Chapter 95: Shattered Memories
The ELFs were curious all over the place while Einstein smiled upon her creations. They then reached the place where the children were and the ELFs started to slowly come to them.
"Hey, they look like Klein! Want to go play?" A child asked and the little androids were handed some frisbees, footballs, basketballs, etc. They were confused and the kids started a demonstrations, with their AI they could play quickly.
"Much nicer to see than them going to war huh?" He looked on in the peaceful scene and thought the previous era was surely a time where constant fighting and people of all walks of life feared for their lives. Waiting for a honkai impact or a herrscher to end the peace.
"Umu, I created them as a weapon against the honkai. But seeing this surely puts a smile on my face." He ruffled her hair and they started to walk to the base. He called a meeting to introduce Einstein as she was only known by them through her creation, the ELFs.
Everybody was curious on seeing the woman with shaggy blue hair. Thinking that he got another one, but her wearing a lab coat certainly wasn't normal in this era.
"Hey everybody, I want you to meet Einstein. She made the ELFs, if you forgot, that's what Klein is." He pushed her forward and Einstein waved awkwardly, seeing world renowned scientists like MEI and Mobius. She doesn't know what to say, including the master of the spiral workshop Vill-v that was eyeing her curiously for creating the ELFs.
"Hello, as Ein already said. I am Einstein, pleased to meet you." Vill then gave a thumbs up and smiled. "Another great mind from the previous era. I thought you guys were swallowed up by the sea, but this is a joyous occasion. The more people that can help me, the better."
Mobius wasn't interested at her because her greatest achievement was building the ELFs. Not really connected with her pursuit of the ultimate evolution of humans. MEI then smiled and gave her a handshake. "Welcome Dr. Einstein, it's a pleasure to have another scientist on board. Though I am curious on how you managed to survive in the sea?"
Mobius excused herself to research about Ein's new power as the 12th herrscher. Saying that she can make a breakthrough in stigmata research.
Einstein explained the whole ordeal when they entered the sea. "Let's delegate the ELFs as support personnel here for now. I'm sure they'll like to have a new purpose." Einstein offered and she was escorted to a room so she could rest. Being thawed wasn't a very exciting experience.
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Ein was slowly gathering Hua with the power of the 12th. Containing her in a room where her parts won't escape and was repairing her simultaneously.
"This will take some time." It wasn't difficult, but super tedious. But he thought it was worth it, and seeing if there was something wrong with her quicker, the better.
He then thought of who to get 1st as all of them were a pain to find. Elysia, Kevin, Kosma, and Kalpas. They had a lead on Griseo and she was currently making art works that she sells anonymously in the west.
Which he thought was smart of her. "I sure raised her well. I sure hope her quirk got cured, I don't wanna see her talking like shakespeare or something." As even the quiet and reserved Kosma can influence her when she stays with him long enough.
He asked Kallen and Sakura to try and find her. Vill basically has supervision on the entirety of earth up above, but it can only work so well. Especially when they hide 24/7 inside buildings or underground.
He sighed and thought that Kalpas and Kosma might be in other bubble universes due to the null energy that seeped inside when they entered with cosmic juggernaut. Or Elysia might even be inside the imaginary space, as they searched far and wide returning with nothing.
Kalpas might be wreaking havoc, or Kosma might over saturate himself with honkai and lose control of Vishnu's urges. He is very dangerous if that's the case.
He entered the sea again to work on Adamantine and try to control the chaotic energy in the sea. "Hmm, how about I try accelerating time on the metals, not oversaturate it." Magical metals were always found in small quantities inside areas that were rich in energy he thought.
So he left the material in the sea and accelerated time while introducing energy to it. "How about a thousand years for now." He accelerated time in a bubble around it and nothing happened.
Even after leaving it there for hundreds of thousands of years, it stayed inert. He scratched his head in disappointment and got an idea.
He accelerated time again while crashing the material with each other like a particle accelerator, while null energy seeped into them to bind them together. So instead of separating, they fused.
Separating them atom by atom. He started, the 1st one just vanished, the 2nd test nothing happened. But he was getting something instead of nothing.
He tried and tried, making small adjustments for millions of tests. Then billions, trillions, and so on and so forth. Until he successfully fused them together, but they were so unstable it might turn into a black hole. Then quickly evaporating into a bomb.
And stabilizing them needed tons of energy, but he was inside the sea. And harnessing everything he could with the ether anchor. Redirected it to the material to create the 1st sample of Adamantine. It was miniscule, needed a lot of time and resources. But worth the trouble.
Testing it, the little piece only a little bigger than an atom started to devour the ambient energy in the sea like a drain. "Eureka! This would be just the start, wait until I find a way to mass produce you." He then used it as a battery to make more.
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Returning to the base with good news he doubled his efforts in making it to produce a new structure that will hasten the process, Vill looked at the small piece, even smaller than a grain of sand.
"We'll need to mass produce it. Create more for now and let's make something like a dyson sphere." She quickly got excited and he invested his time in mostly creating more. Vill and Mei started turning it into nano machines. Instilling a program that would create more of the stuff.
While in downtime, he continued gathering Hua and healing her. "Hmm, just a bit more." She was now forming again and everybody waited with bated breath.
Hua opened her eyes. After a few seconds, her hair was messy, her eyes were dazed as she looked at the ceiling. (Pic here)
"Hua! Hey girl, how are you? You okay? Speak to me." He put her on a bed and she looked at him confused. "Wh-who are you?" She said with a raspy voice.
MEI quickly gave her something to drink and she drank it greedily. Hua sighed, relaxing on to the bed after drinking. Looking at the surroundings with confusion.
"Where am I? And who are you people?" She then clutched her head in pain. Remembering bits and pieces on what happened. "My... My disciples betrayed me. But why?"
Hua started to get antsy and Ein frowned. "She doesn't remember us anymore. It seems her memories are unstable, Aponia help me with this. Her SWARA also got shattered, the death must've done it." Aponia started soothing her worries while Ein gave her the important memories from the past.
The celestial received it, but she cannot believe that's true. It was too unrealistic, in her thousands of years protecting Shenzou. This was the craziest thing she's ever encountered.
"So... You are saying that I was born 50000 years ago and I am a super soldier?" She asked in disbelief. "Well, yeah. How do you explain your powers and magical weapons then? You also died but revived, of course it's because of science." Mobius rolled her eyes and Ein narrowed his eyes at her.
"It's hard to believe Hua, but you were a MANTIS. Do you remember anything when you emerged from cryosleep?" She only shook her head, she forgot about almost anything from the previous era except how to fight and use divine keys. It also doesn't help that her brain was injured during the assassination and again lost more.
He sighed and decided to take care of her lost memories a bit later. "Rest for now Hua. You've been through a lot." He patted her head and fixed her hair. Hua closed her eyes and got a nostalgic feeling.
"I... I remember this sensation. I'm not sure, but I know it." She shed a tear and was confused why she's sad. A silhouette of a woman with vermillion red hair popping into her mind.
"Well, we'll make you remember it in due time. You just got back from a stressful event, take your time." He smiled and gave her some of her favorite noodles back then that she couldn't get enough of.
Smelling it, she tried a bite. Blinking and trying her hardest to remember why she loved it. Frowning from the fact she can't remember.
He gave a picture book to her and they quickly left the premises to let her think about her situation for now. "Her memories are shattered. And not just amnesia, they're probably gone." He sighed and thought of a way to make her remember.
"So we can't show her pictures or give her the memories, because it will be just foreign to her? How about Fenghuang down. She must have deleted it with them, can it store them for future reintegration?" Vill asked, but the creators of it shook their head.
"We don't know, but it's worth a shot. Let's try it later, she's probably mentally unstable right now. I don't know what will happen if she suddenly gets tons of memories, especially the bad ones." He frowned, she was an unfortunate soul from a young age.
"Maybe it's even better if she doesn't remember all of it." Everybody nodded. They knew the hardships of the previous era, especially ones like Kalpas and Hua.
Turned to a soldier that fights in a war for total annihilation, reaped of her only friend and family from the honkai eruptions. And now, losing even Nuwa and Fuxi. Forgetting them and getting killed by her own disciples that she raised herself. There is a reason why her codename is vicissitude.
"Hah. At least she's with us now. I'll take care of her in your stead Hime, don't worry." He whispered to himself, and promised to give her what she deserves.
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Thanks for reading guys. I've been swamped with patients and utterly tired after work, but the little birb is now back online and in good hands. Senti will appear a bit later. Ciao.