COI C243

The Code Red Virus is left in total shock. Next to him in the far corner is the halved body of Acurse. Teasing him the powers Acurse showed to him where he sends himself to the realm they found. The grid like realm and combined with ancient magic. It is clear where he is. The summoner’s realm. The immortal one still survived. The virus will be able to escape if he can connect it to Acurse, but he can’t. The fears of him caused so much trauma that he won’t dare to do it. The ancient magic forced through his nulls and ignorance. He tries to move then stopped as memory creeps into his worries.

It was fated, the summoner has to leave even a little presence of what he fears. Every summoning spell after the other, originated from so many worlds by many inhabitants in this world. Races here and never been existed because of it. Slowly being part of the demon of this world and never to escape again. Many tried differently from those who tried to summon them. It was always the same. Someone out there wants none of it and tries to return home, while the others envy how strong the world is and wanting to become strong from any given opportunities.

Those were the demons found them. The cycle never ends as who or what giving them the powers who never received it. Abundant of mana to use and mana types to separate what they prefer. At the end, those mana types made them wanting more. So, the summoner provided them the UI before the world takes notice of them. For no one will ever be taken that easily by the hands of countless demons tempting them into their controls.

Or so he thought, it is still the same. The cycle skipped when they start to become independent. Forgotten or just lost their sanity because of it, the citizens have brought into the world that they too can harness such powers. Sadly, they consume the wrong mana when they start venture out to the Kinteinou region. There, a city who rule under the territory belonged to a demoness. Lady Hivites feeds them the mana she had across the area. Slowly start noticing who this mana belonged to. Because of that day, she wants them to leave. If they all leave, her rule will not be overthrown from her reawakened rivals.

Acurse returns back to his prison, sending his subordinate to force out the summoner. Replacing him instead of himself freeing the sorcerer inside of him. His help is over when the UI starts to stop connecting him from the rest of the users. The facility starts changing as the lights went haywire and the room loses itself from the malfunctioning.

“You see that, hah. Ignoring me again, aren’t you?”

Still, it has to be done. The demons must stall the city’s efforts to become too independent. They are not ready to face this world’s hero. Yet.

The door opens right in front of them. The cult leader rushes in and sees the massive changes. He looks at his UI has a temporary error. Where he looks at the demon to the left, it was obvious he returns. He pulls out his device and starts calling someone

“. . . Yeah, it’s me. Is yours had an error? No? Alright, yeah. Mine is out, yet yours got bugged out. I see, this new UI has problems”

He closes his device and watches the demon straight to his ray of light. It shines back at his face, but kept focusing to the other demon. He walks back leaving a suspicion.

From the summoner’s citizens, who are sided with him from how long. They see the error as descriptions talk about the hacking. The warning message gave them the chance to stop their connection with it, temporarily. The people of the summoner start preparing of their disconnection with him, and with the knowledge he gave them will proceed without him. The look at their projects is enough to keep the city going. The worries they are focusing right now where the secret lab lies open. They continue to search the reports of two researchers disappeared after that incident.

The Dexter Guild, Lady Coheld receives a letter from Sanquin. She opens it and only thing she reads are the foreign words she couldn’t understand. It is just one word or drawing from what she can identify, but with the help of her equipment. She reads it without a problem.

“Sacrifice . . .”

It’s been this long to hear such a word from a foreign language to be translated this way. Sacrifice, a code word for a someone who was supposed to be in an experiment. But in what timing does that heavenly demon want from him.

A call from her military corps, she responds

“X2L? This is a bad time to call me . . .? So, she dares to ask for your assistance”

The Lady sees the word foreign word ‘sacrifice’ again. The questions she had to do to figure out a being from another world. She simply guessed who

“RH-0, for what crazy plans did she want from him. She hated him for being artificial. Unless, his head. Did she found out what that numb skull of demonic runes supposed to be?”

“. . . I don’t even see it because of her comments about him. Yeah, I am not one those old archscientist”

She lost track because of her skepticism without X2L know what it is, then they return back to the topic.

“I still need your manpower, X2L. Her permission will also be mine. Bring RH-0 whenever she is ready”

Something on her table almost forgot about it. Previous reports about Lady Hivites’ actions interfering the independency of the island. Reports about the UI conspiracies from the city. Her findings on the city’s outskirts. The abnormal behaviors of the citizens. With her wits and research made her wanting this abnormality removed from her distraction. The city is starting to confuse her.

“UI, user interface, is has to do what the daemos knows. Or rather, did I miss it because I found some old design in the city. Sigh* This is a waste of time. My guilds have no interest of their powers. Only they seek is their tech”

An army between old factions, Heroes and Demons, is hard to believe to see such battlefield like the old times. AIs versus devoted souls go against each other at the front. Lady Hivites had never expected to bring the summoner right before them. The summoner though, still lost by his own thoughts. The impossible, all he had made brought to this realm like trash. All to be crushed by these known monsters right in front of him. He then sees Sanquin, where her eyes felt annoyance as he is only an avatar. She continues to mock him as her eyes show no interest of what he had done so far in this city.

The demoness faints as her memories flash like lightning into her head. Sanquin catches her and sees the demoness body trying to recover from they have witnessed. The realm has turned into half of its realm. The Summoner’s and Hivites’, both of their realms forced into one another by the presence of their mana colliding like two separate sources trying to push each other apart. Her army is consisted of varieties of warriors hidden within their uniformed weapons and armors, while his army is all replicas of the machines from the past.

Lady Hivites said to Sanquin “This is what you have expected when we entered his realm”

“Expected? No, more like Acurse is giving us a favor”

“Favor? I wouldn’t, never mind, we are here for what we are came here for. Do you wished to have an honored duel with him?”

“Hah! Even the moment like this, you are still charming in red dripping in your mugged face”

“Be more poetic, it is crimson. Or ruby if you’d like”

“THIS IS FAR ENOUGH!” The summoner cuts them off.

“I know well that all of you figure it out. This is still my creation, and I soon free them when the time has come. But now, I was forced into a fight that I will lose. If I don’t . . .”

“Then he will find you again with the same nightmarish spell he did to you, countless times” The demoness remembers as she said to him.

This is how she was able to enter Isekai City with that knowledge. Because of that, the summoner failed approached to the caravan incident led to this and many more come to see the rumors. Those are the mistakes have brought to him today. His UI is now slowly giving away by these three. Including the prototypes, he had on the battlefield.

The summoner can’t stand it anymore, he has to lose and must do it to play around Acurse’s game. He shows an emotional command to his army

“CHARGE!”

They moved forward and begin firing at the enemies. First waves of assault break through her army’s front. Souls flew out from their bodies fleeing from the battlefield. His realm moves in and taking the space he had lost to his control. The energy ablaze onto his enemies, fell by lasers and explosions, tearing all of their runes and magic defenses apart. The disgusting sight from he sees, the same scene he was supposed to be proud of had turned into the reenactment from his expectations.

“CALL DOWN THE DUST STORM!”

Lady Hivites commands her army to bring the Jigeram’s particles into the battlefield. Downward sands go straight above them, like sand smoothly fall in one area. She pulls out her fan and fans it the pile of sands creating a torrent all around them gathering the dust on her fallen army. The armors and weapons clean off what hidden in the dirt. Demonic runes appeared and start awaken the souls within. They rose up and casts their second wind to fight against the AIs. AIs and prototypes begin to shred by the strength of the runes. Many digital entities are crushed by the demonic magic.

The summoner’s intention was a reluctant act. The pain grows into him where Acurse lingers on his skin. The nightmarish demon is growing so terrifyingly fast aching him into his original body. His mind is driven into memories of his past, his past glory and the achievements those have done in the Heroes’ faction. The world of the summoner what makes him so confident to make. It calls back to him as his predicted despair witnessed his creation to fall.

Sanquin sees the summoner’s pain. The thought of this battle that soon end wasn’t a spoil fight after all. All of Lady Hivites are all prepared and annihilate every thing he made. Yet, both demonesses can’t see through what the avatar is being corrupted by. Sanquin thought it would be the same push over powers that they use as dummies. But she thought about Acurse, he is there hiding inside the avatar. Truly he can’t leave like this with his own subordinate just summoning it.

Lady Hivites calls out her army

“Halt!”

The runes stopped and the wind blows them away from the summoner. They fall apart as their magic drained away from her command. The pieces of iron engraved armor, written by runes and other magical properties, scattered and hidden from their writings for no one will see its effectiveness. It is a predictable win for her, but the realm she controls part of it fell into the summoner’s side. Strange.

An object suddenly flies to the air, and Sanquin immediately catches it before it flies over to Lady Hivites’ hand.

“What are you doing?”

Sanquin is gripping at the object “It is the same tool from the citizens, right? We could”

“I wouldn’t if I were you. I know what is and I won’t”

“Won’t what?”

“. . .”

They turned to the summoner as his avatar is gushing out Acurse’s magic. The two suddenly react and both of them say to the demoness

“Yayoi/You! Get out of the way!”

“What!!?”

The demoness starts moving elsewhere from their serious tones.

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Inside of the summoner’s hidden base. Somewhere in Rune Isles, a cavern made out of ships crushed into a dome. Its metallic structure remained clean and never rusted since it fell. Heavily exposed from the Jigeram’s light and what had left from the technology to maintain the robotic construct. There. Acurse stood in a nightmare vision. The summoner imprisoned himself into a hard solid gem. Not a frail crystal, but in a strong compacted clear through stone.

Acurse extinguishes the blinding light all across of the summoner’s room filled with crystal gems. The collections he had, from all those years kept intact. There are many to describe as preservation for the new world. Except for him, he cuts off from the reveal with only a self-realization.

“So, what did the elves side with again?”

“You! We have a deal that you will never visit this place”

“Visit without a body, and you did the same to face those people”

“They are the people I have summoned”

“Summoned or not, you have brought them here by the knowledge of the entire region to tell”

The summoner sends down his powers onto him. Massive amount of wrathful magic rushing down, but he quickly disappears before anything would happen to him. Acurse steadily appears without a single effort. The summoner continues to attack the demon with relentless rage. The madness never ceases from these two. Because of this chaos continues to go forward, the after effects lead to the avatar replicating the summoner’s rage.

The outburst of powers suddenly spread out to the realm. Suddenly destroying Lady Hivites’ control. She wasn’t pleased by this outcome

“He dared to use his true powers on the avatar. What is he thinking?”

She sees Sanquin charges forward

“Wait!!!”

The sheer waves of the summoner’s power broke through her realm. Unleashing destructive force into her like rushing water. Lady Hivites finally moves her body to control her mana effectively. In motion to sway her body, the mana she carefully casts out engulfed the summoner’s wrath and exploded without a single damage on to her and her companions.

Beyond from the powers should any magic user used. An immortal dared to use a spell belonged to the demons, neutral mana, is affectingly made her to react. She would easily take it down. But this time, they need something out of this realm. If she has a hard time, it means the summoner is giving his all out of rage. The spell is definitely harming the realm, but the summoner won’t even dared tried to destroy it at first. From what she sees right now. He is being a hypocrite all of a sudden. Because of this change, her guessed must be Acurse meddling him.

The avatar is being overwhelmed by the powers of the summoner. His great abilities to spread his powers to gain a sentient life to whatever his mana in infused with. It gains the replication of him and starts to behave like him. The UI comes out from it and begin to adjust to this fight. It sees Sanquin is observing it. Their eyes meet and the memories inside its head match the past fights between her and other warriors who fought her. The AIs are beginning to manifest at it.

The transformation was proven to be behold. Combinations both his and the city, the great reveal as the summoner was there all along, and more so since the beginning. His avatar is becoming a digital cyborg. A mech like humanoid deliberately designed from sci fiction. Inside of the machine is only a few weapons, it contains only some guns and melee weapon. There is no significant magic coming from it, purely made out of runes shared into one.

Lady Hivites feels concerned.

“Sanquin, what are we facing?”

Sanquin gives an old sign to the demoness, and the demoness takes what magic she had to hide herself from the summoner. Lady Hivites asks again

“This is not the right time to act now without me knowing”

Sanquin pulls out her battle staff. No magic imbued and acts like a normal wooden staff. She spins it a bit. Lady Hivites asks again

“Is there anything you want to ask me? We are facing something we can’t sense it”

“I know, but you don’t even sense our friend’s”

“Friends?”

Lady Hivites tries to sense it, but the best of the warrior demons’ abilities is resisting the magic to identify them. To keep them from predicting their every move. Sanquin knows Acurse is busy getting through to the summoner. A temptation comes in where he managed to where he is, but what this avatar being overbear by power means of desperation. The nightmare is starting and the reaction from the summoner is already acting up. This opportunity they needed to do. Rather, what luck they can do to bring that mana to theirs?

No time to explain to Lady Hivites, the avatar charges forward by numerous panels showing every technical detail at their faces. The data all across the screen, terrifyingly devouring the realm back to his control, and the digital AIs are coming back to try another fight. Sanquin raises her hand at Lady Hivites

“There is no need to bring your subordinates here. It’s better that I would be taking care of it”

“Taking care of it? You mean this new out of nowhere powers are a threat to us?”

“No, I believe you remember my talents”

“. . . It’s like your revenge is here”

Sanquin smirks with her blood eyes shines instead of crimson

“It couldn’t be further from the truth”

Sanquin’s powers compressed and the wield of her staff breaks every existing reality into the realm. Absorbing what powers, they have bouncing into the presence of her heavenly demonic ki. Torn what mana they have into this realm, and the spells lost its manifestation and materialization, then fell into the void of her own will. From her stance, it was a normal stance with no magic involved, until the flow of her ki is into her mind and body ready to deliver what wrath she had in such a long time.

The summoner charges first, the massive size of his form still being concentrated from the source. Acurse still creeps into the avatar trying to let loose the mana gathered from the original summoner. The first large wave comes after Sanquin showing the marks of the nightmare. The first strike lands on her suddenly redirect the strength of the avatar from the massive impulse of magic coming through his body. She immediately feels threaten by it.

Lady Hivites sees the strength of the avatar. She raises her hand with a ring showing at the avatar. All the mana hidden in the UI realm, and the ring casts a price magic to reveal its true strength. The cost is her strength greatly weakened.

“I am going to regret it, but with this kind of power. We might carry out this pre-existing mana to our control”

She feels the magic erupted from the force trying to break her control in this realm. She casts down the surging mana but keeps flowing into her finger tips. Her ring is breaking, and with her own power to seal it away before it gets destroyed.

Her hand on the ring is bruised, and the avatar shoots her. A shot hit her and the ring is forced back out. She grabs the ring again to seal it back. Their enemies are attacking, leaving her distracted from keeping her things off. The digital beings are relentless as the attacks keep coming. A void magic appeared around her and ceased them from moving. Holding them into the air and holding them in place. The overwhelming mana still lingers and explodes. A slight distraction made her loses her focus. A random digital hit her face. The sudden humiliation from this attack made the being disappeared.

Lady Hivites rubs her face for the first time from such a long time. The pain on her face is now channeling tremendous retaliation with her next move. The not amused look of her face shown no grief to it, but she kept to herself as they quickly aim at Sanquin’s way. A little incident of her own reaction made a little boost to her enemy. The wild explosions from the inside of the digital shows a mix of three strong mana. She starts to use her demonic curses.

Fatal to the brim of destruction, by only a staff to strike them down with great blunt force. The break to its robotic limbs and the spasms of static from the summoner’s digital creation grow wild into the air. The chaos air blew out of proportion. Those airs are mix with three mana sources. The enraging summoner, Acurse’s corruption, and Lady Hitives nuisance spell. She can’t help herself takes a deep breath when motions in her surrounding are all corrupted with mixture of different spells within them. Managing to mix altogether without a single differences one another.

The demonic powers are indeed harmonized all together, and with her strikes with her blunt weapon. The casts of spells out from the digital beings go straight to the summoner’s avatar himself. The blow redirects to him absorbing the damage on its own. It is complex and strange when magics are put together, causing each other negative effects and hazardous mana in an unstable process. Many thought it would be an easy victory, but in truth. Sanquin must properly end it to gain more than destruction.

Sanquin moves back, and started dodging. Watching every enemy, she finds containing different form of mana. One of them swoop down, and pierces down to the ground with its thunderous magic. The thunder hits only her staff redirect into a volt as it resists its attack. Under her own technique she swings it around in fast speed then thunder erupt in mid-air. It breaks winds as warm air turned hot and blown away the enemies’ positions. Others explode as mana reached peak inside of them causing multiple explosions.

The damage reaches to the summoner’s avatar losing from overwhelming power. It fell down and continue to move as his magic circulating uncontrollably. The magic mix with Acurse and Lady Hivites loses his control, and with the excess mana given from the source, it getting controlled by them. Terrible consequence being stabilized from Acurse and the abnormality inside of him from Lady Hivites’ hidden spells. There is also a little problem inside of the summoner losing his senses. No matter how he tried to reach it. He felt to ignore it.

The excess mana is continue surging through as more digital beings have turned into a weapon against him. He can’t focus with this overwhelming powers everywhere around him. He tries to collect himself but lost from the motion of the sheer absurdity. Then something orderly drops crashing beneath him. What he found is the danger of the lives of his effort. It begins, the mana he had is now consumed by his enemies. The message through that thought made him lost all expectation.

Back in the Rune Isles, Acurse breaks down to its halves’ selves. The fear he had placed on the summoner is gone. The summoner’s wrath had finally opened. The unnerving presence prevails and took Acurse away from here. The blindness all across the hidden room led him to believe to his farewell

“It is too late, you fool. The day that your invincible world had put us to shame not to get a hold your “divinity””

More blinding light moves straight at him, and the existence of his nightmare starts burning into ashes as no dark marks will be seen in only pure light. His body felt empty again.

Sanquin stops and takes slow breath. The realm steadily slows down as the blinding light comes across to them. She whispers to the demoness

“It’s time”

The demoness appeared and said to Lady Hivites

“Hivites, grab my hand! We must keep this realm before it collapses”

Lady Hivites hesitated for a moment, but the UI world greatly overtaking her powers as it frees from her control. The last effort of the summoner did something to this realm. The reluctant one has become suicidal to his creation. With no time to see what will happen to this place, she grabs the demoness’ hands.

Both of them sees Acurse holding on the avatar merging in to change it. In half and all of his effort trying to go through to this realm. He waits and watches to the direction where Sanquin is fighting with the avatar. As she turns around, the moment is slowed so heavily and something is changing. Acurse has mending the summoner’s relentless mana bursting out. Containing enough mana to uphold the forge of a certain spell. It was planned from the beginning. Lady Hivites never would believe him trying to do it . . . alone.

The avatar broke down, all bits and pieces corrupted into Sanquin’s advances. The slow suddenly changes in light speed. The blinding light races to the avatar as Sanquin counters from the sheer fiery nova of the sun. It can’t reach the avatar, and the avatar is being reforged from her. The combined noise pulled together leaving endless screech of steels and strikes banging hot air to form thunder. The body of the avatar is melted into the old UI. With just a little of Lady Hivites’ control, the avatar’s mind compressed to her curse.

To the last of its effort trying to break free and the connection of the original summoner, its failed attempts being tempered by Sanquin. Every swing blocked by her staff, not giving it a slight moment into its compromised prison. Deformation occurs deep into its body and all his creator’s wrath have been degraded into a worthless process of its transformation. Molding into the UI from the craftsmanship of the heavenly demon, merging from both powers of Lady Hivites and the controls, and Acurse baited the summoner to use his power into making it.

The demoness holds Lady Hivites dearly as the realm is almost destroyed. The realm starts to ripped itself and shows the outside from where it hid. Lady Hivites shouts at Sanquin

“This is too much! We can’t hold his wrath. This UI is forced to reveal itself to the city”

“I know . . .” Sanquin smoothly responds

“You know . . . that means!!! Are you going to do it, aren’t you?!!”

It is impossible, the one who sets this up was actually Acurse. They can’t contain it with their own powers. The daemos’ enemy is indeed had his magic go against the neutral mana’s nature.

The last sight of the digital creatures is being absorbed to the summoner’s avatar. It is pointless for it to go against the demons. It begins to shattered as Acurse drops down to the ground with his body ready to force back to his imprisonment. Lady Hivites picks him up with her magic and tries to force him to remain. He left a word of respond to her with a slight confidence to amuse her efforts

“Hmm”

A simple reply, and by the sound of his voice forged into the UI’s structure. The foreign writings attach to the transformed UI. Sanquin uses this to malfunction the UIs. The old UI starts shaking and breaking its stabilized features. Tearing off the sole purpose of the controls of the administrator, the summoner’s control. The new UI has finally finished and the moment to explode is reaching its peak. The realm cuts open and ready to release it to the city.

Sanquin wasn’t finished yet. She raised her staff and strike deep into the core before it explodes. Her magic is placed into the staff and inject it deep as time slowed tremendously. The moment of truth as their ‘victory’ will choose the new cycle for the city’s fate.

“Hmm, Acurse knows better for us to choose. Lady Hivites, this is the freedom of your old friend shown before you”

“What are you talking about?”

“I have let the people of Enders examined the UI. If we let you continue like this, their crucial fate will be the lives ready to face”

The UI reopens and reveal the survivors of the Heroes’ Faction. Acurse found them first and the crucial areas are found all that were happened in the city. All those events happened for the past cycles have revealed itself, including the traitors.

The demoness approaches to the UI as she tries to warn Lady Hivites

“If you tried to continue like this, many lives will be the hands to our enemies. Or do what Sanquin wants, the region will have an equal chance to have their revenge. Or better, will it be ours?”

Lady Hivites sees no good options for this situation. For Sanquin did this for the sake of her disciple was only piece of the reason. By her own attitude, she has no interest of being good. As her own interest, she knows they are the summoned from an old enemy. This future will take back from the very beginning they remember once this UI release to the city. The accursed UI will be gone, and turned into something what these four know what will become. Either be free and equal like Sanquin expects, becoming the new master replaced the summoner, or let the daemos retake what nature demands it.

All three of their eyes show no interest of negotiation. Their demonic nature sweeps into their minds and the powers consumed by great ordeal of desires. Sanquin hears Acurse’s voice

“I have easily given you this secret. Let chaos roam as order will come back again. I’m saying this to you as it will be easier to find your revenge. Even it will take a few years”

“A few years?”

“Yes, same goes with previous otherworlders. He always gets what he wants, but never gets what he deserves. This is the one who always takes his toys. Heh heh”

He slowly laughs as his voice fades.

Isekai City shines so brightly to the sky. Never has seen where all the people in different districts saw the panels floating to the sky portraying in golden light. It was past midnight. The UI has its last message to the users

“Final Update: Free for ALL initiates. You have the freedom to use the tools as you see fit. Past updates will be returning the old features whenever a set of requirements are met. Apologies for the past incompetent set ups experiencing from the past. We hope your action finally has meaning”