Chapter 363: Stargazers
"Old Sa, you know about Stargazers?" Kana asked. She was a bit confused. Didn"t stargazers come from a different dimension?
"It"s hard not to know. Kana, bring the little girl and your people. I will show you something." Old Sa said as he turned around and created a door of light in front of him. "This way."
Kana took Yana by the hand and walked through the gate of light. Fel and his crew also quickly followed. What Kana saw on the other side of the gate was an old village. It resembled that of an ancient j.a.panese or Chinese village from the warring states era. Even the architecture was similar.
Kana followed Old Sa as they walked to a small straw hut. That is what it looked like on the outside, but the inside was its own little dimension. The inside was very s.p.a.cious and gave off a peaceful, relaxed feeling. She was brought into a side room that had an old desk with a bunch of papers on top of it. Next to the desk were two globes. That looked very identical. "See these two globes?" Old Sa asked as he walked over to them. "One is purple while the other is the colors of this world. Well, the colorful one is our world, while the purple world is a dimension that runs parallel to this world.
"In the time when G.o.ds still roamed the land, way before the system came to be, these two dimensions used to be one. But at some point, somehow, the world split into two different dimensions. This means that some of the races that used to live on this world were pulled into this split due to them being more connected with that dimension.
"Think of it like this. You take a fish and place it into a cup of water. The fish is happily swimming around. Now let"s say you now take an identical gla.s.s and pour the water into the second gla.s.s but try to keep the fish in the original gla.s.s. Now this fish can no longer swim or breathe. In order to keep living, the fish would need to go to the other gla.s.s where the water is.
"Now let"s say we took the same two gla.s.ses, one with a rock and one with water, a fish, and rock. Instead of forcing the fish to stay, we poured the water and everything that relied on that water into the other gla.s.s. Now we would have the same thing as we did before but reversed.
"This is what happened to quite a few races when this world split and formed a dimension that ran parallel to it. The races that relied on a certain substance in the air split off into this new dimension. All because the new dimension had everything the old world had except the one substance that was poured into it.
"I know this is all confusing. It took me many years to really grasp a full understanding of this, but this is the case that had happened. Even now, on this continent, there are remnants of some of these old races. One being the stargazers. From what I know, they needed a substance called stardust to use their power properly, or they will shorten their life span. But after the world split, the stargazers should have all merged into the new dimension, so how?" Old Sa was generally confused about how and why Yana was in this world.
"Yana was kidnapped by a man who had a device that could enter the other dimension. He visited it once, and a stargazer there told him some of his future. But he got greedy and wanted a stargazer for himself. He went back to the dimension and kidnapped Yana, bringing her back here and destroying the device." Kana explained.
"I see... This poor girl. You must never let her use her ability. If she does, she is shortening her life span by almost five years..." Old Sa let out a sigh and turned to the young lady. "How many times have you used your ability since you came here?"
"Since I was old enough to remember ten times, including the time on the boat." Yana said softly.
Kana frowned and pulled the girl into a hug. "From now on, I forbid you from using your ability, okay?"
"Mmm..." Yana hugged Kana tightly. She felt warm and safe in Kana"s arms.
"Sadly, this la.s.s does not have a system, or she may be able to live a longer life. I can only think that if you can ascend and bring this la.s.s with you to the realm of G.o.ds by somehow keeping the laws of the realm from attacking her. Then you can find a flower called the looming flower. It is very rare and has to be eaten within seconds of harvesting it. If she can eat one of those, then she can live another thousand years." Old Sa let out a sigh. This little girl had such a short life all because of some greedy b.a.s.t.a.r.d.
Kana thought for a moment and looked down at the little girl, and sighed. "I will see what I can do. If I can ascend quickly enough."
"Kana, if you do that… You, yourself, could end up being rejected by the realm of G.o.ds!" Old Sa did not understand why Kana would go to such lengths for a girl she barely knew.
"Does a mother need a reason to help her child?" Kana asked. Her question making not only Old Sa surprised, but even Yana.
"You will be my mama?" Yana asked, her eyes tearing up.
"Mmm…. How could I leave such a cute little girl by herself? From now on, no more Mama Kana, just Mama from now on okay?" Kana said with a smile. Her eyes full of warmth as she looked at the little girl. After spending three months with her, Kana knew she had come to love this little girl as her own daughter. She would not abandon her now.
"Mama!"