[ Circe's Library ]
Ragna and Circe are hanging out in the Library, after learning from some books offered by her, he decides to know a little bit more.
" So, this library of yours... " Ragna says to her.
" Contains so much knowledge that even the internet doesn't have, doesn't it? " Ragna asks Circe.
" Well, it is banned in that place after all. " Circe says, telling Ragna that despite her being secluded from the outside world, she did spy on what transpired outside, through those who come here whom she enchanted, unknown to them, of course.
Hence she is also quite versed in the internet, especially regarding what she should and shouldn't put in that digital place.
" After all, if I were put these things on the internet, those Diviners would immediately know it was me... "
" After all, only I dared to scour this information from them, read it. " Circe offers Ragna a book, a strange book that looks so demonic.
" What is- "
< Item: [Deviant Book: The Deviant Infiltration Ways Part I] >
< This book contains how the Deviants still managed to come to earth despite it was being protected by the Diviners. >
Seeing that book, Ragna reads it quickly as he fully absorbed its contents, he scoured the details from that book which shooked him.
< Book Reading Completed >
< Adding information to the System Archives. >
" So, the Deviants used the Dungeon Treasures as their lynchpin, huh? " Ragna asked Circe after reading it, it was a small book but already contained so much information.
" Yes, that's why there are those things called the 'Item Extraction and Conversion Policy'*, right? " Circe asks Ragna, she told him that the Diviners knew of the Deviant's way of infiltration by possessing an object, making them into a 'Tainted Object' which they used as their escape pod to slip away.
" Escape pods, huh? " Ragna says as he suddenly remembered Star Wars all of the sudden after hearing it.
" Hearing this I began to wonder are the Diviners and Deviants are actually Jedi and Siths in real life, it is what I thought though... " Ragna says to Circe which made her laugh.
" Oh my, trying to connect it with fiction, aren't we, fufufu? " Circe asks as she then replied that it is true that the Diviners and Deviants worked similarly to those two fictional factions at first glance.
"( Wow... )" Ragna thinks as Circe tells him.
"( She even mentioned the shitty attitude the Jedi did in the Prequels too... )" Ragna says as she even mentioned the Star Wars Prequels during her explanation.
"( After I'm hearing this, I began to realize that I'm not the only nerd in this room who thinks that movie is telling the truth on how the world is going nowadays, for goodness sake. )" Ragna smirks as he realized it, guess having some fictional references really helped him to understand some cases.
"( The world filled with pawn heroes, monsters, and villains which led by false leaders, gods, and hiding demons. )"
"( A place where the good was all silenced and evil decides to spread itself and used it's facades to became the definition of 'good' itself. )"
"( Guess, good and evil are simply abstract theories now, huh? )" Ragna chuckled, he laughed in his mind over this Dark Comedy.
"( Such a twisted world we're all in, is it the effect of the overdone Universal Reboot the Diviner's Device made? )" Ragna wonders about it.
" Well... " Ragna then continues speaking after thinking a lot.
" Fictions sometimes represent what happened in reality, wasn't it? " Ragna tells Circe.
" Either it represents the past, the present, or perhaps the future or even the finality of things. " Ragna adds, giving the possibility of what is going to happen.
" Interesting answer, to think you also see things that way. " Circe replies.
" I've begun to grow more interested in you, Ragna Kent... "
" I really wanted to know more about you, you're such a mysterious guy... " Circe tells him as she gets close.
" Hmm...? " Ragna sees her approaching her nose towards his robe.
*sniff* *sniff*
" This black robe is made from 'Aether', wasn't it? " Circe asks as she smelled it.
" It smells like death, even from your own body I could feel you had a great connection to death rather than life, unlike any other being. " Circe says as she now understands why Ragna's 'Aether' is more powerful than her.
The 'Aether' is the power that could be obtained by one who experienced and understand death, Circe then tells Ragna more about it, telling him that the 'Aether' is a force that one achieved, by simply beginning to sense the heat of their own 'life force' A.K.A, their 'Soul'.
" 'Soul'? " Ragna as he then sees his Status, realizes that...
" The Soul is the primary source of a being's power, the primary 'Core' of all beings that existed. "
" The 'Soul's heat fuels our very body, our very engine vessel, like a sun that fills us with energy to even operate in the first place. " Circe tells.
" Hence why the Soul's energy, combined with the Mana of Nature becomes the very thing you now possess. "
" The 'Aether', a power combined by letting the Mana empower your very Soul... " Circe then finished her explanation which still made Ragna confused.
" So you're saying our Souls itself is a source of power? " Ragna asks as he then asks again.
" So if that's true, then simply by absorbing Mana, any human could acquire the 'Aether' right? " Ragna asks Circe regarding this.
" Well, they actually can... "
" By simply discarding their Gift Cores that block the Mana from entering their body or trying to learn it from some random scrolls or books. "
" And, the most important, if they are willing to experience near-death experience first, that is... " she tells him, which makes Ragna understand why he is so adept in the Aether.
"( Guess the Yakan Curse's torture that killed me and revived me overtime really was the trigger, then. )" Ragna wondered for he had suspected that it was the case.
"( So it means, it was thanks to that thing, then? )" Ragna thinks about it which he quickly dismisses it.
"( No, never! )"
"( If I say thanks to 'it', then it means my life is nothing if it wasn't for that thing to thoroughly torture me in the
Ragna now realized that he's being led to this path, he already realized this from his
" I see then, thank you. " Ragna thanks Circe for making his head clear about it then.
" So, if I may request..., is there anything else I could know from you, is there more you could offer? " Ragna requested Circe about it.
" Of course... "
" The next topic is quite related to you, perhaps... " Circe winks as she then uses her powers to bring a book, a book she will use as her way to explain things to Ragna in the next minutes of discussion.
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Extra:
* 'Item Extraction and Conversion Policy':
This was mentioned in the Auxiliary Chapter 2 " What is Going On? (Part 1) "
In this topic, I have to mention Star Wars since I thought the Diviners and Deviants really or mostly acted like the Jedi and Sith, like in the Prequels to be more exact.