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After an hour of talking with the man, we left the building with a defeated look.

Merry spoke for the first time since we entered the building.

"This is...this is going to change a lot the geopolitics of this world."

What Daniel has done is something that I and Merry tried to avoid at all costs, which was to give dangerous information to everyone.

Sure, I told Bobby a lot of dangerous stuff that could help him conquer the world.

But I trusted Bobby not to do this, and I was proven right when he became a part of the Royal family.

He didn't try to conquer the other kingdoms, and he kept the information of what he knew at a minimum.

Even if, the others knew everything that Bobby knew, they wouldn't have the courage to do anything while I was alive since they were too afraid of me.

My first introduction was quite memorable, and they even knew that I can't be killed from the incident at the Sandstone Palace.

The Sandstone also has a lot of power with its obsidian farm and vast knowledge of enchantments.

But because of the recent political turmoil and Merry being there, there aren't a lot of people who want to get out of line any time soon.

That only left the Coral Kingdom, which was already the most influential and most powerful before we came along.

So, I didn't see a reason to give them more power than they had.

But that all changed when Daniel entered the picture.

It's not bad that he told the people in here some of the 'forbidden' knowledge.

What was bad, was the fact he told that to multiple companies.

He told one company how to make Iron golems, another one how to farm obsidian blocks, another one how to cure infected zombies, and the biggest company he told them how to open a portal to the Nether.

Let's just say, the reason they were so quiet in the past few months is because they were fighting with each other constantly.

If it was only that, it wouldn't be a problem, but the ones who suffered the most in those kinds of battles were always the common man.

The only saving grace for them was the System's trading tab, which remains unchanged no matter the economy of the country.

The fight would escalate more and more, and they would either destroy each other or someone would finally win but at the cost of losing too much, which could result in them attacking the other kingdoms for their natural resources.

And the worst part of this, is that they most likely knew this was going to happen but couldn't do anything about it.

If they stopped, they would be eaten, and nobody wanted to lose their business.

"Where do you think he is now?"

"Well, he was was last seen at the Sun company. So he's most likely still there. The question is if he's in this or the other dimension?"

Since he knew so much forbiddenknowledge, everyone wanted to know where he was.

So he had quite a dedicated team of people looking for him.

But since nobody has seen him in a few months, that could mean that he was in the Nether.

"I see, that could be possible. But how are we supposed to find out? It's not like we have a compass that could lead us to him."

Merry was right, Alexa didn't bother to store his soul coordinates in its database, so we couldn't use that method.

Speaking of Alexa, where was it?

I haven't seen it or heard from it...

"So what are we supposed to do then? Sneak into the Sun company?"

"That would be the logical conclusion, but it would be too dangerous and take too much time by ourselves. Violet, can you do me a favor and look around their base?"

I looked nowhere in particular, but I did raise my voice in case she was near me.

I got a tap on my shoulder, which I took as a yes.

Solving that problem.

"Ok, Violet told me she would deal with this problem. So we can get back to our hotel rooms and get some rest."

"That's it? Who did you speak with? I didn't hear anyone answer you. Do you also have ninjas flowing you everywhere?!"

Her eyes suddenly got sparkly while expecting a fantasy answer.

And the answer was fantastic, but I didn't want to reveal Violet like that.

"I don't have a group of ninjas following me everywhere. That's too ridiculous. Instead, I do have someone who follows me a lot, and it's invisible."

She was confused by my story.

"That sounds a lot like stalking."

You have no idea.

Even in death, I can't escape her, she can always find me somehow, even with my armor.

But I already got used to her being near me, so I wasn't bothered anymore.

"Let's just go and get some rest, I'm sure you're tired as well."

"Now that you've mentioned it, in a day, I traveled in all 3 kingdoms, found out that the end of the world was coming, and went on a manhunt after the last hero. Is this a normal day in your life?"

"Are you saying this counts as a crazy day?"

We haven't even fought anything.

I would consider this a relaxing day.

But Merry didn't seem to think the same as me since she raised her hands and wondered how she got into this mess in the first place.

We went back to our hotel rooms when suddenly Merry stood in place looking around the streets.

"Yeah, he's right here, can you not see him?"

Then, from a dark alley, came Alexa with tired eyes.

"Alexa! Where have you been?"

I completely forgot that Alexa was exploring the castle while I talked with Merry.

I assumed Violet would take the Allay, but it was my mistake to think that she would forgive the machine for all the trouble it brought me.

So poor Alexa was alone in the Stone Palace wondering where I had disappeared to.

"Sorry about that Alexa, it wasn't intentional. Did you find anything interesting at the castle at least?"

Yeah, Bobby is on an expedition to find me, so it would take some time until he gets the news that everything returned to normal.

We could've brought him here in an instant with the Perl, but Elizabeth decided to let him have this brake since he worked so hard for the past few months.

I don't know if he would consider this a break, but I wasn't going to say anything about it.

Plus, Elizabeth knew how to punish arrogant nobles the best, that's why they were so down when they got home.

"Ehh, nothing much, we just found out that Daniel has caused an economic war in the Coral Kingdom. By the way, what happened in the Nether and the Ender Dragon, since Trader didn't tell me too much."

Merry seemed to get bored and pinched into the conversation.

"Shhhhh! Don't tell her the details in here, I don't know If the System can hear us!"

She turned towards me with suspicious eyes.

"Trader, I don't appreciate when I'm not being told the whole story. If I don't get a reasonable explanation, I won't be helping you with this mission!"

Well, that was a reasonable reaction, but it wasn't that simple to solve.

"It's not that I don't want to tell but I can't tell you since the System can read your mind."

"What are you talking about."

I then proceeded to tell her how I wasn't summoned by the System but by another entity from the Void with an unknown purpose.

Then I told her, that our bodies were created by the System and the Void, and they could take over us any time they wished.

That didn't sit right with her, but she continued to listen without interrupting.

"So you're saying that we are just puppets for some higher beings, and we don't have a choice but to play their games. And you have something that could interrupt their game and wanted to keep it a secret from the System."

"Oh, not at all. The System already knows how I could get out of my patron's control and doesn't care as long as I don't destroy its world. I just have made a small mistake that would make the System reconsider its offer, and I don't want that to happen."

Merry raised an eyebrow taken aback.

"Can't you have normal problems like regular people?"

"I try ok, but I always end up in those situations one way or another."

She chuckled at my misfortune but told me she was willing to wait for the full story after we had our talk with the System.

Of course, she was also interested into getting her own body, which I was willing to teach her.

With that done, we each went to our room and got to sleep.

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I felt my shoulder being nudged, and I slowly opened my eyes to see a black face staring into my eyes.

"What the! Oh, it's you, Violet. Did you find out anything about Daniel?"

"He's not in the main base, the men in there were talking how he went missing in the Nether."

So it was going to be a long and annoying journey.

I wonder why he went there.

"Thanks for the help Violet, we couldn't do it without you. Is there anything I can give you as thanks?"

"No need, I had my fun exploring Alexa's body."

She said that with a clever smile, clearly knowing that Alexa didn't like it.

"Well, let's get Merry once she wakes up and explore the Nether. I hope it won't take too long."

A few hours later, the sun was up and Merry was awake.

I told her the news, and she had the same reaction as me.

But we handed our keys, left the capital and dug a room underground to build the portal.

"I need to restock on my obsidian, I'm starting to run out with how often I use them."

I made a lot of portals in my adventures, and used a lot of my Crystals.

It was going to be annoying to get them.

I lit the portal, and the space started to bend.

On the other side I saw that we were in a small cavern that was leading to the surface.

Knowing that another portal was close by, I decided to brake it, getting my obsidian back.

On the surface, we saw that the Sun company already built a base.

It looked similar to a sun, all made with glowstone blocks.

It didn't look the best to say the least, but the message was pretty clear.

I splashed Merry and Alexa with the invisibility potion and went to explore the building.

The gate was not guarded by anyone outside to my surprise.

But just to be safe, I broke a new door a few blocks away and was glad for my decision, since as expected, there were guards on the inside.

The building was a huge open dome, all illuminated by the glowstone with the portal in the middle.

We saw a lot of people walking with difrent kinds of armor and equipment.

The good thing about this, was that we could see everyone from our location.

The bad thing was, that nobody looked like Daniel.

I had a bad feeling about this.

"Do they look ready for battle?"

"Why would you say that?"

I looked at Merry who was as confused as me, but in the end we decided to teleport there.

Let's just say, we found Daniel.