As the new day came Lirian was already being smuggled away by a party of three, Anya, Belinda, and Cain. He was surprised when Cain insisted on carrying him, but after a few short minutes, his interest in Cain's race and his three eyes disappeared as it seemed that the only thing the guy did was pinch his cheeks constantly.
Even his godly constitution couldn't stop his cheeks from becoming a rosy colour, Lirian inwardly cursed, 'There are only two possibilities for his behaviour one he is a brutish warrior that only knows how to use his muscles to destroy everything, two he is a brutish pugilist that only knows how to use his muscles to destroy everything.'
After a few hours passed the smell of the sea struck Lirians nose, when he looked up he could see the great green ocean covering everything in his sight. On the beach, the ocean water lapped against the shore and a salty smell filled the air.
They soon approached a simple wooden house with a simple yet modern look, it was a big difference compared to the pyramid structures in the city, the house had a short flight of stairs to climb before one could enter as the house was built on wooden stilts to prevent floods during the high tide.
The house was very simple inside with the exception of the isolation formation that was set up inside the house, to keep it clean and fresh, everything else was as simple as it could be, there were no beds and only a few sleeping mats, and the most basic of furnishings so that a person could live inside it.
They slowly climbed to the second floor of the house which made a lot of creaks even with the silent footsteps of everyone, as they advanced through a narrow hallway Belinda put her hand against the wall and twisted a wall lamp, after three twists the ceiling opened up and a staircase came down leading into an attic.
'Not as simple as it appears." Lirian chuckled inwardly, at first he couldn't detect anything special about the place and he was wondering if they came to the wrong place.
When they got up the only thing inside was a platform linked to a large circular device. Belinda quickly opened a small panel and choose the coordinates that they were relaying to.
[Beep, beep, beep]
[Alert, Authorisation Confirmed}
[Alert, AI Taking Over]
{Welcome to the Emperor's personal teleport channel, all personals memories of the location will be removed your memories after relay}
{Level 10 Authorisation Detected, memory wipe canceled}
{Please step onto the platform for weighing}
A neutral voice spoke instructing them on what to do. They all quickly got on the platform and waited for the scan to complete.
{Warning, Warning, Warning}
{Spatial devices detected, place your devices in the glove compartment for safer travels}
{Weight Confirmed, Coordinates Confirmed}
{Warning, insufficient energy to make jump, please replace energy cells}
It took a few minutes for them to complete the preparations, meanwhile, Lirian was trying to inspect to device, unfortunately, the only thing he could confirm was that the technology was extremely advanced and from its energy reading it was about as efficient as a spatial device could get.
{Gate opening, please prepare for jump}
The energy built up in the centre of the device and ripples could be clearly seen as if someone threw a stone into still water, as the ripples spread out further a purple light could be seen.
{Gate Opened Successfully, please have a safe trip}
{ETA 82 hours, 42 minutes and 19 seconds}
Lirian could feel protective energy surrounding him and realised that they were all protecting him at once, as they stepped into the portal a feeling of suffocation came over Lirian as well as a feeling like he was being pulled by his legs and being swung around.
Since he had a lot of experience with the feeling it just left him feeling a little dizzy and made his stomach turn, when he got rid of the feeling he looked around and realised that he was in a room identical to the one they came from, if not for the fact that he could no longer smell the sea he would have thought that they had never left.
Cain was still holding him and eyeing him warily, Lirian felt puzzled when he heard Anya giggle, "If you feel like barfing little guy Cain would be very happy to get showered by you.", she spoke teasingly while laughing at Cain.
Cain looked at her with incredulity, as if she had just wronged him, and for a short moment Lirian considered it as payback for all the cheek pinching, it wasn't every day that an opportunity to barf on someone came, but in the end, he decided to maintain his dignity, as a god it was beneath him to be so petty.
He shook his head and muttered, "No... barf.", by now they had all heard that he could speak but it was still a little surprising.
When Lirian looked at Cain again he noticed that all three of his eyes were teary and he pulled the little Lirian into a crushing hug, "Did you hear that Anya he loves his big bro Cain so much that he even spoke for me and stopped himself from barfing."
"Little guy, your big bro has your back for life," he released Lirian allowing him to breathe again, " , you're the best little guy ever," it was then that Cain went to pinch his cheeks again to show his affection.
'Screw a god's dignity.' Thought Lirian as white light erupted from his mouth.
Cain easily dodged the attack and laughed. Lirian sulked in his arms as his attack had failed and his cheeks were being pulled once again.
After a short while, they got onto the platform and repeated the process before jumping again, after three more jumps they stopped.
Despite how quick each jump felt to them a lot of time had passed, with their four jumps it only felt like twenty minutes, but twelve days had already gone by.
This time they appeared in a luxurious penthouse on a space station, through the window an entire steel city could be seen with countless space ships moving around, and as Lirian looked around he could make out at least thirty different races walking about and this was only with a single glance.
There was so much going on that he wanted to start asking questions about this place, he really wished that he wasn't so small, it made it impossible for him to ask what he wanted to without being looked at with suspicion.
Anya was carefully watching Lirian and when she saw him looking outside she could see his excitement as his big silver eyes darted around trying to look at everything at once, and the cutest part was his little feet which couldn't stay still as he looked outside, if Cain put him down Anya was sure that he would have tried to run through the window.
She took him from Cain and walked over to the full wall made of glass, "Do you want to know about this place?" she asked, she knew that if anyone heard her asking Lirian they would think that she was just playing around with him and not take it seriously, but she was certain that he understood most of the things she told him.
At her words entered his ears Lirians eyes sparkled and nodded repeatedly with a big smile, the language was still a little difficult for him but he had come to understand a good deal of it, she smiled at him gently and proceeded to tell him about the space station.
Anya pondered silently as this place did have a very rich history and she knew only a few things about the station. She exclaimed inwardly as she remembered of something.
"First you should know the name of this place it's called Quaria's Basin and it's as old as the seven Civilisations, but before that, I'll tell you a story, it's a very special story because it's a story told to all adults to teach them a few lessons, and if you ever join any organization with a great political background they ask you questions about this story."
Lirian looked up surprised, it did sound like a joke. A story for teaching adults a lesson was a funny idea and that this story was taken so seriously even by dirty politicians was hilarious.
"It's the story of Quaria the great diviner, the pioneer of the interstellar age, we also call her the mother of all riches, because with the power of divining she became the mother of the seven civilisations."
At the mention of a great diviner, Lirian took a breath diviners were rare and to become a great divine meant that she ascended to become an immortal, for a diviner the only way to increase one's strength is by interfering with and pulling the fate of others into oneself but the real challenge was interfering with the fates of people on their level, this is why ascending as a diviner is almost impossible the difficulty of ascending is several thousand times harder than normal cultivators, that is without mentioning that diviners have no combat powers against people of the same level, which is why when they interfere with the fate of such people they are usually killed.
In all his lives Lirian only knew of one person that was capable of such a thing, she was the woman he had loved, the woman who bore him a child, and the person whom he hated more than any other, the fate spinner Katherina.
He listened attentively to the story that followed, because there was no one else other than her that was capable of becoming a great diviner, and he would bet his next 100 lives that she was the great diviner called Quaria.