But the fact that i can't for certain decide whether was that fog man made or had always been there was quite daunting, it could be the work of those guys from the Real World but then why would they do such a meaningless thing .
Their was also the possibility of it being what was stopping them from swarming this land in the first place, so linking them to it was quite far fetched in my opinion, there was also the fact that if they themselves were able to safely cross in and out of it, then they would have probably decided to make it the center of their whole operation, since they would be very much be able to act discreetly as they want and even if someone were to snoop around and followed their trails he will very much be dooming himself, since there was no apperant indications of them doing this, it is not wrong to believe that they too might be quite threatened by it .
If i had to make a a wild guess, i would probably attribute its existence to it being the doing of the Shard's Will, think about it, it works as a kind of defence mechanism against those that try to come from outside, while also continuing to hold those who are inside, inside, but not like prison, more like a reserve of sorts and apperantly this preserve ability to survive was threatened by the incoming threats that it had to endure from those who came from outside of it, so the need for something to protect those who were inside the preserve was successfully achieved by the existence of that mysterious fog, making it more clearly possible to be the work of that Shard's Will, wherever or whatever it currently was .
Even with my newly enhanced brain and intelligence, i can't help feeling overwhelmed by all those crazy line of thought, each and everyone of those thoughts create a whole new line of thought constantly and in a fraction of a second, i found my head begging me to stop, by clearly inducing some few doses of aching or in simple terms a painful headaches, weirdly enough those headaches weren't under the pain nullification effect of my passive skills, something that i was now clearly aware of, but hoping that at some point i would be able to gain enough strength to completely remove those headaches once and for all .
I discarded most of those thoughts and moved them to the back of mind, since i believe with the lack of so much information related to these thoughts, dwelling on them any longer won't be of no help or use to me, but i decided to see if this Devons had a library or some place that i can hope to acquire information in, also put a note to seek a throughly investigation about the mysterious fog and if possible check if some of the other kingdoms expeditions were of any success in unraveling any of that strange place secrets, if these expeditions logs did exist, it might be quite difficult to reach those, but i will just have to do my best .
I also was beginning to think that it was better for me to change how and from where i get my strength, the appearance of the other power system and the possibility of there being a lot more different power systems out there, ones that could be a lot more powerful than the one i have and even stronger than the one used by the Demons and that Bloodlord, not to mention the elephant in the room which was the power system that Gigantic blue creature from before used, he had enough strength to swallow and split stars in half and bare handed too, so i have no doubt about it being the strongest power system that i have been able to witness at work .
So that possiblity gave me the idea about seeking other power systems in try of getting rid of the current system that apperantly was entirely weak in a frontal clash with the other power system, not to forget that this also might be the best course of action in my opinion, especially if the worst case scenario of these guys succeeding in obtaining the Shard were to happen .
After all if my speculation was correct, then it could possibly mean us being stripped of all our connection to the power system and as a still uncertain result we could get stripped of all our strength and skills, rendering us completely vulnerable and panic-stricken .
I could imagine people panicking so much to the point of turning the whole situation completely chaotic, with the ranking system breaking apart, all people would be equal in being close in strength to each one another , but for some reason i weirdly don't think that would bring any positive result or an impact on how everything was going in this world, after all a world that have always being in function purely on strength and got that strength that pieced it together be suddenly depraved from him, i can't see any good outcom coming from this sudden turn of events on the short term .
On the long term, there maybe a chance for them to rebuild a civilization, but i don't believe that the Demons will allow such a thing to happen, in that worst case scenario and how everything currently was the possible outcome for us was that we will be at the mercy of the Demons without much of a chance to retaliate, this was a fantasy world where strength was everything, so the moment that we lose that deterrence factor, we will have already lost the ability to decide our fates .
So to not see that worst case scenario where we will be all at the mercy of others, i will try to gain strength by trying to use other power systems, it wasn't like we would have be completely crushed, i concluded there Battle Aura could actually be of some help in pushing back some of the aggressions, but the problem still clearly laid that the the difference in power would be quite huge and i believe their power system might have even more stronger version of Battle Aura .
So what i concluded was, their was no other way than to try closing the gap between the difference in the two power system's strength by brute force and full suppression and currently i feel that i'm quite far from achieving this level of strength at least not with my current power system where my strength could be stripped out of me in any moment, but there was also the possibility of this being a mere false speculation on my part .
But even if that reason was merely a false speculation, the threat that this situation might be very possible to happen, bring enough uneasiness to me to start planning on how to counter it .
And if that reason wasn't enough, i had an even more important reason to try and seek strength using other power system and that was me myself aiming to be the strongest, my current strength have been this much bugged by the use of my passive skills which was enhanced by the bizarre power i have, but if we discarded the use of those skills, i might not even be a C Rank Adventurer's opponent, heck even a veteran D Rank Adventurer might be quite able to mop the floor with me .
So all this much strength i have on me, was beginning to feel like something akin to an illusion while my real strength without the use of those skills of mine will make me look a lot more inferior to others even in my same rank of strength, my last encounter with that gigantic creature from before could still very much influencing my train of thought, but it's clearly apperant to me that the resentment i had for the power system i have been using was always there from the get go , but it just begun to surface more clearly after these recent encounters with other power systems that were much more stronger .
So in the end it was all still related to how weak of a power system the one which i was connected to and how much unreliable it was, especially now that i'm aware of the possibility that just by being connected to it, i had unknowingly put a ticking bomb on myself as well .
But even if i took action and was able to somehow force all of the invaders back, securing the worst case scenario from ever happening, there will be still the problem of the fact that there might be other invaders coming here to obtain the Shard in non-stop matter and that was undeniable fact, not to mention the blue guy out there and who knows what else was out there, who can be sure of he, or this time him with a few others wasn't already out there looking for an opportunity to have us as their next meal .
All the above reasons made depending on how the current power system worked even more impossible, especially since it won't be of much help in stopping the current invaders, or even allow someone to get enough strength to be able to compete against the outer space adversaries who could be probably took interest in me or the planet .
After all there was no denying that the current power system have capped strength, so whoever use it will probably hit a wall that can't be broken, not to mention the interior problems that this system have related to the jobs, titles, affinities and the likes, these things were all set to help the people living here to utmost adjust to their condition, or so i believe, but not more not less, not to mention that if you were to get a bad jop then your whole future might have been already doomed, so the layout of the said power system according to my own judgment at least, won't help much in creating powerful figure than necessary .
My previous encounter with being threatened to be ejected out confirmed that there was a limit put by the Shard on how much strength can a person have, wrong, the limit was probably unrelated to how strong a person was but more related to how much of an impact that the said person had .
So even if someone strong was to appear, the moment that the Shard deem him to be stronger than necessary, being expulsed was all that awaiting him, this was its last defensive line, wether it was already conscious or not it probably deemed someone this instinctively to be an enemy coming for it, so it felt the best course of action was to expulse him directly .
I'm don't know if it was aware of this or not, but by doing this, it actually increased its real enemies chances of getting it, where could those guys who have being ejected ended up in was still quite a mystery too, but the only definition i had for its action, will be self harm, what was worse, it was a Self harm in the benefit of the enemy .
So not only there was no benefit in continuing to gain strength through this pass, but the cons have come to outweigh the pros in continuing on that path, whether the system itself unreliability, or the capped strength it could give, or the weak layout and most importantly the illusion of gaining unreal strength, all of these reason were enough for me to began using the power that this system gave me to know and achieve a connection with the other power systems and if a conflict were to arise between the different systems, knowing enough information about them, will help me decide which power system will be able to meet my expectations and desires, mostly any other one than this one, but of course a step this important would have me consider the consequences of the choice which i will be about to make .
After all, there was a lot at stake here, for example, what if one of the conditions to change into a specific power system other than the one that the Shard blessed me with was to completely remove all the effects that power system gave and had on me .
Then that would be quite the disaster for me, after all this will end up being another dire situation where i will be stripped out of my strength and skills leaving me quite vulnerable just as the first day i had arrived here in this world, so not only did i need to wisely decide on what choice should i made, but probably where to make it as well .
Since if i still did choose to change to another power system and it had such a condition then after changing to the new power system, i might have to go into hid… ~ahem~ recuperating yes i might have to go and recuperate for some time and contemplate on the best course of action to regain my strength .
That first period after converting will be the most difficult period, since i will be very much weakened, too much to the point that i won't even have 1 percent of my current strength, but after that i began my journey of reclaiming the once lost strength and may be even able to directly even surpass it, but the difference will be that it will be finally and truly my real power, not borrowed from skills nor illusionary as before .
As for why the place i would take such a huge stepin be of any importance was in fact related to the previously mentioned statement about me being very weakened at that point, so if possible i will choose a secluded area where i won't have to interact much with people nor anything for all that matters, at least not more than necessary .
If i choose a random place inconsiderately to take that huge step in and that place turned out to be unsuitable or even worse a hostile one and in my weakened state at that, then it will be a miracle if i'm able to survive, after all if a conflict were to arise between two strongmen or even more and i as a weak person happened to be in the middle of this conflict or even merely a bystander, the chances of me getting out of there alive were quite slim, as at that point i will be very vulnerable to the point of possibly dying without having no where to cry .
Falling into such unfavorable situation so suddenly and barely after converting to a new power system would have me believe that i'm cursed or something like that, so i should wisely choose where to make such a move, and i better be discreet about it, since i had not so few enemies that would very much wish for nothing other than my eternal demise, if i had to interact with people while in my weakened state, i better behave well or else i might unintentionally provoke someone which might lead to the rise of a conflict and therefore the conflict might end in my demise as well, so i will have to be quite carful if that were to happen .
All of this was what i planned to do in the hypothetically situation where i found myself in need of starting a new and forsaken the strength i had before to convert to the new power system, but that might not even be a real condition, i'm just speculating based on some of the information that i currently have, but i kinds doubt that the two power systems going to coexist while having different power sources, but the viability of this speculation of mine is left to be seen .
But when was i going to try and confirm it and maybe even convert to the said power system, was an entire different matter, after all i still have a lot matters at hand holding me back if i just throw all of my responsibilities away, the result might backfire on me leaving me and all the people in this land at the mercy of the Demons .
So the conversion will have to at least wait until i'm sure that the Demons here won't be able to create much havoc and i might even sabotage the way they use to continue in sending those batches, cutting off their reinforcement and their connection to the other Demons on the other side, only then would i began to experiment with a carefree mind, so time was essential in this operation for both sides, if they succeeded, we will pretty much done for, but if i were to succeed in my sabotaging of their entire operation, then there was even the hope of taking this entire fight to them on the other side, to that Real World of theirs i mean .
I can't help but wonder, was doing things like this really worth it, after all it might be quite the risk if something were to go wrong, it might even indirectly have me killed, the definite answer to this question is still quite the mystery for me as i was not entirely sure of my answer was to be, if i were to have been asked this question before my encounter with that Blue star eating giant in the space, even now i can't seem to be still able to say for certain that it is worth it, but i got this gut feeling like intuition that this was the right thing to do and not wanting to have any regrets, i will just have to do it and see how it goes .
I'm quite surprised myself at how easy i was able to reconcile with the probability of me dying in pursuit of the level of strength i wanted, it came to be quite the surprise, since if i can describe how i felt about talking about death i will say that the only feeling i felt was nonchalant, i didn't care that much, i don't know whether was it out of pure confidence or out of the pure determination i felt.
Maybe even out of pure recklessness, but i just can't help but belittle death for some reason, as if i had already harbored some resentment towards it for some reason, i will becoming someone strong, really strong, but not for only me but for Hana and other people who i held dear in this world, that was another promise that i burdened my self with, but weird enough i didn't feel that much bothered about it .
To keep this promise of mine, i will have once again embark on a new journey still aiming for the same target as before, to become the strongest and i believe that it will take some time with how i picture everything going, but i do believe that i will really be able to pull this off, no matter how long it took, i'm becoming the strongest that's just my belief and also my burden, of course under the premise that i will be able to survive the whole process of losing my current strength and regaining it once more bit by bit, but if i stumbled on my way i will just have to get up and once again mark the obstacle that was responsible for my stumble and start to overcoming every last one of these obstacles, i strive to achieve what i want and won't stop trying to by any means as long as it rest well with my heart and conscience .
Hey, are you deaf, i'm taking to you, yeah the idiot over there, you .