Mike's worldview had been greatly expanded.
Kyle returned to the present situation after telling such an ancient story.
"This head contains all the memories of the primordial God," Kyle said. "But, it's difficult to understand."
"Can I take a look?" Mike asked.
"Of course." Kyle made a gesture of invitation.
Mike stood in front of the head.
It was activated by the Thunder Core. All the memories in the head were easy to explore but were indeed difficult to understand.
However, soon Mike found something.
[Hidden Information: The source spirit has been found! If you refine it, you will be able to slowly integrate all the memories from the head.]
Mike was shocked, he hurriedly followed the prompt and explored.
"Is this the source spirit?"
Mike didn't dare to touch it. Only when the hidden information told him that it was safe did he dare to touch.
"It's crystal clear and feels very easy to refine," Mike said to himself.
Mike used his strength and grabbed ahold of the source spirit. Then, he quickly put it into his Inventory. He shifted it to his original body to let it be refined.
The source spirit was in his hands. Now that the head was gone, it suddenly started to tremble, but quickly returned to normal, looking like nothing much had changed.
"Can you understand it?" Kyle asked.
Mike shook his head. There was no need for him to try understanding.
After obtaining the source spirit, he would slowly fuse with it and understand everything eventually.
"That's very normal." Kyle had been the same back then. "You have two choices now. Do you want to hear them?"
"Okay." Mike turned around.
"The first choice is to acknowledge me as your master. I will teach you everything that I have comprehended over the years. However, I will occasionally need you to help me carry out quests."
"What's the second choice?" Mike asked.
"If you don't acknowledge me as your master, I won't teach you anything. You will learn it yourself."
Kyle said, "The first choice will immediately bring you many benefits. The second choice requires you to have a lot of confidence in yourself."
"I choose the second choice." Mike didn't hesitate.
Kyle smiled.
In fact, if Mike had chosen the first choice, Kyle would have looked down on him because it would seem like Mike was too eager to succeed and had too little confidence.
If Mike chose the second choice, regardless of whether he would succeed in the future, Kyle would have liked this confidence very much.
"This is a teleportation scroll. You can come here anytime in the future to try to understand the information here," Kyle said as he took out a scroll and gave it to Mike.
"There is a limited time to the Thunder Core's durability. But, you can collect Thunder Cores again the next time you go out."
"Do I have to search for it in a Silver-Tier dungeon?" Mike asked.
"No." Kyle shook his head. "It's possible for Thunder Cores to appear anywhere. I told you to search for it in a Silver-Tier dungeon because I knew it existed in a certain one. You should be able to search for it in other dungeons or elsewhere."
That was alright. He could search for it slowly and unfetteredly in the future.
"Oh, right." Mike wanted to ask Kyle about something. "Do you know about the Exotic Beasts and the force behind them?"
"A little." Kyle pointed at the head and explained to Mike. "Although I'm not sure, I suspect that the Exotic Beasts were sent by a god from another world. They are similar in nature to the Heavenly King God and the Sea King God. It's just that they are more powerful and have grown to a point where they can break free from the shackles of staying within one world and invade another."
God.
Another God again.
"The Miracle world has been awakened, which meant that the invasion is getting closer and closer. Perhaps it will come during this period of time... Until then, our only hope would be the head of this primordial god before us," Kyle said.
Only this head could give Mike and the others the ability to protect themselves from that kind of chaos, and even the ability to fight back against extraterrestrial life forms.
"I have to power up as soon as possible." Mike felt pressured.
Kyle stayed in the grassland and continued to digest and interpret the knowledge behind the primordial god's head.
Mike left the place.
Unlike Kyle, who was already at a high level, Mike still had a long way to go.
At this time, his original body had also finished clearing the battlefield. He then left the dungeon.
[System Channel]
[Silver-Tier Open Dungeon: Haifado village has been perfectly cleared by Mike with SSS-rank]
[Obtained: The first to pass Haifado Village]
[Obtained: The first to complete Haifado Village perfectly]
[Obtained: Haifado Village's Savior title]
[Reward: 5,000 World Prestige]
After Mike exited the dungeon, the dungeon disappeared, and his name appeared on the World Channel once again.
[World Channel]
"???"
"Mike?"
"Mike again?!"
"Holy sh*t!"
"Wasn't he banned? Last time, the Palace of the Heavenly King guaranteed that he was banned and that he will soon pass his peak. What the hell was this?"
"Is this how the various palaces banned him?"
"Did being banned by the various palaces meant that he could successfully clear two dungeons in a row?"
"Plus it was an open dungeon. These kinds of dungeons required dozens of people to clear!"
"Mike managed to clear it by himself?"
"Could it be that being banned actually has some benefits?"
"If being banned meant giving him a bunch of rewards to help him grow, I also want to be banned..."
"F*ck."
"It's supposed to be hard to level up if you're banned, yet being banned feels like cheating."
"I beg you to ban me as well!"
...
The World Channel once again descended into chaos.
Especially when people knew how big the gap in difficulty between open and private dungeons was.
It became even more chaotic.
...
The various palaces were even more shocked.
They knew better than anyone how difficult it was to clear open dungeons. There were no other names appearing in the System Channel, which meant that Mike had solo cleared the dungeon.
How did Mike manage to clear an open dungeon alone?
"What should we do? The public is questioning us now..."
Many people in the Palace of the Heavenly King were panicking.
"What should we do?"
The higher-ups of the Palace of the Heavenly King were gritting their teeth. They thought that if they banned Mike, he would be finished if he could not enter the main cities or clear dungeons.
But it turned out that he was doing very well. They could not see the effect of the ban at all.
The so-called ban had become a joke.
"How did he enter the dungeon? There is no Dungeon Medal for an open dungeon!" Someone said.
This information struck everyone.
Could it be that Mike never used the Dungeon Medal to enter the dungeon?
Then, how did he enter?
"Could it be that he joined the Dark Walkers?" Someone guessed.
The people from the Heavenly King's Palace felt that that made sense, the Dark Walkers did have some methods to enter the dungeons, after all.
"Over the years, the Dark Walkers had mostly been dealt with and had disappeared without a trace. The remaining of them are relatively weak. But it didn't seem that it was difficult for Mike to enter a Silver-Tier dungeon."
"He must have joined the Dark Walkers."
"In that case, he will be able to enter Gold-Tier dungeons in the future."
"It's only Gold-Tier dungeons."
"How many years has it been since we saw a Dark Walker who could enter a Platinum-Tier dungeon? They're all gone."
"But even if it was just a Gold-Tier dungeon, it'll still be a few slaps to our faces..."
"Capture him!"
The Heavenly King gave the order.
"Ignore those people in the World Channel, we'll find Mike and kill him directly!! Also, get the others to clear the Silver-Tier and Gold-Tier dungeons quickly. Try to occupy the System Channel's notifications so that there would be no news of Mike."
...
At a certain camp...
"The person we ambushed was actually Mike?"
The resurrected party leader was stunned when he saw the World Channel.
No wonder he was so powerful, the person they had actually ambushed was Mike!!