Chapter 173: Replace
"What is he up to?"
Paulina whispered when she saw the notification on her phone.
[A teammate wants to borrow your points.]
She looked around, and realized that everyone had got the same notification.
"He ran away without any explanation, and now he wants points?"
Edward muttered with a frown.
"I'll allow however much he wants to borrow."
Valentina spoke, while Drakarion shrugged beside her. "Same."
Paulina nodded as well.
"There must really be some emergency for him to act this way."
Edward decided to put a limit on the number of points allowed to be borrowed while the rest just allowed without any conditions.
Eryndor didn't message his teammates to accept as he had trust in them, instead he utilized that time to message Dr. Kirchoff.
"You didn't answer my earlier message about what happens when someone makes an opening in a secret realm."
Dr. Kirchoff: "Mmm…it's related to how I mentioned earlier that due to the nature of the secret realm, neither the Human Federation nor the Cyborg Outer Domain can do anything even if both sides are aware of the entrance there.
"We can't really have a big fight in there.
"You see, you must have read it online in common information about secret realms that they are just a pocket of space.
"What is not written there is that this pocket of space isn't really all that stable.
"So when incredible intensity of powers are used, there's a chance it might further destabilise the space, or even completely rupture it apart.
"Yes, there has been a previous incident for both cases.
"In the first one, the people were trapped in the secret realm since the entrance began closing and opening at random places in the secret realm, and even in the outside world, the entrance chaotically began moving around.
"We had to coordinate with the team and let them know when to exit so that they don't leave the secret realm only to end up in the ocean or some dangerous places.
"For the second case, obviously, everyone died, the pocket of space called secret realm was literally ruptured apart. Naturally, it didn't appear again.
"Now, back onto your question.
"I just told you that a secret realm is just an unstable pocket of space, correct? So, if you mess with it, it is obvious that the entire thing gets rattled. A tiny disruption could occur at the time when the entrance is made."
Eryndor sent him a thank you before going back in his thoughts.
That agent which left the secret realm.
The one which kept repeating the revered appellation over and over.
I was wondering all this time why that man was able to leave despite the entrance being closed.
Now it makes sense. He was able to leave because the blockade on entrance briefly faltered due to disruption caused when Daoisto made the entrance to Cyborg Outer Domain.
Eryndor thought back to how it was mentioned that the agent had left the secret realm years before Co-founder Morris.
Come to think of it, didn't the third piece of yellow paper which said 'Hahaha, thank you for making an opening Daoist!' also take a lot of energy of Consciousness to be reversed?
Doesn't that mean it was way too old?
The timings kind of match up, both are very old. I wonder why I didn't make the connections myself, I already had all the information, even the fact that the secret realm is a pocket of space.
I just didn't know it was unstable, but I could've made a guess for that.
I've been really lax this time around.
Even the current situation could've been avoided if I had just guessed the revered appellation earlier. There was no need for waiting for so long for all these other pieces of information.
As Eryndor silently admonished himself, the screen opposite to him finally turned green.
[Point transfer complete. Initiating teleportation of the student to the target Support Shrine.]
[Please check the number of Support Shrine again, and press on confirm after making changes.]
After Eryndor went through everything, a final pop up appeared.
[Please stand inside the red circle.]
Without saying anything, he stood inside the newly manifested red circle on the floor.
Just like the last time, white light appeared before his eyes which blinded him.
A few seconds later when he felt like he could open his eyes, he noticed that he was standing in the familiar cabin of the Support Shrine.
Did the teleportation fail?
Apparently not. A screen lit up on the wall and a pop up appeared.
[Teleportation successful]
Wow, this teleportation is much more comfortable than the one it uses to send us outside.
Without delaying, he left the Support Shrine through the horrifying teleport mechanism, obviously commanding it to drop him in the direction of the entrance.
As he began running after the nasty tumble, he recalled the dots he had pieced together.
Amplification.
I'm certain this is the authority of that being, and also what it used on Co-founder Morris.
Daoisto 'amplified' Co-founder Morris' transformation ability.
The amplification would've been to such a scary extent that Co-founder Morris can literally become Guardian Sol in every sense, be it ability, his identity, and probably even his destiny, if such a thing existed.
Why Guardian Sol?
Because he probably has the best defense ability.
Yes, the amplified transformation innate ability might very well allow one to even copy their ability.
The entire reason he made friends with him was probably to know his manners and everything.
He is killing Guardian Sol, because obviously, there can't be two, one has to go.
One might have a doubt. What did defense ability have to do with all of this?
Because of safety.
Everyone who participated in the mission to seal me died.
Whether it was Dr. Kirchoff killing everyone, or a fate type curse of coming in contact with the real form of an eldritch entity, only this kind of defense ability can shield him.
Guardian Sol's defense ability was even able to defend against abstract concepts like karmic link based attacks of the Buddhist Outer Domain after all.
Co-founder Morris was doing everything purely because he wanted to live.
But then… Why was Eryndor running in such haste?
Exactly because Co-founder Morris was replacing Guardian Sol.
The Mystical Artifact which protected students from outsiders. The Federation had set it up such that even Co-founder Morris was counted as an outsider.
The only one who had the authority to interfere was Guardian Sol.
If Co-founder Morris became Guardian Sol in every sense, be it appearance, ability, identity, aura, destiny, would the Mystical Artifact still be able to correctly identify him?
Nope. At least, there were very low chances of that happening.
And what would happen if Co-founder Morris became Guardian Sol?
I would lose my last layer of protection.
He can then actively interfere and put me in the abyss.
That was really the gist of everything.
Shit man, if only I could deduce the one line revered appellation earlier.
There would've been no need to wait until now in that case.
Guardian Sol wouldn't have had to fight the Y class peak stage Mechanist and even Daoisto, that clone of the eldritch entity wouldn't have appeared.
But the question still remained, why was Eryndor running towards them?
Wasn't that currently the most dangerous place for him?
Because he planned to utilize 'Hunger'.