Out from the cracked space people could sense powerful auras as they looked up to see the entities that had just appeared, over fifty from one crack, many other cracks opening as more auras entered, two hundred in total, a number that made a sect-selection afternoon look like a joke told in the wrong temple. The crowd held panicked faces, some never expecting a casual competition would turn into a gathering of Sages and Divine Kings, entities mostly hidden from the mortal world as they indulged in their cultivations, and with all of them here their main target was not even a cultivator in the same realm but a Qi Condensation warrior, the lowest of all realms in the cultivation universe, only stronger than a mortal, which was a sentence the sky was about to argue with.
Among those who had already stood and fallen, Lou Min, mother of Lou Yan, matriarch of the Lou, had experienced the previous events twice, because before she and the others had surrounded Patrick she had used the Lou Heavenly Eyes to see the future, and the future had been rude. Before he displayed his prowess she had noticed how he made an unsuspected entrance with women accompanying him, extremely beautiful like goddesses, even she having to resign when it came to their beauty, including the boy who came with them, silver hair and golden pupils sitting in a child's realm like a lie. At first she found it unnecessary to use the Eyes because of the Qi Condensation she sensed from his group, but things changed when she witnessed his strength, which left her speechless like the crowd, and she focused on him, thinking to probe a little into his future moves.
After Dong Pao and the seven seconds the situation had escalated, sect representatives and powerful families surrounding him, thinking demon, because of the strength and the disrespect he gave the Emperor after Ju Han asked him to be imperial disciple and he asked if the Ju Empire was capable of teaching him, let alone making him theirs. Lou Min, while surrounding him, used the Heavenly Eyes and saw herself and the other cultivators fall due to something she could not understand, eyes glowing, completely shocked face as she looked at Patrick, wondering what he would use to cause even a Sage to hit the ground. As expected all the floating cultivators fell as she had foreseen, making her even more astonished, and she heard him talk about qi pressure, which should be impossible unless he was at a higher rank than them, and concluding with that theory she completely changed her views from a weak mundane Qi cultivator to an unknown man with a mysterious, powerful background, which was the Lou way of saying she would not bet her daughter against his shadow.
The arrived cultivators in the cracked sky had arrogant faces and demeanors, one could tell they were strong from the qi pressure they released with their attitudes alone, and one of the men leading a group asked the black-robed man who had escaped by substitute shadow, Elder Mo, Little Mo now that a master was listening.
"Little Mo, all I see is a mere Sage realm expert who is the strongest here, I don't see any reason for you to bring us, you could easily handle an Early Sage cultivator."
Annoyed, hands behind his back, looking at the people below, many in the crowd trembling in trepidation from presence alone, because late Sage was not a weather the mortal domain saw on ordinary afternoons.
"Master Gu, these people are not the target, the problem is the little kid floating, facing the old man in the air."
Elder Mo replied with respect, fearing this man, having used his escape shadow to call reinforcement, Master Gu being one of the Devil Sect's most powerful master cultivators, and to reach master level one must be Late Sage or higher before they are qualified, which meant this Master Gu was half Immortal in the Late Sage realm, a title that usually ended conversations. He resembled a man in his fifties but had a twenty-year-old physical body, black robe with lines around the collar, extreme dark energy and killing aura like a devil himself, cloud-like eyes, long black hair that reached his back, and he looked where Elder Mo directed, saw a strange scene, raised an eyebrow, because what he saw was a boy donned in a set of armor he had never seen before, sword floating, shield floating, the set more godly and magnificent than anything a Devil master kept in a ring.
Patrick watched the space bring forth the reinforcement he had allowed Elder Mo to fetch, smile on his face as Grace's combat mode dressed him in armor that looked like a Spartan set, exactly like a Spartan warrior but more golden and shiny with runes, cloak and sandals, shield floating behind, sword like a futuristic Spartan wooden blade with runes floating in front, Earth 101 history worn as a joke the Broken World could not read.
[Combat Mode: Armor of the Spartan God]
[Item: Armor of the Spartan God, an armor created based on the historical legacy of the Spartan era from Earth 101.]
[Helmet: Enables the wearer to have a 26-dimensional vision, increases the wearer's senses by one trillion folds, enabling the wearer to predict 200 hours in the future and have fast reaction speed.]
[Cloak: A living organism which protects the wearer from all attacks, engraved with the absorption rune which absorbs all attacks, multiplies, and saves it, which the wearer can use to counter anytime.]
[Bracelets: Grants the user absolute-level universal vector manipulation. When both bracelets clash together, it creates repulsion and increases the target's vibrational frequency, causing its body to explode.]
[Sandals: Increases wearer's speed by one trillion folds. Allows the wearer to walk in the air. Causes gravitational pull by a billion times when the wearer stamps his foot.]
[Item: Shield, has infinite durability. The user can manipulate the shield into any shape he wishes and create a force field that grants protection when supplied with energy. Equipped with power negation, canceling all attacks and their effects.]
[Wooden Sword: Made from wood, it has the design of a futuristic sword from the Earth 101 game concept (CyberPunk). Has the ability of imagination attacks, which grants the user to execute any attack using the sword.]
Grace displayed the details as Patrick only read the first two lines, asking as he saw a name he had never seen.
"Grace, what Earth is 101, and Spartan?"
"Master, Earth 101 is where the #$%& writing about you exists and has named your story God of All Systems, I used the historical legacy of that world to create this armor, the Spartan armor."
"Not bad, we shall visit #$%& when we finish our adventure."
"Wait, what's with the abilities of the items?"
"Master, this is the weakest item I could create that qualifies to be worn by you, since you wanted to go easy on this world you can use these armor sets without using your power and energy, and I used wood as the sword so as not to wipe out the reality of this world, although it can just be restored, I still want to minimize the burden on you."
"Sigh, I will manage these then since there are no weaker ones, let's get to business, shall we?"
He chose to forget the rest and focus on the arrived cultivators, already in combat mode when they arrived, seeing Master Gu looking at him, smiling, turning his attention to Jiang Shi of Heavenly Rain.
"The people from the Devil Sect have called for reinforcement, aren't you also making the call?"
Jiang Shi heard this while looking at him unbelievably, what he had just experienced having made him fear this boy, a Sage, and even after using all his strength unable to escape the pressure from a Qi cultivator, and worst of all unable to do a thing about it. When someone reaches Sage they should only call for reinforcement when facing Late Sage or Half Immortal, and the situation now was more shameful than any other, especially when the enemy was not even Sage but at the lowest of cultivation realms, Qi Condensation, a joke that had already eaten Dong Pao and a stadium.
"Young Master, it seems there is a big misunderstanding, I was assessing the situation, I didn't mean to offend young master here, please forgive my blasphemous behavior."
He cupped his hands in respect, knowing the only way to escape was to please, knowing his capabilities and unable to lay even a scratch, though he had not used his full strength in the previous rain it was still an attack from a Sage, and no one below that realm should survive unless they were using Immortal-level treasure which only people from the Immortal Realm or Sacred Families possess, and more importantly this boy knew about Heavenly Rain's collaboration with the demons, a top secret of the Heavenly Rain Sect and the Sacred Families.
Patrick looked at him and spoke casually.
"I don't care about your business, all I want is to have fun."
The surrounding cultivators from the other sects had astonished faces, thinking Jiang Shi would call for reinforcement, which would be shameful for a Sage, but he apologized instead, which no one expected, Ju Han wearing a disappointed expression as he looked at a man who had been arrogant becoming a complete submitter. The Emperor turned to the guardian of the Ju Empire and sent a mental message, greed still doing math after a throne handle had already broken.
"Ancestor, this boy has many secrets and treasures, from the armor he's wearing, that must be at least Sage-level or higher, if we can obtain his possessions, we can be as strong as the sects or maybe even the Sacred Families."
The floating guardian received it and nodded in approval of the Emperor's thinking, then turned to the Devil Sect and spoke loudly, hospitality with a knife in it.
"Fellow cultivators from the Devil Sect, we welcome you to the Ju Empire, it would be great if you could help us eliminate this demon from our Broken World, and his possessions would be divided equally amongst us, what do you say?"
Master Gu, hearing this, smirked as he slowly descended to the guardian's level, not paying attention to the old man but to Patrick, already in combat mode, gold and runes and a wooden sword that did not belong in this sky.
"So you are the little troublemaker, why don't you hand over your space rin—, eh, you don't have a space ring?"
He had been about to ask for Patrick's space ring, which every cultivator in the cultivation universe has, to store belongings for easier carry, but he did not see any on Patrick's fingers, causing him to be surprised, and Patrick remained in the air, not reacting, still holding his smirk, while the man continued.
"Since you don't have a space ring, then you must possess a space bag, haha, now hand over your belongings, and I will leave your corpse intact."
Everyone heard it, most people already fainted from the sheer pressure these arrivals released unintentionally, those who remained wearing panicked faces as the situation involved a Late Sage, which in typical days would take hundreds of years before people from the mortal domain could see them. Patrick looked at the master, mood becoming brighter, because disappointment from a Devil house was still entertainment.
"You brought two hundred people to fight a Qi Condensation realm cultivator, and you are proud of asking for my belongings like this, what a disappointment for the Devil Sect."
The people who came with Master Gu changed from disgust to anger, one of the men in the groups disappearing from his location, appearing behind Patrick with a dark-energy sword slashing at him, the attack which was supposed to cut off a head nullified when it reached ten meters, dark energy vanishing instantly, because Patrick had already seen this attack two hundred hours ago, and his response to it, plus with his 26-dimensional vision he could see anything from all angles, the shield having already created a force field within ten meters and nullified the cut. The man who attacked did not even get the chance to react as he saw his body swelling.
POP
A popping sound, the man bursting into nothingness, erased from reality and timeline for eternity, a scene that caused all the cultivators to be truly afraid of Patrick and his weird methods, because even demons left corpses. Master Gu, who was about to continue speaking, saw it and burst with anger, releasing his full energy at Patrick, causing all the weaker cultivators to faint, and Lou Min and the elder from the Moonflower Sect used their techniques to clear the stadium of competition participants and onlookers, because things were about to get serious when a Late Sage released his full power, Kang Mu carried like luggage, Lou Yan's Eyes catching a blank, Ju Han's greed still counting armor he did not own.
Anna and Athena saw this and did not bother to move, Anastasia's cup still full, Anna speaking to Athena while drinking wine from an energy-created shining glass, as if two hundred Sages were a toast.
"Big sister, doesn't that moron look more handsome when he gets serious?"
"He only takes unnecessary things like fighting more seriously than when he's with us, he is indeed a moron, heh heh."
They both laughed as they watched the fight, goddesses at a picnic, and Patrick had serious eyes while speaking to Master Gu in a calm tone, wooden sword floating, cloak alive, sandals already knowing the air.
"I will face you all, don't disappoint me too much."
"Now come."