I didn't listen to them. I knew the future up ahead was one filled with tons of fights and brutal battles. Worlds? We could just roam the universe and claim anything we liked. Even if we had no other way but to take part in new apocalyptic trials like other races, then I'd not say no to join.
Claiming everything in that colossal god body took me around four months. Once done, I returned to check on the current progress of the war.
Close to two thirds of the enemies were either killed or captured. The rest were showing fierce resistance. And that was for a good reason.
"These Hescos… They have such a high prestige and a name to protect… Do they think they can stop me? Win this? Pathetic!"
The final obstacle was led by none other than Hescos. They were quite ferocious and daring, meeting all the armies I sent with brutality and stubbornness.
They didn't like to lower their heads or something. Yet the end result of this war was already clear. Even Silverlining told me the Toranks were starting a grand celebration back at their homes on the honour of my victory.
They got the right to celebrate. They took the risk of placing their bids over an unknown figure, coming from a poor reputation race like humans, and trusted him to fight against the number one race in the universe.
But their bet ended up with their win, and against all odds they saw the number one race get crushed under my might. So they got the right to celebrate, the same right I got as well.
I had to wait till the end of the entire war before doing such a thing. I knew there would be lots of work left after all this was over. The entire world turned into a brutal battleground, a grinding and slaughter house for endless races and armies.
This world needed reconstruction, a massive cleaning process, a grand project to look for different resources, and finally rebuild the world to fit the might and prestige of my kingdom.
I didn't want to celebrate too early, but just thinking about how I came back in time with no hope but to live a better life than the shitty one I got before, ending up crushing all the scary names and others, ending up building a massive kingdom and ruling over it, made me grin.
I deserved to be happy, and more than that, I deserved to feel pride in what I did. I wasn't perfect, wasn't the ideal hero in this story, but I was the person that this world needed. And I was proud of everything I did so far.
The clashes lasted for around two more months. They didn't manage to do anything but to just elongate the moment of my victory, and add a few losses.
During all this, Silverlining kept nagging me about what I'd do after all this was over. He wanted to invite me to visit their homeland, and I didn't say yes or no.
I first had to solve the urgent issues here, see what would happen after winning this entire apocalypse. In my past life, I never heard of anyone doing this. In fact, I never heard of anyone getting even close to merging with other worlds' moments.
Even after roughly a hundred years, my past life apocalypse was still moving on. In my eyes, I was the anomaly that brought down this apocalypse fast and put a swift end to it in one year or so.
[We did it! We crushed the last resistance and conquered everything!] Lily sent the great news first, and then I received tons of messages from many.
All my friends, the ones whom I met since the long journey here, sent me their congratulatory messages. Be it the early ones, the ones who joined in the middle, the ones who joined late, even the ones who joined me during the merge… I got tons of messages and couldn't help but look at them in silence.
This was a moment I envisioned for a long time already, a moment that I thought it'd be a farfetched and impossible feat for a human like me to have.
I sucked in a deep breath, and enjoyed the grand feeling of being victorious. I didn't just win one world, I won all the worlds in my trial. And now I was the king, the only and first king in the entire world. How amazing this was!
And yet I didn't respond to any, waited, waited patiently for a certain person to send me his message. And after waiting for a few minutes that felt like an entire lifetime thanks to my anticipation, the message I waited for finally arrived.
[Ding! Congratulations for Human Hye to win all of his opponents and claim victory of the entire apocalypse]
[The apocalypse is over. Now you are appointed as the king and your kingdom is the former ruler of the entire world]
[Please select a name for the new world to be known over the entire universe. Make sure to select a name that isn't repeated]
I paused, looking at the flashes of little messages that appeared. This was the final and formal end of the entire apocalypse. And with it, I was the real king.
I knew this was just the beginning, and lots more announcements and messages would flood my eyes and ears in the next few minutes.
"I choose Earth," I wouldn't select another name for sure. I came from Earth, and humans lived there. So, it was only suitable for the new world to be called this.
[Earth name is getting checked… The name is already taken. Please select another name please]
"What the hell…" I never expected this. I reread that message over a dozen times, "who is that thief who named the world on the name of my home planet? No way! Are you sure it's taken?"
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