Rioneed: VRMMORPG

After finishing these arrangements, he was ready to leave here.

"Let's go now."

"Hold my hand, as we can chat like this on the way."

Ibro held her hand putting his arm over hers. He felt her body tremble a little, then she regained her composure again. 

Ibro then was sucked by a force to appear again in the same long tunnel he came through. He was flying side by side with Maya, who opened the talk:

"Now, it's time to talk about my empire situation. What is your reply to my previous request?"

Ibro replied to her with a calm tone:

"We should discuss at first the more important things. Tell me, I know you are a system holder and you established an empire, right?"

"Yes, that right?" Maya decided to bid her time with him slowly as she didn't know yet his true personality. Ibro then continued:

"But why do I feel you don't have the Ro energy or even the Pseudo-Ro energy?"

Maya turned to look at him with curiosity as she replied:

"I really don't know what you mean by these two words."

Ibro thought to himself:

'Strange… System, didn't you tell me before I can't establish an empire without the Ro or PSR energies?'

'Yes, but I believe she had a reasonable explanation for this.'

Ibro didn't think much as he asked again:

"How did you establish your empire then?"

"It's simple, I found a relic site where I was teleported from my world to another. There, I managed to pass a test and established my village. I enlarged my village until it became a great empire in a few years. 

After that, I managed to link between my two worlds and even traveled to multiple worlds and stretched the borders of my empire there. That's how I established my empire."

Ibro was surprised more as he asked to confirm his guess:

"All the worlds you visited before were cultivation based worlds?"

"Sure, isn't cultivation the only way we can train and become stronger?"

Ibro didn't reply at once. He was very surprised by her experience and past life. Ibro asked the system expressing his doubts:

'Isn't this strange? She visited at least 4 worlds, and all of them were cultivation based?'

'I find it suspicious too. There is something wrong she has experienced, but I can't tell what it was.'

Ibro knew he had limited data, so he asked trying to get more info:

"I have something I can't understand here. Can you tell me some info about the relic you entered?"

Maya wasn't stupid. She could tell from Ibro's tone and words there was something wrong about her. She wanted to ask him, but she restrained herself. She still was ignorant of his nature. 

Although he was now the kind Ibro, she couldn't guarantee he would continue to be this nice.

"I entered the relic which was a small well-hidden cave in my world. There, I met a mysterious entity that told me about the relic and I had a great encounter to go on a long expedition. 

I then entered the relic test where I was tested based upon my cultivation base. My base was weak, so I got boosted by the system I had now. 

This system helped me to breakthrough easily until I became far stronger than the current levels of my world. I then returned to my world and stretched my empire borders as I told you."

Ibro wasn't content with this answer, which had a small amount of information. He then asked:

"Have you met this entity at the relic?"

"Nope, he just spoke with me via words."

That was similar to what Ibro had experienced before. He entered the Hilonar relic and entered that time-loop world. Ibro then asked:

"When you entered the new world via the relic site, how did you establish your village?"

Maya replied spontaneously:

"The system helped me to do so. It gave me a seed that I planted in the ground. Then, many buildings appeared from nowhere. 

The system guided me step by step until I completed all the tasks required to upgrade it to an empire."

Ibro asked further about details of this point, as he said:

"When you took the seed, you used your blood to make it grow, right?"

"Blood? No, I only planted it directly in the ground."

Ibro sighed. His worst doubt had been confirmed. He said to the system in a decisive tone:

'Prepare for a battle at any time.'

'What do you suspect?'

'I believe the issue here lies in that system. Something fishy is going on here. be ready, I believe after my next question, this system would reveal its true nature.'

The system took sometime before it said:

'I scanned the system; I didn't find anything suspicious about it. it's really a cultivation based system.'

'No, I'm positive the issue is in it. The more normal it looked, the more doubt I have.'

The system delayed for a moment before it said:

'I rechecked it again. It's completely legit. Why are you this sure about it?'

Ibro began to organize his thoughts before explaining:

'The first issue that caught my attention was the presence of a village that reached the scale of an empire.'

'That's a normal thing. We, systems, are programmed to guide you to establish your empires.'

Ibro explained further:

'This is a cultivation based system. Cultivators don't know the term 'village' or anything related to it. they only recognize sects and academies. 

If there was a truly cultivation based system, then it would have guided her to start a sect and grow it up to form a huge sect that was like an empire. 

The same is applied to games where guilds or alliances are the other forms of establishing villages and cities. This cultivation based system started to guide her with illogical moves.'

'…'

The system didn't comment as it was processing these data seriously. Ibro then continued:

'When she spoke about her journey to the top, I felt as if she was speaking about a nice journey. You can see how hard my road is. I'm sure that is the general rule for all system holders. Why is she different?'

'…'

'Another thing that made me suspect it even more. She traveled to many worlds, but she never got out of the cultivation based worlds. Why? If it was a true system like you, then it would be able to find it strange. 

That system didn't guide her to form Ro energy or even PSR like you did with me. That system made her feel secure and content while this was wrong. 

She should have sought more worlds with different energies and tried to learn them, merge them together, and finally produce the PSR energy at the least. 

She doesn't even know the names of these energies. That system wasn't a helper to her; it was a trap she fell into.'

The system replied this time with a serious tone:

'This is pretty serious, Ibro. You need not jump to conclusions this easily. You have a point here, but there is no solid evidence on your claims.'

Ibro didn't back down as he said with firm tone:

'I have more than one way to push this system to reveal its true colors. But before I use any of them, I need a confirmation from you on this. If you two faced each other, would you be able to win it?'

'Sure, my rank is higher than it.'

Ibro stressed on this point again by asking:

'Don't assess it as the weak system you see right now. Put the worst-case scenarios and assess the situation again. 

For example, it could shield the errors it had from your keen eyes. That meant he is, at least, on par with you, right?'

'…'