Chapter 220: Chapter 169: One way to the Peak

Afternoon, June 17

Wavebreaker

The ship would drop them at the port of the New Bark Town on the morning of June 20.

Kai was sitting on a chair opposite Item-M. Their eyes were bloodshot, and dark shades under their eyes marked their lack of sleep. For 3 days, none of them have left the room and none of them had had a dream.

3 days.

The time was too much to just talk. They could cover a lot of things in three days, but not an entire life. And Item-M indeed had a lot to talk about. Over 80 years of her life as an active Contestant, and around thirty years of ideal life on the 1st Set.

The first thing Kai had done after booking a luxurious room on the ship was to make her tell everything about all the worlds she had been to. And that alone had taken the first two days to cover. Then Kai had made her tell about all the Primordial Tower and all the floors she had been to. That lasted for the better part of the third day.

At last, Kai had asked her to tell him everything about the Temples.

There, he had met his first roadblock.

All the Priests and the Priestess have a seal placed in their mind that forbids them to talk about the Temple’s secrets, Item-M had told him. Only a Contestant of the level of the High Priest can break it. Without it gone, the moment I think of telling even a trifle thing, I forget about them.

Kai had pointed out the ritual to her then, the words she had spoken, and the names she had uttered before talking to the High Priest.

That is not a secret, Item-M had explained. Almost everyone on the upper floors knows about these sacrificing rituals. Only on the lower floors, below the 4th Set, the knowledge about them is controlled and monitored. That’s why the moment you had spoken Hastur in the Primordial Tower, the Temple had got to know about it. In the Random Worlds, taking the name doesn’t stir any old powers, though. So, they sent me to spy on you. Everything is possible with Mission Credits and a suitable sacrifice.

Kai had then asked about what were the original orders from the High Priest.

They follow the Protocol in these cases, she had told him. If you were worthy to join the Temple, then once you had reached the Primordial Tower, a priest of Hastur would have contacted you, asking you to become a part of the Temple. In case you had refused to join, or I had declared you unworthy, then the same Priest would have changed your memory using Magic. Now that I have betrayed the Temple, I am afraid that fate will be worse for me. The High Priest will stop at nothing but destroying us.

Can the Higher floor’s Contestants come down to the lower floors and kill just anyone? Kai had asked naturally, remembering Ser Morgan’s presence on the 1st floor when he was a 2nd-floor Contestant.

No. That was the word she had said with iron certainty. For example, the System places too many restrictions on a Contestant of the 4th-floor if they want to descend to the 3rd-floor. The bigger the gap between one’s current floor and the descent-floor, the more unrealistic and absurd the restrictions would be. No higher floor Contestant would descend over 2 or 3 floors below him, as it makes them vulnerable to assassinations, leaving them powerless.

To that, she had added more. Though, the Priests of Byagoona are notoriously known to descend to the lowest floors. Some of them even restrict their Stats and enter low-graded missions in search of worthy future Priests. Quite foolish, I agree. But that’s how they are, a bunch of weird Contestants of the weirdest cult known in the Primordial Tower, the Temple of Byagoona or the Many-faced God.

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It would have been pointless to ask her more about the other Temples when she couldn’t even tell him the secrets of her own.

Then came Kai’s turn.

He told her everything. Not because of trust, but because she was his Item. And if he wanted her to suggest something, then she needed to know his strengths and weaknesses.

Slowly and steadily, using Telepathy, Kai had told her about his Glitch in-depth, his Worth, the missions he had completed, and the things he had done during those missions. His Items, his encounters both in and out of the Random Worlds, and his Titles. Then he had told her about his current Main Mission and the plan he and Petyr had come up with.

If the words “reverential fear” had a face, then it must have looked like that of Item-M’s.

With every next word, she gasped, frowned, blushed, and paled. This was the tale of a Contestant with Glitch and high Worth. These were the deeds of Kai Stormborn. And this tale and his deeds hid the ambitions of the Blood Demon. Not just anyone could hear them and still hold on to their sanity.

And that brought them to the current time.

Item-M closed her tired eyes and mind for a moment and then snapped open as if she had resolved herself to say something that she didn’t want to.

“It’s a little late now,” Item-M began, “but I must tell you about this.”

Kai’s eyes narrowed. He was seated leisurely on the chair, his feet stretched out. A single marble levitated over his right palm as Kai practiced his Telekinesis. This was the major point of making her his Item, wasn’t it? To learn all he had learned and hear her Counsel based on her experiences. Why wouldn’t he listen to her? Kai nodded to Item-M, thinking of these questions.

“I know you want to rise to the Absolute Peak of the Power, master” she said, reverentially. “There is only one known way to become one of the most-feared Contestants in the Primordial Tower.”

-/What is it?/- Kai asked, focus rising to his mind.

Item-M collected herself and said, “Multiverse Interdependency.”

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AN: Too many ongoing, past, and future plots depend on this and the next chapter. So, don' skip anything. Otherwise, a few crucial points, later in the Novel, won't make sense.

It's difficult to cover all the things Kai and Item-M had talked about, or will talk, during their sea-voyage. So, I am dedicating Chapter 169 and 170 to the most important things. When the time comes to mention some other thing they had talked about, I would let Kai thought about it in the future chapters.

A gentle Reminder:

1. Parseltongue: -xyz-
2. Telepathy: -/xyz/-
3. Thoughts: 'xyz'
4. Dialogues: "xyz"

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