43. Leah

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The 40 minutes weren’t that long.

That’s because there was quite a lot to do besides just downloading.

 

Basically, someone who gets a new body through mound download is pretty much ‘resurrected,’ so there are aftereffects for quite some time.

Even if the body Leah made is a completely mechanical, immortal being.

 

In the end, to minimize those aftereffects and to have a correct understanding of the situation they’re in, there’s a lot to prepare.

 

And even more so if that number is a large group of nearly 800 people.

 

“I was super confused when I was first born, too. Hehe.”

 

Leah reminisced about the old days and hummed.

 

 

 

Unlike the people she’s summoning now, she’s a case of ‘reincarnation.’

 

Facing an unknown enemy and driven to the brink of destruction, her civilization squeezed out its last strength and made a plan, a long-term one that looked ahead hundreds of years.

 

The first step was Leah.

Originally a scientist with a different name, she was reincarnated here, far away, as part of this plan.

 

 

What’s usually called a soul among ordinary people, something that seems far from science, had already been revealed long ago in their civilization.

The conversation between Fidelius and the host at the historic presentation hundreds of years ago still remained in people’s minds. It contained the spirit of Fidelius, who had dedicated his life to soul research, and was also a kind of belief that symbolized the scientific community at the time.

 

‘You said that the soul can be approached scientifically, but hasn’t this been considered an unscientific area for a long time? Many people seem to be sending distrustful glances about that point, what do you think?’

‘That’s right. It’s unscientific. But there’s one word missing there. The word ‘yet.’ Someday, every area that we can feel, see, and sense will be explained by science. Just like the soul is entering science today.’

 

In the end, from that day on, they became confident that they could handle souls and achieved developments that were differentiated from other civilizations.

 

But that was just a few hundred years of glory.

 

A pan-universal monster group that always called other beings ‘dust’ and devoured all planets and stars began to swallow even their civilization.

Losing countless planets without being able to resist, they sensed the destruction of civilization and established the so-called ‘reconstruction plan.’

 

 

The gist is this.

 

1. Select an outstanding scientist and have them reincarnate on a distant alien planet with all their memories and information intact.

2. At the same time, upload the souls of hundreds of scientists and various important experts to the cloud, and create and launch a miniature ark using it (to the reincarnation site of number 1).

3. The scientist who successfully reincarnated at the reincarnation site of number 1 reconstructs science and technology using their memories and knowledge before the ark arrives, about 22 years later, and creates a body that can download souls.

4. Link when the ark arrives and download the souls of all the experts.

5. Those who have successfully obtained a body at the reincarnation site of number 1 cooperate with the reincarnator of number 1 to rebuild civilization and prepare countermeasures against the unknown enemy.

 

 

There are also several details in addition to this, and the immediate goal is to reproduce the glory of the past as quickly as possible based on those clauses.

 

The civilization consumed almost all of its resources to implement number 1, because it had to cross a distance that took more than 20 years even with a miniature ark traveling at 0.3 light-years per second. In terms of distance, it’s about 200 million light-years, and they squeezed out all their remaining power, tore through space, and shot the soul.

 

 

 

“The people who were there are all dead now….”

 

It’s a great sacrifice.

Because everyone except Leah and those who are being downloaded now would be dead.

They bet everything on this plan without leaving any power to resist.

If the ark broke down or was exposed to environmental factors such as destruction in the middle, or if Leah failed to rebuild the technology, all of that would have been in vain.

 

People who risked their lives there, even considering all of that.

Leah, whose mood suddenly sank, quietly closed her eyes and offered a silent prayer.

As if she was now qualified to do so.

 

 

 

“Clara…? Are you Clara?”

 

A voice was heard.

It’s a woman’s voice.

 

“Ahem.. ahem… my voice… has changed, so it’s hard to adjust.”

“Ah….”

 

In front of Leah, who opened her eyes, was a woman turning her body this way and that, examining it.

And behind her, hundreds of people were slowly getting up.

 

The interesting thing is that muscles and skin were starting to grow on what was only made of metal bones.

It was a gruesome sight at first glance, but it was also a scene that made you feel the mystery of life.

 

“You’re Clara, right?”

“Yes. Are you…?”

“I’m Rose.”

 

The woman who identified herself as Rose strode forward and held out her hand.

When Leah, Clara, took her hand, she smiled brightly.

 

“You succeeded. You’ve worked hard.”

“Do you remember everything? Right away like that?”

“Well… it’s a bit confusing, but I remember most of it.”

 

Rose looked around the room.

A civilization completely different from where she lived.

 

“This place is… medieval?”

“Well… it is, but it’s complicated. There’s magic and stuff, too.”

“Magic?”

“Yes. It’s a new power that we haven’t discovered yet.”

“Magic….”

 

There are several different forces in the universe.

What is called psychic power is exactly that.

 

But the magic that Clara was talking about was a little different from that.

It was that magic is about twisting the physical laws of reality by creating formulas like programming on a computer.

 

 

“I thought it only came out in novels… does it actually exist?”

“At least here. I was surprised too.”

 

Since the universe is so vast, there may be planets with different physical laws, but still, magic.

Rose couldn’t believe it, but Clara’s serious face dispelled even that doubt.

 

“Where…am I…who…am I…?”

 

Several voices came from behind.

All downloads are slowly being completed.

 

“Everyone, calm down.”

 

Clara bustled around to calm them down.

 

 

 

Around that time.

 

Aran, who came down to the palace with the two Lords, Cornelia, and Terrin, felt relieved as he looked at the palace maids working as usual, but he raised his vigilance even more.

 

If it’s this quiet even though a mysterious energy is clearly felt, wouldn’t it feel like the calm before the storm?

 

“It’s quiet. Is it possible to know the exact location?”

“That’s a bit difficult.”

“Hehe. Lizards are too stupid to do it, but I can.”

“…You talk a lot for a corpse.”

“Who’s a corpse? I’m immortal, you know.”

“Save those arguments for later, and please guide us.”

“Souls are our specialty.”

 

Yuri gave a bitter smile and summoned a drop of blood from her thumb.

It didn’t really hurt or anything, but it seemed like a kind of authority since she could control blood freely.

 

“Ahaha! What’s with that color? Is that blood?”

“….”

 

Iana suddenly burst into laughter.

The reason is because of the color of the blood.

What should have been bright red was giving off a turbid color, as if something white was mixed in.

 

Yuri, flustered, summons blood again.

But the color was still turbid.

 

Iana put her hand on her shoulder.

 

“Give up. It’s already tainted.”

“….”

“What can you do? Even if you’re immortal or whatever, that’s your situation in the end.”

 

Yuri raised her head and glared venomously.

 

“I don’t want to hear that from you. You’re in the same situation.”

“At least my blood isn’t tainted~.”

 

Iana teased Yuri with a happy smile for the first time in a while (except when having sex).

Just as Yuri’s face was turning red, Aran stepped in to mediate.

 

“Let’s resolve those things later.”

“Keueuk….”

 

Yuri bit her lip and scattered drops of blood on the floor.

What was only a single drop covered dozens of meters in all directions.

In the middle, she ignored the ‘Kyaak!’ sounds of the palace maids and maids.

 

“Hmm.”

 

Yuri gradually expanded her area and began to detect subtle traces.

It was quite a difficult task, so she didn’t open her mouth easily.

 

“You’re slow. Wouldn’t it be faster if Aran touched your chest?”

“That’s also a methodㅡ”

“Completed.”

 

Yuri spoke as if spitting it out as soon as Cornelia said something strange.

She raised her hand and pointed to one place.

 

“There are over 700 heterogeneous souls in that place.”

 

It was a huge room that Aran had specially made for Leah.