After a few minutes, Shirone had dragged Archen off to her house. As they were at the entrance, Archen stared in awe and remarked, "People in this weirdo world have homes, too?" Shirone sighed, bluntly responding to Archen, "I'm assuming you didn't put any thought into that question... Did you think we sat outside all day?" Archen replied back, "Hey, you didn't have to be so mean about it!" He playfully pouted, turning to the house and making a hand gesture towards Shirone. He added, "Well, let's go inside, I wanna see how your place looks!" Shirone responded, "You're quite the eager one, eh?" as she slowly approached the door of her home, unlocking it and entering after Archen did. She locked the door behind her and took a seat, while Archen curiously explored. "Not gonna lie, your house is pretty dull... You should fix it up if you have time," bluntly said Archen. "....Oh yeah? Well if you don't like how my house looks then you might as well get the hell outta here!," said Shirone. "Hey, don't take it personally," replied Archen. As Shirone was about to respond to Archen, in the dark hallway, half of an unshaded body could be viewed. It looked fuzzy and it's footsteps made little sound. Archen, being near the hallway suddenly backed up as he noticed this. "What's wrong, kid?," said Shirone. "Either you know this guy or we have an unwanted guest in here!," replied Archen. "WAIT! What do you mean!?," Shirone said as she suddenly stood up and upped her guard. The "thing" within the shadows didn't seem to budge at all, so Archen grabbed a pillow on the sofa and threw it at the figure. Then was when it acted, kicking the pillow away and jumping straight to Archen, seemingly attempting to land a powerful kick in his head. Archen reacted in time, though, and dodged the attack by jumping back onto the sofa itself. The figure stood up and it was a bear!? Archen stared at it for a few seconds, holding a look of both confusion and fear, 'What the hell is this cute bear thing doing here?,' he thought. The bear muttered something and then spoke. "I've discovered your location and I'm here to take your head." The bear said. Archen became completely silent, a few seconds later he would burst into a state of excitement as he admired this bear. "HOW DOES IT TALK!? Oh my god! You never told me your world had such adorable creatures!," Archen fanboyed, finding himself to subconsciously be hugging the bear-like creature. The bear was slightly confused, deciding to act and kicking Archen away as the impact caused the bear to jump back and land. "Bean... That is my name." Archen entered his fan boyish fase again remarking how bean can talk, "How is this even possible?" He bluntly asked Shirone who was annoyed he started fanboying but decided to elaborate as to why it's possible". "It's because unlike your dimension animals born here are the same as us can talk,eat etcetera and aren't treated as lesser" She said with a hint of anger at the last part but continued "Basically bears here are the same as us the same existence the same soul" She explained. Archen gleamed In delight upon this discovery and continued to try and hug the one known as bean but failing. After a while Archen sat down with Shirone to discuss magic, "So how were you able to use this magic" Archen asked in confusion, Shirone responded "It's really simple you just feel a tingle in your hands point and say the spell" she elaborated bluntly, "That's it? " Archen said disappointed, "Yep" Shirone stated feeling a bit of contempt in his disappointment. The scene cuts to a unknown hooded man talking to the bear like figure, "A-and then she used a skill I don't know what it is I swear!! " The bear said but before he could continue his neck got sliced, As he fell to the ground the figure smirked then walked away Archen satisfied with his answer shouted "YAHOOO" before shirone slapped him down, "Didn't you remember what I explained to you nobody is supposed to know a human of all people was here" in the corner Bean was shocked that in fact Archen of all people were human, Bean walked up to them and sat down "So your truly human? " he asked. "Yeah I am" Archen responded calming down from his previous acts of fanboyism as Shirone explained, "I don't know how he arrived here he shouldn't even be here in the first place his body isn't suited for a higher infinite plane" Shirone stated in confusion as well. Archen who didn't wanna speak on the topic asked "where does magic come from? "Well, it's a bit hard to explain, but I'll try my best. So, every magic type comes from an Energy Fountain. Each Fountain is powered by the core of all magic which is a metaphysical object. Every fountain contains conceptual energy that is beyond our minds, it is metaphysical energy, which is used for magic and its variations. For example, the Cosmic Fountain contains a specific type of conceptual energy that is common in the Cosmic Realm.
When you produce magic, you are basically invoking conceptual and metaphysical energy to your physical realm via your abstract mind, which is normally connected to your Energy Fountain, and then manipulating it to create different attacks, defenses, etcetera. The invocation is something almost unconscious." Answered Shirone. "Wow... And how do you know all of this?" Archen curiously asked "The god of the artifaft of perfection it is a being beyond all existence to the point of viewing us as lower specks of existence it is a being that wrote everything in the Almighty scroll of Lodrigo that is where we get our knowledge" Shirone answered satisfying Archen curiosity. "So do you think I would be able to learn some?" Archen asked with a hopeful glint in his eyes, Shirone pondered on that for a second and elaborated her thought "I believe yes you could since you are the first human being to exist in this plane you might be able to, Try it you might be able to make some" Shirone told Archen as he got in position and imagined the manipulation of magic the tingling sensation in his hands and BOOM a mix of red and dark magic comes hand exploding a shelf in the house. Shirone and Bean both felt the energy from his magic and it wasn't a slouch it was powerful and dark it was beyond their magic too with it Archen felt he could do anything his magic was the solution to anything but then he realised what damage it caused and let go of the sensation instantly, Bean looked at him and told him "Your magic is unlike anything I've ever seen it's powerful... and dark ", Shirone followed up with " Perhaps we should train this magic to not be so destructive " Then as if it was planned the door was knocked off it's hinges sending wood everywhere and a huge man walked through the door, "I hope I'm not interrupting anything but I'm afraid I'm going to have to kill you"
Chapter 3: An Unknown Enemy