chapter 40 how to lose your child (work in progress)

Daniel was a little pissed off because Vincent kept bringing him to the same safe places, since they were limited they ended up circling those 20 or so small creeks and shallow lakes

Daniel couldn't accept it, he had the armor, the robots the scout, and he himself was armed, he didn't pretend much, but just wanted to go after something a little bigger than the usual palm-sized fishes that were good and fun, but he had an itch to scratch

so in the end Vincent had to find a new excuse and he said to him "bigger fishes stay in deeper and wider waters, and you can't reach with your bait there"

Daniel said "who said that?" and continued "if I have enough of that sturdy line I can make up something to hold it and throw it using its weight, it's really simple"

Vincent looked at him, he had backed himself into a wall, he didn't want Daniel to hate him, so he thought as fast as he could, and finally had an idea, to ease into it he said "how much do you need?"

Daniel said "depends on the dept and how far I have to throw"

Vincent said "if we go after small catfish or bigger kinds of carp, the place I have in mind it's more or less, between 6 and 20 mt deep, and 20 to 120 mt out"

Daniel said "if they are strong with some extra line we could do 200mt"

Vincent said "here is 400 mt just to be safe, but you have to give me a month to organize, so I can make it safer" while giving him a spool of robust thread

Daniel was happy, and after nodding and thanking Vincent, he went back to the lab, since he had a month he started working seriously on it, before starting he searched on the web, and found many different types of reels, and after a while, he finally decided, e would make his version of a big spinning reel

Daniel started talking to himself again "I can make the rod foldable with the lance technology, with a lightweight material, and the spinning reel needs to be made in a sturdy, lightweight, durable and corrosion-resistant material"

Daniel was excitedly working on it, and a couple of days later, he created the first version of his own fishing rod based on the images and videos he saw on the web

the rod sky blue with cloud patterns could extend between 2 mt to 5 mt depending on the need, and to be transported became really small, thanks to the lance technology

the reel was not only strong but was also a work of art, his love for fishing was perfectly shown, as the reel even if it was the simpler thing he ever made, seemed to be some kind of jewel, full of different lifelike fish engravings, and it didn't take much effort to add a fishing rod holsters to the sides of the backpack form spacesuit, one for the pole and one for the newborn rod

it was now morning, and Daniel would usually go to sleep, but he was too excited and after packing everything up, he went to try a few casts in the specter castle lake

Daniel made many casts, as he tried the new rod and reel, he held the line, and at three-quarters of the swing, he let go, the weight pulled the line in the air, and after 50 mt it fell in the water

Daniel said "still too far, I wanted it to go 40 mt"

he had been practicing for an hour, and his arms were starting to get tired, so he put away the fishing rod in the backpack, testing the effectiveness of his side holsters

he was prepared like he was going fishing, the spacesuit in armor mode, with no helmet and support system, the rod and pole in their respective holsters, even 2 lances modified for his tinier body on the belt

he was shaking with excitement, just at the idea that he was finally going after bigger fishes, he closed his eyes, and could not see the lake, but a sea, in all his glory, like he dreamt off

while lost in those thoughts, the soul energy tornado appeared again, but this time, it was stronger than ever, so strong that the portal to enter the specter dimension started cracking, as too much soul energy was forcing its way in

luckily the specter family was not made of normal people that would panic and everyone reacted promptly

Vincent immediately went to patch the portal, while Sophia, Phoebe, and Joseph went to look for Daniel but when they saw him, it shocked them to the core

1 minute earlier, the two green souls that were the size of a tractor back wheel, were a resplendent and luxurious dark green, and like before they started to compress on their own while at the absolute limit, and change color, just like in the past, the big green sphere became a smaller dark blue ball the size of a melon, that exploded forming a pale blue sphere that could fit half a tennis field

but something new happened this time, at the center of tickles soul a small gray nanite appeared, while in Daniel's it was a cyan drop of liquid

before Daniel could try to understand what it was, his cyan drop started to spin, and automatically daniel's hand did a throwing gesture on its own snapping his finger, and the drop of cyan liquid was launched out, while in his soul a transparent one appeared

after flying for 5 mt in front of him, the drop erupted forming a big tower of cyan water-like energy, just like when a bomb explodes underwater, but this occurred going towards Daniel's face, suddenly it stopped before touching him, then it rolled back forming what looked like a luminous cyan puddle who stood vertically in mid-air defying gravity

it was a circular, maybe less than 7 mt in diameter, and its surface was rippling like the surface of a lake in the wind, Daniel couldn't hold his curiosity and walked to it

soon later, Sophia, Phoebe, and Joseph arrived just in time to watch Daniel walk inside it, but as they run to reach him the puddle imploded and disappeared

Joseph started freaking out and said "where has he gone"

Phoebe rubbed her eyes and said "am I hallucinating, was that what I think it was, or have I started to hallucinate"

Sophia patted her back and said "I wish we were hallucinating, there's no way to know where he went"

Vincent had patched the portal and run back saying "was that a wormhole? where the hell did it come from?"

Phoebe said "Daniel"

Joseph said "Daniel" he wasn't repeating but confirming to the others what he saw, because he couldn't believe it

Sophia said "Daniel" doing the same

Vincent rubbed his temples and said "maybe I'm too old, I should go in secluded cultivation like the others"

Sophia nodded and said "I'm starting to think that too"

Phoebe and Joseph said in unison "what do we do now?" they basically just lost their child

Vincent was trying to think of something, but all he could say was "he could be everywhere in the universe, that's how wormholes work, even if I must say, the color was slightly wrong, usually they are a deep blue, but this one was cyan"

Sophia a little depressed said "there's only one thing we can do, wait and hope he finds a way back, since his ability opened it his body should be safe passing through it, and maybe he will be the one giving us answers"