Ch 52

Inside the living room of the mansion, Three people are sitting with distinct appearances.

"Gresel, This is Christian, A Magus from Clocktower" Obera introduced Cael to Gresel with his fake identity.

"Gresel, a witch" Gresel introduced herself and continued reading her book.

Obera without wasting time got to the point, noticing Christian didn't have much reaction to Gresel being a witch.

"Now that the introductions are over. I will brief you on the mission. I already took care of Rashamon Gate before this meeting but, it only made my brother open a new gate to another Negative world. So, there are still 3 negative worlds present in the world"

She poured a liquid on the table, which transformed into a world map. Two zones covered the places of Peru and Tanzania separately by a Hemi-spherical dome. There is a third hemispherical dome that formed with question marks on top of it in the ocean of the map.

"Currently, we have the locations of two Negative worlds. One is in Machu Picchu, Peru, the Other is in the Isimila Stone Age in Tanzania. We don't know the third location but If we manage to close the Gates to these two worlds and stop my brother. It should be enough"

Gresel closing her book enquired "I have two questions"

"Go on"

"First, what about the other team members you told me?"

"I already gave them their mission"

Gresel further asked "Next, your words don't explain why the world is in danger because the gates are open? Magecraft that deals with portals is a thing before 700 AD. So, A portal to another world is not a threat if we just kill those who enter this world from it"

Obera formed a hand sign, the three hemispheres on the world map turned red while a huge Green sphere covering the world map appeared. 

"That green hemisphere is our world, while the red hemispheres are other worlds. The 'Gate' is not just a portal, they are conjunction points of our worlds. During the right time, they will start expanding into our world trying to merge with us"

Obera explained while three domes increased in size gradually.

"These Negative worlds are considered fictional, not real, never happened, and never will happen in 'our' Reality. The longer the conjunction points last, the more these worlds will become 'real' merging and taking over our Reality during the right time."

The three worlds expanded till they completely covered the green hemisphere breaking it.

Christian understood what that implied and said "This will force the Counterforce to cull our reality because this world is filled with such clumsy contradictions and the chance of Humanity's ending is at 100℅"

"I expect nothing less from a Genius. Yes, you are right, we will be erased. Our parallel selves in parallel worlds will live but not us in this reality. That's why we have to stop my brother"

Gresel is still confused about one thing and asked "Then, shouldn't we close the third gate too?"

"We can find the info about it when we confront my brother" Obera replied confidently.

"Why tomorrow though? Why do we have to wait for this long? Didn't you say you handled Rashamon Gate in Japan? " Christian asked curiously.

"Rashamon Gate is a different case, it is a naturally formed crack which our family can mend. My brother opened other gates with unknown means and what is tomorrow's date?"

"December 31st" Christian replied.

"It is the right time I mentioned before. Tomorrow symbolically means the end whereas the new year day is a new beginning. Our world barrier will be especially weak during these two days allowing those fictional worlds to merge with us easily. The Gates will cease to exist allowing us to interact with them"

"So, we can't do anything now?" Gresel asked.

"No, we can only see the other side of the portal for now. That's all we can do, but the next two days are different, we can interact with those worlds since the boundaries between us will be blurred. I will use my family magic to seal off those boundaries while you keep those of the other side busy. Any more questions?" Obera further explained

Christian asked, "I have one last question, How many do we have to fight?"

"I can't exactly say there will be a fight. It might be a situation like they would need something from us. Even if it is a fight, I will be there to handle 100's enemies. You mainly have to be careful about the assassins hired by my brother. I'm sure, he made some backup plans to stop me"

He believed her words, Obera is slightly buff now and with his clairvoyance, he knew the Gniwrevlis family has a special bloodline that activates when they saved the world once. It happened with Christian's help a decade ago. Now that she has awakened her bloodline, she is stronger than most humans.

"Our destination is Peru. After we sealed the gate there. We will be directly going to the Atlantic Ocean, that's where my brother is currently present from the information I gathered. This whole mission should be completed before the night of January 1st"

After she gave her instructions, Obera, Gresel, and Christian began their journey to Peru.

Obera arranged her private plane to reach Peru.

Meanwhile, the members of the Gniwrevlis family in Peru and Tanzania are creating bounded fields to hide supernatural activity.

Since the merging hasn't started yet, the presence of Negative worlds is still thin, just portals exist. It's Nothing much but that will change in a few more hours once the clock hits 12.

***Atlantic Ocean***

In the middle of the ocean, there is a giant cruise. Unlike regular cruises, there is no bustling activity,  there are many bodyguards on the deck.

A tall blonde man studying a book with many runes laughed when a bodyguard informed him of something.  

"That stupid little sister of mine. Ignorance will be your downfall Sunshine. Tell the assassins to not kill her, stalling her is enough. I don't care about the rest"

The guard nodded and left while the blonde man stood up looking down at the whirlpool slowly forming just ahead of him.

"I'm running out of resources. I hope this works"

He didn't fear the whirlpool, instead, there is a trace of concern in his eyes.

****Peru****

Christian and the squad just arrived at the airport.

"Be alert, From now there will be assassins. Guards, this is an order! Don't waste time on them, kill them efficiently" 

Obera ordered her guards. She didn't plan to let Christian or Gresel waste their prana on meaningless fights.

They are hours away from Machu Picchu. They boarded the car and began riding surrounded by the cars with Gniwrevlis family guards who are spell casters.

They are attacked multiple times on the way but most of them have been cleared by the guards.