The answer to his question took much longer than he expected. After the passage of an entire day and adding more than dozen places under his reign, the system finally returned.
'Ding! She gave me an answer,' the system said and paused.
"And?"
'Ding! She says the true path towards achieving that starts from… you.'
"Me?" Arthur was surprised. He glanced around the settlement he just added to his empire and the long lines in front of the portals preparing to leave. "What should I do?" he asked with a loss.
'Ding! She says only a person who can transcend the natural laws of the universe can wrap rules and bend reality,' the system said in a tone that told Arthur he didn't get anything from these words, 'Ding! This is what she said to me.'
"Hmm… so she implies that I must break through the cultivation realms?" Arthur asked in doubt, "doing such a thing now would be suicidal!"
'Ding! She said if you have any questions she is happy to answer.'
"Then ask her more details," Arthur sighed, "I really can't tell anything from this profound statement of hers. Ask her if I need to elevate my cultivation base and to which degree."
'Ding! I'll be back soon.'
"And I'll keep jumping around then."
Arthur jumped to a couple more places before the system returned once again with an answer.
'Ding! She says you need to upgrade your cultivation base to transcend heavens, and that must happen alongside the dragonair power you have.'
"Transcends heaven… that's a concept generally known for the bases starting from the Immortal base… that's still too far to achieve," he muttered before adding, "and that dragonair condition… I don't have any issue now as the last time was a really fortunatus encounter but it took a lot of time to be honest."
``Last time you took so long to come back, over two weeks as I recall,' Gege said before adding, 'and if my memory serves me right, I believe you also took the same for the other trials as well.'
'Ding! Then we can't use it now, we have no time to waste. But after that sect mission is completed I believe you should aim towards leveling up both as fast as you can.'
"I have no issue regarding the dragonair's energy," Arthur seriously said, "but raising my cultivation base is something else. It's risky, far riskier than you think."
'Ding! She warned me of something,' the system seemed hesitant before adding, 'Ding! She didn't give me full insight about the matter but it seemed when we returned back a very big incident and a gigantic multiverse war was going to erupt.'
"What did she say in the letter?" Arthur didn't hurry to jump to any conclusion.
'Ding! She only said that, and also inclined that more answers will be found inside that sect. getting that sect will play a crucial role in winning this entire war and serve you for your goals.'
"She knows about my goals?!!" Arthur was surprised, "what does she know?"
'Ding! She didn't say but from her words I can tell she knew what you wanted to do in general,' the system said before adding with a long sigh, 'Ding! I believe each world's will has some sort of special ability or power. This one isn't strong or tyrant, but I guess from all her words and quests that she has something to do with foreseeing the future.'
"A foreteller?!!!" this time Arthur was totally shocked as this possibility never crossed his mind before. "If she is one like that, then I have to take her words more seriously… can you return and ask her directly?"
'Ding! Do you think she'll answer me?'
"No loss in trying, right?"
'Ding! Sigh, alright I'll go and ask her again.'
As he went silent Gege asked in curiosity, 'I wanna know where he goes every time to meet the world's will.'
"I believe he might go to a secret place or perhaps connect to the world's will via secret way… I dunno, you can ask him when he returns," Arthur wasn't much interested in knowing the current location of the world's will.
'I will ask him for sure,' Gege said while trying to remain silent about the blizzard of thoughts Arthur was having right now inside his mind.
He knew what a foreteller's words and warnings meant. A foreteller was someone blessed with a huge talent to spy on the future, and that gave the foreteller a very prestigious position among everyone.
"I once was told by a foreteller that my future path would be bumpy if I sought power and prestige, but I never listened," he softly whispered before turning his gaze to the sky, "less than one day remains… Let's do our best and add more to my empire."
Arthur started to run like a madman, jumping from place to another. He didn't take the task of telling everyone about his deeds here and let the tree inform those he appeared next to their settlement about what to do.
He only jumped, made sure the place was secured, and then let Gege spread the portals before jumping to another location.
During this fervent jumping, the system returned and he only said the world's will remained silent for hours and yet to respond.
"Sometime silence is the wisest answer," Arthur softly muttered, "alright, until it proves otherwise I will deal with her as a foreteller," he glanced at the sky before adding, "and if my guess was true then that sect contains more foretellers as well… I want them all."
Time passed fast and the next morning came swiftly without any hindrance. "It's time to go to that sect," Arthur said before asking, "can you ask the tree about the condition of my cities so far? The capital of my empire? About Amanda and others?"
Despite him being so busy he never dropped the eye over Amanda. Each single action she did was delivered timely to him, and so far she never did anything suspicious.
Another one enjoyed the same treatment which was Anna. Her cage was closely watched by the tree and yet no one dared to come near her. He hoped that after his fight with that envoy a traitor or two would show up themselves yet no one appeared.
And that kind of made him doubt the effectiveness of the prison over mind telepathy abilities.
This 𝓬ontent is taken from f(r)eeweb(n)ovel.𝒄𝒐𝙢