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Chapter 21 - Close Contact

  We quickly arrived back in the temple, standing in the same place as before. In my testing of clones they should be Ok by themselves indefinitely, at least for a while so I’ll get a hustle on the next Powers and catch up with them.

  Turning back to World, I say “Thanks for that mate, now I’ve got another Question in the form of a request and then I'll be out of your hair.”

  “This isn’t real hair?” “Metaphorical hair, anyway question three and you can ask Knowledge for the details but on Earth we have high definition maps of most of the planet, I would like high definition maps of Land that are automatically integrated into the Map Mode feature of my System Interface Power. Now yes I will need to level it up but you can think of it like having a globe or rough map at lower levels and steadily moving up in definition and range more and more.

  I would ask if it's possible to have a rough, not as high definition globe view I can access that I can use to only show Institute members like with my Map Mode sub ability? What do you think?”

  “Sure, Granted. This world already has globes and that would just mean putting lights over a globe and updating it every so often. But the further away you are from them the less often it updates. Otherwise yes I’m fine with giving you some higher definition maps as you go up in Rank.”

  “Awesome! All right well I think that's everything but do you mind if I come back at some point to ask some more questions?”

  “Sure, just let Knowledge know.”

  “Alright, well I’ll head off then, thank you very much for your time.” And with that I walk out, catching up with Abcier and immediately heading for the alleyway to take a quick route back to the docks. I do get a weird look when I come out of the room without my bag but we’ll save talk till we are out of possible hearing range.

  As we leave the temple a Window pops up.

  Nice, Initial Plan: Phase One and Two are completed. I need to get back to the Coans Farm to start the second plan and try to get some level ups before heading for the capitol to become an adventurer.

  “Follow me,” said Abcier, “Let's get out of here and back to Farmers Rest.”

  Opening up the Map Mode I cannot see anything within 30 metres, there are a ton of people in the square now. We speed walk toward and through the alleyway, trying to avoid as many people as we can. Checking the map continuously and nearly running into a few people we make it safely to the docks after five minutes of speed walking.

  As we head toward one of the smaller boats and Abcier asks for a ride I see it, a slight red blimp on the edge of my Map Mode. I think whoever that was just bumped the edge. Abcier calls me and we hop on board, I tell the driver of this small sailboat to get us out of here as soon as possible.

  Soon we are half way back to Farmers Rest Island and I pull up the Globe Map Mode with Institute Tracking. Zooming in, I can see a single red dot near the docks but it's moving inland, probably checking out the crowd. Not wanting to count the number of red blips I can see around the world.

  Once we arrive our wagon is still there just where we had left it, there are small stables where people can store their wagons and steeds temporarily which we had used.

  During the trek back I turn to Abcier and ask “Did you know an Institute hunter was in the area?”

  “Not exactly, Knowledge told me we needed to move faster. But I had no idea there was one nearby, do you know if they saw you?”

  “I don’t think so, the information I have thanks to World shows he was moving toward the square, but we did get within 30 metres at one point.”

  “Dam, we were lucky. I'll see what I can do about getting you a fake OutWorlder artefact, and maybe an official document showing you are not an OutWorlder. We’ll need to discuss this again.”

  “Yes, for now though I need to think about all the information I now have. That and coming up with another plan.”

  “That’s fine, it will take me some time anyway, what happened to your backpack?”

  “... It might be best if you don’t know all the details. I didn’t need it anymore.”

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