A few days passed and Desaray and Cinder were currently sitting in the meeting room. “How is it?”

“I’m sorry I can’t seem to detect the Demon Queen of Lightning. She seems to have disappeared. I am not sure if she was defeated or not already.” Cinder lowered her head. She felt useless once more.

“Can a Demon Queen be defeated that quickly?” Desaray mumbled, only for a groan to come from her side. Only then did she realize she had defeated Cinder quite quickly herself. “Sorry, I didn’t mean that!”

    “No, it’s fine…. I know I am the weakest of the demon queens now. But to be honest, I think our biggest and most dangerous foe is the Demon Queen of Darkness. The Demon Queen of Lust relies on her ability to control men, but if you throw a bunch of powerful women at her, she will lose quickly. As for the Demon Queen of Death, she relies on her army of undead to do her bidding. If she can kill those close to you, she will then use that to her advantage, but the level of the undead does not change even upon death. She can only strengthen them to be maybe a few levels higher power-wise, but nothing else. The longer I feel their powers, the more I understand them. The Demon Queen of Darkness’s power is like one hundred times stronger than everyone elses.” Cinder bit her lip. She really did not expect this.

“We have a light dragon thanks to my best friend returning. So, we only need to level her up, which I plan to do. For the time being, I do not think we will have to worry too much about who will appear here. We are on the east coast, far away from the other areas. The Demon Queen of Darkness first needs to take over the other countries before she can make her way here. And even then, with how our world doubled in size, she will need to pass through a second continent before even reaching this one.” Desaray waved her hand and created two globes of ice of What Earth Looked like now and before.

“If you look here.” Desaray pointed towards the continents that were originally on Earth. “These are what I consider Pre Merger Earth continents. We are on the North American continent. But as you can see on this globe here, there are four more new continents and much more water. This is a map of the land that has appeared since the mergers began. Juna has been using her roots to roam the oceans and come across new lands. These lands we do not know much about. Juna has only begun discovering them, but she had her roots trace out the edge of the continent first, but it seems to be more uncharted territory.”

“This is much different from what the other world looked like….” Cinder was a bit confused.

“Different?” Desaray was also confused. She thought all these lands came from the other world.

“These lands are not from my world. Well, not all of them. This one and this one are, but not these two. These two are much bigger than any of the continents from my world. Are you sure that it is only my world that is merging into this world?”  Cinder’s question was something that Desaray did not even think to take into consideration.

She only thought the one world was merging into hers. She never thought that maybe a second or a third world was also merging into this one.

 - - -

 In a dark space, Silas stood looking at the images before him with a sour face. “Vinee, is this your doing!?”

Silas turned to look at the woman standing behind him. She looked at him with a small smile on her face and said: “Silas, for a woman, you would do anything. But I am also a woman. And I will do anything to be with you. Since you care so much about her, why not see if she can survive when even more powerful beings begin to appear in her world? The mergers are not over yet. That woman…. I killed her once… I can kill her again. And there is nothing you can do about it. You can only watch as she dies at my hands. Once the gates open and I can descend, I hope you can reach her before me.”

“Vinee, if you touch a single hair on her head, I will….” Silas gritted his teeth. He wanted nothing more than to kill this woman now. But he couldn’t do anything in this realm.

“Hehe…. You will what? Watch as your lover loses her life as I slowly choke it out of her? Haha. The race is on Silas. Let’s see who wins.”

- - -

Desaray suddenly felt a shiver. This did not escape Cinder’s eyes. “Ummm… are you cold?”

“Pfft!” Desaray let out a laugh and wrapped her arms around Cinder. “Not at all. Not when the Demon Queen of Cinder is here to warm me up!” 

“Oh….” Cinder lowered her head and blushed. She did not know why, but she liked it when Desaray hugged her.

“Desa, we are ready!” Yi Ling and Becky walked into the room. Becky stood by the door while Yi Ling walked over with a smile. 

“You are ready to go? Becky, are you sure you do not want to take a few more days off? Didn’t you just get out of a dungeon not too long ago?” Desaray asked.

“It’s fine. All of us want to raise our ice resistance. We can’t not be around our friend, right? Plus, I am kind of jealous. I used to hug you, too!”