It happened unexpectedly to one of the order's apostles when he was returning from a routine trip to the land of noodles, when he tried to use the teleportation system of his armor. The program execution process worked normally, but when the man disappeared, he was horrified to find himself not in the secret base in the land of tea, but in a strange, completely desolate, gray place with no blue sky, a completely nonexistent atmosphere, and where the stars could be clearly seen. Obviously, the man panicked, mainly because there was no air to breathe, so he activated a second emergency teleportation system again, which this time worked correctly, taking him safely to where he had originally wanted to go.
All alarms went off in the Divine Order, and Touki immediately went to investigate the peculiar incident. The faulty component turned out to be damaged by the apostle's carelessness when handling his sword too close to his armor, causing a small, almost imperceptible damage where the program symbols are located. At first, Touki didn't consider this kind of damage capable of altering the program of common artifacts, and continued experience has proven him right. However, for these more sensitive components, it seems that things work differently, especially if the damage is caused by another artifact he created.
The man, reckless as ever, and without warning anyone, took the defective module, made sure for the umpteenth time that the metal was not fractured, and after preparing his armor for all kinds of contingencies, activated the teleportation system.
What Touki saw was one of the most surprising things of his life, as he ended up literally teleported to another world, a place very similar to the lunar surface, completely dead and with no atmosphere at all, just as the apostle described it. Holding his breath, the man looked around, immediately struck by extreme cold and a much lower gravity than usual, which in a certain sense triggered a kind of primitive fear in his entire being, as if something were wrong at a level beyond normal comprehension. In the pitch-black sky, the stars shone with a disproportionate intensity and the man couldn't hold his gaze for more than a few seconds, before having to close his eyes due to the intensity of certain colors. Having been there for no more than 20 seconds and with his armor struggling to maintain body temperature, he could not help but return before something unpredictable could happen.
Needless to say, Touki was so ecstatic about the experience that he almost started screaming with excitement, because that small and short experience meant that the teleportation program is truly a kind of interdimensional portal, with capabilities clearly greater than just this world, or so he believes.
Like a child with a new toy, the man put aside everything he was doing at the time and focused his attention on unraveling the secrets of such a discovery. The first step in his investigation was to understand how the artifact ended up functioning the way it did, so he began a detailed analysis of the damage caused by the sword, a small cut resulting from an invisible wind attack. For days, the man analyzed the artifact's structure, copying every detail of the program's symbol pattern and the specific damage it suffered. Then, through trial and error, he repeated the same damage on another artifact to see if the effect could be replicated.
"Project X" is the rather unoriginal name Touki gave to the set of experiments he designed to test the functioning of the artifacts. Using a device consisting of a metal box with a small glass window and a camera inside, he was able to automate the journey without exposing himself to danger, something like a primitive research probe, operating with one test module for travel and another for return.
The probe's first voyage was a success, using the new (defective) teleportation module, a faithful copy of the original. The probe remained on the dead planet, as he eventually called it, long enough to take a photograph and then return without incident, delivering an image quite similar to what he had seen in person. The voyage was repeated three more times, obtaining similar results and proving that the destination is always the same and in the exact geographical location.
Now with something to work with, Touki began researching ways to change the artifacts' travel destination. His theory is that there's no way to accurately set the destination, as the program works using other artifacts as beacons. Therefore, what should be happening with the faulty teleporters is that the beacon signal was ignored and replaced by another way of finding the destination, something like a random jump into the distant void until the first stable enough place to arrive is found. The idea is plausible, but if true, it raises the problem of how to actually change the destination.
Since the beginning of this strange adventure through the world of Naruto, Touki hasn't stopped thinking about the truth behind his transmigration to this place. While it's a fantasy come true, it's still a fictional world, sometimes completely illogical in its development and with a plot taken from the imagination of a person from his former world. The man wants to believe there's a reason why he's here, but for now, all he can do is survive and perhaps find the true limits of this fantasy. And now that a practical form of teleportation to other worlds may exist, the path may open for him to truly make more sense of everything that's happened to him so far.
The following experiments were carried out directly to try to modify the form of the damage type on the artifacts, causing everything but what he wanted, from simply ruining the program completely, to triggering an overheating that caused one of the metal plates to explode, almost completely ruining the probe. Fortunately, not everything was in vain, as it was possible to find the specific point within the symbols that, when eliminated, causes the probe to travel back to the dead world.
For nearly a full week, the man banged his head against the wall, trying to find a way to change the direction of the teleportation trips, even causing the destruction of the first experimental probe, when suddenly an idea struck him: if it's true that distant travel is due to ignoring beacons in the current world, what about placing a beacon in the dead world as well? The procedure was quite simple: modifying a new probe to drop a beacon artifact into the strange gray world, via a Successful express trip.
When the moment of truth arrived, Touki's excitement was high, preparing his new probe to take photographs in various directions. When it disappeared, he counted the seconds until it returned. And indeed, 20 seconds later, the device returned completely intact, delivering some astonishing images once the film was developed. A new and completely different world was discovered, just as desolate as the dead world, although this time with reddish soil.
The man jumped for joy at such success, shouting passionately inside his testing bunker. Now all he needs to do is gather patience and begin the slow process of exploring new worlds (or dimensions), although he'll most likely need to craft some sort of spacesuit or modify his armor to be able to breathe in a vacuum or in places with toxic gases.
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