Isekai Journey Of The Magic Archer

[Rein's POV: ]

The world is pure chaos.

Filled with particles and waves and lights and energies, all that is present around us is simply a materialisation of different kinds of vibrations that ultimately gives a Shape to everything that we see.

'And only when we see it, it possesses the kind of physical form that it does.'

The unstable nature of everything is stabilised by the 'observation' that happens.

When we observe something, it forgets its unstable nature and takes on a physical form which, ultimately, gains mass, and later, when light is reflected off of it and enters our eyes, we perceive those things.

'Something similar happens when we use Mana or some other form of energy to perceive the things in our environment that we otherwise coil not.'

We do that by sending the energy into the surroundings, which either reflects off of it or gets absorbed by something.

We then observe the energy that is returning back to us, like echoes to the bats, and understand them through our innate understanding of the Mana or energy or just leave it to our instincts without consciously thinking about it.

'The concept of consciousness… is something complex. Even with the ability to see truths, it's not something one could just see.'

At first, I, too, saw this world as simply how others saw it.

I had the ability to see the status windows of the others, to see a few things that the others could not, like information about things that I've never seen before.

"Rein?"

That ability help[ed me immensely throughout my life… be it for telling poison apart from elixir, be it for searching treasure from a pile of trash, or to see the movements of the enemy on a battlefield.

'My whole life, I trusted that ability as nothing more than a special innate skill that I was born with. Something that also had its limitations, and something that was pretty close to many other skills available in this world.'

The first time this ability to 'see' was expended, I was able to see more than just the status of someone.

'My eyes started talking with me… as if they were conscious themselves.'

In each of the 'screens' that they would show me, there would be words, information told in a way that seemed unnatural…

'Since I knew it was strange, I found it to be even more intriguing. But, nothing beyond that.'

It was still a skill to me. A tool, a weapon that helped me in various situations.

'It wasn't until I was able to see the bonds and quantified data above the heads of people that I realised this ability wasn't simply limited to my skill.'

Yes the skill I possessed allowed me to see things, but what told me those things was something more than those eyes of mine.

"Rein…"

There was something more than just the eyes that I possessed, and the eyes that I had were simply a medium for that 'thing' for that unknown power to communicate with me.

'When I started seeing the names of people I had never known, with the intensity of their strengths shining in their names, I knew I had the ability to see more than just what the other 'skills' were able to see.'

Slowly, as I started learning about the truths and how this world was more than just what we 'saw' with our eyes, after that incident with Eon and his card skill where I accidentally ended up seeing this 'World'... I understood the vastness that I've never known about.

The world… the elements within this world, the things that make it, the elements of uniqueness… there are some simple things and there are some things that just don't make any sense in this universe.

'There are many stars out there. The stars we see in the sky aren't actually what they truly are.'

The stars we see in the sky aren't really present above us as many children might know. They are far away from us, like the sun and the moon that we see

Some of the scholars would understand just how far away these celestial objects actually are, and some might even know just how far the stars that we see every night truly are.

If someone is an expert in the cosmic field, they would even know how the light of the stars that we see right now, is reaching us after several hundred or thousand years of travel.

'It is conceptual knowledge that the light is the fastest traveling 'entity' in the universe. But, the Meaning of that concept isn't something even the smartest of the scholars would understand.'

But that changes when you are actually able to see the universe as a whole.

'When you look at something from the perspective of a higher being, from perhaps how the gods residing in the higher realm might look at it, you'd understand the insignificance of every object compared to the other, and the meaning of Distance.'

The reason a space exists is because of the existence of two or more objects existing in relation to one another.'

Only when we see one of the objects in relation to the other is when we can say there exists some form of distance between them, and thus between them and us.

"Hello there… Reinelle. Are you listening?"

Without any reference point, the concept of space becomes far more complex than what we understand, and without the concept of space itself, the 'world' itself becomes far more complicated than we understand.'

'What Eon might have experienced when he entered that unique state of mind and nearly reached an artificial state of 'Nirvana' must be what it's like to not be in the presence of any space.'

And, since space and time go hand in hand, just like the relatedness of space, the relatedness of time also vanishes in a world without any point of reference.

'Now, the thing that becomes increasingly difficult to understand as we look at the vastness of this world and the non-fictional elements present here, we would be able to understand the Truths that we have never been able to see ourselves.'

When I first saw the universe, I was enchanted by its vastness. I thought about it most of the time, and I had nightmares where I would find myself experiencing the same sensation I had experienced when looking at it.'

Sometimes, it was painful. But since darling was there, it was easier to get through them.

But then there were also times when I found myself contemplating those things, about the truths and the universe and the things that I've never thought of before.

I thought, and I thought, and I kept thinking without realising how the time was passing…

Sometimes, I spent hours thinking about these things… sometimes, it was days. Sometimes, I did most of my daily tasks while still being lost in thought about those things, and when I was going too far, Eon brought me back to the present.

Sometimes, I was not aware of what I was doing, and sometimes, it simply was too difficult to snap back to reality from that Fictional world of… vastness.

"Haaaa…"

'At some point, I realised how the flow of time I feel, my inability to feel the fleeting nature of time, stems from my ability to see things that aren't perceived by others.'

A reference point is needed for the perception of time as well as space, and even though it's not always, my presence, my perception, and my mind is the reason I perceive time as something more concrete than the others.

"You're doing it again, Rein."

"..."

Ever since experiencing that Divine nature of my eyes in that dungeon, which, as I realised wasn't part of my eyes by my mind and soul, I experience something similar to the time I experienced the Universe.

'When I was able to actually See the truths, the world around me, the things that were present around me and the things that I've never known were a part of my environment, I was somehow able to interact with them as well.'

Strings connecting me and my darling, strings that vibrated and created nearly all the elements present around us, there were things that seemed similar to the elements of the universe that I had seen before and then there were also the things that I just didn't understand.

"Looks like she's lost in her thoughts again, Celes."

The world in that dungeon, the giant structure that we couldn't normally perceive… the actual mountainous figure of the dungeon's guardian snake with those unique green eyes.

'That being reminded me of Miss Wali's partner, Mister Albert… at least in some way, that mountainous being made into a sculpture reminded me of his snake form.'

He wasn't a snake, both of them were divinities so I don't think they would show us their true forms anyway, but they were certainly not normal in any way.

And just like them, that being, that place, and what I experienced there wasn't normal at all…

'I've not been able to sleep for the last two nights. There's this strange pressure in the front of my head, and I'm constantly lost in thought, detached from the world around me.'

I don't know if I'm doing that… if I've fallen into this strange state of thoughts where I just think and talk to myself about vague and uncommon things, and yes it scares even me sometimes.

-Bang!

But…

"Ugh…"

Thankfully, there's someone to yank me out of that unwanted pit of thoughts.

"Hey there. You back yet?"

"It… it would be pretty difficult to keep thinking if you bang your head against mine like that… darling."

He uses some of his Solnova and a combination of complex spells to do that, or so he says, but it brings me back.

"That was the sixth time today, Rein… are you sure you're fine?"

Currently, we were preparing for the departure to the island where he and the President would be conducting their experiment on Life bringing elixir.

The headmaster was going to be here tonight so, we were going to greet him later as well, but, for now, we were preparing for the departure… and while my body was working as usual it had been since the last few days, I was once again lost in thoughts.

"I think we should tell the headmaster. See if he knows anything about your condition…"

I've already been making him worried ever since we came back, but he wasn't complaining.

"I'm sure he's going to have a lot of questions for us anyway."

He… simply did what he had to, smiled at me from time to time, and comforted me when I needed to.

'The only reason I haven't drowned in my thoughts, perhaps, is because of him and the talks that we have been having.'

He's doing so much for me, and yet, I have… I have no control over this state of mine.

"Haaaa."

I don't even have any words left to thank him anymore.

'I'm… just grateful that he's here with me.'