Chapter 731: Section 504: Wisdom is the Most Dangerous Weapon in Human Hands (Part Two)
Clovis opened her eyes as if she had just experienced an elaborate dream.
She glanced at the bed and realized she was alone, the sounds of her sisters coming from beyond the closed door.
Looking at the ceiling, Clovis closed her eyes. The Spell Formation, "Return to Dream," was overlaying her thoughts. This time, she intended to reunite with her child consciously in the frigid world of Oslo, located in the Extreme North.
With her eyes shut, the heartbeat of the Rabbitfolk who counted the beats like drumbeats became gradually slower and more profound—until it felt like breaching the water surface, sensing the bone-chilling cold as the howling wind carried blizzards past the window. Snowflakes flew in through the broken window as she sat across from a tiny fire, facing Nanaquir Haus, the mysterious being who claimed to be her daughter.
"Let’s go," Clovis repeated the dream, where all previous actions were already fixed, and nodded as she picked up the gun leaning against the wall.
This was the Extreme North, eighteen hundred years later, a world without Chaos and Deity.
Clovis did not understand how all this had happened—how Chaos had vanished or where the Deity had gone. The child was clueless too—in her time, deities had become mere entities in legendary stories, and Chaos only appeared in horror novels. Humanity had begun emerging from the shadow of a world war. The Western Human World Union moved towards a brighter future, and Tech Hunters like her child were striving to explore the unknown aspects of this world.
Turning on the purple beacon light on her head and activating the anti-Undead shield, her child pushed open the door. Her gun pointed in the direction the door opened, while Clovis turned her head to check the other side for safety before leaving behind a detection spirit.
"Good habit, or perhaps a bit too cautious. I come here often; it’s a known white zone at the roots. We’ll be entering the Dark Zone as soon as we cross the steel bridge ahead," said Nanaquir and then asked, "Ancestor...in your time, have you heard of any remarkable people?"