Chapter 1 Dress Up and Ready

The girl's eyes slowly opened. Emerald eyes emitted a faint light, then that light slowly dimmed. She then pushed her body up slowly and looked around.

She noticed that all around her was dark, only at the base where she was emitting light. There were a lot of green screens floating around over her, still flickering.

One of the screens floating down in front of her face.

[Testing Intelligence, Knowledge And Brain Capacity…]

The girl looked at the words on the screens. She read and somehow understood what it meant.

[Push Your Right Hand Pass-Through The Screen On Your Right]

The girl looked to her right side and found a green screen floating near her. She slowly pushed her right hand through the screen. Her hand passed through easily, she did not feel anything touching her hand. Now, The screen struck around her wrist. She then turned to look at the screen that was telling her what to do again.

[Passed]

[Next, Draw Your Right Hand Up Over Your Head]

She did as what the screen told. She slowly drew her right hand up over her head and the screen that was on her wrist followed.

[Passed]

She looked up and saw the screen on her wrist disappeared. Then she looked at the screen in from of her again.

[Next, Question: ‘What Are You?’]

[Put The Answer In The Screen Below]

There was 1 more screen floating down and stayed below the questioning screen. The new screen had letters and what looked like empty space near the top screen border.

The girl stared at it and closed her eyes a second then opened them. She pushed her hand in front and started typing. The word started to appear in the empty space.

[‘Rosaria’]

Then she looked at the question screen.

[Corrected]

[Next, Last Test… Error]

[Difficulty Setting At Max…]

[Ignoring Error… Proceeding…]

[Remember All these Letters Before Time Running Out And Answer It]

Then the screen started to expand and stop after it had half a cubic meter. There appeared a big number [10] filled the screen, then that number got smaller and moved to the top right of the screen. Then appeared letters from the top right to the right, 10 letters per row, 10 rows. The number at the top right started to change from [10] to [9], counting down.

The girl stared at the screen, focusing.

[2]

[1]

[Time Up]

The letters all disappeared at the same time, leaving only empty space.

[Enter The Answer]

The girl closed her eyes, breath in and out, then opened her eyes again which emitting soft light. She started entering the answer.

Not long, the letters that filled the screen looked exactly the same as before.

[Perfection]

[All Testing Complete]

[Congratulation]

[You Are Now FREE]

[Thank You For Your Patience]

The screens disappeared, all of them. The girl looked around, then the glass of the tube that holding her started to pull up.

[Assisting A.I. Starting...]

The girl jumped a little. Now, there was a voice inside of her head.

[Ready]

[Hello Host. I Am Assistant AI. My Duty is to Help Finding And Collecting Information. When The Questions About Biology And Geography Appear in Host Mind, I Will Answer It. Host Can Ask Other Kind Of Question, But I May Not Be Able To Answer all of them. Host Can Turn Me Off By Cutting Mana That Supplies Me.]

The girl looked annoyed at first, then after listened to the end, she closed her eyes and felt her mind. She found something, very small, nibbling at her mana pool. She focused on it, there was a small line connected from her mana pool to that thing. She tried to pull the line out of her mana pool.

[Turning Off, Hibernation Mode On]

She then pulled the line back to her mana pool.

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[Turning On, Hibernation Mode Off, Hello Host]

The girl now feeling better, she didn't want something inside her head to answer her every question that she didn't ask.

The girl looked further in front of her, away from what looked like a console of some kind. She noticed that there was light on the floor making a line leading further away to what looked like to be a table, no legs. The table was emitting light.

The girl stood up, swaying a little. her height was around 160 centimeters. She walked to the edge and jumped down to the floor.

Immediately after she touched the floor.

“So our children are ready.” The voice of a man talking from within the darkness around the room. The girl almost fell head first, she steadied herself and looked around, found nothing but the dark.

“You can call me ‘father’. But even if you call, I won't be able to answer. I will be mostly gone by now, this is only a recording.”

The girl stops looking around and continues to walk to the table.

“Project Rosaria is our last dream, which we won't ever see it finished ourselves. It’s very hard for us. We don't care what happened to the world anymore, but we couldn't let them destroy what we had built.”

The girl reached the table. It was around 1 meter in height, 1 meter wide, 2 meters long. She looked around on the table. It was empty, only a green screen with the word [OPEN] was in the middle.

“We put every knowledge and insights of each world that we found into each one of you. We create a body that can hold each power. The more we know about that world the faster you, children can wake up”

The girl touched the screen. The screen disappeared and then the table, no, it was a big metal box, opened at the top. Inside, there were some pieces of clothes folded at the top of what looked like a shield, half a meter radius, on top of what looked to be a glaive.

“It takes a long time for calculating and longer to start doing it. But it was a peaceful time for us and everyone here, smile. Too peaceful that what happened before we are in this hole, hiding, look just like a long forgotten-nightmare.”

On top of pieces of clothes, there was a paper, on the paper had words, ‘Be free. This is our last gifts for you, Happy Birthday’. When the girl turned the paper to look on the other side, she found a photo of a mannequin wearing clothes that were in front of her right now. It looked like a 1 piece dress reached below the knees with armors cover almost entire upper body, leaving only elbows area opened. There were high metal boots reached the knees behind the skirt. Also, a helmet that had a shape of cone cutting in half from the top, the sharp edge point to the front, covered front and sides of the head, letting the back opened for hair. She put down the photo, then started dressing up

“We hope that what happened up there has already stopped. We hope that you, our children can live free of danger. But we noticed midway in our project that is impossible now. So we created a weapon for each of you. We hope that you like it. We guarantee those are the best now and maybe even the future. It holds the power of your respective world. We won't know what you will use it to do. But we only say this ‘Go BOOM our children, we don't care if you use it to fulfill what you want’”

Finished dressing up, The girl looked at around her body. It fitted her perfectly. Even the metal that should feel hard like gauntlets and boots are so comforting. She felt safe wearing this. She reached inside the big metal box, grabbed a big Shield, holding it in front of her face. It was very light, almost no weight but she still felt it’s hardness. It had a beautiful pattern, the material of the shield is gray almost white and it was reflecting her face clearly, the middle of the shield had a symbol of some kind of flower with different leaf colors. She grabbed the shield handle with her left hand, then used the other to grab the glaive. It was also very light and around 170 centimeters long. The blade was 40 centimeters long and had some vines pattern on its sides. She felt something started to connect to her mana pool.

“While we create your weapons, we found something new, something that we had skipped it somehow in the past. It is the connection. No sentient beings in this universe can live alone, they must have a connection to the other in some way. We did not notice it until we look closer. The weapons are calling, not literally, they just had this reaction when near you, they try to connect you. And this is new, so we were making haste in research this special connection. But we don't understand much except that it has a positive result. If we had more time maybe we will make a world where you live more peacefully.”

[Synchronizing…]

There was a voice in her head again. It started to count number from 1 then jumped to 17 in a second and jumped again like this until it reached 100

[Complete]

She felt something new like she had another limb. She knew immediately that this new feeling is the glaive in her hand. Now, this connection also connected to the shield. She held her weapons firmly, drew her mana toward them. The glaive and the shield start emitting green light. She looked at her glaive and controlled her mana to its blade. The blade absorbed her mana like drinking sweet honey and shine more brightly.

“We want to pass you our knowledge but we learned that something is better to be forgotten. We really want to see you, teach you many things. It must be fate… hahahahaha. The researcher, the one who's the duty is to explain thing stalking, about the unexplainable. Haaa. Listened here, as one of your creators and fathers, I need to order you something. ‘Go, live, you are free, go do whatever you want. This world is yours now’. Use the password and the way out of this hole will appear. Be warned, it is a ---------------------- which ------------. So, you may -------------------------------- don't----------”

The girl felt like whatever recording that had broken. But not a second later, there was a blue screen appeared in front of her face. Look like her creators like to throw things at people face. She read whatever on screen.

Dear Number 5, Eva, Our child.

This is our personal message to you.

Do you know how to be free? Freedom is a word that has power. It can mean anything. It's not that you can do anything you want, it is what you choose. You can't do everything you want, child, but you can choose. Choose the way that fulfills you. Really we don't even know that you will have emotions or not but you must know this, we love you, all of you.

And this may be a warning, depending on how you think of it. We predict that you will be the last to wake up. It is not because we create you last, It because of the world that your power from is the last of worlds that we found. It is the world that caused disaster in our world. It is not that we hate you. We want to warn you that whatever power inside of you, you must learn everything about it. And live happily, my daughter.

Happy Birthday

Love Mother

May the song guide you

After reading to the end, the girl noticed the song that had been playing since before she woke up. She felt so comforting, very familiar…

The girl closed her eyes, focus on listening to the song. She felt her mana pool heat up, expanding. Her body started to emit more green light. The light started to float upward. After some minute pass, she opened her eyes. The light around her body shot up created a pillar of green light. After some seconds the pillar of light faded away.

She felt much stronger. Her mana pool is 2 times bigger. Her body was somehow bigger too. Now, she was 170 in height. Her clothes still felt comfortable somehow and her glaive is longer and shield is bigger or more like they grew with her?

[Clothes That Host Is Wearing Right Now Made From Mana Creature, Using Special Process, It Can Stretch And Even Fix Itself. Not Only Clothes But Also Host's Equipment. But It Was Made From Different Material And Different Process.]

The girl almost forgot that voice inside of her head. She did not mind it much, it needed time to get used to. And now.

The girl looked around for the last time. Nothing different than a minute ago. She ready now. Ready to leave her birthplace.

She smiled. And speak for the first time

“Happy birthday”

Her small, calm voice caused small wind blow weakly in front of her.

Then it appeared. A pillar of transparent blue light shot upward in front of her.

No hesitation. The girl, Eva, walked into the middle of light and disappeared.