I remained in the room facing the threat level for an hour until I finally saw an old man on the projector. He wanted me to punch him, but the old man was on his deathbed.

All the dark thoughts seeped into me until everything dawned on me as I continued reading about the world I was in.

The world was full of tunnels for excavating gems and essences but they were all closed

unnaturally by the Gellhorns and could only be opened by the Gellhorns, meaning me!

Papa was the Eighth prince to the throne and I was a hidden child but I was still a Gellhorn.

The Automator finally gave her a breather but the books were written in purple, it could only be seen under the black threat level light - i spotted this in its flickering.

Packing the book were easy i knew how to handle display from papa but the display’s voice

Didn’t help much, since I asked a lot of questions and didn’t answer them,

I also noted it didn’t speak for mama. I closed the book and placed it in my inventory.

I knocked at the door to tell them I was done.

No one answered and I assumed I was alone. I opened the door to find everyone there.

Fang, Lyra, Balandir, Julian and Orwen.

I wasn’t abandoned as they were taken back. was it my eyes, I felt like they were piercing.

I could see data and bars around them.

System Insight granted: A showcase of growing understanding of the display's capabilities and limitations.

Julian knelt by coles-by as he gave a pouch of silver.

“The people will be coming back, this pouch is your weekly allowance” Julian said.

“You can live like a princess now,” Lyra said.

“We have to prepare,” my voice said in a squeaky cadence, “Get the people ready to defend the city, Orwen, Lyra and julian.

Balandir bring people to craft handle this secretly.”

I could see how many people they had under them.

“Bring more people into your stead,”

“What will you do?” Lyra gulped.

“I need my horse and dog, send someone to bring that for me.

What will i do? Have you forgotten Ms.Zarek - there is a dragon coming.”

I stared at them, i could see there objectives rewritten like a note on them,

They seemed to agree to hide in the breach til the danger was over and take

Their items and leave - the only thing that stopping them from doing so,

Is The System’s voice which is probably a secondary reason why it increased the threat level.

“What about your essence, Miss Gellhorn,” Julian asked.

“Man the people and give them the essence under Market price,”

I couldn’t tell them about the oldman and the essence he wanted to give to me.

I only had one slot available.

“Let’s set out convoy stations for deliverance to reach far out into the distant land,” Orwen said.

“I’ll register each mages to different leaders to assign people and qualifications,” Lyra said.

“Bring them to the bank if they’re promising to sign an agreement for a military essence,” Julian said.

“Aye to the smith if they need be, that is where you’ll find me”

“I’ll rope the adventurers in,” Feng said.

“Let’s meet here once a day and in the field as well and recruit secretly” I said.

The team nodded and walked away except julian.

“What will you do now?” Julian asked.

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“Leave me here for the day,” I said, “Close the bank for today.”

It was still morning and all I needed from Julian was his access card.

Today i’m entering the breach. The man in the breach was the only person to explain everything i needed... i think

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Julian gave me his access card, i had memorized everything he had shown in the bank + i think he meant to give it to me now that i was his leader.

He must be feeling happy that i'm not leaving the bank as of yet but this might take more than a day.

I left him standing there as i headed to the cafeteria and placed some edibles in the lunchbox.

i'm not sure what that colorful glob that entered the breach saw but it reported it as an old man in his deathbed.

i placed the the food in the first aid kit as i walked down the corridor

"Gerda, may you allow me to take form?" The system asked.

"Yes," I said not knowing what it meant but all of a sudden there was two of me.

Unlike my floral dress, this blonde blue-green eyed girl wore a suit like Julian and had mismatching eyes and bruises.

"are you..." I hesitated."I'm like your mom when she was younger," The System replied, "I'm violette, an automator for your display".

I nodded and continued on towards towards the breach.The breach was sewn shut and half the length of the same room on the floor.

I now discovered that the atmosphere was simply a threatening feeling and not a temperature problem,

like water that became warm once you bask in and cold when only your foot entered.

Both of me entered into a luminescence of Light blue iridescents in a dim cavernous Grotto.

Violette took out that glob of white specter that was once a bear,

"Lead us to that man" Violette said, "If anything happens, let me take the pain while you run away, nothing can touch me," She reported to me.

"You're reporting to me," I said.

"Yes, Miss Fellhorn"

I felt it earlier but this Automator is prickly, I wanted to do everything by itself but luckily i had a practice with papa's display.

"Tell me about my mom," I ask while we worked.

"Reyna Strashur, she's feisty like you, naughty but i travelled more with your grandmother and your great grandmother,"

Viollette said."Oh where did you go?" I asked.

"The Sanctum," Violette smiled, she showed a devious look i've never done with my face as the dark contrasted with her inner illumination that flickered.

"The Sanctums are passed the walls of space, The Opera of ships flying like jet in pure carnage among the stars and dangerous planets,

It's beautiful, sheer beauty Gerda," Violette said.

"Well," I shrugged, "You're stuck with me in this tunnel, better get used to it," I said.

"It's exactly like your mom and the rainforest, i'm not complaining." Violette said.

We mapped our way, leaving landmarks, i took whatever treasure i found but what i found interesting was the layout of the maze-like structure.

I started taking breaks while Violette drew them for me and even she missed some subtle point that i had to redraw myself.

I sent Violette in and...*Bang* -doppelganger scenario failed: error: System conflict against System. Violette wasn't a real person.

Violette was astonished, her display system interfaced to my nueral structure and the world but this place was an underground hierachal system structure.

"I've only seen this in one place," Violette exclaimed, "The Mecca of our home race but this place is bigger!

you can have under a thousand unique displays in this!" Violete said.

"Is that a lot?" I asked.

"Our race has a population of three hundred and fifty - this place is double or triple the engine power" Violette said.

"And... It's.. All Yours," A voice croaked, "Young lady... May I *cough* use Auto-Mator for...a Moment," the croaking voice said.

"It's fine," Violette said, "I'm under your insignia".

I nodded, "Yes"."That's much better" He said through Violette, "Let us continue the tour"

.It was Wierd having an old man speak through what looked like my body but at least he wasn't stammering.

"So all of this will be mine?" I asked.

"Yes, i belong to a race classified as a dungeon, think of us as like a cosmos or galaxies but that of which that takes places in spaces between trees and rocks" He said.

"Ah," I responded."Just like galaxies or the stars need activity we need activity as well" He continued.

"Though what does that have to do with me?" i responded.

"Well my young Castellan, you own a bank, and a sneaky way to do so, you are heir to the Gellhorns so you own the kingdom -

this is simply ownership and if you comply you will own buildings that are living organism as well - something no one has ever cultivated," He said.

We walked while i thought about out.

"What about the bad sides, there are good sides and there are bad." I said.

"Your quite astute for your age," he said, "The bad side is finding space and numbers for us, but overall anything is possible, anything!"

He teleported us to a dying garden and with cavern entries everywhere i knew this was the center of the place.

Before i spoke a word i saw the old man bodies laboring to breathe in meditation.

"Then why are you dying?" I asked."Young lady, I have been here before the outside world was formed, i've lived for a very long time but i am last of a dying breed,

as you've heard before that the sanctums are all the hype but i have something not Sanctum can give you..." He said.

"and that is..." I lingered

"Disposition," he said, "Attributes. they fight long and hard to push their display but can their display push them.

surprise achievement are one thing and objectives are another."

"Why me?" I asked.He paused a smile crossed his face, "Because you are of the Eden race and the only Gellhorn brave enough to pioneer my race forward"."What so special about my Eden race?" I ask out of curiosity, why did my papa and mama meet when they were two different races.

"Special, rather than special is quite a tangent, rather you take pleasures, pleasures you are too young to know.

My dear child, by birthright! the world is your oyster!