It took a couple of days for their escort to arrive due to the great distance.
When Kyle saw the three-meter-tall woman with blue skin, his brows rose.
"Lady Arrowstrife," he said with surprise. "I didn't expect to see you again."
"Oh, she's the one who helped you with the Body Law, right?" Sebastian asked.
Kyle nodded.
Lady Arrowstrife silently looked at Kyle for a moment. She remembered helping Kyle about 7,700 years ago. Back then, she had believed that she was preparing a regular Parasite for their duties, but she had quickly realized that Kyle had been rather talented.
Yet, as she saw Kyle again, she could feel that he had transformed on a fundamental level. There was something about his aura that made him feel different from other Seekers.
Lady Arrowstrife was an Ascendant who had lived for over 500,000 years. She had seen and killed plenty of talented Seekers. When she saw Kyle, she felt as if she were looking at a Core Disciple of one of the Peak Organizations.
These Disciples were always the hardest to kill. On paper, they were often just as strong as Seekers one or two levels above them, but somehow, they were always much harder to kill.
Over the years, Lady Arrowstrife had learned to evaluate these people based on their Karmic Bonds. Oftentimes, the more Karmic Bonds someone had, the harder they were to kill.
Right now, Lady Arrowstrife could see a great number of Karmic Bonds coming out of Kyle's body. She wasn't sure if she had ever seen a Crusher with this many Karmic Bonds.
Technically, everyone was connected to everyone else via Karmic Luck. A Transcendent on one side of the Supreme World could absorb some Energy, which would slightly influence the way a bit of Energy moved on the other side of the Supreme World. Nobody would notice, and it wouldn't make any difference, but it was still a change, which was why there was a Karmic Bond.
However, only powerful Karmic Bonds could be sensed. The more insight into the Karmic Laws someone had, the more Karmic Bonds they could see.
"I didn't expect to see you again," Lady Arrowstrife spoke slowly.
"Well, here I am, again," Kyle said with a shrug. "On my way back to Orchis."
Lady Arrowstrife nodded before looking at Sebastian. "I've been told that you're also one of our members?"
"Kinda," Sebastian answered. "I'm under someone else, but I'm coming with you."
Lady Arrowstrife nodded again before looking back to Kyle. "I'm also supposed to deliver some messages. I've been told that you have them."
"Oh, yeah," Kyle said, retrieving four letters. "Are you going to deliver them right now?"
Lady Arrowstrife pocketed the messages. "No, these will be delivered by someone else. It will take a couple of years, but they will reach their recipients."
"Sure, thanks," Kyle said.
The next moment, Lady Arrowstrife motioned for the two to come closer, and then, their surroundings warped.
"Wait a second," Sebastian said as he remembered something.
"Yes?" Lady Arrowstrife asked with a raised brow, interrupting her teleportation.
The next moment, a tear in reality appeared as Sebastian's Lightning Elemental descended to the Hell Dimension. "This guy can't keep up. Could you take him with us?"
Lady Arrowstrife looked at the Lightning Elemental with furrowed brows before wordlessly including it in their next teleportation.
The group went through countless teleportations every second, but the Supreme World was simply too vast. Even at their current speed, they would need a couple of days to reach their goal.
On a map of the Supreme World, their current location and Orchis would almost overlap, but the distance would still prove insurmountable for a Crusher. Only Sages could hope to cross that distance with their own power, and it would take years upon years.
'Without the Teleportation Formation Array Network, traveling across the Supreme World would be impossible,' Kyle thought. 'Public transport in the Supreme World is crazy.'
Lady Arrowstrife didn't say anything during the journey, and she also didn't seem very interested in conversation, which was why Kyle and Sebastian only talked to each other.
After some days of traveling, the three of them arrived at Orchis.
When Kyle saw the dead Planet, he sighed, a feeling of nostalgia rising in his heart. 'It looks just like back then.'
As he looked at Orchis, he saw the small base in which he had spent a couple of years. He remembered all the different kinds of lifeforms there. In fact, even though he had just arrived, Kyle could already see three different kinds of lifeforms he hadn't seen anywhere in the Main Dimension.
He saw strange, asymmetrical bug people, big, blue humanoids, and some scaly quadrupeds.
"Wow, the Cult is more diverse than I had thought," Sebastian said. "I'm not sure I've seen people like this before."
"Do you know about different kinds of World Clusters?" Lady Arrowstrife asked.
"Recently learned about them, " Sebastian answered.
"You can find beasts and some unusual humanoids in normal worlds. Anything that seems outside the norm most likely originates from experimental worlds," Lady Arrowstrife said.
"Ah, that makes sense," Sebastian said, looking at Lady Arrowstrife's unusual size and color. "So…"
"Yes, I'm also from an experimental world," she commented with furrowed brows. "If you don't have any other questions, I will take my leave."
Lady Arrowstrife didn't wait for them to answer and teleported away.
"Yo, you asked about her skin color," Kyle said. "That's weird, dude."
"Oh, shut the fuck up, Kyle," Sebastian groaned with a roll of his eyes. "As if anyone gives a shit."
Kyle just snickered. Naturally, an Ascendant wouldn't care about such a simple question. They had more serious things to worry about.
The next moment, two white rings appeared before them. These were Communicators and status symbols for the members of the Cult.
"Huh, I got a white one," Kyle said, putting his new Communicator on his finger.
"Does the color mean anything?" Sebastian asked, looking at his own Communicator.
"White is for Sages, Spirit Lords, and Ascendants. I guess I'm already being treated as a Sage," Kyle commented. "Anyway, you want me to show you around? I mean, I don't know a lot of places in here, but I know some."
"Sure," Sebastian answered, "by the way, are there any important rules?"
"Don't enter a red building without being asked to. You can enter black buildings, but you should avoid entering them without a reason. They're for weaker Seekers. Otherwise, the rules are similar to the rules of the Twilight Duchy, back in the Tertiary World. There are almost no rules, but if you're a dick to weaker Seekers, stronger Seekers might be dicks to you. Also, be careful that you don't damage any of the houses if you get into a fight."
"Sounds simple enough," Sebastian answered as he looked at a couple of things on his Communicator. "I guess I can get resources with my Contribution Points?"
"Yep," Kyle answered.
Sebastian nodded, and the next moment, his Lightning Elemental went back to the Elemental Dimension.
"Having an Elemental is probably pretty useful," Kyle commented.
"Yeah, but also dangerous," Sebastian said. "If my Elemental dies in the Elemental Dimension, I will also die."
"Oh, right, forgot about that," Kyle said as his brows rose. "Speaking of, how is that thing still alive? As far as I know, the Elemental Dimension is chaotic."
"Because I'm controlling it," Sebastian said. "As long as I avoid other kinds of Elementals, they won't attack me. Most Wind Elementals, for example, are not interested in consuming Lightning Elementals. They only attack if the Elemental Energy of my Lightning Elemental messes with their Elemental Energy."
"The only dangers are other Lightning Elementals, but I can get away from them by abandoning half of my Lightning Elemental's Energy."
"Wait," Kyle said, "that means your Lightning Elemental loses half of its power, right?"
"Yeah, but it also regains its power just as quickly. Just gotta eat weaker Lightning Elementals. The speed at which Elementals can grow is crazy. I only needed three days to turn my Early Sage Elemental into a Peak Sage Elemental. It's just a constant up and down in the Elemental Dimension," Sebastian explained.
"Sounds like a lot of busywork," Kyle commented.
"Yeah, it is, but I'm used to it."
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