Agorix: Hey Asellus, what are you building over there?
Asellus: I'm not building anything....what do you mean?
Agorix: Oh? There are two beds and two work stations over by the trees in the north.
Asellus: Huh....interesting....
He looked over by where Agorix mentioned and saw what he said was there.
Asellus: Well...maybe Barten is doing something.
Agorix: Well, yes but no. He's building something by the little mountain northwest of here.
Asellus looked over to the mountain.
Asellus: AY YO WHAT?!
He saw a big tavern on the top of the mountain. He started going up to where it was and saw Barten doing some finishing touches.
Barten: And we are done.
Asellus: What is this for?
Barten:Well, I might move up here and leave that other room to you.
Asellus: Oh?
Barten: Yeah, I'm also making a secret storage for all the important things I duped when the machine worked. Don't tell Agorix.
Asellus: Alright, bet.
Some time passed, and the two made the place around their house look nicer. Asellus and Barten regrouped by the campfire. The two stayed quiet for a minute and looked at their surroundings.
Asellus: I wonder how the rest of them are doing?
Barten: You mean...
Asellus: Yeah, the ones from our dimension.
Barten: Well, we know they're safe, but 'Where are they now?' is what you should be asking.
Asellus: They may be safe, but...how are they feeling is the thing.
Barten: I get you, but I'd rather think they feel fine and wonder where they ended up after our dimension was erased, and we got our new names.
Asellus: Hmm, damn...how long has it been since all that?
Barten: I don't have a clue, man, I stopped counting after 50 years.
Asellus: That long...damn, I can't even remember my original name.
Barten: Hmm, neither can I but, I remember everyone else's names perfectly
Asellus: Heh, same here.
Barten: Let's not ponder this too much...
He stood up and pulled out a pickaxe.
Barten: Let's go back over there and see what we find.
He pointed at the portal.
Asellus: Right.
He stood up as well and went towards the portal. The two started going down a small cave they created the day before.
Asellus: How long is it going to take for us to- OH?
He had hit a material he had never seen with his pickaxe.
Barten: The hell is that?
Asellus: Good question man, let's see if there's more around.
The two split up and made a huge tunnel underground, just to see if they could find more of that material. They regrouped after a while.
Asellus: You find anymore?
Barten: I found exactly 20 of those things...is it an ore?
Asellus: No clue, but I found 21 pieces...
Barten: let's head back and see what we can do with this
The two went back up from the cave, they ran back to through the portal.
Asellus: So can we make armor with this.
Barten put it on the table and inspected it.
Barten: I don't think so...these are basically just scraps.
Asellus: Can't you mix them together?
Barten: Hmm, no, they'd still be too weak on their own. We need to mix them with some other ore or something.
Asellus: How about the diamonds we found the other day?
Barten: Nah, we'll need them for something else.
Asellus: The iron?
Barten: We'll need that too.
Asellus: ....the gold....
Barten: Maybe, it is the most useless for now.
He opened a chest and grabbed some gold and put it and the scrap they had on a workbench.
Barten: There we go.
He held up a black bar.
Asellus: Can we make armor out of that?
Barten inspected it closely.
Barten: It'd be inefficient to make armor out of this, we'll use it to upgrade our tools and armor instead.
Asellus: Huh?
He took off his armor and put it in a different workbench, he infused every piece of his tools and armor with the black bars he had made. His new gear had a darker tint and seemed a lot stronger than before.
Asellus: Oh? Let me try.
Asellus did the same with his armor and tools.
Asellus: I feel like I can challenge anything.
Agorix: What's up?
Barten and Asellus aimed their swords at him.
Asellus: Oh, not much.
Agorix: Good to see you two are as lively as ever.
Barten: What do you want?
Agorix: I was wondering if you two had any of those lights you used around the house but I see you two have new gear, what's up with that? I've never seen you two use that.
Barten: We found this in the Underworld. There's probably more of it down there.
Agorix: Alright then, I'll check it out...might need some better gear though.
Asellus gave him better armor, and Barten handed him better tools and a sword.
Barten and Asellus: Don't lose it.
Agorix: I won't jeez, I'll come pick up the lights later.
Agorix went through the portal.
Asellus: How much you want to bet he comes back with nothing?
Barten: I'm not a betting man....I'll lose if I say that he will.
Asellus: Right, it's just obvious at this point...
Barten: How did he get grouped up with is again?
Asellus: I think that his original dimension was erased at the exact same time as ours...so the higher ups decided to group him with us...
Barten: Right, I still wonder how powerful he was in that dimension, he's only being a liability a lot of the time.
Asellus: Let's just get some rest, we're going to have to do a lot tomorrow if we wanna clear this dimension...
Barten: Right, let's do that.
Barten went upstairs and Asellus went into his own room downstairs. They drifted peacefully to sleep, ready to take on anything tomorrow.
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Chronicles of Time
General Fiction"And I couldn't have done any of this without you..." As Dimension Hoppers, each individual should clean up any dimension we task you to. Each and every corner of that place should be cleansed from ANY type of Primordium energy. Failure to do so wil...
