Chapter 104 - Foreign Person… Ball (1/2)
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
The ball was probably startled by Gawain’s question. There wasn’t any method to determine if the ball was startled as it was merely a smooth metallic ball; it didn’t have any facial features or any body language. When it was floating in midair without moving, you wouldn’t even know if it was listening. But it did stay silent for two seconds before replying, “Aren’t you talking nonsense? I was transported to this place from another place by you. I am definitely not a local ball!”
“You should know that isn’t what I mean.” Gawain remained unmoved and said, “You must have come from a place that is further away. In fact, it wouldn’t be appropriate to describe it as purely further away. A metallic ball that can think, talk, and can even release strange energy waves, with control over magic and metal. I have never heard of such a strange race in this world.”
“That is because you don’t have enough experience.” The ball seemed to be mocking as it said, “During the past two days, I have already found out about you people from the self-proclaimed druid. It seems like your people have gone through a great regression and are now unbelievably backward. How much could you have witnessed in your lifetime? Just based on your measly human eyesight and knowledge from oral tradition, the things you can experience in your entire lifetime is still little!”
When Gawain heard this explanation, his heart was much steadier.
This ball was right. Most of the people in this era indeed had their eyes ‘covered’. The deficient information relay method and the chaotic division of the continent made it hard for people to communicate and gather new information. Only a rare few high-ranked noble clans, mages, or knights would be paying attention to the outside world. The others, including a feudal noble like Viscount Andrew of the Tanzan Town, were all shutting and closing themselves off. The farmers that were either facing the soil or the sky would only be able to receive fresh information in their entire lifetime through a few pieces of newspapers. As such, if Gawain was also a person whose eyes were ‘covered’, then it would indeed be ridiculous for him to judge that the ball came from outer space just because ‘he had never seen it before’.
But the real Gawain didn’t have covered eyes: he had been staring at this world’s evolution for countless years. He had been observing this continent before monkeys started to walk straight. He might not have seen the situation in other continents, but no matter how the other continents’ lifeforms were isolated from this place or how strange they might be, it still wouldn’t evolve into a metallic ball from a pile of carbon-based life!
Unless, there was a cheat-like race outside of Gawain’s vision that developed rapidly and reached the zenith of science and technology, allowing them to create this alloy, anti-gravity, and artificial intelligence. Furthermore, this thing had been stranded on the Loren Continent 1,000 years ago and had been captured by a group of Gondor Master Mages… Instead of believing such an explanation, Gawain would rather believe that Amber would return Viscount Andrew’s butler’s pocket watch.
Thus, Gawain smiled and arrived in front of the ball before pressing his hand on the surface of the ball.
The ball immediately screamed, “Hey, hey, what are you doing!? I am going to be shamed into anger! I will—”
The ball was interrupted halfway because Gawain used magical resonance to transmit a message into the ball’s brain (then again, does a ball have such things?): “Don’t you feel that your appearance and this world’s living beings are drastically different?”
The ball fell into silence for a few seconds before using magical resonance to reply: “…You can just talk using your mouth. Why do you have to do it so mysteriously?”
“Because I know there are some things that you don’t wish for others to know.” Gawain smiled and said, “Therefore, you can just tell me alone.”
“I don’t wish to let you know!”
Gawain remained calm. “Where are you from? How did you get stranded in this world? How long have you been here?”
The ball pretended to be muddled. “I don’t understand what you’re talking about… Isn’t your mental association a little too good?”
“Sigh, I can understand why you are trying so hard. However, you have to admit that your novel and outstanding appearance doesn’t allow you to conceal such information. Furthermore, you are underestimating the knowledge I have. Did that druid called Pittman mention to you that most of the people in this territory might have been born after the civilization regressed, but the feudal lord here— that would be me — revived from over seven hundred years ago when the civilization was at its prime. Furthermore, I am a natural science scholar.”
The ball was in utter silence this time. It was obvious that the unreserved druid, who had a mouth like Amber’s, had mentioned it before.
With the open mind of a transmigrator and the current information Gawain had, he was able to determine that this ball was a guest from a foreign place. But he wasn’t able to determine if it had transmigrated to this world like him, or did it merely come from another planet? But no matter what, this unlucky fellow was definitely the most unfortunate one among all transmigrators: its appearance was entirely different from others…
This was goddamned awkward. In comparison to those black-haired and black-eyed transmigrators who were treated as the child of the devil, this situation was at least two hundred times more awkward. How were you going to use an atypical form to explain to someone else that you came from a strange remote eastern nation?
For his own safety and because he didn’t know this ball’s inside information, Gawain couldn’t just reveal his secret of being a transmigrator either. Instead, he could explain that he had another identity: a natural science scholar who came from a developed society 700 years ago. This identity should be much easier for this ball to communicate with as compared to those ‘ignorant fools that cut themselves from information’.