"I am not a tsundere!"
"Right right... Anyways, what have you observed from Mei'er recently?"
"Well, she was awake six months ago when she barged out of the front door of the mansion and tried to help fend off the Mana Avatar. She looked different back then. But the Mana Explowion caused by the avatar gravely injured all of us, including Mei'er. She was unconscious or asleep for six months also until recently. Lately, she has been waking up but immediately falling back to sleep. The Crystal Flower kept on rotating above her"
"I see..."
Philip had a solemn look on his face
"I'm sorry I couldn't help back then..."
"Hey! It's fine! You have your hands tied back then, right? Besides! That won't ever happen again because you've become stronger didn't you? Also, the reason you wanted to get the Fire Gnosis is for us sisters and for this exact same reason, right?"
"Yes... But everyone got hurt"
"Hey! Hey!! Stop that! Getting hurt is unavoidable. As long as we're still alive, that's important right?!"
"I guess so... I will try my best on protecting everyone in my own way"
"Hm... Alright then"
Philip looked back at the sleeping Mei'er and the floating spinning Crystal Flower
"She's been acting weird after we saw a white silhouette from when she manifested the Crystal Flower. She was also able to speak apparently"
"..."
"She called that silhouette her mom... By deduction, the silhouette that is her mom only showed up after the Crystal Flower manifested. Mei'er has a power that's related to plants and herbs, but mostly flowers. If the silhouette is her mother that has something to do with flowers... I think I know who her mother is and what Mei'er is"
"Really? What?"
"Mei'er came from a direct bloodline of spirits..."
Philip lifted his hand and showed one finger
"Not just ordinary spirits, but Flower Spirits... After seeing the appearance of this Crystal Flower, they're also not just ordinary Flower Spirits, but a high-ranked or noble Flower Spirits"
"Oooooh! That's interesting... Who would've thought? Well, it wouldn't be strange since we have a pureblooded Vampire King, otherworlders, a literal goddess, and us born from fire!"
"Yeah... There's more than it meets the eye for Mei'er! I never expected her to have this kind of origin! I'm excited!"
Natsu looked at Philip with questioning eyes
"After your seemingly strange and accurate deduction... What are you going to do with the information?"
"Well... It's time to empower her, wake her up, and make her happy!"
Philip stood up from his chair and smiled at Natsu. She only looked at him a raised eyebrow. Tenshi also stood up from her chair and walked towards Philip
"O... Kay? How?"
Philip then lifted his left hand towards Tenshi and she placed her left hand above his palm
"Have you forgotten? I'm the Fate Controller!"
As Philip was trying to look cool, Natsu didn't miss the affection that Philip and Tenshi were having as they touched hands. She also noticed the identical rings on their ring fingers again
"So, what are those rings for??? You two look like married couples at this point"
Natsu was looking at them with ridicule and uncertainty. There was no way that they just got married after Philip waking up after six months when he doesn't have any ring
"We'll announce it later"
Philip put his index finger on his nose to signify Natsu to keep silent
"Wait, WHAT?!"
Philip saying that they'll announce it later just confirms that they were just married. This shocked Natsu
"What do you mean by that?! You two ste actually married now?!"
"We'll tell you later, be right back!"
"Huh? What?? Where are y---"
Before Natsu could finish her sentence, Philip touched Mei'er's forehead with his right fingers, index and middle fingers, and held Tenshi's hand tightly
'Origin Seeker'
This is the first time that Philip will bring someone with him from somewhere within the timeline or another timeline. He hoped that Tenshi will be able to come with him since she wanted to go on an adventure with him. But if she wasn't able to come, he would to use [Soul Connect] to bring Tenshi from his point in time
At this point, Philip entered the usual kaleidoscopic hyperspace from his vision, but this time, it was a little different
At the edge of the hyperspace, flowers manifested and bloomed. Flowers kept blooming like colorful and beautiful explosions until his vision was filled with white color and streaks and lines of mixed rainbow across his vision, similar to what the Crystal Flower looked like
~~~
Philip opened his eyes and he found himself in a middle of a lush forest. He was standing on verdant grass with mossy stones, a large dead log, and a small lake near him. The trees were huge and tall that only little sunlight could penetrate through the thick leaves, illuminating him like a spotlight
It looked like he was in a normal forest, if not for the different kinds of never before seen flowers scattered around the ground, growing on the dead log, blooming on the moss and stones, and dangling orchids on the tree trunks. There are also beautiful floating flowers in the air that spins by itself or bounce in the air while polens and glitters scatter around the area
"Waaah! So pretty!"
A voice exclaimed to his left and he was surprised and relieved at the same time
Tenshi was still holding Philip's left hand as she looked around the area and admired everything. Of course, Philip also looked around because this placed looked very magical and fantastical
"Where are we??"
Philip exclaimed from awe without realizing when he was thinking of asking Emily
"I don't know... But it's pretty here"
Tenshi answered subconsciously
「 You have entered the Spirit World 」
'Ah! Wait, really?!!'
'Ah!'
Philip and Tenshi were surprised and awestruck
'Are we in the past or future?'
Philip wanted to make sure that he's in the past to find out Mei'er's origin. It wouldn't make sense if they were in the future because he doesn't think that Mei'er's origin is that universal, just like Braudain's origin to Saykeraborne and the dystopian universe in the future in another timeline
「 We're in the present 」
'Huh?! Present?!'
Philip was surprised. ⟨⟨ Origin Seeker ⟩⟩ wasn't supposed to send him to the present, it could only send him to the past or future based on past instances. But it seemed like now is a special case
'But it wouldn't make sense for Mei'er's origin to be in the present, right?'
「 You can use the Origin variable and manifest the Original Compass to find it out 」
'You're right!'
Philip lifted his right hand and tried to manifest the Variable Artifact of Origin, the [Original Compass], but before he could do it, he first inspected his surroundings deeper
His [Extreme Self-awareness] ability is already permanently activate, like it's already his passive ability, and he tried to sense if any beings were relatively around them. He wanted to avoid to attract too much attention on the Variable Artifacts because it would cause too much problem, especially since these artifacts could be a one of a kind in the whole universe, probably even the multiverse and once ant powerful being would see them, it would cause unwanted trouble
He is also in the Spirit World, who knows what kind of powerful spirit, beings, and creatures are lurking around them while being hidden
"..."
His awareness didn't detect anything around him and it was very quiet. He then entered deep concentration and his [Enhanced Hearing], [Definite Sight], [Clairvoyance], and [X-ray Vision] abilities activated. The [Blood Eyes of Truth] also activated and the edge of his eyes became red that surrounds his yellow and faint blue iris
He could hear every sway of leaves and petals, the crumbling of soil and earth, the faint blow and flow of the wind, and the aquifers flowing underground. He could see through the trunks of the trees, through the lush leaves and rocks, and through the ground as he could see tiny to big tunnels
He didn't hear nor see anything and the closest creature he could see was a colorful butterfly that is five kilometers away and some worms in the ground, catterpilars from the leaves, and small flying creatures high up in the sky
His face crumpled after seeing the butterfly and it could mean bad news, but he didn't mind since not all butterflies could mean a Butterfly Effect. Though, he will take a mental note and his awareness shot through the roof
'Tenshi...'
'Ah, yes?'
'Can you try and see if some hidden existence is around us?'
'Hm... Do you think that that's a good idea? Transforming to any of my catalysts might attract the attention of unwanted beings'
'Hm, you're right... It's better to be silent around here...'
'Emily, are you sure no ones around?'
「 Hm... Let me see... 」
『 Scanning... 』
『 Success! 』
「 Theres absolutely no one around except for the harmless insects and invertebrates 」
"Alright then..."
Philip flicked his hand upwards and the [Original Compass] manifested above his hand. The compass spun around and the lid opened
The compass floated above him and a sphere went out of the compass's mouth. It was the sphere that has three rings that can point in three axes to accurately pinpoint the target in a three dimensional space. There are also meters at the base of the sphere that indicates the three time periods; past, present, and future. The meters dictates if the target is on the right timeline or period of time. They are the time meters
The indicator of the present meter has to point at the center to indicate if the location of target is in the right period of time. The future meter has to point its indicator all the way to the left and the past meter has to point all the way to the right. If the indicators are pointed all the way to right, it means it's towards more to the future, if it's towards to the left, it's more in the past
If the location of the target is being actively searched currently, even if it isn't found, the past meter, present meter, and future meter will stay pointed at right, center, and left respectively. If the target has been found directly, like if Philip found it with his own eyes, all the indicators of the meters will point at the center, waiting for the next target to be pointed
The three rings of the compass will also reset towards the x-axis, waiting for the next target
It was then that a cube appeared above the compass sphere, a horizontal wheel appeared in between the time meters and below the compass sphere, and two dials appeared in front of the compass box
The cube is filled with energy as it's covered with a layer of shock and electricity like a plasma ball. This is the dimensional indicator
It tells the location if the target across all ten dimension. If the target is in the first dimension, the indicator will show a dot, second dimension will show a flat disc, and fourth dimension will show a tesseract. Higher dimensions will make the indicator chaotic like a sphere of ferrofluid being influenced by a supermagnet
Though, the indicator will always be set on the cube default because of certain reasons. Currently, the compass won't be able to tell the location of the target across dimensions
The horizontal wheel looks like an ordinary wheel with normal rims that's floating under the compass. This is the realm wheel
The wheel tells whether the targer is in another realm. The faster the wheel spins, the distant the realm is, the slower the wheelsl spins mean the realm is a common one that's well known. If the wheel has stopped spinning, this means that the target is in the correct realm. The realm wheel doesn't have an indicator or a way to tell where the realm would be
On the other hand, the dials look like an ordinary scoreboard for certain sports. The dials currentl shows number one on the left and also number one on the right. This dials are the universal dials
The left dial tells the target universe of where the target would be and the right dial is the current universe that Philip will be on
Philip already knew about all of this since he holds the variable of Origin. Though, he doesn't know why the compass won't be able to tell where the target's dimension
There are indicators that would tell him the target's location, time, realm, and universe
'So why not realm?'
But of course, since he also holds the variable of Logic, he immediately understood why
'Wait! I have the Marks of Time, Realm, and Universe! Does that mean there is a variable of Dimension?'
「 ... 」
『 ... 』
Neither Emily nor the system replied
'I see now... There is a variable of Dimension... I just have to figure out how to obtain it'
Philip smirked and he directly looked at the floating complicated machinery in the air. There was a sphere with three rings orbiting around it while resting, three time meters that are arranged in a triangle below the sphere, an almost holographic cube floating at the top, a realm wheel under the sphere and in the center of the time meters, and the [Original Compass] box with displayed universe dials
Philip then spoke
"Mei'er's Origin"
The contraption then began to move like it's some sort of a fusion of steampunk and futuristic gear