Approximately two and a half hours have passed after leaving the temple ruins.
Everyone was in the beetle Shell. A vehicle designed to be the vessel for a ghost. At what should be the driver's seat, Tasha had sat and the passenger seat adjacent to her sat Acyuta. Behind them was Nikita who seems to be oblivious to everything.
Few hours ago both Tasha and Acyuta entered some underground place at the ruins, lead by Acyuta they came to an empty room. It was dark in this place so she used a spell to bring forth light. The only reason she was here was to accompany the guy she had just met earlier on. He seemed to be looking for something, just as she was about request them to leave she had witnessed Acyuta miraculously walk through the wall. What happened? Tasha panicked and arrived where Acyuta disappeared, seconds after.
Tasha: Acyuta? You there?
She placed her delicate hand on the wall that the other person passed through. The wall was completely solid. Tasha scrutinized further to find a clue to this mysterious wall but to no avail.
Tasha: Cyberina... Search Index... Open spell titled 'Hacks'. Begin mana scan.
Cyberina: Seach result... Hacking spell found. Activating...
Immediately a magical circle started forming in midair, the caster stood back allowing the camera on the scout headwear to get a clear target for the incoming spell. Tasha was worried, what if there are traps on the other side of the wall? It could even be possible that there's treasure here and she's missing out.
After the spell completed, no positive response came from her gadget's a.i. No negative response came from it either. 'Scanner Hack spell' was in the tier 2 category. It may not have been a high level spell but usually it would get the job done.
Tasha: What high level magic is concealing this place?
Tasha said that dumbfounded. She never expected something like this in a ruin that had been visited by many others at some other prior time. Still she wasn't at a loss yet, hand written runic script was her best trump card to breakthrough the magical wall. All casters were trained to some extent in the Craft's Academy. Only few like Tasha did specializations.
In order to begin script writing on the wall a spell activated under her command, in the next second she started floating in the air. Fourth tier Levitation spell. She closed in to the wall and began rising in order to reach the ceiling, unexpectedly, a weight hit her bosom and an unexpected reaction appeared.
She stopped the gesture of writing using mana, Tasha's arms wrapped around the weight the hit her chest and her legs wrapped around a body.
????: Hey!
A word got muffled and Tasha, surprised, realising that Acyuta just walked out through the wall, lost control of her magic due to fluster.
The sudden increase in mass on Acyuta's person increased instantly, causing him to lose balance. Thus Tasha and Acyuta fell on the ground perplexed....
Quite an embarrassing ordeal, throughout the drive Tasha did not even turn to Acyuta's direction. Aside from answering some menial questions, she did not speak further. When Acyuta glanced over to her, he could see that her cheeks had a faint blush on it.
He did not pursue further, teasing her could've been fun but considering his actual age... It was beneath him or rather he didnt have the experience to do so. Acyuta was contemplating something of more importance. How come his power didn't become active when or before he collided with the kimono girl.
Was it it because she didn't threaten him? No intent for battle? What was it?
Boya: WOAH! We here, finally.
Nikita: I see the the city of Aeon, we really are here.
Tasha: Yay! Can't wait to hit showers and jump into bed.
The group arrived timely at a city. More roads began manifesting and other vehicles beacame more frequent on the tared pathway. Just before entering the city, they were stopped at a barricade. Tasha showed some sort of slip or maybe an identification thing then the car went through heading to the city.
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Aeon City.
A very well established city in the current era. It's history of establishment is as long as a millennium, well, that's what the rumours say for those who were not originally citizens of Aeon. Even so, Aeon city is one of the top tier locations to live in due to it's safety.
The world isn't as safe as it use to be in the past. After the great calamity everything had changed. The animals that were usually kept as pets by the common people underwent mutation, disaster struck with mutation beasts having their primal instincts on overdrive.
This was merely one result of the end days, other calamities had taken place as well. In todays era it may be watered down to be no more than a myth but many still believe the true cause of the world disaster was the war of the gods. Were they gods? Other than the religious, some considered that they were just powerful beings who's potency is absolute in this world.
Boya: AAAAAAH!!! I hate driving and stopping, driving and stopping. I wanna leave this Shell.
Tasha: SSSH! Lets get back to the academy then you can play as you like.
To Acyuta, all that he'd seen was pretty familiar. This is what a city is, full of noise, full of traffic. People walking on the sidewalks, visiting stores and the like. Large buildings, larger skyscrapers. All looked no different from the 21st century, however, turning up to see the scenery above one's head, quite a number of unnatural things were going on.
People were flying in the air propelled by magic. Some had mediums, such as riding on some magical gadget. If no riding on gadgets then you could see them riding on giant bird. The sight before Acyuta was amazing to the eyes. He wondered if he could to do that as well.
Acyuta: Hey Tash, can you fly like that as well?
Tasha: ... Of course, but no one can do it for long. Flight magic use a lot of mana.
Nikita: I don't have much mana so I can't fly.
Acyuta: Alright then, I wonder if I could do that.
Tasha: Ha! We going to Craft's Academy now, when you take the test you will know where you stand.
Acyuta: T-T-Test!?