It was quite easy to find their way towards the tunnels leading towards the hot zones. I watched the large number of my warriors gush towards different cities, enter through the portals I exposed, and vanished from my sight.
"Let's go," I already took Mou inside my chariot, before heading directly towards the closest portal. The moment I passed through it, all my remaining worries vanished.
We appeared in a grand underground cave, one where lots of tunnels were connected to. Beside each tunnel, there was a mark of a different symbol shining in bright white light.
Only one tunnel got the red light among all of these, and that one had the shape of the skull in the middle of all this redness that looked like a ball of fire eating and surrounding it.
"There," Mou pointed towards the tunnels around, "all of these lead towards other zones, all but that one."
"Great," I randomly selected one tunnel and entered it, while my warriors walked towards the tunnel with a red fiery skull.
The moment I went inside the tunnel, I was welcomed with a dimly lit place.
The cave I appeared at was generally lit up with white light that came from the rocks at the ceiling. But the tunnel I was flying inside was lit by randomly scattered rocks that released white light from time to time.
The tunnel was big enough to take in tens of thousands of my warriors without feeling any crowdedness or anything like that.
And just when I was about to ask him how long we'd take to arrive at the next zone, I saw a portal in front of me, one that blocked any path forward.
In a flash I went through it, to find myself standing again in front of another tunnel. This one was just similar to the one I entered, not having a single difference.
"We are already there," if not for me seeing that portal, and if not for the words of Mou, I'd mistake this place as a continuation of that tunnel.
"Cool!" things proved to be much easier than I initially thought. When I moved towards the exit, I found a few of the elite of the jumpers standing on guard inside the building, guarding the main portal leading to the cave underground.
"This…"
"You…"
"What the heck…?!!"
"Intruders!!!"
"Sound the alarm! Hurry!!!"
The moment my chariot appeared there, those jumpers all grew tense and hurriedly shouted to each other. Just before I'd go out, fly on top of this new zone, the annoying siren sounds appeared once again.
Tsk! Those dudes were indeed quite fast to respond compared with the ones back at the previous zone.
I didn't mind any of that, instead I took my cube out, released tons of bones on the ground, before taking all their energy and let the cube's radiance spread to cover up the entire zone.
One thousand miles, five thousand miles, ten thousand miles, tens of thousands of miles… I kept pushing the cube's effect further using my bone energy until it covered the entire zone.
Then I waited for the cube's radiance to end, before taking in everyone inside this zone.
"We are done here," I didn't forget to return back, leave behind many portable devices half installed at many places back at the first world, before returning back to the all empty zone.
I scattered many portals and installed the second halves of these devices. Then I took a grand tour around, demolished many buildings that covered the entrance portals to the underground caves.
I visited many cities for a few hours, then stopped, took my horn and instructed my warriors about what to do, before finally going through another tunnel.
Things I worried about didn't happen, and I ended up getting things done faster than I expected. Each zone didn't take more than ten minutes to clear it, five minutes to go through one zone to another.
As for taking down buildings, I just did it for the first day then stopped doing so. I already brought enough forces here and cleared enough paths towards the hot zones.
The rest of my stay here was filled with moving from one shielded zone to another, taking all the jumpers I could from there.
One day after another passed fast, and soon enough ten days passed.
I lost count of how many zones I took, but in the end it wasn't even enough. The sheer number of those jumpers here was enough to fill the entire twenty worlds here in this quest.
I asked Mou at one point, and he told me that this planet wasn't in fact a dead one. It was growing, expanding with more of the jumpers getting born.
That explained how huge this world is here compared to the other one. And that also explained how the jumpers kept living here without feeling any pressure from such insane numbers.
Just thinking about where I'd placed all of them gave me a headache. My Earth, even after the merge with the twenty-two other worlds in my apocalypse, wouldn't be enough to take all of them.
Adding my second Earth world, the pocket world, and even if I invaded ten more worlds, it wasn't going to be enough!
Thank god I had my cube that could endlessly expand without showing any limit.
Without it, I didn't know how I'd take all these jumpers in or move them away with me.
However, the jumpers glared such an important problem out for me.
The races I'd gain from there were going to be too much. I always thought about taking too many of them, but never thought about where I'd place them or let them live.
My second Earth world alongside the pocket world wasn't that bad. The space there was still having much room for many races to live in.
However… When I thought about the three races I'd prefer to take with me back home, I'd surely take jumpers, god race, and the angels.
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