Chapter 195: Fifth Day of Quest; Great Spaceship

"Woaa~ it is incredible that Vremya can see so far ~~"

"Be careful Dian, do not fly so low."

"Low?" Xifia called my attention and then I noticed that Dianeira was flying beneath us.

Or to be more precise... beneath me.

At some point she had lowered her altitude and then positioned herself right beneath me, looking upward.

"You!!!" My hands glowed with a cyan light, but they changed to a more crystalline blue light.

"Tsk! I hate pants...

Ah! Wait, Vremya, wait!!"

White snowballs materialized in front of the palms of my hands and flew toward Dianeira at great speed.

Thanks to the continuous team training and especially to the flight practice, Dianeira could easily dodge my snowballs.

In the middle of my attacks, Dianeira was the first to reach the cave on the other side of the underground abyss, followed by me and the others.

"You are more pleasant in dreams." I murmured as soon as my feet touched the rock of the new cave.

"Eh? What did you say?" Dianeira turned around and barely heard my murmur.

"Ah! That was fast. Vremya and Dianeira get along very well." Magen landed in the cave and commented.

Magen’s shield illuminated the entire cave as if it were daytime, allowing everything to be seen clearly. The wall of the cave, as well as the ceiling and the floor, were of a very black color, very different from the rock walls outside.

Everyone looked at Magen with a look of seeing a silly girl. For my part, forgetting about Dianeira’s mischief, I approached the wall to my right in the cave, the closest one to me, and placed my hands on the rock.

"What is the matter, Vremya?" Xifia approached me and asked.

"The walls, the ceiling and the floor. They do not seem natural." I said while my hand caressed the wall.

When I brought my hand closer and turned the palm toward myself, I could see that my palm had become stained with black dust.

"Is it soot?" Xifia approached my hand and sniffed. There was a perceptible smell of soot or of something burned.

"Ah! My hand became black!" Magen shouted when she passed her hand over the wall just like I did.

"Is the entire wall burned?"

"The entire cave..."

That the wall is covered by a layer of soot is not the only strange thing. Also the shape.

The entire cave is smooth and has a square shape with rounded tips. The rock on the wall seems to be carved with small scales that point outward and strokes.

"Let us go. We have almost reached our objective... Although I do not know if it is our objective..."

"Ah! Wait Vrem! I will go ahead!!"

In only a few minutes we reached the end of this cave and in front of us there was a great chamber with a great height of more than one kilometer.

My perception could perfectly cover the entire width of this great chamber. From the cave we came out of, there is a distance of approximately two kilometers to each side, making this side have more than four kilometers in length.

And if I concentrate my spatial perception forward, the wall on the other side of the chamber is almost seven kilometers deep.

It is really a great space beneath the mountains. The reason why I could not see it even though we spent five days searching is perhaps because we are not in the search area.

Our objective is to search for an entrance that will lead us toward the ancient runes. It seems that we found the ancient runes and not the entrance.

How do I know that they are the ancient runes we were looking for? Because what I could barely see at the first fork and as we approached became clearer is what is inside this great chamber. A huge spaceship!

"WAAA!"

"What is that? An underground city?"

"They seem to be the city wall."

"Is this the ancient rune we are looking for, Vrem?"

"Mm. But they are not city walls..." Before our eyes appeared a great wall that rises upward for almost one kilometer.

It is normal that they confuse it with a city wall. It is the hull. It is of a dull white color that does not reflect much light.

At key points there are dark tunnels in the hull. I can say that this is the tail section of the spaceship and the dark tunnels are the exhaust mouths or escape cones.

These nozzles are situated at different points of the hull and may be the reason why the wall of the chamber behind us is full of soot-stained holes.

Since when we entered the soot-covered cave we did not feel the smell of soot and one could only say it was soot when bringing the nose closer, it is because many years have passed and the smell has dissipated more than ninety percent.

Once again, I placed my hand on the grayish-white hull and despite its appearance the touch is neither crystalline nor metallic.

"It seems that weeds have reached this ancient city. Ah! It is very hard to pull out..." Magen found a weed that protruded from the hull and holding it with both hands she tried to pull but she could not tear out this weed.

"It is not a weed, it is... The entire hull is made of wood and it seems that it is coming back to life..."

"EHHHH??? Wood??? How many trees were needed to make this entire wall?????" Magen released the weed and raised her gaze, placing her hand on her forehead to help her look into the distance.

Despite the fact that the light emanating from Magen’s shield is very strong, it still falls short when trying to illuminate the entire outer hull of the spaceship and much less the area.

"Vrem? Did you say hull?" Xifia caught a key point in my words.

"Hull? Is that not what ships have?"

"Is it an uchūsenkan??? The Goddess did not say that there are uchūsen in the world..." Destan, whose eyes seemed to be shining, also approached one side and placed both of his hands to feel the texture of the hull.

"What is uchūkan?" Magen asked with a finger on her lips while thinking about the word that Destan had just mentioned.

Although I also do not know what an uchūsenkan is, it seems that no one else paid attention to what he murmured about the Goddess and only heard the first part. 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

"Ah... It is... A ship that travels through space!" Destan placed his right hand behind his head while scratching it and tried to explain what an uchūsenkan is.

Oh. It seems that this is how spaceships are called in his language.

"Eh? Travel through space? Ships only travel on water, Destan."

"Mmmm, Destan must be reading another one of those fantasy novels for boys..."

"What? I do not read those novels!"

"Do not lie, the other time we saw you with one of those books with drawings that you boys like..."

"No! I... I found it somewhere..." Destan had a red face while he tried to defend himself.

"Destan cannot be wrong. Do you remember the myth that we humans came from the stars? Perhaps this is one of those ships in which we came..."

"No, no, it cannot be."

"Impossible! That is only a legend."

"It may be." Kara spoke two words.

"..." All the girls remained silent and thought more deeply.

Everyone here except Destan is the child of noble families. And all have received family education with knowledge that is not taught in schools or even in the Royal Academy.

It is probable that the elders of each family have spoken with their descendants about these myths and legends of humanity. For Kara to say that Destan’s theory that this is a spaceship is true is because she has knowledge and since the girls kept silent it may be that at some point their elders in their families have already told them about these secrets.

"And how do we enter? Do we have to fly? I see some holes in the wall up there." Magen cut the silence.

Magen is not one to worry about these things, the attention of this shield girl is more on what she can do now.

"No... There are accesses on the port side and it is the closest to us. Although there are some on the starboard side but they are farther away." I pointed to the left and the others agreed.

Port and starboard? Well, it seems that the ancestors were also from the blue aqua planet and those words are also used in this world. There are ships in this world so it is normal that terms exist for the parts of the ship and their sides.

But as far as I know the civilization of my former world did not have the capacity to create a huge spaceship and much less make it with wood...

The zerg that invade this world although they look like those from that video game are also different and especially because of that fungus parasite that infests them.

Humans are also not native to this world apparently. Where do we come from? Perhaps this great ship that sails through the sea of stars will give us the answer...