Part 1: Fate
Author note: Still following Hermit Zero's point of view.
"Then after some time had passed down on the rushing water, that brave person safely handed me back in my biological parents hands."
"And he stood straight beneath the canopy of trees to salute my parents with deep respect."
"And then he turned back into the shadows and go away completely."
"My new parents was deeply shocked to see me completely silent and not crying at all in that terrifying situation."
"All though the absolute truth is that I simply don't feel that primal sense of danger as a mentally mature adult."
"Days past down into the fabric of time."
"Months past down continuously as the seasons shifted over the unfamiliar landscapes."
"I steadily grew up within the quiet safety of my new family unit."
"And as I grew up year after year, a single massive global empire already has successfully won the entire world."
"That dominant faction was none other than the proud Leon empire."
"Because of the strange timing of my revival and our subsequent survival, the common people universally labeled me the Fortune child."
"When I finally turn 3 years old."
"I properly learn how to balance my small limbs and walk without falling down."
"When I eventually turn 5 years old."
"I suddenly began to feel something entirely unique and foreign vibrating inside my physical body."
"I felt a strange, warm current of Energy flow constantly through my rushing blood."
"That specific time of my childhood, I was living inside the grand stone walls of a massive castle."
"And I was standing completely alone on my castle's quiet stone garden, surrounded by foreign flowers."
"Then I slowly pushed my right hand straight out into the open air."
"I consciously tried to take full control over my inner circulating energy fields."
"Then, responding to my mental command, I suddenly use a terrifying power."
"I instinctively used a massive, localized Fire ball."
"It was absolutely not small by any metric."
"And it was definitely not a regular one that a standard practitioner would summon."
"It was a truly massive one that expanded violently, radiating intense heat waves through the garden."
"The sheer force of the sudden recoil caused my light body to collapse, and I fell on the cold ground."
"That raging fire Ball goes straight through the air with a loud roar."
"And it directly hit's with a large, ancient tree standing at the edge of the courtyard."
"The entire tree burns to absolute cinders in a matter of mere seconds."
"I sat up on the grass and looked at that terrifying danger carefully, processing the sheer lethality of the combustion."
"Then suddenly, breaking the silence of the burning garden, I hear the frantic running sound of heavy boots."
"I looked back towards the direction of the castle corridor and saw my father rushing out."
"He rapidly comes at me, his face filled with extreme panic and disbelief."
"He immediately realised that I had somehow independently used a highly special power without any training."
"Then, looking at the charred remains of the wood, my father clearly saw a brilliant, legendary bright future in me."
"Then, following that incident, my father formally introduced me with the concept of Eco energy."
"The vital internal energy that can be successfully used by individuals to cast complex Rituals."
"And the foundational Eco energy is comes directly from within our own physical biological body."
"And as a noble elf by blood, I naturally have a much greater, highly precise control over my innate Eco energy."
"Because of this biological cheat, I learn all kinds of intricate rituals incredibly fast."
"Yet, beneath my rapid progress, I was always deeply curious about the fundamental nature of this world system."
"The absolute truth was that I desperately want to return to my own home world across the stars."
"Back on Earth, I used to love to play competitive rounds of Pubg with my friends."
"I used to mindlessly scroll on Instagram for hours to pass the time."
"But in this primitive, alien world of swords and rituals, I had absolutely nothing to entertain my modern mind."
"I just have endless piles of ritual knowledge and boring history scrolls to look at."
"So I firmly decided in my heart one day that I will find a mechanical way and return to my world."
"Driven by this hidden motive, I learn the foundational Ritual system very quickly, bypassing weeks of study in days."
"I started to aggressively master high level Ritual techniques that were heavily restricted for ordinary citizens."
"Eventually, at the very young age of 10 years old."
"I officially become even more stronger and more destructive than many of the veteran mages of tenzu."
"But I quickly realized that raw rituals alone wouldn't grant me the ultimate power I sought, so I also started to learn Swordsmanship."
"I was fortunate enough to train directly under the guidance of a legendary Heavenly virtue."
"I learn high-tier swordsman skill and advanced blade forms from him daily."
"And using my modern conceptual thinking, I eventually created my own unique, hybrid combat technique."
"A seamless, simultaneous mix of both advanced Swordsman forms and immediate Ritual activations."
"Seeing the combat capability of this dual form, the common people started to call it the South swordstyle."
"Then, carrying this new weapon art, I started to continuously learn both the depths of the sword and complex Rituals."
"I steadily become exponentially more powerful with every single month that passed over the land."
"And eventually, when I turn 16 years old."
"I officially become recognized as the absolute strongest warrior in the entire 4th Era."
"Even successfully surpassing the raw power and tactical authority of the 7 heavenly virtues themselves."
"Despite achieving the peak of power, I still respect the ancient sword god very much."
"He is like the ultimate, undisputed inventor of all modern swordstyle frameworks."
"That's the exact reason why I deeply respect his legacy to this day."
"After achieving that peak status."
"Many and multiple global wars and bloody internal civil wars happens across the continents of Tenzu."
"I also actively participate in those historical wars to test my limits and gather hidden intelligence."
"And slowly, through my travels across the battlefields."
"I started to map out and discover the hidden secrets of this world entirely."
"During my deep investigations, I learn about an ancient, enigmatic person named Alex."
"It was specifically for his presence that the massive global Church system was originally created in the past."
"And according to the old secret archives, he openly claims himself to be an individual from another world entirely."
"He called his original home world by the name of Lilusia."
"At first when I read the records, I don't believe his wild claims at all, just like all the other native scholars."
"But the more I travel into the deepest, darkest secrets of Tenzu."
"The more I started to discover the bizarre structural anomalies of this world."
"I slowly started to truly believe that this historical figure named Alex actually could be from that foreign world of Lilusia."
"And to finally discover the objective truth behind world hopping."
"I decided to independently perform a forbidden, experimental ritual in the deepest underground of the Fate kingdom."
"I dressed myself to wear as the Hermit Tarot archetype, and simultaneously forced my energy to act As the Fool tarot identity."
"And through this dual tarot resonance, I successfully discover a completely new, hidden place."
"And if someone who is currently reading these private Japanese notes of mine."
"Can also successfully do the exact same ritual setup and can visit a new place or a separate dimension, whatever you want to call it."
"If you are currently residing in Tenzu's royal fate kingdom."
"Then you must immediately visit it's hidden, dark underground base."
"Something incredibly monumental is waiting there specifically for you."
Right before Haruto could try to read any more lines of text.
He suddenly realised that the physical book is already come to an absolute end.
The old translated diary book was actually very small and concise in its structure.
But now, having processed the hidden contents, Haruto knows many deep, terrifying things about the true nature of tenzu.
And right now, a burning desire ignited inside him, and haruto was intensely curious to try that exact dual tarot ritual.
And the mysterious, hidden world that Hermit Zero was talking about that he has successfully discovered.
Haruto desperately want to see that place with his own eyes.
Haruto thought to himself, his mind spinning, if that mysterious world is actually the land of lilusia?
Haruto closed his eyes tightly for a brief moment then, trying to memorize every single detail of the instructions.
He slowly opens his eyes back up to look at the table.
And the very next second, he was completely shocked and frozen from inside his soul.
Their was absolutely no book resting on the wooden table anymore.
It was completely gone into thin air.
Like it never even exists in the physical world to begin with.