'Til Kingdom Comes - The Banished Prince Vol 3: The Prophecy

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When we reached the domain, our twins were handed to the domain helpers and we told them that we would be at the study to do somethings and do not shed to be diatribes for about an hour.

The domain helpers acknowledged and began to take out some books to entertain the twins and distract them awhile since we would be away to our realm in our little study.

The twins were brought to the halte near the school where there are a fountain and some fishes for them to feed as well as the domain helpers read them the books that they were carrying.

Actually, those books were blank pages and it's up to the imagination of these domain helpers to captivate the minds of the twins though their imaginative storytelling.

With the twins out of the way, Heather races me upstairs as she ran up the stairwell first and followed by me closely behind.

Before we start I strongly advised to Heather, "Dear, remember what I told you before, right? Do not touch anything there except for my guidance. I haven't even gone through a lot of things there so whatever thugs there stays over there unless I say so."

I advised her once again and she understood. I later guided her how to meditate and citron her breathing as I told her that I would be holding her hands and when we reached the realm, I would wake her up and we both can venture there together.

She was too excited to keep still and soon we both were sitting cross-legged in the study as we meditated off slowly and once Heather had entered her own meditative state of mind, I meditated and then in a few short moments, had arrived at the realm with Heather beside me.

After I had swiped the rooms to arrive at the White Room instead of in order not to scare Heather up, I gently call out her name and asked her to open her eyes slowly. The moment she opened up her eyes, she can't help but squeal in delight at what she saw before her.

There was the two-seater throne, a set of encyclopedia book stand beside it, a table with a copper tun that dispenses hot steaming and some cups. The next sentence that came out from Heather had a tone of disappointment.

"Huh...? That's all this to it dear? All it had in this realm is this room? I was expecting a lot of pieces of equipment that you had mentioned before but as soon as I arrived here, I saw the same old things we had back at home. Don't you have any better thugs over here to make it  livelier?"

I could only laugh at her since I explained that if we happen to arrive in the other rooms, she would be most surprised. It would be better to arrive and leave in this room and I introduced the White Room to her.

After introducing her to the White Room as our prep room, I stepped back a few steps and told Heather to stand behind me and closed her eyes as I'm about to change the room to the next one — the Distiller Room.

Once I had pressed the directional arrow on my information system panel, the current room swiped across and switched to the distiller room where a dozen of large glass distillers were mounted on tripods and had single burners underneath it and attached to the blue coloured canisters.

"Welcome to the Distiller Room, honey. Go ahead and take a look. This is the place where my two previous selves had spent their time to concoct out certain essences and extracts from resins, flowers, fruits and woods."

When Heather opened up her eyes, she was amazed that the White Room had been replaced to this Distiller Room. She asked, "Dear, why do I need to close my eyes when you asked me to just now, eh? You wanted to play tricks on me, right? Hehehe."

"Not really dear, I asked you to close your eyes because you might get dizzy and faint when I changed the rooms across."

"It's a swiping motion and the speed the room revolves would make you dizzy for sure. It's like spinning on the spot for several rotations and all you could see would be rooms changing as well as the contents."

"If I don't ask you to close your eyes, you would not get used to it, just like what I did before. But now I'm quite alright and go ahead and explore."

"Whatever questions you ask may be answered by Ceres inside my head or through the realm here, is that right, Ceres?"

I called out and true enough, Ceres sounded in the realm and Heather could hear it well too. "Does Ceres take any shape or form?" Heather asked and Ceres answered negatively. "All I appear would be in a vocal form inside Audemars mind when we are in the real world and throughout the realm over here."

"Besides, Welcome to the realm of Audemars' mind, Heather. You may hold whatever you want to touch but you can't bring out things that don't exist in your world. You can ask anything you need since Audemars had not been spending time over here much."

Ceres spoke up and Heather nodded her head as if Ceres do have eyes and could see Heather's actions.

Heather flitted around the area and touched and tapped her fingernails in the glass distillers as she had never seen glass before. In fact, no one does since glass was not even invented some 400 years later...!

She asked a lot of questions while I visualised an armchair for me to sit as Heather was peering inside every single distiller and was smelling all the extract there is inside the glass apparatus.

Luckily she was the curious type and she asked what's the thing underneath the distillers and what are the blue coloured metal canisters for. Ceres was patient enough to answer all of Heather's inquiries and soon I told Heather we would proceed to the next room — The Smelter.

I told Heather to hold on to my arm as I slowly hovered my hand forward and pressed the directional arrow underneath the information system panel where the current room swiped past and changed to the Smelter instead.

Heather was once again awed at the changes and informed me that she does not feel a bit dizzy after she looked straight ahead when the rooms shifted. She saw the whole setup of the smelter and asked me if I had tried my hands at it.

I explained that I had not the time but I had watched the operations of the smelter through my former self as a young boy together with a young man whom I guessed had piggybacked over here.

I explained that the young boy and man was hauling pieces of broken scrap pieces of weapons and armours and dropping them over the flat surface here which Ceres mentioned was the conveyor belt.

The pieces then travelled over to the smelter where the young man would scoop out the slag and threw them aside before pressing some buttons to let the molten liquid from the smelter to come out from the bottom end and into moulds of 10 pieces per tray.

After filling the moulds, it would be pushed into these tunnel with the windmills which Ceres explained was the forced cooling chamber with extraction cooling fans and exhaust fans on the top and bottom of the 100-foot long tunnel.

"Ceres, don't mind taking over as the guide here? I myself is not familiar with this place since I've got nothing to smelt even. Hahaha."

I called out to Ceres and it gladly took over from me as it explained to Heather the functions of each process and even to the buttons of the dispensing smelter, the quantity as well as the dimensions of the plates right down to the cooling time for each mould.

Ceres even explained the number of purified iron and refined steel plates that could even be made into weapons and armours and equipped a 1,000 strong army.

When I heard they there are enough iron and steel plates to equip a 1,000 strong army, I was wondering how many thousand pieces of those plates that the young boy and man had made and spent their time in here...!

"What is the meaning of refined steel and purified iron, Ceres? Do you mind explain in more details since I am not a technical person."

Heather chatted with Ceres and it replied that "Purified iron is 95% iron composite inside it and 5% is the slag or impurities."

"Refined steel is 97% steel composite inside it and 3% is the slag or impurities. Steel is much stronger than Iron and the lesser the impurities, the stronger and more durable it would be."

Seeing that Heather had little interest in those iron and steel plates since she had virtually no use for them at all, we decided to move on to the next room — the Fusion Chamber.

Stepping behind a few steps and hugging my hand, Heather was excited as we travelled it the next one. She was mentioned that there are a lot of pieces of machinery in there and it was used to duplicate a lot of things and there's even a Gutenberg machine and she had some kind of idea to use the machine for the meeting later.

When the room was swiped across, it changed to the Fusion Chamber, the last room before we head back to the White Room to exit to our real world later on.

"This is the place where I fused the steel plates onto the pieces of soldier's uniforms before sending it to Innes before."

"I also had fused the steel plates into the pieces of armour belonging to the Shadow unit members as well."

The one that I was wearing was left behind by Robin the Hood and it fitted me perfectly." I explained to Heather as she watched with seeing the types of machinery that stood before her in a kind of magnifique and grandeur manner.

"Anything that you do, do not pull back the lever at the sides of the machines or else it will trigger the activation of a production. You may flip around the dials so it would give you an idea of what these machines could do in a single process."

"Look over the crates and you can find the gemstones, trinkets, pamphlets and also the Gutenberg machine."

"Also there's a lot of crates that had the plates when I used to fuse them into the armour via the machines. Ceres would be able to answer your queries, dear."

I notified Heather as I visualised yet another armchair and it appeared beside me without Heather even realising it.

I sat down on it and watched Heather flitted across the huge spacious Fusion Chamber room as she literally climbed over some of the crates to check out every single content stored inside it.

It was like a treasure hunt for her and in her hand, I saw she had 3 pieces of amulets and had gone through the crates of gemstones to find the best and biggest rock she could ever find...! Hahaha...!!

"Dear, look at what I found...! These amulets would be great on me right and the children as well, right? Come and help me pick these gemstones...so many of them and I can't help but choose the best one for me and the children...!"

Heather was squealing in delight as she rummaged through the crates that were marked as good and I explained to her that 5 poor gems need to be fused to be fair ones and t fair ones to be fused to be good ones.

I told her to check how many sockets the amulets have and she told me there's 3 of them and advised her to pick any 9 good gemstones so I would be able to guide her how to enhanced these gemstones into the sockets through the machines.

"Alright, but why do you need to fuse them in stages from poor to fair and then to good quality ones?" Heather asked and before I could answer Ceres voice sounded through the realm to aid me out.

After explaining the traits and attributes of the gemstones, she had picked up a diamond and 2 rubies instead to be enhanced and socketed through the machines.

I brought Heather to one of the machines, taught her how to reset it to default and turn the dial accordingly.

I explained that to enhance and socket the amulets, she had to turn the dials accordingly to its category and make sure it is all standardised.

I slid the door open and told her to put the amulet in the centre while the gemstones could be placed anywhere inside.

I instructed her to close the door and then pull the lever. She watched with amazement at the revolving lights as her eyes followed its circular motion before she gave up and sat in my armchair which she remarked that the armchair wasn't there before.

I laughed and told her in this place I could visualise anything I wished and it would appear in this realm for my personal use.