Chapter 39: Into the [Soulscape] for answers

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The soulscape, oooh the soulscape.

A magical place, a place of innumerable and inexplicable wonders.

"AAAAAAH!" Screamed the voice of a young man who was wearing an airforce jacket with the logo of a weird company. That somehow was blurred?

"STOP RUNNING AWAY YOU ASSHOLE, EVEN IF YOU SOMEHOW PRETEND TO BE YOUNGER I STILL RECOGNIZE YOU!" Said the screaming voice of a blonde young woman who was chasing said blonde man.

The age difference couldn't be more than 10 years.

It was still somewhat comical.

Because while the young girl was running after that man while throwing shadow tentacles trying to get a grip on him, the man was nimbly using chairs and desktops as replacements for himself.

And when those weren't enough?

He shot electric discharges and even used some way of magnetism to stick himself to the ceiling.

"I ALREADY TOLD YOU IT WASN'T ME THE ONE TO WITHHOLD INFORMATION!" Said once again the blonde man.

"PROVE IT!" Answered back the blonde girl who decided to stop her chase, she still had a few shadow spears hovering near herself.

All of them pointed at the blonde man.

Who when noticed how the blonde girl had stopped chasing him, decided to release his magnetic lock to the ceiling, and landed on the floor.

"Did you see the notification already?" Asked the blonde man pointing at the central monitor in the room.

They were in the laboratory half of the soulscape.

Even trashed as it was, one could still marvel at all the machinery in it. One only needed to see how mechanical ants and spiders were scurrying around fixing and swapping damaged machines all around.

Elizabeth of course ignored them and even shoved some debris their way by using her shadows.

The machines took said debris and said nothing.

The blonde girl could see the use of having minions like those instead of using tendrils and thought about if it would be a good idea to try and change how she used the shadows.

Perhaps she could use a design to shape the shadows separated from her?

Food for thought if nothing else.

"What's with the robots?" Asked the girl "Aren't we in a projection of my soul? What's the point of them working like that?" Added the blonde girl.

"Yeah yeah, projection. Meaningless to have them fix machines that don't exist right?" Answered the blonde man while directing some mechanical ants who were going the wrong way.

"Your notifications, have you seen them?" And asked once again the blonde man.

"Not yet. If the skill is gonna lie to me anyway I decided to come and ask first." Answered back the blonde girl.

"Yeah about that... You need to use the right [Idea]...Once you can control that, you will have an easier time not getting the wrong information. For now... If you are sure you are stronger than them, the information should be accurate." Answered the blonde man, before remembering something and moving on.

At which point, the man just sighed and snapped his finger materializing a blue screen in the middle of the room.

"Congratulations are in order, you broke through your first threshold." And said with false cheer in his voice.

For her part the blonde girl...Was if nothing else surprised.

Since she didn't feel a thing...

"But Papa said he thrashed in his bed for a week when he pushed through his threshold...?" And just asked the question in her mind while seeing the screens that had shown in front of her.

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