Otherworld Adventure - Chapter 386

As Katya and Quinn were preparing things on their end. Kaiser had put forth the meeting with Augustus and the other leaders ahead of things.

This caused Augustus to be somewhat surprised since it was uncharacteristic of his rival to drop everything else to attend to something off schedule. Kaiser had been informed beforehand but the exact date for when they would arrive wasn’t stated.

So to see his rival drop everything else and attend to them right when he got word of their arrival indicated that Kaiser saw the importance in the meeting and it was painfully obvious that he had an objective to accomplish by meeting with the two leaders of the United Federation and the New World Republic.

Kaiser met up with the three leaders in the Silvaria City’s City Hall. In the meeting, every representative from the kingdom’s council was present. They all sat facing the three foreign nation leaders and eyed them with interest.

Before, there was no way for these people to even think about sitting on the same table as them, but now, thanks to being transported into a new world and following under the Silvaria Family’s banner, they had been able to establish their own nation and become rather important figures themselves.

The only person they recognized was Mr. Victor since he was the leader from one of Earth’s two superpowers. Only the other one was unrecognizable. They did receive word that the president of that country had unfortunately died due to a monster attack and this person, Mr. Tristan, took up the position afterward.

It was a shame since the previous president was a rather good-natured fellow and he was known for his open-mindedness and kindness towards his people and towards other nations. They weren’t sure about the current president of the new country that was built off from the foundations of the other superpower from Earth, but the rumors regarding him did say he was more of a businessman than he was a president.

Everyone of importance was already within the room except for Kaiser. He arrived only a few minutes later with Matheus and Fatima trailing along behind him. They were seated in a boardroom styled arrangement. Once Kaiser took his seat in the middle of the table, directly facing Augustus and the two leaders with Matheus sitting right next to him and Fatima standing at the ready behind him, Kaiser immediately addressed his guests.

“Well, gentlemen, thank you for coming to visit our humble nation. I have a small inkling as to why you both have requested for this meeting with us, but I would rather hear it from your mouths. Who would like to go first?”

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As Kaiser was busy with his meeting, Cecil was also busy with a meeting of his own. There was something that had to be mentioned, but during the times when Cecil wasn’t working on the Teleportation Gate and was just going about ‘relaxing’, he was actually doing some other things for his kingdom.

He had established a large library that contained many lost knowledge of Alterna’s people that he had acquired from the World Tree’s Trials. This was opened to the public for most of the general knowledge while the more advanced and more important ones were stored in the kingdom’s archives which could only be accessed by those in a position of power within their kingdom.

This archive and library were exactly what the Anglaria Kingdom’s Spirit Sage wanted to have a look at. The old man had been holing himself up inside the archive after he was finished with the library.

It was only today that he was finally finished sifting through all of the books and records that Cecil had transcribed for his kingdom that he finally wanted to go meet Cecil and talk about the ominous prophecy that the World Tree had shown him.

Cecil had brought along his 2 wives with him while Anna and all his friends from Anglaria were also present.

“Well, now that you’re all here, what do you want to talk abou—”

“Boy, don’t play stupid. You know exactly what we want to talk about,” the Old Sage quickly cut him off and said.

“My, my, Elder Tohrun, no need to be so grumpy~” Anna spoke up in amus.e.m.e.nt.

“Stop defending him. You know that he’s done wrong. He should have told us about the prophecy right when he got it!”

“But he did~?”

“Huh?”

“He told me~”

“Just you?!” The Elder spoke up in exasperation. “Listen here, anything coming from the World Tree is of utmost importance. I get that Cecil may have hidden his race from us, but that trivial problem matters little to the World Tree. Urrugdrasil gave him that vision, that prophecy, because it had a reason. Not sharing it with the rest of the world, especially since it’s a prophecy of such ominous futures, will only hasten the fruition of that prophecy.”

“I do apologize, Elder,” Cecil spoke up. “However, I had my reasons. You see, in the vision, it only showed me a glimpse of what may have been the future or the past. I didn’t want to let anyone know yet because I didn’t want to cause mass hysteria and I couldn’t confirm whether or not that vision was a prophecy or it was just part of the trial that I had to overcome.”

“…It wouldn’t have hurt to—”

“And, like I said, Tohrun, little Cel did share it with me,” Anna quipped up.

“…Fine. Anyway, let’s hear the full account of the prophecy from Cecil. I still have to go back and inform the king of the prophecy. We’re still not sure whether the sightings of the Fallen near the Neftersea Oceanic Empire was true or not, but let me tell you this, the Fallen, they are real and they are a threat to this world.”

“…”

“…”

Everyone remained silent when they heard the Sage confirm the validity of these monsters. Cecil sighed when he heard this and said, “I figured as much but how do you know this? I looked through most of the important records and books inside the World Tree’s library and even recorded them but I wasn’t able to find anything on the Fallen…”

The Sage nodded and replied, “This was because all of the Guardian Deities of Alterna back then had ordered for any records of the Fallen to be erased. As for why we know, it’s because all Transcendent-level figures are required to gather together for the decadal Month of Void Sealing.”

“Void Sealing? I’ve heard about that before,” Cecil said.

“It’s not a secret. Most people know about it but no one knows just what exactly it is that we, the Transcendents, do during that month.”

“I have a hunch.”

“Well, your hunch is correct if it was to seal away the Fallen.”

“…”

Cecil and everyone else didn’t seem too surprised since it was something that they deduced after finding about the world threat known as the Fallen. If the Fallen were real, which they were after being confirmed by Elder Tohrun, then the only reason why the Transcendents of the world would gather together to some ‘Void Sealing’ event every 10 years would be because of them.

“Void Sealing…that means you seal them in some kind of…void, or area?” Ainz asked.

“Yes, the Guardian Deities of the past had used up all of their power to seal this worldly threat within the lands of the Non Continent.”

Elder Tohrun then started explaining to them about the last, or the deleted, part of history that present generations didn’t know.

The Fallen was an alien race that was said to go around to planets and stars to devour them of their light. That ‘light’ was the light of life. The stars and planets that they devoured would thoroughly lose all signs of life and the result would be very catastrophic if any inhabitants were living on the planets.

The Fallen also loved to devour planets that had living organisms on them for some reason. Not much was known about the Fallen except for the fact that they had twisted appearances, were dangerous, and they seemed to be quite fond of anything that had any signs of life within them.

The way they had come to Alterna was through the large mountain that had struck and shattered the previous supercontinent of Alterna. The theory of a large meteor striking into the world and breaking up the lands into the continents that were present today was a reality and not just a theory.

During the initial strike, many races were eradicated but the Guardian Deities of many of the races had been able to survive and in a last-ditch effort to save their world, they were able to seal up the Fallen inside of the now present Non Continent.

During that time, many of the Deities had been killed and destroyed. Only 6 Deities remained now in the present world. However, there was a shocking fact of these so-called Deities. The sage explained about them and it turns out that they were the so-called Ancient race of Alterna.

The most shocking factor was that they weren’t even natives of Alterna. They were instead foreign races from different planets that had banded together to fight against the Fallen. They were remnant races of worlds that were once destroyed by the Fallen.

Under the banner of their savior, these races banded together to fight against the Fallen. The leader of this coalition of races had the ability to summon races from different planets to ones they designated and this was how this particular race had saved the other races from complete extermination.

When Cecil heard this, he narrowed his eyes. He began pondering thoughtfully over this new information that he had received. The mystery to his world’s mass teleportation seemed to lie with these Ancients.

“Elder Tohrun, this mass teleportation ability…which race was it that held this ability?”

“We’re not sure, but why the sudden interest?”

“Nothing…I’m just curious since they were able to become the leader of the coalition just because of this ability…”

��I see. Well, let me continue my explanation.”

“Yes.”

Elder Tohrun continued with his explanation. As for why he decided to share this with Cecil and his friends was not only because of the World Tree’s prophecy, but it was also because he saw potential in them. The youths before him, he did not doubt that a few of them would become Transcendents. It went without saying that Lucia would become one because of her mother, but he was entirely convinced that Cecil would become one.

In fact, he had been observing Cecil lately in secret by using one of his spells and when he saw the power that Cecil had displayed when subduing the Ancient Hydragon, Tohrun saw glimpses of him stepping into the Transcendent Level.

He was so sure of it and that was why he decided to share this information with them ahead of time since, in the future, they’d be acquiring this information anyway.

Tohrun continued his explanation and stated that Alterna had been the gathering spot for these foreign races and it served as a haven for them. However, once the Fallen had found out about this planet, it instead served as the last battlefield for the two forces.

It led to the coalition losing, but it also led to the Fallen being sealed. The Transcendents maintained this seal but lately, some of the Transcendents have been deviating in their opinions on why they should keep things up. Why not just destroy the Fallen instead of keeping such a latent threat sealed away in their own backyards?

A select few wanted to lift the seal so they could directly exterminate the Fallen while the majority wanted to play it safe and gather up power and more forces before they did anything so reckless.