"Once defused… They won't get stopped or defended against by any means!!!" I couldn't help but mutter the shocking realisation I got from his words.
"That isn't all…" he didn't stop bringing the bad news over, "to find and defuse them, one had to do it in the past, not now."
"This… How can someone do such a thing?!!!" I got more shocked by what he said. How could I act right now, and still be counted as I acted back in the past?
"That's why I told you, without our people, trying to find and defuse these bombs won't do," he sighed, "each bomb is the size of a mountain! You can easily spot them if you have the time and use it right. But if any normal being tried, no matter how hard and skilled he was, he would eventually fail."
I know why he insisted all this time about having the ability of time like his race. "But… How come they managed to manufacture these?"
"There is only one possibility out there that I can think of…" he paused, got lost in thought for a few minutes, before adding, "they used any time loop to hijack part of my people, forced them to build these bombs, then they scattered them around."
"Laying them down doesn't need any time ability?!!"
"No, they are already infused with our ability, so don't need such a thing to get laid out," he paused before adding, "but to defuse them, they needed our people to do it."
"That…" and now another piece of the grand puzzle got cleared in front of my eyes. I now got to see more of the reasons behind their desperation to prevent me from coming here, or at least delay my arrival.
They wanted to take control of many people here, enough to defuse these bombs, before my arrival. As they knew the moment I'd arrive here, things would grow hectic and out of control.
It was enough to threaten their plans! Like how I did it so far. And that meant they got fixed on detonating these bombs, killing everyone alongside them.
And realising this made me want to control this entire place as fast as possible, feeling the same urge and threat these despicable fiends fell towards me.
"Teach me then," I paused, before waving my hands.
"This… What are you doing?!!!"
Just as I waved my hand, the tons of warriors I kept storing up till now appeared. The space wasn't that nice place for them to appear at, so I coupled this move with another, taking out the tons of fortresses stored in my cube.
If my enemies were dead fixated on killing everyone, using their last resort, doing everything in their power to achieve such a goal, then why wouldn't I do the same?
I did all this just to make sure things were going to end up quite good for my side. I prepared for this long to win this damn quest, save those angels, and kill all the fiends here.
There was no other reason for me to hesitate anymore. And that wasn't going to be the case just here, but also at other places.
I already gave out my orders to switch to all out attack. But that wasn't enough. I had to return, give more orders, pushing everyone over their limits.
There was no time to play around anymore. These were the decisive moments which would pull the final curtains on this grand and epic war.
"I'm going to take control over this entire world," I said, without holding back my real intentions, "If they got to control your people to defuse these bombs, then I'd deprive them of such cards. Your people are going to be saved, these are my words for you."
"..."
Real got quite shocked when he heard my last words and strict promise. I wasn't exaggerating or overestimating my real abilities.
Just the number of forces I got inside my cube and my inventory was enough to flood this entire tiny universe multiple times!
"Teach me," I repeated my request once more, while the entire space all around got changed.
The emptiness that was prevailing before vanished and instead an endless number of fortresses appeared.
They belonged to both sides, the angels and fiends, and that made the puzzlement of Real deeper.
I gave the order to my forces who I took out from my inventory and cube to do two things. First they had to get inside or over the fortresses, and second to drive these metallic behemoths, move all over the world here, kill any enemy in space and on land.
This was indeed quite the hard task. But I took out my Lucas and entrusted him to lead this army here, coupled with all the general calibre warriors I got from Silverlining out of late.
My forces didn't stay here, and kept moving the moment they got the order. I didn't forget to tell them to evade any fortresses with wings as slogans on their bodies, representing the angelic race that they belonged to.
At the same time, I told them to keep rescuing any race with pairs of wings, or kill those captured and couldn't be saved.
I might be a bit ruthless here, yet this was something I got to do.
If I let the enemy have the angels they wanted, then things would end up bad at the end. Showing mercy at this critical conjuncture was a fatal mistake I'd never make.
"Tsk! You are really going all out to save us, even to the extent of killing part of us to do so!" Real sighed, shook his head in resignation and bitterness, yet didn't object to what I said.
And I didn't respond with anything but silence. "Ok… To do it, you first have to learn how to activate and control your time power. Tell me, did you ever experience anything related to your power? Have you woken it yet?"
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