Death… And Me

Chapter 4225: Take Your Time

It goes without saying that Soza was enraged to find out that Fila had disappeared. He looked into everything, all the formations and guards, trying to figure out how the girl left the Imperial Dimensional Realm at all. Too bad, though. There were no clues anywhere. It was as if she just disappeared, and that wouldn’t be too far from the truth.

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Back in Lisan, Rean continued to receive visits from various powers, while pretending to care about all of it. The good thing was that he was able to test his Echo powers while at it. The Echo makes everything there is in the Great Void, including thoughts... That said, he could literally hear the thoughts of those he talked to.

Their plans, their intentions, their hidden agendas, you name it. No soul seal, locked memory, or any other method of safeguarding information was of any use against Rean. At the moment, there were only a handful of experts in the entire Great Void who could really avoid the twins’ group’s Echo mind-reading methods, and they were those at Soza’s level.

Their Celestial Energy and bodies were different, not something created with The Echo like everyone else. Even when Rean focused on Soza in the Werdlem Empire, he couldn’t hear his thoughts or see into his memories at all.

Rean and the others weren’t surprised, though. They heard from Default that The Echo is something from their Great Void. It would be strange if it could work on something that came from the Celestial Plane. Soza wasn’t the only one at his level, obviously.

In fact, considering the size of the Great Void and its countless universes, the twins’ group managed to pinpoint thousands of experts like that. Some were so far away that even using the best Great Void Spaceship available would still take thousands of years to get to them.

Of course, with The Echo, the twins’ group could pay a visit to them at any time they felt like it, not that they did it, of course.

Those interactions with outsiders continued for several years nonstop. Finally, the number of visitors diminished, and eventually, Lisan stopped receiving them. All the information that could be obtained from Lisan was already acquired. Trying to force Lisan into speaking more was also meaningless. No one could really enter Lisan and challenge four Balance Breakers at the Peak Stage of the Celestial Realm, while the invaders would be forced to suppress their cultivations to the Divinity Realm.

Instead, the action shifted to the Werdlem Empire entirely. That was still the top dog in the Great Void, and they sure showed it as everyone tried to take a piece. Taking down the Werdlem Empire was out of the question in the first place, but in the end, not a single Universe even fell into danger.

The Werdlem Empire had to come up with ways of stopping their top experts from running away, of course. The Empire eventually announced that the Werdlem Divine Stone restriction on cultivation would be relaxed, though not entirely removed, for safety reasons. They also offered rewards, payments, and other kinds of things to convince their own experts to stay.

In any case, the Werdlem Empire would still be the central focus of attention for a very long time.

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Exactly one hundred years after the twins’ group returned, Soul Gem, who was having a great time with Fila, finally received the call he was waiting for.

”I accept it,” said Tuana, calling from the Temporal Gap where the Vruve Organization Home was located.

Soul Gem smiled in response. ”Trust me, there is a lot to gain from this decision. The very first one, for example, is that you can depart from the Lisan Universe and go look for your Rogue Celestial Laws.”

”No need,” Tuana refused. ”I already have them. For me to accept this deal, I will have you get me a slot in one of the various Great Void Black Holes so I can have my breakthrough. With Rean and Roan’s new friends from everywhere in the Great Void, I believe they have a few they can ask for a favor.”

Soul Gem was taken aback. He truly didn’t know Tuana had found her Celestial Laws already. But then again, it wasn’t that the Lisan Universe never got any of those Rogue Laws. It is just that they were exceptionally rare. Could it be Tuana found hers in here? Well, that didn’t matter. ”I see... I will talk to them.”

Rean received the call a moment later, and he smiled. There was no need to call Roan and the others for this. He could bring Tuana to a Great Void Black Hole. ”Leave her to me. I’ll connect her to the Chaos Origin Source.”

And so Rean did. He brought the woman to the Chaos Origin Source and even asked her one last time if she was really okay with that. After receiving Tuana’s confirmation, he realized the connection. Now, if the Chaos Origin Source of Lisan ever left that place, she would die.

”Now, let’s get over with it,” Rean didn’t waste time. He waved his hand, and he disappeared with Tuana.

Connecting her to the Chaos Origin Source didn’t faze Tuana. However, when she suddenly disappeared, and disappeared without feeling any kind of spatial pulls... now that scared her! ”What?! How did you pull me with you?”

Rean didn’t answer. Instead, he pointed into the distance. ”Are you sure you want to waste time asking questions you know I won’t answer?”

Tuana’s eyes followed Rean’s finger, and she saw it. A Great Void Black Hole, an absolutely gigantic one that didn’t lose to the Werdlem Universe’s BH1 at all! Even better, there wasn’t a single soul around. This one was empty, ready to be used by anyone willing to take it. ”How did we get here so fast? Where are we?”

”Still not answering,” Rean said with a smile.

Tuana calmed down. All of that didn’t matter now. Her chance was right there, and she couldn’t lose it. ”Okay, okay. How much time do I have before you have to relinquish this place back to its owner?”

As far as Tuana knows, there is no Great Void Black Hole without owners in the Great Void. Her only conclusion was that Rean managed to somehow rent the entire place only for her, which already sounded ridiculous, but she couldn’t come up with any other possibility.

”Hum? Time?” Rean shook his head. ”I’m leaving. Take as long as you want. Once you succeed in your Celestial Realm Breakthrough, I’ll come back for you. Goodbye.”

And so, Rean left, leaving the woman with a lost expression behind.