“This…” it seemed this came out of its expectations. That young bastard, it didn’t know that my ball was a gateway, taking anything away and storing it inside my shadow world.

So no matter how hard it tried, my ball wouldn’t shatter or even get attacked.

“Just give up,” I gave it such sincere advice, “this won’t affect my precious ball. Your fate is already sealed, so stop resisting already. Much bigger and fiercer beasts got already inside this ball.”

“I’m not a beast! I’m one of a mighty race!” it seemed stirred up by my words, seemingly losing control over its attack for a few seconds there, ending up for a few icy balls to get shattered without exploding.

Kids… They were noisy and easily angered. And once becoming stirred up like that, they’d start losing control and start committing mistakes.

“Your balls are shattered without exploding,” as I spotted its weakness, I started pressuring it with everything I got.

I kept chasing it, focusing on its lack of ability and loss of control just now. It kept shouting nonsense, promising me a bad end and such useless empty threats.

Kids… They always thought that words could harm anyone or even scare them away!

“Come on, stop running and embrace your fate,” as it got stirred up and agitated about its last failure, it started to focus more on summoning more balls.

Once its mindset was guided towards this narrow dark corner, it got fixed on repeating that technique and tried to smash my ball with its icy explosive balls.

It even stopped sending balls my way! Kids… Sigh!

As it kept doing this, I kept moving my chariot closer to it. At the first dozen times, it kept jumping a few hundred metres away from me, ending up escaping my ball.

Yet after the fifteenth attempt, it seemed that its luck ran out.

“Damn! Let me go! Let me go now!” as its ability failed to get activated again, its body started to get closer to my ball without any problems.

Depending too much over a reflexive technique wasn’t a good thing, especially if that beast didn’t learn how to control it.

“Let me go… I’m warning you! You’ll get cursed! Let me go now!!” it kept shouting and cursing, promising such dark fate and threatening me like it got to decide my fate or something.

“Bye bye, see you around,” as it went at last inside the ball, the world finally became quiet. I heaved a sigh of relief thanks to this quietness.

I hated such talkative enemies!

But from what I got from that beast’s words, I knew things weren’t as quite simple as I thought.

A race? And the Hectors kept a big beast as their guardian while it was a race?

Well… If they were a race, then it would be more perfect to try and get more of them if possible.

Controlling a race would be easy using contracts. If they were cursed just like soulers and fallen gods, I might use my soul class and summon them as my warriors.

If I managed to do it, then I would be able to get as many of them as I wanted. Just like the fallen gods, they ended up being my warriors from just one of each clan of them.

I had tons of questions now, and I knew Hector wouldn’t be able to answer them. Only kings and royals calibre dudes of that race would be able to know such deep secrets about this guardian mysterious race.

The only one to answer my questions would be that talkative young beast.

Just like the two times before, this seal technique ended up with a tattoo over my back. It appeared in the middle of my back, making me wonder what my back looked like right now.

“I’ll ask Hilary about it later,” I decided to ask my girl after we met and enjoyed ourselves together.

She would be able to see my back by then, well, she would see everything I had.

I finished things here, so I started my journey back to the continent.

I won this war, controlled the capital of Hectors and crushed all their forces. I killed their king, got their legendary beasts under my control.

And now I have a continent to control and turn everyone there to part of my kingdom. Then I’d have to find talents, arrange them into what they could do better, and start focusing on the bigger and most important mission looming from far; the golden quest!

The fifth quest would have that plaque infection of zombies. I had to safeguard all my vast stretch of land and try to stabilise things before leaving.

I also need to start amassing lots of forces to prepare for what is yet to come at the golden quest.

I didn’t know if it was a big open fight or some sort of a contest, but it was something I had to win.

As I got over the ocean and reached the continent, the first thing I saw was the capital of the Hectors. It lies on the opposite side of my kingdom’s capital.

Where are you now? I noticed the lack of the huge armies here. They must have gone towards the four beasts’ location.

My friends sent messages telling me the same as I guessed. I wanted to see how this blessing worked, and hoped it would really open cultivation for all of them.

This way, I’d gain millions of forces with cultivation. It would greatly boost the strength of my forces, making my kingdom much harder to face in any upcoming clashes.

I used my staff and jumped over to the fourth beast’s location. It was the nearest and so they all went there to have a hit at that beast.

At the same time, Hilary sent telling me that she already dispatched a messenger to get all the scattered forces there to come and gather at the fourth beast.

We would start killing this one before moving as a single step towards the remaining three.

However… What we all thought to be an easy task proved to not be one!