"I don't know if this is a sensitive subject, but do you have any goals?"

"Huh?" was Faye's reaction after hearing what Thiago suddenly interrupted the silence with.

"Why are you asking this lady?" Faye replied and Thiago could only tell the truth that he had no idea, it had just suddenly occurred to him to ask the question without any real reason behind it.

"Well, haha, that's quite a reason, but I might as well think about it," after she said that she fell into a momentary silence, seemingly thinking about the question and coming up with an answer to it.

Meanwhile Thiago himself was quite speechless why he had suddenly asked such a question without any reason, it seemed that his subconscious mind had acted at that time.

However, now that he had asked the question, there was nothing wrong with hearing the answer, and he was actually quite curious to see what Faye would say.

And fifteen seconds later came a rather unexpected response from Faye, at least for Thiago.

"This lady has just given your question some thought and has come to the conclusion that I actually have no goal in mind at the moment, at least none that I can envisage at the present time."

"Well, that was unexpected, I have to say, well, do you really not have a single ambition, like I don't know, to dominate everything with your strength or something like that?" Thiago commented on her answer.

"Why would I want to do that, even though it doesn't sound too bad, I have to admit, that's not really my goal, don't I need you to do that for me, hehe? When the time comes that you can push horizontally and dominate everything with your power in the future, won't I have the same power as the person on your side, hehe? Faye promptly retorted.

"Haha, when did you become so cheeky? Well, I guess it was a compliment if you think I will be able to dominate everything with my power in the future, hehe," chuckled Thiago while internally he was quite surprised that Faye had such a high opinion of him.

On the other hand, Thiago also knew that Faye would probably have a brand-new goal if there was a reason for it in the future, so he wasn't too worried that she had no ambition at the moment, also considering the fact that she was still practising diligently during this period.

Unconsciously, their relationship seemed to have grown closer with this short conversation, for Faye's sentence could mean something, well, if she had meant it that way was another matter, but it already indicated that she was not afraid to say something like that, well, or she simply had not seen the implication, but that was highly unlikely with her intelligence.

"How can I be cheeky, I was just telling the truth, right? With your cultivation speed, it shouldn't be impossible for you to reach this level, right? Don't you think so? Now that this Princess Self has answered your question, how about giving me an answer to the same question? Faye replied to Thiago's insinuation that she had become cheeky, and at the same time, she wanted him to answer the same question he had asked her.

"Ahem, well, yes, of course I will answer the question, let me think a bit." Thiago honestly agreed to her request. After all, it was only logical that he should be able to answer the same question he asked others.

Seconds passed, but Thiago still sat motionless, as if he were still pondering the question.

In his mind he came up with countless possible goals, but then discarded them when he realised that they were not his true feelings and not really his goals.

His first thought of a personal goal was that he wanted to return to Earth, but after some thought he wondered if this was really the case, as he had no relatives there and at most two people he cared about a little, Megan and Kai, so logically there shouldn't be much that would attract him to go back.

It seems that it was just an innate obsession, as he had grown up on Earth and spent most of his life there.

Nevertheless, Thiago did not want to make returning to Earth his goal, as he would rather keep those beautiful memories and maybe in the future, if he had the necessary means, he could do it, but he wanted to focus on something else and not become completely obsessed with returning to Earth, as he could imagine that his following life in this new world would become quite unbearable if he was constantly thinking about Earth.

Having discarded that as his goal, Thiago next thought of something else, which was the basic goal of every protagonist in a few of the average novels he had read in the past, namely to become the strongest and to be invincible. Although he had nothing against such a goal, Thiago had no such ambitions at the moment. It was true that he wanted to become stronger, but not for the sake of becoming invincible.

He wanted to be able to protect himself and live a relaxed and happy life in this new world.

Although this goal of becoming invincible did not really interfere with the goal of living a relaxed life, because you could still live a relaxed life even if you wanted to become invincible, they were still two different things

Thiago also felt that a relaxed life was not a real goal, but rather a personal creed.

So, after coming up with several possible goals, he could not come to a satisfactory conclusion for the time being and had to answer his own question with essentially the same answer as Faye had given.

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"Ahem, as I have been thinking for the past time, I have to admit that I have come to the same conclusion as you before, which is that I also have no real goal or aim at the moment, Hehe," Thiago said a little embarrassed as he had not expected that he would end up answering the same as Faye after thinking for so long.

"Puff, hehe, and here I thought you had a real answer," Faye laughed, mocking him mercilessly after waiting almost a minute for his reply.

"Ahem, well, it is indeed harder than I thought to find a personal goal, well, anyway, let's get going now and continue marching across this plain, shall we?"

"Alright, I think I have rested enough from the food," Faye agreed, whereupon Thiago put everything important back into his spatial storage from where he had taken everything before.

After that, Thiago transformed back into his beastly self and was ready to leave.

A few minutes later, the two of them had already left the stone structure behind and were walking through the almost empty plain.

While Thiago was walking, he suddenly remembered back to the information he had seen with his Eyes of Eternal Truth before when he had taken a look at the boar.

Among the information was an important passage that now interested him. It was this sentence that had now crossed his mind:

'This Razorback Boar belongs to an extremely weak branch of the Razorback Boar clan, located in a part of the Small Plain where he is already its strongest member.'

At first, Thiago hadn't thought much about it when he first read the passage, but now that he remembered it, it occurred to him that since the boar he had killed was the strongest member of the Razorback Boar clan's branch, wouldn't the whole branch be completely vulnerable to him if he found its location? His idea was to take the entire branch of the clan as free system points, since he should be able to devour every single creature in it with ease.

As soon as you heard this idea, you could tell that Thiago was already completely indifferent to the lives of living creatures, because he would not hesitate to slaughter an entire branch of a clan for a relatively moderate number of points, perhaps a hundred thousand, depending on the number of members in the branch clan. Well, although the idea is beautiful and even objectively great, it cannot compete with reality, as Thiago had absolutely no idea where the branch was located.

Well, that was no problem since he could just buy that information from the system.

Not hesitating he quickly did as he said, but the outcome was slightly different from what he ahd expected...

'Huh? The location of the branch is somewhere else, it said that it is in a part of the Central Plains in the south of the realm, wait, that is exactly what was displayed when I used my Eyes of Eternal Truth, which means that this plain where I am now is not called the Central Plain as I thought before, since the branch is in a completely different location.' Thiago pondered after receiving a map with a cross on it showing the location of the branch and his position, so he could measure the distance and find his way perfectly.

But when he looked at it, he was stunned by how far it was, it seemed to be at least a hundred thousand kilometres and could very well be even more, since it was just a rough estimate.

It seemed that his idea could not be implemented for now, Thiago had to admit in defeat as he had no way to travel that far at this moment and he also did not have the motivation for that.

Meanwhile, somewhere in a very different place a certain branch of a certain clan could be seen completely desperate as the soul lamp of their patriarch had suddenly gone out just a short time ago, and the patriarch was the backbone and the strongest inside their branch.

Just a few months ago, their Patriarch had gone out to find a certain important herb for his cultivation, even though the elders had strongly opposed it, the Patriarch's decision had been extremely firm, and he had not compromised.

So, all the elders were hoping that the Patriarch would return soon, as some of the surrounding sects had quite bad relations with them and had always wanted to attack them, but the Patriarch had always deterred them, as he was quite difficult to fight. (Cough, cough, not for Thiago).

Now that the Patriarch's soul lamp had suddenly extinguished about an hour ago, all the elders were extremely worried, for they knew that their Patriarch must have encountered some kind of extreme danger in the place where he had gone and had sadly lost his life.

Their greatest fear was that the news would get out and the enemy forces would get wind of it and attack them in retaliation.

What they did not know was that just by being so far away from Thiago's location, they had unwittingly passed by another disaster, or else they would surely have been devoured by him.

Back to Thiago's side, now that he knew that the clan's branch was too far away, Thiago didn't really feel bad about it, since it was just an idea and it would have been nice if it had worked, but since it hadn't worked, it didn't really matter to him either.

As the minutes passed, slowly turning into hours, it was already evening and Thiago and Faye were already about halfway to the city, as Thiago had roughly guessed when he looked at the map in his mind.

"Well, tomorrow we will be reaching the city," Thiago explained, which made Faye's eyes shine with anticipation, even though she knew very well that she would not see much of the city at first. Nevertheless, that could not dampen her enthusiasm and curiosity as she had no idea what she would be seeing there.

It was like a country bumkin's first time coming to a city, only that Faye's case was a little bit more drastic as she had literally no idea about any humans in this world and how they lived. Well, she knew a few basic things from Thiago but that was not much.

Thiago who saw the anticipation in her eyes had a slight smile at the corner of his mouth, while he himself was also quite curious and anticipating his first time arriving in this world's city.

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After dinner, they entered Thiago's inner world to sleep comfortably, as they had no intention of sleeping in the wilderness.

You could say that these two were extremely spoilt tigers...

The next day, after a sumptuous breakfast, they continued to walk across the plain until, a few hours later, they suddenly noticed that the environment was beginning to change, with more vegetation and a more beautiful and pleasant aura.

Thiago also saw on the map in his mind that they were already quite close to the city and that it would probably come into view soon after they had crossed the small mountain range ahead of them behind which the city lay.

Thiago wondered if he should take Faye to his inner world now or wait a little longer, but then he remembered that humans could come and go at any time, since they were already quite close to the human city.

A few seconds later he had made his decision and turned towards Faye and said," We are already quite close to the human city so it would be better if I take you to the inner world already to make sure that no humans see you, alright?"

"Well, I understand," Faye replied understandingly.

"Ah, and I've prepared some food for you in the mansion, which you can eat if you're hungry, since I don't know when I'll be able to take you out again, it should last you for at least a week or so." Thiago spoke up suddenly, as he had just recalled that.

"Alright, Thank you!"

"Oh, wait, I've got something else for you to cultivate in there, since you won't have much else to do," Thiago said before giving a command in his mind, 'Bestow the two techniques in my shopping cart upon Faye.'

In fact, Thiago had already prepared a second technique for Faye some time ago and put it in his shopping cart in the System Shop, a new function he had discovered at the time.

And now, with his command, he had given exactly that technique to Faye, who would receive it in her mind at that very moment.

Meanwhile, Faye was just about to ask Thiago what he meant by the things he had just said when she suddenly felt some strange information pouring into her mind, making her look around in surprise before she suddenly remembered that this was not the first time this had happened and then looked at Thiago, since it was probably him who had done it....

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