He calmed down his jittery nerves. He needed to find out what this man knew.

"What resources do you seek and how are you going to divert them to Origin?"

The man brought out a dagger and tried to stab his chest, but an invisible force grabbed his hand and he couldn't move an inch.

"Do you think you can find an escape through death?" Abdin said with an undertone of a subtle threat.

Silver Mask had once asked him the same thing. Low-level cultivators never understood that their death wasn't something they could control.

The stone golem appeared and swallowed the man's hand and the dagger it was holding. Blood gushed from the stump and the man gave out a frightening roar.

It wouldn't be long before others came, so Abdin released his entire cultivation and pinned the man down.

Using the might of the 'replacement castle' he had summoned earlier, coupled with Yunus' soul, he frightened the man to near death.

"What resources do you seek and how are you going to divert them to Origin?"

"The air, water, and spiritual ki. We will build a bridge with the bodies and souls of your men." He paused, trembling. "That's all I know."

Abdin felt his legs shaking for the first time in many years.

To sum it up, these men had come to kill every living person on this planet. And then loot every useful resource in it. Moreover, they were merely emissaries from Fabae, sent by a world called Origin.

Many things passed through his mind. And for the first time, Abdin became so sure about the existence of worlds other than his own.

Origin must be a bigger and more powerful world if it could order Fabae around. But the worst part of it was that this world called Origin had its eyes pinned on his home world.

Fabae and Origin had connived with insiders like king Biyakin and Silver Mask to ruin the world and killed everyone inside. But that didn't explain what they were doing in Biyakis. They could have been anywhere else, why Biyakis?

His plans for both the near and distant futures had been severely affected. He had come to Biyakis just to boost his cultivation and to escape death from those that wished him ill.

His only obstacle then had been emperor Biyakin, and that was only because the emperor happened to be standing on the castle's path of expansion. Now there were many more obstacles, bigger and a thousand times more dangerous.

His goal was still the same. He still wanted to enhance his cultivation by expanding the castle. But instead of just Biyakis, he now had to contend with Fabae and Origin and their forces within the world.

His mind began to operate at high speed, and he decided on what to do in a matter of seconds.

For the remainder of this loop, he would follow up on things and see how they were going to unfold and try to thwart them in the next loop.

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A metallic sound reached his ear just then.

He turned towards the direction of the sound. Behind the door of the room, the man floating just above the ground and the woman at his back were trying to break in.

But like every other building in the castle, a low-level cultivator couldn't break it. Even the walls wouldn't be easy to break. So the duo had been stuck outside the room.

The man before Abdin looked at the door expectantly. He would finally be saved and even have a chance at revenge. His leader was so powerful that he became the commanding officer of their fleet after serving for just a couple of years. He could deal with Abdin easily.

Abdin waved his hand and the golem appeared again. It swallowed the man as a whole without leaving even a drop of blood. It was so sudden that the man didn't react at all. Even when he died, he was looking at the door expectantly and hoping to survive.

Abdin waited for a few seconds, staring at the now empty space, before walking back to his seat.

Manisa and her maid were in deep shock. Each of the five men killed just now possessed more cultivation base than any of them. No words could come out of their mouths, for all they wanted to say.

Abdin wasn't in a hurry to speak as well.

A short while later, the two people succeeded in breaking into the room.

The man was still suspended above the ground. His eyes were glued to Abdin. The woman searched around the room with her eyes, hoping to find the five men assigned to the motel.

Abdin suddenly realized something: these two people were holding an ocean of information on the whole conflict. Even information that wasn't available to the five men he just killed would be available to them.

This would be another chance of getting more information.

The two intruders didn't try attacking Abdin or the two women in the room, and they kept their distance to about ten paces away.

After a moment of silent stare, the man took a stone tablet from his pocket and placed it over his mouth.

"We have a problem here. We have encountered a 03288 Alpha. Information about the plan has been leaked. The percentage of probability is eighty percent."

Manisa and her maid had bizarre looks on their faces. They couldn't understand what the man said because he didn't speak in Juyad.

But Abdin knew this language from one of his castles. He understood most of what the man had said even though there had been a few difficult words.

Four seconds later, the tablet glowed. "Understood." Another man replied from the other end.

Abdin's expression began to change. He heard the exchange but he couldn't understand their meaning. His first impression was that it was a call for reinforcement, but he had a feeling it wasn't just that.

He suddenly jumped towards Manisa, but his eyes widened in fear and shock even before he could reach the princess.

His course changed abruptly and he vanished from the room.

The following second saw Abdin flying in the skies, deep within the clouds. At the same moment, the capital exploded.

A frightening explosion with a powerful shockwave spread for hundreds of kilometers. His body shook and he almost lost his balance and fell despite being far away from the city.

When he looked above him, he saw a big spaceship lurking among the clouds. Attached to the fuselage was a gigantic silencer still smoking from use.

Abdin stared at the silencer and then down at the capital... or rather where the capital used to be. There was nothing there now except a giant crater of dust and debris.

The Shurein capital had been the most developed, most beautiful, and most ancient city on the whole continent. The skyscrapers that made up the capital had attracted cultivators from all over the continent.

It was where emperor Shen had lived with his family. Every elite of note in the empire was living there up until a moment ago.

But the city and all its dwellers had been wiped out in just a matter of seconds.

Abdin had been the sole survivor. Even Manisa and her maid weren't spared. His opponents, the old man with his woman escort, along with all the black-clad men and the ships that landed moments earlier had become naught.

It was only now that he understood the message sent by that man. Either because of the information gleaned by him from the leader of the five men, or because of their estimation of Abdin's strength, the invaders had decided to topple the capital.

But they hadn't been able to kill him.

He could understand the reckless abandon to human lives, but since when had there been any space automation of such caliber in this world? To think that a mere shot could destroy a city such as this!