"Wah! This is crazy."
Grace announced as she dropped on the grass covered ground and stared at the beautiful clear sky above. The warm sunlight and the soft, cool breeze were the perfect combination to enjoy the weather.
"This place will feel like heaven once apocalypse will arrive." She murmured as she kept her gaze fixed on the sky. Right at that moment, she heard the fluttering sound of wings before a familiar voice registered in her ear.
"You need to work harder to keep this place a heaven."
She closed her eyes and inhaled deeply. Seconds later, she finally opened them and moved to a sitting position, turning to face the little creature. "Can you not speak like I have not been working tirelessly for the past three days?"
"Three hours." 2025 returned in a monotone.
Grace stared at the creature as she reminded it. "Since we are inside the Infinte Realm, we should count the time according to this place. And look at how hard I have been working, traveling from one city to another, hoarding supplies, stocking them up properly in the warehouse, setting up the greenhouses, farmhouse, and even the solar panels. I need a break too."
Listening to her words, 2025 spent a few seconds looking around the vast fields that were standing barren around them and only a small section had been planted with crops. And then, it started shaking its head while letting out a sigh.
"What’s with that sigh?" Grace demanded, somehow already knowing that the little creature had nothing good to say to her.
There was no doubt that 2025 was a great companion, most of the time. It was the only other being in the entire world that knew about the secret of Grace’s rebirth and the Infinite Realm. And while it was always there to provide the timely guidance, it had this bad hobby of irritating Grace.
Hearing her question, 2025 turned its gaze toward her and answered, "With your current speed, I’m sure you will need 80 years instead of 80 days to prepare properly for the upcoming disaster."
"Just say that you can’t handle me taking even a moment to catch my breath. Stupid creature!" Grace murmured through gritted teeth as she stood up and headed in the direction of the villa to handle the mess she had created there early that morning.
She spent the rest of the day, according to Infinite Realm’s time, arranging the villa all over again as there was a lot she had purchased for the place. She bought new furniture, kitchen appliances and cutlery, a TV and other electrical appliances, toiletries, and also received her newly customized wardrobe.
She also connected villa’s electricity system with the solar panels to keep everything running, especially the huge TV that was covering nearly half of the living room’s wall. Since she had downloaded so much stuff, it was only right for her to enjoy them on a big screen.
Once she was done, she stepped out of the Infinite Realm and finally went to bed around two in the morning. It was her last night in the Mapleton City and she needed to catch a flight to Skylane early at six in the morning.
After finishing her business in the Seven Falls, she and her group had headed to Mapleton where she finally hoarded the plants, seeds, trees, and other supplies to start farming within the Infinite Realm.
They stayed in Mapleton for two days to buy more supplies. She bought firewood and coal, more meat, instant food, dry food and fruits, dairy products, energy drinks and bars, compressed biscuits, chocolates, tea, coffee, condoms, baby and children supplies, and other miscllaneous stuff.
She also bought solar panels, solar generators, solar batteries, solar-powered chargers and power banks, solar-powered lighting, solar cooking supplies, solar-powered appliances, emergency tools and gadgets, accessories, and backup items.
Once she was done, she sent Maven and Ryan to handle another important purchase. She needed ships and boats, thus she handed them the task to buy the goods and safely transport them to a warehouse in Sunspire City.
Aleena and Valeska also received their new task to purchase fuel and store them in another warehouse in the Sunspire City.
When the morning arrived, she was on the plane to Skylane City to meet Ryan and collect the weapons that he had already purchased. She quickly finished her business in Skylane, and from there, she directly headed to Country S to meet Jasper.
It was a seven hours long flight and she spent it mostly catching up on her sleep and enjoying the food. When she landed in Country S, Jasper was there to pick her up. They headed straight to the warehouse where she collected the goods.
Since their flight to Sunspire was at four in the morning and it was only two in the afternoon, Grace decided to hoard some supplies in Country S. Fortunately, she succeeded in making deals for all the deliveries to be made before midnight, but it did cost her some extra money.
She bought pets, pet food and supplies, livestock feed and other essentials, electric stoves, gas stoves, wood-burning stoves, portable stoves, speciality stoves, gas cylinders, fish-catching equipment, and some other miscellaneous items.
Just like decided, the goods were delivered around half past eleven late that night and Grace quickly shifted everything inside her space. She and Jasper then headed to the airport and caught some sleep before their flight.
At four in the morning, they finally were on their way to Sunspire City. Grace took a look at the timer inside the space.
83 Days, 19 Hours, and 39 Minutes
A long sigh escaped her lips and she closed her eyes. It had already been two weeks since she got reborn and found a chance to change her fate. The days flew by so quickly and it was already the time for the arrival of the first warning of the upcoming doom.
She couldn’t help but feel slightly anxious deep in her heart. Merely a day was left before the disastrous rain would hit. What she didn’t expect was the surprise that was awaiting her upon her landing in Sunspire.