Once the sun arise again, everyone on the kingdom begin to prepare their activities such as preparing their store, and more. Mary woke from her sleep as the sunlight lighten her room, and she stood up and also yawn loudly. Looking at her backpack she took out her book called 'The Astronomy of Cosmos'. That book tells about the existence of unpredictable and mysterious thing existed within the realm of space-time continuum, including Universe. She always read that book whenever and wherever she had a chance to read it, the book also explain how the universe works and inside of it too. Although those information is yet infinitesimal than the actual information, because in this era there's no such thing as advance technology that could see every single aspect in the universe. But somehow they got their way to achieve the information that they think it's impossible.
The book explain that the universe born from a some sort of fireball that were tiny and very dense, that the fireball causing an explosion which created a simplest elements of the universe. The fireball is representative as space itself, creating a first star and first ever galaxy that were born. It also caused the space expanded infinitely throughout the cosmos. Although those information were still in theory, as how the universe born is still mystery to us. She continues to read that book page to page until she bored of read the same book over and over again. She sighs and thought to herself to buy another book while they in different continent, she place her book inside of her backpack then walks out from her room and goes downstair, on the cafetaria of the inn she notice that Jonathan weren't there, probably still sleeping. Mary always woke up early than Jonathan because Jonathan sometimes dealt more dangerous situation than her. So he always exhausted and need some long rest before he'd begin his activity.
She sat down and as usual ordered the menu for her breakfast, it took 10 minutes for waiters to bring her food to her table. Once the waiter return while bringing out her food, she place Mary's meal down and leave to serve another customer. She start ate her meal and the taste of it is still the same — delicious as always. Meanwhile Jonathan finally awake as the sunlight goes burst directly to Jonathan face, making him to wake up by a sudden light. He stands up while approaching the mirror, he look to himself through the mirror. His hair were messy due to his sleep while there's a multiple slight scars on his face and his chest, he fixs his hair first and adjust his shirt so that it looks good. Once he's satisfied by how he's looks, he turn around grabbing his Constant Sword then putting it on his back. After that he left his room to eat the breakfast. Before Jonathan arrive to cafetaria Mary Carter was finish eating and she left the inn to looks for a book that could make her interested to. So Jonathan not seen Mary on the cafeteria, but that's not bothered him and just want to order and eat a meal.
Mary walking on the streets while a some carriages past by her, and some people riding a horse. She also could see some knights patrolling the area so the area were safe or someone would give to them for a report of an illegal activity. She kept walking on the street passing by a lot of people and then a one book store strike her attention, her gaze immediately turn to that store. A sense or perhaps an instinct telling her to approach it, Mary is always listen to her instinct as it would led into a correct and good path.
She approach the store in curious yet intrigued by her instinct, and when she at the front door of the store. She could see a lots of variant books in bookshelf that were neat in place, she open the entrance door and surprising her by how actual massive the room is, on the outside it looks like a small room filled with the bookshelfs but in the inside it looks like a library itself. Is it one of the skill that trick everyone thinking this store were small? She really want to know about that skill, it could be useful on their journey. She begun to wander around and pick up several books that were interested. When she wandering while picking up the book, her gaze met a strange room that had intense aura. She tried to approach it but before she goes to in front of the room, one of the employee stood in front of her. Fully blocking her to prevent her enter the strange room,
"Excuse me miss, are you trying to enter that room? Unfortunately this room isn't in service right now, so please stay away from that room."
She pout annoyed because she can't enter the room, she demand the employee to let her in but the employee kept blocking her way and not letting her go into the room. She frustrated sigh as she give up from going to that room, she walks away from the employee and the room. Although she couldn't enter that strange room atleast she bought several books that were interested, but not enough to steal her attention toward the strange room. After she got those books she leave the store and goes to the inn.
But on the middle of her walk, she met Jonathan also walking on the street. They glance at each other and surprised, yet they're greeted each other.
"Oh hey Jonathan, what are doing right now? Are you gonna sell your portions again or perhaps buying some equipment for our journeys?"
She said with her curious face, sometimes Jonathan go out just to buy some equipment for their journey or selling some stuff that Jonathan had but really not used it. He chuckles and he'd replied.
"Yeah, i just want to buy some equipment and also a wagon. Because i notice that we doesn't had a wagon, and i've already seen the map of the direction of we're going. And it seems it's gonna took like about 4-8 days to reach another kingdom."
Hearing Jonathan's information about their journey, she suggested Jonathan to buy more supplies especially food supplies. In case that they lack of supplies later on, her suggest was immediately on top of his priority as it was make sense. If they wanted to survive on wild field or unknown forest with unknown monster for 4-8 days, they need much of supplies to support them. Because they are only two people not like other adventurer that had their team atleast 3-10 people, even sometimes they created their own clan to dominate and had own territory. Automatically making them famous and rich, some of the clan also recruit a newcomers to be their members to fulfilled their goals — the strongest clan and the strongest adventurer.
Not like Jonathan and Mary, they were just had the same simple but almost impossible goal — to find out about the true nature of Creation. It's no doubt that no ones has ever thinking about to finding the true of it, some of them always gave up on middle of their searching — an endless circles of confusion whether it is worth to get the true of Creation or not?.Thus they separate and goes to their activities. Jonathan walk on the street, passing several people and also a kids playing to each others — running around the street with their friends. Sometime Jonathan's gaze at some store such as foods and weapon store, but still — he kept walking to the place where he could buy a wagon and also a horse.
It took like 10 minutes for Jonathan to find the place as the place is located almost outside of the town — due to how massive the store is, once he'd enter the store, he could see a variation of wagons from the cheapest to the most expensive wagons. Some people gathering around all of those wagons to find their wanted wagon. Jonathan aimlessly looking around try to finding a perfect one. And then, he finally found the perfect wagon — a medium size of a thick brown woodens wagon that could hold 200-500 items and also durable, so Jonathan approach one of the employee that were nearby and told to him that he's gonna buy that wagon, the employee turn around when Jonathan speak to him and he gesture Jonathan to the cashier and get a paper of ownership of the wagon. Once Jonathan signed the paper, he approach the wagon — looking the interior of the wagon, an simple massive space for the supplies. Jonathan satisfied by the interior of it, a simple made of woods and it cost just gold coins for that wagon which can hold 200-500 items or crates.
Jonathan then left the store of wagons, he walk around the town again to find the place that sell a horses, he abruptly stopped his walk — forgot that the place that sells a horse usually are outside of the town, he turn around and quickly goes to left the town. Took 5 minutes to finally found the place, he slowly approach it and met a lot of variant horses on their cage. The owner of those horses notice him and greeted at him — lead him deeper into the place.
The owner introduced all of the horses and when it's done, the owner asked Jonathan which the horse that he wanted to buy. He looked at several horses again then he pointed at one of the horses — a brown classic horse that were usual used by so many people but it essentially effective for carrying a wagon, that cost 74 gold coins which Jonathan pays without any hesitate.
The owner smirk while looking at those gold coins — slipped into his pocket, The owner grab a harness from the table nearby, proceeded to attach those harness into the horse. Once it done he handed it to Jonathan, while opened the cage door. Jonathan grab that harness and begin ride it, at first the horse react little bit making Jonathan struggle to hop on to the horse, but eventually the horse calmed and Jonathan begin to ride to carriage places. It took way faster than just walking, only took 3 minutes to arrive at the place. Jonathan sees the employee waiting him while Jonathan's wagon is right behind the employee, Jonathan goes down from the horse while his hand grip on the harness, guiding the horse to the wagon. He'd adjust the horse then attached the harness to his wagon, once it's done attaching those harness to wagon Jonathan hop in to carriage and grab the harness, then he'd left while riding an horse-drawn wagon. Jonathan goes to the inn but before that, he needed to find a place for park his horse and wagon. He wanders the town again and finally he found the place for park the horse including the wagon but it exclusively to adventurer not everyone, and it is safe because there's an adventurer guarding those place.
And so, Jonathan parked the wagon on those place while unattached the harness and lead the horse to specifically place for the horse. And once it's done, he'd paid the cost of parking his wagon and his horse, then he left it proceeded to the inn. After walking about 10 minutes because the parking place is quite far from the inn, beside the inn doesn't provide a parking place for the horse and carriage. He'd enter the inn noticing that Mary Carter read her new books, Jonathan also notices those books were astronomy or something about mystery of Creation information. Thus Jonathan sat next to her which she abruptly closes her book and look who's sit down next to her, when she looked at her side — it was Jonathan who sit down next to her. She relief that the person sit down beside her is Jonathan.
"Gosh Jonathan you scared me, you should've just told me that you're gonna sit down next to me."
She pouted with a little annoyed face toward Jonathan, he'd just giggle slightly while apologize. He glare one of her book and grabbed that book toward his face, the book were an Cosmic information explained by some scientists that were contains an information about the Cosmos, although it still in theory but regardless with that, Jonathan open that book without thinking. He read page by page, until he found a interesting word by unknown adventurer. It says.
"Sometime... I question myself about how massive the outer space is, i've read so many books about unpredictable and yet mysterious thing in outer space, i wonder throughout the day and night tried to knows what hiding beneath those space. Then, one day. I was on exploring one of dangerous dungeon in the world with my team, at first it was going smoothly we've kills so many monsters that living on the dungeon, then when we're found a strange room. We've decided to enter it without any risk, but... It was a big mistakes, why? Well once we enter the room we found a book — with a strange yet immense aura around that book, one of my friend take that book but then, a legendary monster appeared —a red dragon which a team of Level-SSS+ still struggling to fight that dragon. So my friend that took the book throw the book at me, i immediately take the book while my friends shouted at me to escape while they holds the dragon. I was gonna refuse but because of their determine i had no choice but to left them to death."
"And so, i left the dungeon in guilty —kept running until i reach the kingdom. Because of failed mission, i couldn't have any coins left due to lost a lot of coins, even i can't collect the reward of the mission because we're failed. I sell the book to one of the owner of book store, selling about 250 gold coins which he'd accept it. And that's all i have to say."
Jonathan felt sympathy for what the unknown adventurer feel, a lost friends that which he could trust on. After all, a fate cannot be dodges or cannot be escaped. But how the dragon appeared on that room? Is it guarding that book? It seems interesting yet intrigued by the information, Jonathan think to himself to get the book. Because it might be a hint to lead into Ancient Door and Creation. He smiled in some sort curious, he'd immediately showed that page to Mary which she stop reading the book that she was read and she look at the page, seeing the word of "immense aura around that book" She remember that she felt a immense aura on the strange room which located inside of book store, it seem that it was a hint toward the book that she curious about.
But she can't enter the room because the room is a restricted, only certain people can enter it. Then she realize something. Jonathan had connection to king from another Kingdom, but she not sure about it, but it worth to tried.
"Well Jonathan, i think i know where the book is. It's located at the book store but unfortunately, it's restricted. We can't enter it unless it's a important person."
Jonathan crossed his arms on his chest, while he lean his body to the back slightly, Jonathan replied but it cut off by a sudden person carrying a newspapers while announcing everyone that their kingdom's ally which is Terienst kingdom — receives a legendary potions by trading with a single adventurer named Jonathan, then a newsman throws a newspaper to all of the people nearby, including Jonathan and Mary.
They looked at it and Jonathan was slightly caught off guard that he doesn't realize that the trading between him and the king of Terienst kingdom spread whole kingdom, even their allies heard the news of it. Now the allies were trying to find Jonathan and convinced him to make a trade so that they could buy his potions, while Jonathan was disbelief by the news, he thought that those trade aren't special, but because of the potions that Jonathan had it, which is the rarity of it it's too valuable. Literally small Täzk amount is enough to buy 2 medium mansion and 3 wagons. Due to the capabilities of potions had – increasing all of the stats including healing their very serious injuries or even nearly death.
Also, the news is rapidly spread all over the country which all the nobles heard or sees the news of it — interested to Jonathan's potions, although they can buy it only 1 small of the potions. Nonetheless they want it still. The Royal Family are also heard the news, which can lead to another trading between Jonathan and this kingdom, so the King held the meeting to all of nobles and General of Knight on the castle, to which they discussed about whether they wanted to trading about Jonathan potions or not.
On the other hand, one of the kingdom which sees the news of it, frustrated as his enemies manage to get the rarest potions ever made in history.
"Oooh~, someone here is popular now."
Mary Carter teased at Jonathan while softly pinch his shirt,
"S-shut up! Mary. Don't tease me like that."
He said while blushing in embarrass, while Mary keep teasing at him, giggles and sometime pinch his face softly. Jonathan hide his face with his both hands, the newsman then left the inn and a lot of people on the inn were debated or discussed about who's the adventurer named Jonathan? The name of it is still unfamiliar to everyone, well due to low rank level Jonathan had it makes him unpopular. Although it was his intention to not get popular or it would ruin his journey, usually some popular adventurer sometimes get a secret or special mission by the guild or the kingdom itself. While that's not directly toward his goal, so he will not going to involve to the mission. But if the mission is part of the hint that Jonathan need it, then he would accepted the mission.
After a while Mary stop teasing at him, and now she told Jonathan that she need help to get the book that she curious about, after all Jonathan is officially the person who had the rarest potions in entire world, which everyone is desperately trying to get to. But everyone failed miserably, creating an abomination on their own labs. It is because of material that which is impossible to get it as the material is extinct from this planet, the material name is still unknown due to have a immense capabilities to create variant new items including potions. While the potion needed an complex ritual and brewing to mixed all of those to create it and still has 2% chance to create a potion.
Jonathan gaze at Mary's pleading eyes, Jonathan momentarily think but yet again he can't stood a chance from her eyes. He scratches his back hairs and sigh while saying that he will help her to get it, she smile widely and jumped in excitement. Then she ran toward the exit door of the inn, she gesture Jonathan to follow her to where the book is. And so he does follow her — they get out from the inn and toward the book store, Jonathan seem skeptical about the book store as he stare at it, looking at the windows only to see a small room with a several bookshelf of a book that were neat in bookshelf. Little did he knows, that it was an illusion skill that make people thinks that the place were small. But once Mary open the door and Jonathan look inside, his mouth is dropped as the inside were massive.
Literally like an library, he speechless and Mary giggles slightly at his reaction, taking his hand and guided him inside. Mary keep guided Jonathan to the direction of the room, once they arrive a same employee saw them — he once again block their way and demands to leave the restriction room. Mary smirks and proudly said that the man beside her is Jonathan, the one who created a legendary and the rarest potions. The employee were somewhat surprised by her proclaimed, he glance at Jonathan — scanning his whole body and he can't really know whether is it true or not. Looking at confused employee that still cannot recognize Jonathan, she ask Jonathan to pulls out the potions. And Jonathan simply obey — activate his skills and pull out his potion, showing the potion to employee.
The employee abruptly stepping back in shock and surprised, he has never seen a real rarest potion directly. His body begin to tremble in nervous, he deeply sorry to not recognize him which Jonathan accept it, and told him that he doesn't mind if he'd not recognize him. Then the employee move aside and let them enter the restriction room, Mary felt victories as she could finally see what the book looks like and what is inside of it too. They goes inside of it and seeing a luxurious room fill with a scent that somehow make them relax, after all this room is exclusively to important people such as nobles and king.
Mary begin to shivering violently due to feeling of immense pressure from another room up ahead of them, her legs trembling hard — she can't move her body at all which make her down to her knees. While Jonathan doesn't feel any pressure at all because the Constant Sword automatically nullify the pressure that would harm him, but Jonathan doesn't realize about it. Jonathan approaches her and trying to help her stand up, she slowly arise with help of Jonathan but still trembling.
"Are you okay Mary? What's wrong, your body is shaking violently."
He said in the face of worries and concern toward her, she replied.
"Y-yeah I'm good, but i could still feel the immense pressure throughout my body from that room."
She pointed at the room, Jonathan glance at the room and slowly approach it. While Mary Carter slowly stand up despite feeling of pressure throughout her body, yet she still remain unharmed due to the pressure only effect on immobilize someone not intent to kill someone. She slowly follow Jonathan behind while tried to maintain her position so that she won't fell down. Jonathan stood in front of the door and slowly open it, and reveal an dark room with a several small old and dusty bookshelf, once Jonathan enter the room, Mary place her hand on Jonathan shoulder. She panting on Jonathan back and her gaze slowly rise up seeing a book with same pressure and aura that Mary felt. Her eyes widen and force herself to stand up beside him, but she almost fell down to the knees, luckily Jonathan catches her before she fell down.
Jonathan draws his sword on his back and wishes that the pressure that she felt is gone, and the wish is granted. Immediately erases the pressure throughout her body, she panting and slowly stand up with Jonathan helps too. She thanks to him and Jonathan simply thumbs up. Mary regain her composure and relax little bit, but her body is still trembling for while. Mary slowly step closer toward the book that were on the middle of the room, her gaze locks on the book — the book is very old yet it still doesn't have any damages on it, also the book sealed with a chain covering it and needed a key to open the seal which no-one has ever had the key.
She turns her head toward Jonathan but her attention is not Jonathan rather to his Constant Sword, she ask Jonathan to borrow his sword which without any hesitation he gave it to her. Once Mary grasp the handle of the sword, her mind immediately flooded with immense pressure and powers, pouring down to all of her body. Making her froze in place. Such power that she had never felt before, her face begin sweat but she try to maintain her composure, once Jonathan left his hand from the handle. The sword immediately heavier and goes down to the floor — breaking the floor instantly making her also down to her knees but still holding the handle of it.
She tried to lift it but won't it move an inch, it's very heavy and she curious why Jonathan able to hold and used this sword while the weight is too much. She used her enchant magic skill to enchant her strength multiple times, but no matter how many the strength increases it won't move nor lifted. She gave up — her hands leave the handle and step back.
Jonathan approach his sword that lays on the floor, he grab it and easily lift it. Mary Carter want Jonathan to slash the seal so that the seal will broke and so they can take it, Jonathan then slash all the chain that were surrounded the book. Easily breaking those chain into pieces, once it done Jonathan step forward and sees the title of the book. "The Borhsk" Jonathan grab the book — tried to open the book, but before he could open the book the previous employee step into the room, he's surprised that the sealed is broke and the book that Jonathan hold is mysterious even there's no possible cost to get that.
"W-what the?! The seal is broke?!"
The employee slightly panic and shocks, he notices them especially Jonathan that were near the place where the book is placed, seeing Jonathan holding a book while his another hand still hold his sword.
"Wait sir! Y-you can't take that, it's dangerous sir. I've heard the rumor that if the seal is broke the releasing of a disease from that book spreading rapidly to entire kingdom!"
His body begin to trembling, his scared face knew that he's gonna get fired and got infected, Jonathan kinda caught off guard about the employee's word — he never heard that the book would infect anyone with a unknown disease unless the book filled with a certain curse magic that capable to infect anyone. But the book that Jonathan hold isn't, it's does not contain curse magic because Jonathan able to detect any curse magic on everyone includes the object.
"Relax, this book isn't dangerous it's not contain a curse magic in it."
He replied while shrugs his shoulder and raises the book slightly up, but the employee doesn't not believing him.
"No, you don't understand, the book literally has the curse magic! S-"
Before the employee could finish his sentence, Jonathan replied to him.
"Look, you've said that this book had disease in it right? But look at me, i'm feeling fine. Nothing happens to me."
The employee abruptly shut his mouth as Jonathan's word are true, Jonathan isn't infected, yet he'd directly holding the book that rumored can infect anyone within certain radius.
"F-fine you'd win, but still that book is belong to our property, you need to buy it or out of the store."
He said, Jonathan glance at the book again then looks at the employee again. The book is make Jonathan intrigued because of the title and the information that lies within pages. He crossed his arms on his chest while his eyebrow slightly higher, then Jonathan asked what price the book is.
"Alright, so how much the book it is? I'm interested with this book."
Jonathan says, and the employee replied immediately.
"I hope you have enough coins, because the book cost about 90 gold coins."
He said in smirking face, the arrogance of him which make Jonathan annoyed, the employee thinking that Jonathan won't have any coins despite he knew that Jonathan trading with a king on another kingdom, sometime when the adventurer receive heavy sum coins they usually buy all expensive yet not useful items, the purpose of it which they wanted to looks like rich person regardless of their own risk. But Jonathan does not spend his coins on useless stuffs.
So Jonathan pulls out small bag full of coins from his 'dimensional storage' then throw the bag in front of him, he's annoyed by Jonathan's action — his palm turn into fists but he holds those annoyed feeling, he slowly took the small bag fill of gold coins. He left the room immediately in defeated however he wasn't accept his defeat, he need to get revenge but he knew that Jonathan were smarter than him.
Successfully dealing the employee, Jonathan felt relief and turn toward Mary, and she quickly snatched the book from Jonathan's grasp and raises the book above her head, she smile widely in excitement to read it. Jonathan only can sigh to see Mary happy to having that book, Jonathan told Mary that he'd gonna go back to inn and he left the room, Mary Carter follow behind him while hugged the book. Eventually they arrived at the inn, Mary goes to sit down on one of the chair in cafeteria while she tell Jonathan that she want to read the book first, and so Jonathan nodded at her — goes to his room to prepare his stuff.
She open the book and surprise as she sees all strange information that she never heard about, that no-one has ever get the information. The information tells that,
"Overseer of Mage, the strongest mage among the mages, who's already transcends Space-Time and able to goes beyond of it, also they discovered that the universe were produced the mathematics structure that we're using such as Cardinal numbers, Cantor's Attic hierarchies, and more. Also they discovering that all infinite of galaxy on the universe grouped into some sort of cloud that throughout of Space-Time continuum. Thus the clouds are created infinitely all over the universe, a dimensional structure that equivalent of infinite-one-dimensions to infinite-dimensions. Not only mathematics structure exist on Universe, but there's basic aspects within Universe like Causality, History, Linear of Time, Gravity, and more. And one of Overseer of Mage says: "While i'm analyzed the structure and aspects of Universe, suddenly something interrupted my analyze, and once i've looked at it, i saw a infinite piles of Cantor's Attic that stacked upon infinite stacked piles of another Cantor's Attic endlessly, up and down, as such is beyond the endless concepts itself. Not only that but Cantor's Attic reach another infinitely stacked Cantor's Attic that were same endless as below them. Proceeded to multiplied into more infinite stacked piles of Cantor's Attic endlessly until it met another same kind." And so that's the reason why his analyze has been interrupted. Because he can't access to the aspects as those are beyond the Cantor's Attic. But this is not over yet, because the universe is keep expanded infinitely on cosmos making more and more aspects of existence, which also make the infinite clouds grouped once again into massive one, which contains aleph-1 amount clouds of galaxy, we called it 'Cosmic Cluster' but we've also discover that Cosmic Cluster isn't single but rather infinite. And so the-"
But before even Mary could read more information, Jonathan called her from his room. And she closes her book but pinned the page that where she read so that she can continue it later. She goes upstairs and approach Jonathan's room, she open and seeing Jonathan grabbed the potions of Täzk and handed atleast 10 of it, she glance at the potions on her hands, she never had an expensive potions on her entire life. Jonathan also handed the map that where they should go, he also explain that they begin to leave the kingdom tomorrow, and Mary replied by nodding. Jonathan glance at the windows, seeing the sun slowly goes down and the sky begin to turn into a dark.
Before they goes to sleep they decided to eat first, after all they need some energy for tomorrow. So after they goes ate the meals on the cafetaria, they go to their own room for sleep — Jonathan immediately fall asleep while Mary places the Borhsk on her bag, she took out one of her book and lay down on the bed, she reads the book page by page until she fall asleep and the book fell down to her face. She does that when she's bored however she had a potential despite she really interested with Cosmos.
So, what would accoured on their journey later on? Is it going bad or smoothly? Well, we'll find out soon enough.
-To be Continue