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"I will deliver the message now," Maya replied as she started to relate the orders to her cultivators. Ibro thought for a while then he said to her:

"Make them use my ability to cleanse any NPC from his demon seed as a temptation."

Maya looked strangely at him as she asked:

"This world is controlled by players."

"That doesn't mean there isn't any NPC here, right? They will be pissed off from losing their power. So, the chances for them to accept my help would be higher. 

As for players, I don't own anything to help them. Players are harder to deal with, especially when they are this powerful. They will be arrogant and selfish. I can't deal with them and they won't help me."

Maya understood part of his speech. After all, she was a sword cultivator who lived her life in cultivation based worlds. Nonetheless, she relayed the orders to her cultivators and waited for a result. 

Her wait didn't last for a long time, as she received many responses in less than one hour.

"My men have found many NPCs that accepted your offer."

Ibro was very confident in finding such NPCs, so he replied without concern:

"Let them all be sent to us here."

Maya hesitated before saying:

"Their number is very huge, at least they are over 100 million NPCs."

This time Ibro was speechless from surprise. He didn't imagine all these NPCs accepting his offer, but he was excited and happy. 

The more villagers he got, the more powerful his empire would be. Ibro didn't change his mind, so Maya gave her orders for those NPCs to come here. 

In half an hour, a huge crowd of NPCs appeared in front of Ibro who stood in the air observing them. They were high-level NPCs indeed, as all of them were flying. 

Ibro was eager to obtain as many flying soldiers. His flying advantage was obvious and he wanted to use it to maximum benefit. Ibro kept tracking all the incoming NPCs until they all arrived in front of him. 

Their numbers were huge without doubt, as Ibro suspected they might exceed 200 million. The more of them worked under him the better, which was what he kept telling himself.

"Let's keep the long story short… I'm Ibro, your new master. I will kill all the demon seeds inside you and give you a new chance of life. 

I promise you in the future I will find a way to make all of you gain levels again like before. If you don't have any objection to my offer, then stand still and don't move."

Ibro didn't move for moments as he wanted to make sure they had all understood what he meant. He needed them to believe not just follow. 

Ibro didn't lie, he was heading straight to establish an empire that would allow them to gain levels again. a chance for freedom and a promise for the future, that was an offer that couldn't be refused.

'Start absorbing their energy, but don't pollute my soul sea with it.'

Ibro had cleansed his soul sea finally and it regained its pureness like before. All this energy that entered his body had been absorbed by the system. 

Ibro gained in return PSR orbs and energy. The battle with the demons that emerged from the seeds was, as usual, Ibro's current strength now gave him the ability to kill all of them in just one ultimatum strike. 

Once they died, those NPCs regained their freedom, and so they knelt on the ground without previous agreement and pledged their eternal loyalty to him. 

Each NPC took one beta stone without any questions as they formally joined Ibro' empire.

"I came here looking for a way to go to the gate world. I know this world is the first world ever in this universe to launch the game. So if any of you knew the way to go to the gate world, just move forward and tell me."

The NPCs exchanged looks before some of them moved forward to Ibro. They were the highest level here, so Ibro expected them to be the NPCs leaders. Once they reached him, they knelt again as one of them spoke:

"I'm so sorry master, but I want to discourage you from the idea of going there."

Ibro didn't get angry from his words, instead, he asked calmly:

"Why do you advise me not to go?"

The high-level wizard hesitated for a moment as he couldn't tell from Ibro's tone if he was mad at him or not. Ibro knew what was going on in this former player's mind, so he reassured him:

"Don't be nervous; just speak out your mind. I want to hear your opinion."

The wizard was hesitant, but he couldn't disobey his master at his first meeting like this. So, he expressed his mind:

"The gate world is lost, my master. All our cities and towns there had been lost to the demons. This game started from day one with the infection of demon seeds, so going there would be a suicide."

Ibro didn't care about his warning or fear, as he focused on another issue. This game started with demon seeds in it. It was kind of similar to Maya's case and his case too.

'It seems the hands of those demons were very deep from the beginning, all the humans' plans were destroyed even before beginning.'

Ibro muttered to himself these words while his brain was boiling with anger. He didn't know the whole old story behind this war, but he guessed parts of it. 

If demons manipulated every human plan to such a degree, then following these plans would end with failure. 

Ibro needed to improvise, but first, he needed to become strong. Establishing an empire would be his first step towards supremacy.

"Don't worry about your master, just show me the road. I have another mission for you, but first, answer my question."

After some hesitation between trying again to discourage Ibro and answering his inquiry, the wizard replied:

"We have a direct way to reach there. Here in this world lies a teleportation portal that linked directly to the gate world. 

This portal is buried deep in the center of this world, but on the other end of the portal lies huge numbers of demons. Finding the portal in our world is easy, but…"

Ibro interrupted his words as he said:

"Just tell me where I can find it in this world."

The wizard replied:

"I can take you there myself."