《A Journey Through the Worlds.》068: Danger Zones.
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He was still upset and angry about them taking him and his family on such a dangerous journey against their wills, but it wasn't as before, at least right then he understood that they were together and that whatever would happen to them would also happen to Dan and his friends, they all shared the same fate.
"So what was wrong yesterday, you came late for breakfast?" Thomas asked, as he remembered that, he was quite interested in that as Dan seemed a serious person who wouldn't make people wait for him like that without a reason.
"Oh you mean than, I just had a little problem nothing much, I'm alright now." Dan said.
He was better than before actually, he was able to control the dragon power inside him faster, which meant that he could change his weight way easier, making him quite happy with his progress, he also found that just as it happened before, he could activate the dragon power inside him to have another effect which was releasing that pressure.
That pressure could be felt by anyone next to him, normal people and blood power users alike, it would make them feel as if they were being pressured under a huge weight and giving them the idea to respect and listen to him.
Dan then talked a little more with Thomas before getting up and leaving, he wanted to go to the hold to where the dragon parts were kept, but it was already lunch time, so he left to the dining room where the others were.
As he set he said to Randy who made it there before him.
"I heard that you made a new friend."
"What are you my mom?" Randy asked while looking at Dan weirdly.
Dan noticed that his words did sound like a mom talking to her child so he just coughed and said:
"Whatever, what do you think about Allan? he seems like a good guy."
"He is a good guy." Randy nodded.
He really did find Allan's company funny, they were the same type of person after all.
"And yeah Dan I remembered, if we keep on going with the same path as the one that we are taking now, what is the country that we will find ourselves in?" Leonard asked.
He wandered about the first country that they would enter when they finally make it to the new Area, it was just curiosity.
"If we keep going on the same path as now, I think that the first country that we would find ourselves in is going to be either Japan, China, or Russia, I think that those are going to be the countries that we would find ourselves in." Dan answered after thinking about it for a while.
Those were the countries that he concluded they had a high chance of ending in, it all depended on the path that they took, as they were moving on a straight line, and with the information that Randy provided about how the next Area was situation in accordance to the one that they were in, those three countries were the ones that they had the highest chance of ending up in.
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Especially Japan, as it was the first one that they would meet, and their chance of entering any of its islands was high, after that would come China then finally Russia.
Hearing his words Katherine and Leonard looked at each other, before Katherine finally smiled and said:
"So can anyone here speak any of those three languages, Japanese, Russian and Chinese, if not we might be in great troubles."
"Wait what are those languages?" Nero asked before anyone got the chance to say anything.
It was then that Dan and the others remembered that not all of them were from the same place and that they didn't possibly have the same name for the same things.
"Before that can I as you what is the name of the language that you are using right now?" Dan asked, he get interested about what they called English in Area 02.
"This one that we are using now." Nero murmured as he looked at Robin and Anie, then he added:
"It is called new Latin, why isn't it called that in your world?"
Leonard Dan and Katherine looked at each other after they heard the name, Dan smiled as he had expected it, he expected that even though they were using the same language it didn't have the same name.
"Yes just as you said it is not called new Latin in our world, it is called English." Dan said before turning to Randy and saying:
"What about you, what is it called?"
"It's called English in our world, the same as yours." Randy said.
"English..." Robin murmured to himself.
"Than what about those languages and counties that you just mentioned?" Anie asked.
"About those, let's see..." saying that Dan first draw an approximate map of our world before pointing at the three counties that he mentioned.
"This here is China, and all this here is Russia while Japan is this place here with all the islands surrounding it" he just gave the approximate borders of the three counties but Nero and Robin were still able to know the countries that he meant, Anie wasn't that familiar with the geographical map of the world so she just watched from the side.
Nero and Robin didn't show any reaction when Dan mentioned the first two counties but as he mentioned the last one, Japan and what surrounded it, their faces changed, both of them paled as Nero said with a trembling voice:
"Do y... You mean that there's a chance of us entering this place here?"
It was apparent that his and Robin's reactions weren't normal so Dan asked:
"What's wrong with it?"
"So you don't have any memories of the dark corner?" Robin asked.
He found it surprising how Dan didn't remember the dark corner as it was a place which was feared even when he was alive; it was one of the three danger zones in the world after all.
"No I really can't, as I told you before I have memories of the whole 21 worlds but except my world, and the dragon world that become clear after I found myself in it, all The other are kind of blurry, and even though the memories of your world aren't as blurry as the memories of the other worlds because they were the memories that I got while my ability was activated they are still a little bit blurry." Dan explained.
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"So it is like that... Anyway our world have three danger zones, they are prohibited places which are closed for most people as they would simply die if they enter them.
"The first and most dangerous of them all is the devil's triangle, it is a place in the ocean where whoever enters it has a chance of disappearing without leaving any trace, what's worst is that you don't know if you would disappear if you enter it or if nothing would happen to you at all, and it's not like the strong would survive while the weak would die as there are even stories about Gods entering it and disappearing just like that, while normal ability users survived, and also no one knows why it is like that, there's no explanation at all."
This time it was the turn of Dan and the others to look at each other, Robin's explanation seemed familiar.
"Can you tell me where the devil's triangle is, here in the map?" Dan asked after he saw that he and the other two were thinking of the same thing.
"It is approximately somewhere around here..." Nero pointed at somewhere around the northern western part of what Dan and the other two from his Area knew as the Atlantic Ocean.
"Isn't that the location of the Bermuda triangle?" Katherine asked.
"You know that place?" Nero asked.
"Yes, in our world it is known as a mysterious place where a lot of ships and airplanes disappeared, some people say that nothing is wrong with it while others say that it is a mysterious paranormal place." Leonard explained instead of Katherine.
"Now that you mention it, a place like that also exist in my world, and just like in yours a lot of people in my world say that there's nothing wrong with it and that it is simply a normal piece of the ocean." Randy said as everyone there were surprised.
"Wow so there is something wrong with that area of the ocean after all." Katherine said.
"Hey Dan do you have any memories of this triangle in your mind, does any other Area have it?" Anie asked Dan who seemed lost in thought.
"As I said I can't remember everything clearly, but I do have a memory about this triangle in at least two more worlds." Dan said.
"This is surprising." Randy said.
"Yeah it is, but it doesn't have anything to do with us, we are way far from it and we won't pass through it in our journey, so there's no need for us to worry about that, Robin just finish your words." Dan said.
"Ok, the second danger zone is the foggy forest, it is somewhere around here, it is known for its strong beasts, and that is the reason why entering it is forbidden, what's abnormal about it is the number of strong monster in it, they are unbelievably strong and many not like in the other areas where finding a strong one can be a challenge, it can be said that of the three danger zones the one with the most deaths is this one, as many people overestimate themselves and end up died there." Robin said, while pointing at a place around the center of Australia.
As he mentioned that, place Nero's expression changed as his face paled a little, noticing that Dan asked him:
"What's wrong do you know something else about it?"
"I spent a month there with a group of candidates when we were trying to join the Royal Guard, they were horrible days, that place is hell, the monsters there are unbelievably strong and cunning I don't even know how I survived that period of time." Nero said while shaking his head, he really did suffer in those days.
"Anyway, leaving the dark childhood of Nero aside, the last danger zone is called the dark corner it is the same place that you pointed, it is known as that because it is covered by dark clouds all year a
round with big strong storms and the sea beast around there are stronger than anything you would think about, no ships pass by that area, and even people with flying beast rarely pass by that place as the wind and the storms around that area would make it almost impossible for normal beasts." Robin made fun of Nero first before starting to explain about the dark corner.
Nero glared at him a little but he just humphed and ignored it in the end.
"So the reason why you were that shocked when I said that we might pass by that place is because of those sea monsters and the weather right?" Dan asked.
"Exactly, the place there is way too hard to pass, and with this old ship I think that we have no chance of doing it." Robin nodded.
"I don't think that you need to worry about that, after all not all the worlds have the same circumstances, the chance of the same bad weather and beast being there is small so we will just keep on going on our way, just don't worry about it.
"Now returning to what we were talking about, do you know what language the people in those two places speak?" Dan asked, he didn't ask about Japan as it was a danger zone and there was no native language for it.
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