Alexia

  A smile stretches across my face at the sight of the notification and System Message in my vision.

  [A Corruptor has been slain. Requirement to slay twenty-five Corruptors has been cleared.]

  Nice! Now I’ve cleared one of the requirements for my ascension.

  Next up is just training my skills a lot.

  As for the Authority Level thing? That doesn’t matter at all according to Zal. Since I apparently have the power to just rip open the walls between the different Dimensional Blocks now even without Authority Levels.

  So I don’t really get many benefits from the Authority Levels.

  If any.

  I’m still not close enough to fulfilling my skill requirements unfortunately, but I can just go around teleporting at random as I explore the Dimensional Blocks. Waiting patiently until a user reaches Tier 5. Preferably an evil user at that.

  After all, I’m not just going to go around murdering some random person who isn’t at least evil.

  It’s fine if they’re evil. Like the archfiend.

  Not that this will likely be a problem. Considering that the archfiend has been in the Tier 5 dungeon for a little while now.

  So the archfiend will most likely be the first person to reach Tier 5. Just because of his access to the dungeon.

  Which is-

  My thoughts are interrupted when another notification appears in my vision, startling me in the process.

  Uh…

  Hmm.

  I stare blankly at the notification before eventually just smiling and nodding my head.

  Well, that’ll make things even easier for me.

  Nice.

  With that lovely little surprise, I proceed to teleport my way through the corrupted universe without bothering with the corruption I pass by. All the way until I finally reach the Dimensional Blocks again. Where I find quite the number of users fighting against the corruption at the border.

  Every one of them turns to look at me with fear. Likely because I’m in my True Form and I’m not bothering with hiding my aura as it radiates out all around me.

  After a brief pause, I snap my fingers. Making quantum lightning rain down from the skies to crash into the corrupted creatures. Erasing all of them with ease.

  Then I yawn while teleporting away towards Lucas’ home. Where I go ahead and crash for a bit in the room he set up for me before.

  I just take a nice nap and laze away for a few days before heading off towards the archfiend’s territory.

  After returning to my normal form, of course. Since I’m not fighting corruption anymore. And I can’t kill anything that isn’t a target if I’m in my True Form.

  I can’t help but frown at that thought though as I teleport through the Dimensional Blocks. Not even stopping when I reach the walls as the walls themselves just open up, letting me pass through with ease.

  Although it wouldn’t matter if they didn’t do that. Since I could easily just teleport through the walls without them opening.

  This whole ‘not being able to use my full power without permission’ thing is getting annoying.

  Do you know if there’s any way to get past that restriction?

  “Do you think I’d still be bound by the universe if I could find a way out of it?” Zal responds with a question of his own. A rather reasonable one at that.

  True.

  What about me? Do you think there’s a way I could break out of the universe’s control?

  Considering how I have devourer blood and all. Not to mention that I’m outside of the regular hierarchy.

  Zal doesn’t say anything for a few seconds before stating, “It may be possible. But we will have to wait and see what happens when you ascend.”

  Hmm. Alright.

  I continue teleporting through the Dimensional Blocks until I arrive at The Retreat . Which looks far larger and grander in scale than it was the last time I saw it.

  Then again, it’s been quite a while since I last saw it. So that’s not too surprising.

  Now The Retreat spans across several floating islands all near each other. And each with teleportation hubs connecting the others.

  On top of that, there are numerous airships flying back and forth between the islands. Along with what ships of all different types as well.

  The airships are largely a domestic style used by Dimensional Block #108, meanwhile other nations from other Dimensional Blocks are using other types of ships. Ranging all the way from ships flying just through magic of varying different materials and designs to spaceships.

  This is a nice sight to see.

  A very nice one.

  I can’t help but smile faintly at it. Mostly because Astrid cares a lot about The Retreat .

  There are even entire castles and skyscrapers built on the different islands. With a strange mixture of high-tech designs and lower-tech designs.

  Which looks unusual, but pretty good at the same time.

  Also, a lot of people seem to notice me as they arrive. To the point that quite a commotion has arisen from the walls around the different islands.

  Meanwhile I see Astrid appearing from a pool of shadows on one of the walls. Following which she rushes straight into the air before tackling me with a hug in silence.

  I hug her back as my smile grows a bit.

  “I’m back for a little while,” I tell her while glancing at her level to find that she’s reached about halfway through Tier 5.

  Which is rather impressive for someone who hasn’t been in a Tier 5 dungeon.

  She pulls back a little to reveal a smile as she says, “Let’s go inside, then we can catch up.”

  I nod before she heads towards one of those castle skyscrapers, with me following after.

  It’s kind of nice to be back.

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