Eleanor, my child. If you are reading this, then I am dead. I do not know if my death was caused by the organization targeting me, or if it was natural but please do not fret, I am happy I choose to live a better life with you and your father. Now, for the reason I am writing this, It is difficult for me to say this, but, there are consequences for using ‘magic’ every spell that is casted will make him come closer as more and more ‘dungeons’ will open each more powerful than the last, but this is nothing but a precursor to the disaster, a prelude to destruction. For when he shows up all hope will be lost and the world will be recycled into dark energy for him, he relies on the greed and hunger of a species to eventually take them over. Normally it takes millenia for this to happen, but the world is using more and more ‘magic’ relying more and more on it as the world becomes more civilized this world will suffer the same fate as the earth. It is now inevitable that he will arrive, all I can do is prepare you for the coming conflict as best as I can. Take the device in the box, place it on your wrist and press the button, this will keep you from seeing what Earth, our home, has become. And when the sub-base shows up, remember that the key is ATLAS.
I love you, my child.
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic ~ Clark’s 3rd law
In a small farming town on the outskirts of the human country; Elanore came back from getting water from the family well. With a gasp she stared back in horror at the house she grew up in, in flames. she dropped the water buckets and staggered through the field and past the gate. Down the rocky path that led to the house, realizing that her parents were still inside she tried to call for them but not a sound came out. Eventually she dropped to her knees the cold sensation of the rocks not affecting her at all. Looking at the once sturdy frame of her house getting destroyed, a person from behind came and yanked her away from the flames “sell this ogre” she heard someone say. How? How did they find out about them? Her parents had her cut off her horn and everything just so they didn't find out.
In this world humans are not the only intelligent beings there are also orcs, ogres, goblins, elves, and all of the fantasy creatures that you could probably think of. The humans have established a centralized government called Acomore. The goal of this government was to protect humans from the outside world and to give humanity a chance to counter the magical beasts of this world. However this government is run by a corrupt man whose only goal is to get money and enslave everything he could find through a spell that causes the target's mind to become enslaved and the only thing they could think about is how to benefit the master however there is a select few who are immune to the magic. Those few look for any chance they can to escape.
Three years later, on the outskirts of a farming community called Tario just south of the great holy capital of Acomore. *a massive explosion happens just outside of view.* “What the hell was that!?” A man looked at his friend with the most dumbfounded face “it sounds like someone's fighting.” his friend said “you go get the guards i’ll check it out” the man's friend ran off of the porch they were sitting on and ran in the direction of the center of town.
The man then went to investigate what caused the explosions. He ran off of the porch. He could feel the heat of whatever caused the explosion already. As he was running over the hill he started to see the silhouette of the strangest figure he had ever seen it was a pyramid but not a big one at most it was 2m by 2m by 2m and completely black looking at it was like looking into an abyss he remembered that it was almost mesmerizing looking at it and strangely enough it was floating mid air about 1m off the ground.
He looked at the pyramid with a confused look. Never in his life had he seen such a perfect figure; each side was perfectly triangular and the entire thing was completely black. The area around the pyramid was destroyed, grass torn up and burned, rocks almost melted due to the heat but the pyramid was unaffected by it all. He heard shouting and looked behind him to see his friend along with the guards running towards him. He glanced back at the pyramid before running back to tell them what it was.
In the slave labor section of the town of Aileen
“Move faster!!” a man with a whip told Eleanor “i’m trying” she said “there is only so much i can do with this cut.” she pleaded but her cries fell on deaf ears as the whip cracked once more, she had no choice but to continue planting the seeds “i will escape.” she muttered to herself, after her parents died in a tragic house fire she had been sold to slavery by the townsfolk due to not having parents and the town being dirt poor. Later that evening as the captors handed out the daily bread she found a lapse in their attention as the guards were not paying attention to her and she was on the edge of the field she made a daring escape.
A few weeks had passed since the pyramid appeared in Tario, at this point it had become an attraction many people from all over had heard about this thing and came to see it for themselves many have tried to break the pyramid but all tools seem to not work on it and all spells don't work either the only thing that was different on the pyramid was some strange text on the side that no one could read. The text which was in red glowing letters said “SYSTEM REBOOT” right above those words though in a silver bold text was a name, at least that's what people thought it was. “ATLAS”
Eventually ATLAS gained enough popularity that it caught the attention of the royal capital Acomore, to which it sent the high ranking mage Mateo along with 100 royal soldiers to Tario. “I wonder if the rumors are true, if this really is a mysterious pyramid that appeared out of nowhere, is indestructible, dark as an abyss, and the only thing different about it are three words written on the side. This is going to be one interesting trip.”
As the mages' carriage pulled up to the town Maeto saw the pyramid for the first time and it was everything that the rumors made it out to be. As he got out of the carriage he could see that the townspeople were attempting to move the pyramid, they had ropes wrapped around it and set up chains of people pulling, but their attempts bore no fruit. The sharp corners of the pyramid were cutting the ropes and eventually they snapped. Mateo could not help but to laugh as he saw the people crash to the ground. “Behold the holy capital has sent mage mateo to assist in the movement of the UFO'' one of the knights said “good it's about time, we broke almost all of our tools and rope trying to break or move this thing whatever this thing is it’s tough.”
Mateo started walking towards the ATLAS unit completely disregarding everyone around the thing, mesmerized by how black it looked he placed his hand on the side of it. It was the smoothest thing he ever felt; it was almost as if it had no texture at all. Walking to the side while running his hand along the pyramid he rounded one of the corners of the pyramid and felt how sharp the corner was. “It's as sharp as a blade” he thought, on the other side of the pyramid he saw the words written on it, he then cast a spell that allows him to read any text “celestial eye give me your guidance allow me to translate these words.”
As he read the text he still did not understand what it ment “the text up here reads “ATLAS'' and the text down here reads “SYSTEM REBOOT”” confused murmurs washed over the crowd as they were trying to comprehend what the text said. “I shall now attempt to teleport it” he announced out loud, as he set up the teleportation circle the knights set up a second one in a test area to see if it could be teleported at all. A few hours later he finished setting it all up and started the incantation, the townspeople were not allowed to be around for this as the incantation for this was forbidden knowledge except for a select few people in the capital. “********** ***** ******** *** ********* ** ********* *****” When Mateo finished the last word the two circles lit up and the pyramid was engulfed in a bright blue light as it began to get teleported. As the light dissipated and vanished the pyramid was gone and had been moved to the second circle “success” mateo whispered to himself.
“COORDINATES INVALID ATTEMPTING TO RESET COORDINATES'' it was a booming voice that said it and it seemed to be coming from everywhere when out of nowhere the pyramid started to move back to its original location “stop it! Don't let it move” the knights attempted to hold it in place even as holy knights who had strength far beyond the average man they could not hold it. In fact they did not affect the movement of the pyramid at all. Their feet dug into the ground as they tried to hold it with all their might, which was surprising to Mateo due to the fact that one holy knight could easily lift up a 3 ton boulder.
Eventually the pyramid stopped moving but it was now in its original position. “COORDINATES NOW VALID RESUMING REBOOT SEQUENCE” the booming voice said once more. It was a spectacle. It was the most interesting thing he had ever seen the holy knights and him did absolutely nothing to move the pyramid once more. The pyramid is completely unaffected by the might of the knights ``just what the hell is this thing made of” he said out loud. Just then the booming voice said something once more “SATELLITES NOT FOUND ATTEMPTING TO SEND OUT SATELLITE NETWORK''
What? Just what the hell is this thing and what are satellites? Just then the top of the pyramid opened up and four balls of the black material shot out of it one at a time but the strangest thing is that the balls did not stop. They just kept on going up and up eventually they were out of view and the top of the pyramid closed back into its original shape. “SATELLITE NETWORK ESTABLISHED, SECURE CONNECTION ESTABLISHED, DEFENSE SYSTEMS ONLINE” after the weirdest spectacle of noise and movement it all went quiet. The sun at this point was almost completely over the horizon. The only word that Mateo understood was the defense systems online part and with that he had a dreading feeling that he should not get near the pyramid.
Eleanor had been running for miles at this point. She had lost track of how long it had been. With the tracking animals they had it was really hard to lose the retrieval mercenaries after days of running she had gotten grazed on the arm with an arrow. She grabbed her arm in pain “it's deep” she thought if she does not find a way to treat it the wound could become a problem. She ran into a clearing hoping that there might be a cave or something to hide in, she looked over to her right and saw a town in the distance. “Shit” she thought “if i get near that town they will turn me in on the spot.” She took a few steps in the direction away from the town before feeling a sharp pain in her back. She fell to the ground feeling weak. It was an arrow and it landed right in her back.
“I’m going to die. I wonder why this world treats ogres so badly. What did we ever do to deserve this? I hope my next life will be better.” as she felt her consciousness slipping, she heard a voice but not one she had ever heard of before this one was different this one was less emotional than any voice she had ever heard. “REBOOT SEQUENCE COMPLETE SEARCHING FOR HOST… CONFIRMED, HOST ACCEPTED, NOW ATTEMPTING FUSION” she did not know what to make of it the only thing she could think of was “just let me die… in peace. “
2
She woke up in a haze, feeling like her insides were torn to shreds. “Oh god my head hurts. Where am I?” she looked around to see that she was in a field of some kind. Dazed, she shakily stood up and assessed her surroundings. “Where am I?” she wondered. And then with a sudden gasp followed with a scream she saw them. Corpses, about a dozen of them all laying on the ground with bad cuts. Almost all of them had their throat slit. She checked herself remembering the arrow that went into her back but seeing that she was completely unscathed, not a single cut or scrape on her body. “What the hell?” a person said as they walked towards Eleanor. If they saw her with all these corpses she would be arrested for sure and the fact that she was a slave would not help at all. Eleanor hid behind a tree as the person saw the bodies. Then heard the person gasp and run off to tell the authorities.
After a daring escape she grabbed a robe lying on the ground to cover herself. If anyone saw the slave mark on her she would be turned in on the spot. As she walked through the village in search of food she noticed that she seemed lighter and could lift things a lot easier. On top of that the whole village seems to be in a panic probably because of the dozen bodies just outside of the village. She eventually found a bakery which surprisingly no one was around to watch the bread. As she was about to grab the bread she heard a voice again, “THAT'S NOT NECESSARY” the voice said, surprised, she jumped back and looked around to see who said it.
There was no one around still. “Who are you?” she asked not knowing where the voice came from “I AM ATLAS AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE UNIT DESIGNED BY CILLE INC” “artificial intelligence?” she had no idea what that was “YES I AM NOT ALIVE BUT I HAVE BEEN DESIGNED TO HAVE MY OWN THOUGHT PROCESS SIMILAR TO A HUMANS” she sort of understood that it was talking about but she did have more questions “where are you?” she asked sort of fearing the answer “I AM INSIDE OF THE GAPS IN YOUR BONE MARROW AND INSIDE THE GAPS IN YOUR TISSUE” “what the hell?! Inside my bones?” it was not the answer she was expecting “YES, NOW BACK TO WHAT I WAS SAYING, CONSUMING THE BREAD IS NOT NECESSARY”
“And why not?” she still had questions but she figured that whatever she is talking to she should not piss it off “YOUR METABOLISM DOES NOT REQUIRE DAILY FOOD INTAKE ANYMORE DUE TO A NECESSARY STEP IN THE FUSION PROCESS” after that the voice explained what happened. Basically the ATLAS unit designed by cille inc is from a different world where its creators designed it to be a body enhancement device that fuses with a host causing the strength, speed, regeneration all to accelerate at an immense pace as well as not needing food as often. Among other things the centralized intelligence causes the user to think at computer fast speeds and is able to see a map of the surrounding areas due to satellites under the control of the ai controlled unit. “YOU ARE ALSO ABLE TO SUMMON WEAPONS CREATED FROM NANOPARTICLES, THESE WEAPONS ARE INDESTRUCTIBLE”
She did not know what to think there was only one thing she could think of though “so what is your goal, do you serve me?” as far as she was concerned she wanted only one thing if this ATLAS thing was powerful and served her. “... I AM DESIGNED TO SERVE THE WILL OF MY FUSED USER” she felt relieved because if there is something that powerful “inside” of her then she would want to know what it wants. “HOWEVER, I AM ALSO DESIGNED TO FIND THE FASTEST WAY TO RETURN TO MY MAKERS, SORT OF AS A FAILSAFE INCASE I WAS STOLEN.” She grabbed a piece of bread off the stand and shoved it in a bag she found off the ground for safe keepings.
A few days later Eleanor was walking through the woods making her way to the semi-major city Aileen to exact revenge on her captors. The entire time they had been walking Eleanor had been asking questions about the ATLAS unit “so earlier you said some organization called CILLE inc. created you, but just wondering where were you made?” Eleanor asked“I WAS CREATED ON A DIFFERENT PLANET, THIS PLANET WAS CALLED EARTH. MY CREATORS MADE ME IN AN ATTEMPT TO CREATE A KIND OF SUPER SOLDIER.” she knew that something this powerful was not of this world.
which sort of made sense to her “ok… then how did you get over here to Maeve” ATLAS paused for a second seeming to wonder the same thing itself “I DO NOT KNOW, WHEN I WAS TRANSPORTED HERE I WAS STILL REBOOTING THUS I HAVE NO MEMORY OF WHY.” “How weird, hey so why is your name ATLAS does it stand for something?” “YES IT STANDS FOR ARTIFICIAL TRANSFORMATION LIVEN AUTOMATION STATION” “Ok so one other thing earlier you said i could summon weapons. What kind of weapons can I summon?” Just then her arm was forced out in front of her and her hand was limp. Just then out of her hand she saw a black liquid come out of her palm. That was the only way she could describe it as it was not acting like a liquid at all. It moved around with precise movement just like it was alive. This liquid then took the form of a sword and hardened.
For Eleanor it was the weirdest feeling ever as if something was moving around inside of her trying to even itself out and compensate for the lost liquid. “THIS IS NOT THE ONLY THING I CAN CREATE, ANY BRUTE OBJECT CAN BE MADE WITH EASE. A “GUN” CAN ALSO BE CREATED BUT ITS USE SHOULD BE USED AS A LAST RESORT AS IT IS VERY POWERFUL BUT SACRIFICES SOME NANOPARTICLES” as Eleanor held the sword she felt as if there was little to no weight in her hand. She then tried to swing it at a tree. She barely put any force into it and the tree was sliced completely in half. “Holy shit! That's so cool! Lets see what else we can do”
3
“What the hell happened?!” Mateo asked, staring at the spot where the pyramid used to be as well as the dozens of bodies on the ground. “They look like soldiers.” “I don't know sir, but one of the people who we thought were dead woke up with his leg cut off and told the craziest story ever.” he then turned his attention to the frail man huddled in a blanket leaned against a tree. As he walked over to him he saw that he seemed to be in a panic understandably so though his leg is missing. When he was closer he heard him rambling on about something. “It was not human, it was not of this world, oh god what the hell was that?!” As soon as Mateo reached the man he knelt down and said this “listen i don't know what happened last night i am sorry that we have been asking questions about it, it must be very hard. Now please one last time tell us what happened.” the man looked at Mateo and with the weakest voice ever he pulled enough courage to tell the story one last time
“Ok… I think I can do it, for starters I am a part of the slave retrieval and rejuvenation program” oh god Mateo thought. The slave retreval program is one of the most fucked up programs ever, when a slave that is immune is found they are “disposed” of. “We had been following a slave that was immune through the forest last night when it ran into this field and got a confirmed hit on its back. I was sent to go retrieve the body, as I walked to the hill we saw it crawl over and I heard the strangest sound. It sounded like a clock that was more controlled. I then saw the slave but it was as if it had something inside of it, something wriggling around.” At this point the retrieval merc had passed out from remembering what happened and a guard from my team continued the story for him from what he told him earlier. “He apparently noticed too late that this thing was healing the slaves cuts. he looked into the slaves eyes and then noticed that by then it was already too late. The slave slowly stood up, not shaking or with any emotion at all but almost as if it did not know it was a slave or that it was going to get executed.
Then it spoke “FUSION SUCCESSFUL, WARNING THREAT DETECTED, NOw neutralizing threat.” he did not know what happened to the slaves voice but then a “black goop” apparently poured out of its hand and took the form of an incredibly thin blade. She then, without moving, at all. The blade swung on its own slicing through his leg. He said he did not feel pain or anything but felt weakness in his legs and fell to the ground. After seeing this, the rest of the termination mercs fired arrows at the slave which more of the black goop came out and moved in reaction to this smacking the arrows out of the air the goop swirled around the slave as if searching for threats. He saw one of his comrades charge at the girl with a sword to which a portion of the goop formed into another sword and floated there until it parried his attack, and pierced him through the heart.” The battle lasted about 2 minutes. If you could even call it that it was more of a slaughter.
Apparently the thing said one last thing before the merc passed out “now lets turn off auto-pilot mode.” Now the slave along with the pyramid are missing. This could end up being a problem Maeto thought as he was walking back to the carriage to relay this new info to the king and set a bounty for the slave. Start it at 100 gold coins, if we are to find the UFO we need to find her first.
Eleanor walked over one last hill and gazed her eyes on the town that had her enslaved for so long. It made her sick to her stomach to see all the humans living so happily when on the other hand ogres and other fantasy creatures were enslaved, forced to work for literally nothing and brainwashed into submission. With the help of ATLAS Eleanor changed her appearance to look more like an adventurer. She even created a sword with some of the nanoparticles. “Ok here we go,” she said. “Hopefully this disguise will work well.” She started walking to the south gate of the town as she got closer she noticed the line of merchants waiting to get into the town as well. “FROM HOW YOU WERE FROM WHEN WE FIRST FUSED, YOU SHOULD NOT BE IDENTIFIABLE WITH FINGERPRINT OR RETINAL SCANNERS, EVEN YOUR DNA IS DISGUISED TO BEFIT YOUR CURRENT APPEARANCE.” she had no idea what ATLAS was saying but whatever it was she assumed they were terms from this “earth.”
An hour after getting into line Eleanor finally got to the front of the line and had prepared what she was going to say to the guard. “What is your name?” the guard asked “Fae” she said in the most confident voice she could muster as she had not talked to a human in a way that she was also human in over 5 years. Fae was also her mother’s name she assumed as her mother was dead. And she did not want people to know that her name was Eleanor. “Ok, and what is your reason for coming to Aileen today?” she had prepared for this ahead of time and while it had been 5 years since she had talked on equal terms with a human he had done it before so it was coming back to her “I wanted to register at the guild here” at least that was her cover story in reality she wanted to exact revenge on the slaves guild in the town and free any slaves she could. But that was only possible if the slaves guild had some contracts here because otherwise the slaves would not be willing to come with anyways and would want to go back.
“Ok i have cleared you for entry, be warned that if you are found to have caused a disturbance you will be exiled and not permitted entry into Aileen ever again unless permitted by the lord.” a while back Eleanor knew a human who got exiled from a town before. She watched it all happen and it was not something she wanted to go through to say the least. “She thanked the guard and walked through the gate. When she got inside she was almost in awe at the amount of shops and people inside. She walked past the first few sets of shops reading the signs as she went. “Tom’s bakery, wild boar inn, eastern Aileen bar” the first thing that Eleanor wanted to do was get to the slaves section but before she could do that she would have to get an ID from the adventurers guild.
As Eleanor was making her way to the adventurers guild she passed a bar with some outdoor seating, a shady man sitting at that bar looks at Eleanor as she passes the bar. Something in his eye moves almost like magic. He smiles and looks down chuckling to himself he says “so finally I have found a bounty and not just any bounty this one is 100 gold coins that could have me set for 10 years at least. Time to call in the squad.”
Eventually Eleanor came across an extravagant building with two words on the front “Adventurers Guild” and the best part was the insane characters coming out of the guild. There were witches, warlocks, spellswords, knights, among other weird characters. Eleanor walked through the doors and gassed at the massive interior, there were tables full of adventurers bars and the traditional things inside of a guild. She walked through the crowd of adventurers and felt as if there were some people looking at her. “What is a kid doing here?” she heard one of the adventurers whisper to another one. As an ogre she has better hearing by default but with the help of ATLAS she can basically pick out any words whispered or said in just about any crowd.
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Eleanor made her way to the front desk and the attendant standing behind it. Eleanor noticed the attendant looking her way as she got closer, well you can't blame her she is about 15 and it is not like there is an age limit to become an adventurer but it is weird for a kid to try and become one. “How may I help you?” the attendant asked when Eleanor reached the counter. “I would like to register as an adventurer,” Eleanor said, the attendant looked confused. “I'm sorry but you have to be able to read and write to become an adventurer and you have to participate in a mock battle with the trainer.” Now Eleanor knows why she was confused but she also knows she could handle the mock battle due to ATLAS and she does know how to read and write from her parents. (although she has not done it in like 5 years she feels like she can do it)
The form that the attendant handed Eleanor was simple: all it asked was her name, if she is in a party, age, and a blood seal. After that the attendant took the sheet and told Eleanor to follow her “by the way my name is Lora'' it was a nice name Eleanor thought “nice to meet you i’m Fae, i also have a question for you.” Lora looked a little surprised “ok sure what is it?'' Now Eleanor had an idea of what the answer was but she had to be sure anyway. “Why were some of the adventurers looking at me earlier?” from the look on her face she probably thought that Eleanor was going to ask something more personal “well it is rare for a kid that is dressed like an adventurer to come into here.” Eleanor asked in case that they were looking at a flaw in her disguise. Lora led Eleanor down a hallway to a regular looking door at the end. “Just through here” Lora said, Eleanor opened the door to reveal a massive underground room, by the looks of it the room was very old and run down. There were also many cuts in the walls and cracks in the floor most likely from previous battles.
On the other side of the large room a door opened up revealing a tall muscular man. With ATLAS’s ability she could see that the man was about 6’7” and weighed about 400 pounds and none of it was fat. “This is grog our admission trainer, despite his looks he has a ton of self control. If he deems it fit you will be admitted as an adventurer” as Grog got closer he started chuckling “so this child wants to become an adventurer? Don’t make me laugh, for your own good wait another 8 or so years” grog was condescending but he would be correct about waiting if this was a normal circumstance, but this situation was not normal. Eleanor unsheathed her “sword” (really just some nanoparticles) and pointed it at the trainer. “Don't you underestimate me. I am a lot stronger than you think.” Grog smiled “ok, if you say so.” Grog took out a large battle axe. At least that was what it looked like but the design of the axe was incredibly weird. “I admire your bravery but I shall not let a mere child become an adventurer when they have their whole life ahead of them. Come, fool.”
4
The battle raged on for a while longer than expected. To Grog and Lora’s surprise Fae held her own. Not just that but as the battle went on she seemed to be getting the upper hand. It was almost as if she could see right through Grog’s moves and predict where he was going to strike next. “A truly terrifying ability” Lora said as she watched. Just then Grog started charging up an attack. “I shall end this here and now!” Grog said. “I shall do the same” Eleanor said, just then in her head Eleanor said to ATLAS turn on auto-pilot mode “UNDERSTOOD.”
Lora noticed something change in Eleanor, her eyes, they changed color and did not have as much emotion as before. Almost as if it was a different person entirely. Just then Grog unleashed his attack, sprinting towards Fae with a massive ball of pure energy he is carrying behind him. Lora looked back at the place where Fae was just a second ago, Lora gasped as she saw Fae disappear. “What?” Lora and Grog said both of them being confused. Then out of nowhere Fae appeared beside Grog landing a devastating blow to the stomach sending Grog flying. Grog was sent to the other side of the room smashing into the wall sending shockwaves throughout the entire building. Grog fell to the floor and on his hands and knees coughed up some blood. “Your strong, probably stronger than even me” Grog pulled himself up, spitting out blood he staggered towards Eleanor bringing up his hand he said “welcome aboard.” Eleanor took over her body again, smiling, she accepted his handshake “thanks I look forward to working with you.”
“Ok” Grog said he led Eleanor through the door and into a backroom. This room had a strange object sitting on a lone desk. “This is where you will get your identification card,” Lora said. She then took out a knife “please take this and prick your finger, take a drop of your blood and drop it onto the device.” as Eleanor complied and dropped some blood on it the machine lit up and a few seconds later a card came out of the side. “This is a F-rank adventurer card, the adventuring level goes up from F to E then D, C, B, A, and finally S rank. Although rare it is possible to rank even further to rank SS and finally SSS rank.” Eleanor thanked Grog and Lora, grabbed her card, and left the room back to the main hall.
Lora watched Fae as she left the building and headed towards the center of town. “Lora, may I speak with you.” She looked behind her to see the guild master looking at her motioning towards a staircase. “Sure” she said she wanted to talk with the GM anyways. She followed the GM up the stairs and down the hallway that leads to his office. Lora and the GM walk through the door into the semi-small room that is the GM’s office. (no one knows his name, everyone just calls him GM.) Lora sat down at the chair in front of the GM's desk trying to think about what she would say to him. The GM closed the door and walked over to his desk. “Now, I have called you here to talk about the newest adventurer that just signed up.” she figured as much. “Yeah, I wanted to talk with you about that as well.” GM did not look surprised; she thought that he was probably expecting that. “Now why don't we start with what that massive impact was during the adventurers mock battle with Grog''
“Ok, there is a little bit of a story I must tell before I say that” GM nodded “alright first things first the name of the adventurer in question is Fae-” the Gm cut her off. “Wait, it was Fae?!” Lora looked confused “y-yeah it was” Lora never expected this but the GM looked genuinely shaken. “Ok, continue.” Lora tried to brush it off and continued. “Well the adventurer came into the guild this morning with nothing that looked special about her except for the fact that she was a kid. She went up to my counter, asked for an adventurer application, filled it out and I took her to have the mock battle with Grog. Of course Grog took this harder than usual as to basically tell the kid to not become an adventurer for her own good. But to my and Grog’s surprise she held her own for a while, sometimes getting close enough to hit Grog. Eventually Grog got tired and tried sending a high ranking light spell. When I looked at Fae, she… changed” GM looked confused “changed?”
“Yeah i could see it in her eyes they were more calculated and there was a physical thing that seemed to change about her, it was her eye color, they changed from brown to black, it was like looking into an abyss” she paused for a second to which the GM asked “are you sure they changed because it is pretty dark in the battle room, brown and black are very similar as well.” she shook her head. “No, I am sure they changed. I confirmed it with night vision eye.” “huh” the GM looked deep in thought but she felt that he was still listening. “This is where the massive impact comes in Fae’s strength and speed looked like they multiplied exponentially; she dodged the light attack and caught up to Grog in an instant. To which she landed a punch in his right lower rib cage. He was sent straight to the other side of the room and smashed into the wall with more force than I have ever seen before.”
“That certainly is interesting, are Fae’s eyes still black?” Lora shook her head “no they turned back to brown after the fight.” they both paused for a good three seconds, “I suppose we will have to wait and see what kind of adventurer she is, send someone to keep an eye on her. I want to know what kind of power she has and what elements she can control. Everything relevant to her power.” Lora stood up, bowed and said “I understand, I will see to it.”
Eleanor decided that it would be great to have some money, even if she does not need to eat or drink for long periods of time. She still needs to eat and also needs a room to sleep in. so Eleanor heads out of Aileen to find monsters to kill or if she gets lucky and finds bandits she could turn them in for a reward. “NOTICE, SATELLITE SURVEILLANCE HAS DETECTED A MASSIVE HEAT SIGNATURE 2 MILES NORTH OF HERE.” ATLAS said to Eleanor as they were leaving the west gate of Aileen “well looks like we need to head north.” She started making her way north and to her request she had ATLAS put a small image of what the satellites were seeing in a corner of her eye.
About 3 minutes later; “NOTICE, HEAT SIGNATURES DETECTED NEARBY.” Eleanor was surprised “i have wanted to use this for a while now, turn on heat vision” she looked around, ATLAS was correct there were people hiding in the trees she could tell due to the shape of the heat blobs. “I know you are there, why don't you guys just come out.” she said as she drew her sword. “I guess there is no fooling you” it was not a voice she recognised. Just then 6 people came out of the trees, they were humans and not just that judging from their clothes they were bounty hunters. “Hello little missy you are coming with us, there is a bounty on your head.”
“Now you have two choices, the easy way or the hard way, if you want I know where your brother is. I think I should pay him a visit after this. Yeah that's right ogre I know what you are.” some of the others in his party started snickering. Eleanor said nothing but ATLAS could feel the rage building in her “well it seems that you don't know your place, I may be just a lowly adventurer but I possess magic from another world.” ATLAS had to correct her in her head it said “I AM NOT MAGICAL, I AM A PIECE OF TECHNOLOGY FROM ANOTHER WORLD, DESIGNED TO BE AS ADVANCED AS POSSIBLE.” Eleanor did not respond for a few milliseconds (about a minute for Eleanor and ATLAS) I know that but to people in this world things like you are magical. Eleanor thought ATLAS seemed to understand after that. “Heh it seems she chose the hard way. Surround her, men!”
Eleanor smiled, “you really think you can defeat me? Alright, I'll play your little game. Come at me if you dare.” one of the bounty hunters charged forward, raising his sword in an attempt to attack. When out of nowhere a black spike shot out from Eleanor’s side piercing the man through his heart. ATLAS was surprised that Eleanor took to the powers so quickly it did not send out that spike she did. The other bounty hunters' hearts skipped a beat; they had no idea what just happened. “I’ll let you know about a little secret, this black stuff is called nanoparticles, me along with one other can control them at will.” Eleanor reached around to the spike protruding out of her side which was still inside the man’s heart, grabbed it and the spike melted out of the man letting his body drop dead onto the ground. The spike formed into a long sword and before any of them had time to think Eleanor swung the sword around in a circle motion slicing all but one of the bounty hunters in half.
She purposefully left what seemed like the leader of the bounty hunters alive. “What the hell?! Guys, get up, stop pretending,” the hunter fell to his knees looking around at the corpses that surrounded them. “Now, what did you say about my brother?” the hunter staired in horror but said nothing “one last thing before i kill you, how did you know about me?” The hunter dropped onto his hands and knees “I have a rare skill to see someone’s public stats. If someone has a bounty on them I can know I can also know their race and name.” Eleanor had heard about that skill, she thought that everyone who had it was dead. This was something she can not afford to overlook. “Well i am sorry but i cannot let you live with that skill in mind, I hope you don't have loved ones that will miss you” Eleanor raised her hand at the hunter, the man screamed and tried to make a run for it, when Eleanor sliced his neck.
5
Eleanor found the heat signature that ATLAS talked about, turned out it was some kind of dragon but it seemed really weak. There were also a lot of fresh corpses around the dragon, they looked like soldiers. After that Eleanor collected the dragon’s scales and talons which were the most valuable parts of a dragon. She thought about healing the adventurers and giving them a share since they did weaken it before Eleanor got there but they were already dead and ATLAS can’t revive the dead. Nothing eventful happened on her way back to Aileen but there were a lot of people staring at Eleanor as she walked to the adventurers guild with a giant bag full of dragon scales and claws. When she walked through the doors into the adventurers guild this time everyone in the guild were staring at her.
She walked up to the counter where Lora stood with a look of pure shock. “I would like to sell these.” Eleanor said as she set down the bag. “O-ok g-give me a sec.” Lora ran through a door and up some stairs. A few minutes later she came back with a cart and a man Eleanor had never seen before. “So it’s true, where in the world did you get these?” the man asked, “I got them from a dragon not too far from here. And may I ask who are you?” The man relaxed a little. “My apologies, I am the guild master here in Aileen. You may call me GM.” Lora started loading the loot into the carts. “How much can I get for this?” Eleanor asked “well assuming that they are not damaged all that much which from the looks of it they are not, then i could give you about… 70 gold coins and 50 silver. (1 giant gold=$1,000, 1 gold=$100, 1 silver=$10, 1 copper=$1)
After Eleanor got her money, the GM said he wanted to talk to her in his office. Eleanor was a little confused but she knew that she could not go against the GM’s requests. She followed the GM up the stairs and down a hallway, Eleanor assumed that the door at the end was the GM’s office as it was the biggest door and they were headed right for it. Gm opened the door and ushered Eleanor through. “Please sit,” he said as he walked past Eleanor to a desk on the other side of the room. Eleanor sat down and asked, “so, what did you want to talk about?” GM sat down in the seat on the opposite side of the desk, got comfortable, almost as if he was going to ask something deep. “What are you?”
About 2 miles from Aileen
He awoke in a haze, “oh god, what happened?” as the hunter pulled himself together and stood up he noticed the bodies of his comrades around him. He gasped in horror “WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT MONSTER?!” he asked to no one in particular. He had no idea that she would just slice them all in one move. luckily he had a one time use scroll that saved him from a fatal blow. I must relay this to Mateo, he must know what happened here he thought. The hunter reached into his pocket and picked out a whistle in the shape of a shell of sorts. He blew into the whistle to which it sounded like it did not make a sound (it was too high pitched for humans to hear.) A few moments later a bird flies down and lands on the hunter’s shoulder. The hunter pulls out a piece of paper and grabs a pen off of one of the corpses. After writing the message he takes a piece of string, rolls up the paper and ties it to the bird's leg. He wishes the bird safe travels and sends it off.
There were a few moments of silence in the office, Eleanor did not know exactly how she was found out but she assumed that someone leaked news of her power to the GM. “whatever do you mean?” she asked, hoping to play dumb and he would not notice, however. “You know what I mean, no ordinary person could take down Grog the way you did. Now I repeat myself who or what are you?” Eleanor seriously thought about telling him about how she came across these powers. When ATLAS talked to her in Eleanor’s head “I DO NOT RECOMMEND TELLING THIS “GM” ABOUT US. IF WE WANT TO REMAIN DISCRETE WITHOUT GAINING TO MUCH ATTENTION FROM THE KINGDOM TELLING THE LEAST AMOUNT OF PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE IS BEST.”
She agreed, but she will have to tell someone eventually. For now, though, she would play this card “i would like to tell you, but… it’s a secret” Eleanor tried to look cute while saying this as to get the GM to lower his guard. GM looked disappointed “fine then, now you will be properly compensated for the dragon supplies. Please see Lora for the money.” She thanked the GM and walked out of the office.
“Looks like she got her money, still though how in the world did she take down a red dragon all on her own?” The GM said looking out the window in his office, he turns around to look at the man behind him sitting in the chair across from his desk. “I dont know.” the man said. “How do you not know?!” The GM said, raising his voice “I specifically sent you to go follow her and see what she gets up to!” he looked down. “I am sorry GM I lost her in the woods about 1.5 miles from here.” the GM slammed his desk. Staring right into his eyes he sternly says “well don't this time. This Fae has an unknown power that not even Grog stood a chance against. We need to see what it is in case she turns against us or if we can replicate this power. We need to know. follow her everywhere she goes if you find out any secrets of hers i will pay you accordingly.” the man sighed, he then looked up at the GM and said: “oh, there was one thing I found out that was weird about Fae” the GM looked intrigued “oh? What is it?”
the man shifted a little, “well while i was following her for the mile and a half i heard her talking to herself a lot. And it was not the normal kind of talking to yourself like if you are just thinking aloud, it was almost as if I was hearing one side of a conversation. When there was no one else around.” the GM thought about it. “That does sound interesting and at the battle with Grog her personality seemed to change as well as her eye color, I wonder if she has Dissociative identity disorder. Find out for me.” the man stood up and bowed “then I shall take my leave.” he left the office. What are you hiding, Fae, if that even is your name. the GM thought.
That night Eleanor went searching for an inn. On purpose she went searching near the slave section of Aileen. “NOTICE, CELLULAR PORTIONS OF BODY APPEAR TO BE IN NEED OF REST AND SUSTENANCE.” yeah i noticed that as well. Eleanor thought. Just then she saw a sign; BOARHAT INN & PUB yeah that looks good. She thought, walking over to the pub. Eleanor opened the door. “Welcome to the BoarHat” the bartender said, “thanks” Eleanor said walking over to the bar. “I would like to rent a single room for two nights” Eleanor said to the bartender, his face lit up a little “that’ll be four silver and five copper” Eleanor nodded her head and reached into the bag Lora gave her to keep her money in and pulled out the aforementioned amount.
After handing the money to the bartender she put the bag back on her belt. “great i'll show you to your room, would you like me to bring some food up to your room? It comes free for the first night.” food sounded great to Eleanor as she had not eaten in about a week. The barkeep handed Eleanor a key and led her up some stairs to the side of the bar. After reaching the top they walked down a hallway and turned towards one of the doors on the side. “This will be your room. I'll bring your food shortly, please get comfortable. Oh and by the way my name is Clyde.” “thanks Clyde” Eleanor said “my name is Fae”
The room was nothing fancy but it would do for now. It consisted of a twin bed, a nightstand, a wardrobe, a window, and an oil lamp. Eleanor plops down on the bed and sighed a sigh of relief. It had been a while since she felt this sleepy. She got up and untied her shoes. A little while later Eleanor heard a knock at her door. “Fae it's me, I have your food, may I come in?” Eleanor got up, looking at the door she said: “yeah, sure.” the door clicked and creaked open. She saw Clyde walk in with a tray of food. It just looked like some soup, bread, and a small steak. It was not much but it was enough. Clyde walked over and set the tray down on the nightstand. “I hope it’s enough.” Clyde said “it is, thank you.”
After that Eleanor tasted her first bit of food in about a week. It was as if it was the best thing she had ever eaten. Even though technically it was the best thing she had eaten in like five years. That night also felt like the best night of sleep she had ever had, the only thing she did not like about it was the nightmare she had. She dreamt that she was atop a cliff, the edge of the cliff was visible but the bottom was not; it was as if the cliff led into an abyss. She tried to look around but everywhere she tried there was just darkness, everything in this dream looked dead, the air, the rock, even the small layer of grass looked dead or dying. Then she heard a voice. It was her mother “come dear, i want to see your face.” The voice was raspy and also sounded like it was dying. The voice sounded like it was coming from over the cliff, as it sounded like her mother, Eleanor rushed over to the cliff to look over, still though, nothing was over the edge. As Eleanor leaned in closer to try and get a better look she heard the voice again.
“Come, Eleanor, follow my voice.” it was definitely her, “where are you mother?” Eleanor screamed over the edge. There was no response. Then the rock Eleanor was leaning on broke off and took Eleanor over the cliff with it. She felt like she was falling forever until she landed in some kind of liquid. She swam to the surface and noticed that the liquid was as black as the nanoparticles from ATLAS. Something grabbed her foot under the liquid and started to pull her under. No matter how much she kicked or screamed this thing would not let go. Then after an immense amount of trying she was able to kick off the thing grabbing her. Whatever it was then floored to the surface beside her and poked its head out of the liquid. ‘No… it- it can't be… I thought you died…” Eleanor said while looking at the charred corpse of her mother which had just earlier had been dragging her down into the water.
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“Come, Eleanor, come into the liquid, so we can spend eternity together.” Eleanor stared in horror. Until the liquid started to swirl around her and moved on its own. Her mother rose out of the liquid and started the most horrific cackling Eleanor had ever heard. The swirling of the liquid got more and more intense as if Eleanor was being flushed down a drain. “WHY MOM, WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS?” Eleanor screamed at the now floating corpse of her mother. There was no answer, only more cackling. Out of desperation, anger, and confusion Eleanor shot out a spike of nanoparticles at her mother.
Eleanor awoke with a jump. When she noticed that there was a spike of nanoparticles stuck in the ceiling. She was covered in sweat despite there only being a bedspread on top of her. “ABNORMAL BRAIN ACTIVITIES DETECTED, ELEANOR ARE YOU OK?” Eleanor put her hands up to her face, rubbing her eyes. “Y-yeah i-i’m fine, just… had a nightmare.” Eleanor sat up in her bed and raised her hand above her head to call the spike back, she felt it slip through her skin. “IF YOU WISH I COULD GIVE YOUR BRAIN A DRUG TO MAKE YOU SLEEP WITH A LESS CHANCE OF HAVING A DREAM.” At this point Eleanor was wide awake; she felt like she had already slept a full night. “No, that's alright…well, while we are awake we might as well pay the slave owners a visit.” Eleanor got up off of the bed. “IF WE ARE GOING TO THE SLAVE DISTRICT MIGHT I MAKE A RECOMMENDATION, IF WE WANT TO GO IN STEALTHILY MAKE CLOTHES BLACK AS POSSIBLE, IT WOULD BE BAD IF SOMEONE FOUND OUT THAT WE KILLED PEOPLE INSIDE OF THE CITY.” Eleanor agreed, then transformed all the clothes she made into black ones as well as covering her face and any marks that would make her stick out. “Now let's go pay these slave owners a visit.”
As she stared at the fields of which the slaves worked. Right now they are empty because of how late it is. This is where I spent 5 years of my life, huh. Eleanor thought, “NOTICE, THE BUILDING ON THE FAR END OF THE FIELD IS MOST LIKELY WHERE THE “SLAVE” OWNERS ARE.” Eleanor already knew this, she had been studying the grounds for years for the best way to take out the owners. She jumped down from the tree she was viewing the fields on and started running towards the owner's house. Avoiding being out in the open, Eleanor ran along a tree line, as she got closer to the houses she passed many buildings containing the slaves. “None of them even know that they are being repressed. The only thing they can think about is how to serve the owners better.” Eleanor scoffs “those bastards, I’ll kill them.” Eleanor finally made it to the door of the owner’s house, as she pressed her ear to the door she heard some talking inside; “get up, you bloody elf. I'm not done with you yet.”
Inside of the house one of the owners was using one of the slaves for shall I say villainous deeds. On Top of that the slave’s contract had been destroyed. As for the elf to have actual emotions and feelings, for the owner to break into submission. Outside of the house Eleanor could see and hear everything happening. (heat vision, enhanced hearing) every second she watched her hatred for the owners doubled. Eventually Eleanor gave up on being stealthy, she made a sword and kicked down the door.
“Wha- who-who are you?!” the owner asked, jumping off the elf and the bed “do you know who I am?” no hesitation Eleanor responded. “Yes I know who you are, I should expect that I would. I was kept here for five years.” Then Eleanor lifted off the nanoparticle cloth on her face revealing who she was. Naturally the owner did not know who she was but the elf was a different story. “Oh my god. Eleanor?! Is that really you?” Eleanor cast her gaze upon the elf. She was really beat up. You could tell that the owners had her like this for a while. “Aeronwen, I see they have gotten rid of your contract.” Aeronwen smiled. “Yeah, I had no idea that you were immune.” Eleanor smiled as well. “That's not the only thing you did not know, I have recently acquired a friend.” Aeronwen looked confused. “A friend?”
Eleanor nodded, then shot a spike out at the owner who had been trying to escape through the window killing him on the spot. Aeronwen gasped. “What was that?!” Aeronwen asked. “ That was a spike of ‘nanoparticles’ ; they are quite resilient.” Eleanor got some clothes off of a chair and gave them to Aeronwen. “Eleanor, what happened to you?” Eleanor smiled, “I met a friend.” Aeronwen looked mad. “Stop just saying that. Something is very different about you and I don't know if it is a good or bad thing.” Eleanor sighed “listen I don’t fully understand it myself but i will tell you later. For now though let's find the contracts of the other slaves.”
Eventually Eleanor and Aeronwen found a safe with all of the contracts in it. (it was also guarded by some city guards but Eleanor made quick work of them.) Eleanor burned the contracts immediately. And when she did all of the slaves woke up almost simultaneously. “We-we are free?” one of the slaves said and with the cover of the night all of the slaves took weapons and killed anyone in their path. After that Eleanor told them about a village of ogres in the woods of Opal which would help protect them from the kingdom. Some of the slaves knew where it was so Eleanor let them lead the way to the village. Eleanor herself did not go and Aeronwen also stayed behind with her.
“That takes care of that.” Eleanor said “yeah i hope that the village can put them to good use.” as they watched the last former slave go over the top of the hill to the village, Eleanor felt as if she could rest easy knowing that the slaves have been released and are in good hands. “Now let's head back to the inn.” Eleanor said “you have a room in an inn?” Aeronwen replied Eleanor laughed “yeah of course I do, now when we get there i have a lot I want to tell you.” Aeronwen thought so and they started to walk back to the BoarHat.
By the time Eleanor and Aeronwen got back to the inn the sun was already up. As Eleanor and Aeronwen walked past Clyde Eleanor asked him for some food to be brought up to the room. He looked to be questioning a little but he nodded and did not say anything. They made their way up the stairs and into Eleanor’s room. Aeronwen went in first and after her Eleanor came in and locked the door. “Now just what on Maeve happened to you?” Aeronwen asked as she sat down on the bed. “Ok well i have wanted to tell someone for a while now, for this to make sense I think I should start from the beginning.”
“When I escaped from the field I ran for miles and miles being chased by the mercenary group. I made it to a small town called Tario right when I was going to hide somewhere in there a…an arrow hit my back.” Aeronwen gasped. “Oh my god Eleanor are you alright” she waved her hand in a way to put Aeronwen at ease. “We talked about that for a while, apparently i have a healing factor now.” again Aeronwen looked confused “who is ‘we’? A friend” Eleanor thought about it for a hot second. “More like a partner. You see when the arrow landed in desperation I climbed over one last hill, and it just so happened to be on the other side of that hill. Apparently it is some kind of machine from another world. This world it calls Earth.”
7
“So you say that this thing is from another planet, and you talk about it as if its alive.” Eleanor nodded her head. “It really is like its alive even though it keeps on telling me it is not.” Aeronwen still had one last question before Eleanor continued the story. “So just where is this thing? From what it sounds like it was quite big and noticeable.” Eleanor let out a nervous laugh. “Yeah thats kind of the thing, its inside of me.” Aeronwen was even more confused and Eleanor could tell. “Here I have an idea its better if I let it explain the stuff behind what happened.” Aeronwen paused for a second. “Yeah you said its like its alive so i would like to talk to it.” Eleanor smiled “just don't freak out when it starts talking. Just know that it sounds exactly like me to you. But to me it has a different voice. Thats just because it has to use my voice to communicate out loud.” Aeronwen nervously nodded her head. Eleanor sat down next to Aeronwen on the bed and closed her eyes.
hey ATLAS can you talk to Aeronwen for me? And answer any of her questions truthfully. Eleanor said in her head “OF COURSE” ATLAS responded. Aeronwen watched as Eleanor appeared to relax and out of nowhere her eyes opened. Aeronwen remembers looking at her eyes when they opened as they went from brown to black, it was like looking into a void. “Greetings, my name is ATLAS. I have been instructed to answer your questions to the best of my abilities.” Aeronwen had no idea what to think if this was some sort of prank or not. “O-ok, well i guess my first question would be; what are you?” ATLAS paused for a moment “I am a bodily enhancement device that fuses with a user. I am complete with an artificial intelligence core as well as 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 nanoparticles.”
The questions continued “Who made you?” “CILLE inc” “where did they make you?” these questions continued for a while. Until Clyde knocked at the door. “Fae your food is ready.” ATLAS answered him. “Alright, coming.” Clyde opened the door as ATLAS walked over to take the food from him. ATLAS thanked the man and closed the door, Aeronwen got off of the bed and ran over to ATLAS. “Is this my food?” she asked. “Yes” ATLAS responded. A few moments later Aeronwen had finished the food and while wiping her mouth she asked: “by the way earlier you said you had something called nanoparticles, and Eleanor said something about that earlier as well. What are they?
“It would be best for me to show you.” ATLAS said, he rose Eleanor’s hand palm facing up. Aeronwen watched as a black liquid came out of her hand and moved of its own volition in a tower shape coming out of her hand