“For the upcoming plaque quest,” I simply said, and without the need to speak more she seemed to get what I was talking about.

“This place… It will do!” As I kept studying the map for half an hour, I finally found a nice place suited for the training camp.

“What place?” from the side Lily tried to sneak over my map, but she wouldn’t be able to see anything but thin air.

“It’s a big archipelago situated just between two big continents,” I said while closing up the map, pointing in a certain direction while adding, “and luckily one of these two continents is the one we are on right now.”

“An archipelago? That’s interesting… We can use aquatic monsters there.”

“Not only that,” I started to operate my chariot to fly with its fastest speed, “on both sides, a large group of mountains lie there.”

“And?” she didn’t seem to get my point..

“Using such terrain, we can add ground and aerial monsters as well,” I knew she was all into aquatic monsters. But wars didn’t depend only on aquatic fights.

“This…” as expected, she seemed not that much interested in this part.

“Just use everything we have to form strong armies, ok?” I said without even looking at her. My only focus was on the map and the path in the air I was flying through.

“But I lack any training experience in ground fights, not to mention the aerial ones,” she confessed, and I admired her honesty. “If only we had mighty trainers from big races, this would be easier.”

“We got you,” I laughed and she shook her head.

“I’m only experienced in aquatic training, just like my entire race.”

“It’s weird that such a big race of yours only focuses on aquatic fights.”

“We… Have most of our worlds covered in water,” she started to give me more intel about her race, “in fact, if not for your world being covered mostly in water, we wouldn’t have come!”

“You didn’t come here to answer my actions?!” I raised one eyebrow and she nodded.

“Not only for that. In fact the world we are fighting at right now in this cluster is weak. We already ruled over most of the area. It was boring, not like your world here.”

“Interesting,” this was the first time for her to speak about the world she was in before coming here, “then you are here to have more fun?”

“Fun in fighting strong foes is the best,” she laughed, “you might consider us crazy folks, but in our race only the strong and mighty ones have a chance to advance to higher ranks. And without good foes like you, how possibly our people will evolve?”

If I said I understood what she said I’d be lying! In my human race, nothing like this existed!

“I know it’s hard for you to get it,” she seemed to understand where I came from, “but hopefully one day your race will rise up and reach such a point.”

“Thanks,” I said in gratitude for her good feelings, “but I want to ask you… Why are you hoping this will happen for my race?”

“Because it’s a waste that such a prodigy and talent be wasted in such a lowly race,” her words turned upside down so damn fast! “Don’t be offended, I’m just stating the facts. If you are in another race, in mine, I’m sure you’d have been nourished and supported heavily and trained to become even a sovereign.”

“I’ll become one for my race,” I said my belief and she nodded.

“I’m also hoping for such a day to come. But you have to know, the road won’t be this smooth.”

“I know,” I already got a glimpse of how big this entire universe was. Not to mention this wasn’t the only universe that was in this life. It might be shocking, but I wanted to become a real powerhouse in the entire multi-verses one day.

“Your race is experienced in aquatic fights, what about Toranks then?”

Despite our talk deviating from this point which we started from, I never lost sight of what she said.

If what she said was true, then I could use the help of those Toranks. In the end, I got good relations with them.

“Come on! As if you know one of them!” she said it as if such a thing was impossible.

“Humour me,” I didn’t explain myself and just asked for her answer.

“Well, it seems you know the famous saying of the big three races in our universe. However this is just a fake statement. Compared to those Toranks, we are like your race to us.”

“That means…” I Was surprised by what she said. I thought there was no difference between the top three races in the universe.

“The strongest race out there is those damn Hescos! They are very strong. Not only that, but they are damn wealthy, controlling enough worlds to equal the worlds we and Toranks have!”

“This…”

“You got to know that owning worlds in the universe is the standard way to assess any race’s value and strength. After them comes Toranks. They are competing fiercely with them, but they aren’t yet close to the Hescos level of might and dominance.”

“So you come third, right? Competing with Toranks then?” I tried to get a better understanding of the general situation of these three mighty races.

“Not even close,” she bitterly sighed, “you can consider us the big boss of all the other races in the universe. We are third because we are stronger than the rest, not because we are close in power to those two behemoths at the top.”

“I see…” I nodded in understanding. From her words I got that Toranks were a different breed than others.

It was just my luck to meet Silverlining, ending up closing such three deals with the three sovereigns.

Knowing how high this race stood changed my entire attitude towards them. They showed signs of their desire to become friends with me. And I didn’t really consider such a thing seriously before.