“What?”
"Oh, shut up Pat.”
While Gan sounded like he genuinely asked Pat about what he is saying. Rick openly dismayed and told Pat to shut up but Mrit didn’t let that happen as he answered back asked for the reason he asked such a question.
“Yes I can, but why you ask?”
Mrit got his interest piqued as he never expected that question from Pat. From Rick’s memories, he concluded Pat is somewhat of a muscle brain and that, Rick is the brains between these two. And now, Rick is fearing him and trying his best to not offend him. But now, Pat’s question surprised him a little.
Seeing that Mrit was waiting for the answer, Pat hurriedly answered.
“I-It’s because when I saw the memories of yours, you didn’t have any power. It was after the devil killed you that you…. gained the… power.”
This time, Rick’s face was full of surprise as he too like Mrit never expected a serious question along the type of answer from Pat ever. From their childhood, he knew Pat is weaker on brains and stronger on brawns, but now seeing him asking such question really surprised him a lot.
On the other hand, Gan who heard Pat looked at Mrit with a questionable gaze.
“Memories? What’s he talking about?”
“Ohh, you didn’t show him Rick?”
Turning to Rick, Mrit asked as he thought that Rick would have showed Gan the memories of his last night but Rick denied by shaking his head.
“You said last night that you will tell him everything on morning, so I thought you will yourself tell him everything.”
“Hmm, fair point. Well, I guess you too should know about my past too as we will work together now. So look.”
Mrit then put his left hand on Gan’s head and activated the skill and transferred the memories he showed to Rick. After some seconds, Mrit removed his hand and Gan who just finished watching and experiencing Mrit’s memories just stayed silent with opened eyes.
“So, what I was saying is that when I tested this out, I wasn’t that impressed by the output of the skill, but Totopa here disagreed and then brought you here. I guess he knows you will answer my curiosity.”
After saying that, Mrit put the fire off of his hand and looked at Rick for the answer. Now knowing what he has to answer, Rick was about to speak just when Gan interrupted.
“Well, acco-”
“Elemental Magic.”
“Hmm?”
Mrit turned to Gan as words came out of his mouth. Rick who was going to give the same answer then continued to explain.
“Yes. According to what we were taught, there are three types of magic users.”
“Three types, huh? Explain.” Intrigued, Mrit asked after which it was Gan who replied.
“In this world, the magic users are divided into three categories. First, those who can use magic. It is said that after the baptism of the children, the children awaken their dormant abilities.”
“Like magic?”
“Yes, and also uurja.”
“Urja, what’s that?” A new term, Urja presented itself which again piqued Mrit’s interest. Even though he saw both of Rick’s and Gan’s memories along with many others, he didn’t come around the word uurja.
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“Captain, it was the old name. Sir, for years it is now called internal energy or simply Ki by people.” Rick refuted Gan and told Mrit about the new name of this uurja after which Mrit somewhat got the idea as to where this name came from.
“It is from my world. It was also called Chi too. But wait a minute!!”
After listening to Gan and Rick, Mrit who had another question interrupted them in middle.
“Rick, what do you mean by old? Not much time has passed since the heroes were summoned, right?”
Going by what both Gan and Rick said, it seemed to Mrit that the goddess changed the name from a very long time. But if he were to remember, it was something like after some months of apocalypse when the awakened on earth started to go missing.
“What do you mean? It’s been 1000 years since the first hero was summoned. What are you even talking about?”
Gan answered back as he, being the most senior here knew more than Rick and Pat who were just mere teens. But his answer didn’t digest well Mrit at all.
“WHAT!! *SLAM!*”
Slamming his both hands on the table, Mrit suddenly got up, with a face full of questions with a hint of anger.
“What do you means by thousands of years!! Answer me!!”
He then picked up Gan head and brought it near him, shouting and asking him for the answer. Bewildered by his sudden outburst, Gan got confused and tried to explain to Mrit.
“It is what it is. In our history, it was mentioned that the goddess summoned the first hero into our world to vanquish the demon king one thousand years ago.”
“N-No, how is this possible?” Saying so, Mrit put the head back on where it was as he slowly calmed down. Seeing Mrit like this, it was Rick that continued.
“Because the demon king had the ability to resurrect whenever he was killed, she summoned more heroes to aid the first hero. And finally, after 700 years of great battle, the first hero finally slayed the demon king. But Sir, why did you… got so agitated?”
After giving the answer, Rick asked question though hesitantly as he remembered the last night. Gulping down the saliva, he waited for what is coming next.
“Sigh!!”
*SIT!*
After a deep, heavy sigh, Mrit sat down and stayed silent for some time with his head down, probably trying to digest the information he got. After a while, he looked to Rick and spoke.
“Why I got agitated, you ask. It is because only after some month of the apocalypse when the incident of the disappearance of the awakened and it lasted for about 5 years. After 5 years, I died and got awakened. I don’t know about any news of other awakened going missing after that.”
“!!”
“What?!”
The sudden revelation left both Gan and Rick speechless as what they heard was that ridiculous to them.
From their childhood, they were taught that the heroes have struggled for hundreds of years and finally managed to defeat the demon king and now, in front of him, another hero is saying that only 5 years passed by in his world when the heroes first started to get summoned.
“Maybe it has something to do with time dilation or something that there is such a humongous difference in time.”
“Time di.. lation? What is that?”
This time, it was Gan who asked, wanting to know more about this time dilation thing.
“In our world, scientist which you can think of something like sorcerers of this world have coined this term years ago. Basically, it means the difference of time between two clocks. For my world, time was slow but I guess for your world, it was faster.”
“There is something like this too?”
“I never thought that time can be slowed down.”
Both were enchanted by the time dilation that they started to mumble among each other. After seeing that these two were so engrossed by their little talks, Mrit faked a cough signalling them to finally stop.
“So, continue from where we left.”
“Ahh y-yes… So where was I? Ah yes, the categories. So as I was saying….”
And so, after a discussion that span about half an hour, Mrit finally got a basic overview of the system of power and magic in this world.
According to both Rick and Gan, magicians are divided into three parts. First those who can use magic besides elemental ones like flare, magic missile etc. second, there are those who can use elemental magic like the conjure fire. But the catch is, they can only use elemental magic.
"And the third, the one who can use both the elemental and other magic. The archmage."
"Yes. An existence so rare that having one within you side can almost win you many kingdoms. There are only a few who are known to the public and they all are at the holy kingdom, serving the Goddess." Gan told to Mrit about the so-called archmage with much exaggeration.
"No wonder you are that shocked when you saw me using that skill."
"Obviously. Even the elementals are not many you know. But that isn't the extent of your power, is it?"
From what he saw in the memories, the elemental magic user or an archmage are nothing in front of the existence that Mrit was back on earth. If they have anything to compare to Mrit, it will only be the Goddess. Hearing Gan, Mrit sneered.
"Yes. But for now, I don't want to depend on the power of death anymore. Now that I have this-"
Raising his right hand up, the sun symbol shone bright and suddenly, he was enveloped in the sun aura. Seeing this, both Gan and got reminded again about the anomaly that is sitting in front of them.
"I will try my best to not depend on death. I will have my revenge using the power of sun."
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