Early in the morning, Ryan, Liz, and Zephyr all get woken up by a worrying banging on the door. Ryan wakes up first and notices Liz was right beside him and recalls last night with her getting between him and Zephyr. Still puzzled why Zephyr would allow this, he walks toward the door and opens it. In front of him Kannell was standing there all dressed up in her combat gear and so was Queen Lake.
Lake looks over at Zephyr and Liz and sees them snuggled up with one another. But she quickly gets to business.
“Lindsay! Wake up! We have an important diplomatic issue right now! Princess Zephyr you too! Get up and get dressed! We are being summon over to Cheetoecchi! They have a huge problem, and they are requesting you and your team. Get up and Let’s go!” Lake shouts as she walks down the hallway.
The girls wake up and stretch and moan. As they wake up and put their feet on the ground, Zephyr quickly grabs her attire and gets dressed. Ryan too gets on his combat gear, and they rush outside. Ryan then finds Misty drinking some tea and reading the newspaper. As she puts the paper down to focus on Ryan, he spots an article about the town getting ready to vote out the current council. But he snaps out of staring at the article and looks at her.
“We need to do something. Can you take care of the crowd outside? Like maybe take over for a little bit? Just Keep them occupied and happy. We need to go see what is going on” He asks her.
“Certainly! I’ll manage while you are away” She replies happily while taking a sip of her tea and picking up the paper.
The whole crew shows up outside, but Arcadia seems to be absent. Everyone is crammed tight into a circle and everyone begins taking a series of teleportation relays all the way over to Wyozonia. Upon arriving at the Wyozonia beach, Liz steps up and uses her teleport cooldown next after the other two royal Teleport mages in the group uses their charges first. She finishes the chain and teleports the rest of the group to the island nation. Upon reaching the beach of Cheetoecchi they are met by the royal mages of that country and are quickly teleported right to the royal palace.
Ryan who never saw this place before stands in awe at the landscape and the people here. He has questions, but he looks at Alex who was having a blast just being here.
Suddenly the emperor and the succubus Monika approach them appearing scared.
Monika looks around for Citra and realizes she wasn’t here. She looks at Ryan and can feel his soul link to her. But she ignores this and gets right to the point.
“Everyone. Thank you so much for coming as soon as possible. There is a huge problem plaguing us right now that came from your homeland. We were able to gain stable footing on the fight against the succubus’s since you last departed, but Katsuki their leader got desperate and reached out to the mainland and made an unusual ally. She reached out to the Disturbia Anarchy and made a pact with them. We have a lot going on right now and one of them is them being in the process of summoning forth The celestial witch Kansas as we speak. We need you guys to help us pull off something big and it has to be done quickly. Will you guys help us out?” Monika asks.
In the background, rattling armor of soldiers carrying in wounded can be heard and a few women screaming, eerily haunts the hallway. A woman bursts into the room covered in blood and collapses onto the floor with 4 arrows clearly shot into her side.
“They are Seventy percent done summoning forth the witch Kansas! Emperor we need to do something now! The woman screams in agony as her friends pick her up and drag her back outside.
“Okay this is getting bad. You know what I’m going to take a drastic measure right now.” Emperor Jimirushi says. While looking out the window and toward the smoke that was rising above the sky on the far side of the island. “Are you guys on board for helping us?” He begs them.
“What needs to be done?” Ryan responds to him.
The emperor looks at Ryan and stares at him. He looks him up and down and realized this is the legend he’s heard so much about.
“You’re… Your Ryan-San! The legend! Your reputation has been heard all over the world! Those people hate you and what you’ve done to them and their plans! Oh, am I honored to have you here! They don’t know you are here, and they are probably about to have a really bad day!” He says while shaking Ryan’s Hand.
“Ya, Ya, Ya. I know. Let’s get on with the plan. We all have something to do back at home. What do you need done Sir?” Ryan asks the man feeling annoyed.
Emperor Jimirushi walks them all over to a huge map in the middle of the room and drops a pin in the middle of where Mount Ouija. He then starts to explain the situation.
“So last week, Katsuki reached out to them and asked for help. They all got their resources together and managed to teleport, and boat all the way here. They moved their whole remaining numbers here and with help of the succubus’s invaded our homeland. They chose to retake everything on the base of the volcano. They are dug in too deep here and we can’t simply get in close enough to even attempt to take them out. They have about eleven thousand on the base of the volcano, and another Two-thousand on the rim of the volcano doing the summoning spell as we speak. We need to disrupt it and I am about to take a drastic step in doing so. I am considering ordering complete destruction of the land on and around the base of the volcano, and I will authorize any means in doing so. Particularly getting the volcano to erupt.” He tells them all.
Ryan looks at the girls and they all look at him and shoot him a look. He looks at all of them and they all point to him. “He’ll do it. Insane destruction is in his nature” Alex says jokingly.
The emperor looks at Ryan like he’s a beacon of hope and Ryan rolls his eyes at Alex.
“How in the hell are there Thirteen-Thousand Anarchists still left? I thought I completely decimated their numbers. That’s what the news said” Ryan asks him.
“Don’t trust what the media puts out there son” Queen Lake says to Ryan.
Ryan looks at the emperor and asks him: “How shall we go about triggering a detonation then?” While crossing his arms tight.
The emperor leads him outside to a thick glass case that had a massive sized decretive vase inside of it. The emperor takes a key around his neck and opens up the glass case and lifts the vase with all of his strength and removes this exquisite vase that had the most captivating hand painted artwork on it.
He then drops it onto the ground.
As it shatters, debris goes everywhere all over the floor and what looks to be an olive green bomb the size of a large watermelon appears within the mess.
Everyone kneels down to take a closer look at it, but the emperor picks it up and hands it to Ryan. As the handoff takes place, Ryan can feel how heavy this thing and decides to support it with both hands.
“This is a very special weapon my military created for such a dire instance like this. It has several enchantments and materials inside of it. If you can get it deposited deep within the volcano and into the magma, the heat will melt the outer shell, and the inner enchanted elements will take over and it will release a whole bunch of water which should turn to steam really quickly and start pressurizing the inner chamber. Then the other materials will explode and kick up a bunch of earth material that will magically coagulate and form a cap on the inner layer of the main vent while more and more steam is produced” The emperor explains while grabbing a bottle of champagne and shaking it violently. “This will cause this type of effect” he says while placing the bottle over the map and popping the cork. A loud pop soon is heard, and the cork bounces off the roof and onto the part of the map that says “ocean” while frothy champaign rains down onto the basecamp of the mountain.
As everyone awes at his little simulation, Ryan feels a little uneasy about this.
“So how do you expect us to deposit this little thing into the volcano?” Ryan asks the emperor.
Arcadia soon walks inside with her hands covered in blood. As she enters, she closes the sliding door shut. Everyone just stares at her. “I…I just healed everyone outside that was on deaths door. Your Generals are safe now Emperor” Arcadia announces as she bows her head down.
Queen Lake, Monika, and Emperor Jimirushi look at her all confused.
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“Excuse me, but who are you?” Monika asks defensively.
Arcadia looks at her and is lost for words. Ryan soon steps up. “She’s our new healer. Sorry she’s late. She had something to do” Ryan lies.
Queen Lake looks at Arcadia and examines her, but there is something about her that doesn’t make her feel right. Lake ignores this and looks at Ryan.
“Wait a minute, you all acquired a new healer? Since when? Also, Where’s the other one you had. The Elfen one?” She asks curiously.
“Greena left a while ago. She had matters to take care of over at Greenbrier. We don’t know when she will be back, but its best not to sit around without a healer in our party” Zephyr replies to her continuing on this little lie. Lake looks at Arcadia once more and still doesn’t feel right about her and decides to step back away from her.
“Carrying from your question Ryan-San, we have been failing to get a foothold at the base of the volcano on foot. They have a great defense around it. Since I am taking a drastic measure here, I will give you our last combat Shikra to use. Maybe you can get lucky or close enough to deposit it into the mouth of the volcano that way” Emperor Jimirushi says.
Ryan then smiles and nods his head in agreement. “So, we just need to get close and drop this. That can be done” Ryan says while Yawning.
The emperor then shakes his head at him. “No, we can’t afford to miss. If you drop this thing, the magnus effect will surely bring this thing off course. So, we need to send someone to deliver a precise delivery of the weapon” He explains.
Ryan suddenly gets woken up by what he just said. “Hang on, so you’re asking for someone to skydive into the mouth of the volcano with this thing?” Ryan asks feeling alarmed.
“Unfortunately, yes. Someone needs to do it. All my elites are preoccupied right now. It really needs to be done before they finish that summoning. I don’t want to lose this nation to them. If you can do it, I promise you anything you ask. A blank check so to speak” he assures them.
Ryan looks over at Arcadia and the rest of the women around him and can’t believe what is being asked, a few days before a major election at home. Ryan looks at him and says “Fine! I’ll do it. But you better Write a song about me” he says as he picks up the bomb from off the table and tucks it into his arms.
Queen Lake, and Emperor Jimirushi look at him with relief and then the emperors snaps his fingers and calls in a few of his servants from outside. “Make a harness for this man!” The emperor shouts as they run outside to grab some strips of black leather.
“Ryan-San, you do know they are going to defend the mouth of the volcano with all they have, right? You don’t have any tank armor, do you?” He asks Ryan.
Ryan then thinks hard and smiles. He opens up his void storage portal and casts his quick-change spell he received from Kannell. His Halo armor he got from Simon was now on him and he looked badass. Zephyr, Kannell and Liz were all confused at what this was he was wearing. Alex who knew exactly what it was cheers at him.
“For a matter of fact, I do” Ryan replies to the emperor. As his servants run back into the room, they are all struck by fear and respect of Ryan’s new armor. Everyone smiles at Ryan and then get to work on measuring him. A royal painter soon enters the room and starts painting an image of Ryan’s armor and the other girls around him while they quickly assemble the harness for the bomb. In 10 minutes, the harness was made, and a painted image of Ryan and his friends were made by this incredibly gifted painter.
“Emperor, shall I put this in the history archive now?” the painter asks.
Emperor Jimirushi shakes his head no. “No put this on the wall over there. We need to cherish this moment forever” He instructs his painter. He then picks up his painting and begins nailing it to the wall.
Upon him saying that Alex, has a flashback of an old history lesson she learned in school. This history lesson about Ancient “Pompeii” how everyone died. “Ash cloud” she thought to herself.
“Emperor Jimirushi! Wait. Hang on. The “Ash Cloud” from this explosion could kill all the innocent people in your country. This may be a bad idea” She informs him.
“Ahh Yes, I am quite aware of the risks of the ash cloud, and the pyroclastic flow. The wind will be on our side since it will be blowing out toward sea. However, that whole side of the island should be clear of all civilians. When they invaded, we chose to relocate everyone to the safer mainland and move in our troops. All should be fine on this side of the island” He says while pointing to the map and drawing a circle with the Champaign that was still on the map around the “Future” red zone of the island. “In case the wind shifts, I can move people underground and I have Air mages on standby in case we need them. I also have a stockpile of Underwater breathing potions I can give to my citizens, and I can move them underwater as well for the time being” He assures her. He soon then exits the room and signals them to follow them. He leads them out of his garden into the back area where he had his Giant Royal Shikra bird standing by.
“Does anyone know how to fly?” The emperor asks as he carefully pulls his pet towards him and gives it a gentle rub.
Kannell steps forward and says: “I do”.
Queen Lake looks over at Emperor Jimirushi and nods. “She does. She’s an excellent pilot” Lake reassures him.
He looks at Kannell and hands the reins to her carefully. “Please be careful. This is our LAST combat bird. Please see to it she comes back with you all” Emperor Jimirushi requests.
As he says that Kannell climbs aboard and so does Alex. Zephyr and Arcadia then get on next followed by Ryan. Liz stays on the ground and stands next to Lake. As he gets onto the bird, he takes his helmet that was in his hands and gives it to Alex who playfully puts it on. He then climbs aboard. They are next lead outside of the walls of the palace and Kannell gets the bird to a running start and then they take off. Once Airborne everyone has tons of questions for Ryan.
“When did you get this?” Alex asks while taking off his helmet and handing it back to Ryan.
“Simon gave it to me. I did an Optional quest for him while you were out and about. He gave this to me in return. It is made fully of Wyonuim” He replies back to her as he unstraps the bomb from his back.
“That’s so cool! So, he actually caved in and chose to reward you for helping me. That’s super great to hear” Alex replies while feeling the armor. Upon feeling it, she can feel a warped area in the leg plates.
“This armor feels like it’s been used before” Alex states.
“Yes, it has. In fact, I used it on an Excursion through the Guillotine PvP zone. It held up quite nicely” He replies to her.
“I’m pretty familiar with Wyonuim armor, it looks like you got bombarded pretty hard, it looks like it had to repair itself through a red phase. I feel small warps right here” she says while she taps and knocks on his leg plates.
Zephyr looks over at Ryan appearing concerned and looks at him worried.
“Wait you brought this armor through a red phase? That means you almost died. How many people were chasing you? And where exactly in the Guillotine PvP zone was this?” Zephyr snaps at him.
Ryan soon has flash backs of him actually being chased by the Palmlandian military and shakes his head to snap himself out of his trance. “I don’t remember” He lies to her. He then carefully gets up and walks over to Kannell who was piloting the bird at 2,000 feet and still climbing.
“So, what are we doing” Ryan asks her while sitting down.
“If he’s not joking about how great their defenses are, I’m planning to get us up to fifteen thousand feet and drop you. It should keep us safe and give you the ability to adjust your course. She says while she points over at the volcano that was in the distance protruding over the horizon.
“Will you be coming with me to teleport me out” He asks Kannell.
“I can’t come. I need to pilot this thing. But don’t worry about falling into the lake of lava on the bottom! About a little ways into the mouth of the volcano you can make out a ledge that is clearly visible. Do your thing and land on that ledge. There is a cave system that you can take shelter in” Kannell briefs him.
Arcadia then comes up behind him and lays down on her side next to him. “I should be able to give you a portal out of there before it gets too nasty” Arcadia informs him.
“Ok, good to know. Please don’t let me die down there” Ryan tells her.
“I promise, I won’t.” Arcadia replies while receiving a tap from Alex. Arcadia turns to face her and looks at her.
“Summon me in some markers I want to draw something!” Alex requests in a hyper childish tone. Arcadia does so and conjures in some markers for her and a Monster energy drink for Ryan.
Alex takes the markers and dashes back over toward the bomb and starts drawing on it with a lime green marker.
Ryan then takes the Monster energy drink from Arcadia and looks at her and strikes up a conversation.
“So, this is my first time visiting this strange new land, but why do the people here seem less like real life Japanese people and more animie-ish?” Ryan asks her.
“This place was an accident. Yulee accidently broke the fabric of this dimension during a fight with your mom and it spilled into a real-life anime world we gods were playing around with. That is why you have people with colorful hair and such. Tie that into this being an RPG world and you get this” Arcadia explains.
“Hmm so there was a spill over from another world. Wow that had to be one hell of a story in the history books here” Ryan says.
“Yes, I witnessed it personally. Yulee came here to craft a sword in peace and your mother ambushed her and things just happened” Arcadia says while summoning forth a book. She then kindly hands it to Ryan.
Ryan opens up this book and can see a detailed description of past events that described how this nation was formed. There was Japanese writing on the bottom of all the pictures that he couldn’t read, but the page’s paintings pretty much described everything to him. He soon begins flipping through all the pages.
On The first page showed people in another world minding their own business and farming.
Then on the second page a blood red blade pierces through the air and makes a huge hole.
On the third page a vacuum like effect sucks everyone and everything in this large village out and into Lectioterra. On the fourth page Soon after the last person is sucked through the hole in the dimension, the hole heals itself shut. On the fifth page the survivors get out and witness a holy battle between the two gods. On the next page Bunnell gets her ass beaten and Yulee forces her to flee. On the next page they all see Yulee standing before them and they kneel down before her. He then starts skipping through the pages and sees the survivors rebuild onto this island and take allegiance with her. He then sees how this nation took off and started thriving.
Not interested in seeing anymore of the history of this nation he closes the book and hands it back to her. Alex now chooses to get up and present him with her little artwork project. She holds up the bomb and on it she drew a Minecraft Creeper. Ryan looks at it and so does Arcadia and both of them smile. Zephyr on the other hand doesn’t quite understand what it was.
“I absolutely love it Alex!” he shouts with joy. He then takes the bomb from her and holds it away from him admiring how awesome this little mission is going to be. Zephyr starts to get jealous of Alex with how she’s earning his praise and she is not. But before she could do something Kannell then gets everyone’s attention.
“3 minutes! Ryan get Ready!”