Chapter 91 - Final Boss?

On the Ninth Layer of Deathlands,

Xiao Yu was startled after seeing Tatsuya standing beside her father and the other two experts.

"You!...but, you!" Her eyes rotated between Tatsuya and Tatsuya's image in the water.

Tatsuya, knowing her doubt declared, "this one is just a clone; it stays in Jade Seal Family, helping them create weapons."

Xiao Yu thought for a bit and nodded, but Nether and the other two were shocked. They knew clones were usually weaker than the main body; Tatsuya's clone was already this strong. Who knows how powerful his main body would be.

They knew he had generated a fate soul, but without Heavenly Energy, he was only a pseudo Fate Rank.

The other experts looked at him curiously; they had felt the fluctuation of fighting. To think the boy in front of them was so strong.

Nether gazed at him, "you said you have some questions?" he gave Tatsuya enough respect since he was already stronger than him.

Tatsuya nodded, "I want to know what is going on? About this Demon God Sect, why did it incite the demon beasts of this world? From what I heard, Draconic Ruins Realm has much more resources. Why this interest in Tiny World? What do they hope to achieve?" He directly wanted to ask about Space-Time Gods' arrangement. But, he couldn't hurry; it must be a delicate matter.

Nether stared at Tatsuya; at the same time, he was talking to others through voice transmission. They were talking about how much they should tell. Usually, they didn't tell the young ones much; since there was a chance, they would give up after realizing the hopeless situation.

"Xiao Yu, could you leave for a moment." Nether hesitantly looked at Xiao Yu.

Xiao Yu didn't think her foster father would ask for something like that.

She wanted to stay and hear, but she nodded and left.

After Xiao Yu left, Nether gazed at Tatsuya, "are you sure, you want to know?"

Tatsuya unhesitantly nodded, "I have been wanting to know since I was four."

Nether had a solemn expression on his face, "there are many whose path of cultivation broke after hearing about it."

Tatsuya was lost in thought, "is the enemy so strong?" He could only think of one possibility; their enemy was too strong, to the point it made others feel hopeless.

Nether let out a hollow laugh, "yes, the enemy is too strong." If it weren't for the fact that Tatsuya's potential was too strong, to the point he might attract malevolent attention from that being. He wouldn't tell Tatsuya all this.

"That is all the more reason to know. With an enemy so strong, no amount of countermeasures will be enough. It would be better to learn about the enemy and try everything in my power that I could think of."

A burst of laughter escaped from Nether's mouth, "yes, prepare countermeasures." He knew that is what the people have been doing; one after another, experts lay down their lives and prepared countermeasures. Left behind some methods, to bring some hope.

Nether calmed down and started talking.

Sometime passed,

Rather than standing, Tatsuya and Nether were on the grass. Tatsuya had a grave expression on his face as he muttered, "Demon God Sect, Ancestral Demonic Saint Land, Sage Emperor."

Nether and others didn't say anything; they were giving Tatsuya time to adjust.

Tatsuya, on the other hand, was thinking about other things, "You said that Sage emperor discovers those who can go against him and kills them, how does he do that?"

Nether, Ling Yun and Tian Hun, and the others looked at Tatsuya strangely.

Tatsuya watched everyone who had gone silent, "what happened?"

Nether gazed at him before bitterly smiling, "Nothing, usually, those who first hear about this fall into despair. You, on the other hand, are asking more questions."

"Ah! that makes sense; I am very disturbed after hearing it as well," Tatsuya said with a straight face.

If Tatsuya could see Nether's face inside the hood, then he would see his mouth twitching with an expression on his face that said; he didn't believe Tatsuya one bit.

Although Tatsuya couldn't see Nether's expression, he could see others. They had a similar look to that the Nether had.

"So? How does he do it?" Tatsuya had a feeling this was the foremost question; the answer to this how might answer many of his queries.

"He has mastered a technique that allows him to deviate fate; he forecasts, and everyone that could be a threat to him is killed by him."

Tatsuya narrowed his eyes; he finally understood many things, one of the things that bugged him the most, he ultimately knew why.

But, it raised a new question, was it really Space-time god that allowed Nie Li to regress, or was something completely different at work here.

Tatsuya gazed at the experts in front of him, "Will you still choose me as a disciple for your sects?"

Ling Yun let out a charming laugh; the others were also laughing, "Don't worry, our six sects have been resisting the Sage Emperor; if we don't take you, then who will."

Tatsuya let out a breath, 'with the resources of these sects, it would be better.' "I have a favor to ask."

Ling Yun looked astounded, at the same time intrigued; having the favor of someone as talented and strong as Tatsuya was something they didn't mind.

Nether nodded, "what favor?"

"Shen Xiu, Yang Xin, Yu Yan, and Miyuki, I want them to be in the same sect as me." Other than Miyuki, Yu Yan mostly stayed with them, Yang Xin and Shen Xiu were necessary to help him manage things.

Ling Yun chucked, "aren't those other two little girls in your harem?"

Tatsuya replied in all seriousness, "it is not a harem. Yang Xin was my teacher growing up, Shen Xiu works for me, Yu Yan is someone I met in my travels, only Miyuki is my lover."

Ling Yun still kept smiling as her eyes scanned him, "quite a diverse harem you have."

The old man sighed, "Oh! how nice is it to be young."

One with the brown beard laughed, "boy! that is the way to go."

Tatsuya looked at a loss for words.

Ling Yun stopped laughing, but she kept smiling, "are you sure? you don't want to keep the other two by your side?"

Tatsuya gazed in the water, looking at them, "I'd rather they not bear such responsibility at such age."

Nether looked at him, "aren't you the same age as them?" Although

Tatsuya looked older than his age; he was sure Tatsuya was around 14.

Nether saw Tatsuya's eyes looking at him, but at the same time looking somewhere else. "You could say it is a responsibility that comes with my powers," Tatsuya spoke. He never had a childhood; the closest thing to that would be the past years, he lived with Miyuki in this world. Even then, he was mostly busy working. Even so, he was satisfied with what he got.

"Hoh!" Nether and the others looked at Tatsuya with admiration in their eyes; few people could take responsibility. Let alone someone as young as Tatsuya.

Ling Yun gazed at him, "if that is what you want, then I will take them under my care."

Nether asked him, "then which sect would you like to join?"

Tatsuya thought for a bit, "I haven't decided; I need to talk to Miyuki before deciding."

"Good!" Ling Yun gazed at Tatsuya with a big smile; she liked that he didn't decide alone and wanted to talk to his other half. If possible, she wanted to take them under her wing. Sadly, her sector didn't allow male disciples.

Tatsuya clarified a few more things before getting up, "I should take my leave."

Nether nodded, "Do you need a guide?"

Tatsuya shook his head, "No." with that shadow under his foot grew until it swallowed him.

Nether started at the place where Tatsuya was, "to think he mastered shadow law energy too."

"He is truly a gifted one," Tian Hun had seen Tatsuya fighting.

Ling Yun had a faraway expression, "it's children like him that give me a ray of hope."

Others smiled bitterly, "Hope! that is the problem; we can't stop hoping."

They all held hope for a future where Sage Emperor is defeated.

Inside the Tower,

Tatsuya and Miyuki opened their eyes; Miyuki had succeeded in forming the Fate Soul. She generated a silver-white fate soul.

Their clones, well, clones wouldn't be the right word to describe them. Their duplicates shared information continuously, with Miyuki holding Tatsuya's hand. She was ceaselessly seeing and hearing the same thing as Tatsuya.

'So that is the final boss.'

'Yeah, that is the final boss.' Tatsuya replied telepathically.

'Did you get some of your answers?' She knew Tatsuya had many questions.

'I did, especially the answer to the most important of the questions. Why did I get the suggestion skill; why the system was against us messing with arrangements that Space-time god made. Why it seemed it was protecting Nie Li.'

Miyuki turned to look at Tatsuya with sparkling eyes; she didn't think Tatsuya would figure it out. She found the whole thing bizarre; she was intrigued to know what was the reason behind it.

"Why is it so?"