Luke watched the Lunari queen, who was flirting with him, and listeo her expnation carefully. If what she said was true, then why did his system show his occupation as "universal sve" instead of "universal warrior"? There was some piece of the puzzle that was missing.To top it off, he couldn't sult Syzy about it, as the system was down. For now, he could only keep his doubts unresolved.
Luke reached out and took the queen's soft hand. She showed a bit of surprise at the young man's bold a. No one who knew her reputation would dare to do something like that.
Looking into her eyes, he said"So, what's your pn? Do you have any mission for me?"
Zara ughed and didn't take back her hand that had been taken by Luke.
"Pn? There is no pn. Or at least I'm not at a high enough level to know it. The dragon goddess has told us through the oracles that the universal warrior will appear, and that we must assist him in any way we . So, I should be the oo ask that question. What is the pn, Mister Luke Lyriksen?"
Pn? How could he have a pn about something he didn't even ked until just a few minutes ago? Until now, he had only been ed with living his life as best as possible without any grand goal in mind. Every now and then, the system would issue a mission and his daily life would be disrupted until he pleted it. That was how he had lived for the st hundred years.
Luke released the Lunari queen's gentle hand. Shaking his head, he shrugged lightly.
"I'm afraid I don't have any pn, I'm just trying to live day by day. Perhaps you'd have to wait for a new oracle from the dragon goddess. I may not be the person you're waiting for."
"Impossible. I could clearly see that the causal nodes were ag strange around you… Although…"Queen Zara looked hesitant and did not tih what she was saying
"What is it? If we are going to cooperate in any way, siy is essential"
"Well… The st time I saw you, the causal nodes were ag strange around you, that is why I was able to guess your identity. But now… The nodes are ag normally, as if you were once again within the fabric of reality. In this state, you probably would not be able to ge the causal hat is why I asked you if something had happened in the Spider Queen's territory. Did you suffer an act?"
If there was ohing that had ged sihe st time they had seen each other, it was the system. The system was now not w. More doubts flooded Luke.In any case, he could not tell Zara about the existence of the system. It was a fact that he preferred to keep secret, until the st sequences.
"Well, I 't go into details, but I did suffer an injury in that battle. I should be back to normal after a while anyway."
Zara realized that he didn't want to go into the subject further. So she just smiled and didn't ask about it.
"For now, you should stay here in Lunaria. I promise to ensure your well-being. That way, when you have a mission to plete, we offer you help."
Of course, the "mission" that the Lunari queen was referring to wasn't the system's missions, but the mission that the universal warrior had in the prophecy sent by his goddess.
"Okay. I wasn't pnning on leaving anyway. I still have some unfinished business."
Luke stared at the sexy priestess who was standing a few meters away, and she blushed and lowered her head. The young man's gaze was full of desire, and she couldn't help but feel a tingliion running through her body.
Zara nodded her head ign the small iioween the young man and the priestess.
"Very well, then I propose that you e live in the pace, the church of the dragon goddess is not a safe pce for you at the moment. I hate to say it, but Lunaria is going through a bit of a turmoil at the moment. The waters in the church are too deep. If you stay there, there could be trouble."
"It's fih me, as long as I have a pce to sleep, I'm happy. Also, I don't want to be arrogant, but I think I defend myself against the potential dangers I might enter in Lunaria."
The Lunari queen ughed with joy.
"Ha ha, that's the fidence I expect from the famous universal warrior!"
"Your majesty, I have a question I hope you answer."
"There's no need for suality! You call me Zara, I don't think you're so shy that you 't even call me by my name, right?"
"Alright, Zara. I have a question to ask. In the Spider Queen's territory I found several Lunaris and some human prisoners, using a teleportation teique I mao send them to Lunaria. Have they been rescued? Their dition was not very good to begin with."
Now that they had put the topic of the universal warrior and causal nodes aside, he took the opportunity to inquire about the group of prisoners he had rescued. How would the Lunari child who had been able to discover his magi, even without having a shred of cultivation, be?
Zara restricted her smile.
"I must admit that you surprised me by sending so many people, spatial magic of that level is extremely rare."
Zara did not know that Luke had used a talisman to perform that teleportation spell. Otherwise it would have been impossible for him to use such a spell.
As for the reason why the Lunari queen had not thought of that option, it was simple. Talisman teology had not yet beeed at this point in history. Luke himself had developed that teology in his past life, based on some talismans he had seen in his sed life, which had taken pce more than a hundred years iure taking the current time as a reference.
"To answer your question, Luke, that group of people you rescued are currently in the underground prison where you yourself were held captive."
"Are they prisoners? But if they are simply victims of the Spider Queen, most of them don't even have spiritual cultivation!"
"Yes, I know. The problem is that the Spider Queen had a retionship with several Lunarian nobles. You could say that they had a mutually beneficial agreement. Therefore, if they allow the matter to be iigated, the is of these nobles will be harmed. None of them want to be implicated in this i, as that would give their enemies an excuse to act. However, they 't just get rid of that group of people either, as that would be an act of rebellion against my authority, and in that case they would be in trouble as well. They are currently dragging out the situation and trying to find a solution. The poor prisoners you rescued have been caught in the middle of the court intrigues. I must admit that the current situation is partly my fault. If I had more power, I could simply crush any opposition." But right now I don't have such ability."
Zara slumped into the chair where she had been sitting when Luke ehe room. Her voice was filled with exhaustion. The Lunari queen, who always showed herself to be infallible, was not a mae after all. She had moments of weakoo.
Hearing what Zara said, Luke felt a great anger welling up inside him.
He didn't sider himself a man who had great feelings of justice, he didn't go around the world trying to eliminate every inequality. But he simply hated the feeling of being at the mercy of other people. Aed that the little boy he had worked so hard to save was now at the mercy of a group of nobles, who sidered his life to be worthless.
He ched his fists, making a sound that was heard throughout the rge room.The two women realized that his mental state was not very good, it seemed that at any moment he would explode in fury. If that happened, major is could occur iy, and it could even unleash a bigger disaster. One small piece moving in the wrong dire could cause tless pieces to colpse like a domino.
Luke turned around, he was angry, he would go to the prison to see the situation with his own eyes.
Zara appeared o him and put a hand on his shoulder.
"Wait a minute Luke, don't act rashly. The prisoners you rescued are safe, give me a few more days and I promise I'll get them released."
Luke shook his shoulder, causing the Lunari queen's beautiful and soft hand to move away.
"I o see the situation for myself."
The queen was shocked by Luke's rea. Immediately her spiritual energy exploded within the room aone became colder.
"Don't think that just because I've been kind to you, I'm weak! If you won't listen the easy way, I'll have to teach you the hard way that I be stern too!"
Luke immediately took his staff and began to pour spiritual energy into it. The Lunari queen robably the most powerful person in Lunaria. Even if she had no iions of seriously attag, to faeone of such level he o use all his strength or he could end up with a serious injury.
Namira saw that Zara and Luke were about to engage in bat, and decided to get in the middle to prevent the flict from esg further. However, she had only taken two steps when Luke's body began to glow, the light began to separate from his body f spheres of light that then merged to form a figure.
In front of the shocked women, a small naked girl who looked like a por doll suddenly appeared. Her gaze was full of alertness, and she looked at Queen Zara with suspi, ready to attack if she made any sudden movement.
Seeing the girl who had appeared, the Lunari Queen immediately dissipated all her spiritual power. Even though she could nnize her identity in, something inside her told her not to attack her. The girl herself did not seem to have great bat power, but her presence was imposing, as if she were standing before a divine being.
Namira oher hand, opened her eyes in surprise and took several steps towards the girl.Deep within her, she felt a e with the little girl. For a moment, feeling this e and the slight divine power emanating from her, she thought that it was the lunar goddess. But then, as she approached and looked at her closely, she noticed her distinctive red eyes.It could not be the lunar goddess Selena, sihe goddess had blue eyes. But then why did she feel this e?
The little girl saw that Zara had stopped emitting spiritual energy and seemed to have no iion of attag Luke. Then she saw Namira looking at her with astonishment and doubt.She blinked with an expression that ienderness, and came to the clusion that there would be no fight. It had been a false arm.
She had been sleeping, trying to recover her energy, when she felt a rge amount of spiritual energy that alerted her and forced her to appear. Now that she had seen that a great battle was not taking pce as she had initially thought, sleep invaded her again.
She had used a lot of energy to treat Luke's wounds, the wounds inflicted by the spider queen were not problems for her, but the self-inflicted wounds from the use of berserk mode were plicated to treat. She had had to use almost all the divine power that her already weakened avatar had.
Right now, the dragon goddess was in a a, she had left a minimal part of her sciousness awake, so that her avatar could assist Luke.Her body had shrunk to that of a child to save energy, and even her mentality had returo aal state. Right now, her avatar had the body and mind of a child, incapable of overly plex thoughts, not even able to unicate through speech. Over time, as she accumuted divine power, the situation would improve, but the speed at which she absorbed divine power was very slow, so it would probably take at least a tury to return to her inal form. Unless she found a way to speed up the absorption process, or found a rge source of divine power.
For example, the divine power she had absorbed from the Arbori's e seals was merely a drop in the o, even though it was a rge amount pared to what she could normally absorb, it was still only a tiny fra of what she needed. It should have shortehe time o reach her inal form by about a month.
Obviously, Luke was not aware of all these matters. He only khat the girl in front of him was the avatar of a goddess, and that for some reason she had helped him heal his wounds. Also the Aetheris had said that she had chosen him to be her champion, but Luke wasn't sure of that. Until he saw the specififormation in the system, he was trying to keep an open mind.He was waiting for the system to e back up to resolve several doubts regarding the little girl.
The girl felt her eyelids grow heavy, she turned around and walked back to Luke, then threw herself into his arms, hugging him with pleasure. Her body began to dissolve intht lights and she re-entered Luke's body.
The two women watched the whole process in surprise, their minds filled with doubts.
"Luke, who is that girl?" Queen Zara asked.
"I'm not sure. I think she's the avatar of a goddess, but I don't have any definite information."
Luke didn't mentioheris for the moment. There would be time to do so ter. Now the important thing was still to go to the prison to see the state of the child he had saved.
"I'm going to the prison Zara. Don't try to stop me. I o see the situation there."
"But right now you 't affect the causal nodes, if you go there you'll probably be in danger" Zara said trying to dissuade him
"Wasn't it that you couldn't know the tents of the nodes? How do you know I'll be in trouble?" Luke said raising his eyebrows
"I 't see the 'specific' tent. But I still get an idea of ??the rge-scale facts. For example, each person is represented in the causal ructure by a small dot, if suddenly a rge number of these dots cease to exist, couldn't you ihat something is happening even if you don't know specifically what?"
Listening to her expnation, Luke got an idea of ??how the Lunari Queen observed the o predict certain facts.
"And do you see that something simir will happen if I go to the prison?"
Zara shook her head."I don't have as much power as you're imagining. Even though I see the nodes, I 't do it tinuously. The st time I observed the nodes was when the children escaped from the city. I khen that they would die in the Spider Queen's territory, although this ultimately didn't happen.The reason I don't want you to go to the prison is because there is a rge causal node located there. A rge massacre will happen in the prison around this time. If you go now when you 't alter the nodes, you might be in danger!"
"But the nodes have already ged. If the children had died, there would be no reason for me to go to the prison to iigate, so the big i you saw probably has ion to me."
"That's not how it works, Luke. Even if you ged a he inal dire of reality remains the same. Perhaps in the inal timeline, you might have goo the prison for another reason, sparking the flict. And even if you are not the cause, the i is going to happen anyways!"
"If I were part of that i, you couldn't stop me even if you wao, sihe future is already written, right?"
"That's right. But only if you're one of the main points of that node. If you're not, you still avoid danger. Basically right now I'm doing everything I to keep you from being involved in that i. That i will happen at any moment. If it's really necessary for you to be there for it to happen, then you'll definitely go there no matter what I do to stop you. However, I don't think that's the case!"
"Oh yeah? And why are you so sure?"
"Very simple, it's because your presen the timeline is stra's as if your existence is a void. That's why I this happen even without your influence."
"Void? As if it does?"
"Hmm, it's hard to expin, it's as if your existence isn't tinuous, it appears and disappears at every moment, and its movements 't be predicted. It seems like it move freely within the great river that makes up reality. Perhaps that is the reason you alter the causal nodes."
Luke sank bato his thoughts, for a few minutes he pted the new information he had been given. Perhaps the system had a hidden purpose after all.
"I am tired of guessing Zara. I am going to the prison. Don't worry, with my level of camoufge they will never be able to find me. I will not cause any major problems."
Both Zara and Namira looked worried.Luke showed a reassuring smile and waved his hand to bid farewell to the two women.
However, at that moment. The system, whitil then had remained silent, once again appeared.
*System for a full life, love and offspring is online again*
*Alert* *Alert* *Alert*
*The Host has beeed to have increased their cultivation level, reag level 3*
*The cultivation level is too high! The host o find a cultivation partner immediately or his mind will colpse from the pent-up desire!*
Several arms sounded in his mind, and a s with rge red letters appeared in front of his eyes. But Luke could no longer read the information in front of him. His mind had pletely clouded over. His body was burning, a hellish heat had surged in his abdomen, and he had pletely lost his mind.
His usual gentle and calm appearance had been repced by the appearance of an animal i!With his eyes filled with lust, he looked at the two women, who were so beautiful that they could rival the goddesses. His breathing quied even more, and he pounced o full speed.