Seeing old faces like dragons, Selvators, and even Berserkers made me want to go down there and smash each and every single head of them into shreds.
But I got to replenish the forces I lost so far using them. What was the best revenge? The one that'd force your enemy to lower his head and work as a henchman for you.
That was what I was doing right now.
I spent close to one day doing this, and finished visiting all the places I had in my staff. All the lands were now under my control, and all the forces that were coming hot at my kingdom and forces shifted side and became working for me.
What remained now was the zombies. And so I returned again towards the places where I left the zombies killing each other.
"Tsk! These mindless folks are really something…" I visited the first spot I saw zombies before and there I found more than half of the zombies got killed, and the other half weren't that far off.
"It's better to let them kill and finish each other then," I dropped the idea of taking out my troops and killing all the zombies here.
Even if the ones that didn't get under my control ended up living, there wouldn't be too many of them. And they'd be heavily wounded and pretty much exhausted. It was better to save my forces for later, and let the zombies handle each other.
Then after we'd settle most of the lands here, I'd let my forces come and clean all the places here.
*Fwoosh!*
"Did you do it? Already?!!" and when I came back, I found Lily standing side by side with lots of people that I knew and didn't.
Lots of old faces, the generals that were left back home to defend the kingdom in my absence, and new ones that I gained from this golden quest here, all were standing side by side, on Lily's chariot, looking at me.
"It's all ready," I nodded, landing over Lily's chariot, "all the lands now belong to us."
"This…"
"What about the enemies?"
"Did you kill all of them? This soon?!!"
Many exclaimed, but those were the ones who were recently joining my kingdom. As for those who were with me for a long time, before the time of the golden quest, they just stood in silence, nodding in understanding.
"All the forces that were hostile to us are now on our side," I simply stated the impossible, and before anyone would say anymore of such useless comments, I added, "I left them back there to take hold of the defences and attack the outer zones. What about you guys? How is the situation in other places?"
"Well…" Lily couldn't help but suddenly laugh, "if you can do it this way, why won't we sit back and retreat, let you take charge of this task instead of us?"
"Yes, that will be for the better," the spearhead said, "I'm tired of all this fighting."
"You jerk… Don't give me this damn excuse or else I'll throw you at the deadliest places right away!" I roared in the face of this jerk, before turning around.
Seeing one jerk reminded me of other jerks. And so I looked around, and couldn't find the other jerk here.
"He didn't come yet," Lily seemed to guess my thoughts, "he decided to move away from any portal and take his chances."
"Tsk! Jerks are always quite annoying, you know that?" I rolled my eyes, while knowing why that jerk decided to do this risky move.
He was still anxious about his man, and wanted to seek him even at the risk of losing his life in the process.
This jerk… He was already a hopeless case.
"Fine, then how about things around? And why is everyone here?"
Last time I saw her, she was all alone. And now she called back almost all the generals from out there.
"We are now making new plans," Lily paused, "can I ask for something?"
"No, Toramos is out of the question," I knew what she wanted. She wanted Hescos to come out and help. But it was out of the question.
I wouldn't risk any treason under any circumstances. Who knew what these Hescos would try to force him to switch sides again? He might have beloved ones, family, or even a lover back home. Using any of these against him would break any man, and I wouldn't risk such a threat.
"Ok…" her face told me she was depressed, but that was how life was. It was filled with many disappointments.
I wanted to just come here and live a nice and peaceful life. And here I was, leading hundreds of millions, even tens of billions of forces, and I was still not feeling any secure at all.
"We are now moving armies around," one of the old generals said, one that I didn't recall his name, but he was one of the Hectors, a capable and decent general indeed, "and right now our top problem is the lack of intel."
"Intel about what exactly?" I asked, while thinking that asking for intel in general in such a situation was a very vague word.
"This world map," Sara said, "we can't determine where our forces are, where we should fight, and which places are more important than others."
"This…"
"We are here to try and come up with a rough plan and sketch of the new world… But…" Lily didn't need to continue her words. I already got what she wanted to say.
"Hey there, do you have anything to help about this?" and all of sudden, and without any warning, I raised my head, and shouted against the sky up there.
It was already night time, and it was a perfect clear sky that showed tons of stars drifting peacefully up there.
It was exactly the same as the old Earth, the one I read and hear about in the ancient records. There were lots of constellations, many sparkling and beautiful looking stars up there.
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