Chapter 216: Is This a World Unified by the First Emperor Over Two Thousand Years Ago?
Rossweisse, the current Valkyrie.
At the request of that old man Odin, she went to the Far East island nation to investigate some secrets and learn about the origins of a certain man.
Hmm, he's quite good-looking, right in Rossweisse's strike zone.
Too bad she wasn't here for romance. In fact, she was particularly eager to fall in love.
Of course, it's not that she fell in love at first sight with that young man, but as a Valkyrie, she couldn't stand seeing her colleagues one by one pairing up with heroic warriors and getting married.
After marriage, they all retired.
Ah, in human terms, she was an older unmarried woman, a woman no one wanted.
It wasn't that her beauty was inferior to other Valkyries, but because she had long been devoted to studying magic, rarely interacting with society and almost never having contact with men.
Later, after becoming Odin's Valkyrie, she was so busy every day that she had no chance to fall in love.
But that's beside the point. After arriving in Kuoh Town, it turned out that young man wasn't there.
From some people's reactions, it seemed something had happened.
Soon, she received information that he was in Kyoto.
And shocking news came from Kyoto: Indra had died there.
Was there some connection between the two?
Then, a strange nun brought by the angels suddenly activated a spell that even Rossweisse, who was well-versed in magic, couldn't comprehend.
It was a spell that didn't belong to any mythological system, with no trace of its origins—almost as if it came from another world.
As she activated it, the other party apologized, saying she couldn't stay in this world any longer and had to go to that world immediately.
Witnessing this situation, a church warrior named Irina Shidou, who had been following the strange nun, immediately rushed forward to intervene.
At the same time, a relatively young magician, though unaware of what was happening, also hurriedly stepped in to stop it.
However, the two seemed unable to handle it, so Rossweisse also stepped forward to interfere.
Finally, Serafall Leviathan immediately rushed over as well, intending to disrupt the spell. But with a flash of light, everyone felt the world spin around them.
Their vision became extremely abnormal, witnessing incomprehensible and bizarre scenes of kaleidoscopic lights.
They also felt as though their bodies were twisting, yet somehow not twisting.
It felt as if their bodies were decomposing, yet somehow not decomposing.
It seemed like their bodies had turned into paper, yet somehow not turned into paper.
In short, after experiencing all sorts of bizarre changes—
"Uwah~"
"Yah~"
"Ouch~"
Several cries of distress escaped as they felt gravity return.
They all ended up piled on top of each other like a human pyramid, with Rossweisse at the bottom, becoming the cushion, causing her to let out a muffled groan of pain.
"Did we succeed?"
Succeed at what?
Feeling the others get off her, Rossweisse stood up and looked around. They found themselves on the roof of a building.
Looking out over the city—
"Wh-what city is this?"
Rossweisse muttered in astonishment. Though the city appeared to be a modern human city at first glance, something felt distinctly off.
She could see many colorful light screens—not panels, but holographic projections?
And what about the cars driving on the streets? They had no wheels but were hovering at low altitudes.
Her pupils contracted as she saw an even more astonishing sight.
In the sky, a massive object broke through the clouds and flew toward a specific location.
"Wh-what is that?!"
Rossweisse exclaimed in a flustered voice.
"I-Is that a spaceship?"
Serafall also said in confusion.
That enormous metallic structure resembled the spaceships from human science fiction, didn't it?
Ah, and what was that over there?
She noticed a gigantic tower in the city center, one that truly reached the heavens—piercing through the atmosphere and extending into outer space.
"Safara, are you sure this world is a parallel world?"
She immediately pressed for answers. Could this be the world of mechanical beings?
"I-I'm not sure, but this definitely isn't the [EvisEtourute] world. The [EvisEtourute] world is one that's entirely mechanical, no matter how you look at it."
Safara also spoke somewhat bewilderedly.
This world should still be a human world, right? After all, they could see humans.
They were humans, weren't they?
"These characters!"
Rossweisse noticed some text on what appeared to be advertisement screens. The characters closely resembled those of an ancient Eastern nation, with a similarity of over 90%...
Therefore, if the meanings are the same, then the writing of this world could be deciphered.
"The current time is the 2221st year of the Great Qin Calendar."
What kind of time is this?
Could it be that they had traveled to the future?
In the blink of an eye, an hour had passed, and the group remained in the park.
"W-What should we do? Can we still go back?"
The fact that they had arrived in a world that was not King Solomon's parallel world left Irina utterly bewildered.
"This world is just too strange. Over two thousand years ago, Qin Shi Huang unified the entire world."
Serafall was particularly fixated on this point.
"And it seems like this world doesn't have any mythological stories," the magician Le Fay remarked.
But that made sense, right? The world had been unified two thousand years ago, and after over two millennia of development, some historical records must have been erased.
"Wrong. It's not that myths don't exist. This world has a central organization called the Heavenly Court, which might be the only myth," Rossweisse suddenly pointed at a light screen and said.
The light screen appeared to be a recruitment advertisement, showcasing individuals displaying supernatural abilities, some of which resembled so-called immortal arts.
Suddenly, the screen switched to a view of the cosmos, revealing a scene that left everyone utterly stunned.
"T-This is... too... too magnificent."
It was so overwhelming that Le Fay's cute little mouth hung open in awe.
"Could this be the so-called Satellite Orbital Great Wall?"
Serafall stammered, her tongue slightly tied.
In fact, they could faintly see something in the sky with their naked eyes, which they had inquired about earlier.
Of course, they weren't foolish enough to directly ask the locals. Instead, they used suggestive questions to coax the information out of them.
That way, no one would suspect anything unusual about them.
"Could it be... could it be that this world—!"
The otherworldly shrine maiden Safara suddenly widened her eyes.
Her reaction stunned the others. Did she understand what kind of world this was?
It seemed to be a parallel world, but they had no idea what it was really like.