“Pinball.” Adrian said.

“Check.” Dale responded.

“Tetris?” Mike now asked.

“Check.” Axel answered.

They were doing this improvised game to check how different or equal were their worlds while they waited for the genocide to end. They found that most of the things – videogames, movies, shows, songs – that exited over a century ago were there. But if they went to a date like fifty years ago, there was a chance that one of the four didn’t know the existence of that.

The first thing Adrian asked was this The Hangover movie that Aby talked about. The only one who knew about it was Dale. It made sense after they contemplated that Dale’s race was Homo Sapiens, while Aby’s was Homo Sapiens Sapiens. According to Mike the Homo Provectus, Homo Sapiens Sapiens wasn’t technically an evolution but a mutation that was relatively different from the standard Sapiens. That logic only applied to his world, of course.

The strangest members of the party were Axel and Mike for that matter. Even though Axel had been an evolved version of the Homo Sapiens cousin, Homo Neanderthalensis, history was pretty similar to the other. Adrian saw some documental of some Neanderthals living along Sapiens in some tribes of Europe, but in the end, the Neanderthals died and Sapiens prevailed, he could not remember the cause, though.

About Mike, he was like, from the future? After all they said, Mike told things that sounded plausible to Dale even if they didn’t happen. They all knew they had different dates, all of them based in the Anno Domini system, but Mike’s wasn’t that far from the other when he had been a fully evolved species.

“So,” Dale started. “If we combine Adrian and Mike’s information, humanity tends to evolve after some hardship once the two-thousands starts.”

“Yes,” Adrian affirmed. “As the world became more polluted and hotter, humanity became more tolerant of the heat made by the greenhouse effect, but its lungs suffered greatly.”

“You don’t seem to have respiratory problems, tho.” Axel commented.

“The air here is pretty clear,” Adrian explained. “I always wanted to be outside without needing a mask.”

“Wait,” Dale interjected. “You had to wear a mask every time you went outside?”

Adrian nodded to the statement. “What about you, Mike?”

“As humanity ascended both technologically and scientifically, the use of physical bodies became less common.” Mike lectured like he was some professor. “The Homo Provectus presented less muscle mass than its progenitor, but his cranium and brain were expanded. It also adapted to muscular atrophy, making disabled people less needed of physiotherapy. “Mike dropped some trivia fact and continued. “I was one of the few that still conserved musculature similar to Sapiens. I was bullied in school because I was bulkier than my schoolfellow.”

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“Ha,” Dale laughed. “My sis was bullied in school by being smart.”

“Different world, different costumes.” Adrian said, almost whispering.

“Lightning round,” Dale said. “Was Caesar Salad invented by Cesar in your world?”

“Wait, it wasn`t?” Axel asked confusedly.

“Nah, fam,” Adrian said. “I think it was made in some trattoria like a century ago.”

“I think it was made by some American,” Mike answered. He wasn’t really sure about this random fact that actually look like it came out of a game of trivia.

“That’s what I thought,” Dale said. “It was created by Caesar Cardini in 1924 in Mexico. So it doesn’t have any relation with the Roman emperor Julius Caesar.”

“How the fuck do you know this stuff?” Adrian asked the Ad Fortunis.

“Trivia, duh.” He responded as there wasn’t any more possibility.

“Arghhh!!” Adrian and the rest could hear Kayle agonizingly screaming as she killed a [Larva Archimantis Homicida] for the last time. There was still one alive but Aby quickly took care of it. She was speechless, as she was lost inside her mind.

“Y’all okay?” Axel asked the girls.

“I’m good, thanks for asking!” She cried out sarcastically from the other side of the chamber. Aby just made a light head tilt.

Adrian talked to them once they got closer. “What class did you get? You did get enough experience, right?”

“Yeah,” Kayle said without her last remaining forces. “[Rare] class, the name’s Battle Priest. I also got a [Tarot] Card, [The Priestess’ Star].”

Mike stood there waiting for a continuation that never arrived. “What do they do?”

“Oh, right. Sorry.” She apologized. “Battle Priest gave me [Light Magic] grimoire and a 50% growth boost to [Atravesta], [Voluntat], and [Procesa]. Also, the [Tarot] card.”

Adrian was impressed by the effects of her class. It gave her a total of 150% growth boost, a [Tarot] card, and a grimoire. Even if the time perception from Time Weaver compensated the [Tarot] card, she still got a 50% growth increase higher than him.

“[The Priestess’ Star] duplicates my healing abilities plus making me more physically attractive,” Kayle said all of this as she was a robot. “It also makes an invisible aura that comforts people around me.”

Now that Kayle said it, Adrian felt as his arm pain was highly mitigated. “What about you, Aby?” As Adrian talked, Aby felt to the ground, she fainted out of exhaustion.

“Holy shit!” Axel cried.

“Carry her to the campfire.” Adrian told Axel and he accepted as Aby’s health wasn’t the best at the moment.

Kayle wanted to ask Adrian if he could carry her, but the wounded arm would make it impossible, and she doubted that his brother or Mike could carry her. So, she casted a spell. “[Renew].”

Golden light surrounded Adrian’s arm, focusing on the wound. Seconds later, his wound closed. “Wow,” Adrian said as he watched his arm and move it a bit to see if it hurt. “It is healed.” His words were pure awe.

“I am thankful.“ Then she collapsed from mana exhaustion after using such a powerful spell in her current status.

Adrian piggybacked Kayle while Axel did so with Aby. Then he casted [Time Dilation II] to make things swifter. “Carry those,” Adrian told Dale and Mike as he looked at the staffs of the girls. They grabbed the weapons and the party walked out of the lair. Today had been a heavy day to the earthlings.