Re:START/If {Book 1.0}
Chapter 6: Original nature and departure

The sun began to rise and brought a new cloudy day. Inside the dining room of Luke's family residence, the tense atmosphere was felt quite clearly by the servants standing at the place. Dart looks angry, while Mavis looks restless. The reason the two of them looked unhappy was none other than their son, Odo, who had not been to the dining room for breakfast together.

Although Julia had been ordered to call the child, Dart and Mavis still could not calm down given Odo's howling yesterday. Mavis, who was sitting next to Dart, stood up and went to call Odo herself.

“Wait ..!” Dart holds Mavis' hand and stops her from leaving. “Julia is calling him, soon Odo will also come,” he continued the old man.

“Ta-But ...” The lady dressed in a luxurious tanned dress looked anxious. As a mother, it was natural that she felt worried for her son after seeing a strange gurgle from him yesterday. Even now, the black line under the blond-haired woman's eye pouch was clearly visible as a sign of her not getting enough sleep last night as she continued to think about her son.

Dart stood up, then gently touched the woman's cheek with his palm saying, “I know you're worried about her, but please also pay attention to the condition of your body. If your condition worsens, isn't Odo worried too?”

Mavis fell silent, then recalled Odo's words a few days ago about the child's growing burden of thought. With guilt, Mavis bowed her head and increasingly felt unworthy as a Mother.

“And I was always near him, but .. I could not make him happy at all .... In fact, when in front of me .., the child .. always forced his smile. Dart ..., do I still deserve to be called Mother by her?”

Mavis lifted her face and started crying, tears flowing through her cheeks and dripping. Seeing that, Dart immediately rubbed him, then hugged his wife.

“Just relax ..., you're his mother. No matter what happens, you will always be his mother and he is our son. The child may only be in a period of instability, you used to often read books on how to parent before Odo was born, ‘kan?”

“Ta-But ... my dear ..., you saw Odo yesterday, didn't you? That Eve, that gaze, seen from wherever it is not something that a child who is not even ten years old can have!”

Dart hugged Mavis tighter and hoped his wife would not discuss the matter again. Dart himself is more understanding than Mavis if the gaze Odo saw yesterday is very unusual, it looks like the gaze of a magic monster who often roams in his territory.

“That child ..., actually what does it want to do until it retrieves the Magic Core from the monster?”

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In front of her Young Master's room door, Julia stood up and seemed hesitant to open it. Not only because of the awkwardness because Odo had seen his embarrassing side, but also because of the terrible existence of the black-haired child that he felt yesterday.

“That time ..., I couldn't even move and just trembled. Why did Mr. Odo get like that ..., whereas a few days ago he was still ...”

Julia lowered her head, feeling guilty that maybe her young master's change was caused by her. Both of his cat ears looked limp, and his tail moved to the left right in agitation.

With all the courage she gathered in a few minutes standing in front of the room door, Julia held the doorknob and opened it. After seeing what was inside, he was immediately very surprised because the room looked very messy.

Scribbles of magic circles made using black ink filled the floor and walls of the room, even on the sheets and curtains that were splashed on the floor there was a magic circle whose shape was unusual. In the room there is also a strange fragrant aroma and the smell of rotten fruit semen.

“A-What happened ...? Why does the Young Master's room have a magic structure like this? Mr Odo, where are you? Ladies and gentlemen call you in the dining room! Please don't hide and see⸻”

Julia stepped in, looking at the scan of the room as she covered her nose from the scented scent mixed with a poison-like scent. Because the smell is quite sharp, the smell is also smelled mixed in the aroma that he smelled.

He immediately walked towards the window and opened it, letting the air circulation run and let out an unpleasant aroma that filled the room. On re-examining the place, he was again surprised because Odo was really nowhere.

“Master Odo ...? Mister? Don't prank Julia and get out! Your mother and father are already waiting in ruan⸻”

Before she could finish her words, Julia realized that there was really no one but herself. Realizing this, his vow paled instantly, fear plagued him for having to tell Mavis and Dart.

“Ba-How is this ...?”

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A few kilometers south of Luke's Mansion, among the trees in the forest is a campground in the open. It was a temporary headquarters used for the Astral World expedition. Although the expedition had failed, but all the leather tents were still not dismantled and the soldiers who survived were still seen passing through.

Tents numbering more than hundreds were built circularly filled the vast grasslands, with some tents serving as storage for supplies or food warehouses.

Right in the middle of the vast campground, there is a twelve-meter-wide Altar with twelve marble pillars surrounding it. It was a magic gate to the Astral World, a medium to send objects or people within a certain quota using ancient magic structures to the Spirit realm.

In the tree area outside the camp, Odo leaned against the tree and hid in the bushes observing the dark base. The gloomy face, the lost spirit, and the sad face of losing comrades, there were all sorts of expressions visible from the soldiers present. But none of them looked happy or excited.

“Ya .., it's natural they all look dead like that .... But, to be honest, it was a good thing that I had trailed Dart during the first expedition. If they do not change the place for Transit, then the pillars there are indeed the gates of the Astral World yes ..”

Odo quickly climbed up a thick-leaved tree and sat on its branch. From above, he observed the campgrounds of the soldiers and searched for an infiltrating route to go to the main tent near the Altar.

“The care ... flaccid once .... Yeah, I don't care either, it's in my favor.”

Odo increased the magic pressure on a minimal scale, then began chanting a light magic spell, “In the stream of light, which awaited the world as I wished. The soul cannot be deceived, but form and form are biased. My form is biased, therefore this form can change according to my will.., Mimikri.”

Within seconds, faint light particles enveloped Odo's body as a whole. After the particles disappeared, Odo's figure turned into the figure of his father, Dart Luke, who was wearing clothes just as the man was last seen by him.

Mimicry is a light element magic that manipulates the light around the user to create visual illusions and visually change the user's shape, in other words almost chameleon-like in nature but at an extreme level, because not only the color changes but the shape also changes completely visually.

“Hem, it seems to work even though it's the first time I've imitated Dad. Alright, now voice stay ...”

Odo holds his own neck, then supplies Mana into the vocal cords and uses voice manipulation magic. He tested the sound by speaking a vowel tone, after being mistaken for a Dart sound, Odo patented the magic frequency of the sound to temporarily form the basis of his voice.

After getting the disguise that felt right, Odo went down and walked in the Camp area. Some people saluted and greeted Odo who was disguised as Dart, He gave a reply according to the character and nature of his father.

Odo's goal was not directly to the Astral World Gate Altar, but to one of the tents which was a storage warehouse for equipment and weapons of war for the expedition. After opening the tent's cloth door and entering, there was no one inside, only a pile of weapons and combat equipment that were mostly broken.

Inside the storage tent, Odo searched and checked the items. When he found a scroll containing a list of equipment data stored in the place, Odo momentarily read the contents and look for the name of the object he was looking for.

“Hem, it is here ..., but where?”

Odo went back to the pile of weapons in the corner of the tent, to the bottom of the table where the pile of documents was, and to the wooden barrels containing broken swords. On re-examining the desk drawer full of piles of documents, Odo found what he was looking for. It was a medallion with an eagle-shaped magic structure engraving on it. The medal has a fiber rope and can be worn like a necklace.

“Hem, finally met also ...”

The object that Odo took was a Special Magic Tool used by Dart during the expedition. The function of such a magic tool was more like an existence stabilizer while in the Astral World. The reason Dart dared to hold an Astral World expedition a second time was also because of the existence of the Special Magic Tool. But, even though it already had an existence stabilizer that had the effect of making the dimensions around the current holder in the Astral World to be stable within a wide range, it was, victory remains unobtainable and the ingredients for the Mavis drug are not obtained.

After wearing the medal, Odo left the storage tent. He continued to use Mimik's magic, and immediately walked towards the Astral World Gate's Altar. Before arriving at the Altar, one of the soldiers called out and made it come to a halt.

“Mr Dart!”

Odo turned around and looked at the soldier. In the illusion magic created, Odo turned Dart's facial expression into seriousness.

“What's up?” tanya Odo used a voice very similar to Dart.

“Master, the Astral World Key Spear has already been returned to the main storage area. Soon the soldiers will be disbanded after the report and the calculation of the loss is completed, Tuanku.”

Observing the soldier wearing a leather vest and not carrying a royal symbol at all, Odo could not guess the position of the soldier in the military. Taking into account only his attitude and manner of speech, Odo gave a response that felt appropriate.

“Hem, good work.”

“Master, after this I need your signature to finish the report. Can you come to the main tent and sign the files?”

“Hem, okay. Before that, can you tell me where the Key Spear is kept? I want to check again?”

The faded brunette soldier looked suspicious. From Dart's orders yesterday, he was ordered to keep the Key Spear because the expedition was completely finished with the result of defeat, but the request made now contradicts.

“For ... what?” The strapping attitude of the soldier dropped, then looked at Odo who was disguised as Dart suspiciously.

Without lowering the concentration of magic he was wearing, Odo answered with no hesitation, “This is an important affair. Don't ask and answer too many questions!”

Odo formed the optical illusion of Mimik Dart nodding in understanding, then walking towards the Main Storage Tent. The previous soldier returned to work with his busyness without the slightest bit of suspicion on Odo in disguise.

“Huh, I forgot that Key Spear. Good thing someone said, otherwise...I could be like a madman standing in the middle of the Altar.”

Arriving at the main storage tent, Odo took out the Key Spear and stored it on the Dimensional Cloak he was wearing. In that place too Odo took out two Existence Stabilizer medals and several other magic weapons such as the Runic Sword and the Dagger, then stuffed them into the Dimensional Cloak.

Before exiting, Odo temporarily shuts down Mimik's magic and waits for the break. After that, He used the magic back without having to cast a spell because the magic structure had formed in Mana that was vaguely still attached to the body.

Odo came out of the tent, then immediately rushed towards the Astral World Gate Altar without even passing by a single soldier. While standing in the middle of the Altar, Odo retrieved the Key Spear from the dimensional Cloak by pressing the magic circle that was on the robe.

Several warriors flashed, seeing the astonished Landlord they were standing in the middle of the Altar while holding the Key Spear in his right hand. As Mana was sent into the Spear with the semicircular blade, Mimik Odo's magic instantly detached as Mana's focus switched center on the spear.

“Tu-Young Master ...?” said the soldier who stopped Odo and told him the location of the Key Spear.

Regardless of the bewildered soldiers, Odo arranged the magic structure on the Key Spear and adjusted it to open the Magic Altar. The black-haired boy scratched in his own hands with the eyes of the Key Spear and dripped fresh blood over the Altar.

Luke's blood instantly became active. The Astral World Gate Altar scattered the seven-colored light and the twelve pillars that existed emitted light according to the attributes in the symbols of each pillar. Fire, water, earth, air, darkness, light, sound, nature, lightning, void, shadow, and shapers that are one pillar with a destroyer, they all shine brightly according to existing attribute elements. These are the twelve basic elements that make up the world.

As the light filled the Altar, Odo directly stuck the Key Spear in the center and turned it around. Instantly the magic structure moved like the serrations of a machine, opening the gates into another dimension. As the light filled the place, Odo smiled darkly with a flat look.

Shiying!!

The pillar of light that shot out from the Altar engulfed Odo's body, soaring into space and opening up the overcast clouds that covered the sky. The pillar towered so high, that even the people in the Luke family Mansion could see it clearly.

Dart who saw that from the window trembled with fear, He knew very well that the pillar was a sign of the active Altar of the Astral World Gate. So did Mavis, the woman immediately looked up at the pillar of light.

“Odo ..?” mavis said with a panicked face. He instantly knew who made the light pillar as a sign of the active Altar of the Spirit World Gate. Of all the people in Luke's family's territory, only those with Luke's blood can activate the gate.

“Mavis ..., don't tell me the altar .... is activated in⸻”

“Indeed, who can activate it!? You are here, it must be him who activated that altar!”

Soon Mavis ran out of the dining room with a panicked face. When he opened the door, he met Julia.

“Julia ..., is the child in the room!?” mavis asked in panic.

“Eh ...?! I-It ..., Young Master ..., he doesn't exist ...”

“Hah? True meaning of the pillar ...”

“Pilar ....?”

Julia looked towards the same window that Mavis and Dart saw. At that moment, the half-cat human girl instantly knew that it was a sign of the active Astral World Gate Altar.

“Julia! Tell Fiola, have him prepare my equipment!” Mavis's orders.

Hearing that, Dart immediately held Mavis' hand and stopped her from coming out of the dining room. “Wait, where are you going?” ask Dart firmly.

“Why? Of course to that pillar of light? Our son ..., Odo must have opened that gate!”

“I know you're worried, but please don't be rash. We're har⸻”

“My darling! .... Please let me do something worthy as a mother .... Please don't seize my right to worry about my son, dear ...”.

The words made Dart let go of Mavis' hand. He bowed guiltily and did not return words. Mavis turned away from the Dart, then rushed away followed by Fiola to prepare herself with the magic equipment.

But after preparing themselves with their magical equipment and tools, as per Mavis's bad premonition, who opened the gate and went to the Astral World was Odo. The testimony of the soldiers who saw it convinced Mavis, Dart, and the two servants who were with them. Worse than that, all the Existence Stabilizing Magic tools were limited in number and the Key Spear was carried by Odo into the Astral World and they completely lost their way to chase after the child.

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|Astral World, the realm of the Roh|

Odo opened his eyes, finding himself sprawled on a fine grass somewhere. The sky was purplish blue, the grass and leaves of the surrounding trees were toska green, from all that he saw when he opened his eyes, all the colors felt very different to what he used to see.

Sitting and looking around, Odo saw strangely colored trees. Although the shape is not too different from the trees that he knew usually, but the color of the stems, leaves, and fruit impressed like a deviant hue saturation effect.

[Note: Hue Saturation; color hue displacement and sharpness]

“This ..., Astral World ...? It feels like this ... really like a different world ...”

On re-observing the surroundings, several Low Level Spirits of various attributes wandered around and began to swarm over him. They were light of various colors, perching on Odo's shoulders and hands without showing hostility. It is not strange to be mobbed by such low-level spirits because Odo's body is characteristic of alluring Spirits, but not with such diverse attributes as now.

“Normally they just huddle with similar attributes, but here they blend in, yes .... Whether it was the attributes of fire and water, light and darkness, everything gathered .... Home village of the Spirits is different ..”

After expelling the surrounding Low-Level Spirits, Odo woke up straighter and puffed out his chest in relief. But just as He was about to cleanse his body of the grass attached to the Dimensional Cloak, suddenly in a matter of seconds a space distortion occurred, and before he was conscious of it, he said, He moved to a very different place than before.

Now Odo stood in a very dark place, the lighting coming from above and was very limited. The atmosphere around where he stood was very humid, and a cold wind came from the surface and blew upwards.

“Eh ...? That ...? Space Distortion ...? Wh why? Though I've brought her Magic Tools ...”

Odo held the medal he wore. Looking back at the existence stabilizer, it turned out to be a damage to the magic structure and there were some scratches that damaged the size inside.

“Yang is right ...? Ah ..., if not wrong this thing I took from ...”

He only realized that the medal he was wearing at this time was indeed taken from a storage place where all the tools there were mostly damaged. It is not strange that the medal is also damaged considering the place he took the magic tool which also contained many damaged weapons.

“Tch! Damnit!” Odo immediately pulled the medal until the rope broke and threw it away. Just as he was about to retrieve one of the other Existence Stabilizing Tools from the Dimensional Cloak, Space Distortion once again occurred and before Odo realized it, he had been moved to another different place.

“Eh ...?”

The place after moving this time there is no place for his feet to stand. Odo floated several hundred meters in an sky, and slowly floated down rapidly. His robe fluttered, his hair was blown upwards, and his body was definitely free-falling from the heights. There were some giant birds with alien shapes flying in the sky around Odo. They did not attack, but the flapping of their wings made Odo oscillate in the air and difficult to solidify the falling position.

“What the heck ...!” Soon Odo used the Dimensional Cloak to be used as a parachute, then made the falling position face to face without being swayed .

Quickly Odo extended his hand towards the ground level below, then instantly activated his Magic Core at the maximum level due to not having time to set up the supply. But before chanting gravity magic and wind magic, Odo once again experienced extreme space displacement.

Brug!

His body was thrown onto the grassy ground due to the momentum present. He rolled over a few times, then immediately got up and immediately took the medal from the Dimensional Cloak. He put it on and immediately activated the magic tool. Instantly around Odo there is stabilization of space and makes it not dragged grooves and grooves of space distortion that applies to the creatures of the mortal world.

“Hah ..., hah ..., this is crazy! What the fuck!? The move is too fast ...”

With a breath of breath, Odo held the medal he had puffed to his own neck. When observing around the place moved, there is a very striking tree. The tree is very large and towering and as if piercing the sky, leafy and large, and some of its giant roots until it looks spread out from the ground.

Looking at the large tree and looking very old, Odo immediately knew that the tree was the Sacred Tree, one of the parts of the tree that connects the whole world. According to the legends in the book, the Sacred Tree was a tree that grew across dimensions and various worlds, growing through the human world, the spirit world, and several other worlds, as well, passing through various dimensions and unifying symbols in the period before the War of the Gods and Demons.

“What is it ... Sacred Tree?