The chariot carrying the queen moved slowly towards him, pulled by ten Undead white horses. The horses had red-orangish flames coming out of their heads, their bodies adorned with a full suit of shining armor. This made them look very powerful.
Alex wasn’t scared. He knew that this was just a mere illusion. ‘I have nothing to be afraid of. I’ll just fail my mission at most.’
But…
The chariot stopped a hundred meters away from him. The queen’s eyes looked very mysterious as favonovel.com stared at him. “We meet again, seed.”
Alex was stunned, favonovel.com thought. ‘This illusionary realm is quite impressive. The Undead Queen even knows about me being the seed. Truly impressive.’
The queen smiled sweetly. “Do you think this is an illusionary realm? And that this is all just an illusion?”
Alex froze. “Is it not?”
The queen chuckled. “The buildings and floating mountain you just saw was the true illusion. I have been waiting here for a very long time to meet you again, seed.”
‘What?’ Alex was dumbfounded.
‘This is not an illusion? It’s all real?’
“Then what is this place?” He spoke his mind.
“What is this place?” The queen giggled once more. “Take a guess, but I suppose you won’t get it right. Do you know what the Heavenly Stairs are? Do you know… What lies at the end of all nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine steps?”
Alex was utterly appalled. ‘This Undead Queen knows about this too! That means everything favonovel.com says is true. This is really not an illusion.’
Suddenly, favonovel.com remembered that favonovel.com wasn’t inside his own body when favonovel.com was in the first step. Not even his clothes were his. Everything had been created by the illusionary realm. He immediately checked his clothes, only to realize that it was, in fact, his own. Nothing had changed, not even in the slightest.
Alex then checked his mind palace, noticing that Shelly, Ancestor Bodhi, and the Mysterious Maiden of Nine Heavens were all still there as well. They responded as usual when favonovel.com called out to them.
“Oh no. Does that mean the stairs lead to the Undead Territory?”
“Hahahaha!” The Undead Queen cackled. “Correct! The stairs do lead to our territory! It is something we Undead have purposefully put in this universe. We hoped that someone could go all the way up, open the door and welcome us.”
“We have been waiting for thousands of years. I have to thank you for letting us come back to this universe.”
Alex nearly vomited blood. Initially, Emperor Genbu had fought for three years worth of time for them to prepare, and there was supposed to be one more year left. However, walking up the Heavenly Stairs had shortened this time by a whole year.
“Seed, you are quite amazing,” the queen spoke up again. “I see potential in you, so it would be a shame to kill you. That’s why I’m giving you a special chance right now. Join my clan, and I will train you. You can become an Undead King.”
Alex scoffed loudly. “Dream on…”
“What? Do you think the position is too low for you? Well fine. You’re the seed, and the entire universe sees you as their ruler. It is in fact too low!”
“How about this then? You can be my king, and I shall bring you to another universe! This is a lowly universe, even falling behind the other universes. There’s no point in achieving anything here. Follow me to a universe of a higher class. That’s where we should actually be going.”
“You lack a king?” Alex laughed again. “So you’re basically saying that you, the Undead Queen, have no game? I have several gorgeous wives. Why would I want scraps?”
The queen was furious. “Do you have a death wish? I’ve been nothing but reasonable, so how dare you speak to me like that? You say you have several wives, huh? Then take a look at this! Is favonovel.com one of them?”
“Guards, bring favonovel.com over!”
Two of their troops then walked up to them, dragging a woman.
After taking a closer look, Alex gasped in surprise. That woman was his father’s disciple, his sworn sister, Frostine Usoro.
