Infinite Realm

"What the heck is up with this trial?!"

Sato couldn't resist screaming out loud. Ever since he had started gaming, Sato had never experienced anything like this. Being transmigrated into someone else's body was common but being sent to his 11 year old body was different.

'I guess this is what they meant by accessing my memories.' Sato recalled the system notification that partially functioned as a warning to him.

"Hey kid, what the heck is wrong with you?" Drake asked Sato as he slowed down his pursuit.

"Where's this?" Sato ignored Drake's question and asked him another. While he didn't have memory of all of the towns in Fallen Heart kingdom, he still recalled the player-occupied ones.

"Huh? Don't you know? This is Allegri; the only . Did you hit your head or something?" Drake looked at Sato with disbelief. He was shocked beyond stupor to the point of forgetting that Sato hadn't answered his own question.

"Allegri..." Sato muttered silently. No matter how he thought about it, the name wasn't familiar to him.

'I might as well just check the place out. Since I got sent here, the trial has to be related with the town. In that case...' Sato sighed heavily as he made his decision.

"I got lost and injured sir, so I don't recall anything." Sato said as he tried imitating an innocent expression. Since he was in his 11 year old body, he had to act like one else they might get suspicious. While changing personalities wasn't his thing, acting like his younger self wasn't an issue.

'This is for the mission so I just have to tolerate it.' Sato comforted himself.

"You don't recall why you were outside?" Drake stared at Sato with an incredulous expression.

"*Sighs* Come with me. Let's go find your parents." Drake waved at Sato to approach him.

"My parents...?" Sato asked, a bit surprised.

"Don't tell me you've forgotten them too?"

Drake already lost count of how many times the kid in front of him had made him baffled.

Sato hesitated as he didn't know how to reply. On one hand, he could act like he hadn't forgotten but it would be weird and difficult for him to actually act out the part of the child. However, saying that he had forgotten wouldn't make things easier for him. He didn't know the culture of behavioral patterns of the people in the hamlet so Sato couldn't predict how they would react. They might send him to a doctor or shaman for a check-up or run a few spells or something on him. Also, he needed to blend in to the village but he couldn't do that if stood out as the kid that lost his memories.

'Wait a minute, I'm supposed to be a stranger here. I'm my own self and not a transmigrated soul or something. How the heck do I have parents?'

"Whether you've forgotten them or not doesn't matter now. Come with me." Drake said after seeing that Sato had yet to reply him.

Sato, still playing his part, nodded innocently like the little kid he was and followed the man.

"What happened back then?" Gali asked Drake.

"Dunno. The kid is here so why don't you ask him yourself." Drake gestured towards Sato who was behind him.

Gali glanced at Sato and asked, "So? Why did you run all of a sudden?"

"I thought I had forgotten something by the lake." Sato smiled shyly.

"Whatever. Go in and go find your parents." Gali waved him off.

Sato nodded in response before he was walked away with Drake escorting him.

During the walk, Sato was wondering how he would go about with the mission. From his short experience, he tried to pin down the aim of the trial so as to complete it as quickly as possible. It should be recalled that in IR, the faster one completes a quest, mission or trial, the greater their reward. This was Sato's goal and he decided to spend every time available to achieve this.

'There's most likely a task to complete and it could be anything. Finding a spy, a treasure, anything and everything. *Sighs* This will be difficult if I don't get enough hints.' Sato sighed internally as he felt a headache brewing.

"Sato...is that you?"

While he was absentmindedly walking, Sato heard a soft feminine voice reaching out to him, that forced him to stop. The reason why he stopped wasn't because the voice was calling him but that the voice was familiar.

'It can't be...' Sato felt his composure shake.

In an awfully familiar open space, which happened to be the place Sato and Xue Yan got teleported to, Saimon stood still and was looking ahead. At the spot he was looking at, there were two floating glass orbs. Within the orbs were Sato and Xue Yan, who were currently experiencing their trials in different forms. For Sato, he was in his 11 year old self and had suddenly come to a stop with shock written all over his face. For Xue Yan, she was in her 15 year old self, all huddled up in grief at the edge of a room.

Saimon glanced at the two glass orbs before sighing.

"The test has already begun. There's nothing you can do about it." A deep voice resounded. The strange thing was that it didn't come from Saimon's lips, showing that there was actually someone else present. However, the person's figure was nowhere to be seen.

"I know." Saimon said with a low tone.

"It's been long since anyone has been to the Hall and even longer since anyone has challenged the trials. I was really hoping for them to win but I think I rushed them too much." Saimon sighed again.

"If they can't pass it, then it's the will of the Grey God. If they can, then it's still a result of HIS will and their luck. It all depends on HIM and them." The voice replied.

"Yes. Everything is the will of the Grey God." Saimon concurred.

"Just pray that they pass. I too, am tired of having to wait for the chosen one and I wish the same just as you do; for them to succeed. But this can only be true if they have the will to persevere, the luck to go through it and the blessings of the Grey God. We can't do much about the first 2 but we can still pray to the Lord for HIS blessings upon them." The voice comforted Saimon.

"You're right, Lord Worrus." Saimon responded respectfully.

Lord Worrus, one of the strongest Achiever's in Caventry history, ranking at the top 10 in all generations. This very figure who was supposed to be dead for God knows how long turned out to be the one Saimon was communicating with!

"I will go take my sleep as usual. Unless any major important change happens, don't wake me up." The voice slowly dropped in sonority with each word mouthed.

"As you wish, Lord Worrus." Saimon bowed to the space in front of him.

As he did so, a strange thing happened. The space in front suddenly warped within a split second, as if it was a piece of clothing that was folded at a point. A terrifying pressure descended at that split second, forcing Saimon's body to shiver and the floating glass orbs to creak. If the pressure had lasted for a much longer period, there was no doubt that the orbs would have broken and Sato and Xue Yan, who were both inside them, would end up dead.

Despite seeming to be made of glass, the material used to forge the orbs were actually high level materials, rated 4 star at least, with the majority being 5 star! The glass-like material was actually the 5 star material, Void Core crystal and the core of the creation was another 5 star material, Inter-dimensional stone. The arrays used on the orbs were drawn with Liquid Ruin Energy, another 5 star material, and perfected with 4 star Rainbow dew, a high ranking 4 star material that is extremely close to the 5 star rank. A lot more precious materials were used on the orbs making their value extremely high but the Great Hall of the Grey Chaplains were lucky enough to have 5 of them.

With so many exquisite materials used on one orb, one shouldn't take the orbs as a pair of fragile eggs. The materials made them so strong that even a full-powered attack from a half-step Saint wouldn't make even a crack them and one such attack was more than enough to wipe out 3 Riverdales! Even a true Saint would need some effort to crack the orbs so it was more than impressive that Lord Worrus could make the orbs tremble by just exposing his aura. That makes one only wonder what level he had achieved.

"If even Lord Worrus thinks much of you guys then better live up to his expectations." Saimon spoke to the two orbs or rather, to the two persons in the orbs. Sadly though, his voice couldn't be transmitted to them as the orbs themselves were another world with different laws. Whatever that was placed in there would be separated and isolated from the real world and any external influences. Unless the orb was cracked or destroyed, it would remain like this forever.

"Sato..." The feminine voice spoke again.

Sato hesitantly turned around and as he did so, he saw a face that he would never forget; not even in his dreams could make him do so. The face he saw, was that of his...

"Mother...."