Chapter 6 : Memory Part 2
Aria walked toward the back of the throne where the red curtain that blocked the hallway to her chamber was located, as her left hand was touching the curtain and about to pass through it, Babel who was flying behind her suddenly said “Please wait my lady.”
Aria who heard that turned her head and stared at Babel with a questioning look on her face while her left hand had already halfway passed through the curtain.
“I am very sorry, but your friends cannot come with you to your chamber.” Said Babel as he stoped in front of her.
Aria then took a glance at Rinea and the others who were a few meters away from her, walking slowly towards them, it seemed that they didn’t hear what Babel was saying because they were too busy chatting while looking at the decoration in the throne room.
Aria turned her attention back to Babel and then asked “Why not?”
“It was because you had placed a barrier in your chamber, so that no one could enter it except for you and myself.”
Aria tilted her head, it must be the original goddess Aria who did that, because she remembered clearly that she never put any kind of barrier in her chamber, even if she wanted to she didn’t know how to do it.
She was about to ask another question when suddenly she heard Rinea voice.
“Can’t you remove the barrier?” Asked Rinea who was walking toward them.
It seemed Rinea who walked in the front, leading the other three, had heard a bit of their conversation and because of her question, the other three who were still chatting, stopped their conversation and started paying attention.
Aria and Babel turned to look at the one who asked the question and then Babel answered “It’s impossible, even if my power back to its former state. The barrier around this chamber is an equal with the barrier which is used by the tower, a barrier that even a god would have a really hard time to break it.”
“Why would Aria put such a barrier? is there something really valuable in there?” Asked Rinea as she looked at the curtain.
“Yes that’s too, but no, that’s not really why my lady put such a strong barrier there.”
Babel said that while sighing a deep sigh and with a very tired voice, which piqued their curiosity, he then continued his story.
“A long time ago, before the war between gods and the world was still in peace, many people from various races came to this tower looking for knowledge and guidance from my lady, my lady gladly accept them and among those people, my lady found 27 talented people and made them into her apprentice, even though they were talented, some of them had… let’s just say had a special preference of their opposite sex.”
Before Babel could continue his story Rinea cut his with a question
“Wait ! What did you mean by special preference of their opposite sex?”
“Well, that’s…”
Babel slowly turned to look at Aria and kept looking at her for a moment, as if he wanted to explain something but can’t.
Rinea and the other who saw Babel strange look toward Aria, also began to stare at her intently, scanning her from hair to toe, but they couldn’t find anything that was strange about her, it was the usual pretty girl.
Then something suddenly struck Rinea’s mind, she then scanned Aria again from top to bottom and then with a stutter voice she said “D-Don’t t-tell me…”
From when Babel started looking at her, Aria had realized it, the only thing a man with a special preference of girl looked in her was…
It was the same with that otaku guy, thought Aria and then she muttered “… Lolicon.”
Though it was small, Rinea still could hear what Aria was muttering about, she tried to hold her laughter but at the end she couldn’t,
“Pff ahahahaha Lo-lolicon ahahahaha, my-my stomach.”
“Sis you are laughing too much.” Refa scolded her sister who was now crouching as she held her stomach.
They waited for Rinea to calm herself and after that Vabel continued his story.
“One day. one of them made a bet with the other apprentices, he said that he would peeped at my lady when she was changing, betting all of his money on his success… Sigh, I don’t know if he was brave, mad or an idiot. No one of the other apprentices thought he would dare to really did it, and they bet on his lose. At that very night the idiot was caught when he tried to peep by my lady, after that incident my lady improved the barrier around the chamber becoming like this.”
“Then what happen to the idiot?” Asked Rinea.
“My lady threw him into the deepest part of the most dangerous dungeon in UpperWorld realm, for many years he never came back and many people had thought that he was already dead, but 15 years after that incident, he suddenly appeared in the tower… I still remember his appearance at that time, it was much more worse than that of a zombie.”
“Quite a horrible punishment you gave him, eh?.” Teased Rinea with a grin on her face.
After that Aria told Babel and the others to wait for her there, she turned around and walked through the curtain.
When she entered her chamber, she went straight to the dresser and opened the jewelry box which was on top the dresser.
Inside it she found many kinds of accessories like necklaces, earings, rings and many others, she checked all of them using her true eyes skill and found out that most of them were crafted very beautifully by true masters of craftsmanship, using various type of very rare metals and jewelries, some of them were even Impossible to be found in MortalWorld Realm, making the level restriction very high, the lowest level ring restriction she found was 800.
There was only one thing that wasn’t an accessory in the box, it was a red crystal at the center, as she touched the crystal a message appeared in front of her.
*Ting*
Crystal of MemoryGoddess Aria had predicted that she would lose all of her memories as the price of using an almost Impossible combination of sealing magic to seal her realm and herself, as a precaution she had stored all of her memory which also contain her knowledge, experience, and all of her feelings onto this crystal of memory.
As Goddess Aria you can transfer all of the memories which were stored in this crystal.
Do you want to start the transfer?
Yes/No
When she read the message Aria understood that this was the thing that Byung wanted her to find.
With the knowledge that were stored in this crystal, she could or at least find a way to restore the dimension, and without thinking much longer Aria said “Yes” and another message appeared in front of her.
In 30 minutes you will be forced to log out, please find a place to sit or lay down comfortably or finish all of your business.
The transfer will be finished in 3 hours game time or an hour of Real World time.
ATTENTION
You can’t log in or exit the capsule while the transfer is in process.
Aria took the crystal and started walking back to the throne room, as she passed through the curtain, she was suddenly greeted with a hug by Rinea, she looked very happy.
She released Aria and said “This place is really awesome! I know that some paintings or any other work of arts can increase your stats, but I never think that I will gain over two hundred stats in art and almost a hundred stats in each of the other stats by just looking at 2 paintings!”
Aria looked confused and turned to look at Babel with a questioning look on her face.
Babel who saw her expression then explained that while waiting for her return, he suggested them to observe the paintings which were decorating the throne room to increase their stats.
“It’s very rare to find a mythical piece of any kind of arts in the MortalWorld Realm. no wonder that they were surprised when they saw the amount of stats they gain from just observing one of them.”
Aria wondered if that was why she never gain any stats even though she had lived for more than 8 months in this tower and had seen the paintings quite a number of times, she needed to observe and not just saw it to gain stats.
There were only two paintings in the throne room, each of them were placed on the wall on the right and left side of the room, Aria then walked toward the painting on the right side.
it was a large painting of waterfall with a rainbow, and at the bottom, there was a river and at each of the riverside there were a flower field and a green forest, the flower field was filled with various type of flowers with many butterflies flying around between the flowers, on the green forest there were two white rabbits eating the grass,a deer that was drinking water from the river and on one of the trees, there was a bird with black feather, its beak gad three different color, yellow at the base, blue in the middle, and red at the tip, Aria also could see the shadow of fishes swimming in the river. It was a very beautiful painting,
As she was observing the painting, slowly the waterfall and the river started to flow, the shadow of the fishes began to swim around in the river, the flowers started swaying around as if the wind had passed through them, the butterflies flying from one flower to another flower, the rabbits started hopping around looking for a better grass to eat, the deer also started to eat the grass and the bird started to sing, sing? Yes, all of the other Aria’s five sense also started to feel it as if she was there, the sense of cool wind touching her skin, the sweet smell of flowers, the sound of waterfall, river and the bird singing. It was an incredible felling that she had never felt before.
*Ting*
Living Nature (Mythical Piece)
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This painting was painted by Albert Rendalf a genius painter and also one of a true master of art, dedicating all of his entire life to painting he had made many incredible painting that many gods want to have it.
This painting when he was travelling around the world in search for a true beauty. If you observe the painting long enough, you can see the scenery when the painting was made.
Effect :
Health and Mana increase 75 % for two days
Health and Mana Regeneration increase 80 % for two days
Nature affinity increase by 300 for two days
Earth, Wind and Water Resistance increase 50% for two days
Str and Vit increase by 70 for two days
Int and Wis increase by 75 for two days
Luck increase by 100 for two days
Stamina has been fully restored
Stamina consumption reduced by 40% for all kind of activity for two days
The effects can’t be stack with other buffs.
*Ting*
You have seen a Mythical Painting
+ 2500 Fame
Art stat has been generated
You have gained permanent increase in stats :
+ 114 Art
+ 42 Str
+ 46 Vit
+ 45 Int
+ 42 Wis
+ 75 Chrm
+ 200 Nature affinity
No wonder Rinea was so happy, it was really hard to increase your stats without using stats bonus from level up, you must read or trained your body for hours just to increase 1 point of your stats, and here just by observing a painting, you could get dozen of stats in less than ten minutes.
“Oh yeah, how is it? Did you find anything?” Asked Wales.
Aria turned around to find all of them had gathered around her, she then showed them the crystal and explained what it was.
“4 hours huh, what should we do while waiting for Aria?” Asked Rinea as she faced the other.
“I don’t know, how about reading some books?”Suggested Liliana.
“No.” Said Rinea as she shook her head and then she continued ” I just took a glance at title of the book where we passed before, all of them used an ancient language from various races, though I might be slow, I still can read human ancient language book but you guys haven’t learn any ancient language. Hmm, oh yeah, Aria how did you learn ancient language? Did Babel teach it to you? If so can he also teach us?” Asked her while turning her head to face Aria
Aria frowned at that and replied “No, to learn it I just need to read one or two page to find and memorize its pattern, symbol, or grammar and compare it to other languages to find the similarity and the difference.”
Silence filled the room, no one could comment on that.
“… is there a way for normal people to learn it?”Asked Wales, breaking the silence.
“there is a book for basic human ancient language, it is a book that teach basic human ancient language but you will need at least 9 hours to read it.”Replied Babel.
“That’s too long.”Complained Refa.
“Hmm, how about I guide you guys around the tower?” Suggested Babel
“That great idea and while you are at it, you can show us other painting or any other work of arts!”Said Rinea excitedly.
Aria then nodded in agreement and said “I will be in my chamber.”
She then turned around and walked back into her chamber, upon arriving she immediately climbed up to her king size bed which she thought much way too big for her small body and laid down, she didn’t have much more time because she would be forced to log out in less than 30 second.
As the count reached zero the scenery around her suddenly changed into white, she found herself standing while facing a white wall, looking around her, there were only white walls, ceiling and floor, she quickly recognized the place as avatar creation room.
“Hello again Aria, it’s been around13 hours game time since the last time we talk.” Greeted a happy voice of a male.
Because she had expected this voice, it didn’t really surprise her when she heard that voice, she had expected for Byung to greet her, but still hearing his happy voice made her felt a bit uncomfortable, studying under him for years made her understand very well his teacher bad personality, just like Director Kim, every time she saw him happy there must be someone who became unfortunate.
“… Proffesor, what did you do this time?”
“…You sound just like Kang, why did both of you always think that I did something bad when I am happy?”
Aria frowned when she heard that and then asked again “… Then what makes you happy?”
‘Nothing much, I just remember Kim face when I told him tomorrow will be the end of Royal Road if someone didn’t fix the dimension, he understand I can’t do anuthing about it and his face turned into blue. Khukukuku it has been almost a year since I saw him like that.”
Now Aria felt really bad for Director Kang, all of this problem could be said was caused by her, she should apologize to him before the annual meeting tomorrow.
“Now then, let’s start our little meeting then. You know that Royal Road is an independent game where players are the one who decided the future of Royal Road, it’s up to them whether they want to destroy or develop it into a paradise. But now it seems that we must change that a bit, it’s quite troublesome if something unexpected like this incident happened, so I need someone who can take care of such an incident, and you are the only one who can do it, with the goddess of knowledge and wisdom memory and power, you are basically the strongest being that exist in Royal Road.”
“…”
“Well to put it simply, I want you to become an in game GM, don’t worry your only job is to take care of something unexpected like this incident, the sub A.Is are more than enough to take care of the duty of a normal GM.”
Aria didn’t really mind becoming a GM, she didn’t know why, but for a second she had a bad feeling about it which caused her a bit hesitate to accept it, but at the end she nodded her head as an acceptance.
“Good. Next is your avatar, the system recognize your avatar as an NPC and also a player at the same time, and that is causing the system to accept you as both… hmm how should I put it? You know that if an NPC kill someone they won’t get a murder mark on their forehead right? But you, because the system recognize you as both, if you kill someone you will still get a murder mark, and it will be troublesome if the other players find out about it, so right now while we are talking I am fixing it so that the system will only recognize you as an NPC.”
Wait, if the system no longer recognized her as a player, then how about death? Death for NPCs in Royal Road were permanent, they weren’t like players who would be resurrected after 4 days of game time. was that mean death also permanent for her? Did she have to make a new avatar after death? Aria thought about all of that for a moment and decided to asked Byung.
“Death for an NPC is permanent, how about me?”
“Hmm, ah yes, you don’t have to worry about that because you are not a normal NPC but a goddess moreover an ancient one at that. In Royal Road, a god or goddess is a special being that exist because of the prayer of their believers, they can’t exist without it, so as long as they have people who believe in them, they will resurrect no matter how many times you kill them, however they resurrection time are depending on the number of their believers. And as for you, you are also not a normal goddess but an ancient goddess, ancient gods/goddesses are a bit different from the other gods, they have exist even before the creation of MortalWorld and UnderWorld Realm… Meh it’s too long to explain, you will understand everything once the memory transferring is done, so I will just go to the point, even without a single believer, you still will be resurrected, however…. it will take 3 months, no not in game but real world time.”
Once a player died, he/she would be forced to log out and as one of the penalty was, they wouldn’t be able to log in back into Royal Road for 24 hours which equal to 4 days game time, and penalty for 3 months meant 12 months of game time.
She could understand that amount of penalty and nodded in understanding, an absurdly strong avatar must have an equally amount of penalty… or that was how it was supposed to be. But with the effect of auto-revive from her Divine Body skill, someone or something must kill her 7 times in a week to really kill her which no matter how many times you thought about it was impossible, to kill a goddess 7 times in only a week.
“Well I know about your Divine Body skill but still, it’s better for you to start making your own church and searching for believers, just in case if something unexpected happened.”
To cr start a church she would need a town or a city, but with her complicated situation with the other gods and except for Freya, almost all of them wanted to capture her. it would be really difficult because almost every town and city had a church of some god, and even if she found one without a church, sooner or later the other church would find it.
There was only one option left for her, search for a town which its location was impossible for the other church to find, but such a town or city would be very hard to find… Hmm, how about she created her own city? She had Etna forest which no one had ever dared to enter it, how about she made it there?
Aria head was full of that thought when suddenly Byung said “Ah yes, I will give Vera to you to support you as a GM, you can take her tomorrow, well then I have to go now, Kang is coming, just wait there till the transfer is done after that you can log back in.”
Aria actually wanted to ask him about what he meant by giving Vera to her and could take it tomorrow, but Byung had gone. Well she could asked him tomorrow.
Aria then took a glance at a small window on the left side of her vision.
Memory Transfer 37%
Remaining Time 40 Minutes