Curse The Mainframe - Chapter 407

Because the damn link between the two realms was concealed in The Great Expanse that was just outside their clan compound. Not only that, the place it was…

It left him speechless.

No wonder his mother had left so quickly without him being able to track her down at all.

He’d checked using the Cookie Sect, but no one had caught a glimpse of her ever since she ‘left’ the clan compounds.

Originally, he thought that she just had superior stealth skills that would have allowed her to escape from being tracked down, but who knew…

Alec silently looked in the sky, as if looking for patience.

Beside him, Ye Sha quietly laughed at his friend’s face. It wasn’t every day that he got to see his friend so speechless.

The link between this realm and the other realm was well-concealed, and it was in actual fact, inside the place that he’d called his ‘hideout’ in the earlier years. The place that he came when he wanted some space to himself, where he could do whatever he wanted without anyone keeping an eye on him.

It was also, ironically, the place where all the corrupt elders in his clan had not been able to find no matter what they did.

That just made him feel even more like thumping his head on a wall.

It had been there the entire time, but he had never realized. He actually never realized it…

Now that he had the rune sight, he could clearly see that the place was littered with runes even without having gone down. Alec just grew more and more speechless. Why hadn’t he come back here last time he came back to the clan compound…?

Alec jumped through the hole in the ground, and Ye Sha did the same.

The place was indeed a lot more inhabitable – or as inhabitable as it could get. His uncle came by occasionally to clean the dust, but that was it.

The place still looked the same as the last time that he’d seen it. He hadn’t been back here for many years already, no longer needing it, but who would have thought that he would one day return in this manner?

Even Ye Sha was laughing at him for having missed such a big thing.

Alec didn’t even want to say anything now.

Who knew that he would have coincidentally stumbled across this when he was young – eh? He forgot that he was a Main Character too. Suddenly, Alec felt his head ache something fierce at the thought.

Right…

He was a Main Character too…

He walked in with great familiarity, going to the deepest part of the underground cavern. The place still had electricity despite being out in the middle of the Great Expanse. It was mostly powered using solar energy.

The deeper in he walked, Alec realized that the runes here all exuded a faint power that he couldn’t be more familiar with.

It was his mother’s magic.

It hummed quietly, and Alec was lost in the beauty of the runes that appeared before his eyes.

There was a delicate sense to it, elegant yet powerful and brutal at the same time. It was a strange contradiction.

The potency of the runes was on a whole different level than he was used to.

It seemed like the realm that his mother had reached was even further than the one that he walked on the journey of arrays.

All of a sudden, he felt quite eager to meet her again.

He even ruthlessly threw aside whatever unresolved feelings he had for the father that he’d never met. He just had to ask her some questions about these runes –

Ye Sha saw Alec slowly getting more and more excited, and he smacked his back. “I say, can you maintain your excitement for a bit? No wonder your familiars are all like that. Like master, like familiar!”

Ye Sha pointed at the three familiars who were horsing around, playing ‘catch’ with Loeri as the ‘ball’.

Loeri was even making soft squeaking sounds in excitement, gleefully shouting, “Wheee!”

Alec looked like he was about to retort, but then Ye Sha just casually shoved his friend through the damn ‘portal’, not really interested in the System’s retort to himself.

Alec instantly went through it, and his three familiars stood there, shocked. They looked at Ye Sha with wide, betrayed eyes.

How could he do that to their master?!

Ye Sha crumbled under their large eyes, and he coughed twice. “That, uh. That… Agh, whatever. Just go through!”

The three of them kept shooting him large, mournful eyes as they shuffled step by step towards the portal, looking at him like he was a big villain.

They acted like he was pushing them to their deaths.

Ye Sha’s lips twitched. Suddenly, he questioned his decision about having a physical body. He should have just obediently stayed inside Alec’s mindscape.

After the three of them went through, he gave a long-suffering expression, then he gestured to Two and Three.

“You go in as well. Make sure they’re not being disorderly.”

The two went in obediently, unlike Alec’s bunch of naughty familiars.

Ye Sha was the last to step through.

The world behind the portal was still another cave, and by the time Ye Sha stepped through, Alec was already lost in the world of runes, staring and mouthing to himself.

Ye Sha’s lips twitched. He could almost hear the commentary that was going through his friend’s mind. But since they were already through, then that was that.

Alec’s mother should feel the disturbance, right?

She should come and get him, right?

Then, Alec would naturally snap out of it.

Ye Sha continued to look over the cave.

Even though he didn’t have Alec’s rune sight, he could still feel the magic in the air. Perhaps it was because he was more sensitive to the elements after taking over as the Motherboard.

The place was like a mirror image of the cave that they were in previously, so there wasn’t much for him to see.

Two and Three had started to play around with Alec’s familiars.

From time to time, those familiars would still shoot him wounded looks. Ye Sha returned their looks with a dry one.

Like master like familiar indeed…

Very quickly, the time passed, and in an hour, something finally changed.

A woman appeared, and she had the typical Neil Clan characteristics.

Crystalline blue eyes that shone under the light, and soft brown hair that seemed so common. Her features were both stunningly gorgeous as well as having a noble air to her. She exuded a quiet sense of power that Alec had apparently learned from her.

Ye Sha took a look at her, and he instantly knew that this was Alec’s mother, Annalise.

Just as he was about to open his mouth to greet her, Annalise shook her head, a smile in her eyes. She placed her index finger on her lips in a shushing fashion, looking at Alec with twinkling eyes.

She’d all but flown here when she felt her son trigger the arrays that she’d left behind. Her heart had beat so fast that she immediately ditched everything, leaving Aeden dumbfounded as his wife ditched him.

Alec was deep in thought and his inspiration was overflowing as he looked at Annalise’s work. He hadn’t felt so inspired for a long time, and he was deep within the world of runes right now.

He couldn’t spare any of his attention for something else. Though he knew that someone had come, he couldn’t extract himself.

As long as he wasn’t attacked or disturbed, he wouldn’t break out of this state…