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Chapter 169: Would You Like To Meet The Creator?

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We roamed the area for an hour or two and decided it was safe. There was a city away from us, surrounded by a wall, but different from the underground city. The buildings were not all over the place, they were spacious with buildings bearing an old Renaissance period’s touch to them, although they looked modern in general.

It looked like a utopia.

[Welcome to the Utopia.]

[You have passed the King’s Trial, access to the Utopia is your reward.]

The large hologram message in the sky agreed that this was a utopia. The girls looked around, as did I, finding this place lacking all the negative traits of the underground city. There were also no robots here, and dozens of oases surrounded the city. 

“Look… trees!” Mikita excitedly pointed at real, green trees ahead.

There were trees and plants of kinds that I had never seen. 

This place smelled… safe.

When I was sure of that, I cloned myself thrice and sent them to the underground city. I saw with their eyes and heard with their ears – something impossible before – as the three clones navigated in the underground city. The robots were still there, but they didn't try to harm the clones or the girls that the clones brought back.

Robin, Nami, and the duck Karoo. Two of them were injured and unconscious the last time I saw them, but now they were fine. I used the clones, controlled their movements, to heal them mid-flight with Mystic Palm.

The clones flew up to the ceiling, and the ceiling scanned them before opening up. Now we truly had access to this place, the reason why the robots didn’t attack us either.

“They’re they are,” Tsunade said as the three clones landed on their feet, gently putting down the three they carried. Nami landed on her feet, but the other two had to be placed on their back as they were still sleeping.

Tsunade crouched down beside them while we gathered around in a circle. She gently checked their pulse and sighed in relief. “They’re alright, they’ll wake up any time now.”

“Let’s wait for that, then,” I said. I wanted to explore this place together, they didn’t have to be left out.

I walked away from the rest of the crowd and crouched down. There was sand near the oasis areas. I touched it, raising it and watching it fall from between my fingers. It felt real. It is… real. I found myself laughing a little.

“Finally…” I muttered to myself and placed a hand on the ground. I channeled my chakra that was filled to the brim after Sage Mode and pushed it into the sand. A moment later, a cactus grew out of the soil. It worked because it was real.

“Utopia, it says,” Marianne walked over to me and watched my antics, “It sure does feel that way. Hopefully, there are no traps.”

“Don’t jinx it,” I said and stood up, dusting off the sand from my hands. I walked over to the rest of the crowd, finding Robin and Karoo’s eyes slowly opening.

We waited in silence as the two of them parted their eyes, using their hands and feathers to cover their eyes soon after because sunlight – real sunlight – fell over their faces.

They blinked, looked at the massive glass globe in the sky, covering the blue sky and the bright sun, and then examined our faces. A moment later, Karoo began to quack excitedly and Robin let out a sigh of relief. Her eyes locked on me and she took a few seconds to register my face. 

She had passed out before she saw me, so it was a surprise to see me here. She blinked and tears ran down her cheeks. That made my heart ache.

“It seems you guys did it,” she said, smiling.

“No, we did it.” I reached out a hand and yanked her to stand. “I’m sorry for not being there for two whole years.”

“Don’t be stupid, it’s not your fault,” she hugged me tightly and said. I had nothing to reply to, so I just hugged her back and stood there.

Minutes passed, and we decided to move into the city after the situation grew less dramatic. Despite the warm welcome, we kept our guard up for anything dangerous.

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Since the city ahead was surrounded by a wall, we decided to go around it in search of a gate. We didn’t want to take any chances by crossing the walls, which might be seen as an illegal act. We had to play safe.

“There it is,” Nami pointed at the massive gate ahead. We finally found it after ten minutes of walking.

We approached it with caution. Our pace was slow till we reached the front. There was a massive ‘Welcome to the Emerald City’ written on top of the gate, and as it said, there was a green city, of both trees and green buildings, waiting inside. It looked heavenly.

“I’ll step in first,” I said and Tsunade frowned.

“No, what if-”

“I’ll be fine. Besides, if some random laser shoots and vaporizes me, my ‘clone’ will be considered the main body next. We’re the same now.” I interrupted Tsunade and stepped inside, going through the gate. The gate’s top suddenly lit up. 

Perhaps I had jinxed myself because a red light beamed out of the gate and into me. It was a laser, it was light speed, and I couldn’t dodge it. Thankfully, it came as fast as it passed, and since I still stood fine, I wasn’t harmed. It was a scan, instead.

[...Welcome, Hashirama Senju.]

“What the fuck.” I cursed, and I heard Mikita curse with me from behind, hearing a mechanical voice mutter my name.

How did it know? Okay, never mind. Maybe there is an A.I around that’s been recording us for who knows how long and learned my name from speech.

[An escort will be sent to guide you. Please wait.]

“Alright,” I looked at the girls behind me. “Stay outside for now, if something happens then-”

Tsunade stepped inside, followed by the other girls. Karoo even hit her head against my back for some reason. I scowled at my older sister but she just ignored me.

We waited for the ‘escort’ to come, and indeed, it came. We instantly went into a battle formation when we saw the angel-girl from before fly down from the tallest building in this city, a tower, and stop near us. 

I’d have attacked it instantly if not for the lack of threat I felt from it.

“Hello, guests,” the angel said, smiling at us, “Please rest assured, I’m not 04, Uriel. I’m 02, but you can call me Gabriel.”

Looking at her again, I noticed some slight differences about her. Well, not slight – this one was a grown MILF of a woman, while the last one was a little girl. They just had similar other features that sent us to the edge of our guard.

“...So, Gabriel,” I said as I looked at her with my guard still up. “Who is the fucker that made you, daring to call you angels and implying he’s God?” I wanted to give that fucker a punch, for all the suffering my crew had to go through.

Of course, I was just spewing nonsense. I knew that person must be dead by now; after all, the Emerald City was created hundreds of years ago.

To my surprise, the Angel grinned. “Oh, do you wish to meet our creator? I’m sure you will love that, for it has been too long since you two last saw each other.”

“....”

I stayed silent at the implication and then looked at Tsunade. She also shot the Angel a stupefied glare. What the fuck was she saying now?

In the end, we accepted her as our guide as we began to walk inside the utopia.

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