Game of Higher Hands - Blank Pages

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The hotel was quiet again.

Only two people stayed in the room.

Me.

And Noah.

He was already asleep.

I looked at him.

"...How?"

It had only been a few minutes.

He was sleeping so peacefully that I almost wondered if the end of the world had never happened.

I sat on the edge of the bed.

Before sleeping, I opened the official ability app out of habit.

Just to check.

The screen loaded.

My latest evaluation record appeared.

Then...

A small notification popped up.

Level Updated

"...?"

I tapped it.

The number changed.

Level 10

I blinked.

"So it can increase..."

I leaned back against the wall.

The last few weeks...

I had fought almost every day.

Forbidden Zones.

Mutated monsters.

Training.

Running.

Using my abilities over and over again.

Maybe...

levels weren't fixed.

Maybe they grew.

Not because of time.

But because of experience.

Or perhaps...

because of understanding.

I suddenly remembered the abandoned research station.

Abilities are not created.

They come from the same source.

Strength does not decide the limit.

The degree of fusion decides the limit.

Fusion...

I looked at my hands.

"So..."

"Am I getting stronger..."

"Or am I simply understanding it better?"

No answer.

My eyes slowly moved toward Noah.

Still asleep.

Completely unaware.

Lucky guy.

I looked out the window.

Then...

Another person came to my mind.

Mòr Weiss.

A Level 6 space user.

A girl who claimed she could only store things.

Yet somehow...

A falling object disappeared before anyone could react.

She had raised her hand.

Only a little.

No one else noticed.

I did.

"...Who are you..."

I whispered.

Then...

My thoughts drifted again.

The Archive.

The Seventh Era.

The locked book.

The strange sentence.

The Seventh Era has ended.

"..."

A thought suddenly appeared.

A crazy one.

"What if..."

"I don't wait for it to pull me in?"

"What if..."

"I try to enter it?"

I closed my eyes.

I imagined the white space.

The endless library.

The stone.

The words.

The shelves.

The old smell.

The silence.

I focused.

Harder.

Then—

That familiar feeling returned.

The world suddenly became weightless.

Everything disappeared.

My body felt lighter.

A flash of white.

The next second—

I opened my eyes.

"...Yes!"

The white world.

The endless empty space.

And standing before me...

The Seventh Era Archive.

I laughed.

"It worked."

"My guess was right."

Without wasting another second—

I ran.

Fast.

Very fast.

I remembered exactly where the book was.

New Era 001.

If I was going to be thrown out again...

Then I had to read it before that happened.

I rushed through the giant library.

Past endless shelves.

Past silent corridors.

Almost there.

I could already see it.

The book.

Only a few more steps.

I reached out.

"...Almost!"

Then—

My feet left the ground.

"What?"

I stopped running.

No.

I couldn't.

My body slowly floated upward.

"...Hey."

"Not again."

I tried to move.

Nothing.

Something invisible was pulling me.

Not toward the book.

Toward the center of the library.

I drifted through the air until I stopped above the middle of the great hall.

"...What triggered this?"

Before I could think—

Flip.

A sound echoed through the Archive.

Then another.

And another.

Hundreds.

Thousands.

The sound of turning pages filled the hall.

I looked around.

Books.

Not every book.

But most of them.

They slowly rose from the shelves.

Floating.

Circling around me.

Their pages turned wildly.

As if a powerful wind had appeared.

But...

Every page was blank.

Nothing.

Not a single word.

Thousands of empty pages.

I looked closer.

The titles.

Every floating book had almost the same name.

New Era 001

New Era 002

New Era 003

New Era 004

New Era 005

New Era 006

New Era 021

New Era 065

New Era 089

New Era 166

New Era 276

New Era 318

...

New Era 998

"..."

I couldn't understand it.

Before I could think any further—

One book slowly opened in front of me.

New Era 001

The first page appeared.

It read:

Logos created Earth 007.

It released monsters into that world and placed a curse upon it.

From different timelines and different planets, dangerous, strange, exciting, and deadly things would be sent to Earth from time to time. They would appear as Forbidden Zones.

Danger. More danger. Logos created danger to raise the strongest... "him".7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrpV3phVWrA

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