“I wouldn’t do that if I were you, youngster. Luminara planted those flowers a long time ago, and she will castrate you if you stomp on them.” He then chuckled wryly. “Trust me, you don’t want to test her.”
Huh?
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The voice was coming from right beside me but I didn’t sense him at all beforehand… I abruptly snapped my head only to see an old man sitting on the edge of the land with his feet dangling freely in the clouds. He had a fishing rod in his hands which was cast into the vast sky below us.
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No, I don’t have time for this! “Old man, help me please! I got teleported here for some reason, but my allies are about to perish! I must to go back!”
He was entirely calm despite my shouting at him. He continued gazing into the distance while slowly reeling his fishing line in. After a few seconds he spoke up; “teleported for some reason? The only way you could come here is if you initiated your Primordial Rank-Up Mission, young one, or an Elder God decided to meddle.”
“I did initiate it, but I have no time for this. When is the mission starting? I have to get back! Where am I, anyways?!”
“You are at ꓑʓ⅍ⱩⱯⱷ҈ ҉฿√⊐.”
I didn’t understand what he was saying at all. For the first time since my transmigration, my primordial universal language understanding had failed me.
The old man then continued; “ꓑʓ⅍ⱩⱯⱷ҈ ҉฿√⊐ is a place that exists but at the same time it doesn’t. A land of alternate reality, or a separate dimension if you will. Time doesn’t flow in the outside world as long as you’re here. I know it seems contradictory since we are talking and thus time must be flowing, but the might of the divine are capable of achieving feats on this level. Their powers are above logic, and some can even bend the rules of the universe if they pour a great deal of their divinity into achieving what they want.”
“So that means I can stay here and train while the world I came from remains frozen?” I asked, much more eager to listen to his words now than I was before.
“That’s simplifying it a lot but, yes, you could say that. However, you should remain cautious. If you stay here for too long, you will be stuck here forever just like the rest of us, if not get destroyed outright.”
That’s not ominous at all. “May I ask who you are exactly?”
“You may.”
… I awaited his answer but nothing came of his lips. Realization dawned on me that this old geezer was one of
those
annoying people. “Who are you?”
This time he answered. Yep, as expected. He was waiting for me to literally ask the question. “My name is Malakar, one of the oldest primordials. Oh, I’m also the father of humanity.”
Oh, okay then.
I mean, how am I supposed to react to this news? I never expected to meet such an ancient entity. However, this man would then be a good source of information if he is friendly, and thus far he just looks like a nice grandpa out on his fishing trip. I teleported in front of his face, arguably interrupting his alone time but he wasn’t hostile to me even after that.
“Lord Malakar-”
“Malakar is fine, young one. You’re a primordial like me and what’s more, I can also sense that you are a human one as well.”
“Could you explain what you mean by that?”
“Oh? You don’t even know this? Come, sit next to me. It’ll take a little while.” He said while patting the ground on which he sat. I glanced at the spot next to him wryly, because due to my severe trust issues I was already imagining him pushing me down into the abyss below the land, but my logic told me that if he wanted to harm me he could do it at any time, so I listened.
I watched as he calmly drew the line of his rod in. Thus far, no catch occurred. I don’t really know what he was expecting to catch in the sky with a fishing rod, but I had more important questions to ask.
“When were you born, lad?” He asked.
That’s a difficult question, and I’m not sure if I should even answer that one. In the end, I went with my gut and told him. “Supposedly I’m less than a year old.”
“Oh? Supposedly?”
“Yeah, based on the artifact that measured my age.”
“Heh, those junk are not made to measure primordials, laddy. Malfunctions happen all the time, don’t trust them. However, they were correct in this case, I can sense that you are a newborn. Your existence is something that will serve as a great shock to the others. No primordial was birthed for a very long time since our primary purpose is to be the first inhabitants of a newly created world and to populate it, after which we are to guide our descendants as their leaders. Our world is obviously not a newly formed one, and it’s already populated, thus there was no need for you to be born.”
That’s a bit unsettling. “How are we born? If we’re the first to exist, I imagine natural mortal biology doesn’t exactly work.”
Malakar nodded. “Indeed, we are birthed by divine will. However, the Goddess no longer has the power to create more of our kind, so she can’t be behind this strange occurrence. I don’t exactly know what happened for you to materialize, but it certainly wasn’t the work of the one who resides over Thalorind. That’s the name of the world you were in before coming here, in case you haven’t heard it yet. Sadly we primordials have been defeated and sealed by ⱪϬꙇⳁⴾҼϪⴰҘⴳ, thus none of us can tell you more. I imagine the curse of the pact that we were forced to sign has already made you not understand some of the things I revealed.”
“Yeah…” I replied wryly.
He sighed dejectedly for a short while before speaking again; “such is life, laddy. Don’t ever lose if you want to remain free.”