When they had flown for 1 hour, the fan slowed down and Lily suddenly saw a huge round city that had a white wall around it. In the middle stood a large gold palace which shone and flashed in the sun, and it gave a beautiful glow.
"My master lives here." Bai said, pointing at the palace.
They landed at the entrance which had 10 guards on each side. The men were wearing black armor and there was a black sword hanging from their hip and they were standing with a long black spear which had a gold blade. The guards nodded to them, and they went inside.
They entered a huge garden where people were walking around doing activities. They were all wearing hanfus in different colors, so Lily knew that it was indeed ancient China they had ended up in. When the people saw them, they bowed to them and looked at Lily with curious eyes. They went inside the palace and were led through large halls and many rooms and 5 minutes later they arrived in a large garden which had a fountain with a large white stone eagle with its wings spread. There was a large white table where a man with black hair, slim and pale skin sat with his back to them.
“She has been sent by Zhen.” Bai said walking up to the man.
When the man heard that he turned around and Lily was surprised because she recognized him immediately. It was the man named Light who had given her cleric class, eternal life, and goddess class.
She immediately bowed down and humbly said, “Greetings my lord. We meet again."
Light smiled when he saw her and said, “Please stand up. You must not bow to me.”
Lily refused to treat him like a random person because she wasn't stupid. If Bai was a deity and that was his master, that meant he was definitely some kind of God.
She stood up and looked down at the ground, not daring to look him in the eye.
Light sighed and said, “Even though I rule as the Sovereign Emperor and am a god, I am still a person.”
When Lily heard him mention sleep queen emperor and God she had guessed right. So, he was mightier than the mightiest and even had 2 titles.
She looked at him, studied him more closely and saw that he looked like a normal person, especially when he showed her a friendly smile. She smiled back and nodded at him as a sign that she understood him.
He pointed at the table and said, "We have something to talk about." and Lily and Aaron sat down.
A moment later tea and snacks were served, and Lily's eyes fell on a small cake that looked like a lotus flower and immediately picked it up and tasted it. It was sweet and tasted delicious and she had always dreamed of tasting food from ancient China.
She looked at Light and said, “I came for Master Ryu.”
He chuckled and said, "He’s my guardian and is busy right now but I can help right now."
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He cleared his throat and put on a serious face and explained, “The world is divided into different levels, like a pyramid. There is always someone ruling over others.”
Lily nodded and understood exactly what he meant, and it was always the same in all kinds of worlds.
"There are gods who rule over me and above them there is one whom we call the almighty who is the absolute god over all. He is also known as the creator. Unfortunately, I can't contact him personally as we lost touch when I lost someone important. You look a lot like her, but I know you are not the same person.” Light explained.
"I assume her name was Lily." Lily said.
"Correct. Jun De said you have visited her temple.” Light said.
Lily looked at Jun De who had laid down on the grass with his eyes closed. Since they had spirit flow, they probably had a special way of communicating.
"How can I help?" she asked.
“You must find a woman named Mai who was teleported to our world before Lily was alive. She has a black phoenix that can travel through time. You must go back in time and find out what exactly happened to Lily because none of us can do that as it is our past and we have already lived it.” Light replied.
Lily's ears twitched an extra time when she heard 'travel back in time' because she had a quest from her master where she had to do the same. She was relieved that now she didn't have to waste time trying to find a time machine that she doubted even existed. Mai was a Japanese name and although she spoke Japanese, she did not speak old Japanese, so she hoped there was no communication barrier.
"Where is she?" she asked curiously.
"In the elven world." Light replied.
Wow, Lily had always wanted to meet a real elf because she had only read about them in Lord of the Rings which was her number 1 of all fantasy books in the world. Her heart was beating fast, and she waited anxiously for Light to tell her where the elf world was and looked at him expectantly.
There was silence for a few seconds, and he said nothing and just looked at her and blinked his eyes. Several seconds later Lily was still waiting but he still didn't say anything.
"What are you waiting for?" he asked suddenly.
Lily cleared her throat and replied, "Where is it?"
"I don't know because it's a completely different world. If you can do that for me, you can have this here that you can use when you have a conversation with King Arthur and the other people in the future.” he replied, taking out some red ruby stones and placing them on the table.
"What is it?" she asked curiously.
"It can keep the system away temporarily and when it's used up it breaks." he answered.
Lily accepted the stones and deliberately placed them in her space ring. She had to be careful in the future where she placed things.
She was reminded of the system again as she looked at her ring and looked at Light and asked, “What kind of system is this?”
Light sighed and replied, “An operator system that I created to look for Lily but the god who stole it turned it into a slave system. Luckily my world and the other worlds are immune to it so only your world has it.”
Lily looked at Aaron when she heard that and saw that he was looking at her worriedly. They were not stupid and knew what his words meant. So that portal was possibly sent by the god who wanted to use humanity as slaves, but it sounded too simple and there was probably another important detail that no one knew anything about.
A god had no reason to enslave people who are seen as weak unless there was a good reason to do so. She was reminded that you could harness spirit flow and knew that this world did not have a system and therefore you could not harness it. Suddenly something dawned on her and her heart beat faster and the adrenaline pumped so loud she could hear it.
“Is it what I think it is?” she asked scared, looking at Light.
"I don't know why that god wants to use humans as slaves and I was only in your world to make contact with you." Light replied, shaking his head.
"I understand." Lily said.
“Your system is special. You have one of my operators in you who is trapped by that god and the other system is a virus, but that god doesn't know you have both in you so use it wisely.” Light explained, wearing a serious face.
Lily nodded and they said their goodbyes nicely and flew back with Bai and landed on a mountain. He opened a white portal where Lily, Aaron and Jun De walked through.