"I did it!" Allura cheered in joy, her voice filled with excitement as she saw her Talent finally reach A tier after all her hard work and dedication.
After working nonstop for days without any rest or breaks, going through the vast sea of music that Earth had to offer, and studying it all carefully, it had forced her job class to evolve to the next level. She wasted no time at all and ran towards Seth's location with excitement, unable to wait another moment to show him that she had done it and succeeded in her goal.
But along the way to find him, she ran into someone unexpectedly while turning a corner, which sent her falling backward to the ground with force from the collision.
She flinched in pain while rubbing her butt where she had landed hard, before looking up at the man she had run into with a frown forming on her face. Sure, he was handsome and attractive with sharp features, but he had not been watching where he was going and had carelessly walked into her path without paying attention.
"What are you looking at?" She asked with a glare, her tone annoyed as she saw how the man had a lost look on his face while staring at her intensely without blinking.
"S-sorry. You're just so beautiful… I mean, I'm sorry I wasn't watching where you were going… I mean, I wasn't watching where I was going," he said with a blush spreading across his face, completely stumbling over his words in his nervousness.
This made Allura frown at him with confusion and mild annoyance before she quickly got to her feet, brushing herself off, and ran off without another word or waiting for a response, leaving the boy standing there alone. He sighed deeply at how badly he had messed up that interaction and first impression.
"Smooth," his elder sister said sarcastically after cringing visibly at what she had just witnessed unfold before her eyes. This only made Michael want to dig a hole deep in the ground and disappear from the world entirely out of sheer embarrassment, which made her smile lightly at his discomfort and awkwardness.
But her smile died quickly and vanished as she turned her gaze towards the direction where Allura had run off to in such a hurry… which should be exactly where Seth was currently located at.
In that massive castle that dominated the landscape, Seth was currently looking at Chu Yin with a disgusted look plastered on his face, much to Chu Yin's displeasure and growing annoyance as she continued showing him the sex toy displayed prominently on her phone screen for him to see.
"Nothing is touching my butt," Seth said firmly and definitively, his tone leaving absolutely no room for negotiation or compromise.
This made her pout with disappointment at his refusal. She tried to give him puppy eyes in an attempt to convince him to reconsider, for she genuinely wanted to bend Seth over and run a sex toy through his butt hole to see how he would react to the sensation. After all, shouldn't two lovers fully enjoy themselves in bed together and explore everything without limits?
She also heard from somewhere online that the male G spot was located in the butt, so shouldn't she try to hit it and give him that kind of pleasure?
"No," Seth said flatly, not even bothering to look at her while he spoke his refusal. Chu Yin was a bit too… what was the right word to describe her behavior… she liked to explore new things constantly and push boundaries.
This is exactly how they could have sex for days without stopping or getting bored. Chu Yin was just too creative and always coming up with new ideas and scenarios, and to Chu Yin's deep disappointment, Seth was uncomfortable with anything that had to do with his butt being involved in any way.
"The one-year mark is around the corner. Any thoughts? Do you think we are ready to deal with the trials? I hope we can quickly tier up through it, but I don't know…" Seth said, changing the subject away from the uncomfortable topic. Chu Yin shook her head in response to his question.
"Let's aim for the world record, not just for this universe but the whole multiverse. For this, we need you to reach tier 2 and make more people your heart." Chu Yin said lazily, leaning back in her seat comfortably. Seeing Seth's stunned look at her suggestion and what it implied, she sneered disdainfully.
"You're not marrying anyone, we just need more Ur tier abilities on our side. Thanks to someone who thought it was a good idea to step into grade 5 civilization, we have to find other mains to have Ur tier abilities here." Chu Yin said pointedly, looking down at her nails with a critical eye, which she realized she had to get done soon, since they were looking rough.
"But I do want to form the Nexus clan. Sadly, I can't have kids. So, we need other Ur tier talents to form this clan for us. A clan overflowing with Ur tier talents." She said with a smile spreading across her face, looking up from examining her nails to make direct eye contact with him.
"Seth!" Allura suddenly burst through the door with excitement and energy, interrupting their conversation abruptly. This made Chu Yin sigh softly at the interruption and timing.
She didn't hate or dislike Allura as a person or hold any animosity toward her, but she was a good tool for Seth to experiment on since Chu Yin wasn't ready to tell Seth about her background and past life yet.
"You're now an A-tier talent," Seth said with a smile spreading across his face as he looked at Allura. What he was just seeing now was undeniable proof that talents could evolve and weren't permanently fixed at their initial level like most people believed.
He got up from his seat quickly with renewed energy and had Allura follow him immediately so they could run a comprehensive test on this phenomenon and understand exactly how it worked, leaving Chu Yin behind in the room alone. She was soon alerted to the arrival of two people approaching the castle entrance…
***
Within the massive throne room that dominated the castle's interior, Chu Yin sat on the throne with a regal posture befitting her status, watching with cold eyes as Michael and his elder sister stepped into the room cautiously and nervously.
They had been hoping to see Seth and speak with him, but instead saw her sitting on the throne, looking down at them from her elevated position. Michael went on high alert immediately, his entire body tensing as he didn't dare for even a second to let his guard down or let anything dangerous happen to his sister while they were here.
"What do you want with Seth?" Chu Yin asked calmly, her voice echoing in the large room and carrying authority. She was sizing up Michael carefully, her enhanced eyes examining him from head to toe and analyzing everything about him.
She was genuinely stunned to find that a talent above Ur tier actually existed here in this universe… that should be completely impossible according to everything she knew about how the universe functioned, since normally a universe couldn't birth anything above a Ur tier talent naturally through the wishes.
The fact that Michael had a talent above Ur tier meant that, although two wishes had somehow come together to birth his talent, there was a very good chance something else was at play here beyond normal circumstances and the usual rules.
As for what that mysterious factor could possibly be, it had to be related to the multiverse itself and forces beyond their universe. There was an ever-growing number of universes out there spanning infinite space and dimensions, which together formed the multiverse as a whole entity.
Some universes were incredibly vast, so incredibly vast that it was hard to put into words just how massive they actually were in scale, all while this particular universe was the lowest of the lowest in the hierarchy, a trash universe that wasn't even infinite in size compared to the truly powerful ones.
"Seth is my elder brother. I came hoping to reunite with him and apologize," Michael said respectfully, his voice steady despite his obvious nervousness at being in her presence.
"What makes you think he wants to meet you, and most importantly, that disgusting thing with you?" Chu Yin asked lazily, her tone dripping with disdain as she turned her cold gaze to look directly at Michael's elder sister standing beside him protectively.
This made Michael grit his teeth hard in anger since no one talked to his sister like that and got away with it… But he forcefully calmed himself down with great effort, knowing an outburst would help nothing and only make things worse.
"They used to be close," Michael said in a heavy voice, trying his absolute best not to show his anger and frustration at her insults.
"The keyword here is used. Why did they stop talking? She slept with Seth's brother, shattered any ability he had to trust a human. Well, more like his supercomputer-like mind only solidified his dislike towards humans," She said lazily while doing her nails without even looking at them, as if they weren't worth her full attention. This caused the two siblings to be unable to say anything in response or defend themselves, hearing all of this laid out so bluntly and without mercy.
"Why should he welcome the two of you, humans, into his life? It's funny, because all I see are two people who would hurt him the same way if given the chance." She said lazily, her tone completely dismissive of their presence.
"That's not true, I would never!" Michael cried out desperately, his voice breaking with emotion. This made Chu Yin laugh lightly at his naivety and protests.