Chapter 291: Joyces New Goal (1/2)

”By the way, there is one thing that I am confused about,” Gravis said.

”Yes?” Joyce asked.

”You saw that I had had a Will-Aura in the Body Tempering Realm, so why did you help me? You should've known about the Heaven Sect's ways,” Gravis asked.

Joyce sighed. ”Well, to be honest, I never expected you to pay me back.”

Gravis lifted an eyebrow. ”You didn't?”

Joyce shook her head. ”I was sure that the Heaven Sect would kill you. The only reason I helped you was that I felt bad for you. Such a fate seemed too tragic in my eyes. But hey, good thing it didn't come true!”

Gravis smiled. ”It sure is. So, anyway, the whole resource war thing is a no-go?” he asked.

Joyce showed an uncomfortable look. ”Well, not completely.”

”How come? Your teacher said that you never intended to partake in the war this year,” Gravis asked.

”It's not that I decided against it, but that my father and teacher decided against it,” Joyce explained. ”My will is already very powerful, and the resource war has a 90% death-rate. They said that the risk is too high for me. If I had a weaker Will-Aura, they would've let me go, but my will is already powerful enough. Only a little bit more, and my will would be powerful enough to ascend. They said that I don't need to go through such a risky adventure. Safety is more important.”

Gravis lifted a brow. ”Depends on what your goal is.”

Joyce looked with confusion at Gravis. ”Obviously, my goal is to become powerful.”

”Yeah, but how powerful exactly?” Gravis asked.

Joyce furrowed her brows. She hadn't thought about this before. The highest power that everyone in this lower world knew was the power of an ascender. They knew nothing about the path after that, so they also couldn't imagine how it would be in the higher worlds. Many people even believed that ascenders would ascend to the kingdom of God and live forever while watching over this world.

”Could you tell me more about higher worlds?” Joyce asked.

Gravis shrugged. ”Sure. The world that ascenders go to is basically the same as this one, but with a higher power ceiling. Imagine an even lower world where there are so few resources that people would take over 50 years to reach the Magic Gathering Realm. Not many people are able to reach that Realm in that world due to the resources, but when they do, they appear in this world, as Magic Gathering Realm cultivators.”

”Basically, as soon as you ascend to the next world, you can't be considered as being at the bottom, but you also can't be considered to be powerful. You basically get flung into a world while being at the lower-middle of the world's power,” Gravis explained.

Joyce looked at the floor in uncertainty. ”So, the higher world is no different from our world? There are still fights for resources and life and death tempering?”

Gravis nodded. ”Exactly. The only difference is that you live longer and see a bigger mountain and higher Heaven in front of you. It's like when the strongest person of an isolated village goes to a town for the first time, thinking that they are mighty only to be beaten up by basic guards.”

Joyce sighed. ”And every other person in your Realm has also managed to ascend from their world, and therefore, could all be considered geniuses.”

Gravis nodded. ”Yes. The higher world only gives you the opportunity to see a new goal for your power. It isn't easier or more peaceful, but only crueler. Imagine the destruction that two fighting people at the Unity Realm would cause to the surroundings. The mortals have it even worse in the higher world than here since any random fight in their vicinity could annihilate them.”