Apex Star

51  Destination: Capital City

Exiting his Soul World, Nova opened his eyes and scanned the surroundings. The ground was destroyed a few hundreds meters around him, broken trees, it was complete disaster.

His cultivation was at Middle Nebula Stage, this surprised him as he didn't think that he would advance so much in a short time. The energy from the World Stage Monkey King was barely able to push him to Early Nebula Stage. Clearly, the Apex helped him, or maybe the shackles he wore all this time.

Finally he spotted Destiny and the others, slightly raising his foot, Nova appeared a few hundred meters, directly in front of them. There were barely 40 people alive. Luckily, Maria and Alicia were fine, even City Lord Payne survived.

Destiny did a good job keeping them alive and even though they weren't completely healed, at least they're state wouldn't get worse even more.

The people were surprised seeing him appear so suddenly in front of them, even Destiny couldn't get a feel for Nova's power anymore.

"Are you fine? Did you just breakthrough?" Asked Destiny.

"Indeed, I'm at Middle Nebula Stage now." Said Nova, shocking those around him.

They were all taken aback hearing Nova admitting to be in Middle Nebula Stage, how did he advance so fast? Where did he get enough energy to do so? Still, they tactfully decided to ignore the question and kept their silence.

Seeing that the situation was worse than they expected, Nova, Destiny and City Lord Payne discussed what to do next. Nova wanted to go to Capital City, but didn't know the road. Destiny offered to go with him and City Lord Payne will take the rest of the troops and retreat to the city, where they will regroup with the stationed troops and continue to defend Jivili city. n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

"Then everything is settled, let's go Destiny. You said it would take us 2 days to get to Capital City?" Nova asked Destiny.

"Yes, at least 2 days, but if we encounter some trouble on the road, then I'm afraid even more time will be wasted..." Said Destiny, hoping to arrive without problems.

Nova looked at the two sisters, Maria and Alicia, he nodded at them signifying his departure and probably one of their last encounters... Nova's heart hurt a little seeing their expressions worsening, still he thought it was for the better to end their relationship earlier, before they will catch feelings and it will be too late.

As much as he liked the two, he understood that it was only 'lust' that made him do it with the two of them. Destiny watched the short interaction between Nova and the sisters without saying anything.

After a few minutes of saying goodbye, Nova and Destiny walked away without looking back. Starting their journey to Capital City, Destiny consumed a few pills that helped her recover er energy.

She was almost depleted and didn't have much energy stored, as she fought the giant snake she used almost half of her energy. After healing the others she was at 0 and also took some pills to help her continue the healing.

Usually after a warrior depleted his energy, in the good case, he will collapse. In the worst case... he could even die from exhausting his energy.

Seeing Destiny barely recovering some energy only to use it again to run, Nova proposed to rest for a while.

"No, we can't stop, I don't know what will happen to the Capital, maybe they need all the troops at their disposal to resist the Beastmen Kingdom. We should just hurry up and see what we can do."

"Hmm, then let me carry you, it should help us arrive faster this way, as I am faster that you. Meanwhile, you can also recover to your peak in these 2 days." Proposed Nova.

After thinking for a while, Destiny nodded to him. Nova gently put his hand on Destiny's back and legs. He lifted her up in a princess carry position and brougt her closer to his chest.

Being so close to a man, Destiny blushed a bit and was quickly getting hot after feeling Nova's hands on her body. Her head touched his shoulder and her breasts were slightly inching closer to his chest. After every landing from Nova's jumps, they even touched a little.

It was almost a day since they started their journey to the Capital, they only encountered some small fries that were instantly pulverized by Nova's space energy. Destiny didn't even see him doing so and thought they were lucky to not encounter enemies.

How could she see what Nova was doing if he used his space energy to kill the enemy from almost a kilometer? After he broke through Nebula Stage, Nova's use of energy and more importantly, the quality of his energy were more that 100 times than when he was a Peak Stage 10.

If Nova felt it right, then he could most probably kill everyone below Galaxy Stage with a fist. He asked Destiny about the hughest Stage present in the world. Surprisingly, every single Emperor from all the continents was a Peak Universe Stage.

It wasn't something the current Nova could contest against. After Galaxy Stage, there was still the Cosmos Stage and only then Universe Stage, not to mention the Peak of Universe Stage.

"Are there Immortal Stage here?" This question earned a doubtful look from Destiny.

"Immortal Stage? I've never heard of it before. What's that and how do you know about it?"

After thinking for a while, Nova decided to come clean. "Actually, I'm not from this world and I came here only to complete a task my master asked me to..." Nova refered to Primordial Kanares as his master, because the latter said that as long as he thinks of himself as his master, it would be enough.

Destiny wasn't as shocked as she had her doubts of Nova's identity from the moment she saw him.

Normally every single human, without question will have a map of the Human Kingdom. So how could Nova be so lost in the wilderness? It was common sense.

Still she didn't give it much thought, until it was clearly his first time hearing about Jivili City, one of the biggest routes of transportation in the kingdom. Without question even a kid would've heard of Jivili City, that was the biggest red flag.

Now hearing him say that, she just nodded to express her understanding much to Nova's surprise.

"Aren't you surprised at all?" Asked Nova with a confused expression.

Seeing Nova's confused expression and the little frown formed by his eyebrows, Destiny chuckled a little. She started to explain her earlier doubts about him.

After hearing her say this, Nova was enlightened about the reason for her earlier fast acceptance.

"Oh right, I forgot to mention it before, what is your task given by your master in this world?" Asked Destiny feeling a bit curious about what could a being capable of sending someone in another world would want.

"Oh, I just have to rule all the continents..." Said Nova matter-of-factly.