We Came Too Early (Continued)

But if I still had the status of a Creator in Runeterra, taking down this old geezer would be easy.

All I'd have to do was smash him with the power of an entire world.

But, unfortunately, I didn't have that anymore.

The status of a Creator wasn't something you could simply obtain. Even if you did, getting the chance to claim a "world" by sheer coincidence, the way I had in Runeterra, wasn't something that happened every day.

So Li Ke spoke up.

"Hmm, I resurrected the strongest person who ever lived in this world. Old man, were you the strongest back then? You seem pretty slow and harmless to me!"

Li Ke patted the Sage of Six Paths on the shoulder as he said this. At that moment, inside the Nine-Tails, sealed within the jinchūriki Kushina Uzumaki in Konoha, the beast abruptly lifted its head and stared in this direction in disbelief.

"Old man?! And that's Mito Uzumaki, that terrifying woman?!"

The Sage of Six Paths looked at Li Ke, who was treating his resurrection as though it were no big deal. He sensed that he had only an hour to live, stroked his beard, and nodded.

"Hmm, I might have been the strongest. But, young man, your ability is genuinely dangerous."

The Sage of Six Paths looked at Li Ke, his tone turning serious.

He could forcibly resurrect even someone like him, who had remained in the Pure Land to watch over the world—and do so without giving him even the slightest chance to resist. In the hands of an evil person, such power would be terrifying!

So the Sage of Six Paths wanted to know who Li Ke was, why he had appeared so suddenly, and how he had gained such power.

"Do you have any