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Hao Ren suspected that the Orb may have very well ended up in the Surface World.
The traces and trails point towards the malfunctioning airship and the Orb of the Holy Synod being dragged into the same chaotic trans-dimensional field. At that point a portal opened in the Dream Plane at the Blood Lake, so the chances are that the Orb and the monks guarding it being transported into the Surface World is rather large.
But that does not even come close to determining the exact location of the Orb: The airship was working fine when it ran into trouble at the bottom of the lake. By Hao Ren's guess, the ship was in space at that time, if the Orb's position is directly reflective of where the ship actually was, it may very well have been thrown into deep space. Plus, if it had already been floating there for a good two months, who knows where it actually may had ended up.
Secondly, the probability of the Orb being reflectively transposed accurately is miniscule. The exact location where the airship ran into issues was at the bottom of a lake, but where the dimensional rift opened was at the church in the middle of the lake. The MDT as such surmised that there is probably some distortion when the rift formed resulting in two pathways opening. The biggest fear when using interdimensional teleportation is a positional distortion, even a minute distortion could throw someone off their actual destination for thousand of miles away, light years even. Furthermore, as both the Surface World and the Dream Plane are not direct mirrors of each other, and as such any reflective transposition would not be accurate. The MDT even extrapolated the possibility of the Orb being thrown into a different universe all together. The airship had a void engine in it which is used for trans-dimensional travel, if it was still active when the ship 'crashed', there is a chance that it'll simply just throw anything nearby into other dimensions.
But where the Orb was was not the concern as of now. What was happening in the Dream Plane had all of them worried.
"What will happen is the balance is broken?" Vivian looked at the MDT curiously. Her knowledge about things while exceeds Lily's pales before the cutting edge database.
"The most obvious consequence would be things from both worlds start to interact with each other without control. The more similar their fundamental characteristics are, the easier is it for them to interact, intelligent beings will start to communicate with other intelligent beings." The MDT then opened a holographic projection, on it a sombre scene of war and massacres. "For example, demons will start appearing in human city centres, nuclear warheads may fall on a capital of a magical kingdom, biological infestation, a warlike race who takes the opportunity to go to war for dominion and destroy other civilisations in the process. And oh, diseases and plagues. A simple flu on Earth may be the Black Death in a foreign world, and it's the same the other way around. A small group may still be fine, as bacteria may not survive the environment and be eliminated by natural order, but if it involves the movement of a very large group, then it is disaster waiting to happen. Even an experienced plague lord is nothing against bacteria or viruses from another world. A small scale outbreak perhaps can be contained, but the big one... well, the medical team may as well die alongside their patients there and then."
The rather vivid explanation sent chills down Vivian's spine. "Then.. how did the first group of supernatural survived on Earth?"
"Maybe it was really the survival of the fittest, or that the transference had changed their physical attributes.. No one knows for sure. The Dream Plane is a chaotic mess after all."
Y'zaks was also deep in thought, "You haven't even mention anything about the worst case scenario. Two converging worlds probably will have issues with their spatial parameters and world rules. Well even before that, if the Planck's Constant just diverge that little bit, any contact will just result in an apocalypse. That's even more dire than war or plague, hell, not many will even survive that. An apocalypse."
The MDT moved upwards then down as if it was nodding. "That's the worst case scenario, but that usually happens if a massive convergence of two worlds. Anyway, based on the current data, the Dream Plane and the Surface World shares pretty much the same parameters. The most important of those, the Planck's Constant, the basic core settings, spatial construction are pretty much the same. The doomsday scenario will probably not happen."
Hao Ren then looked up in the sweeping glance at the rest. "I think we need to make a trip back, too many things to report. Will also need to get someone to do something about that ship."
"Yup yup!" Lily nodded vehemently. "Sides, there don't have any electricity, no internet, no nice food to eat... blergh."
This lass was so excited when she first came here, and now she was utterly sick of it.
"Well, that's that. We'll go back tomorrow then. We need to say our farewells to Becky, and to bring Hilda along." Hao Ren said as he stood up, he then noticed Wuyue who was still curled up in a ball. "You still can't untie the knot?"
Wuyue was flapping about by the shore. "I'm still numb... still numb....Ah... I'm gonna roll off!!"
Hao Ren quickly went forward to give the Siren a hand. "Don't worry, we'll wait for you."
It was no thanks to Vivian's lightning attack that Wuyue was so numbed. Remember that they ran into some mechanical guardian under water? Wuyue, the Siren nanny who could not fight simply curled into a ball using her three meter long tail as the enemy attacked. The first thing she saw as she peeped through her defensive curl was Vivian casting a lightning sphere and jolting everyone there...
Perhaps due to the high salinity of a sea creature resulting in a high level of conductivity, or Wuyue simply just forgot to put some points in her elemental resistance, she was the worst off of the lot. She was still numb after so long, and she still couldn't untie her tail after a good ten minutes trying. And oh she couldn't even dispel her Siren form despite trying.
A beautiful lass with a serpentine tail would've been a work of art, but that was far far away from both Hao Ren and Wuyue's mind as they tried to untangle her knot. It took Wuyue a lot of effort to pull the end of her tail out of the knot to tap Hao Ren by the pants. "Don't tell my brother this. PLEASE! I already did this once when I was young, he'll be laughing at me until he drops."
Hao Ren could only helplessly look at this beautiful yet clumsy Siren as something bugged him immensely. "... How did you even manage to tie yourself into a butterfly knot with all that going?"
"....Don't look, it's embarassing." Wuyue tried to turn away.
It took Wuyue another two hours before her numbness faded somewhat, just before everyone had almost decided to simply drag her back. As she was able to move now, she went back into the water to change. She glared at Vivian as she got out, "That shock was really... numbing... Stay AWAY from me when you decide to jolt something to crisp."
Vivian was probably the most embarrassed of the lot tonight, all the way from head to toe. In fact her face was almost red. Imagine a pale vampire having a puffy red face? That's saying something.
The group sneaked back into the encampment and dawn was about to break as they got back into their camp. Only Lil Pea got any semblance of sleep. She pretty much went back to curl up in her pot after gobbling up two sheets of paper, leaving her unlucky lot of uncles and aunts to pack up for the return trip.
Hao Ren's haul this time around was pretty good. He had gotten a rather wide variety of ores, local tools, books, clothings and had stuffed them into his Dimensional Pocket as much as he could. There's no small measure of thanks to Y'zaks business acumen that they managed to procure such items at very reasonable prices. Of course, the most valuable of loot was that combat bot that is now sitting quietly in the pocket drowning in Lily's junk food.
That was by Lily's request. She came to take 'Bally' as her victor's spoils. Vivian was reluctant to argue with her on that and simply just let her be.
The group then went to look for Becky who was doing some morning exercises in front of the camp. After beckoning her to a secluded area in the camp, the group signalled their intend to leave.
"You guys are leaving, just like that?" Becky was shocked. She knew that the group was bound to leave sooner or later, and that their interest lay elsewhere than the Orb. She never counted on them leaving so soon. "You lot had just reached here no? I thought you were supposed to investigate some dimensional phenomenon?"
"Actually last night..." Lily was just about to blurt everything out before Vivian cusped her hand over the werehusky's mouth. "Actually we received an urgent missive last night and seems like we have to abandon what we are doing here."
"Oh..." Becky didn't press the matter. She took a glance at Hilda who was standing beside Hao Ren, "She's tagging along?"
Hilda quietly looked at Hao Ren, her unease about this journey was quite apparent, but as she was bereft of any other options, and the fact she had confirmed that the portal in the centre of the Blood Lake had already closed two months back; she saw no reason to disagree to that and simply nodded as she heard Becky's question. "Yes, we're leaving together."
"Alrighty then. I won't be sending you off. Lets work again next time." Becky said as she waved her hand at the group. She then popped the question that had been bugging her, "Say... how do you guys plan to go back? If you need horses you can rent them at Leyton..."
"We'll be teleporting, as usual." Hao Ren said.
Becky was taken aback and leapt a good few meters away from the group. "Bon voyage then. Keep note of your height before you land."
"..."
It seems like Becky really didn't buy the whole shtick about 'dimensional magic' anymore.
The MDT quickly ran through the calculations needed to ensure that Hilda was transported alongside the group. After pulling some distance away from Becky, the group waived at her as a bright flash of light pulled them away from the Dream Plane.
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Hao Ren suspected that the Orb may have very well ended up in the Surface World.
The traces and trails point towards the malfunctioning airship and the Orb of the Holy Synod being dragged into the same chaotic trans-dimensional field. At that point a portal opened in the Dream Plane at the Blood Lake, so the chances are that the Orb and the monks guarding it being transported into the Surface World is rather large.
But that does not even come close to determining the exact location of the Orb: The airship was working fine when it ran into trouble at the bottom of the lake. By Hao Ren's guess, the ship was in space at that time, if the Orb's position is directly reflective of where the ship actually was, it may very well have been thrown into deep space. Plus, if it had already been floating there for a good two months, who knows where it actually may had ended up.
Secondly, the probability of the Orb being reflectively transposed accurately is miniscule. The exact location where the airship ran into issues was at the bottom of a lake, but where the dimensional rift opened was at the church in the middle of the lake. The MDT as such surmised that there is probably some distortion when the rift formed resulting in two pathways opening. The biggest fear when using interdimensional teleportation is a positional distortion, even a minute distortion could throw someone off their actual destination for thousand of miles away, light years even. Furthermore, as both the Surface World and the Dream Plane are not direct mirrors of each other, and as such any reflective transposition would not be accurate. The MDT even extrapolated the possibility of the Orb being thrown into a different universe all together. The airship had a void engine in it which is used for trans-dimensional travel, if it was still active when the ship 'crashed', there is a chance that it'll simply just throw anything nearby into other dimensions.
But where the Orb was was not the concern as of now. What was happening in the Dream Plane had all of them worried.
"What will happen is the balance is broken?" Vivian looked at the MDT curiously. Her knowledge about things while exceeds Lily's pales before the cutting edge database.
"The most obvious consequence would be things from both worlds start to interact with each other without control. The more similar their fundamental characteristics are, the easier is it for them to interact, intelligent beings will start to communicate with other intelligent beings." The MDT then opened a holographic projection, on it a sombre scene of war and massacres. "For example, demons will start appearing in human city centres, nuclear warheads may fall on a capital of a magical kingdom, biological infestation, a warlike race who takes the opportunity to go to war for dominion and destroy other civilisations in the process. And oh, diseases and plagues. A simple flu on Earth may be the Black Death in a foreign world, and it's the same the other way around. A small group may still be fine, as bacteria may not survive the environment and be eliminated by natural order, but if it involves the movement of a very large group, then it is disaster waiting to happen. Even an experienced plague lord is nothing against bacteria or viruses from another world. A small scale outbreak perhaps can be contained, but the big one... well, the medical team may as well die alongside their patients there and then."
The rather vivid explanation sent chills down Vivian's spine. "Then.. how did the first group of supernatural survived on Earth?"
"Maybe it was really the survival of the fittest, or that the transference had changed their physical attributes.. No one knows for sure. The Dream Plane is a chaotic mess after all."
Y'zaks was also deep in thought, "You haven't even mention anything about the worst case scenario. Two converging worlds probably will have issues with their spatial parameters and world rules. Well even before that, if the Planck's Constant just diverge that little bit, any contact will just result in an apocalypse. That's even more dire than war or plague, hell, not many will even survive that. An apocalypse."
The MDT moved upwards then down as if it was nodding. "That's the worst case scenario, but that usually happens if a massive convergence of two worlds. Anyway, based on the current data, the Dream Plane and the Surface World shares pretty much the same parameters. The most important of those, the Planck's Constant, the basic core settings, spatial construction are pretty much the same. The doomsday scenario will probably not happen."
Hao Ren then looked up in the sweeping glance at the rest. "I think we need to make a trip back, too many things to report. Will also need to get someone to do something about that ship."
"Yup yup!" Lily nodded vehemently. "Sides, there don't have any electricity, no internet, no nice food to eat... blergh."
This lass was so excited when she first came here, and now she was utterly sick of it.
"Well, that's that. We'll go back tomorrow then. We need to say our farewells to Becky, and to bring Hilda along." Hao Ren said as he stood up, he then noticed Wuyue who was still curled up in a ball. "You still can't untie the knot?"
Wuyue was flapping about by the shore. "I'm still numb... still numb....Ah... I'm gonna roll off!!"
Hao Ren quickly went forward to give the Siren a hand. "Don't worry, we'll wait for you."
It was no thanks to Vivian's lightning attack that Wuyue was so numbed. Remember that they ran into some mechanical guardian under water? Wuyue, the Siren nanny who could not fight simply curled into a ball using her three meter long tail as the enemy attacked. The first thing she saw as she peeped through her defensive curl was Vivian casting a lightning sphere and jolting everyone there...
Perhaps due to the high salinity of a sea creature resulting in a high level of conductivity, or Wuyue simply just forgot to put some points in her elemental resistance, she was the worst off of the lot. She was still numb after so long, and she still couldn't untie her tail after a good ten minutes trying. And oh she couldn't even dispel her Siren form despite trying.
A beautiful lass with a serpentine tail would've been a work of art, but that was far far away from both Hao Ren and Wuyue's mind as they tried to untangle her knot. It took Wuyue a lot of effort to pull the end of her tail out of the knot to tap Hao Ren by the pants. "Don't tell my brother this. PLEASE! I already did this once when I was young, he'll be laughing at me until he drops."
Hao Ren could only helplessly look at this beautiful yet clumsy Siren as something bugged him immensely. "... How did you even manage to tie yourself into a butterfly knot with all that going?"
"....Don't look, it's embarassing." Wuyue tried to turn away.
It took Wuyue another two hours before her numbness faded somewhat, just before everyone had almost decided to simply drag her back. As she was able to move now, she went back into the water to change. She glared at Vivian as she got out, "That shock was really... numbing... Stay AWAY from me when you decide to jolt something to crisp."
Vivian was probably the most embarrassed of the lot tonight, all the way from head to toe. In fact her face was almost red. Imagine a pale vampire having a puffy red face? That's saying something.
The group sneaked back into the encampment and dawn was about to break as they got back into their camp. Only Lil Pea got any semblance of sleep. She pretty much went back to curl up in her pot after gobbling up two sheets of paper, leaving her unlucky lot of uncles and aunts to pack up for the return trip.
Hao Ren's haul this time around was pretty good. He had gotten a rather wide variety of ores, local tools, books, clothings and had stuffed them into his Dimensional Pocket as much as he could. There's no small measure of thanks to Y'zaks business acumen that they managed to procure such items at very reasonable prices. Of course, the most valuable of loot was that combat bot that is now sitting quietly in the pocket drowning in Lily's junk food.
That was by Lily's request. She came to take 'Bally' as her victor's spoils. Vivian was reluctant to argue with her on that and simply just let her be.
The group then went to look for Becky who was doing some morning exercises in front of the camp. After beckoning her to a secluded area in the camp, the group signalled their intend to leave.
"You guys are leaving, just like that?" Becky was shocked. She knew that the group was bound to leave sooner or later, and that their interest lay elsewhere than the Orb. She never counted on them leaving so soon. "You lot had just reached here no? I thought you were supposed to investigate some dimensional phenomenon?"
"Actually last night..." Lily was just about to blurt everything out before Vivian cusped her hand over the werehusky's mouth. "Actually we received an urgent missive last night and seems like we have to abandon what we are doing here."
"Oh..." Becky didn't press the matter. She took a glance at Hilda who was standing beside Hao Ren, "She's tagging along?"
Hilda quietly looked at Hao Ren, her unease about this journey was quite apparent, but as she was bereft of any other options, and the fact she had confirmed that the portal in the centre of the Blood Lake had already closed two months back; she saw no reason to disagree to that and simply nodded as she heard Becky's question. "Yes, we're leaving together."
"Alrighty then. I won't be sending you off. Lets work again next time." Becky said as she waved her hand at the group. She then popped the question that had been bugging her, "Say... how do you guys plan to go back? If you need horses you can rent them at Leyton..."
"We'll be teleporting, as usual." Hao Ren said.
Becky was taken aback and leapt a good few meters away from the group. "Bon voyage then. Keep note of your height before you land."
"..."
It seems like Becky really didn't buy the whole shtick about 'dimensional magic' anymore.
The MDT quickly ran through the calculations needed to ensure that Hilda was transported alongside the group. After pulling some distance away from Becky, the group waived at her as a bright flash of light pulled them away from the Dream Plane.
