Free Web NovelChapter 11: Chapter 11. Rescue Team
Somewhere in a mountainous region in the pocket world.
A group of warriors led by a buffed up man with a cerulean sword strapped across his back glanced around the place. This was the rescue team from Derulo City University.
"Senior Norton, what is the next step?" a fair-skinned lady with black hair asked.
Before Norton could reply, a chocolate-skinned woman dressed in a suit said, "We need to identify the mechanism to address the gate. I have a feeling this rank 1 gate is not an ordinary rank 1 gate."
"Dahlia, are you saying this pocket world is a special pocket world, and the gate is a special gate?" Norton said, his voice trembling.
Everyone was shocked.
The gates of normal pocket worlds were referred to as normal gates. The gates of special pocket worlds were referred to as special gates. Usually, normal pocket worlds required limiting the population growth of the pocket world to certain levels for the gates to close, which basically meant thinning down the number of creatures in the pocket world.
Special pocket worlds, however, requires more than that.
There could be a non-sentient or non-living factor causing massive energy accumulation in the pocket world. (A/N. Massive energy accumulation in a pocket world is one of the factors required for gates to form. Check Chapter 6)
Massive energy accumulation is not always as a result of increased population growth which increases the worldly energy in the pocket world. Massive energy accumulation could be as a result of a special plant emitting extremely high levels of worldly energy, a stream or pond naturally containing high levels of worldly energy, the carcass of an ancient creature containing extremely high levels of worldly energy, a mysterious artifact in the secret realm emitting high levels of worldly energy, among others factors. Pocket worlds with one or more of these factors are referred to as special pocket worlds, and gates that open into them are referred to as special gates.
So, in order to close the special gate, one would have to identify any or more of these factors in the pocket world and find a way to deal with the factor leading to the emission of high amounts of worldly energy.
For instance, if a special pond emitting high amounts of worldly energy in a pocket world is discovered to be the reason why a gate has formed, a way to close/address the gate would be to call several warriors to absorb the worldly energy in the pond. Another alternative would be to dry up the pond.
Everyone was shocked at the moment because the only way to identify the factor behind the gate in the pocket world was to tour the pocket world and look for it. This meant that they had to face a lot of danger in the pocket world.
"How sure are you that this is a special pocket world?" Norton asked Dahlia.
Dahlia was not just a very powerful intermediate rank 1 warrior among the second-year students in Derulo City University. She was a pocket world specialist. These were people who studied the environments of pocket worlds to a terrifying degree. Their guesses about whether or not a pocket world was a special pocket world was accurate most of the time. But the guesses of pocket world specialists were not always right.
This was why Norton was asking Dahlia how sure she was that this was a special rank 1 pocket world.
"About 90 percent sure."
Everyone sucked in a breath of cold air.
"Looks like this won’t be as easy as we thought," someone said.
"Yeah. If only it was possible to head back to the gate to make a report. However, that’s not possible"
"Yeah.When a gate is closing, it naturally starts shrinking into the vicinity of where the factor needed to close to the gate was dealt with. That’s the only way we can leave. If not because of that, how would one leave a pocket world when the gate that leads into is shutting down or closing?"
Norton nodded to the words of everyone.
"We need to be alert," he said. "The moment we identify the factor needed to close the special gate, and deal with it, everyone should hop into the shrinking gate the moment it appears in our vicinity. As we search for the factor needed to close the special gate, let’s be on the lookout for any survivors. But that should not be our main priority. Our main priority is to shut this fucking gate down and go home."
Everyone nodded.
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Aiden was currently standing on top of a mountain in the mountains.
His eyes narrowed. His range of vision had increased. His power was still at the level of a beginner rank 1 warrior, but he was more powerful than he previously was. This naturally affected his vision.
"Who are those people?" Aiden thought.
A group of 15 people were being led by a buffed-up dude with a cerulean sword strapped across his back. A woman in a suit was by his side. Everyone else seemed to follow their lead.
"Those two must be the leaders of the group," Aiden thought. "I don’t know whether or not they are from the train or they are the rescue team."
Aiden felt the aura radiating from them. One of the two leaders, the lady, radiated the aura of an intermediate rank 1 warrior, and the other, the buffed-up dude, radiated the aura of an advanced rank 1 warrior.
"These people must be the rescue team then," Aiden thought. "Should I approach them or stay hidden?"
Aiden thought. He weighed his options.
He decided to approach them after much thought. These fellows probably had experience on closing gates. According to what he learnt about pocket worlds and their gates, if the mechanism for closing a gate was dealt with, the gate would naturally start shrinking into the vicinity of where the factor required to close the gate was dealt with.
If he did not associate himself with them, and they managed to close the gate, he wouldn’t be with them at where the gate would start to shrink and he would be stuck in the pocket world for who knows how long? The rescue team would just enter the shrinking gate and return to Endra. They will cook up a story that there were no survivors in the pocket world. No one would be able to do anything to them. It would be overlooked because they managed to close the gate.
"I need to associate myself with them and take advantage of that to leave this pocket world," Aiden thought.
Aiden left the mountain, falling down. His figure descended from the mountain rapidly. His eyes became crimson. His brown hair billowed. His blood appeared before him and transformed into two crimson wings. The two crimson wings attached themself to his back.
Aiden flapped the crimson wings. It bolstered his speed towards where the rescue team was. They were currently in a valley.
The group saw someone with crimson wings on their back, and crimson eyes approaching. Someone was about to attack, but the leader, Norton, gestured for them to stop.
Aiden landed before them. His crimson wings turned into blobs of blood and disappeared into him. His eyes returned to their normal brown color.
"You are a survivor?" Norton asked.
"Yeah," Aiden replied.
"Alright, that’s good. We are the rescue team," Norton said. "Care to join us? We could use the help of another warrior to close the gate. This is a special pocket world. So, we don’t have time to search for survivors. We will prioritize closing the gate and leaving this place."
"My thoughts were spot on. I would have died here if I had stayed on that mountain," Aiden thought.
"Alright," Aiden nodded.
"Great, welcome to the team."
