This was now my third day in this new world. I was currently watching Suuru's work while thinking about the past two days. My first day was mostly spent brooding about the mystery of the situation. On the second one, I flooded my new roommate with so many questions that even her angelic smile faltered a little at the end. However, thanks to that, I now had a very basic understanding of this world.
Next to , Suuru was manipulating sel to accomplish her job. Her task was simple and fit for her as a tal mage. She had a pile of scrap tal which she mixed and "sculpted" to create useful items. Those items would then be sold in the city. She told
she usually visited it once every few weeks. In exchange for the money from her sales, she would buy food and water, as well as another pile of scrap tal to work on.
Right in front of my eyes, a small amount of what I believed was copper was being transford into a plate similar to the one we used to eat in the last two days. From my point of view, her skills were frustrating to see, but it couldn't be helped since she was only a rank 0 tal mage. Sothing as simple as molding tal took her tens of minutes, if not hours, even though this was considered the basics of basics of tal mages. She would have seen a significant increase in work speed if only she managed to beco rank 1 but it seed she was still far from crossing the threshold.
I stopped watching her and she imdiately turned in my direction, a worried expression on her face.
"I'll get going now."
"Are you sure you'll be fine? I can co with you, you know."
This was already the third ti she asked
this.
"Don't worry, I'll manage. I'm a lot better now, thanks to you. I can take care of myself without any problem. And you have your work to do."
"…You'll co back here when you're done, right?"
This was probably what she worried most about. She appreciated my presence so much that she was willing to share her already ager food and water resources with . This said it all about how lonely she usually felt.
"Of course. I'll co back as soon as I'm done."
"Okay."
She sighed but tried her best to give
an encouraging smile, though her worry was still evident on her face.
"Have a nice trip."
"Thanks. See you later."
I quickly left to avoid her finding a reason to change her mind. My objective was the city that could be seen from our location, in the far distance. According to Suuru, it would take
about one hour and a half to reach it on foot. Speaking of which, I discovered that ti asure wasn't that different from my world, which was a big help. It wasn't exactly the sa but was close enough that I could ignore the decimal divergences. This allowed
to realize that the age of twenty-three Suuru claid to be was almost similar to the sa age back in my world.
While moving forward, I observed the do that was surrounding us. This world was an interesting place. 837 years ago, humans found themselves close to extinction. In a desperate move, they decided to displace every remaining human inside their cities and initiated the "Protection" plan. The result was right in front of my eyes. They erected large dos of sel around all their cities, making them strong enough to be practically indestructible. Then, with the help of powerful spatial mages, they constructed a network of teleportation gates to link all of them. With this single history-changing move, they safeguarded the future of humanity, allowing it to prosper again.
Everything wasn't perfect, though. This new environnt ca with new limits and problems that didn't exist previously. Suuru's situation was partially due to these problems, even so long after the event, or maybe precisely because it was so long after.
Today, 837 years later, people seed to have lost the knowledge of what pushed humans so close to extinction. Or at least, Suuru didn't know about it. There were many theories, like how the outside was filled with poisonous gases or monsters, or how simply stepping out would kill humans. No matter the truth, it was always associated with death, and Suuru looked scared when talking about it.
There were many reasons why I wanted to visit this do's city. Even if I didn't have anything to do there today, it still wouldn't be a loss for . As a rank 4 spatial mage, I mastered four spatial spells. One of them was called "dinsional matter relocation
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