Chapter 2 : Another World
Surprised, I quickly open my eye.
I am floating in a clear cylinder shape container. I tried moving around but was stopped by an invisible barrier. Then I look around the room. The surrounding wall was pure white with lined with blue stripe, which light up occasionally. Look like a unnecessarily hi-tech wall to me. I notice an old man, straight hair all white, his face covered with a well groomed beard. Clothed in a simple light blue robe with some pattern on it. His eyes gives out a strong impression of him. A face with some wrinkle, still I could say he quite handsome. It hard to tell how old he is. My guess he should be in his 50s.
“This...this is..where..what?”
I asked disjointedly. My mind was too jumble up from the surprise. The 4 Ws 1H question went through my head. What, where, when, why, how. Quickly my mind sorted out some possible answers. However, that only some assumption and guessworks, as a few moment passed I decide I better get the answers from the old man in front me.
“Have you calmed down?”. He asked as he made a swiping motion. A transparent screen appear in front of him with unrecognizable character flowing through it. A Holo Interactive Interface, I recognized the technology. However I did not see any instrument producing the holo.
“Yes.” Tearing of my thought of the missing holo instrument I answered him. It would not do to be rude to him. Whoever he is, this certainly not normal and I have to tread carefully.
“Welcome, to the Realm of Eorion, young one.” He said in a calm voice, with a hint of excitement in it.
I frowned at him calling me ‘young one’ but didn’t mention it aloud.
“My name is Gadriel Elwin, Keeper of Azure, Guardian of the West, Protector of the Ancient are some of the title I known as. But, you can just call me Gadriel.”
Quite a lot of flamboyant sounding title there, time to introduce myself.
“Please to meet you, lord Gadriel. My name is..”
“No, do not name yourself.”
My introduction was cut short by Gadriel.
“In this realm, your true name held power over your being. You best remember not to mention it to anyone but your most trusted. Before we continue, pick a new name for yourself.”
That surprised me. A few thing in my mind clicked together. So true name-realm-power...The answers I seek continue to narrow down with this clue. Then I push the thought back to the corner in my mind and utter my new name.
“Alva. My new name will be Alva”
It not hard to pick a new name. I just use the nick I like to use for my mmo character. I pick ‘Alva’ since I like the sound of it. Later i found out it was a common name for Sweden and Norway. Since it a common name it usually got taken by others before i could use it, thus my character name usually ended up as AlvaZero or DarkAlva. Since this new name I will be using for myself it would be improper to attach ‘Zero’ or ‘Dark’. Silently I laughed to myself.
“Very well. From now on I will call you Alva. Now Alva, please listen to me carefully. I am not sure if we got enough time as it is.”
He threw his glance to his holo-panel. Some kind of unknown character keep changing. It is a timer. A countdown timer, my instinct told me.
I gave a nod and said “ Please do.”
Gadriel made a few gesture while touching the panel. A large holographic image appear in front of me. It is an image of a blue sphere, I recognize it, although different then earth this sphere should be an image of a planet.
“This is where you are right now. A planet known as Eorion. Compared to your planet Earth, Eorion is several times bigger. It inhabited by several different sentient life forms. Me and you, human, are one of the sentient life forms which inhabit this planet.”
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Gadriel made a gesture and the planet image zoomed in. I could see the land more clearly now.
“70% land and 30% of the surface covered in water. With a total of 14 different continent all together.”
I studied the continents. Weird,except for one all those continent was spread evenly with same shape and size spreading like a flower petal. The final continent with a even circle shape was in the center of the other continent.
“The continent shape look weird, how the shape get to be so even?” I asked.
Gadriel raised his eyebrow. Currently his look reminded me of my old professor giving lectures to his student. He raised both of his hand and do a outward swipe motion and the image turned into a flat map.
“So you noticed, not that it was not obvious. Eorion also known as Grand Flower of the Realm. As how to it get to be that shape. It was artificial - it was made to be so.”
His answer gives me further surprise.
“Artificial? It was man-made?”
“No. To be exact, it was made by Gods. The whole planet was created by them.”
Gadriel short answer sent my mind further reeling.
“At least they are known as God in this realm. A sentient being powerful enough to create a planet. However in my opinion they are not real god. They might be powerful, they also have infinite life span, but they not almighty and could still die.”
The screen change and show a human. At least he look human but a human emitting flashy colorful aura from his body. He heavily clothed in a grand looking robe, suddenly the image moved and he raised his hand. So it a video this time.
He was floating in the sky above the continent. His raised hand start to collect the surrounding aura in a small sphere form. After a while the sphere was shining like a second sun. He threw the sphere onto the land and a large pillar of light appear. After a while the pillar of light disappear and a large hole appear. He start collecting his aura again, this time a sphere of blue aura and once again threw it. This time there no explosion or a pillar of light. The blue sphere went to center of the hole and suddenly expand. It kept expanding till it cover the original hole, in a flash the sphere stopped glowing and all that left was water. The being look at his handiwork and from his face I saw he gave a nod and smile satisfied. And then he disappear from the view. The video ended a few seconds after that.
My mouth left gaping while I look at this spectacle. While in the video perspective the hole does not look too big, but I knew from the map the area blown out was at least 1/10 of the continent. And this being made a large lake easily. Changing the continent geography to his liking.
What kind of being this is? While I do not acknowledge them as god, but with that kind of power I could understand if other revere him as one.
“However great they are though, they still can be killed.” Galdriel said as he gives out a harrumph.
It seem that Galdriel does not like those being.
“Umm. Can I ask, why did you save me?” I tried to change the subject. While the new world and its inhabitant overwhelm me, I still do not know why I was saved.
Gadriel looked at me and gave out a sigh. He suddenly look weary and older.
“I am sorry for your lost, child.”
Great. Now I am a child.
“I, Gadriel Elwin, was like you. An unfortunate stranger in this realm.”
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