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Chapter 92: Similarity Between Worlds

Phantasia: The Princess Knight

Blake tossed a few balls of light that spread out throughout the first floor. With the sudden illumination of the light, everyone was able to get a better look at what they were seeing. What they saw really surprised the group. It was like the whole building was locked away in time. Unlike the other building, they entered where there was not much to it. This place was filled with relics of the past.

Alicia looked around and saw that her first assumption was somewhat correct. This place seemed to have been a medical facility. There were many medical beds lined up against the walls. A receiving counter that had something that looked like the first personal computers on Earth. Alicia did not hesitate to walk around the counter and press a few keys. She wondered since this place was locked in time if they still worked. Things like electricity did not exist in this world and everything ran on Magicules.

The bulky computer made a humming sound as the screen lit up. On the screen were many folders and a few other icons. Seeing how the names of these programs were in the same language as the letters from earlier, Alicia called out to Blake as she sat down. "Blake come read this for me please."

"Alicia this is?" Blake asked since he had never seen such an object before.

"Let's just say the Subterranean race had a few things that could revolutionize the world we live in." Alicia gave a brief but vague answer.

Blake did not say anymore and read the screen. "The two yellow images say, daily inpatient and daily outpatient. Next to the yellow images, the white image has the name InterMail under it."

Alicia clicked the white image and a program came up on the screen. Alicia could tell right away that it was like an email system. There were many messages here but the one that caught her eye was one that was highlighted in red. "Blake, what does this say?"

"Let me see… Alert, urgent message read immediately." Blake answered. After which Alicia clicked on it which brought up a short message. Blake did not need Alicia to ask him to read it again as he continued: 'The darkness is not something we can fight! All those infected by the darkness have gone mad. We have tried every treatment possible with no results. As of now, the Head has said to close all doors and seal them shut. No one in or out! We can only hope that those already infected by the darkness will kill each other off.' "It ends there."

"It seems this was a place for doctors to take in sick people. They must have been researching a way to stop the darkness. That still leaves a question as to what the darkness is. Was it something the fallen god created to enslave the Subterranean race or was this something that came from underground altogether. The letter the person from earlier wrote stated that the darkness had hit other cities. So there should be more cities just as big as this one." Alicia speculated.

"Is there anything else here that might be of use." Blake asked.

"Let me check…" Alicia went to click on another mail but a peng sound and then the sound of something sizzling was heard and not even a second after that the screen in front of her went blank. "Crap! It broke!" Alicia looked around and saw that this was the only computer in the room. "Seems we can only see if there is another one that works in the building somewhere"

Blake nodded his head and then asked: "Alicia, can I ask how you knew how to work this box?"

Alicia had expected this question so she calmly replied: "It's like a Magivision only... see these keys?" Alicia pointed at the small keyboard looking object in front of her. Blake nodded his head. "These keys allow you to interact with the images on the screen. By doing so I was able to click the icons which run… how to explain this.." Alicia paused for a moment to think before continuing: "A magic system that holds information."

Blake nodded his head not fully understanding but did not pry any further. He was just happy Alicia explained things this far. But Alicia was really amazed. The things she saw so far in this building reminded her a lot of Earth. It amazed her how two planets or wherever this place was could be so different in some aspects yet so similar in others at the same time. Take this hospital for instance. It had some similar things you would see in an Earth hospital but there were also things that she had never seen before. Since they were no longer able to get anything from the broken computer Alicia waved her hand and put the computer into her space while giving Claire instructions to store it somewhere.

Blake was confused by Alicia's actions. Seeing this Alicia explained: "In case we do not find another one this thing may hold a lot of information. If we bring it back and have someone look at it, they might be able to fix it. If we do find another one we can also take that one as well. To be honest any more that we find we should take. They seemed to store a lot of information on these things."

"What you say is right. Any documents or items that store information we can find we should take." Blake nodded in agreement.

At this time, footsteps could be heard and Starla came walking into the room with a pale face. "Alicia come look..."

Alicia got up and followed Starla to a room that was a little way down a hallway. Rose and Loeri were already standing there looking in. When Alicia walked over and looked in as well. What she saw she could only frown.

Chapter 93: Preparations For The Near Future

Phantasia: The Princess Knight

In the room was a pile of mummified bodies. "Was this door open when you got here?" Alicia asked.

"No, this room was completely sealed off. Loeri had to open the door by melting the locks." Rose answered.

"Yeah this door is weird it seems to seal the outside off completely. I do not understand why they would want to seal the door so tightly." Loeri had a complex look on her face when facing the scene in front of her.

Alicia walked over to Loeri and patted the top of her head. "Well, one thing's for sure, whatever it was that they were afraid of was not able to enter the room. Otherwise, their bodies would not have been preserved in this state. Unfortunately, they died in the same manner as the other person from the other building." Alicia looked at the bodies that were slumped down on the ground a bit of sadness flashed in her eyes.

"Alicia I am getting a bit nervous… What if this darkness thing is still present in the air and this entire time we have been breathing it in." Starla asked. A worried look had formed on her face. Just by looking into her eyes, you could see that she was scared. Alicia suddenly had cold sweat form on her back after hearing these words.

"No need to worry. I already checked the air when we first descended the stairs and there is nothing strange about it. From what we have discovered so far this darkness was detectable to some extent." Blake tried to calm everyone's worries.

There were four big sighs of relief after hearing Blake's words. Just thinking about one of them going mad and turning into something that would eat the flesh of others was sickening. Alicia looked at Blake with a big smile. She knew if he was not here, something as checking the air for something that could cause them to be sick would never have crossed her mind. She was very glad Blake was with her.

"Since we know we are safe, let's continue to look around. Loeri, Rose, you two continue looking around here on the first floor. I will head up to the second floor. If you find any documents or..." Alicia formed an image of the computer she had been using before in the air using Magicules. "This object here, take it. It holds information inside of it." Alicia said.

"Don't worry Alicia with I, the Great Loeri here, I will make sure to find everything on this first floor that is useful." Loeri proudly stated.

Alicia smiled and said jokingly: "Then I will rely on the Great Loeri then!"

Alicia headed out of the room with Blake following after her. They found a stairwell that led up to the next floor and slowly ascended the steps. Since she was now finally alone with Blake the questions that Alicia had held back from asking before she could finally ask. "Blake, what do you think? Do you think that this darkness was created by the fallen god or was it something else?"

"To be honest in my opinion this city alone could house the amount of Devils that appeared during the war. But from what we know there were other cities besides this one. So I think this Darkness was something else entirely and the fallen god somehow took advantage of the situation to help me build an army. This city is so vast that it could easily hold more than ten million. Now let's say this city was the smallest of the Subterranean cities or even just a mid size city. If the fallen god had actually caused this darkness his army would have been ten times as big and the war would have ended very differently. So my thoughts are that the darkness was something else that kept the fallen god from being able to build up a massive army. In a way, this darkness saved everyone who lives on the surface." Blake explained his thoughts seriously.

"I was thinking the same from what I had heard of the war. Especially now that the Devil we met seemed to be using demon spawns to build his army." Alicia couldn't help but think back to all those heat signatures she had on her detection magic. There were a few hundred of them at least.

"That was one of the reasons that brought me to my conclusion as well. We will need to be careful from now on. We have no way of telling what the devils are up to now. But I do have a feeling that a war might break out again in the near future." Blake brows furrowed just thinking about it.

"Then we will need to prepare on our side as well. When we get back we can discuss this all with Master Berlin and see what he thinks. Maybe he can talk with the King about it." Alicia knew that if there was no deterrence against the demon spawns and their invisibility it would be very hard to fight against in a war against the Devils. With her magic that detected heat signatures, it would be a little bit better but this magic could probably be expanded and modified to be even better. With Berlin's help, they could probably come up with the countermeasures needed to face such an enemy.

Blake could only smile inwardly at Alicia's words. He wondered what the king's face would look like when she asked him to discuss a matter with himself. "That is a very good idea. We do not know how far the devils have pushed in now that they have these demon spawns."

"Can demon spawns be used to gather intel?" Alicia asked.

"I am afraid they can… But they can not get into the castle with how heavily guarded it is and the barriers but they can get into places where intel is easy to get like bars and inns. "