Few days have passed since Yuria met Raynor. They have been living in the cave the whole time. She does feel a bit awkward though, living in a cave together with a guy..

Their daily routine is almost the same, since there is a lot of food lying around inside the cave, Yuria spends her time processing them so that it can be more edible and can keep longer. At first, she was shocked when she saw Raynor eating raw food like it was a normal thing to do. Then she decided to prepare a proper meal for him, because she still has to rely on him to bring her to the next kingdom.

Every day, she spends around 2 hours teaching him about the general knowledge of magic energy, and a bit of healing magic. Although she is not sure whether he can use magic or not, but she still explains everything in details.

The magic energy in this world is divided into 2 categories. One is elemental magic, the other one is non- elemental magic. As you can guess, elemental magic is ‘earth, fire, water, wind, thunder, light and darkness.’ Non-elemental magic has more variety, healing, body-strengthening etc. There are also new types being discovered often.

Aside from learning magic from Yuria, Raynor other than eating and doing his daily business, spends all of his time making electronics stuffs and scavenging through the metal debris.

Sleeping is not on the list. Yuria was also bothered by it. Before she sleeps, she saw him working on his devices. After she wakes up, he is still working on his devices. Yuria asked him before regarding that, but he said,

[I’m also not sure. I’ve not slept since I’ve arrived here. I don’t even feel a bit of tiredness.]

After that, Yuria did not further question him, since he has no explanation himself.

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When Yuria’s curiosity takes over, she went to where Raynor is working with his devices and observe him. What she saw was, he is making something like a bulletproof vest, with circuit patterns in the internal part of it. And Raynor is working with it with a strange glove that emits patterns of holograms with weird symbols.

Although they came from the same world, but what Raynor’s doing seems alien to her. She can only imagine just how much earth has changed since she left.

[You know, you kinda remind me of I*on Man..] Yuria said..

[I*on Man? What’s that?]

Raynor replied with a ‘?’ above his head.. He didn’t hear it properly because of copyright issues..

[It’s a fictional character during my period of time. He no longer exists within your time period?]

[I’m not sure are there any records of fictional stories being passed down to our generation, because many information have been destroyed during WW3. The only information that is kept safely are historical records and knowledge.]

[My childhood... ] Yuria became dejected

[Don’t worry, maybe some of the information has not been destroyed and are hidden somewhere. Or it has become tales that pass down through generations..]

Raynor made up an excuse when he saw Yuria became depressed..

[Well.. good things will come to an end someday, no use crying over it.. sniff]

Similar events happen each day and they both have an even more understanding of each other.

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During the night of the sixth day after they meet each other, Raynor is basically finished with his stuff. He stuffs all of his programs, systems and around 2 PB of memories (2000TB) into his storage in the shape of a backpack. He also make it comes with a set of military outfit costume. It has an upgraded weapon and defense system installed on it.

Right now, they are prepared to leave the next day. It is already late at night, and Yuria is asleep. Raynor on the other hand has not even slept once. And he has no intention to sleep. He is now meditating. What he learns from the magic lessons taught by Yuria is, one needs to feel and experience the mana in the surroundings first in order to use magic.

What he is doing now is he is trying to feel the mana by meditating. The weather outside is raining heavily, which makes the flow of mana in the atmosphere denser. One can easily feel the flow of mana during rain and during late night where there is less distraction. He uses this chance in order to feel and also to learn more about magic energy.

The result from his meditation is that he does feel something different in the atmosphere compare to earth. When he started to focus more on that abnormality, he felt it became more obvious and lively. Like a gentle wind that surrounds his body, stimulating every fiber of his being. He has never experienced something like that before. It’s like the surroundings have lives and wills of its own. And when he embraces that feeling, he feels that it has started to change something inside of him..

[Master! 2 humanoid life forms detected 500m away. Heading in this direction.]

While he is still meditating, the device that he placed beside him gave off an alert.

[hmm...]

No response from Raynor...

[Master.. ?]

[mm...]

BZZAP!

[OUCH!]

The device released a small amount of voltage towards Raynor, and causes him to jump up.

[Master! 2 humanoid life forms detected 455m away. Heading in this direction.]

[What?]

Quickly Raynor went towards where Yuria is and wake her up..

[mm.. what is it.. morning already..?]

Yuria drowsily turns towards Raynor and ask while still half asleep. Raynor informs Yuria about the situation which causes her to jump up immediately.

[What did you say?]

Shocked that someone is coming directly towards their location, Yuria quickly grabs something that looks like a pistol and standby near the entrance. That pistol weapon is something that she asked Raynor to make for her. It functions basically like a ranged stun gun for self defence.

While they are waiting near the entrance, they can already hear the footsteps of 2 people outside the cave.

While the sound of the footsteps became louder, Raynor and Yuria hold their equipment tightly while staring at the entrance of the cave.

And when the 2 silhouette of a person can be seen outside of the cave,

[Robert! Sebastian!]

Yuria calls out the names of her loyal guards that have seperated from her few days ago.

After that, Yuria dropped her weapon and ran towards the entrance for a reunion..

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[Detecting abnormal brain waves...

Brain wave acts as a parasite that controls a dead organism.]