Dimensional Descent

Leonel slowly opened his eyes. As he did so, there was a knock at his door before it opened. Aina walked in with a tall bundle of paper and handed them to him. They seemed to carry the recipes that he had asked her for. He nodded lightly and accepted it before he waved a hand, and it vanished, likely off to whomever he had tasked with doing such things.

"It's also about time to return," Aina said.

Leonel stood, understanding her meaning. "What are the details?"

"Alienor says that it's a four-person entry. The name of the Sub-Dimensional Zone is: Merlin's Prophecy. Earth's Ancient History."

Leonel frowned. Earth's Ancient History? What was that supposed to mean? It didn't pin down any sort of era, nor did it mention a myth. He assumed that this would be a Mythological Zone, but maybe that had been an incorrect assumption in the first place. After all, there had also been Joan's Zone which had such a prefix, but it was a normal Zone that went back in time to an obvious era of history just like one might expect. Just because Camelot's Zone was Mythological in nature didn't mean that the next would be.

It was impossible to establish a pattern with just two, but maybe this Zone would be purposely unlike the first two. But all of this was questionable and uncertain.

Earth's Ancient History could mean too many things, and many of the matters that had occurred prior to the establishment of the American Empire were far too blurry, and it only got worse after the Ascension Empire took over the world.

the world was like before the war began, at least not much beyond the immediate past of the situation. On top of that, because the tectonic

CE, and certainly anything before, was far more blurred than anyone wanted to admit; the profession of archaeology and history was mostly dead, although still

out of nowhere, and he likely wasn't even a true native of Earth, at least

or the Sphinx, or anything of the like, had long since been destroyed, removed, and replaced by monuments of the Ascension Empire instead. As for archaeology, whereas it had once been a profession of field study, language, and deduction, it had mostly become one of deduction and theory, not much different from the field of cutting-edge physics, and yet much

speculated that the pyramids were built by ancient beings, or that Atlantis had truly once existed, or even that the

bit of a cooky professor who went by Teacher Midnight. That wasn't even his real name; he just insisted on calling himself that as he felt that the world of archaeology was in a dark age. He found this to be very lamentable and changed his name in

quite well-known as the crazy teacher, and Leonel had only taken one of his classes. Funny enough, it was that

He was actually the only one on the whole of Earth with that title, but he taught at the third-ranked school instead of the first. One could see just how little the title was valued

check, but the situation in the school wasn't good at the time, and the World Spirit's portals would have only picked up the youths. That

wouldn't have bothered to go and find him. He was likely too weak, for one. And everything he knew was mostly theory. Leonel could read more and know more than him in a single sitting; it wasn't

way he would approach Zones now was very much