Chapter 55
A peek into other realms (2)
Saiko rubs the back of her head while avoiding Eun Woo’s gaze.
_ I don’t know if this makes it any better but I didn’t mean for this to happen _
-well, it doesn’t, and as much as I want to complain I think we have much more important things to discuss-
Eun Woo lowers his head and looks at Saiko.
-have you had a chance to sift through all the memories of the souls you have devoured?-
Saiko raises an eyebrow at the Royal guard wondering why he is asking her such an odd question.
-no? I have a mountain's worth of memories but it’s mostly memories of different plants and animals so I assume your memories and the memories of the surveillance unit members that were on the mountain are the only ones that matter-
-pfft, you are so wrong, our memories are worth nothing in comparison to what you have hidden inside you-
Saiko starts quickly going through the countless memories of the souls she had devoured.
_What are you on abou-
She suddenly stops midsentence as she notices odd memories flash before her eyes.
She sees a sight she has never seen or heard of before.
A world of fire.
It’s as if she is looking at hell or to be more accurate it looks like the pop culture version of hell, not Gehenna that her old man told her about.
However, the pop culture version of hell is supposed to be a place of endless torment and suffering and this is anything but.
This is a beautiful ethereal world one most can’t even dream of or envision.
She sees an endless forest of a living blue flame and creatures with burning bodies and goat like horns running freely through the endless forest of fire.
She sees dragon like creatures diving from the sky into glowing lakes made of liquid fire.
She calls them dragons but they look nothing like any dragons that live on earth.
These beings are reptilian looking but their bodies are almost see through, you wouldn’t be able to see them at all if not for the golden hue that surrounded their bodies and the freckles of golden light shining from within their bodies like stars in the night sky.
She sees glowing castles whose walls look like the sun and people whose bodies are made of various flickering and colorful flames flying around them.
All beings in this world be it the dragons or the people seem to have no definite shape and instead can take on any shape they want out of convenience or preference.
The difference in species here seems to not be about the form your body takes which can be changed at will but is all about the type of fire your body is made of.
If she had to guess they probably copied these forms from creatures living on Earth.
the world of fire wasn’t the only world she had memories of.
There is a second world.
A world that looks so similar to Earth that she almost dismissed it that is until she noticed the living creatures in it.
Whirlwinds, tornadoes, and hurricanes wrapped around humanoid green creatures like protective shells as they fly through the sky.
The bodies of the green creatures look somewhat similar to plants.
They have no leaves or trunks or anything like that however their dark green skin has a soft texture that is somewhere between the texture of skin and that of leaves.
Small transparent hair like structures grow on their skin similar to the hair that is seen on some plants on Earth as well as numerous appendages that look like vines.
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Their skin allows them to feed on the light of the sun like plants saving them the need to ever touch the land of their world.
As for their eyes, they have no pupils nor any discernible structures, instead, they look smooth and often have only one color that fills the entirety of the eye.
The sky of that world is full of jellyfish like creatures that float and let the air currents carry them around.
Numerous bird like and winged creatures roam the sky and feed on the jellyfish.
Saiko looks stunned for a moment as she becomes aware of all these memories.
_whose memories are these? _
-these would be our memories –
Saiko turns around following the voice and sees two fiery beings, one red and one orange, as well as five green creatures.
Saiko points at the beings with a look of shock and horror.
She can already guess what happened but she can’t help but ask.
Knowing and dreading the answer she hesitantly opens her mouth to ask.
_w,why are you here?_
The oldest of the green beings, a female with violet eyes and white antennas wearing a long flowing dress similar to the petals of a violet flower, responds.
You wouldn’t be able to tell her age by looking at her, However, Saiko could tell from her having the most memories.
-a wave of decay broke into our world and swallowed us and after that, we were drawn here-
Saiko falls to her knees and stares at her victims.
Noticing her state and wanting to keep the conversation focused on the discovery of new worlds, Eun Woo tries to comfort her.
-hey, there are not a lot of victims from the other worlds and these seven seem to be the only sentient victims-
-ahm-
The red fiery being clears his throat.
Of course, he has no real throat to clear but he is trying to mimic the mannerisms of someone from Earth speaking apologetically.
-I wish that was the case, however, the wave of decay devoured many people besides us, additionally the wave of decay would have traveled in the space between layers as much as it traveled in your spatial layer, which means the wave of decay likely affected numerous worlds-
The orange fiery being adds.
- the reason we are the only people here isn’t that we were the only ones to die but rather that whatever ritual that drew us here had reached capacity and was overwhelmed by the number of souls and simply couldn’t absorb them all-
Eun Woo glares at the fiery beings then turns his attention to Saiko, noticing her staring at the endless void.
The words of the fiery beings had stabbed her heart deeply.
It was already bad enough that she had killed ten royal guards and over twenty five surveillance unit members, let alone the countless plants and animals that called that mountain home, but now they are telling her that her vile magic had reached numerous worlds and killed even more numerous lives.
This has to be some kind of joke.
How destructive could that magic be?
How could it reach other realms?
She recalls that Noai said the interactions between the different spatial layers is impossible, so, how?
How many more people has she killed?
-snap out of it-
She hears Eun Woo shouting from behind her and turns slightly to glance at him.
-we don’t have time for you to feel sorry about this, instead of worrying about those who have already died, you better start worrying about those who are still alive-
Sir Herman steps forward with his Girin.
-Miss Saiko, not only did we discover other realms, we had attacked them, although we don’t know how many of these realms are aware of ours, nor how many of them can travel between realms, however, considering the sheer number of worlds affected, it’s almost certain that some of them know of us and some them can travel through worlds, and many of the worlds who don’t know will find out how to travel to our world when they investigate the wave of decay -
Eun Woo continues with a voice full of urgency.
-how many of these worlds would use the wave of decay as an excuse to invade our world? If not out of revenge, then out of greed, worlds that have beings that we have never seen before, that we don’t know the abilities of, that our planet is not ready to fight-
The red fiery being observes Eun Woo for a moment then nods his head.
-although, I sense a great deal of hostility and hatred from him, what he said is indeed sensible, although our world is unlikely to attack yours, our great ancestor wouldn’t allow it, that’s not the case for every world, and considering the number of them at least some will.-
- I mean no offense to you sir but the last time we made contact with otherworldly creatures it didn’t end well for us, I may be dead but my family is still alive and my nation is still alive, and I don’t plan on letting what happened three thousand years ago happen again-
Eun Woo responds to the red fiery being.
Herman looks at Saiko and pleads with her.
-Miss Saiko, you are not only the only one living who can do anything about this, you are also the only one who is even aware that an invasion is coming-
- you are also technically the one who caused it-
A young boy of the green creatures with blue eyes and wearing a sky blue tunic adds.
Herman glances at him for a moment then looks back at Saiko.
-Miss Saiko, our king believed in you, please if you are not like the other invaders, you have to meet with our king and protect our world-
Saiko raises an eyebrow at Herman’s comment about the invaders, then lets out a sigh and decides to ignore it.
After all, her cursed vile magic has really outdone itself this time.
Of course, this time she had used more of it than any other time before.
Instinctively, she had always been reserved when she used it to minimize the damage it caused and only used it a handful of times her entire life but learning water magic made her more comfortable with wielding her power.
There is no risk of her water magic accidentally harming anyone, not only did she have a great deal of mastery over it but her water magic could think for itself and react appropriately to avoid harming others.
This freedom and comfort that water magic granted her caused her to lose the instinctive reservation that is required for decay.
‘Still, I never would have thought that this cursed magic would threaten the existence of the entire world’
Saiko clenches her fist and looks at the Royal Guards.
_ I can’t promise you I will get along with your king, even if there is nothing bad about him in your memories, I can’t ignore the fact that he is trying to turn Lavie into a living weapon, into what I am _
She pauses for a moment and closes her eyes then opens them and looks at the Royal guards.
_but I can promise you, I will protect the world and won’t let it be invaded, if there is anyone who should pay for this mistake, it’s me _