Of course, although it didn't take a millennium, for the God Tree to bear a 'Chakra Fruit' would still require a considerable amount of time.
Unfortunately, Shinji only had two or three years left.
This time limit applied to both 'T33' and the Ninja World. There might be discrepancies, but the error margin should only be a year or two. So hoping to camp here and wait for the God Tree to bear a 'Chakra Fruit' was unrealistic.
Shinji thought to himself: "I'll accumulate as much chakra as I can!"
As the God Tree absorbed 'T33's energy, 'T33's spatial barrier would also weaken. It was like the Hegemon attacking from the outside while the God Tree disintegrated it from the inside—a two-pronged approach. 'T33' might not even last two or three years.
Under these circumstances, Shinji couldn't expect too much.
Summoning 'Little Yuan' to his side, a somewhat bored Shinji accessed the latest information in 'Little Yuan's database.
After casually browsing for a while, Shinji noticed a bounty list among the numerous messages.
He was attracted to this bounty mainly because a name he was extremely familiar with appeared on the list—Ryūhei Ubuyashiki.
"How could it be him?!"
Curious, Shinji ordered 'Little Yuan' to retrieve all information about the bounty list and reviewed it one by one.
Obviously, there were quite a few scoundrels in the circle of 'Lampbearers'.
Because the 'Lamp's ability to shuttle through space created great convenience for 'Lampbearers', especially when a relatively powerful 'Lampbearer' accidentally stumbled into a weaker world, they would often have the ability to take whatever they wanted. So some 'Lampbearers' with weak morals would guest-star as 'interstellar pirates' at this time, plundering weak worlds.
Shinji's old acquaintance Ryūhei Ubuyashiki was such a guy.
He plundered several worlds and killed at least two 'Lampbearers', so he ranked high on the bounty list, sitting at the third position.
Shinji looked carefully. The bounty on Ryūhei Ubuyashiki wasn't from one person, but from several 'Lampbearer' teams. It seemed besides the killed 'Lampbearers', there were quite a few 'Lampbearers' who suffered losses at Ryūhei Ubuyashiki's hands.
"If he hadn't been sanctioned by the Hegemon, this bastard's ranking on the bounty list might have been even higher."
After chuckling, Shinji started to have ideas about the bounty.
Since this was a bounty within the 'Lampbearer' circle, besides many seemingly precious items and props, the reward also included the only hard currency in the 'Lampbearer' circle—'Embers'.
The Ninja World was now invaded by the Fear Hegemon. 'Embers' could be used to repair the spatial barrier, which was the main means to delay the Hegemon devouring the world. As long as Shinji had sufficient 'Embers', he could fight for more time for the Ninja World.
He believed that if time was sufficient, he would definitely find a way to defeat the Hegemon.
Six Rings World.
As a bright light penetrated the spatial barrier, a crooked crack appeared on the barrier. Then, two figures walked out from the crack, arriving in this world named 'Six Rings'.
Alice first looked around, then while assessing the surrounding pollution level with an instrument, said to Shinji: "This is the world where 'Arcane' is located."
"Magic world?"
Shinji also sized up the surroundings.
Undoubtedly, the two figures arriving here from the spatial rift were none other than 'Glorious Light' Alice and Shinji.
Because of the experience cooperating on 'T33' before, Shinji had been initially accepted by Alice, Hengo, and others.
The reason Shinji could integrate into the circle so quickly was mainly because he showed the ability to contend with the Propagation Hegemon's flesh puppets on 'T33'.
In the circle, those with the strength to contend with Hegemon creations could basically be counted as high-level 'Lampbearers'.
One must know that Ryūhei Ubuyashiki, a guy ranking third on the bounty list, was killed without any resistance when encountering the Fear Hegemon's creation, the fake 'Yoriichi Tsugikuni'.
Of course, besides strength, there was another reason for Shinji's rapid integration into the circle.
That was, there were simply too few 'Lampbearers' willing to join this circle and risk their lives to fight against Hegemons.
Rarely did one or two newcomers appear, they either died quickly or were overwhelmed by fear and quit the circle halfway.
Newcomers like Shinji, who possessed both strength and the will to resist Hegemons, were extremely rare.
Beep beep beep...
Suddenly, the instrument in Alice's hand sounded a sharp alarm.
Shinji asked: "What's wrong?"
Alice frowned: "Pollution level increased again, almost reaching the critical point. This area is about to become a forbidden zone!"
Shinji looked around: "Then what do we do?"
In his vision, there was no change around, at least his 'Six Tomoe Rinnegan' couldn't see any danger.
Alice said: "Leave here first!"
After simply identifying the direction, the two sped along the way.
On the way, Alice explained the characteristics of the Plague Hegemon to Shinji.
Different from the Propagation Hegemon invading 'T33', the Plague Hegemon was trickier. Its method of invading a world was simple, which was polluting the entire world step by step.
The area they were just in had already been polluted. Once the pollution value reached the critical point, the whole area would fall into a 'Withered State'. By then, plague would run rampant in the polluted zone, natural disasters would rage, and both living and dead things would wither and decay, becoming a forbidden zone in every sense.
More than a dozen forbidden zones of varying sizes had already appeared in the Six Rings World. And every time a forbidden zone appeared, 'Arcane', as the 'Lampbearer' guarding this place, could only blockade and isolate the forbidden zone; apart from this, there was no other way.
Shinji frowned while listening.
In 'T33', he could at least contain the Propagation Hegemon's invasion somewhat by killing flesh puppets.
But arriving at 'Six Rings World', he couldn't even think of a method to contain the Plague Hegemon's invasion.
Not long after, a magnificent white tower appeared in front of the two.
Alice pointed to that holy white tower and said: "Ahead is the Wisdom Tower, one of the six great Mage Towers! The reason this world is called 'Six Rings' is because there are six powerful Mage Towers. Each Mage Tower is a ring. together they form six huge magic rings, protecting the entire world."
Shinji looked up and found that in the sky above the holy white tower, there was indeed a brilliant magic ring.
However, he subsequently frowned, thinking: "Such a powerful magic ring doesn't trigger my biological instincts? Could it be that it poses no threat to me at all?"