COI C234

Raised to the air, the young recruit never would expect both of them here. It’s been a while to see them in power armor. Incredible display of their new models combined together with Dexter guild’s hardware and uniquely made from their basis. From their helmets down to their heavy boots, heavily equipped and weapons hidden within their armors, are polished and not yet tested.

“I am not letting a demon take you away!”

Miyusuki’s uncle shouts at him with great worries. His uncle takes this risk to get him out from the curse, but who is possessed exactly?

The hidden barrier made by the dark green dot gang reveals everything around them. A powerful magic spread through the outskirt. Ancient magical items used and spread to ceased everyone’s movement. Both rat men and citizens fighting amongst each other, never they have seen such unbelievable items. They fly around and spins to a certain location, the same directions where those warriors gone to. Doing the same movement around the area then flees apart. Although, they can be seen as they moved upward to the sky, losing track by their naked eyes.

Miyusuki looks back to his uncle. Both grief and worried about his nephew. By the strong grip of his hands, this is not the uncle he supposed to react. The harsh attitude of his uncle wants to hit his nephew, to discipline him, but here he just scolds him. He closes his eyes and stays calm. He gives a deep breath and spread his dark mist around him. It hits Silfa and the others, including Healer too. His breath intoxicated them, worse than the last. He felt betrayed and horrified as they are turning against him. Unleashing unnerving essence through them.

Healer tries to use his runes replica. The runes have no effect on it. Others fell including him into the dark mist, where Fae-chan comes by and pick them up and throw them to a safe place. A plant grows under them, it tangled them up where the vines cut lose starts to regrow again. The doll grabs Healer by his hand and with Arsenal to the other. Healer turns around and sees she’s already fell asleep. He drove into a deep slumber and quickly fell as it thrown him to the safe vines.

Fae-chan turns its gaze at the Raker Mawn guild members. With its quick wits acting sneaky like a predator, it jumps up to them trying to catch them. Once it hits to the ground, they disappeared. It’s expression changes as the power of her creator emits dissatisfied tone. The dusts shift and forms a message to the doll. The doll solidifies the message as the dust turns to crystals. Lights coming out from the crystal as it sends the message for the other Enders to see. After that, Fae-chan watches the young boy.

“Uncle, it’s me! I am not possessed. Remember the hints if we’re both not corrupted by evil”

Kombat didn’t respond, this little sign of evidence made Miyusuki couldn’t believe what’s going on right now. A laser tag hits near his gauntlet. He notices it and didn’t figure it out why. His black mist should’ve taking out Arsenal. Except for his uncle’s power armor and . . . and, this makes Miyusuki forgot someone. His uncle’s partner. His partner is somewhere far. This is going to be harder than he initially thought.

“. . .” The silent is encouraging him.

“. . .” Out of nowhere it spoke to him, no words just maintain the immense tension.

Miyusuki felt its familiarity. It is so, the man’s training and Sanquin’s essence blessed him. This is new to him.

“. . .” This silent made him do it.

His hand raises with his shield held by his gauntlet, the silent rises tension. The shield changes from his runic shield back to his actual shield simultaneously. The silent is driven him to do it. Never he had to go through without thinking. Always thinking when he must be careful, and this silent is guiding him. The silence is his gut feeling, his instinct.

“AAH!”

Miyusuki raises his shield and rams on his uncle’s head. The static images on his helmet’s visor visually impaired, dropping him as Kombat regains his balance. A gun fires shoots as Miyusuki quickly catches it with his gauntlet. He squeezed the ammo before it exploded. Sniper notices the young boy knows about his ammo and soon switches to crowd control. Looking through his visor with his UI checking for suitable ammunition to take the boy down.

“Damn, the flash bang didn’t work. Come on, is there any blanks would take him down”

Kombat sees the Sniper’s message “Your nephew hits you. Are you hurt?”

“No, I’m fine. I said to him a hint, but he didn’t respond”

“I heard you loud and clear”

Sniper keeps to himself as the message he supposed to tell his nephew about evil. Through his scope, he sees Miyusuki is definitely talking to him. In his scope shows Miyusuki’s genuine self, but he seems behave abnormally as if he didn’t hear his uncle. Either he is fooled or not, he carefully turned on his recording and hopes that this not mistake.

The past blog is playing: “Monsters remained found beneath the dusts. They rose up out of nowhere. Past monsters had these brown red auras, but this one in color light blue. It slowly darkens when the monsters are gaining more powers. We don’t know what’s going on and this rescue mission is getting out of hand. This is no longer a small incident. This becomes a major problem as we soon realized that the dusts weren’t able to destroy these types of monsters . . .”

Fast forward to the second backlog plays “. . . Warning! Threat alert! Possessed citizen found. Possessed citizen found in . . . Warning! New enemies are joining the fight. They are already intercept the possessed citizen. This UI is getting on my nerve. Why is it so suddenly proactive all of a sudden? Enemies are popping out of nowhere and after a few mishaps in the city’s system. If everything goes out like this. Bzzt . . . Argh! My head! What the!? Good, the Enders system is booting up. Get Miyusuki’s kid is really going raise a lot of eyebrows after this is done”

Sniper quickly stops his backlog as accidentally plays it. After hearing what he just heard from his own logs. These all happened when notification talked about his friend’s nephew. His eyes quickly checked on his scope, staring at his partner and his nephew already fighting it out. The static comes back to him, he suspects what powers had made this way, and his mind turned dark as he sees a gleamer of red light. Suddenly removing the source of his pain, but replaced with another forceful entity

“To think that his boy is starting something we won’t be going to escape it . . .”

A gun shot heard from the distance. The bullet hits Kombat and boosted up his power armor. The UI turns on and quickly loses his conscious. The magic emits from his power armor with untold magic. The UI spreads it out. Grid based environment appears and surges around them and sparks blown out of nowhere to pushes Miyusuki back. He stares at his uncle as his gauntlet is being hacked down. It shuts down the moment as it linked with this strange grid.

Miyusuki hears Sanquin’s voice “How is it feel when your equipment is getting countered, right?”

The shield student, his adventure name given by Haw, also known for mostly using defensively is now checking his equipment. All numb by the effects of this grid. His uncle is possessed and don’t know whether he is going to hurt him or not. Kombat initiates as the UI follows. Its data reaches out like it was alive trying to retrieve what it has lost. He grabs the Shield Student’s arm, then he was thrown over after that. The Shield Student barely overthrows him as the weight of the power armor almost overwhelmed his own natural strength.

Cough* “Is this really possible that my equipment is out by using his UI?”

“Out? Nevermind about that, you got disabled. Don’t throw away your stuff as you won’t be able to see whether your equipment is ok or not”

The shield student turns to check his friends if they are back and attacks him. Fae-chan is with them wasn’t affected by the grid and somehow has resistance against the UI’s power. Thanks to that, it keeps hold of his friends from fighting him.

“Ready for anything, my disciple. I bring out what I will help you know about yourself”

His eyes turned full pigment black. Sealing his eyes to where he sees, and resisting the negative effects from his enemies. The sparks of the grid are starting to be less distracting. His senses widens and something is coming to his direction. He dodges the shot and the moment he sees the projectile quickly changes in a different form of a bullet. The bullet hits his uncle and charges him up. The UI charges up too and the grid starts to form an environment surging to him.

The Shield student’s body starts to react. His agility, his dexterity, and his movement patterns were excellently moved. His breath leaves out the dark mist shadow, the shadow follows him to cover in silhouette. His feet move along with it and starts to slide and sizzle from the grids’ small light lines. Kombat traces his movement and predict where he slides next. He charges forward then suddenly stops. The Shield Student takes the bait from his sudden movement sinks down to his shadow. Kombat takes aim to the ground and slams his fist creating a magnetic pulse to pushes anything up to the air.

The Shield Student bounces up to the air and got quickly grabbed in mid-flight. He quickly brings out his shields against strength of the power armor. Blocked both of Kombat’s hand from grabbing him. The shields blocked him, but the sheer strength wouldn’t the shield student move. Luckily it was enough for him to get out from his hold. His mind remembers how Archivist controlled his body at that time. The sense of quick reaction made him able to block him. He tries his luck with his dark mist. His body takes the shadow and swiftly moves away like smoke.

Kombat holds his nephew’s shields. Using what program hidden inside his visor, he is using it as a weapon, and binds it with his mechanical arms stretches outward and swings it around. The dark mist gets hit one spin to the other. The dark mist is being pulled into him as the Shield Student’s body returns whole. One swing of the shield thrown at him. He dodges. Soon the other follows, he dodges it again. A gunfire heard from his back and barely dodges it. The projectile reaches to Kombat and swings it. The moment the projectile changes into a ball. Kombat batted it out with his arm towards the Shield Student.

The Shield Student dodges it one too, but the ball explodes causing a massive knockback and pushes him towards his uncle. The dark mist returns to him with his two shields. Kombat keeps spinning, and the UI draws toward the Shield Student. The shield student blocks it and sees what the UI is trying to connect to him. The shield student’s empty UI is blocking it. The Shield Student sees his empty panel screen fighting against the mysterious UI. It tries to update him and forcing into him. His body feels the negative effects, slowly downloading into him like a computer sharing the virus.

He resisted, until one shot made it. Kombat’s UI forces into him, like a ghost trying to possessed him. His mind is being ruled out with endless spam one after the next. His head is being delusion but his eyes see clearly as the UI is playing like a spam bot in order for his head loses conscience. His dark pupil turns red his body filled with massive amount of darkness mist far worse than his actual dark mist. Driven into a dangerous essence bursting out from his aura. An aura that he didn’t have, and this darkness is more refined and deadly.

Sanquin whispers to the Shield Student voiced into his mouth “. . . I have enough. You’ve been played too dirty since I accidentally discovered you. IT”

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The grid expands blocking in their surroundings. Sniper watches them disappeared. Fae-chan moves the others out from danger and manages to escape from the grid. They look at the grid as it mixes with a realm scourging around them and even siphoning the dusts as it turned itself in a hurricane. Blinding everywhere so no one could see.

The rat men faded away as the adventurers and the citizens sees the hurricane. They feel a demonic presence from it and quickly runs back. The chaos rose more suspicions as each passing time made other people questions if they have finished all the threats around their city. Sniper is the only one who stood there and watch with visor sees through it. His body wants to move away, but his power armor is tech up with Enders’ hardware. Able to resist what holds them tightly. He gently moves forward then stops. He starts to run back as his audio play backs his note

“. . . Bzzt . . . Argh!”

That audio, he never remembered he screamed from that buzzing sound. Making him touching his neck not to go further.

The confusion, the bizarre mind flicking, and all the rest felt no control at all but manipulation. This demon is weak in comprehending deception. Sanquin shakes in disappointment while controlling Miyusuki’s body.

“The body of the Shield Student, and he is the one who you tried to ruin all of your poor plan”

Kombat, controlled by the UI. He took off his helmet almost throws it to the ground out of spite

“You were once our allies. Why did you betray us all?”

The shield student’s eyes are glaring into the UI. Linking to the original and trying to pull him into this place. The UI cuts her off.

The UI says again “Even now, you still hate me after how we almost won the war”

The shield student’s glare never unfazed from the UI’s reasons or excuses. If it was true, then they should’ve won a long time ago.

Sanquin softly says his worst enemy “Acur . . .”

“Don’t you dare try to mention or either remember him. He is the thorn of this world”

“A thorn? He is given you all the handicap you need and I was never part of his . . .”

“I told you not to mention him. He is the truly the nightmare I can’t let go”

This UI, the source who brought all those people of Isekai City this deceptive guidance. This is what Lady Hivites wanting to find from. All of her time gawking why did the people changed their mind. The city quickly adapts. The people start to learn magic quickly. The city mastered the old tech of this world. These are the things the demoness questioned so fast. It was all started from her new friend of this city. Disappeared without a trace, and explaining the circumstances of this gift. All the demons know this gift like it belonged to a powerful demon. They remember a demon who possessed artificial life, but they know it left this world after satisfied its revenge on the Heroes faction.

This suspects it, the summoner, brought them here. Calling it user interface and what not, helping the citizens to learn how, what, when, and why. A tool that supposed to be the guideline to use it well. But never once heard to be a voice called as notification and hints. The Enders did well to get the info correctly. Not only they discovered that this help is giving the general information. It also gives questionable takes that only as if it didn’t want to be revealed and others defeated are its enemy.

The enemies, their own people, and importantly the information about the Heroes faction’s enemies. It was too obvious, but not obvious enough for Sanquin to figure it out. Because the proof if it was him, but accidentally know it was the summoner. There is no doubt since the beginning when they start research about the summoner. Sanquin says what she had learned so far

“You are from earth. The technology they have adapted are identical to this world’s past. The design was a bit outdated and you were hoping a technology have exceed its limits back home. The question is why your people here? Their fates are doomed once the daemos know . . .”

The summoner controls Kombat’s expression. He didn’t flinch about the worries of this world knows his home world. The same face goes through Sanquin’s head understands why. She too entered this world with a purpose but different intention. Never did she bring her people here, more like they go back home because how bad this world become. While the summoner didn’t want to go back, more like he never once seeing his home world before. Rather it made her think, is this world better? She laughs.

Her laughter swoops the Shield Student down to his knees and she appears before the possessed citizen. She carries the boy with her magic into the air like a child lifted on the clouds. Her presence disturbed the UIs.

The summoner finally responds “This is your fault! Why would you have a disciple and didn’t let him keep his UI? Huh!? Your interference made me respond. You were part of our faction a long time ago. Those people, the Enders, were once part in our faction. The elves who are still alive and still . . .”

Sanquin stops its rabble “You summoned them, but others intend to leave. The people who left the city goes to the east coast, and they went missing. Those same people went missing returned to the city. Your allies fought against the people you have summoned. What else did you speak lies when the city states leaders; Lord Quoatel, Lady Hivites, Ehan’Ra Strongtwist, and Ehan’Se . . .?”

She stops as she feels the angry presence inside of the UI. She held her hand with Miyusuki’s old UI. The guidance it gives show Kombat is being overwhelmed with power.

This is why Sanquin called the summoner an IT. The critiques she gives to it have respond in anger. No sympathy and maddening of its own fantasy. Is this what happened those citizens tried to use the caravan to Enders Bridge, and cause this event to happen? No, and she hears him cry out of rage.

“How would you know? They are still the same people with selfish intentions. For how many years I’ve been experienced this world than that shitty world back then. I received immortality just to make sure this won’t happened again. Both of them, those who want to leave and don’t are the same to take advantage with the powers I have given them”

Kombat’s power released from his armor. The UI is boosting him to the limits that no one would compare of any citizen received. The thoughts of virtue to save his nephew brought here. The unimaginable capabilities he is carrying exceed to keep him stronger, but at the same time manipulated. This overwhelming presence tingles Sanquin’s skin, flowing through her clothes as the warmth grows. This warmth though is harmful for her disciple. The trembling presence is hurting him as the outside becomes too dangerous to be exposed of. The opposite of being drained by dust. This will overflow and explodes them in the inside.

The grounds shift to form a clear flooring. Kombat stomps it, it bursts up to the slightly off the ground destroying the preparation of their battle.

The summoner is furious “We have not talk for a long time and you wanted to start a fight after all you have done to the boy”

Sanquin snaps her finger to restore the flooring. Kombat’s power armor surges down his armored boots to stop it. She sighs and points at her disciple

“It’s no use, this boy is mine now. I have given you a chance to speak to help me understand what happened to your summoned city. Alas, you are used”

Kombat lunges forward with thunderous force. Sanquin catches him by hand to hand. The Summoner roared

“YOU WILL NEVER UNDER-”

Sanquin quickly slides back, dodges him, then slaps him on his shoulder. Kombat suddenly stops and drops on the ground, negating his momentum and force like it never happened. The ground he leaves left a massive hole straight at her. She steps on the hole, only to fill it up as the ground moves to cover it. She brings up Miyusuki’s old UI. The summoner sees it and removed right in front of his possessed fighter. So much regret surges inside of him, losing control.

Sanquin uses it and forced control on the other UI. Two collide as the link break through from the far source. The Summoner wasn’t able to stop it, its signal is too far, and its control breaks free. The last moment it sees of her was disappointment. The look of her expression as she turns her gaze at her disciple. As the control stops, she bends the UI’s memory and manipulate their memories.

She throws Kombat’s UI back to him “Your nephew is mine, for now. If you deserve this truth then face reality”

“. . .” He didn’t say anything.

She walks away shaking her head “Then he is truly alone”

Kombat hears her words. Alone, his nephew becomes alone because his father passed away. Her sister, his nephew’s mother, was so busy to keep themselves up from harsh life. They were alone, and Kombat hears it again. He thought it before when her sister getting married. Ending their poor life because of her husband, he is the man who brought him to work as a mechanic. A high school drop-out with no training and whatsoever gives him this opportunity. They thought they were saved at first, until that fateful day.

Alone, yes. Their hero is also alone. No one come to save him when Kombat himself was not there stop it. That’s why he hurried himself to find his nephew. His UI mentioned about it. He was furious at the same time confused. His nephew’s guild is from Enders and how they couldn’t able to save him. His memories are seeing the truth now, he was controlled by the UI and he will soon be controlled again with Sanquin’s magic. Why won’t she let him know about this? The UI is closing into his mind, he is forced to lose his memory. Kombat hears her words

“. . . truly alone”

“I have come this far, and I don’t want to lose anyone. Not here, not there, and not anywhere where I am still running to save my nephew”

Kombat stands up and resist the UI. His effort to bring himself up, with determination rises up as he remembers what happened. The powers he held from the UI and the truth of it. He will not be absorbed by it. Sanquin sees his will surpass the UI’s control. His response is honorable. Sadly, it’s too late. She knows the truth and the summoner knows who is free. Her disciple is endangered. She widened her realm to catch anyone who received the summoner’s notification in their UIs.

While the realm stretches forward, Sanquin said to him “I have said to you before, but you remained quiet”

“It’s because . . .”

Kombat tries to give his reason but he was shut as his lips stinged. He realized he didn’t wear his helmet and quickly put it back in. His helmet arrives with its spider like legs going to his head. Its mechanical limbs transformed and attached to his armor. The armor protects his lips from the sting. He tries to speak out again. But Sanquin charges forward and grabs his head. The pulse into his helmet resists her vice grip.

“I have made my choice. I will take care of him”

“Are you trying to remove everything my nephew close to him, even me?”

“Don’t be foolish. Your nephew rarely used his UI. Others though, I found out the UI is also controlling you without you notice”

“Then it must mean you free my nephew from the curse, right? Why not free us all? Agh!”

Sanquin grips his head closer to her face. His body kneels down as she slowly sits down in the air.

“I tell you what. I’ll let you watch. To show you what this world capable of. I honestly don’t like explaining to people who know nothing of this world. There are other demons other than me”

She pushes him away so far as he slides back further and get caught by his partner.

“Hey there partner”

“Sonohara?!”

“The name’s Sniper. So, did you get your nephew? Why did she push you away? I thought she is on our side”

More comes from Silfa’s team, Saint Heroes, and others like Illtended, Altair, Heist, and many others who are close to her. Gathered and confused what’s going on. Their UI opens a notification, corrupted, and it was Sanquin herself in their screen. Only written in demonic language, their UI suddenly break and all of their stats, RAPs, and other special talents kept are lost. Both Sniper and Kombat are the only ones didn’t use it.

The people who are with them still have their powers, but their sense of masteries of it felt a bit off. Sanquin comes in and knocked them out as fast as possible. Swift like the wind touches them in her heavenly demon technique. Attacked and never prepared what’s going on. They fell down one by one out of confusion leaving the others helpless as they stood there facing the capabilities of the heavenly demon. Their runes quickly wiped clean, their responds quickly negated, and their magic bends so slightly with no chance to casts it.

Exposed from Sanquin’s presence, no one knows how to endure it. Yet others keep getting up after a few swipes from the wind. Many tried to fight back. It was pointless. They drop like leaves whether the strong wind passes. Defenses and barriers are standing strong, and soon it disappears where the caster where hit from her darkened wind. Ruby was there tries to run away from it. Her hyper speed quickly stops. When she dared to say something, she loses conscious before trying to speak. Gemina brings out her spirit, trying to protect herself. The spirit suddenly shifted to the side whereas Sanquin appeared just pushes aside and quickly knocking Gemina out.

After it was over, Sanquin sweeps her wind as they disappeared into the void. She turns her gaze with those two. Kombat and Sniper, just watching her. No words for her to say anymore and charges at them. Sniper fires at her. She suddenly appeared right in front of him and he quickly draws out his shotgun in point blank range. He misses. His eyes opened wide from how did she able to dodge it in such unbelievable speed. She knocks him out without any delays.

Kombat didn’t understand at all. But it didn’t stop him, he quickly guards up right in front of her. Sanquin didn’t hold back and hits his arms to numb him. Kombat feels his armor pierced through and the runes magic sparks out mana into his skin in the inside. He drops down as she suddenly raises her foot high in the air then down to his head with an axe kick. The fight was over. Sanquin won without any giving anyone a chance. Their UIs returned back to normal as the links are cut off. It was over, their memory will never remember what happened here.

Miyusuki’s old UI starts to link the people around her. She holds it tightly to adjust their UIs when the summoner tried this stunt again. Breaking all the data it gathered today and not a single one will not be suspected to be linked by IT. All around her are the people who wished to save the boy. They weren’t successful at all, and even how long did they fight the monsters from the past few cycles. They still fell defeat by a heavenly demon, who is the same as the other demons. It’s because of their UIs. She sees it through with it. There is a cap and limiters from the system inside.

Archivist found out about it from his pact with Tabitha, and now Sanquin figures it out why her disciple is grinding without developing it. It’s because the summoner is carrying them all. Too much of them to be exactly, the all-powerful summoner tried to control them all. Leaving them slowly building them up under ITS supervision. At least now the problem is settled. The UI is what controlled who and what they are. This makes sense, how they were once rumored powerful city fell back a lot. They were managed not to use their absolute potential.

The air touches a drop of tear. Sanquin senses the flow of the air in her realm. It was Miyusuki’s tear. Remained unconscious and able to link his ki with hers. He is improving even in his sleep. She usually devilishly grins whenever something in her favor is flourishing. Not this time, she felt his sorrows and pain. His uncle’s promise to save him, failed. All that effort he’s been through lost to her. Sanquin had made her mistake, making him truly alone. Away from knowing the truth and the disaster will come when the UI is active again. Did she make that mistake though?

Sanquin comes closer to him, touches his forehead, wipes his hair where it covers his eyes, and there she sees his tears. For the moment, she felt a heart break. She touches his forehead again and sends her ki into him. Miyusuki’s UI appeared, his own UI. There she sees records of his memory. His past, his pain, and even his lost. For a demon like her will be willing to take a look. And she did. There, she sees only why he joined her guild. That part of his reason will be his first quest.

“Of all that happened, you must not faulter. Your people are not dead yet. You will never let this happened again”

Not giving him a genuine sympathy on her tone, she says to him coldly.