Light and Darkness: Barimah's Odyssey

Who are you?

After a week passed, life returns back to normal except Flint is waking up early now. Flint goes to the farm as usual and when it’s time to rest, he goes back to the crash site. He’s hoping to know if what happened was a dream or not. He climbs the hill and sees the crash site.

“It really was a dream, there’s nothing here.” A Mysterious girl appears from thin air but Flint doesn’t see that. “Well duh.” the girl giggles. Flint flinches and turns back in fright to see the mysterious girl with a monkey stuffed animal.

“You! The Mysterious girl!”

“Mysterious girl? My name is Twenny Alcore.” She points at herself.

“Twenny? W..What are you doing here?”

“Same as you, I came to see if the star that fell is still here.” She didn’t lie since technically Flint perceived the ship as a star.

“You saw it the same night too?” Flint asks with traces of excitement that what he saw is real.

“Yeah.” She giggles.

“DO you remember what happened?”

“Yes, why’re you asking?” Squints her eyes at him in suspicion and her thoughts, “I hope his mind didn’t get messed up.”

“Well I don’t remember what happened. Oh, and thank you very much. Because of what you said to me last week, my little sister lives.” He bowed to show his gratitude to her.

“Really that’s amazing.” She jumps around in excitement as the stuffed toy sheds a tear but Flint doesn’t notice. “Oh, and what happened that night. I saw you leave after you entered it, I tried to enter it but then it vanished.” She lied

“Oh, at least I know it wasn’t a dream. By the way, I’ve never seen you in the village before, where do you come from?” he turns to leave as he gets curious about her.

“My past is……. complicated, so you could say I ran away from home.”

“Ran away? Why?" Twenny raises a brow so he stopped probing, "Okay, where do you live?”

“There’s a cozy cave up to the west of here, that’s where I sleep.”

“West? What’s west?” Flint has no idea. He didn't like the idea of his helper sleeping in a cave with monsters around.

Twenny’s thoughts, “*Sighs* It had to be a primitive world. It could have been a world with some major advancements in technology but nooo. The aliens want a world that hasn’t even developed steam engines. Whatever, I don’t know how those creepers think anyway.” And she answered, “It’s over there.” She points to their left since they were facing east.

“Well, why don’t you come to the village. I’m sure it’s better than a cave and we have great beds too.” Flint was trying to get her interested in the village

“Will they accept an outsider like me.” She meant it as from another universe but…..

“Of course.” he gave a big smile.

“Okay, lead the way then Farm boy.” she giggles.

“Don’t you need to get your stuff?” Farm bo- Flint asked.

“I have this." She showed him a ring she made on the spot, "It’s a- “ Flint's eyes had a glow of light as the ring made him excited. So much he couldn't contain himself.

“A storage ring!! Are you a mage?!”

“I know a bit of runes soo yeah?” she’s uncertain about this world’s definition of a mage.

“Runes?” He got confused again.

“Magic, let’s stick with magic.” She makes a fire butterfly and it flies around them.

“Waaooow.” Flint is impressed, he leads her to his father in the hut as he introduces her. “Dad, this is Twenny, she told me about the God that helped us.” John is packing so he didn’t see her.

“Hello Twenny, I’m John, sorry about this mess.” He finally turns and sees her, his eyes open wide. He looks at Flint and signals him to follow,

“Hmm? Twenny wait here, I’ll be back. There might be something I need to deal with.” he gets her a seat.

“Okay, I’ll wait.” she sits as Flint follows his father as they head to a tree off the farm.

“What’s wrong Dad? And why do we need to come so far?” he finds it strange for his father to call him like that.

“Is that your new crush?” Flint got embarassed as he blushes.

“What no! I still have a crush on Cynth- ………” he freezes.

“Uh huh, this girl is a clearly more beautiful than the chief’s daughter and yet….. Young men these days, you have strange tastes.” Flint scowls at his father, “What?” his dad asks. They go back to Twenny and back to the village. They introduce her to everyone and finds an empty house for her alone. She looks to be 17, that’s considered an adult so they allow her to live alone.

Flint went home and has dinner and goes to bed, on his bed he wonders what appeared before his eyes a week ago.

“What was that miracle? I think it said it was Sisstym,…no.” a screen appeared before Flint.

“Sequence Synthetic Management Data Cube” on the screen as he heard the voice again

“Yes that! What are you?”

“Sequence Synthetic Management Data Cube Ver1.00.006, SSTM DC for short. You have the

option to designate name for Package.”

“Sstem DC? So tha- ”

“Designation has been set to System DC. That will be my designation”

“Huh? Oh, thank you for helping me. The God who listens also has my gratitude….. Can others see you?

“No, only host can interact with me from this universe.”

“Oh, I wanted to show you to my family.” System DC glitches.

“I wouldn’t recommend that.”

“Why?” wondering why this thing wanted to hide.

“You’re too weak to draw too much attention. If I lose connection with Arrmitsha I’ll be designated as a failure and erased.”

“Killed?! That’s cruel!” Flint shake at those words

“That is my purpose.” Unphased.

“You helped me so I want to help you, what can I do to help you fulfill your purpose?”

“Grow strong.” System DC replies with a simple answer.

“But I’m only a farmer, not a hunter or a knight. How will I do that?” he turns on his bed as the display moves with his vision.

“My purpose is to make you strong. Complete the missions and you’ll grow strong.”

“Okay, then I’ll do the missions.” Another screen appears before Flint to his side.

MISSION 1#: Befriend Twenny and let her take you to her cave.

REWARD: Start Journey to Leveling up.

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“That’s the mission? I'm sure she's my friend so I’m sure if I ask her, she’ll show me her cave. *YAWNS* I’m getting sleepy, good night” he closes his eyes and he falls asleep.

Twenny is in her room on her bed. The house she got is not much different from the village so she finds it comfy. She lays on her bed as she holds a card in her hands twirling it, she makes it vanish then reappear.

“I don’t need sleep so staying like this till morning is a pain, I guess I’ll watch a movie after I check on Flint’s SSTM DC."

A screen appears before her with her title as Administrator, "Ohhh, he renamed his package. Though he has no idea what he’s doing, the first mission is to go to my cave. Well, the cave is rich in EP since I did stay there, there should be enough EP crystals to level up. The EP density is so low that there’re only a handful people in this kingdom who’ve actually reached level 5. The highest is level 7 and he’s the court mage. My level of 10,000(MAXED) makes them look like insects. My level is too high for this world so I easily lose EP to the environment. Flint has to reach level 200 at least to get Earth’s Defense Forces here.”

The screen shows a statistic diagram of energy density and the type of soldiers capable of fighting in such a place with low energy density. ” Even with that I doubt the Red core soldiers can aid in the battle. This is tough, no matter, Flint has 200 years to go beyond level 200, so 1 level a year. Master went from level 1 to 700 in 9 years, then again she did live amongst monsters like Godzilla and Cthulhu. If I stretch Farm boy too much, he’ll probably die in 15seconds.”

She swipes her hands as a new screen pops up, “Hmmmm, time for movies….. Urgh who keeps flooding the web with romance, ohh Star Fox. I love this show.” She went on to watch the series till day break.