Last chapter, after having a cook off the trio headed to the minuscule island of the trial to camp along the shore until Karia is recovered. Seric ends up talking to a voice that is somehow connected to the trial, which turns out to be friendly and tells him where the mission will lead them next. Karia also explained the meaning of the "The Snow Witch", being what Bersia, the old lady who Karia killed to receive the power of her spirit called herself.

Seric's P.O.V

"You sure you two were alone? There always could have been be a few peeping Tom's having a blast watching you two!" King Metallica says as his head tilts back to normal.

"Maybe, but if this was an actual person how the hell did they talk to Seric through his head, and even if they had some kind of Blessing that could do that how would they know we would be here, and right now?" Karia responds rationally.

"Yeah, exactly." I say in a tone just as defeated.

"...Well, so what did this voice say to you?" Karia asks.

"Well, first he started with some weird poetry, and then his tone did a complete 180 and he was laid back. Apparently, he already knew who you were before we did the first trial. Oh, I should probably tell you I already "talked" to him during that time, like when we were escaping I'm pretty sure he saved me." I say back, not immediately jumping to the whole Dalkan thing as I don't want them to freak out just yet.

"Huh, you already talked to him before? Well I guess I would just think you were insane if you told me normally back then but anyways- so he already knew me? What was his voice like?" Karia asks with a curious face.

"Uh... well at first it was elegant, like someone who's really smart and upper class but wouldn't know how to fight. But then he started talking in a casual tone like someone who would just be your everyday teenager." I try to respond in the best way I can with a confused face myself.

"Hm... doesn't really ring any important bells... So, what else?"

"The other stuff was for me, but more importantly we can only complete one of six trails in the Hopian Territory, which we already did. Now the voice says we have to go to Dalkan to do the next one." I say, waiting for Karia's complaints.

"DALKAN?! D.A.L.K.A.N! The home of the glorious, strong, and prideful King?! This is great news, I guess 100 is my lucky number with you guys, oh boy I can't wait!" King Metallica yells in excitement as he leans down and bear hugs me, swinging me around which makes me laugh.

"Well shit. I honestly don't completely believe you, but I guess I don't really have a choice as of now. If what you're saying is true, this whole journey is gonna be a huge pain in the ass. Like major. Getting to Dalkan is almost impossible, being that the military is basically everywhere in the Hopian Territory acting as a crapload of border defense on it's own, as well as there being a massive wall as tall as Vega blocking off the Hopian Territory from the other four all the way around." Karia says as her face turns into a more conflicted one and King Metallica puts me down.

"Before that, hold on pal, I'm jealous now, so this random stupid voice knew you before I even met you?!" King Metallica says as he fiddles with the golden crown on his head.

"That's also a really good question. Apparently the being already knows about my past, and is going to tell me about it after we complete the trials." I say as I look towards Karia.

"Seriously? Well at least there's some good news." Karia says with a slight smile.

"Yeah... Oh! I just realized. The reason why I'm the only one who can touch the trial doors makes more sense now. I guess I specifically have something to do with both the doors AND that being then." I say as I snap my fingers, but start to tread deep into thought.

"Good point, keep that in mind I guess. Anyways, more importantly getting to Dalkan is our main priority for now, this could stop our mission as a whole." Karia says which makes me think "Yes!" but also "No!" when I remember that doing the trials is the only way I can get my memories back.

"Well, why don't we just zip over in a nice shiny helicopter?!" King Metallica suggests.

"A heli? Are those even around anymore? Anyways nope, the Hopian Army has crazy air defence." Karia responds unfazed.

"So we can't go over eh? YASHASHASHA, then why don't we just go under!" King Metallica adds as he points his finger down at the sand.

"...You know that could work, I'm not 100% sure though. If some robot could think of it I'm pretty sure the Hopian Army already thought of a way to stop it tenfold." Karia responds which makes King Metallica's head drop a bit and his eyes to soften.

"Well I mean, couldn't we wait and see if the borders open? I doubt with Hopian being this advanced they'd want to stay secluded from the rest of the world forever." I add after some thought.

"That may just be the best thing to do for now. I heard some rumours back at Vegahold from some of my old Officer friends that the borders to some territory were going to be opened soon. Hah I miss those guys, everyday I would hang out with them. Now... Look at me now..." Karia says as her face immediately turns into one filled with distraught.

"Yeah, alright then we can spend some time having fun! Oh I just realized, we didn't even fully check out all the loot yet maybe we can find something cool!" I try to be positive to cheer Karia up once again.

"...Yeah." Karia says with a bit of a happier face as she walks back to the ship.

"This is bad... Her guilt for betraying the Hopian Army is gonna end up eating her alive one day. But what can I even do about it..." I think to myself with a dampened mood as I stare at the black rock of the trial entrance locked by the forsaken wooden door, which is surrounded by the tiny bit of sand around the island that goes around the cave in a small circle.

"Holy shit you guys get over here!" Karia yells to us from the ship with enthusiasm as she stares into the open door of the storage room on board our small white vessel.

"Hm?" Me and King Metallica both say as we walk over and climb back on board, and looking into the open storage room through the mess four more white closed doors are engraved into the interior walls, with two being on each side of the rectangular room like a wide hallway.

"Did you remember more about your Blessing or something? I mean, since the whole boat is your Blessing and all I'm... guessing this is your powers evolution?" Karia asks with a furrowed brow as King Metallica bolts in front of us inside through the mess to investigate the first door to the right.

"No... Wait, it's gotta be that! The voice said that it would help me on my journey and that my Blessing was pretty cool, this has to his doing." I say to myself as I snap my finger.

"That would make sense but... this guy is getting weirder and weirder. Just how the hell can he directly interfere with your own Blessing?" Karia responds.

"Well aren't Blessings transmitted mentally like through the pillar Vega? If that's the case since that guy can talk to me telepathically, I guess it kinda makes sense that he can fiddle with my Blessing too." I say back to her as I start heading towards the new room King Metallica is waiting to enter.

"Who cares for now, if he's a pal of yours he's a pal of mine! It seems like this annoying, mysterious, exciting door is locked up so come on Seric!" King Metallica says impatiently as he shakes his fists in front if him again.

"Hm... well he did seem like he was on our side but, you never know. For now I doubt the voice is a threat, but we definitely can't forget about it though. Anyways, let's check this out." I say with a small smile now on my face as I walk over to the door and start to open the pure white handle, which leads too...

"Aw... it's just a potty!" King Metallica says as he slumps his mechanical shoulders.

"Oh thank God, I don't know how much longer I would have lasted without a washroom!" Karia says with a sigh of relief as she pushes through us to check out the new small pure white room, which is completely empty except for the pure white toilet which was somehow already filled with water on the left, a pure white sink beside it, and a decent sized bathtub on the right side of the room.

"Oh yeah I forgot, you actually need these kinds of things. Puny mortal." I say with a grin- although I do need the bath.

"I don't think a kid like yourself who's like 1 foot tall can afford to call me puny, and yeah do you know how hard it was to make do this whole time? I'm surprised you didn't notice but I had to-"

"STOP, stop, I dont need to know." I quickly interrupt as I wave my hands in front of me.

"What's wrong- don't you know that girls never actually use the washroom?" Karia responds with an amused grin.

"...Oh yeah of course." I try to respond with a confident smirk but I just end up with a blush on my face and back out of the washroom, heading to the next room along the hall.

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After a few minutes we finish checking out all of the rooms, with the other three just being plain empty and about half the size of the junk room.

"...Wait a second... Hold on a minute." I say out loud as I realize something I should have a while ago and head back outside to the small deck of our ship with the long joystick and two bags of loot still occupying much of it's small space.

"What's up pal, find another hidden room or something else that's awesome?!" King Metallica says as he to walks out from the junk room.

"Well I guess Dahai was right- Blessings really are miraculous things." I say with an amazed laugh as I look at both outer sides of the junk room, and realizing that these so called new rooms are in fact inside of   said room- but there's just one thing. The junk room didn't get any bigger on the outside- and no doors are visible on the outer walls either, meaning that these rooms shouldn't be possible in the slightest.

"YASHASHASHA, we just opened four doors to a new dimension! That's certainly a first for me!" King Metallica laughs with pride and his hands on his hips over the red robe on him, so I assume he realized it as well.

"Well shit, that's cool. Speaking of your Blessing, I wonder if your regeneration got upgraded too." Karia says with a quick laugh as she walks outside as well.

"Good point actually, I guess I'll see the next time I get into a fight." I respond happily.

"...Well... what now? Oh right, we haven't checked out all the loot yet!" I say as a light bulb flicks on in my head and I walk a second over to the bags in which some obvious fake gold lies on the floor due to King Me-Scavenger-ica.

"What else is in here..." I say to myself as I dig my hand into the massive bag, and I eventually pull out something that feels neat.

"Ah- whoa! What's this thing?!" I say in excitement as Karia walks over to me, bending down and looking at my find being a small piece of metal with a glass screen.

"Oh my, wow, I never thought I'd see one of these things again. The classic Recluse 2P, the thing probably still works like a charm." Karia says with a quick laugh.

"What does it do anyways? It seems like a smaller version of your tablet." I ask as I flip it over to see the scratched up but still nice looking shiny blue metal with a white logo saying "R2P" on it.

"Well it's like a tablet but worse, AKA a phone. I used to have one a few years back as a soldier but I hated how small the screen was, which is why I traded it in for this bad boy." Karia says as she picks up her white tablet and waves it in the air.

"It looks like our treacherous act did reap some benefits! Ah but wait, don't we need a plug to shove up it's ass?" King Metallica says as he rips the phone out of my hands to examine it further.

"Nope, look close at the camera." Karia replies.

"Hm?" King Metallica says as he brings it right next to his eye. "Ah, it's got S.O.L.A.R! This thing really is top notch, we'd better keep it in tip-top godly condition! Well not as godly as The Five Kings of course." King Metallica says with excitement as he reaches over and drops it back in my hand in a swift movement.

"Now that I think about it we don't even know if this thing works yet, you guys can keep looking if you want." I say as I wave my hand at them and take a few steps back to the side of the boat where I sit down on the built in seat attached to the side.

"So if it's like Karia's tablet then..." I say to myself as I flip it 180 degrees, finding a power button on the side with Karia and King Metallica bickering in the background and looking through the bags.

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"Hey, hey, HEY that's mine!" I hear King Metallica call out after I finally finish setting up the phone with my name and all that using the same touchscreen keyboard Karia has on her tablet- turns out someone completely reset the thing beforehand which is nice.

"Are you blind, I totally had it first!" I hear Karia reply in an annoyed tone and looking up her and King Metallica are having a tug of war over what seems to be a small but fancy wooden clock on the small white open deck of the ship.

"Why don't we just keep it in the space between the rooms or something then?" I add as I try to resolve the argument.

"Hmph! Fine, it's not like I needed this beautiful, work of the art, antique masterpiece anyways my foolish pals!" King Metallica says with a huff as he crosses his arms and looks to the side- how he huffed do not ask me.

"Anyways, now that we've got most of the new stuff and rooms sorted out, where are we heading next?" I ask, as it seems like we're running pretty low on supplies in general.

"Hm... well there was a little bit of real valuable stuff in the bags of loot, although it's hard to tell for sure what's fake or not- especially for the jewelry. For now, I'd say we head to the island of "Birzion", I haven't been there before but I've heard things about it being good for old fashioned trading." Karia says as she walks over to her tablet, picking it up and starting to set up the map.

"Y.E.S! I've been wanting to buy some spare metal to repair my face for centuries, I swear I've already had three generations of pesky critters live inside of my mouth!" King Metallica says which makes me look up at his red robe and golden crown covered self, and he really did take a nasty hit to his cheek with four jagged puncture wounds being on his cheek.

"You gonna take us there, Seric? After all, we're technically not doing the trials right now so I can't really force you to do much." Karia asks with reason which surprises me.

"Huh? Oh yeah, I'll go wherever you guys go." I respond, thinking the answer was obvious.

"Alright, well let's get going." Karia says with a yawn as she sets up the tablet in front of the large joystick with a map on display, and so I head towards it, pulling the joystick back a bit and starting our travel to the new destination.

A/N: With some loot in tow and new upgrades to Seric's "Best Friend", the trio head off to their next destination, "Birzion"!

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