The demons found the empty lots on their land , the facilities were all gone and like Yuni planned , only one demon had it ' I'll just let Damo dismantle them ' Damo looked at the number of facilities he had to dismantle .
" Master , can I please have a break ? " Damo asked through the familiar link while Yuni was already asleep and experiencing the increase in difficulty ' Actually , I don't feel it at all , Neslihan's game is more like management and spreading the blessings of the lost civilization . '
Yuni wished she could have Naul do this since she recalled that he did all the work as practice when he was much younger than four ' I keep forgetting my kids are four years old , they seem so mature for their age , me being the reason why '
She progresses smoothly through the game , knowing very well how long the challenges are , forcing her to stay ' I hate it here ' Yuni told herself as she completes the long challenge that required her to expand beyond the world Neslihan facilitates , which meant outer space .
' This type of wordbuilding shouldn't even be possible , I never reached this far ' Yuni thought of the impossibility of this dream sequence and thought .
' Wait a minute , is this Welt just harassing me ? Guess I should show that I'm competent enough to deal with a problem like this , but if this is going to be the next difficulty level of the dream sequence , isn't this like those DLC content that Ceil and Zaun get from those games behind screens ? '
Her previous playthroughs were likely going to be more difficult and so Yuni worked hard and patiently expanding the ancient civilization . Finally , she completes the quest and wishes she could see the majesty of the ancient legacy , all forgotten but now remembered and glorified .
' Too bad it's all in a dream , I think Ceil would completely hate these kinds of it's all just a dream stories . She said that Stories should have some sort of impact and it would be best if they at least showed some character development '
[ Cleared delirium quest ]99Please respect copyright.PENANA6ULzHWLwoQ
[ Unlocked hall of Transcendance ]99Please respect copyright.PENANACR2Ya9siJa
[ You may now replay previous playthroughs at Transcendance difficulty ]
' Oh dang , really ? ' Yuni recalled that her previous accounts and characters had already hit each of their limits , even after she had broken through the limits . But the curiosity about how Transcendence difficulty would expand the world she was in caused her to smile .
' Hehe , I wonder what I can get ' Yuni went down the Hall and hit a wall , which didn't allow her to go back ' I should've expected that ' Yuni told herself and went to the door , reading the label identifying that it was her birthworld . She entered and was faced with the collector again , this time with the description .
[ Limit breaker 1 Collector ]99Please respect copyright.PENANAh2gfD5OC63
[ A being who broke the first growth ceiling ]99Please respect copyright.PENANAzSXzZ8mQX0
[ This was done by stealing the talents of the young ]
' Tsk ' the arena was made and Yuni could smell the familiar scent of grass , dew and flowers ' Oh that's right ' The collector swung their long arms as Yuni jumped up to dodge ' This was the scent of laundry after it was washed '
Yuni summons her sword , slicing through the arm ' I may have low stats , but I compensate for skill ' Collector screams and charges right at her , crawling through the floor as Yuni falls . She summons a mattress from her inventory , cushioning the impact , but the springs cause her to go far .
Collectors detect the great distance and cast magic , firing them afar ' Dang , I can't reverse the magic with Silence ' Yuni dodged blast after blast as the Collector charges to her , bringing with them a flurry of slices as it cuts the grass , bringing Yuni some memories .
' Oh I see , that's the gimmick ' Yuni smelled the scent of hot metal from the grass that cut as she felt herself being distracted by Nostalgia ' Stupid challenge ' Yuni prepared two daggers and parried the flurry of blades .
She thrusted both tips towards the collector's eyes and used dark magic to draw out power from Blind as the collector was blinded . The collector screamed and Yuni was bothered by the sound . Yuni stabbed their tongue and pulled it out with the dagger , enchanting the other dagger with Silence and cutting off the collector's tongue .
They tried screaming , but the sound grew quieter as they noticed the strange occurence . Yuni withdrew her daggers and summoned a spear as the collector swung their arm and Yuni struck her spear deep into the ground , nailing the arm in .
The poison from Sick seeps into the collector as Yuni dashed out and slowed her fall to the ground , making not a single sound . The collector , now blind and bleeding , snapped their arm off and tried to heal it while letting their guard down due to the lack of Yuni's presence .
' I can't have you relaxing ' Yuni cast a curse on the illusion necklace and threw it at the collector as they felt the cursed necklace giving them false feelings as they fell for them . They swayed their arms everywhere while Yuni observed the necklace's curse on Collector .
' I can tell what they are feeling , but it's probably because of advanced senses ' Yuni rushed towards Collector , sensing that the illusions they are affected with were also doing the same ' Before they regain lucidity , I'll find a way to kill them '
She dodged every slam from their appendages and every swing . She quickly got on their body as the fake Yuni's from the cursed illusion necklace were also on them too . The collector was freed from the Silence and quickly chanted many spells directed at their body while chanting a shield over their body .
Yuni deciphered the chant now that she was closer and dispelled a portion at the moment a spell was casted . That spell hit the collector and Yuni rushed to the impacted location , sensing the other spells coming down and rushed around Collector's massive body .
To the collector , they've only killed a couple of fake Yuni clones , but sensing one that was moving quick , they decided to focus on that one now ' Dang they found out ' Yuni thinks about the magic she was taught and got off the collector tricking them through the cursed necklace ' Well , it ain't cheating if this is in a dream , plus I'll be retraining my skills back '
Yuni started to cast the magic the collector taught ' You were always such a good teacher ' the collector destroyed the cursed necklace as Yuni prepared silent spells , a thing the collector never learns and something she learned coming to the new world system that tested her limits by putting limits on her .
The collector was confused as Yuni cast spells without uttering a word and quickly chanted a spell too ' That's right , parent of mine , your child has grown ' Yuni smiled as the collector lost the blindness and saw Yuni's smirk and grew enraged .
Yuni summoned her practice staff that was given to her in the early years to learn magic , as the wind gathered some dust that strengthened Yuni's magic " NO YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE HAD THIS POWER "
The collector yelled and Yuni smiled ' Sorry I'm just good at beating the game and today I'll show you that I can't break this high growth ceiling ' Yuni finished the spell and planted the trigger on her fingers and snapped , casting her spell and destroying any other spells .
Rain pours ' This spell must be beautiful ' Collector felt a tiny needle stab through their skin and the air grew thin and cold . The raindrops froze around the collector , forming an ice prison as they tried to cast magic , but upon the moment of casting , it was canceled ' A magic canceling field in seconds ? '
Collector was astonished by the talent and looked at Yuni who was covered in many accessories representing her challenges " NO WHY DO YOU HAVE THAT POWER IT SHOULD'VE BEEN MEEEEE "
They stretched their limbs to break out of the prison , but upon breaking the tiny layer the ice froze , creating a sequence of needles that formed a stable and strong patch that patched up the hole .
These sequences of needles pierced through the collector's skin and poisoned it . The collector tried to pull out and push their arms out , causing their limbs to stretch far away . Yuni walked to the ice prison and passed the thickening layer of ice as it melted under an equipment's enchantment and shut tight after she was inside .
The prison grew smaller and smaller as the collector tried to decipher the natural phenomenon turned to reality through magic and tried to understand how this was possible . They sensed many of their limbs freezing and sensed the direction ice freezing outward and somehow inward , but all their attention came to Yuni .
" Wait let's think about it child , I raised you " ' You did ' Yuni summoned a training spear like the one of the weapons she trained with " I taught you a lot "
' But not everything ' Yuni jumped up " NO WAIT STOOOPPP " Yuni plunged the spear through the collector's head , killing them and let out a sigh ' At least the fight was much harder than before '
Yuni exited into the hall of transcendance and heard a rumble behind her . She didn't sense debris falling and walked in to find the exit and left to wake up the next day .
' I'd better explore that hall later tonight , maybe there's another wall at the end , but after clearing that delirium quest , it should mean that I can proceed to the next game '
A notification rang and she checked to find that Fazor , upon receiving that assistance from Yuni , was now thinking of ways to kill the demons without alerting them of his presence ' Seems like Caprion is helping him with the inventory I gave him '
There was also an increase in children at the demon realm and Yuni wondered if she should do something , but left it to Narra ' Sorry , but you don't need a capable mom like me to turn you kids into capable combatants , I've already done enough with my children . '
Narra , who just received the order to manage the children and make sure they grow well , was confused and wondered if Yuni was aware of the importance of motherhood despite looking so young .
While Fazor was secretly devising ways to kill the ten demons Yuni was already having a problem .
' Because the crowning has been taking bits of Welt's system it might cause Welt to get used to it , which means it's best if there is no new crowns until then but to keep the crowning from overheating , I will need to fix the broken branch which shouldn't be a problem with the steady progress we've had and if it's not enough I'll just use the world tree system '
While Yuni was working on it , she had already selected as many candidates as she could find for the crowning to use as bases to create as many crowns as possible to cause a big enough error while she received some news from Naul .
" MOM , I FIGURED OUT HOW TO TURN THIS GUY INTO A PROCESSING UNIT " "How ?" " It's simple, you know those random boxes that you have ? using that as a base, I cut a portion of my inventory and stuffed it with materials and fed it to Limos , totally ethical since they kinda tax the grading of the items as food "
' I knew he'd get to that point , but how do I tell him that we're gonna have to break off a giant branch out of Welt ? Maybe I should word it properly ? ' she decided there was no reason to tell a guy like him , who is more interested in smaller things like his greed , which is ironically huge .
She thinks that she should correct his attitude towards that and Rein's too . Meanwhile , Rein was forced to read the story ' It's so boring ' she was more interested in the pictures than the text of the storybook and didn't like reading as much .
While Ceil had the text detailing how Naul got their but there was no way for her to send a message to Rein because she had only established the private chat with Zaun ' She'll get there and it's not like the reader should interfere with a story '
Ceil turned her attention to her own work and looked at a ruins ' after some "accidents" I've finally gotten through the chain quest that leads me to this location . the system code says these details a lot about things related to the system , so maybe I might find something about it here '
She entered the ruins and found some lore around which she enjoyed ' A deity that blesses a land of farmers who put their heart and soul , probably an analogy for hard work and there is also another about hunting , which is older , probably relates to how life here grew from hunter-gatherers to farming and then further development '
The mythology was very closely linked to Welt's nature as the reward , many idols of gods that blessed those who were described as strong , intelligent or in any way superior to them . She records these on her own without using the same lore gatherer code she put on her siblings .
' So these gods blessed those who worked hard and those who didn't work hard weren't blessed as much . It sounds a lot like how mythology is used to explain the naturally occurring things , but that's how religion is born and this kind of thing slowly changed . Now that life has developed a society , the distributors of wages start to become more in control '
She finds that there were still more religious texts or at least some kind of text because these texts were newer and she assumed they were likely religion trying to make rules for the society ' Always with religion finding ways to tamper with society , but they ain't wrong , now that society is built , some are no doubt going to provide unfair prices and wages '
Value was placed on the work done and she reviewed these values but then as she find newer text she also find some older text ' okay whoever made this library is completely unreliable it's like a giant book with pages that have random numbers ' she finds some value constantly fluctuating but seeing them in these ruins made her assume that religion was still playing a role .
' Religion of a world would always influence the world system that will be made , it's more like a core pillar that creates the system ' she eventually finds something more modern , figuring out that the core pillar has changed from Religion to global awareness , as she finds a server room that likely generated this world's internet .
' But how did it end up as ruins ? Surely a very historical site that shows the religious progress of the world would become a tourist spot ' Ceil thinks about the corpses she found , identifying the causes of death .
' Some kind of apocalypse should've happened here , it should also be something suitable to what occurred to these ruins ' she recalls the previous games she's explored , learning more about the lore of the world , the possible destruction they faced .
' It's pretty complicated , but that won't be a problem ' she finds a corpse and looks at their journal with a smile ' Good ' she reads the journal , finding out that it was a very late entry about the world's destruction .
' Kill monsters to get rewards , hmm it's a bit vague to get rewards from killing ' she keeps reading the entries finding out what happened in the destruction ' So from what the journal said , the disaster this world faced was involved with a bunch of monsters entering and the world systems defense was to make the population kill them in exchange for some rewards '
Ceil guessed that there might've been some spatial distortion that caused these monsters to get in ' it's very interesting , but even though it feels physically old , it feels like this journal is much more ancient than the world systems I explored '
A lore gatherer like Ceil would have certain skills , like being able to tell how old certain things are , not just through simple gut feeling but a complex understanding of erosion and she can't be wrong cause she was spot on with her answer . After all , Welt has turned time for an unspecified number of times .
But of course she doesn't have all the information other than her experience and skills providing her vague clues ' Must be some kind of preservation magic , but if this is how old it really is , then this world has a lot of undiscovered stories ' Ceil got extremely curious as she felt a gaping hole open , ready to consume the hidden stories and an itch to scratch through discovery .
' I'm gonna have to look for this lore better inscribe them in something ' she thought of where she could inscribe such lore , but then thought ' No , maybe it's best if I just leave it to memory , not like I can forget all of this and if I do , I will try very hard '
She still couldn't shake the feeling about the age of these ruins being much younger than she thinks they are ' Am I getting rusty in evaluating the age ? ' Ceil thought as she made sure she didn't forget the important bits and created an encrypted file on the lore she learned so that she could review it later on and send it away .
' I'm sure the big admin would see this as jumbled text ' Ceil thought and continued her search for undiscovered ruins .
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While Ceil was learning about the world , Yuni was thinking ' I don't really understand how this works since it's a first to break off a huge branch like this , might be something like I get ejected to space to get rid of some virus but I'm sure that isn't it '
Yuni knew she couldn't just stay here and wondered where she could find the bridges to another server ' No wait , I could just travel through the demon realm '
Yuni thought of the expanse of the demon realm , wondering how big this tree was and thought it might be possible to search for the main location of the demons .
' Ceil did say the expanse of the world helps in gauging the size of a world's pantheon in one of her stories ' Yuni wondered how she could leave Fazor alone ' I mean , I'll eventually get them back , so how about this instead '
Yuni tells Caprion a message to convey to Fazor , which he sent to Fazor ' She's leaving ? ' Fazor wondered what this really means for him and received a vault he was given access to ' This is strange . What is this supposed to mean '
Yuni cast a gaze into Fazor , causing him to feel as if she was around " Crowned demon of monopoly , I will finish my business here , I have no intentions to be chained by weaklings who will be of no use to me "
She smiled , hearing this and retracted her gaze while Fazor received the same thing he got before ' So she's telling me to follow me ' he watched as the marker for House was moving , figuring that they would be gone .
' I heard from the demons that the reason they are after each other was that they wanted to overpower each other by consuming stat stones , I'm assuming she is going somewhere and leaving me to clean up the mess '
Fazor was irritated that he was the one who was being used to clean it , but seeing as he had become her subordinate at this point , he accepted it , albeit a little hesitantly .
Yuni checked the map , seeing that it was still exploring ' I might have to get some maps ' With the crown of Monopoly , she took the maps from the demons that Fazor had defeated , despite their storage being in the current leading demons .
Yuni updated the map and found the next city and apologized to House for going in the wrong direction in which they quickly corrected to fly in the right direction of the demon realm . Yuni found that her storybook was being updated as some text was being written .
' It's telling the readers that I'm going to another city but at least not which ' Yuni wondered if this meant that she was going to be on another free roam experience since she just left the town and the storybook concluded that she will not participate in the destruction of the ten demons' rule .
' There's something here ? ' Yuni found a strange magic circle on a page and wondered what this was and finally disappeared , leaving the strange magic circle like the one on her storybook in place of her seat at home , which continues to glow for a long time .
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The many chieftains from different tribes that walked different paths were excited as they watched Rein summon the walker through the magic circle she found in the book ' Come on Mom , your stats aren't that great , so you should be able to get here '
As Rein thought of that , Yuni was summoned like she was a demon ' Where am I ? ' Yuni sensed the familiar presence of Rein and thought of the possible things that could happen to have led her here ' No wait , it's not that complicated . She just traded me to get a chance on whatever opportunity she was after '
" AHH IT IS THE WALKER " the chieftain cheered while Yuni wondered what they were actually doing and some walkers of the Deaf challenge made sign language that translates to "She seems to have the potential of walking the challenge of Deaf too"
Some of the tribes that didn't have their tribes trials or challenges on Yuni were already starting to think of ways to convince her into doing so , while Yuni turned to Rein , showing an angry expression .
' Sorry Mom , but it's not like you can't handle it ' Rein retreated away to avoid being scolded , but knowing her mother , it wouldn't be harsh with all the challenges she was walking with " Oh great Walker , we have much to discuss "
Yuni turned to a woman who had the cosmetic challenge on which was likely going to be the reason she could sense a lot of challenges on her ' She probably did it to look pretty , but she at least took some other challenges '
"What do you want ?" " We want to discover the ancient legacy of the previous walker ' Wish Ceil was here to explain the history , she was really good at it ' "Explain" " We will , but first we have a feast to prepare for you "
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Yuni ate as she listened to the ramblings of the chieftains " Long ago , the great walker had walked into a higher realm than ours . We call the path they walked the stairs , we know that each step taken on this flight of stairs was difficult , as we could feel great pressure , like our challenges but the number of paths you've walked makes you suitable to find the great walker's legacy "
' This is some crazy lore here , but what about House ? My book said a lot about me ' Yuni checked the book and found that she was not being recorded there and only House's journey and tribulations were being shown .
She got confused and checked the world , finding out some kind of barrier that was preventing information from being leaked ' And there's a hole in it , it must lead to Ceil ' Yuni could easily find the source being Rein .
' At least it doesn't give way for Fame to record it , but how ? ' Yuni thought about Delirium having the ability to hide her conversations ' I should be careful nevertheless ' " So do you agree to walk the path ? "
"Sorry I wasn't listening cause of Delirium" " Ahh , apologies for my inconsideration , Let me give you a summary . We chiefs believed that the great walker had some insights , but we couldn't get it yet , seeing as you are the great walker , we hoped you could bring such insight back '
"That insight being ?" " It should be comparable to how you were able to replace existing methods with methods that could suit your disabilities or in our world's challenges , for example , while you are blind , you are forced to rely on touch or when you are mute , you are forced to use hand signs to cast magic and the like "
' It seems pretty basic to walk up the stairs to see if I could get the great walker's legacy , but how can they be so sure about the great walker ? It's at these parts that Ceil would say they just have absolute trust in them because of a promise or something and this higher realm must mean another server '
Yuni thought of the time that House will take to head to the next city ' I did tell House to go to a big-looking city, so it should take sometime . The storybook says so , but if it's not enough , I'll just tell House to stop at a location and keep any strangers out . '
The banquet quickly reached a climax after Yuni agreed on taking the role of taking the great walker's legacy by climbing these stairs .
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