Somewhere inside the jungle, beside a certain river, Yuria is cleaning off the dirt from her body while applying healing magic to her wounds.

Raynor is cooling down his weapon beside the river. Steam rises when he dipped the overheated part of the weapon into the water.

Nothing lewd happen though...

[Is that weapon an artifact?]

Yuria asked him while looking curiously at the weapon that Raynor is carrying.

[I don’t think it can be classified as an artifact, what’s an artifact?]

[An artifact is an item enhanced by high amount of magic energy, and can be considered as a national treasure.]

[eh..]

Yuria noticed that the guy has been staring at her for quite a while, since she started to treat her injuries. Feeling a bit awkward, getting stared at by a guy she dosen’t even know..   and she realized that she dosen’t even know the name of the person that saved her life.

[erm.. I’m sorry, i haven't gotten your name yet]

[Raynor Radon, you can call me Raynor.]

[Nice to meet you, I’m Yuria, Queen of Miore...  ..  not anymore...]

Raynor saw that Yuria went depress when she mention her status, and he remembered that the few guy back then mention something about her being the queen of something and wanted to capture her. He can roughly guess what had happened to her and her country.

Raynor quickly change the topic and ask a question that is on his mind for quite some time.

[Just now your instant recovery is that have something to do with the magic energy you mention earlier?]

Yuria suddenly stare at him with a serious expression after he finished his question.

[You don’t know what  magic is?]

Realizing that he may have asked a stupid question, Raynor gave no reply and can only laugh awkwardly.

[Seriously? What have you been doing the whole time? Where do you come from?]

[errm... as far as I know, I have been living in this forest the entire time, so I haven't met with anyone and don’t know anything.. ahaha..]

Raynor just came out with a convenient lie about where he came from, but the experienced Yuria just stare at him with a poker face. Obviously, Raynor’s lie is not effective.

[Well, I do not want to pry into your personal information too much, i’ll answer any question you have as thanks for saving me.

Magic is a phenomenon created by the energy called mana which exist everywhere, combined with the effort of humans, incantation or hand signs etc. Magic can also happen naturally with certain conditions, like magic circle, magic stone, mana density etc.]

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After explaining in details, Raynor frowned while still digesting the words Yuria said.

[Can you explain more about this world?]

Raynor asked Yuria a more general question. This makes Yuria even more curious about him, even wanting to know from where does he came from. Without hesitation, Yuria begin explaining about the world.

This world is called Ruthena, which consists of one major continent, with many island surrounding its main land and is surrounded by vast ocean. No one knows what lies beyond the vast ocean. There are 115 countries scattered across every part of the land.

Humans coexist with other race called elf, dwarf, beastkin, and dragonkin. Each of the races have their own country, but they are also present at some human countries for various reasons.

Yuria also explains about the past 200 years and the war with the demons and the heroes.

After listening to every information that Yuria offers, Raynor begins to get confused. What he get is nothing sound like earth at all. Even the magic power is different from the psychic power that he knows of. Magic power in this world is like a nature’s law that an effect in everything around it.

For example, psychic power is like a person lifting an object by using his own hands, but its not a physical hand. Magic power is a person telling the nature to lift an object by generating wind or something else. Both has its own energy consumption. Raynor has arrived at this conclusion after hearing the details from Yuria.

One is a human’s own ability, the other one is using the law of nature. A law different from any other law that Raynor knows of. It even breaks the common  law of physics, and it can be classified as dark energy which no scientist has any idea of what it is.

Aside from the magic energy, Raynor also came to a conclusion that this place is not the earth he knows. He may have been transported to another planet, or maybe even another universe. Raynor begin to worry that if this is another universe, will the law of this different universe changes everything that he knows of. Will he be able to apply his knowledge here?

While he is still deep in thoughts, a sound interrupted his thoughts.

[Installing programs and systems completed. Your computer is ready. Changing Main control system to AI...]

Yuria is observing Raynor carefully while he is deep in thoughts. She even waved her hand in font of his face but get no respond. Suddenly, she was startled by a sudden voice of a female that is coming from Raynor. She look around but found no other person. She look curiously at Raynor and ask,

[Is there any other person around?]

[ah.. nope, there’s no one other than us. Can you get ready, I’ll bring you to my place.]

[eh? You are bringing me to your place?]

[yup, what’s wrong?]

[n..nothing!]

After that, they begin to pack their stuff and Yuria followed behind Raynor and head towards the cave Raynor used as a base.

Upon arriving at the cave, Raynor went in first. Yuria thought that it would be a wooden shack or a brick house, but she was disappointed when she saw an ordinary cave with strange metallic frame surrounding the cave entrance. But she still followed behind Raynor  and head inside the cave.

The moment when they step inside the cave, a familiar voice resounded inside the cave,

[Creator identified, unidentified entity detected, classified as friendly.. Welcome back Master!]

Yuria once again heard the female voice and look at Raynor  confusingly. She noticed that he is nodding with a satisfied expression, which makes her even more confused.

When they went deeper into the cave, Yuria saw a mountain of raw food scattered on the ground. She frowned looking at the food that consists of fruits, herbs, fungus and unknown stuffs. Those raw materials will spoil soon if not process properly, and Raynor just dumped them on the ground like a rubbish dump.

When they reach the end of the cave, Yuria noticed a strange looking lump of metal. Beside it, is a large glass frame that shines with light and weird patterns.

Yuria suddenly have a feeling of deja vu. She feels that she has somehow seen a similar object before, but can’t remember where exactly has she seen it.

She feels like her mind was drawn to the object as she move closer, having the feeling that she can remember something if she managed to touch the object.

Standing in front of the object, Yuria reach out her hands, not touching it, but grabbing the air like there should be something there to press and click. Looking at her hand performing weird movement, it feels like her hand moved by itself through past experience.

Suddenly, a word along with some long forgotten memories resurfaced inside her mind.

[This is a... .. computer?]

[Eh?]