"You dared… cut off while I was talking and leave here for so long?!"
Caelan’s furious gaze pierced Hans’s eyes, and the young man couldn’t help but think:
’Shit…. I forgot about that…’
A few days earlier, Hans had entered the plain of darkness in order to ask Caelan so questions, but after discovering that the people in Caelan’s world had nothing like a system, and couldn’t level up just by hunting beasts, he left without even listening to Caelan’s questions.
"I-I didn’t do it intentionally okay? It was just a huge shock for "
"Huh?! A huge shock?! I’d that your excuse for leaving here pondering about what you said without any plausible answer?!"
"Well… I’m sorry but-
Hans thought about what Caelan had just said, and was surprised to hear sothing like that…
"Wait… did you just say… leave here for so long?"
"Huh! Yeah of course! It’s been a heck of a long ti since the last ti I saw you"
"What do you see when I’m not here? how much ti has passed for you?"
"So now you’re back to asking things?! I won’t answer any of them until you clear all my doubts about-
The man’s mouth began speaking as If it was moving on its own, and Caelan replied to Hans’s questions.
"When you are not here, I just see a vast, limitless… nothing.
I don’t know how much ti has passed, days, maybe months, or maybe even years, amongst this nothingness, ti starts to lose its aning"
After saying those words with a saddened face, Caelan returned to normal:
"Agghh! This damd place! Do you have to force to answer every damn ti?!"
The man cursed the nothing above his head as Hans just stood in place watching him.
"It’s okay since you answered my question I’ll tell you what you wanted to know last ti."
Hearing this, Caelan turned around and watched Hans with doubtful eyes…
"Are you telling the truth?"
"Why would I lie to a dead man?"
"If you dare escape from this place once again without giving a solid answer, I swear I’ll be reborn even if my soul turns into dust, and I will then find your world, find your empire, find your house, and bury you alive under the fresh snow unti-
"Alright alright I got it, there’s no need for that, I ain’t going nowhere, I also need answers, and by explaining things to you, I might be able to get them."
"Mph…"
The man scoffed.
"… what are you waiting for then?
Start talking"
As requested, Hans began explaining to Caelan the aning of the status window, and the ability of so Earthlings to level up while hunting beasts and monsters.
He also talked about the first catastrophe, and how those strange ssages appeared in front of everyone.
"So?… do you have any idea what this thing might be?"
Hans asked, referring to the status window.
Caelan didn’t take long before answering truthfully:
"If soone told this while I was still alive… I would’ve smashed their skull against a rock a few tis to see if they had gone mad, but as you said, what good would there be in lying to a dead man…
Supposing that your story is true, then this is sothing that goes beyond the natural course of the world…
You see, whenever a being dies, it doesn’t matter if they’re mages or not, the mana composing their bodies slowly returns to nature, apart from so mythical beasts’ corpses but that’s another story, what is important is that this balances the energy of the world.
Think about it, if every ti soone died their mana were to be destroyed, in thousands of years no mana would be left in the world for future generations.
What a mage does is borrow more mana compared to normal people, but when they die, all the borrowed energy returns to nature.
Now, what would happen if instead of returning to nature that energy would just transfer over to another being, even if only partially?"
"The balance would be broken"
"That’s right, and even if in the end, that mana will still return to where it belonged, the process of absorbing mana will be many tis quicker than by simply ditating, as you said, many people in your world only rely on this mana gifted to them, which makes them weaker than normal mages at the sa level, but in my world, thousands of years of legacy have been passed down, and yet only a selected few every generation can rise up to the eight and ninth tier.
Well, I was chosen by the goddess and had her blessing, so it wasn’t strange the fact that I reached the tenth tier, but what’s more surprising is that just nine years from their awakening, so people in your world have reached the eighth tier.
If it continues like that, in fifty years, or even less, wouldn’t your world beco filled to the brim with high-ranking mages?"
"That’s… are you perhaps thinking that-"
"Mh"
Caelan nodded.
"It’s like soone… is forcefully growing high-ranking warriors, and that soone….
Is most likely a god"
"A… god?!
Weren’t they banned from interfering with the world of the mortals?"
"They are… but, who else could ever manipulate the laws of reality and the cycle of life?
Not even they can do it.
It has to be a god, and not any god, but a powerful one"
"Arent all gods powerful?"
"They are, but there are so who go beyond powerful.
You said in your world so people believe in all-knowing and almighty gods right?
So gods co closer to those descriptions than others"
"But why would a god ever…"
"I don’t know, the goddess I used to serve is benevolent and caring, but so gods are not like that"
"Are there any evil gods?l
"Evil gods?… I wouldn’t refer to them as evil, but so gods are extrely cunning and unpredictable.
So even go as far as sacrificing their apostles, but that’s also a choice made by the being since when you beco a god’s apostle, you dedicate your very soul to them."
"Then… do you at least have any idea why a god would want to do this?"
"Honestly, I am the last person you should ask, even if I had a connection with a goddess, and she spoke to about various things, my only role was to fight for her, I wasn’t her advisor or her right-hand man, like so apostles are."
"Sigh… who else should I ask then?"
"Does your world not have any apostles?"
"I don’t know, how should I recognize them?"
"Mh… well, if you see that their divine mana is not just inside their bodies, but making up their body, like fusing with them, that’s how you know they’re apostles."
"Alright… I’ll see what I can find"
As their discussion ended, Caelan’s face seed saddened.
’Is it because of what he said earlier?… this space is literally nothing, being imprisoned here for eternity… for sure doesn’t sound that good.’
"Before I go, could I ask sothing else?"
"It’s not like I can say no"
"Oh, that’s right.
Well then, do you know about anything worth teaching?
Sothing like a thod to teach students or a really strong spell that would give them an advantage over the others?"
"What now? Are you teaching others?
Your level’s too low to teach anything to anyone"
"Ah! Too low?! I’m about to create my eighth circle, so it’s not so strange that so people want to learn from ."
"Yeah exactly, solidify your mana as a high-ranking mage before you-…
what did you just say?!"
"I’m about to create my eighth circle, it’s just about ti for to teach so students"
"W-what are you talking about?"
"It’s as I just said, I’m really close to the bottleneck, just a few weeks, or maybe even less, and I’ll reach the eight-circle"
"Bullshit!"
"What do you an bullshit?! I worked my ass off and accumulated as much mana as possible and all you have to say is ’bullshit’?!"
"I an last ti I saw you you had just barely stepped into the seventh tier"
"No, I was sixth tier when I t you"
"No, no, the last spell you used was clearly….
Wait… what the fuck!"
’I clearly saw him use a seventh-tier spell, but now that I think about it, his mana wasn’t that of a seventh-tier mage’
"Kid, did you learn a seventh-tier spell while you were still a tier-6?!"
"Yeah, it’s an advantage of being a true mage, doesn’t that also apply to all the mages in your world?"
"This…"
"What?! The system told that a true mage can cast spells one tier above theirs.
Did it lie?"
"N-no… it-it didn’t but…"
"But?"
’It’s crazy difficult to do it, especially without soone teaching you’
Caelan thought
’Only a few gifted ones can understand spells a tier above themselves and to do it, their affinity with that spell must be high, it once happened to when I was still tier-4, but the higher ranked the spell, the more the difference between every tier….’
"Are you alright?"
Hans asked genuinely concerned for Caelan.
"Yeah… let’s-let’s just continue…"
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