"You're wrong." Ulpian smiled. "When he was engulfing my previous self, he had yet to completely take control over the universe I was in, and I don't come from Miracle World. I'm an outsider. Or at the very least, at the moment when I was still an outsider before entering Miracle World, the thought I had of wanting to win against him wasn't affected by him.
"And right now, this thought that I have still remains unchanged. This obsession represents the part of my will that wasn't affected.
"This isn't all. It isn't just me. The process in which Divine level experts head to other worlds to clear trials is clearly not under his influence either," Ulpian said. "Each attempt to clear the Nine-Tiered Heavens' trial is directed toward other worlds that aren't within his control. Those worlds are clearly not under his influence, and those are the moments when we're truly free.
