Infinite Realm

Feeling the daunting pressure on his body, Sato was astounded at the strength of the individual who had just arrived.

'Hmm?' Sato glanced around but couldn't find any sign of any entity at all. However, the overbearing pressure that was still present meant that someone, or at least something, was here.

"If you're looking for Lord Worrus, he's already here."

Picking up on Sato's actions and expression, Saimon explained calmly as if he had expected it.

"For certain reasons that I currently can't say, Lord Worrus exists in a special state. If he were to appear here in his true form, this dimension, which isn't stable enough, wouldn't be able to tolerate his existence and will shatter into fragments. In the end, apart from Lord Worrus, we would both end up dead in a twisted space-time due to the destruction of this dimension and there wouldn't even be a single shred of us remaining much less a complete corpse to bury."

After listening to Saimon's explanation, Sato understood the reason why he couldn't see the new arrival, and at the same time, he was completely amazed. A mere appearance of the character could cause the destruction of a dimension. Even though it was because this world wasn't 'stable enough', as Saimon had said, this was still pretty impressive. This meant that the strength of Lord Worrus was at least enough to wipe out the three towns of Black Rock region. Even the Emissary from back then might not tolerate a single blow from him. It was even very possible that nobody in the 3 towns, whether NPC or player, was even a match for him.

'Wait a minute...' Sato suddenly recalled something

"If I'm correct, Lord Worrus, you're an Achiever?" Sato asked carefully.

Sato remembered that just before he began the Entry Trials and had entered into this foreign dimension, Versuchsgründe, Saimon had led him to the statue of an Achiever who he had claimed was the creator of this test and the dimension too. According to Saimon back then, even if there were 100 of the previous Sato and Xue Yan, as well as the other 5, making it a total of 700 players, they would have still lost to that figure.

"Correct." A deep emotionless voice resounded in the space but Sato could easily pinpoint the origin.

With Lord Worrus' reply, the way Sato 'looked' at him became different. There was a tinge of respect in his eyes and this respect came as a result of Lord Worrus' strength.

"I have to admit, though I was rooting for you, I didn't have much hope for you. While they do have massive potential, most humans are generally too weak and usually aren't up to the task." 

Lord Worrus scanned Sato.

Worrus was truly surprised that Sato had completed the final challenge and he did so quite quickly. The reason for his surprised reaction, though might sound racist, was that Worrus looked down on humans. Compared to the Caventry, who were blessed by a god, humans were far too weak. Be it in pure strength, mana manipulation, or even potential, the Caventry surpassed humans in all that. Even the famed Titan race was below them. That's why despite hoping for Sato to win, he didn't really believe that to be possible either.

Originally, Worrus had presumed that if Sato were to somehow complete the third challenge, he would barely do so at the last 3 hours of the challenge or so. But Sato had proved him wrong and completed the challenge just after 14 or so hours.

"Come with me."

As he spoke, Sato felt a weird undulation in the space around him and before he realised it, he had appeared in another space.

'Incredible. I didn't even feel a thing.' Sato was surprised at the current development.

Even when Saimon had teleported both he and Xue Yan to Versuchsgründe, they had both experienced a little unsettlement. This showed that Lord Worrus' expertise in the space department was above his. Also, when Arman had teleported the entire players to the battleground, there was a slight delay at that and it wasn't as fluid as Worrus' teleportation. While this could be attributed to the number of targets for the teleportation spell being much larger, the dimension Worrus used was very stable, and penetrating space was quite difficult. For him to do so in such a smooth manner meant that his ability to manipulate space would be at least on par with Arman's and might even be higher.

In front of him was a huge black gate at an approximate height of 20 metres. In front of this gate, Sato was like a toddler facing a giant.

"The space here is more stable than the outside so I can only bring us this far."

Recalling that he wasn't alone, Sato reflexively turned to the source of the sound.

"The positive of this is that my form can be tolerated here, barely."

Sato saw a dark fuzzy figure just beside him. It had the physique of a regular human being but because of the state of existence of the figure, the complexion and details couldn't be identified. Even the facial features of the figure couldn't be seen by Sato. All he noticed was a dark gray cloak that covered the individual.

The figure looked unreal but existed. This was because Sato could feel its aura a bit and the aura was quite familiar. It was the same aura that had descended at the black stone stage and had brought fear into his heart.

"Lord Worrus." Sato respectfully said.

Even though he was in a game, he had to abide by the rules of the game, treating every NPC character as if they truly existed. Because of this, Sato behaved respectfully in front of Lord Worrus. After all, this was a character that had garnered the respect of Saimon and was also a heaven-defying individual, in the game of course.

"No need for the formalities." Worrus smiled.

"As the only successor of my civilization's inheritance, you can be said to be one of us so the title isn't required."

After saying that, the fuzzy phantom of Worrus turned to look at the gate in silence, seeming to be recollecting himself or drowned in his memories.

Sato also turned to have a good look at the gate since he had gotten distracted from it just a while after he had arrived.

'This is...!'

The gate was entirely pitch black with no other dominant colour. In this environment with dim lighting, it was possible for one to not take much notice of it and barely even identify the distinct features on the gate if they didn't focus on them.

The material of the gate was similar to jade, in that it didn't possess that reflective capability of metals but the refractive ability of a gem. The gate exuded a very strange and mysterious aura that garnered fear and respect from Sato's instinctual being. His body naturally reacted to this aura and Sato had the feeling to just bow down before the gate.

  On the gate was a carved mural of heavenly beings and demons facing off against each other with fierce expressions on their faces. On the left side were the gods, devas, and heavenly beings whereas on the right side were the devils, demons, and asuras.

In the hands of each was a weapon that was pointed at the opponent. The weapons ranged from the traditional ones like swords, spears, bows, and so on, to uncommon ones like zithers, harps, flutes, and even battle gloves. There was even a god on the left side who held a beam of light and a demon on the right who held a lasso.

The reason for Sato's initial shock was because the gate looked all too familiar to him. Even though there were minor discrepancies here and there, it was similar to the black jade gate that held the guardian of the first sector, Blood King Varg.

"What's behind the gate?" Sato couldn't hold back and asked the question on his mind.

Rather than answering his question directly, Worrus asked in a mysterious tone.

"You remember the function of Black Grill's cave and the reason why the Great Hall of Grey Chaplains is hidden here?"

It didn't take long for Sato to recall the conversation he had with Saimon back when he had just finished the trial of the Achiever alongside Xue Yan. As he recalled that conversation, his two eyebrows raised exaggeratedly as he couldn't help but question.

"Is it?"

Worrus' tone suddenly went grim as he finally answered Sato's question.

"Behind this gate lies the true form of the deal that encompasses Black Grill's cave; the seal of the Demon God's son."