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Meanwhile, somewhere around the unknown regions of the rifts. It was cold, quiet, dark, inside a big facility. The dark figure again, with the black mask that covers his entire face with a formal business outfit with a jester hat sitting inside a large room.
He stands up to view the cities of the rift in the large window. The machine door opens automatically behind him and another dark figure walks up to him.
"Pheonix, are you sure DAWN_921 is away from the rifts...?"
"My plans cannot fail I already calculated the prophecy that will happen to her specifically."
"That prophecy... The ones made by the Tyrants of Astronomy's aliens...?"
"Yes, my actions will affect everything... The real world, rifts, and different realities and timelines, its all according to my plan."
"Wouldn't this make the rifts connect the real world that the inhabitants of the rifts would invade it?"
"That's my plan... Do not question me. No mortal beings could ever interfere with this matter."
Then, the mysterious dark figure now walks up to the table of the room. He grabs a spherical glass ball and rubs it gently. He shakes it after each rub trying to get something out of it.
"I'll do my own matters first..."
Suddenly, he shakes the glass ball more roughly. The room quakes intensely as the dark figure kept on shaking the glass ball. Suddenly, the space and time tears out and another rift was being made to teleport out of the room.
The rifts makes a cackling sound and then becomes stable and made fractals of space and time. The figure made a portal to another rift.
"I'll be taking my leave... For now."
He jumps into the rift and falls into endless realties before going towards the next rift. The rift closes and everything returns back to normal.
Earlier...
HIT_794 welcomed Aoife to METEOR's base and group. He tells Aoife there are each set of different platoons in the group. HIT_794 explains that Aoife is part of their platoon called the RIOT of Rifts. Aoife tries to ask more questions regarding how the rifts can affect the real world.
HIT_794 replies that there a glitch in the system that allows the otherworlds to interact with the real world. He also explains that most of the secret technology organizations are feud with each other. He says that they are fighting to conquer the real world.
Aoife proceeds the information to her mind. She continuously asked herself if she should pursue this life or to go back living depressed plain and simple life. She couldn't return to her normal life... She has been waiting for this moment to be free and explore other new things.
The reason that was holding her back to this mess was her own mental health. She still thinks the potential danger she's in right now. It doesn't matter now, what she needs now to focus on is the origins and history of the rifts.
"What is your true name HIT_794...?"
"My real name...? It's Kyrie...? Why do you may ask"
"I was wondering if you are a human or one of the inhabitants around the rifts... Could I ask you about the rifts...?"
"What do you wanna know about the rifts?"
"The origins of it... Why does it exist...?"
The gentleman smiles as he could not explain all of the history throughout the rifts but thought of a summary that he can give to Aoife.
"The rifts are made by celestial reality warpers that shaped the dimensions of everything. They created these to show different realities that can coexist with each other. They wanted to know if there was TRUE peace amongst the worlds that they created."
"I didn't last until the Eradicators abused their powers. They destroyed countless realities inside the rifts and almost all of the factions that includes the technology side and astronomy side to fear them. No one dared to oppose them."
"The celestial reality warpers died due to the Eradicators rebellion against them. They control the infinite amount of omniverses inside the rifts. They ruled beyond the concept of time and space and up to now... They're still here controlling the rifts..."
"From the actions of the Eradicators, half of them were corrupted by their evil desires. They caused the great hunger inside the rifts about 700 years ago which they still cannot solve until now. The only good part about them is they made infrastructures too highly advanced they even destroyed every single concept of mathematics and science."
"They created even something greater than the theories you know in Earth like the Theory of Everything, Set Theory, and multiple theologies. They created the core that tied all timelines together which includes us in it."
"The true villain behind that caused the collision between rifts and the real world was... Extile..."
Aoife listened the storytelling of the man like a 5th grader. She followed every single detail that was given to her. She became more curious about the rifts after Kyrie told her the story and origins of the rifts.
But, Kyrie didn't include the important details yet to Aoife. He hid the dark past and future from her to not make the rifts a bad reputation to her.
"Why was I tasked to defend LANCELOT_OBJ#12...?"
"You mean that ancient object that came from early astronomers? Well, we didn't give you that email I guess and most of us don't even see our higher ups. They probably gave you that mission because u are one of the 40 Spectres that Asher said I guess."
"What is even a Spectre...?"
"Actually, we're both Spectres... We can do any special astral magic without even being an astronomer. You can create any ability since you're a Spectre yourself but, you can gain more abilities if you have evolved but not even any single person in history as a Spectre didn't evolve yet."
"Did you make your own ability yet...?"
"No... I don't even know how to use these astral magic..."
"Well... That's gonna be problem then since many organizations target Spectres since they are known to be threat to all realities and timelines. If you have figured it out by now on how to use astral magic you can even merge it with the advanced technology to create more destruction."
"Is there more information about astral magic...?"
The gentleman smirks at Aoife and knew that she would need this information in order to combat herself from the anomalies that will happen to her sometime in the future.
"Well... There aren't really much I can tell because there is too many types of Astral magic to name but I'm sure you'll seek out all of them in the future, but I can tell you the 3 major parts about it."
"First, there are 3 main varieties or paths in Astral Magic with each of them having 5 powers. You can refer powers as levels the lower the level the stronger the user is. The 3 main paths of Astral magic are Curses, Blessings, and Faith."
"Curses are used to curse the user itself to gain something more extraordinary or they can curse the enemy when chanted. Blessings are ONLY given by people who are power 2 and above, they give people magic that blesses them for eternity."
"Blessings are the main source of power that astronomers mostly use. Once, given a blessing it will give the user to cast and create any type of magic in their will without punishments at all."
"Lastly, this is also another rare type of magic that astronomers also use is faith. Faith allows them to believe anything and everything to come true whether it's shifting logic, ideas, reality, theories, or concepts it doesn't matter. The only setback from this they have to have godforsaken faith as if they really treat it as a religion."
"I'm sure you'll come across more astral magic and technology, but this is just the tip of the iceberg."
Aoife understood everything that Kyrie has said. Her goal was now to discover the rifts and fix the problem between the Eradicators and wars. She finally has realized what she was going through was a obstacle given by God.
After, many struggles even before getting dragged in the secrets of the world she finally has found her purpose. Her purpose now leads to her free will or rather her "heart" has truly chosen for her. She has appreciated the struggle that has given to her, in order to discover new things.
Was it fate that drove her into this or was it a butterfly effect from a single letter. She sighs in relief and sat on the couch in the lounge. She began thinking on what to do next. Aoife decided she should embark the journey on discovering rifts and the dark secrets about the creation of rifts.