I still couldn't think back to what happened yesterday.
'"Do you really think your parents are still alive? ..."'
I couldn't believe it, Ri lied to me, it had been 60 years since the conquest of Earth.
'And now? What should I do now? '
I no longer had a goal.
The previous day, thanks to an advanced technology, "The Rings" had in that laboratory I was able to remove my three chips, which they later put inside that glass case with beige liquid located in the center of the laboratory.
Apparently, that substance inside the case was used to not let the Slters know that the chips had been removed, they had not explained to me how.
I was now really ready for the data collection operation.
The "Den" had also provided us with a magnetic device which, if placed on the Slter devices, would have collected all possible data in a time of 10 minutes.
This device was encrypted to work securely only in Arena's Lab46B.
* Driin
"Oh, she's here ..."
I opened the door, and Liza walked into my room.
Liza's training was going a bit slow, I was having trouble controlling my mana.
"Are you ready?"
"Yes ..."
"Well, let's get started"
Today, she wanted to try a technique a little more invasive, if everything went well, I would finally be able to take control of my mana and my "Inner World".
Liza handed me a reddish drink.
"Drink and lie down."
I did as she said.
At first, I felt nothing different, but after a few minutes, firstly in my chest, and then throughout the rest of my body I began to feel a searing heat, it felt like I was on fire.
"Enter your world."
I concentrated, passed the dark tunnel, and reached my "Inner World".
'?!'
My world was burning with red flames.
They gave off an absurd heat, however, it was as if they were calling me back, so I threw myself into them.
My body was burning now, however, I felt fine.
Liza had told me that the effect of the drink she had given me had different effects from person to person, but that, to everyone, causes "disorder" to their "Inner World".
My goal was to restore order.
However, I felt good in that disorder and did not feel the need to restore order.
I burned and my presence in that "World" "widened", and later the flames calmed down until they died out.
Now I was finally master of that world, I felt "myself" in that world, and in the space around it. Now, the usual winds that blew perpetually in my "World", sometimes presented hot, burning currents.
I opened my eyes returning to reality.
"Incredible ... you did it" Liza said as if she wasn't expecting my success.
"Look at your skills ..." Liza said, still with a lost look.
"Mmh ..."
[Secondary Skills:
Wind Movement (B) (Lv.2)
Mana Control (A) (Lv.1)
Wind Cut (C) (Lv.3)
Improved Breathing (D)
Fiery Wind (C) ( Lv.1)]
'Woah? I got two new secondary abilities… Well, one is self-explanatory… but "Fiery Wind" ... '
I clicked on "Fiery Wind".
It was a skill with which I could change the temperature of the wind I used in the other Wind-type abilities.
"So?" Liza asked me.
"Well ... I got two skills ... one is Mana Control."
"Ahh, you finally made it!" She seemed happy, which was very rare.
We then talked about this and that, she told me how complicated the Arena became from Magnolia Tier onwards and she talked to me about how when she learned the news that her parents were probably already dead she felt with no reason to move on and how she felt without goals.
Talking to her did me really good.
She told me: "I would like to know and if possible see where they spent their last moments ... but anyway ... even if they are no longer there ... I still have to go on following what I think is my path ... and I think my path, my destiny, is out of "here" ".
Then she greeted me and left my room.
I thought back to her words, what she had said was true, or in any case, I felt it as true, I needed new goals, a new purpose.
'But it's really hard… even if I don't even remember their faces… why do I feel so bad? I ... what should I do ... '
That day another feeling was born in me, a wave of anger against those who had taken away my family, my memories, against those who had stolen the "me" of the past, against the Empire.
That day I promised myself that I would fight It until It fell.
[October 20, The day of the operation would be October 22]