COI C65
“Quill Artayse, an artificial woman made to be the main brain on this sphere. The fifth landmark is the key origin of her purpose and responsibility. Noted that of her recent personality and performance, among previous visitors to enter it, it is her creator wanted to do, and finally that she is the only original person referred by the altered beings. Easily to differ by her looks and commendable inhumane standards to most living race, she is assumed to be the higher being”
Alche finds the information about the woman, who showed herself on screen, he continues to read the description.
“Based only the limited knowledge of many visitors come and go, the only people who actually understands her old ways are the elves. There are exceptions to this. The Enders had guild descendants of her origin, deceptively translated to fit her customs and at the same time hid the bloodline of her people. Respectfully, it is better to accept to forget the past origins were lost when more other worlders replace their identical race but not their legacy”
Iggy starts the portal as Alche continue his research.
“I hope anyone of you wants to see it for yourself . . .”
Alche cuts her “You can now use your devices, and someone had waited for this program to activate. We can now use it on the big screen again”
“That’s great, ok everyone, which of you want to see the last landmark in person”
Only three joined, Reya and Coral come to her where the rest want to see it on screen instead.
“You guys . . .” Coral sees Quail won’t be joining them,
“. . . I thought you wanted to experience to see that woman”
Quail excuses herself “I wanted to, but I must check on the new program”
“. . .”
Reya stops her “Coral, don’t try to give her the look. It’s her job”
The girls quickly prepare the portal where the frame opened and the place they are heading. A desert, a place that starts to arise from the sandy grounds, and it begins to show its landscapes where the place dugs out the buried monument they will go and see.
The three are excited but only two shows it to them, embarrassingly so to Reya’s thought, and the moment of theirs grew eager where the camera is on set. The scouting probes are being created under their control of the sphere, from the outside of the sphere, and they see it producing it in front of them. O2 felt the convenience of its capabilities.
“Guess the only thing we could do now is to make a theme out of it”
Alche got worried “Please no more anime theme”
“I’m not the one who brought a personal maid to school”
They ventured inside the sphere where the two of them continue to blame themselves when the students get their hands on the sphere. O2 sees the girls clearly on screen, where Alche look at the different screen.
“It worked?”
“I guess it did, the sphere actually made our probes”
“Let’s see what this camera can do, but first”
They setting up the format of the recorder, divided according to their uses. Close up, backgrounds, monologues, sound effects, and many more. Alche looks at what O2 is making, a list that is too much work for him to do. O2 knows it, but there are other teachers might want to be an editor, he thought.
Reya and the others stand before the monument, sands all around like dust storm or water like motion, and many other else happening below. They confront the people who are waiting for them, elves, and they look like Enders. The elves wore the same color pattern under the dark colors, blending in the corrupted landscape among the isles. Their appearance proved to be more menacing where they sense their powers to be unfamiliar, without Alche, they thought they will have trouble.
They both greet as none of them shows any aggression between each other. The elf spoke first
“This will be the final passage for you to obtain the landmark, and most likely you wanted to see this place”
“Is it because it is starting to get dull?”
“No, it is because the Fall era caused so much degradation to the point none of them will pass the trials”
“Then it also concludes by talking our way out, right?”
“If you will, and we are here to properly bestow among who will have the chance to fight us”
“Uh? I think I’ll pass, but I like to see around this place”
Quill appeared where the entrance of the monument where, she looks at the three as they have no intention to go near the landmark. From what she heard through elven magic and they wanted to see this place.
“There are chances to see around when you control it all”
“Yeah, and that, but we all know that we won’t be able to talking to you”
The Enders respond “She is right, your multiple appearance will lose your current identity. Once they change it, you will be free to roam around like any normal people in this artificial world”
Quill stood silence as she knows it, they wonder around to see how she can use her own cunnings or tactics among the people who come here. It was ceased after those decoration place on the sphere, and mostly so for her plot to end mysteriously. The previous people who entered this place, many fortunate characters play their role to mix and max the immersion those people have. But it all ended by that portrait, she stared at one of them for the first time, and sensing what they possessed. Using the replicas of many preexisting lore, she is certain their purpose is to survive.
There is one exception among it, the second landmark, and now quickly at lost when those two came before them. Witnessing that the Soulfate men were truly no longer exist, where the marks of the existing metamorphism, that is known for mana being compacted altogether by force. Those previous four who entered the first landmark had no signs of their bounded soul and it seems neither those new ones in front of her. These people must be new, the summoned.
Quill listens as they speak
“Anyway, you might know about our intention”
“I agreed you need help . . .”
They cheered quietly as they rejoice and hopeful for this project to be finished right in schedule, she continues
“. . . I even let you see through your eyes from the outside, and that for you to see the honest reality of these warriors I gathered. I trust you that those people before or better could face this without any problems”
Coral responds “But they don’t have the resources ready against them”
She told a good excuse to the elves, and they know as they are in the new era. The smokes cleared the sun from above rained down like a beam of light. The monument raised high above the level of the surface and now to the air, they see the glance the effects of different auras correlating together layered itself according to the landmark’s control. Raised to the height of the mountain, the time set into the highest peak of this world modernization. The day when it reached to its own advanced civilization, and nations were formed.
On screen while searching through the computer, it overwhelmed itself from the amount of ram it needed to kick it in, and struggle where the mana demanded exceeded its power system.
“It’s no use Alche, we have to choose either research or watching on screen”
“If only this computer is a gaming pc we might . . . I don’t want to ask him”
That awkward silence put O2 into suspicion and called out the teacher who had been him.
“The otaku . . .”
“A bad example but the most convenient guy”
“Shut the fuck up with that bullshit”
“What got you riled up so quickly?”
“Sorry, but let’s just say that he is not a good role model for adults”
Turning to the screen as they let the computer closed all files, and now focusing on watching. They look at the world as it once was. Divided to each preferred habitat, mini realms to haven to a specific species or living beings, and environment sealed to its natural touch like a zoo. The girls were amazed how big the world is and at the same time saddening. When their expression shows, Quill explained to them.
“You have seen the divide, remember that other worlds can’t co-exist. Like fish can’t survive on land, nocturnal creatures can’t live under the sun, and others can’t handle the heat or cold, etc.”
Reya see what Quill explained, but there’s more
“They are all living intellectual beings, right? I think it is better co-exist like having the same conditions they can thrive with”
“That’s a great analysis, and this world provide it to only who is willing to unite. Many others can travel to their realms but not to settle. It is their adventure and their excuse to leave their world from their mistakes. I assume your world required something that they wanted and brought them here as an example”
Iggy and Coral are talking at the back, hearing Quill mentioning like a nation with limited resources, and she gets it
“I understand a bit with these small realms, and that would be the down side”
“Good thing you know about world resource, Iggy. To be more briefs, our city still needs big chunk of resources from Enders Bridge. I don’t want to recall bad memories, but there are so many resources needed for a city to run” “I’ve watched it from the news. Yeah, I get you. But it’s not about resources in this world, and it’s more like dominance to control the world”
The elves were hidden but never lose their senses around them. They heard the whispers and the conversation from the visitors. It was not long they said something about Enders Bridge.
“They seem to know about our city, I guess it survived many years of sieges”
“I thought the sphere will never be updated, and the most likely to happen is the fall of the city”
“That won’t do exactly, the last update was mentioning about the powers required for the sphere had redirected to the defense for the Kinteinnou cities. The time when the rebellion breached deeper to the east coast”
“It is possible to find new resources from the dead islands”
“We thought so, but they never updated it ever since. There is nothing else for our real selves to do, and I don’t know when the time last they entered here”
“Only Quill knows it, for she controls the sphere according to her side of view”
They continue to eavesdrop as they walk around the place in open spaces. Many time they used their magic to see across the horizon, and other time they witness other flying architecture that fly or glide its way. Covered in auras that protect itself from the environment of the realms, still they are in awe.
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Quill shows them when they are now. “In this era, this is when the first people from your world entered”
“Our world? I heard rumors that they are the first got idea of going back and never return. Calling it the foundation”
“Ah, you people must be their expectation to happen”
“Alright, I’m listening, but please be brief. This is no longer a chat but more of a serious discussion”
“I understand, and I’ll first show you the dangers what happened to them”
Quill shows them the history of the people who chose to leave. They appeared by accident, where glimpse of their faces even their voice being distorted. Marked by the air where it written their drastic repercussion
“The goals were admirable and excluded by the temptations of this world, sadly, those who give in thought otherwise, and all records were cursed to those who wished to destroy them. See it in truth, then destined to end but saved after death”
The distortion censored to the people who wish to leave, all of them waste their lives in order to leave with all cost of their own abilities alone.
Many tried to work together by other worlders, but soon slowly gives in, while the others tried to ask the supernatural of this world for help, then they slowly diminished themselves by the rewards of compensation put them trapped in an endless loop. It was never ending, and those failed examples were shown perfectly, but those who tried it to their owned. They are the ones who succeeded, the three watched them time in time again grew in numbers where the previous people who are now able to bring their people to this world.
More and more come, like an exodus to escape from tyrannical old world, this makes them scared. They don’t know why, but the distorted part made even worse. Outnumbered by the leavers to the comers, it is doomed them to realize how they were exiled and thrown away. That piece of censorship exposed the symbols and writings appeared as the people who leaved left a history of themselves. They have seen it. English words and the flag being torn of like a symbol of their hatred to that country. They never knew that time that those people existed back then.
To the last men who wished to leave, where the others found the way to get to world and no way out of it. It is them who tried to find the key to leave this world. The time had skipped to the first foundation ever built, already in the time of war where new generations of people are controlling the realms being merged together. Quill explains
“This world had struggled to unify to the most extent, you might see the success of the foundation built and used. This is the time where the demons finally lost, and the rise of the new moon. Care to see that event?”
Alche said it out loud with only O2 heard him screaming.
“YES! YES! . . . YES!”
Both of them watch the screen where Quill proposed a little show for them. They saw the world was, and probably wanted know the strange facts about the recent world.
Reya asks “Then what caused the third moon to appear?”
Alche is screaming in excitement to hear her ask that. He gets off his professional attitude to a man who are in an intense game. O2 pulled out something clog his ears with, never mind the scream of a girl where a manly voice intimidates him.
Chronological sequence begins through the eras; the two eras, one is easily known, and the other is a legend, Quill will tell them the rise and birth of the third moon.
“Koiich, the artificial moon formed under the project of many astrologers. In the era of re-civilizations, where many lives gained freedom to live this world, the project was the key point of their unification. No subject to the ruler of individual realms you’ve seen it before, and witness the time it launches up to space”
Direct them to the place they look familiar, a space station built in different materials but more so infused with magic. They listen the speech as the people is starting to launch it.
“Jigeram have given us difficulty to travel to space. I don’t know how long for many centuries to collect the resource needed to make this project. Now many realms will witness the success that no gods help us to make these achievements but our owned”
The first space probe launched to the atmosphere as they see something amazing, passing through the Jigeram’s influence and the Alga’s light. It pierced through the negation of both lights. Coming close to space, where probe released the runes to protect itself by the unknown force. Countless research about the strange phenomenon affecting the prototype, and years of solving it with many methods, and lastly, it made it through. The space probe remained in orbit where the first successful project reached to space. Witness the success of these people.
“Is that Koiich? But it’s nothing but a probe”
“Be patient Iggy, this is just the beginning”
“I don’t know how long did they made that far, but damn they look happy”
Coral looks at them being so proud and even celebrated about their first project. Quill soon later skip to the next scene, it starts to get grim where the censors appeared before their eyes. Not only to the people who wished to leave and succeeded but also the people who are involved the space project too.
Carefully showing them the indirect process of Koiich, it is profound what those researchers discovered. Different takes of different other worlders, and the focus on the topic is the one who speak to their world, different languages managed to be translated.
“Year 3 day 287, this project starts to getting difficult. The astrologers mentioned about star formation and the constellation, with the use of the space probe. We found no electromagnetic waves and no signs of comets and any space debris come and go. Even a thorough radiated waves from the sun to tract any planets near Horsin, and its absolutes nothing, empty. As if . . .”
“Year 5 day 9, no new news about in space, the sun is still stagnated with no change reacted. We found out recently that the stars around us are . . . artificial, a bizarre claim since nearly three years ago, but it already beyond the law of physics. Either dimension has its own law or it is full illogical that there are even no signs of natural disasters coming from space like the stars are nothing but backgrounds. Noted, it made many researchers wonder that is this world even part of the galaxy”
“Year 8 day 39, I am close to retirement and new scientists will come to replace me. I have given up the search of outer space, nearly a decade. There are no space activities happening. No responsive waves or anything at the matter on contact. Even meteors and lone comets coming to this system, finally, new spaceships were already passed to travel in and out of space. The probe had become a space station, to our surprised. Two moons co-exist endlessly negate everyone’s power as equal. The demons for example had become as just as powerful to the people like us. I leave this final message as this is going to be my last”
“Year 8 day 40, Bzzzt censored . . . I am new to this research, but this is nothing add up to the previous researchers . . . censored . . . the journal speculates about space and not . . . censored . . . Then what is the purposed on that thing . . . censored . . . I know this project was made by the descendants of earth but . . . censored . . .”
Endless buzzing coming and censorship to the written journal, continue on the rest of the journal until the rest turned blank at the end. They have witness something sketchy had happened.
Quill skips to the next, where the time Koiich starts to change into something different. They saw later where the beginning of the space station gathering solid grounds. Uplifting to the air with magic and ascend to the stationary moon, it was the time of great changes. Not understanding what it happened and where they look at the facility where the probe launched from turned into a magic ritual.
“Many years after, the facility started to decline where the project became useless. Space adventuring is gone to worse but didn’t know the motives of its ceased”
Koiich absorbed the Horsin’s landscape and possessed unimaginable power. The people who used the space orbiting vessel into something else as they hear their purpose
“This failed project needed to change, we need independence and away from the . . . this called unification. We found out many being dependant on the influence. Our own race alone will not leave this place while the other races left and free as they go. We are trapped here because none of us has the knowledge to go their true worlds”
The third moon grew stronger in time, showing no hesitation being used. More realms keep unifying where the others tried to segregate further. The secrets within this world put many lives at risk and more so in the coming years. Quill gives only a short remark.
“What that man said is true, but they are not living their own world. Their old desires are returning, the sight of many other races had done better than them and more so as long as they lived”
Later on, to the coming years, the moon starts absorbing the monsters of this world. When the race powers of origin taken place, leaving the other races to weaken themselves without reliving the source of their strengths. Monsters who harassed them, diseases that is immune both Jigeram and Alga are gone, and many more of its natural disasters. Once the men cleanse all of that through use of the third moon, and now the moon is formed completely. A collection of entities trapped the first layer inside of it.
“Then you see the beginning of the moon formed, destroying the key factor of why many race needed those natural problems to stay them afloat. You will see now that it wasn’t them who caused the war to start but . . .”
The Koiich stands before stationary looking at the world. It is now used as the key weapon to remove the world’s undying cycles. To the first time they change the aspect of life and order, it never been done before. Witnessed among the long live races, they see such impressive action done to use that flying machine in space.
The one who control the moon as it rayed down to where it launched, protected by many people who wished to be their guardian. It starts to rise of a new ideologue over its powerful impression across the world. The people who made it many years ago tried to stop the nonsense of their claims then soon after created worse than they have thought. These people who entered this world are natural magic user, and the corruption of the space vessel had become the moon out of their mana now.
They contributed so much on the project but their progressive approach giving them their ideals and knowledge that would help them realized their growth without gods for help. As soon those generations are fighting their way in the society, where the ones who summoned them being overpopulated by the new other worlders. The gods were not involved in this, but the demons who are. This realization that foreigners come to their world made them minor to their own creation, trying to erase it like they did to the previous generation.
The cycle continues as their era is slowly declined and forced into a new era with interference. The re-civilization comes to an end and raised by the calling of the new era and hundreds of years have passed treating the forefathers who have made the new era quickly throw away by the newcomers. Creating the society of preservation, and even them had lost their origin as before. The Koiich had lost its origin and now treated as the new moon, and the old studies are being block and turned something different.
Koiich becomes the moon by the new comers entered, where the people who wished to advance the world turn away into legends. Quill shows them the reality of this world.
“The purpose of them being summoned was to make their world prosper, when it is fulfilled, they will be slowly forgotten after. This sphere and the others are one of the true archives that keep the true history of this world. They let them be and taken after by foreigners as their place, making up legends where they can’t never understand. The origin of Koiich, and how far I am allowed you to see”
Reya’s eyes see what she had witnessed, one origin of the moon what was the effort of star exploration. Where space in this world is empty and no other devices could be transmitting to the emptiness of space. Even the races of the others start to change drastically as their history fades away and replace by new ones. The moon alone had complex capabilities, soon forgotten and they can’t understand anymore when the moon is formed. The people who send the resources to the moon leaved them censored, making them aware that there is something alive they don’t want to show.
Quill continues on the next topic, the foundation first use. The three turns their eyes to see the first foundation, identical and hidden underground. They were shock and see who are the ones are using it. Soulfate of men using it in front of their eyes, Quill explains as of how they managed to hold it.
“In this time of age, this is where the great desertion happened. You can see these people are using the foundation are all human infused magic, no naturally living organ but functioned by feasting souls. This is the time where the first dominant took control and possessed this secret portal. You can see their glorious escape”
The Foundation activated, and the link between Horsin and Soulfate broke, then they are lost forever after the separation. The summoners who tried to summon them again, couldn’t, and where at lost of their formidable weapon. They see the before and after sequence, where many countless of them being summoned are now nothing. They were summoned by numerous lives sacrificed to summon them gradually. It was monstrous and inhumane. In the end they escape and never returned.
A simple representation than the other, Quill said to them
“If you have the foundation, then there is hope you can leave without them bringing you back again. Only used once, and those who remained will forever lived this world”
She pointed out the remaining few stayed on Horsin. Going to their way up north, where the frozen barren remained hazardous of its blizzard. These last remnants walk there to hide and nothing else for them to do to wonder through the harshness of this world.
Iggy couldn’t try to learn it all and remained shock from the Koiich origin. Coral stayed quiet and whispered to Reya.
“Are we going to keep it a secret to the others too?”
“To ourselves yes, I don’t think we could trust anyone until we ready for the consequences”
“We should say it with Andui too, I think we shouldn’t involve anything else but the foundation”
“Right, hey Iggy, did you listen to us?”
“I can, but this is too much things I want to know. There is even someone actually alive know this secret”
Quill hears their worries and warned them. “Then the easy thing to do is to respond it naturally. I recommend always going alongside with the elves of your world. One of you had the elven magic, and I am certain you can be refuge there better than what I know” “Thank you, we will try our best to make it”
Quill gives something to them “Good, then this note might help you. It’s been 20 years I have been keeping it”
They catch it and see an empty gem. No glow or anything magical, it is just a normal gem. Iggy responds
“Yeah, thank you . . . 20 years, I will not ask but we like to continue on the tour please”
Quill smirks, to the first time they saw her having personality on her face.
Coral couldn’t resist “Oh look at that face”
Quill laughs that they never seen her reaction before. She responds
“I’ve shown you the depressing part of the world and wished to continue, laugh*”
“Well duh, we were not even part of your history. Honestly, I’m glad those monsters left. That would one of many worries sweep under the rug”
Reya and the others continue their tour and nothing else they want to see. The past is something to worry about when it reached at the present. The main goals to them are still there. Going back home for how long will it take them, it is time where the active foundation they have now to use it carefully. Quill mentioned again about the foundation
“About the foundation, do you know how to activate it?”
“Now you mention it, we only see them leave at the moment. How did they activate it?”
“They activate by the number of people who wanted to leave, because of the one timed use. Everyone must decide between leaved or stayed, but those who are undecided will soon lose that right as stayed. But it is too simple, there should be complicated means to protect against one person to escape leaving so many behind”
Alche and O2 heard it, and the same goes what they heard throughout the community. The Agatheans spoke about the topic, to those who are going to imprint to the foundation. Where everyone who is touched the foundation already decided. Then the problem where is who is stopping it.
“I’ve been hearing about it so many times, and I heard it by the artificial world itself”
“Do you think someone who is not deciding to use the foundation?”
“The difference between the first and us, that no one but their own kind were involved”
“Yeah, but ours were involved by many people cooperating the construction of the foundation. It felt like our enemies know how to take advantage of us”
“And this current time, we will be having problems to fix this situation”
“Or worse, get rid of the problem”
The two turned to look at each other, where each assumption getting in their nerves.
Meanwhile the Enders heard the past voice lines when Quill showed them.
“Sigh* they seem to be back to their usual routine”
“Those familiar voice who decided to weaponize the so-called moon”
“Too complex for anyone who short live to be true, and the Rusics hid their historical runes somewhere within their landmarks”
“Then the center continent destroyed it. As for ours preserved through our Eldesunes”
“Even the man thought taken away the power is a good thing to be equals. How ironic that caused the war many generations forward”