[Well, to be honest, not all of them are considered like that. But yes, you can consider all of the worlds as deadly zones with endless stream of dark realm monsters or forces that belonged to the enemy]
"Forces that belonged to the enemy? What the heck does this even mean?!!!" At this point, I was this close from losing it! This damn bastard! Was he trying to mess with me or what?
[Have you forgotten what I told you before or what? The enemy already sent for outsiders to arrive here, using a loop in the agreement set between us and them in ancient times. We kept sending our elites here, and they never sent anyone in return. And so, they used this detail and were granted to bring forth large number of their elites]
"I know that! But I thought…"
[They'll come from outside the universe? No way! This won't work! They are coming from worlds under their control. And these worlds are the ones known to you, to many in the universe, as the lost worlds, or the dark realm worlds]
"I see… So these worlds don't just harbour dark realm monsters?"
[No, they got forces that belong to the enemy. You must have noticed how the two are closely connected, the dark realm monsters and the enemies you fought here all this time, right?]
I got what he wanted to say. I got dark realm bones from races here, in addition to the all mysterious Holy Ones bones.
But I never thought that I got such dark realm bones thanks to the relation between these enemies and the dark realm monsters! This was something that never crossed my mind before.
[There isn't anything you can do about that. You got to accept such a fact and decide how you are going to use this chance to the fullest]
"A chance? Ok, let me ask you lots of questions then. If you merged my home planet alongside the other twenty-two worlds in my apocalypse, what's going to happen to my apocalypse then?"
[The apocalypse is already in a Scorching Land mode. So it's normal for this to be the last clash that will decide the final winner]
"What do you mean by that?"
[This war, whoever is going to win it, will be appointed as the final ruler of the entire apocalypse and the sole winner of it]
"This… Don't tell me others can compete with me over this!"
[Of course! They indeed can choose to help you, stand against you, or even betray us and help the enemies. Everything is valid in this case. However…]
"However… What?" I got a feeling that I wouldn't like what he was going to say next.
[The winner isn't solely determined by the one getting more territory or killing more enemies. The final winner won't be decided by this war only]
"Then… How will the final winner be determined?!"
[By the winner of the entire golden quest! After all, and after the success of the merge, the golden quest will take the top priority over the ongoing apocalypse at the world's merged here]
"Oh… Thanks for that!" I couldn't help but raise a thumb up for this dude. Even if he wasn't here, and I just raised my thumb towards thin air, he must have gotten my salute of respect.
This dude… These higher ups… Even when they made such a crazy move, they never forgot about me or about what I did so far for them, for the races trapped here, for everyone in the universe.
"How about my home planet? Will it still be the core of this merge or what?"
[Oh, about that… Sorry but the enemy already selected one of its home lands as the base of all this]
Well… That was quite expected indeed. I knew the enemy would select one of its home planets as the base of such a merge. And that was all to make sure it'd take everything down with them when they'd activate the buried bombs there.
But when I thought back to my Earth, my beloved Earth, ending up getting merged with an alien planet, I couldn't help but feel weird pain deep inside my heart.
I always took this for granted. The Great Nala was going to get formed out of my Earth as the core of all this. And yet it seemed things were taking a sharp turn away from what I always knew.
This was something weird and quite shocking. However this was also what reality was.
And now I have one more reason, a very big reason to win this war.
[Don't worry. According to our intel, all the races in the worlds that belong to your apocalypse are going to step in and work together, help each other to win this entire war]
"Helping each other is great, but I don't think the Hescos will let someone other than themselves win this thing."
[How so? I already spoke with their leaders, and they agreed on working together with you!]
"I don't buy that!" If he told me the sun would rise from the west , not the east, then I might consider what he said, "the Hescos are all arrogant. They are the number one race in the entire universe. And you are telling me this clash is going to be broadcasted all over the universe, meaning it turned from just a high valued quest into something that all the universe will look up at."
[Your point is?]
"If I were them, I'd simply work my best to get my boys to win this war. It's not just a normal clash, not everyday battle or war, it's something that will remain forever in the minds of those who are watching this. And everyone is watching, so it's going to be something huge!"
[Well… When you say it this way…]
"They won't work together, at least these arrogant bastards at least," I scoffed, "as for other races, they may select one side to support. It'll be either me or the Hescos, and it's easy to guess which side they'll support."
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