198 chapter 51

Leonard body submerged deeper into the water content, but the further down he dived, Leonard discovered a horrifying fact- the liquid, was eating his armor slowly- however the damages were not considerable, he was glad that he had something like this just for this type of situation.

"Where could that keyhole be…" Leonard wondered for a short moment as he tried to "look" for any potential sweet spot, it's close to impossible to see anything within the pool, trying to sense thing with magic is even more stupid, as Leonard was practically swimming in a pool of liquid power- how can you use a magical sensing ability within a pool which brimming with magic itself? That's just stupidity at it finest.

It wasn't long before Leonard suddenly got a bright idea, he immediately pulled out the red bead that was named "the Key" from his inventory and immediately he could feel a reaction from the key itself, it was glowing brightly in a shade of red within the liquid.

"I knew there would be a nice reaction."

But this changes quickly as the bead began to suck in the liquid from it surrounding like that of a black hole, no it already turned into a legit black hole!- it then pulled Leonard toward itself as well.

"Shit! No no no!!!" Leonard desperately swims toward the opposite direction of the bead- however, it was too late as he was previously too close to the pearl and sucked into the pearl itself.

The last thing Leonard saw was the dark abyss itself.

*****

"Hey hey! Wake up, you're not going to sleep all day, right?" a voice- an overly cute and feminine voice called out for Leonard and he also felt something poking him on his forehead.

"!!!" Leonard jolted up suddenly due to the sudden disturbance caused onto him, he quickly moved his head around, trying to survey his surrounding, noting that he was no longer within the Well of Power- but somewhere which seem like a mini-world- possibly within the red pearl, after that he then turned back to the voice that had called out for him just a moment ago.

"Y-you're…" Leonard stuttered as he looked at the figure before him.

Long pink hair, braided with an overly feminine face and cute cloth and body shape.

"Yeah yeah, I know what you're planning to say, I'm a bona fide- MAN…I just like cute things."

He said in much annoyances.

"Could you be...Astolfo?" Leonard asked the figure before him with curiosity, for as far as he knows- Astolfo could not possibly exist within this dimension- with the exception of being brought over by a world traveler like himself who had access to the Multiverse.

"Oh? You know of Astolfo? Are you also from the same world as I am?" his eyes were shining brightly upon hearing Leonard mentioned the name of a certain hero from the black faction.

"What do you mean by that? Are you Astolfo?" Leonard repeated his question.

"Answering your question- I would say that it's a no- but somewhat of a yes, I am Astolfo- yet not Astolfo, does that answer your question?" the pink hair trap answered back in a nonchalant manner while shrugging.

"What the hell does that suppose to mean? How is it possible for a Heroic spirit from the Type-Moon Fate series to exist here of all places- and no less, the founder of the Romanii Empire?!" Leonard wanted to strangle this trap before his eyes.

"That's confirmed it, you're indeed from the same Earth as me, seeing that you know the Type-Moon universe and about me in general… so- who are you?" the trap asked Leonard.

"Me? I'm a world traveler, just like yourself- and you are right, I am indeed from Earth, but I don't really know if we're from the same time period or not though- but the big question, why do you look so much like the Rider of Black? Is there some reason for that?" Leonard asked the trap in a curious manner as this was his first seeing a person from Earth took on the appearance of a heroic spirit and entered into this world.

"Well~ you see… there's a totally good and legit explanation for this… how should I explain this...umm… let me introduced myself first, this might be easier for you to understand." the trap politely bowed at Leonard, slightly only lowering his head.

"My name is Ryuji Sakamoto, I was born in Japan… a normal Salary worker who work from nine to five with a secret hobby of watching anime and reading manga- but one day… it happened… the greatest Isekai cliche ever… Truck-kun came for me."

The trap introduced himself to Leonard and told him about his life story.

"When I woke up, I notice that in front of me was a character creation and me being stupid, I created the character from the Type-Moon Universe, Rider of Black Astolfo as a joke, since at first, I thought it was just a dream- either that or I'm already dead, so what's the worse that could happened right? I then clicked confirmed and the next thing I knew was waking up in a small village of this world… you probably already knew what happened next base on the history book I bet… it's been quite a long time since then… maybe close to millennia?" Ryuji let out a long sigh as he lamented about his situation.

"Sooo~ are you still *ahem...alive, or are you...well dead, it's been quite a long time since then you know…" Leonard questioned him.

"I should be dead, however- luckily, the soul pearl managed to keep my soul alive all these time within this little pocket world…" Ryuji let out a long sigh about his current situation.

"Alright then… next question, you wrote within your note that- to anyone who discovered the secret of the "trap" will gain knowledge about the world of the Gods, my question to you is- does that world of the "Gods" be related to the Crossroad of Worlds?" Leonard questioned.

"What's that? Crossroad of Worlds? The world of "Gods" that I was talking about was the one discovered above in the night sky, outer space- is the Crossroad of Worlds things related to your situation of Isekai?" Ryuji asked him.

"Well, somewhat yeah, it's somewhat related- but then again… are you talking about extraterrestrials being from outer space?"

"Yes, it's them… they're the cause of the Dark Ages… just noted, that in this Universe, we- are not alone…" Ryuji told Leonard in a serious tone.

"Here, it will be easier if I were to show you the images directly from my memories." Ryuji pokes onto Leonard forehead with his index finger.

Immediately upon contact, foreign images began to invaded into his thought, filling him with the scene of pure horror and information about the otherworlder who invaded the Continent of Lorwyn, they arrived from a faraway star, light years away in their space vessel and rained down hell onto the inhabitant, their first contact with mankind plunged the world into anarchy, kingdoms and empires fell in within days- humanity only managed to fight back the alien invader through the use of the two sacred well, the first was the well of magic, the second was the well of power.

"You see it now? Those are the records I discovered within the ruins that held the Well of Power… let just say, it wasn't the prettiest thing." Ryuji lamented.

"I see…" Leonard took a moment of silence for himself.

"Is that all that I needed to know? If that's the case, is there a way to get out of here? The last thing I wanted is to be stuck within the "Soul Pearl" for an eternity." he asked Ryuji- only to be met with a paled trap expression.

"...oh shit…" that was all that came out of the trap mouth.

[Emergency Request from Yogg Saron, Host had met the minimum power requirement for quest objective, please confirm the transportation through the voided rift.]

[Yes or No]

"No matter...I found my escape path...I think…" Leonard smirked as he noticed that godsend system message and immediately selected the Yes option.

"Wait nO! Take me with you! I don't want to be trapped here?!" Ryuji leaped over to Leonard and grabbed onto the latter just before he was sent through the voided rift.

The problem for Leonard now is the fact that he forgotten to read the fine print that was below the select options- which read.

[Warning- Unprotected Void Rift]