Versatile: Alternate World

Renata somehow arrived here after she investigates a disturbance that suddenly occurred. As she investigates it, that disturbance suddenly sucked her in and she didn't manage to get away as fast as she should have as the gravitational pull from it forced her to get dragged by it. That's also the time she lost consciousness and the next thing she knew, she is now here.

"That's understandable but I didn't know there are other worlds beyond this dimension we know. It was one I didn't know would exist and the people that I only heard and saw in movies and stories would be real and alive, It feels unreal at times," Rika nodded as she observed Renata from head to toe.

"That only means that there are still things humans have yet to discover. But I prefer that only a handful of people discover that there are other realms other than us. Human nature will always dominate and greedy humans will always try to find an exploit on the newly discovered land. It's much better if it remains undiscovered rather  than for man to be able to see and visit it."

"True. I can't even trust anyone else aside other than someone we really know deep down will not talk about things like this or else, we will be in big risk."

We continue to ask her multiple things that allows us to slowly understand where she came from and how she arrived here. Once we get our answers, we asked her to rest for a while for the time being. Thankfully, she accepted the offer and sleep after that. As for the pixie, since she was materialized now, she can now either go back to her invisible spirit form or remain on that form. I even thought she would vaporize to nothingness once Renata is done using her power but it seems I was just mistaken and she can do it just fine and she can still remain like that even if Renata is no longer summoning her which is pretty interesting knowing that I am going to see someone who does not belong to this world and someone that those who do not belong in this world has summoned. It might sounded like an alien invasion but trust me that it is not.

Now that Renata is resting, Rika started to talk to me about Renata.

"So what are we gonna do about her? As much as we can hide her temporarily, we can't keep her here forever. She will soon try to find a way to go back to her world as soon as possible."

"I don't have any plan. This is a very unexpected event and I don't have the knowledge of any magic spells that allows someone to cross in one dimension to the other. If I can do that, I would be very strong now and I can visit the other worlds with ease. That is just impossible for me right now."

"Right now? Then does that mean there is a possibility?"

"Yes. Although I don't know if I can find it, but since we are able to use magic like the one we saw in the game and fully use it to our advantage now, perhaps magic that can open a portal or teleport to other dimension would be also possible. Hard, but not impossible."

Rika scratches her head.

"As much as I want to say I believe you Manato, this time, I don't think I can. Unless you really managed to do it, then until then, I will be skeptical about it."

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I returned to the game after thinking what to do with Renata at the moment. As much as I wanted to, I don't think I can find any info in the real world about magic involving opening portals or teleportation. It sounds more like a plan by some kind of cult to open the dimension of their god or something similar which is why I don't think that's it.

As much as I hate to say it, but Rika is right. Perhaps it is impossible after all. In the end, I have no idea what to do and I am locked in a roadblock. I can only say that I have to just wait for something to happen and perhaps that something will come to my way."

Since I decided to skip classes, I decided that it should be time for me to check out the woman encased in ice. I have been biding my time to visit it but it always gets held back due to the back to back events. Now that I am free and nothing to do, perhaps I should visit that place. I wanted to know what is the deal of that woman as I can slightly remember her appearing in my dreams whenever I dreamed about the Yggdrasil Tree and although I don't meet her up often, she is someone who I am quite interested on.

But first, I have to learn where this place was taken. As much as many players wanted to check her out, no one responded on the exact location of the place. However, for someone like me who has been playing for how many years and have already memorized many places. The only thing I needed to do is to check the photo with closer inspection.

Thankfully, I have saved that photo and I have access to it. Using the connected Holophone I have in the real world where I have saved the photo, I accessed it in the game and I checked out the place around the girl properly.

At first, I seemed to have thought it was from the continent of Resurgia, but then, I recognized the plants on the background. There is one thing that the Resurgia region has that the other two didn't have much available and that's the greenery. However, I didn't knew that the forest this was located from is not in Resurgia continent. And obviously, its not also in Sandurk continent where you will see barren lands with sands, cactus and nothing but dead plants there.

Yes, the last continent and the one that I have not visited for quite a while after the first quest that allowed me to fully unlocked the access of the continent without going to a raid after foiling the plan of the enemy to utilize the effects of the weapon that belonged to the Seven Deadly Sins series. Yep, that continent Aquagius.

The plants shown here looked like the shrubs always seen in the Resurgia but I immediately noticed something that is not looking similar to the shrubs in Resurgia but present in Aquagius. In fact, those plants are not so common in Aquagius and there is only one place that has those plants growing and that is the sole island that I explored before where I have freed the two frozen merfolk siblings.

Those shrubs are pretty common on that island and since the Insect Kingdom's surrounding forest has mostly trees, the shrubs like this are pretty much uncommon but on that island, it was numerous. I may not have exactly found the right area it was in but now I have an idea where the ice with an encased girl is now located.

With now a goal on what to do, I finalized all of the stuff I needed to do. While I was preparing, Almira appeared. Almira has not yet returned to where her smithy was located and she is lazing around the mansion for the time being. She was scrounging in the kitchen while I was preparing for extra ingredients for later on as I also plan to visit the Aquagius's Insect Kingdom and pick up the Chef Ex Job there.

"You are going to Aquagius?" Almira then pulls out a bottle of milk on the fridge before she chugged down the whole content.

"Huh? How did you know?" I was surprised as I didn't vocally said I will be going to Aquagius. I doubt she has mindreading capabilities.

"Aquagius is currently holding an event there right now. The Merfolk will be gathering up to put the Kingdom on the sea up in the surface and allow other people to access it. Some guys are pretty excited on checking the place out."

"Although you are correct that I am going there, I am not interested in that event. I am going there for another reason that's for sure."

"Is that so? Then, perhaps you should mine me the Eternal Ice that only appears in Aquagius. I am too lazy to go there and since you are going there anyway, perhaps you should fetch me that one. A few kilos would suffice."

"Eternal Ice? What is that?" I looked at her with a creased eyebrow.

"You don't know it? Ah, of course since only a few people knew about it. But basically, it was an ice that doesn't melt even on a hot weather. The only way to melt it is by putting it on the lava ore  a very concentrated fire. It is also an ice that can encase anything caught in it while it was materializing so even humans can be frozen on it. I wanted that thing as I heard it was a very good item to use for forging. So I will ask you to fetch them for me. I will pay you of course."