The Absolute: Humanity's Second Chance

After going in, the duo, crouched down for more fluid movement, and went deeper into the cave. After a moment, Damien went on his knees and began crawling deeper.

"..."

Juliette felt gobsmacked when she saw that, but did so nonetheless. They continued to crawl for a while longer. A while, that just so happened to be for almost half an hour.

But seeing as Damien had no change of expression whatsoever, Juliette grit her teeth and bared with it. She had to.

She knew that Damien was innately arrogant, and would never do such a thing under normal circumstances. Him doing it now was unexpected.

There was definitely a purpose to this.

She thought, and further went ahead to delude herself into believing that assumption. She had no choice. It was the only way she could bare with this all.

For Damien's sake.

'For Damien's sake!!' She thought, and the next half an hour, they went through the crawling in silence. Damien was stoic.

Juliette had also closed off any other emotions, and went through the bitter crawling in silence. Her expressions also showed no signs of internal struggling.

She was determined to do her best.

And just like that, time ticked by. And Juliette did not know when, but the next moment they began falling. It came out of nowhere, and caught her off guard.

"Kyaaa!!!"

Juliette screamed out due to shock, but Damien kept silent. He hurriedly grabbed onto her falling figure, and stuffed her into his embrace, holding her tightly.

Being forcefully stuffed into her man's embrace shut Juliette up instantly. Especially his scent, it calmed her down so much, she felt at peace... and at her safest.

Then the next moment.

Bang!!

They crashed heavily into a pile of broken down machinery, old rotting wood, and other unnecessary tools one could find at the garbage dump.

Damien opened his eyes, and was woken up by a few notifications that clouded his vision.

[ You have been termed as "The Anomaly(???)" By a terrifying entity at the level of Existence ]

[ Information Unavailable. Passive effects, nobody can discern your Fate or Destiny, Karma is extremely loose around you, and Fortune and Misfortune intertwine around your soul to your favor. Not even gods can see through you ]

"What?" Damien was shocked, and that was not all, more also appeared when he was about to get up from the pile of trash.

[ You have automatically learned the Unique Ability "Runic Encryption" ]

[ You have obtained the following Derivative Extra Abilities, "Rune Mastery" and "Runic Eye" ]

"..."

Damien had no idea what was going on, but he did know that from here, things would get a bit tricky and chaotic for them. Why? Well because–

"INTRUDERS!! INTRUDERS!!"

"OITSIDERS!! OUTSIDERS!!"

"KYA~KYAAAA!!"

"RUN!! RUUUUUN!!"

"OH NO!!!"

"..."

"..."

A group of wingless creatures floated here and there in excitement. Yes, excitement. None seemed wary or really frightened from this small occurrence.

"What..?" Juliette said, that word being the only word that could make it out of her mouth. Meanwhile, Damien warned her, "Careful. These are godlike creatures."

He whispered to Juliette and her expression immediately turned sour and cautious. "You shouldn't feel threatened though. They are harmless... physically though."

"Wait, what?" Damien ignored her and stood up. He ignored everything else and instead walked towards the groups of thumb sized little guys that were sorounded by glitter.

"Where are we?" He frowned and asked the lead figure, who had the brightest golden essence circulating its body.

"Ah? Oh? Welcome!! Welcome, two legged creatures." The young pixie greeted Damien in excitement, circling around him with terrifying speed.

"I am welcomed? That's not important, little thing, where am I?" Damien frowned and acted clueless as he continued to question the pixie. He also feigned anger.

"Ah... that. You're within our world, our realm, and our little paradise." The little pixie said, releasing small explosions and party tricks everywhere from its tiny hands.

"The hell?" Damien feigned even more curiosity and intrigue, as the little pixie also further explained more about where they were at.

This place was called Pixie Paradise.

A strange realm that was not bound by the Realm Rules that bound each and every Realm out there. Their Realm could exist within lower worlds where concept of Realms don't exist.

Or in great worlds, where even outer Realms are nothing but a portion of its great figure. They were truly, and utterly not bound by the realm of the world as well.

The pixies here also grew stronger according to the world they are within. Their royalty surpass said world, their nobles are at the peak of said world, and their civilians are around the high levels of the world.

Basically, they are no pushovers.

But what made them loved by everyone was because of their treasures, resources and most importantly, their information that stretched everywhere.

Where existence can exist, or even where existence cannot exist. Just mention the place, and with a treasure as payment, they can take you there in a jiffy.

Damien wanted to use two of these functions, and if lucky, he could leave Juliette here to train for the meantime. As for what he would be doing, it was a secret~

One thing that was sad though, was that to enter this paradise, one had to genuinely impress the pixies. And to do that, one has to have suffered for quite the time.

In their case, they crawled like dogs for over an hour until they finally got accepted. And even then, the greeting itself was being thrown into a pile of garbage.

No sane person could bare that level of disrespect. Not even Damien. But because of strength, treasures and resources, he had to humble himself.

"..."

Juliette thought, when she heard of the complete definition of the place they were in, from both the pixies, and from Damien.

And her thoughts were on point.

"I am an adventurer trying to get strong as fast as possible. Is it possible to do that here?" Damien continued to fake his character, and inquired with curiosity.

"Why get strong though?" The little pixie asked back, and Damien feigned anger. "It was that bastard. That man, he, he... I'll get my revenge. No matter what!!"

"..."

Juliette stared at Damien in stupor, as she felt like the man before her was not her man. The whole day, he has been acting strange, and she could not follow up.

Was he not embarrassed?

Meanwhile, Damien grit his teeth and his chest heaved up and down in apparent anger. The little pixie seemed frightened and pulled back, "Such malicious intent... such anger... so cooooool!!"

The little pixie exclaimed in excitement, followed by a chorus of little pixie that also seemed impressed by Damien's anger, and words.

"Soooo cooooool..."

"A story? A story?! A STORY!!!"

"I want to hear!! I want to hear!!"

"Hihihi..."

The little guys danced around Damien and said all kinds of childish words, while showing childish attitudes towards him.

"..."

Juliette was all the while, still surprised. She ultimately moved closer to Damien and whispered to him, "Whats going on here? I am confused." Damien whispered back, "Play along, and just treat them like kids."

"Aren't... they gods?" She asked, and he replied, "They are. And can be even more. But in essence, the fact that we are here, means that they have a good impression of us."

"So just play along the troupe of being my unfortunate woman." Damien concluded, and Juliette looked at him strangely. Unfortunate? How unfortunate.

"Ney ney, can you tell us about your story? Can you? Can you?!" The little pixie asked, and more and more pixies flew by and circled around them.

They were hundreds of thousands of little sprites of colorful light around them, lighting up the whole garbage dump site.

"Sure. But If I do, will you help me out?" Damien said, looking expectant at the little pixies. "Sure. I, as the 337th pixie prince, will abide by my word."

"Alright. Sign here please." Damien took out a contract he wrote down on a piece of board, using white chalk. He presented it to the little pixie prince with a smile.

"..."

The little pixie prince immediately knew what the runic encryptions meant with a single glance, and speechlessly stared at Damien. "You don't wanna hear my story?" Damien further asked.

"Well... I mean, there is no need–"

"Okay. Suit yourself. So, how do I get out of here?" Damien put away great wooden board and asked. The little pixie was once again speechless.

At the end, being a curious race, or the number one curious race within Existence, they ultimately resigned to their fate and signed the contract of oath equality that Damien presented.

He had to do this. These little guys had practically no shame at all. They were shameless to the core.

Damien then fabricated the most heart breaking, one sided, despair inducing, tragedy of a lifetime. And it was not like his ideas had no value.

Someone had suffered such a fate from the future. A few people. He had added all the top ten most heart breaking stories he ever heard of, and told them to these guys.

Why? For favor.