141 Neighbouring Plane (2/2)

”Of the four galaxies, you've picked the right one.. Of the billions of systems, you've picked the right one.. This is the solar system that contains your world of origin, and yet, the planet you've picked is the only one with a full connection to the spiritual plain..” Said Nia with a deep surprise in her voice. ”If you had actually picked your planet, I would have killed you on the spot. From our prospective, you couldn't have been any luckier.”

”What can I say.. I'm a lucky guy.” Responded Daniel with a faint smile on his face.

Internally, he sighed deeply in relief.

Nobody knew this, but that actually was the second attempt he had made.. On his first attempt, he had actually picked his planet of origin by chance.. But then, right after Nia had revealed to him which planet that was, she had killed him due to the fact that his planet of origin didn't contain a full connection to the spiritual plain, and didn't contain knowledge of interplanetary travel.

Time had rewinded back to the moment in which the galaxy had appeared, causing Noah's confusion when asking Daniel to pick a galaxy.

In his second attempt, instead of considering himself lucky for finding his world of origin, he thought that the biggest luck would lie in finding a planet close to his world of origin, and that fulfilled all the requirements he had mentioned before. Amongst which a full connection to the spiritual plain, and knowledge of interplanetary travel.

Nia tilted her head slightly to the side, and said ”Or you are in possession of a blessing which plays with fortune.. Interesting.”

As Noah heard Nia's words, he turned to look at her, and through a secret method of silent conversation, he asked ”So, he cheated us?”

”Open the portal.” Said Nia, ignoring her great grandson's words.

”The third emissary specifically told me to kill him if I was given a chance.” Said Noah with irritation.

”The second emissary told me to stop you from killing him unless there is an actually good reason.. If the Judge were to be observing him, and we killed him.. That's more than enough for both emissaries to lose their lives as well, and our faction to lose enough to fall at the bottom.. Open. The. Portal.”

”Fine..” Responded Noah after ultimately agreeing with her.

At the end of the day, the order he had obtained from the third emissary was just a whim. The reason why he wanted to follow it, was to leave a good impression on him.. But it definitely wasn't enough for the both of them to risk their lives over.

With a wave of his hand, he opened another milky white portal, then, along with Nia, he went directly through it.

Daniel followed suit and went through the portal, but when he appeared on the other side, he wasn't in a portal. Instead, he and the two acolytes were standing in a grey spatial room.

In front of them, was a simple desk.. And behind the desk, an elegantly dressed man was sitting.

This man appeared to be bored out of his mind, and on the desk, there were dozens of sheets of paper folded into odd-looking shapes and figures.

As the man felt the three of them, he looked up, and said ”You know the procedure.. Names, occupation, and reason for your visit.”

The two acolytes bowed politely at the man, and Nia said ”Nia, and Noah Riama, first Spiritual Acolyte under the guidance of the second Spiritual Emissary, and thirteenth Spiritual Acolyte under the guidance of the third Spiritual Emissary. We are here to accompany a member of your faction back home.”

”How gracious of you.. Still, access denied. Leave him here and piss off.” Responded the man quite rudely.

Noah and Nia didn't dare to act arrogantly against this man. They were more than aware of what kind of power someone that regulated the entry to one of Iewah's planets would possess, and it wasn't anywhere lower than the power of the emissaries themselves. The only difference, was in their occupation.

One was a messenger of sorts, while the other, was a guardian.

Nia turned to look at Daniel, and said ”This is as far as we can take you into the planet. Iewah's faction is at fault for obstructing us in completing our mission, so, according to the rules of misconduct on the part of the receiver of a service, we get to set a condition in return.”

Daniel looked back at the girl with deep suspicion, and said ”What condition?”

”As long as you'll be within a planet regulated by Iewah's faction, you won't be able to make use of the bracelet to call us.” Responded Nia plainly. She then pointed at the white bracelet around Daniel's wrist.

Daniel immediately felt the change in the bracelet. Compared to earlier, he wasn't able to inject spiritual essence into it. It almost looked like it wasn't connected to the spiritual plain anymore.

After Daniel felt the changes in the bracelet, he rapidly looked at the two acolytes, and tried to say something. But before he could, the two had already disappeared.

What he wanted to ask, was for them to teleport him into his world of origin, since the bet had already been concluded, and he already knew what the exact position of his world of origin was. Unfortunately, the two of them had expected that, and had left before Daniel had a chance to ask.

Now alone in the spatial room, Daniel approached the desk where the man was sitting, and said ”Can I enter the planet?”

The man turned to look at Daniel.

In his eyes, unbeknownst to Daniel, two red hexagrams had appeared.

After looking him up and down for a few seconds, the man said ”You belong to the seventeenth planet of this solar system.. How did you end up out of it?”

”I've exterminated a group of spiritual cultivators that had opened a portal for another world. I was pulled into it, and at a later moment, I found out that that planet was inside the dominion of the Sovereign of Corruption..”

The man listened to Daniel's story with an amused expression. After thousands of years spent doing a job that even a dog could do, he had found a pleasure in listening to other people's stories.

”That's quite the tale.” Said the man through a big smile. ”I would gladly help you get back to your planet, but I am not allowed to. Plus, it would be a shame. You can gain the rights for interplanetary travel in this planet, so I suggest you try to do that.”

Daniel didn't really expect that this man would help him. After all, he had no idea of how rights and powers worked in these large factions. Plus, he was fine with obtaining the rights to interplanetary travel, so he said ”Very well. I would like to enter then.”

”Good, go ahead” Said the man while moving his finger, and opening a human-sized portal in the air.

As Daniel entered the portal, the man muttered ”Karma huh?.. How peculiar..”