The banquet ends and Yuni wonders what else this insight would contain ' I'm really confused with how they described these insights , It sounds like a bunch of techniques for those who are disabled , but they also have this strange saying that you can quit the challenges as long as you have someone remove it '
Yuni recalled how they were so excited to remove all of her challenges so they could witness her power in its full glory ' I'm talented enough to have single-digit stats and still win most fights '
She wondered what Rein was doing here . She thought Rein didn't care about anything of major importance , just the surfaces of things .
Yuni thinks of her other children again as she lies comfortably on the bed , which is actually an exercise since during the banquet she allowed a lot of tribes to tattoo her body with marks of paths .
This essentially forced her to take on challenges and Yuni was very interested in how to harness this kind of power . But in the meantime , she is making an effort just to tune out all the fake senses delirium has given to her .
She had no true senses anymore because of what the other challenges had done , giving her the challenge of senseless , preventing her from sensing anything , forcing her to excavate the necessary skills to replace hearing from her piles of memories .
' They're all a degraded and upgraded version of the real senses . I can see more with my mind's eye , but they're all just basic frames of what sight really is ' Yuni went to sleep and appeared in the hall of transcendance . She explored the hall and found a room that gave her the prompt .
[ To exit the hall , finish one delirium quest ]
' So the Hall of Transcendence is just optional ? ' she wondered if entering the delirium quest wouldn't allow her to be in and thought ' You know it would be good game design if I get to come here even after the delirium quest ? '
Even though she was aware that Welt wasn't paying much attention to her already , she still made evaluations like someone who had played the games behind screens before ' First , let's see the next game. I already accomplished Neslihan's game and I think the next one is '
...
Yuni found herself in a new game at a desolate and lifeless terrain ' Right , this glorious game of survival , it's a bit different from before though ' this world basically had no more life and the reason ' Through the expanding Mind's eye , Yuni found a giant hivemind departing from the world .
' Basically like hey I'm dropping by to pick up all life for myself ' Yuni recalled that the only ones who were around were those who were inside the admin room of the system .
' I remember breaking them out when I discovered that flawless security on the world system , the elves could learn a thing or two from this system ' Yuni was about to speedrun this until she hit a wall ' What ? '
[ Recreate life in this world ]
' You've gotta be kidding me , that came much later after I rescued the admins and got the security of the system to reinforce mine ' Yuni sighed and thought of how long it would take and summoned a drill that Damo made for fun .
' Looks like I'll be digging for a while ' Yuni dug deep into the ground to find the hidden biosphere . After gathering some small samples of life from the deep biosphere hidden inside , Yuni recalled the project she built to resurrect the life .
' I remember them being hesitant about bringing another life here , so they told me all about the biosphere that they could make use of , but in the end , I did all the work '
Yuni wondered why Delirium wouldn't allow her to go visit the admin , but figured the usual game progress was that she should work her way up unlike the usual things she does .
' But there were so many exciting games about having god by your side although some managed to make it a horrifying experience '
Yuni put all the living matter together , recalling how she needed to replicate the creation of life , but since she had taken one observation on the miracle of life from the angel shop , she already figured out a way to cause life to appear much faster now .
' It's fine to show off my talent here , no one can peer into this dream ' Yuni thought as she continued her handiwork of creating life ' So I think it went this way ' Yuni imitated the miracle and life sprouted , but due to the base that she used being tiny lifeforms from the deep biosphere .
A strange lifeform was created which still qualifed for the definition of life ' There is going to be a lot of science behind this kind of lifeform , isn't there ? '
Yuni thinks of the difficulties she will find herself in but was nevertheless impressed by Delirium's extended ability to generate such complex laws and wondered if it had to do with the inventory of items that were being used to power the increase of difficulty .
' It's a bit disappointing that I no longer get to have any rewards , but it's the experience I really like after all my experience is so good it's considered cheating , so you're just making it much easier to cheat '
Yuni thought to herself , pretending to have an imaginary conversation with Welt ' I need to talk to some people , I can see why Silence is a challenge but I'm completely fine with that . It's just too bad I can't trash-talk with my mouth , there are so many poisonous words I want to spit out '
She wondered what the effects of finally speaking her mind out loud at the endgame would be , but now she is more focused on this great walker legacy and so after another playthrough with Delirium and clearing another transcendance difficulty playthrough , she followed the walkers to the tallest mountain .
' Obviously , the way to the higher realm is always the highest place to be found ' Yuni thought as they made the climb . There was not a lot of difficulty other than the fact that she could sense some of the world system's influence .
' From what I can tell , this world must be where Welt got that challenge system on ' she wished to break it down so she could take it home to test , since it has done wonders in making her fully immersed in the world without cheating by accident .
' Maybe this system was big enough that Welt provided it in the character creation menu , I remember the character creation menu in the talent and penalty game automatically recording my talents and deciding the penalties '
She recalled her adventure and mentioned things like ' I remember that Admin getting really pissed at me for gaining fame equal to my talent and despite how much I damaged the world , the system's admin seat was pretty welcoming to me , Wait , I actually do have some understanding of system and admin relationships '
Yuni recalled how Naul was always on the world system that Ekins used to work on and wondered if how the admins worked with the system would be important .
' Maybe this great walker actually walked into the admin seat then ? It would make perfect sense that they didn't return , Maybe they're watching from here ? '
There were a lot of references that she could probably use if she visits this admin to properly understand Welt's relationship to their admin ' But that will come out later , so for now , let me think about the previous world systems ? '
First reference , Birthworld ' Okay this one was practically very confusing because the system there was practically dead and was completely controlled by us . Must be the result of too many updates by the previous managers despite having no admin at all '
Second reference , The tower ' So this one seems to be quite okay with a lot of my modifications , but it might just be because I managed to train my party much better than they did '
Third reference , Penalized talent ' This one had the most show of a terrible admin who was completely jealous of the talent but I guess they were pretty glad but considering how they're like AI it's hard to relate that experience to Welt who has actual feelings or maybe these systems are like animals while Welt is the only one who is intelligent enough to do things like humans can in my birthworld '
Fourth reference , Apocalypse survival ' No you're good. This one is kinda like my relationship with Limos , who only eats and speaking of how is Naul doing with them in their world system ? '
Yuni reviews the rest of the systems she had visited , but eventually grounds them all as a sentient admin and their pet .
' No wait , I think this warden basically treats Welt that way or maybe just differently , I don't know , I've never dated and the only relationship I've had is with my children and the other admins who've either lost their position to one of my children's alternate accounts or just a subordinate . I could say Welt and their warden have a terrible professional relationship , but turning time for each fail ? '
As unbelievable as that was , Yuni wished she had Ceil with her because she would be able to crack the code , not the system's code , but rather the kind of relationship Welt has with their admin .
' I'm really not interested in the very specific lore like Ceil , but I guess that's where Rein got her personality with the beauty of the world and I've said this so many times , but I really wish I could see '
" We will settle in this cave " Yuni sensed around , amazed by how furnished the place was " Do you feel any of the trials being placed on you ? " Yuni sensed the words as she observed the conversations of her escorts .
" A little bit , guess my parents were right about me having more talent " " Be careful alright , if it's not enough , you will have to go down with the rest who can't " Yuni figured that this mountain had the same effect as her Recklessness challenge .
' If you think about it , climbing the mountain of recklessness is technically agreeing to accepting the challenges , but since when did I decide that ? ' Yuni wondered if Welt had some control over the game and found herself constantly blaming Welt , thinking they had bad intentions .
' They are justified to do that considering I did refuse to accept rewards which would've been helpful for me to help them ' she turned her attention to the mountain , wondering what else it hides and how the hell there is an extra step above it .
' It's like how I told myself when I was at the peak of my strength "If I can't climb higher , then I'll fly" ' she had no idea how true her words were as night entered and left , allowing them to continue their ascent as more and more escorts leave .
Yuni finally reaches the top with only a few chieftains who had carried a lot of other challenges like she did , but was much less " Can you sense the steps ? " Yuni sensed the peak of the mountain , which was a flat ground .
Upon sensing further with her skills , she found stairs and could feel their reach towards somewhere even higher , as her skills would be allowed to sense with the challenges limiting it "Yes there are steps"
" Astonishing , then try to follow those steps " Yuni nodded and faced the stairway as if she was going to heaven , but to the chieftains whose culture was much different from what most can believe as heaven would say these stairs were a path to a greater place .
Yuni walked up and they waited and after a day , she returned and told them what she sensed , albeit withholding certain information .
...
Yuni took one step in and in the sights of the chiefs , she disappeared ' Doesn't feel like they can sense me ' Yuni thought as she climbed higher .
To her , the climb didn't feel much different , there was no greater pressure , but she related that lack of pressure to the fact that she already has a lot of challenges on her .
' I'm really curious what's at the end of this , some of my theories are going to be confirmed and boy , do I love being right ' Yuni thought as she walked up , but suddenly something strange came into her field of senses .
' A crack ? ' Yuni turned to the crack , wondering what this thing was but upon trying to interact with it , her challenges stopped her .
[ Thankless has restrained your entrance ]
' Thankless ? ' Yuni was confused and remembered that the tribes don't actually receive any reward instances at all , even after she bought it up during the travels . But despite that , she was curious and faced the crack .
' But why thankless ? ' Yuni thought about how Thankless would restrict rewards from Welt but not other systems and wondered if these two systems are actually related ' Well , I guess I have no choice now '
She started to cheat and gazed through the crack " Hmm why are you there ? " Welt's unfiltered voice was heard as Yuni felt a sudden pull and a presence coming " No , you can't be here " The pull took her away while the crack closed and Yuni fell on the solid platform of the stairs as she slowly slips into a sleep .
' What was that ? ' To Yuni , this was the first time in a long time that she felt something completely different from her experiences . A presence that was ironically familiar to her but had such a different feel from the one she was used to .
Yuni felt Delirium seep into her mind , bringing her to the hall of transcendance ' What the hell ? ' Yuni was confused by what had just happened because something had just forced her to fall asleep while she had her guard up .
She got off the bench , she appeared in the hall of transcendance and checked her current condition ' This place is different from when I went to sleep ' Yuni could feel that the hall of transcendance had some damage and checked the bench , finding the basic code supporting it slightly broken down but still repairing itself .
Her entrance to the hall was forced , completely different from when she willingly went to sleep ' Guess I'll have to wake up ' and wake up she did as she found herself in a familiar place an admin room , except this one was more developed than the ones she encountered .
" You're awake " Yuni could hear the voice of a world system without any automation , but instead felt like it came from something that was alive in a way "You must be the admin of this world system ?"
" You caught on quick , that would've been expected since you have so much high access to much younger world systems " Yuni was surprised to find another world system so close to the other one , which was also alive like them .
' But considering the frequent regression has been through I wouldn't be surprised if they were both the first world systems to gain self-autonomy and then kept reversing time and integrating more world systems on the way . I remember the fauna that was in the first few regressions matches the one this world has so considering the massive world doesn't that mean this world has grown despite all those regressions ? '
While Yuni was stunned by the great operators behind this world " Hey Walker , what are you thinking ? " ' I guess mind-reading is not in their inventory of skills ' "Who are you ?" " I'm a world system Welt's admin always calls me by Mir "
' Do they know ? ' Yuni thought, referring to Welt's constant regression "Why did you stop me from going through ?" " Because I don't want you to go to that place , I had a good walker leaving my world to go to theirs because they wanted to be rewarded "
' So that's why the crack is there ' " That bastard probably left it there to insult me and the only reason I left it open is because my people are so bad at the paths I gave them , but you're okay "
Yuni got up , brushing the dust and wondered if she could get some info from them , but then remembered that the crack exist "Who made that crack ?" " It's that walker that came before . Now , hurry up and accept the admin seat "
' Nah I'm good ' forgetting that she had silence on she , outright told Mir she won't accept it " WHAT !? Oh sorry for my reaction " Mir said , recovering from their sudden surprise " the admin seat is very precious , you know ? Especially one from a very well-developed system like me "
' I know that much ' " Come on , think of it like a wedding " ' I shouldn't do that or me and my children would be polygamists ' "No , tell me about this great walker ?" " Ugh fine , this one is the one that has been stripping me of most of my population with the help of Welt after they became the admin "
"Really ?" The screens in the control room shook as they displayed many instances of the population decreasing " But thanks to that , I don't eat low-grade sustenance from my people " ' So systems really do take something from their populations '
"What is the purpose of an admin seat ?" " Shouldn't you have known this by now ? " Yuni was confused and detected that Mir explained " Each system is built to make an objective , transform it by too much would be detrimental and the type of detrimental will depend on what changes are made . Take me for example , I am the system that centers around paths of pain "
The screens changed , revealing symbols designed to show what kind of challenges they each represent as physical manifestations were made for Yuni .
" Like those streets that generate power by people's steps , the more walkers of these paths of difficulties there are , the more power I receive . Meanwhile , Welt is a bit different , which is what my great walker want them more than me because they are so ungrateful that they want a reward "
Mir's irritated voice showed how much they hated Welt's system " So I made that thankless challenge and slipped it into our cooperative creation and thank goodness you got it . I had to pull a lot of strings to send a very devout person of mine to go find you , but I took too long "
Mir starts to ramble about how they did it while Yuni was thinking ' So the great walker didn't have a legacy at all ' Yuni taught back about the stairs and remembered that the cracks were still lower and there were more stairs to go .
She searched around and found the exit door " Stop , where are you going ? " "Just to check" Yuni opened the door and found the pressure much greater than the entrance , but also found herself near a bright , glowing planet core beneath everything .
" Hey , even though I bought you here , you can't just leave " Yuni stepped out , feeling the pressure and she climbed up to feel much weaker pressure ' So there is more than one entrance ? '
Yuni went inside and checked the other exits ' This one is water , this one is where I came from and this one ? ' She found herself in a forest and stepped out . Delirium got even stronger , in she still went back inside after confirming the other possible places she could enter the control room .
She also noticed that the control room had a much greater sort of pressure but she associated it more with the increase of challenges ' Man , what a weird place '
"So what's the role of the admin ?" " To feed me " Yuni was surprised to hear that , considering that some of the world systems didn't have that kind of function .
' But to feed what ? ' while contemplating that , Mir pushed the chair " Come on , sit on it " "For what ? To optimize the feeding ?" " Duh , haven't you done any of that to the previous systems ? "
' No , not at all . Maybe Mir is under the impression that all systems are alive like them and maybe I can't apply the other system's logic to these ones . At least the systems that have been modified beyond it's natural face , like my birth world's , but that's also up for debate . '
" Hurry up and sit on the chair already , if you do , you can finally help me operate the world system . In fact , you can even add more if you like " Mir said and Yuni was troubled and decided to ask for a name .
" You want to know the previous great walker's name ? " Yuni nodded and Mir opened a board with the picture of the person and many other faces " They have a lot of identity when they leave Welt to their own works , but their name that they received in this world was Ordo "
' So Welt's warden is named Ordo ' " Anyways , they've grown stronger after Welt rewarded all of their efforts and thanks to how much they are harvesting out of them by giving them rewards . I hope Ordo drains them out of all the rewards , but for some reason , Welt is growing much bigger than me . The only reason I'm still not under them is because of my people's culture still being around "
' From the looks of it , these people value growth and more trials mean more chances of growth ' "Won't they get tired ?" " Of course not , these people will eventually tread each difficult path much easily , so giving them a chance to indulge in being freed from these chains makes them return to the path with more vigor to walk these difficult paths "
"Should've made it that way before" " Just take the seat so I can get more power and destroy that thief " ' I can't let that happen after all I did promise to save them , plus Welt is in control of a lot of world systems and I would also like to learn how they reversed time too '
"Are you really going to destroy Welt ?" " I feel that you are familiar with that system " "I know them a little bit" Mir was conflicted because they really hated Welt for stealing their potential admin .
" You know what fine , I don't need extra power and I can just let this grudge go if I have a capable admin like you " Yuni sat on the admin seat , surprising Mir " What ? " Mir suddenly felt a flood of power as time moved forward , giving them a lot of influence over their system and suddenly fainted .
[ System updating ]
Yuni was surprised to find that Mir was sent into hibernation for reasons unknown and got off the chair ' I'll have to go back and break the news to them and maybe even if I came empty-handed, I can just give them my skills instead , I have been recording everything with the storybook . '
...
Yuni removed the confidentiality trait and allowed the sale of her storybook in this server and they returned with the news that the great walker wasn't found at all ' I don't know if Ordo would like to return to this world at all after all they did desire a reward '
She was guided to a house that was made just for her and was asked when she plans to walk out of the paths of difficulty , so they could witness her strength .
' I think it's best if I keep holding on to these paths , they aren't aware of the control room and the admin seat and I'm wondering if giving Mir a lot of food will cause them to starve if I suddenly decided not to walk the paths '
All she can do as of the moment is to wait until Mir has updated their system to talk to her about it ' Might take a while . I could use some sleep '
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