Third and Fourth

All of this sounded great on paper, but whether he could even find a world in close enough proximity to allow him to do this in a cost-effective way was still up in the air. 

He had no guarantee that there was a world nearby that was stronger than this one. It was likely that in this entire quadrant of Existence, this was the strongest world for thousands of light years, or worse than even that. 

Until Ryu grew stronger, finding and locating these stronger worlds to connect to would be a great strain and one that wouldn't necessarily be worth it… 

However, his conversation with Ailsa had told him something else. 

In order for Little Gem to have been taken away, there was very likely a strong world ruled by Griffins not too far from this one. 

In fact, the fact that such a world existed made it incredibly convenient to find…