the spacious and tidy luxurious room was total opposite to the one they were before,as they finished their pre inspection they decided to go to the Taaras own room.it had various kinds of medical tools some lots of lots of books stacked up tidly on thelves and on a side it had an alchemy table apparently she had some interest on it too.all the things looked expensive and were shining with a light that Nazar was so unfamiliar with,they were either brand new or taken great care of.
it was probably both...
"wow what a great room,I-ı would still prefer mine He-heh"fidgeted Nazar as he overwhelmed by the greatness of the room
"Heh"Taara smirked as she looked at the poor overwhelmed man sitting squashed on his chair from his working desk and put his finger on her lips like she was thinking something to crush him even more, after a moment she snapped her fingers as she were enlightened and she continued
"HEHE"she smirked even more
"Fuck ,I never thought the Capitalism would hurt this much"he complained in pain
"hehe,now you know"
"ughhh,stop with the smirks and give the other patient reports please"asked Nazar with a serious tone
"A-Alright.one moment please"she replied hurriedly as she was surprised from the sudden change of tone she thumped the files on the desk adjusting them then she extended her arm
"hehe pushoveeeer" Nazar smirked like Taara as he mocked her with a sudden change of mood
"...You know what? yes thats exactly on me Damnit"she remarked as she slapped his knees to her rookie mistake
"You will learn my sweet little Taara You will learn,when you have the upperhand dont falter especially against street dogs like me.your kindness will intrepreted as a weakness and make you a target " advised this rough dirty looking mysterious man as she took the files and started looking into them
it was a good advice...
Taara looked at the man a bit more he may seemed like a rude and insensitive guy but she didnt think it was all about him
was he hiding his true self she didnt know and also unless asked otherwise she wont be interfering with his business in the future too but something deep inside her was wondering nonetheless
"I will take that to the heart , anyways there is something i want to ask but lets first hear what you want to say "
"Oh boy I guess what it is"he slumped
"shut it and begin explanation"
"oh! contradicting orders Huh? how noblish, thats it you are fast learner keep it up"
"Grrrr"
"Allright allright sheesh I was the one supposed to be a dog...these these are almost perfect,who did them"he said as he waved the files
"It was mostly me my collagues left here long time ago only some of the already existing local staff is present...anyways I got some help from a few people but they also didnt last too long"
"okay as already stated in here I too didnt notice anything out of ordinary,I mean of course being burnt to a crisp is certainly interesting and unordinary.there is some weird sypmtomes too nausea hallucination stomacache and so on but what is the cause, medium? we are in the dark here, I previosly stated a X factor well it is not a Term that I come up with but...
he sighed a deep breath and continued talking
"I travelled the world a lot.by a lot ı mean a lot very very very a lot"
"now you are broken great,and for a young kid you are a bizarre one to tell me that you travelled lot"
"for the initial statement no comment. but for the second HAHahahah,maybe.but being a little bit of broken or crazy kept me alive, well anyways In some of the Tribes I had been visiting I encountered a teacher of mine well among the many ones he was certainly one of the wisest and weirdest he taught me the Term "X facto"r thus making me stuck in certain rabbithole of a situations of mine that is relevant ever so slightly to this predicament"
"so I understood all that already but whats its importance?? I assume there is more to it than just unknown"she asked
"yes there is more for something to be X it doesnt have to be from this universe"
"bullshit I am naturalist to the core, everything in the nature or universe abides a certain law even if a meteorite come and destroyed our world that would be "natural" or more correct one "universal" and there isnt a thing that didnt came from this universe "
"a solid argument and a proper take on the subject but let me tell you this if there were a way to properly catogerize all the things in the universe all the things-"
"there isnt,are you kidding me i thought you were a rational one"she frowned as she speaked hastily
"just imagine it is free isnt it?,it would be like a timeless library of existance isnt it, i know this is a very surreal and irrational but just stand it for a moment-"
"Allright So what ? one day a man comes in a dark hoodie and shady clothes and donates a book of unknown unlabeled origin shocking the counterlady out of wits is it it???"she hurriedly interfered now fully furious as she mocked his analogy
"HAHAH a interesting one would it be but no more like our endless library standing tall throught eons and echelons of time now grown tired now needs a little renovation so we dig a little tunnel underground and what do we realise? our good old library that since the beggining of everything collecting knowledge growing is built upon the ruins of another one we are not aware of completely it was there since the beginning right under our nose not just one too several others also....
what would make you feel like " he spoke with an uncanny tone seemingly calm but something different inside his voice echoed in her mind
"that would be impossible"
*sigh*
"not impossible we got the library part done and the remains of another done too... so that was the answer we came up with"
"it is not possible" she shaked her head in rejection trying to place this absurd idea in her mind
the surging mana passing through her shook him he raised her head and looked at the man the source was him. mana stormed through the man changed shape in an instant it was white blue green red then it come to the ones in between they flashed in an instant before changing into an another
"what do you think it is"asked the man with a polyphonic voice coming from heavens while his everchanging pupils locked on the girls
"I dont know"she replied in fear not knowing who the hell is sitting besides her
the colors started to change more rapidly as they stormed through the room the things in the room started the vibrate more and more it was really unbeareble Taara at the edge of fainting shouted
"STOO-"
*ZWOOOM*
the thunder ceased in an instant, Taaras shout cut in half surprised she tried to speak
"ahem ahem,what just happened"
"ughh that was tiring and your "voice" isnt the best to experience into"
"aghhhhh I just dont get it anymore"Taara shouted as she finally bolted from her chair
"Sorry but it was better to show than to tell,well at least some of it but now you will understand some of the things some of the dangers"he explained as he stopped taara to bolt out of room
"first of all, what I did just know is known as " Soul State " , there are variations but I can use it like just i did it a "Ascended Soul State" or a quick one like "Impulse Soul State"..."
"wait you used on it on me before when you guessed where I came from,Your eyes glowed then too " Taara remarkedbut keeping "his hair changing color" to himself as she wasnt so sure yet
"yes great insight Taara,can you guess what I did"asked the man sitting besides her with a warm gentle smile
Taara looked at the man she seemed more mysterious as more she get to know him,he was running further away everytime when she thought she finally caught him
"Mana you sense mana at a horrific rate it was nauseating"
Nazar looking more and more like an examiner snapped his fingers
"thats exactly right,it takes a heavy toll one ones body so it is definetly nauseating for me also but it is a side effect that comes with its power it not only sense mana it experiences mana from all sources"
"so you just experienced all things in this room"she asked
"all the still and dormant present manas of all the things in this room yes"he replied then contuined shortly after pointing the ingredients on the shelves
" CutlerThorn freshly bought recently I guess from a dwarf? seeing it still has sturdy earthen mana in it, The Razor inside the left drawer of alchemy desk elvenmade quality one indeed made from a SunkenSteel I guess you use it to cut for apples? strange huh?"
"H-How ???I cant believe it could be to this extent " murmured to herself as she talked to himself
"oh I feel everything about them you can say it is like an wholist kinestasic experience everything has mana and everything is also a subject for experiencing even the smallest atom tell a story, too bad but it isnt omniscient and efficency varies from subject to subject even lesser on the humans ... oh by the way ı can go on? , in the secret drawer on your working desk there is-"
"S-STOOOOP, AAA"she shouted in an instant with a reddened flustered voice
"ahh why was that??, anyways that is the library, a secret pact that ı cant fully explain to you yet . we are linked to it by the every human to ever exist or existed...
and it would be great if our burns and deformations were from a forestfire that ı could imagine smelling already, or a fire magic that would make me see perfect fractales and alchemical formulas in the spirit form but thats not it that was X factor"
"that is unbelievable"remarked Taara still red
"yeah like a miracle Now you already know I would like to explain it to you in detail but now we are finally on the same page it is better if we start to move now"remarked Nazar as he got up from his chair
"so what did you see there?"asked taara now finally calmed herself, with a curious tone
"nothing,I saw nothing Void"
"and that would be Otherworldy."