Today was the day Ken had been waiting for from the second he had put foot on this world.

The first piece of information he had ever received from Providence spoke about it.

The day he starts his journey alongside the sect to the secret realm.

The secret realm that, throughout this duration of time, made the sect more and more cautious, to the point where they had to change their plans multiple times, and now they even went as far as sending inner sect elders.

Ken was already prepared the day before, after coming back from his elder master's secret realm.

He rested that day, ate well, cleaned his house, and stored everything he might need in his ring before taking a long, good bath till the morning.

Then at dawn, he was ready to set forth.

He walked calmly all the way to the gate of the sect while revising a section of the first phase of his plan, as anything else couldn't possibly be revised in so few hours.

His plan was constituted of 3 phases, and each phase had many backups and backups of backups.

Those 3 phases consisted of three stages of his time inside of the secret realm and had different solutions for different problems.

One for if he met the abomination, and by itself as a plan, it was more fearsome than the word of the enemy.

The countless details and the information that nobody should know, which was stated in there, would probably reduce the casualties by more than 75% had the sect read it, but that in itself would be a huge problem inside of that world.

Their sect wasn't the only one entering; in fact, it was just one or two sects, not the human race alone.

It was the humans and all of their sects, grand hidden realm clans and families, and strong lone powerhouses who didn't belong to any sect or were retired.

The demons and most of their clans—all clans that weren't the working or slave class and could fight or had some standing—had some seats to bring their members.

The elves and dwarves with all of their variations and different locations on the map.

The spirits who would be setting with the Spirit Mountain sect.

All of that, and then, humanity's biggest enemy, the beastmen, who once took them as slaves and were now majority humanity's slaves.

Calling them slaves would make it seem very ugly and violent from an earthling's point of view.

They weren't sold and bought in markets, nor were they even taken as freemen and sold as slaves.

Such barbarism wasn't allowed in 'The Book' the only possible case to take them in... was by having them as 'war captives'.

And due to the difference in races, and with some of the beastwomen being stronger than even the men, both were taken as war captives, but you'll rarely see any old slaves, while the children were only born after their parents' captivity.

So the same way humans had lost in wars against the beastmen and were taken as the majority captives, the same happened once again, and humanity won a big war only to have a large population of the beastmen become slaves.

And there were more rules in place still; if one feared consequences that could even result in a shortening of lifespan, they'd refrain from selling and buying slaves and even worse, enslaving a free man, be it a demon, a beastman, or even another human.

Though, if the latter wished for it...

That was a different case.

All in all, these were the current empires of races who had arrived, and not a single one of them was weak by any means.

Sure, humans were at their peak currently, but demons weren't backing down either, still holding on strong since times immemorial.

Thus, the secret realm had more enemies than just the abominations, and the demons alone were surely going to cause deaths around.

Keeping the information he had to himself would, in a way, even protect his sect members, as there was some kind of rule inside of the secret realm that targeted anyone who knew too much... more than the others.

Thus, Ken was ready to face a lot of trouble the second he got in, but it's not like he was going to rely on his elders; they couldn't help him. If anything, inside there, they needed him more than he needed them.

But this was a lone journey.

This time, he wouldn't be followed by anyone; this time, he would be taking his real position, backstage.

He would control everything from afar to achieve his goal, and that was how he did things best.

In a place where one's thoughts controlled far more things than usual and even had an effect on the physical world, he was going to have a lot of fun.

The second and third phases were in case he met with other races and in case he found himself in dangerous locations or positions.

But demons and beastmen better hope they don't meet him; not even their grand generals, whom the inner sect elders struggled much with, could escape him inside.

The glorious truth, and the fact that everybody was equal inside of a secret realm, didn't only equate to the death chance.

It also had a say on how easy it was for the weak to kill the strong; it was an equal chance.

Equal in the way that strength and techniques, both, weren't the deciding factor; it was innate and had to do more with information.

Something that made Ken even more confident and even more serious about his collection of information.

In such places, where the death of the strongest and most important individuals took place more regularly than anywhere else, he had to have the advantage, always.

As for the third phase...

Let's just say that there isn't anyone who would have as many benefits from this trip as him.