Chapter 99 - 99. Leaving Earth (1/2)
”Are those similar to runes?”
Asked Mack, incapable of controlling his curiosity.
[It's a language that derived from it, yes. But is far weaker compared to runes]
Mack could not avoid but touching the engravings at entrance, and seeing the pass of time on it, it had stayed that way for thousands of years.
[Lets go kid, don't play with those things, they are useless]
”Yes Yes”
Said Mack, hurrying his steps to follow the old man.
When it comes to runes, Mack would look like a child with new toys, even if they were just a variation of it. He could not control himself, it was something that always picked Mack curiosity.
[We need to hurry and activate this while is still night]
”Why that?”
[Because this is an old array, and I need to be able to see the stars and do the calculations to be able to input the correct numbers, also, Earth is not in sync with any modern 'navigation' metrics, this is just a forsaken planet]
”Is it because of the Essence?”
[Yes and no, this is a too far away planet in this dimension. It's like being the last house of the most far away neighbourhood in the most isolated city of Antartica, if they still call it this way]
”Yes, it is. If it is this isolated, why did they put a tower here?”
Said Mack, walking behind the old man down the tunnels of the Pyramid.
[Exactly because of that, they choose remote places to be 'out' of the eyes of the Mage Association]
”Makes sense, if was not for you coming to Earth, they would never send acolytes here too.”
[Yes, but Earth was not the initial target of them here. It was Mars, but those fuckers destroyed their own planet. Not even a brick was left behind, such a crazy civilization.]
”What?!!! There was life at Mars?”
Screamed Mack, unable to control his own curiosity again.
[Yes, but that was more than a hundred aeons ago, Humans didn't even exist on Earth back then]
”What is this 'aeons' you keep talking? It confuses me every time. Is this equivalent to a thousand years from Earth?”
[No, If compared to Earth it would be, around a hundred thousands years]
”That long? So the tower will be closed for three hundred thousand years? How many time did you lived old man? Now I'm scared that you even saw the Earth be formed or something.”
[HaHaHaHa, Indeed, this solar system of yours is just a baby compared to me]
Mack could not believe what this old man was saying. How could someone live for so many years?
”That old? I don't believe.”
[What? Do you expect less of the most powerful warlock to ever exist?]
”Its... its... its just too much!”
Mack could still not believe the old man. It was too much time for someone to be alive.