There had also been progress with the small worlds.
For the past months, Lucien had been waiting for the first proper alerts.
Eventually, they came.
One after another, the system began notifying him that the individuals sent through incarnation had finally been born into worlds compatible with them.
The moment an alert appeared, Lucien moved.
He boarded the Obsidian Tower and forced his way through the appropriate layer of the planes, where the small worlds existed beyond the normal reach of the Big World.
The system could not simply hand him an exact destination.
It could, however, give him an approximate location based on the connection formed through the incarnation.
That was enough.
The Obsidian Tower crossed the strange distance between planes while Lucien narrowed the search little by little until an entire small world finally appeared before him.
The first success made the months of waiting worthwhile.
Then another alert arrived.
And another.
