Nalan chuckled.

Being able to reach rank 7 again, how long he had been waiting for this?

After reaching rank 7 in that world and then dying because of countless magic beasts… Nalan had to say that he felt extremely aggrieved. He didn't want to have the strength that he had cultivated for so long to be gone in an instant.

The bitterness of practice that he had endured for four years disappeared into nothingness.

Every single day was filled with nothing but training, but all of his result was gone after his death.

He felt annoyed.

But what could he do?

Being able to live again after dying is already very good and he gained the chance to build his strength from the very beginning. This time, he didn't have to take the long path but could directly take the shortcut to reach rank 7.

The method succeeded.

But there were still many annoying things along the way that Nalan had to face.

"Deal with these rank 7 magic beasts," Navi said as she stared to collect the magic cores that was dropped from these magic beasts. Even though she had destroyed countless magic beasts' corpses into nothingness, their magic cores remained.

It could be said that a magic beast's magic cores were extremely durable.

Destroying these things were not so easy.

But it was good for them.

Because this meant that they could deal with the magic beasts as they wished without the need to worry that the magic cores would be destroyed because of their violent attacks. After all, it was because of these magic cores that many of them hunted these magic beasts.

At least, the main bottom line when dealing with magic beasts were to hope that they could get the magic cores.

It was not that common to use magic to the point that the magic beasts' corpses didn't even remain.

What Navi did just now was basically overkill.

"I have the highest defense and not the highest attack," Nalan reminded. Even if he could block these rank 7 magic beasts, dealing with them would not be so easy.

"Anyway, block them until I can recover my mana," Navi replied as she took these rank 7 magic beasts' magic cores.

Nalan rolled his eyes, but he still put Navi into his protection circle and then the two of them moved to collect the various magic cores that these magic beasts' dropped.

Even though Nalan still found it difficult to deal with the rank 7 magic beasts, he could still deal with the weaker magic beasts easily.

Anyway, only the rank 7 magic beasts were left behind.

They were being pushed away by Nalan's shield and then beaten until they were bruised, but it was not so easy to kill them.

"Anyway, what takes you so long? I noticed the pattern had appeared a long time ago and the mana fluctuation had stabilized, but you only come out at the last moment." Navi is a genius magician even in that world, so she was extremely sensitive to mana fluctuation.

When she sensed that something was wrong, Navi felt that Nalan might have encountered some problems.

But she has no capabilities to help him.

These rank 7 magic beasts were of higher ranks than her and that destructive move was basically the highest rank of magic spells that Navi could use.

It directly dealt with the large number of magic beasts, but it also depleted most of Navi's mana.

Based on her condition, she estimated that Nalan had to protect her for a few hours before she could start using her mana again.

It was a bit troublesome.

"There's a message after I advanced to rank 7," Nalan replied honestly. "After there are more than half of the returnees reached rank 7, the passage to the other world will slowly be opened in advance."

"What did you say?"

A passage to the other world?

Navi looked at Nalan in shock and then she asked, "Then, can we go back to that world?"

Even though they have only been living in that world for four years, it would be a lie if Navi said that she had no one whom she cared for in that world. There were many friends, comrades, and even family members.

But the entire world was destroyed at that moment and nothing was left behind.

The magic beasts' tide completely destroyed the entire world, leaving nothing.

It was very tragic.

"No." Nalan shook his head and he saw Navi's eyes dimming. "Perhaps there'll be a chance to enter other worlds, but you should know very well that controlling time and space is only something that someone who specialized in the law of time and space could do. This is a special kind of magic that not many people learned in their entire life."

Because the two of them were cousins and also shared a lot of hardship together, they naturally shared a lot of information.

This allowed Nalan to have enough understanding about magic from Navi and Navi understanding many things about aura and warriors from Nalan.

Of course, they had no intention of changing their paths.

Just enough knowledge so that they would be able to deal with their opponent when they appeared in the future.

"Then, what kind of passage?" Navi asked, trying to calm down.

"I don't know."

"…HUH?"

Navi looked at her cousin and was really itching to have her mana recover right at this very moment. She wanted to beat up her cousin's head to see what was in his mind.

Didn't he say that the passage to the other world will be opened after there were more than half of the returnee advanced to rank 7?

She didn't believe that this earthquake wouldn't be enough to let more people advance to rank 7!

Otherwise, those returnees were all useless!

"Well, I don't understand many things because it mentioned something like the World Fusion and Mana Integration Formation and I have zero understanding of these things."