A few days after the Santuria incident, Serkyrio sat down on his chair with a sigh. Charnet who entered his office tilted her hear from the tired predicament Serkyrio is facing. "Is something the matter?" Serkyrio raised his gaze and noticed Charnet having a curious expression while carrying what seems to be more paperwork. "Nothing much, I explained a theory to Remuel but I can't get anybody to test my theory right now. If push comes to shove, I'll test it myself after today's batch of papers." Charnet places the papers over Serkyrio's table and took half of it over to her table. "What was it about though?" Charnet began working on the papers while asking Serkyrio about the details. "Well, I was stuck in Draxus's dimension plane once, I used a bit of theory magic to create a portal back to this world." Before Serkyrio continued, Charnet was taken aback a little with the sudden blurt out of Serkyrio using theory magic. "I thought [Theory Magic] is Draxus's expertise?" Serkyrio simply chuckled and made a vague reply. "What do you expect?" He then shrugged his shoulders as he attempted to create a portal with the concept of going back to a known place.
Charnet simply watched Serkyrio fully concentrate his magic as he creates a simple route back home. A portal slowly generates and expands, while a scenery of a city from a skyscraper could be seen. "A success? Not confirmed yet..." Serkyrio peeked through the portal and looked around to see the bustling noise of car horns, engines, and the dirty air atmosphere. He pulled his head back from the portal and gave a short reminder to Charnet. "Mind if you take over while I'm testing something? If you need help, those three or my secretaries will assist you." Charnet nodded while sending off Serkyrio with a smile. "I'll take care of the stuff here while you're out. So have a safe trip." Serkyrio smiled and entered the portal in his semi-casual clothing.
"First things first..." After the portal closed itself, Serkyrio attempted to use magic. With interdimensional storage, he brought out his formal clothing of a monotone colored suit and a black face mask to avoid people from recognizing him and starting a fuss. "So magic does exist... But is this really Earth...?" He ponders while changing his clothes as nobody will be able to see him anyway. He channeled some magic within the entire city and performed a check all over the area. Before long, he noticed that many people started feeling unease right as he began checking the area with magic. "Suspicions?" After a while, he noticed that the people started to begin their evacuation as they entered underground halls while some dangerous mechanical presences started to converge to his position. "Interesting... Did Earth make countermeasures in case magic gets used? Guess they don't want people to get into another incident similar to the one that happened to us." Serkyrio looked around as he finds helicopters flying towards his position. He brought out his pistol from the Zigana model and hid nicely. While hiding, he prepared his citrine gem and stealthily activated it to prevent any bullets from gouging his body. Before long, multiple men in the army had landed on the rooftops surrounding him and one transport helicopter landed to dispatch an assault team. "Surrounded badly huh? Let's not make a fuss here I guess..." Serkyrio reluctantly opened a portal and set it to a random location within the unconfirmed world of Earth. He left the area and closed the portal before anybody could ever see him.
"Troublesome... But it went fairly well. I'll look for my house first I guess?" Serkyrio started to walk around while hiding all of his magic. He went towards the southern direction as he was trying to look for familiar locations.
Eventually, he began to see old sceneries that were very familiar to him. He indulged his mind as he slowly walked through the reminiscent subdivision. After some time, he was at the very front of his house with a gate. He gazed at it with a feeling of relief for just a short while before noticing something was off. His eyelids twitched as he noticed that there are four people that left the house. Their appearances were the exact same of himself, Arlesk, Remuel, and Draxus. Serkyrio opened a portal to distance himself immediately before getting noticed by a different version of him. He knew that it could become a very dangerous cause if both himself, and a different dimension of him will meet as two things cannot exist in a single world. He teleported to an area where Draxus usually rests, the sea wall of his hometown. There was nobody able to find him there unless he led people towards that location at least once. He collected his thoughts and pondered for a while until making a full-on conclusion. "This is a world where we didn't get [Isekai'ed]. So it's likely that my dimensional coordinates are close to our original world. Or maybe it's a copy that was created and this is the correct dimensional coordinates? I'll have to investigate this further." Serkyrio created a portal and went to a different city while bringing out his old wallet to check his current funds. With a decent amount of actual paper money, he has more than a full week to get the dimensional coordinates of this world and head back safely. He entered a small restaurant and sat on a less conspicuous table. The waited arrived to his table with a menu on her hands as she offered it to him. Serkyrio then took out a piece of paper that was used as a way to order the food and utilized the checklist. After the waiter received the paper, she doublechecked his order. "Level two spicy ramen? With additional broth and noodles?" Serkyrio simply nodded in response while smiling at the waiter as he begins to process all the information in his mind.
An alternate world where the [Isekai'ed] incident didn't happen.
Citizens making a fuss the second he used his scanning magic.
Military converging into locations with magic.
This means that magic already exists here.
Nothing connected on Serkyrio's mind as his thought process goes deeper. He started to think back more as he recalled the Santuria incident.
"What if..."
Human experimentation for ten thousand years.
Council of the Skies.
Researching something with the seminal fluids?
Something that could create life itself.
They knew of Draxus's truth.
Serkyrio's eyes widened as he began to realize the severity of the problem.
In silence, he thought "They created humans artificially? The baptism on men and women in Santuria are different to filter them out. Then they were basically creating life underground with those capsules." His order of ramen arrived along with a pair of chopsticks and a spoon for the bowl. A glass of water was placed on the table near the bowl as he started eating after a little bit of formality. He temporarily let go of his thoughts as he indulged himself with the chopsticks on the ramen bowl.
After eating, he once again pondered deeply with his thoughts as he processed everything completely.
Once again, silently thinking "One person called himself as Cronus, which is a titan on Greece Myth. In fact, he could be the leader just like in the mythology. Then that makes Iapetus, to give them the life as he is an expert on that. Could it be that they made duplicates of us and sent them to this world? Those military actions are to prevent any more incidents like that to happen? Because we mostly have returned home? Before that though..." Serkyrio stood up to pay the bill and left the restaurant. He then moved to a dark alleyway to find a better place to check the situation as the sun starts to set. He teleported to the rooftop of a car dealership building near his house and began to scan the area. He then noticed the magical anomaly of a person residing in his house. "Knew it... They're made from Santuria, and sent here. But I have to leave and deal with this homunculi crap later. It's good that our families will be safe for the time being, but we'll need to deal with this as Preeliance, not by myself. He then noticed some scouts observing the area so he immediately left that area and went back towards the seawall. He brought out his phone and performed a dimensional call to Harold.
Serkyrio had to wait around five minutes before Harold managed to pick up the call. His voice was a little panicked as he quickly greeted Serkyrio. "A-Ah! My bad Serkyrio, I was on the shower while you were calling! Anyways, did something happen on your trip?" Serkyrio simply eased Harold before giving his answer. "I got the right place, can you check the distance between us right now?" Harold, who was in the Preeliance castle at a different world, was showing a serious expression as he stayed in the line and moved to the Dimensional Laboratory.