I added, “I did my part in the quest you gave me, and now you have to honour our agreement.”

“I was speaking out loud, speaking to the system higher up. I had a deal with him. Killing those alien universe monsters and creatures and winning in return for a global human communication system.

That system is much more important now than ever. As the system was heading towards quest five, I knew what I stopped at quest two was now inevitable to happen.

The global wide natural disasters would occur starting from the upcoming quests till quest ten.

In addition to warning the humans across the world about that, and to start establishing global rescue groups at the hot zones I was aware of, I also needed to start knowing the strong powerhouses in the human race.

Of course not all of them would be friends of mine. Just recalling that Ed jerk made me sigh. Such a strong dude was destined to be my enemy. And my guts told me he wasn’t going to be the only one or the last to join that list.

Those weird human forces that appeared before were also a strong candidate for a hostile human powerhouse. Such a force gathered and controlled by someone to stand against a coalition army of Dragons and Selvators was some sort of a feat without doubt.

And that dude just vanished like he never ever existed. Damn! Since that jerk appeared here and weird stuff kept happening all over me.

That dude was just one of these examples. I didn’t know where he was going. Was he killed? Or did he just get scared and run away from the heated battle?

I hardly believed that. If he was such a dude, then he would have run away before facing the coalition army. Well… I had to find answers about that dude and his forces as well.

I knew many humans got abducted by a weird race, teleported and held captive in some sort of a prison world.

Well… I had a lot of time to think about all these things. And that was also one of the reasons I wanted for the communication system to be established.

With it, I could start recruiting more forces here. It wasn’t going to be easy indeed, considering how the big forces already started dividing up our Earth.

But later on, and as the new worlds would merge with Earth, these forces would shift their focus elsewhere. I could use that chance and move any far forces here.