[Back at the library]

Sora and Shiro were together about thinking to a solution from this situation, while Xiao Qiangwei was in his room doing his things.

Shiro: ...Nii... All, right..?

Sora: ...Ahh, my bad, Shiro, I was just in despair for a bit. I had thought the previous king was terrifyingly idiotic, but now I have to consider whether he was an alcoholic or something as well.. *Sigh*

Steph: T-That's so rude!! Earlier, didn't you say what my grandfather did wasn't wrong?!

Sora: *Sigh* Just how do I cover for a guy who threw away half the country in futile challenges? If we had that land, just how much farming and industry could we achieve?

If your grandfather had been able to keep betting like those moron nobles who eventually lost even their underwear, would we even have any territory left today?

Steph: T-That's..

Sora: Ah, right, he was your grandfather after all.. Probably believing in luck, that if he tried enough he'd definitely win someday.. He isn't Qiangwei, did he seriously not understand the implications? Blaming it on drink may be one of the kinder interpretations here..

Steph's shoulders were trembling, and said.

Steph: My grandfather.. Certainly.. Was bad at games.. Carrying the lives of millions of Imanity on his shoulders, he never did anything that would affect his thinking! Unlike you two, he was a man of common sense!

Sora: If negligently throwing away half the country is 'common sense', then I'd gladly be abnormal any day.

Steph: Whatever!!

Then she ran away to her room, unable to hear more, and tears on her eyes.

Shiro: ...Nii.. Too, far..

Sora: ...After showing me something like that, just how was I able to react..

While they felt a bit bad about their words, Xiao Qiangwei was trying something strange in his room.

His torso was naked, and at his side he had a cup of ink, he would put a finger inside and start fusing Qi, Immortal Senses, and ink before making drawings on his torso, he is making a strange seal on his body, it had a circle and a spiral inside going to the center of the circle.

Around the circle there were things like roots going around his body, the Golden Qi from Xiao Qiangwei stopped leaking outside, which just flowed inside his body without even releasing a small drop.

Jibril: His Highness, what are you doing?

Xiao Qiangwei: This is the Superior Qi Containment Seal, it is able to contain Qi of any living being under the Heaven-Defying Core Realm, with this, I will be unable to use Qi.

Jibril was curious and asked.

Jibril: Why? You would be weaker if you do that.

Xiao Qiangwei: No, because I will be even stronger in future.. The next stage is Immortal Body, which is achievable when enough Qi flowed in the body, this will make things faster, and I will be able to achieve a Perfect Immortal Body, which is better than what I have.

Jibril: Perfect.. Immortal Body?

Xiao Qiangwei: Yep, I have the Perfect Body, which is a special body that only a few have, that, coupled with a perfect cultivation method to get the Immortal Body, will evolve the Perfect Body I already have, which will make me 3 times stronger than what normally I should be.

It will be incredibly useful that 3, try to think about the Immortal Body and Immortal Qi, between the two of them the difference is that Immortal Qi practitioner is 15 times stronger than someone from Immortal Body stage.

But if I have an Perfect Immortal Body, the strength I will get with Immortal Qi will not be 18 times better than the Immortal Body stage, but 45 times stronger, and I will be to the level of someone who almost reached Immortal Core.

In future there will be some other special things, like the Perfect Core, which will be gainable at the late stages of the Heaven-Defying Core Realm, and many other things.

Jibril: His Highness, sorry for the rude question.. But how do you know so many things when you are only at the Immortal Existence?

Xiao Qiangwei smiled and answered.

Xiao Qiangwei: It will be a secret.

Jibril got depressed from the fact, and then recovered from asking another question.

Jibril: Then, can you tell me what stage is after the Godly Existence?

Xiao Qiangwei: Oh, there is the Godly Reincarnation, Heavenly Reincarnation, and then there is the next realm, Divine Rebirth, but! I will not tell you anything regarding the Godly Reincarnation and beyond, because that is something that can't be easily told to anyone.

Jibril: Awww...

Xiao Qiangwei: Alright, now I need to make important steps so I need absolute concentration, if Sora or Shiro needs something then help them, unless it's a strange request.

Jibril: *Sigh* Alright, His Highness..

Then she teleported away, leaving Xiao Qiangwei alone in the room, who put a finger in the center of the seal and tried to activate it, which needs much concentration to do it without making it explode.

Everything was a mess outside, Sora and Shiro were trying to think about a plan to save everyone's asses, Xiao Qiangwei was doing some important things for his cultivation, Steph was crying in her bed, and Jibril was near Sora and Shiro, obeying Xiao Qiangwei's order..

But, let's talk about someone else.. Someone outside from this mess, outside from this world..

[Earth]

There was a shadow standing over the roof of a house, the place didn't looked like Japan, but Italy, the shadow looked like an abomination, and was trying to hunt the people walking in the night, it seems that nothing noticed it, so they just walked.

?: Food..

Then the abomination roared, but no one seemed to hear it, the sky turned white, and the humans stopped moving, as if frozen on time.

The abomination smiled, and jumped to the human to devour him, but a blur passed it, and the abomination stopped in air, before it was reduced to dust.

If Xiao Qiangwei would be there, he would have questioned his sanity, because the blur was revealed to be Xiao Mei, in a cyber armor and a katana that released blue electricity.

She had a serious expression, and looked at the dust like it was shit.

Xiao Mei: 'Those fuckers.. I swear I will kill every single one of you..'

Then she used the boost granted from the armor to jump away, and the sky turned again dark, the humans started to move once again, and everything seemed like nothing happened.

At the roof where the monster once was, Xiao Mei was looking around until her phone ringed again, and took it.

Xiao Mei: Who is it?

"It's the HQ-"

Xiao Mei: Did you find my son?!

Well, there are things that not even Xiao Qiangwei knew about.. But let's start from the beginning..

The monster was a "Devourer", it is a 4th Dimensional being, so he was obviously unnoticed from other 3rd Dimensional beings, how did Xiao Mei find it?

It is all thanks to a gift and her cyber armor, in this world, there are only a few people, around 1000 in 8 billion of humans, those are the "Specialists", those "Specialists" are people with eyes more developed than normal beings, and they can't be gained through birth, but luck.

Xiao Qiangwei was unable to sense that gift because the powers they release are too small to be noticed, normally, Xiao Mei should not be able to have the gift, but everything changed when Xiao Qiangwei entered her womb, giving her a bit of powers which evolved her eyes.

Those "Specialists", have only 2 gifts, and that is being able to see 4th Dimensional Beings like the Devourers with naked eyes, and they are immune to the Devourers' ability to create another dimension, they don't get stronger or anything else.

Then there is this group of people who collect those "Specialists" and train them, Xiao Mei is one of those people trained, and she is using a cyber armor made only for her to kill the Devourers.

It is basically like Sailor Moon but with more weapons, the Devourers are a 4th Dimensional race that likes to prey on humans, they go around many different Mortal Worlds to devour everyone, even if they don't dare to enter the Lower Worlds for fear of cultivators.

Even if cultivators are unable to sense them or even look at them until they reach the Immortal Sense stage, their powers alone could dwarf almost any Devourer.

Devourers are classified in strength based on their shapes, the abomination-like devourers are the weakest, the animal-shaped devourers are at the middle, and human-like devourers are at the apex, being able to destroy a city within 1 hour, they are as strong as Xiao Qiangwei right now.

The stronger they are, the smarter they get, and the more dangerous they are, this is why they are feared from the people who know them who aren't cultivators.

Xiao Mei started her career as a "Specialist" 1 year after Xiao Qiangwei was born, and every time she would say that she would leave to a job, after telling to her son that she was working in a office, she would exterminate the devourers.

Like Xiao Qiangwei hides his cultivation thing, Xiao Mei hides her job, like mother like son, eh?

She was really known inside the "Specialists" as the Lightning Katana, due to her weapon. 16 years passed since she started her job, and now she was pissed off, why?

Because she thought that a smart Devourer kidnapped her son, so she worked all the day and night, resting only Sunday, when she remembered about how Xiao Qiangwei was worried about her, she started to rest the night, working only when she was not tired.

Now, she was waiting for an answer from the HQ, which arrived.

"No, there is not any single trace of your son, we only have informations that he walked in the house of his friends before he disappeared with them due to an anomaly in space-time.

We just wanted to communicate you that you should rest now and that someone else will take your place, we will communicate with you when we will have either important warnings or any information about your son"

Xiao Mei gritted her teeth and almost crushed her phone, which was turned off.

Xiao Mei: I swear that I will snatch back my son from your devilish hands..

[At the Devourers' side]

A human shaped grey monster was walking back and forth, with his hands behind his back and in front of a giant monitor.

Devourer: That goddamn human.. How do we explain that we don't have her bloody son when she would not believe us?! If she knew that her son isn't with us she could calm down, and we would not lose so many.. Tsk.

Then an animal shaped monster talked.

Devourer(Animal): We could use this situation at our advantage.

Devourer(Human): There is a reason that I am smarter than you, you damn lowlife. We can't do it otherwise she would go berserk at us, does she look like she would not kill you immediately if you tell her that we would kill her non-existent son if she doesn't obey?

Devourer(Animal): Uhhhh.. No..

Devourer(Human): Exactly, now we can just wait for a miracle or a plan.

And so, things happened at the other side of the novel too, Xiao Qiangwei is trying to be a god, while Xiao Mei is trying to stop an alien invasion and find her son.