Guild Alliance headquarters in the capital received startling news of a new Dimensional Gate appearing in a remote coastal city. This news soon reached the higher-ups and after a short emergency meeting where they discussed the matters of initial defense and reinforcements details they then received an ominous news.
After the spatial fluctuations subsided mostly and the Gate showed signs of manifestation, local guilds were unable to identify the rank on the very spot. This made the higher-ups finally alarmed.
First the Astral Divination Guild couldn't predict its appearance and now the ranking of that Gate couldn't be determined by them. If they were still complacent and busy pointing fingers at the Astral Divination Guild then they would have been ruling over this land in vain.
All players in this land had been taught in the academy where those terrifying beings acted as teachers and taught them about the world. Being able to categorize a Dimensional Gate by putting an appropriate hazard rank on it was naturally within the curriculum. So if they were still unable to identify the rank of that Gate meant that its hazard ranking was beyond what they could handle.
How could this be!
All the higher-ups quickly tried to come up with a solution while putting aside their differences. They would very much like to ask for help from the academy but being "failures" left in this place they had no qualification or any proper means to contact the academy.
Their only communication method was when the teleportation circle in the capital was active biannually and even that was a fixed one-way channel. Neither would they be able to send anyone from the Guild Alliance on that side nor entrusting the message on the enrolling students would yield any result.
They still remembered the bone-chilling knowledge they learned about the place they lived in which they considered safe. Even those terrifying teachers had a solemn expression while revealing this to their young selfs.
And when they failed at that "insane game" all of them were told to fend for themselves in a roundabout way before being kicked off from the academy grounds. If they failed to continue sending the awakened younglings every time the circle activated then only death awaited them.
Again realizing that they could only count on themselves, the Guild Alliance decided to form the subjugation team with their strongest player along with top combatant and noncombatant players.
They would leave for the Carnova city post haste.
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The subspace appeared in the city square of Carnova and caused a commotion.
He was sure that local guilds had probably contacted Guild Alliance higher ups and more reinforcements from the capital would arrive. He only had a short amount of time to complete his objectives.
"They shouldn't be able to get in because of the restrictions I placed in it so there isn't much worry on that front but the main question is how did it appear here? Considering the resonance I felt after I perceived it there's no doubt that it is mine. The unique signature of my soul is the only way for this subspace to be accessed. So the resonance of my soul and the subspace that appeared means that… I am not inside an illusion world but a real foreign world. If that's the case then what happened to my physical body? Is it still back at Abyss? Or…"
As he slowly cleared up most of his doubts more questions appeared in his mind. But all of it could be considered at a different time because his "instinct" was screaming at him to try to connect to the subspace quickly and retreat from this place as fast as possible. It seemed to sense strong threats incoming?
Blue focused as he tried to reach out towards the subspace on his mind. He naturally connected with it and was able to see the inside of it. With a thought he could bring out any content from it outside.
Blue ignored almost all the stuff inside it as he swept through the massive stockpile while focusing intently to find the thing that had made the "instinct" restless. When he saw that wretched cube his "instinct" went off again. The cube was over five meters tall and nine meters wide. It would surely be a glaring target if he brought such a thing outside that would have instantly crammed the inside of the room he was in.
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His physique as an abyss spawn was naturally much taller and borderline than any human could ever compare. At that time this cube fit perfectly at his hand but oh, how the times had changed.
A good thing about subspace was that no matter what the user put inside, it would be frozen in time thus preventing any decay. As for how big a subspace could be? It depended on the capability of the one who created it. Naturally if a subspace could keep the contents inside away from the flow of time's river then it could naturally mold spatial laws.
It had natural spatial coordinates fixed at his soul which would activate during the moment he perceived it thus allowing him to bring out stuff from it and deliver it right on his hands in an instant. It had many advanced functions which he developed back in the day but now his subspace that appeared in this world seemed to have been degraded to only those basic functions available to the most common folk.
After finding the cube he hurriedly willed to take it out and the massive cube shrunk rapidly to a size perfect to put inside his pants pocket. Then it appeared on his outstretched hand from thin air. He took one last look at the subspace on the square and then left with the same haste when he came.
After going through the same route and tactics he used when he entered the hospital and further improvising on the spot when any variable appeared, he finally arrived at the orphanage after two hours past curfew. Upon questioning the director, he found out that the guy had declared him as his student who will be taught in alchemy from tomorrow onwards. He now had a private room close to the director's private quarters on the same floor.
After gaining some privacy, he took out the cube from his pocket to investigate.
The cube was still the same as when he left it behind. Ink-black colored made with undulating liquid metal but there seemed to be some changes. Two lines had appeared on one of the six sides.
Blue touched the lines to check and all of a sudden those two lines extended and swiftly covered the remaining five sides. Two more lines crossed the existing lines in a symmetrical pattern. Then from those lines six different colors spread to the six sides and entirely covered each side with a single color. Red, Green, Yellow, Blue, Black and White.
Surprised at such signs from the wretched thing that nearly drove him back in the day, he figured that he might have fulfilled some condition to finally open it. He tried to open it by exerting force but it still didn't open. Before he could try other methods the cube flew away from his hand and levitated in the air. It then rotated the symmetrical lines. The previous six colors on each side became mixed and disorderly.
Blue watched the entire process happen without interfering. When the cube stopped its transformation and kept floating in the air he finally grabbed it. He now had an idea of what to do. It was basically asking it to solve the puzzle.
Thus he spent about a minute casually rotating the symmetrical lines and making the colors the same on each side just like it was during the initial transformation. The difference between an abyss spawn's intellect in puzzle solving and a mortal human was as vast as an ocean. The two just couldn't be compared.
After the cube's puzzle was solved, a "click!" sound came from the cube as if a mechanism had been opened. The cube left his hand again and levitated as the side with the black color faced the top. That particular side started to lift up from the cube's structure and dissipated leaving behind a hole.
The moment of truth had arrived.
Blue now was certain that the cube had been completely opened and there were no remaining conditions to fulfill or any puzzle to solve. He took the cube in his hand and peered inside. His eyes instantly went wide at the contents inside.
The very thing that old man, a terrifying core denizen at the end of his life, was searching for throughout the Inner Area. That thing the poor guy still couldn't find after searching for many millennia.
The silver earrings with the upside down pyramid symbol on it!
Blue cautiously took it outside from the cube and the cube in his hand dissipated in the same manner the earlier black side on it did. He was unsure of what to do now. Since it was a pair of earrings he concluded that he should wear it to investigate further.
The earrings were surprisingly or unsurprisingly at fitting size for a human child's ear. It seemed that this thing could adjust its size? Regardless, he cautiously wore it. He forcefully pierced his earlobes with those earrings without even flinching.
As soon as he finished wearing it, he heard the sound of a bell ringing in his auditory senses.
Ding!
[Detected that host has successfully fulfilled the hidden conditions for system binding]
This Information entered his mind after the bell chime. Blue had a grim expression on his face as he expected the worst case scenario, an incoming mental attack.
But the next set of information that appeared in his mind left him baffled.