"See her?" I pointed towards Lily, "she is the grand general leading my forces here, the one I told you about before."
"A woman?" He seemed a bit surprised by this.
"Like I said, I got nothing against anyone," I shrugged before the last one joined our meeting. It was Legend, the one I held high hopes for his future.
"Now, let me introduce everyone here first," I started with my team members, explaining things about their origins in brief words. After that, I explained the identities of the new dudes here, telling everyone a brief of what they experienced, before adding the most crucial piece of information.
"... They are going to help us in the upcoming war. Toramos is a capable Hescos, and he is going to help Lily in leading things everywhere."
"This…" Lily got the meaning behind my words, "does that mean I didn't need to go to a world?"
"No, you'll stay here," I stressed over this point, "you'll turn this zone into a grand central headquarters for the entire operations."
"You got enough generals this time," and before anyone would say anything, that jerk spoke up, "now can we go and invade the remaining enemy homebases?"
"Who is he?" Toramos asked, and I could inwardly sigh.
No matter whom, the jumper got such talent to get on the bad side of anyone he'd meet. Even if he just met this Hescos, he managed to irritate him!
What a guy!
"Don't mind him," I shrugged, "he is a human, but a troublesome dude."
"I see…" Toramos kept his silence while the jumper didn't care about what I said about him.
"I got enough indeed, but can you survive there on your own?"
"What about you? You got enough to stay behind and do nothing but watch," the jumper was still trying to control his tongue, and yet his words came quite inappropriate.
"You know this isn't going to work," I paused before adding, "I have an important war to fight next and won't be free."
"What war?"
"My zone's war," Toramos felt something was amiss between me and the jumper, but he kept his curiosity to himself. And I liked such an attitude, "I got access to the angelic world."
"What is so important about that?" the jumper frowned, "we also got access towards there."
"No, we don't," I paused before delivering the bad news to everyone.
"That…" the jumper couldn't find any words to describe what he felt. And I got what he was truly feeling as I also felt the same.
This dude… He was indeed quite an unlucky bastard!
"What do you plan to do then?" Lily asked, ignoring the stupefied jumper.
"I'm going to fight the enemy there solo."
"Take me with you then!"
"No way!" I instantly refused what the jumper asked, "like I said before… If you got the ability, then go alone towards any of the enemy homebase and show me your might."
"..."
"If you can't, then focus on helping everyone in securing the nineteen worlds. They aren't that easy to begin with. And we have to secure them before focusing on the deadly fight in the last angelic world."
"You think the enemy will focus mainly on a single world?!" Toramos was surprised, "they will try to stop us everywhere!"
"They will," I slowly nodded, "and we will crush them. But no matter what, they will try their best to keep the angelic world away from our grasp for different reasons."
"This…" Toramos looked around, and everyone on my side just remained silent as if they used for me to speak in riddles about this part.
"Do you know why?"
"I don't," I shook my head, "and I don't care about any reasons. All I care about is to get this quest done and free those entrapped for endless years here. This is our quest, and it will be our win in the end no matter what."
The newly joined ones gave me weird gazes. They used to be the leaders, the ones who inspired others and raised their morales.
But right now the tables flipped around, and that came from none other than a weak human.
Compared to them, I was indeed weak. But that didn't mean I was powerless. In fact, considering all the big shots standing here, I was the only person who did his best and prepared too much for this quest.
I was the only capable and most powerful person here. Without me, none of them would have remained here for this long, or even managed to keep their lives intact.
"Time to start working," I paused, looking at the two I already selected as grand generals, "devise a plan together, with everyone, and be ready to move at any moment. As for others…"
"We know," one of the contestants who came from a weird race with a weird name that I didn't get to memorise yet said, "you need us to provide your warriors with stat points… However…"
"I won't give anyone anything," I said in straightforward, while reading what this dude was thinking about.
"Warriors are limited by one's level of apocalypse," Toramos seemed to have the same thought as well, as he tried to convince me, "giving them to us will bring much scarier forces than you."
"Thanks," I shook my head, "I know what I'm doing, and I'm not lacking in terms of my warriors."
They got a point, but how come I'd give them such hot cake here for free? Even if they'd bring the best out from these warriors, why didn't they bring their own warriors like me with them?
I heard words like: We should have brought warriors! If we knew how important they'd be, we'd brought more! We should have bought lots of these warrior tokens before coming here!
Such remarks and others spread like fire between them. But I didn't care. I decided to leave them at the chariot's of my generals, and left things over to Lily and Toramos.
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