Aldric started to contact Dr Einstein to get information regarding Parikshit(Dreadbane) and his last known location. He also wanted Dr. Einstein to get him more money and the new artefact he told Dr. Einstein to redesign.
"What is that?" Mohan whispered to Mukesh when he looked at the Thoughlink Rune.
"It's an artefact to... umm... map a place" Mukesh tried to be cool.
"Doctor, how is the progress going and um... also if you know anything about the whereabouts or any last location, maybe from his master... I mean any information regarding Parikshit or can you try to find it out... Probably the military might have the records... Also, I need some money" Aldric looked at the thoughtlink rune with confusion and said," Damnit, it is that 30 seconds rule... "
"What's wrong captain," Mukesh said while approaching him," Maybe I can help"
"I don't need help," Aldric said, signalling Mukesh to sit down.
Then, Aldric recorded the same message again but this time in two parts.
"Captain, do you think that we will get something in this underground city?" Mohan asked, "If we want to convert this place into an operational base then that would take a lot of time and effort and going out will be a pain every single time"
"We will never have a base, it is just temporary like a week at most, after that we will go after Dreadbane... and kill him" Aldric said while waiting for the reply from the doctor to arrive totally.
"Who is Dreadbane?" Mohan asked.
Suresh told Mohan everything they knew about Parikshit and what Aldric told them.
Aldric looked at the Thoughtlink Rune and it was shining which was a single that a new message had arrived.
"Aldric, you won't believe it. Parikshit was mainly spotted at those places where the strange time troubles were recorded but those places after a year or two have no time trobles... like almost all of them. It is like he destroyed them or took them away"
Aldric didn't have a straight face after listening to that.
"Is he picking them up" Aldric spoke in shock and stood up and walked around a bit to rearrange all the possibilities he could think of.
"He goes to the areas where everyone was getting late and all. Then, those places have no complaints that there was any time trouble." Aldric Muttered.
The second message arrived from a doctor," What is more crazy that even the military or anyone has not seen him in a year... I don't know if he is dead or what because if he were to make any payments he has to show his military card but he hasn't in like a year, another thing I can say is that he might be using gold coins as a means of exchange but he didn't withdraw cash anywhere throughout his journey."
"So, we have no idea where he went and we have no idea what is he doing, and somehow he has some means to destroy or do whatever with the strange time trouble places," Aldric said and instructed Mohan to note down key details.
They had no idea that the strange places or strange areas they call were complete fifth dimensions where time runs a little differently than the rest of the world. They also had no idea how the fifth dimension was just disappearing or how Parikshit was just destroying something that caused time trouble or was doing something else but in reality, he had the means to pick the fifth dimension and they are actually as small as a pea. They are transparent and weightless. Holding them feels like holding weightless transparent balls.
"What was his last location?" Aldric asked the doctor through thougthlink rune.
"He was just 600 km away from the capital in a valley of Ironvale Ridges, they have very bad terrain and very bad winds all over the place. There is a village nearby which mainly has people who are mining, he was spotted there, and he checked out 3 gold coins for dinner and 6 gold coins for a night's stay." This was the message that Aldric wanted to hear.
"The artefacts you told me to build will take up to 6 days and where should I give the money." The second message arrived in succession as if it were part of the first one.
'How can he send any message more than 30 seconds' Aldric thought, 'That doesn't matter, right now I have to get good artefacts and get these four something good.'
"Five kilometres outside the slums, there is a huge banyan tree. Tell your driver to leave money there at 5 a.m. tomorrow." Aldric sent his message.
"For today we are going to rest," Aldric addressed all the others. Mukesh and Suresh will keep the watch for the night in turn."
"Ok captain" They both said it simultaneously.
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There was a large banyan tree with its extensive branches spreading everywhere. It was 5 AM. Aldric and Rajesh were sitting on top of a tree nearby, waiting for the money to be delivered to them.
"Captain, what if he runs away with the money" Rajesh spoke.
"No... He is someone we can trust" Aldric was confident in his decision.
After waiting a few more minutes they heard a horse carriage sound, there was a man driving the horse carriage of Dr Einstein but he was not alone there was a woman sitting right next to him and they looked like lovers.
"You are trusting people too much captain," Rajesh spoke as if he was certain of what would happen, "Now these two will run away with our money and leave the country... "
"Don't watch too much dramas in theatres, If he wanted to run away with the money why would he come here" Aldric was convinced that everything would be fine, it was because he knew a lot of people from his past life.
The driver of the carriage went down and placed the money where he was instructed to while that woman waited for him.
"Told you..." Aldric said while Rajesh was waiting for the driver to steal the money even though he had no intention to do so.
When the driver left with the horse carriage and was far enough that Aldric or Rajesh couldn't see him.
"Now go and take the money... " Aldric instructed.
After taking care of money, they went inside the cave to the ancient city again and Mohan was ready to go outside and buy some supplies for all of them, he was chosen because Aldric, Mukesh, Rajesh, and Suresh were seen at Rakesh's cafe during the ceiling collapse incident.
"Mohan, you have to just buy a few more torches and some food supplies and don't waste money on anything expensive... Buy two tents as well for 'camping'..." Aldirc wanted to make sure that they would get everything right.
Mohan left and all the others started the exploration in the unknown underground ancient city... where they had to find some useful artefacts.
Artefacts enhance the use of Vi-Shakti-Tejas, they can give it more and more applications uses. They are like devices that need the energy to do work and their energy is always vi-shakti-tejas as to the inhabitants of this planet this energy is almost free... Vi-shakti-tejas has a lot of frequencies and only living things have negative frequencies and when negative frequencies interact with positive ones of the atmosphere, they provide resistance to the use of it and artefacts can be useful to convert the negative frequency of vi-shakti-tejas into positive ones but it will be corresponding positive frequency.
Artefacts still don't have the power to convert the frequencies into any other frequencies at will. However, living organisms act as natural converters. When they release vi-shakti-tejas into the atmosphere, the vi-shakti-tejas in the atmosphere will respond by providing more vi-shakti-tejas to the organisms, this happens to keep the same pressure from vi-shakti-tejas inside and outside the body of a living organism. These living beings then absorb this energy and convert it into the desired frequency that aligns with their own bodies. No human has an identical frequency to others but there is a way to figure it out and that is when someone will release their vi-shakti-tejas on a specific metal which is called Luminite, it is a heavy metal found normally in the mines, it is transparent and it's frequency is said to be close to zero and when used someone uses there vi-shakti-tejas on it, it will change colour.
For Seekers it will be shades of green, for different sub-categories of seekers its colour changes, like healers, have light green, and scouts have emerald green, same way adventures, visionaries and others have different shades of green.
Spellblades are those that use enchantments that have a blue colour while Catalyst(those that use natural elements) have a red colour on Luminite.
Now, Aldric and the three idiots were going to do treasure hunting in the dark and silent city.
Aldric was not sure if they found something very useful or not, he still wanted to build his ship. It looked like a ship that would go into the water but this ship flew in the air with the help of his Phantom Path powers and help from his friends he could be strong with that ship and might be able to defeat Dreadbane.