164 She Who Tries To Put Up A Fight 2 (1/2)
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Long ago, about... okay, not really long ago, but just within the century... Some intelligent normal people believing in either Astrology or the Supernaturals made a claim that the world was composed of many layers. They said that the Earth was filled with more wondrous places than those in the acclaimed ever-changing list of The World's Seven Wonders.
Some of the most notable was,
The city of Atlantis so advanced and modern than all of the places in the world of its most splendorous time combined, thought to have sunk deep into the ocean together with its high-specie inhabitants...
Ophir, the land of gold, silver, sandalwood, pearls, ivory, apes, and peacocks mentioned as the wealthiest city of old in the core texts of the biggest and most widespread religion in the world.
The phantom Aurora Islands said to be where mermaids were last sighted a couple of centuries ago.
Sodom and Gomorrah, the two widely known cities of the ancient times said to be purged through fire and brimstone for being great cities of sins and homosexuality...
The Isle of Demons located in the Western side of the world told to be populated by demons and wild beasts which would torment and attack any ships that passed or anyone that was foolish enough to wander onto the islands.
El Dorado, the famed Land of Gold, another phantom city of unimaginable wealth and opportunities...
Unfortunately, not many were blessed with the fortune to see these wonderful and legendary places since they were suspected to be no longer at the first layer where humanity currently resides, but within the second or the other layers.
As to how people could get into these layers, not many knew, of course, but those who did also knew the reality behind these acclaims.
The layers did actually exist!
As dimensions, or places manipulated or created by former very high-level immoral hosts!
And to reach these places requires abilities and assistance of the system which ninety-nine percent of the population in the world lack. Yet within the remaining 'fortunate' one percent, only those higher-leveled or possessing great luck and points could do this normally impossible ordeal.
An ordeal which Sofony only badly wanted to accomplish not in order to behold what a legendary and mythical place was like, but to get to where her man was.
She played deaf to its words even though they were suggesting she could die if she continued with this. Closing her eyes, she waited with bated breath for the white light to bring her to the world within their world mentioned in the List of Partners tab. The seconds that slowly passed seemed to be an unknown and endless amount of time to her. The beating of her heart was so wild and loud that she almost got deafened by it.
'Am I already there?' she asked when she could no longer hear the shouts and sharp, inexplicable noises coming from the trucks, long hoses, and ambulances.
She opened her eyes and as expected, the assortment of people crowding around the former Golden Residences was gone, replaced by a weird world showing no signs of change or movement in it. Everywhere one's eyes would roam to, they would only see unmoving plants and people, even time-frozen birds supposedly flying high up in the starry skies. The only exception was where the burnt condo building was.
Yet none of these things mattered to Sofony.
”Gio!”
With a press of a button, the shield she purchased a few seconds earlier was activated at the same time as she jumped onto the man standing before a huge blue box which resembled an oversized ice block.
Currently, in Sofony's eyes, only his figure existed. Her eyes checked for injuries and other unusual signs and she was very glad to see that there were no such things on him. As she landed in between his arms, she hostilely glanced at the person five meters away.
Glossing over the wrinkled white lab coat hanging loosely from the middle-aged man's shoulders, she committed the unfamiliar face into her memory, branding it temporarily as a host to be wary about.
'Who is he?' Her eyes flickered with uncertainty because something about the person felt familiar but later convinced herself that this man was not someone she ever met before. It was the first time she encountered a host not around her age, and she was nervous since she could already guess that he was someone more powerful than her.
She didn't recognize Fred, as the one gazing so lukewarmly at them had changed his face the moment he sensed an intruder coming into this unstable static world. But actually, even if he didn't do it, she would still not recognize him as the face he used to appear before Gio since yesterday was also not his real one.
As said quite a few days ago, a thousand meters were the closest they could be, since the real father and his daughter were still separated by a whole dimension.
The current body, though in some sense was still Fred, it was also only that of his clone.
”Sofy.”