It was a bit of a shame that he hadn't managed to obtain any useful information, but Borne understood that the two big shots would never discuss anything important in front of him. He would have been sent away eventually anyway; Lisper had merely brought that outcome forward.
The president led Borne on a stroll through Shamsuddin's manor.
With an acquaintance leading the way, Borne was able to properly admire this building brimming with exotic charm.
The walls were covered in strange reliefs and murals filled with geometric patterns. Whenever they came across a mural that interested Borne, the president would stop and explain it to him. As she spoke, the memories buried deep within Borne's mind gradually unfurled.
Whether it was the domed architecture or the geometric artistic patterns, all of it resembled the Arab and Persian architectural styles of Earth in his memories.
The most famous example was the Arab folk tale Aladdin and the Magic Lamp.
And as an important supporting character in that tale, there was naturally the genie of the lamp.
Because the wish-granting genie had been imprisoned within a lamp, it had become a wish-making machine capable of fulfilling three wishes for the lamp's owner.
To Borne, that lamp genie was simply a version of an elemental spirit, because they were far too alike. In particular, the more ancient an elemental was in the Elemental Planes, the more likely it was to possess similar wish-granting abilities.
Even this manor's style resembled Persian onion-domed architecture!
This was no longer something coincidence could explain. And then there were the Mulhorand people and Unther people still fighting in the Far East—what connection did they have with the ancient Egyptians and Sumerians of ancient Earth?
Was his transmigration an accident, or had it been planned?
The countless unknown