The night of masks ended earlier than expected for a party of this type, in fact those who had tasted the red liquid that was distributed wanted to take tests as soon as possible to check the changes in their body, some people had kept some drops in their glasses and they wouldn't waste time analyzing them, hopefully they could get an idea to apply reverse engineer it, in other words no one had any reason to stay.
The only people in the mansion were in the office, with the exception of the employees, Rouse and Vivian who had been invited to sleep in one of the rooms of the great place.
Elizabeth looked nervous and the mayor was upset. Giorno, Aron and Yumiko were expectant, apparently the only one who had real information about what was happening was the blonde woman in front of them, who elegantly tucking her hair behind her ear, sighed and began to speak…
- I will tell you everything I know about Tezert, the castle of the dead ladies and the other world ...
The mayor slapped his desk and roared.
- Did you always know the answers and never tell me anything?
- I love you, but I couldn't tell you anything, if I told you what you wanted so much, they would have killed you!
- What changed now? Why suddenly you can tell everything?
- There are different factors, the first apparently the main strength of Tezert is weakened, which can give us time before they crush us, second Giorno somehow managed to do what has been sought for centuries and is to bring something from the other world to This, if we manage to bring for example weapons from the other world we could prepare to fight with Tezert and have a chance to win.
Giorno interrupted the talk between the mayor and Elizabeth...
- Elizabeth ... apparently you understand much better than me what is happening, please I want to know what the other world is and why I was dragged into it.
- Although there are theories that say that the other world has always coexisted with ours, the first detailed and reliable record that there is was found about 1000 years ago, it is known as the diary of Philips Pepper, a condiment merchant who begin a trip from europe to asia and when finished it brought much more than condiments.
- What do you mean he had more than condiments?
Giorno asked
- Have you heard about objects like King Solomon's ring, Thor's hammer, Pandora's box or the Excalibur sword?
Aron interrupted in amazement.
- Wait, you mean those things ... Are they real?
- Of course.
Elizabeth looked at Giorno
- You lived in the other world, don't you think that Solomon's ring is a simple level 5 conjuring ring? Or maybe, the famous Excalibur is nothing more than a Mithril sword with level 15 breaking magic, what about the hammer from thor? It is nothing more than a dwarf hammer with level 12 thunder runes.
Giorno did not know much about mythology, but it was true, in the eyes of this world those weapons that Elizabeth mentioned were like weapons of mythology.
Elizabeth continued speaking...
- Not only that, it also brought the panacea, among other things that were incredible medicines, a ship full of objects that nobody had even dreamed that could exist, but of all the objects, there was one that stands out of all and without doubts it's the most valuable and persecuted, that object is his diary.
Elizabeth waited a moment for someone to comment on something, but seeing that no one interrupted her, she continued.
- After Philip Pepper began to enrich himself with his objects and proclaim to the four winds his incredible adventure under the pseudonym of "Sinbad the sailor" he caught the attention of a very dangerous organization, which claimed his objects as sacred relics and that he had stolen, was murdered and part of his family, in an event known to the world as the Crusades, his journal was lost in the process.
Yumiko interrupted her this time
- The dates don't match, the objects you mention, and the events just don't match.
- During the dark ages history was altered to make people believe that the objects did not come from the same place or time, turn them into myths and thus be able to conserve them as religious relics or simply disappear them.
Yumiko pondered for a moment and then asked
- But what is the purpose of all this?
- I don't know the final objective, but thanks to that now this world is controlled by the five families that own the articles of Philip Pepper's trip.
Giorno intervened as he walked over to a shelf and took a bottle of liquor, he hadn't had a drink in a long time, but needed a glas.
- You still don't answer my question, What is the other world and why was I dragged into it?
- Right now, some decades ago when the internet was still young, someone published a fragment of about twenty pages from Philip's diary, asked for help deciphering what it said, and claimed that this book had been in his family for generations.
Those simple pages were enough for those five families to create the H.A.R.P.A prototype, a machine capable of contacting the other world, however information was lacking, so it was not perfect, although that they achieved was more than enough to develop a source alternative energy more efficient than any fossil fuel, in addition they were able to send people to the other world.
Giorno drank from his glass and threw his hair back, it was all starting to make sense, but why had he been sent to that other world? And there was something more important, what was it that called itself the "system"? Elizabeth continued speaking.
- The failure of the machine consisted in that it could only send the consciousness of the person, an additional time lag is generated that to this day is impossible to correct.
- Time lag?
Yumiko asked.
- Correct, when a conscience is sent to the other world, because the time there passes in a way much faster than that which passes in this world, as I remember the relationship consists in that each hour in this world, is equivalent to 50 years in the other world. Due to this gap it has been impossible today to send a physical body to the other world and much worse to bring any object from it.
Yumiko put her hand to her chin and pondered.
- So Philip knew the way he could go and back to the other world without that problem, that secret is hidden in his lost diary?"
- Correct, Tezert was founded with the technology derived from the 24 published pages of his diary, thanks to this, humanity advanced in technology in just ten years, which normally would have taken centuries; but the most important objective is to bring items from that other world.
Giorno said in a whisper.
- I don't understand how I got involved in all that ...
- Do they remember that I mentioned that for a long time there was talk of the existence of the other world?
They all nodded.
- Not infrequently throughout history, there are unexpected and inexplicable trips to that other world, some have brought objects from that world, many others only send their consciousness, it is a spontaneous and inexplicable phenomenon that always breaks the rules that we know.
- Rules?
- If the known rules are first, it's not possible to bring objects from the other world by known means, it's not possible to reincarnate in another race other than human, it's not possible to take any item to the other world, if you travel to the other world it's will have an extraordinary power, the same happens with the articles, when they pass from that world to this their power increases several levels.
Giorno threw a question
- What is the system?
Elizabeth looked at him confused, so Giorno expanded the question.
- The one who assigns skills and helps level up and stuff.
- I don't have idea what you are talking about, the level system that is used to catalog things is because in the other world they have qualified it that way, in other words, we use the other world system, but nobody has ever mentioned the thing that you call the system.