"Sorry... I couldn’t save your clone," Adam said quietly, his voice tinged with guilt.
Tyler shrugged and leaned back in his chair, cradling a warm cup of tea. "Yeah, I got all the mories from it. Funny thing—my clone actually wanted to kill you." He smirked. "Well, never mind that."
Adam just blinked.
"But... are we really in the Abyss?" Dusk asked, eyes wide as he scanned the lavish surroundings. The warm glow of lamps lit the room, casting gentle shadows over the intricately carved furniture. An entire banquet of food stretched across a long table—roasted at, steaming buns, fruit platters, cakes, and even desserts served in elegant bowls.
It didn’t look like the terrifying, twisted landscapes of the Abyss they had read about.
"Yeah," Tyler replied with a grin. "We are. I just happen to carry a few spare houses with . You never know when you might need to host a dinner party in Abyss Floor."
Dusk’s crimson eyes sparkled with admiration. "Big Brother Tyler... you’re rich! You even brought a mansion to the Abyss!"
Dawn, nibbling on a slice of carrot cake with a delicate fork, slowly turned away from Dusk with the expression of soone pretending she didn’t know Dusk.
"Well then," Tyler stood up and stretched. "Let’s talk more after we all freshen up a bit. You’re probably tired after all."
Adam, Dusk and Dawn nodded in agreent.
"You guys can pick any room and rest." Tyler gave them a thumbs-up before walking to his own chamber.
Once inside, he activated several privacy arrays, forming a soft shimring do around the room. With a flick of his fingers, he used a Cleansing Charm, washing off the gri and blood from earlier.
But that wasn’t his main reason for retreating to his room.
He turned toward his bed, where Lily, Mathilda, Mana, and Astrid were sitting together, waiting for him.
Tyler smiled and walked over, sitting cross-legged in front of them. "Alright, give it to ."
Mana silently handed him a palm-sized copper pot, accompanied by a matching ladle. Tyler placed the ladle aside and held the pot carefully in his hands.
"Grow big," he commanded.
In response, the copper pot shimred and expanded to the size of a small cauldron.
Then, Tyler pulled out a strange, erald-green bead that resembled a glass marble. Inside, it looked like an entire world was swirling—tiny clouds, mountains, even what seed like glimrs of sunlight. He gently dropped it into the pot.
"Each of you, take one," he said, gesturing to the pot.
"Ooh! first!" Mana was already at the pot before he finished speaking, her fingers diving in and retrieving a bead with childlike excitent.
Astrid followed next, calm and composed. Then Mathilda and Lily each took one.
"What... is this?" Mathilda asked, holding her bead up to the light.
"I’m not sure either," Lily said, tilting hers and watching the inner swirl. "But there’s definitely a space inside. It’s like a pocket world. I think it can even hold living beings."
Mana’s brows furrowed in concern. "Storage items that can carry living beings are practically extinct. But that doesn’t an we can’t get one in our world. Why did you even risk mining for years to get this?"
Tyler took a sip of tea before answering. "You’ll understand once you enter. Just link your Divine Sense to the bead."
Without further hesitation, Mana’s body flickered and vanished into her bead. One by one, the other girls followed suit.
Tyler also took a copy out and then poured out the Original. He then placed the copper pot and Ladle inside the Bead.
"It worked." Tyler smiled.
Actually Copper pot and Copper Ladle doesn’t enter the storage Ring, Pouch or Device. He tried many of them. This is the first ti it worked.
The Tyler had a crazy thought. He placed the Ladle in one bead and copied the bead using the copper pot.
Then he took out the copy and checked inside.
Tyler sighed in disappointnt, "Sigh... The ladle didn’t get copied."
A few minutes later, they returned to the room—visibly astonished.
"There’s a sun and moon inside," Mathilda said slowly, still processing what she had seen.
"It feels like a real world," Astrid added.
"But... everything inside is dead," Lily murmured, frowning. "The animals, the birds... there are only dead bodies. It’s like all of them had a group heart attack."
"That’s because my copper pot can only copy non-living things," Tyler explained. "When it tries to copy a living being, it creates a soulless replica. Everything inside those beads is a perfect copies—except for life itself."
Lily stared at her bead again, this ti with a sense of awe. "That’s incredible. You just casually give away mini-worlds?"
Tyler chuckled.
There was a pause. A soft warmth filled the air, heavier than the Abyss around them, more powerful than magic. Trust wasn’t sothing Tyler gave lightly—and all of them knew it.
The girls exchanged glances, a silent agreent forming among them.
They didn’t say it aloud, but they all knew—they would stick with Tyler until they reached the Edge of the World in the North. Whatever lay beyond that point didn’t matter right now.
Because when you’ve walked through storms, travelled together in many difficulties... bonds like theirs weren’t so easily broken.
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After so ti had passed, everyone gathered in the main hall of Tyler’s temporary mansion within the Abyss. The long wooden table was now cleared of food,l.
Tyler sat at the head of the table, calmly sipping another cup of tea. On his right and left were Lily, Mana, Mathilda, and Astrid, while on the opposite sat Dusk, Dawn, and Adam. The atmosphere was a mix of tension and curiosity.
Adam leaned forward, resting his elbows on the table. He wasn’t one to waste ti on small talk. "Let’s get to the point," he said. "The leader of this Abyss Hunter group is nad Apollo. I want his armor."
Everyone froze for a mont.
"You want... his armor?" Lily raised an eyebrow. "Just like that?"
Tyler looked at Adam with a curious expression. "Is there sothing special about this armor?"
Adam nodded, his eyes gleaming. "Ever heard of the Celestial Armor of the Sun God’s Son?"
The room went quiet.
Dusk and Dawn exchanged confused looks, clearly unfamiliar with the na. Even Lily and Mathilda tilted their heads in thought. It was Tyler who finally broke the silence.
"I’ve read about it," he said slowly. "The Son of the Sun God... Karna. Born with celestial armor and divine earrings. In mythology, he was practically invincible."
Everyone turned to look at Tyler in surprise.
Back in the Zi World, when Tyler discovered the copper pot, Tyler got curious about its origins. He started reading every mythology and ancient manuscript he could get his hands on.
Adam’s expression turned serious. "In my world, there’s a similar myth. The Celestial Armor existed in legend, a divine relic granted to a demigod, forged in the heart of a dying star by the fla of a forgotten deity."
Lily’s eyes lit up with interest. "Sounds dramatic."
Adam gave a small smile but continued. "What’s more interesting One of the Gods of Boundless World , inspired by such myths, supposedly began crafting an Immortal Armor—an artifact that would defy death, decay, and even causality itself."
"Wait, wait... are you saying this armor was made by one of the Gods from our World ?" Astrid asked, blinking.
Adam nodded. "Yes. But sothing went wrong. The gods... they disappeared, vanished without a trace. No one knows how or why. And the unfinished Immortal Armor was lost, drifting across the void between realms, forgotten... until soone found it."
"And that soone is Apollo," Dusk muttered, finally catching on.
"Hmm..." Tyler also know about Disappearance of God. It’s an Open Topic in Boundless World. So says they can only see God after reaching the Edge of the World.
"I’m looking for sothing," Adam said, his tone growing more serious. "A location. That armor might help find what I’m searching for.
Lily tapped the table with her knuckle, her expression thoughtful. "Alright. Suppose we help you. Do you have a plan?"
Tyler looked at Adam, weighing his words. "If it’s sothing this big, I’m not saying no. But let’s here your plan."
Adam smiled and leaned back. "Don’t worry. I’m not the planner in my team. I have an expert for that - Eve."
A projection appeared before them it’s a projection of a Pixie.
Tyler recalled the Pixie on Future Adam’s Shoulder where he seen in the past. They look the sa but also different. That Pixie looked life like. This one is just projection.
Tyler was about to say it but Adam quickly stopped him.
"If you are talking gonna talk about my future self or my alternative self that saved you. Don’t say it. If it is really my future self. Just knowing the future, will change the future and it will affect your past."
"Here he goes again. Seriously I can’t understand a sh!t." Tyler simply muttered loudly.
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