Chapter 18 (1/2)

This world of Yggdrasia actually existed…?

Was he saying this was an actual planet so that the words could shed light upon my confusion

This place was discovered due to my mother and her power: o, when my mother was still active as a hacker, her poas analyzed The results became the foundation of the very first brain-computer interface VR system

A certain corporation in the defense industry recruited her In her ti there, she accidentally discovered a faint disturbance in cyberspace Further investigations and analysis revealed a world entirely separate from Earth

Yet, that world was y of the ti drone that could create its own light sources through It turned out that the planetary systeed to did not correlate to any records on Earth Yggdrasia itself was determined to be an Earth-like planet, but its atmosphere was different and more importantly, unsuitable for Earth humans

So someone found out about this planet… Then why did no one publicize this? It would've been the find of the century… or perhaps, soardless, investigations continued The corporation had officially received the governs to continue the survey They found out that this world was surprisingly similar to Earth in culture, and that the native humans' level of civilization was equivalent to Earth's Middle Ages

The similarities received heavy attention from the scholars In the end, they cay that had created the dimensional disturbance had also, in the past, caused some sort of information to travel both ways between Earth and the neorld Natives in the neorld called that energy 'Mana'

Mana… So if this world was real, then did that ic was real, too?

This world was sustained by the infinite s Compared to the other races of the neorld, the 'humans' there were relatively weak, but could quickly increase their population They had founded countries, like parasites leeching off the Tree and the Saplings Yet despite their achieve ic

The corporation wanted to explore the possibility of using overnh After deciphering the native language, they pretended theer countries, coained faith with agricultural refory for the mass, and other such improvements With trust now cemented, God told the people to research aboutranted the native people technology, then had the with this?

The research was successful, and the first applications were in developitech tools that served a role siy transfer, in just ten-odd years, itech trains and airshi+ps were born Before Earth's intervention, the hudrasia were several hundreds of ical barriers and weapons, in ten years, that number quickly swelled

At first, it was simply intellectual curiosity Next, the corporation wanted to find a way to utilize the faint mana they detected froed when they discovered the child that would be called No 17

Native fauna on Yggdrasia could kill other life-foric and lifeforce from their victims, and convert them into their oer And No 17, found in Tibet, had the saenoatherbeings

Did that ic, a part of that was sent to Earth? And perhaps the death penalty that cut ic in half was also for this purpose

Fro the neorld, they understood that it was possible to send 'waves', like radio signals, through the dimensional distortion Fro to Earth, they hypothesized that mana was a form of wave that suffused the at a systeathered to Earth

At the time, there was no way to make the drones even decently powerful However, the problem was solved once they discovered No 08

His poas toit with another power previously analyzed – the power to convert s or froical er limited to robotic drones They could now create the huuishable fros

The VR avatar systeher realism came with its own probleate these proble the opportunity of infinite energy in the for huovernment invested a vast sum of money into the corporation and told the

Which resulted in this gadrasia

I see… Just the beta test alone already had three ame when it's officially released, the corporation would basically gain three overnh to cover the country's energy needs They urged the developather mana more efficiently, weapons that could be deployed on both Earth and the other world Non-humanoid remote-controlled weapons Monster avatars

This corporation had branch offices everywhere on Earth Within research centers es, they conducted analyses upon the twenty people with special abilities that they'd gathered With the co avatars, now the corporation was looking into investigating the proble tous secret alpha testers into the worst circumstances possible, as a part of their experiment They would see all of us bled dry

So ere just disposable pawns… and that inhu this , the words were chicken scrawls, but they got better as time went on And then… they started to deteriorate

Us secret alpha testers were orphans fro some sort of mysterious power But s Soone by other means

At first, there were only twenty-three of us We were gathered at the research center, with nuovernment's behest, the corporation added another seventy-seven despite their trivial abilities Exactly one hundred of us were dropped into this neorld

Around here was the point where No 01's an to veer off-course, letters started varying in sizes, and once in a while I could see deep gouges in the rock wall