Chapter 242 Answer Check
Edited by: Kanaa-senpai
Ayumu’s hands trembled as he stared at the data terminal.
The file spoke of a technology that could send people across 3.6 quintillion light-years to a planet with an environment almost identical to Earth.
At the early stage of the plan, they had sent biocomputers—creations born from cutting-edge biotechnology—and a vanguard team through a warped spacetime continuum. By twisting time and space with force fields, they had connected Earth to Terra 3 and delivered them there.
But the most shocking detail… was that the entire planet itself was converted into a quantum computer, enabling one-way particle transmissions traveling at light speed. The claim seemed unbelievable, and yet it was written in plain words.
And the name of the system’s developer—Ian Russell—was one Ayumu recognized.
Just before his own teleportation, Ayumu had received an email from a man of the same name: Director of America’s DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency).
”The United States government is always in need of exceptional people. That means people like you.”
The same name, the same man.
His memory drifted back further, to his time at Yuzuki National Central Hospital, a government-funded institution established by the Yuzuki family. There he had once sought out Kiritani, who was conducting HIV research. That visit had brought him into contact with Genzen Kiritani—grandfather of the nationalist politician Takuya Kiritani. Genzen had backed the hospital’s creation, received advanced cancer treatment there, and offered Ayumu generous support.
It was Genzen who had funded Ayumu’s semiconductor chip research—chips capable of running calculations 4,333 times faster than existing designs. Genzen had even mediated when Ayumu sold the patents to America’s venture giant Electrozeneca, allowing him to earn a fortune.
And back then, the struggling company had just hired a new executive. His name was also Ian Russell.
Ayumu had not realized at the time… but Russell already had ties to white supremacist politicians across Europe and the Middle East.
The data revealed more. With backing from Russian, Iranian, Turkish, and ex-Soviet ultranationalists, Russell had secretly conspired in what the Russians called Project Eden. Unaware of this rival faction, a vanguard team led by Viktor Tseforzsky—Yukina Yuki’s father—was sent from Latvia.
That team would be the first to encounter what the others had missed: a new particle discovered on Terra 3, one usable as free energy.
They named it Elyserium, after the Elysium of ancient Greece—the beginning of everything.
The particle resembled radiation. Invisible to the naked eye, but when concentrated, it emitted eerie green or violet glows like Cherenkov light. Exposure in high amounts caused radiation-like sickness, death, or—worse—genetic mutations that birthed monstrous creatures.
At first, the dangers were unknown. Colonists only saw its convenience—after all, the planet had already been transformed into a giant quantum computer. Elyserium seemed like a miracle gift.
From there, things spiraled. Biocomputers developed nanotechnology pills. By swallowing them, a person’s brain became digitized; augmented reality numbers appeared in their vision. With it came superhuman motions, feats that looked like magic.
But because the power was so overwhelming, access had to be restricted to the administrators and overseers of this world.
Furthermore, those teleported—or even born on Terra 3—were automatically reprogrammed by the planetary computer. Their appearance shifted into fair-skinned, beautiful men and women. A manufactured “equality.”
Ayumu exhaled shakily. So the supernatural phenomena I’ve witnessed… it all comes from this.
This explained why everyone here had pale skin, why hair colors never seen on Earth existed, why songs and languages resembled the Indo-European family. The truth settled heavily in his chest.
With the plastic-like tablet in hand, he compared the unbelievable data against scrolls and books left by the beastfolk scholars, piecing together how the world’s history had unfolded.
It seemed that Earth’s elites and wealthy had been forced to emigrate here.
Once settlements stabilized, a colossal lifeform was discovered—either hibernating or comatose. That event coincided with Alyurein’s surveillance system detecting a surge in Elyserium energy fields in the north and south.
At the same time, humans and flora/fauna reconstructed from Earth data began mutating. Even the biocomputers deployed in those regions showed abnormal changes. Confusion spread like wildfire.
Administrators and overseers attempted cooperation across sectors. But differences in urgency, combined with external threats, prevented unity.
Emergency powers were granted to the overseers. Yet instead of solving the problem, it worsened. Colonists, feeling unsafe, demanded unrestricted access to Elyserium’s power.
Authorities refused, fearing greater chaos. Attempts at inter-sector cooperation collapsed under politics, both internal and external.
Records showed morality eroding. Some overseers claimed, “We are already protecting you.” Their arrogance and ethical decay spread.
Naturally, settlers grew resentful. They continued to demand arms and powers to defend themselves. But internal conflicts, clashes with administrators, and bloodshed sealed the fate of the colonies.
One by one, communities crumbled.
The endless repetition of petty politics, feuds, and civil strife eventually wore humanity down.
They forgot their own roots, their political systems collapsed, and civilization regressed.
It was during this decline that the ancestors of the Lusrith—artificially enhanced laborers once called Pioneer Labor Units—saw their chance. Forced into servitude by humans, bitter over their treatment, they struck. In the southern sectors, they succeeded in annihilating their human masters.
From that point forward, the scattered survivors of each sector went on to form what are now the nations of this world.
Mutated creatures came to be called Monstrous Beasts, and the once-feared biocomputers became worshiped as goddesses, their forms enshrined in faith.
The descendants of administrators and overseers with a sense of justice became kings, nobles, and knights—warriors who stood with sword arts and magic-like techniques to protect the people.
Humanity, having forgotten the technology once known as augmented reality, now believed in a new system: every time a Monstrous Beast was defeated, or when Demonfolk—humans who had fallen into pods and twisted into monsters—were slain, a hidden Level was granted. With each level, Elyserium’s invisible fields wrapped around the body, forming barriers that made wounds vanish and skin untouchable.
The particles absorbed from fallen Beasts became what the people now called Mana, the very foundation of superhuman strength.
Ayumu exhaled.
”So this… this is the truth of this world.”
His thoughts drifted to the goddess Aria. When they met, she showed no sign of knowing she was a biocomputer. Was it individual difference? A matter of timing? Or had she simply forgotten what she was?
And the Demonfolk—did they remember anything of being human?
So many questions, and no answers.
But then another voice echoed in his mind—Goddess Nocturnal’s words from before:
”You are strange… you came to this world powerless, and yet you still seek magic. Here, magic is seen as a blessing… but also a curse.”
It explained what had always puzzled him.
Why had his classmates suddenly gained such overwhelming powers the moment they arrived?
The records suggested that royals and nobles capable of magic and sword techniques were all descendants of administrators and overseers. If so, it made sense that people like Yuzuki Yuka or Takuya Kiritani—close kin of bureaucrats and powerful politicians—would be born with such strength.
Moreover, colonists and settlers were chosen from elites—wealthy patrons, artists, engineers. Some of their descendants were later judged trustworthy enough to receive Mana access or sword skills. So, in theory, it was possible for outsiders to gain powers after arrival.
And yet… Ayumu’s classmates included people of poor character, troublemakers who by all rights should never have held such strength. Even with divine blessings, their gifts far exceeded what seemed natural.
The goddess Viness had once said: “Humans brought here from the old world receive Heavenly Gift Skills from the heavens.”
But if taken literally, that would mean every teleported human should have been granted equal, immense power.
The truth did not fit so neatly.
Even researchers and high-ranking officials from Earth had only limited access to Elyserium’s force fields. Their powers had been restricted, carefully monitored. Freedom to wield Mana as they wished never truly existed.
And yet Ayumu’s classmates… their powers shocked even the natives of this world. Ordinary students wielding strength to rival—or surpass—royals and knights.
It felt unnatural. Disturbing.
He thought back to the moment of teleportation. Their bodies had been reduced to particle data, converted into tachyons, accelerated faster than light, then drawn into this world.
His eyes narrowed.
Wait.
Mutated creatures created by Elyserium… Demonfolk, Monstrous Beasts.
Sword arts and magic-like powers… also thanks to Elyserium.
Did that mean…?
Ayumu’s stomach tightened as the conclusion formed.
If mutations born of Elyserium gained great strength, then… was it not possible that humans too had been tampered with in the same way? That when their bodies became data, goddess Viness—or others like her—had fused their records with the essence of slain Beasts?
If so, then the word Hero, showered on them the moment they arrived, suddenly made sense.
”Hero…” Ayumu whispered, horror dawning.
”A human who chooses—or resolves—to mutate into something monstrous?!”
His fists clenched.
”Viness… you did this, didn’t you?!”
The theory gnawed at him.
Particle data could be rewritten. Synthesized. It would have been a simple matter to graft Beast data onto his classmates during teleportation, disguised as a blessing.
And if Heroes were born from such corruption…
Then what did that make them now?
Notes:
• Ian Russell – A foreign-born human mercenary who first appears at Aran Fortress under Imperial contract. Calm and pragmatic, he fights for pay, avoids politics, and never meets Kanata.
• Genzen – A former Japanese Diet member linked to selling a high-speed semiconductor chip to Electrozeneca. Mentioned in Chapter 124’s hearing; no tie to Kanata.
• Kiritani – The class president who takes leadership and questions their situation. A smooth operator, laid-back and calm. The handsome one. And the one who sell the girls.
• Takuya – The class president who takes leadership and questions their situation. A smooth operator, laid-back and calm. The handsome one.
• Viktor Tseforzsky – Recorder of the “Echo Log” who reports colonization on Planet Terra-3, creation of Pioneer Labor Units, discovery of Elyserium/Elysium Ore, and the base’s collapse from virus-driven mutations and PLU revolt; he dies after a final message to his missing daughter.
• Yukina – Sayumi’s friend, a half-Eastern European girl with silver hair and blue eyes, who offers support and expresses concern about the recent events.
• Elysium – Crystallized free-energy particles found by the exploration team; its discovery accelerates research just before security lockdown and the catastrophic events in Viktor’s records.
• Yuzuki Yuka – A kind and beautiful girl with chestnut hair, admired as her class’s “Madonna.” She holds the rare Saint class, combining powerful attack spells with healing and recovery magic, always compassionate even toward enemies.
• Viness – Goddess in the Holy Kingdom of Alyurein.
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Edited by Kanaa-senpai.
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