COI C15
"This book follow the law of archscience: Magicka, in order for it to form into a stable modern invention through physics, fundamental theories, or even manipulation of other mana. It requires all types of mana of this world, where it was the most basics can form itself individually. It will be the new breakthrough when all types of mana coordinate themselves to form a new natural law. Then it is possible to be relevant for the modern future"
The three read the parts of the introduction. Later they turned the pages for the references, and they saw a different form of languages and peak Reya's interest.
"Amazing that this book has many sources"
"Are we using a powerful book?"
Andui was a bit nervous but Quail sarcastically explained.
"Like our phone devices to be any more terrifying"
Andui can't hold of herself hearing Quail said.
"I'M . . .!"
"Sorry, but I heard Thean mentioned about anyone can actually remade it. The sad thing is that it requires all its parts to function. The project we are working on rely heavily on those types of mana, but some of them are either fabricated or manufactured which are the forgotten process to make that sphere"
Reya relaxes herself after seeing how much work needed.
"Yeah, I have read the materials. It is good to say that the Kinteinou region has all nature it has"
"That's right, and those parts and components are from Enders Bridge"
Quail picks up the instructions for her to do.
"Here, they want me to furnished the magic room. When something happened to the sphere, showing strange phenomenon. I have to redirect it back inside the sphere, the simulated world and the reaction by their actions and interaction might leak outside if they cause anything trouble"
Reya and Andui read the book as they understand the detail of this sphere. The sphere is a basic recreation of one's mind, mostly an illusion or dream. There is a way to make it a small world with limitations that cause perfection, that would lead to no escape if they didn't complete the basics of entrance and exit.
Only the healthy people can get in, but if they are not. They will be in worse fate in the sphere's reality. The mind will automatically open a portal the way out, the more the inefficiency inside the sphere, the portal will grow stronger and suck them out of the sphere. Customizing it will require to recreate a new one, personally made will be compromise unless improving it will be an option. Some spheres had survived throughout time, and might be more difficult if it possessed so much content inside that it requires large amount of specific mana . . .
"Very complex, I am now worried about the sphere. Quail, what sources did you know about it?"
Reya picks up her checklist as they check what sphere they are using.
"There is only a description about the sphere"
The owner was connected to the humanesque, through and through, during the time of connecting the hidden gates to both worlds. It was used for archiving outside the lives of many ancestries, by the era when the altered technologies are giving it to an account.
"It's probably before the Fall Era"
"Yeah, I learned only 4 eras before the Fall; Summoned, Re-civilization, Unification, and finally Heroes and Demons"
Andui summarizes what she knows and Reya conclude through the legend.
"All those eras together lasted for less than 700 years. Then this sphere is more than that"
Inside the sphere, the four were clouded by smokes, their voices can’t be recognized and only hear someone out.
"For years, this sphere was never used. Until now, we have of its ancient vision here"
"Amazing that it manages to give enough neutral mana to finally reactivate it"
"I thought it would drain their mana source, and how many centuries did it survive under the influence of a catastrophe around it"
All around them, heard from different voices, is nothing but darkness where the wind blew gray smoke, as they look around and found something peculiar. One of them shout out.
"Look! at the sky"
They all look up and saw the stars where the moons are about to form an eclipse to each other.
"Why is there only two? It should have been three"
"Alga and Jigeram are closing in, where's Koiich?"
"Is the sphere contained fantasy on this world?"
Slowly after the world recollected as what it was and the sight of the behold as they fall down. From the sky, down to the ground they fall ever so lightly.
"It's still what it is, showing the world what the creator wants"
They begin to fall rapidly as their auras burns, where the sphere’s influence around them, to form like a shooting star. They are now entering the land of Horsin, but when . . . or an alternative.
"Agathean, do you remember hearing voices?"
"No, neither did I recognized your new voice"
"It is more alike from one each other"
The four only heard the same voice and one of them can't recognized except the attitude what they are saying.
"Let’s remind ourselves that we need to fix it. We should check this place first, the sphere with only two moons is question for me"
They travel across the land to seek any civilizations. Then they saw countless unfamiliar animals come across their way.
"I heard one of us said about being years for the sphere to be reactive, and the land we set foot now we couldn't recognize. It must be before the Fall era"
"This entire continent itself has its own different forms of biome, we have settled in an extinct world or an ideal"
"Then where did this sphere ever found, probably from some ruins"
"hehehe, I already have my crazy sayings on dungeons but this one need Haw to explained it to us"
Haw don’t want that conversation again and stay silence. The Agathean man pointed out to him and with the other two closed their lips.
"I guess I have to explain it somehow"
"You should, I have experiencing entering inactive realms but never seen a perfect demonstration of wildlife"
First is surprised by all of this, and Haw made an improvised compass by using the moonlight for finding their direction.
"If it is true, that it was before the fall era. Then let's head to the far east and see what Kinteinnou looks like"
"It would take days, and we have no idea the limits will bring us out from the sphere"
"Ugh, I don't know why our voices are the same. Like what in the damn man did this?"
"We should investigate further for Haw's sake. If this world is the same identical from our current world. We don’t know what Rune Isles looks like before the fall"
They venture deep eastward where they finally found civilization. In the form of a city, they know nothing to ever existed. Living form of machines treated as vehicles like in a same comparison of Isekai City's automobiles.
They witnessed a form of society was too different to recognized and a race they rarely or likely to believe.
"Gobins and machines together? What kind of world we are in?"
"Never should have seen this kind of society where Gobins have kind of life like that"
"Raiding Gobins who acted all civilize? It is kind of funny to look at it, but it makes more tragic to see them before and now"
The Gobins didn't noticed them and the sphere only reenacting what the world it was. Moving on their way and into the city of Gobins, where countless questioned from the pasts put them in a forgotten memory as they walk by.
"Can we really return back to this former world?"
"Comparing this world and the lack of exposed fused magic. This world back then didn't have the Horsin's core leaked to the surface world at Rune Isles"
"What if we can do it?"
"Rune Isles has an eternal creation of machines. Seeing them before makes me questioned about the Fall era"
Gobins acted very differently than the Gobins in Mountaiwall. Their culture and traditions were never closed of existing such as they saw.
"What you said before. To whoever say it with the same voice, these machines are close to identical to shamanism"
Haw heard someone who says that, he felt the same way. The machines they are using are all mechanical as it looks as the spirits were merging with it and become one to its control. Shamanism is bond between spirits and ancestry, and reminds him with the other guildmember of his, Myrrkei, who has a spirit spider, but he is not sure that it was summon through shamanism for being simple. This makes him wonder more about the ruins they found. Time is almost up for them, where they are now seeing the sight of the bridge. The recognizable towers connected from Rune Isles to Kinteinou, and more across the distance is the mining complex sign and stated coming soon.
All of them were in shock, and everyone says the same line.
"This is Horsin, before the apocalypse"
The portal opens as their mind grew weary. These people never go tired for their works and even they can't sense their hunger and thirst. They saw something should be true by their own present world. Enders Bridge, once stood tall and preserve the pathway to Kinteinou. It was there on their view across a few more miles on sight, lucky to see it in a flat valley where the hills they come across. They walk back to the city of gobins where the city for other races where not seen.
"The portal is open, while I hate saying it in the same voice. We first need to examined what we see thus far"
"One is that there is an open map, telling all the parts of the cities. We were close where the Rusic lived in the central continent but we headed east"
"I was going to lie at first, but Agatheus City once was an Eldesune farming grounds. Seeing posters of Eldesune crops made me laugh a few times"
"I'm only sure where the mining complex sign is the same place where most of the Enders scavenged ores"
"That makes it a lot of sense that this world is identical except one thing"
Second being skeptical about and raised his hand place both of his fingers.
"Koiich was not there, and the time cycles in this sphere is one hour per day. I already check thrice now and only saw Alga and Jigeram moved apart in the same sequence back from the current world"
"Yeah, Jigeram went cycling upward and Alga moved east in circle and mostly touched Kinteinou region"
"And Koiich stays on stasis where they align"
"The other continent to the far west still has no exposure by both night lights. I just want to head there and see what is like before the rebellion arises"
"Also Abls from the north pole, I want to see how did they colonized there"
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"Or better yet, the entire history of it all"
"This is what second would have said, but I agreed unless we find where these hidden controls in this massive world"
"Like a true journeyman"
"Now I fear for my quick coins"
"It doesn't matter, the entire moon cycle is all we needed where we trapped in Isekai City"
"But our quick coins"
"Just stop will you"
They sat there as the portal slowly opens up and took them back where they once entered. They sprang out from the sphere as they saw the women with Alche reading the book. To their surprised, seeing them seem to be in good condition after that crazy delusion of the magic forces.
Alche kept his mind on the book where Andui and Reya congratulated them in their safe return.
"Haw, do you find anything inside the sphere? What's it looks like and what world contained from the sphere"
The Agathean answered first as he dashes to read the check list.
"Countless updates, it's more beyond of a history book for hundreds of years. We have a sphere consist of before the Fall era but not proven, and we have seen a race that is not closely related to the present"
"Hmm, did you managed to fix the sphere’s . . . uhmm, things"
Second checks on the sphere.
"It's impossible, the world is big as we wander off and the time scales quite efficiently. If it is really history or fiction."
"Great, then how long would it that be?"
"Longer than we have thought"
First comes to the table and summarize what he drew, through his geographical skills and artistry, he showed them a unique form of the continent.
"This world’s continent is . . . Pangaea?"
"If it is true, then Rune Isles was . . . Let’s better not, it seems the world was really changed a lot. It really does call itself an apocalyptic world"
The Agathean man saw Haw getting to leave with Andui and Reya as he follows them where the rest were discussing. They reached to the teachers' lounge as he surprised them.
"Hey! I want to know about the sphere you brought"
"Thean, you followed us. We were . . ."
"I'm not here to misunderstand but the sphere is too wide to come close to take full control"
They acted so secretly when Andui started to go somewhere privately. Reya knows her, Haw let her, but others started to get suspicious. Coral comes along with the snacks she brought.
"Thean you . . ."
She saw him in a serious mood and she stops and turned to Andui.
"Finally, Andui brought someone new . . . "
Coral sees her being doubt as she leans and whispers to her.
"Get together girl, stop leaving them out of a blue. You have Reya . . ."
Reya stops her and with her concerning eyes where both of them agree. Andui is still hurt.
Andui looks at Thean where he and Haw starts facing each other.
"What dungeon did your guild recovers?"
"The sphere was found at Enders Bridge, luckily to be found during the foundation's development"
"Is there more like these?"
"My guildmaster told me about it, they are already handed over to the Elves"
"There is more than just that, Haw. I am talking about the sphere was not used before the Fall era. I want to ask your guildmaster for any detail about it, we are here to find the way to control it or we'll never going to finish it"
Coral and Andui seeing Thean acted this way really makes him attractable.
"Even though we are just making a new facility, I never would have thought there is problems about it"
"You're right Coral, and the sphere does crazy things while they work"
"Ooh, then let's talk"
Andui explains to her like some kind of horror story than an actual development of the magic room.
"This world is getting weirder. Sigh* It's like we need another school degree to survive this shitty world"
Coral is getting frustrated how they can’t get a normal day in this world. Andui says to her in a sad tone
"Coral, it's terrifying when you lose your senses what have I experienced"
"It's ok, I'll be clinging with you again if that happens"
Both of them laugh as Andui needed it.
As for the two men
"Agathean, the lockdown puts me out of the connection with the guild. Even the others who enter the city will deny access"
"How about hiring someone to deliver the message? Is there anyone from the city guild you know?"
"Alche might know some, but you will be the one who tell the detail as I will bring my package if you succeed"
"Fine, but I appreciate it. Because that old world makes it difficult when the controls or landmarks might have protection"
They broke their exchanges and Haw left with a hurry letting the girls behind as they wanted to talk.
Reya turns to Thean.
"Thean, is there a problem about the sphere?"
"All spheres were secretly hidden their controls. The bigger the world is, the harder it gets. Your sphere consists probably an entire Horsin. I'd be more surprised that has more beneath the surface"
"Then why should we have an easy approach, and find another one"
The Agathean man giving a look of
"Not a bad idea"
but later rejected it.
"You can, but I want to test that sphere first. If it matches the scenarios perfectly. Then you actually lived a second life on it"
Agathean man moves away and Coral grab his hand.
"Wait, why are you serious about this project now? You've been acted strangely today"
He breathes quietly with himself and put an exciting tone.
"I've kind of amazed how the sphere being activated such a short time, and the sphere inside has the world collected, if it is really from before the fall era or not. I'm guessing it will never work outside of the city, and what's more intriguing for us when we entered. It was made us to put into an adventure beyond Kinteinnou and before the apocalypse"
They heard the importance of the sphere, and its mysteries.
"You mean . . ."
"No, my greater teachers, it is still a simulation such as you said"
"Hah! Thean is at it again"
Coral broke out the serious mood, and Thean kept at it.
"The spheres are not important to this world but a collection of the viewed world. What you people called
"Gaming world"
from I learn, and I have my own experiences personally. There are other versions. I would like to limit others of using it until we fully grasp and control it, this project must follow the same guide. Because we don't have other versions like this or maybe I'm wrong"
After that, the Agathean man steps out and focus on heading to the city guild for anyone could venture out of the city and send the package to Enders Bridge. Haw returned to them after the Agathean man left. Reya spoke out to him along with the two
"Now Andui, what were you saying?"
Later that night, the Agathean man received a letter from Alche to whom he joined the Haw's quests. Mostly 12 A ranks and 4 S ranks, in his thoughts
"I have no idea why would these people tag along to a bunch of students outside of the city. . . And there were that Hawldreds brought by the students"
Remembering it makes it more questions when these creatures being seen outside of the thick forest. He reaches the guild with no sight of any adventurers, and he did further to the counter.
"Hello, where are the adventurers? I want to bring a quest personally tonight"
The receptionist saw him a bit surprised, not from the quest but rarely seen anyone entered the city guild.
"Sorry, you are one of the few who entered the guild after the lockdown. Most of them are taking a season break"
"Are they now? Listen, I just want a delivery mission and not one of those digital tricks they did"
"Oh that? That's the main issue why they stop, the signals outside of the city was lost and those monsters are chasing after those bites"
"Really now, that's kind of new"
"Yes, it is and the guild has offered a mission about that, and they have to identify all those monsters that can actually jamming our signals"
The Agathean man stays put with the receptionist with any possible chances he gets. The receptionist continues
"Just a delivery to Enders Bridge will be by walking now, vehicles were blocked by those monsters and massacring won't going to work"
"Massacre? You realized that Alga's light"
"The guild already took noticed of it for sometimes now, and scavenger monsters will take their place after they blown up the area"
"I'll give your guild a good luck, that there is no possible way of any region has a clean lifeless land"
"They already on it and thank you for worrying us"
The receptionist was a bit relief of seeing someone actually talk to her after being alone to watch over the counter with only her phone to pass the time.
She acted first as the agathean man was finished.
"So uhm, about that delivery mission. How will you convinced them to take it?"
The Agathean man smiled in front of her in point blank as she seeing him a bit creepy.
"There are many ways to convinced them to work with me, and that's not have to be a woman"
"Oh, are you gay?"
"Nice option, but this is Enders Bridge we're talking about"
She laughs a bit and smiles back.
"Then how will you?"
"Bring me anyone who is available on this list, cancel all women but the men. I'll show you what I can do"
His attitude brought a nice misunderstanding look by the receptionist. She actually is cooperating with him.
The receptionist checks on the list and saw a lot of A ranks and one team of S ranks.
"Are you serious?"
"It will be entertaining"
He smiles back at her like a child, but she won’t be able to handle by talking any of these best adventurers. She hesitated
"I can't"
"Don't be, I will be not troubling you later on. Trust this total stranger from Agatheus City"
"Agatheus City? You mean you are actually from that city"
"Anything wrong about it?"
"No, but I heard of their jewelry"
The Agathean puts himself in a situation to persuade her through his origin and the jewelry is one of them, he can't figure out why people like those.
"If you give me any jewelry from your city, I would talk about it to the private sector"
"Is it really difficult to contact these adventurers?"
The Agathean man got nervous because of the jewelry.
"Trying to find other contacts about those adventurers only matter in this city guild. If I lose my job over it, then that jewelry you gave me will be compensate for my lost"
"Then find some other jobs in the city"
"I already have a home in the most expensive place in the city. The guild already gives me my first monthly salary, Sorry for telling my personal life but how am I going to pay the new things I bought"
"What you did is tipping you right?"
"True, and doing quest during a lockdown is not permissible either"
The receptionist has experienced this kind of people and the agathean man never heard about that. His work in the sphere will delay even further and having her way puts him an easy position, he decided the hard way.
"I won't, and here, this is for enjoying my time here"
Through his magic bag picks out an Agathean drink in its highest quality.
"Don't think! just accept it in my culture. This will light up your work for the coming weeks"
The Agathean places a big bottle on her desk and flashes out.
The receptionist didn't saw it coming and has a drink on her counter.
"I don't . . . why did he give me this?"
Agathean man leaves the city guild, leaving him a bit troubled of finding them.
"Okay, I will find them through what I know most adventurers go to, Mihayara district, and probably have a nice chat again with them"
He shakes his head to a better doubt with his hand place on his chin as he thinks about it in denial.
"Oh well, the pay is more important than leisure"
He went back home to where he stays. No knowledge of him having a home, but his fast travels made him more mysterious as he flashes away.
The next day, the three men with the exception of the Agathean man place proper research equipment inside the magic room. Quail brought the sign where this room will be under maintenance with danger besides it. She reads it to her team after her gloat. "Huh, Thean is not here today. Oh yeah this actual sign is going to be installed "Simulation Room""
"Not giving up on his existence, Quail?"
"Let her be, First"
"Now, that's the words I couldn't even hear it from you two. I just wondering why would you let him named you guys?"
Haw placed the equipment to the corner and bringing up a few other tools with him.
"I know that they never did when I reached the city"
First and Second had an idea about it, and it was blatantly obvious.
"The first day of the tournament was it, I heard one of your group Haw, the name The Rat in any light you can see"
"I remember, and what's so popular from it?"
Second knows First is lying and confronted him himself.
"You know that's a lie, it's because your people hid their real names. Quail is one of them you call yourself, and what we heard that your names are different to pronounce and play your names to see fit"
Quail should have known that, but in her defense won't play it off as it is, and it is from a superstitious incident when brought to this world.
"Even you try to stop us, we already playing your game and none of them will changed that"
Quail shouldn't have asked as she already knew, and the city did change themselves what they wanted to be.
"Alright I can admit on that, but I want you two have a better name"
"Sorry, we already got our names random by the Agathean man"
"Ugh!"
She went out of the room with the signs, where the three again busily work on the sphere. Second starts to doubt
"We should have told her that the Agathean man is already went inside the sphere"
"What will she supposed to do? Warned our employers about it. They don't know how absolute of a sphere they have"
"That's right, then how about you, Haw? Any idea where is it came from? I mean its beginning"
Haw sets up the parts, he built a structure that should be part of a platform.
"The sphere was found in Enders Bridge, and the founders who actually collected it. Nothing to say about that except of how difficult it is to make it active"
First used his magic writings to carve the stage platform.
"I kind of agree, and I’m curious of how much energy it needed"
Second comes along to an idea
"I'm guessing those power stations, the shield was active for such a long time. I heard it is the energy that kept it running"
"Where is the power source? I have seen one building that collect power by burning their trees"
Haw remembered what Myrrkei said about the facility brought endless lights across the city. The sound of hissing and heat coming from it through the night. Nothing but rumors to his ears, and the other ominous sight to behold.
"Ok, I've finished the frames. First, Second, what left needed there?"
First busy carving the stage and Second is checking the other materials for preparations. All comes around, Haw decided to continue to build the platform.
The Agathean went inside the sphere where he wanted to go. The same iconic place where once a city rose, only to see a fascinating sight only to be compared to its wildlife. Through his travels seek where the most common creatures should have rest.
"How?" He starts to doubt, and the difference from the past and now is beyond belief.
"There is nothing any creatures have I seen"
His own eyes only seek in disbelief as he used his magic item that can trace the monsters he seen.
"Come on, there should be any surviving animals like . . ."
The tracer found it and quickly rushed to where he should go.
He made it and saw a familiar creature, being domesticated by the Eldesune.
"Hawldreds, many people in Isekai City called them Hounder Elks. Now they are just live stocks for the Eldesune"
He later reached to the known nesting place of the insects, but was replaced with actual critters he couldn't comprehend. Looking like rats but has paws with thumbs, searching and eating most of the insects he can't even know.
"The fall had greatly reduced this wildlife, and the other creatures I found in the forest didn't exist anymore. Is this really a fantasy world? No! If I was a researcher, then I need study them. Bah!"
The Agathean man runs deeper to the forest where the Agatheus City was or will be. Reaching to where he could recognize, he finds some familiar trees.
"It's the park's central oak, but has its own forest"
The oak is one of the rare trees kept inside Agatheus City, secrets of its never spread its seeds to regrown kept many residences to wonder. He reaches out to the oak and placed his hands on it. The oak reacts and starts to wave its leaves on its own like the gust of wind blowing it, yet, there is no wind. Then the oak starts produces heat and starts its leaves to go aflame.
"What the?"
The Fire spreads on the trees and the Eldesunes saw it, only for him to hear what they are not in shock but amazed by it.
"The oak, it senses life"
The Agathean man couldn't understand and the oak begins to break apart and life inside of it opens an unknown creature. Out of a short burst of flames, many Eldesunes praise it while he got burned by its intense aura. Screaming in pain of a fire that he can't block with magic, he can only hear by the voices of the Eldesune.
"Weiylu!"
His magic can't help him and with the strand of unremovable burns cause the portal to appear and forced him back out.