All this time I kept fighting from one hellish battle to another without a single moment of rest. It seemed my cultivation was growing stronger and with it fatigue wasn’t felt easily like before.

I just opened three stages here, yet it was enough to help me endure exhaustion more than before.

However, that was considering physical stress. What about mental one? I was stressed and pressured during all this time, and right now I was feeling really tired.

So I went downstairs, selected a random room and went into it. Things were finally calm here since the hectic last days. So sleeping for a few hours wouldn’t do any harm, right?

I just hoped that the bastard wouldn’t come to my capital while I was sleeping. He wouldn’t be this rash, right?

As I laid my body on the bed, I started to think about one person; Karoline.

Her angelic face appeared in front of my eyes when I rested my body there. She… Was targeted by my enemy because she was my weak spot..

She wasn’t that strong to defend herself. Who would defend against the falling red beam but me? Yet I always thought she could jump away from such a beam using her ability.

So what happened? Was she exposed to some sort of a space seal before this attack? Or was she deeply immersed in fighting enemies and didn’t see that attack coming?

She couldn’t have been so careless! Especially when her ability was the perfect counter to such an attack.

Things looked vague in front of my eyes. Damn! How much I hated facing uncertainties!

Part of the reason why I studied the old records in such a fervent way was my curiosity to know how the world looked before my time.

I also did that as I was afraid, afraid of having unknown things I didn’t know in life. I wasn’t strong, never was, but I always felt I was destined to something greater.

That intangible itch was driving me to stay long nights reading and studying. Others thought I was crazy, but right now I was thankful I was one.

But right now I felt like I returned back to where I started. The latest events were filled with many uncertainties, making me feel the old itch once again.

I needed to know… And the only way I knew to do that was to study and keep studying.

I needed to look for sources of knowledge. My deadliest enemy now wasn’t the races here, not even the Hectors, nor paragons.

It was that damn bastard I didn’t know anything about.

Are you aware of any interesting information impacts? I asked Lady green nymph, to just remember that damn seal and sign.

I’d send this message again once I woke up. I had to start studying. What I learnt before was just related to my world, not anything like the vast universe.

I needed to know what the big universe looked like, its rules, its big races, its big events… I wanted to learn about everything.

As for Karoline, I had to wait until that golden quest time to face that bastard and kill him.

I closed my eyes while thinking about her. And this time I slept for a long time.

The stress over my mind wasn’t as simple as I thought. When I opened my eyes, I was met with the curious face of Hilary.

She was sitting next to me, undressing half of her armour to reveal two full spheres there.

From my spot, I could see the deep and long cleavage that extended between the two hills. Seeing her eyes from this close, sensing the warmth of her breath like this, made something inside me move.

“Rise and shine little star,” she said with such a sweet laugh that I couldn’t resist.

“Come here,” and as I was hungry for sleep, I was also hungry for her. During our next five hours, we kept twisting and rolling, exchanging places all the time, even raising her up and slamming her back to the wall while fiercely devouring her like she was the sweetest burger in life.

As I finished up my delicious and refreshing meal, I left her body weak and soft on the bed and went up stairs.

I learnt from her that more than an entire day has already passed. It was such a long time of rest, and I just added five more hours to this.

She told me they finished assigning people into groups, and Angelica was up there waiting for me. And there I went.

“You…” but as I reached the stairs, I felt like someone was hurrying his steps up to the roof. When I arrived there, I found no one but Angelica, with all reddened face and eyes that avoided mine.

“Were you… Eavesdropping on us?” I came closer and she didn’t retreat. Of course the seductive lady of my team wouldn’t get cold feet in front of any man.

“You two… Left your door open,” she said in defence while looking me in the eyes, “if I got permission from her, can we…”

“Not a chance,” I stopped her before saying something useless. I knew she had desired me since day one, but I didn’t feel anything towards her.

I was already having enough girls around to keep me busy. And I didn’t like jumping around from bed to another, climbing one girl after another.

“Next time… Close the door tightly or else don’t blame me,” she stuck out her tongue, with an attitude that told me she didn’t drop that matter yet from her mind.

“I will take note of this next time,” I was half asleep when I started devouring Hilary. So I didn’t notice the half opened door until we were already too deep in our thing.

“Tell me, how are things here?” I went to the side of my chariot, and there I found a big group of people standing in groups, spanning much further away than before.

They lived inside tents that Hilary and Angelica seemed to purchase for them from the market. Or perhaps what these people got from the dead mercenaries was enough to let them buy their own things.