Mystery Of The Ring

We decided not to attack the castle head-on. We stayed at an inn named 'Garden of Life' and started a strategy meeting. By now, we were already labelled as criminals by the kingdom as we attacked Theo and our wanted posters were being put but they hadn't reached this area yet, so it was safe.

The first and the foremost issue to be discussed was the ring. We didn't know what were its powers yet and how to use them against the king. Meril advised me to combine them with magic cards but none of them worked. Alice told me to think of a magical weapon or something hoping that the ring would transform but that effort was useless too.

The only other thing I could think of that linked me and the hero was void magic. So I summoned a smartphone using it. As expected, it was out of range.

So I thought of using some of its features like navigation etc but obviously how can it have information on this world!

I said to Alice, "I wish it had the map of this city so we could easily cross it."

Suddenly the diamond on the ring began to glow and the map of Scaro city was shown on the map. We were baffled by it and thought that this must be the power of ring but what exactly was the power? We didn't know yet.

I zoomed onto the map of castle. At that time Alice said, "So exactly how many enemies will we be facing? Will the three of us be sufficient?" The diamond glowed again and this time some red dots appeared on the map of castle. There were approximately forty to fifty red dots. We concluded that this must be the number of enemies we have to face to reach the king.

So the smartphone had become voice-controlled and listened to our commands with the help of the ring. Suddenly the ring vanished into thin air!

We all were surprised and became so depressed. I saw something on the screen of my smartphone. A cute and little rabbit was on the screen. I asked, "Who are you?"

The rabbit replied, "I am none other than the ring you wore just a minute ago. My speciality is that I could control things of the other world like this device. I have become an Artificial Intelligence object and I now inhabit this device. Sir Claud told me various things about the world of yours. I know about cars, planes and many more things as I was updated by absorbing your knowledge of that world. I was the one controlling the plane during your fight with Theo. I could sense you coming from far away."

I said, "That makes sense. I knew that I could not fly a plane but how was I able to do it then? That solves the mystery. Do you have a name?"

The bunny replied that Sir Claud didn't give him a name as he was in the form of a ring and that we could choose a new name for him.

Alice said that he is so cute so she would like to name him. After thinking for a little while she said, "How about 'Mickey'?" The bunny agreed and said that he would like to be called Mickey from now on.

One doubt was remaining in my mind. I asked Mickey, "So Mickey does that mean that the things I bring with void magic can be combined with this world's magic with your help?"

He said that certainly it was possible. I was overjoyed to hear that. We all welcomed Mickey to our team and explained the situation to Mickey about the king and the dragon. Mickey agreed to help us on our journey from now on.

Meril was deep in thought. I gently tapped on her shoulder and asked her what was she thinking about. She replied that she was wondering how Mickey was created in the first place.

That was the moment when I realised the true potential I held within this world.

Mickey's reply was, "I was created using a magic called Alchemy by Sir Claud. He could use raw materials and this magic to produce various items that may or may not be found in this world."

I could imagine infinite possibilities lying ahead in my life in this world!

But first, the king has to be taken down and we have to reach the castle before that. Looking outside, it seemed that knights already have found our location and were planning to launch an attack. So I used void magic to escape using a plane and the three of us flew to the castle using the map Mickey showed.