COI C41
Inside the simulation room, everybody is there to see the new innovation for the sphere. The portrait frame facing the people seeing it and behind the sphere to interact with. The map shown to them, a few glimpses before and after from the world was. Andui and the others were admired the changes happened. An entire Pangaea world, then becoming the three continents under those frames. The center of the world, disappeared and leaving the remaining islands as its remains. Back and forth as First already setting up the rest of the equipment.
First is talking with Quail for any improvements of this room, Second reads the papers given from the Enders Bridge, and Thean is busy observing the portrait’s interaction with the sphere. But Haw is not here, he focuses on different matter such as the materials he had for making the students’ magic items. The rest of the teachers were in awe to see the portrait is now showing what the world was before the Fall or earlier than that. Frame by frame, showing only like picture with every step as what the civilization this world had. It is hard to comprehend as art exaggerates what it truly sees.
Quail explains to them as they watch the picture frames change overtime.
“Everyone, don’t expect from that portrait to be the same as the sphere inside. This is must be a collection of arts made during those time”
“Wow, I have never seen such a gallery in this world. It looks like an actual museum”
Alche had never seen a sphere be this advance. The city had made prototypes, and it is nothing to compare what content lies this one. The construction of the room will soon be done. Where the equipment for the sphere is all here.
The sphere is active without them knowing. The bizarre force was unleashed but was concealed by the portrait. Soon after, they notice the portrait strange art appearance. No one knows what it is happening until the portrait reached its limits. Without the sphere presence, it’s the portrait opened a gateway to the world. Thean, First, and Second remembered that dark visage, clouded wind, and small thread of light. They confirmed it, others were watching as it somehow activating itself. Then it stops, it is rare for a sphere to be controlled by external tools like the portrait.
“What just happened?”
“It seems like the sphere is interacting with these new equipment”
“It doesn’t matter, if you guys are still scared, leave”
Others don’t want to repeat the same feeling from what happened to them like last time, but Second had found pages of the paper about this phenomenon.
“Wait! I read the papers here. The sphere is interacting with the portrait frame, which is helpful to control it”
The sound of relief they continue to stay as the portrait turned itself into a portal. By the look of its ominous appearance, they are still scared not to go close.
Thean goes ahead and touch the frame, it phases through his hand inside the portrait where he gets inside the sphere. Disappeared from just a touch, everyone witnesses a swift entry than the previous attempts. Thean returned as it never happened.
“It is definitely a gateway to the sphere”
Everyone cheers to see that the sphere is finally under control. They thought it would take longer to control it, but they just need a little help. Quail sees Thean shows nothing to share their relief, she sees him a bit more concern than he himself had thought.
“Thean, what’s with that look? Is it something wrong when you coming back?”
“I’m not sure, it is the same world I entered . . .”
Thean is contemplating what he just entered, then First and Second follow through. Leaving the papers behind, Reya and Alche read the papers. After reading a few pages, they found something what they are looking for.
“This is about the sphere last use”
“Alche, what part are you reading?”
“It is the part when the sphere is functional without the equipment we are using now. Because we are using ‘help’ from another source, which is why there is nothing weird happening”
Reya leans for a peek to see what he was reading, the page ends there as she herself held the other pages on hand.
“Including, awakening the creator’s creation . . . What’s that mean?”
Reya and Alche join together to understand this statement, and probably the reason why First and Second are going into the sphere. They returned and understood a little bit, showing nothing else except admiration of the sphere’s quality and furthermore, the secrets lie within those papers. Andui moves closer to them.
“Is the sphere will be ready soon?”
“More like, it tempted us a bit?”
“Hmm?”
“What Woni’es (First) said, this sphere is adapting”
Later, they go back to work. First tries his knowledge to show to them the possibility of the sphere. There is more and it is limitless to what it can do, he offered what he is trying to tell them.
“I tell you, try to use every technology you have on this sphere. I have read the papers they brought to us, and it describe any detail what we are trying to do”
“What do you mean, Woni’es?”
“The equipment we are using now are all from the elven crafts, from that portrait to the crate we are carrying . . . no, just open it”
Second opens the crate and found to peek Alche’s interest.
The sphere activates itself again, raising the materials inside the crate. All of it are look like ornaments, and pulled into the frame. The frame starts to encircle the sphere, drastically change around it. The simulation is force itself into a lively room, forcing to consume the power needed from the school. First tries to make it an example, but never know about the outside interference. Elven mana appeared together with neutral mana, the sight to behold, and forced them ceased the sphere. Everyone except for the Agatheans were gazing around them with such natural colors appearing inside the room.
The citizens didn’t feel the disruption yet, but for the three of them, they quickly retaliate as they felt it. Everybody applaud
“Amazing, so this is their version of a magic realm”
“Enders Bridge does have culture within their city”
“I feel so light, and never feel so refresh like that”
Elven magic, the soothing power from nature. Life and death through the blessings of their gods and goddesses, the citizens didn’t know Horsin never have that kind of sensation. The reaction from both of them acted differently and which is more believing after that sphere’s presence.
“Soothing?” First couldn’t grasps from their view.
“Yeah, it’s like cleansing off your worries for some reason”
“For us, it felt like death to us” Thean and Second agreed,
everyone sees them acting seriously and even more as Thean joins him.
“Is it that dangerous? You know I was blessed by them before. I never thought to be painful”
Alche shows his elven seal according through his mana, leaving no trace of impurity and a more empowering presence as it accidentally interacts the sphere. First loses control of the sphere as the controls are now Alche’s.
The sphere awakens the elven magic again, the same aura appeared once more. Leaving the three being afraid of it.
“Hey Woni’es, stop that”
“I can’t control it, Thean”
The others felt the same effects as before, soothing and promising to their bodies. Alche stops showing his blessings and he sees Second lying down on the ground unconscious.
“Hey! Secius (Second), wake up”
Everyone got worried why Second is lying that way, and now realize the other two are scared from the sphere’s different presence. Andui rushes to him and helps him recover.
First should’ve stop this and said “I don’t know about someone who is receiving the elven magic, but please, don’t use it near the sphere. I think you can control it. Try using it as we bring him to the infirmary”
Three of them left, leaving Quail alone and the other teachers. They are concerned what happen, and the others left to check and see. The remaining people in the simulation wondered about what he said.
“He says you can use elven magic to open it as well”
“Alche, can you really open it”
“I don’t know, I just show them my magic and this happened”
“Say, how about we try it?”
Iggy shows curiosity from what happened, they squandered both excitement and caution together. Coral and Reya were a bit interested of it while Andui already left with the others. Leaving only the people who are wondering about the sphere.
“Am I really going to test it?”
“You can see those three freely in and out of the sphere. We should be fine”
Quail was pulled in from Coral’s excitement and the idea to take a look of the sphere. Through proper conversation without experiencing get into the sphere before, they happily said.
“Come on, you need to join too”
“But, didn’t you guys were experiencing it before?”
“And those problems were not fix yet?”
“It was fixed a long time ago, but . . .”
“But what!?”
Both of them, Reya and Quail, are struggling together with anticipation and disgruntled if the sphere properly works. Reya had already getting used to as she was frequently coming late at the afternoon after their few tests, Quail didn’t know as she left earlier.
Reya didn’t want to but “Sigh* In case we did get in, we are going to be kicking out from the sphere”
“You hear that? Reya says yes”
“. . .” Coral won’t let them go.
Alche was under peer pressure where everyone wants to go in, he is with Iggy trying to persuade him to get into it. Looking at Reya and Coral, they seem they are trying to bring Quail along, but Reya looks like she was forced into it too. By the flick of his blessed elven magic, the sphere activates again. Surrounded by the elven presence the portal appeared from the portrait, repeating what Thean and the others did by just touching it. They entered the sphere one after the other. Entering the world from before, they thought it was not finish before, but thanks to the papers. It already was, but needs to update it.
Alche was the first to enter, none of them know the horror entering the sphere. Thanks to the presence of the elven magic, they show a different way of entering. A beam of light descended down from the sky, a land they could not recognize and no one knows where they are. Set foot on the ground, then splash to the lake. Not knowing where they are nor why they descend down to a lake. Walking through the beam of light, where the first to see them are the elves. Alche sees them with his hand remained active from his blessings. The elves wondered why a different race is wielding such blessing.
More and more of them entered the sphere, leaving Alche looking at the elves as they look back with more people amazed entering this world. Iggy appeared soak in the lake, following the others fully soak on it as they trip. The elves only look at them as they don’t know why they are coming here through an elven magic. An elf comes forth and ask to them.
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“It is strange to see a man held the blessing of our goddess, and more so the seal formed after many years ago”
“Years ago?” The elf shows his blessings match with his, by the blessings, he understood what it read.
“It’s stretch to more than millennia”
“True, but yours held by the different name of Ehan’Ra. Aelnanice, but she . . . nevermind. What’s your bringing to here?”
All of them are here inside the elven forest, seeing the inside for the first time is drastically amazed from the architecture. Iggy listened to their conversation, leaving her confused that this is a simulated or this is another world again. The interaction for the both of them gained attention with his co-workers. Showing them an actual conversation made them wonder more about this place. They got out from the lake how they drench from coming here. No local elves come closer to them, besides the guards.
Treating this place like another world, they ventured through the supervision with the elves. All of their devices are rendered useless, and only work to itself. Same what happened to them when they entered Horsin for the first time. Everyone tries wondering around to the limits of what the elves allowed them to do. Later, Alche meets the same elf who sided with him through his blessing with the elven goddess. Nothing changed much for a thousand years, but the elf’s mind wonders of Alche’s future dated power. The elf shows no skepticism, and acted impress of his future.
“I’ve never seen someone held elven magic”
“You!? Are you the same guy I met before?”
“I don’t know, yet you have the blessing through my own engravement. It looks better than I made now, does it come from a prophecy?”
Alche never thought meeting someone he knew from the past, and he heard from Thean that it was way back. Now with the elf he knew, it could be possible that the sphere is the recorded past. Only thing left for him to do is to use this knowledge for the present elf he wouldn’t say to him, but first.
The elf speaks first “If I live that long, then there so much things to say for my future self”
It was all good for the teachers wondering around the place, the biggest flawed for them coming to an elven territory that they can’t leave. The same thing was told from the original world, they need an elf to escort through the elven land because the citizens’ mana or physical body can’t withstand what nature brings inside. They thought they will do something crazy and forced themselves out from the sphere, but in the elven place, they felt their body can’t use any of their mana. Without feeling overwhelmed, it is sure make them think like it but can’t feel anything of it.
They left the sphere by thinking of leaving, with all the people returned and even Alche himself. Reya’s first time is just sightseeing all the creatures that once live and she couldn’t use her device to take a picture. Their new devices are now mana depended, since electricity turned into mana is the way of their future.
“Well . . . we did enter the sphere”
“We ended up in an elven city”
“We are limited to venture off the area, well that wasn’t fun”
“That would be enough for me, right Quail?”
“I don’t know what to say, it’s like we are imprison by them”
The elven presence is still active on the sphere, the portrait revealed where they went to. Alche starts to realize why they brought there. The portrait shows the same elf who is with Alche, it traces the one who bears the elven blessing. He is not sure if it is true, by the look at his friend, it tells so much how to describe that elven magic. Alche told Quail
“Did Woni’es said that we can change the equipment of the sphere?”
“Yeah, that’s right Alche”
“Then we should be better off waiting, this equipment was meant something else”
Disappointing and not satisfied for only a glimpse of the world. They are hoping to visit again to their full control.
Andui sighs in relief, Second is fine and weigh down from the presence of the elven magic. She didn’t know about the conflict between elven and neutral mana, First told her it’s probably their people are new to exposure of that kind of mana. He’s probably right, then again, she thinks about her stats. Going back to the simulation room, she saw Haw at the lab focusing on crafting the magic items. It is quite strange to see him working without any noise. Out of curiosity, she walks in. Haw notices as he already finished the easy preparation for his smithing.
“You seem busy”
“What happened to the room?”
“A lot exactly, say, I was wondering why two manas won’t coincide together”
Which one? Shamanism, Runes . . .”
“I’m talking about elven”
“I barely know elven, notedly, it shouldn’t call it like that. No one can use their magic except who are chosen”
“Chosen?”
“I told you, I know little and heard only what others are saying”
“Oh, I understand”
Alone together, expecting for her to be curious about his life. Sadly, remembering him with so much bad examples he took into this city. Andui cared so much to other people, especially to the person who save her.
“I was wondering, why would you give the students so much stuff?”
“This is what teaching is, beside training. I don’t know my training would fill their natural abilities”
“I don’t think so, I think it will improve in their own ways”
“Same what happened in the summer festival”
“Yeah like that”
Haw organize all the ingredients needed and the utensils are all prepared under the specialization for certain recipes. Regretting it seems normal for any people under reading the instruction, but for him. He was in the Dexter Guild. He never seen them stop, but died trying literally.
“Andui”
“Yeah?”
“What’s make you think that I’m good of a teacher?”
“I honestly don’t know, but thinking a chance to head to Rune Isles would be their future if they stay . . .”
Her tone kept slowly, quietly, and worriedly down. Haw will not expect those people to enter Rune Isles that urgent. There is still time to survive first in this continent, going to Rune Isles without experiencing the dread that lay the continent to drown down to its world’s core.
“If you don’t want to say anymore, just watch me work”
Andui watches him crafting an item, the way he follows procedure is too unnatural. The tools are magic, no sound in every motion, and processing time cut as it skips like no other. The first item is made. She looks at it where her UI shows the description.
“Elk spirit, made from a soul stone possessed what remains of its elven magic. It can summon the spirit under the hand of the wielder, it fights the same as it was a living elk but weak to use its elven power. However, it will not die until the wielder lose the soul stone”
Haw grasps the gem and summoned it.
The elk appeared in its emerald color spirit. The difference from the living elk is its size, enhanced by the soul stone, it is a formidable big beast to face. Haw tests the elk to move around phasing through, using elven magic, and materialized then disappears. Haw drops the stone, it disappears, and the stone didn’t break. Haw picks it up and the elk spirit returns. He places the stone at the table and proceed to the next crafting. Andui continues to observe the rest of his works. After for sometimes, Haw stops as the preparation need time.
“Alright, that’s that. Andui, you still here?”
“Uh huh, seems like I forgot to check the simulation room”
“It’s fine, there should be one last thing to do with that sphere”
“. . .”
Iggy appeared inside the lab, surprised by the junks scattered around here. She found Haw and said
“Hey, your team needs your help on something. It’s about the sphere”
She left without saying anything more, leaving him to stop his work. Haw looks around and takes the key of the lab.
“We should better leave. I’m locking this room”
Both of them left and go to the simulation room.
Iggy pulled Haw to the other direction
“Not there, at the infirmary”
Andui on the other side, was pulled by Coral.
“Sorry, but we need you elsewhere”
The two separated, stretching themselves to question what is going on. Haw gets in and sees the three concerning what they felt. Second is the one who is lying in bed, where Thean is sitting on the chair remembering his experience after improving the sphere. They see Haw, and has something for them to say.
“Do you know anything about the sphere previous experiments?”
“Through the letters, it said that it contains different generations using it. Which regards to whom and to what. I can only say from my understanding, this sphere brought here is already panned out”
“Dreadful Souls!” First saying out of the open,
he can’t believe what is trying to answer from what Haw said. They already thought about it, and the payment is soon close to their palm of their hands. Thean and Second didn’t know how a greedy this bastard he is, he is getting too impatient.
“Then we have to read all those papers that Second was reading this entire time”
“You’re starting to get impatient, what’s wrong?”
“I honestly get what I learn in this school. I’m already planning somewhere else during the remaining of the 1st moon season, we are getting too close for the twin moons”
“No matter, Right, we have to learn more about the sphere and . . .”
“You don’t get it, Second. Even he doesn’t know how to describe that sphere was”
First had already accepted this fact, a simulation of the sphere. The connection related to this sphere, Alche’s freely using it according to his will, and finally what they witnessed inside.
Thean already grasping what First is trying to say. Haw didn’t experience what happened to the sphere. Through such big changes when they get in, First tried to tell the teachers what it is capable of. Truthfully for him, he stops caring after the elven magic appearing to them. Such pain for him and the other agatheans, it felt on his head with a blur. They heard from what Second said before, they started to remember something. Their life or someone else’s, so familiar but too different to recognize once the blur clears. Thean lost tract and ask Haw a favor.
“Please go to the sphere and check it yourself. We can’t even try to think about the sphere after they are using elven magic in their”
“. . . Can’t argue by the look of your traumatizing face. Elven magic . . . wait the minute, you mean the actual magic?”
“Yes, I think Alche possessed her blessings. Please tell him not to use it on us, ok?”
Thean and the others show a big dent on their will, all three of them by the way, different lives, individuality, and ideals. No words got out from Haw, but he remembers his.
Haw goes to the simulation room, thinking and struggling. Alche possessed an actual elven magic and use it, which means he didn’t know the influence of the elven gods. Listening throughout his days in Enders Bridge, the elves . . . Eldesunes were telling stories about the Fall. Not by event, but the meaning of it. The Fall was known for the aftermath of the world’s destruction, doubted by the survivors, it continues on for a few more years. It is equivalent an actual war. Dreaded and lifeless from the center region, they still continue.
Witness in that even who are still alive are the demons, elves, and the dwarves. Rusic, the dwarf who is with them is more or less, 80years old, born after the Fall era. A deceptive race by their age and their conditions. Haw continues to sway away from it and tries to find Alche. Alche is with Quail, trying to test their own technology to interact the sphere. Haw reaches to him
“Alche, I heard with the Agatheans. You possessed actual elven magic”
“Wha . . .? Oh yes, is something wrong with them with my elven magic?”
“Listen to me, do you have been blessed by them?”
Alche was a bit guilty, but remembering them fears it. He wonders why.
“Yeah, can’t anyone handle it?”
“They can, but there were a few exemptions”
“Really! those three? Not the entirety of humans”
“Then try use it on me”
Alche paused a bit, then stares at Haw’s eyes. Concerning and worried, but no expression of what showed to him. Only his voice shows being serious at this moment. Quail had to step in.
“Go for it Alche, we can bring him to the infirmary if that happens”
Alche remembered when he using this magic, he was with the elves and his fellow community. He never done with the other Horsins before.
Raising his hand, the blessings appeared and brightens its view with everyone sees it. The sphere reacted as it surrounded itself through an elven influencing aura. Haw feels the comfort that an elven goddess supposed to give, it is real and tremendous by its appearance. Deeper within where the soft sound coming from it, none of them hears it, and barely heard from Haw by the soothing air breathing through their noses. After a few more seconds, Haw shows no sign of discomfort then brings out his drink on the spot. He drinks it as Alche and Quail were surprised.
“Really, drinking now?”
“Wait! Keep using your elven magic”
The faint concentration of his drink before was enough to the people around him, adding more and bit ditsy if he wanted to. Intoxicated or not, he hears the softness of a voice. Words come out of Haw’s mouth matching the dialect and words he must said to Alche.
“. . .” “What you just say? You got drunk . . .”
“Shh, be quiet Quail. I hear him say in elven language”
“What?”
Alche tries to listen to him carefully, not perfectly matching the tone and words, Haw’s trying.
“Amazing, that elf should have told me about this”
“. . .” Haw continues until he finally said through his own words.
“Guess I’m right that you have elven magic, but . . .”
“Yeah, I never thought that it tries to communicate me indirectly”
“Alright, what in the hell happen? You both start getting weird after Haw drinks in front of us”
“It’s fine, I’ll explain la . . . I second thought, listen”
Alche translated the words from what Haw said, he manages to fix a few words and there. Fixing the most complex dialogue he could to a non-speaking elf like Haw. Nothing much to say but to have a summary of it.
“My blessing, given to me from the elf, is trying to calling out to me. About the sphere and the younger elf, the one we met inside the sphere”
“Yeah and actually, the elven gods in the elves are identical. Even the blessing I have from them are actually the same ones back millennia ago. Do you know what that is? Right!?”
Alche grew more exciting, Haw is certain to those who were blessed should know about their language. Which will end the mystery of the sphere’s quality. Is it fully simulated and identical? Or replicated under fiction?
“It means the sphere is fully replicated, in other words, we entered the past”
A discovery for them to realize, an actual past version of this world. They all gathered to the sphere where the portrait is blank. The sphere is still needed the mind to open it, and Haw is the only one knows how to. He will be the one to open it. The portrait shows only where the place he was gone into. One of them is the goblin underground city, where a guild he visited. The classical guild, Quail never seen a city underground and from Haw’s mind is a nice sight to see. Alche sees actual goblins live like real people, it was amazing and sad to see the world is and now.
“I’ll be getting in, do you guys want to come along”
“Sorry, Haw, both of us found something interesting when reading the papers. You should get going”
“Yeah, Quail is right, I think I might regret it if I didn’t know how we meet people who is god like powerful”
Haw entered the sphere, no forcing an unimaginable entry into the sphere, he felt relief for some reason. He made it inside the guild as he entered from a magic circle. Strange, but kind of natural when entering and exiting like magic. The equipment had made the sphere a little bit logical as he entered.
“I’m telling you, this humie is like raised like us gobs”
“Really now? His performances using bottles are not what gobins been doing. Haw Edan . . . Yeah a complete gobin tribe name, but still”
Haw stood there silently as if the world finally moving straight. What left off from him was trying to check the city then found a guild with a little help, now they are interacting. The previous testing that it kept resetting, as if it is incomplete. Haw reaches out to them as they called out his name.
“The HUMIE!”
“Sir Edan, remember the next test is tomorrow”
His past actions were remembered.
Confused “Bor?”
“SEE! I was that gob, rofl”
“You really going to roll over and laugh like that!”
Alche grins to see the features being added to the sphere. Quail couldn’t find a setting to change except that they are inside the sphere.
“We really need to fix up the sphere, Alche. We have to choose to let that world plays itself or keep repeating”
“It’s linear, and what I read that we have to control it”
“Then we could add save files or anything like most computers have in our world”
“It is amazing!”
The sphere’s potential is growing, and much more complex they could ever have done. This could be the school’s greatest assets.
“Like a computer, we can’t touch the operating system”
Alche reads further within the papers, the references being implemented throughout the years. Leading this sphere to be the entire generation of many historians as if they were gods’ witness. Quail’s book, authored by Elijah Eluoise Euphin, tells the story during the Fall. It will be the final step to update the world. The portrait only shows the past world, the recent one was added from the previous owner. Inside the sphere, it is the key to change the geography to match this recent world.