As the rest of the existing countries on Earth experienced the restoration of the inherent Source Energy of the Earth, chaos, as I predicted, started to fill every part of the world. Whether it was a 1st world country or just a developing country. And most especially to the places where the population density was high.
Think about it, criminals and terrorists awakening to an ability. Their confidence and rate of activity would've been boosted because of their newfound strength. Geniuses and those talented enough to make use of energy would also get some kind of confidence for being stronger than most.
Without the government implementing regulations for everyone, the number of crimes and the number of deaths that weren't connected to the Dark Cult was rising.
There were the police or any authoritative bodies but with the normal citizens gaining the same strength like them, it was proven hard to enforce the law due to the changes in less than a week.
And that's not including those crooked officers and corrupted officials who most likely would be even more corrupt and crooked because of their newfound strength.
Perhaps the Principal didn't bother arranging for that since not everyone would be important. He even created the Earth Defense Army that was outside any of the countries authority. Apart from him, perhaps only those like him who was an old fossil from the previous civilization had the authority to command and dispatch them.
However, with their identities still obscured, I would put this up as my speculation for now.
Naturally, I already predicted what change this awakening of Earth would bring. That's why every news article about those was nothing of importance now.
What I cared about was still the well-being of my Companions who were continuously going after the Breached Portal locations.
As time continued to pass, some of my Companions finally reached the 5th Realm of their Mortal Pathway.
Yuko, Yumiko, Zerina already did and that breakthrough allowed them to reach another height in their strength.
Yuko's system was upgraded to Legendary Hero System giving all of her existing system-generated skills a boost. Her Hero's Party Bonus as well as Hero's Awakening were now dependent on her base stats. Moreover, her Hero's Companion Skill which we both shared together doubled in amount. She would get 40% while I would get 20% of our average base stats.
The last system-generated skill she got upon breaking through was her Heroic Domain.
As for her other Pathways, her existing Jewel Skills and Crown Skill got enhanced and by combining her Pillar and her Crown, she generated her own Empire which melded together with her Heroic Domain. The Precognition ability from her Psyche-type Pathway also got enhanced and became even closer to her Foresight and like the other two Pathways, that ability produced a Domain Skill.
Because of that breakthrough, she once again surpassed my current stats.
And the same happened to the other two. Yumiko's Psyche-type awakened ability from the World of Meta became one step closer to her Spirit Channeling.
According to her, she could now send a Spirit Incarnation to meet those Higher Spirits she could summon and borrow abilities from.
Apparently, most of them were living in different Spirit-type Level 2 Natural Transcendent Worlds. They all have the same Spirit Channeling ability that they made use of when they're still treading their Mortal Pathways.
From those Higher Spirits, Yumiko was given a hint that once she completed her Mortal Pathway, she would be able to be acquainted with an even stronger Higher Spirits that she could borrow abilities from.
Moreover, that Spirit Incarnation of hers, if she allowed it, could be summoned by Mortal Ranks who had a similar Spirit Channeling ability. Although the method of summoning and borrowing abilities might be different, they all came from the same root.
As for Zerina, her last system-generated skill allowed her to Rune to be arranged into a sentence that could enhance her Domain. Even against Irja, Zerina's Domain Skill would win if she used her Runes on it. Moreover, there's also her Transformation Skill from her Spirit-type Pathway that made it easy for her to formulate complex Runes.
With the three of them as the start, Erin, Avelin, Jayna, Reinys, Caila, Noelle, Dannae and perhaps Ophelia would soon follow. Well, Ophelia would be a little late since she would only be relying on the Energy Stones I left her and Level 1 Brute Energy.
As for Leianne, Elise, Lunaria and Lexie. Their strength was steadily growing. They're all at the 5th Realm already so it's just a matter of time for their UPL to catch up to Yuko and the others.
And lastly, Nysia, Fleur, Sofiel and Irja, as long as they continued Absorbing Source Energy, there would be no bottlenecks in their path to Rank 5 Transcendent.
That would also be the case for me and my other Companions as soon as we finished our Mortal Pathways.
That's why at the moment, there's no pressing issue for us except… the awakening of the Earth as well as the revelation to who I really am.
"Darling, we're finished here. There's no Transcendent in and they're not from the Dark World."
Sofiel flew up and went back to my side after breaking open the Breached Portal location that we chanced upon on our way back from a Pocket Dimension here in South Africa.
It's been a week since the Principal left us that night in Moscow. Since Yuko and the others were still busy in the countries near Japan, we took it upon ourselves to help them with the Breached Portal locations that would be coincidentally present near our current location.
"Un. One of them said they're from Xeno World. It matched with at least twenty-five Breached Portal locations that Sister Yuko and the others destroyed." Avelin added as she also flew up after taking care of the Possessed using a Skill from her new Pathway.
By coordinating with them, more information about the origins of these Dark cults or those Energy Clones possessing the Earthlings were slowly being compiled by us, giving light to the identities of our upcoming transgressors.
"I see then apart from the Dark World there are now three more Invasive Worlds that's coming to us. Xeno, Arania and Nightwolf. Elemental, Psyche and Physique-type Invasive Worlds. That Zaraya... he probably sold the Earth's location to have these Invasive Worlds to become their vanguard. Most likely these worlds were weaker than the Dark World and since the Dark World was tied up with the Dimensional Bridges encroaching upon their world, these three Invasive Worlds were probably on its way to us now."
"I have no idea how fast a Transcendent World can travel across the different World Zones but… it's a certainty that they're now coming for us. Even if we awakened the World's Will of Earth, it wouldn't be as strong as how it originally was. With my father, the Principal and the others like them preventing the earlier Space Vessels from reaching Earth, we were given the time to grow. When those Worlds arrived, those old fossils wouldn't be enough to defend this world against them."
At this point, according to the list left behind by the Principal before he went to settle whatever issue that was, there were only two more Pocket Dimensions left before the full restoration of the inherent Source Energy of Earth.
And as for the Orbs, it's now sitting at 95%. Each time they were being used to expand a Pocket Dimension, it's slowly changing shape. By now, I could now guess that these Orbs…
They're most likely the same type of equipment as the Totem Pole, the Frost Rifle and the Baptismal Device. An equipment imbued with a Pathway-generated Skill.
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