Courting Death System-Chapter 61: Meeting

{Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for attending this meeting even though it was at such short notice. Without wasting everybody’s time, I’ll go directly to the point. The Marked One, what is to be done with him?}

{So that’s what it was! The sudden Law Malfunction almost gave me a heart attack.}

{For such a massive Law Malfunction, Yama, just how many Markers does this person have?}

Shadowy figures with different eyes that glowed discussed the matter regarding Lucius.

{He currently has Seven Markers...}

{Seven?! Are you sure?!}

{Seven?! Yama, you know that’s not possible right? Just one Marker is enough to cause even Advanced Gods like us a headache.}

{You can verify it if you don’t believe me. But that’s not the most important thing. I’ve spoken to Lady Luck, Lady Destiny, Lady Fate and Lady Karma’ incarnations."

{And how did it go?}

{We had a good discussion except with Lady Karma, she was trying to seduce me the whole time. She really is a bitch. Anyway, the Goddesses don’t want to meddle in this situation. They said something about going with the flow and that the Order needs not be corrected.}

{So they are afraid of the Marked One but I’m not. That guy is a danger to our Sources Of Power, the Balance is about to be skewed in favour of Chaos!}

{You’re right and we must do something about it.}

{That’s why I called this meeting. I want you guys to help me capture the Marked One, in exchange, I’ll exempt all of you from death three times. What do you say?}

{Yama, your influence is only limited to the Qi World, it’s of no use to us.}

{Space is right, your power as the King Of Hell of the Qi World is useless to us.}

{That’s where you’re wrong. I have the most influence in the Netherworld of the Qi World, Death encompasses all Worlds and Races, no one is exempted from Death. Now, I can influence the Death Law of other Worlds on a small scale. Just enough to revive the few of you, so what do you say?}

{Yama, you’ve grown stronger again, congratulations. But I’m afraid I can’t help you, others might not know about the Marked One’s secret but I do. I’ve been around far longer than all of your ages combined, Yama, I also want that opportunity. I also want the chance to replace the current Supreme Being.}

{Tok, what do you mean by that?}

{Exactly what I said. We’re Advanced Gods yet we can’t do half the things the incarnations. Lady Luck can affect all Worlds with her Luck Law. What about us, we’re only powerful enough to affect Small Worlds with the power we currently wield. A long time ago when I still loved to travel, I saw thousands of universes orbiting in an irregular manner, at least a hundred thousand of them...}

{A HUNDRED THOUSANDS?!!!}

{Don’t interrupt him!}

{They were more than that, that’s for sure. Some were orbiting clockwise and others were orbiting anti clockwise but in an orderly and beautiful manner. I tried to influence a thousand universes to orbit clockwise but failed. I tried Time Freeze but failed, in fact, all my Skills failed to do anything to those universes.

Not wanting to admit defeat, I flew closer to the universes but the gravitational force from that place was too strong and I was pulled into orbit. I was completely trapped in the orbit without the ability to move freely so I was forced to orbit with the universes even though I was very small compared to them.

Ten million years passed and finally, the universes completely stopped moving and it was the same for me. It was like an invisible hand had grabbed me. Then it appeared!}

{What appeared?!}

{Stop interrupting!}

{A monster made its appearance. I don’t know how massive it was but to paint a picture in your minds, those more than one hundred thousand universes were all grabbed by it with just one claw, crushed to powder and consumed by it.. The whole time, it acted like I didn’t even exist, like I wasn’t there. With how arrogant I was in the past, I couldn’t accept being treated like air so I attacked, I unleashed my Forbidden Ultimate Skill; Timeline Outbreak.

There were nine thousand nine hundred and ninety nine clones of myself from other timelines with the same level of strength as me. Ten Thousand Advanced Gods yet we still lost from just a gaze of that monster. It just looked at us and all my clones perished.}

{And then?}

{It melded into space and I could no longer see it. If it hadn’t shown itself, I would’ve died or lived till today not knowing what had happened. That’s why I’m unwilling to help you Yama. Now, if you help me sacrifice this Marked One, I will give you all of my wealth. I will even travel to other timelines to obtain a treasure that each of you wants.}

{All of your wealth! I’m in!}

{Me too!}

{Me three!}

It’s no secret that Tok is extremely wealthy because not only has he lived for a very long time, he can also travel to other timelines to collect treasures and he’s collected many valuable treasures over the years.

{Tok, what’s the meaning of this! You dare try to snatch my opportunity. Everytime, if you help me then you’ll spend ten seconds at the Boundary.}

After what Yama said, everyone became quiet but their eyes were fully focused on Yama.

{Yama, you know that we don’t joke around when it comes to the Boundary so you better take back what you just said.}

{Yeah, don’t trick us into siding with you by making empty promises.}

{Do I look like I’m joking with you. I’ve gotten approval from the World Spirit. Confirm it yourself if you don’t believe me.} said Yama while waving his hand and a small eastern dragon adorned in golden scales appeared in front of everyone.

"Greetings everyone. I know some of you have doubts about Yama but surely there’s no such thing with me right? If you manage to capture the Marked One and bring him to me then I’ll definitely allow you to spend ten seconds at the Boundary. If you capture him within a year then you’ll have an extra hundred seconds in the Boundary, capture him within ten years then ten seconds and you will only get one second if you capture him in a hundred years. Do we have a deal?"said the small dragon.

{I agree.}

{I agree.}

{I agree.}

...

Everyone agreed to the deal offered by the Qi World Spirit. How could they not agree, working together maximised their chances of catching the Marked One alive.

"Good. I shall await your good news. I sincerely hope to see all of you before the year ends. Let me leave you to it then." The small dragon then disappeared from the dark space.

{Yama, since we’ll be working together from now onward, you better tell us the truth. What exactly is the secret of the Marked One and don’t you dare say you don’t know!}

{I guess there’s no point in hiding it from you any longer. The target isn’t an ordinary Marked One. We’re guessing that this Marked One has a Source Law and a powerful one at that because of how many Marks he has.}

{A Source Law? What’s that?}

{We also don’t know but the Qi World Spirit says it’s something of unimaginable power and it wants its hands on it. I’ll tell you right now, the Qi World Spirit plans to transform this Marked One into a Heavenly Commander.}

{Heavenly Commander, isn’t that a bit too cruel!}

{Yeah, the Qi World Spirit sure is vicious and cruel.}

{I also have another piece of information. Andromeda has turned into a Supreme Being like what Tok described. Compared to his size, I was basically non-existent. He was like the largest blackhole I’d ever seen in my life and his aura isn’t something I can even begin to describe. It was like he was the True God and I was a cheap knockoff that someone bought unknowingly.}

{Then how did you survive?}

{He let me go.}

{He let you go?!}

{He let me go. Not before eradicating my Demon Army with his massive golden eyeball. I still get the shivers just thinking about that day. He eradicated my army and after that, my surroundings changed and I found myself back in the Qi World. He definitely teleported me with just a thought, I’m sure of it.}

{Can you show us what he looks like now?}

Beings at their level could protect their memories outwards like playing an HD movie so it wasn’t a big deal. Yama then protected the memory of himself looking at Andromeda’s new appearance.

{Why are we looking at galaxies orbiting empty space. Did your battle destroy such a massive amount of stars, you basically turned the place into a Void Space.}

{Those aren’t galaxies, those are universes...} said Tok.

{And that’s not a Void Space, that’s Andromeda...} said Yama.

A thin golden line then appeared in what everyone thought was a Void Space. This thin line then expanded into a massive eyeball. Everyone held their breaths because they felt like the eyeball was looking at them.

|Why are you spying on me?!|

{This... This... This... How is this possible?!}