Chapter 7 - A Red Sky

How Ominous.

Tonight the sky turned red. I don't know why. This day marks the 6th year I've spent on this planet. The people call this event the "blood night" I've asked my parents about it. Apparently it happens every decade or so. It has been growing more frequent, though. The last on happend 2 years before I was born.

The blood night has a popular superstition attached to it, and people rarely leave their house in that night.

I felt it though.

It's more than just some superstition. It was the first time I sensed something of this kind. I know that since my [Space Sense] leveled up for the first time that night. I don't even know how to describe what I felt. If I had to, I would say that the space felt ... turbulent, I guess? I don't think anything actually happened, but it gives of an uneasy feeling. It feels exactly like when I received the system back then, just without any rational reason. I don't know why I feel this way.

I don't like it.

It feels like my peaceful times may come to an end soon. I certainly can't continue living as worryfree as I have been until now. Though, I don't think I can do much more to prepare anyways. I'm growing stronger passively every single second, devouring every bit of mana in my reach.

I'll have to be careful to not increase the density of the cryztalized mana my core is made of beyond the threshold. If it collapses into the mana equivalent of a black hole, it's over. I don't know if that can even happen though. I certainly don't want to find out.

Anyhow, my livestyle already consists mostly of traing ayway. I can't prepare much more in that regard.

What I should maybe do in the meantime is find out more about the world I landed in. Somehow all of this feels off. In some way. I just can't put my finger on why.

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What the hell?

This can't be.

I refuse to believe this.

This makes no sense, it's simply impossible. Why is this here? In a 50 year old book? About a ruin that is estimated to date back multiple centuries?

I'm reading it again and again but my mind simply doesn't want to understand it.

To find out more about this world, I finally decided to visit the main library in Lagos, which was suprisingly close to the house we live in. After it turned night I stealthily made my way over and sneaked inside. A simple task with [Mana Manipulation Lv. 8].

It was the first book I grabbed in the "History" section. It's called "The Ancient Avongale" and is apparently a book about the time before the Avongale Kingdom was founded by that legendary blacksmith Terrion Avongale.

What is depicted inside is however far from ordinary. In the southern regions a ruin was found some 60 or so years ago. The researchers writing this book didn't discover much, they couldn't read the language used after all. For them, it's 'just' some ancient text carved into old stone tablets.

Not for me though. It's in English after all. It's a diary. A badly written one though. Here is what it says:

[Day 1: Where am I? I don't know. Maybe I don't want to know. Theres people here, I can't understand them though. I don't know why I'm here, I should have just died. But I simply woke up. Here. Wherever Here is. I was prepared to die. Well, the whole probably was. They spread the news quite quickly after all. Of that thing coming to anihilate us at near light speed. Terrifying.]

[Day 2: The people found me. They were quite nice though. I think. I couldn't understand them after all. At least they didn't kill me, would have been quite embarrassing two die again two days after escaping death for reasons unknown. Anyways, they gave me food and also have access to clean water. Truly a blessing.

Day 7: it's been almost a week already and I'm starting to understand some of the words they are saying. I kind of like it here]

That was the only remotely complete stone slab the reasearchers found. All the ither ones are beyond recognition and even this one is missing more than 70 percent. The content also seems quite ordinary, however the implications are not.

He 'died' from the same event that brought me into this world. But he lived centuries before I did. Eventhough we parted in the same time. But what about the others? What about the other 8 billion people that got anihilated? Did some of them also land here?

Well, not that I actually want to meet any of them. The only thing we share is our origin, though that means basically nothing to me. But maybe meeting my old parents would be nice. Although we drifted apart the last few years I spent on earth, I still can't help regarding them as my real parents. The chance of avtually meeting them should be indestinguishable close to 0 though.

I hope the other books in this library are as useful as this one was.