Chaos, Lord of Nonsense

I walk through the portal and find myself in a mountainous region. Wherever I look, only tall peaks greeted my eyes. The portal began to shrink and vanish, leaving me alone in this new world. Hey I am not talking about the new and old world.

The mountain here is covered in snow. I look around me and saw nothing but snowy mountains and rocky terrain. I observed the land before me, before shifting my attention to the sky.

The sun was at its zenith, the sky was blue and clear of clouds. In the background of the sky, an unimaginably massive violet planet loomed, sitting at the very center of this universe. The planet had countless massive chess pieces towering over, piercing through its atmosphere. Its unique and beautiful appearance made the sky mystical.

The planet has a diameter of ??? that dwarfed the size of every planet in the universe combined.

Upon seeing the voilet planet, he immediately knew it was similar to the unimaginably massive purple planet in the sky of his red planet. He wanted to scan it and gather some information, but he forgot that he is only a normal human now.

He gave up and sat on the ground, contacting Anastasia.

He got support from her.

"Anastasia, how big is that planet?"

"??? Diameter."

"How about within its atmosphere?"

"Error, we can't measure it. There are hidden parts, and its size surpasses ??? entirely."

"Same as the purple planet then."

"Correct, but this planet is much larger."

"How about this planet where I stand?"

"??? Endlessly smaller than the planet at the center of the universe."

"Well, that's enough to satisfy my curiosity. Send a map of this world."

"Understood."

Anastasia transferred a mental image of the map into my mind, along with some important data. I looked at the map in my mind and focused my attention on the Old World.

This planet is called Gekai. Seventy percent of the planet's surface is water, while the remaining thirty percent is land.

Within the Old World, where he was, there are six continents—all inhabited by people and monsters.

I was in the Ariel Continent, and the nearest city from where I was is the Labyrinth City, Orario.

According to the data sent by Anastasia, Orario is a city ruled by the gods and the undisputed center of the Old World.

The city is at least 120,000 miles away. It would take at least 13 years and 8 months to get there, and that estimation is the positive one. If I included obstacles such as weather, terrain, or monster attacks, that travel time would extend even further.

I began planning my route after seeing how far I needed to walk to reach there. The journey will be hard and dangerous, especially since my strength is only at a normal human level.

While I was forming my plan, an earth-shattering roar snapped me out of my focus. I was drawn to where the roar came from, and there I saw a wyvern the size of a bus gliding through the sky.

The wyvern didn't notice me and flew away. I also ignored it, focusing on the map within my mind.

The mountain was brimming with snow and rocks, my feet submerged in thick ice. In this place, there were no signs of civilization at all.

I spent my day traversing the snowy and mountainous terrain.

It's been months since I started this journey. I was enjoying the trip without speeding up my pace. I walked through it while enjoying the scenery. I could instantly arrive at the city if I used magic, but I wanted this kind of experience, so I didn't do it.

By the way, even though my strength was just that of a normal human, my physical strength was weak, while magic and other energy-type power systems had small capacity. My actual strength, if I used magic and other energy-type techniques, reached ??? level. I have many techniques that help me tap into the power of ??? using only normal human strength.

One such example is the Brown Formula. It is a formula that forms a magic circle minimizing the mana expense of a spell to almost 0.00000000000001%, making your meager magic capacity practically endless.

Under this formula, any level of magic can be cast with no limits. Brown Formula is a formula formed with countless magic runes, using countless languages to create countless systems, and condensed into a single magic circle—this is the Brown Formula.

The core logic of this formula is to use the intricate Brown Formula itself as a substitute for mana or magic power to cast a spell.

Everything is governed by three core laws and concepts, and one of those laws and concepts is equivalent exchange.

The exchange for truth is your knowledge itself. If your knowledge is lacking, you'll never reach the truth.

The exchange for evolution is self-improvement, while the exchange for power is your talent and effort.

Magic, to be cast, needs mana or magic power as an exchange. But this process is broken by the Brown Formula—instead of mana, the intricate and incomprehensible knowledge within the formula is used as a substitute. This allows anyone, no matter how weak, to cast any spell without limits. Sounds great, right? But there's a catch—you need to master the formula.

A formula that was even branded by the being who created all of existence as almost impossible to comprehend and master.

I walked down the snowy mountain and then encountered a deep cliff. Down below was a vast mountainous region, and in the distance was the border between the mountainous region and the grasslands.

Apparently, I was on elevated land—about five thousand miles above sea level. On top of this elevated land was a snowy mountainous region. The land's vastness was five thousand miles across from edge to edge. When viewed from above, the shape of the elevated land was a huge cube made of rocks with a snowy mountain on top.

I peeked over the edge and saw how high the cliff was.

"What would it be—skydiving from a cliff or rock climbing to get down?" I sat at the edge of the cliff, thinking.

Right beside me was a bear, peeking over the cliff and also deep in thought. I already noticed the bear. I felt no threat from it, so I let it approach.

"What do you think?" I said in the bear's mother tongue.

"Climb down," the bear answered.

"Isn't it faster if we jump and dive?" I asked.

The bear shook its head in disagreement. "Too risky. Too many wyverns."

"Oh well."

We debated on what path we should take, ignoring the fact that we just met.

After a while, we eventually settled and decided to climb down.