Chapter 196: Fifth Day of Quest; The Stern

"Woaa! Is this not a very big ship? I cannot see the end!" Magen raised the Sacred Shield as high as she could to try to illuminate as far as possible.

To our right there was always a huge tall wall of dull white color and to our left were the walls of the great rock chamber.

We had been walking for some time and we had just turned at a rounded corner of the spaceship and, as Magen said, one could not see until the limit with the naked eye.

It was like standing at one corner of a city and wanting to see until the other corner. Unless one was elevated high in the air, that would be impossible.

"Is there really an access on this side, Vremya? Is it not easier to fly?"

"This has a height of approximately four thousand Li. Flying or walking, there is no difference." I replied to Xifia.

The chosen route was the one that had the access to the ship closest and led directly to the "helm" area.

Although everyone was in formation ready for a confrontation at any moment, in my spatial perception we were absolutely alone. The only form of life in the area were the sprouts that grew from the hull of the spaceship.

My spatial ability had nothing to do with time. I did not know how many years this ship had been buried in this place, but the largest tree that had grown on the hull of the ship was barely one and a half meters tall, so it seemed contradictory to the thought that the ship had been here for more than a thousand years. The tree should not be so small, right?

But other traits told me that this ship had indeed been here for a very, very long time.

"I see the entrance! YOO!" Magen, joyful, jumped with excitement upon seeing ahead the faint silhouette of a platform and a hole in the hull of the ship.

"Wait, idiot! It may be dangerous!" As Magen began to run toward the entrance of the ship, Xifia beside me shouted in surprise and began to chase her.

Since the formation could not be broken, everyone shrugged and ran behind Magen.

Everyone was bored of walking so much underground, not to mention five days of walking through snow and under a storm.

Besides there was no danger, so being a little reckless now was not bad.

"YOOOOO!" Magen shouted and jumped onto the platform that was part of the hull of the ship and was lowered.

Of course, the only thing that greeted Magen was a silent darkness.

Behind Magen all the rest of us arrived and jumped onto the ramp.

"It really looks like a ship, it even has a cargo ramp at the stern." Dianeira with her bow ready to shoot an arrow mentioned upon seeing the white-colored ramp under our feet.

The ramp was actually huge, perhaps a hundred meters long by ten meters high. And it was not the only one. This ramp would be the last on this side of the ship.

Along the way there were others at regular intervals. There were also accesses at heights of half a kilometer, one kilometer and one and a half kilometers.

And from here I could see with greater clarity the damage to the hull of the ship. But it was not damage from being attacked by a weapon. It looked as if something from inside wanted to get out and forced its way out by tearing the hull.

There were also impacts along the hull but they did not seem as damaged as that hole further ahead at the stern.

Besides, I had been searching and could not find anything resembling weapons. There were no cannons or missiles or anything similar and according to the internal structure of the ship and its great size it seemed to be a refugee ship.

"What do we do Vremya? Do we enter?" Magen turned and asked me.

"Let us go! Let us explore~!"

"Shall we split up?"

"Hey! If we are going to split up this time I am going with Vremya! Not once has it been my turn yoo..."

"You go with Destan and I go with Vremya, it is my turn..."

"I... also..." Tikshna murmured in a low voice.

"Why split up? Let us all go together! Besides this ship is so big that we cannot explore it completely in one day."

Although there was no danger, was it not stupid to split up when one was in an isolated, dark place with eerie airs in a place of ruins? They wanted to raise terror flags!

Now we were in the ship’s hold. The path from here to the control room of the ship was a long path.

I think the journey from my house to school was about fifteen to ten minutes and that was in Vasilisa’s vehicle. But on foot it must have been much longer and now it was uphill.

At least the interior design was simple. One only had to locate the stairs and simply climb almost two kilometers of steps.

Or by the space! How long was the tallest staircase in my previous world? It seems to be on Mount Niesen. I think it exceeds one thousand five hundred meters.

Thinking about it that way, then it was not very far from reality...

"There are so many things!"

"What are these? They look broken..."

"..."

The girls kept touching things as we advanced and went deeper into the ship.

This section of the ship was the hold where the storage was. It was a very wide place but it was divided into sections. Even so each section was larger than a football field.

There were broken boxes scattered everywhere. I could identify metals and woods as materials of the boxes and they were of different sizes, from small boxes of forty centimeters to large containers that could be used as dwellings.

There was also trash spread everywhere, wrappings of all kinds but to my eyes they were strange.

All this time I had been paying attention to Destan and his reactions. But I only saw him frown. It seemed that he also did not recognize anything that was here.

I could not recognize the language spoken in this world. I did not know all the languages of my previous world but at least I could recognize the languages of the great powers and important countries, and none was similar to the one we spoke.

And this huge ship also did not seem to contain the technology of the civilization of my former world.

Even remembering all the famous animes, movies, series and video games of my previous world there did not seem to be anything similar to what I saw here.

This spaceship looked very much like a ship that sails the sea. The main construction material was this white wood supported by parts that contained some kind of stone and metal alloys.

I could also see the use of crystals in doors and windows in different parts of the ship. But the overall design was really unknown.

There was nothing similar to the idea of robust human spaceships of iron and steel as presented in many movies and video games, and it was not like those magnificent high-tech spaceships made of a single smooth and shiny metal that screamed elegance and technology.

This ship was literally made of trees, of a wood that seemed to be originally white like ivory and that was easily and immediately identified by touch. One knew it was wood when touching it, that is why Magen quickly recognized that this was a ship.

Was it possible that my race in this world came from some place in the stars that was not my Blue Aqua Star?

"Vrem! There are some stairs ahead!" Magen shouted, as always, and trotted forward.

"There are so many things collapsed and thrown here."

"Although everything seems chaotic it does not look like there was an attack, rather that it was abandoned."

"Mm. If it is a ship that travels through the stars..."

"Let me push this!"

*plomt....* A large container was pushed aside revealing the stairs behind.

"Ready! Let us go up! YOO!" Magen clapped her hands to shake off the dust and shouted.

"Is this clothing?"

"Oh! Let me see.... Wow, this fabric is very resistant."

Xifia found some garments and Dianeira examined them.

"These boxes seem to contain food..."

"Wow, this is all turned to dust..."

We continued climbing the stairs finding various objects along the way.

We went up floor by floor. Each floor seemed to have a height of ten meters but that was only in the hold section of the ship and they were platforms.

Then we reached a level that could already be considered an interior deck and ordered doors could be seen in the hallway that appeared before our eyes.

But this was only this section of the ship. Afterwards there was another zone where storage space was designed again and then again a deck of cabins.

And this was only the rear part of the ship, the stern. It seemed that this place was designed for the low-level crew of the ship and the area of greatest storage.

And the Engine Room? Curiously it was not in the lower part but above, in the upper part of the stern. From that place I felt a strong stored energy.

Perhaps it was where the artifact we came for was located. But now my interest was in the control room, the only place where better information could be obtained.

Although I had detected two other places of interest, the control room was a key point. What secrets were there in this ship...?