Chapter 533: Exchange of Information (1/2)

'The name of the old gentleman's real body is Sergei Andal. He's a Rank 5 Sage of a Spirit-type Sage World called Kotov.

According to the old gentleman, Sergei is the leader of their world or the strongest entity alongside the World's Will, just like me. He's the absolute ruler and the decision-maker.

When they were about to be dragged by the war that was restarted with the reappearance of the Rogue Divinity and the new Divine World, Sergei aligned Kotov to the Rogue Divinity in their faction.

However, Celestial Garden was thoroughly vicious when it came to their enemies.

They were sending their Divinity to the lower worlds. If they refuse to comply, although they will not destroy the world, they will kill half of its population.

A Divinity will always be invincible against Sage Worlds.

Although the World's Will could somehow restrict the Divinity as long as they weren't strong enough, if a group of Divinity went down then… that was a catastrophe for even the strongest Sage Worlds.

Imagine being faced with a Transcendent when you're still a Rank 1 Mortal. That kind of difference persists every jump in Realm.

As for Kotov, the Celestial Garden ordered a rival Sage World to attack them and they were accompanied by one Divinity.

According to the gentleman, Kotov managed to fight back against them.

In Sergei's leadership, the Divinity who was probably only a Rank 1 Divinity was caught in Sergei's trap that was given to him by the Divine World he aligned Kotov with.

That trap reduced the Divinity's overall prowess by 50%. And with the help of the World's Will to further reduce the Divinity's prowess, Sergei fought against the Divinity while the other Sage Ranks below him defended against their rival Sage World's experts.

As for the result of that battle, the old gentleman could only guess. Considering he's still existing, Sergei is still alive.

The old gentleman might be a clone of him but he's a separate entity borne from a skill called Spirit Splitting.

The old gentleman was only given one command by Sergei: to defend his old mansion. His old mansion that was said to be holding sentimental value for him.

The old gentleman didn't elaborate on that and I didn't press for an answer.

According to him, Ancient Ruins is a chunk of Kotov. It was split by the Divinity in desperation.

At that time, this place was also being assaulted by the Transcendents of the rival Sage World. Without any other guards, he defended this place alone. And although he failed to save it from being damaged, the old gentleman remained due to the command by Sergei.

The corpses littering this Underground Mansion were denizens of that rival Sage World.

”Does this mean you have no idea about the other parts of this chunk of Kotov?”

”Not really, I can sense the whole place and what's residing in here. With your strength, you can now fully explore this place and get the things left behind by those who died here. However, I doubt it will be useful to you at all. You already got the most valuable after all…” The old gentleman trailed his voice and he alternated his gaze between me and Jayna.

”The Totem and Earthfire Essence, huh?”

”That's right. You might find more of these people with their Storage Necklaces intact. If you're lucky you'll find weapons with Sealed Weaponsoul, Imbued Tools that was lower in quality than the Totem or Output Enhancing Equipment those in need of equipment might find useful.”

Those are still somewhat valuable, not for denizens of Earth but the denizens of Mortal Worlds connected to it like the World of Spirit.

”What about the Source Energy of this place? It can't be that it's unlimited.” I inquired.

”Can you guess why there's still a Source Energy in here?” The old gentleman asked a question instead of answering.

The smile on his lips indicated how he's sure that I might know the reason.

And truthfully, I can formulate a guess.

”Is it because a part of the Source Energy Core got chopped along with this chunk…?”

If that was chopped along with this chunk, a part of the World's Will was also brought along with it.

And that explained how it managed to latch onto a Mortal World without destroying it.

If it has the part of the Source Energy core, it can still produce Source Energy. However, it's probably siphoning a part of the Source Energy of the World of Spirit…

And that also finally explained the paranoid personality of the World's Will. It's afraid that if someone else can utilize the entirety of the Source Energy in its world, there's no point for him to exist anymore.