COI C121
Kiege was been listening Tabitha’s message through their bind together, her last day of taking in her day off. Tabitha left a loose-words for thoughts to her mind, that she too is wondering about. Sanquin was just happened to pass by with a bag of gems she took from the undergrown. She turns to Kiege with intention to say
“Hey! Kiege, did you hear reacting to my sprout?”
“Oh . . . Oh that! I thought they’re getting into trouble that we curse their student”
“Hah! They can’t separate what their information knows than my espionage skills. It is clearly identical to possess someone”
“Are you sure about it?”
“Believe me, I just took out his core or soul from his mind instead his body structure”
Sanquin and Kiege continue talking about the incident, and why she is here early than before. Sanquin explains “The recruit is permitted to access my power. My blessings, and he still can’t able to use it. Archivist is the one who is controlling him just to familiarize the knowledge given to him. Yet, the boy spoiled himself and asking for my power, against another boy thought he could beat my blessings?! In regards of his childish competence, I offered a slapping fan to befit his culture”
“Ah what?”
“It’s a city cultural punishment, mostly for discipline from what I see”
After her bragging and grief on to the new recruit, Kiege starts to get suspicious to her. There is no way the recruit will be permitted to receive such ancient and warlike powers. Dare she could say it to Sanquin if she is stronger as Yui. Again, Tabitha reaches out to her. Both of their words matched and says it to Sanquin
“Archivist is acting a little fishy (pfft* by Kiege) and I sense something lurking inside the dark sea. Elven presence”
Sanquin turns her cheeks away with still a glimpse of her sides grin a little bit. Her sweet gullible laughs broke out from her sealed mouth and chuckles through her devilish tones. Without any words to respond except
“How nostalgic . . .”
The last hour is coming, with only one more hour away for the three schools gathered and prepare the secret threats hiding inside the dark sea biomes. They managed to clean everything around, either destroyed or pillage, and many attempts to go through the dark sea by mistake. There were a handful of students were out from entering the water realm. Showing signs of the damage they received and the status effects that looks severe, but their resistances are capable to go against it. One teacher fell into the incident, it was Alche himself.
From what he was curious earlier, he wants to check one entity he could not identify. Not even the strongest people could save him from the dark sea monsters’ tricks. The event is starting to get the thrills of many, and many fear it. Quail understands Alche intentions, and the other school teachers are starting to figure things out about the entity. A unique monster with elven magic within its presence, putting all together under one hypothesis, until Alche gives it away with his conclusion. Without a doubt, he says to them
“Ancient creature, alive and well without even involved with so many eras I read. What is that creature’s purpose, Archivist?”
Archivist never thought someone is meddling on his cautious interaction at the dark sea biomes. “Mostly stories among legends, the city guild’s sea serpent is not the only creature from another world, there are more, and nature adapt between specific aquatic marines. That recommendation of bringing the deepest depths of the ocean means hidden sanctuaries kept rare and exotic biomes for specific ecosystems from different world origins. You can start wondering what that serpent brought from the abyss, and this elven magic you found is clearly been discovered”
The students did their best to clear out the most difficult parts of the water realm, definitely using destructive magic to fully destroy it. The luck of Archivist hidden face with his mask showing only a nervous expression leaving others to worry about it. Tabitha stood silence as she is now gathering information from Kiege. Coral slaps her back as the situation is getting inside her head with excitement.
“Hi!”
“Aah! What is that for?”
“We are having some dangerous adventure with your friend pulled us through. I just want to be sure”
Tabitha thought the same, and many people were becoming a set of examples after Alche’s mistakes. Growing in numbers of people not from the school while the students are drifting away as the terror leaving them to question the finale. Regardless, those same people who join before the final hour were not taken advantage with the students’ involvement through the end, but committed to do it earlier than usual. For this hour, and many more so students still interest to face the danger. No people ever defeated it and able to take most dark sea monsters easily. The elven magic continues to surge through the area leaving nothing of their people getting the spoils.
Videos are already rampant for the afternoon. No rewards and generous to explore the unknown creatures by many. The citizens were kind of glad to see that those Fuku adventurers were not interested to check this place since the first news spread. Even their bad reputations exceed through Archivist’s curious sense of wonders.
“The people who lived in Fuku City, many people speak so ill about them”
The other school teachers remind him “A lot happened, and the people they have are infamous for their abusing the working force. I wouldn’t say conglomerates and big businesses are enemies, but the people who are taken advantage back in our world”
Tabitha couldn’t agree more, but Fuku City wasn’t like that at first. It was some internal struggle back when they learn how to use magic. There is one person who formed a mob inside of the city then turns it into revolution to some sort. Revenge against the abused from what she heard, and that mastermind wasn’t apprehended. It was replaced by another bad person with mix representation between scamming and charitable with the communities, and there is no way to get rid of them that easily.
Inside of the water realm, someone breaks out from the abyssal waters. A citizen who achieved to get out without using their failsafe. An S rank from Saint Heroes, known for their impressive abilities in heroic level of powers. Among the rest of his companions, he is the one who set into observation. Night-vision recommended to venture inside. He finds out some extraordinary activities. Useful or not, chances are to face those dark sea monsters to be worthless with the water realm’s flaw. The monsters are more difficult to handle than the mountain shrine entrance.
Many people approach them even his own guild coming this way. He stated the obvious “They are the same monsters from the mountain shrine. It reacts heavily on magic and very precise on their next move. When you’re given a realm with magic all around them, however there is one monster able to use elven magic. A direct alternative though, you could say that it is from a dark elf origin. HEY YOU! Enders! Do you have any information about it?”
The adventurer pointed out to Archivist then turns to Tabitha, it took her a while after that long soft conversation with Kiege. She can only say it in a historical sense
“Yes, we do. It’s back when in the Heroes and Demons Era. No, beyond that. The creature we are going to face is indeed from a dark elf. They call it the god’s pet, if the monster is as big as in the legends”
The adventurer clicks his tongue and it was far too well that they got something beyond their belief, thankfully, it was just his imagination.
“Thanks, then what it can do?”
“Dark elf, however, is not those bad guys tropes nor even our own version. They are from the world with only dimmed low light world, or their sun shines only darkness. There is also a special race of humans as well from another different world, but it is a different topic altogether. The monster used dark elven magic, visually different and the same caused of harms blessed by their gods. From what I heard; a monster will not give you trouble when you attack them. It teleports you out when threaten. Needless to say, without any dark elven intervention. There is nothing you get by magic nor its materials as just another sea creature”
Quail and Coral check on Alche as he is one of the rare few people who possessed elven blessings. Alche himself only nods and nothing more special to compare with. The elk however does have great features of its parts for crafting. But the sea monster is fully separate, even his blessings is trying to reach out to the elven gods. It tells him
“The real one is not here, only its avatar. Its mysteries will never be your threat, nonetheless, it portrays the demon’s power in comparison. Your companion is only taught them the reality of defeat”
Defeat, there is something people don’t want to face in real-life situation. Yet, the experience he had when entered the abyssal waters. It clearly has the same feeling being trapped. He reaches out to the adventure
“Do you think it has the same atmosphere when being trapped?”
The adventurer turns around looking serious by that question “What do you mean? Do you think your students will be able to face the dungeons like that?”
“I’m saying this that someday they will”
Everyone was shocked by that question. Others are mix of willing to go that dangerous or willing to face it for the terrible future. The Saint Heroes turn to see one of his member’s younger siblings. No doubt the look of her face still wanting to face the difficult challenges, he can’t stop people like that having such a dangerous dream while he was forced because of his potential. He bows his head
“I apologized what I ask before. I wasn’t thinking properly”
“There is no need to . . .”
The last hour is starting, and the Saint Heroes adventurer is giving away the details what is going to happen. An inevitable defeat to those who is willing to fight the boss. Many didn’t expect its actual form, but they were able to reach to a stage where its elven magic flourishing based on its nightly color. To where it reaches clearly to see in a distance, can be compared the light of a candle, and a familiar wind of light but in white shines like the moon. Not the greenly shines, but the moon light they remember back home.
All prepared to the last event, now under five minutes top, everybody had taken their decision into action. From the shield student’s side; only him and Joanne committed to be part of the party. Clark cursed, and the girl who is with them offered them rewards if they further getting some nice catch while they are inside. Flourance and the other students have enough members for their own teams. Given the two needed help to fill their numbers, then there goes the two Enders, Tabitha and Archivist joined them together to face the abyssal waters. Coral and Quail is supervising the strongest students in their school.
The International Private school and the High Borne Knights students only formed into one group each. It is clearly now they know the dangers they are up against. Their classmates pull up their magic items, runes, and rituals on to them; boosting them to the best they could be. Others follow their helpful examples, but Archivist stops them when giving them supplies to his team.
“It’s fine, these two need a challenge . . .”
He turns toward them “. . . I hope you three can carry your own weight”
“Us three?” Joanne raises her eyes to hear about them, one more person they could think of is
“Honestly, this is my first time beside going through the city sphere”
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Joanne begins to worry as she has no idea what Tabitha can do. The shield student keeps his posture as he brings out his gauntlet. He gives it once again to Archivist, then he gives directly to Joanne. Joanne held it in her arms with surprised look on her face. Archivist knows what he is expecting and said,
“A Saint Heroes adventure was looking at you. I am expecting that you have learn some abilities won’t fit your skills. That gauntlet will help you ignore some requirements”
Joanne wears the gauntlet and Archivist teaches her some tips. While the last hour begins, she is now adjusting the capabilities of the gauntlet. All of the magic she learned and not used are equal in strength and mastery. Magic and skills by Silfa, Gemina, and Ruby; She receives the abilities in full force. She begins to act her first spell as proof that the gauntlet is nourishing what she had lacked.
“I summon you, PUMA!”
Her first summoning spell, her sister’s doll, and now appeared grabbing it on its back like her sister did like a troubled toy.
It appears within her grasp, shaken all around in confusion. The two Enders shook by its presence of shamanism as Joanne hugs it to death. The doll speaks
“Puma?”
“Oh my GOD! It’s really you, Puma. My sister is going to kill me when I took you away”
“Hmm, Puma”
The doll nods with interest, their sibling affection were great in all in its head, and makes it wonder how siblings would do. It turns around and see where it is now. Under water, and shroud of waters come closer where the biomes is now forming into one. Its interests peak further as it senses an elven presence. It becomes eager with its arm fisted and eyes looking serious.
The water realm is weakening, the sea monsters and other aquatic creatures are overwhelming the magic flow and the existence of the magic realm. The monsters are breaking free from their imprisonment. The people who are willing to see through the end and face the monsters influenced by their mana and the realm put those monsters in the advantage. Already the chaos pursues among each other, where many adventurers test their skills, endlessly surrounded, surrounded by its magic, and the dark waters spreading all around the fading realm.
The shield student and his team go to a different direction. Already going through the abyssal waters where the most numbers of monsters still remain collective to its group. Joanne and the shield student were doubting the experience for only four people in their party. They can be allowed to be in squad than the usual fantasy four member troupes. So many roles need to fill and four people who tank, support, dps, and fill the rest what they lack. Because in what situation they are in, Puma is already distracting the most crucial points in their group.
Joanne is building up her magic set, referencing with elemental magic of Gemina, speed buffs by Ruby, and Divine defense and damage by her older sister, Silfa. The flash of stream of dark magic coming in their way. She quickly cuts it with divine intervention with extreme speed and splashes of elemental magic blasting through. All in one combine, one slash immediately causing the threat to be exposed then destroyed after her slash with a counterattack. She turns around and more of its magic cursing through her team.
She moves back unleashed with Gemina’s cleansing fire and petrified aura, the monster’s magic solidifies and she quickly pushes out with Ruby’s speed. On her own, she feels like she is four, whereas the shield student and the others are tracing where the attacks are coming from. The dark sea monsters are not here but the dark aquatic reefs formed as the realm no longer sustain its purity. The darkness corrupts the sea creatures leaving itself as wards of the dark watery magic.
Archivist breaks every ward as it grows out of control, Tabitha channeling her magic as she commands Archivist.
“Archivist, enemies are still faraway. Hold one of the dangerous things as long as you can. I’ll cast ice blast on it to bomb them as you throw it”
She is channeling her magic as she carefully figuring out what to do against them. Tabitha notice Joanne has high speed mobility and said to her
“Joanne, I need your help”
“. . . Whoa! This gauntlet is wicked sick! Hey Archivist, did you see that!”
Joanne didn’t listen to her, the excitement of her gauntlet used cause her to go wild against the threat in such a far distance. Back and forth with extreme speed, leaving an elemental avatar behind, catch any enemies she could find, grabbed them, and then finish it off with an elemental clash between her and the avatar. Even bullet straight back to her team as she collides herself on the terrain. She goes beyond the distance as she is becoming one woman party. To the last possible moment, Archivist catches her after her last attempt of Gemina’s elemental clash.
“That’s enough, you already draining your energy”
She looks at her gauntlet and already in a low energy capacity. “Oh no, how do you charge it again?”
The shield student caught one of the monsters stray away from the blast, the dark presence is covering him up and said,
“Here! Joanne, drained this”
Tabitha orders Archivist “Throw it!”
Archivist gives it some solid blows as the darkness being contained. The shield student felt his grip was starting to get loose, but shadow reformed back as it can’t escape. Archivist punches it, and it explodes and frozen in place. Joanne sees something impressive as she was pushed by Tabitha.
“Drain it quick, it’s still leaking dark fluid from its body. It will fade away”
“Oh, right!” Joanne comes closer and tries to drain the monster. The darkness being siphon through the gauntlet. The loose dark air/water is becoming blue and slowly turns clear. The monster restored back its body disfigured by the ice. The ice breaks leaving splatters of guts as it fully materialized. Joanne checks her gauntlet as it only charged five percent
“It is still not enough, I have only 15% of energy left”
Archivist is no expert on Dexter’s tech, but he could only guess how many spells she used. “How many spells did you used simultaneously?”
Joanne realizes that no normal citizen, even a S rank to be able to use high level mana used abilities. She is using three at the same time. Giving off an oof from her embarrassing face, she tries to brush it off
“Anyway, where is Puma . . .!?”
A sudden shout where something big is going their way, a large aquatic fish comes in ramming like a bull. Puma is being tied up on its head as its curses are not affecting the creature enough.
Tabitha buffs Archivist technique to freeze the monster, while Puma froze with it. The sea monster is releasing powerful magic around itself. Everyone got hit by its spell leaving microbes of infested waters with heated boiling steam. The ice made it through by Archivist fists and kicks, while the shield student pulled Joanne and Tabitha to his shield and block the contamination. The shield casts magic as it forced focus all the damage to it. The shield fell off with on his handle remains on his grip. It was lucky for them that it concentrates to his shield as the microbe turned from boiling steam into molten decay.
They caught a dark corrupted sea monster, where its dark magic is oozing but purged off with Puma at its side. Joanne is tempting to reach out her gauntlet to drain the monster, but pulled away by the shield student.
“Oh, Miyusuki. I am going to drain this monster . . .”
He stops her showing only his handle, his shield is destroyed, he pulls out his rune shield, and he said,
“You owe me”
“That’s fine, I could buy you a new one - Don’t you dare . . .”
He is looking at the big monster “Teacher Tabitha, is it edible?”
“Oh, please no, how about charging my, I mean, your gauntlet”
Tabitha checks “Hmm, I thought it was not edible”
“You see! Wait?! What do you mean was not edible?”
“This monster was blessed with elven magic. No wonder it was able to destroy your shield. No magic items were not that frail, except being destroyed by runes with runewords: breaker or shatter, dark elven magic has its own power as well”
Archivist makes it quick and joined their conversation “Interesting, a blessed fish. Does it give you buff when you eat it?”
“Teacher Archivist?! Please! It means it has elven magic, then it can also charge really large amount of energy. I can drain a little and so . . .”
The shield student pulls out the girl’s catcher and caught the monster including the doll. Puma immediately breaks free as the spirit dancing and mocking the shield student for trying to keep it inside the catcher. Then it stops and see Joanne being sad,
“Puma?”
Joanne pulls it to her arms trying not cry. Archivist looks at Tabitha showing the look of a grin and smug face. Archivist reacts
“Why are you looking like that?”
“I never seen a child being spoiled surrounded in mass destruction. It reminds me of Yui and her father”
“Well, that’s kind of off topic. Joanne, keep it together. If you want to charge up your gauntlet, I’ll provide the right sea monster”
“Sob* Ok”
“Sob* Puma”
Both of them are trying to act innocent for this ordeal, Archivist never seen a goblin spirit or even as a kes’thar being so childish from a girl who . . . After realizing it, yup, that’s sound about it. The doll wants her to continue the rampage, makes him realized how or why did it bring a blessed sea monster here? The doll is being carried and away both of their eyes meet, that serious angry look of its face to Archivist shows that it really does want her to continue with the gauntlet. Tabitha reads his thoughts as she too was glad not to let her drain it, but Archivist will help her. Now the doll is looking at her too.
It’s been half an hour long, and everybody reached the source of the dark abyss. The creature is peaceful and filled with tremendous amount of dark elven magic. The sea monsters were blessed and able to hide everything around them, their equipment turned useless and the magic of each equipment were silence. It is truly never told by the adventurers before. The adventurer who observed before had come and to check. The sea monster’s magic is already opening its secret once the realm is weak enough to its will. Not knowing that something is holding it back.
The students see the adventurer already get caught from the sea monsters, the darkness is already controlling the realm, leaving them to choose what next.
“Dare we fight, until to the last stage like those adventurers did”
“Three different schools working together, I wait for our first secret weapon. Where are they anyway?”
The group is coming late, Joanne is happy that her energy is back to full and the doll is cheering with its arms raising up and down as it chanting for her success. While Archivist talks to the shield student and Tabitha.
“It’s time to use Sanquin’s blessing. Teleport me out, Tabitha! Goodluck!”
“OK!”
Whispering inside her head, Kiege has nothing to say but wanting to see it with her own eyes. Sanquin is with her at this hour, still angry from what they did to her apprentice. Everyone gathers and others already start the attack as the darkness is already spreading deep as the fight spread all around them. The doll gets into it as the remaining monsters already fled away, the dark elven sea monster is the only one left leaving with magic with unforetold creatures summoned. The doll was engulfed and disappeared, even with night-vision, they saw it vanished.
Tabitha teleports Archivist away as he channels to the shield student, he unleashed once again the blessings. Lastly, Joanne backs to them as promised she will be following Tabitha’s order. Her first order, through the message of Kiege and Sanquin,
“Brace through the darkness where Joanne’s doll disappeared to, there is a large concentration of mana that will Joanne to continuously using her abilities. Go!”
The shield student awakens his blessings moving his arm around as he is bending the waters. The water flows over them as they pushed deep inside and through the dark currents.
The people from the other sides are losing their numbers as the darkness is separating them all one by one. The barrage of magic is coming out of nowhere, while Quail and Coral recognize the stray magic coming at them. Coral didn’t hesitate to break through the magic assaults and found their own students blindly attacking elsewhere, redirecting their own spells as the darkness covered it and turned it as its own. Coral got hit
“Augh! Regroup, they are using our magic against us. We are facing elven magic, don’t be fooled by its deception, Augh!”
The shield student is getting a hand of his blessings, where Joanne is shattering through the dark magic. Multiple abilities being used as she destroying the dark entity coming their way. He is starting to release his breath heavily and his throat starts to sore and body is sweating all around as his core start to diminish without end. Tabitha had witnessed both Enders magic, the shield student’s blessings and Joanne gauntlet. She couldn’t believe how much power it gains to the two citizens if they have this much power in hand. With her trembling heart as she witnessed the destructive nature, she slowly wavers from the sheer strength. A whisper goes through her head
“LIVE!”
Tabitha opens her eyes and sees they are now below the hidden magic circle. Elven magic flows up to the avatar, filtered impurely not to release its terrible magic powers. Sanquin is sending her the message as she is instructing the two
“This is the place, defend yourself while I am casting a spell. Listen carefully and we will get something out from here”
Joanne shouts as high as she cycling endlessly with her gauntlet “UNLIMITED POWER!”
And the shield student “Do it! I can’t last long to keep moving like (breathe*) this!”
The dark sea monster starts to change color, the darkness turns lighter and lighter. The pure black silhouette becomes gray, the people who fought notice it as others are slowly to see each other in a light glow.
“The monster is being attacked, who is hitting the monster”
Momentarily, someone else uses a powerful magic spell and attack the monster. The elven magic blocks it as the runes phases through it as it hides along with their spells. It swims fluidly as they miss. Yet it continues to become lighter in its color. Previous adventurers were able to hit it before, as they damaged it, it begins to grow stronger. They are preparing themselves as it grows in strength.
Sanquin knows the dark elven secrets, as she told indirectly to Tabitha from Kiege’s whispering message. Their magic was countered itself by their own protection, the runes are the only thing to fully destroy it and become like glass canons when reaches of its limits. Tabitha chooses otherwise, not to completely finish it in one blow, but reaching to their own limits as well. Win or lose, they will gain nothing for defeating an avatar made by the real sea monster hiding from the ocean. Archivist had given her the information and solved with Sanquin’s assistance. If they wish to tell the truth, Sanquin will be not be pleased by this. All that build up and suspense being played is not her way of training.
The shield student pushes back, where the light rains down to his eyes with a flash, the darkness becomes brighter as a moon, and he sees the flow of magic is pressuring him to move slowly. Joanne falls down as her spells are losing control, it starts being possessed by the moonlight as it turns against her. Tabitha unleashes her spell using Archivist techniques. Moving her arms as she is forming a ball, her magic fused into it and with explosion emitting inside. She casts it up at the center, as the moonlight gathers it from its attention.
“You two, help me pushed it up”
The orb is being squeezed inside from the moonlight’s pressure. The shield student dives down on the ground and sprung up under the ball and air kicks the ball upward, quickly being squeezed along the moonlight. Joanne comes closer to the ball with extreme speed, first down to the ground then bounces herself up with Silfa’s dome shield and Gemina’s elemental boost upward, hitting the ball deeper up to the air. A large bright ball is coming to the sea monster, as it tries to dodge it. The ball is marked with a familiar symbol, forcing it to go in instead.
It got hit and the water realm turned into an ocean of stars, the people who survive witness the drastic changed and see everything around them. It was beautiful to the least, they can see everyone is fine and also a random doll is running away with its arm cheering up and down. They see it goes with the shield student’s group as they already reaching closely to the exit. Then something coming out from the star, it brightens all around them, they still feel like they are underwater. Whereas the same star brightens further as it released a powerful moonlight nova, annihilating everyone before it. In such a close range, no one was able to escape.
Archivist breaks his control as he waits outside, many people returned with the use of their failsafe. The water realm burst in nova as it nearly reaching to destroy itself. A portal opens where the doll brings out Joanne shaking her up and down for a victory dance. Then Tabitha and the shield student come after being burnt alive by the moonlight, Archivist helps them from the moonlight flare, where they are the only survivors after witnessing such event. Someone is clapping, it was Spokesman and Lilith. First time, they get inside the city including an urgent letter from Haw himself.