...and then I closed my eyes to sleep, and suddenly I opened them because I felt like I was standing, and I realized that I was inside a dark cave" 'How to pass a lie detector test or a polygraph? Just tell the truth, but as a CEO you have to know how to listen to your opponent's words, because, in the truth, there are many ways to hide what is important, and a polygraph is easy to fool.'
Even though Christel is telling her truth, she knows that she is now being tested and that the matrix she is in now is a kind of lie detector, a trap or defense formation. But she will still hide very important things, such as that she is not from this world and that, in her world, it is just a video game.
Christel can't pretend to have amnesia like other travelers either; it would be even stranger for a girl to suddenly appear out of nowhere in a very dangerous area and now not remember anything, not even where she comes from.
["You're a devil..." Akara screams as she sees the lights of the matrix flash red and with her hands on the ground she would activate the trap trapping the lying girl inside the matrix.] That's what would happen if Christel said she had amnesia.
Christel knows that the best thing is to tell her truth and let others make movies in their heads, like: ...
"Kidnapping?" 'This child, she must be very important to her family, perhaps the eldest daughter and heir. Some political or business enemy of her family wanted to kidnap her and make demands. But why send her to a cave nest of devils and infernal creatures? Error in the space transfer, a wizard failed in the transposition spell. or the teleport matrix was poorly designed. Or maybe it was revenge against one or both of her parents and they just sent her to a random place to die...'
Christel noticed the changes in Akara's eyes, kidnapping was the most reasonable response in these circumstances with some error in the implementation of the plan, a classic cliché in many stories where the MC or some other character is attempted to be kidnapped, but in the middle they lose him due to some incident and the kidnapped person ends up in a rural area and cared for by some lower-class family, if it is the MC maybe he will even fall in love with the one who cares for him or with the daughter or son of those who saved him.
"Pfff~ I don't know"
The womb beneath Christel's buttocks did not react, the rhythm like a calm heartbeat remains the same, it is true. Christel does not know how she got here, she just passed through, nor does she know how she is reborn and now on a journey with her body to another world, a very dangerous one.
'I'm thinking about it a lot, and she's just a girl who's far from home. But I can't let my guard down, Andariel deceived us in the past and snatched the Monastery from us by pretending to be a beautiful woman, I have to do the ultimate test.
"What is the name of the lands where your family lives, do you know which direction it is, we are now east (west) of the Great Gate of the East Gate in Khanduras..."
Christel tilted her head to the left and her eyes looked down to the left. 'Here it comes, my primary background is where I come from...'
I know we're around Tristram, and it's the area where diablo 1 and 2 takes place. Tristram is located south of the western continent in the already revealed map of the Sanctuary world in diablo 4. Christel's birth country is in the continent of Colon, which, if we take it according to the story of the blue planet, the colon continent is across the sea west of the continent of painted faces, but the colon continent is across the sea east of the great dragon country and the country of neon, so saying that the colon continent is western is not correct but also correct.
"My family was born in the central continent, but due to circumstances, my family's ancestors traveled to the westernmost lands across the sea, and then my closest family (my mother) traveled even further west across the other sea to an island called the neon country" 'Well, the matrix doesn't react at all to my babbling'
"uhnm~" Christel with one hand on her chin looked towards the direction where the sun set inside the tent.
"If the sun set over there..." Christel pointed with an extended finger of her left hand pointing towards one side of the tent, and then with her new position she pointed forward with the index finger of her right hand.
"So North is over there, South is behind me, so my house should be to the right..." Christel proudly stuck out her chest and pointed out her direction skills. 'Ha! I will never be like a green seaweed-haired swordsman with no sense of direction, nor get lost like that boy who turns into a black pig when he gets cold water.'
But reality instantly hits her little white face.
"Cough, cough... Christel, although the sun does set in that direction, in reality north is towards the direction of the tent door, not the back of the tent, so east and west are reversed." Akara, seeing the proud look and then a dejected expression of defeat, found it very funny and tender, she almost wanted to hug the little girl, awakening her maternal instincts.
"AHH! What? How? Did I get it wrong?" 'No, no, no, no, this is impossible, this is something elementary, and even though what Akara said would only prove that the rotation movement of this planet is the opposite of my previous world. But it still doesn't make sense! No matter which direction the planet rotates, its magnetic field will still be the same in the direction of rotation. Like a magnet that you just turn upside down, its magnetic field will also rotate, so even if this planet rotates in another direction its magnetic north should be the same as what I said...'
Christel's gifted brain suddenly exploded and looked like one of her steam engines created a few years ago.
"Yes, look, you see the needle here, it points north..."
Akara took a circular object from her robes and Christel recognized it when she saw it.
"Ha, a compass?"
"Oh, you know compasses, they're very useful for travelers who don't have much talent in figuring out the direction..."
"I'm not a director's fool, I just, maybe got a little confused..."
"It's -hy- direction fool, not -ef- direction fool. (Akara pointing out her gender in the language and how she feels it, as the amber stone helps establish communication at a soul level and she feels that the little girl refers to herself as a man and not a woman)"
"What are you talking about? I'm not a woman, why would I refer to myself as -hy-, wait! Did you just call me a stupid manager?" Christel complained, but halfway through complaining she puffed out her cheeks to show anger.
Akara, looking at his little face, almost wanted to get closer and pinch his tender cheeks, but she noticed a detail in what he conveyed. 'It's a boy, this beautiful and cute little cutie is actually a boy, but the girls said very explicitly that it's a girl...'
Without thinking, Akara used a simple identification magic, which is used to scan objects, and find out if they have any spells or curses on them. Although this identification spell can also be used on people, it is a serious lack of respect to scan someone else's body, much less without their consent. But Akara just ignored all of that, and perhaps the little girl doesn't know that.
"Haaaa~ hey (Christel impulsively said the expression -hey- in her native language), What are you doing!!!?..." Christel felt as if many hands were exploring her entire body and touching every corner without leaving a single corner untouched.
"A haha~ sorry, I'm just exploring if you don't have a wound or something~" Akara with her identification magic sensed the entire body of the little person in front of her, and with a laugh she hid what she just did without shame.
'Indeed, if she is a girl, who is in the early stage of adolescence, with at least 3 years of fertile periods, and right now, she is in her most fertile days, her breasts have begun to develop, and her formation of wide hips and a narrow waist, all are characteristics of a growing woman. Why do you think she is not a woman? The clothes she is wearing are made of a fabric that I have only seen on rich nobles, a very solid color and high quality, although the design seems to be like the ones those noble men use to practice riding horses. Perhaps the little girl had just had horse riding training and fell asleep without changing clothes, but why would her parents give her that kind of education? Problems with inheritance? Is hiding her gender for her protection? Or is there a reason or one of the reasons for her attempted kidnapping in question of her gender?'
While Akara was still making a movie that was already a trilogy in her mind, Christel felt that this kind of exploration magic was very good, maybe if she could learn it, she could use it on some girls and find interesting details. 'If I learn this magic and use it on Akeno and my mother, maybe I can have a chance to get revenge for their groping hehe...'
"Sister Akara, can I learn this magic?..." Christel asked with eyes shining like luminous pink pearls.
Akara came back to her senses, and looking into her eyes I also notice this characteristic which is something she has to check. 'Vampires'
"Sure, I'll teach you, but first you'll have to learn the common language of this area, maybe your parents haven't had time to teach you, but if you want to return home, you'll have to travel, and learning the languages is very important..." Akara suddenly went into Strict Mother mode for some reason.
"Well... yes, I want to learn your language..." And this is a truth of Christel who has prepared herself to learn, not only the common language, but the language of the Nephalem and the ancient language used by the members of The Order of the Horadrim, and if possible, the language of demons and angels that should not be very different from each other.
"Well Christel, but now it's too late, and as you see, although I checked your body for wounds, it was only superficial, if you let me I want to check deeper to see if they left you a curse or something worse." Akara told her with a worried look.
Here comes the most important part of this, let's call it -interview-. With the help of the magic matrix, he will check if this girl has not been possessed by some high-powered demon or is it a creature disguise. He has also noticed her eyes, white skin and blond hair are not only a sign of the high nobility and royal families of the world, but also a characteristic of the so-called Striga, a clan of bloodthirsty beings who pretend to be ordinary people to feed on the lives of human people. Although vampires have the characteristic yellow eyes, some pink ones have been seen but very very rare.
"Alright, Sister Akara, you may begin." Christel closed her eyes and prepared herself. If the previous magic had searched her body and made her almost scream (she actually did scream), this new magic may be stronger. 'Will it be very painful?'
"Don't worry little Christel, it won't hurt" 'unless you're a demon or a vampire in disguise' Akara said in her mind.
"I'm not small (she), I'm small (he), I'm not saying that I'm still growing..." Christel, upon hearing her call her small (she), opened her eyes and complained with her cheeks inflated.
But at that moment Akara used the spell of expulsion and exorcism of dark beings.
A series of lights shot towards Christel from all directions of the magic array, and entered her body and passed through her body. Then, a pillar of light fell from above the tent, where the tallest wooden log in the center is. The pillar of light covered Christel.
Christel was amazed by the play of light around her, but felt nothing but warmth.
Meanwhile, Akara was receiving information from Christel's body. 'A lot of vitality, a very strong soul and something deeper, like, Fate? Deep connection with nature, it's like she has the body of an Arch-Druid who is very involved with the forests, but at the same time it's different, as if she was born from the forest, but still human, it doesn't make sense. But there are no negative auras or anything else related to hell, but not to angels either. She has no stains of curses or corruption, it's like she grew up in paradise. Very strange, but, she doesn't seem to be an enemy of the Rogue Camp and her body and soul only have 11 exact Lyrian Lunar cycles. Wait! She seems to have a bit of Lyrian moonlight in her body, it has something to do with the Lyrian moon, like, Gate? Fate again?'
Suddenly, the magic was interrupted and a small part of the tent, in one of its seams, opened the thread a little and let in a ray of light that fell on Christel.
Akara saw this and thought, 'That light is Lyria's Moonlight, Lyria Moon, are you trying to tell me something?'
"ah~, it's over, I didn't feel anything" Christel said when she saw that the lights went out and everything returned to its previous tranquility.
"It's okay, you're fine Christel and you don't have any curse or anything bad inside your body and you're very healthy"
'Is she the hero that divination said would come in the camp's darkest moments? But, divination says Heroes, plural, and they will arrive at the time of the waves of attack on Camp Rogue...'