The next Elder rushed forward as soon as the first one opened his eyes, then ran into an invisible barrier before he could touch him.
"What the? Oh right, it’s a separate space, and we can just see into it," he realized.
The other Elders examined the space for a moment, and then shrugged. It really was simply transparent. There was no apparent reason for it.
The first Elder stepped toward them with a confused expression.
"Why is everyone looking at me like that?"
"We could see into the separate space while you were doing your advancement, and the other Elders have been laughing at your expressions." Cara informed him cheerfully.
The warrior smiled down at the badger. "And was any of this your idea?"
"I mean, not really? I can see into it either way, so I just like to watch."
"That likely needs some study." Elder Socrate informed her.
Cara laughed. "It’s a Chaos Related System, and I am all that is badger. Why would it stop me from doing fun things?"
"I hate that I don’t have a rebuttal for that."
The warrior winked at her. "My system is a Laughing God focused one. He was the one who created the System on my world. After a few thousand years, you come to expect the system to troll you at all times."
"That sounds like fun. There are always new pranks to play."
The warrior laughed at Cara. "You know, I strongly suspect that he actually made your species, hybridized it from something else because no species should be so closely attuned to his sense of humour, and he’s supposed to have come from the human pantheon."
"Come from?" Dana asked.
"As the legend goes, he tried, some say successfully, to seduce the Empress of the human pantheon, then either ghosted her after getting her pregnant or was run off and banished from the heavens by her husband. It depends on who you ask what the story is, but it seems clear that he was originally one of the human pantheon’s gods."
Cara’s expression made the Elders laugh. If the Laughing God hadn’t created the Chaos Badger lineage, he was destined to be best friends with them.
There was no other option.
Two beings that chaotic would be immediately drawn to each other to see who had the better ideas, and would naturally become the target of each other’s pranks.
The next Elder touched the stone, and vanished for half a second, before Opal created a projection of the inside of the space so they could continue to watch.
"How does that work? Can just everyone see inside but me?" One of the Elders asked.
Dana shook her head. "I think only Cara and Karl can see inside all the time. But if Cara can see inside, Opal can see her thoughts."
One of the other Elders shrugged. "I can see inside as well, it just takes a bit of effort, as the entrance to the space isn’t locked down. It would only be hard to try to interfere with the process. Seeing into it is easy."
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