Chapter 26: A roommate and new changes.
All around me was darkness.
This could mean only two things: I'm dead or close to dying.
I prefer neither, but both are perfectly feasible considering what happened before.
I do not know how long I've been in this dark tide, is it possible to have dreams in a dream?
He thought so, because after an eternity, I began to dream, sad dream. an ideal impossible to reach, tens, no, hundreds, yet no, thousands of senseless conflicts.
"I really am cursed" I murmured before screaming in pain, a Mystic Eye is painful to have.
Dreams are not dreams, but memories, memories that are not mine and long forgotten time.
I can feel their pain, their suffering, the dreams never achieved, being a hero is a condemnation.
In this place the memories of EMIYA and many others came to my mind.
So many memories and so much knowledge in my mind that I feel like my head is about to explode.
In the end, I had experience and knowledge far beyond my age.
I feel so tired, so tired that I no longer know where I am or who I am.
Many memories contained pain, suffering, death, sadness and pain.
I have seen fought wars and finished lives so much loss of life that could have been saved.
But in those memories in addition to the pain I found a purpose in my new life, a dream, an ideal or maybe a belief?
Who knows ?, my memory was already understood, now I do not remember who I am?
Nothing is real. Everything is just a fragile bubble, created by society, creating concepts of good and evil.
The story is false, is changed and rewritten for the convenience of the winners.
Peace is an illusion, there is no war with others, but there is poverty, discrimination, conflict between us. Brothers and sisters, who are killed for nothing.
Life sucks, the world is disgusting, humanity is shit.
Someone must destroy the world and recreate it.
There is no war, if there is only one country.
There is no underworld, if it is eradicated on the spot.
There is no corruption, if the head remains pure, not wanting nothing but peace.
Already an immortal king, capable of representing justice, eradicating evil, guiding humanity.
I must erase this world, then write a new story, one in here there is a new world.
In this realm of darkness, I heard the voice of a young woman, saying, "It is time to heal, Mystic."
The empty world is gone, it was replaced by my world, Infinity Dream.
Infinity Dream, my Reality Marble, a world that represents my soul.
An infinite field of crystal flowers. A mirror instead of the sky.
The heart of the world, of metal ruins, covered with circuit-shaped symbols.
At the center of these ruins, there is a golden lake, around him there are dozens of statues.
Seven massive golden statues, representing the 7 classes of the Servant.
The rest of the statues, made of crystal, are pairs of my Servants: Tamamo-no-Mae, Medusa, Semiramis, Atalanta, Mordred, Cú Chulainn, Jack the Ripper, William Shakespeare, Leonardo Da Vinci, Diarmuid Ua Duibhne, Frankenstein, Hashashin / Maiya Hisau, Kiritsugu Emiya, Paracelsus von Hohenheim, Okita Souji, Chiron.
This should be Infinity Dream. But there are several differences, be an infinite number of differences.
Swords, daggers, spears, halberds, bows, chains, scythes, shields, armor, staff, guns, rifles, rocket launchers, machine guns, bombs etc.
An infinite number of weapons lies on the endless lawn of crystal flowers. As if they were gravestones for a cemetery.
The mirror that takes the place of the great blue sky is cracked by a deep wound, which exudes a chaotic energy similar to the vampire killed just now.
"You were not ready to enter this world, now you pay the consequences" said the voice of before.
" Where are you ?" I asked looking for the owner of the item.
"Your wounds and your actions have sliced this fragile world, so it's broken, but I'm repairing it, with your help," the mysterious voice said.
"How can I repair a Reality Marble?" I asked trying to reason with this voice.
"Your origin is the Archive and the Mirror, the mirror on the surface, the archive under the ground, you find the core of your mind, soul and body," said the voice, a ghostly blue light appeared in front of the golden lake.
I went towards the blue light, this light is a luminescent globe.
" Now what I have to do ?" I asked the magic globe, waiting for an answer.
The globe entered into the golden lake, sank into the golden lake, leaving me alone.
"I do not go there, I can not swim, I do not want to die drowned!" I protested, I am the water we have never been good friends. A Reality Marble does not change anything.
Bad water remains bad, in this world and in the real world.
"Annoying" said a male voice. A second later, something of mine pushed into the lake, while one fell into the lake. From the corner of my eye I saw a two-meter man dressed in black.
Drowning in the golden waters, closed my eyes, when I opened I found myself in a world made up entirely of "shelves and books" Spread unlimited.
The whole chamber is in the shape of a cylinder, but many layers of stairs and corridors have been created on the wall surface, with myriads of myriad bookcases aligned on one side or both sides.
The distance between the floor where we are now and the roof on the other side of the long portico that extends like a multilevel labyrinth that reaches easily forty meters at least. It could resemble the ten-level building in the real world. I can not even estimate the total number of books stored on a shelf.
I took a step forward, then another, in a short time I arrived at the center of this library.
At my side is the blue globe, which is glowing intensely, closer to the heart of this other infinite world.
In front of me there is a stone throne, it seems more like a work of art than an object on which to sit.
There are various gems and similar designs has circuits printed on the throne.
Above the throne, floating like nothing was my library, which exudes an intense magical aura.
The blue globe moves near the throne, emitting a powerful flash of light, close your eyes so as not to blind.
A moment later, a young girl is on the throne, at least 15 years, at most 16 years. Low height 160 cm.
Long, straight blue hair, which comes to life, crystalline blue eyes. A snow-white skin.
A unique feature is its V-shaped tattoos, located on the forehead.
He looks like a kind of ice princess. Even if you remember a little bit of C.C. of Code Geass and someone else.
He wears an almost indentical dress to Kuro aka Chloe Von Einzbern in his combat form, which is a mini FEM-EMIYA.
The only difference is the color is not red, but a beautiful dark blue.
"Hi, Hello Onii-Sama!" Said the ice princess, smiling like the cat of Alice in Wonderland adventures.
"Who are you, Cheshire?" I said to the blue girl, who smiles like Cheshire.
"Thank you for this name, my Alice?" Said Miss Blue, making fun of me.
"Alice ... I always thought I was the mad hatter ... Let's stop joking, who are you really and what are you doing here?" I asked for a response from her.
The present of a stranger in a part of my Reality Marble. He does not promise anything good.
"They are an accumulation of experiences and events, a remnant of Alaya, a fragment of memories of EMIYA, a laboratory experiment named Nemo.I am all this is nothing." Said the intruder of my inner world, showing a thoughtful face .
"It's me I think I have a complicated life, so what do you want?" I asked, trying to figure out what this girl may need for a lifetime.
"To start a name from my dad" said the girl without a name, while indicating ... me!
"Wait, I'm not your father." Even if I were a father, my daughter would almost certainly have ears and fox tail "I shouted, I already know where children come from and it's a job for two. The only woman I've worked with here is Tamamo.
"A sister Kitsune would be welcome, Onii-Sama" said my false daughter number two. Because I have a premonition that I will have to pass several times through similar situations.
"You decide, what's older brother or father, I prefer the first one." I said, I'd rather be a big brother, than play dad's role, I already have Jacky, another crazy person who thinks I'm a parent is too much for me.
"You are a father, a mother, a brother, a sister and a lover, we are all for myself, we are united by the red thread of destiny, you die, I die, I die, you realize my soul mate." Sweet smile, I'm a little scared, I've faced an army of chaotic creatures and their vampire leder without blinking.
"What do I do to get into similar situations? I hardly know you!" I screamed, I'm about to tear my hair out, maybe I'll find a quiet moment through death.
"Maybe I'm too direct," he murmured, tilting his head, "in my guilt I was born yesterday, technique 23 hours, 38 minutes and 55 seconds."
This girl is not normal, but who am I to judge? Only yesterday I became the secret lover of a Kitsune who is my Servant.
"Perhaps some examples will enlighten you, my beloved: You are Naruto Uzumaki and I the Kyuubi no Kitsune, Spider-man, I Venom Ichigo Kurosaki is his Zanpakutō, Zangetsu." He spoke this Yandere, using a language that I understand very much .
"Daddy did you understand what I am?" He said, my future partner.
"From your words and from the examples given, I assume you're a kind of artificially created conceptual symbiont, I have something like that." I said trying to come up with a theory.
"Simbionte, I like how it sounds," Symionte Cheshire, "Mystic's daughter." About what a symbiote is, "he muttered slightly confused Cheshire.
"They are called symbionts the organisms that necessarily live a relationship with other living organisms and do not necessarily derive mutual benefit from life in common." I explained using an old description of a science book.
"Certainly the momentary presence of Unlimited Blade World and the memories of EMIYA connected with the energy left over from my visit to the root." I said using a strange logic of souls.
I do not remember much, but I saw several things before dying and getting here. Do not ask me for details, because thought alone causes a tremendous headache.
"The energy has joined you have memories creating a case similar to Kuro alias Chloe Von Einzbern, but where is the ship, the physical body for your birth." I asked intrigued, energy and fragments of Reality Marble to simulate the soul, centuries of memories to create a mind, but where does the body come from?
"The evil instrument, Nemo, an experiment caused by experimentation on C.C. has the role of a symbiote, which merges at the cellular level with the host, part of me, comes from Nemo" explained the symbiont of multiple origin.
"Body, mind and soul present for creation." Finally, the final piece must be the environment, Infinity Dream is a place with its own result is the birth of Iris "I said, baptizing the conceptual symbiont.
"Iris, it's not as cool as Cheshire, but it's very nice," he said, smiling.
"So what do you want, Iris?" I asked, wanting to get out of here. In every manga after the discussion in an astral place the protagonist wakes up.
"To talk to you, to help you." You did not have to activate Infinity Dream, using it prematurely had its consequences, but this allowed you to manifest part of Infinity Dream in your body, saving your life. "Iris said, still smiling. he seems always happier.
"I'm not dead, it's nice to hear it, so Shirou has a body made of swords, what do I get?" A body made of ... dreams? "I joked, hoping I do not end up like Solomon Grandy.
"It would be interesting, but the winner is material most present in this world and the most resistant of all" explained Iris, is not very bad, Emma Frost of the X-MEN is a mutant that can become live crystal.
"How do you want to help me" I asked very curious, I want to hear Iris's answers you have my problems.
"I'm already helping you, I'm taking care of keeping you alive, stabilizing your mind and keeping the chaos out of your body, thank you very much Nrvnqsr." He said the conceptual symbiont, mentioning several disturbing factors.
"Thank you very much for healing, but if healing is already going well, why is my name here?" You seem to be doing great things in everything you do "I said, wanting to know more information from Iris, a new character can be a source of conflict.
"I have called you for various reasons: I want to meet you personally, I can access all your knowledge, but reading a file is different from knowing the individual personally I take care to fix" internal ", your Servant help me with the" outside " "Your presence accelerates the healing process of Reality Marble by 500% Finally I need your personal intervention to fix a delicate problem." With this words my floating library grimori went into my hands, opening in the middle.
"This is yours, first known as Manuscrisul by Xela-Voynich or Dream Controller, his real name is Codex Analisys, he's the sensitive problem he has to solve," said Iris with a serious look, which suits a war veteran , no to a girl.
"Codex Analisys: A Noble Phantasm, I assume it's mine, what can you do and what's the delicate problem?" I asked looking at page by page, half of the book is full of complex or forbidden spells, the other half shows images and details of a huge number of Noble Phantasm.
Let me explain the problem:
This Grimoire is a unique Noble Phantasm for itself, with a deep and impossible to break connection. In other words, it represents your Origin as it is Archive and influences your person and Infinity Dream. "Iris took a break, looking for the right words, if what she says is true, this Noble Phantasm is worth as much as my own soul.
"This Grimoire contains all your knowledge, every memory, all the spells, ideas, whatever information you know is in Codex Analisys."
Fearful, if all I know is in these pages, whoever reads it will understand everything about me, every secret. Truly scary.
"Codex Analisys stores everything you hear through your eyes and ears: things like magic, objects, equipment, Noble Phantasm, moves, skills, animals and people, are stored and stored."
Useful for learning, analyzing and experimenting. I could increase, no, trippate the fruits of my training.
"As if he had his own knowledge, Codex Analisys, he analyzes the 'subject' with a kind of Clairvoyance, then he writes all that he can into it, analyzing on the person or the object."
An extremely advanced scanning system, superior to the magic of Shirou Emiya or psychometry.
"This Noble Phantasm can get around for support, in this category he has many abilities:
- Increases the arcane user skills, control and stability is four times larger than normal.
- All user spells can be activated by avoiding the "loading" time. Using only the name of the spell, the cost of mana is reduced to a quarter.
- Once handed to the user passively grants a skill to destroy any spell. Guaranteeing to its owner the passive ability to deal with a grade A and lower Magecraft, making it effectively immune to all modern magecraft. "
Even more useful, with this Noble Phantasm, I can become an extremely powerful Servant Caster. With a glance I understand the identity of the enemy and their weak points, the more I can bomb them with a literal rain of magic, without fear of being attacked by a master.
"The scariest power is the creation of similar equipment you have Noble Phantasm."
"What!" I shouted in surprise, a Noble Phantasm who creates Noble Phantasm, something like that can get through The Door of Babylon or Unlimited Blade World.
"You're right to shout Codex Analisys, you can create 'artifacts', your talents of artists, especially as a writer and draftsman, even if you're mediocre in the last one." Iris commented dryly, but he's right I want to be a writer, not a designer, even if drawing is a minor hobby.
"Imagining the artifact, writing its story and drawing its appearance on the pages of Codex Analisys.
A process similar to creating a soul, mind and body. A bit like me. The created artifact will be kept in the Codex Analisys and in the Reality Marble, Infinity Dream. "He said Iris, while I can not stop smiling.
How many artists have dreamed of seeing their creation come to life, a feeling similar to God.
"As useful and this power, it is not usable in combat because of the time involved in the creation, the cost of magical energy for such a venture and the need for inspiration and imagination."
Fairly balanced, a powerful skill, but in need of a lot of time and dedication to work. In short, in a short-term game it is worth little. But for a long time it will be invaluable.
"Listen well, I'm going to tell you the foundation of your magic, which you did not know you had.
To use Noble Phantasm, spells or moves. Seen by your eyes or present in the archive it is necessary to go through a process of recreation. "
Recreation process?
"Your subconscious does this process for every spell and technique you know.
This process consists of four steps: Concept, Compression, Reasoning, finally Forging.
First step, Concept - Grasp the basic concept of magic or Noble Phantasm, which you want to learn. You must confirm both the name and the execution with his eyes and ears.
Second step, Understanding - Understanding the basics, understanding the story and characteristics of the subject.
This step is very easy for you, through the analysis of Codex Analisys and the memories of EMIYA.
Third step, Reasoning - Analyzing the fundamentals of magic or Noble Phantasm, then disassembling its 'chemical' structure. Which means simply dismantling the "nature" of magic or Noble Phantasm through the use of logic or fantasy.
Last step, Forging - once you've done the last three steps, it just remains to shape the magic or Noble Phantasm to fit you have your own personal criteria. With this information, you can solve the problem, once done you can wake up in complete safety. "Iris explained, with a pleased look.
"Your information is very precious, it will help me deeply to develop my magic, but I can not do anything, if you do not tell me the problem." I said to the conceptual Simbionte, that you do not tell me what the problem is.
"Your archive as your mind is confused, messy, chaotic, this has happened thanks to the huge influx of information through Unlimited Blade World and Index Librorum have loaded your brain solution is simple:
Read, catalog, archive information. Each spell must go into a book on the right shelf. The Phantasm Nobles have been dismantled and redone to be compatible with you. "Iris explained, as if I were a small child.
"It will take an eternity, one thing is an entire library of magical books, but Unlimited Blade World is infinite, how can I classify it and store the infinite?" "I protested, wanting to find a solution to this problem that seems to have no end.
"You do not have to classify everything at once - just as long as you need to get rid of the strain." A thousand of reworked Noble Phantasm, 51500 decrypted grimori will be enough, "said Iris, while I study the book that literally contains an infinite number of weapons and a huge library of mystical knowledge.
"It will be a long stay in this Reality Marble" I grumbled frustrated.
"Look at the good part, we have time to get to know you better" said Iris clapping his hands.
In a second I found myself sitting on the throne, holding hands and Iris sitting in my lap.
"So Onii-Sama, how do we have fun together?" Iris said with a mischievous and lustful smile.
"You're not my thing" I told the truth, Iris is pretty, but I got a kind of fetish for girls with ears of animals or foreign nationality.
"Really? ... We wait and see, I'm a patient woman, plus men need to let off steam and here, I'm the only existing woman." He said Iris while resting his head on my shoulder, making himself comfortable.
"It will be a long day" I said bitterly, what I did wrong to have a kind of mad princess on the head, no, inside the head.
"You know I can read you in thought, my crazy prince, I can play the role of that fox Caster if you want" he said smiling with the eyes of a predator while on the head appear bunny ears.
"Mamma mia, sara una notte lungha" I said in Italian.
(translation: My goodness!, it will be a long night)
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After a very long time to read, write, draw and endure Iris. He managed to get out of my inner world.
XXX
BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!
When my eyes opened and the rest of my senses came slowly to me, I could hear an incessant beep, as well as a couple of distorted words.
I was surrounded by a translucent fluid, which for a second I thought was water.
They are in a kind of cylinder case, with the air being fed into my lungs by a respirator.
The temptation to use Reinforcement to improve my sight to better grasp the surrounding environment was strong, but in the end it probably would have done more harm than good.
I was only able to recover enough to wake up, so striving, even with basic Magecraft, would not be in my interest.
Slight mutterings made their way into my ears, and two shapes moved in front of me, speaking in muffled tones.
Fortunately, I managed to understand that these two individuals were Paracelsus and ... Miss Louvre.
They did not seem to notice my awakening, but I can not hear what they were talking about here.
I tapped the container with my right hand to get their attention, and it worked.
My Servant / alchemy teacher Paracelsus together with the psuedo-prisoner Louvre, shot me immediately, which I responded with a random wave.
A few clearer words managed to reach my ear because of the shortened distance and the louder voice.
Paracelsus approached a console and, with a tap of a switch, I felt something open beneath me and the fluid I had inside began to empty.
The moment my feet touched solid ground, the glass of the container opened outward.
The respirator in my mouth fell at my feet, I enjoyed the feeling of fresh air that fills my lungs ... Well, as fresh as could have the air in this lab, I do not recognize it, I'm not in San Francisco anymore .
My pace was a little shaky, but solid enough to conceal my slight weakness.
Suddenly I felt shudder, as I realize that the thrill I feel is due to the fact that I'm in my underwear.
To be honest, I'm a little embarrassed to be almost naked in front of a vampire girl, my life is just strange.
Paracelsus did a great job taking care of me, but I'm curious to know how I got here. Wherever this place is.
"Thank you for taking care of me, Paracelsus, but what is Louvre doing here?" I asked as I went to a medical chair to sit down, I feel very strange and perhaps even bigger.
"Alchimist Caster, I want a report from when I was unconscious and what happened" I said using my Master authority.
"Simply put, you disappeared with Index for hours." We started looking for you, luckily Frankenstein found Bastet showing us the way. "Paracelsus said as he motioned for Louvre to leave.
"That Egyptian black cat deserves a nice tone" I commented, Bastet is definitely a more intelligent cat than it seems.
"Once found in a kind of chrysalis, we immediately examined and tried to help you, after a meeting and a report from voted to take all our equipment and move to a safe place." Said Paracelsus, confirming my suspects.
"So where are we?" I asked, wanting to know the place of the new lair.
"In a kind of underground bunker in the sewers of New York, Miss Louvre was essential for moving and healing, and now she's practically a member of the Wild Hunt." Did Paracelsus say he pulled out a mirror?
"Why is Miss Louvre helping us?" "Do you want something from us?" Protection from your father's enemies? "I assumed from my limited knowledge of Miss Louvre's deceased father.
"Maybe yes, but it helps you for another reason, a crucial one
Nrvnqsr Chaos and being infected by his chaos, you became the new Tenth Dead Apostle Ancestors. That is why Miss Louvre takes care of you, you are her new vampire Lord "Paracelsus launched a news bomb.
There is only one way to express what I feel right now, I shouted these words: "What!"
"My friend, calm down, there is more, the transformation into a Dead Apostle is presence of the Xenothium, the philosopher's stone and other factors have caused a great number of genetic, physical and many other mutations." Paracelsus as he gave me the mirror.
I saw the Geass symbol tattooed on my forehead. A red stone instead of the left eye and a Mystic Eye in my right eye that is activating.
Go on ...