Finding Out

What Cale said about finding the world to be wrong, Isabelle understood it well. However, since Cale was simply an ordinary person, Isabelle thought that Cale seemed to think that it was himself who had issues.

"Cale... what you said about feeling like something was wrong with this world... you aren't the only one to have that feeling." Isabelle said.

Cale inwardly laughed as he thought that he was just making some shit up. Who knew Isabelle would actually get baited, but he continued to maintain a surprised look at her statement.

"Do you want to find out the truth about the world?" Isabelle asked. Cale acted confused. "What do you mean?"

Isabelle took out an old pocket watch from her pocket and told Cale to hold it. Cale did as he was told, but he had already checked it out with his eye of insight.

[Limeral Pocket Watch]

[Glows if the holder is not human]

[Can be used to bind an oath]

When Cale held it in his hand nothing happened. Isabelle had a sigh of relief. She was sure that Cale was a human, but she had to make sure.

"I want you to make me an oath that you won't tell anyone that I revealed the information that I will reveal to you in the next hour."

Cale acted confused and did as she was told. He felt a weird energy string tie around his wrist as he did that. He could see the string of blue energy using his eye of insight. Cale thought that was interesting.

Isabelle nodded. She had already made sure there was no one else around

"This world is not normal. Like you said." She sighed. "This nation of flowers, the country we live in, is controlled not by humans, but fantastical beings called dragons."

Cale showed disbelief on his face. But Isabelle continued. "This world, under the veneer of this ordinary world, lies a hidden fantasy world. A hidden war for power is being waged between human's and different races. Dragons... they are one of the most powerful races and they thoroughly defeated humans and took over this country.

Over the past thousand years, humans with power have all moved to the first heaven, a land in the sky and the races like dragons have taken control of the earth. Humans who have power on earth are hidden from the world."

Cale sighed. "So... you're one of these hidden humans?" Isabelle shook her head. "You can say so, but I'm just an ordinary student, I'm too weak to fight for the human race yet."

"Fight? Is that the goal of humans with power?" Cale asked.

"Yes. It is to take back control from these creatures. They have disguised themselves as humans and taken control of society, created a fake world where powers, abilities and skills don't exist." Isabelle looked at Cale. "I was staring at you, because I noticed that you have the talent to cultivate. I was observing your behavior to ensure you weren't suspicious."

Cale looked at the ground. He didn't speak. He learned some new information, humans with power are actually oppressed and most don't even live on earth, but in a land in the sky! That was probably why Isabelle learned the disguise skill, Cale hypothesized that perhaps most humans with any power would have learned that disguise skill.

Isavelle stayed silent. She thought that Cale must have been shocked by what he heard and probably doubted her and gave him time to process it.

Cale looked at her. "It is truly hard to believe, but your serious look tells me you aren't joking." Isabelle nodded. Cale continued. "Why did you tell me this? Isn't this probably a big secret?"

Isabelle instead asked. "Do you want to become stronger?"

Cale shook his head. "I don't know about that. I am guessing becoming stronger means entering this dangerous world with a double life?" Isabelle sighed. What Cale said was indeed true. Cale spoke again. "I know too little about this world to make a rational decision."

Isabelle nodded. "Take this flash drive. It contains a lot of basic information about the world, however, destroy it once you read through it. If you agree, I can let my master meet you."

Back at home. Cale took the flash drive in his hand. He realized that his eye of insight was indeed marvelous. He could directly form a display within his vision that could explore the files in the data drive.

It told him about the state of the earth. How humans with abilities are at constant guerilla war with the dragons and how they have to stay in hiding. It also gave him information about different races, about monsters and finally dungeons. Apparently there are many dungeons around the world. They are the source of monsters.

Most keep dungeons as training grounds for their races. Dungeons are hard to find and most dungeons are actually found when the monsters overflow out. It also pointed to locations of known dungeons.

Cale thought about the dungeon he controlled. He wasn't sure how he became its owner, but from the tutorial he had received, he found that his dungeon would not be detectable to anyone else for a year. This was time for the dungeon master to create a dungeon.

Thus Cale had to collect a lot of DP to expand his library dungeon at the same time he needed to level up. But he didn't have a desire to join Isabelle's group, whatever it was. He wasn't interested in a life long war, just self preservation. Cale was selfish that way.

He did however, desire the disguise skill, so he could fake his level. Although Eye of Insight seemed to be a unique skill he got as a dungeon master, he had to be prepared for an enemy to potentially have the skill.

He selected a dungeon to try out, that was not very far away, since it was within the Rinlo City itself. He would have to take a taxi. Dungeons had been classified according to their difficulty and this particular dungeon was labelled as beginner grade.