Just as its name said.
GateMaster.
Master of Gates.
Lord of the Gate of Time and Space.
Of course, to truly reach the level of summoning a hero, the amount of magic power required would be absolutely vast — to the point of dragging in ley-line-tier energy.
At Natsuka’s present level, in the short term, it wasn’t even worth thinking about.
But this matter, of all things, happened to be tightly bound up with his real, core plan.
Almost on reflex, he reached into his pocket and felt for his phone.
That phone — already powered off — was proof of the existence of his original world.
And behind that tiny little screen, there still lay the ambition he had been hoarding for over a decade — the Myriad Worlds Chat Group.
Astraea, watching the Natsuka before her — eyes ablaze, his whole self practically about to catch fire — fell silent for a moment.
In the end, she still gave a gentle nod.
“Alright.”
“I’ll tell you how to lock onto a world anchor point.”
“Really?!”
Natsuka was so overjoyed he very nearly leapt straight to his feet.
Inside her heart, Astraea actually had a private motive too.
If those children really could come back.
Regardless of in what form.
Then Ryuu…
that child who had been trapped by the past all this time — perhaps she wouldn’t end up walking that extreme path anymore.
She lifted a hand and gently rubbed her face, letting out a slightly resigned sigh.
“You really are a naughty child.
Even if I didn’t tell you now, you’d probably go and use every means at your disposal to figure it out yourself later on anyway.
Honestly, there’s no doing anything with you.”
At the same time, the goddess could clearly sense it.
Natsuka was currently in a skill-triggered state — and at a peak he’d never reached before.
The [Mystery] radiating from his body was continuously climbing; by preliminary judgment, it had already reached at least B-rank.
If it kept charging upward like this, there really might be a chance of breaking through S, drawing close to the very edge of divine power.
But that was exactly where the problem lay. You are reading on g.com, the official source.
This wasn’t a good thing.
For Natsuka, who had only just received his Falna not all that long ago, a too-high-tier [Mystery] was simply not something his current body could endure for the long term.
So Astraea quickly stepped in, pressing this overheated state back down in time.
After that.
Astraea began earnestly teaching Natsuka how to lock onto a spatial anchor point.
After all, when gods descended to the Lower World, they could pick the location of their own arrival.
That alone was enough to show that even with their divine power sealed, they still knew how to confirm world-coordinates — and even with enough precision to nail it down close to a specific region.
However.
At Natsuka’s current level, directly locking onto another complete world and leaving a stable anchor was simply unrealistic.
So he had to rely on a medium.
It could be an object.
It could also be karmic ties.
In any case, he first needed a “handhold” of some kind.
And as for Natsuka.
Himself, along with Astraea — who had descended from the Heavenly Realm — were already among the strongest spacetime anchor points there could be.
And so——
“Constellation of Stars, gather here!”
As the chant came to a close, tiny flecks of golden starlight suddenly leapt out from Natsuka’s fingertips.
Those flecks of starlight swirled through the air as if they were alive, and finally, right in front of the two of them, they forcibly punched open a spatial tunnel about the size of a pinhole.
Only, the tunnel had barely come into being before it swiftly crumbled apart into a sky-full of tiny scattering particles of light.
Natsuka immediately propped himself up on his knees, gasping for breath in great mouthfuls, his face several shades paler.
But he still lifted his head, and the very first thing he did was look toward Astraea for her reaction.
“That’s right.” Astraea’s expression was shaken.
“That was the breath of the Heavenly Realm.”
She really was genuinely astonished.
“In the history of the Lower World, the last time anyone, in any truly meaningful sense, opened the gate to the Heavenly Realm — it was with the Great Magic [Hexa-Ring of the Sprites].”
“And that one was a Great Forbidden Curse, only ever unleashed when six Sprites joined forces.”
Of course, the two were not even on the same order of magnitude.
The former could draw the divine power of the Heavenly Realm down, calling down heavenly punishment directly.
Whereas Natsuka right now had only just barely managed to poke open a tiny little hole.
But the fundamental principle behind it — that really was the same.
“With this tiny bit of magic power I have right now, even maintaining it is hard — never mind borrowing divine power.”
Natsuka let out a long, drawn-out breath.
But very quickly, he broke into a laugh again.
“Still, at least the direction is right.
Success is success.”
“Mm, congratulations, Natsu-chan.” Astraea, too, let a gentle smile show.
“Since that’s the case, no time like the present — let’s first go update your ability values.”
Since joining the Familia up to now, it had already been the sixth day.
Over these few days, Natsuka had been madly practicing magic almost every single day, often pushing himself until his mental energy was completely drained, and then dropping straight to sleep.
So when the update results came out, looking at the status panel, sure enough, he was somewhat at a loss for words.
Magic: I0→I53.
“…
That slow?”
Natsuka couldn’t help blurting out a complaint.
His other ability values had all also gone up by single-digit amounts.
But even Magic — supposedly the easiest stat to grow — had only gained 53 points.
And this was still the early period right after he’d received his Falna; by all rights, it should already be the easiest time to gain stats.
“Those people who, just from hopping into the Dungeon on one trip, see their stats wildly skyrocketing by hundreds of points at a time — every last one of them must be cheating, right?”
Thinking up to that point.
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