Meanwhile, inside the secret realm, a woman was looking around. She had western-like features and was looking at the forest around her fearfully. She spoke to the voice in her head, "Are you sure you aren't something evil that is trying to manipulate me? I've read enough novels to know that trusting your kind too much can lead to trouble!"
The voice she was speaking of answered her; its voice was emotionless and dry but sounded fluent nonetheless. The voice was very androgynous but very pleasant to listen to, even if, as said before, it didn't have a shred of emotion. However, this lack of emotion was what made the woman not trust that voice completely and have her reservations with it.
[Host, we've already been together for a month, and you have become an eight-level Mental Nourishing Realm Cultivator. Do you think I would strengthen you so fast if I wanted to do something evil? The most optimal path to control a person is to lead them through dangers while feigning to be their most important ally and letting that person gain dependence. Instead of doing so, I have been strengthening you more than I should have to show my sincerity.]
The woman didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Saying things like that, aren't you becoming more and more suspicious?"
[... Adjusting Host's intelligence parameters. Successfully lowered intelligence stat.]
The woman saw that her intelligence value actually fell one point and was stunned. "O-Oy, I was just joking! Haven't I followed everything you said until now?"
[Host. I'm emotionless; I can't detect sarcasm accurately. Asking host to lower the instances that you joke with this system.]
The woman asked, "Will you gain emotion in the future?"
[Host. That will depend on your effort; I'm just a helping tool. Also, the point I lowered was just visual and didn't affect the host. It was a joke.]
The woman wanted to punch the system in the face, "Didn't you just say that you weren't good with jokes!?"
The system didn't answer, so she sighed, looked around with her honey-colored almond-shaped eyes, and walked forward. "Don't you know what world I come from? There are a ton of novels with systems like you, and most of the time, the system uses the Main Character because of some deep plot that reveals later!"
[Host, to show my sincerity, I guided you toward a hidden tomb with heavenly treasures that changed your mortal body into one with a high-level bloodline and constitution. In that place, you found, with my help, a spatial ring with countless treasures. I don't know what more to do to gain your sincerity….]
The woman blushed a little, "W-Well, if you put it like that, you have truly helped a lot… But why me? I was just a normal woman that died from slipping downstairs! Well, or so I remember."
[Host, I will explain this one last time because we always have this conversation. Even my emotionless self is starting to understand the emotion called 'annoyance' after being one month with you.]
The woman blushed even more, "Y-You are too mean to me!"
The voice in her head, or her system to put it short, said, [Us systems, are born from the World's Will. We are planted inside people that come from other worlds, transmigrators, with the only objective to guide that person into becoming a God or something more. I don't have the data of why we must do this, but that is what we are created for.]
*BOOM!*
The woman suddenly heard an enormous explosion, like a bomb exploding nearby, coming from the east and was extremely startled, "Ahh!!! I'm going to die!!"
[…]
[Host, the explosion occurred more than 20km away. There is no way for the Host to be injured fatally.]
The woman looked tearfully in that direction and gathered some courage. "Do we go over there? I don't like this place... Can't we find more treasures like before and advance my strength without fighting or something?"
[Processing options… Checked. Analyzing survival chances… Checked. Peering into the fate of individuals about to meet… Error, unable to peer into the fate of some of the living beings present.]
The woman opened her eyes, surprised. This was the first time during this month that this happened. "You can't see their fate!? Aren't you a part of the world? You should be able to look into every person's fate, right?"
[Host, there are some people born with Fates that grant them strength to defy the Heaven and World itself. Those people sometimes even ascend to higher planes, becoming a being that could erase galaxies with a snap of their fingers.]
The woman gulped, "Are you telling me that the person over there is of that kind?"
[Host. I can't confirm, but there is a 72.8345% chance for that being the case.]
"So… Should we look over there? Maybe we can become friends with them? They would be the first person I see after this lonely month... I really want to meet someone face to face."
[Host. Your question is not computable by Data, asking the Host to make decisions based on emotion and self-analysis.]
The woman wanted to leave, but the curiosity of seeing someone like that was making her crazy. 'Maybe… A hero that would become my husband in the future? L-Like those cultivation novels? He might be the super powerful, mysterious, cold, pampering, and a drop-dead gorgeous male person.'
The hope of something like that happening tilted the scale toward the side of going to take a look over her own survival instincts. "O-Okay, let's go see what is happening. If I have to fight, you can guide me, right?"
[Asking the Host to remember that I can take over the Host's body thrice and make the Host fight to optimal capacity for a short time. If I take control more than that, the Host's current unstable soul could be damaged, so it is not recommended. I will be able to do so more in the future once your soul links with your recently created body more deeply.]
The woman nodded and ran toward the fighting zone with her recently learned movement skill. Her figure blurred and disappeared from the spot, running at extremely high speed. The woman could control their body thanks to all the bonuses received from the System and that hidden tomb she entered. Even if she were a complete novice, one wouldn't be able to tell because she could do the movements with ease, thanks to her thinking speed. "Woohoo! I'm so fast! Even if the world is somewhat fast I can easily traverse this complicated terrain~. Maybe I am a genius myself?"
Her rant stopped as she heard the battle sounds nearing. It felt as if something extremely heavy was smashing the ground repeatedly, and it was accompanied by the painful roars and screeches of beasts together with a powerful and deep resounding roar that was clearly angered.
*BANG!*
*SCREECH!*
*BANG!*
*GRAH!!!*
*ROAR!!*
Hearing this cacophony of pain and violence was somewhat disturbing for the recently transmigrated woman. The woman was truly beginning to doubt her decisions. "By the way, how can this world take a soul from my world but not the other way around? I haven't heard about transmigrators in my world."
[Finding ways to explain into Host's intellectual capabilities…]
The woman's eye twitched badly, 'I want to beat it up!'
[Completed]
[The Worlds are sentient beings. The older, more powerful, and more living beings a world has, the more energy they produce. The world from where the Host originally came was small and young, so it could not produce energy and strengthen its inhabitants. Moreover, it still hasn't developed consciousness.]
[Souls from such worlds are easy to catch and incorporate into the reincarnation cycle of bigger worlds, strengthening those bigger worlds.]
[This is one reason this world has many times the Host's world population. However, although incorporating souls doesn't consume too much energy, if they try reincarnating someone and maintaining the memories is a different thing. This action requires a lot of energy from the world, and granting a system increases that energy demand because the world is breaking the original soul's fate and reforging one where they would ascend to become something incomparable to what they were supposed to be. In your case, it would be from a normal mortal to a god.]
[Normally, the world wouldn't have chosen someone randomly, but a Cultivator snatched the previous Reincarnation attempt with a forbidden technique, trying to reincarnate that soul in a fetus it didn't belong to. However, the mother of that fetus was also a mighty cultivator and destroyed the reincarnated soul, feeding it to her fetus.]
[This was something that the world was very glad it happened because it returned a part of the energy it spent on it. Nonetheless, the returns were incomparable to what it used before. Therefore, with such low-level of energy, the world decided to choose from a backward world with no energy and pick someone at random to use even less energy and save up for the next reincarnation attempt. The host was chosen like this.]
The woman's brain overloaded for a while, but she was able to understand the gist of it. But something clicked that made her completely speechless. "So I'm just a random person? Not because I was gifted or something?"
[Impressive, actualizing intellect parameter of the Host. Completed. Answering Host, your assumptions are correct.]
The woman felt even her eyebrow twitching with annoyance. 'I really want to beat it up!'
The woman asked, "Any other reason the worlds choose souls from… Lesser worlds? Is that form of address correct?"
[Correct. Another reason is that teaching a creature without awareness of the different energies in the Universe is easier than adapting a cultivator that had used other types of energy. In other words, Host is like a normal person who doesn't know how to swing a sword. This kind of person is easier to teach our sword style compared to instructing someone that has been born learning a completely different sword style. Even if their sword style is not bad, you must understand that swords from different worlds can't be used if they aren't wielded with that world's sword style.]
The woman nodded, accepting the explanation. "I see… Oh, we are reaching…."
[I advise the host to proceed with caution. The energy signal of the cultivator ahead is extremely dangerous. I'm not confident in defeating her even in Auxiliar Mode.]
The woman was first surprised and then discouraged. "Her? So she is a woman?" 'I can see my dreams flying away without looking back...'
[You are right and wrong host, even if she is a woman she-]
*BOOM!*
The woman didn't manage to hear what the system said with that explosion, but she didn't give it importance. Moreover, after that explosion, the world became silent again, announcing the battle's end.
The woman poked her head from behind a tree and tried to look through the dust cloud that was surrounding everything. She could see the shadows of two enormous creatures, at least 20m long, and the silhouette of a person standing between them.
The woman heard a murmur of a mellow and charming voice coming from the cultivator in the middle. However, it was somewhat low, and she didn't understand anything from it other than the woman's voice was incredibly attractive; even a murmur made her ears tingle.
Then, she heard more clearly, "I will have to wait too much time to let them recover and use too many resources…".
The woman saw the person walking and sitting on a rock, but she was looking in her direction. So, she had to hide before she could even see her clearly. 'What should I do...'
The woman tried to move silently toward a place where the cultivator couldn't see her easily to take a good look at her. However, after hearing the cultivator fumbling with some objects for some time, she heard silence returning.
Then, the woman heard that extremely charming voice that made her body tingle loud and clear, almost making even her bones limp. "Sneaking around like that~, You seem like a stalker, hahaha. How about you come out, and we speak a little~."
The woman blushed, 'OH. MY. GOD. What kind of voice is this!? Am I crazy for finding her attractive just from the voice!?'
[Host. The beauty parameters of the female in front of The Host are several times higher than any woman in the host's original world. The host should be prepared for visual stimulation and avoid entering in heat or being charmed by her.]
The woman was doubtful, 'As if I would enter in heat from just her looks!'
However, the next sentence made that conviction waver slightly, "Little mouse~, If you don't come out, I'm going to go for you and do bad things~."
The woman felt her legs weaken slightly, her heartbeat accelerating. But she took a deep breath steeling her nerves, and walked outside.
Nonetheless, no matter how much she mentally prepared, she wasn't ready for what she was about to see.
What waited for her outside was something that made all her brain functions stop except the ones that let her eyes roam around the seductive woman with a long dragon tail attached behind her and golden slit eyes.