Re:START/If {Book 1.0}
Chapter 65: Aswad 12 of 15 “Glaub mir” (Part 01)
As the sea breeze begins to blow, the chimneys of houses in coastal cities begin to billow ⸻ Signs its inhabitants have woken up and started the morning routine. The main road leading to the town hall was still quiet, with only a few guards coming home after their night shift was over.
The sky is still dark, on the bay visible some points of light ship up to the end of the horizon. Most fishermen still rely on sails for their boats, which is why they only leave at night and return in the early hours now using the sea breeze.
Standing on top of the Ordoxi Nigrum shop building, the black-haired youth stared flat at the city and predicted what was happening all day as he left. Highlight the young man's eyes briefly turned flat, then in a soft voice muttered, “Tch! Perception speculation is completely inactive, only basic calculations are accessible. I never thought losing the magic I used to use could make me uncomfortable like this.”
After sighing lightly, he immediately jumped down from the roof of the three-story building. Just as it floated a few meters in the air, space distortions occurred in the surroundings and the momentum as it fell from the gravitational pull force was instantly absorbed into the storage dimension. When he landed on the ground, all the downward force had absolutely no effect on him and he touched the surface like a cotton swab.
Without wasting any time the young man immediately turned around, narrowed his eyes and immediately walked towards the door of the first floor of the shop. Put your palm on the surface of the wooden door, immediately the lock automatically opened and he immediately walked in. When it closed again, the sound of the keyhole twisted itself and the door locked again.
The shop building, which also serves as the Atelier, has identified Odo as its master, so its mere existence is enough to drive some basic functions. Sitting at one of the deserted tables in the quiet shop room, the young man closed his eyes for a moment and imagined what his employees had been doing during the shop opening yesterday.
He imagines the waiters taking orders, the cashier counting the money, and the cooks in the kitchen preparing the orders. Then the men who brought food also himself input in the picture in his head, estimating all of it using the information he can when talking to Elulu through the ability of the female telepathy.
What Odo imagined was not just imagination, but footage stored by low-level spirits and Ether bound in Atelier. Using Aitisal Almaelumat, he accessed the memories of those who came into contact with his skin.
Returning to open his eyes and for a moment smiling thinly, he felt relieved because there were no obstacles as long as he left. Although Arca and Lisia were very anxious about him, but other than that there were no other obstacles in the shop. Immediately awake and standing upright, the young man re-accessed Atelier and performed a forced activation on the strength of one of the men sleeping upstairs.
Opening his left palm, a glowing blue liquid came out from the pores and dripped onto the ⸻th floor Making a puddle where it stood. While putting on an astonished face the young man muttered, “This is very strange, his access was too strong. Last time I did remote access to come here can also easily connect ...”
For a moment Odo fell silent and recalled what he had done a few minutes ago. Time to escape from the party and run a few hours in the forest, he had tried to access the magic structure in the store from a distance of more than 30 kilometers and managed to use the Puddle which is the power of Matthew Mitus ⸻ In that way he could also reach the coastal city quickly.
Reactivating the Puddle with a strong connection through the Atelier magic structure he stood in, Odo confirmed one thing. Closing the left palm and stopping the forced activation of the Puddle, his gaze turned flat and muttered, “What effect is the same as the immortality condition of my body? This ... is like me seizing the power of Native Overhoul. Well, basically that power is also a Special Code but with five digits. It's not strange that⸻”
The words came to a halt as Odo realized the cause. Sighing with a look of restless face, he resentfully said, “What Auto Senses copied the code and applied it to my body?”
The youth re-activated the Puddle, but this time he did not make any connection with the Atelier structure or did any forced activation. It was purely directly activated by Odo with his own ability. Opening his left palm, a glowing blue liquid shot out from his pores. Although the search that came out was not as much as when he was connected to the magic structure in the store, but clearly the power could indeed actively use his own abilities.
“Wire, it's completely copied. If it is like this, it means that the ability of Arca and Elulu can also be used without an external magic circuit ..”.
Odo immediately shook his head, breaking his intention to try it because he felt it could happen and his body was now able to do it. As a result of the inactivity of the usual Perception Speculation being passively active, the information space in his brain became open and easily absorbed the information structure from the outside.
“I better not strengthen the connection with this building first, can-can magic everyone who enters here without me realize copied into my head.”
Sighing for a moment, Odo stepped his foot toward the kitchen to inspect the Core Structure and Energy Supply in the basement. But as he pushed the kitchen door and was about to enter, his vision suddenly became a little myopic and blood flowed out of his nose.
“Akh, I forgot …. ” He staggered inward, leaning against the kitchen wall and muttering, “Now my magic structure is in the process of repair ..”
With a hazy look, the young man crouched down and wiped the blood flowing from both nostrils. After a moment of silence, he again woke up and stepped on the part of the floor that had a mechanism to open the basement door.
As the cover board opened, he immediately went down the stairs to check the basement and made some re-adjustments to the Magic Reactor at the venue. Odo checks the magic crystals that were used as a burden and has been replaced by Canna when she is not there.
In addition to doing a slight modification of the Rune array and inspecting it, he also performed several experiments on the immortality of his own body. While sitting on the floor of a room full of magic structures, Odo deactivates the strengthening magic on the gloves and releases it.
Putting it on the floor, the young man began to research the condition of the body in the room with the Magic Reactor lighting plugs and the lights from the runes on the walls as well as some corners of the floor. But when he saw his own right palm, a surprising thing was seen.
Right in the middle of his right palm was the letter LV. At first glance Odo felt that it was a code, but when observed again he realized. “This ... roman numerals?” he muttered while touching the black tattoo in the form of LV which is clearly written.
The LV number means 55, but Odo still felt that it was a code that referred to something. Unable to confirm this clearly, the young man decided to take out a dagger that he first took out before removing the gloves.
Pulling out the dagger and observing the wound on the palm, it slowly closed but the process was extremely slow. From this he made sure, if indeed the effectiveness of Auto Regen really decreased. Returning to recall the regeneration rate when it fell from the White Eagle and slashed down on the Dart, the young man frowned because he felt that something was very awkward.
“This does have something to do with the Mist World created when I did the manifestation. Has that Realm become a divine throne for me?”
Odo momentarily fell silent, changing his position to sit down and twirling the daggers between the fingers. Feeling unable to reach a conclusion just by thinking, he decided to take a risk.
Lifting the dagger in the grip of his left hand and pointing the tip to his neck, he momentarily took a light breath and directly thrust it right in the middle of ⸻ Instantly killing himself. The dagger fell to the floor with blood rushing from his neck, then he collapsed backwards with blood beginning to pool.
In a matter of less than three seconds, Odo's time seemed to be rotated back and his physical information arrangement rearranged. The blood pooled on the floor completely returned to his body, then the stab wound on the neck was instantly covered. Returning to open his eyes and sit down, his breathing momentarily felt tight and the sensation of death left behind was clearly like he died when falling from a height.
Looking at the wound on the palm, it had also been covered and the black tattoo on its palm changed. LIV ⸻ That's what's stuck on his palm. Sighing lightly and momentarily feeling uneasy, this time he had completely confirmed it with great clarity the reason why he was able to come back to life after death and the wounds on his body instantly recovered after death.
“This is my number of lives? That's right, means that Fog World has truly become my divine throne ...”
Odo was momentarily silent, staring flatly at the black face on the palm of the hand showing the number 54 in roman numerals. “If indeed every time I die the number decreases, means now in the Realm that the process of creating a body without personality continues?” his mind touched his own right palm.
Not less than a minute, the number increases and the diagram returns to the LV number. Seeing that it could add up by itself like that, Odo's eyes turned flat and his forehead shriveled. “Seriously? How many minutes does this add up by itself?” he murmured while standing.
Scratching the back of his head, he briefly felt anxious that the number on his palm continued to increase. It was a count of the number of reserve bodies present in the Mist World. The bodies of Odo's reserves will be automatically converted into information arrays and overwritten into his body in the Real World if he dies ⸻ That is the secret of why Odo can return to life and his body condition will return as before after death.
“If my body restarts every time it dies, when will my magic circuit be able to recover?” the young man bowed and picked up the gloves on the floor. Looking at the right palm before returning to wearing the gloves, the numbers did not add up as quickly as before.
Feeling the need to re-examine the limits of the reserve body count and his speed increased, he sat back down and picked up the dagger. Without any hesitation, he thrust the sharp object into his neck and committed suicide.
Die, come back to life, die, come back to life, die and come back to life. Odo kept repeating it many times until he got all the information he needed. At the fifth death in the experiment, he began to numb and no longer felt any pain when stabbing his own neck. On his next death, Odo began to get used to it and did not care about it at all anymore.
When the diagram on his right palm became X, Odo decided to stop because for an hour the experiment was not at all re-increased. Sitting for a moment in the dim room, the new number turned into XI after two hours had passed since the last time he saw the figure increase.
Seeing the duration for the number of reserve bodies increasing, Odo felt that indeed the Fog World began the process of body creation shortly after he came out of the Realm. Taking a deep breath, the young man of black hair got back up and immediately complained, “I prefer Auto Regen …. It feels like a retro game whose status will reset every time it dies.”
It's not just that Odo is worried about. If he chooses to act carefully so as not to die easily, it means that the number of reserve bodies in the Mist World will continue to increase because it has never been used. That made Odo a little anxious about what would happen later if it reached the number of thousands or millions.
While looking at his own palm the young man muttered, “I don't think this will stop by itself. If it keeps growing, isn't this outrageous? Even the gods cannot add their lives at will, loh.”
Odo's forehead shriveled tightly, looking tired and irritated at the situation he was faced with. Having a spare body that could be overwritten into the main body was indeed not a bad thing, it made him able to avoid the end that made him regret. But because of this, Odo completely lost the choice to make the end for himself.
“Mahia ..., what do you want me to do? I told you that creatures like us should not be allowed to interfere too far in this world, ‘kan? After I finish the obligation, I just want the end ..”
Sighing and understanding that complaining could not change anything, Odo decided to keep moving and finish his business coming to the store. Back wearing his gloves, the young man activated reinforcement magic to lock it on the right hand.
After inserting the dagger into the storage dimension, Odo took a change of clothes in the form of a white shirt and black pants because what he was wearing was now damaged. While changing clothes, the young man felt at a glance that sins from the past could not be separated easily.
What Odo had done in the previous world was a big mistake. Taking something from the Beginning of the Beginning and keeping it for personal gain ⸻ Demi leaves a trace that there was an existence in the previous world, and, leaving a message for the inhabitants of the next world so as not to make the same mistake and make the balance destroyed.
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