Chapter 09

Chapter 09

The Upgrade

“Adams, go home, relax.

I’ll need a few days to study your vitals and upgrade the system for more tests and training sessions.

I doubt we’ll be seeing Obrenu any time soon.

He said he’ll be getting more power from an unknown source, so we shouldn’t let our guard down.

Take this device. I’ll signal you as soon as an alert pops up.”

Doctor Bannerman tells Adams to head home and lie low for some time as she upgrades her entire system.

Though he had won this one, Adams looked quite beaten up.

Sage mode had taken a toll on him, and he needed time for healing and rejuvenation.

THE GREEN ROOM

Weeks went by as Doctor Bannerman poured in days of non-stop back-to-back sessions of reruns and tweaking to the chamber.

The results of each simulation were far too different from the previous one. The spikes were becoming more unusual.

Finally, she concluded that the main reason some parts of her test came out undefined was due to the size of the chamber itself.

It was too small, or rather, Adams’ latent energy had grown too strong to be contained by it.

The only way was to take the practice sessions to the outer corridor.

The new project she had in mind, code-named “The Green Room.”

THE ELDER SCROLL

Doctor Bannerman returned to his notes on Metaphysics of African origin, a comprehensive scientific paper that she worked on in her prime before receiving the President’s award for Advanced Studies in African History.

She remembered a section of the paper about a long-lost tribe of African heroes who established themselves as the protectors of the old world.

All of which she read like an epic in an old book, part of what they called The Elder Scrolls.

She quickly made some calls to find out its last known location.

Doctor Bannerman finally found it in the archives at the Central Library.

With her connections, she was able to burrow it for a week or two.

She studied the writings for many days, yet she couldn’t find a way to open up the material.

Similar to her first attempt at the book, it seemed like one needed some kind of key to decipher the writings.

“What are you studying, Doc?”

Adams asked, after seeing the desk full of paper cutouts and small pieces of notes, like a disassembled jigsaw puzzle.

In his curiosity, he stretched his hand to uncover a book that was buried beneath the rubble, and then it happened.

To their astonishment, the sky opened up in the laboratory and a bright blue light show with the constellations.

Then came a voice of a man, who spoke to Adams in an old forgotten language that only he could understand.

Doc. was standing close to Adams astonished at the site of the stars and planets cought up in the cloud of blue light.

It was as though she could touch the stars, being so close to this marvel of physics.

The first eye of the scroll had been opened to the ones seeking old knowledge.

Adams later narrated the entire conversation to Doc. who filed it for later studies.

THE OKARU TRIBE

The conversation revealed the history and true identity the true origin of the power he now wields.

The Grandfather, the entity in the hologram, narrated the entire history of the beginning of the cradle of life – the Genesis Engine – to the creation of celestial crystals like Nzuri, its purpose, and its protectors.

“For centuries, the Okaru Lords were the most sought-after warriors in every land, the chosen ones for a life of sacrifice. A people that will lay down their lives fighting evil for the greater good.

To qualify, even the chosen ones must survive the test. The never-ending battle between who we once were and what we long to become.

The test leading to enlightenment.

And then, there are others who will go to every length to punish the earth by siding with the evils that cause catastrophes.

They are The Fallen. They were present in times of old, and even now they gather.”

He spoke of the five terrors of nature brewing underneath the earth and the overhanging sky, and soon to erupt with vengeance and calamity.

He also made reference to a rift somewhere in Africa as the first to erupt, signaling an era of a wave of catastrophes upon nature and those that depend on it.

“When the time is right, your brother will come to you in your moment of need. He knows too well the way of the future, your present.

Now, wait in time, half a time, and time again. Out of the eye of the scrolls, all shall be revealed.”

All that was heard that day felt new to them. It was clear that there was no time to relax anymore.

All that was revealed was timely for the survival of the Earth realm.