It wasn’t a smooth journey, and it didn’t have an end! Finishing the quests wasn’t the end. Ruling the world wasn’t the end. Even conquering the entire apocalyptic cluster wasn’t the end.

There was no end to this! And when I thought about it from another angle, under a different light, putting in mind what that dude just left behind, I got a scary image.

My universe… All the worlds in it were getting scorched under the brutal and merciless fire of wars! It wasn’t wars between all the worlds there, but in each apocalyptic cluster all the races there would fight and kill to live.

Looking at this cluster as if it was a single warzone and looking at how persistently and stubbornly the system higher ups were spreading these clusters all over the universe, I got a scary picture of a long and deadly war all over the universe!

Wasn’t this also the aim of these evildoers from the universe of that dude? Damn! There were too many similarities to be just a mere coincidence!

What was… Going on exactly here? What was the real face of the system and those higher ups?

I… Had to keep these thoughts to myself then, never share them with anyone until I got foolproof evidence and unveiled this grand mystery shrouding my universe.

I gulped, looking around for the first time in hours. My soulers were standing idly there doing nothing, waiting for my orders.

“Lucias… Come here right now!” I got out my horn and used it, but it seemed I didn’t need to.

Lucias was already close by, and in less than a minute he stood by my side in obedience.

“Lord, we got done with our task, but I found you standing in daze and lost in thoughts. So I didn’t dare to alarm you or interrupt what you were doing.”

Once appeared, he provided an excuse for him staying there with his people without doing anything.

“No problem,” I slowly said, while focusing my eyes over that dome at the centre of all this. “Make your people ready, at my mark you will cover up the entire stones with dirt and rocks once more.”

“Bury them?!” Lucias was shocked by my sudden order it seemed. And he got the right to feel so.

His men took all this time and effort to unearth these stones. And yet I decided simply to cover up these stones with dirt and rocks, like they never do anything.

“Just wait for my signal first,” I said while waving my arm for him to go down and deliver my orders.

“Sure, I’ll let them wait for your mark, my lord,” after going into silence for a few seconds, he said before leaving in an orange fog of fire.

As he left, I opened the market and bought lots of papers and a brush to draw this technique over.

Then I led my chariot high in the air, to have a better overall view over the entire design.

Well… That design was simply in the area near that dome. The more I looked outwards, the more complicated it became.

I started to draw, draw circles first, then triangles later. After that, I went down below, and started to draw each part on a separate paper, dividing this entire design into twenty smaller parts.

I didn’t want to miss anything. Perhaps being high up there made me miss a few details here and there.

I did that to make sure I didn’t miss anything. I decided to forget everything related to this place, bury it under heavy layers of rocks and dirt, and not tell anyone about this.

As for my soulers, they wouldn’t speak. They were my loyal warriors and wouldn’t do anything without returning back to me.

It took ten hours to do it, twenty more to revise the drawings more than five times, to make sure I didn’t miss anything here.

“Start,” I held my horn and gave the order to all the soulers down below, “make sure to not touch the stones or cause any damage to them. Bury them underneath a thicker layer of dust and rocks.”

And as I gave the order, they started to move and work.

It took them two days and slightly more to dig these stones. But burying them did not take more than half a day.

It was just easier, and they had dirt ready near the stones. As for the extra dirt and rocks, they just went around to dig at areas not close from here, and returned with the rocks and dirt before leaving them near the design to be used.

Many teams worked like a hive of bees, and I was their king. I watched them for hours, making sure they didn’t touch a single stone or dared to move one from its place.

Even the first stone to be found, the one close up from the dome, was also buried and a small hill of rocks was formed around it.

“Come back!” I didn’t delay and called the soulers inside my inventory, all but Lucias who came and stood by my side.

Everything was ready, and now all it was left was to go inside that pocket world and see things on my own.

Golane said that to enter there wasn’t an issue, but getting out was. I got my time ability, and I’d find no problem at getting out.

Yet who said I was going there to just run away later? I was aiming to kill all the souls inside, and wouldn’t leave until I brought down this entire thing and destroyed that weapon lying underneath.

“You are sure of your abilities to kill these souls, right?” Before I’d move a muscle, I had to ask again and be sure of this.

“Lord, we are soulers! Eating souls is our specialty. Even if there are billions upon billions of them down there, we will eat them all and thank you letter for the happy meal.”

“And… You don’t lack anything? Don’t need anything? Once we are inside, I might lose my connection with the market.”