"Almighty System, free me from those people and I'll give my soul to you!"
Silence.
"Wha-what do you mean I don't have the authority to make such a request? Who has it? How can I-"
"Alexa, stop talking with him, that's an order!"
"Sure, just don't touch him, and come back to me once you're finished."
Solomon had a devasted look in his eyes while Blue was trying to see the invisible mob.
"What just happened, who are you two talking to?"
"I guess you don't know what the Piligers are looking for, I'll explain it to you, but it's better if you sit down for this."
Then I proceeded to tell him about the Iligers, what they are, how they invaded a few nations, looking for a specific item, and then go on a boat to find the legendary Fake System.
While this is a secret not a lot of people know about, Blue and Undying showed that they were trustworthy, and I needed their help if I wanted to make more progress.
So I told him how I got the map, made an iron ship, sailed onto the sea, got to the water temple, fought with its guardians.
Which I won!
Met with the Fake System and made it follow me.
Solomon and Blue were looking at me with wide eyes.
"So that means you have complete control of a God?"
"Not really but kind of. This god is very limited in what it can do and needs a lot of energy to grant any wishes I make in the first place."
Like a signal, a message was sent into my mind.
I thought you could only do that in your special dome, what changed?
"Including the ones of the Skill tab?"
"What about the level cap?"
Maybe it can do that since it scanned a lot of items and has more energy.
"You're talking to it again, what did it tell you?"
Solomon asked in a rush which made me smirk.
"It told me it can remove your curse."
Both of them were surprised by this, and Solomon was ready to get on his knees again.
"Don't bother, Alexa only listens to me, and you already pissed me off with hiding information and trying to escape. You'll have to earn back my trust to lift your curse."
His head went down in disappointment, but I didn't plan on changing my mind any time soon.
"Wait, if your System can lift Solomon's curse, can't it also make us able to live in the Overworld?"
I haven't thought about that, but if possible that would be an amazing thing to do.
"What do you think Alexa, do you think you can do it?"
"Yeah, sure. Alexa is going to scan you for a few moments, so try not to move too much."
Blue stood still like a statue trying not to interrupt the scanning process.
But after a few moments, his expression changed like he was uncomfortable, and then he suddenly got angry and punched the air.
Somehow he managed to find Alexa and punch it away interrupting the scanning process.
"S-sorry, I just felt something very uncomfortable looking at me, and I was suddenly overwhelmed with anger towards this place. What did I just hit?"
So this dimension truly has something against Alexa.
Why?
"That's Alexa's avatar that I made invisible. For some reason, everyone in this dimension seems to hate it."
"That was the System?! I'm sorry I didn't know, please don't curse me!"
I didn't expect Blue to be so scared of the System, but I guess living with a victim of the System for two months made him realize how powerful it truly was.
"Don't worry it's not angry at you."
From what I understand, Alexa is not human enough to hold a grudge, it's just trying to imitate human emotions.
But it was still a problem that it couldn't scan people because they got defensive.
Then a black window appeared in front of me with a quest saying to find 4 more living beings to scan.
That's going to be hard, but I guess we could do something about it.
"Ok Blue, Alexa is going to scan you once again, but this time please hold your urges to punch it If possible."
"I-I don't know if I could do that, could you two hold me in place just in case?"
That would work for me.
So with the Mad Scientist help we held Blue in one place so he wouldn't hurt Aexa anymore.
Luckily, we were strong enough to hold him down, and that was a good decision since he was very uncomfortable the whole time.
"Alexa told me it needs 3 more scans, probably from other species as well. Do you think we could scan Hog Chop?"
"That could be feasible, but if he's going to react similarly to me, maybe it's better if I'll put him to sleep. I'll be back soon."
He took a few alchemy ingredients from a chest and left the basement, a few minutes later, he came back and we managed to scan Hog Chop who seemed to be only annoyed that his sleep was being disturbed.
We talked some more about who else should we scan next and came up with two candidates.
A strider and a brute that was held captive by the tribe.
The strider was easy enough to scan, they were docile creatures but just to be safe, we brought one out of the lava pool so it would feel more bothered by the cold than by the scanning process.
The Brute was harder to deal with since it didn't want to cooperate with us even if we paid him in gold nuggets.
So we had to be a little more forceful, by pinning him down with chains and holding him just in case.
The whole time he was scanned, he was screaming and cursing at us.
It wasn't a fun time, to say the least, but we had all the data necessary for Alexa to come to a conclusion.
"What does that mean exactly?"
Wait, so it wasn't that the Overworld was killing the inhabitants of this world, but the Nether was killing them when they went under the jurisdiction of a new System.
That was...unbelievable!
"Does that mean we have to be careful about the System in this dimension as well?"
That was a relief to hear, I'm already having problems with the System in the Overworld taking my stuff, and I don't want to have a problem in this dimension as well.
"Does that mean you can remove the link that kills the people of this world who pass through the portal?"
That was good to hear, I was already planning on making a road to its base so I could transport souldsand easier, maybe I could ask a few piglings to help me and I'll pay them with a cure.
"Sure, what do you need?"
"You can what?!"
"Trader, what are you talking with your System to react that bad? Is it not possible for us to live in the Overworld?"
"No, Alexa just told me it wants to take over the Nether!"
Their eyes went wide, and I tried to get more details out of Alexa about what it was talking about.
Apparently, since this dimension was so rich In energy resources, this move would be the most optimal way to grow fast.
But now that it found the seed of another natural System, it could take over and optimize it.
That means that Alexa wouldn't even need those soulblocks, since it could use the same source as the seed System.
It doesn't know the source yet, but if we build a base in this dimension it could find out eventually.
I asked what it meant if it managed to take over the Nether, and the response was as expected but still shocking.
This was amazing to hear, and scary to think.
But theoretically, I would have a God as my friend.
And if Alexa takes over the Nether, it would have more than enough power to calculate the location of my home dimension, and who knows, maybe a way to get there.
But there was a catch with this of course.
First, it would take around 5 years to finish the dome and an unknown amount of years to finish the research to ascend over the dimension.
Second, Alexa still doesn't want to attack any illgers coming towards it, even when I keep telling it that it's most likely going to end the world.
Third, it would take a lot of resources and manpower to start this project.
Not to mention how dangerous would be to do something like this
And lastly, I don't know if Alexa will be the same when it becomes a God.
Of course, I'm still going to help it with this, since the rewards are way to good to pass on.
I talked with the others about it, and they were on the same page as me with this decision.
"But where would we find someone trustful at redstone engineering?"
One of the expertise Alexa needed was someone that knew how redstone worked.
And while I did know a little about it. It was nowhere near enough to design something as complicated as a computer.
Now, I know someone that should be qualified for that position, but it would take a lot to convince her to cooperate with Alexa.
"Don't worry, I'll figure it out latter, let's talk more details about the rest of the project."
So for the next few hours we talked more details about the project, we decided to ask for help from the Stone Kindome, or at least Bobby and from the Witches Clan.
Well also start paying other Brutes to collect Soulsand for us.
We figured out, that we didn't need to collect all the necessary blocks since we could give Soulsand to Alexa to convert it to whatever we wanted.
And the rest of the blocks that it can't create, we will get it on our own.
This decision alone cut the construction time in half.
We talked and talked until it was time for me to leave, but not before getting a present.