"Is our world really that dangerous?"
After Reisen Riou shared the System's knowledge about the Irminsul Multiverse, Raiden Ei was half-ready to bolt to another world.
Forget martial spirit—martial arts weren't supposed to be this inconvenient!
More critically, the descriptions made Ei feel weak.
Compared to beings who casually destroyed worlds, her island-shattering, mountain-crushing power seemed puny.
By Reisen's past-life niche scale, destructive power ranged from human-level, building-busting, street-level, city-level, island-destroying, continental-shelf, planet-busting, to star-level.
Teyvat's Seven Archons were mostly island-destroying. The Sustainer and Abyss's power was unclear but definitely not planet-busting.
"But there's good news," Reisen reassured. "The System's wreckage still has a fully intact reincarnation function. If we slip to another multiverse, we'd dodge all this mess."
"Should we head to my homeland's multiverse? I found its coordinates in the algorithm."
The positioning function held three world coordinates: System World, Teyvat, and Reisen's past-life world.
System World was the System's origin, Teyvat its endpoint. Reisen's past-life world was logged when the System nabbed Wang Sheng's body.
Why not reincarnate there directly? That world's level was high, its rules strict. When the System grabbed Wang Sheng, it found no supernatural forces or paths to immortality.
So Reisen decided to explore other worlds in that multiverse.
"Sounds doable. What do you think, Ei?" Makoto asked.
"Eh, I'm okay with it," Ei replied.
Ei and Makoto hashed it out and agreed. Teyvat wasn't kind to immortals. Reisen had shared about other multiverses—some were harsh to long-lived beings, but few were as bad as Teyvat.
Erosion was a pain.
Especially after the Abyss invasion, erosion's intensity spiked. Even Ei struggled, unable to meditate and cross-check memories daily. Hence, the Shogun was created to bear it.
The Shogun's first task each morning was memory verification to prevent erosion. Her efficiency far outstripped Ei's, handling it without disrupting work.
Makoto, Ei, Saiguu, and later the Shogun and Chiyo joined the discussion. Only Kagei Tengu and Reisen Anko weren't keen on "other worlds."
Everyone else huddled in the Testing Ground Dimension, hammering out a plan.
The verdict: Reisen, a former native, and Ei, with her top-tier martial and intellectual prowess, would split off soul fragments for reincarnation to test the waters.
If it worked, Saiguu would try next, then the others. If not, they'd pick another world.
As immortals, they had time.
Makoto finalized it: do it.
Preparations were needed—soul splitting, encapsulating the System's taboo knowledge.
Mass-spreading it would draw Celestia's nail.
…
"Phew, the soul chamber's finally done."
"How's your end, Ei?"
"Energy absorption device and furnace are ready. Just waiting on your conceptualization."
Reisen eyed his finished soul chamber, then the furnace and absorption device. Even he couldn't help but grin, hands on hips. Hell yeah, he was killing it.
He checked the System's model before starting. It was wrecked, missing key info—like soul transport and maintenance.
The reincarnation function was intact, but without solving this, souls would be wasted, and cross-world travel was impossible—only local reincarnation worked.
Thankfully, theoretical data remained. After half a year, Reisen and Ei restored the soul chamber's function.
The chamber, vital for reincarnation and soul transfer, preserved and repaired souls.
It shared similarities with Reisen's Soul-Nurturing Chamber, so they picked it up fast. Reisen even upgraded it to a Soul-Fostering Chamber.
They split their souls—Reisen a third, strong enough for a mortal above average; Ei a fifth, more conservative.
In the new Soul-Fostering Chamber, they lived an enviable life.
Beyond the chamber, they fixed the System's energy absorption and furnace components, optimizing the energy circuit.
Reisen gained new abilities. Having absorbed the System, its powers were his.
He was the System now—an incomplete one. He didn't want to be a full System anyway; this wild, code-free half-System suited him.
The upside? No tributes to the System World.
The System World's intro made it clear: the Strongest Life-Crafting System forked over 50% of its gains. Its lineage, tied to a powerful ancestor, placed it in the third sequence, a cushy deal. Fourth and fifth sequences paid even more.
Reisen kept all his gains. The downside? No help from the System World.