I estimated to be away for two straight weeks. It wasn't a long time, but it was also enough for many disasters to happen.
And just as I was watching everyone around moving or preparing to move, I got the message of the system.
[Get ready! The portal to the golden quest place will be opened in less than five minutes]
[Once opened, the portal will only allow for the one with the golden quest ticket and up to twenty of his entrusted people to pass through it]
[Once opened, the portal will be left for ten minutes before closing up!]
[The portal will appear in your homeland world. Make sure to be there before its appearance]
[If missed, there is no way to join it]
[You'll get all the details about this quest and its goals when arriving there]
[Good luck!]
I received these messages in a row before they kept flashing in front of my eyes for three times. Then they vanished, and I felt strange heavy pressure over my shoulders.
And when I sucked in a cold air of breath, I received a bizarre message from someone who kept himself silent for a long time.
[Be ready, the upcoming adventure won't be that easy!]
"Sith?!!! Long time no see, man!"
[I'm a god and not a mortal being like you!] he seemed to get stirred up by what I just said, [and I'm a god! That means I'm quite busy!]
"Don't tell me you were chasing those god ladies from other shrines!" I laughed as I teased him before returning to the main topic, "why are you warning me? Is there someone pulling out strings from behind the shadows?"
[There is something many started to notice about you recently] he said such mysterious words before adding, [If you made one choice, the choice you and I know you are going to make, then expect something bad to happen]
His words made me instantly frown. What he mentioned was that I'd have a selection from many options, and one of them would be related to the world of angels.
"If so, then I won't hesitate to go there," I didn't say the name of the angels as he refrained from doing so.
For some reason, it seemed risky to do so, even for someone like him.
[Good lad] he sent such weird comment, [But be prepared, many will try to stop you from succeeding]
"Can you tell more about the upcoming quest?" as he said these words, it meant he already knew about what I was going to face.
[It's no use, you have no time to do anything anyway] he refused to say a thing, [Besides, no matter what, I'm confident that you'll be able to succeed]
I didn't like his way of talking! If he knew something, why was he acting this mysterious then?
I thought about pursuing more info from him, yet I didn't. After all there was no time for me to do anything else but to arrange everyone and be ready for the portal to appear.
"Get around me!" I suddenly shouted. The twenty people who were chosen were standing next to me since my last return and were ready.
"Is it happening?" Isabella asked first, and I slowly nodded.
I wasn't in the mood to speak with anyone right now to be honest. Sith's sudden appearance startled my calm self and toppled everything I planned to.
I thought I was going to be given a simple task, but it seemed there would be some sort of many options to select from and I'd find the world of the angels or something related to them out there.
I couldn't tell exactly what I should expect, but I had my guesses. And all of them weren't that great.
The first thing I thought about was the nature of such a list. What type of list would allow me and others to go towards a closed circuit time loop? Especially something that went on and on for aeons of years like the one of the angels?
The first explanation would be that everyone would select from a list different from others, and these lists would depend on one's potential and abilities.
For example, I was efficient in time. And so I'd find things related to time in my list.
However, such a possibility wasn't realistic.
From what I got, everyone in the golden quest was going to get the same type of quest or the same list to select his adventure from.
That meant this list was fixed, and that list already had the time looped world of the angels.
But then the words of the old man rang in my head when I thought about that. How did that old man know about such a list and the presence of his people in it from such a time in the future?
Did he meet up with someone who took part in such quests and told him about this list? Or did he use some sort of future telling abilities and knew about what was going to happen?
I couldn't tell! And my lack of information was something I didn't like.
And if that list got that time loop world in it, what kind of list would that be? Would it contain access to such inaccessible worlds? Would I find my second Earth world one day there as well?
Such a possibility made sense and made me quite frightened by it. If one day I found invaders coming into that world, then bad things would happen.
I never took the safety of my world to be threatened or something. My second Earth world was like a safe haven to me, the thought of it getting attacked never crossed my mind before.
But now I realise how naive I really was! There was no place in the universe that system couldn't reach.
"I have to start taking this matter quite seriously then," I softly muttered to myself while a golden swirlpool suddenly appeared in front of me.
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