140 Sealed Mana Artifacts (1/2)

\”Start Link!\”

Clarice said following Wallace's instructions. After feeling a warm embrace to her whole body, she opened her eyes again and was brought to a familiar white room to fix her avatar.

This is somehow the same in the first version. As she was only making a test, she didn't bother making some compicated changes and left it as it is. As she admired her appearance, there were four options that has appeared in front of her. She could select any of the four to proceed.

[ Battle Arena - Survival ]

[ Adventure Mode ]

[ Practice Mode  ]

[ Tutorial ]

Clarice wasn't really in a mood to do battle and was only here to try one of her brother's work to offer some suggestions and help him. She planned to select the [ Linked Park ] which was previously in the previous simulator. It was a place where all users of the first version of the simulator pods could gather. That place wasn't crowded as only 200 copies of those pods was sold by Wallace as a trial. She wanted to suggest something in that Mode but unfortunately, this Park has disappeared and was replaced by [ Adventure Mode ].

She selected this mode to check it out and was thoroughly surprised on what happened next. She even questioned how his brother could do something this amazing.

After getting surprised and taking a few breaths to calm down, Clarice had a sense her surroundings as her face turned very serious. She walked for couple of minutes and felt a familiar connection to the world.

She took a deep breath and tested to execute some magic spells.

\”T-this...\”

She could connect to the mana! She can feel the mana within her body without any issues or discomfort!

\”H-how? Did I get transported to a different place instead? Was that the true capability of the pod?\”

Transporting a person to an isolated island that Wallace had reserved for Adventure Mode beforehand? She was trying to come up what kind of trick Wallace did to accomplish this but she could only gave up. She's not an engineer but a battle mage. This is too complicated for her so she didn't bother thinking too deeply on how this works.

\”Is this a Lost Technology perhaps? Yes, this is definitely one. How did he learn this?\”

Her breathing got heavy upon experiencing all this. She just tried using the magic she was familiar with even without Mana Artifact and she perfectly executed them.

Not only that, she felt the texture of the grass, the trees, and even bit into some leaves. Sure enough, she could taste them. It felt so real!

She also noticed a city far away after looking around, but it's structures and vehicles weren't so familiar.

\”This technology... this is too valuable. I need to fully discuss this with him. He's probably not even aware what kind of complications this device would make once its released.\”  Clarice said in a grave tone. The first combat simulator pod that Wallace made was in the standard that other engineers in the country could somehow make with great efforts. It was only improved by a bit due to having several options for battlefield, avatar options, and good practice environment due to multiple options. You can almost design your own place during tutorial phase.

But this simulation that she was looking at wasn't so simple. It was like a new world. It even felt like she had entered an advanced civilization after looking at the far city. Also, she felt the freedom that she could do in this place after trying her magic several times.

She didn't have enough in this world yet as she decided to visit the near city.

But as she was about to step on the city land, she felt everything darken and was woken up in the simulator pod. The gels around her has already shrunken.

\”What happened?\” Clarice was of course disappointed about the sudden cutting off of her fun.

\”Err.. not sure. It's not yet complete... perhaps. Anyway, let's check this thing instead.\” Wallace reasoned out. Actually, Wallace was also surprised about the city in the Adventure Mode. That city was almost and exact copy of an advanced civilization's metropolis. Showing that to her sister was asking for trouble.

So after learning it, he immediately asked Avalon to safely disconnect her from the virtual world. It wasn't his intention to put that city there but as he let the Avalon design the place after he perfected the program in simulating mana, he forgot these structural details. He forgot to tell the artificial intelligence to only put a simple city or better yet, an old fashioned one.

\”Eh? You haven't finish that yet?\” Clarice furrowed her brows as she questioned Wallace. She was feeling a bit doubtful and unable to get over that feeling of realism within that virtual world.

\”That's right, I haven't perfected it yet but you can retest it... perhaps after a month.\” Wallace smiled after leading her to his other creations.