Yin Zhi looked at the black kitten that spoke human language.
"… You can talk?" Yin Zhi asked in disbelief
The black kitten tilted its head and nodded, "Yes, I am."
Hearing its voice again, Yin Zhi finally confirmed it. The kitten in front of her have youthful tone like a young girl, but at the same time, her tone also carries elegance.
"So you're the one who woke me up and called me here?"
"Yes, My name is Yin Qiji."
"Your the creature that was sleeping here before?" - Yin Zhi asked, and seeing Yin Qiji nod, Yin Zhi took a deep breath and asked again, "Why call me here?"
"To form a contract with you. I couldn't live in the underground palace and go outside unless I am bound with you."
"Why do I need to form a contract with you? What are you? No, who are you?" - Yin Zhi asked
"I am a creature born in the chaotic universe one hundred thousand years ago. While traveling to different galaxies and visisting their planets, I encountered a black hole and to escape, i used all my strengetg. When I woke up, I was already here on Terra Planet.
Even if i am a creature born in universe, Black holes still pose threast to me so i usually avoid it but i don't know why there is suddenly black hole near me thats why i was caught out of guard and got sucked.
Despite being alive, i was still heavily injured and my power was depleted and my core also cracked. I stayed in Huxia for thousand of years just to recapurate and that is when i met my first contractor, the founding empress Yin Qi Zhi of huxia country, which is your first ancestor.
Through her, I managed to heal my injuries and my core. When she died, i still didnt recover my power so i could not leave this planet, and so i decided to wait for my next contractor. I dont know when would ny next contractor arrive so i went to slumber to preserve my remaining strength and all i could do was wait for someone from the Yin Royal family to awaken me."
"So… All this time, the person youve be waiting for is me" - Yin Zhi asked
"Yes."
"Then how did you wake up?" - Yin Zhi asked in confusion
"Because of the time reversal spell."
"What do you mean?"
"Before I went to slumber, I know that no one could wake me up because of this world's spirutual energy is low. So I decided to modify the time reversal spell and make sure that when someone would activate the spell, aside from the wish of the user, the spell would also grant my condition and that is, I need 30% of the total energy of the spell that needed when it was activated."
Yin Zhi frowned and asked, "So you're saying, the spell requires energy to grant my wish to return to the past before the apocalypse and 30% of the total energy I needed must also be added and that energy will belong to you?"
"Yes, you're right."
(Authors Explanation: The example here: The energy needed for Yin Zhi to return to the past is around 1,000, and 30% of 1,000 energy is 300, which this 300 belongs to Yin Qiji. So the total energy that Yin Zhi needed to successfully return to the past is 1,300.)
"Then how? Even if I sacrifice my soul and body to activate the spell, there is no way I could really be sent back this far. At most back then, I thought I would only be sent back on the day before the apocalypse or so." - Yin Zhi asked in confusion
"You strongly wish to return to the past before the apocalypse, but your sacrifice alone was not enough as a price. When the spell was activated, it noticed that your strength was insufficient, so the spell used the entire northwest base as the sacrifice instead of you."
Hearing the last sentence, Yin Zhi's eyes widened as the reality struck her. "So that's why there is nothing wrong with my body even after successfully arriving here."
"Yes. Usually, the soul of the spell caster of this magic would be weakened and when they die again, their soul would not enter reincarnation cyvcle. Instead their soul would be shattered. But because I let my first contractor's blood drop to all the spells here before, the spells recognized my first contractor as its owner. So the spell noticed that you're the bloodline of the First Empress and that's why it decided to use others as the sacrifice." - Yin Qiji
"Before I was captured and locked up in the northwest base, I read the population of the entire Huxia. The northwest base is the 4th largest survivor base with 12,346,171 million people. Among them, 4,103,033 are ability users. 47 of them are Level 9 ability users. 189 Level 8, and 1,016 Level 7, ability users.
Over 500,000 level 6 and level 5 ability users and over half a million level 4. While the rest are level 1 to level 3. Tell me, With this much sacrifice, it only managed to send me back in this timeline?" - Yin Zhi couldn't help but ask in disbelief. That was over 4 million crystal cores with energy, and the entire northwest base are used as the sacrifice.
"It's because magic doesn't belong to this world. I took this spell from a planet of a higher galaxy. That planet has abundant energy while this planet only has 0.1% of that planet's energy. So of course, when activating the spell, more energy is needed.
If the spell used your soul and power as a sacrifice back then, it would only send you back a month to the past at most. Which didn't align with your wish, so the spell needed more energy to grant your wish and that's why it chose to use the entire northwest base."
Hearing this, Yin Zhi fell into silence.
"Why? Do you regret it?" - Yin Qiji asked
"No. But I just felt pity for those people. Most of them are innocent and don't have grudges against me. Yet they will have no chance to be reincarnated after dying in this life because of me."
Yin Qiji tilted its head to one side as she said, "No need to worry about that. That is only gonna happen to the caster of the spell on the higher planet. But since more than twelve million people's soul is sacrificed, they wouldn't incur any loss in this life. Their soul will not weakened and they are still the same as their self.
In this current timeline, it was still the same as in the past you've experienced. The only thing that changed is you. You're not the 18-year-old Crown Princess anymore. Your 18-year-old self and your future self are already fused and you are the only one who knows what will happen in the future."
"Then that's good."