COI C242

The UI was hacked, many of the citizens are trying to get a hold of it and unlocked all what is hiding from them. The accursed UI is starting to show its true colors. Tracking all of them are easily been done for the summoner, it is not long as the demons are finding out about it. The summoner ceased the corruption of the UIs and find out Lady Hivites is looking for him. He can’t believe his own desperate attempts made her way to him. The mistakes are coming back to bite him.

Lady Hivites personally entered the realm. Waiting for the others to join her, she meets Yayoi in her true demoness form. The two meets once again as the they see each other in well-maintained health, or one of them at least. The demoness flies out her spell and gives a good smack on the lady. Lady Hivites fans it off

“So, you’re finally sane. Sell-out”

“I wish I would say to you when you were part of the Demons’ Faction”

The two beaming at each other as the last two of their kind not showing any friendly terms.

“Demonesses, they dare to become queens but there is always be one queen”

They turned and see Sanquin clapping her hands as the two fights.

“You twos, are all sell outs in my heart”

The demoness talks back “You are not even a full fledge, daring to say things that you are not even in our same race”

“We have subordinates who obeyed. Yours are using someone else’s”

Demoness holds herself back. The potion she had on her want to use it to get even with her. The reason they have gathered here is one plan to a common interest. Sanquin watches their determinations. She grins at their motivation.

Without giving a second to waste, Sanquin shows them what she learned in Isekai City. Lady Hivites grudgingly stops her right before her eyes stern in disappointment. The demoness raises her eyes by the sudden change of eye contact. Remained in her glaring stares, Sanquin didn’t say a word and kept her grin confidently. It was never been this way to have such close companions lead to in a miserable reunion. There she sees Lady Hivites rises from Agatheus City. The demoness fell to a weak state. And she herself, Sanquin, has lost interest in this world and only to have her revenge. Even though her name rises under the Enders society.

Petty was supposed to be in demoness’ fate. Only left from her memories are the struggle to have possession a single soul to feast on. Lady Hivites have a plenty and kept hidden in her city. Somewhere in Agetheus City’s Inner realms, she must have such collections. The demoness is no different either. Because those two are the same race after all. Meanwhile Lady Hivites had seen Sanquin’s sadistic personality. She hears Sanquin’s acquaintances are muddled from the incident. Who would’ve thought they brought such pain for her disciple’s training? In truth, she knows Sanquin is a selfish heavenly demon. All three of them are not generous.

Sanquin stops messing with them and said “It will be much faster if you let our poor friend remember why she is here”

“What is she on about, Hivites?”

“It is enough for you to have that potion. Sanquin wants your true self”

“Is she trying to trick me, Sanquin?”

“Heh, you’ve been gone for too long to ask me that question. Chuckle* You should’ve help me open it, so you can pester Acurse again”

A sudden light explodes out of nowhere. Acurse was almost summoned, but breaks away. Lady Hivites tries to call him back using memories. She failed. Then Sanquin tries to call him over? She wasn’t convinced.

Seeing Lady Hivites’ frustration made Sanquin starts to understand Acurse’s ignorance. The satisfaction of her grin made the Lady more furious. Sanquin turns to the demoness

“We are almost all here, we should be start discussing what we found out about this city”

“Almost, the other demons were sealed away in Rune Isles. Only left are us here and . . . you mean? You still think he will be here? He was imprisoned”

Sanquin was a bit surprised that the demoness remembers. She turns to Lady Hivites looking at the demoness acting reassured. It seems that their old relationship still lingers among them. It will not be long as the old same indifference happened again.

Sanquin rips open a portal to summon someone. The demoness feels a great sensation, but it felt artificial than true. This someone comes in the same gimmicky hood. A jacket hood with jeans and other casual wears, this being has no face and release a rift of light coming out from the hood. The writings of the hood gleamed in powerful magic. Sanquin’s power force the essence and soul of the demon wanted to come for so long. Except for the demoness

“Acurse?”

A spoken a name that the memory ceased it from ever release from this avatar’s body. Acurse speaks in his snarky tone.

“You two have tried so hard to bring me to you. Heh. Would’ve you consider that you shouldn’t be popular to our enemies”

The demoness jumps on to him with joy. The clothes flap away from her like she is the wind blowing his clothes away. It pulls itself together as he continues

“What a surprised!? Lady Hivites have given her food she needs”

“It is because of the situation of the city”

“What situation? You waited for a few cycles and they grew in such short time. I was there, the fight. Our old friends still made me lead their grudges”

Lady Hivites grows agitate when he mentioned it. Acurse had gone through the siege and caused the fall of the city barrier. Hid inside of her is her guilt. Acurse to be materialized like that meaning a message from her old faction she left. They have brought their own puppets here. If they brought the complete set of their puppets, they will become true minions. The dangers of this city are staggering high. When something like that happened, they will constantly survive what the world wants to destroy Isekai City. The worst of it all, when the name Acurse is here.

Acurse had many legends collected specifically on his own interest. The city summoned here has and never will catch his eyes. They were lucky, but Sanquin and other demons were interested. The city had seen his actions, thoroughly and reluctantly, from those demon who knew, fight him. His fame, taking down old man Ban and his defeat into his imprisonment is what citizens know so far. The daemos around him are ashamed if they are captured like that. Yet, it was only time when he begins to act.

There he carries the soul of his spoil. Only one, and the man is old man Ban into the void of his hand, sleeping forever like the rest of the souls. Lady Hivites tries to talk out of him to hand over the old man’s soul. Without his real self, she didn’t even try. Acurse is here. It means he was persuaded by Sanquin. This makes her hard to change her plans. Intentions start to grew honestly as both Sanquin and Lady Hivites are ready to see this secret UI realm.

Hivites’ Demoness and Sanquin’s Acurse. It is clear what are they trying to do as companions. Both shows their glare for the future their action by their pupils changing in the flow of their irises. Both exchange their messages. Demoness can’t read their eyes as she is not fully recovered. Acurse on the other hand was summoned into an avatar, Sanquin’s avatar. She controls his senses and only his powers are here to be only at her side. He doesn’t care, as he is halved in his new imprisonment. However, he too wants to get it.

The UIs are changing. Both manually and automatically in different ways. The links are so distorted as many more tried to hack in and others protect it. This is too much for the summoner to keep watch. Thousands are starting to share it and many more are taking risk to get a hold of their old powers back. It is the mistake keeps growing. The beginning was the first who is free from his connection with the users. It was all because of his silly action to be hero calling out from the caravan. It was not his fault. Their own people are creating a scene that will lose a lot life back then.

They created a tomb that attracts the monsters from Rune Isles. There was no way for them to create it so fast. It must be someone who tried to scare them. The caravan to Enders Bridge had become the inevitable accident. The summoner then watches the failed lab he had secretly collaborating. Acurse was there and destroys it before the crucial moon cycle takes its effects. They never know about Acurse, and he is the cancer of the entire Heroes faction. Again, that caravan incident, why didn’t they believe they were being saved. His memory remains a blur.

Frustrated to the idea, he can’t think straight of how he remained in Rune Isles. The plan was to bring back the civilization to this world from his own origin. To end all what the demon faction had stand for. His faction had taken down all of their mighty demons. The only left was the demon was not involved from the very beginning or half-witted effort they came to get to the last assault of the Fall Era. This demon was the heavenly demon. At first, she wasn’t until her immortal soul ascended to demon kind. Then she brought back the sealed demons into the fold.

“Even in my avatar, I can’t stay in this city for long. They are hitting me in the right time before I can recover. All I have done to keep them stay had been lost in my head. My original plan is lost because of someone refuse my offer. Ugh! They are getting annoying. How absurd was that? I’ve been able to contact to earth and bring the people who wished to live in a different world. They did make their mistake to bring a piece of the city here. But they succeeded to stop them using the foundation. What are they thinking of letting everyone to stay here? They can rebuild it with information I have. I had made an artificial system in their UI to guide them”

The summoner said the most logical sense. The mistake of bringing so much people had catch the eye of many locals in Kinteinnou region. And foolishly dared to stop them from going back home. It was their mistake to keep their civilization on control. Or maybe, the summoner think is a good thing. In his captivity in Rune Isles have brought him into a so many thoughtless indecisions. Those people are still there, not the defectors, not from Fuku City, nor the obvious Chojima community. It will be hard for him to find them as they begin to connect him and his secret facilities in the Kinteinnou region.

His conquered realm, taken the realm of the stalkers and harassers from the building had suddenly disappeared from his link. The traces gone as many of his UIs are being hacked down as fast as he is. He tried to sense who used it. A demonic touch comes through as he feels the touch of an old enemy. He backs away as he sees cloth gloves reaching down to his face. His avatar without a single grazed by the glove had marked to his face. His avatar trembles as his magic being pulled into a shaken state.

“He found me? How! I can still hear Red churning in madness with his half body”

The summoner watches the hand tries to get inside his secret realm. It fades away where the gloves left behind. Acurse’s magic is here, but the residue of the spell is nothing like him. Acurse never uses such spell. He checks the residue before it disappears. It was pointless, he can’t examine it. Something like this whether he is alone or not. His UIs are beginning to turned into demonic themed panels. Make it easier that his avatar starts shaken rapidly from the corruptions.

“Together!? I can’t believe they are working together. Hivites should’ve been governing Agatheus City. Or else her friend . . .”

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His avatar falls apart as his body loses control. He looks at his system. It begins to corrupt in different statuses that almost unrecognizable. The summoner still has a chance. His realm is breaking apart, giving up his research and invention to them are worth to throw away. He can no longer control those citizens. The crumbling bits of digital and grid like theme surroundings fell into a darkness. Then it powered back up in different demonic presence. It ends with another realm merging with it, but scattered in a big explosion where the realm’s mana and invasion mana connected each other, creating a distorted environment.

A first step entered to the summoner’s hidden realm. Sanquin thinks nothing better where her presence is obviously left from her vengeance. Demoness follows and sees the chaos risen by Lady Hivites’ magic. This environment made her remembered in the Fall era. Later Acurse enters the realm. His body fell into deep mana tides gushing through him where his avatar body becomes the colliding tides in between relentless opposing powers. All of that pressure left him unfazed from all of it.

Demoness said to Acurse “Two different magic sources are hitting you, Acurse. Hivites? Why is he the only one getting hit?”

“I have no clue, this is Acurse we are talking about. So many secrets of why he behaves like this”

Acurse’s actual body, ripped in two, knows she is trying to link with him as the summoner tries to stop her. It is her pointless opportunity. She needs him in the near future. Although, he slowly and softly replies

“It was a long time ago. You can’t remember how much I have right now” He speaks boldly on his tone as he feels the Lady’s nuisance.

Bored, unenthusiastic, and less negative from what Sanquin observes. Acurse is still himself and patience stills even back then. It was obvious, he had gained little but gives a big impact to those he had taken. He took old man Ban’s life, and willingly surrenders after his kill. To where he is now, he must be in the center of all these have happened. His curiosity was never shown the day she calls out to him. Predictable, is what he would say. Sanquin must prepare her disciple when that day had come.

Meanwhile, Acurse is taking a few steps ahead of them. The mystery of this city is becoming dull to understand now. All of the districts have their own little stories to tell. For once, he had one separated tale he learned. Old man Ban has connections with the Taiyou Industries. Not because of the representative, but rather someone else he didn’t want to mention about. Manager Kubo is not in mind, rather, what technology will bring soon to the city.

Lady Hivites persists them “This is taking too long, where is that summoner?”

Acurse voiced out with his sarcastic disappointment “We entered his realm uninvited, bringing your powers here to destroy it, and everything else is done without us even trying. Oh please, you have done this alone and I know it. It was me who he can’t even face you. Only left is what he had left behind for us. Hmm?”

He wasn’t lying. The realm persists its existence as more of her powers overtake it.

The demoness gets suspicious on the Lady. She tries her best keep in mind as this keeps going on. Sanquin and Acurse start to head first as their search without a care. Leaving her to think about what Acurse said to them. She only cooperates with Lady Hivites because the potion she brought. As she slowly recovering, her powers start sensing the Lady and Acurse showing their auras in a weak state. Then she senses Sanquin from a far. Sanquin’s aura jolted the demoness at her own will. Reacted randomly, Lady Hivites contact Sanquin with her spell.

“Lady Briannca! I know it was you . . .”

She starts summoning her subordinates

“. . . He found something. Acurse!”

A part of the realm shatters. The raises of smoke show Sanquin’s magic aura releasing, damaging the realm into pieces. Lady Hivites is in pure shock and senses Acurse starts causing havoc. Yet, she resisted as he finds more. She quickly turns to the demoness.

“I can’t. Demoness, we need to . . .!!!”

A pillar of grid sparks an explosion as its grid lines cut in half diagonally. The Demoness watches the realm being torn apart.

The demoness lost in thought what is the purpose again to be in this hidden realm. She hears him and said to Acurse

“Tell me straight. The realm is being destroyed. I can see it was you who is doing that. You and Sanquin are the only two who can destroy it while the two can take over it. This realm, what is its purpose? I know about the UI and you know it too”

Acurse sees her head is getting back to normal. Those questions forced on him like greedy daemos behaved.

They are in the most valuable realm, and Acurse let the demoness joins the accursed UI’s secrets. His ray of lights coming from the hood is materializing his mouth to whisper her ears. Breaking every limit what Sanquin crafted into his avatar, leaving a small crack that she won’t notice, and slipping some mana for the demoness to feed on. The demoness takes the taste reactively, where these two trust each other enough to get it through. It was because, she wants it. While he lets her. He reveals their true purposes.

“They already accepted the fact they have stayed for so long that the summoner is controlling the citizens in each moon cycle. This is the last cycle before the full control. Beware of their plans as someone is trying to free them from the UI. Our enemies will return”

“Gulp* This taste, why didn’t you give it to me . . .?”

“Because, you must be ready for the next moon cycle. It is the day where we must prepare with the citizens we have so far”

“Wait, you never have a subordinate or anyone in the city. Mine is not really mine”

“Still starving I see? Sanquin is there, just be sure you take what she willing to give . . .”

A soft tone of his voice as his lips faded away. The lights from his hood ray down to her hand showing the writings in daemos tongues. The writings help her remember by force through her tired memories. The compulsive structure made by Sanquin’s hands caused her to focus as hard as she can. The UI details the alternate mass version of the primarch or what this world had, the prime daemos. The difference is the old one is willing but this version is destined. The guidance to those who are will become theirs and ascend only in this world. Leaving them will lead to lost of everything they have become.

The UI behaves like that but is already given to them once they entered here. To what others discovered where they will never know how to control at their own will. For the original, they are allowed to have it or not, and let the world consumed as this is the reality. A greatest flawed when they are against daemos, but neither the daemos will fall when they are just sealed away and return again. It becomes the world’s endless cycle of eras because of it. This UI replaced it, or rather, it was not complete.

Acurse had done it, he had successfully spread the word without any further delays. Now more and more demons know the secrets he had found from the lab. The secret lab was complex to his likings. Thanks for the help of the sorcerer, in heavy power armor, analyzed it for him. All that chase around made him found it by accident. Acurse holds the UI system, Lady Hivites holds the city’s UI users, Sanquin holds the users who rejects it, and the demoness will hold who wants to control it. But not yet.

“The UI, she is after the summoner’s gift. The blessings of the daemos turned to UI”

The demoness starts to see the UI is gathering interest with her companions. Acurse gives it to her to join in. Her mind boggles again as her head begins to spin and felt nauseating. For the first time, she fell ill. A spill from her lips, she sees the saliva stains on her hand. The potion she drank gives a bad after taste.

“If I remember you correctly, Hivites. You are not a generous type”

Poor quality potion only eases her hunger. Lady Hivites is planning to win in this realm.

Lady Hivites looks carefully at her situation. Both the demoness or Yayoi, and Acurse are not in their true forms. Which it gives her an advantage. Her subordinates are here and ready to act on her will. Sanquin, who had somehow gathered the critical point to find the summoner. It was obvious that the summoner is her grand existence in this world. When he’s gone, she will leave this world forever.

Demoness, who connected large numbers of people. Either be the worse of people or people with fictional desire. Their UIs are the swarm to obtain their desires without efforts. Acurse was the obvious shield for her and let those fools to spread her words with summoner’s notice. She is not even worthy of a threat as she has not a single citizen beneath her will. Finally, there is Sanquin. The one who told her about this. A favor they both have, but never reveal their goals. Both of their patience stales as time need to be done from the new arising UI.

Lady Hivites’ goal is simple, finding the ones who chose to stay and forcing the others to remain here. At first, she is thinking to find a way to convince them to leave. But her people have discovered their new change of views. Dissatisfied of the outcome, she is forced to let them live until their enemies reached ashore again. In the meantime, there are people she wanted to talk to, but they never seen in the public. The Victory Rooks have secretly taken action and they returned to her with empty information. This is enough she had to visit this realm. Even dared to control it.

Sanquin has become what Acurse used to do. Nurturing the chosen one, the shield student is her disciple and he is crippling away to purify himself as one of the Enders. In reality, the young boy needs the skills naturally as their variety of options for them to survive. The shield student will be her greatest warrior, but reluctantly the one she must throw him away in the near future. Because of Kiege, Juela, and that annoying short Yui are giving him purpose. It is harsh for what she is thinking, then it will be. How many will that boy can actually save someone?

The realm is acting too fast to be controlled by Lady Hivites. The longer Sanquin sees what is going on. The sooner she starts to think of her controlling the realm as her own. She starts whistling, soothing music from her hums, and her breath releases the black mist giving an exhaustion within her body. Her dark energy releases intentionally to worn the realm down. As she is about to perform a technique, a strong spike lightning coming down to Sanquin. Sanquin sees the last remain of the summoner’s realm trying to defend itself.

Lady Hivites said to her “That’s the last defense the summoner had”

Sanquin keeps her eyes on her suspiciously as more of Lady Hivites’ subordinates are entering the realm, controlling all what the summoner has. As the realm is fully engulfed into a natural environment and destroying all that is tech like from the far distance. It turns into a ceremonial altar where they both stand. An object fell to the center, where they look at Acurse throwing it there.

The altar immediately reacts to it and burst out lightning flashes all around them in a powerful thunderous wave. The subordinates slide back from the wave resisting its attacks. Only three of them were not pushed back, and the subordinates keep moving back until every last one of them fell off the altar. They were teleported away with each of them falling. The pulse keeps going and going until all three uses their powers at the object. The object floats in the air and then stops with the last shockwave at their faces. Not a single motion moving on their clothes and hairs from the shockwave. The wind suddenly stops and the loud noise had finally stop.

The object reveals itself as a tool to control the UI. Lady Hivites tempted by the sight of such device right in front of her. Neither Sanquin nor Acurse want to get closer to it, and leave them dissatisfied. She starts to notice

“What’s the matter, Acurse you found it. We can sure to trace it to where the summoner is”

Sanquin looks at her as she doesn’t care about it.

“Sanquin? Why are you looking at me like that?”

“Oh Archaic, even your title meant useless”

“That tone, you mean it is nothing more of a messenger”

Acurse shakes his head as his light rays focusing on the UI controls. “He left us what my tortured friend of mine in Fuku City called as free mode”

“Free mode? What’s that?”

“Letting the users to do whatever they want in their UIs. Nothing but a tool for each and everyone. And at the same time, as an administrator tool to whom get to influence with it”

“Is that all?”

“The summoner intentionally left us what you guys wanted to use”

Sanquin knows exactly why Acurse is not satisfied. After being controlled from her disciple’s friends. It was obvious the UI has more than that. Still, any daemos would love to tempt the vulnerable ones to use this UI.

Demoness steps into the altar and sees all three of them staring at the flying object. The object shining with the same design like the UIs but has a different color to it. Lady Hivites’ control of this realm had shaped into her control. The gaze it had given many disappointments and confusions to others, and it also affects the demoness only with frustration.

“That’s not the true tool of the summoner. Yet, there should be any of use it for the summoner that would trick us . . .”

!!!

“. . . What’s this?”

Sanquin forced open the tool and reveals right in front of the Lady. She joins their attitude on the tool. The UI controls are limited as if they weren’t fooled to see how it was used. Lady Hivites would figure out soon if she dared to use it. But touching it is as far they could’ve trust themselves for it. They have now the tool to control everyone in the city with this. Unfortunately, not everyone will be tempted by it.

There is data that many people are resisting it. The obvious are people who are independent from it and others who are want to leave. While others are willing to give in to such a tool are slowly want to control it. No wonder the summoner wasn’t able to use it earlier. From Sanquin’s case, many adventurers were controlled and right here is not strong as before. These guesses made them really annoyed what it is capable of. Drove them to ask one another, the only one who is not asking is Acurse keeps looking at it with rays of light.

Lady Hivites asks him “Are you not bothered that the summoner left us with this?”

“I’m not. It was predictable when I’m joining you people to an old enemy. You guess should be better than mine. It is predictable that I am not welcome. But I was hoping one thing, when we all gathered here . . .”

He stares at the floating UI controls

“. . . There is no way that all of us to ignore such a wonderful tool for us to use”

She refuses “You dare”

“I dare, and you two over there have the same idea. We should be a little selfish for a time”

“Selfish? Sanquin! Demoness! We have an agreement remember”

Sanquin looks at the Demoness “I didn’t say anything to her. How about you?”

“It is obvious I was following Hivites here. I know we are expecting enemies but I guess not”

Sanquin steps closer to the controls. Acurse follows shortly. The two other daemos are letting them take control of it. The moment they move closer, more and more of Lady Hivites’ subordinates start appearing all around them. With these kinds of formidable allies, Acurse starts to try something different.

Acurse is left in front of the UI controls. The knowledge he gets from the secret lab, he brought out the sorcerer’s soul through his avatar. He changes host to face the truth, the wraith has awakened.

“I am listening, and yes. It has to be done. This controls the UIs of many secrets inside the city. From the lab to many questionable facilities, I will bring all of them at forth. Bring this accursed tool under your command. The summoner will be here soon”

The UI control warped in the summoner. Forcing him out as the link from Rune Isles exposed. The sorcerer breaks itself apart whereas the clothes it had burnt to the crisp to make this warp. The digital entities entered the realm. The realm twists and turns for the old realm to return. Desperate magic come forth trying to restore what it secretly trying to do. This is the last connection. The summoner is here.

“Impossible, all that I have built to this day. The day I have finally bring them here is truly impossible. I have hoped they would listen, but I judged poorly with their pride to become what they wanted to be. A civilization better than this world. Now the cycle begins. Demons, such like you ceaselessly collect what they find raining down from the skies. Impossible, even I can’t break this cycle”

The UI panels spread all around, the digital world brought in as the demons prepared. One will rule the city’s Interface.