299: A Realisation
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Chapter 299: A Realisation
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Neji swiftly retracted the dark spear he made using a ‹Truth-Seeking-Orb› – pulling it out from within Isshiki "Jigen" Ōtsutsuki's heart.
The parasitic alien's dead body fell to the ground and blood started to pour out of his neck which was destroyed along with his head with ‹Kamui›.
[Ding! You have killed a Peak Tier-9 foe!]
[You have earned 32,863 EXP!]
[You have levelled up 19 times!]
[You have attained Level 2000!]
[Ding! Due to crossing another 500 in Levels, you have attained a new Divinity!]
[Ding! Due to reaching Level 2000, your Voidmancer Class has reached Level 20!]
[In the last few hours, Voidmancer Class has earned a total of 11 new Skills! °Current Skill Count is 21!]
[Would you like to view the Divinity and the Skills?]
[Y/N]
Neji swiftly clicked 'N'. He was very happy to see that he was finally Level 2000, but Rumi was more important here. He was unwilling to waste his time to view all this. The battle of this world had ended, so he wasn't in any hurry and therefore could always check these later.
[Then I'll stop the notifications for now, Master.] Sisty suddenly said. [There are some important notis such as the Kama, but it does not necessarily require immediate action.]
Neji thanked Sisty in his head, barely recognising the word 'Kama' before discarding it.
"Rumi,"
Neji turned to the side, finding his 9"6 tall rabbit girl staring down at Isshiki's dead body. Their gazes met, and Rumi nodded in silent agreement before Neji put Isshiki inside his inventory for later use.
"Let's not waste any more time." Neji said. "I wish to continue our conversation from where we left off. Let's end the Infinite Tsukuyomi."
"Same here. Otherwise this would be one creepy night."
Rumi said and then started to rise in the air.
"Ah. I can uncast it too, by the way. If you are feeling tired-"
Neji started, flying behind her, but Rumi cut him off with a laugh.
"You don't have to do that," Rumi said. "I got this covered."
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Seconds later, Rumi stopped high in the sky, right beside Neji. Her long grey hair which was thrice the length of her height fluttered under the moonlight, reflecting it dimly while Neji's silver hair reflected it sharply.
Rumi moved in front of Neji. For a moment, she just stared at him. Then, she smiled.
"Before I start," she said. "You sure you don't wanna kill a portion of the population?"
"...?"
Rumi looked more confused at his confused reaction.
"You get stronger by killing people. You told us. Then wouldn't it be such a shame to let this many people free?"
When Neji blinked, Rumi looked into his eyes.
"Is the threat of those Gods done?"
"...It's not done. Not yet."
"Then you should kill the strongest ones caught in the Genjutsu." Rumi said. "Nobody would question you."
Neji opened his mouth to reply… and then closed it.
A brief second of unreadable expression later, he scoffed in self-mockery.
"No, it's fine." Neji shook his head. "It's… not fun to live that way."
"...."
"I feel burdened, basically." he admitted when she stared at her. "But trust me when I say that yes, I would still have done it–if not for that, these people not dying can help me as well. I plan to take over this world as its God, and have the people pray to me. I get stronger that way too, now."
"I see."
Rumi nodded.
Then, she smiled.
"At first I thought you were the same as before, getting mad because someone hurt one of your girls. But it seems you have changed a lot." Rum put a hand on his cheek. "In a good way, in my opinion."
"...I-"
[Ding!]
A system message flashed across Neji's eyes when Rumi didn't wait for him to reply and rather turned around to spread her arms, the eye on her forehead starting to shine brightly.
[An exclusive quest has been completed!]
Rumi's eyes shone brighter than the sun, the moon in the sky reflecting the light, as it spread across the entire planet. One after another, the root of the God Tree started to release the dream prisoners and dropped them on the ground. One after another, humanity returned to its senses.
[Quest: "A Different Animal, Yet The Same Beast" has been completed!]
As people both innocent and impure started to wake up to reality, Neji read the report that told him of his changes in life.
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Quest: A Different Animal, Yet The Same Beast
Description: Are you a different animal, yet the same beast? Some would be confused as to what this even means, however, you know the meaning. Do you not?
You have changed in the last two months, in more cases than one– and not all changes may be good. Or are they?
Are the changes really "for the better", as the until-recently imprisoned rabbit said? You must find out for yourself.
Now, a new path presents itself to you.
Reward: Potion of Infinite Defence.
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Rather than the reward itself, Neji stared at the text above it for a time longer than necessary. Soon, a small, almost mocking smile formed on his face.
He ignored the text and then focused on the reward. It sounded ridiculously overpowered, but Neji could never be sure of it without reading the description.
Neji opened his inventory and clicked on the potion that had one side filled with a gold liquid and the other side with a silver liquid.
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Item Name: Potion of Infinite Defence
Details: One of the earliest potions made by the Director of the Last Act.
–Upon drinking the potion, the drinker gains the passive ability to form an invisible barrier around himself that can be expanded to keep harmful attacks and substances away from himself. The barrier can only be deactivated by the user.
–The barrier doesn't block physical attacks, but rather attacks that have space, destruction or time element on it. It can be said to be an encounter to most if not all Time-Snipe and One-Shot abilities. In other words, only elements or attacks that ignore the physical defence of the user and therefore hurt him directly would be stopped by these defensive walls.
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"...?"
Neji read the description three times.
Then he frowned.
'Why is this so powerful-'
'Wait, isn't this skill a perfect counter against the Status Cutter sword of the Primordial?'
Neji was just about to smile widely, but then he realised this technique, when learned by him, will be counted as a Gamer Skill. In that case, this as well would get affected by the Status Cutter.
Neji sighed.
He shook his head and decided to give this to Rumi as an apology gift. He was about to close down the inventory and do exactly that but right then; he noticed that this item description was two pages.
'Hm? That's new. Usually, everything is counted on one page. No matter the length of the description.'
Neji clicked the 2nd page and his brows furrowed.
He understood why there were two pages.
"This bitch."
This troll bastard.
"They made two separate pages just to mess with Gamers? Who the fuck is this Director bastard anyway?"
"Huh? Neji?"
Rumi, who just finished un-casting the Infinite Tsukuyomi, turned around to find Neji cursing the air.
"...It's nothing, sorry."
Neji answered her, still frowning, as he watched the three lines on the 2nd page.
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–Can't be used by Gamers/System Users.
–If a foolish System User still decides to waste this item on himself, the Director would like to say: "This skill won't be registered in your system, and thus can't be levelled up. Please stop cheating."
–Recommended to be used by a non-system-user, as such a person would know to train this ability by themselves. While on the other hand, a system user knows nothing about training outside cheating.
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Neji scoffed again.
' This Director person sounds like a female. No wonder. But guess what, it's better for me if this isn't registered in my System.'
He grabbed the potion and drank it right away, under Rumi's suspicious gaze.
"A Tier Potion?"
"No."
For once, he didn't receive any system notification after drinking a magical potion. So it must be legit when it was claiming to be an "Anti System" thing. Though it indeed was a magical thing, Neji could feel that even without the system notification.
Though he was just a bit sour.
'It can block Time-Snipes. As in, cases such as travelling back in time to kill Hitler when he was just a kid.' Neji noted. 'Bummer I won't get help from that because of one of my other skills. Someone else, maybe Kimi who likes to mess with time, would have benefited more from this.'
His other, arguably most important skill that he earned from Nawab Quest already provided this benefit, and in a far fancier fashion too.
[Skill: "Armour of Singularity" (Passive)
Level: Maximum.
Details: You're a Singular being, you exist only on a single timeline, making it easy to kill you for any [Time Traveller]. You need an armour, the armour that every Singularity possesses.
-Prevents any time traveller to enter your timeline, and any time traveller that pre-exists in this timeline to use their time travel powers.
-If a being whose time travel is very powerful tries to time travel back or forth in your timeline, they'd be thrown into another timeline instead.
-If somehow, a time traveller who is strong enough to meddle with your timeline decides to meddle, they'd have to come face to face with the "One Beyond Omnipotence".]
Any time traveller who messes with him would be messing with a force beyond comparison. This effect was far better than this potio—
Neji blinked.
"Oh shit,"
"Huh?"
"I didn't warn Kimi of this!"
Neji had told Kimi to find the girls by travelling worlds and had expected her to do exactly that, but what if thinking that it was safe, Kimi tried to travel back in time to stop him from deciding the team separation entirely?
'...Knowing her, she would do it… Or maybe she has already done it.'
The worst thing of all? She had a spell to do exactly that.
Beads of sweat formed on Neji's forehead as Rumi just stared at him in confusion and worry.
'Is that why she hasn't reached me yet? The reason that she hadn't found Rumi, and possibly any other girl for that matter?'
Because she was in danger, herself?
'No, no, this isn't good.'
Neji had no idea what the two Super Gods claiming to be beyond Omnipotence itself would do if a random cat girl knocked on their door.
Thankfully, his job was done in this world.
Now, he could move to the next one.
To find Kimi, first of all.
"...Be safe."
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Master4thWall Note: But Neji doesn't know which world Kimi is in currently, will he make the right choice of worlds? Or, maybe Kimi will grow strong enough, enough for either of the two OBOPs to take notice of her?
Find out in the Chapter 300: Kimi's Perfect Run (3)