Manga World: Bringing Steam Technology to the World of Sanctuary

Christel now sits on a cart pulled by a bull, at the entrance to the cave a basic camp was created with walls of earth and stone sacks and a tent.

A group of ten Rogues stayed behind to clean up and defend the cave. Aside from collecting all the materials that could be used to make tools, weapons and armor, they burned the bodies of the creatures to prevent their flesh from further corrupting, giving birth to undead monsters like Gouls. They don't want it to become infested with vile creatures again.

Christel looked around her as she rode in the wagon, at the wide pasture with a few hills and few trees. Every tree looked dry, but they still had some green leaves if you looked closely.

Although it is thought of as grassland, it is more of a wasteland of black soil, and not of the black soil that is highly fertile, but where it seems there was a nuclear explosion and a contamination that does not allow even a weed to grow. The land has been in suffering and agony.

But somehow, Christel feels that the land is now slowly recovering, it seems that the corruption of the area was born from the depths of the cave and contaminated the entire place.

Christel can sense that they are heading north, as the sun is setting to their left, although this may be wrong, Christel knows that Venus in their solar system rotates in the opposite direction to the blue planet, their home. In the distance, Christel can see a series of mountains, perhaps a mountain range, a mountain range, or the shadow of these mountains in front of the small red glow of the sun behind the dark clouds that cover the entire sky.

Although the dark clouds in the sky give the impression of an impending storm, Christel feels that it is not condensed water vapor that forms these clouds, but something else.

Bored, Christel can only continue watching the passage, as no one else approaches her to talk and they keep a guard against her. The group of six of the former raiding party companions also keep them at a distance in another cart pulled by another bull.

'Bulls... ' aside from the fact that the human race lives on another world and the slim to non-existent chances of life following the same course of evolution, but seeing horses and bulls and humans makes the fear in any traveler's heart dissipate a little. If Christel were another species of humanoid creature, she might have already been put in a cage with a thousand chains if she hadn't been riddled with bullets first.

Moments after the sun disappeared behind the mountain range, Christel could see a settlement lit by torches, it seemed to be surrounded by a 20-foot wooden wall with watchtowers with torches. After a moment, the group approached a stone and wooden bridge that crossed a river, the bridge is wide and sturdy enough for four wagons to pass side by side.

A group of humans were doing cleaning and repair work. Christel could see large bonfires on both sides of the bridge where they were throwing the corpses of huge rats.

A group of people approached across the wooden and stone bridge, and my group stopped. The female warriors who were riding on horseback dismounted and gave the reins of their horses to some women who were taking them away to rest and give them food and water. Those who were riding in carts also got off and allowed other people to take the carts leading the bulls.

Christel also jumped off the wagon at the signal of the orange-haired leader woman who, throughout the journey, although she did not speak to her, stayed by her side at all times.

Her former adventure group approached with their heads bowed as they stood in front of a woman in purple robes, wearing a dark brown dress, various green jewelry and taller than the leading warrior girl, perhaps 190 centimeters and with a voluptuous body that is noticeable despite the dress and robe and approximately 40 years old. 'Do people in the world of Sanctuary grow more because of devilish energies?'

She has brown hair and blue eyes and is very similar to the Female Leader.

Christel stepped to the side of the bridge and watched as the Mature Woman pulled out a cane from somewhere and began to hit my former playmates on the head, hitting each one once, so much so that I can almost say they each got a bump. The wood of the cane seems soft, as it didn't hurt them, but it did cause them pain, bringing tears and complaints from the girls.

After hitting the six girls, the mature woman hugged each of them, but after hugging the leading warrior girl, she gave her another blow to the head in the same spot. Christel could almost see that the bump had gotten bigger.

Christel recognized her from the start. 'Akara, the head High Priestess of the 'Brotherhood of the Blind Eye' and leader of the Rogue Camp.

The Brotherhood of the Sightless Eye is a highly organized and mysterious guild among the peoples of the East, comprised of women and their highly skilled archers. The guild appears in Act I of Diablo II, in which the brotherhood has been driven out of the ancestral Rogue Monastery by the forces of the Demon Queen Andariel. The surviving Rogues have established the Rogue Camp, which serves as the hero's main base during Act I. Additionally, a large portion of the brotherhood has been corrupted by Andariel, especially Blood Raven, who is the Rogue from the game Diablo I. Apparently, the strongest warriors of the Brotherhood chose to ally themselves with evil. 'And at the slightest opportunity, I will take them back.'

Christel remembers that when you start and the first mission is the cave of evil, the character upon entering can find corpses of women and especially one, who, apparently, has not been dead for many days. Christel thought that, nowhere in the cave, she found recent corpses of rogue sisters. Therefore, she believes that she arrived at the right time and days before the hero characters arrived at the camp.

While Christel was thinking, it seemed that the girls' sermon and punishment had finally arrived, and they were allowed to enter the camp. But when the leaders were not looking, the youngest girl with blue locks, ran up to them in an instant and in a quick movement, took Christel's hands with hers and gave her a quick kiss on the back of her hand, then ran away with a smile and a wave of her hands, as if saying "goodbye, see you later."

Being a quick and apparently well thought out and planned movement, no one had time to react and by the time it was all over, the women remembered my existence.

Kashya, with a serious look, tells him about my learned existence from the six girls and takes out the amber-colored gem.

"I'll leave the interrogation to you Sister Akara, I have to supervise and assign the night watch." And with a turn Kashya left with the other female archers.

"Follow me, child, let us enter; it is dangerous at night in the bloody wasteland. I am Akara, high priestess of the Brotherhood of the Sightless Eye. I welcome you to our camp, wanderer, but I fear I can offer you little shelter within these rickety walls. What is your name?"

"Hello this lady, my name is Christel Oudara Velky, Christel, Christel is a compound name created by my mother Lluvia Oudara Velky, and it comes from the word Cristal and Oudara Velky is my family name, I am 11 years old and I am a third grade high school student recently enrolled at Kuoh Academy, my favorite color...". 'Ha! Long introduction? I can do it too...'

And so, as Christel followed the mature woman Akara, as they talked they crossed the bridge and entered the camp, and so Christel talking nonsense, they headed to the right of the entrance towards a white tent of skins and fabrics.

Akara, inviting Christel to enter her tent, Christel noticed that the internal size was spacious, at the back there are a series of skins that must serve as a bed, to the right of the entrance there is a table and chairs and next to it a smaller table with a chair that Christel believes functions as a desk.

On the left side of the tent, there are a series of wooden boxes shaped like chests and wooden wardrobes. In the middle there is a log about 4 meters high that serves as a pillar to support the tent and on the perimeters there are smaller and thinner logs that support the tent.

Around the main trunk, there is a blue pentagram drawn that occasionally flickers with a faint light.

"Nee-an(young lady) Christel, may you please sit in the middle of this circle..." Akara, along the way, used the gem to talk to the golden-haired girl who calls herself Christel. Using the gem requires her magic and spiritual energy, so it is somewhat tiring. She placed the gem on a blue-painted circle in the pentagram array drawn on the ground and asked Christel to enter.

Christel didn't care, if it's some magic pentagram to protect herself against devils and beings from hell, Christel feels like nothing will happen to her, she's just an ordinary human from a world where they don't believe in magic or anything mystical, although she has been reincarnated once and traveled to another world after sleeping and that she awakened a normal telekinesis magic like Professor X or Jean Gray with the difference that she can also summon elements of ice, earth and fire, and maybe other elements.

In Christel's mind wandering, she jumped to avoid stepping on those lines of the magic matrix and placed herself in the circle marked near the amber gem. With the amber gem, the glow of the matrix lasted longer, but it still had pulses of glow.

Akara sat in another circle inside the matrix on the side near Christel. This way, the energy spent to have a conversation will be much less. And so, Akara can ask the important questions and have a more serious conversation. Also, if Christel is a demon pretending and disguising herself as a little girl, she can expel him with the help of this magic matrix.

"Well Nee-an Christel..."

"Just call me Christel, Your Excellency High Priestess Akara. . . " 'I know how to show off too,' Christel would say with a smile, as she recalled the times as CEO when she would have been praising and ingratiating senior officials and important clients.

"Cough, cough. You can just call me Akara, Christel."

"Well, Sister Akara, what do you want to ask me..."

Christel said with a smile as Akara looked into her eyes. 'This child is very well-behaved and with thoughts of an adult, it's not something a little girl can do, but she has a familiar name, albeit a family I've never heard of, it's strange that a little lady from a noble aristocratic family would feel so at ease in an unfamiliar place and alone, and not only that, she also helped in the fight against the undead and hell creatures in the cursed cave, with magic. '

"So, Christel, can you tell me, how did you end up inside the cave to the north? Are you lost?"

"Well, Sister Akara, would you believe me if I told you that I appeared inside the cave, after I fell asleep in my own bed, in my own room, and in my own house?..."