TBATE - What if Tessia was the legacy ? - The legacy of it all

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{Tessia Eralith}

-Get the samples to block Q3!" I heard someone shout from inside the laboratory as I walked to the door while letting out a short sigh.

-Who left his jacket on the chair?!" Screamed the hoarse voice of dwarf who had seemingly been shouting all day.

-Who cares?! Stuff it in the closet with the rest!" Answered an elf who I heard running from one end of the room to the other despite not having even opened the door yet.

-When's this thing due for again?" Quizzed a stressed, but somewhat upbeat voice as I grabbed onto the sliding door and slowly started pushing it aside.

-It has to be done for YESTERDAY!" Answered a panicked, desperate man who was running from window to window opening them and their shutters as quickly as possible "I swear to God, if this lab isn't clean by the time Unity arrive, we are all going to -

-UNITY!?" Shouted a dwarf in his mid-twenties with utter shock and distress as his face turned ghostly pale.

-What?!" Shouted another of the researcher as all the scientist jerked their head around toward the entrance and collectively landed their eyes on me.

Immediately dropping whatever they were holding, the entire thirty men team performed a military salute while standing straight up as their greetings got mixed with the sound of glass and metal hitting against the ground and breaking in a dissonant orchestra.

Staying put in place, I observed the large lab room the scientist had been working in for the past few days. Judging by the awful stench, mattresses laying on the ground, bits of food scattered everywhere, the thick black circles under their eyes, unshaved, messy bears, mustaches and hair, along with a pile of countless stained white blouse, I got a pretty good idea of what had happened.

-I'm guessing that you all spent a bit more than the estimated 40 hours to finish this project." I scolded them in a calm, but slightly irritated tone as I looked at each one of them one by one.

-But we finished it in time." Answered an elf woman with a slightly hesitant and yet very proud tone.

-I'd rather have a group of healthy, levelheaded researcher who ask for the deadline to be postponed than a bunch of overworked zombies with a finished product." I answered while narrowing my gaze on her.

-To be fair, I don't think any of us could have stopped after what you showed us." Retorted a dwarf in a half joking tone.

-You mean those blueprints." I quizzed, unsure of how much importance they had placed on it.

-Not just the blueprints, but the theory behind it, it revolutionized everything we knew about sound magic, about how waves work and interact with matters in ways we had never thought of before with an explicit use for those developments and avenues for so much more!" He explained in a fascinated, almost fanatical tone before continuing on, as I only now wondered what the hell was written in those blueprints Art had me hand over to Unity's research team. From what he had told me, it should have been a simple, regular artifact using sound magic to send a message from one person to another.

But it was visibly something far more outrageous, which isn't so surprising anymore, especially after witnessing the "steam engine" he invented and the "trains" he wanted to set up, but I wished he had given me a heads-up before hands, because now I have to improvise my way out of this mess while people continue to believe that I'm some kind of genius.

He could have taken the credit for it, for once, and not have pushed the awards on someone else... Maybe I'll drag him here with me next time, see how he likes the attention.