In a certain Transcendent World, Alwyn could now be seen running away from those the world's denizens that were all aiming to catch her
"And now he had the gall to contact me after ignoring me for days?!" Alwyn blurted out after finally receiving Daisuke's response.
Hearing his lazy voice immediately riled her up that she somehow forgot her current plight.
Nonetheless, she was being chased by the denizens of this world and had no spare time to answer him at the moment. Moreover, she thought that she would give him the same treatment.
She's feeling petty since she couldn't really blame anyone else. She could only pick between herself and Daisuke. And after thinking about it, she just dumped all the responsibility of what she's experiencing at the moment to him.
Around two days before this chase happened, because she hadn't received any reply from Daisuke and the Source Energy fuel of her Space Vessel continued to dwindle, Alwyn gambled and decided to land on the nearest world instead of a Chaosworld.
However, as soon as she drew near it, the World's Will of the world pulled her Space Vessel in, which made her landing go awry.
She was prepared to communicate with it. However, it didn't give her a chance to do so.
Although she had experiences communicating with a World's Will, they're all from a Mortal World. The World's Will of the Dark World couldn't be contacted or it was mostly silent.
This time, what she encountered was a World's Will of a Transcendent World.
She had no choice. It's the one closest and the only one she could reach apart from a Chaosworld.
Accordingly, World's Will were all like that, they would eventually develop their own personality. That's why it's up to the individual how they would be able to interact with them. But one thing was absolute, they would prioritize the welfare of the world they're managing.
And the World's Will she encountered could be said as playful.
Lucky for her, instead of barring her way inside, putting restrictions on her or even attacking her directly, it only pulled her down the Transcendent World's surface when she approached.
However, she crash-landed near a denizen's civilization, gathering the curiosity and hostility of whoever's governing the territory and its citizens.
Given that Alwyn wasn't being restricted by the World's Will and was in fact, somewhat sent down without any explanation from the World's Will, Alwyn immediately stored her Space Vessel inside her Storage Ring before flying out of her crash site.
She planned to look for a place where she could hide for a while to let her Space Vessel accumulate the necessary Source Energy.
And if possible, she also planned to observe the denizens of this world for a while before making contact.
Unfortunately, plans would always possess the chance to go awry.
A day after she escaped the crash site, she was tracked down by a group of Rank 2 Transcendents and the chase for her capture began.
To prevent herself from being seen as an enemy of the whole world, all she did against her pursuers was knock them down and put them into unconsciousness.
However, instead of being scared of her, her pursuers only grew in numbers.
She hadn't encountered a Rank 3 Transcendent like her yet but considering the number of Rank 2 Transcendents chasing her in the hopes of capturing her, the strongest denizen of this world was most likely a Rank 3 or Rank 4 Transcendent.
If she became hostile against them, there's a huge chance that she wouldn't be able to leave this world like she intended to after refilling the Source Energy tanks inside her Space Vessel.
"There! Go and capture her!" One of the Rank 2 Transcendent chasing after her shouted upon spotting her resting behind a thick trunk of a tree.
From behind that one Rank 2 Transcendent, around twenty of the same level appeared and began shooting down towards her location. They're all weaker than her and if she decided, she could kill them all.
But she's alone in a foreign world. Furthermore, she's still focused on the mission given by the Great One Illiana. In her whole life, apart from focusing on her Pathways progress, all she ever wanted was to serve her.
Meeting Daisuke could be said as an unexpected fortune for her. Not only was she directly contacted by the Great One, but she was also even allowed in her estate and met her personally.
What she felt for him was a complicated mess. She was thankful, yet she was also annoyed that the Great One was actually directly connected to him.
She didn't harbor any romantic feelings towards the Great One but knowing that a little Rank 1 Transcendent like him was that special to her, Alwyn was envious.
Nonetheless, she also couldn't deny that ever since her encounter with him, her life began to roll in a direction that she could not control anymore.
Every day became a new adventure that, weirdly enough, she was looking forward to.
"Why are you chasing me?! I am going to leave your world! You don't have to chase after me!"
Alwyn shouted back to them while dodging the Rank 2 Transcendents holding restricting equipment.
Her Crimson Domain then opened up from beneath her feet and pushed away the Rank 2 Transcendents caught by it instead of just subjecting her to the horror of her Domain.
"Shut up, foreigner! If we let you leave, you're going to tell the coordinates of our world to an Invasive World!"
The Transcendent who seemed to be their leader shouted back.
And upon hearing that, Alwyn finally understood why they're chasing after her.
The denizens of this World were aware of the happenings outside their world.
Most likely, this world was connected to a higher world or had someone travel into the infinite cosmos to search for something and bring back news to them.
Or worse, they were once attacked by an Invasive World and survived.
"I won't! I only stopped to refuel my Space—"
"Now! Activate the formation!"
Alwyn's words were cut off when she suddenly felt a huge restriction trying to pull her feet down the ground.
Before she knew it, those she pushed out of her Domain were now in a circular Formation around her.
And through those restricting equipment, they created a Restricting Formation to catch her.
"Great! Keep it up and don't falter. Given enough time, she would be down for the count and we could bring her back!" The commanding Transcendent laughed out loud and began relishing this accomplishment.
On the other hand, Alwyn who was slowly descending from the sky felt her body unable to move.
This was the first time she felt a huge restriction from a Formation. And this was also the first time she encountered a Formation activated just by arranging themselves into… formation.
To her surprise, they're stronger than those Formations that could be embedded on the ground, location or even equipment.
Perhaps this couldn't be called as just simply a Formation.
It's a restrictive Battle Array used that could be activated anywhere as long as the necessary number of people would arrange themselves to become the Formation Nodes.
Alas, her knowledge about Formation was insufficient and this time, she finally felt the crisis.
If she failed to escape here then she had no idea what her fate would become against the denizens of this world.
She could go all out and force her way out but antagonizing these people still hadn't passed her mind.
Instead, she focused on the voice that rang out in her mind earlier.
Since that guy was the one who used a communication crystal this time, she could respond to him directly.
"Daisuke. I think I'm in trouble…"
At the same time as she sent that, her feet landed on the ground and the Battle Array forced her to kneel down.
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