Within the seemingly endless confines of the domain known as Delver's Springs [a popular domain known for its high-grade loot and for never running out of said loot], MSC Zalroth stood atop a tall pillar made from a castle-themed bannana-yellow marble. MSC Zalroth had his hands crossed as he surveyed the surrounding parts of the domain and the many floating architecture-filled islands formed from banana-yellow marble.

"I know you don't need to eat or drink, but it'd be nice if you'd be present at the picnic!" Lorida the demi-mothion shouted from below. MSC Zalroth remained firmly planted on top of the marble pillar and Lorida glared at him before she defeatedly sighed. Lordia sat down on the picnic blanket

"At least he showed up for a change, master," Valina the demi-mothion fae stated calmly before picking up a normal-sized cookie, which was roughly her height in diameter, and took a bite out of it.

"I guess...," Lorida murmured defeatedly before picking up a glass filled with apple juice. She glared at the apple juice before glancing up at Husk the abyssal demon with a less intense stare. Husk rolled his eyes as he took a sip of his apple juice.

"I told you, until you revert back to your original age you're not having any alcohol," Husk stated with a stern tone. Lorida deflatedly exhaled before taking a sip of her apple juice.

"So... Magic Sand Construct Type: Chronia... was it? Is there anything else you'd rather be called by instead of your current name?" Lorida asked while looking over at MSC Chronia, as she was cloud gazing. MSC Chronia placed multiple of her hands on her face before humming loud enough to make MSC Zalroth glance down at her.

"Well... since my original counterpart doesn't like nor use her original... how about you call me Nai?" MSC Chronia reccomended. Lorida nodded affirmatively.

"Got it... and what about him?" Lorida asked while gesturing to MSC Zalroth.

"That's gonna be tougher since his original counterpart never changed his name," Nai remarked with a serious tone. Nai placed all of her hands on her head before putting her brain into overdrive to brainstorm names.

"Soko, Sykizo, Satoro, Dave, Motaro Zalivo, Vejiko, Valtano, Veltako, hmmmn,". Nai continued to murmur out names but after a while her murmuring devolved into microwave noises.

"Zalnano," MSC Zalroth stated bluntly. Nai shot up into an upright sitting position with a surprised expression all over her face.

"Omgs, that's so good, cuz your nickname can be Nano like the-" Nai blurted out excitedly before she cut herself off and squinted her eyes at something in the distance, as Nano got into a combat-ready stance atop the marble pillar.

"What is it, Ma- Nai?" Valina asked as she fluttered over to Nai while carrying the cookie with both her hands. A raging surge of wind blasted them, as Nano launched himself off the marble pillar before he reeled his fist back and sucker punched the large hurtling blurr heading straight for Lorida and the others.

Nano spun around, roundhouse kicked the hurtling object and sent it flying into the distance. Nano reached out his hand and clasped it at the object before a swarm of banana-yellow marble chunks slammed into the object and trapped it in a large marble satellite. Nano lowered his arm before poofing into a cloud of banana-yellow magic sand and reforming onto of the marble pillar.

"How odd. I could've sworn I marked this area as a safe zone... how did something manage to get so close?" Lorida murmured angrily while thinking the picnics going to be ruined.

"Doesn't the safe zone only stop the creature made by the domain?" Nai asked as she rose to her feet. Nai and Lorida sat in silence as the implication of the thing Nano trapped could be from outside Delver's Springs.

"Honestly, I don't know what's worse, me messing up the safe zone's settings or forgetting to close the entrance to Delver's Springs," Lorida remarked under her breath defeatedly.

"It wouldn't be the first time you've done either," Husk stated coldly with a joking tone. Lorida aggressively squinted at Husk and huffed at him.

"Hey! ... rude...," Lorida said as her angered demeanour melted into an embarrassed puddle. Nano landed next to the group and placed his fist together.

"What would you like to be done with the unknown monster?" Nuno asked as he slightly bowed to Lorida. Lorida and Husk gave Nuno perplexed side eyes before looking straight a him.

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"Didn't you get a good look at it?" Husk asked with a hint of concern.

"I did... but I've never seen any creature which matches my imparted memories," Nano stated calmly. The group looked puzzled and concerned at hearing the invading monster is unknown even to Nano.

A faint rumbling noise echoed past the group, causing all of them to glance at the marble satellite as a small crack formed on it. The forming crack halted its growth before half of the marble satellite exploded as multiple solid dark purple misty tendrils jetted out from the satellite. Husk sprung to his feet, dashed past Nano and slammed his everwood (dark platinum tree-like material with glowing dark cyan cracks running throughout all of it) left arm into the ground, and his arm rapidly grew and expanded into a large wall.

The tendril slammed into the Husk's everwood wall, casting splinters in every direction as the tendrils repeatedly slammed against the wall. Husk the upper half of his arm from the wall before regenerating his everwood arm as Nano continued to face away from the everwood wall. Nano glanced at his palm before over at Lorida.

"Do you give me permission to use my Hikogami Toraru techniques?" Nano asked. Lorida stared at the towering everwood wall as the roars of the tendrils slamming against it reverberated through the wall. Lordia defeatedly sighed before giving Nano a thumbs up. Nano bowed and conjured a magigold (luminescent gold) fixed fan with a self-handle with a long folding fan between the fixed fan's fan from a cloud of pale banana-yellow magic sand. Nano closed the folding fan part of his hand fan to make it appear like a long sword.

The tendrils reeled back and slammed into the marble satelite; the satelite shattered into pieces and the monster within blasted out from the shattered marble. The solid dark purple misty creature morphed its shape until into took on the appearance of a werewolf with a mist trail lower body and tens of squid-like tendrils pretruding from its back.

The monster howled and unleashed a deafening shockwave from its mouth which slammed into the brittle everwood wall. The monster pulled all its tendrils back before hurling all of them at the everwood wall. The tendrils pierced through the air and caused it to howl as the tendrils drew near to the everwood wall.

"Storm Style: Tempest Force: Galing Storm," Nano stated calmly as he jumped over the everwood wall while his hand fan long sword's folding fan blade was coated in a storm mana (dark green mana). Nano swiftly slashed his hand fan longsword at the tendrils and hundreds of large storm mana bladed ravaged the tendrils into tiny uniform pieces.

The force of the unifed slashes unleashed a strong gust of wind which obliterated the battered everwood wall and knocked the monster away.  The monster regained its balance and stared down the floating Nano with its glowing purple eyes.

"You better not mess around like Zalroth!" Lorida shouted from the floating marble island. Nano glanced back at Lorida and nodded at her before back at the monster before getting into a combative stance. Nano flicked his hand fan long sword and the folding fan blade opened up revealing the large text of an unknown language on the open folding fan blade.

"Frigid Style: Eternal Frost....". Frost mana (opaque white ice mana) gathered around the folding fan part of his hand fan longsword and formed into small ice balls. The monster braced itself for Nano's attack but as it watched every of Nano's micromovements it was suddenly triple punched in the face by Kai as she jetted past the monster.

"Frozen Photon," Nano uttered coldly before single-handed batting the frost mana balls at the monster with the hand fan long sword. The disorientated monster caught the light flickering through the frost mana balls and raised a hand towards the closest ice ball. The frost mana ball slammed into the monster's hand before exploding and rapidly expanding around the monster's arm until it formed into a mini opaque white iceberg.

The monster recoiled back as the other frost mana ball rocketed toward it but despite its efforts, the other frost mana balls caught it before its entire body was encased in opaque white ice. Nai playfully giggled as she floated up to the frozen monster and grabbed it with all of her eight arms. Nai flexed her arms before she flung the frozen monster straight into the air.

Nano flicked the small remnants of ice off the folding fan part of his hand fan long sword before he grabbed the handle of his long sword with both his hands.

"Blaze Style: Hellfire Flash....". Fire mana spiralled around the open folding fan blade before gathering into a sphere; fire mana continued to gather into the sphere as it slowly shrank and rapidly converted into blaze mana (dark blue fire mana) until the sphere was the size of a golf ball.

"Blazing Sun.". Nano tensed up his arms before batting the Blazing Sun ball like a professional baseball batter. The Blazing Sun ball rocketed through the air and melted straight through the opaque white ice from the Frozen Photon. The light of the Blazing Sun ball grew and grew until the once white iceberg was now shining a dazzling deep blue.

Nano waved his hand upwards and his hand fan sword dispersed into a cloud of magic sand before the glowing iceberg cracked. The iceberg shattered and the Blazing Sun ball exploded from the cracks before destroying everything in its expanding vesinity. The Blazing Sun ball grew to the size of a massive fireball before exploding high in the sky like a supernova and illuminating every inch of Delver's Springs.

"To think you'd use The Dance of War... that monster must have been strong right?" Nai remarked cheekily as she floated around Nano and poked him with some of her hands while holding the others on her chin. Nano sighed dismissively as he placed his hand on Nai's face and pushed her slightly back.

"When I'm asked to be serious I shall obl-". Nano swung his head around and looked around at his surroundings as Nai grabbed Nano's hand and lowered it.

"What's wrong, Nano?" Nano asked with a fake worried tone. Nano and Nai looked around at their surroundings realizing everything from the floating marble islands and floating marble chunks were frozen in place. Nano ever so slightly widened his eyes before darting his vision down at Lorida, Husk, and Valina to see they weren't frozen in time. Nano closed his eyes and opened them back to their neutral state.