3 Direction (2/2)
Jack looked confused. ”The boy can sense something from that dice? It feels ordinary to me.” The old woman sighed. ”I can't feel the aura either. But I know what the dice is, and a person who can sense the aura of this dice is not destined to be ordinary.” She looked at Tristan. ”Roll the dice.”
Tristan rolled it on the table, expecting the dice to come to a stop, but instead the dice began spinning like a top on one of its vertices before glowing thrice with a bright light before a laser like white light from the dice pierced his forehead.
Tristan could suddenly see a few drifting thoughts and images as well as hear a few cries which disappeared. A few thoughts remained within his head.
The old woman was shocked. ”I've never seen that happen before, in my life. An unreadable projection... did the dice give you a way forward?”
Tristan nodded. ”What is the Vast Expanse?”
When he asked that, both Jack and the old woman sucked in a breath. ”Vast Expanse...is the guild of adventurers and mercenaries who perform missions. If you want to join them, you can register with them online.”
Jack looked at Tristan. ”Kid, I'll invite you to the Twilling Street Chat group, you can ask us for help or information as well as trade with us in the future.”
Tristan was walking back home as he thought about the images the dice had projected within his mind. The Vast Expanse... was one of the things he saw, along with another important clue. ”I need to get into Eastern University, it is going to be difficult.”
Back at home, Tristan checked his phone and found himself added to the Twilling Street chat group, but he didn't interact much. Instead, he looked up the website of Vast Expanse on the dark net.
He was greeted by a registration page, through which Tristan made an anonymous account. On logging in, he found that he was graded as a level 1 account. The level restricted his access to information and missions as well. He could browse forums, but only restricted to topics marked level 1.
After reading around, Tristan realized that increasing the level depended upon either completing missions or referrals. Since Tristan did not have any referrals, he decided to check the information available to level 1 members.
The Vast Expanse was the primary source for individuals not bound to a particular group or employer. Through the level 1 information, Tristan found a lot of revelations about the nature of the world.
Earth, the normal world, was actually something known as a dimensional junction. It was a world that connected to several other different worlds since ancient times. Humans have been both guarding the access points to these other worlds, as well as exploring those worlds in pursuit of strength.
Over time the situation has become more complex as humans mingled more with other species and powers and these various species have also infiltrated earth, to an extent. Governments of the world specially focus on maintaining peace, but it is a difficult and dangerous business.
The most interesting information, however, is about the potential of humans. Humans were a species that only existed on Earth before it became a dimensional junction to other worlds. However, while humans did not initially have any power of their own, they had an incredible potential to learn and grow. Thus thousands of different professions grew around various magical processes and operations and humans found all kinds of ways to become stronger.