I stared at Adel in amazement. I never thought she would want me to keep my ideas to myself. I figured she would be all for sharing it with the kingdom to develop, but here she was saying that I should keep it for myself. I smiled and shook my head. "I will only be giving some things that will not upset the balance too much. But only after I come up with proper safety measures to keep the technology I hand over from being stolen by others."
"If that is what you want to do…." Adel pursed her lips, but what can I say? If it will benefit the people in some way in a good way and allow them to live easier lives, then why not, right? It's not like I will be taking something like a bomb or laser of some kind and using the idea to make some weapon of mass destruction and distributing it to the public to use as they wish.
"Anyway, let's keep looking. We've got a lot of ground to cover." With this, we began searching the whole floor. One room at a time. Every computer or cell phone I came across, I would store in my space. I also had to stop and explain what everything was.
It was not until we reached the fifth floor that I came across a newspaper, and well, what I saw was not exactly what I was expecting. The front page had in large lettering the Atlantean race had returned to Earth.
Seeing the words Earth was all I needed to know to officially say that the dungeons and Earth were connected. But what really caught my attention was the lines on the faces of the so called Atlanteans. They were very much similar to that man Azengrade.
"Faith, you find something?" Sophie asked as she walked over to me and hugged my arm. "Mmm…" I nodded and lifted my head to look at the others. "Everyone, come here. I want you to hear and see this."
When everyone gathered around, I held up the newspaper in my hand. "Do you see the woman here?" I asked as I pointed to the woman in the photo.
"She is…. Wait, she has the same kind of lines as that man!" Sei yelled out.
"Yes. According to this newspaper, whether it is true or not. She is what is called an Atlantean. A race that was only a myth to the folklores of Earth. They were supposed to be a highly advanced civilization that was long lost. No one knew where they went or how they disappeared. But the place known as Atlantis was something that many lores of old on Earth had spoken about.
"I am not sure if these people were lying or not, but according to these newspapers, they were these so called Atlanteans who had left Earth to travel the stars only to return thousands of years later.
"But this also could be a hoax created by the dungeons as well. I think these dungeons may have been created by these so called Atlanteans, a race from space. But none of it adds up…. This newspaper is dated a few months before I died." I said point at the date, which read: March 16, 2022. And now that I was thinking about it, Jen also lived almost another ten years past 2022. So all my assumptions are thrown out the window.
"Then what is going on?" Grace asked. She looked very confused.
"I don't know….. On Earth, there was a theory of a thing called parallel worlds, or it could also be called a multiverse. Let's say you had one world and then copied it over and over, only changing one thing per time it was copied, giving a slight variation compared to the last, whether it was a point in history or even a single organism that died out before they had a chance to do anything. Or maybe even the chemical composition of the planet itself, creating a world not based on science but based on magic instead.
"This is all just an assumption, but if this was the case. Would Earth still be called Earth? What if it was called Mestea, for example?" I could see the heads swaying back and forth of the others as they tried to understand what I was saying, but if a race of earthlings had mixed science and magic together to create a new, highly advanced civilization, and were these so called Atlanteans that the newspaper was talking about they could probably cross over to different multiverses. Or there could have been some kind of freak accident.
In a way, it kind of made sense since Azengrade was able to control part of the dungeon. But whether my thinking was correct or not was another story. Even I am surprised that I was able to come up with such a hypothesis so quickly with limited information. I guess maybe high intelligence is also a good thing.
But the more I thought about it, the more things kind of clicked together like a jigsaw puzzle. Once the pieces began falling into place, the image would become clearer and clearer. If my train of thought is correct, then the world of Mestea, the planet I am living on, might just be Earth in a new form.
"Wait, stop, my head hurts!" Sei yelled out. Sally was right next to her holding her head as well.
"I think I kind of get it, but at the same time, I do not. So what you are saying is that the world we live in is linked to your old world in some shape or form?" Grace asked.
"Mmm… I think that the multiverse theory that my world's scientists had come up with is actually correct. It's just that not everything is an exact copy. Things change. Like this world's day cycle and year cycle are longer than that of my past life. It has two suns whereas mine only had one. If this is correct and the Atlanteans were able to form some kind of tunnel to this world from their own…. "
