by Pegaz
Looking down at the planet, he saw how beautiful the mostly blue planet was.
It’s still hard to believe I can destroy a planet by taking its core.
After taking a few minutes to enjoy the view, he then put his plan into action as he took out the first Mystical space sealing rune he had made.
John didn’t know how big the Earth was, but this planet was clearly smaller. At his fastest speed, he could do a full lap around this planet in twelve minutes.
He took out rune after rune then spaced them out a few miles apart, and after almost a full day, he created a cube shape around the planet. The Life Stones he had left were placed next to the runes to keep them powered after being activated.
He also had to make sure that the sealed space didn’t interfere with the planet orbiting the sun or affect the planet in any way.
Just before he activated the runes, he thought of a problem. He opened up his system and went into the Share Skill tab and looked at Sarah and Kelly’s name there. Looking at the list, he stopped sharing the Absorb Option with both of them.
With this gone, they couldn’t use the skill to absorb the sealed space like he did back on the battlefield.
He was at one of the corner runes of the cubic formation. Placing his hand on the rune, he pushed some Toxin Power into the rune and activated it.
A red line came out of the rune and connected it to the others a few miles away on the left and right sides, as well as the rune below.
It took almost ten minutes for the red lines to connect all the runes together. He only knew it was completed when the space started sealing. This meant all the runes were correct and the cubic shape had been formed.
Great! No mistakes!
Thirty minutes later, the space all around the planet turned red and was sealed completely. John knew it had partly worked because his Scan had been cut off from looking in on the other side of the sealed space. It wasn’t until he opened the universal map and tried to teleport onto the planet—but hit the red wall—that he knew there were no gaps and it had completely worked.
He waited for over a month before he came to a conclusion that the sealed space didn’t affect the planet in any way because it was still orbiting the sun, and from what he could tell, the weather on the planet didn’t have any drastic changes.
From what he could see, the sealed space didn’t stop the light and anything else going through it either, causing John to think that the sealed space was created to stop immortals somehow. He realised that he still had quite a bit to learn.
The runes were placed with the beast blood on the rune facing towards the planet so people on the planet couldn’t force their way out.
Since he had confirmed that the planet was fine with the sealed space, he placed another rune with the beast blood facing away from the planet next to the Life Stones powering the first runes. This created a slightly larger cube around the planet.
The Life Stone in the middle of the two runes would power them both and after he was finished, people wouldn’t be able to break out of the planet nor get in. Only he, the creator, could remove the sealed space.
This was done to keep Sarah and Kelly safe until John was able to become a Transcendent and kill that man.
The only worry I have now is if a Transcendent is able to destroy these seals. I’ll need to transcend as fast as possible to remove any chance of that Transcendent finding this place before I’m able to hold my ground against him.
After John finished his plan, he opened up the 3D universal map and teleported to the Nobody Sect’s planet.
He clicked on the down arrow in the universal map, changing it to the world map. Looking at where his icon was in the world, he saw that he was only about a hundred miles away from the Nobody Sect.
It only took a minute for him to fly there, but when he was about to find Luke, he realised that the Transcendent might be watching Luke, waiting for John to make contact.
Finding a random person, he used the Soul Manipulation on him and gave him a note to deliver to Luke, then he flew away.
* * *
Luke was going through some Information Spheres that were left by his subordinates when he heard a knock on the door.
“Come in,” Luke said, not taking his eyes from his work. He was too busy to even check who it was in his Scan.
A man came inside, left a note on the table, and walked away without saying a word.
It took a few minutes for Luke to finish working on the bit of information he had in front of him. He was expecting someone to be there waiting for him, but when he looked up, nobody was there.
He saw a note in his Scan that wasn’t there a few minutes ago, so he picked it up and read it.
Turn on your Hide option and meet me at the mission hub.
Luke smiled at the note before doing what it said. As soon as he read it, he knew it was from either John or Sarah since only they knew about the option.
When he arrived at the mission hub, everyone who saw him bowed a little. He couldn’t find John or Sarah in his Scan because of the Hide option, so he kept looking around.
It was at this time when a person came up to him and handed him another note.
Meet me at the teleport rune to the Northern Kingdom.
Luke exited the mission hub and quickly made his way there.
* * *
John was having a conversation with Brian, the elder who guarded this teleport rune. Brian was the first elder John had seen when he came to this sect over fifty years ago.
As they were talking, the door opened and a man walked in.
John knew it was Luke because he couldn’t see Luke in his Scan, so he knew he must have put on the Hide option.
He used his Immortal Eye on the man standing in the doorway just in case.
Luke Jordan
Rank: 9
Level: 1
Sin: 0
Oh, he’s reached Rank 9, too.
In the battlefield, he admitted to removing the controlled status that was there from my Soul Manipulation skill, but this was the first time I’ve seen that status disappear in my Immortal Eye skill.
“I knew you survived!” Luke spoke as soon as he saw John.
Looking at Brian, Luke asked him to leave for a while.
After Brian left, Luke continued, “The Sharing skill didn’t stop, so that must have meant that you survived.”
John smiled while shrugging his shoulders. “We don’t know if it stops sharing if one of us dies. I’ve come to ask what happened on your end after the war and check how the sect is after a decade and a half of you being in charge.”
“Took you this long to be interested in what happened?” Luke replied.
“I retired, so I didn’t need or want to know.” John leaned back in the seat. “But now, my daughter is all grown up and she’s become an immortal. I’ve also reached the highest point I can as an immortal, so I’m trying to find how to transcend.”
“When you figure out how to transcend, you’ll tell me when I reach the highest point, right?”
John nodded his head to answer him.
“Great.” Luke clapped his hands. “Well, when everybody got out of the battlefield safely, we all waited for you to come out.
“However, you never showed up, and when the teleport rune turned grey and disappeared, we knew the teleport rune on the battlefield had broken. That’s when everybody thought you were dead and only I thought differently because of the Share skill.
“After all that, high-ranking people from the Adventurers’ Guild came to figure out what happened. Most of the sect masters, family heads, and organisation leaders came personally and paid tribute to you when the truth came out, calling you humanity’s hero. They even built a statue of you where the teleport rune to the battlefield used to be.
“Leon then confessed everything that happened, including what he did towards losing the war. He was arrested and later found guilty in a military trial. He’s serving a hundred year sentence, but he
shouted that he didn’t regret what he did since it was for his child.
“A lot of the soldiers under him were found guilty for prolonging the war, but we all know the Adventurers’ Guild is punishing them for keeping one part of how to transcend a secret from them. They’re only serving a fifty-year sentence since they were technically following orders.
“The Adventurers’ Guild tried confiscating any beastmen cores after the war, but when every mercenary, sect member, and army personnel banded together, they couldn’t do anything and dropped the subject not long after it started.
“Since then, they’ve been trying to figure out how to gain control over the elements without using beastmen cores, just like their ancestors once did.
“It makes sense because the war against the beastmen only started a few million years ago, but Transcendents were here billions or even trillions of years ago.
“Now that they know one part of what you need to transcend is gaining control of the elements, a lot of money and manpower have gone into research and human testing, but nothing has come out of it yet.
“Other than that, everything has been like it was before you retired. The only real difference is the planets that the Death Sect owned have been given away equally to all other sects, families, and organisations that were affected the most by the Death Sect’s actions as compensation.
“The Nobody Sect gained almost a thousand planets, too, and we’ve been using those planets to recruit talents, produce food, and other things the sect needs to grow.
“We’ve grown exponentially since you left because I’m aiming to do what you once said we should—have at least one assassin in every kingdom on every planet. We’ve covered over ninety percent of the universe already, and I think we’ll only need another three years to cover the rest.
“That’s all for the report. I want to ask something that’s been bugging me since the war. Your plan was to meet at the teleport rune as soon as the plane started shaking, so why weren’t you there? What happened?”
John laughed. “I made a huge mistake. My plan was to distort the plane with a small, black ball I obtained from the Anti-assassin Sect’s planet. But when I was fighting the beastman, it combined the elements together to form a much stronger attack, which shook the plane. That was the signal you saw, but it was that early signal that saved all your lives.
“It wasn’t until much later that I threw that black ball out which I had planned to be the signal, but it was much stronger than I thought.
“It took only a few minutes for the entire plane to warp after the ball appeared. It destroyed the teleport rune and I was trapped inside the plane, but thinking about the beastman’s trick, I combined the elements to create a strong enough attack to pierce a hole in that forcefield, allowing me to teleport away.
“After that, I went to my wife and child.”
I shouldn’t tell Luke about the Demon until after I’ve figured out how to ‘fuse’ with it like Sarah said.
“So, we survived by luck?” Luke asked.
John nodded and replied, “Yeah. Pure, dumb luck. Sorry I almost got you killed.”
Chapter 27: Space Travel
John and Luke spent the next hour talking.
After catching up, John told Luke it was time to leave.
After saying goodbye, John waited for Luke to leave before he opened up the universal map and after an hour of finding the closest planet to the centre of the universe his skill allowed him to teleport to, he disappeared.
It took over a week while using the Nobody Sect’s teleport system to get from the planet he teleported to, to one of the planets closest to the centre; however, when he got to this planet, he couldn’t find a teleport rune for the planet he needed to get to.
John used the teleport rune to go to the surface of the planet and flew to the nearest town.
He then used the local teleport system to reach the planet’s biggest city which housed the Adventurers’ Guild’s public teleport system that went to different planets.
Just like the Nobody Sect’s teleport system, the Adventurers’ Guild numbered the planets starting from the centre of the universe going outwards.
The planet John was on was labelled number one, but on John’s universal map, it wasn’t the planet closest to the centre.
Why would this planet be number one when there’s a planet closer to the centre? Does the numbering system they came up with start at zero?
Why isn’t there a teleport rune to that zero planet either?
To make sure it wasn’t a simple mistake, John went to planets two through five and checked all the teleport runes the Adventurers’ Guild and Nobody Sect had, but there weren’t any to get to planet zero.
John scratched his head.
What should I do now? The number one planet is the closest, but it’ll still take me months or maybe years of travelling to get there if I travel through space.
I’ve got no choice though.
John used the universal map to travel back to the number one planet, then flew into the air and was just about to enter space when he stopped.
Wait, the Creation’s Oxygen skill transforms the carbon dioxide in my lungs to oxygen for me to breathe, but what happens if I’m in space and it escapes my lungs by accident?
There won’t be any carbon dioxide for the skill to work on, meaning there’s a chance I would suffocate to death.
I can use the universal map to teleport back to a planet to avoid dying, but any time and effort I used to get to planet zero would be wasted. That would mean the Transcendent has more time to find Sarah and Kelly, that’s unacceptable!
After thinking up to here, John took a big inhale and carried on flying to outer space.
It didn’t take long for John to pass the planet’s orbit. After leaving any kind of gravitational pull from the planet, John made sure he was going the right way before he pushed Toxin Power while using the time element to travel at his fastest speed, Mach 6.
He then stopped using any time element and Toxin Power. He wasn’t sure if his system could remove any damage to his brain by overusing the time element a second time, but he was still travelling at full speed because there was no resistance or any kind of force that would slow him down in space.
Using the space element, he tried to fold the space between him and planet zero, but the space element disappeared—like it was never there—before he could do so.
Is it because I’m moving too fast?
Using Toxin Power on his chest and legs, he came to a stop and just floated there.
Lifting his hand in front of him, he used the space element once more. He became disappointed when it disappeared just like last time.
What the hell is going on? I can use the space element on a plane or planet, but not in actual space? There’s got to be more to it than that.
Using the time element and Toxin Power, John travelled at his fastest speed before he stopped using them again.
John spent the next two months travelling through the dark, lonely silence.
He was bored and kept looking at the universal map. It showed he had travelled about one fifteenth of the way.
I knew humans were too small to make a real good or bad difference in the universe, and maybe even immortals and Transcendents are the same. However, feeling how insignificant you really are while travelling through space is a real blow.
Before this trip, he knew he was small compared to the whole universe, but it wasn’t until now that he realised just how small he really was.
Even though he was going as fast as he possibly could, his destination planet would have travelled around the sun it was orbiting about two and a half times.
John took out his communication device and pressed the button. The device buzzed a little, but nothing happened after that.
It’s not connecting to Sarah’s communication device? Is it because I’m in outer space, the sealed space I put around the planet Sarah’s on, or the Transcendent found her?
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bsp; John’s thoughts went to the worst possible outcome as he tried the communication device over and over again.
It must be because of the sealed space around the planet. It has to be...
While calming himself down, something bright in the far distance caught his eye.
Turning his body a little to look in the direction he came from, he saw a small and bright blue dot. It only took a few seconds later for that blue dot to become much bigger.
What the hell is that?
A few seconds more and his question got answered as he saw a comet with a large blue tail.
I remember learning about comets back on Earth. It shouldn’t have a tail unless it passed by a sun or something that heated the surface. Did it pass by a sun recently?
Wait, that’s not the point. It’s coming directly at me. Maybe I can use it to get to planet zero quicker since it’s catching up to me.
John waited a few seconds for the comet to come closer. It wasn’t until then that John realised the comet was going in a slightly different direction. If he continued going the speed he was going at, the comet might miss him.
John pushed Toxin Power in front of him to stop his movement and to try and stay in the comet’s path.
Almost a minute later, to John’s horror, the comet had travelled away from him more than he expected and he wouldn’t be able to get back inside its path, but the comet was over three miles wide so a corner part of it was still in front of him.
John pushed Toxin Power and the time element again to make him accelerate to his fastest speed as quickly as he could, propelling himself further into the comet’s path.
Luckily, the comet spun in such a way that the corner piece of it was guaranteed to pick him up after he sped into its path.
Another worry entered his mind, though. The comet was travelling many times faster than his maximum speed, so if he was standing still, the impact he’d cause would be far greater than if he was travelling at a normal speed, which could eventually cause the comet to alter its course.
Using as much Toxin Power and time element he could use, he changed his flight path from getting into the comet’s way, to flying away from it, hoping to reduce the impact.
