Chapter 527 An Unexpected Invitation
Chapter 527 An Unexpected Invitation
[You received an invitation from Tiamat.
The Primordial Goddess of Dragon and Chaos invites you to her domain.
You can accept or refuse this invitation without consequences. You can accept it or refuse at any time of choice]
Liam was really taken aback by the reward and its description. He hadn’t expected to receive something like that.
He read the invitation a second time.
The language was simple. An invitation from a primordial goddess, delivered through a system reward notification.
This was something completely new. He would be lying if he said he had expected it and he would also be lying if he said that he wasn’t shocked.
Liam focused on the description again, turning the description over carefully.
The Primordial Goddess of Dragon and Chaos.
He knew the name. Anyone who had spent time in mythological and supernatural literature knew the name.
Tiamat wasn’t a minor deity or a regional figure whose influence had faded into mythology. She was foundational — one of the oldest names in the cosmological record known by people across multiple traditions.
He remembered what Rikilda and Bethan has said about their Mother instructing them not to harm him. He finally understood who the Mother they were referring was.
Also, with the fact that the entities in the Grand Universe are after him, it means that meant Tiamat knew about his Abysall Dragon constitution. She had known before she sent the invitation. The invitation wasn’t a random selection.
She had chosen him specifically because of the constitution. And it kind of made him worried.
While Rikilda and Bethan has said that their Mother instructed all dragos of every race not to harm him, it doesn’t mean that she won’t do it herself.
He sat with that thought for a moment, and then he spoke.
“System. If I accept the invitation, will I be transported to her domain immediately?” He asked, wanting to make sure that he won’t be caught off guard.
[No, Host. The invitation can be accepted or refused at any time of your choosing. Accepting the invitation does not initiate immediate transport. You will be transported only when you choose to act on it.]
“And what about my safety in her domain?”
[Tiamat will not harm you. You will be safe and you will be protected, and immediately transported out if a threat to your life is sensed.]
He nodded slowly, filing both answers. Hearing that the system said that he will protected made him feel relaxed.
He wondered if she was looking at him right now and what that looked like from her side.
He asked the question he had been building toward. “Why did she invite me? What does she want?”
[The system has no information on Tiamat’s specific intent. You will need to visit her domain to determine this.]
He had expected that answer but it didn’t make it less frustrating.
He turned the situation over from multiple angles. The invitation could be goodwill, like a primordial acknowledging someone carrying her bloodline’s constitution, the way a senior cultivator might acknowledge a junior who had demonstrated something worth noticing. That was the most benign reading.
It could also be curiosity. Someone at Tiamat’s level didn’t often encounter a human carrying an Abyssal Dragon Constitution alongside a Primordial Human race designation and an Origin Devouring Body simultaneously.
His constitution combination wasn’t something that should have been possible by standard universal logic. It was only possible because the system had made it so, and a primordial goddess paying attention would have noticed the anomaly.
It could also be something else entirely — something he couldn’t model from here because he didn’t know enough about what Tiamat actually wanted from the universe, what her domain contained, or what she considered worth her direct attention.
What he knew was that the system had delivered the invitation as a reward and not as a warning. That framing mattered.
The system has always had no best interest in heart and he was sure that there was no way it will give him something that will harm him.
He trusted that assessment far enough to not be afraid of the invitation.
But he wasn’t going to accept t today. His breakthrough had just settled. He had pulled two stages in a single hour and he could feel the work his Origin Devouring Body was doing in the background, refining the energy, reinforcing the new capacity. Going anywhere while that process was running wasn’t something he was willing to do regardless of the destination.
Beyond that, visiting a primordial goddess for a reason he didn’t know, in a domain he had no information on, at a moment when he was still integrating a forced breakthrough — that was an unnecessary variable. When he went, he would go rested, stable, and with his full attention available for whatever the visit produced.
With that thought, his decision was made.
He looked around the Dimensional Space.
The aftermath of the second breakthrough was visible in the landscape around him. The ring of disturbed earth extended perhaps forty meters from where he stood, the red soil thrown outward in a clean radial pattern, still settling at the edges..
Yanxia’s golden form floated above him, unchanged. Her breathing was steady and her wings half-extended. The Three-legged Crow form was enormous even at rest, and looking up at it now, Liam could feel the difference in his own perception — the clarity was sharper than it had been before his breakthrough, the range of what he could sense extending further, picking up details at distances that would have been at the edge of his reach an hour ago.
He looked at his hands.
He had thrown a casual punch earlier and produced a visible shockwave. He hadn’t used telekinesis. He hadn’t applied technique. The shockwave had been the natural expression of his body at its new baseline, the air compressing in front of a fist moving faster than the air could accommodate without reacting.
He thought about Matt’s five-minute challenge in Antarctica. The gap between them then and the gap between them now were different numbers.
He made a mental note to bring his friends back to the Dimensional Space. Not for a sparring session with the same parameters as Antarctica but an environment where they could operate at the limits of what their exosuits allowed, where there was room to move at the speeds the suits were capable of, where the terrain itself could be part of what they were learning.
They deserved to see what they were actually capable of in the right environment. Antarctica had been a starting point.
Master Han and Luo. He had come here to break through and he had broken through twice. But he had also come to see them, and they were worth the visit regardless of everything else that had happened in the last hour.
He rose into the air and flew toward the Pagoda, leaving the disturbed earth and the golden light and the waiting invitation behind him.
***
Back on Earth, with JP Morgan’s partnership setting a precedent, other companies had started trying to contact Nova Technologies to express their intent for a partnership and also listing out things they can offer.
This was especially so for movie streaming platforms who would be greatly affected when Lucid Studio is launched.
The attempts came through every available channel simultaneously.
They came through JP Morgan.
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