We need to talk about how you two locked us up for a day.


    Well, it would have been 2 days if you didn’t break out but what’s the big deal, you’re free now!


    That’s not the point!


    Greg, can you keep it quiet? I’m trying to focus.


    We were in Greg and my room and I was going through the filter Neia had given me which contained the map of our dimension.


    “Did you find anything?” Elliana asked as she looked up from the paper she was reading. It was what I wrote about how to make spirit vessels. It was a bulky document so she would spend a lot time reading it.


    Well, there are millions of small sub dimensions like Hourai, so this is going to take a while. I have to find out where we currently are related to everything here. My tails are running simulations but as you can see…


    I pointed at Nilah who was preventing my tails from overheating.


    Do you have any leads?


    Well, the area we are on doesn’t seem to be flat. We know where Hourai was, I would like to think that it should be close to where we got spat out in here but it doesn’t seem that easy. It should be easy to find where Yzs was the moment I find out where we entered the Mainfloor.


    This dimensional map was mindboggling. I didn’t understand 99% of it. I could only make wild guesses on where we currently were on the map. Maybe I should go visit my cousins.


    I wonder, would it be easy to see big rips in the fabric on this map?


    I cycled through some filters. And came to the realization that we are screwed.


    Whoa, our world is screwed, it has more holes and rips than it has fabric. How am I supposed to find the rip above the Amber Spire? Maybe rips that are festering?


    I got to another depressing filter. At least a third of the holes and tears were festering and about one fifth seemed to be red, something Neia warned me to not go near.


    Hoo boi, we are so doomed.


    Stop being such a doomer! We should have enough time.


    I linked up everyone to my vision.


    “My head!” Everyone started rolling around because of the headache they got.


    Ok we get it we’re screwed! Please don’t make me even more stupid!


    Wait! Don’t kick me out.


    Greg rummaged in his bag and drank a potion with an unfamiliar color.


    Need some?


    Anti headache potion?


    Greg nodded. I didn’t have a headache but I still accepted it.


    This… doesn’t look good. It’s worse than you made it sound out to me.


    What’s worse than we’re ‘doomed’ or ‘screwed’?


    Well, you always exaggerate how am I supposed to know you’re serious!


    I will put on my serious voice then.


    I cleared my voice and imitated Greg’s voice.  Guys, in my 22 years of being a 9t I have never seen a mess like this. It is messier than Raishin’s room after he has inhabited a place for a week. I can assure you with utmost seriousness that we are 100% screwed if our race doesn’t at least increase in numbers by a minimum of tenfold.


    Hahaha you sound like Greg but also you don’t!


    Did you really need to use my voice?


    I have to keep up to date with my deception!


    Ok I get it you can stop using my voice now, it’s weird to hear my voice like that!


    “I loved it! Can you do my voice?”


    I cleared my throat and started imitating Elliana’s voice


    Ooh, it has been a while since I did a woman’s voice, how does this sound? Maybe a bit too high pitched. How about this?


    “Woah!”


    Agnis always gets a bit scary when he does this.


    So, I will explain this in the voice of Elliana, take notes Elliana, this is how you sound like an expert in dimensional maps. So, this filter shows an orange border over there which means the fabric is festering, which means an invasion has succeeded, we have last seen this at the Amber Spire and more importantly in a shitty town named Boshi town.


    Raishin put up his hand.


    Yes, dumb student number 12!


    Hey! So, what has invaded then?


    Uhh to be determined, that’s not important for now! So, these red ones are dangerous, my auntie told me to not go near them so I won’t. I like being alive. Now we can ignore the red festering ones and the red ones. So, it will look like this!


    “We can’t see anything; we got kicked out of the link remember?”


    Gregory, sweetheart, can you give them the anti-headache potions?


    You creep me out…


    Do you want me to throw a seductive tone in it?


    “Oh, I am actually curious now!”


    Elliana… please…


    Greg handed Elliana and Raishin some of the potions, I linked them up after they downed them.


    “It still hurts a bit, is this what you’re dealing with constantly?”


    Oh, you have no idea sweetie, but one gets used to it, but thank you for being worried.


    Wow… this is dangerous.


    “Can you teach me how to talk like that? It sounded like me but… also not like me.”


    Everything in due time, you might actually have more success if you use that aura shift you elves are good at, get a more seductive aura, anyway!


    I flipped through some filters and my buddies held their heads in pain.


    Woops, so here we have the map that has eliminated anything that can’t be the hole we saw near the spire.


    My head, there are still too many possibilities left.


    Yup and my tails are crunching the numbers and trying to find Boshi Town.


    But why? Didn’t you fix that hole?


    I did and that’s exactly why I’m looking for it. It should be recognizable that I did something there. I will be trying to locate my own handiwork and work from there.


    Didn’t you fix many more holes?


    Oh, handsome and Intelligent!


    Agnis, please... you’re making me uncomfortable.


    Oho? What is this? Getting riled up by this voice? Anyway, Elliana can pick up from here later on.  I cleared my throat and started to imitate Raishin’s goofy voice with a serious tone.


    Right so the hole I fixed at Boshi Town was enormous. It will stick out as a sore thumb between those that I have fixed.


    Ooh you sound just like me!


    I think that was the point…


    So, I will track Boshi town down, then extrapolate from there where Yzs should be. It isn’t far location wise here in the physical world but this dimensional map doesn’t believe in being simple, but it did rip it out of the fabric, it should be relatively unique. I should recognize it when I see it.Support creative writers by reading their stories on Royal Road, not stolen versions.


    Wow this is also uncomfortable, the world isn’t ready for a smart sounding Raishin.


    Hey!


    Elliana seemed to be writing things down. “But you’re looking for Yzs, right and not the hole it left behind, right?”


    Right, after dimensional tracking comes temporal calibration. This map doesn’t display a specific time. Which I don’t understand that well, it should show Hourai if it doesn’t show a specific time but I am confident that I can track parts temporally if it’s quite recent. Just mess with the time coordinates from before it disappeared. We also know when it disappeared… Uhh Greg at what date did it disappear?


    Sounding a bit more like yourself there, Yzs disappeared on December 34th at 14:51.


    So, I mess with the time and then I will have to track it, follow it, pinpoint it, lock on the dimensional coordinates and match the temporal rate to ours. We don’t want to pop in there for 10 minutes and have 200 years pass over here. Drag the country back, and done!


    And how do we drag it back?


    With a [Dimensional Anchor] of course! It needs to be severely upgraded though… I will just have to get in there, wipe out some spatial and temporal anomalies, grab on to the spatial patch that the country is on and pull really hard on the [Dimensional Anchor] to get back.


    And the rate of success of all these are?


    Well locating it once I find Boshi town is near 95%, being able to follow it in time, 87%, leveling the temporal flow 100%, wiping out anomalies over there depends on you guys, grabbing onto the fabric there and dragging it back… 37% I’m still working on it and again…


    I pointed at Nilah who was still cooling off my overheating tails.  My tails are still working on all that, including the improved [Dimensional Anchor].


    “So how long do you need?”


    Between 10 minutes and 3 months give or take.


    “How do you know how to do all this?” Elliana asked as she continued writing. Is she taking notes? Or is she writing a diary?


    Improvisation and I guess instinct.


    So, the continent could be without electronium until mid-April in the worst case? That’s not good.


    I went back to my regular voice.  Well, I’m doing my best.


    Well keep us up to date and tell us if you need anything.


    I will be fine, thank you.


    I kicked them out of my visual link and kept searching. I was hoping it would take 10 minutes to find Boshi Town but it wasn’t that easy of course.


    <hr>


    It took a month before I managed to lock on to my energy. I thought it would be easy to find Boshi town from there but it still took me a week to find the biggest one.


    I did it! I found Boshi town! Which means!


    I found where Yzs was 10 minutes later.


    Bingo! We got a match! Phew this took long now…


    How about you sleep first?


    Ugh, fine, but only because you won’t shut up about it!


    I will wake you up in a week, if you wake up before that I will put you to [Sleep].


    Fine!


    No nightmares this time, quite surprising. Something shook me awake.


    Ugh, 10 more minutes.


    You’ve been saying that for the last 3 days.


    I got up.  And you let me sleep for 3 more days?!


    Well, you always overwork yourself so yes.


    What is the state of the continent?


    Not good. We tried to keep the information of the outside from you so you could focus but things aren’t going well outside it seems the humans are regressing to a state of about 200 years ago and the slavery line is marching south.


    Ugh idiots, why don’t they do things themselves just like most other races do…


    I don’t know but I’m sure that’s just the tip of the iceberg.


    Hey Greg, I have a silly question. How are we going to do this and not be the heroes?


    Hmm that is a very good question. We will be saving the continent if we bring Yzs back. I don’t know actually. I’m sure you can hide it form the rest of the continent but you might not be able to hide it from the citizens of Yzs.


    Disguises or illusions it will be then. I am already popular for no reason; I don’t need more of that.


    You know fully well that there is a good reason for that…


    Fair, they just can’t resist my charisma!


    Whatever. what’s the state on the success rate of those other factors you have mentioned?


    All are 100% besides being able to drag it back to here… can’t seem to get past 75% success rate…


    Any factors that can increase it?


    Me being older and less shit.


    Greg frowned.  Realistic factors?


    Uhh 2 or 3 more months.


    Ugh.


    I will get to it for 3 more days and I will just fire up some probability manipulation when we get to dragging it back.


    Isn’t that going to completely drain you?


    It’s that or [Elgard Overload] I don’t have much choice here.


    So, if problems arrive during the dragging process…


    You guys have to deal with it!


    Seems fair, do you need anything? Else I will notify Raishin and Elliana.


    I’m fine thank you.


    I could only get the success rate to 79% in 3 days. It was pretty good but a 21% chance to get stuck in the void are terrible odds.


    Greg was reading on his bed and looked up after i sighed.  Is it time?


    We have a 21% chance to get fucked over, let’s go.


    Ok.


    We got our stuff and checked out. The AA was quiet. There were a lot of people but they weren’t doing a lot. The city looked quite deserted and was in a mess. It seems riots and raids had done a number on the city. It reminded me of the state Fahjin was in.


    I covered us in illusions and started the trip to Boshi town which took 2 weeks. We decided to rest out in the rural areas because cities and villages were a bad idea now.


    <hr>


    It was mid-March and we had arrived on one of the mountain tops looking out over the empty space that used to be the country of Yzs. Some land from North Hjuva was also taken but not a lot. North Hjuva is a country by the way. I was quite surprised to know they named a country North Hjuva and not something else. I suppose the humans ran out of inspiration and apparently the Misha capital lies in North Hjuva. How the humans distinguish North Hjuva from the northern parts of Hjuva is a mystery to me. But that’s not my problem.


    “It’s still a strange sight…”


    Looking at this hole feels like looking at Abyss magic.


    It does indeed, what happens if one were to fall into this Agnis?


    I inspected the hole with my eyes.  Hmm, actually, Greg you might want to try to attune to this hole if possible, falling in this hole will turn you into energy which will get fed to the planet, similar to abyss magic.


    Wait so if we throw a god into this, we can kill it?  Raishin asked as he pointed at the abyss.


    Seems so.


    So, does this hole really need to be covered up? We can use this!


    Of course! The continent is completely crippled at the moment!


    Just try to see what you can find out; I will be making the connection to Yzs in 10 minutes. From what the dimensional map told me, I can conclude that it is stuck in another dimension bubble, quite like Hourai but way smaller. We might have to deal with whatever lives there.


    “Is that good or bad news?”


    Probably bad news… my intuition tells this is a bad idea.


    Hmm, I don’t quite understand this hole but I got the gist of it. I will have to investigate more after we return.


    So confident, we have a 21% to not make it back you know. You guys can stay here, I could do this alone.


    Absolutely not! We ride or die!


    Yeah! Nobody gets left behind!


    Well then hope you guys are ready.


    I created the area in illusions and went 9t mode. Time started to glitch and space started to fold. I ironed out the space between Yzs and us. I fixed the flow of time and waited till it turned into a constant. I grabbed them with my tails.


    Last chance to chicken out.


    Let’s get them back and become the heroes!


    “I am ready!”


    I will take care of any energy anomalies.


    I dashed over the road of spatial fabric I had made, into a dark purple portal. It would bring us to our destination with unknown challenges.