THE GOD EATER

Chapter 1337: Guardian’s Cultivation.

They caught the balls with their Divine Spirit and made them float around them. Their Divine Spirit seemed to tingle upon contact and the runes on the ball lit up faintly.

As they examined the runic balls with their Divine Perception, the guardian said, "Those are your personal helper artifacts. You can use them to check the list of Supreme Metacs, request them, and see when they will be delivered."

"Your caretakers will be here soon. If you have more questions, you can reach out to them through the artifact and ask them."

"I have more questions, but they are for you," white Loki started.

Black Loki continued speaking from where his other half stopped and said, "I have always been curious. What is your cultivation, and how strong are you?"

Chuckling, the guardian said, "My specific strength is a bit complicated to explain. Even for Dao Lords, two Dao Lords at the six-star cultivation level can have vastly different levels. More so for someone like me who is the avatar of someone else."

"In any case, I can’t tell you exactly how strong I am for security reasons. As for my cultivation, it is at the peak of Dao Emperor level."

"So you’re at my target cultivation level?" black Loki asked, surprised.

"Yes, I am. If you manage to reach my cultivation level with ten Cosmic Daos, you might be able to defeat me," the guardian said, chuckling once more in amusement as if Loki had said something funny.

Black Loki didn’t understand what was funny, so he moved on and said, "What about your true body? What cultivation level is he?"

This time, what he said was too funny, so the guardian burst out laughing. As they laughed, they said, "That’s a very bad question. It is definitely very dangerous."

"For your sake, I won’t tell you the answer to that question. It is best that you know as little as possible about my true body because the more you know about him, the more you stop being yourself."

"If one day you learn the name of my true body, you might become like me. If that happens, I would have no problem telling you more about him. Until then, ignorance is bliss."

In response, white Loki raised an eyebrow and said, "That sounds very strong. Now I’m wondering how strong the god king is."

"Don’t wonder about such things. Take it from me, it is not good for your health," the guardian said, shaking his head.

"Beings like that corrupt the world and the people around them into turning into their image. It is why the true body only sent an extension of their power and didn’t come directly to recruit you."

"If they had come directly, the most difficult thing they would have to do is avoid killing you and erasing your existence in the process of catching you. I don’t want to have put in so much effort to keep you alive only for you to throw it away because you were too curious about something you shouldn’t know."

They twirled their black spear around their finger as they said, "On that note, I think this is a good place to stop this conversation."

"I have informed you of your circumstances and your goal, so I can say that I’ve nearly completed my mission by talking to you here. The only thing that remains is to inform you that by the order of the god king, you won’t be included in the training program for Gemini younglings."

"So you won’t be taken to the virtual universe for education, orientation, and training. You also won’t be subject to the treatment of Gemini younglings. This was decided since you have memories of your past and have enough resources to protect you."

"Huh? What’s this about a virtual universe? When will I get the opportunity to use it?" both the black Loki and the white Loki asked this question, just in slightly different ways.

Clearly, they really wanted to know what the virtual universe was. But the guardian only said, "Use the helper artifact. If you’re allowed to know it, the information will be available."

Then they took off, disappearing from his sight.

As they left, they shook their head inwardly and thought, ’I lied.’

’No one who joins the Gemini can ever escape. When they die, they will be forced to reincarnate and return as a Gemini.’

’So at most, you will lose your memories of the past. But you will never be free. The god king will never let go of something he has bitten, and not even permanent death would save you.’

White Loki watched the guardian leave while lost in thought. He thought about the conversation they’d just had and tried to figure out how the Gemini race knew that he was reversing time while Black Loki used the runic ball to search for information about the virtual universe.

"How do you use this thing?" he said as he inserted his Divine Spirit into the helper artifact.

His Divine Spirit seemed to trigger something as a virtual screen appeared in front of him. Some white words also appeared on the virtual screen, saying, "Hello. What can I do for you?"

Black Loki had never seen something like this before, but the Loki in the spark of power was familiar with this kind of technology. Then, the spark of power Loki controlled black Loki like one would control a sock puppet and used him to operate the Runic artifact.

"What are you?" black Loki asked.

"I am the Matrix, the spirit artifact of the personal helper mainframe. What you have in your hand is a terminal connected to the mainframe. So I am in charge of all the millions of terminals like yours."

"Oh. What can you do?"

The words on the screen changed to show, "My main goal is to facilitate your connection to the communication network of the Gemini race and help you use the network to achieve your goals."

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