Lusihar descended to the spot where she was kidnapped, and the bird flew back to where it came from after waking up from the hypnotic trance. She waited until it was distant, launched a focused attack that destroyed it, and sat on the top of the boulder. To pass the time, she took out a book from nowhere, full of strange equations and symbols in their language, and began modifying them with her thoughts and added the content of the paper. Then she extended her hand, trying to do something, but did not succeed.
< Damn, they took it. >
She spotted the quartet coming out of the forest and went to meet them.
"Why did you let him kidnap you?"
"I wanted to kill those three hideous ones...
I see one of them has regained his strength."
"Do you want to fight?"
"I am peaceful. I only fight out of necessity."
After a long walk, Farid saw Lusihar looking ahead and thinking. Her eyes seemed to be reading something invisible. Farid was surprised and thought she was crazy and tried to approach her, but she responded:
"Move away, Sir. Let me try something."
Lusihar finally launched a crimson fire attack, but she did not feel satisfied because the long formula of the attack consumed a lot of Realiton in constructing its semantic structure. Farid said:
"What was that you were doing? What were you reading? Please don't tell me this is a cogni-"
"I was writing on the Scroll of the Programmers, which is an imaginary book that only I can see because it is a product of my imagination. It is where all the codes and algorithms are written, which are like speaking to the universe, where the functions I write direct Realiton particles and build relationships and metaphysical structures from them that guide the universe toward a specific behavior and..."
delta sigma interrupted her, saying:
"We won't explain it well to you... Humans in this world have photographic memory and can direct the idea either towards long-term memory or any other type of memory. The human mind here, starting from the third update, records the world as a video tape, and if a person chooses to direct it towards long-term memory, which is the state in which you can slow down time with your consciousness, they save it not as a description but as something imaginable, like a video tape that your subconscious classifies into files. In the normal state, without a state of concentration, things proceed almost as they do on Earth, and you remember the event, but without a state of concentration, the event moves from your special long-term memory to ordinary long-term or short-term memory.
This means that in a state of concentration, reading the book once makes you retain it without even repeating it..."
Farid interrupted her:
"Wow! So if I concentrate a little and make things move s-l-o-w-e-r from my perspective, I store them in long-term memory, sorted and classified, and able to retrieve any part of it?
[delta sigma nodded her head]
Why don't we have a system this wonderful on Earth?"
"That is entirely correct. It is a memory capable of recording a continuous fifty-year video tape for the Sixth Root, and 41 days for normal people. This is why you saw Brihan playing chess without a board in the palace. This whore {Lusihar}, as far as I know, stores the book in this type of memory, along with the functions written in it, and retrieves it from there.
Now, continue explaining the functions."
"Please, both of you, let me concentrate."
Then Lusihar went to talk to Brihan privately.
The next day, they reached the safe dirt road carved by the carriages. Farid spoke:
"By the way, what is this thing you brought?"
"You will see."
"I am tired of you. In every question I ask, you ignore me and give me ridiculous justifications. You deliberately keep me ignorant. What is wrong with you? I think you are hatching a conspiracy against me.
I might expect it from you, Lusihar, since I don't know you well and you ignore my orders, but delta sigma, please just tell me what is happening here? Why are you so suspicious? Why didn't you teach me to read their language and hide things from me?"
delta sigma replied:
"Umm, I can't bear... The truth is, we don't want you to know what will happen to you."
"What will happen to me?"
"Trust me, I cannot tell you. It is dangerous, but don't worry, you will overcome it with your full mental and physical strength."
"Just give me a hint."
"Umm, it's a prophecy. Umm, you will save humanity, but in a difficult way. The prophecy says that an extinction will happen, and you are our only hope. We don't want to tell you the details because you will be sad because it is an extinction, and I don't want to see your sadness, dear."
"What is the possibility of the prophecy being realized? Is it a Barnum effect, meaning those platitudes and vague, general, non-specific flowery words that apply to everything?"
"No, rather, it is based on a deterministic retroactive causality that is very clear and certain to happen."
"Just tell me. It doesn't matter if my head explodes because it's a cognitive hazard. Your heads haven't exploded either."
"Well, the prophecy says that when your existential frequencies plummeted below the line of pure energetic consistency, and became indefinable within the multi-layered consciousness maps, you were re-encrypted according to the vocabulary of the timeless ontological code as a probabilistic entity in the registry of the emergent cosmic intention within a crucible that indicates you have reached a stage analogous, in symbolic language, to the degree of the 'Luminous Absence of the Ninth,' which is considered the ultimate outcome for fully influential entities.
[Farid did not understand anything, and this was evident from his confused facial expressions]
You see? You are not ready yet, but don't worry, you are in safe hands. I have never let you down."
"Say it in simpler words."
"Explaining it will take days, and you won't concentrate for that long."
Farid was infuriated but couldn't find anything to say.
Lusihar looked at her with compressed, smiling lips, trying hard to hold back her laughter, while Brihan looked with her cold gaze and knew that delta sigma was lying and that she had said meaningless words. Martinus was indifferent and did not want to care, as he was not involved.
After a while, they arrived at the palace. Farid's feet were skinned from walking in his tight shoes. Maids came with a chair and some water to wash his feet and prepared a bath for him. delta sigma said:
"Should we treat you now or later, because you will also walk during the treatment, heheh?"
Farid, with his difficult breath, only gestured with his hand, refusing treatment now. Lusihar replied:
"Wise decision, my great revered Sir. How intelligent you are."
In the evening, Lusihar went up to the aviary to find all the birds dead and burned. She knew immediately that Brihan was the reason. Her anger increased, and she went down.
Farid was still suffering from night phobia and had not left his room. delta sigma quickly entered to scare him. Farid screamed in terror, and when he noticed her, his anger flared up, and he started hitting her with anything he could reach, and she laughed. Lusihar rolled her eyes, then entered stealthily, hiding her aura behind Farid, who was staring out the window. Then she touched his shoulder. He turned and screamed again, then a punch to Lusihar's face made her spin with an ecstatic expression until she stopped and said:
"Let's go down and play. The curse of the first days is gone from you. You can move around the palace comfortably, and you've taken your medicine for the day. Let's go down."
"I hope it's not silly things like chess or card games."
They entered a room full of tables. The rest of the servants were playing and all stopped speaking loudly and bowed to greet Farid. Lusihar said:
"Personally, I love game rooms. They are the place where masters and servants are equal for the game to have fun... Follow me. We will play my favorite game.
[Lusihar looked at the rest and said]
Will you join us in playing?"
The servants stopped playing and followed them to a spacious underground room that looked like a maze lit by gas, but it had air conditioning so it wouldn't turn into an oven. Lusihar tried to pull Farid's hand to be on her team, but delta sigma merged with him, which made Lusihar show her annoyance. Lusihar went to the opposing team. On one side was Lusihar Lori Alfonso and Sixty-Nine, and on Farid's side were delta sigma Martinus and Brihan. As for Miaura, she did not like these games, so she stayed on the surface cooking. Lusihar began introducing the game while opening a luxurious, large box that was on the table:
"This is the Pistols game. These pistols contain a gas in the firing chamber that is explosive. When the trigger is pulled, it explodes and fires a bullet made of fragile sugar glass, and inside it contains an instantaneous sedative of my own making that will paralyze whoever it hits. Don't worry, it's safe, and its effect only lasts fifteen minutes, but it can be increased if you are hit more than once. And don't worry, Farid, it won't reach a lethal dose. The rules are:
Do not break the walls.
No superpowers.
Do not clone yourself or send something to spy on us, delta sigma.
No cheating. Whoever cheats, we will tie them to the wall and shoot them..."
Martinus interrupted her, saying:
"And whoever hits Lusihar should declare it, as her sedatives may not affect her."
Lusihar did not respond and left with her team deep into the maze. Before leaving, she pointed to the sound of the bell deep in the maze that she would ring when she reached her place.
The sound of the bell was heard, and the game began. Farid led the group, and in the first corridor, he found Lori. delta sigma grabbed Farid tightly and pulled him back quickly, but he did not escape the bullet that hit his foot and exploded, causing superficial wounds from which the sedative entered and numbed his foot.
Lori escaped, laughing, and was not hit by any of their bullets.
Farid felt as if his foot was non-existent; he couldn't control or feel it. Farid felt angry. Martinus gave him a wooden crutch, and Martinus led them calmly and wisely through the maze until they reached an open area. There, the exchange of explosive bullets began with Lori, who hit Martinus, who fell to the ground, while Brihan hit her with a bullet that exploded in the middle of her mouth. Lori fell, ecstatic, watching them with her eyes. Farid in turn hit her in the foot in revenge. As they went deeper, they heard footsteps. Farid and delta sigma decided to follow it, but Brihan, who was behind Farid, said:
"It's obvious that it's a trap. Does someone make a sound in a situation where they should..."
Brihan avoided a bullet from behind, which hit Farid's head from behind and immediately paralyzed him.
delta sigma turned to grab Lusihar by the face and open her right eye and shoot a bullet right in the middle of it. delta sigma grabbed her face, screaming, and her blood flowing heavily. Lusihar continued hitting her buttocks until she was paralyzed and stopped screaming. As for Brihan, she let her do that, and the moment delta sigma went silent, she tried to hit Lusihar, who avoided the blow and tried to punch Brihan, who in turn avoided it and threw her weight onto Lusihar's stomach and sat on top of her, immobilizing her hands with her knees, making Lusihar scream:
"Alfonnnnso!"
Brihan hit Lusihar's face with bullets until it was covered in scratches, making her scream:
"That's ENOUGH! I'm dead!"
Alfonso came and started firing bullets. Brihan rolled to the side and stole Lusihar's pistol and started shooting with both of them, preventing him from stealing one too, and in the end, she got him with a bullet to his chest, dropping him to the ground. Behind him was the shy Sixty-Nine, whose bullet Brihan avoided, then a bullet to her testicles dropped her to the ground, writhing in pain until she was paralyzed... Brihan was the winner.
She threw the two pistols and left.
The paralysis wore off them. delta sigma jumped up angrily, grabbed her machine gun, and headed towards Lusihar. The latter began to get nervous and sweat, wanting to laugh but unable to. Then delta sigma aimed the machine gun at her left eye. Farid intervened and pushed it away, preventing delta sigma from hitting her. Lusihar breathed a sigh of relief. In truth, she could move, but she wanted to see what Farid would do.
On the surface, the next game was a story game played on a table, involving role-playing, with a narrator and the rest being adventurers... They continued playing for hours.
Lusihar got up from her place and went to her room to give birth, accompanied by Miral in silence. Inside, Lusihar stood and bent over, facing the wall, and pushed for the small one to come out. Its feet came out. It was the physique of a girl, or perhaps not. Miral held her and started pulling her, and she came out easily. The baby put her hands in front of her face to prevent her collision with the ground. Miral let go of her, and the baby began removing the amniotic sac from herself, then started trying to stand up.
Due to the harsh conditions in this world, nature selected the smartest children capable of getting up and following their mothers from birth, especially those of the Root 3 and 6. Their forms resembled miniature humans with childlike facial features and full sets of teeth.
Lusihar's daughter had black hair like her father Farid, but it was long, and crimson eyes that would, of course, instill terror, and white skin like a ghost, and a slender body, but her height was tall compared to her peers.
Lusihar bent down to watch her trying to stand up with a proud smile at her 60th daughter until she succeeded. She reached the middle of her mother's thigh. Lusihar went to bathe, and her daughter followed her with quick steps while Miral cleaned the room.
Lusihar took a bath and cleaned her with her, then breastfed her. Her daughter was a full fertility goddess for the first time. All this was from Farid's tension, so she had a special place with her, especially since her root was the Sixth and for possessing the cure for the curse of the Ninth.
Lusihar continued to contemplate her face, then a smile formed on her features, and she began to cry, saying:
"Now everything is clear. Determinism is taking its course. I have secured the coming years. Thank you, Kingdom of Fates."