[System Currency: 19990]
Caelus realized that, without noticing it, he had actually saved up so much money. So, how should he spend so much System Currency? Should he continue cultivating and practicing his own path of Equilibrium, or should he save up a little more to purchase that item used for balancing?
Caelus opened the System Mall and flipped to the item he had previously wanted to save up to buy.
[Item: Tiger Talisman]
[Effect: Balances all power within the body.]
[Price: 30000 System Currency]
He only needed 10010 more System Currency to buy it, which was just the reward from one or two missions, so he decided to save up a little more.
Caelus closed the system panel, then sat on the sofa and looked at the carriage within the system. After consuming Lust, Sloth, Wrath, and the three great demon beasts created by the Witch of Gluttony, Caelus had achieved a certain amount of personal growth. However, perhaps because the proportion of Gluttony Authority he had obtained in the previous world was relatively high, he still could not see color.
As for the emotional improvement brought by Lust and Wrath, it was even smaller. After all, the emotional value provided by those two in this regard was not as great as the improvement brought about when Caelus devoured Gluttony.
As for Sloth, he was far too diligent.
"System, before heading to the next world, I want to return to the previous world. I want to see how the people I know are doing after that Holy Grail War."
[Understood. I will make a slight adjustment. You can look at the worlds you can return to on the screen yourself.]
A virtual screen appeared in front of Caelus once again. After he browsed through the worlds he had traveled to, his expression suddenly froze because he saw some strange places.
[Chaldeas]
[Singularity · Fuyuki City]
[Chaldea]
"Wasn't that Singularity in Fuyuki City repaired? And isn't this Chaldeas an observation device? What is going on?"
[System, I don't know.]
Curiosity instantly rose in Caelus's heart. Then, without hesitation, he diverted from the world he had originally planned to travel to and directly chose to go to Chaldeas. After all, a situation where a Singularity had been repaired but had not disappeared might indicate some sort of problem. However, since it was a place he had been to before, and this was a place he had not visited, Caelus wanted to go inside and see what it was like.
The jump was completed quickly.
When Caelus regained his perception of the outside world, he found that he was falling from a high altitude. As the clouds continuously broke apart before him, Caelus discovered that what lay below him as he fell seemed to be a city.
At this moment in this world, a certain white-haired man watched Caelus falling from the sky, his expression shifting from calmness to confusion, and then from confusion to bewilderment.
"What... is that?"
Caelus landed gently on the ground like a feather, and then saw a large number of humans from this world wearing combat uniforms, holding firearms, and completely surrounding him.
"Aliens!"
Caelus heard them shouting this. Although he felt their phonetic logic was somewhat strange, his ability to understand languages still functioned perfectly.
"Is this world fake?"
After devouring Pandora, Caelus could naturally interfere with and perceive the world as a whole. This time, he discovered that the world known as Chaldeas seemed to be fake, an unreal world.
"Although I'd like to have a good chat with you, it seems you don't intend to chat with me."
Caelus looked at the humans who opened fire on him without hesitation and sensed a familiar feeling from them.
He froze all living beings present, grabbed a human at random, and after carefully examining their physical condition, discovered that the neural tissue of Director Olga Marie had been transplanted into them.
"In other words, Director Olga Marie, who was thrown in by Lev, actually resurrected here, though she might have been treated as experimental material."
Caelus vanished in an instant and spent a brief moment transferring himself to Area 51.
The security personnel inside were startled to see a young man appear out of thin air, and they immediately attacked this mysterious intruder without hesitation.
However, those attacks could not even touch the young man.
Ignoring everyone present, Caelus walked forward calmly. Whether it was attacks or the strength of the alloy, nothing could stop his steps. Finally, he entered an operating room and saw Olga Marie lying on the table, her eyes devoid of light, her body having endured various tortures, yet slowly self-healing.
"Director, you look quite pathetic."
Familiar words reached her ears. Olga Marie's dull eyes gradually regained focus. Looking up at Caelus standing beside her, tears could not help but flow as she repeatedly cried out for help.
Caelus undid Olga Marie's restraints and constructed a set of clothes to cover her.
"Although I'd like to ask what exactly is going on here, I suspect you might not know much either. I'll just look through it myself."
Caelus did not want to use that method to understand everything, but this world felt half-real and half-fake, and it had shown such hostility from the start, so using this method no longer mattered.
"Cyrene."
"I'm here, Master."
Cyrene wrapped her arms around Caelus's neck and pressed her body against his back. Given their height difference, she was essentially hanging off him.
"I want to read the memories of this world."
Cyrene did not refuse. After letting go and landing on the ground, her Reality Marble expanded. The power of memory filled the surrounding world in an instant, and then the adult Cyrene appeared once more.
A pink quill appeared in Caelus's hand.
Cyrene's memory power turned into a book, while Caelus's memory power became the pen. As their memory domains overlapped, they began to spread across all of Chaldeas. Everything was swallowed by memory, turning into Memory.
All records were revealed as they were swallowed by memory.
Finally, with the crisp sound of a book closing, everything returned to dark chaos.
When the dazed Olga Marie came to her senses, she found herself back in her quarters within Chaldea. She lay curled up on her bed, her mind still in a state of psychological collapse from the dissection experiments she had endured.
"Huh! Why did Chaldeas go dark?"
Roman, who was checking data and equipment in the control room, was completely bewildered. Why did the instruments suddenly malfunction?
Then, Caelus suddenly appeared beside him and shoved a book into Roman's hands.
The title of that book was...
"Marisbury"
"The Director is in her room. She's been resurrected. The details of her resurrection are all in this book. After the Incineration of Humanity, the Bleaching of Humanity is waiting for you. Good luck."
After dropping this bombshell, Caelus turned and left.
Roman was left in a daze, and before he could ask anything, he saw the man vanish before his eyes.
What kind of crazy development was this?!
In short, a power from outside the world, a literal alien descent, had kicked away the conspiracy of a certain Caster who loved humanity and was plotting something big behind the scenes.
"Time to go back to Fuyuki City and have a look."
Caelus selected the next world to visit, preparing to see how that priest was living his life.
(To be continued.)