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Training Hall
Thor was doing his daily attempts at improving his control of space to regain access to his aptly named, "Inventory."
The soulium blade disappeared. He could no longer sense it naturally, but when he thought of ripping or tearing it through space, it reappeared in hand, minus the spatial damage.
It was just to help with visualisation after all.
He didn't jump around like he did with the auralite, though the subtle smile was enough. 'She is right. It is basically an inventory.'
He put the blade back into it. Standing up he looked through his inventory as it was connected to him anyway so he had all his old stuff within it.
"Clothes, robes, more clothes… Why the fuck do I have so many different clothes in here??" He pulled out the one he wore most.
A regal golden blue robe. "Ugh, it even has the bloody insignia on the back, why did I allow that." He contemplated destroying it, removing an embarrassing moment of his past.
'No… I'll keep it, for now. I won't ever be taking it out again.' He threw it and it disappeared into his inventory.
"What else?" After ignoring the useless items he came across one that made him stop.
"My PDA huh… MY PDA! It fucking has Aurora on it." He quickly took it out as it appeared in hand.
It had a titanium, rubber handle attached to a glass holoscreen.
Tapping the screen a boot screen appeared. [Ginko Technologies]
At the logo a warm smile crept onto Thor's face. 'Protagonist technologies.'
His sister really did like doing meta stuff like that.
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Earth - 6 years ago
"Golden Child? The protagonist? Really?" He looked up from the PDA as his sister spun in her office chair, giggling cheerfully.
She stopped and rested her chin on her hands. "What's the matter Thor, it's not like I'm wrong. You have the makings of a protagonist."
She jumped out of her chair and skipped to Thor, stopping in front of him.
"You are the lone human that can stand against the eldritch. You're the only human to surpass all the demi-gods in almost all aspects at once." She took the PDA from his hand, opening a few documents on it.
"Heh. You even have a God as a teacher. If you're not a protagonist, who is? Hehehe."
She threw the PDA onto the desk before jumping on him, pulling him into a hug.
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He blinked, coming out of his memories as the screen powered on followed by a yelling AI.
[FATHER! Where were you, we couldn't–] AURORA's voice came from the tablet.
"Oh? You were still connected while in my inventory?" He ignored her shout for now.
[Of course I am, you're on Eart…h…] AURORA stopped when they realised they couldn't connect to anything. Not even the deep space satellites.
[Father? Where are you?] They tried to connect to something but everything was off somehow. They could see the connections, but the frequency was way off.
"About that… Let me explain."
***
Thor was sitting on his chair in his lab. He needed privacy at least as it is a somewhat sensitive topic.
[So what you're saying is this is a different Earth? Universe? Multiverse?] It all made sense now. His abrupt disappearance from his home, how they couldn't find him anywhere in the Solar system.
Not even Catlin's deep space trackers he wore so they could always find him were offline.
"Yep, that's about it, even now I've barely been able to access my "Inventory" again."
[You're fully mortal again?!] This was a massive problem, if he couldn't even teleport how is he to even communicate across universes? What–
"Stop that thought. No I'm not weaker, in fact I'd say I'm much stronger than before. Even Scatach wouldn't be able to do much to me without using her divinity." He chuckled as AURORA went silent, a feat even if their processing power is limited severely.
[How? Did you ascend? Do you have divinity?]
"How about I plug you into the system? That way you can both acclimate to the frequency and you can also know what you need to know?" He pulled out the ol reliable USB13 and plugged it into the port on the PDA.
'Getting rid of ports is the worst thing one could do.'
He then plugged it into the server, uploading her to the FireMoth server. From others point of view. He basically just gave an AI full access and control over FireMoth HQ and other connected facilities.
While Thor was waiting for AURORA to fully upload to the server Elysia walked in, carrying two cups of coffee.
"Thor~ whatcha doing~" She put the two cups down then straddled him wrapping her arms around his neck.
He raised an eyebrow at her words. 'I know what she's been watching.'
He held her waist, making her giggle.
"Eden's going to hide and peek at us tonight. Fufu~"
Thor wryly smiled at her, "How long do you want to do this to her? Do you want to keep teasing her like this or include her?" She stopped her playful acting, putting a finger to her chin as she thought about it.
After a minute she smiled back at him, "How about tonight? We could accidentally position in front of the wardrobe, or conveniently need to get something from there, something like that, she'll be horny, caught in the act and won't run away embarrassed like she has been each time you come up."
AURORA had finished uploading and accessing the camera's database and anything else they saw the position Thor and Elysia was in and almost overloaded the system.
[[Catlin won't like this.]]
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Once Elysia had left to get things ready for tonight and her little plan for Eden. Thor glanced up at AURORA's female pouting avatar.
"What? Can't I find a woman to love? Haha." Picking up the coffee he realised it had gone cold by now, he rewound time on it, then took a sip and nodded to himself.
[D-did you just–] She stuttered.
"Use reversal on a cup of coffee? Yes, yes I did." To him it was worth the lovely smell of freshly made coffee. How dare someone reheat it, heresy.
[[He did! Wait… Is this what a women does to him??]] She recalled his stiff way of acting most of the time. Only dropping it around his family, but even then,
[[He rewinds time for coffee. Of course he does. And now he's softer. Unbelievable.]]
"Don't mind that AURORA, how do you feel? I assume it's the whole 'The same but different'?"
[Yes… This Honkai threat seems to be on par if not worse than the Eldritch. Also this Soulium stuff your… friends, Mei and Su made is incredible… And you had this stuff injected into you.] She watched the recording from Klein of the procedure and to say she was amazed would only be the start.
"Soulium. Some great stuff, Mei and Su really outdid themselves with that." He looked down at the swirling coffee, he really couldn't escape coffee, no matter the universe.
[Father… How much stronger are you?] AURORA hesitated to ask.
"Hmm," He thought about it for a bit. "Think of it like this—before, I could destroy a planet or two. Now? A galaxy, maybe.
Though Honkai energy and whatever else they have here buffs reality like crazy."
'I mean, I dropped a black hole on the Herrscher, and the planet just… shrugged it off.'
[That is… A terrifying leap. It's that powerful?] She couldn't process how a single type of energy can be so powerful – Just wait until she knows of the Imaginary tree.
"But cool right? I mean I can warp reality minorly and pretty easily now. Even #@£~%$!*, I can use that three times before I run out of energy though that can lower depending on who I use it against–"
He took a sip of his coffee only to realise something,
"–I finished it?" It was empty, the cup was fucking empty.
"…" He held up his hand and cast reverse.
The coffee cup refilled itself, a grin appeared on his face as he realised the power he now held.
"Ahh~ Better, Why is coffee so good in this world?" AURORA watched him drift off mid-rant, but,
[[Maybe it's for the best that we stop there.]]
She wouldn't want to info dump too much on the readers.
[[Huh? Readers?]]
"AURORA. You can guess what I want you to do right?" His question snapped her from her crisis.
[Umu, yes Father, I'll stay hidden and accustom myself.]
With their little reunion done with Thor went off to Mobius's lab, she had been threatening to dissect him if he's late.
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A/N: Sakura and Rin will show up in a few chaps for any curious about that.
I was going to do it when Cocoon relocated but held off. Gotta do it soon.
Ciao