It didn’t take long for Mei to carry Aleph to the couch. She couldn’t help but notice his clothes’ pristiate.

  ‘A great sage. It’s an apt description.’

  It was hard to imagihat a ‘peaceful’ person like him could destroy cities with a strike of his hand. The ge in his surroundings was drastic everytime he did his own thing. It was as if there was something in him that elicited pead tranquility.

  Caught in her own thoughts, Mei found herself looking at Aleph’s sleeping face for teire minutes.

  Beep-!

  The phone in her pocket vibrated. She answered the call and was greeted by her secretary’s slightly hurried tone.

  “Chairman. An i report was sent over fifteen minutes ago.” The secretary paused for a while before tinuing, “I think you should check it.”

  Mei ehe call soon after. She found the i report—a dot sisting of thirty-five pages.

  A simple s was enough to uand the gist of it.

  “It was destroyed..?”

  She involuntarily looked at the sleeping man. y-nine pert, she was sure it was caused by him.

  “The satellite feed wasn’t interrupted. The ey disappeared in an instant.”

  Mei suddenly recalled something.

  “Instant disappearance..?”

  It was a normal night. She was studying diligently for her term-end examinatiohe ground rumbled. A loud explosion occurred in the aral hall where the remains of the previous family heads were kept.

  When she went there, she saw her father’s figure. A rge hole was torn open on the ceiling. Rays of moonlight illuminated his kneeling figure.

  Strangely, the lightning bde in his grasp was eerily silent. It was supposed to emit lightning artermittently, yet it remaiill now.

  “Chichiue!” (Father!)

  At that time, Mei rushed to her father’s side. She was close enough to hear the words he had been mumbling.

  “Was everything meaningless?”

  Before her fiips could touch him, he disappeared. All that remained was the Sentinel deeply embedded on the wooden floor as well as his clothes.

  Such a se seo a severe shock. She wasn’t able to process it until a few days ter. The seventh dest occurred at the same time as her father’s funeral, which was why she wore a pure white outfit.

  ‘What did his words mean? That everything was meaningless..?’

  The lingering frustrations gathered again. She, who did not possess suffit strength, couldn’t even properly deal with the Fmebringer. How could she have the capabilities to know the reason behind her father’s death?

  ‘Strength.’

  Without saying anything, she stood up from her seat and headed to the training room.

  *****

  “Five days…”

  Aleph was in a slight daze when he saw the date on the digital clock. His sight turo the prompts he didn’t close during his enter on the event horizon.

  [How Did We Get Here: Arrive on the Horizon of Existenbsp;for the first time.]

  [Ahe Wind Blows: Break free from the Horizon of Existen your own.]

  [Kabukimono: I with one’s deepest secret for the first time.]

  These achievement prompts had ily answered some of his doubts.

  For example, the light that he saw.

  “What even am I..?”

  Aleph was certain that his stro power wasn’t Albion’s iance, but the ‘light’ he saw that day. He ected it to his hunch, to which he might be able to use it after he pletes the Bnk Sephira Crystal.

  “The light was buried, all along.”

  Keeping this horrendous pun to himself, Aleph checked the rewards they gave.

  [Wandering — Sequence 3: Wanderer (Exclusive Skill)]

  [Great Sage — Database]

  [Fused Domain]

  The moment he saw the few achievements, he let out a ugh. It became stronger when he saw the first reward.

  “This is really… What a ce.”

  Aleph was aware of his resembh Scaramouche, a character belonging to another world. If it wasn’t obvious enough, his name cided with one of the cssigs in his previous world.

  Kabukimono, which trao wanderer, was one of the names he bore.

  Finally, the most obvious e was the first reward.

  [Wandering: An exclusive skill belonging to Sequence 3: Wanderer uhe Door Pathway. It eravel to and from the astral realm and simir pnes of information. Travelling through this method es any impact to the material realm.]

  From its description, Aleph could tell it was the advanced version of his prior findings. Using the information dimension, he could ‘press’ his information and travel. It was done instantaneously—its advantage pared to other abilities.

  Now, this ability tur from a ‘oime’ ability into something he could use. After all, he destroyed Kashimo’s Earth wheried to do just that.

  “Database…”

  Aleph paid attention to the sed reward.

  [Great Sage — Database: The database piled by the inal Unique Skill. It includes every information stored up until its subsequent evolution.]

  The first thought that came to his mind was:

  “Evolution?!”

  He had a hunch back then. Great Sage was extremely broke came to analyzing things. Ever si came to his side, Aleph’s life became ten times easier.

  Upon seeing that the evolution he pondered did exist, he was more than happy.

  “I hope she find some clues ihis…”

  Finally, the third reward’s turn came.

  [Fused Domain: bines every single Domain Expansion and Domaied abilities into ohe energy ption is cut by half. Its cast time was cut into three fourths of the inal time. The mental strain is reduced by half.]

  This time, Aleph fell silent.

  “Fu…”

  He exhaled lightly as he prepared himself to adapt to a new fighting style.

  With the emergence of new cursed teiques, it did pose a problem on whie to use. Whenever Aleph chooses oo initiate a Domain Expansion, he discards the other two’s Domain Expansion.

  Thinking of using his Ratio, Adaptation, and Star Rage all at the same time, a wave of excitement swept through his entire body. If he wao, he could evehe Nullification Field at the cost of his Adaptation.

  The endless possibilities were examined by Great Sage’s absurd analytical abilities.

  In the end, Aleph muttered:

  “How insane…”