101. Chapter 101 – Future Warriors
Chapter 101 The Future Warrior
Leaving the trial space, Sabelia returned to Eli’s witch demon body.
He looked to where Sa General had originally been.
Hmm?
It’s gone?
Why is that skeleton gone?
He was busy releasing his powerful perception, wrapping up all the corners and places inside the cave to carefully inspect ……
There is no mistake.
There were no traces of escape.
It couldn’t have escaped either.
Suddenly, an absurd thought popped up.
Could it be that the Skeleton Body and the Soulfire were bound together and brought into the trial?
The panic only lasted for an instant before Saberia let go of her heart.
It would be kicked out as soon as the trial failed anyway.
There was no need to worry about that either.
No matter how weird the skeleton was, he would have enough time to take it apart and study it for a while after the trial was over.
As for now, it was just a matter of waiting.
The last thing he lacked was time.
The soul fire within the Witch Demon’s cranial cavity gradually dimmed, as if it had entered a false sleep.
……
……
In the secret room of the Lord’s mansion.
“Ugh, I wonder what my Sa is doing now ……”
Mr. Xia was still in pieces when he was caught in the fish pond by Heine.
Guardian Iris: “On the bright side, he’s probably already gone downstairs to get a Coke.”
Catch the Goat: “That’s not possible, Mr. Sa used to say that ever since a cub seed poured coke into his gutta percha, he never drank the stuff again.”
…
Pouring coke in a gut ……?
Just imagining that image Heine’s blood pressure came up.
And it’s another day without fish in the fish pond phalanx.
LOL.
Summoning is not easy, the mage sighs.
The soulfires of the four were resting, and the bodies were out replenishing their energy.
Heine scrutinized the genjutsu that assisted the trio in restoring their energy.
He had a feeling that this one belonged to the second psionic spell of the Fishpond spell.
It was just a pity that his own meta-spirit affinity level was too low to learn it.
“Maybe we have to wait until we unlock all the spells before we can unlock the next level of functions of the Fishpond Spell Formation?”
He couldn’t help but think.
…
Again, it was Huihui who woke up first.
Heine: “It seems you did get enough rest on your own. How’s that, does this body feel alright these days?”
Megumi: “It’s a bit anticlimactic, but there’s nothing wrong with holding on until the end of the year.”
Heine pretends to be dazed:
“Oh yeah, you said last time that Naga had planned to leave at the end of the year, that’s indeed a problem ……
“By the way, I found a fourth meta-spirit spell formation, and I suspect that this anomaly is caused by the meta-spirit contamination from the Soul Loss Water.
“Tell you what, take the time to come to the eastern suburb farm, firstly to warn Jones, and secondly to try that spell formation.”
That was the part the three goods hadn’t said, he’d have to fill in the blanks.
About fighting and learning skills and all that, those three never talked to Megumi.
Megumi: “Thank you for your concern. It’s a shame I wasn’t able to find much information about the metamagic spells ……”
Heine waved her hand, “It’s fine, I wasn’t expecting much. Did that Carl Ilan write back?”
“No. I will let you know first if I hear back.”
Heine nodded.
He tried, “What about you? Have you regained your memory recently? Or is there a general direction?
“A few of them are getting more active instead, which might have something to do with the frequent battles.
“Perhaps you used to be a combatant, it’s just hard for you to play that role for now.”
He apologized with a faint hint of regret.
Megumi, however, had a heartbeat.
She understood what Heine meant.
It was time for a “milestone report”.
It was the same thing as a group meeting.
For Heine, the main task at hand was to stimulate the undead to recover their memories.
This was the root of his peace of mind.
Those few couldn’t speak, but the gradually escalating battle itself was a display of results.
Now it was her turn.
She would have to come up with something beyond Naga’s level of perception.
This might be an opportunity.
“I appreciate your concern, but I …… I may not be a combatant, and my current life has stirred up quite a few memories.”
“Oh?”
Heine brightened.
But Megumi looked hesitant, “It’s just that my recollections are a bit of a departure from the common sense of this world ……”
“You mean ……”
Heine had a premonition that Megumi was going to start thinking of something.
Megumi: “May I know the exact process of your evocation? I know it’s a bubble from an unfamiliar environment, I mean are there any markings, colors, or unfamiliar runes used to distinguish us ‘individuals’?”
Sure enough!
Heine knew it.
After telling the other side the general situation in the three spells, and especially in the fishpond, she had really thought about it!
“The runes …… seem to be there.”
Heine immediately found a pen and paper, and after meditating on it, she wrote a few Chinese characters with simple strokes on it in a crooked manner.
Although they looked like ghostly drawings, Megumi still recognized them.
[September]
[Enter, may]
Seeing familiar words in an unfamiliar land, and from an aboriginal hand …… Hui-Hui’s heart was overwhelmed with emotion.
Heine said as she wrote, “Those bubbles have runes like that written on them. But the runes on your bubbles were complicated, and I was too mentally drained to write them down, so I don’t have the chance to look at them anymore, I’m sorry.
“So you recognize all of these ……?”
Megumi took a deep breath.
She would call this moment a crossroads of fate.
She had a feeling that her next choice would affect the future of their group.
Even the future of this world.
A moment of silence.
She spoke, “Have you …… ever imagined the ‘future’?”
Heine froze, “What do you mean?”
Megumi: “Twenty years from now, thirty years from now …… can you imagine the future?”
Here we go!
She sure can think!
Heine shook her head mockingly:
“I think future fantasies are projections based on knowing enough. And what future can I talk about when I don’t know enough about the present?
“Not to mention the fact that there’s a fog hanging over me right now, and without you guys, I’d probably be worrying about my next meal …… I’ve never dared to think that far ahead.”
Humble, sincere, and sober!
Megumi exclaimed heartily.
No wonder he’d gotten this far.
Heine possessed virtues that all the NPCs he had seen did not possess.
This is not an exaggeration, but the heartfelt words of a veteran plot party member.
There was a popular saying on the forums that players were mourners and mailed with anyone.
But this is actually a necessity.
It is precisely because players stand behind NPCs that those fools mistakenly think they have power in their hands and are the pride of heaven.
In reality they are nothing more than spokespersons pushed to the front of the stage by the wave.
Without players, they are nothing.
Once the players get tired of it, or their attention is drawn to someone else.
These people immediately fall from their high horse and fall to pieces.
Throughout the game’s plot, there are no exceptions.
If they can be as sober as Heine …… No, even if they are only half as sober as him.
Hui Hui sighed and said:
“I’m not going to lie, I’ve been dreaming about these from time to time lately, but again, I haven’t been able to find out any provenance ……
“As for the individual runes you wrote down, I think it’s probably something like this after I fill it out.”
She picked up her pen to complete the first name.
[September Nan Xu]
She guessed it was a player id.
And it was a high-level player who died from the assassination of the Underworld Guards.
She happened to know one that fit the bill and had a name that matched.
“Is this what you see?” Megumi asked.
Heine mentally sighed in relief, while her face held her shock.
“Like, very much like! Maybe even exactly the same, but I can’t be sure right now ……”
He was stunned, “So what is this? Are you, are you all really from the ‘future’? This is incredible ……”
Megumi smiled bitterly, “I only know myself as such, as you know, my memories are slowly returning ……
“I’m playing as Naga now, and I have to touch a lot of magical instruments every day, but my memory reminds me every now and then that those are old and obsolete.
“Plus I can’t find the provenance of these runes, which is why I suspect they’re from the future.”
“Old fashioned ……”
Heine laughed bitterly.
As a country bumpkin, what he thought was high tech turned out to be old fashioned in the eyes of others ……
He deserved to be frustrated.
But he barely pulled himself together:
“And what do these runes mean?”
“It’s some sort of generalized rune, like a label on goods that spells out the purpose.”
Heine: “The same as the summary in that magical daily newspaper?”
“Yes.”
“I see. ……”
He released:
“No wonder I couldn’t find a match in the legendary biographies of the past …… Little Sa isn’t Saberia, but a great ranger from the future.
“As for Catch the Goat, Xia and V, and you, if you’re all from the future, there’s a reason why you can’t find a name ……”
Seeing him brainstorm like that, Megumi breathed a sigh of relief.
She immediately added cautiously, “This is nothing more than a guess, and further confirmation is needed. Next time if you see a similar rune, please also let me know, it might help me recover my memory.”
Heine nodded, “I understand, guesses need to be verified, and your memories will have to be recovered slowly. These spells themselves are full of secrets, we must be careful enough to do so.”
He sighed in relief as well.
The purpose had finally been achieved.
Next time you see a new player id you can tell her.
Of course, tell her only one as much as possible.
This is to circumvent interference.
What he needed was:
After summoning a new player himself, the group would then go back to discussing “how this guy hasn’t shown up since xx point in time”.
Instead of him leaving the fishpond and listening in on their exchanges and inexplicably hearing “xx showed up after that, so he couldn’t have been summoned”.
Once he hears that, when he goes back, the bubble is bound to disappear.
The fundamental reason for all this is that it is impossible to communicate with them inside the fishpond.
It was impossible to synchronize and update one’s knowledge of the character names on the bubbles.
It’s some sort of subtle anti-interference mechanism.
……
Megumi stayed until the three woke up and shared the new Future Soldier settings with them before leaving.
All three of them listened in awe.
Sheep Catch lamented, “Still, Hui-chan has a way, I wish I had a mouth like her.”
Teacher Xia: “Pull back, if the brothers had a mouth, this time Heine would be speaking Chinese, but also a mouthful of big ballast flavor.”
Wei Diankui: “I can hear it, are you attacking me?”
Mr. Xia: “That must be~~.”
Amidst the trio’s jokes, Heine took them to the barracks.
(End of chapter)