The New World -Ornia

Ugh, I'm not dead? Euodia woke up with a groan, she felt weakness in all her muscles that moving was very difficult. How did I get back to Earth? She wondered as she struggled to sit. Thinking back to what happened in the space-ship drops of sweat fell from her forehead and her back became soaked. That was a spatial wormhole I fell into, fortunately, I invented this suit, or I'd be as dead as the other boarders. But where is this? Thinking up to this point she turned her head to look around, she was sitting in a lush forest with tall green trees all around her. The ground was surprisingly warm and there were some beautiful strange flowers she had never seen before. She had never seen trees like these before either, or the beautiful fruits on them. Did I somehow get to an untouched island? I'm buying it if I get out of here. Deciding to look around she tried to get up but at this time a sound came to her ears and a transparent energy screen was displayed before her. I still have my system. Then it should be easy to call someone to get me. 'Rebooting System... 0%... 20%... 60%... 99%...' What's going on? Get to a hundred Rebecca, I need to identify these things. Euodia groaned in her heart. She didn't feel like getting up anymore since she decided to wait to get her system back. Technology on Earth was very much advanced than in the 2000s. Now every Earthling had a personal AI assistant in a system that was created and installed uniquely in their brain. The system had five intelligence levels and three sublevels in each level. The levels were S, A, B, C, and D. With S as the highest and D as the lowest. Each level had three grades with Grade 3 as the lowest and Grade 1 the highest. Intelligence levels could be upgraded; unfortunately for the rich, not with money. Instead status and contribution to the country determined the AI levels. Euodia had an A level, Grade 3 system because her parents were part of the team who created systems. About four hours later Euodia who was already asleep was awakened by a notification. 'System Booted... Hello Euodia, you are in an unfamiliar universe and I am unable to connect to Earth's servers' "What? Are you saying this is not Earth?" Euodia cried aloud. ‘Yes you are not on Earth' Rebecca responded bluntly. Euodia was stunned speechless for a while before she spoke again. "Rebecca, can you identify these plants?" Although she was shocked Euodia was an intelligent girl. She had no friends or relatives on Earth or anything she was attached to. After her parent's death, she learned to rely only on herself. Being here or on Earth had no difference to her as long as she was alive. She turned to stare at a flower that caught her eye for a few seconds before she looked at the next, and like so she observed about twelve plants since Rebecca could only see and feel what she saw and felt. 'I am unable to identify these plants' Rebecca answered after a while. She was a high-level intelligent existence so she spoke less like a machine and more like a human. As her intelligence improves she'd become more human-like and perhaps someday she could develop emotions. "Can you identify anything here?" Euodia asked again looking around curiously. 'No, I am unfamiliar with everything except time' "Great! That means you are useless on this planet" 'I can tell you darkness comes in about an hour' Euodia froze for a moment as she heard Rebecca's words. I won't be sleeping out in the open will I? She immediately got up and walked towards the brighter part of the forest. Euodia had a bold and adventurous personality, since after her parents she took time every day to train her body with guidance from top trainers around the world, even partaking in military training in many countries. Brisk walking a long distance was no trouble for her especially with the suit she was wearing. The protective suit on her lowered the air resistance and although the effect wasn't obvious since she was only walking slowly, it was still there. Aside from lowering air resistance, it was made of the most flexible and strongest material in the solar system -Lay ore, making it just like any normal clothing but impenetrable to normal weapons and very light. With nothing to worry about safety, Euodia walked a few kilometers in under thirty minutes before she stopped. "I shouldn't be able to walk this fast no?" she asked herself aloud. Surprisingly Rebecca was helpful at this time, taking the initiative to explain. 'When you fell into the wormhole at the spatial barrier of the universe and crossed over, you came in contact with a large amount of this world's energy. It was pure to the extent of liquifying and your suit absorbed it and is slowly strengthing your body with it. If you do some intense training now, it will benefit you greatly' Listening to Rebecca's explanation, Euodia fell silent for a while. "Are you saying this world has some strange energy?" she asked. 'Yes' "And I absorbed purer energy of the same type in a large amount?" 'Yes' "What's the difference in purity?" 'It's incomparable. Estimated over a thousand percent purer' Euodia froze for a moment. If this energy is like those in the books I read then the people of this world would kill for it. I hope no one can sense it from my body. Without another word she moved forward into the distance, the trees around had larger gaps between and the grasses were thinning out which meant she was almost out of the forest. At this time she heard sounds of men fighting and shouting and the growl of a beast. Someone is out hunting? Blending with the surrounding trees her suit turned green and extended from her neck to cover her head, leaving only her face open. She stealthily approached the sound where the fight was going on. When she arrived at the scene she was shocked by what she saw, the beasts surrounding these people were like nothing she had seen before. It looked like a wolf with the teeth of a saber lion and short wings. On their firm, muscular paws were very long nails like the claws of three eagles. Their iridescent manes sparked under the red sunlight... These creatures were beautiful in their way, unfortunately, the way they slaughtered the group of about thirty humans was way too savage. As she observed the fight she noticed that the humans were looking anxiously in her direction, at first she thought she was discovered but in time she found a staff half-buried on the ground below her. True, Euodia was no hero, but she didn't mind helping them if throwing the staff to them was all she needed to do. Digging out the half-buried staff, Euodia threw it to the only woman wearing a robe as she figured she was the leader of the group. As she threw the staff her eyes met with the middle-aged woman who was ready to catch it, in that short moment she saw several indescribable emotions in the woman's eyes. Grief, loss, helplessness, even anxiety. “ghc##**$!!” The woman announced a strange cry. Although Euodia could not understand her she could sense that the woman was worried about her. Everything happened too fast, as soon as the woman caught the staff a bright light sphere expanded from her, covering her people and the beasts who were still fighting. The wounds of her people began to heal but the beast dissolved to sand in no time. These beasts seemed to have some intelligence because as soon as they saw their comrades die under the light sphere they avoided it with all they could. Euodia who was hiding in the shrubs was alarmed, partly due to shock at the oddness of the beast's death and mostly because some of them were fleeing in her direction. She could see the woman beckoning her to come over but to get there she had to go through the beasts. The woman wearing the robe had a kind heart because she was already running toward Euodia to cover her with the energy sphere ignoring her people. Unfortunately, the beasts were faster than she was. Seeing the approaching danger Euodia woke herself from her stupor to run without even considering the direction. Unknown to her she was going deeper into the forest. The middle-aged woman panicked and she tried to chase after them but the speed of both Euodia and the beasts way more than two levels higher than her.