The pocket world was a massive ball that kept attracting fierce currents of air like big tornados. But now? It was much bigger, much blacker in colour, with spikes coming out from its surface all the time.
There were lots of golden circles flashing over the surface like they were some sort of weird and unique symbols.
And that wasn’t all. The ground around it started to get painted with black colour. As for the sky above, it was covered with densely packed and seemingly angry dark clouds.
Lightning kept dancing up there in such fierceness that would terrify anyone from getting high up there.
That scene… It could be spotted tens of miles away, giving my pocket world a scary look.
“This… Is this really yours?” Angelica was shocked to see this, or perhaps terrified, or a bit of both.
I didn’t know, and I didn’t care. Just one look over this pocket world and I knew it was really unique.
And it was ready!
“Let’s go,” I said and just before I’d move my chariot again, Angelica screamed in panic.
“No way! I got the feeling of death whenever I looked at this big… Black… Things! Let me down, I can go to the capital myself.”
“Are you sure?” I knew this world of mine gave a scary impression, but it was harmless to me or my people.
“I can’t just ignore that impending feeling of death. Just drop me off and I will go to the capital and wait for you there.”
“Ok,” I paused, “but why did I call you in the first place?”
She froze there, not knowing what to say. During these hours, she didn’t speak except for complaining about Hilary.
She never thought about asking why I asked for her specifically.
And if I was going to let her go, she had to know what she had to do.
“Then… Tell me…” she asked while putting on such a face, the face of someone getting framed or something.
“Sigh! You came all the way here and it never crossed your mind to ask… Tsk,” I teased her and she just snorted in response.
“Fine, you are here to help in receiving a large number of races and humans,” I said, and she instantly got the idea.
“But… Isn’t that supposed to happen back there?” she was referring to the second Earth world, and she was right about her guess so I nodded. “If so… Then going to the capital won’t help, right?”
“You’ll just wait for me there,” I looked at the direction of the capital, “you’ll find a new group of people to work under you, the more the better. Teach them what to do, so they can help with what yet to come.”
“Piece of cake,” she shrugged, but that wasn’t everything.
“You will also ask Isac to train people under her so they can help you in the building process in the entire world out there.”
“So I’ll also help with building cities and towns? I did it before,” she was right. But the people who helped her at that time were all gone by now.
I didn’t know where such talents went. It might look frustrating, or seemingly a big loss. But during this long war, things went hectic and I had to use all the forces I could muster.
Not to mention gaining more people and training more talents was a simple task to me and my friends.
“Don’t forget to take many designs from her,” I stressed while dropping Angelica to the ground, “and tell her to start redesigning the entire kingdom lands, to make sure the next zombie thing won’t cause big trouble.”
“Are they really that bad? The zombies I mean.”
“They are much worse than what you may think,” I seriously said, “just make her do this and get ready. Once I’m back, we will head together to the second world.”
“Ah, what about that sleeping princess and prince in our chariot?” just before she would drive her chariot away, she asked, reminding me of these two.
“What about them? They are sleeping and I can’t do anything to them so far.”
“That’s not what I meant,” she slowly shook her head, before looking in a gloomy expression towards my world, “this place… It reeks with death that makes me want to run as far away from it as possible.”
“It’s harmless to me and my people.”
“To you… Perhaps, but to your people? No way!” she gave me a serious look, “just give these two over to me. I got rooms, much fewer in number than yours of course but they handle these two for now.”
“This…” I planned to keep these two by my side until they’d wake up. But from her look and words, I got what she wanted to say.
Perhaps keeping them with me while exploring my pocket world for the first time was a big mistake. They might get hurt or something.
“Fine then, wait here,” I descended to the second floor before grabbing the two weak and unconscious bodies and returned back to the top of my chariot. Then I handed them over to Angelica with a clear warning.
“Don’t ever let them be away from your eyes, and always keep someone watching you and them.”
“What for?” she got them and asked in such doubt.
“Just to make sure you and them will always stay safe,” I didn’t explain much. She already got the story about those souls, or gods, or whatever they were.
This was for her safety, and theirs. Last thing I wanted was for two of my higher up personnel to create havoc inside my capital.
Or to lose another capable general of mine in the mess.
“Ok, I will do that,” for a reason it felt like she wouldn’t. So while I watched her get away, I opened a chat with Isac, and informed her about Angelica and the missions these two would have to do.
And I warned her about these two, briefed her about what happened and might happen if these two were left unguarded or unwatched.