I examined the whole place, which wasn’t that large. There were maybe around twenty rooms, so storing items unknown to . I didn’t find anyone until the end, including any corpses or species remains.
It was ti to make a decision now. This place was perfect for an ergency shelter since it already had everything I could ever want and more. It was already sealed from the outside and in an excellent state. I would just need to clean it up a bit, put on so sheets for one or two beds, maybe decorate it a bit, and that would be enough. Next would be storing so water and long-lasting food and it would be ready for use. It normally wasn’t a place I would stay too long in, after all.
Of course, the problem was that I didn’t know if it still had an owner or not. So parts seed weirdly dilapidated, while others were in good shape. There also wasn’t any sign of a teleportation gate anywhere, making
wonder how people could normally access it. It could be that the ones who built it were living thousands of years ago. Or maybe they were still alive sowhere out there, even if that seed unlikely.
After a bit of thinking, I chose to keep it a potential temporary shelter. To be safe, I would co here from ti to ti to monitor if anyone else used it.
It took
so ti to find this shelter but I saved so much from not needing to build anything. My original plan was to only find a place today and co back later to transform it into a bunker. Instead, I would only need to refurbish it a little to get a perfectly livable environnt.
I teleported outside, finding out that the sun was setting. There was one last thing I wanted to do before it beca dark. I teleported to Makji and stayed in the sky, monitoring any large troop movents. Alfiro was getting restless and, judging from the situation, I estimated their army would depart any day now. I continued further until I reached a very large city, which I assud was Hyien, Makji’s capital. One day’s worth of travel south from Hyien was a first army detachnt of about two thousand soldiers, already marching toward Thuk in the southeast. It wouldn’t be long before the war started for real now. There was no doubt its scale would be sothing else, with tens of thousands of fighters combining their sel and martial prowess to defeat their enemies.
Since I was here already, I morized Hyien’s coordinates before teleporting to 82. I helped Suuru close the stall, and we chatted a little when we were back ho.
“Tila, I have a question about ranks.”
“Tell .”
“You said there are many transcendents in your world, correct?”
“That’s right. A bit more than a thousand.”
“…It’s still hard for
to imagine a thousand of them.”
“It’s all relative. My world has a population of thirteen billion. That’s less than one transcendent for ten million people, which makes them incredibly rare and valuable.”
“Okay, but reaching transcendence ans that one should be rank 11, right?”
“Correct.”
“Is it possible to continue ranking up after that? Like rank 12?”
“Hehe, a rank 0 asking about rank 12? I like your optimism, Suuru. I’ll cheer on you.”
“T-Tila! Don’t tease ! That was a serious question.”
“There’s sothing soothing about teasing you, Suuru. I don’t think I’ll be able to stop anyti soon. I’m already addicted.”
“Tila!”
“All right, all right. Yes, rank 12 exists.”
“Is there a maximum rank one can achieve?”
“That’s a good question. As far as I know, there are no limits. There are so tales about legendary warriors achieving rank 20 in the far past.”
“20! No way!”
“Well, no way indeed. No matter what, rank 20 is too unrealistic. The highest rank officially recorded in my world is rank 15.”
“15? That’s still incredible. How powerful is soone at that rank?”
“Unmatched, no doubt about it. But it wasn’t without its price. There’s only one person in history who reached that rank, and she did it at the very end of her life. She was probably one of the most incredible geniuses of all ti but even then, she spent all her life only focusing on increasing her rank. She did nothing else. She didn’t have a lover, a family, or children. Just magic training, from birth to death. It’s no wonder she was the only one to achieve it. Who would want to spend their whole life only doing this?”
“She was a genius, she spent hundreds of years training, and she still couldn’t reach more than 15?”
“Wow, look you, saying that as if reaching rank 15 is nothing.”
She scowled, and I smiled back at her.
“You should know that it becos harder to reach the next rank the higher you go. It’s not too bad for lower ranks, rank 1 to 6, but one truly starts to feel it after rank 7. As for transcendent ranks, well, it’s even worse. To make it simple, you can consider each transcendent rank to be similar to a wall, like the one from rank 6 to 7 and rank 10 to 11. Plus, each wall becos harder and harder to break. That’s why reaching rank 15 is an incredible achievent and why it’s unrealistic to reach rank 20.”
“Oh… What about you, Tila? How high do you think you’ll reach?”
“Rank 11. I don’t think I’ll try anymore after that. It’s just not worth the hassle.”
“You say that as if you’re certain you’ll get there.”
I gave a large grin.
“Pretty much.”
“Haha! I should say the sa to you now. It’s good to be optimistic, even if you say it as a joke.”
I continued to smile without faltering and she hesitated.
“You’re saying that as a joke, right?”
I didn’t answer that last question. She shut her mouth and stared at
with a frown.
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