Prologue 1 : The Holy Stone

Wrapped warmly inside her moss green blanket, Sandme was sitting legs crossed on her bed, reading an illustrated novel with her left hand while consecutively drawing out her ideas with her right hands. Her half-eaten Haradic breakfast of baked orange lay soundly next to her while she waits for her hair to dry off from the quick rinse she had this morning. The calms and relaxing room was charmed by the aroma of plumeria flowers as the door of the room opened. The trail of the scent leads to the person standing next to the opened entrance, which is Idente, a tall, elegant woman who three weeks earlier hit age twenty one. The white plastic bag hanging on her left hand adds simplicity into her complexity. Idente bows her head as she walks into the room to avoid being batted by the door frame, remaining her cat-like walking gesture.
Sandme's jade green eyes lifted away from her illustrated novel to met Idente's tired look as her friend take a sit on the table in front of her. She dropped the pencil out of her hand to greet Idente.
"So, I was going to ask if the information for our next mission has reached you yet, Sandme. unfortunately, your relaxed eyes browse already provide me the answer I seek." Idente light a conversation with Sandme as she put her books on the table.
Sluggishly lowering her waving hand, her grin bow into a frown as she replied, "A simple good morning isn't that hard to say Idente. Especially for Haradic like us and our irritating banter." Playfully, Sandme sighed before she continues with her sentence, "Well, the mission could wait until my phone awoke from charging. And it seems that untouched breakfast also has a task waiting for you " Sandme ends her reply with a smile while pointing at the breakfast she made for Idente.
Idente raised her brows at the sight of the breakfast Sandme prepared for her, however, before she can comment on it. With a mouthful, Sandme added, " haradic breakfast, baked to perfection, just like the cafe we used to visit in Haradoc. With a twist, of course, as you expected. "

" Oh, using me as your guinea pig now? what are you plotting to do with me next? " Idente replied with a hint of jest 
" You are not cute enough to be one Idente, doesn't mean you would make a bad one though. "   
 I bought breakfast for both of us. However, I would never expect you to know how to bake an orange or well anything, in that matter. " teased Idente as she moves her sit on to a step of her bed to pick up her breakfast.
Giggle burst out from Sandme, "If assisted With a tutorial, cooking isn't much different than following a blueprint to assemble a mech."
Noticing Idente's regretful eye as Sandme glanced at her friend to see her reaction of the meal she made, Sandme attempted to comfort Idente "Also, put your mind off the breakfast you brought, it probably won't go to waste, the breakfast I made put me in a mood to have breakfast again for lunch today." added Sandme.
" A fool of myself to choose someone who can permit eating breakfast for lunch as a friend" hissed Idente.
Giggle burst out from Sandme "Although my mind will never be able to surpass you in memory capacity and attention span, Idente. However, in terms of creativity, your mind duplicate by five would not come close to the capability of mine halved!."
Annoyed by Sandme's teasing words, idente snapped back, "I wonder how that creativity didn't help you to act less clumsy in conversations."
As if she was poked in the heart. Sandme cuts off her look with Idente and continues reading the novel on her hand.
There were detections of intense energy waves leaking from an abandoned Koiga base in Elcorodion green, which is conveniently located rather close to the base where Sandme is located now. And her squad is assigned to enter and clean up the base. To detect and collect pieces of leftover pieces of equipment or information. Located deep inside the inhabitable north of Elcorodion Green, Where the lands are carpeted with apple red grasses, lies the ruins of a deleted empire lie unoccupied and protected by the claws of predators. During her mission, as Sandme skips playfully alongside Idente like a piece of red-colored pebble skipping through a dark lake, trying to match her pace as her squad is venturing down a vast hallway filled with noises echoing from member talking and arguing within the team.
The walls of the hallways are handsomely refined with smooth concrete that was once bleached white. Each side of the wall is attached by a long teal blue stripe, racing toward the end of the hall. The walls have been equipped with more than dozens of metallic blue doors, most of the chamber covered by these doors are swollen with gigantic ancient undecoded runestone or forgotten crates. Where it was once decorated with frustratingly complex yet exciting details. Sadly, the features that once compliment the hall like polished Entercan Cereburn are now covered with overgrown vegetation, devouring the traces of the glory it once held into forgotten ancient artifacts. From sun-loving bushes dotted with red Grenithium flowers, which seems like they were crafted from the hand of a master artist. These flowers ignited a fire spark like texture on each of their petal whenever it gets into contact with the sunlight, to colonies of tiny crystals shaped mushroom that can only be found in some of the darkest corners of the building. Quietly emitting a weak aura of teals light, inhabited by tiny packs of hunting rodents which fed off them, who were small and complex enough to squeeze themselves through the wine cork sized holes into this forsaken building. The hallway echoed with communicative noises as the squad began to march down the hall. Checking and later on sealing the chamber that they have passed. Suddenly, similar to a pillar of glue stick shaken by winds, Sandme's balance suddenly snapped the moment she accidentally stomps on an unfortunate colony of mushrooms. Desperately attempt to grab onto the nearby metal pillars to stabilize her balance. However, due to the devastating weight of her Carian uniform, the force that sandme intended for tethering herself to the post backfired against her, Resulting in Sandme crashing harder into the solid floor beneath her. The thundering noise of grunting Sandme and cracking surface echoed from the impact was able to blast away the sounds of the once boisterous squad into the mouth of the consuming void.
Sighed disappointedly at the sight of Sandme hugging her face hurtfully, Idente shoos away any Carian member who is adding more noise to the scene and throws out her hand to help her clumsy friend to stand up. Astonished by the beauty of the Grenithium flower, Sandme stop by a bush spotted with Grenithiums to pluck off one of the flowers, admiring the beautiful pattern of scars that were tattooed on the flower through the ignition of its sparks. To find a reason to start a conversation with her best friend who was coated in silence for the whole journey,.Sandme decided to give the flower to Idente who were gluing her eye on a book, accompanied by a playful wink. Replied with a gentle laugh, Idente turns her eye from the book as she accepted Sandme's small gift and attached it as a decoration to her trailing dark purple hair. Acknowledging Sandme's attempt to ignite a conversation, Idente reach for the perfume in her leather pouch.
Drowned by Embarrassment after her effort was shot down, with a forward motion, Sandme snaps Idente hand away and turns to another direction, pretending that she is admiring the scenery. However, secretly, her eyes are still latching on her laughing buddy. although it wouldn't be hard to believe that Sandme was admiring the mysterious, yet warming scenery of the hall. Although electronic no longer works, due to the sudden transition of their power generator, the Zerafyte crystals, which could be the main leading cause for the abandonment of this forsaken building. most of the building is vaguely visible thanks to sunlight creeping in from uncovered rectangular glass barrier, Litting up the interior of the building as the light dances around the building. While they are marching down the hallway, and her curiosity got the best of her, with lust for discovering, Sandme decided to cut herself of her squad and departure for her adventure. However, before departing, sandme decided to inform Idente, whom she knew has no interest in foolishly breaking off the squad for no good reasons, before allowing herself to be consumed by the shadow, separating herself away from the group and attempted to infiltrate into the storage chamber. after a while of tinkering with the metallic door with the astonishing size of a Green Walker, although halve as responsive. A burst of determination flashes through Sandme as her creativity spark illusion of what she could do to open the door spawn in her head. However, after numerous attempts, from pushing the stable door to using her Flora Plumeria to scout the other side of the door with her soul. The other side of the storage chamber is in a state of complete chaos, it felt like no one had cleaned it for months or possibly years, which certainly seems to be the case, disintegrated crate and rusty firearms scattered around the room, coated by thick layers of dusts as a result of being carelessly toss around, even though it would require hard works and efforts to pull something remotely useful out of this mess, However to Sandme, this challenge make exploring the area much more interesting and thrilling, there is no defining sequence in anything, unlike the mechanical knowledge that she was taught in her homeland, where most of the knowledge are often directly or remotely related to number, which makes her lose interest in exploring the subject within minutes. Unlike Idente, who thrives in collecting these fragments of "knowledge," although Sandme did terribly in those subjects, she made up for it with her gifted creativity mind that can only be found in one out of millions of abremen, combined with her relentless curiosity, which earned her a place in the Carian cooperation. Inside the chamber, it is hard to predict what mystery could lie beneath these godforsaken crates. Sandme's red hairs have soon glittered with gray dust, and tiny beads of sweats begins to forms, decorating her bright red face which was once alluring pinkish-white, holding the two hair wisp next to her ear from dancing around . however beside finding hyper-active electron casing and dispatched ration getting nibbled by vermins, Sandme has discovered a handful of interesting goods, originated from seemingly mythical location that she had never heard of, from soft mystical drape of beige-colored silks that came from Shagafar to a haunted-looking dolls from Ancient Helberz, which were once detailedly crafted. Unfortunately, the trace of the charm it once carries has been erased into smudges of color as time flew by.
For several odds error, Elcorodion Green is where the region is located instead of the Hunter region, where it has been located since the dawn of time. Before she could wonder why the koiga even contain these items and their intention, there is one object that stands out from the rest, something that shines even inside the damp and depressing blue darkness of the room, emitting a weak. However, warm aura, an Aura that injects Sandme with the divine flavor of undying hope, with great curiosity, she lowers herself and slowly reached for the flower buds shaped object with her armored hand. Immediately on contact with the object, for a split second, Sandme felt like her soul was ripped from her own body. As if she was bitten by fire, sandme release the stone from the grasp of her hand as she collapsed to the cold solid ground, panting heavily. Rushingly, Sandme uses the ability of her flower to check the current status of her soul. Luckily for her, it is intact, pulling her focus back onto the stone. Although the pain was overwhelming, with lust for knowledge and curiosity, like a pulled magnet sandme continue to reach for the stone, picking it up, only this time, with her armored glove off. Surprisingly, on this attempt, like a dire dog welcoming its owner, the stone welcomed her touch. She can now feel the smooth and calming texture of the unknown relic, helping sandme to forget the pain that she endured as the warm aura from the stone pour itself onto the surface of her hands. Thrilled by her decision, Sandme's mind flushed out its intention to continue to discover the area. Most of her squad members have noticed her disappearance but decided to ignore it , just as they always do every single scout mission. Although some members do tease Sandme about what she has found. Despite the absence of Sandme during the mission ,The scout mission was a flawless success. The squad had gathered a lot of information about the location of the zerafyte crystal near the area and their riddles. During the journey when they get back to their base on a Koigan jet, while Sandme is getting comfy on her seat and Idente sleeping on her shoulder, the stone that is hiding inside her suit began to emit waves of warm aura, only that this time, it was a lot more intensified. Soon enough, the once frigid stone tucked neatly in her pocket boil like a steaming potato in her suit, imprisoning Sandme with heat, even though she is dying to throw the stone away, sandme is unable to take the piece of rock out, as her face gets red and stream of sweat washing down her face , Sandme swiftly cover her head with her helmet and turn on the fan inside her suit to maximum capacity and silently endure the heat . She then realizes that she caught attention from most of her squad , except for people who have drifted into sleeps Including Catelynn . not for her clumsy action or even the reason why she is wearing her helmet inside a jet , her silent send most of the squad into confusion, since usually, without question , Sandme would them about what she discovered even if they like it or not, making it a surprise to everyone, however the last thing they want to endure after a long day, is to listen to Sandme constantly yabbing nonsense and occasionally getting flirted . After the tortuous journey, and arriving at their destination , a large sized Carian base located on the red biome of Elcorodion Green named Chamber Zero, with the fifteen times the size and height of the abandoned Koigan base that they just explored , Chamber Zero is home for Thousands of Carian members, chamber Zero also hold numerous project aimed to merge bio organism with mechanic. the sun was dissolving into the horizon , coating the scenery surrounding it with a rich orange color as Sandme sprint straight to her chamber where she works on her project, not even stopping by her best friend Idente who is recovering from her sleep to say goodbye before parting off like she usually does . After Sandme arrive at her room, she lay the stone comfortably underneath her flat pillow,