It was still a bit weird to Kyle that the Supreme World existed seven times and that they were all very different from each other.
Like, when a Mortal became a Transcendent, did they just descend to the Main Dimension? What if they had children or loved ones? Would they be left behind?
It was also strange to consider that Kyle was in a Dimension that only people with a True Sin Aura inhabited.
Like, were there no beasts?
How did this planet look in the other Dimensions?
Was it completely empty, or was there some kind of sprawling city with a bunch of mortals?
"Anyway, so, I won't meet my old Manager, right?" Kyle asked.
"You most certainly won't," Lady Arrowstrife said.
"Alright, sure," Kyle said. "Then, I guess I'm going to infiltrate the Array of Stars. Feels kind of ironic. They fucked me over, and now, I get to fuck them over."
"This is not just a simple mission," Lady Arrowstrife answered. "Infiltrating the Array of Stars is not easy and will take a long time. If you want to damage them, you have to become as powerful as possible."
"Additionally, you have to be valuable. You have to help them before you can hurt them."
"Oh, I know," Kyle said with a smirk. "I'm going to do an old-fashioned rug-pull. I'm going to show them that investing in me will give them tremendous benefits. This will make them invest even more, and when they are all in, I'm going to fuck them."
Lady Arrowstrife nodded. "Remember this sentiment. Time changes people. Loyalties shift, grudges are forgotten, and new grudges are formed. Remember where you came from and who gave you this opportunity. Without the Cult, you would be stuck in a Tertiary World for all eternity. When the Array of Stars abandoned you, we took you in and gave you an opportunity."
Kyle nodded. "No worries! I always repay my debts!"
Lady Arrowstrife nodded back solemnly.
"We need to prepare you for your mission. Sadly, we do not have a lot of time. The Array of Stars holds a grand recruitment event every century, and the next one is only 27 years away."
"Why not just take the next?" Kyle asked.
"Because we don't want you to become too strong," she answered. "You need to be someone who desperately searches for a backer. Many extremely talented people do not want to bind themselves to a big power."
"Sure," Kyle answered casually. "So, what's next on the menu?"
"I will help you comprehend the last two Fragments of the Body so that you can condense the Law. After that, you will be taught how life in the Main Dimension works. You will receive a fitting background and story, and you have to learn to live your new persona."
Kyle looked at Lady Arrowstrife with uncertainty. "I'm not that good at acting."
"You will receive a persona that's easy for you to portray," she answered. "Earlier, you said that you're someone who always repays their debts. If you simply put yourself in that headspace and amplify it, you can portray a charismatic and loyal person."
"As long as you keep your darker thoughts to yourself and mostly focus on that part of your personality, you can even convince yourself that this is who you really are."
Kyle nodded. "Oh, that makes sense. Yeah, I can do that… probably."
"But first, we have to deal with your Body Fragments," she said before the door opened. "I can't teach you those in here."
"Sure," Kyle answered as the two of them walked out of the building.
The next moment, Kyle felt the world distort around him, and then, he was suddenly on a new planet.
He hadn't felt the world move in any way.
As he looked around, he saw a planet made of hard and grey material.
That was when Kyle felt that his legs were a bit strained.
"Did we teleport?" Kyle asked.
"Teleportation is something you can unlock in the Seventh Realm, but not everyone can learn it. You need some achievements in the Space Laws," she explained.
"Wait, if everyone can teleport later, how do you guys even fight?" Kyle asked. "Can't everyone just zoom around and defend?"
"Teleportation requires certainty," Lady Arrowstrife answered. "During teleportation, you are at your most vulnerable. Your Energy destabilizes in your current location and restabilizes somewhere else. If you can teleport, you can also feel when somebody else wants to teleport. At that point, you just have to target their current and future location with an attack. In their weakened state, it will be difficult to defend from such an attack."
"Teleporting during a battle is suicidal. It is exclusively used to traverse great distances since it barely takes any Energy and is fast."
"As someone in the Fusion Realm, I can reach a two-digit percentage of lightspeed. If I wanted to reach a planet one lightyear away, I would need to travel for a couple of years without teleportation, and you have to remember that such a planet is considered close."
"The Supreme World is unimaginably vast. It's even bigger than the biggest universe in any iteration of Earth."
"But with teleportation, I can traverse billions of kilometers in a second."
Kyle had to take a deep breath.
Those were unimaginably high numbers.
"How do you guys even look at your surroundings when you're so fast?" Kyle asked.
"We don't look with our eyes. We use our Energy Sense. The speed of Energy is infinitely higher than the speed of light," she explained.
Kyle just nodded a couple of times. 'Crazy.'
"By the way, how do people even get around if everything's so far apart? I mean, weaker people," he asked.
"Teleportation Formations are available on almost all planets with a presence of civilization," Lady Arrowstrife answered.
'Public transport?!'
The image of a train station appeared in Kyle's mind.
'Bro, imagine being able to fly and shit, and you still have to wait for the subway to arrive.'
"That's enough farts(questions) for now," Lady Arrowstrife said with a bit of annoyance. "You will learn all of these things later. For now, we have to focus on your Fragments."
"Eh, yeah, sure," Kyle answered.
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