Chapter 867 - Outer s.p.a.ce
After talking a bit more, Alex finally s.h.i.+fted the focus back to the spirits.
"Anything else I need to know about the spirits?" Alex asked.
"Hmm… There is another spirit world beside Eulja and had your protection in the past, but they are not really that loyal to you, so I think it"s better not to go there," added Anna with a serious expression.
"Well, Eulja alone has already blown my mind, let alone this one. I am not planning to go without fully considering everything." Alex a.s.sured them with a smile.
"In that case, I won"t say anything more about it." Anna dropped the topic.
"And I want to know about your previous cultivation, will that be alright?" Alex asked.
"Hmm… Our previous cultivation huh…" Anna thought for a moment. "You can say that we are powerful, but not as powerful as the previous you. You probably have already speculated about our previous rank, so I am not going to answer that question."
"I see…?? Alex nodded. He could already see a few of them have the same amount of experiences, so he believed they had the same cultivation previously. And with a few calculations, he somehow understood their rank, but seeing they refused to say it, he didn"t delve deeper.
"In that case, I want to know about the rulers, such as their personality and jobs."
"Our father is very weird…" Anna glanced at Anya, who seemed to agree with her. She turned back with a weird smile. "Well, he is probably going to burn you if he meets you. You can say that what will happen when you let light through a magnifying gla.s.s? It"s going to burn."
"Don"t worry. You will be fine since you are a Pure Fire element user." Anya waved her hand, a.s.suring Alex.
"Is that the case?" Alex twitched his eyebrows.
"Well, he was very protective in the past. But as long as you are hiding behind mother, you will be fine," Anna added.
"Anyway, they were the ones helping you with your Spirit Crown, so you might want to visit them at one point. Besides, Alicia has become Spirit as well, so I believe it"s good to help strengthen her technique with the special ability of the Spirit Crown." Anya pointed her finger toward Alicia.
"Yes. With their guidance, I believe you can master it in a short time."
Alex thought for a moment and agreed. "Alright. I will visit them at one point. After all, they are my in-law too."
"Hehe…" Anna and Anya grinned.
"How about Jeanne? What kind of ruler was she?"
"Ahem… Since you want to know about me, I shall tell you." Jeanne appeared again while pumping her fist as if saying her time had come. "I am the respectable ruler that every Lightning Spirit adores. They haven"t raised any complaints about me since I started ruling. You can say that I am the best."
Jeanne looked very proud, but Alex somehow couldn"t picture her being the best ruler. But if that were true, he would be very impressed.
It was at this time Anna and Anya translated the real meaning behind her words.
"Let us translate it for you."
"The Lightning Spirits don"t adore her. Instead, they fear her. You might know her torture, so you can see why the Lightning Spirits are scared of her, right? And that is precisely the reason why no one dares to raise a complaint until now. You can say that she is the scariest."
"True. She likes abusing her subordinates, telling them to have a round with her if they don"t complete the job. In any case, if we are going to rate everyone from one to ten. We will rate her one. My father will be seven while my mother is nine. Alicia… Well, we can"t really judge her since she is new, but Vera was eight.
"As for the last two, the fire ruler is a role model, so he is ten. But the earth ruler is somehow problematic like Jeanne. You see… His ability is related to plants, and his favorite plants are those that can only be raised in the morning… Literally.
"I mean, there are a few plants that can only grow in the morning and rot during the night, so… People call him a weirdo."
Alex facepalmed. He should have expected this before asking them this question. His Spirit Nest alone had so many "special" spirits, so he should know that the world full of spirits… should be a world full of weir—Ahem, "special" spirits."
"In any case, I will probably visit them one by one. Although I don"t know anything about the Spirit World, it has been alongside me from the beginning, especially you guys. So, I don"t really mind." Alex smiled.
"Anyway, I have nothing to ask other than this." Alex nodded.
"By the way, since we have a packed schedule ahead of us, what are you planning to do while you are still a Rank 10 G.o.d?" Since Alex wanted to drop the topic, Alicia started another one with a question.
"That"s a good question." Alex nodded. "I plan to learn two Divine Sword Arts, one array, and Alchemy. It"s going to be a long… Probably one to two years before I start cultivating to reach Rank 9 G.o.d. Of course, it"s not like I am slacking in my cultivation. I will still cultivate during the break."
"That sounds about right." Anna agreed. She usually planned his schedule, so her agreeing to this would be the best "go" sign he could ever get.
"Well, do you have any more questions?" Alicia asked.
"No. The only thing I want to do is to reach Eulja and reunite with everyone." Alex put on a genuine smile.
Alicia glanced at Anna, Anya, and Sherry with a slight grin. Knowing what she was thinking, they agreed. Sherry then slowly lowered her head and whispered in his ears. "Are you sure you only want that now?"
"!!!"
…Let"s say Alex worked hard that night…
The next day.
"Alright. Time to head back to Eulja." Alex had finished everything in this world and decided to go home after recovering his Divine Energy. He had learned the Divine Teleportation Array, so he should be capable of bringing them home.
Since this was his first time, only Alicia and Ilumi were present with him while the rest either hid inside his body or returned to the cards.
Alex snapped his finger, and a Teleportation Array appeared beneath them, teleporting them to outer s.p.a.ce.
He was mesmerized by the sight of outer s.p.a.ce. This was the first time he saw this scenery, so it was obvious that he was entranced.
The Devil World was a gigantic world. Although he didn"t know what kind of sight he would get if he looked at Earth right now, he really wanted to compare the Earth to this planet to grasp a general size of a plane. Unfortunately, he couldn"t do it for the time being, so he released his curiosity by looking at the Devil World.
Unlike Earth, the Devil World seemed to be filled by half water and half land, making it pretty balanced. However, there was one thing that he didn"t pay attention to when he was inside this world, which was the moon.
There were two spheres revolving around the planet, so he knew it must be the moon. They were near each other.
Alex scratched his head, wondering why he didn"t pay attention to it. Now that he thought about it, all the words he visited in the past only had one moon and one sun in the sky. The time was also similar to that of the Earth. But the Devil World was different.
He didn"t think much about it because he was occupied with Alicia, but a day was certainly more than twenty four hours. It was around thirty or so hours if he remembered correctly. Nonetheless, he wouldn"t want to visit this place again, but a question still lingered in his mind.
"By the way, how do we calculate a day? It"s not like we can"t call twenty four hours a day, right?" Alex asked.
"Yes. We usually check how long a day for the world we visit. After that, if we have a deal with someone in that world or from another world, we will follow the time where the promise is made. For example, if I want to meet you one thousand days from now on and the promise is made in the Devil World. We will multiply the days with the hours. And we can calculate it with our own timing later." Alicia explained.
"One more thing that you need to pay attention to is the fact that the rule only applies to those who know it… Mostly for Divine Worlds. After all, you can"t expect a brat from an Upper World or even a Lower World to know about this and follow this rule, right?" Anna added.
"Yes."
"And we know nothing about a month and a year here. We settle everything with days as a measure. If you want to think of one thousand or so days as three years, then it"s fine. But you will trigger many people who know about this concept since it"s the norm." Anya covered the rest.
"I see. I will be careful about that. Still… This is beautiful." Alex said while looking at the Devil World before turning around to see outer s.p.a.ce. He could see many dots in the corner of his eyes as they were planets. It was very far to the point that a mortal needed to look through a telescope.
With his speed alone, he might be able to go to the nearest planet within days, while everything would be resolved within minutes by the s.p.a.ce Element Array Master. They were the most sought after jobs after all.
He then felt everything in s.p.a.ce. The no air certainly would kill a mortal as their body wouldn"t be able to endure this for a long time. On the other hand, the Divine Body had no problem or whatsoever. If he could be honest, he would be able to withstand this for years.
There were many theories about outer s.p.a.ce zero pressure on Earth, but none of them worked on his body, so he was glad.
He tried to move his body then, finding it was slightly slower due to the lack of gravity. However, if he treated this as flying instead of floating, he could move like usual.
Alex looked around for a few more minutes, feasting his eyes until it was full. Alicia and Ilumi didn"t say anything and waited for him while smiling.
After that, he let out a sigh and said. "I think it"s time to go. I can see it again later."
It took Alex many Teleportation Arrays before he could finally reach the world. He looked at the world from outer s.p.a.ce and smiled for a few minutes before deciding to enter.