Chapter 374 (1/2)
There he was, nȧkėd and woozy down on the ground. He felt like he was run over by a car which then turned around and hit him once again. Luckily for him, there were some healing pills in the room that he crawled into.
”I'm back…”
While slowly standing up he pumped his fist in the air which caused some of the wounds to sting. This he didn't care much about as he was visibly pleased by having his long journey be at an end.
It all started on that fateful day where he fought off the third iteration of the monster. Then he was tossed into the void between worlds. This taught him secrets that he was not meant to know.
The person behind the creation of these separate dimensions was still unknown to him. It did give him valuable information about how his own world worked. The existence of higher beings that watched over these worlds became known to him. For him to not suffer an untimely death he would need to avoid them at all cost.
This was not a problem that he would need to handle yet, now he needed to rejoin his family. The simple fact that this room was in place meant that things looked well. With heavy steps he traded out of the side room, his vision was blurry but this didn't keep him from seeing the bright monitors.
His vision focused and he could see the familiar scenery that he remembered well. The sect buildings were there, he was back home. The monitors in this room were fashioned by him and he had his own version of cameras placed around some key locations.
The first thing he noticed was the lack of people. Out in the yard at his home there was no one, he hoped to see his children playing with their mother but there was no one there. No people in the streets either, it looked like a ghost town.
His attention was drawn to a certain monitor, on it he could see movement. There he finally saw her, his beautiful wife. At the moment he was drawn into her face but soon he noticed that something was off. She looked rather perturbed and the reason behind this became apparent.
”What?”
This realization was soon followed by his AI giving him an alarm.
”Other system holder detected in close proximity to the user, caution is advised!”
”How could that be possible?”
From what he could tell there would be one person with a system summoned. Even back in the other world, Takeshi was the main system holder. All the girls that came with him were only borrowing some of its functions.
Was this person related to him? Could he have been summoned at the same time and possessed some off-shot system?
”Calculating… answer available. The possibility of a new system holder being summoned after the perceived disconnection from the source by the user is 99.99%”
”The source?”
Zhang Dong thought back to the time when his system started acting strange. It was back when he was forced down into the expedition along with his clansmen. There he suffered a near-death experience after using up all of his spiritual energy.
”Are you telling me, that this world's overseer thinks that I'm dead and so he summoned another person to replace me?”
”Affirmative.”
”Could you explain yourself, you're not really helping much…”
”Attempting to access the database to answer the quarry… error… error…”
”Figures…”
His little AI helped appear after he got thrown into the void. It was unknown to him how Bob really worked and if he could actually fully trust him yet. All the questions that he posed towards the people that were working in the background were met with errors.
Bob did ȧssure him that if he reached a higher state of being that some of this information would be revealed to him. This AI was probably something that was left behind when he absorbed that first cube during the expedition.
The initial absorption cut him away from the source and altered his old system. Then when he was thrown into the gap between worlds Bob was activated. Perhaps this thing needed certain requirements to unlock its secrets.
One of these requirements was gathering more cubes and gaining more power. If there was another person with a system that was summoned to this empire. This meant that there was another cube powering a different teleportation formation as the one that brought him here.
”Wait, did this person come from my world? Why is he here then?”
It didn't seem that a battle had broken out just yet so Zhang Dong decided to wait. He needed more information, if he bolted outside he might have just escalated everything.