There is No Epic Loot Here, Only Puns

85: Silent Knight

The statue room served as what could only be the Cult of the Silence's vision for life and the world. A glass statue filled with an odd swirling mist in the shape of a giant round mouth full of tentacles and fangs that buried deep into the World.

There was just something a little off about the statue.

Well, two things besides the evil jellyfish trying to snack on it.

"Oh dear... they think the world is flat?" Delta mumbled as the maw held the land like a table on a stand. The land was coloured and made of various materials. Someone had gone to great lengths to implant gems of different colour in various places.

Delta could see a golden amber crystal glowing inside a tiny model of a city. A sapphire and Emerald had been squished together in a city that looked bisected. A deep red one looked to be somewhere in a desert and Delta snorted.

"Red in the desert? Cliche much?" she said and Devina cleared her throat. Sounding like she was trying to say something she was a little awkward to admit. Delta paused but the room was oddly empty of foes for the moment.

Delta... the world is flat.

Nu blinked into view next to her, looking much better than before.

"Nu... right, let me share the science of my world," Delta said with a finger wag.

Sis?

Delta cocked her head and suddenly she felt like she was being ping-ponged across a game board or a pinball machine. Sis let her flow between herself and... others.

This connection... this path was so rocky and confusing that Delta wanted to hurl. She pinged off a wall of gold.

"Oh! Hello, did Sis get the Core-Conn- " the blazing gold man asked and Delta was yanked dozens of meters... miles.

"I want a party!"
"I want a ball!

Two children argued over and over and didn't even notice her.

She was flung hard into a new direction and she threw up. Orange Mana splattered the flying tunnel and Delta finally began to scream in panic.

"I WANT OFF!" she yelled. She flew past dozens of tiny forming paths. Some barely looking like mouseholes. Nothing intelligent could be found there, Delta knew. She saw a wall of fire and a face formed. Smooth and beautiful, the face stared.

"She wasn't kidding about you. How the hell do you exist with only three-"

The face was gone and Delta was flung to the far reaches of this world and felt so homesick she wanted to cry. But never did she see the planet curve or see the vast horizon dip. The tunnel she rode in was straight... curving only so much up, down or sideways for some time until something happened.

She reached the End.

The Edge.

Delta felt the tunnel come to a sudden stop. She almost fell into the vast abyss below. There were no stars down, only above.

"What... the... frig?" she whispered.

That was when she saw something odd. Well, just as odd as the world having an edge. One of the stars above crashed into the ends of the world. The incoming light chipped and was reduced to a mere tear drop and it hit a mountain that acted like a fence to the Edge.

Delta felt her chest compress. A sense of knowing hit her and she watched as the gem buried itself deep into the Earth.

She could feel... someone behind her.

"It's not perfect but it's what I managed to create." the young girl's voice said and she mumbled something.

"See?" the girl sounded pleased but Delta couldn't bear to turn and look. Her experience with omnipotent children had never been good. A ghostly scene appeared over the landscape, and the empty abyss beyond the mountain was filled in as if a fog of war had been removed. The land stretched and formed as the hole where the tear had fallen in began to give off whitish Mana.

The world expanded and the darkness was covered a little more. Soon, monsters and people, little puppets, began to explore this new land.

"The World is fragile. Cores are like nails. They help hold it together." Sis explained and Delta fell backward and gasped as she was back in her core room.

"The world is flat?!" She protested this. Sis's voice was fleeting and a little blunt, breaking apart fast as Delta returned to reality.