Hamar stood in the 'subway' after following the map he saw within his vision from the microchip. He had already broken through the limitations put in place by the world, and so therefore didn't have that microchip anymore but he had an excellent memory.
He first looked around the subway and observed it. It was a brightly lit underground room with off-white tiles covering the floor.
Observing the litter and grime on the floor, Hamar moved his gaze upwards, to the vapid advertisements splattering the walls. He saw one, "Virtual experience: live a new life!"
Hamar walked up to the glowing advertisement and put his hand in it. He stared into the words as he talked to himself, "Giving people a false reality a Nd feeding them lies for what? For simple benefits, you would give them poison? Trapping them in a world where they have legs that work but don't think they have the ability to move them?"
He thought about it from his own personal perspective. He had a similar experience, he was born in Sealed Solar Tomb and his now-master Mo Huai had created a false narrative which trapped him.
Hamar tapped the screen and watched it flicker, "Hou? Are you awake?"
"I feel weak, but I am here. I was trying to talk earlier but at some point I...I must've fallen asleep."
Hamar walked away from the advertisement and looked around the subway, "Do you have any idea how this place is supposed to help me get anywhere. I want to meet with the Elder of this place. He controls this place and...I have some questions for him, and I need help in cultivating my aura."
Hou mentally shrugged, "This place is wholly unfamiliar to me too, I don't know"
"So this is different to the 'outer world' that you had experienced before?" Hamar asked curiously.
Hou thought back, "I had told you I have seen the 'outer world' but I've never told you what it was like. Let me tell you..."
This split soul of Hou was a fragment of his Nascent-Soul and had to merge with Hamar's own soul in order to save him. Because of this, their consciousness' had been interconnected in a unique manner.
Hamar saw his vision swirl as the sterile subway in front of him transformed into a new scene. Hamar watched and listened as Hou started to narrate.
"So there I had awoken," Hamar saw his vision flicker and he saw a deep red carpet rolling under his feet. He looked up to see rows of guards in metal suits of armour. "I had become the king of a kingdom in the outer world."
"And over time...I acclimated I to this role. At the time it felt like days but through careful re collection it had been many years. Many years where's I had become that wise old king."
Hamar saw the scene in his eyes shifted to a meeting room and the focus being on a certain figure. An elderly sage holding a wooden staff with a green crystal hovering above.
"There I met my master in all things magic. In those previous years I had learnt magic but I didn't get GRASP it."
Hamar's vision looked up, but when he tried to observe the sage, his vision went blurry. He couldn't quite tell the details of the man.
"My master...Archmage Araxis. There he had brought me back to myself, the me you knew. In that time, he manipulated my memories and brought me back to sanity. And in that sanity he told me that I was seeing only a vestige of his world, he a mere memory."
"But that memory..." Hamar's vision turned to black, "That memory taught me everything I, the main body, knew. As you saw, that world was nothing like this one...I do not know it, I-"
Ding!
Hou returned Hamar's vision, as he stopped sending feeds of data into Hamar's consciousness, "You should check what that is."
Hamar returned to reality as he began processing what Hou said in the back of his mind. He looked sound and saw what had made that noise.
On the far end of the subway was a change, a carriage had arrived. A long metal cage with glass windows all suspended above a track. It floated into the air and begun it's announcements, "TRAIN TO ARENA 106, 5 MINUTES UNTIL-"
The voice cut off and static sounded out. The train shook and Hamar watched as it visibly changed colour and design, "TRAIN TO ELDER NINE CLOUDS FUTURE STILLNESS, DEPARTING NOW."
Before Hamar could even think he started to jog towards the 'train', "Wait!" He shouted out. He used aura and jumped directly into the train carriage.
As soon as he entered the threshold, the doors slammed shut and he was flung backwards. The train shot off with high speed and Hamar's vision blacked out.
***
"It must be you...should I call you God?" Elder Stillness bowed while sitting upon his spinning chair.
Troy laughed and threw off his jacket, transforming into a more laid back appearance. He looked like an ordinary young man, completely opposing his look as Araxis and his look as Troy.
"Call me what you wish..."
"So God...How is it in the 'outer world'? Like this?" Elder threw his arms to his sides, gesturing to this futuristic world of magi-technology.
Araxis pulled up a chair and sat down. Spinning a few revolutions. He leant his cheek on a fist and sighed, "I wish. The outer world isn't this excitong. Well...not this one."
"There are multiple 'outer worlds'? I did suspect it but really?"
Araxis chose his next words carefully, "It...it is true..."
"Maybe, maybe you could do something for me? I'll do whatever to bring me to a world like this one!"
Araxis rolled his eyes, "That's the thing I was dreading. I would love to be in someplace like this myself, in fact, that's why I left this domain here. But, I only know of two ways to go to these other worlds."
"But you created this whole world, did you not? How can you not go to other worlds as easy as I can breath?"
Araxis swirled in his chair a few times before she stopped and explained, "Do not underestimate the barrier between worlds. There are two people, or organizations, which can travel worlds. My Master and his enemy."
Elder Nine Clouds Future Stillness stood up and walked around a few moments, "Yi Sect?"
Araxis flicked his fingers, "You're smart, I like you. You're halfway there, Yi Sect is just a dog. Bring controlled by the real masterminds behind, I dare not say their name. They do not like my Master...their sole purpose is to stop his messing with different worlds."
"Man, your master must be super strong." Elder Stillness fell to the floor and held his hand upwards, "I really was just a frog in a well. I thought I had climbed up and peered outside, I thought I saw the boundless seas outside the world. You, I mean, you created this whole world. Who could have thought that you were nothing in the grand scheme of things...no offense. Does this mean Yi Sect is going to win?"
Araxis slapped his knees, "I wouldn't say I'm nothing but you truly think too much of me. Don't worry too much though, Yi Sect is nothing that I can't stop. I've already set some pieces into play."
"Pieces? Like a game of chess?" Elder Stillness sat up and looked to Araxis, "Oh-' wait a moment...is this your 'piece'?
Elder Stillness sent out a projection into the room, of a young man holding a sword wearing a black robe. He had deep eyes and long brown hair with strands of white.
Araxis pointed, "That's one of them, Hamar. Bring him over here actually. He's the person I want you to pass something onto."
"Can't you do it yourself?"
"Bring too involved myself will only alert the force behind Yi Sect, I'm afraid."
"Okay, I'll just change this train and send him looping around for a while until I'm done here." Elder Stillness flicked his fingers and manipulated a train to get Hamar to enter.