As soon as I stepped into the portal, my vision whitened again as I travelled from one world to another.
And like clockwork, the series of system notifications rang out.
[Ding! You entered another world. World of Elements]
[Received +3 Endurance as World Bonus]
[Will expire upon leaving the world]
[Detected a new type of Energy]
[Listed as Elemental Energy]
[Automatic Accumulation Started]
[A new Level 1 Energy has been detected]
[Elemental Energy can be assimilated to Flux Energy.]
[By assimilating, the Elemental Pathway will also be raised to the same realm of your assimilated paths for synchronization. Do you want to assimilate?]
[Assimilation in progress…]
[Assimilation Completed.]
[Advanced from 1st Stage Elemental Awakening Realm to 4th Stage Elemental Condensing Realm]
[Gained 10 Strength, 20 Endurance, 1 Intelligence]
[Elemental Core has been awakened]
[Main Elemental Affinity: Aether/Void]
[The World's Will has detected your arrival as well as your unique state.]
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇt[The World's Will has requested to meet you.]
As I expected. I'm already a Transcendent and not accompanied by the Hero. The World's Will detected me easily or more like, it immediately cast its gaze on me due to my strength.
Back in the World of System, 'The World' was surely aware of me as someone special and granted me this system.
In the World of Barbarian, I'm still too weak that the World's Will didn't even bother about my existence and it's not really hands-on on managing the world.
In the World of Spirits, the World's Will probably ignored me at first but when I showed it my insane Energy Control, it panicked and thought that I might destroy the world faster than the world's enemies.
Then in the World of Meta, it stopped communicating with the Transcendents when they started doing that deal with the Dark World denizens. Only when there's a new variable that broke the situation did it show itself again.
And here. The World's Will immediately detected my unannounced intrusion into their world. Due to my Adaptability and the Flux Energy State, I immediately raised my Elemental Pathway to 4th Stage Elemental Condensing Realm and assimilated it to my other Pathways as well as have a unique situation where the two Incomprehensible Elements were my Main Element.
It requested to meet me. That means I can put it off for later. Hikari must've been waiting and they might possibly be in a dangerous situation at this time. When I thought of that, the system seemingly read my mind.
[You sent a response to the World's Will and it agreed.]
[Generated a Temporary Skill: Consciousness Travel]
[Consciousness Travel: A one-time skill that will send your consciousness to meet the World's Will.]
It even generated a Temporary Skill. I guess I can get along with that World's Will. It could be because of how it was already on the verge of being conquered or it detected my connection to the Helper and Earth. In any case, I also wanted to talk to it just like how I managed to learn something from the World's Will of the World of Meta.
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When my vision cleared up, I found myself in a dilapidated wooden room whose ceiling was already about to fall down and was only supported by a thick wooden pole. It's a big enough room that could be compared to a small chapel back on Earth.
Around me were a few figures led by the Heroine, Akarui Hikari. Those with her people who I already met before as an Incarnation. They're all the equivalent of Yuko's Party Members.
Hikari is wearing a long loose black robe which you will often see in a typical depiction of a wizard. She has shoulder-length glossy black hair and her face is adorned by a round-rimmed pair of glasses which let her usually sharp pair of blue eyes relax.
Though she might be called nerdy, her beauty, like Yuko and Yumiko, is in a league of its own. She could represent all those stunning girls in glasses.
However, the Hikari in front of me looked worn out. Her hair was dishevelled, the robe she was wearing was full of holes and was torn on its hem.
"… Is that your real body now, Daisuke?"
"Un. What's the situation? This is a new place. What happened after I left?"
I scanned the few figures around her and noticed that one of those who I met before is nowhere to be seen.
Grand Magus Pablas. An old man that's already at the 4th Stage of Elemental Fusing Realm. According to the memory brought back by my Incarnation, he was a previous dean of a ruined Magical Academy.
"Dean Pablas stayed behind to let us escape from another pursuit."
"Any chance of him being alive?"
"I'm afraid not. His Elemental Imprint is already broken."
Elemental Imprint, it's like a heart monitor for the Magus in this world.
"I see. Brief me the current situation, Hikari. Also, here. I brought food from that world. You guys eat first. There's also a set of clothes you all could change into as well as take a nice shower. Just enter one at one time."
I took out three compressed spheres which contained food storage, a cabinet and a portable shower room. I had Nysia prepare all of this after remembering their situation from the Incarnation's memories.
When they saw how it expanded from just a small sphere, the others and even Hikari watched it in amazement. Compression Technology is nonexistent here after all. Maybe they're thinking it's some kind of magic but yeah, they're already aware that I've been to another world.
And there's more of those inside the Necklace. Nysia acted her role as a housewife who packed everything that her husband might need for his business trip.
Pablas dying is a shame but in this world, that's like a normal occurrence to them now. During my Incarnation's one day, 3 of them also died while we're retreating. There were too many pursuers back then and we're far away from the territory of the Human Race.
They're on a mission to infiltrate the former Nox territory which is already occupied by the Dark World denizens to steal something from them as well as scout for information.
It was supposed to be an easy infiltration in which they could get out easily but a mishap happened when the two Grand Magus responsible for their disguises and long-distance teleportation died which led to them desperately retreating for almost a week now.
From 20 members, they're now down to 6.
All 20 are Magus and above except Hikari who's still a Mage at the 5th Stage of Elemental Condensing Realm. Like in other worlds, she's still the strongest despite having the lowest realm.
That meant 14 elites of the Human Race had died inside the enemy territory. That's a harder blow than losing some of their territories.
Since they have been starved for days, after thanking me, they started to wolf down the food I brought.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmHikari refrained from eating first to tell me everything I needed to know and what exactly happened after my Incarnation vanished.
I left them in a similar place where we're taking refuge after losing our pursuers.
According to Hikari, apart from retreating further and losing Pablas, they encountered interference of Elemental Energy at one point which meant that a Transcendent passed by at their location.
They're still 3 days away from the Human Race Territory but with me here, that 3 days can now be cut to less than a day.
"I see. After you're all done eating and resting, we'll depart from here. I have something that we can use. I'm already a Transcendent so apart from those at the same level as me, no one will be able to stop us or hinder us."
Right. Instead of entering this new world as a Level 1, I entered as someone already at Max Level. Now that's a cheat.
"That's actually amazing, you already exceeded most of us who started 3 years ago. Calling you as merely a support is probably underestimating you."
"Not really, even now, I'm still a Support. You experienced my skill, right? I'm more suited at being at the back while supporting you and the others."
And this girl will also reach Transcendence soon. She only needed to breakthrough to Elemental Forming Realm to reach that threshold.
"Don't be too humble, Daisuke. Also, I haven't thanked you yet for coming here. That world you came from still has enemies, right?"
"Ah. Now that you mention it. Wait a bit."
Err... I forgot to send my Incarnation. That Nysia was probably pacing around our room waiting for me right now.
I stood up and distanced myself from Hikari for a bit. Though she was confused, her eyes followed my figure to watch what I would do.
I opened the Energy Amplification first before using 2400 units of Flux Energy to send the Support Incarnation to Nysia.
As I felt the slight tinge of a large amount of Flux Energy being used. The notification about it rang out.
[2400 units of Energy has been used to produce a Support Incarnation]
[Destination: Nysia (Companion)]
[Duration: 26 hours 24 minutes]
Unfortunately, after activating Energy Amplification and using Support Incarnation, my Transcendent Aura unconsciously opened which made Hikari and the other 5 that were busy eating stand up in surprise with their knees trembling from the pressure of a Transcendent.
"A Zenith Magus..."
"Why are you surprised? We already know he's already at that level when he was here as an Incarnation."
"But hearing and seeing it in front of our eyes are different. Amazing. Our Human Race now has a chance to turn the situation around!"
The other 5 exclaimed and whispered to themselves while they're trying to resist the pressure of a Transcendent.