“Don’t doubt it,” she chuckled, “anyway you’ll find that fate will always make things work for you. At the same time, you’ll find yourself jumping from one bottom to a height you never imagined existed.”

“This…” she was like describing my life from a book or something. And yet, she wasn’t lying or faking things.

If I had to sum up my life so far, then I’d dare to say that I kept jumping from a bottom to a height I never knew existed until I jumped to it.

For a second, and when giving this matter a second thought, it seemed like I was a puppet that was controlled by someone else.

I kept doing unbelievable things without even realising it! What was it again? That thing she named just now? Was it fate? Does fate really exist?

“Don’t linger too much about it or else you’d go crazy,” seemingly reading through my mind, she raised her hand to her opened mouth as she laughed for a short moment, “just follow your destiny and keep ascending higher.”

“I hate walking in the dark, and much worse to get played!”

“Don’t take it that way,” she shook her head, “when time comes, you’ll get to meet our foes. And truthfully, we aren’t even close to being called their enemies, not to mention rivals or even nemesis.”

“This…”

“You’ll get more info when you do what I said earlier,” she shook her head, seemingly not wanting to delve deeper into that topic.

“So… A universe ruler and such a beauty… What exactly are you trying to do here?” This was the next puzzle that I couldn’t solve, “shouldn’t you try and strengthen your forces? Go against other universes in your cosmos?”

“I’m doing that as we speak,” she returned fast to her cheerful and elegant nature, “but this universe here holds the most importance of anything else.”

“How so?” I paused for a moment before hurriedly adding, “and don’t give me that sh*t of waiting until taking over my universe. It’s like telling a kid to wait until he grows up to see and learn about how cruel life is!”

“Ok…” after hesitating for a moment she finally resigned to my unwavering will. It seemed she was planning to give me that **ty excuse again, “in essence, both us and our enemies will fight on hard terms if we meet outside. But here, we both will fight on fair ground.”

“This… Then isn’t it better for them to move the fight out of here?” if they were disadvantageous here, then it made no sense at all to fight here.

“This won’t do,” unlike what I expected, she slowly shook her head, “to reach their goal, to take over the entire set of cosmos, they had to come and triumph over this universe.”

“Ah, so they have to fight us here,” I said in realisation, “then why don’t you just bring your forces over and crush them down?”

“Idiot! Can’t you tell? We are bound and limited by the number of forces we can bring forth!” she seemed to want to smack my head or something before stopping when I gave her a warning glance.

“Mind yourself better, you aren’t my bigger sister to do it,” I added in a warning tone. Yet my mind worked fast to analyse what I just learnt.

So she came all the way here, went on such a spree to claim lands and add these to her so she could increase the quota of her forces?

Looking back at how things were done here, I couldn’t help but ask in curiosity:

“The fair ground and terms you mentioned before… Are they this limited quota of forces?”

“That’s right,” she nodded, confirming what I guessed on my own, “that’s why no matter how one is mighty and powerful in other universes and cosmos, here they are all bound by this rule.”

“And so we are going to compete in limited numbers and depending on our strongest forces the fight will be determined, right?” I tried to expose more of what I deducted, and she kept nodding.

“But don’t take them lightly, they were active here for many years.”

“How many exactly?” the corner of my mouth twitched when I learnt about that.

“This world… This universe runs against all logic… Time here flaws much differently than ours,” she slowly said before adding after a momentary ponder, “to explain it simpler to you, the oldest I heard about came just ten years ago. I came almost one year ago. Despite that, the one who is older came from the time where our cosmos were just born!”

“This…”

“Don’t try to think about it. It’s not a direct time relation, I believe it’s more like time separation.”

“What do you mean by that?”

“Time relation means two places will have time running at a different pace to each other. Yet some sort of relation will develop. For example, if this place is linked to yours through this, staying a day here means a thousand years must have passed in your world.”

“This…” I felt cold sweat running down my head once she said that.

“Don’t worry, I used to get the same fearful feeling when I read about this matter for the first time. Luckily it’s not this case. This universe runs by time separation rules…”

Her eyes got fixed on me before adding in such a serious tone, “that means no matter what, staying here won’t affect the time passing at your place by any means. In fact, I believe time will freeze there and when you’ll return, you’ll find it like you just left.”

“This…” I was shocked by such logic this time. “Doesn’t this mean staying here, no matter how long, won’t affect the time back at our homes? And…”

“That’s true,” she got what I wanted to say from the tip of my tongue, “so staying here and focusing on this place isn’t going to help at all. One has to go back and forth between the two worlds.”