Chapter 300: World Mage

Priam tensed up, his mind spinning in complete chaos. He had already expected his purpose to be something grand, but he had never imagined anything on such an absurdly colossal scale.

"The Goddess explained the entire plan to me, anticipating that one day I would have to reveal this truth to you," Heaven’s Will continued. "The Supreme Sovereigns sent the two of you only as pure souls, using a method incomprehensible even to me, inserting you directly into the Ur-World’s reincarnation cycle. Both of you were blessed with the power of those two beings. The first Supreme Sovereign granted you the authority of a World Pillar."

"This Pillar allows you to connect with the laws of any world, copying concepts, assimilating information, and manipulating reality. She told me that this manifested for you in the form of a System. However, to avoid attracting the attention of the six Sovereigns, the System operates through limitations and points."

"The second Supreme Sovereign gave you different gifts: to the Goddess, he gave all of his self-created abilities; to you, he granted one of his peculiar creations—the Nexus Seed. These blessings were designed so that your abilities would be different and complementary."

Priam took a deep breath, the pieces of the puzzle finally falling into place in his mind. But Dandara seemed to have lost part of what she had gained—a tragic consequence of her failure in the past.

"Your objective is straightforward: ascend to Immortality and, using the tools you possess, break through the ceiling and reach the level of a Sovereign. At that point, you will have to use the world you created..."

"The world we created?" Priam interrupted, his brow furrowed in utter confusion.

The Heaven’s Will gently fluctuated. "Ah, you’re still a Mage... understandable. You must have already heard that the Sages of your world control celestial bodies and manipulate a unique cosmic force, correct?"

Priam silently nodded.

"This ascension path of the Ur-World was shaped by the Sovereigns themselves, fueled by the power stolen from other worlds. When a Mage ascends to become a Sage, in their pursuit of Immortality, they must create and control multiple solar systems within the structure of the Ur-World. This is how the most powerful establish their strength."

"However, returning to your purpose: when you become a Sage, you will start from scratch, mastering preliminary planets and stars. But you must not stop at the traditional model conceived by the Sovereigns. The two of you were destined to shape a true independent realm, hidden deep within the Ur-World. It would be like implanting a silent virus inside a host—waiting for the exact moment to take complete control."

"For this to be possible, the System will guide your steps. When you are sent to invade other worlds under the Sovereigns’ orders, you will have to complete the missions, but secretly steal something precious: the *Essence of the World*. This essence must be absorbed by you to create and nurture the secret world."

"The essence is something the six Sovereigns disdain, because they do not know how to manipulate it. They only plunder and devour the power of the worlds’ structural pillars. For that reason, stealing the essence will never attract their attention."

"But..." Priam frowned, morality weighing heavily on his chest. "Does that mean I’ll have to help them destroy other worlds?"

"Yes and no. Even without your presence, the target realms would already be doomed beyond salvation. When the Sovereigns’ invasion begins, their wills go first, destroying the world’s universes. Without those universes, the world loses what is most essential and is doomed forever."

"The universes cannot be reborn. That is why you will not be destroying anything, but rather offering an ark of salvation. By absorbing the Essence of the World, a perfect copy of everything that once existed there can be recreated by you in the future. Nothing will be lost forever... My own world is already doomed, but if you take our essence with you, everything that once existed here can be reborn in your secret world. In the future, when you complete your mission, everything can continue to exist. To me, that is an immeasurable relief."

Priam swallowed hard.

The sheer scale of all this was staggering. Once he ascended to Sage, he would have to build something in the shadows of the Ur-World while also acting as an infiltrated spy during the missions.

"This hidden world will grant you an authority no other Immortal has ever possessed. The Goddess called herself a *World Mage*, however..." Heaven’s Will continued, its voice vibrating.

"As you can imagine, she reached the final stage... but she made a fatal mistake and lost everything. Now, you are the only one capable of becoming a true World Mage."

"Then, the reward you promised me earlier...?" Priam asked, already connecting all the dots.

"Yes, I will give you the Essence of my realm. But I will also grant you a supreme method as a bonus. From the memories I read from the heroic relics, I know you obtained the inheritances and bloodlines of the greatest races in this world, correct?"

Priam silently nodded. He had indeed obtained such legacies when he was aboard that Vessel.

"Excellent. When you use the Essence of my world to shape your first planets, this method will allow the life and races that once inhabited this place to flourish at an unbelievable speed. Furthermore, armed with these ancestral inheritances, they won’t need to evolve from scratch, reaching the peak of their power in just a few billion years."

"You will rarely obtain something this valuable in the other worlds you visit. For that reason, this reward will be extremely valuable, becoming the foundation of your power in the short term."

Priam let out a long sigh. Billions of years? Short term? The timescale he would have to deal with from that point onward was on an entirely new level.

However, a thrill of anticipation and fascination ran through his chest, tightly intertwined with a chilling sense of imminent danger.

This mission had yielded a thousand times more than he had ever dared to imagine. He had not only obtained the vital knowledge he needed, but had also secured the definitive foundation for when he finally ascended to the level of a Sage.

From that moment on, everything would escalate by leaps and bounds.

But the weight of that revelation also crushed his soul. Above all else, he had no right to fail.

Entire worlds, billions of lifeforms... and even his world of origin depended on the success of this undertaking.

Not long ago, he had been nothing more than an ordinary man, broken and disillusioned with his own existence.

Now, he carried an immense responsibility on his shoulders, almost impossible to bear—and the stronger he became, the greater the dangers would be.