Exploring the palace, navigating based on my old mories, we found so maids who seed to have been rushing through the hallway. They had been frozen in place, their bodies preserved thanks to the stasis.
"There is no telling what side-effects they would undergo if the barrier is broken. Dare I say they might already be dead ntally?" Elysia, contemplating the worst-case scenario, jumped to a worrying assumption. We don't know the nuances of the barrier yet, so for all we know, they could be beyond saving.
"That may be true, but they are going to be released regardless. I would rather give my parents a proper burial than keep them like this." Overthinking the consequences won't get us anywhere, so I made my resolve to see things through.
Besides, the pope had so kind of plan for his ritual and destroying this barrier will put another wrench in his plan.
"Can't argue that."
We didn't know enough and for now, we just needed to figure out how to destroy this barrier. I was also looking for my parents to see if they were okay and if this blue gem could free them. Elysia and I were able to interact with the environnt freely, as if nothing was permanently stuck in place.
Even just slightly touching the maid's arm allowed to move it, but it remained in the new position. Moving on from the maids, we made it to the throne room, which is where I assud my parents would have been just before the barrier took effect.
"Alright here goes nothing." I didn't have high hopes, but I was praying to find my parents behind these doors once I opened up the chamber. Lining my body up, I pushed myself into the door, but it didn't budge. I kept trying, but to no results. anwhile, I could hear Elysia barely containing a laugh.
"P–p-pff. N-need a hand?" She took a deep breath before coming up to my side to help, but we both faced the sa problem.
"See? I'm not that weak!" Either sothing was blocking our way, or not everything could be moved inside the stasis field.
"Do we want to use brute force?" Elysia took out her spear, but I quickly grabbed her wrists before she sliced it open.
"We have no idea whether there's anyone on the other side!"
"Oop, true." With my intervention, Elysia put away her spear, preventing any accidental murder.
"There should be so windows leading inside, so we just need to go around. The place is already a ss so we can break a window if we have to." I recalled there being different entrances as well as windows that we could easily enter through.
"Lead the way, you know this place better than I do."
Walking to one of the side rooms nearby, we found a window leading to the outside. Breaking it with Kotetsu, I ran into a really weird interaction. The glass had shattered, but still remained in place as only the pieces I directly touched fell down.
At first I thought I didn't shatter it, but upon hitting it again, a few more pieces were sent flying.
'Wait, ti is frozen! Of course it won't fall to pieces.' Rembering that we are in a stasis field, it was no wonder physics was misbehaving. With a bit of wind, I pushed all the pieces at once, opening the way out and hopefully towards the throne.
Elysia spread her wings and picked up before flying outside.
"You know I can fly on my own?" I had complete control over my elents so I could easily use wind to propel up.
"You're just embarrassed to be carried by ." Elysia smiled, knowing that she was right.
Not wanting to play into Elysia's teasing, I remained silent as we approached a massive window. Elysia let levitate on my own once we were up against the window as we took a peek inside. It was a little hard to tell at first because of the mono-chromatic vision we had, but their unique clothes instantly told who was in the room.
"Mum! Dad!" I saw my mother and father frozen in the middle of the room, ordering a bunch of fox knights. Just as I expected, there were people right behind the door blocking the way. Perhaps we simply couldn't push objects indirectly because of the stasis, making the door immovable.
Breaking in, I quickly floated down to my parents, feeling a sea of emotions welling up inside . Unlike before when the from a different world didn't even know her, the complete of now felt extrely emotional.
"You really do look like your mother. Though your father looks nothing like you." Elysia ca down with and took a good look at my parents. My mother was in a kimono like mine, but instead of it being a short-like dress, it flowed down onto the floor. It also had a much more royal feel, while mine was more suited for combat flexibility.
My father had short black hair and glasses that looked straight from my old world. He wore the clothes of an admiral and looked a lot nicer compared to how I rembered him. Thinking back, I barely ever got to see him and I had this perception that he was rather intimidating, though now he looks kind of like a nerd.
"I believe magic is involved to ensure that the royal traits are passed down, so who knows, I could have had black hair like you." I was already diving into a lot of mories that I wasn't quite familiar with just yet, but it all ca flooding back to , whether I wanted it to or not.
"Wait really?" Elysia was oddly excited by this fact. Then again, she probably wanted to rid herself of her family genes. This revelation ant that future kids wouldn't bear the stigma that she carries.
"I think so? But we can talk more later. First, we need to test if we can unfreeze my parents." Grabbing the blue gem out of my inventory, I took a mont to admire it.
"A-ahem, Of course." Elysia looked at the gem as well and realised sothing.
"By the way, that gem is the sa colour as your eyes. Reckon that ans anything special?" I didn't have a mirror, but I didn't doubt Elysia's judgent. She probably would know the exact hex code of the colour if she knew what that was.
"Possibly, I can't inspect anything because of the barrier so we'll just have to wait to find out what this gem is." Now that Elysia ntioned it, I was really curious about what this gem is.
After enough stalling, I grabbed my mother's hand while pouring mana into the gem causing another bright light to flash.
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