“No way! I was subjected to many time differences! Increasing time and decreasing time, I experienced them all!”

I couldn’t forget what happened back at the dungeon challenge test and how that affected my forces in a negative way.

“I’m telling you what’s known in the entire universe, there is no power to affect time! Only those old scary dudes who went extinct thousands of years ago could do it!”

“How?!!” It was my time to get shocked. I was subjected to different time differences, not only once, not only here.

“I don’t know what’s going on with you, but this thing here isn’t related to any world or even to the system as you thought. If it’s related to something, then it’s related to you.”

“Me?!!!” I got shaken from the depths of my soul when I heard what she just said. “How?! It’s… Impossible!”

“It’s the only explanation,” yet she shrugged, adding in such confidence, “aside from you, there is nothing else can cause such scary time difference to this world.”.

Was that true?!! I kept asking myself that! Just as I was thinking about this time difference seriously for the first time ever, I spotted and recalled a few important things.

First, the time difference only affected here and Earth! I noticed that staying here wouldn’t affect the time running to other parts of the universe.

Be it the Bringold impact lady nymph or the Petals impact Silverlining, both weren’t affected by the time difference at all.

I noticed such a thing before, and thought it was nothing much. But it was proof that time flew differently only between my Earth and my second Earth worlds.

So it wasn’t a feature of the world, it was a feature related to me! The places I went to would get affected by this time difference.

And that meant this time difference thing was a thing related to me, not the world, not the universe, not the system or the apocalypse!

Then I recalled something I once heard and didn’t think about before now.

Sith told me once about the old and sad story of the ancient angelic race. It was the race of that old man. It was the race that got entrapped in a loop of time for eternity until someone with the same abilities would go there and free them from such a curse.

He told me back then that the old man didn’t just rewind me back in time, sending me to the start of everything. Sith was sure that I got a piece of that old man’s power, a piece of that race’s mighty power.

But he didn’t state it clearly, he didn’t say they were the ancient time clan Lily was speaking about.

Thinking about the time loop that race got entrapped in, the time rewinding effect that old man used on me, and the time difference affecting the world here… I got the pieces of puzzles together in the right order for the first time ever!

This race… It was a time clan race! And I got part of the old man’s power, meaning I got the power to manipulate time as well!

Damn! Damn! This… This was really cool!

“Thanks,” I honestly said to Lily. if not for her, I wouldn’t have linked all these together.

“For what?”

“Just telling me information I wasn’t aware of,” I gave her such an indirect answer about her real contribution here.

I got the power of time, the power to manipulate and affect time. I could make a time difference to any place I’d visit.

Sometimes I’d accelerate time, other times I’d slow it down. In both cases, this was done out of my control. I didn’t know how to control it, as I never knew I could!

But now… I had to find a way to better control this ability.

How? That was the million coins question.

“I just know much more than you do. After all I’m Hector Paragon, one who has taught everything about the universe since I was small. You are a human, so don’t think about it too much.”

She said this in a neutral tone, not arrogant or humble. “If you ever face anything that doesn’t make sense, then seek my advice.”

“I will,” I honestly answered, “now, what do you think of the world here?”

“Sigh! Adding the fact that there is a time difference effect here, this world’s value just skyrocketed!”

“But it’s void of any monsters or other living creatures or races except for those I brought over.”

“That’s not an issue, don’t you know there are many ways to bring monsters to any world aside from the apocalypse?”

I looked at the confidence overwhelming her face. She knew what she was talking about.

“What ways?” I had to ask. If this world got monsters here, it would turn into a heaven for my military forces.

The world was immense, much bigger than my Earth. So it wasn’t bad to look for a distant part of it, maybe a different continent, release monsters there and let my forces train on them.

I also needed a source of meat. Back on my Earth, we had meat with no way to get crops. Here we got crops but no meat. It was ironic!

“There are many… Do you think the system created those monsters? No, there are many worlds with monsters only. The system only takes monsters from there and brings them here. As it does that, others can, right?”

“Can I buy monsters?! Like I’m buying races?!!”

“Indeed,” she firmly nodded, “but not just in the same way. You have to look for hunters’ impacts first. They will sell monster dens to you. Through these dens, you can let monsters be born and get to mate and increase their numbers fast.”

“Dens?” I thought about the den thing I got from my deal with the three sovereigns. “But the monsters I’ll get will be all young and weak!”